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Covina closed out the quarter with a 7-2 run interrupted only by a jumper from Sydney Zarate, set up by an assist from Mary Peck.
After the Colts jumped out to an 18-9 advantage in the second, La Cañada bounced back with a free throw from Barsamian followed by another three-pointer from Chen that pulled the Spartans within 18-13.
Yet, Covina finished the quarter with an 8-3 spurt to go up, 26-16, at halftime.
Chen led La Cañada with 12 points and two steals.
Baddorf paced the Colts with 16 points, while Elizabeth Velasquez added 12 points and Dominique Theus chipped in 11 points.
"This was sad, but we're really excited about next year," Barsamian said. "I don't think anyone expected us to go to the quarterfinals and we're looking forward to coming back next year."
Complex Magazine reports that Nicki Minaj was set to appear on The Ellen Show earlier in the week, but pulled out due to her doctor’s orders.
Minaj, who is currently on a promo run for the “Chun-Li” single and the upcoming Queen album, wasn’t clear about what, precisely, was wrong with her, or why the doctor didn’t want her to appear on Ellen’s show. However, fans were disappointed because she was due to make “a huge announcement” on the show, which she prom...
Ellen, for her part, made the most of Minaj’s failure to appear because, in lieu of having the rapper on her show, she showcased the video for “Chun-Li” with her own head transposed on Minaj’s twerking body.
When last Minaj blessed the fandom with any sort of announcement, she’d made clear that her new album, Queen, is set to drop on June 15, 2018.
But if you believe Herb Magazine, Nicki Minaj recently proved that she’s just like the rest of us because the outlet claims that the “Starships” rapper recently posted — and subsequently deleted — that she’d been watching the “Chun-Li” video on repeat several times (48, to be exact) while stoned out of her mind, and be...
It bears stating that there are actually two “Chun-Li” videos out there. The official one shot by Steven Klein, who is best known for his work with Lady Gaga and Madonna and the unofficial one, which Minaj shot on her phone. So, it’s unclear as to whether she allegedly got high while watching the “real” video or the on...
This isn’t the first time Minaj has shown that she’s been 420-friendly. Although she’s admittedly “more restrained” in her love for the sacred herb than her male hip-hop contemporaries, she has let her support for it slip out once in a while.
This weed had the clouds turning into actual ppl & they were doing things. They were moving around & had a life of their own. like humans ????
Unfortunately for those fans who like Mary Jane, it’s unclear as to whether Nicki Minaj has ever lit one up and subsequently watched “Barbie Tingz,” another single which was released last month that will also be appearing on the upcoming Queens album.
A copper time capsule and a handwritten note on a piece of parchment in a bottle discovered yesterday may uncover a 150-year-old missing piece of history about Christchurch's founders.
Before yesterday morning, no one knew about the artefacts which were found inside the fallen statue of the city's founding father, John Robert Godley.
Canterbury Museum director Anthony Wright said they had not opened the time capsules but said he was excited about what they might contain.
On the folded piece of parchment the words "was erected in" and "by" can be seen written in delicate copperplate lettering.
"In my opinion, I think it was engraved with something like: 'This statue was erected in a year ... by the grateful servants of Christchurch in recognition of John Robert Godley's incredible work as the founder of Christchurch and Canterbury'," Mr Wright said.
He said the parchment had moulded a lot and smelt like old blue cheese left in the sun.
The other time capsule is a hand-made copper tube and feels heavy and full.
"It weighs a couple of kilograms so I'd say it contains some paper, maybe some coins too. But no one really knows."
Museum staff would not be able to open the artefacts until the cordon lifted around the central city and they could get back into their laboratories.
"The public curiosity is well and truly whetted so once we stabilise it we will open it, and reveal its secrets and then lock it again. And as the mayor says, we hope the statue will stand again and the time capsule will go back to where it was.
"But people would love to know what's in there."
He said the find had slightly lifted the morale of Cantabrians who were in dire need of some good news.
"For Christchurch, it's been a piece of really interesting and bright news among all the not so happy stuff."
A public unveiling ceremony will be held when the capsules are opened and whatever is inside will be put on public display.
Mr Wright said he would like the artefacts to be buried again with a new 2011 capsule for a future generation to discover.
Crane driver Barry Riley made the remarkable discovery of the time capsules around 8am yesterday morning.
He had climbed up the 3m-high concrete plinth to see whether the statue could be put back.
The statue toppled over in the earthquake and one of the enduring images of the day was of the city's fallen founding father.
But when Mr Riley looked at the base of where the statue had been, he found a shallow hole that contained the message in a bottle and the time capsule.
They were taken to Mayor Bob Parker, who passed the artefacts on to Canterbury Museum.
It is thought the capsule was placed there when the statue was erected in 1867.
But it could have been after it was moved in 1918 or in 1933.
John Robert Godley, from Ireland, is known as the "Founder of Canterbury".
He lived in the province for only 2 years.
Burnley Ladies claimed a place in the North West Women’s Regional League Cup semi-finals after edging past Fleetwood Town Wrens in extra time on Sunday.
The Lady Clarets conceded in the first period of the game at Poolfoot Farm, and battled relentlessly to draw level, which they did late in the second period through Evie Priestley.
The tie went to extra time, where two goals in the last 10 minutes from Sarah Greenhalgh sent them through.
On a glorious sunny afternoon, with a strong and bitter wind blowing against the Lady Clarets, the first half was expected to be a test of their character.
Fleetwood Town Wrens were determined to avenge two losses to the Clarets this season, and quickly demonstrated this through rapid closing and relentless challenges.
On nine minutes, Justine Wallace fed a long ball through to Greenhalgh, who ran at the Fleetwood defence and unleashed a shot that was narrowly wide, and soon after, captain Jo Holt fed another long ball to Priestley, whose shot forced the keeper to get down to make a save.
The keeper kicked upfield, and with a high bounce, the ball was over the Clarets defence, where home striker Danii Cross expertly took possession and beat Lauren Bracewell at her left post.
Fleetwood enjoyed a period of pressure, but the Clarets responded, as Priestley had a header well saved and also hit the post.
Clarets’ player of the match Lizzy Hamer shot from 20 yards but was slightly wide, and Greenhalgh also went close.
Fleetwood were aggrieved when a penalty shout for handball was waved away, but in the last minutes of the half Greenhalgh played across goal to Lynette Craig, who shot wide with the Clarets’ best opportunity to equalise.
In the second half, with the wind behind them, the Clarets were in the ascendency.
Priestley was closest with a shot that deviated away from the top corner, and Leah Embley shot from over eight yards.
The Clarets continued to up the tempo of the game, and their endeavours were finally rewarded in the last 15 minutes.
Embley targeted Priestley with a pass, who quickly controlled the ball and shot, beating the keeper at her left-hand post to make it 1-1.
The Clarets pushed on to try and find a winner, but the game went into extra time.
The breakthrough finally came in the second period of extra time, with a Holly Hunter cross that was picked up by Greenhalgh, who cut through and shot wide of the keeper.
Minutes later Greenhalgh was on hand to head home from new signing Phoebe Duckworth’s cross to clinch the game at 3-1.
On Sunday, the Lady Clarets first team play league leaders Tranmere Rovers LFC at Barden Athletics ground, kick-off 2 p.m.
The Lady Clarets reserves drew 3-3 with Penwortham Town Ladies at Nelson and Colne College, with two goals from Ami Phelan and one by Hannah Scott. On Sunday the Ladies Reserves are away to Academy Juniors Women, kick-off 2 p.m.
Egypt’s Carbon Holdings has secured $1.25 billion in financing to build a giant petrochemicals complex in the Red Sea port of Ain Sokhna.
The Tahrir Petrochemicals Complex, a $10.9 billion project, would be the largest in the Middle East and is expected to create 48,000 jobs.
Carbon signed the financing contract with Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, on the sidelines of an Africa business forum in the resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, the Egyptian cabinet said in a statement on Sunday.
The statement cited Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz as saying the company had signed several financing agreements worth $5.4 billion.
Carbon, a private company, signed the contract to build the complex in June. Work is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2019.
El-Baz told Reuters last year he saw the project helping to double Egypt’s exports within one year of coming online.
Tahrir will have to export all its production in the first year but as output increases, domestic manufacturers will be encouraged to expand and foreign ones will consider setting up next to the Suez Canal, he had said.
Carbon Holdings already has a polypropylene plant and a mining grade ammonium nitrate plant.
The government says the 460-square-km economic zone around the canal will be used to develop an international industrial and logistics hub to attract foreign investment.
The Tahrir Petrochemicals Complex, which is being funded by credit agencies in the United States, Britain and Germany, is Egypt’s first naphtha cracker and will produce different types of petrochemicals used to make various consumer and industrial goods.
The Republican rising star was already on the hot seat, up against a popular Democratic governor. Then came Donald Trump.
WEST LEBANON, N.H. — Of the dozens of vulnerable Republicans scraping to survive the year of Donald Trump, Sen. Kelly Ayotte might have the toughest job of them all.
The New Hampshire Republican was already on the hot seat before Trump arrived on the scene — forced to defend her generally conservative voting record in a state with a famous independent streak, in a Democrat-friendly election year, against perhaps the best Democratic Senate recruit in the country in popular incumbent...
As if that weren’t problematic enough, Ayotte spent months awkwardly trying to position herself vis-à-vis her erratic nominee — declaring, in some kind of political Morse code, that she “supports” Trump but would not “endorse” him — before finally kicking him to the curb this month and saying she’d write in Mike Pence.
Yet somehow, through all that, Ayotte has managed to keep the race a dead heat. And the self-styled conservative-leaning-yet-bipartisan dealmaker could be one of the most influential swing votes in Congress — if she can hang on.
The race is one of a half-dozen that will determine control of the Senate — and total spending in the state of 1.3 million is approaching a jaw-dropping $100 million. Further, it pits two of the highest-ranking female politicians in the country against each other, officials who cross paths on a near-daily basis but who...
Ayotte, at 48 one of the youngest senators, stomps through the Capitol's hallways with a steely reserve, often warding off reporters with a glare. But at home in New Hampshire, she's all smiles, a mom with a homespun appeal that leads many well-wishers to call her "Kelly."
Hassan, a 58-year-old two-term governor, is possibly the most disciplined Senate candidate of 2016, blitzing Ayotte with well-rehearsed attacks on her voting record and positioning on Trump. The Democrat has a compelling biography: Her son Ben has cerebral palsy, and her political career stems from fighting for his edu...
Hassan is well regarded in the state. She won reelection in 2014, an awful year for Democrats on the ballot. But this year, the onus is squarely on Ayotte: She's taking fire from Democrats who argue she’s a down-the-line Republican masquerading as a moderate, and from conservative activists furious she cut bait with Tr...
To complete her high-wire act on Nov. 8, and perhaps keep the GOP’s fragile Senate majority, Ayotte must convince voters simultaneously that she can work with Democrats but isn't deserting conservatives.
Her most immediate task, though, is navigating the fallout over her decision to ditch Trump.
“I definitely don’t want Gov. Hassan to win,” sighs John Burt, another GOP state representative upset by Ayotte's move. “In the end, I will probably check the box" for Ayotte.
Tamburello says some angry Trump voters could defect to independent candidate Aaron Day; enough, perhaps, to make a difference in this airtight race. Day revels in the possibility that he could play spoiler, concluding in an interview that Ayotte's ouster wouldn't be “a huge loss. I think I can win, but I also think sh...
Ayotte's backers believe that by parting ways with Trump, she's at least taken away that cudgel from Democrats. But Hassan has other ideas. She uses every opportunity to remind voters of Ayotte’s statement this month that Trump is “absolutely” a role model, a flub that came just days before the infamous Trump video was...
“To suddenly act surprised … when those tapes were consistent with the character of Donald Trump that we’ve all come to know?" Hassan said in an interview in Concord. "There isn’t any explanation other than her party and politics."
Ayotte, despite her disavowal, is still walking her Trump tightrope. She's not actively bashing him like Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), even as more allegations come out daily. Ayotte even says Trump still has a chance to carry New Hampshire, even as his brutal poll numbers suggest otherwise.
For her sake, he'd better: A blowout win by Hillary Clinton would crush Ayotte’s chances. So as she opposes Trump, she makes clear she isn't asking the same of the state's Republicans.
“This is still a competitive presidential race, and I think the people of New Hampshire will make up their own minds. My decision was my vote on this issue. I’m not at all [trying to send a signal],” she said.
Ayotte's distancing from Trump is part of a closing statement of sorts to voters: She insists if voters give her another term, they'll get a prolific senator in the middle of every major deal in the Senate, not the arch-conservative her opponent Hassan makes her out to be.
And from the standpoint of pure political survival, Ayotte's only path to reelection is to appeal to New Hampshire's broad swath of independents and not stray too far from the conservative base.
“This is a state that rewards independent officials," said Ryan Williams, a longtime New Hampshire Republican hand. “These are sophisticated voters."
Ayotte's record has something for the middle and right. She voted for comprehensive immigration reform, backed President Barack Obama’s plan to curb power plant emissions, and voted to restore expired unemployment benefits — all against the wishes of GOP Leader Mitch McConnell.
On the other hand, she opposed universal background checks for gun purchases, and she backed a bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Ayotte has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, though last fall, she went against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as he sought to gut the group’s federal funding in a government spend...
It's a profile that's earned her a diverse group of enemies. The conservative Americans for Prosperity isn’t lifting a finger here even as it works enthusiastically to reelect Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a heavy underdog.
AFP gets involved in races where “there’s a significant philosophical difference. And that’s one that we just don’t feel meets that criteria,” AFP President Tim Phillips said of New Hampshire.
This year, Ayotte broke with the NRA on a failed attempt to keep terrorists from buying guns; subsequently the group has spent just $50,000 against Hassan. Yet rather than take that as a signal she's ready to deal, the pro-gun control Americans for Responsible Solutions is hammering her for voting against a 2013 backgr...
“Sen. Ayotte’s no different than a lot of other Republicans. They weren’t there when we needed them,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
That's a message that Hassan is trying to amplify, casting her opponent as a lockstep Republican during her first four years in Congress who is now "attempting to walk her record back" because she's up for reelection. She casts Ayotte's decision on Trump as a microcosm of six years of doing whatever is politically expe...
"She either stuck with Donald Trump for most of the last year on 35 different occasions because she thought he really was the best choice for president," Hassan said. "Or she stuck with him for political reasons."
Still, Hassan is making her own tack to the center as Ayotte casts her as too timid to stand up to Clinton. Hassan insists she won’t support current plans to close Guantánamo Bay or allow more Syrian refugees — positions that are more conservative than most Democrats hold.
The race to the middle is explained by a campaign that won't be won on party turnout efforts, but instead by fickle ticket-splitting nonpartisans, said former Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat who survived the 2010 tea party wave. There are more independents in the state than Democrats or Republicans.
Ultimately, it will be up to Ayotte to convince those voters she's worked on their behalf — not Trump's, and not even her party's.

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