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Alexandra's case came to a happy conclusion - she was reunited with her parents two weeks after being taken - but that of Ames Glover has dragged on to become the UK's longest-running abduction investigation.
At the time Ames disappeared there were criticisms of police handling of the case with accusations their behaviour had hindered progress in the investigation.
Both Ames' parents were questioned for many hours and information about family problems and the baby having been on an "at risk" register was passed by police to the media.
At one time, Shanika says, she was extremely unhappy about the way the police had dealt with the case. But her feeling have changed since the case was taken on by Scotland Yard's Racial and Violent Crimes Taskforce in 2002.
"To be honest looking back now I think they did everything possible at the time. But they didn't share everything they did on the investigation with me and I felt they had not done enough.
"But now they have taken me through everything I think they did everything they could the first time around," she says.
Shanika says it is a long shot that Ames will ever be found but has taken hope from that fact that previous appeals have led to leads, such as a tip-off in 2003 that Ames had been taken to Ghana.
"I was quite excited then because I felt maybe there must be something there. So I did have a little bit of hope but I had to accept reality that nothing came from it.
"But having said that it's not completely dismissed, the police will go back to Ghana if anything comes up," she says.
Shanika and Paul, who had been having marriage problems, split up for good shortly after Ames' disappearance.
"It's still raw. I just feel very bitter and angry that nobody knows what happened to Ames.
"So many years have gone by and now, good or bad, I'd just really like to know what happened so that I can close that chapter of my life," she says.
President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a rally in Tennessee in October.
President Donald Trump sought to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the sole executor of his father's estate, according to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday.
Fred Trump saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back and removed his son from having sole control of the estate, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.
Fred Trump feared that his son would strip the estate to rescue his own failing empire, the report says.
The investigation by The Times found that Donald Trump and his family engaged in "instances of outright fraud" to enhance their wealth. New York agencies are investigating the allegations in the report.
President Donald Trump tried to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the only person to inherit his father's estate, according to a bombshell New York Times report about Trump's and his family's tax practices.
But Fred Trump foiled the attempt, as he feared his son could strip his estate and use it to rescue his own failing businesses, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.
Donald Trump had sent his father a document that would make him the sole executor of the estate and protect his portion of his inheritance from creditors and his impending divorce settlement, according to the report.
Fred Trump, then 85, had not seen the document before but was instructed to sign immediately, The Times reported. He saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back.
He showed the document to his daughter Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge at the time. She recalled in her deposition that he told her, "This doesn't pass the smell test," The Times reported.
Then Fred Trump had lawyers draft new documents stripping his son of sole control of the estate. Notes from those lawyers cited by The Times show that Fred Trump's instructions were to "protect assets from DJT, Donald's creditors."
Framed photos of the president's parents, Fred and Mary Trump, on a table in the Oval Office.
The allegations are included in an investigation published Tuesday by The Times, which said it reviewed thousands of tax documents and financial records. It found that Donald Trump received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father and that the president and his family engaged in "instances of outright fraud" to enhance their wealth.
The Times reported that Donald Trump was earning $200,000 annually in today's dollars from his father's empire by the time he was 3 years old. By age 8, he was a millionaire, the report said.
The investigation appears to refute the president's narrative that he is a self-made billionaire who built his own empire.
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance told Business Insider in an email that officials were reviewing the allegations in the report and "vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation."
AUSTIN, Texas Christian Franklin thought he had lifted a deep fly ball to left field to give the University of Arkansas a sacrifice fly and a two-run lead in the second inning at Texas on Tuesday night.
Nope. The majestic shot drifted just over the wall for a grand slam that propelled the No. 9 Razorbacks to yet another rout of their old rival, an 11-4 victory over the No. 15 Longhorns.
Arkansas (18-2) won its seventh consecutive game and its program-best fifth in a row over the Longhorns (15-8) before a crowd of 6,208 at Disch-Falk Field.
Heston Kjerstad added a tape-measure home run during the Razorbacks’ early onslaught and Dominic Fletcher hit a pair of doubles in Arkansas’ 11-hit attack.
“Off the bat, I was just thinking it’s a sacrifice fly and happy that I got some good barrel to it to get us another run, and then the left fielder just kept drifting back further and further, and it eventually went over the wall,” said Franklin, who increased his team RBI lead to 23.
The grand slam had two sets of drama, as Franklin nearly passed teammate Jacob Nesbit, who had run back to first base in case he needed to tag up. Franklin apparently got one foot past Nesbit just past the bag, and the umpiring crew upheld the home run call on review.
The Razorbacks have outscored their former Southwest Conference rival 49-21 during the five-game winning streak, including an 11-5 victory in the opener of last year’s College World Series.
The teams will wrap up the two-game series tonight at 6:30 with neither team announcing a starting pitcher.
Every Razorback except leadoff man Casey Martin had scored a run by the fourth inning and every Arkansas batter had reached base when Trevor Ezell walked to lead off the fourth inning.
Arkansas middle reliever Kole Ramage (5-0) picked up the victory behind Patrick Wicklander, who threw three shutout innings before running into trouble in the fourth.
Ramage retired all nine Texas batters he faced on 29 pitches in the fifth through seventh innings.
“Coming out of the bullpen, I knew I kind of had every pitch going,” Ramage said. “I just came out and attacked these hitters. They were getting a little aggressive because they were coming off that inning where Wick kind of got a couple hits off of him.
Sophomore Zebulon Vermillion retired the final six Texas batters.
Neither team scored after the fourth inning, but there were major eruptions in the first few frames.
Texas 6-9 right-hander Jack Neely (0-1) breezed through the first inning on five pitches — all strikes — but the Razorbacks ambushed him in the second.
Fletcher stroked a double into the right-field corner to open the frame and Casey Opitz’s ground ball to the right side moved him to third. Matt Goodheart’s infield single crossed up the first and second basemen and drove in the game’s first run.
Jack Kenley and Nesbit worked consecutive walks to load the bases and bring up Franklin, who launched his third home run and the Razorbacks’ first grand slam since Hunter Wilson did it against Florida in last year’s SEC Tournament.
Texas left fielder Eric Kennedy kept drifting and drifting back to the wall before the ball cleared it by a few feet to make it 5-0.
One out later, Kjerstad hammered a first-pitch Neely fastball just to the right of the center field “monster” that went an estimated 435 feet.
That shot put the Razorbacks up 6-0 and they kept up the assault in the next inning.
Fletcher led off the third with another double, this one to the left-center gap. After Opitz walked, both runners moved up on a wild pitch by reliever Donny Diaz. Kenley walked again to load the bases.
Nesbit got a 1-1 pitch to his liking and stroked it into the gap in left-center field for a two-run double, his first extra base hit of the season.
After Diaz struck out Franklin for the second out of the inning, Martin delivered a two-run single to right field to plate Kenley and Nesbit for a 10-0 lead.
The lead grew by a run in the fourth, which opened with Ezell’s walk. He stole second base, moved up on a ground ball by Opitz and scored on a wild pitch.
All of Texas’ runs came in the fourth inning, which Wicklander nearly escaped with no damage.
Todd Austin singled to open the bottom of the fourth and advanced to third on Zach Zubia’s ringing double to the wall in right center. Wicklander induced a line drive out by Ryan Reynolds for the second out, then Tate Shaw smoked a ball inside the first base bag that bounced over Ezell’s glove and went into the corner for a two-run double.
Reserve catcher Caston Peter, making his 16th at-bat of the season, ripped the next pitch over the Arkansas bullpen for a 394-foot two-run home run.
The electric Chevrolet Volt may be prompting worries about battery fires after crashes, but the people who already own Volts love them. Volt topped all models in the owner satisfaction survey released today by Consumer Reports.
A whopping 93 percent of Volt owners said they would definitely buy the car again, edging out sporty contenders Dodge Challenger and Porsche 911, each with a 91 percent buy-again rating.
Consumer Reports conducted its survey before the announcement this week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating incidents where the Volt lithium-ion batteries caught fire weeks after being damaged in safety crash tests. General Motors, seeking to mitigate any public relations damage to its most celebrated vehicle, has offered free loaner cars to any Volt owners who are concerned about the fire issue, and has even offered to buy back Volts from any owners who are afraid their car will catch fire.
High-profile, high-gas-mileage models like the Volt have gained cachet similar to glamorous sports cars, say the Consumer Reports editors. "Sporty cars and fuel efficient cars with alternative drive trains tend to generate more enthusiasm and loyalty than most other types of vehicles," writes Rik Paul, CR automotive editor.
The Consumer Reports ratings were based on responses from 314,000 readers. Other fuel-efficient models with high ratings included hybrid models of the Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ, Lexus CT 200h and Toyota Prius. Sporty models ranking well included the supercharged Audi S4, A5 and S5, the Chevrolet Camaro and Corvette and Ford Mustang GT.
"Doing yoga in a studio can be a little intimidating and serious, and out here, it's not," instructor Megan Wage said.
Hendersonville is home to a yoga studio with a view — the lake.
Many water-lovers in the City by the Lake spend their summer days boating, kayaking, fishing and swimming. Others practice yoga on a paddleboard in the water.
"It just adds such a fun, playful aspect to yoga," instructor Megan Wage said. "Doing yoga in a studio can be a little intimidating and serious, and out here, it's not."
A Florida transplant, Wage has spent her whole life on the water in some fashion. When she's not teaching yoga on the land, she enjoys sharing her love of water and yoga with others — even those new to both activities.
Wage owns Nashville SUP (Stand-Up Paddleboarding) and Yoga. She teaches yoga classes on paddleboards and how to stand-up paddleboard, plus rents boards out to people who want to paddle on their own.
On Saturdays, her students can be found arms stretched to the sky, making a triangle in the downward dog position or gazing forward in a warrior pose — and keeping their balance in check.
"If you fall, you fall; it's not that big of a deal," Wage said. "It's water — you get back on. That's half the workout."
Student Kaitlyn Stokes has driven down from Bowling Green, Kentucky to take classes with Wage. Although she has been paddleboarding for two years, she never took a class before signing up with Nashville SUP & Yoga.
"We have lakes and rivers," she said. "There's a lot of kayaking but not paddleboarding."
Stokes hopes to take the activity back to her hometown and teach her own class.
Anyone — from those who have never been on a board to regulars of yoga — can take the class.
Wage has an Intro to Paddleboarding class.
Before each class, she goes over how to use the board and paddle and warns students to stay clear of the boats.
While life jackets must stay on the board, students are not required to wear them unless they feel safer doing so.
Boards are large to provide plenty of space, but have a weight limit of 250 pounds.
The classes are a popular retreat for team-bonding.
More and more fun fitness businesses have landed in Hendersonville, from Santosha Yoga to CycleBar to Pure Barre and beyond.
"I have seen so many fun new things come to Hendersonville, and I think it's awesome," Wage said. "I just think the variety of stuff that we have here is amazing."
While board rentals are available any day, Wage has a schedule of classes on www.nashvillesupandyoga.com.
Students should bring a change of clothes, a towel and a bottle of water.
There are times I want to explore near photo-realistic ancient temples, battling terrifying enemies with the aid of powerful magical artifacts. I have moments where all I want to do is spend hours building armies, evaluating troop strength and capabilities and devising strategies to take advantage of my findings.
Sometimes I just want to find a pair of white spaceships on blue backgrounds. In times like those, Reuben Goulart's Mind Blitz is exactly what I need. Simple and clean, it's a memory match game that flirts with action puzzle elements when no one is looking.
Initially, all the player has to do is match a pair of Symbolicons until all of the pairs are gone or the timer runs out. Once three boards have been passed the player may spend accrued power up points on special boosts that add time to their session, multiply socre or give players a penalty-free peek under the table. There are also penalty cards that show up on the board post-level three — time loss, card shuffles and one that resets the entire playfield.
And that's it. That's all there is to Mind Blitz. No combos, no deep strategy, no explosions — just your memory versus a pleasantly stark screen. Perfect.
We spend a lot of time praising mobile games that verge on console-quality experiences. Let's not forget about the mobile games that embrace the platform they are built on and don't clutter up the screen trying to be something else.
Previously, I covered the story of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis’s absolutely ridiculous claim that, if his Republican opponent wins the Colorado governship, there will be death to women.
What’s dumber is that, since making that ludicrous statement, The Washington Free Beacon has unearthed an incident nineteen years ago, in which Polis allegedly battered a woman.
A police report filed with the Boulder PD on June 23, 1999 noted “two bruise marks” on the bicep of 24-year-old Patricia Hughes, along with “a red welt on her right thigh,” from Polis grabbing at his already-resigned office worker.
Take note, Kavanaugh opponents — this is what people do when they’re significantly hurt, if they want the world to believe them in the future: they file a police report.
As the story goes, Hughes called Polis from the headquarters of his JPS International LLC. Having turned in her resignation days prior, she told the future U.S. representative she would “go after” him with information she possessed, if her departure from the company didn’t go smoothly.
Polis hightailed it to the office.
“After hanging up with the dispatcher, Ms. Hughes attempted to leave the office. Mr. Schutz physically blocked the door to prevent her from leaving. She moved toward him again, this time hitting him with one of her bags. Mr. Schutz then put both of his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back to prevent her from leaving.
“I did observe two bruise marks on Ms. Hughes left inside bicep and a red welt on her thigh. She stated that the bruises on her arms were from Mr. Schutz ‘grabbing’ her with his right hand. The bruises were not conducive with Mr. Schutz’s statement that he pushed her shoulders. Nor were they conducive with Ms. Hughes’s statement of Mr. Schutz standing in front of her and grabbing her.
The report does also say Hughes’s bag contained company materials she was intent upon taking.
I’m not saying Polis is a woman-beater. I have no understanding of all which had transpired between boss and employee during Hughes’s tenure with the company.
My only point is this: if you’re going to grandstand about women dying because of your defeat in a fair political race — if you’re going to trumpet something that absolutely absurd — you may want to prepare for a heavy backlash, knowing you’re on record as having manhandled a female employee — whether justified or not — in a way that is available to the public. If that’s your history, maybe you should tone down the fatuousness of your rhetoric.
Polis doesn’t have to worry about Hughes speaking out: she died in 2014.
Still, the report lives on. Given that, maybe Polis should — as should all politicians — focus on letting people know what he can do to improve the current system of government, related to the liberty which we as Americans are promised by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Perhaps if he would genuinely do that, he could be elected on actual merit — and, in doing so, not look like such a goon.
We have enough goons already, constantly covered at RedState by Yours Truly — Hillary Clinton (here), Al Green (here), Maxine Waters (here), to name only a few (please remind yourself of the wackiness by visiting those pieces).

Alexandra's case came to a happy conclusion - she was reunited with her parents two weeks after being taken - but that of Ames Glover has dragged on to become the UK's longest-running abduction investigation.

At the time Ames disappeared there were criticisms of police handling of the case with accusations their behaviour had hindered progress in the investigation.

Both Ames' parents were questioned for many hours and information about family problems and the baby having been on an "at risk" register was passed by police to the media.

At one time, Shanika says, she was extremely unhappy about the way the police had dealt with the case. But her feeling have changed since the case was taken on by Scotland Yard's Racial and Violent Crimes Taskforce in 2002.

"To be honest looking back now I think they did everything possible at the time. But they didn't share everything they did on the investigation with me and I felt they had not done enough.

"But now they have taken me through everything I think they did everything they could the first time around," she says.

Shanika says it is a long shot that Ames will ever be found but has taken hope from that fact that previous appeals have led to leads, such as a tip-off in 2003 that Ames had been taken to Ghana.

"I was quite excited then because I felt maybe there must be something there. So I did have a little bit of hope but I had to accept reality that nothing came from it.

"But having said that it's not completely dismissed, the police will go back to Ghana if anything comes up," she says.

Shanika and Paul, who had been having marriage problems, split up for good shortly after Ames' disappearance.

"It's still raw. I just feel very bitter and angry that nobody knows what happened to Ames.

"So many years have gone by and now, good or bad, I'd just really like to know what happened so that I can close that chapter of my life," she says.

President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a rally in Tennessee in October.

President Donald Trump sought to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the sole executor of his father's estate, according to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday.

Fred Trump saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back and removed his son from having sole control of the estate, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.

Fred Trump feared that his son would strip the estate to rescue his own failing empire, the report says.

The investigation by The Times found that Donald Trump and his family engaged in "instances of outright fraud" to enhance their wealth. New York agencies are investigating the allegations in the report.

President Donald Trump tried to rewrite his father's will in 1990 to strengthen his position as the only person to inherit his father's estate, according to a bombshell New York Times report about Trump's and his family's tax practices.

But Fred Trump foiled the attempt, as he feared his son could strip his estate and use it to rescue his own failing businesses, The Times reported, citing depositions and other documents it obtained.

Donald Trump had sent his father a document that would make him the sole executor of the estate and protect his portion of his inheritance from creditors and his impending divorce settlement, according to the report.

Fred Trump, then 85, had not seen the document before but was instructed to sign immediately, The Times reported. He saw the move as an attempt to go behind his back.

He showed the document to his daughter Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge at the time. She recalled in her deposition that he told her, "This doesn't pass the smell test," The Times reported.

Then Fred Trump had lawyers draft new documents stripping his son of sole control of the estate. Notes from those lawyers cited by The Times show that Fred Trump's instructions were to "protect assets from DJT, Donald's creditors."

Framed photos of the president's parents, Fred and Mary Trump, on a table in the Oval Office.

The allegations are included in an investigation published Tuesday by The Times, which said it reviewed thousands of tax documents and financial records. It found that Donald Trump received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father and that the president and his family engaged in "instances of outright fraud" to enhance their wealth.

The Times reported that Donald Trump was earning $200,000 annually in today's dollars from his father's empire by the time he was 3 years old. By age 8, he was a millionaire, the report said.

The investigation appears to refute the president's narrative that he is a self-made billionaire who built his own empire.

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance told Business Insider in an email that officials were reviewing the allegations in the report and "vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation."

AUSTIN, Texas Christian Franklin thought he had lifted a deep fly ball to left field to give the University of Arkansas a sacrifice fly and a two-run lead in the second inning at Texas on Tuesday night.

Nope. The majestic shot drifted just over the wall for a grand slam that propelled the No. 9 Razorbacks to yet another rout of their old rival, an 11-4 victory over the No. 15 Longhorns.

Arkansas (18-2) won its seventh consecutive game and its program-best fifth in a row over the Longhorns (15-8) before a crowd of 6,208 at Disch-Falk Field.

Heston Kjerstad added a tape-measure home run during the Razorbacks’ early onslaught and Dominic Fletcher hit a pair of doubles in Arkansas’ 11-hit attack.

“Off the bat, I was just thinking it’s a sacrifice fly and happy that I got some good barrel to it to get us another run, and then the left fielder just kept drifting back further and further, and it eventually went over the wall,” said Franklin, who increased his team RBI lead to 23.

The grand slam had two sets of drama, as Franklin nearly passed teammate Jacob Nesbit, who had run back to first base in case he needed to tag up. Franklin apparently got one foot past Nesbit just past the bag, and the umpiring crew upheld the home run call on review.

The Razorbacks have outscored their former Southwest Conference rival 49-21 during the five-game winning streak, including an 11-5 victory in the opener of last year’s College World Series.

The teams will wrap up the two-game series tonight at 6:30 with neither team announcing a starting pitcher.

Every Razorback except leadoff man Casey Martin had scored a run by the fourth inning and every Arkansas batter had reached base when Trevor Ezell walked to lead off the fourth inning.

Arkansas middle reliever Kole Ramage (5-0) picked up the victory behind Patrick Wicklander, who threw three shutout innings before running into trouble in the fourth.

Ramage retired all nine Texas batters he faced on 29 pitches in the fifth through seventh innings.

“Coming out of the bullpen, I knew I kind of had every pitch going,” Ramage said. “I just came out and attacked these hitters. They were getting a little aggressive because they were coming off that inning where Wick kind of got a couple hits off of him.

Sophomore Zebulon Vermillion retired the final six Texas batters.

Neither team scored after the fourth inning, but there were major eruptions in the first few frames.

Texas 6-9 right-hander Jack Neely (0-1) breezed through the first inning on five pitches — all strikes — but the Razorbacks ambushed him in the second.

Fletcher stroked a double into the right-field corner to open the frame and Casey Opitz’s ground ball to the right side moved him to third. Matt Goodheart’s infield single crossed up the first and second basemen and drove in the game’s first run.

Jack Kenley and Nesbit worked consecutive walks to load the bases and bring up Franklin, who launched his third home run and the Razorbacks’ first grand slam since Hunter Wilson did it against Florida in last year’s SEC Tournament.

Texas left fielder Eric Kennedy kept drifting and drifting back to the wall before the ball cleared it by a few feet to make it 5-0.

One out later, Kjerstad hammered a first-pitch Neely fastball just to the right of the center field “monster” that went an estimated 435 feet.

That shot put the Razorbacks up 6-0 and they kept up the assault in the next inning.

Fletcher led off the third with another double, this one to the left-center gap. After Opitz walked, both runners moved up on a wild pitch by reliever Donny Diaz. Kenley walked again to load the bases.

Nesbit got a 1-1 pitch to his liking and stroked it into the gap in left-center field for a two-run double, his first extra base hit of the season.

After Diaz struck out Franklin for the second out of the inning, Martin delivered a two-run single to right field to plate Kenley and Nesbit for a 10-0 lead.

The lead grew by a run in the fourth, which opened with Ezell’s walk. He stole second base, moved up on a ground ball by Opitz and scored on a wild pitch.

All of Texas’ runs came in the fourth inning, which Wicklander nearly escaped with no damage.

Todd Austin singled to open the bottom of the fourth and advanced to third on Zach Zubia’s ringing double to the wall in right center. Wicklander induced a line drive out by Ryan Reynolds for the second out, then Tate Shaw smoked a ball inside the first base bag that bounced over Ezell’s glove and went into the corner for a two-run double.

Reserve catcher Caston Peter, making his 16th at-bat of the season, ripped the next pitch over the Arkansas bullpen for a 394-foot two-run home run.

The electric Chevrolet Volt may be prompting worries about battery fires after crashes, but the people who already own Volts love them. Volt topped all models in the owner satisfaction survey released today by Consumer Reports.

A whopping 93 percent of Volt owners said they would definitely buy the car again, edging out sporty contenders Dodge Challenger and Porsche 911, each with a 91 percent buy-again rating.

Consumer Reports conducted its survey before the announcement this week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating incidents where the Volt lithium-ion batteries caught fire weeks after being damaged in safety crash tests. General Motors, seeking to mitigate any public relations damage to its most celebrated vehicle, has offered free loaner cars to any Volt owners who are concerned about the fire issue, and has even offered to buy back Volts from any owners who are afraid their car will catch fire.

High-profile, high-gas-mileage models like the Volt have gained cachet similar to glamorous sports cars, say the Consumer Reports editors. "Sporty cars and fuel efficient cars with alternative drive trains tend to generate more enthusiasm and loyalty than most other types of vehicles," writes Rik Paul, CR automotive editor.

The Consumer Reports ratings were based on responses from 314,000 readers. Other fuel-efficient models with high ratings included hybrid models of the Ford Fusion, Lincoln MKZ, Lexus CT 200h and Toyota Prius. Sporty models ranking well included the supercharged Audi S4, A5 and S5, the Chevrolet Camaro and Corvette and Ford Mustang GT.

"Doing yoga in a studio can be a little intimidating and serious, and out here, it's not," instructor Megan Wage said.

Hendersonville is home to a yoga studio with a view — the lake.

Many water-lovers in the City by the Lake spend their summer days boating, kayaking, fishing and swimming. Others practice yoga on a paddleboard in the water.

"It just adds such a fun, playful aspect to yoga," instructor Megan Wage said. "Doing yoga in a studio can be a little intimidating and serious, and out here, it's not."

A Florida transplant, Wage has spent her whole life on the water in some fashion. When she's not teaching yoga on the land, she enjoys sharing her love of water and yoga with others — even those new to both activities.

Wage owns Nashville SUP (Stand-Up Paddleboarding) and Yoga. She teaches yoga classes on paddleboards and how to stand-up paddleboard, plus rents boards out to people who want to paddle on their own.

On Saturdays, her students can be found arms stretched to the sky, making a triangle in the downward dog position or gazing forward in a warrior pose — and keeping their balance in check.

"If you fall, you fall; it's not that big of a deal," Wage said. "It's water — you get back on. That's half the workout."

Student Kaitlyn Stokes has driven down from Bowling Green, Kentucky to take classes with Wage. Although she has been paddleboarding for two years, she never took a class before signing up with Nashville SUP & Yoga.

"We have lakes and rivers," she said. "There's a lot of kayaking but not paddleboarding."

Stokes hopes to take the activity back to her hometown and teach her own class.

Anyone — from those who have never been on a board to regulars of yoga — can take the class.

Wage has an Intro to Paddleboarding class.

Before each class, she goes over how to use the board and paddle and warns students to stay clear of the boats.

While life jackets must stay on the board, students are not required to wear them unless they feel safer doing so.

Boards are large to provide plenty of space, but have a weight limit of 250 pounds.

The classes are a popular retreat for team-bonding.

More and more fun fitness businesses have landed in Hendersonville, from Santosha Yoga to CycleBar to Pure Barre and beyond.

"I have seen so many fun new things come to Hendersonville, and I think it's awesome," Wage said. "I just think the variety of stuff that we have here is amazing."

While board rentals are available any day, Wage has a schedule of classes on www.nashvillesupandyoga.com.

Students should bring a change of clothes, a towel and a bottle of water.

There are times I want to explore near photo-realistic ancient temples, battling terrifying enemies with the aid of powerful magical artifacts. I have moments where all I want to do is spend hours building armies, evaluating troop strength and capabilities and devising strategies to take advantage of my findings.

Sometimes I just want to find a pair of white spaceships on blue backgrounds. In times like those, Reuben Goulart's Mind Blitz is exactly what I need. Simple and clean, it's a memory match game that flirts with action puzzle elements when no one is looking.

Initially, all the player has to do is match a pair of Symbolicons until all of the pairs are gone or the timer runs out. Once three boards have been passed the player may spend accrued power up points on special boosts that add time to their session, multiply socre or give players a penalty-free peek under the table. There are also penalty cards that show up on the board post-level three — time loss, card shuffles and one that resets the entire playfield.

And that's it. That's all there is to Mind Blitz. No combos, no deep strategy, no explosions — just your memory versus a pleasantly stark screen. Perfect.

We spend a lot of time praising mobile games that verge on console-quality experiences. Let's not forget about the mobile games that embrace the platform they are built on and don't clutter up the screen trying to be something else.

Previously, I covered the story of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis’s absolutely ridiculous claim that, if his Republican opponent wins the Colorado governship, there will be death to women.

What’s dumber is that, since making that ludicrous statement, The Washington Free Beacon has unearthed an incident nineteen years ago, in which Polis allegedly battered a woman.

A police report filed with the Boulder PD on June 23, 1999 noted “two bruise marks” on the bicep of 24-year-old Patricia Hughes, along with “a red welt on her right thigh,” from Polis grabbing at his already-resigned office worker.

Take note, Kavanaugh opponents — this is what people do when they’re significantly hurt, if they want the world to believe them in the future: they file a police report.

As the story goes, Hughes called Polis from the headquarters of his JPS International LLC. Having turned in her resignation days prior, she told the future U.S. representative she would “go after” him with information she possessed, if her departure from the company didn’t go smoothly.

Polis hightailed it to the office.

“After hanging up with the dispatcher, Ms. Hughes attempted to leave the office. Mr. Schutz physically blocked the door to prevent her from leaving. She moved toward him again, this time hitting him with one of her bags. Mr. Schutz then put both of his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back to prevent her from leaving.

“I did observe two bruise marks on Ms. Hughes left inside bicep and a red welt on her thigh. She stated that the bruises on her arms were from Mr. Schutz ‘grabbing’ her with his right hand. The bruises were not conducive with Mr. Schutz’s statement that he pushed her shoulders. Nor were they conducive with Ms. Hughes’s statement of Mr. Schutz standing in front of her and grabbing her.

The report does also say Hughes’s bag contained company materials she was intent upon taking.

I’m not saying Polis is a woman-beater. I have no understanding of all which had transpired between boss and employee during Hughes’s tenure with the company.

My only point is this: if you’re going to grandstand about women dying because of your defeat in a fair political race — if you’re going to trumpet something that absolutely absurd — you may want to prepare for a heavy backlash, knowing you’re on record as having manhandled a female employee — whether justified or not — in a way that is available to the public. If that’s your history, maybe you should tone down the fatuousness of your rhetoric.

Polis doesn’t have to worry about Hughes speaking out: she died in 2014.

Still, the report lives on. Given that, maybe Polis should — as should all politicians — focus on letting people know what he can do to improve the current system of government, related to the liberty which we as Americans are promised by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Perhaps if he would genuinely do that, he could be elected on actual merit — and, in doing so, not look like such a goon.

We have enough goons already, constantly covered at RedState by Yours Truly — Hillary Clinton (here), Al Green (here), Maxine Waters (here), to name only a few (please remind yourself of the wackiness by visiting those pieces).