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They're two of the most important players to have come through Washington during coach Chris Petersen's tenure, part of a highly successful senior class.
"I hope that they are really focused on the game and not too wrapped up in the last one at Husky Stadium, because we have a lot more ball to play and practice here," Petersen said.
Oregon State (2-8, 1-6) has enjoyed few highlights most of the season — its comeback win over Colorado the lone exception — but may be in position to give the Huskies headaches thanks to familiarity. The matchup will be a return to Seattle for head coach Jonathan Smith after spending the previous four seasons as Washington's offensive coordinator.
"I have some fond memories of that place," Smith said. "It's a great place to play a football game. Our kids will be excited to play there. We have some kids from that area who are looking forward to playing back home."
SUPER FRESHMAN: One of the few upsides in Oregon State's season has been the debut of freshman running back Jermar Jefferson. He needs just 53 yards rushing to topple Jacquizz Rodgers' freshman record at Oregon State. Rodgers rushed for 1,253 yards in 2008; Jefferson has 1,201. Jefferson is the eighth player in school history to top 1,000 yards, but just the second freshman. Jefferson hasn't scored a rushing touchdown since Oct. 6 when he had four TDs in a loss to Washington State.
TACKLE MACHINE: Because of the Huskies' bye last week, linebacker Ben Burr-Kirven lost his spot as the top tackler in the country. He's now third with 134 tackles on the season but should have plenty of chances to regain the top spot and finish the season as the national leader with the Huskies likely to have three and possibly four more games. Burr-Kirven is averaging more than 13 tackles per game.
RUN AWAY: Oregon State's defense has been mostly forgettable this season. The Beavers are giving up 542.8 yards per game, ranking next to last in the country. Of that number, 271 yards per game are coming on the ground. Every team they've faced this season has rushed for at least 100 yards against the Beavers, even pass-happy Washington State. That's not good when facing Gaskin and the rest of Washington's talented backfield.
GETTING HEALTHY: The one upside to Washington's late bye week is the chance to have a mostly healthy roster for the final stretch. The Huskies could see the play time of tight end Hunter Bryant increase and there's a chance left tackle Trey Adams could return for the final few games and not jeopardize his intent to return for a fifth-year in 2019. Adams has missed the entire season with a back injury.
Washington may also get cornerback Jordan Miller back after missing the past two games.
Sofia Coppola’s whitewashed new movie The Beguiled.
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled cuts the book’s black characters, whitewashing its tale of the Civil War–era South. At this point, that’s hardly a surprise.
Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice, Oona Laurence, Addison Riecke, and Emma Howard in The Beguiled.
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“The slaves left.” In three words, Sofia Coppola’s new film The Beguiled casually dispenses with one of the great shames of the American republic. Coppola’s film is an elegant Southern Gothic tale of masculine charms and feminine vengeance, completely stripped of its historical and racial context. While not every period genre picture need grapple with the “peculiar institution,” this is a film set during the Civil War, unfolding between Southern women and a Northern soldier, and it goes so far as to cut both black characters from the novel upon which it was based.
Based on a 1966 novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, and previously adapted into a film in 1971 by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, The Beguiled tells the story of an injured Union fighter who seduces several of the women at Farnsworth Seminary, a Southern school for girls, only to breed jealousy and become the subject of their collective wrath. It’s hard not to see Coppola’s attraction to the material. Her body of work regularly focuses on privileged characters—particularly women—cut off from the world, their sexuality repressed, longing for an escape, but ultimately doomed to their lonely circumstances.
Exotic is a word Coppola used again in an interview with Vanity Fair, and it signals her aesthetic interest in the story. The chance to film the remnants of the antebellum South, with its grand houses, stately furnishings, and beautiful dresses must have been an alluring prospect for a director so visually minded and so interested in the lives of the wealthy. But aesthetics are not apolitical, and those grand houses and beautiful dresses didn’t emerge out of a vacuum.
Mae Mercer and Clint Eastwood in The Beguiled (1971).
While the way that Marie Antoinette mostly omitted class struggle from a story about the French Revolution was arguably an appropriate reflection of its protagonist’s worldview, the excuse wears thin across her career, especially as it pertains to the erasure of people of color. In The Bling Ring, also based on a true story and itself a sort of tale of class struggle, Coppola fictionalized the gang of teenage celebrity robbers, making them mostly white, and cutting out one member of the real life bling ring, a young undocumented immigrant from Mexico named Diana Tamayo.
In The Beguiled, Coppola cuts out the enslaved housemaid Mattie (called Hallie in the 1971 film), and she also turns the character Edwina, who was a free mixed-race teenager in the novel, into a white teacher played by Kirsten Dunst.* Asked why she cut out the enslaved woman from the original film, Coppola told BuzzFeed News, “I didn’t want to brush over such an important topic in a light way. Young girls watch my films and this was not the depiction of an African-American character I would want to show them.” Perhaps her intentions were pure, but it’s hard not to see this as part of a larger pattern.
This is even more bothersome when you consider that the original text provided Coppola with ample material for complex depictions of strong black characters. In the novel, both Mattie and Edwina are given first-person chapters that explore their unique experiences and psychologies. The book also astutely depicts both characters’ places in Southern society. Edwina is a troubled child who keeps her parentage a secret despite it being obvious to everyone around her that she must have gotten her darker skin from her mother. Only Mattie is open about the truth, telling one of the women of the house, “She’s got black blood in her,” to the woman’s horror. Edwina is suckered in by the Union corporal, John McBurney, who knows of her heritage and manipulatively speaks to her acute feelings of otherness.
Coppola’s erasure of history is evident even in the period-accurate choice of filming location: Madewood Plantation House, where Beyoncé shot parts of Lemonade. The cast of The Beguiled were so excited to be shooting at the same location that Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst re-created a shot from Beyoncé’s film for Instagram.
There’s something deeply perverse about seeing Beyoncé’s groundbreaking work of black female historical reclamation appropriated by two white actresses in 1860s Southern dress. But it’s perfectly in keeping with the attitude of the film, in which black people barely merit mention. While the film’s production design and costumes evince a commitment to authenticity, the movie itself has no interest in the people on whose backs that lavish lifestyle was built.
Even “the slaves left” is a gross misrepresentation of history, making easy the struggle faced by enslaved people during the Civil War, which wasn’t so simple as merely “leaving” their enslavers. Many struggled, fought, and escaped, but many didn’t for fear of violence and death, while others couldn’t risk separation from their families. For all the violence that occurs between McBurney and the women of the Farnsworth Seminary, it pales in comparison to the real-life violence of slavery, which Coppola chooses, simply, to ignore.
A community foundation started to support Humboldt after the GoFundMe fundraiser stopped accepting funds has received more than $3.4 million.
A community foundation for Humboldt, created after a wildly successful GoFundMe fundraiser stopped accepting funds, has received more than $3.4 million.
Sixteen people died and 13 others were injured on April 6 when the Humboldt Broncos team bus collided with a semi-truck north of Tisdale, Sask. The truck's driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is facing 29 charges related to the crash, including 16 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
A GoFundMe created for the team after the crash raised more than $15 million from more than 80 countries in 12 days. It became the second-largest GoFundMe campaign of all time.
Donations continued to roll in after the GoFundMe closed, leading to the creation of the Humboldt Strong Community Foundation.
"We're really amazed and continue to be amazed at the outpouring of support that we've experienced in response to the April 6 tragedy," said Darrin Duell, chair of the board of directors for the Humboldt Strong Community Foundation.
The foundation was set up to manage the funds, "for the benefit of the players, employees, families, volunteers, emergency services personnel, teams, related organizations and communities" affected by crash, according to the articles of incorporation.
Since the guidelines were first set out, they've been tweaked to allow them to cover any costs that might be associated with distributing the money from the original GoFundMe campaign.
"We're anticipating it could be as much as $60,000 that could be overhead costs with regards to the distribution of those funds," Duell said.
Other potential items the foundation might cover include funeral expenses or home renovations for crash victims with reduced mobility. Duell said there's also the potential for the foundation to fund a memorial at the crash site.
Some of the money has already been granted on a case-by-case basis. Duell said they've covered some costs associated with families having to stay out of town while their children were in the hospital.
The nine directors will be meeting in the next few weeks to determine long-term plans for the money.
"We feel a responsibility within the foundation to think about what the legacy of April 6 is and how do we honour not just the players and the families but also the response of the public to what happened," Duell said.
Robertson Stromberg law firm helped them set up the foundation and has been accepting donations on their behalf. MNP accounting firm has also been providing support.
Duell was on the board of directors for the Humboldt Broncos Hockey Club during the time of the crash.
"I guess I channelled my energy then into the creation of this foundation and the fund and working with regard to how we're going to manage the funds that have been received by the club," he said.
"This was my way of pitching in and doing something in the aftermath of such an enormous tragedy."
Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Wednesday offered stranded passengers bound to Saudi Arabia with replacement flights after their flights were cancelled with the recent closure of a Naia runway.
Arrival Riyadh at 4:20 p.m.
Arrival Dammam at 6:55 p.m.
Departure Riyadh at 5:50 p.m.
Departure Dammam at 8:35 p.m.
“Passengers who wish to take the flight, but have not yet received a notification that they are booked, are advised to immediately contact the PAL hotline 855 8888 or contact any PAL Ticketing Office to have yourself booked on the flight, as soon as possible due to the limited number of seats,” PAL management said in an advisory.
CARSON – Chivas USA got exactly what it wanted Saturday night. It didn’t last long, though.
Needing to defeat Real Salt Lake by at least a goal in the second leg of the MLS Cup quarterfinals, Chivas scored first, the initial step it needed to take in order to advance.
But Real Salt Lake never let Chivas get to step No. 2, instead making the crucial plays it needed in a 2-2 tie at Home Depot Center on Saturday night.
That was all Real Salt Lake needed to win the aggregate score of the home-and-home series 3-2 and advance to the Western Conference final against either Houston or New York.
In other words, Chivas USA in 2008 wouldn’t have it any other way.
All season, the team was trying to fight back from injuries and other circumstances, but the obstacles proved too great to overcome.
“Tonight was a little microcosm of our year,” said midfielder Jesse Marsch, Chivas captain. “We put a lot into it and I’m proud of a lot of guys and what kind of effort they put in, but it was a tough year for us.
Playing with the desperation that matched the situation when the score was tied at 1-1 in the second half, Chivas was ultimately burned on a goal by Javier Morales in the 77th minute.
Morales’ effort on the counterattack came against four defensemen and goalkeeper Zach Thornton, who couldn’t stop the shot into the lower right corner. It looked like a diamond-and-one zone basketball defense that gave up an open 15-foot jump shot.
“The second goal was just absolutely the softest goal ever,” Chivas coach Preki said.
It was the third consecutive first-round playoff exit for Chivas USA. Real Salt Lake, which entered MLS in the same season as Chivas four years ago, is making its first postseason appearance.
Real Salt Lake’s last-minute goal in the first match of the series turned out to be the difference in this series.
Chivas ended a playoff scoring drought at 412 minutes with a penalty-kick goal by Sacha Kljestan in the 30th minute after Ante Razov drew a foul in the box. But Real Salt Lake’s Dema Kovalenko answered nine minutes later.
Justin Braun scored in the 83rd minute, but Chivas couldn’t find the goal it needed to send the match into overtime. Kljestan had a shot in the 89th minute, but whistled it just over the net.
Preki drastically changed his formation at halftime. He took out central defender Jim Curtin, who was replaced by Alecko Eskandarian, who took a spot in the midfield. Jonathan Bornstein was moved to central defense with Pancho Mendoza moving to left back.
Ten minutes into the second half, Preki chose to have only Bornstein and Shavar Thomas back on defense with the rest pressing the attack.
“We give one back right before halftime and that was devastating,” Razov said.
Synlait was the worst performer, falling 4.5 per cent to $8.70.
New Zealand's NZX 50 Index dropped nearly 1 per cent on global trade news, with Synlait Milk and Sky Network Television suffering while CBL remained in a trading halt as its administrators gained more time to consider its finances.
The NZX 50 fell 85.45 points, or 0.99 per cent, to 8,515.36. Within the index, 39 stocks were down, seven were unchanged and four rose. Turnover was $106 million.
Global equity markets have fallen on concerns a trade war may emerge after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on Chinese goods and China retaliated, announcing plans for reciprocal tariffs on 128 US products. At 5:20pm, Japan's Nikkei 400 was down 3.3 per cent, the S&P/ASX 200 had dropped 2 per cent and the Hang Seng was 2.8 per cent lower.
"Our market has behaved quite nicely all things considered, and that's the nature of our exchange, which tends to have a lot of defensive, utility-based stocks which tend to outperform when things get a bit rough," said Peter McIntyre, investment adviser at Craigs Investment Partners.
"Compared to our friends in Asia we are performing very well. Trump certainly has set the market alight again - even though there is a 60-day treaty before any of this potentially gets enacted, it has put the market on edge."
Synlait was the worst performer, falling 4.5 per cent to $8.70. That still leaves the stock up 6.6 per cent this week, after it surged on the release of its record first-half results on Wednesday.
Sky TV dropped 3.3 per cent to $2.32, Westpac Banking Corp fell 2.7 per cent to $30.85, and A2 Milk Co declined 2.6 per cent to $13.73.
CBL remained in a trading halt at $3.17. The company's voluntary administrators have postponed the creditors' watershed meeting to gather more information and hired Goldman Sachs as an adviser.
Auckland-based CBL appointed KordaMentha voluntary administrators on March 2 after the Reserve Bank sought an interim liquidation of its New Zealand supervised arm and the Central Bank of Ireland made a similar move against the insurer's European division.
The second meeting of creditors gives them the choice to resolve that a deed of company arrangement be executed, resolve that the administration should end, or appoint liquidators. It must be held by May 18, and KordaMentha must release a watershed report to creditors and the market by May 11.
"It just creates more uncertainty for shareholders," McIntyre said. "Obviously they'll be looking at all ways to obtain value for those shareholders and potentially a trade sale somewhere along the line. it's been a drawn-out saga and hasn't been a good example for the stock exchange either."
NZX was the best performer, up 0.9 per cent today.
Meridian Energy rose 0.9 per cent to $2.945, Port of Tauranga gained 0.2 per cent to $5 and Genesis Energy was unchanged at $2.395.
"Meridian, Genesis and Ports of Tauranga are carrying dividends, so they're being supported in today's market," McIntyre said. "Income is an important part of investor returns, so a lot of investors are looking to continue to buy those stocks for the dividends."
Auckland International Airport gained 0.3 per cent to $6.20. It released its February monthly traffic update showing domestic passenger numbers lifted 7.5 per cent and international passengers rose 6.7 per cent.
"International passengers and domestic passengers continued to be strong, the concerning thing is with regards to Australia which puts a dampener on the update," McIntyre said. "That weighed on the stock earlier today. It's been weaker this month, it is a quality company that has come off its highs quite considerably."
Joe Lamb should be commended for having his priorities straight and for fast action in emergencies. Instead he was suspended from his job on account of inflexible interpretation of rules by his supervisor.
There is an old maxim, “necessity knows no law,” and emergencies constitute necessity, especially in cases of immediate danger. The case in question involved a smoking, three-car crash vehicle with a woman trapped inside one of the cars. Lamb, a trained first responder, left his bus and ran to help, appropriately as I see things. Supervisor Roland Knorr said Lamb violated safety policies by leaving his bus with one passenger inside, and expressed liability concerns had the passenger been injured crossing a street.
Really! She might have crossed a street! There is no proportionality between the immediacy of a multi-car accident and the remote possibility that a person might possibly have a different accident.
Instead of Lamb being asked to take another day of training (presumably about rules) perhaps Derek Muench, Sheboygan transit director, and Knorr should be required to attend a session or two about judging proportionality among different situations. No commendations for their rigidity.
After the collision, the mountain lion fell down a nearby embankment. The animal was suffering, and officers determined it was best to euthanize it.
The driver did not suffer injuries, but the collision caused major damage to the vehicle.
CHP officials say vehicles often collide with animals on Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay, but the majority of the crashes involve deer.
The deer patrol in now understaffed.
We may soon be ruled by the machines, judging by this video which shows a robot easily fooling a system designed to distinguish between human and non-human instructions.
The video, uploaded by Matt Unsworth, shows a robotic arm taking a computer test known as Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA). In a reverse of the Turing test the computer asks the human to convince them they are not a robot, as opposed to the human asking a computer to convince them they are human.
Using a stylus, the robotic arm mimics a human finger on the keypad, fooling CAPTCHA and ticking the green box beside, “I’m not a robot.” It then drops the pen and looks at the camera in a moment of triumph over its human masters.
RT reached out to Unsworth for details on our possible future robotic overlord, but have yet to receive either a human or robotic response.
Earlier this month a European Parliament committee voted in favor of a draft report to enforce a “kill switch” on robots ensuring they can be easily turned off at all times. The report now goes through several favors before potentially becoming law, giving this sneaky robot plenty of time to build a robot army.
At the invitation of Hans van Baalen MEP, President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party, liberal Prime Ministers and European Commissioners met at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Thursday 17 December, ahead of the European Council Summit of the same day.
Crucial topics such as the refugee crisis, Passenger Name Records (PNR), and the proposal of the President of the European Council on safeguarding our external land and sea borders were discussed.
EU countries ready to resettle refugees from Turkey once the current influx is under control create working group and want regular talks with Ankara.
Liberals and Democrats consider that Europe is in an emergency situation and call on the European Council to adopt seven emergency measures to get a grip on the refugee crisis.
Jason Verduzco for the Heisman? Why not? The junior quarterback threw three touchdown passes to Gus Palma and directed the offense flawlessly in Illinois` shocking 51-10 upset of Houston Saturday.
Houston`s David Klingler, while showing flashes of the brilliance that made him the odds-on Heisman Trophy candidate at the start of the season, absorbed his second consecutive whipping.
Verduzco had thrown for 350 yards when coach John Mackovic took him out early in the fourth quarter with the Illini up 48-10. Klingler, who had not thrown an interception in the previous two games, was picked off four times.