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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Seminoles.com) — The third-ranked Florida State softball team (34-2) captured the series over Virginia (21-15) with a 9-0 win over the Cavaliers.
For the second straight game against Virginia, the Noles got on the board in the first inning. The Seminoles scored three runs on three hits in the inning. Kaley Mudge led off with a single up the middle. After a Sydney Sherrill walk, Mack Leonard singled to left field to make it 2-0. Seven pitches later Devyn Flaherty doubled down the right-field line to score Leonard and make it 3-0 for the Garnet and Gold after one inning.
Florida State made it 4-0 after they scored one more run in the third inning. With two out and Michaela Edenfield on second base, Devyn Flaherty hit a ball towards the shortstop. The first baseman ended up dropping the throw, resulting in Flaherty being safe at first and allowing Edenfield to round third and score.
Edenfield stuck for the 15th time this season sending a three-run home run to right field to give FSU a 7-0 lead after six innings. A single by Hallie Wacaser and a walk by Sherrill put the two runners on for Edenfield. Her 15 home runs this season are tied for the eighth-most in a single season in school history. She is four home runs shy of tying Jessie Warren’s freshman record of 19 home runs in a season set in 2015.
The Noles put up their final two runs of the game in the top of the seventh inning. Devyn Flaherty led off with a triple to right field. Kalei Harding then sent one deep over the fence in center field on a full count to make it 9-0. It was Harding’s fifth home run of the season.
Danielle Watson started in the circle for the Noles and pitched 5.2 scoreless innings while allowing just two hits. It was Watson’s 11th win of the season. Emma Wilson came in with two outs in the sixth inning and recorded the final four outs of the game.
Up Next
Florida State plays Virginia in the final game of the series tomorrow at 12 PM. The game is on ACCNX.
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MIDWAY, Fla. (WTXL) — Showers will wrap up later Saturday evening. Low temperatures will cool down to the low 50's. The rest of the weekend will feature dry conditions, under plenty of sunshine!
High temperatures Sunday will be in the low 80's. It'll cool off again Sunday night under clear skies. Low temperatures will be a bit chilly Monday morning around 50 degrees.
More dry weather is on tap for Monday with high temperatures in the low 80's.
Our next system will arrive midweek bringing the potential for severe storms Tuesday into Wednesday. Showers and a few storms may linger into Thursday.
Friday through next weekend will offer cooler and drier conditions!
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Finley, WA - Fire crews from Benton and Franklin County were dispatched to a residential structure fire at 2198 PR in Finley just after 5:00 a.m. on Saturday.
When fire crews arrived, smoke and flames were showing. The fire spread among a mobile home and nearby home, both a total loss.
At this time, the fire has been extinguished. Crews remain on scene for a couple hours.
Everyone evacuated the area. It's unknown what caused the fire.
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The Tallapoosa County Commission, state house and senate, district attorney and two Tallapoosa County Board of Education seats are up for reelection this year, with most going unchallenged.
A few local races, however, are competitive, especially in the Republican primary May 24.
State Senate
In District 27, Sen. Tom Whatley (R-Auburn), with a constituency now stretching further into Tallapoosa County, faces one Republican challenger — Auburn city councilman Jay Hovey — in the May 24 primary. Whatley is currently serving his third term.
The Republican nominee will face Opelika native Sherri Reese, the sole Democratic candidate, in November.
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Fifth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jeremy Duerr, in his first race as a Republican, faces Tallassee attorney Mike Segrest in the Republican primary this May.
Duerr was elected to the Fifth Judicial Circuit, covering Tallapoosa, Chambers, Macon and Randolph counties, in 2016 as a Democrat, before switching parties in 2020.
From the Democratic side, the 2022 race goes unchallenged.
Tallapoosa County Commission
Past commissioner Frank Tapley, from 1998-2002 and 2006-2014, is once again seeking the District 3 seat he lost to Tallapoosa County Commissioner John McKelvey. Both are running as Republicans.
McKelvey, representing New Site, Jackson's Gap, Goldville, Daviston and Hackneyville, is the only county commissioner to face a challenger this year. Four other incumbents, two Democrats and two Republicans, run unopposed in their respective parties.
Public Service Commission
Alabama's utility-company regulatory board is made up of only three seats, but this year a local contender, Tallassee Mayor Johnny Hammock, is throwing his hat in the ring.
Hammock, a Republican, faces a crowded field this May against three other GOP candidates, including the incumbent, Commissioner Jeremy Oden. Hammock's campaign continues amid a tumultuous year of investigations, lawsuits and a first-degree domestic violence charge, which is still working its way through the courts.
Democratic and Republican executive committees
The Alabama Democratic Party's executive committee, consisting of two members per house district, one male, one female, has a vacancy in District 81. Ira Moss and Camp Hill Mayor Messiah Williams-Cole will compete in the Democratic primary this May for the spot currently occupied by Unzell Kelley.
Kelley, a Coosa County commissioner, no longer resides in District 81 as of last year's redistricting.
Meanwhile, Alabama Republican Party executive Joseph Fuller faces two contenders for Tallapoosa County Place 2, Jeana Boggs and Donnie Pritchard. The GOP goes by county, not district, with seats allocated by population.
Alabama has a May 9 voter registration deadline for the primary, June 6 for the runoff (June 3 if hand delivered) and Oct. 24 for the general election in November.
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ARCADIA — Legendary horse trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended by the California Horse Racing Board effective Monday, as the state regulatory board honors Baffert’s 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Racing Commission over the positive medication test by last year’s disqualified Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit.
Baffert, whose appeal for a stay of his suspension was denied by the Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday, is banned from all enclosures under the jurisdiction of the CHRB during the suspension, including Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress.
He is also not permitted to be involved in the training of horses previously under his care.
“Because of the CHRB’s ruling, any trainer on the grounds at Santa Anita Park, Golden Gate Fields, San Luis Rey Downs or Los Alamitos Race Course who may be the transferee of horses from the Baffert barn will be required to apply for stalls for those horses from the Santa Anita or Golden Gate Fields racing offices, as applicable, for review and approval,” according to a statement issued Saturday by 1/ST Racing, an arm of The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita. “A Change of Trainer form will also be required to be submitted in order to enter races following such transfer. Horses that are not transferred to a trainer in California will be required to leave the grounds prior to April 4.”
Baffert must vacate his barn at Santa Anita Park prior to the start of the suspension Monday.
“I’m extremely disappointed that the Kentucky courts have deemed it appropriate for Mr. Baffert to have to serve a 90-day suspension (a) based on a topical ointment that is not a rules violation and (b) before his case has even been heard,” said Craig Robertson, Baffert’s Kentucky-based attorney, according to the Los Angeles Times. “This is unprecedented in the history of Kentucky horse racing.”
Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby last May but later tested positive for the steroid betamethasone, leading to challenges to the validity of the victory. Officials at Churchill Downs announced that Medina Spirit would be disqualified if the test was confirmed, and it suspended Baffert for two years.
Baffert and his attorney have insisted that the positive test was the result of a topical ointment known as Otomax being used to treat a skin condition, not an injection aimed at enhancing the horse’s performance in the race.
Betamethasone is legal except on race day.
Medina Spirit died at the end of a workout at Santa Anita Park in December.
In a statement released shortly after the 3-year-old colt’s death, track officials said, “Following the completion of a routine morning workout, Medina Spirit collapsed on the track at Santa Anita Park and died suddenly of a probable cardiac event according to the on-site veterinary team who attended to him.”
A necropsy performed on Medina Spirit in December failed to determine a definitive cause of death, according to the CHRB.
The animal-advocacy organization PETA had called for a thorough investigation of Medina Spirit’s death, and urged action against Baffert, saying seven horses he was training have died in a 16-month period.
In a statement released after the necropsy report was released, PETA’s senior vice president, Kathy Guillermo, said, “How many Bob Baffert-trained horses will drop dead with no known cause before he is booted out of racing? We urge the California Horse Racing Board to retain blood and urine samples from the horses, as new tests to detect as-yet unknown doping agents are likely to be developed.”
Baffert’s horses have won a record six Kentucky Derbies, not counting Medina Spirit’s victory.
This is not the first accusation of wrongdoing against the 69-year-old trainer, who has had dozens of horses fail drug tests over the years.
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The postgame scene in and around the Ducks’ dressing room late Friday night was not what you would have expected after a resounding 5-0 victory over the Arizona Coyotes ended an 11-game winless streak. No one smiled. No one laughed. No one seemed in a celebratory mood.
Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale left the ice and headed directly to the Gila River Arena medical room to check on teammate Troy Terry’s condition. Adam Henrique entered the coaches’ office to point out that more should have been done by the linesmen to protect Terry.
Zegras and Ducks coach Dallas Eakins then delivered blistering verbal attacks on the Coyotes’ Jay Beagle for fighting Terry, pummeling the Ducks’ leading scorer with a series of blows even after Terry showed no willingness or ability to fight back. Beagle landed three blows after Terry went to the ice.
“I’m not going to name the player, but I get that (Beagle) is going to punch him maybe once,” Zegras said. “But the fact that (Terry) is down and not engaged in the fight and you’re going to hit him three more times, I think it’s embarrassing. I think he (Beagle) should be embarrassed.”
Eakins called Beagle a “coward.”
“It was cowardly,” Eakins said.
Terry left the game with a deep cut near his left eye, which was later nearly swollen shut. He did not speak to a reporter after the game but was checked out for a concussion by medical personnel and cleared to join the Ducks for their late-night flight home to Southern California.
Terry’s status for Sunday’s game against the Edmonton Oilers at Honda Center was questionable, a Ducks spokesperson said via email Saturday. Beagle didn’t face supplementary discipline, but Arizona’s Nick Ritchie faced a hearing from the NHL for slashing Kevin Shattenkirk in a separate incident.
Tyson Nash, a former NHL player of little renown who now serves as an analyst on the Coyotes’ TV network, faced harsh criticism on social media Saturday for saying, “That’s the problem with these young players. You want to embarrass guys? You want to skill it up? You better be prepared to get punched in the mouth.”
The incident began with the Ducks leading 5-0 with 5:37 left in the game.
Zegras attempted to smack a loose puck into the net for his second goal of the game after, he said, Coyotes goaltender Josef Korenar failed to cover it adequately in the crease. Beagle, a defenseman, arrived late and cross-checked Zegras in the back, drawing a penalty.
Earlier in the game, Zegras had given the Ducks a 3-0 lead by scoring his second lacrosse-style goal of the season, his 17th goal overall. Terry assisted on Zegras’ goal and on the first of Isac Lundestrom’s two goals for his team-leading 56th and 57th points of the season.
Terry, a right wing, and defenseman Cam Fowler confronted Beagle after the cross-check on the rookie center. Terry got there first and wrestled with Beagle for a moment before Beagle shed his gloves and stick and began connecting with right hands to Terry’s face. Terry never got his gloves off and never got his hands up to protect himself.
Beagle continued to swing at Terry as Terry fell to the ice, bleeding from a cut near his left eye. Linesmen Jonathan Deschamps and Ryan Daisy, whose job it is to break up fights when they get out of hand or are otherwise one-sided, never arrived in time to protect Terry, essentially a non-combatant.
Athletic trainer Joe Huff left the Ducks’ bench to attend to Terry as Beagle sought to find someone else to punch. Zegras tried to get to Beagle, but was held in check by the Coyotes’ Loui Eriksson. Terry skated to the bench with a towel pressed against his face to stop the bleeding.
Beagle was ejected from the game and given a fighting major and a minor for cross checking.
“I think it’s a bad look for the league,” Zegras would later say. “For the player who did it, it’s humiliating and I think he should be (expletive) punished.”
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The number of COVID-positive patients at Los Angeles County hospitals showed a miniscule uptick on Saturday, April 2, increasing by three people to 290, according to the latest state figures.
The number of those patients in intensive care was 44, down from 47 on Friday.
The hospitalization number has come down significantly from over 4,800 in mid-January at the height of the Omicron-fueled winter surge, and is generally at its lowest levels since last summer.
The latest numbers come one day after L.A. County and the state marked another milestone in the pandemic by officially lifting the requirement that attendees at indoor mega-events such as sporting events or concerts show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test.
It’s the latest pandemic-era mandate to be lifted, following the recent scrapping of rules requiring people to wear masks indoors at most locations. Masks are also no longer required at outdoor mega-events or on school campuses.
The Los Angeles City Council agreed this week to drop its requirement that people show proof of vaccination to enter many indoor businesses.
Health officials have noted, however, that private businesses are entitled to enact their own virus-control measures if they desire, such as requiring masks or checking for vaccinations or negative tests.
Mask-wearing, while no longer mandated in most settings, is still strongly recommended by health officials. Masks also remain mandatory in select locations, such as health-care settings, aboard public transit and airplanes and in airports and transit centers.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer noted Thursday that whenever major public-health mandates are lifted, there tends to be an uptick in COVID infections as more people interact. She said that is being seen again now locally, with the county’s weeks-long decline in COVID case numbers suddenly leveling off this week.
The county on Friday reported 1,167 new COVID infections, notably higher than the 784 reported on Thursday. Since the pandemic began, the county has recorded a cumulative total of 2,834,317 infections.
But while case numbers have stopped their decline, hospitalizations of COVID-19-positive people are still falling — with health officials crediting widespread vaccinations for preventing patients from falling seriously ill from infections.
Another 16 virus-related deaths were reported Friday, raising the county’s overall death toll to 31,683. Health officials have said that the vast majority of people who die of COVID complications have underlying conditions, mainly hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
Ferrer said Thursday the highly infections BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19 was increasing its influence in the county, representing 32% of cases that underwent specialized laboratory sequencing to identify strains of the virus for the week ending March 12. That was nearly double the rate from the previous week.
BA.2 has been driving up infection numbers in nations around the world, most notably Australia and parts of Europe.
Ferrer said the strain — an offshoot of the Omicron variant — likely accounts for an even higher percentage of cases locally, since the most recent figures were two weeks old. But she again stressed that the spread of BA.2 has not led to a rise in hospitalizations.
The average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 0.9% as of Friday, down from 1.1% on Thursday.
The county health department no longer reports COVID data on weekends.
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Yakima moviegoers were treated to glitz and glamour at the “All Sorts” movie premiere Friday.
The Yakima Cinema lobby was buzzing with anticipation for the movie that was filmed in Yakima and Toppenish in 2018.
“All Sorts” is a movie about a lonely data entry clerk who stumbles into the world of championship folder filing. It’s a quirky comedy about finding magic in everyday life. The main character, Diego, is desperate to find a job, excitement and love. New on the job at a strange company, Diego stumbles into an incredibly fast filer named June, and the two journey through a wildly unexpected office adventure.
The 94-minute movie was filmed by the Los Angeles production company Vibrant Penguin and has signed a deal for distribution.
“We’ll be out very soon, but we don’t have our date yet. And we’re still waiting for all the details but we’re very excited,” said writer and director J. Rick Castañeda.
Castañeda grew up in Granger making movies and said he found a lot of support from the community.
“It’s so nice to see all the people that helped make the movie. I’m hoping to hear a lot of laughter and see a lot of smiles,” he said.
“All Sorts” has been showing at movie theaters around Central Washington the past few weeks.
Carla Hibbs, who played an office worker in the movie, said it was great to work with Castañeda on the movie.
“Very sweet guy and very personable and friendly. He made us feel right at home,” Hibbs said. “You know, like you’re one of his family. My family and I knew him because my folks used to have a restaurant in Toppenish and his parents would bring him and his siblings to the restaurant.”
Cast and crew came with friends and family to the Yakima premiere. Dan Henson, who portrayed Repair Man in the movie, was excited for his family to see him on the big screen.
“I just hope everybody has a lot of fun watching it. It was fun to make. Everybody poured their hearts into it,” he said.
Henson’s 6-year-old granddaughter, Maevis Henson, knew she was coming to see a movie, “’cause Papa drove us to Papa movie night. I’m happy to see him.”
“All Sorts” will be playing at Yakima Cinema, 1305 N. 16th Ave., through April 8.
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The Never Say Never half marathon will take place on April 30, 2022, at French Canyon Farms in Tieton.
There are a limited number of spots available at www.runsignup.com/neversaynever. Registration is $75.
Walking participants will begin the race at 8 a.m. and runners will start at 9 a.m.
The course is almost completely flat and is ideal for runners and participants who want to walk. Spectators are welcomed to cheer on racers at the finish line.
Organizer Shelley Sleeper said half marathon is a race and a community event.
“We want folks to come out to cheer on the walkers and runners," she said. "Come enjoy the band, food trucks and an adult beverage. Bring the whole family for a fun day on our farm and hopefully meet a new friend."
The half marathon is hosted by nonprofit organization BOX. Proceeds will be donated to Davis High School to provide feminine hygiene products to students.
BOX is founded by women, dedicated to building connections that support women and girls in our communities. They collect menstrual supplies for women and girls who cannot afford them, de-stigmatize the conversation around periods and create awareness around the political issues that surround women's menstrual health by tackling these issues at the legislative level, according to the BOX website.
Yakima band, The Aphrodisi-YAKs, will be performing from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drinks from Tieton Cider Works, Treveri and Bier Den will be for sale. Food trucks, The Rambler and Tacos Don Chayo, will be there too. Children can enjoy face painting and activities.
Marathon and event organizers will accept feminine hygiene product donations on day of the race.
Tickets for drinks and face painting will be available for purchase at French Canyon Farms.
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Don’t get too used to that balmy spring weather: Heavy snow is forecast in the Cascades starting Sunday, with strong winds expected Monday.
The National Weather Service is forecasting 12 to 24 inches of snow above 2,500 feet Sunday morning through Tuesday morning. A winter storm watch covers the east slopes of the Cascades, including Cliffdell.
A high wind watch is in effect from Monday morning through evening, with west winds of 30-40 mph and gusts to 45-55 mph in the Yakima Valley and throughout the region.
The winds could blow down trees and power lines, and power outages are possible, the weather service said. People should secure loose items outside.
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The Yakima River Canyon Marathon welcomed runners back with a powerful headwind on the course’s long final hill Saturday morning.
It couldn’t stop Bellevue’s Tobias Andersson, a 37-year-old Sweden native, from holding off Micah Mohler from Sammamish for a nearly wire-to-wire win in 2:50:34. But the challenges of the wind and hills proved enough to prevent Anne Thiesen from breaking the course record as she easily won the women’s race in 3:01:29.
“That was brutal,” said Thiesen, who was on track to beat Mary Hanna’s mark of 2:58:06 at the halfway point. “I’m going to call this the Yakima Valley pain cave.”
She still felt inspired by some of the scenic views, especially at the top of the race’s two most difficult hills. The 49-year-old ran with her coach for pacing but said she didn’t quite have enough strength in her legs after extending her training cycle by a month since she couldn’t run her initial target race, the Tokyo Marathon on March 6.
Andersson treated the Yakima race as a training run for May’s Ironman World Championship in St. George, Utah. He moved from Sweden to Bellevue about seven years ago and lives on top of a hill, giving him plenty of practice running uphill to finish workouts.
The 37-year-old raced ahead early but took a detour when the lead motorcycle went the wrong way before turning back around. Andersson ran his fastest split to return to the front before the first aid station at 3.2 miles.
He maintained a steady lead but never pulled away as several runners took over second place, including Steve Vesbach, Erin “Bear” Braich and finally Mohler. Braich said he felt ready to make a move near the end before suffering a cramp and losing his spot to Mohler, who hit the nine-mile mark outside of the top five, ended up just ten seconds behind Andersson.
The canyon’s spring colors dazzled Andersson during his first visit to the area, and he plans to come back with his wife and kid. He also appreciated the vocal support from the volunteers along the route, which is mostly closed to fans.
“Even some of the bigger international marathons I’ve been to, a lot of the volunteers, they barely know what they’re doing,” Andersson said. “But here, everybody, they’re really good at communicating, letting you know where the water is, where the electrolytes are.”
Yakima’s Steve Allen passed Andersson at the top of the final hill on his way to winning the half marathon in a blistering 1:17:32. Carissa Norman from Selah won the women’s race in 1:37:52.
Jordan McPhee’s personal-best marathon time of 3:09:56 would be good enough to win in a lot of years. But the 2012 Seattle Times’ Girls Athlete of the Year and cross country state champion at Mount Rainier happily settled for second after enjoying the beautiful course.
That’s nothing new for Jose Rodriguez, a member of the Marathon Maniacs club from Seattle who ran his first Yakima Canyon River Marathon in 2011 and hasn’t missed one since. He took 9th in the men’s race, noting he missed seeing the race’s late co-race directors, Bob and Lenore Dolphin.
“They were a big part of this and it’s unfortunate that they couldn’t be with us this year,” Rodriguez said. “But I definitely run for them and come back every year and do it for them.”
Men’s marathon: 1. Tobias Andersson, Bellevue, 2:50:34; 2. Micah Mohler, Sammamish, 2:50:44; 3. Erin Braich, Richland 2:50:59; 4. Cody Moore, Kalispell 3:01:30; 5. Al Osbourne, Sammamish 3:02:33; 6. Steve Vesbach, Shoreline 3:05:11; 7. Ryan Kipp, Spokane 3:06:17; 8. Antonio Espinoza, Yakima 3:15:37; 9. Jose Rodriguez, Seattle 3:18:14; 10: Aristeo Negrete, Kennewick 3:24:02.
Women’s marathon: 1. Anne Theisen, Seattle, 3:01:29; 2. Jordan McPhee, Seattle 3:09:56; 3. Shelaine Dolce, Renton 3:25:41; 4. Lara Malpass, Bellingham 3:29:04; 5. Laurie Pearson, Charlestown (Mass.), 3:40:25; 6. Emily Seminerio, Medfield (Mass.) 3:42:01; 7. Brittney Clark, Seattle 3:50:39; 8. Nancy Schubring, Novi (Mich.) 3:51:11; 9. Brenna Boyd, Seattle 3:54:58; 10. Emily Powell, Lynnwood 3:55:40.
Men’s half marathon: 1. Steve Allen, Yakima 1:17:33; 2. Vic Horne, Redmond 1:30:21; 3. James Innes, Yakima 1:34:33; 4. Lowel Krueger, Yakima 1:35:28; 5. Brian Alexander, Ellensburg 1:40:10.
Women’s half marathon: 1. Carissa Norman, Selah 1:37:52; 2. April Norman, Yakima 1:38:31; 3. Jennifer Nichols, Pasco 1:42:27; 4. Hilary Conway, Yakima 1:44:28; 5. Kathy Tierney, Yakima 1:44:44.
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AETNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — One person has been hospitalized with serious injuries after a crash in Aetna Township Saturday afternoon.
The Mecosta County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened at the intersection of 200th Avenue and Jefferson Road shortly after 12:30 p.m.
We’re told a 30-year-old Howard City man drove east on Jefferson and tried to turn north at the intersection when a westbound SUV hit his car.
The SUV rolled over a number of times and ejected one of its 17-year-old passengers, who deputies say did not have a seat belt on. Authorities say he was taken to a Grand Rapids hospital for treatment.
The sheriff’s office tells us the SUV’s two other 17-year-old occupants were unhurt, adding they wore seat belts when the crash took place.
The Howard City man sustained minor injuries but declined treatment, deputies explain.
We’re told speed is a suspected factor in the crash.
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Maggie Drew’s dad sent her to Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch in Missouri in 2007, hoping strict Christian teachings would stop his 14-year-old daughter’s teenage rebellion.
Instead, Drew said, she found herself in a nightmare, sexually abused by one of the boarding school’s founders and left with permanent spinal injuries after a fall from a hay barn for which she received no medical attention.
Just 25 miles away at another Christian boarding school, Brett Harper says he endured abuse that included staff members stomping on his back. He said his injuries required two spinal surgeries and left him disabled.
They are among dozens of people who say they were abused at either Circle of Hope or Agape Boarding School — allegations that helped prompt a new Missouri law aimed at reining in religious boarding schools that for decades went without any oversight by the state.
“I still have nightmares about these people and the things they did to us,” Drew said.
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A Lafayette man filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging civil rights violations related to a beating and arrest by a Lafayette Police officer.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lafayette on behalf of Jonathan Ross Alvey against Lafayette Consolidated Government and former Police Officer Marvin Martin in his individual capacity.
Martin is no longer employed with the police department. His attorney, Allyson Prejean, had no comment.
LCG is not liable for punitive damages in the case.
Toby Aguillard, a former Lafayette Police chief who was fired by Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory, is the attorney representing Alvey.
The lawsuit alleges Martin violated Alvey's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights with claims of unlawful seizure and excessive force, in addition to violations of Louisiana law and the state constitution.
The legal action stems from the April 15, 2021, arrest of Alvey on a misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer. The lawsuit alleges Martin, described as a 6-foot 3-inch former university defensive lineman, responded to a call involving Alvey and his girlfriend in the parking lot of her place of employment.
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Opening time at the Judice Inn is 10 a.m. on Saturday.
The staff won't arrive at work at 8 a.m. on Saturday; instead, they'll arrive at 6 a.m. as part of preparations for over 3,500 burgers.
It will be a celebration of 75 years of Judice Inn on Saturday, with all dishes costing $1.
(Cash is the preferred form of payment today only)
Off-duty law enforcement are also escorting pedestrians across Johnston Street.
You cannot place an order by phone. Bringing cash and parking in the Grand Theatre lot across the street will speed up service at the restaurant, says management.
In a statement by Judice Inn, management says.
"We would like to thank everyone in our community for the support today to celebrate 75 years in business. The extraordinary turnout has been awe inspiring."
Check out their website here for more information.
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Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka battled for the Miami Open title. Although the final was lopsided, both were exceptional down the stretch. And both looked the part as well.
Here's a glimpse at the equipment they used and the clothes they wore.
Naomi Osaka used the Yonex EZONE 98 racquet to power her way past the competition.
Wearing her Nike Women's Summer Advantage Visor, Osaka shielded the sun from her eyes.
Get more of Osaka's looks here.
Using her Tecnifibre Temp 298, Iga Swiatek overpowered the field in Miami from start to finish.
Swiatek ran past her competition wearing the Asics Gel Resolution 8 shoes.
Get more of Swiatek's looks here.
Shop all your favorite player's looks here.
Some links in this article are affiliate links, meaning that the WTA will receive commissions for purchases made through those links
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Iga Swiatek continues her incredible run on Hologic WTA Tour hard courts, as the Polish player defeated Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-0 in the 2022 Miami Open final to win her 17th straight match and her third consecutive title.
On Monday, Swiatek will ascend to World No.1 for the first time in her career, and she will move to that position with authority following her commanding 1-hour and 17-minute victory over former World No.1 Osaka.
"I just feel really satisfied and fulfilled and also proud of myself," Swiatek said in her champion's press conference. "I feel like I have got to celebrate, because I don't know how long I can keep up with this streak."
Read more: Here's hoping for more Swiatek, Osaka showdowns
Sunshine Double complete: Swiatek also joins an exclusive club by becoming only the fourth woman to win the "Sunshine Double" — titles at WTA 1000 Indian Wells and Miami in the same season. Swiatek, 20, is the youngest woman to pull off the Sunshine Double.
Swiatek joins Stefanie Graf (1994 and 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016) in completing that amazing feat. Once Monday hits, all four of those women will be on the list of World No.1 players.
"I feel pretty privileged that I can be amongst those players, because I wouldn't even dream of it a few years ago," said Swiatek. "I knew it's going to be tough playing these two tournaments in a row. I realized at the end it's just another match and I took it step by step."
Owning the WTA 1000s: Swiatek's career-best winning streak continues unabated, with all of her last 17 wins coming at the first three WTA 1000 events of the season.
The Pole swept the titles at WTA 1000 Doha, Indian Wells, and now Miami, joining Serena Williams (2013 – Miami, Madrid, Rome, Toronto) and Caroline Wozniacki (2010 – Montréal, Tokyo, Beijing) as the only players to win three or more consecutive WTA 1000 titles in a single season.
But Swiatek stands alone as the first player to win the first three WTA 1000 tournaments in a season. Overall, it is her fourth career WTA 1000 title, and the sixth Hologic WTA Tour singles title of her already outstanding career thus far.
Moreover, Swiatek becomes the first player to win 17 consecutive matches on hard courts in a single calendar year since Serena Williams won 20 straight hard-court matches between the Australian Open and Toronto in 2015.
"I learned a lot about myself, that I can keep going, and really I don't need to feel like 100 percent on points to win matches against great players," said Swiatek. "I can trust myself a little bit more right now. I really used that streak to have more confidence, and also the ranking."
Sun-kissed ☀️🏆☀️@iga_swiatek | #MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/SUOdRYQdiT
— wta (@WTA) April 2, 2022
Match moments: A tricky 10-minute game started proceedings, with Osaka saving two break points and withstanding seven deuces before holding. A handful of close games followed before Swiatek claimed the first break of the day with a backhand crosscourt winner to lead 3-2.
That would prove to be the deciding moment of the clash, as Swiatek marched to the one-set lead despite Osaka's bold returning tactics from deep inside the court. Swiatek kept the momentum as the second set began, breaking Osaka right away with aggressive returns of her own.
All told, Swiatek reeled off the last seven games of the match to extend her stunning winning streak. Swiatek never faced a break point in the affair, and prevailed on exactly two-thirds of Osaka’s second-service points (20 for 30).
"Playing against Naomi in a final was pretty exciting, and I knew that the world is going to watch, because it's a nice match just to follow," said Swiatek. "I wanted to give the best tennis I can so people actually can be satisfied. But on the other hand, just seeing that I can play that well against such a player is really satisfying."
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Eighteen months ago, she was an unseeded 19-year-old champion at Roland Garros. Blossoming in a breathtaking, time-lapse photography kind of way.
Facing four-time major champion Naomi Osaka on Saturday in the Miami Open final, Iga Swiatek – still only 20 – played older and wiser, winning 6-4, 6-0. That final set was simply brutal – and oddly beautiful. For the first time, Osaka lost a Grand Slam or WTA 1000 final; Swiatek is now 5-0.
The very first game was a fleeting look at what this rivalry might offer going forward. There were four aces from Osaka, seven deuces and some spirited play from both sides. It required more than 10 minutes before Osaka finally prevailed.
Although the rest of the match was largely one-sided in favor of Swiatek, what we saw was a budding rivalry, one that could last for years.
With Ashleigh Barty stepping away from the game and without 40-somethings Serena and Venus Williams stepping onto the court this season, this is the matchup between two of the most recognizable names on tour. It would be surprising if Swiatek and Osaka didn’t meet many more times with at least as much at stake.
Osaka played only eight matches coming into Miami, and more reps will make her sharper. With her big-game mentality, It’s easy to forget that she is only 24 years old – an age when many players are still trying to find themselves.
There seems to be a mutual respect – and even fondness – between these two. And that's the kind of respectful rivalry that elevates the game.
“It’s definitely a challenge,” Osaka told reporters later. “The last time I played her, it wasn’t like this at all. I definitely learned a lot. She is definitely worthy of her title as No.1. I’m going to learn a lot from her, and watching this match back again.”
I think we’re going to see a lot of major finals between @iga_swiatek and @naomiosaka So happy to see Naomi back and Iva was in the zone today. 👏👏👏to both players!
— Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) April 2, 2022
On Monday, Swiatek will rise to the summit.
“I’m pretty glad that we could play this match,” Swiatek said to Osaka during the trophy presentation. “I think it’s the start of a great rivalry.
“You are really an inspiration and the sport is better with you.”
Swiatek consistently diffused Osaka’s power. Osaka finished with seven aces – four in the furious first game alone – but was broken four times. Swiatek, playing with a pleasing guile and a subtlety, didn’t face a breakpoint.
Earlier in the tournament, Osaka was aggressive facing second serves, stepping well inside the baseline. It didn’t work against Swiatek, whose kick serve bounced up around Osaka’s shoulders even when she was four or five feet inside the baseline.
The laundry list of Swiatek's accomplishments, quite frankly, approaches surreal:
- In winning Doha, Indian Wells and Miami in succession, Swiatek is the first woman to ever win the year’s first three WTA 1000 events.
- She’s only the fourth woman to win Indian Wells and Miami back to back in the same season, the celebrated Sunshine Double, following Stefanie Graf (1994, 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016). She’s the youngest on that list, which is saying something.
- Swiatek has won a career-high 17 consecutive matches, including the last nine in straight sets. She’s 26-3 for the year and, don’t look now, but she’s heading into play on her favorite surface.
“It’s really exciting,” Swiatek said in press afterward. “I’m being compared to the players who are really my idols when I was younger — I wouldn’t even dream of being in that position. So I’m really satisfied and proud of myself.”
Considering how Indian Wells ended – tears following a second-round loss in which she was heckled – this was a hugely encouraging result for Osaka.
“I haven’t been in this position for a little minute,” she told the crowd at Hard Rock Stadium. “I know this isn’t the outcome you guys wanted, but I’m having a lot of fun up here.
“So I hope that I can keep working hard and get more opportunities to be in a situation like this.”
Fans of tennis are hoping right along with her. This was Osaka’s 11th career final and all of them have come on hard courts. In theory, her game should translate to clay and grass, but so far it hasn’t. Her win-loss percentage on hard courts is better than .700, but on the other two surfaces it hovers just over .500.
Osaka, who came into the final ranked No.77, will be at No.36 on Monday.
“Of course I really wanted to win here, but I think this is a step in a really good direction for me,” Osaka said. “Strangely enough, even though I didn’t win here, this is probably one of the most meaningful tournaments for me.
"What I’m going to take back is knowing even if I don’t play my best, as long as I fight as hard as I can, there’s still going to be opportunities to win the match. I think that’s a really positive sign.”
For Swiatek, it’s been all positives this year. She’s the first woman since Serena Williams to win 17 consecutive hard-court matches in a single year, going back to 2015. It’s been even longer since a player dropped only 26 games in Miami – 22 years, when Martina Hingis lost only 21 in her title run.
Getting used to these winner's speeches, @iga_swiatek! 🎙#MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/aCdgughwHc
— wta (@WTA) April 2, 2022
Lindsay Davenport, a Tennis Channel analyst and three-time major champion weighed in.
“How badly do they really want it? Iga showed us the last six weeks how much she wants to be at the top of women’s tennis.”
Even Swiatek, it seems, is having a difficult time processing what’s occurred.
“Honestly, when I was watching you winning the US Open in 2018 I wouldn’t have even thought I’d be playing against you in such an important match,” she said, addressing Osaka.
Believe it. Iga Swiatek has arrived. Early returns suggest she might just stay awhile. And if Osaka continues her major history, they’ll be a huge part of the ongoing conversation at the center of the sport.
What a joy it is to see you thriving again, @naomiosaka 💜#MiamiOpen pic.twitter.com/aVjVVkCgSt
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An East Ridge Park had a grand opening this morning after being closed for renovations the last 3 years.
Built in 1994 by the East Ridge Community, the original Pioneer Frontier playground was a completely wooden structure. After serving children in the city for 28 years, East Ridge Mayor Brian Williams said it was time to be upgraded.
"Plus we wanted to make it ADA compliant so all of our children would be able to play and enjoy it," explained Mayor Williams.
Through a Local Parks and Recreation Fund grant, Mayor Williams said the city was able to provide a brand new playground and splash pad to the area.
The mayor said, when the idea of creating a new playground began, they reached out to the community members who helped build the original playground in 1994.
Stephanie Killingsworth, who was at the grand opening, said the opening of the new playground has a special meaning to her family.
"It's a wonderful feeling to see it come to life. As I mentioned, my husband actually designed it and he worked on, as a volunteer, originally on the playground was built, when the wooden structure was built long ago. So, he was able to redesign it so it was neat to have him since he grew up in East Ridge," said Killingsworth.
With the playground being built over 20 years later, the original volunteers once again get to watch another generation of children enjoy their hard work.
"You're seeing the people that were involved in the originally bringing not their kids, but their grandkids and it's amazing to see that," said Mayor Williams.
Construction for the new playground began in 2019 and faced numerous setbacks and delays because of the pandemic. Mayor Williams said he's grateful to now officially open the new playground.
While the old playground may have been demolished, the city kept a piece of it alive. The original handprints on the playground were preserved and put onto a wooden fence surrounding the park.
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Two lots of Disney-branded hand sanitizer featuring Mickey Mouse and baby Yoda from The Mandalorian have been voluntarily recalled by Best Brands Consumer Products, according to a company statement shared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
FDA testing detected the presence of benzene in The Mandalorian branded product and methanol in the Mickey Mouse version. The company was notified of the results in late February.
Benzene is a carcinogen, and substantial exposure can cause leukemia, blood cancer of the bone marrow, and life-threatening blood disorders, the FDA said.
Substantial exposure to methanol can cause serious health problems, including nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, coma, seizures, permanent blindness, permanent damage to the central nervous system, or death. The FDA noted "young children who accidentally ingest these products, and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute, are most at risk for methanol poisoning."
The affected lots of hand sanitizer had already been taken off the market for "unrelated commercial reasons" and the company has received no complaints from customers about the Disney-themed products, according to Best Brands. Both lots were produced by a third-party manufacturer, according to the company statement.
The company warned customers to stop using and discard any items they have from lot 20E21, with an expiration date of September 30, 2022, of The Mandalorian hand sanitizer, that contains 68% ethyl alcohol and is available in green and blue 2.11 fl oz bottles.
The Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer from lot 20D21, with a June, 30, 2022, expiry, in blue, 2.11 fl oz bottles should also be discarded.
Customers who experience problems with the product can also report their experiences to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program.
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Federal agents seized more than $700,000 of alleged cocaine at the US-Mexico border, the US Customs and Border Protection said.
The drugs were intercepted on Thursday by Customs and Border Protection officers at Hidalgo International Bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande between Texas and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
CBP officers stopped and inspected a van crossing the bridge from Mexico, according to a statement from the agency. Upon close inspection, they discovered 37 packages of alleged cocaine hidden in the vehicle. The packages weighed a total of 92.72 pounds.
The packages and the vehicle were seized, said the CBP, and an investigation is underway.
"Our CBP officers remain vigilant and rely on their experience and all available tools and resources to thwart this smuggling attempt," Port Director Carlos Rodriguez said in the statement.
Earlier this year, $310,700 worth of alleged cocaine was seized by CBP officers at the same bridge.
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(WFLA)- Will Smith announced his resignation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday following his Oscars night slap of Chris Rock.
The “King Richard” actor said in a statement released Friday evening that he will “fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable.”
Film academy president David Rubin said Smith’s resignation was accepted: “We will continue to move forward with our disciplinary proceedings against Mr. Smith for violations of the Academy’s Standards of Conduct, in advance of our next scheduled board meeting on April 18.”
The Academy had met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. Smith faced possible suspensions or a possible expulsion.
The Academy said in a statement that “Mr. Smith’s actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Smith’s resignation means he can no longer vote for the Oscars — but he can still be nominated for future Academy Awards, attend future ceremonies and keep the award he won.
Had he been expelled, Smith would have joined a small group of men removed from the Academy: Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski, Bill Cosby and the actor Carmine Caridi, who was kicked out for sharing awards screeners.
Smith shocked the theater crowd and viewers at home when he took the stage after Rock joked: “Jada, I love you. ‘G.I. Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see it.”
Pinkett Smith, who suffers from the hair loss condition alopecia, had a closely shaved head similar to that of Demi Moore in the original movie.
On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said “I’m still kind of processing what happened.”
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LARAMIE — For a group of Laramie High School students, a trip to the landfill could be the key to passing Algebra 1.
As part of a new beta test with the virtual reality company Prisms, students can do this and much more without ever leaving the classroom.
The class, led by educators Jenny Taufa and Kerry O’Dea, has completed three of five modules included in the beta test, which entails using a VR headset and hand controls to teach students aspects of math. The modules tackle situations where math can be used to solve problems and improve the world.
The moment students put on their headsets, they are immersed in a tranquil world in which they become the advising experts and decision-makers. Teachers can monitor the students from a computer and help them through problems as necessary.
In one module, students are air traffic controllers and must write equations to keep planes from crashing. In another, they are confronted with a melting glacier and have to calculate how long it will take for the city of Miami to become submerged in the ocean.
Using technology like VR has potential as an education tool that goes beyond teaching algebra, said Andrea Burrows, University of Wyoming College of Education associate dean.
“There’s been a lot of research in the area of virtual reality,” Burrows said. “It’s often used to increase intrinsic motivation in students. A lot of times that intrinsic motivation is connected to collaborative spaces.”
Such VR technology can mimic hands-on, real-world experiences for students, which can increase their understanding of the subject material.
In the landfill module, students learn the impact that waste management has on natural spaces as they watch piles of trash build up around them.
“It was sad. I had to throw away french fries,” said LHS student Jarod Whisler about an exercise that involved sorting trash into appropriate receptacles.
To predict how population increases will impact waste production at a park, students plot points and draw a line of best fit on a graph. In the three-dimensional virtual space, the students are not looking at a graph in front of them, but standing in the middle of it.
“With virtual reality you’re going to have a lot of engagement because it’s new and novel,” Burrows said. “It’s usually something we haven’t seen or thought about in a certain way that excites us.”
Education gap
For Taufa, the program fills a gap in real life applications to math that she didn’t have the time to plan before.
“Virtual reality is going to be a part of our lives more and more. To be exposed to that is important,” Taufa said. “I also think it’s important that students see math in many different ways.”
Burrows explained that because each student learns differently, VR can be a better option for some who may be more visual or hands-on thinkers, while other students may not be as receptive to the approach. The application also depends on the subject area and how well it lends itself to this type of hands-on learning.
“There is no one thing that’s going to save us, because not every person in your class is the same,” Burrows said. “That’s the beauty of teaching, that everyone is different.”
Only about 10% of the VR technology in education is used in secondary schools, and research surrounding its use in mathematics is even less, Burrows said.
There are some universal drawbacks to the use of virtual reality in classrooms, such as barriers to accessibility because of cost and teacher time needed to learn to operate the technology.
“On the first day, only about five minutes was actually doing the VR,” Taufa said of the beta testing experience. “The rest of the time was trying to figure out how to do it.”
Some of the students expressed frustration with unclear directions and lack of user friendliness in the technology, as well as some disinterest in the concept — no matter how flashy the technology, it’s still math class.
To Taufa, these challenges also can provide unexpected benefits.
“In life it’s not always going to be spelled out. You’re in this world where it’s OK if you push the wrong button and you have to start over,” Taufa said. “It’s a very safe world to maybe try those things that make us uncomfortable.”
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Whether it’s crashing planes or simply logging in to the program, students have opportunities to problem solve and help one another. Taufa’s class is the only one at LHS using the headsets, meaning that one day these students could be responsible for helping their peers learn how to use the technology, building leadership skills and confidence along the way.
Just down the street, the UW College of Education and College of Engineering and Applied Science are working to expand access to virtual reality in schools.
The university has been working for a few years on recruiting schools and educators to conduct tests and research on the topic.
The university offers grants and professional development opportunities for schools to implement virtual reality. It also has a program where teachers can get paid to work in a VR research lab for six weeks over the summer.
“The College of Education is willing to work with districts to implement some of these things,” Burrows said. “Everything we do is to serve the state of Wyoming.”
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Putting up yet another “come on in” sign on the southern border, the Biden administration announced Friday that it will indeed axe Title 42 next month, ending its own power, based on COVID concerns, to send home illegal migrants who request asylum. And never mind that the Border Patrol (whose ranks Biden aims to cut) has no idea how it’ll handle the resulting surge-atop-a-surge, or that even many Democrats had warned against the move.
By the way, Team Biden is also offering free vaccines to the migrants, though not turning away any who refuse.
US immigration policy and enforcement have been a mess for decades, but Team Biden seems determined to make them an utter farce.
This follows the tale of a group of Ukrainian refugees who flew to Mexico City a week after Russia invaded and proceeded to the border, where they were denied entry — and then to another port of entry, where they made it in.
Plainly, word of the easiest way into the United States (and of the need to keep trying if it doesn’t work the first time) has spread far and wide, which is why the border surge is increasingly composed of people from all over the world, not just the Central Americans who started it as Biden took office and started signaling “welcome!”
News of the initial denial prompted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to quickly tell his troops that the war refugees’ claims for asylum are legit. Then the White House plans to accept 100,000 Ukrainians. (That number strikes us as low, with 5 million already fled, but then again Team Joe plainly has no plan to limit the number who come via Mexico.)
DHS estimates that scrapping Title 42 alone will double the number of migrants. The Border Patrol predicts it will encounter 8,000 illegal migrants a day this spring, with the total passing 1 million in the first half of fiscal year 2022. That suggests the full-year total will beat 2021’s record 1.7 million.
No wonder DHS has reached out to the Pentagon for help.
Maybe they should just hire some professional greeters? The administration does its best to wave the migrants in, after all, releasing them by the tens of thousands each month into the interior (and secretly shuttling many across the country). That’s at least half the total “encountered,” even before the Title 42 repeal.
It’s even looking to let officers rule on asylum claims at the border to speed up entry.
The record set in February (165,000) marked 12 straight months of encounters over 150,000, and more than 2 million total on Biden’s watch — plus an estimated 500,000 border-crossers who have avoided the Border Patrol and escaped into the country.
And the administration’s latest moves mean it’s all sure to grow worse. Biden keeps saying he’s going to get it under control, but his actions send the complete opposite message — and it’s one heard all over the world.
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Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers conduct a preparatory drill before competing in the Army Combat Fitness Test for the Iowa Best Warrior Competition (BWC) at Camp Dodge, Johnston, Iowa, on April 1, 2022. Soldiers from across Iowa gather every year to participate in BWC. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jonathan Perdelwitz)
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Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers conduct the sprint-drag-carry while competing in the Army Combat Fitness Test during the Iowa Best Warrior Competition (BWC) at Camp Dodge, Johnston, Iowa, on April 1, 2022. Soldiers from across Iowa gather every year to participate in BWC. This competition is designed to push Soldiers to their mental and physical limits. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jonathan Perdelwitz)
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16-year-old boy in critical condition after being shot in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood
CHICAGO - A 16-year-old boy was critically hurt in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
The teen was on the sidewalk about 3 p.m. in the 800 block of 54th Street when someone shot him in the chest, Chicago police said.
He was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Area Two detectives are investigating.
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Suburban Chicago plant store 'Herbs & the Burbs' gives away plants every weekend
FLOSSMOOR, Illinois - A suburban Chicago plant shop is growing by giving things away.
TJ Johnson owns Herbs & the Burbs in Flossmoor. She said she started her "Free Plant Saturdays" at a time when she was thinking about closing her shop. She was stressed out, and she said that during her morning meditation, she realized that all she wanted to do was share plants – so she decided to just give the plants away.
"I had hoped to make zero dollars and I actually had one of the best sales day ever," she said.
Johnson said Herbs & the Burbs is a place where plant lovers can come together and share their passion.
It's also a place where plant newbies can get advice. Johnson said she's happy to help people sort out their plant problems, and that the most common plant question is "Why is my plant yellow?" On Wednesdays, she hosts a Facebook and Instagram Live to answer questions and give tips.
"Most people over-water and over-love their plants, especially new people. Plants will actually be okay if you neglect them sometimes," she said.
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PHOTOS: New jazz lounge approved for downtown Macon
The new lounge should be ready by late August
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A new jazz lounge is coming to downtown Macon. Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning approved the idea at its meeting this week.
According to the project proposal, Macon resident Cedric Penson says the new lounge should be ready by late August.
Penson says the lounge will have an adult atmosphere, food and live entertainment. He says he has knowledge and more than 20 years of experience in this industry.
Penson’s plan calls for remodeling the old Ben’s Radiator shop located at 753 Martin Luther King Blvd. According to the application, Penson already owns the property. He says the location is perfect to help redevelop downtown.
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PHOTOS: New jazz lounge approved for downtown Macon
The new lounge should be ready by late August
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A new jazz lounge is coming to downtown Macon. Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning approved the idea at its meeting this week.
According to the project proposal, Macon resident Cedric Penson says the new lounge should be ready by late August.
Penson says the lounge will have an adult atmosphere, food and live entertainment. He says he has knowledge and more than 20 years of experience in this industry.
Penson’s plan calls for remodeling the old Ben’s Radiator shop located at 753 Martin Luther King Blvd. According to the application, Penson already owns the property. He says the location is perfect to help redevelop downtown.
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Rep. Heath Clark not seeking re-election
Clark represents Georgia House District 147, which includes Houston County.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – State representative Heath Clark says he is not running for re-election. The Republican has served eight years representing Georgia House District 147, which includes much of Houston County.
Clark made a farewell speech before the House of Representatives earlier this week. He told lawmakers that he wrestled with the bittersweet decision for six to seven months.
Clark also stated that he wants to spend more time at home with his family in Warner Robins. He thanked his wife and four kids for the sacrifices they made as he served as a state lawmaker. He mentioned that his kids were entering their teen years, and he wanted to be more present.
Additionally, Clark mentioned that his mother was diagnosed with cancer as he weighed his decision to leave politics. In his speech, he said he wanted to spend are much time with his mother as he could as she fights cancer.
As Clark’s speech came to a close, he encouraged state politicians to fight the issues and not each other.
“I guess my biggest thing as I am leaving is I just want to challenge you, as our country is more divided than ever before, and that kind of politics is making its way into Georgia,” said Clark. “I want you to fight like heck to not allow that to happen. To love people with different points of view than you because their experiences are different.”
According to Clark’s website he has lived in Houston County for 40 years. He graduated from Warner Robins High School and then attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He earned a degree in Information Technology from Middle Georgia State University, while working as a youth pastor. Then he started a software engineer career at Robins Air Force Base.
Heath married his wife, Lindsey, in 2009. And they have four children; Camden, Eliza, Andersyn, and Garrison. They all serve at Sojourn Church in Warner Robins.
Clark did not mention any future political plans.
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Clark represents Georgia House District 147, which includes Houston County.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – State representative Heath Clark says he is not running for re-election. The Republican has served eight years representing Georgia House District 147, which includes much of Houston County.
Clark made a farewell speech before the House of Representatives earlier this week. He told lawmakers that he wrestled with the bittersweet decision for six to seven months.
Clark also stated that he wants to spend more time at home with his family in Warner Robins. He thanked his wife and four kids for the sacrifices they made as he served as a state lawmaker. He mentioned that his kids were entering their teen years, and he wanted to be more present.
Additionally, Clark mentioned that his mother was diagnosed with cancer as he weighed his decision to leave politics. In his speech, he said he wanted to spend are much time with his mother as he could as she fights cancer.
As Clark’s speech came to a close, he encouraged state politicians to fight the issues and not each other.
“I guess my biggest thing as I am leaving is I just want to challenge you, as our country is more divided than ever before, and that kind of politics is making its way into Georgia,” said Clark. “I want you to fight like heck to not allow that to happen. To love people with different points of view than you because their experiences are different.”
According to Clark’s website he has lived in Houston County for 40 years. He graduated from Warner Robins High School and then attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He earned a degree in Information Technology from Middle Georgia State University, while working as a youth pastor. Then he started a software engineer career at Robins Air Force Base.
Heath married his wife, Lindsey, in 2009. And they have four children; Camden, Eliza, Andersyn, and Garrison. They all serve at Sojourn Church in Warner Robins.
Clark did not mention any future political plans.
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MILLSBORO, Del. (WBOC/AP) - A Millsboro man has been arrested and charged with a DUI for the 10th time, following a crash Thursday morning.
Delaware State Police say 54-year-old Charles Smith was driving in a white Dodge Ram on Main St., just south of Daisey Rd., around 11:30 a.m. when he hit a fence. He then tried to run away from the scene. When officers found Smith, he was walking just south of the accident. Officers say that he smelled of alcohol.
A computer inquiry revealed that Smith’s driver’s license was revoked and that he had been arrested for nine prior DUI offenses.
Smith is charged with felony DUI, driving while his license was revoked, leaving the scene of an accident, and several other traffic offenses.
He was being held at Sussex Correctional Institution with bond set at $15,500 cash.
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Some people are taking the spring weather to do a safety check of the house. On that to do list: checking carbon monoxide detectors.
Severe storms during the summer months can cause power outages, which for some means using alternate sources of energy like generators.
When asked how often they experience power outages in the summer, Arden D’Amours told 22News, “Not often, but you can never be too safe and its important for me to make sure my home is safe year round, especially when it comes to carbon monoxide.”
Local fire departments say staying on top of the maintenance of your generator is key.
“Obviously! It’s a good idea to get them checked annually,” said Lt. Anthony Spear of the West Springfield Fire Department. “When you are purchasing them, make sure that they are inspected and are UL authorized.”
Generators can cause CO to build up in a home, so it’s important to use them outside at least 20 feet away from doors, windows and vents. Also don’t forget that carbon monoxide detectors should be installed on every floor of your home and always working properly. Make sure to check those detectors twice a year and have them replaced every ten years.
CO gas can also come from furnaces, hot water heaters, gas stoves, gas and charcoal grills, and running vehicles. So if your carbon monoxide detector is going off, call 911 immediately.
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The former chief prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
In interviews given to Swiss media to mark the release of her latest book, the Swiss lawyer who oversaw UN investigations in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia said there were clear war crimes being committed in Ukraine.
She said she was particularly shocked by the use of mass graves in Russia’s war on Ukraine, which recalls the worst of the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
“I hoped never to see mass graves again,” she told the newspaper Blick. “These dead people have loved ones who don’t even know what’s become of them. That is unacceptable.”
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even the demolishing of entire villages.
She said the investigation in Ukraine would be easier than that in Yugoslavia because the country itself had requested an international probe. The current ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine last month.
If the ICC finds proof of war crimes, she said, “you must go up the chain of command until you reach those who took the decisions.”
She said it would be possible to bring even Putin to account.
“You mustn’t let go, continue to investigation. When the investigation into Slobodan Milosevic began, he was still president of Serbia. Who would have thought then that he would one day be judged? Nobody,” she told Blick.
Del Ponte added that investigations should be carried out into possible war crimes committed by both sides, pointing also to reports about the alleged torture of some Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces.
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(NEXSTAR) – Is Apple shading Meta? On Saturday, iPhone users noted the company’s showcase of “Essential” suggested apps in its App Store leaves a few digital giants off the list — a list that recently included a “Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures” game.
Many other popular apps, like TikTok, YouTube and Amazon, appear on the “Essentials” list. But it omits other giants like Facebook, Instagram and instant messenger WhatsApp, all owned by parent company Meta.
Facebook currently has 1.929 billion daily active users, according to BBC. Instagram, meanwhile, boasts 120 million active users. For comparison, Facebook has far higher DAU numbers than Twitter (206 million) and TikTok (15.5 million), per Statistica data. Snapchat — one of Meta’s closest competitors with around 428 million monthly active users — is listed first by Apple.
There is currently no active user data for “Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures,” developed by Budge Studios. Apple, however, lists the fashion and design game as no. 43 on its gaming charts.
It’s also important to note the list populates with a few different apps when loaded, so not everyone’s “Essentials” may feature the same apps.
A $10B hit to Meta
Recent moves by Apple have shown the mega-giant mobile provider (there were over 1 billion active iPhones globally by January 2021) can have a significant impact on business. Apple’s new privacy feature App Tracking Transparency is estimated to have cost Meta about $10 billion in revenue, CNBC explains.
The feature makes it harder to track iPhone user data, requiring users to either “Ask App not to Track” or allow companies like Meta to collect/track their data for advertising.
“We believe the impact of iOS overall is a headwind on our business in 2022,” Meta CFO Dave Wehner said after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report was released. Wehner also knocked Apple’s search deal with Google: The New York Times reported that Google pays Apple up to $12 billion per year to be the default search engine on Apple products. The partnership was the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit in 2020.
Back in February, Meta reported its first-ever drop in users and a middling increase in monthly active users. Shortly afterward, the company’s share price dropped by 25%, cutting $230 billion from its total market value, Forbes reports.
Meanwhile, the “Essentials” list exclusions didn’t go unnoticed by some critics.
Inc. technology columnist Jason Aten noted that both Netflix and Spotify were absent from the list, despite being the most-used streaming video and streaming music apps, respectively.
“Of course, neither allows users to sign up within the app, which means Apple doesn’t get to collect its cut from subscriptions,” Aten claimed. “Curating a ‘must-have’ list and leaving out the obvious choices — just because it doesn’t benefit them financially — just makes the company look vindictive.”
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In some perhaps unsurprising news, ABC will reportedly not be bringing back the game-show stalwart Match Game, hosted by Alec Baldwin. Rather than look for a new anchor to fill the actor’s shoes, they are apparently canceling the show outright.
As Variety noted, the future of Match Game was a “source of speculation” following the tragic incident in which a prop gun Baldwin was holding led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the independent film Rust last year. However, the trade paper contended that “ABC’s decision to cancel ‘Match Game’ is not related to that incident” and new episodes have not been filmed since the since 2020, before the start of the pandemic. The last time episodes aired was in summer 2021, according to Deadline.
Baldwin representatives did not immediately respond to a V.F. request for comment over the weekend.
Baldwin first began hosting Match Game in 2016 and served as the show’s executive producer. The perennial quiz program, in which contestants pair with celebrities and try to figure out fill-in-the-blank phrases, has been on and off the air since 1962. The original host was Gene Rayburn. In the 1970s, the great Charles Nelson Reilly held court as a regular celebrity guest. And, of course, the premise reached its zenith as a copycat segment on RuPaul’s Drag Race as Snatch Game.
The celebrity guests on Baldwin’s iteration of Match Game have covered a broad spectrum of pop culture, including everyone from Michael Che, Cheryl Hines, Jason Alexander, and Caitlyn Jenner, to Ice-T, J.B. Smoove, Ellie Kemper, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Baldwin was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy as Best Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2017.
While a family-friendly game show on American television, particularly a network owned by Disney, is not in his future, Baldwin does have other projects lined up. He’s begun production on two Christmas movies with his brother William Baldwin and Italian producers in Rome. Billie’s Magic Word and Kid Santa will be live-action/animation hybrids, both directed by Francesco Cinquemani. The Italian filmmaker previously worked with William on the 2021 movie The Christmas Witch (also in the cast: Tom Arnold) and with Alec on the 2015 sci-fi picture Andron: The Black Labrynth. It is unclear if either film ever opened in the United States, but The Christmas Witch did okay for itself, earning over $9 million at the box office, almost all of it from Italy.
Baldwin also launched a true crime podcast in February, Art Fraud, which he narrates.
Elsewhere in his life, however, there is considerable tumult. The actor filed a court claim in March stating that his contract on Rust, on which he served as a producer as well as co-star, prevents him from being held financially responsible for Hutchins’s death. In February, Hutchins’s family listed Baldwin among other names in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
On a more positive note, Hilaria Baldwin, Alec’s wife, announced this week that she is with child. This will be the couple’s seventh. Hilaria’s Instagram video breaking the news shows the Baldwin brood romping around the carpet, as Alec hovers over them, taking a knee. (I have watched this clip numerous times, and I simply can’t tell if there is a stool or small chair involved. Maybe you can.) Surf Mesa and Emilee Flood’s “ily (i love you baby),” which reworks Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” plays in the background.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...East winds 20 to 25 knots, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Big Island Windward Waters, Maui County Leeward
Waters, Kauai Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Kauai Northwest
Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County
Windward Waters, Oahu Windward Waters and Oahu Leeward Waters.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST Sunday.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Hiring is up and not just for adults. Several organizations tell KITV4 they are just starting their summer job recruitment for teens and young college students.
Summer is right around the corner. teens and college students are excited about hitting the job market.
"I can have the money. Yup. I want to have my own car, help my mom out, and pay rent," said high school job-seeker Vincent Demaya. "It's a big deal because it give me real life experience," said college-age YMCA lifeguard Hayato Shigihara.
The YMCA says it realizes it's a competitive market out there. It's offering some additional incentives for their lifeguards and swim aides.
"A $250 hiring bonus and we will pay for their life saving course. If they complete it and end of working for us. So they can actually get certified through the YMCA to be a lifeguard," said YMCA Executive Director of Talent Management, Cassidy Inama.
The city of Honolulu's Summer Fun Program is also hiring 16 and 17 year old swim aides as well. There's no hiring bonus there, but their pay rates have increased. There are other advantages as well.
"They learn situations of customer service. There's a lot of problem solving. It is really going to prepare them for other professions," said Inama.
"They learn decision making, customer service, and building relationships," said Manoa Valley District Park Recreation Director Marc Koga.
Both places are also hiring college-age young adults to become student aides at their summer camps. Honolulu's Park and Recreation Department is also hiring college-age recreational aides at their gyms.
"In high school, you don't really know what the world has to offer. Through this experience they see more progression and start to wonder if this relates to a profession if they could choose as adults," said Koga.
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Fewer people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the United States now than at any other point in the pandemic, but hospitals and staff continue to feel the strain.
As of Friday, there are 16,138 people in the hospital with Covid-19 -- fewer than there have ever been since the US Department of Health and Human Services first started tracking in July 2020. Just 2% of hospital beds are currently in use for Covid-19 patients.
Previously, the lowest point was in late June 2021, just before Delta became the dominant variant in the country. Covid-19 hospitalizations reached a peak in January 2022 amid the Omicron surge, when more than 160,000 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 at one time.
While the strain on the US hospital system directly related to treating Covid-19 patients has been significantly reduced, experts say that many hospitals are still burdened by staffing shortages and other patients who are coming in sicker after postponing care during the height of the pandemic.
"I can't hear that (data on Covid-19 hospitalizations) without shouting 'hallelujah' because the stress and strain of the last two years has been so enormous," Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety policy at the American Hospital Association, told CNN. "But there are a number of things going on now that continue to make hospitals and their staff very busy."
She says hospitals expected an influx of patients who had delayed care, either by choice or because the hospital system couldn't accommodate them.
"But I think it is that combination of having more people needing care than we had anticipated and having more staffing issues than we had anticipated that is really the biggest challenge right now," she said.
The broader snapshot of hospital capacity offers a stark contrast to the CDC's "COVID-19 Community Levels" map, which tracks new hospital admissions and beds in use specifically for Covid-19 patients.
The CDC map is nearly all green, with 95% of US counties considered to have a "low" community level of Covid-19.
But HHS data shows that more than three-quarters of inpatient beds are currently in use in hospitals across the country, and there are nine states where more than 80% of all beds in the state are occupied.
Experts say it's important to monitor both broader hospital capacity and the burden specifically from Covid-19.
"From an endemic Covid monitoring perspective -- at least that's where we hope we're heading -- we need to be able to tell whether we're in a state that requires public health measures," Dr. Stephen Parodi, national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente, told CNN.
But the pandemic has dramatically shifted the way hospitals operate. Pre-pandemic, there was typically seasonal variation in how many beds were filled, with more patients expected during flu season in the winter and a lighter volume over the summer.
"What's different now, since the pandemic, is essentially we're running full all the time," Parodi said. "That calculation of a plan -- when it comes to staffing those beds, having the workforce available, the doctors, nurses, the support services like laboratory and radiology -- it's changing our thinking about what we need to plan for an entire year as opposed to just one particular season."
Parodi and others expect the continued strain on capacity to persist at least through the end of the year.
Overall since August 2020, there have been about 4.6 million total hospital admissions for Covid-19 in the US, according to data from the CDC. More than a third of hospital admissions have been among seniors age 70 and older.
Black and Hispanic people have been hospitalized with Covid-19 at more than twice the rate of White people, and American Indians have been more than three times as likely to be hospitalized.
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WAIANAE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- U.S. VETS - Waianae is celebrating it's 15th anniversary of providing shelter, workforce development and comprehensive services to homeless families and veterans in Hawaii.
“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S.VETS kept our doors open to provide services to homeless families on O’ahu,” explains Tanya Brown, Executive Director for U.S.VETS-Wai’anae. “As restrictions begin to be lifted, and the need for help by those affected by the pandemic increases, we look to expand our services, including introducing a new talent center to help our community return to work.”
WATCH: Full interview with Tanya Brown, executive director for U.S. VETS Wai'ane
To highlight the work of U.S.VETS-Wai’anae over the past 15 years, a video series featuring former residents of the shelter sharing their journey from homelessness to living under a roof of their own is available on U.S.VETS social media platforms:
- Instagram (Minute clip): https://www.instagram.com/usvetshi/
- Facebook (2–4-minute clip): https://www.facebook.com/usvetswaianae
- YouTube (Full clip): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3crLhdFq94qsVTHE3l0wPg/featured
One such story includes Shoni, a former business owner who found herself homeless and living on the beach, but eventually entering the Wai’anae shelter for safety and support. Working with U.S.VETS’ case managers, and through her own perseverance, Shoni has now become one of the first residents of the new Kama’oku Kauhale in Kalaeloa, a tiny homes community spearheaded by Lt. Gov. Dr. Josh Green, HomeAid Hawai’i and U.S.VETS.
From now until the end of the year, U.S.VETS is encouraging the community to visit https://usvets.org/donate/waianae/, where supporters can donate $15 or more to recognize the work of U.S.VETS for the past 15 years, and also support their continued work for the next 15 years.
About U.S.VETS: U.S.VETS is the largest non-profit organization with boots on the ground to combat America’s veteran homeless crisis head-on. Their comprehensive approach provides housing, counseling, career, and supportive services to help our veterans rebuild and thrive. Today in the United States 38,000 veterans experience homelessness, accounting for approximately 9% of all homeless adults. With thirty-two sites across eleven regional locations in California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Texas, and Washington D.C., U.S.VETS is uniquely positioned to offer temporary and permanent housing solutions and comprehensive services to veterans and their families nationwide. To learn more about U.S.VETS visit usvets.org.
About U.S.VETS-Hawai’i: U.S.VETS-Hawai’i operates two shelters on the island of O’ahu, one situated in Barber’s Point, home to transitional housing units and the Kama’oku Kauhale tiny homes project, and the other at the Wai’anae Civic Center. In Hawai’i, U.S.VETS programs extend beyond veterans and now serves civilian families located on the Wai’anae Coast.
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The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrated the tribe's reacquisiton of the land Friday, according to a press release from the Department of the Interior.
"We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place to the Tribe," said Rappahannock Tribe Chief Anne Richardson, according to the Chesapeake Conservancy. "With eagles being prayer messengers, this area where they gather has always been a place of natural, cultural and spiritual importance."
Fones Cliff is the ancestral home of the tribe, located on the eastern side of the Rappahannock River in Virginia. The area, located inside the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, will be publicly accessible and placed in trust with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Tribe plans to educate the public about their history by constructing a replica 16th-century village and expand their "Return to the River" program, which trains Tribal youth in traditional river knowledge and practices.
"The Department is honored to join the Rappahannock Tribe in co-stewardship of this portion of their ancestral homeland. We look forward to drawing upon Tribal expertise and Indigenous knowledge in helping manage the area's wildlife and habitat," Secretary Haaland said in the statement. "This historic reacquisition underscores how Tribes, private landowners, and other stakeholders all play a central role in this Administration's work to ensure our conservation efforts are locally led and support communities' health and well-being."
The cliffs play a central part in the history of the tribe. In 1608, the tribe first encountered and defended their homeland against English settler Captain John Smith, who played an important role in the first permanent English settlement in America at Jamestown, Virginia. In the 1660s, the tribe began to be forcefully displaced from their homeland on the Rappahannock River by the English, according to the Chesapeake Conservancy.
In addition to their cultural and historical importance to the tribe, the cliffs are also crucial to wildlife: The site is home to one of the largest nesting populations of bald eagles on the Atlantic coast, according to the Department of the Interior..
The tribe's reacquisition of its land was made possible by the family of William Dodge Angle, who provided the funds necessary for the Chesapeake Conservancy to purchase the 465 acres and donate the fee title to the Rappahannock Tribe. Additional funding also came from a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through Walmart's Acres for America Program, according to the conservancy.
The acquisition follows a growing movement of Indigenous people fighting to reclaim their land.
In 2019, the Wiyot tribe successfully reclaimed their ancestral homeland of Duluwat Island on the northern coast of California after over a century of displacement. And earlier this year, more than 500 acres of California forests were returned to a group of Native American tribes.
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THE GAME: In his first spring outing for the Dodgers, Craig Kimbrel gave up hits to the first four batters he faced, including back-to-back home runs in a 10-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon at Camelback Ranch in Glendale.
PITCHING REPORT: Acquired in a trade with the Chicago White Sox on Friday, Kimbrel gave up a double, back-to-back home runs and a single before striking out the next batter. He was removed after throwing 19 pitches. … Starter Clayton Kershaw struck out four of the first five batters he faced, throwing 20 strikes in 24 pitches to get through the first two innings. A walk led to a run in the third when Austin Slater had an RBI double. Kershaw pitched into the fifth inning, allowing that one run on three hits while striking out six. He threw 57 pitches. … Left-hander Alex Vesia retired just one of the three batters he faced in the sixth inning, giving up a walk and a bunt single. Vesia has allowed seven hits and walked three in 3 2/3 innings this spring. … Evan Phillips gave up a two-out, two-run single to Luke Williams after another run scored on an error. … Garrett Cleavinger gave up a three-run homer to Giants catcher Joey Bart. … Phil Bickford pitched in his first game of the spring and struck out two of the three batters he faced.
HITTING REPORT: With most of the regulars already back in Southern California, the Dodgers managed just two hits. … Andy Pages had both of them – an RBI single in the second and a double in the fifth. … Gavin Lux drove in the Dodgers’ second run with a sacrifice fly.
DEFENSE REPORT: Eddy Alvarez made a wild throw to first base, trying to turn an inning-ending double play at second base in the sixth. A run scored on the error.
UP NEXT: Dodgers (RHP Walker Buehler) vs. Angels (RHP Noah Syndergaard) at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, 6:05 p.m. Sunday, SportsNet LA, AM 570
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I'm not going to draw any fancy lines on the chart but a glance at the monthly oil chart stands out because of the looming mirror image from April 2020, when prices went deeply negative only to leave a largely unchanged candle.
This time it's a different geopolitical event but much of the same look with prices finishing the month about where they started in trading that was nearly as volatile. Today, WTI crude oil fell $7.17 to $100.69 after briefly cracking $100.
If we see a deeper retracement it will likely be due to covid once again. Shanghai extended its lockdown today for another 10 days and expanded it to new parts of the city. Nationwide there were more than 8000 new covid cases in China and President Xi this week doubled down on the policy of 'dynamic covid zero'.
If lockdowns were to grow more widespread it could badly sap demand for crude among China's 1.4 billion people.
Biden also announced the releases of 180 million barrels from the SPR today in a move that could help to balance the market in the short term.
A final factor to watch is Iran and a potential nuclear deal. At times it has looked extremely close but the latest signals have been more mixed.
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MTSU continues fruitful relationship with the Grammys, at least 9 grads up for awards
LAS VEGAS — Middle Tennessee State University this week resumed its annual pilgrimage to the Grammys, once again celebrating alumni recognized at the music industry’s biggest showcase.
The Grammys also serve as a game-changing opportunity to provide students career-building experiences.
MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee joined faculty, students and administrators from the colleges of Media and Entertainment and Liberal Arts for the 64th annual Grammy Awards. The rescheduled and relocated ceremony will take place Sunday, April 3.
At least nine alumni were nominated this year for Grammys, their categories ranging from country and pop to Latin music, bluegrass and gospel. They were scheduled to be recognized Saturday in Las Vegas at an MTSU Alumni Association gathering.
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“I’m pleased that our annual recognition of our alumni Grammy nominees and this amazing student learning experience is back on track,” McPhee said.
“It underscores our standing as a premier and accomplished music business institution.”
In 2021, COVID-19 concerns ended MTSU’s seven-year streak of hosting Grammy site events and lining up student experiences. The pandemic also delayed the 2022 event by three months, forcing it away from Los Angeles for an open venue.
MTSU student: 'Opportunity of a lifetime'
Five Media and Entertainment students spent Friday helping to prepare the MGM Grand Conference Center for that night’s 31st annual MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala; this year's event honored legendary performer Joni Mitchell. The annual event raises money for the Recording Academy’s member charitable support efforts.
Students Cole Arn, Kevon Cole, Breanna Beahler, Jolie Harper and Sam Long helped MusiCares ready the room for a reception and silent auction, followed by a dinner and tribute concert honoring Mitchell’s impact on the music industry and the inspiration she has provided to artists over the years.
“Getting to go on this trip is the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Harper, a senior majoring in music business from Nashville. “I’m so thankful that MTSU has provided me with the chance to meet industry professionals, see Las Vegas and have an amazing experience with my peers — all at the same time.”
Beahler, a junior majoring in music business from Cosby, Missouri, said she was “so thrilled and thankful to be a part of this experience. I know I am going to learn so much on this trip.”
MTSU secured this year’s student opportunities through the many industry connections held by Media and Entertainment Dean Beverly Keel, as well as Recording Industry Chair John Merchant and professor Matthew O’Brian.
“Experiences like these help our students better understand the inner workings of major entertainment events,” Keel said. “We show them how many of the elements for the industry’s biggest event come together and how things get done.”
Earning a rep: “Grammy-winner factory”
National news outlets in 2019 began calling MTSU a “Grammy-winner factory” in the wake of the multiple nominations and wins by alumni, students and staffers from Media and Entertainment’s Department of Recording Industry and Liberal Arts’ School of Music. The university routinely makes Billboard’s list of top music business schools.
MTSU alumni, former or current students and faculty have been a part of more than 125 Grammy nominations in the last two decades. After the 2021 ceremony, the number of MTSU-connected Grammy winners since 2001 rose to 15; with a total of 37 Grammys, including nine repeat recipients.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Florida State head football coach Mike Norvell has sung the praises of Tate Rodemaker all spring long. The Valdosta grad has made big strides in his development this year. And then there’s freshman QB Aj Duffy. Who Norvell has said plays with the maturity level of a senior. So while it appears the quarterback room is in a good place, make no mistake. Norvell made it very clear on Saturday that despite what he’s seen, Jordan Travis is without a doubt Florida State’s starting quarterback.
“Jordan is our starting quarterback. Jordan has done a phenomenal job. I think you better have competition at every position. And does that push guys? Yes, you need to be pushed, everyone does. But I’ll tell you the one thing I love about Jordan; it's not from the push of another person, it’s the push he has for himself," Norvell said following Saturday's scrimmage. He’s done a lot of things throughout his career and even the improvement he’s shown from the fall to the spring, he is in a much better place than he was at any point last year.”
Florida State will practice three more times this upcoming week ahead of their Spring Game next Saturday at 5 p.m.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Despite a weather delay and constant rain, the 11th annual Capital City Classic Flag Football Tournament wrapped up Saturday evening at the FSU Rec Sportsplex.
A link to results and scores from the 2-day event can be found here.
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SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina wildlife officers are using the recent death of a bald eagle to remind people that illegal dumping can have unintended consequences.
The Department of Natural Resources says in a Facebook post that someone dumped a cooler with fish parts, plastic bottles and worm cups recently along a Sumter County road.
Agents say the bald eagle started to eat the fish parts, but was frightened and flew into the front bumper of a truck and was killed.
Wildlife officials say they posted a picture of the litter and the dead eagle to ask people to try to prevent another incident.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — In the face of staggering gas prices, the Biden administration is taking unprecedented steps to try and lower costs at the pump.
The President is calling on Congress to make bold investments to accelerate the use of alternative energy sources to bring America to true energy independence.
But the push is not going over well with Republicans who argue the push is divorced from reality as still most Americans rely on tradition fuel.
To diminish Russian influence in the world, the Biden administration says it’s time the country takes a leap towards an independent green future by investing big in clean energy solutions.
“The President recognizes the time-limited nature of this opportunity and the reason for us to go big and bold in this moment,” said Ali Zaidi, White House deputy climate advisor.
He says the investments will do more than just relieve Americans from fluctuating gas prices.
“We’re also going to reduce our consumption of oil by 2 million barrels per day, so that means less reliance on a volatile commodity and bolstered energy security,” Zaidi said.
The administration is calling on Congress to pass billions in funding to invest in sustainable energy solutions like electric vehicles and solar energy to protect the planet and national security.
But Republicans say it’s an especially bad time to make the switch.
On the house floor this week, Republicans like Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman argued it’s the president’s green energy push that sparked the current crisis at the pump.
He says instead, the administration should focus on ramping up long-term clean oil production.
“By processing permits, issuing leases, streamlining the regulatory process and giving our own home-grown industries the ability to use our American resources,” Westerman said.
With Congress sharply divided, the chances of passing climate policy remains low. With pressure mounting for the President to relieve Americans of crippling gas prices, this week his administration announced plans to begin releasing one million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve each day for as long as 3 months.
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ALFRED, N.Y. (AP) — At least 17 colleges and universities in several states will jointly offer honorary degrees to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their spring commencement ceremonies.
Alfred University says the idea grew from the western New York university's request to have Zelenskyy speak virtually to a combination of graduating classes.
Though that request was denied, the institutions agreed to award honorary degrees in absentia to honor Zelenskyy’s leadership in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Several other upstate New York campuses have committed, along with institutions in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Alfred University says others are expected to join in.
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The Los Angeles Football Club was well represented during the FIFA World Cup in 2018, sending four players to Russia in the midst of its expansion season.
Long gone are Belgian Laurent Ciman, Egypt’s Omar Gaber and Costa Rican Marco Ureña.
Four years later, Mexican Carlos Vela is the lone LAFC player with World Cup experience.
While the 33-year-old star forward did not participate in Mexico’s successful qualification campaign for Qatar and has not indicated he’s willing to join the roster for the fall competition, the club he captains should include a mix of first-time participants in soccer’s global spectacle.
“We have several guys in competition to be in the World Cup, so I know it’s all a proud moment for us but you know the job’s not finished,” said LAFC midfielder Kellyn Acosta, a member of the U.S. national team. “We want to not only play well for LAFC but we want to be part of that squad and step forward on the field for our respective nations. The next six months are going to be fun.”
Acosta, Canadians Maxime Crepeau and Doniel Henry and Ecuadorians Jose Cifuentes and Diego Palacios helped their respective teams advance to the 32-nation tournament.
“It’s good for LAFC,” said head coach Steve Cherundolo, one of 11 Americans who represented the United States in three World Cups. “It’s good for them individually. And I know from personal experience it’s a memory you’ll remember for the rest of your life. So congratulations to all of them, their teams, their coaches and their countries.”
Acosta and Crepeau were in Florida on Friday awaiting their teammates for Saturday’s MLS match against Orlando City FC, and caught the World Cup draw from Qatar’s capital of Doha together.
“I remember watching draws in the past, but to be part of the team that qualified and to see your nation there, it hits differently,” Acosta said.
The U.S. returns to the World Cup after failing to qualify for Russia. It will open with matches against England, Iran and the winner of a playoff between Ukraine, Scotland and Wales in the group stage.
Meanwhile, Crepeau had to wait until the end of the draw to know Canada’s opponents in World Cup for the first time in 36 years – Belgium, Morocco and Croatia.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” said Henry, an imposing Canadian center back. “I’ve been here since the dark days with the national team. Seeing everything change when John Herdman took the group of boys and turned a lot of these boys into men, now we’re here.
“There’s a lot of emotion. A lot of us weren’t even born. A lot of us didn’t know the history. That was part of this whole process, understanding the guys before us, the transition, what it takes and changing the culture.”
After failing to qualify in 2018, Ecuador was slotted into the first official match of the tournament on Nov. 21 versus the Qatari hosts, followed by contests against Senegal and the Netherlands.
For other players intent on grabbing a spot on their country’s roster, like Uruguayan forward Brian Rodriguez, those chances hinge on performances at the club level.
Coming out of the international break, the Black & Gold take on Orlando City FC at Exploria Stadium – where Acosta and the U.S. beat Panama 5-1 on Sunday – for the club’s second road trip to Florida this year.
“Now it’s about getting the body right,” said Acosta, who has started all four matches so far with LAFC. “It’s been a tough 10 days. A lot of travel. Intense games. But I’m already turning my focus to playing a game in Orlando. Getting the body right. Getting the mind right and being prepared for any challenges ahead.
“Obviously it’s easy to look to the future, but I won’t be part of the World Cup squad if I’m not performing at the best of my abilities for my club. For me to be part of that team, I need to grow here at LAFC and the camps prior to the World Cup.”
A week before “El Trafico” against the Galaxy in Carson, Cherundolo’s unbeaten side meets a team that visited L.A. on March 19 and grabbed three points from their local rivals.
LAFC (3-0-1, 10 points) comes into the contest with Orlando City (2-1-2, 8 points) as the top team through the first month of the season, excelling defensively after conceding twice in four matches to the tune of a +7 goal differential.
LAFC AT ORLANDO CITY FC
When: Saturday, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Exploria Stadium, Orlando
TV/Radio: KCOP (Ch. 13), Estrella TV / 710 AM, 980 AM
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M’s shut down Giles with finger injury
PEORIA, Ariz. — What has seemed like an eternity, now feels even longer for Ken Giles.
After barely pitching in the shortened 2020 season, missing all of the 2021 season as he recovered from Tommy John surgery but feeling strong this spring, the veteran reliever has been shut down due to a tendon strain in the middle finger of his throwing hand.
Giles was seen wearing a brace on his throwing hand, immobilizing the finger, and manager Scott Servais later confirmed the injury in his pregame media session Friday.
“He had an issue about three or four days ago,” Servais said. “Something didn’t feel right in his middle finger when he was just playing catch and long toss. It was like the day after he threw or two days after he threw in a game. They had it checked out with an MRI. He was seen by specialists (Thursday). He doesn’t need surgery or anything like that, but he’s probably ‘no throw’ for a couple of weeks and we’ll see where it goes from there.”
Giles is the second reliever expected to fill a major role in the bullpen to suffer a significant injury. Reliever Casey Sadler was lost for the season because of shoulder surgery.
Lewis a month behind in rehab: Kyle Lewis has made some progress in his lengthy recovery from season-ending knee surgery in 2021. He suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee in late May and underwent surgery on June 11. It was his third procedure on the knee. A comeback attempt late in the season ended when he tweaked it running the bases.
The Mariners have been careful with Lewis this spring, understanding he wasn’t ready for full participation in workouts when he reported and that he wouldn’t be ready for opening day.
“He popped into my office a few days ago,” Servais said. “He’s feeling much better. He feels really good. He has gone through some of the outfield drills and moving around out there. The next step for him is to DH in a minor-league game. And when (you) get on base, you run the bases.”
Elias moving closer to pitching in games: Left-hander Roenis Elias, who is recovering from season-ending Tommy John surgery in 2021, is moving closer to pitching in minor-league spring training games.
“He looks great,” Servais said. “The fastball has got life. He’s throwing all of his pitches. I do think he’s definitely going to help us at some point probably maybe getting into May, giving him a month or so under his belt. We’ll see. It could be quicker or it could be a little bit longer.”
Dodgers acquire Kimbrel: The Los Angeles Dodgers acquired eight-time All-Star reliever Craig Kimbrel from the Chicago White Sox on Friday in exchange for outfielder AJ Pollock.
Angels cut Upton: The Angels designated Justin Upton for assignment despite owing the slugging outfielder $28 million this season. They will still be responsible for Upton’s salary unless he’s claimed by another team.
Scherzer injures hamstring, deGrom out: Mets ace Max Scherzer is dealing with a hamstring issue and isn’t sure when he’ll pitch next. On Friday, the team said Jacob deGrom will miss significant time with a shoulder injury.
Guardians, Clase agree to deal: The Cleveland Guardians locked up one of their own, agreeing to terms with closer Emmanuel Clase on a $20 million, five-year contract.
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U.S. to play England, Iran in World Cup
The United States will open its return to the World Cup against the winner of a European playoff among Ukraine, Wales and Scotland, then face England and Iran in high-profile rematches of games played during tournaments of the past quarter-century.
The 15th-ranked Americans were drawn Friday to start against the European playoff winner on Nov. 21, the tournament’s opening day in Qatar. The U.S. plays No. 5 England on Nov. 25 and closes the group stage against No. 21 Iran on Nov. 29.
“It’s a good group,” U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said.
No. 39 Scotland hosts 27th-ranked Ukraine in June in a playoff delayed from March because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. A few days later, the winner goes to No. 18 Wales, which advanced last week with a 2-1 win over Austria.
“Three strong teams,” Berhalter said. “Two pretty similar with Wales and Scotland and then one different with Ukraine. So we’re going to have to be preparing for all three.”
European club matches are scheduled for Nov. 12 and 13, so Nov. 15 is likely the first day Berhalter will have his entire roster available ahead of the opener.
Solo arrested on DWI, child abuse charges: Former U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said.
A police report said Solo was arrested in a shopping center parking lot in Winston-Salem and charged with driving while impaired, resisting a public officer and misdemeanor child abuse.
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Basketball: NBA stars Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway are among the 2022 class of Basketball Hall of Fame inductees. Also selected this year were Swin Cash, George Karl, Bob Huggins, Lindsay Whalen, Marianne Stanley, and Hugh Evans.
Motor sports: Ryan Blaney turned a lap of 119.782 mph at Richmond Raceway to earn his third consecutive top starting spot in NASCAR’s top series. ... Ty Gibbs bumped John Hunter Nemechek from the lead in a last-lap battle at Richmond Raceway and won for the third time this season in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series.
Tennis: Iga Swiatek beat Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-0 to win the women’s title at the Miami Open and claim the women’s No. 1 ranking.
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A Tri-Cities restaurant that made headlines for refusing to comply with COVID-19 restrictions during the height of the pandemic has closed for good, citing the pandemic, inflation and President Joe Biden himself.
Koko’s Bartini announced on social media last week it would close Saturday, March 26, but the restaurant ended up shutting down Friday evening because of staffing issues.
“Closed” signs were placed on the door of the business and over the restaurant’s hours, including a small picture of Biden saying, “I did that.”
A variation of the same image was also posted on its Facebook page. There also was a sign on the door stating “Koko’s Bartini will not violate your HIPAA rights — your body, your choice — come on in.”
Owner Dana Slovak told the Tri-City Herald in an email that they will miss all their faithful customers.
“The challenges with COVID 2020 year, struggle in 2021 reopening, and now inflation has crippled Koko’s to a financial point. You gotta know when to hold them, and when to fold them,” Slovak said. “Thanks to all our Koko’s fans and their patriotism these past struggling 3 years.”
He added that all of the restaurant equipment and furnishings are still inside, and available for a new business to bring back to life.
The restaurant made headlines across Washington in November 2020 when it defied the state’s orders to stop serving food indoors due to rising COVID numbers.
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board suspended its liquor license, prompting protests from customers and supporters.
At one point, Joey Gibson, founder of the far-right activist group Patriot Prayer, led a protest at the home of a Tri-Cities liquor license officer.
Koko’s was able to eventually work out a deal to reopen, and have its liquor license reinstated, in early 2021. On March 2, the restaurant posted that it would be closed due to kitchen repairs. It reopened on March 15 and announced the permanent closure on March 23.
“The higher cost of everything around us has led to this final decision,” the post stated. “I want to say THANK YOU for all your support. Covid hurt Koko’s in a big way, and now inflation is not helping.”
In a final post recently, Koko’s posted “Koko’s Bartini is closed!” along with two images. One of a closed sign, and another of the sticker of Biden.
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WASHINGTON — To her 1.4 million followers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, Vica Li says she is a “life blogger” and “food lover” who wants to teach her fans about China so they can travel the country with ease.
“Through my lens, I will take you around China, take you into Vica’s life!” she says in a video posted in January to her YouTube and Facebook accounts, where she also teaches Chinese classes over Zoom.
But that lens may be controlled by CGTN, the Chinese-state run TV network where she has regularly appeared in broadcasts and is listed as a digital reporter on the company's website. And while Vica Li tells her followers that she “created all of these channels on her own,” her Facebook account shows that at least nine people manage her page.
That portfolio of accounts is just one tentacle of China’s rapidly growing influence on U.S.-owned social media platforms, an Associated Press examination has found.
As China continues to assert its economic might, it is using the global social media ecosystem to expand its already formidable influence. The country has quietly built a network of social media personalities who parrot the government’s perspective in posts seen by hundreds of thousands of people, operating in virtual lockstep as they promote China’s virtues, deflect international criticism of its human rights abuses and advance Beijing’s talking points on world affairs like Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Some of China's state-affiliated reporters have posited themselves as trendy Instagram influencers or bloggers. The country has also hired firms to recruit influencers to deliver carefully crafted messages that boost its image to social media users.
And it is benefitting from a cadre of Westerners who have devoted YouTube channels and Twitter feeds to echoing pro-China narratives on everything from Beijing’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims to Olympian Eileen Gu, an American who competed for China in the most recent Winter Games.
The influencer network allows Beijing to easily proffer propaganda to unsuspecting Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube users around the globe. At least 200 influencers with connections to the Chinese government or its state media are operating in 38 different languages, according to research from Miburo, a firm that tracks foreign disinformation operations.
“You can see how they’re trying to infiltrate every one of these countries,” said Miburo President Clint Watts, a former FBI agent. “It is just about volume, ultimately. If you just bombard an audience for long enough with the same narratives people will tend to believe them over time.”
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While Russia’s war on Ukraine was being broadly condemned as a brazen assault on democracy, self-described “traveler,” “story-teller” and "journalist” Li Jingjing took to YouTube to offer a different narrative.
She posted a video to her account called “Ukraine crisis: The West ignores wars & destructions it brings to Middle East,” in which she mocked U.S. journalists covering the war. She's also dedicated other videos to amplifying Russian propaganda about the conflict, including claims of Ukrainian genocide or that the U.S. and NATO provoked Russia’s invasion.
Li Jingjing says in her YouTube profile that she is eager to show her roughly 21,000 subscribers “the world through my lens.” But what she does not say in her segments on Ukraine, which have tens of thousands of views, is that she is a reporter for CGTN, articulating views that are not just her own but also familiar Chinese government talking points.
Most of China’s influencers use pitches similar to Li Jingjing’s in hopes of attracting audiences around the world, including the U.S., Egypt and Kenya. The personalities, many of them women, call themselves “travelers,” sharing photos and videos that promote China as an idyllic destination.
“They clearly have identified the ‘Chinese lady influencer’ is the way to go,” Watts said of China.
The AP identified dozens of these accounts, which collectively have amassed more than 10 million followers and subscribers. Many of the profiles belong to Chinese state media reporters who have in recent months transformed their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube accounts — platforms that are largely blocked in China — and begun identifying as “bloggers,” “influencers” or non-descript “journalists.” Nearly all of them were running Facebook ads, targeted to users outside of China, that encourage people to follow their pages.
The personalities do not proactively disclose their ties to China’s government and have largely phased out references in their posts to their employers, which include CGTN, China Radio International and Xinhua News Agency.
Foreign governments have long tried to exploit social media, as well as its ad system, to influence users. During the 2016 U.S. election, for example, a Russian internet agency paid in rubles to run more than 3,000 divisive political ads targeting Americans.
In response, tech companies like Facebook and Twitter promised to better alert American users to foreign propaganda by labeling state-backed media accounts.
But the AP found in its review that most of the Chinese influencer social media accounts are inconsistently labeled as state-funded media. The accounts — like those belonging to Li Jingjing and Vica Li — are often labeled on Facebook or Instagram, but are not flagged on YouTube or TikTok. Vica Li’s account is not labeled on Twitter. Last month, Twitter began identifying Li Jingjing’s account as Chinese state-media.
Vica Li said in a YouTube video that she is disputing the labels on her Facebook and Instagram accounts. She did not respond to a detailed list of questions from the AP.
Often, followers who are lured in by accounts featuring scenic images of China's landscape might not be aware that they’ll also encounter state-endorsed propaganda.
Jessica Zang’s picturesque Instagram photos show her smiling beneath a beaming sun, kicking fresh powdered snow atop a ski resort on the Altai Mountains in China's Xinjiang region during the Beijing Olympics. She describes herself as a video creator and blogger who hopes to present her followers with “beautiful pics and videos about life in China.”
Zang, a video blogger for CGTN, rarely mentions her employer to her 1.3 million followers on Facebook. Facebook and Instagram identify her account as “state-controlled media” but she is not labeled as such on TikTok, YouTube or on Twitter, where Zang lists herself as a “social media influencer.”
“I think it’s likely by choice that she doesn’t put any state affiliations, because you put that label on your account, people start asking certain types of questions,” Rui Zhong, who researches technology and the China-U.S. relationship for the Washington-based Wilson Center, said of Zang.
Peppered between tourism photos are posts with more obvious propaganda. One video titled “What foreigners in BEIJING think of the CPC and their life in China?" features Zang interviewing foreigners in China who gush about the Chinese Communist Party and insist they're not surveilled by the government the way outsiders might think.
“We really want to let more people ... know what China is really like,” Zang tells viewers.
That's an important goal in China, which has launched coordinated efforts to shape its image abroad and whose president, Xi Jinping, has spoken openly of his desire to have China perceived favorably on the global stage.
Ultimately, accounts like Zang's are intended to obscure global criticisms of China, said Jessica Brandt, a Brookings Institution expert on foreign interference and disinformation.
“They want to promote a positive vision of China to drown out their human rights records,” Brandt said.
Li Jingjing and Zang did not return messages from the AP seeking comment. CGTN did not respond to repeated interview requests. CGTN America, which is registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department and has disclosed having commercial arrangements with several international news organizations, including the AP, CNN and Reuters, did not return messages. A lawyer who has represented CGTN America did not respond either.
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said in a statement, “Chinese media and journalists carry out normal activities independently, and should not be assumed to be led or interfered by the Chinese government.”
China’s interest in the influencer realm became more evident in December after it was revealed that the Chinese Consulate in New York had paid $300,000 for New Jersey firm Vippi Media to recruit influencers to post messages to Instagram and TikTok followers during the Beijing Olympics, including content that would highlight China's work on climate change.
It’s unclear what the public saw from that campaign, and if the social media posts were properly labeled as paid advertisements by the Chinese Consulate, as Instagram and TikTok require. Vippi Media has not provided the Justice Department, which regulates foreign influence campaigns through a 1938 statute known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a copy of the posts it paid influencers to disseminate, even though federal law requires the company to do so.
Vipp Jaswal, Vippi Media’s CEO, declined to share details about the posts with the AP.
In other cases, the money and motives behind these Facebook posts, YouTube videos and podcasts are so murky that even those who create them say they weren’t aware the Chinese government was financing the project.
Chicago radio host John St. Augustine told the AP that a friend who owns New World Radio in Falls Church, Virginia, invited him to host a podcast called “The Bridge” with a team in Beijing. The hosts discussed daily life and music in the U.S. and China, inviting music industry workers as guests.
He says he didn’t know CGTN had paid New World Radio $389,000 to produce the podcast. The station was also paid millions of dollars to broadcast CGTN content 12 hours daily, according to documents filed with the Justice Department on behalf of the radio company.
“How they did all that, I had no clue,” St. Augustine said. “I was paid by a company here in the United States.”
The station’s relationship with CGTN ended in December, said New World Radio co-owner Patricia Lane.
The Justice Department recently requested public input on how it should update the FARA statute to account for the ephemeral world of social media and its transparency challenges.
“It’s not leaflets and hard copy newspapers anymore,” FARA unit chief Jennifer Kennedy Gellie said of messaging. It’s “tweets and Facebook posts and Instagram images.”
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A growing chorus of English-speaking influencers has also cultivated an online niche by promoting pro-Chinese messaging in YouTube videos or tweets.
Last April, as CGTN sought to expand its network of influencers, it invited English speakers to join a months-long competition that would end with jobs working as social media influencers in London, Nairobi, Kenya or Washington. Thousands applied, CGTN said in September, describing the event as a “window for young people around the world to understand China.”
British video blogger Jason Lightfoot raved about the opportunity in a video on YouTube advertising the event.
“So many crazy experiences that I’ll never forget for the rest of my life, and that’s all thanks to CGTN,” Lightfoot said in a video he said was filmed from China tech company Huawei’s campus.
Lightfoot, who did not respond to requests for comment, does not disclose this relationship with CGTN on his YouTube profile, where he has accrued millions of views with headlines like “The Olympics Backfired on USA — Disastrous Regret” and “Western Media Lies about China.”
The video topics are often in sync with those of other pro-China bloggers such as Cyrus Janssen, a U.S. citizen living in Canada. During the Olympics, Janssen and Lightfoot both shared videos celebrating Gu’s three-medal win, using identical images of the Olympian, though Lightfoot also poked fun at President Joe Biden.
“USA’s boycott failure ... Eileen Gu Wins Gold!” Lightfoot posted on Feb. 10. That same day, Janssen uploaded a video titled “Is Eileen Gu a Traitor to America? American Expat Shares the Truth.”
In emails to the AP, Janssen said his videos are intended to educate people about China and said he’s never accepted money from the Chinese government. But when pressed for details about some of his partnerships, which include Chinese tech firms, Janssen responded only with questions about an AP’s reporter salary. The AP also found videos that show him appearing on CGTN broadcasts.
The Western influencers routinely decry what they see as distorted American media coverage of Beijing and life there. Some posts, for instance, have ridiculed Western concerns over the safety of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who disappeared from view after leveling sexual assault allegations against a former high-ranking member of China’s ruling Communist Party. She resurfaced around the Olympics in a controlled interview in which she vigorously denied wrongdoing by Chinese officials and said her initial allegations had created an "enormous misunderstanding.”
Her abrupt about-face prompted skeptical reactions in the West, which YouTuber Andy Boreham mocked in a video in which he invoked language reminiscent of the MeToo movement. “I wonder what happened to #BelieveAllWomen," he said.
Boreham is a New Zealander and columnist for Shanghai Daily. Twitter recently labeled his account as Chinese-state affiliated media. His YouTube account remains unlabeled. In a statement, YouTube said it only applies state-affiliated media labels to organizations, not individuals who work for or with state-funded media.
In a YouTube post last year, Lightfoot, who has more than 200,000 subscribers, marveled at video footage of what he said were “clean, modern, peaceful, pleasant” streets of China. The post then cut to video of gritty, trash-strewn streets he said were in Philadelphia.
“When I first saw this video,” he says by way of narration, “I actually thought it was from a movie. I thought it was from a zombie movie or some kind of end-of-the-world movie. But it’s not. This is real. This is America.”
YouTubers Matthew Tye, an American, and Winston Sterzel, who is from South Africa, believe that, in many cases, China’s paying for videos to be created.
Their evidence?
The pair was included last year on an email pitch to numerous YouTube influencers from a company that identified itself as Hong Kong Pear Technology. The email asked the influencers to share a promotional video for China’s Hainan province, a tourist beach destination, on their channels.
Tye and Sterzel, who spent years living in China and became vocal critics of its government, assume they were probably included on the pitch by mistake.
But, intrigued, they engaged in a back-and-forth with the company while feigning interest in the offer. The company representative soon followed up with a new request — that they post a propaganda video that claimed COVID-19 did not originate in China, where the first case was detected, but rather from North American white-tailed deer.
“We could offer $2000 (totally negotiable considering the nature of this type of content) lemme know if u are interested,” an employee named Joey wrote, according to emails shared with the AP.
After Tye and Sterzel asked for articles that would back up the false claim, the emails stopped.
In an email to the AP, a Pear Technology employee confirmed he had contacted Tye and Sterzel, but said he did not know much about the client, adding “it might be from the government??”
Tye and Sterzel say the exchange pulls back the curtain on how China pushes propaganda through influencers who profit from it.
“There’s a very easy formula to become successful,” Sterzel said in an interview. “It’s simply to praise the Chinese government, to praise China and talk about how great China is and how bad the West is.”
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EDEN — A town supervisor in rural Western New York said someone threw a “partial pipe bomb” into her home in an apparent effort to persuade her to drop her bid for Erie County Clerk.
Eden Supervisor Melissa Hartman said Friday that the device, on which several threats were written, was thrown into her home about 3 a.m. March 28 while her family was sleeping. It did not explode.
“One of the written messages indicated that, unless I drop out of this race for Erie County clerk, the next pipe bomb would be live,” Hartman said at a news conference. Hartman is the Democratic party's endorsed candidate for the county-wide office.
“If anything, this incident signals to me that I must continue marching forward, reaffirming my commitment to public service,” said Hartman, who has been supervisor since 2016.
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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Two Texas men are dead after trying to jump a compact car across the gap on a raised drawbridge.
Louisiana State Police say it happened shortly after 2 a.m. Friday at the Black Bayou Bridge about 6 miles (9.65 kilometers) south of Lake Charles. Investigators say the bridge was closed to traffic to let a boat pass through on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Witnesses say the car’s passenger pushed the gate arm up and they drove the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze up to the raised section. They backed up, then accelerated forward, trying to jump to the other side. The vehicle landed in the water and sank.
State police say 23-year-old Alejandro Cazares of McAllen and 32-year-old Roberto Alejandro Moreno of Edinburg were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall — and crashing right down beside him was semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which lost 8% of its market capitalization — about $16 billion — after investment bank Barclays downgraded its stock to Equalweight (i.e. Hold) on Thursday.
Despite admitting that AMD will, in all likelihood, exceed expectations for 31% sales growth this year, and gain market share “in both the client and server markets” besides, Barclays’ 5-star analyst Blayne Curtis cut his rating on AMD — and cut his price target by 22%, to $115 a share. (To watch Curtis’ track record, click here)
As Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis explained, “we see cyclical risk across several end markets (PC, Gaming, and broad-based/XLNX)” for AMD somewhere in the “2024/2025” timeframe. Although that’s still a few years away, and although in the nearer term, Curtis admitted that AMD is still growing strongly, the analyst nevertheless said he would “rather move to the sidelines until we have better clarity as to the magnitude of these corrections and what the competitive landscape will look like.”
But Rosenblatt analyst Hans Mosesmann thinks that’s just crazy talk.
Addressing “incoming calls [presumably from its clients] regarding weakness in AMD shares,” Mosesmann placed the blame for AMD’s decline directly on Barclays’ downgrade “on 2023 cyclical issues” and to resulting “angst” on the part of investors. But rather than echo Barclays’ insecurity, Mosesmann urged Rosenblatt’s clients to slow down and conduct a “sanity check.”
Barclays’ analysis, says Mosesmann, is tied to worries about “potential consumer weakness in PCs and mobile.” But as Mosesmann points out, AMD actually “does not sell into this market,” and so would not be affected even if this weakness does arise. He also notes that while Barclays raises cyclical industry concerns about AMD, it does not appear to have similar fears for cyclicality for Intel (INTC) or Nvidia (NVDA) — despite the fact that all three of these companies work in the same cyclical industry.
Also nonsensical, in Mosesmann’s view, is selling AMD stock despite the fact that:
- The company “is not in any jeopardy of missing the +30% y/y sales growth target for 2022” — a fact even Barclays concedes.
- To the contrary, AMD is continuing “to gain PC CPU market share” (as Barclays also concedes).
- Intel has delayed introduction of both its Sapphire Rapids and Granite Rapids server processors into 2024, which suggests “Intel has limited ability to defend server share at any price.”
- There is no evidence of “broad aggressive PC CPU pricing from either AMD or Intel” (i.e. a price war that would drive profits down for all players).
- The more so in Intel’s case, because a price war would exacerbate that company’s “extreme sensitivity to gross margins.”
Long story short, Mosesmann sees little reason to worry about AMD, and even less reason to dump AMD stock. To the contrary, given that “AMD fundamentals are better today than they were entering the year … we are buyers,” insists Mosesmann.
Unsurprisingly, the analyst gives AMD a Buy rating and a Street-high price target of $200. Should his thesis play out, a potential upside of ~85% could be in the cards. (To watch Mosesmann’s track record, click here)
AMD tends to attract a lot of attention – the stock has 21 analyst reviews on record, and they include 14 Buys against 7 Holds to give the stock its Moderate Buy consensus recommendation. The shares have an average price target of $150.41, indicating room for 39% growth from the current price of $108.19. (See AMD stock forecast on TipRanks)
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Southwest Airlines flights were delayed and canceled early Saturday morning.
In a statement to Fox Business, the airline cited “intermittent performance issues following routine overnight maintenance of some of [its] backend technology.”
“We offer heartfelt apologies to our customers for any inconvenience, and gratitude to our employees who are working diligently to make it up to them,” the airline wrote. “We’ll continue to update customers whose journey with us today might be delayed as result of the now-resolved issues.”
Flight tracker FlightAware showed more than a thousand delayed flights on Southwest shortly after 9 a.m. ET, with 179 cancellations.
Passengers reacted to the changes on social media, responding to a Friday April Fool’s Day tweet from Southwest.
“You want a joke? Bag fees,” the @SouthwestAir account said.
“Kind of bad taste to make a Twitter joke when seemingly every flight today is delayed,” Fox 61 meteorologist Ryan Breton replied.
Others shared stories of lengthy customers service calls, double cancellations and exorbitant airfare.
Airline ticket prices have risen due to increased travel and already sky-high fuel costs have been driven further up by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
KPRC 2 in Houston, Texas reported Saturday that the source of delays was a “planned system outage” and that a spokesperson for Houston Airports told the station the airlines system was down for two hours, starting at 4 a.m. local time.
North Carolina’s WNCN said the “nationwide system failure” had caused delays out of Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
Fox Business’ Edward Lawrence was at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., and tweeted about the issue.
“Update: Gate Agents saying that the @SouthwestAir system is back up. They are starting to try and catch up with bag checks and boarding,” he wrote at 6:57 a.m. ET.
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TOPPENISH, WA - NBC Right Now and Solarity Credit Union are working together to celebrate diversity in our community. Each month, a minority-owned business will be highlighted. This month we're highlighting Tony's Home Furnishings.
Tony and his wife decided to open their furniture store to spend more time with their family.
"We decided in 2016 to open it because of my daughter Brooke," said Tony Perez the owner of Tony's Home Furnishings. "My family and I wanted to spend more time together and so we could see that the only way to do that was to start our own business."
They were very excited to be recognized and awarded by Solarity Credit Union.
"We appreciate that you've opened this business and we hope that you inspire others to do so as well," said a representative from Solarity Credit Union. "We also hope that this recognition provides some meaningful impact, some positive impact to your business. Congratulations to you!"
Perez is a husband and father of two children and one on the way, he said he's never regretted opening his own business.
"It was the best thing we have ever done," said Perez. "I get to spend time with my wife and kids every day so it's one of the best things in my life."
Going into retail wasn't something new to him.
"Growing up I grew up in furniture, my dad has a second-hand shop and my aunt Hope actually ran the Amish Connection which was in the same building I am in currently and she did that for 25 years," said Perez. "It's sort of in our family to do a furniture store."
Tony's Home Furnishings offers more than just furniture.
"We have a little bit of everything, accessories, home décor, blankets," said Perez. "We have a little bit of anything and everything you could imagine."
During the peak of the pandemic, Perez said his business started to get recognized more because they were one of the few places open.
"We started out as new furniture but I was sort of all over the place since then I partnered with a few select partners and we've seen it just grow massively since then," said Perez. "providing, being a family-owned business we have some of the most competitive pricing in the whole valley. We've just seen it grow incredibly well since the pandemic hit and since we partnered with those partners."
He really takes pride in the things he offers and tries to make sure everyone leaves happy.
"I will try to find a way to make every deal work and so anybody who wants to come on by, I will always try to provide them the best price possible," said Perez
Tony's Home Furnishings is open 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
You can visit them at:
105 S Toppenish Ave, Toppenish, WA 98948
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U.S. Army Soldiers with the Vermont National Guard compete in the annual Best Warrior Competition, in Jericho, Vermont, April 2, 2022. The Vermont National Guard hosts two non-commissioned officers and two junior enlisted soldiers for a chance at becoming the state representatives at regional Best Warrior Competition events.
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TORRINGTON – “I mean this in the best way possible, but I don’t ever want to see you again.”
Drew Aldridge addresses a group of incarcerated people who have just earned their high school equivalency diplomas and are preparing to reenter society.
Aldridge works as the academic manager at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Facility in Torrington, the primary intake center for all inmates not sentenced to death, and home to the top education programs for inmates in the state.
From welding to Braille, incarcerated people there can choose a program and earn their certification in that skill. Those without high school diplomas are required to earn their equivalency diplomas, and all these education opportunities open new doors once they reenter society. Approximately 96% of incarcerated individuals do reenter society.
“They’re going to be your neighbor,” Aldridge said. “(Through education) they’re able to kind of change that (harmful) mindset.”
Studies have shown the link between additional education and reducing recidivism — the likelihood those who have served their time will reoffend.
The Wyoming Department of Corrections works with local institutions such as Eastern Wyoming College to provide education opportunities for incarcerated persons in hopes of keeping the local recidivism rate as low as possible. The partnership between WDOC and EWC began nearly two decades ago.
“Our commitment is to help provide (incarcerated individuals) with educational opportunities,” EWC Vice President of Academic Services Roger Humphrey said.
EWC teaches classes in the prisons within its service area, including WMCI in Torrington and the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk.
The Second Chance Pell Grant, which EWC has applied for through the Department of Education, would provide more opportunities for the school to teach new classes and expand its available programs.
“If this is approved, it provides access to qualifying incarcerated people to be able to access funds to be able to take more courses,” Humphrey said. “For example, it could look like us going in and teaching an English class or a math class. (The grant) will allow the incarcerated individuals to be able to potentially access more courses and programs.”
The Department of Education has yet to announce a decision on EWC’s application for the Second Chance Pell Grant.
Reentering society after years spent in prison can be difficult. A gap on a resume labeled “prison” isn’t exactly what many employers are looking for. Research has shown that formerly incarcerated individuals who exit the system with a certificate or something else proving their expanded skill set tend to have a more positive experience in finding employment.
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Humphrey said attending the graduation ceremonies for incarcerated people and seeing the things they’ve accomplished is both “personally and professionally very rewarding.”
Stephen Hyatt and Robert Pedro have both graduated from programs at WMCI. Hyatt even tutors other incarcerated individuals in the welding program.
“When I came and they brought me (to WMCI) on the bus, I’d seen welding students out there,” Pedro said about his first experience with the welding program. “I never thought I was going to be a student. ... So, when I got accepted, I was pretty excited.”
Both Hyatt and Pedro said they have enjoyed their time in the welding program and the other education opportunities they have had while at WMCI.
“It’s like a taste of freedom,” Hyatt said. “You get to use a lot of tools and build things that the average prisoner doesn’t really get to experience.”
The welding program has added another “tool in the tool bag” for Hyatt and Pedro.
Incarcerated individuals without a high school diploma or the equivalent are required to complete the Adult Basic Education program. From there, they have the chance to apply for the other classes.
In a recent ABE course, Aldridge had 120 ABE graduates. Of those, 59 have exited the prison system. Only one of them reoffended.
So Aldridge’s wish has mostly came true. He never saw those graduates ever again.
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The Department of Defense announced Saturday the repatriation of Sufiyan Barhoumi from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba to his native county of Algeria.
Barhoumi was cleared for transfer in August 2016, but had continued to be held in Guantanamo while he waited for the US government to find a willing third-party country to repatriate him to, as the government does with all Guantanamo detainees who are cleared for transfer.
Barhoumi was detained at Guantanamo nearly 20 years ago, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights.
"On August 9, 2016, the Periodic Review Board process determined that law of war detention of Mr. Barhoumi was no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the national security of the United States. Therefore, the PRB recommended that Mr. Barhoumi be repatriated to his native country of Algeria, subject to security and humane treatment assurances," the Defense Department said in the announcement.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin informed Congress in February of the department's intent to repatriate Barhoumi, the release said.
"Our government owes Sufyian and his mother years of their lives back," Sufiyan's attorney, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement. "I'm overjoyed that he will be home with his family, but I will dearly miss his constant good humor and empathy for the suffering of others in the utterly depressing environment of Guantánamo."
Barhoumi is the third Guantanamo detainee to be repatriated under the Biden administration.
Mohammed al-Qahtani's repatriation to Saudi Arabia for mental health treatment was announced by the Defense Department in March. Abdul Latif Nasir's repatriation to his native country of Morocco was announced in July 2021.
Both Barhoumi and Nasir were cleared for transfer during the Obama administration. Al-Qahtanini was cleared for transfer during the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden has said he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. With Barhoumi's transfer, 37 detainees remain at the prison, 18 of whom are cleared for transfer.
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The growing pains for Angel City FC continued in its fourth game of the NWSL Challenge Cup.
For the third consecutive game, Angel City allowed at least three goals, losing to fellow expansion team San Diego Wave FC 4-2 on Saturday at Torero Stadium in front of 5,158.
The teams opened the Challenge Cup against each other March 19. That game ended in a 1-1 draw.
Diamond Bar native Alex Morgan scored in the last minute of first-half stoppage time and added another in the second half for San Diego (1-1-1, 4 points).
Angel City (0-3-1, 1 point) trailed 2-1 at halftime.
In the 60th minute, Christen Press scored her first goal for Angel City. Her initial shot was blocked, but she made sure the rebound was in an area no one could reach.
From there, San Diego pulled away. Morgan scored her second goal in the 72nd minute and Amirah Ali added the final one in the 81st minute.
The game caps a stretch of three games in eight days stretch for Angel City, in which it went 0-3 and allowed 10 goals.
Angel City will be off until April 17, when it will visit OL Reign for a 3 p.m. match. The final game of the Challenge Cup will be against Portland at 6 p.m. April 24 at Titan Stadium.
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NEW ORLEANS — Kansas and Villanova waged a 3-point shooting contest at the Final Four with one of them racing out to a big lead in the opening minutes and the other spending the rest of the night trying in vain to catch up.
It all may sound familiar to basketball fans.
But in a rematch of a rout by the Wildcats four years ago in San Antonio, it was the Jayhawks who joyously walked off the court with the win this time at the final buzzer Saturday night. David McCormack muscled his way for 25 points, Ochai Agbaji was nearly perfect from the field and finished with 21, and the lone No. 1 seed to reach the national semifinals rolled to an 81-65 victory.
“This is what we were planning to do that season,” said Agbaji, who was 6 of 7 from beyond the arc. “Everyone that was on that team, this is for them and they know it just as much as us.”
Now, the Jayhawks (33-6) hope to follow a familiar pattern against Duke or North Carolina on Monday night. The last three times the Jayhawks and Wildcats have met in the tournament, the winner has gone on to win it all.
Playing without injured guard Justin Moore, Villanova (31-7) watched as Kansas scored the game’s first 10 points and eventually built a 19-point cushion. And despite big nights from Collin Gillespie, Brandon Slater and Jermaine Samuels, the short-handed and undersized Wildcats never made it all the way back.
Gillespie, playing in his 156th and final game for the Wildcats, hit five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, while Slater hit four 3s and had 16 points. Samuels finished with 13 points in the final game of his career.
Each team finished with 13 3-pointers, and the 26 made shots from beyond the arc set a record for a Final Four game, topping the 25 that the same two teams made in 2018 at the Alamodome.
Unlike that night, though, it was the Jayhawks who pounced on Villanova at the start, trying to run ragged a team whose depth problems were only compounded by the loss of Moore, who tore his Achilles tendon in the regional finals.
The Jayhawks applied pressure the moment Villanova inbounded the ball. They unleashed traps in half-court, something they rarely did in the regular season. And they twice picked the pocket of Gillespie, the two-time Big East player of the year, leading to easy baskets and a 10-0 lead before some of the 70,000-plus fans had even found their seats.
“We got off to such a great start in large part because of how we shot the ball,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.
Whenever Agbaji, the Big 12 player of the year, wasn’t enjoying the soft rims of the Superdome to knock down 3s, the 6-foot-10, 250-pound McCormack was having his way with the undersized Wildcats in the paint.
The Jayhawks’ lead soon stretched to 15 midway through the first half before Jay Wright finally called timeout.
His counterpart could probably relate: In a game that Self has been loath to rewatch, the Wildcats raced to a 22-4 lead out of the gates four years ago and cruised to a Final Four blowout en route to their third national title.
“This is legit revenge for 2018,” tweeted the Mavericks’ Jalen Brunson, who had a big role for Villanova that night.
Daniels and Gillespie did everything they could to rewrite the finish.
Daniels, the New Orleans native who began his career down the road at Tulane, kept making hustle plays around the basket, and Gillespie, the blue-collar kid from Philadelphia, was able to knock down a couple of contested 3s.
The Jayhawks still led 50-34 early in the second half when Wright went to a smaller lineup and ramped up the pressure on defense. The result was three consecutive turnovers, and quick 3-pointers by Slater and Antoine — the seldom-used guard who absorbed many of Moore’s minutes — that allowed Villanova to trim the lead to single digits.
McCormack finally made them pay for going small with a rim-rattling dunk that gave Kansas control again with 10:25 to play.
The Wildcats had one last run in them, getting a three-point play from Samuels to close within 64-58 with just over 6 minutes left. But McCormack once more answered for Kansa, and Braun followed his own bucket with a deep fadeaway 3 as the shot-clock expired, giving the Jayhawks plenty of breathing room down the stretch.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Anna Davis, who has spent her summers in Chewelah since she was a kid, won the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur on Saturday finishing the tournament 1-under-par.
Davis rallied on the final day with 69 strokes (-3) and finishing the tournament with a total of 215 shots. She beat out Ingrid Lindbland and Latanna Stone, who both finished with 216.
Davis, who is 16-years-old, set a record at Chewelah Golf and Country Club when she was 11-years-old shooting 2-under-par from the red tees in 2017, according to The Spokesman-Review. Davis also won the Washington Junior Golf Association's state tournament for her age group in 2020 and was named the 2018 Player of the Year for her age range, according to her profile on the WJGA's website.
She has grown up in San Diego, but spent her summers in Chewelah with family throughout her childhood.
Davis and her twin brother, Billy, made their names known in the Inland Northwest in 2019 beating several pros and amateurs at the Rosauers Open Invitational when they were 13-years-old.
They both began hitting with plastic clubs when they could walk and began playing in tournaments around five or six.
"It was pretty much just for fun. We were both like, 'Let's see how well we can do,'" said Anna of playing in the Rosauers Open three years ago, in which she made both cuts against adults and finished at par on the weekend.
"It just feels like another tournament with older people," said Anna in 2019.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — After 10 years, Casper Fry will close on April 16th.
According to a Facebook post, the owners said after being in this industry for two decades its time to slow down and they want to spend more time as a family.
The owners also say they want to have a better quality of life so they have downsized and sold the southern-inspired restaurant.
"We cherish each other and our time together, and if the last couple years have taught us anything, it’s that we want to spend more quality time together, to play, to rest, and play some more," the owners said.
Until April 16th, they will be open for normal dining hours starting at 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. But you will still be able to find them at Durkin's Liquor Bar and Madeleine’s Café & Patisserie.
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The Yakima River Canyon Marathon welcomed runners back with a powerful headwind on the course’s long final hill Saturday morning.
It couldn’t stop Bellevue’s Tobias Andersson, a 37-year-old Sweden native, from holding off Micah Mohler from Sammamish for a nearly wire-to-wire win in 2:50:34. But the challenges of the wind and hills proved enough to prevent Anne Theisen from breaking the course record as she easily won the women’s race in 3:01:29.
“That was brutal,” said Theisen, who was on track to beat Mary Hanna’s mark of 2:58:06 at the halfway point. “I’m going to call this the Yakima Valley pain cave.”
She still felt inspired by some of the scenic views, especially at the top of the race’s two most difficult hills. The 49-year-old ran with her coach for pacing but said she didn’t quite have enough strength in her legs after extending her training cycle by a month since she couldn’t run her initial target race, the Tokyo Marathon on March 6.
Andersson treated the Yakima race as a training run for May’s Ironman World Championship in St. George, Utah. He moved from Sweden to Bellevue about seven years ago and lives at the top of a hill, giving him plenty of practice running uphill to finish workouts.
The 37-year-old raced ahead early but took a detour when the lead motorcycle went the wrong way before turning back around. Andersson ran his fastest split to return to the front before the first aid station at 3.2 miles.
He maintained a steady lead but never pulled away as several runners took over second place, including Steve Vesbach, Erin “Bear” Braich and finally Mohler. Braich said he felt ready to make a move near the end before suffering a cramp and losing his spot to Mohler, who hit the nine-mile mark outside of the top five, ended up just ten seconds behind Andersson.
The canyon’s spring colors dazzled Andersson during his first visit to the area, and he plans to come back with his wife and kid. He also appreciated the vocal support from the volunteers along the route, which is mostly closed to fans.
“Even some of the bigger international marathons I’ve been to, a lot of the volunteers, they barely know what they’re doing,” Andersson said. “But here, everybody, they’re really good at communicating, letting you know where the water is, where the electrolytes are.”
Yakima’s Steven Allen passed Andersson at the top of the final hill on his way to winning the half marathon in a blistering 1:17:32. Carissa Norman from Selah won the women’s race in 1:37:52.
Jordan McPhee’s personal-best marathon time of 3:09:56 would be good enough to win in a lot of years. But the 2012 Seattle Times’ Girls Athlete of the Year and cross country state champion at Mount Rainier happily settled for second after enjoying the beautiful course.
That’s nothing new for Jose Rodriguez, a member of the Marathon Maniacs club from Seattle who ran his first Yakima Canyon River Marathon in 2011 and hasn’t missed one since. He took 9th in the men’s race, noting he missed seeing the race’s late co-race directors, Bob and Lenore Dolphin.
“They were a big part of this and it’s unfortunate that they couldn’t be with us this year,” Rodriguez said. “But I definitely run for them and come back every year and do it for them.”
Men’s marathon: 1. Tobias Andersson, Bellevue, 2:50:34; 2. Micah Mohler, Sammamish, 2:50:44; 3. Erin Braich, Richland 2:50:59; 4. Cody Moore, Kalispell 3:01:30; 5. Al Osbourne, Sammamish 3:02:33; 6. Steve Vesbach, Shoreline 3:05:11; 7. Ryan Kipp, Spokane 3:06:17; 8. Antonio Espinoza, Yakima 3:15:37; 9. Jose Rodriguez, Seattle 3:18:14; 10: Aristeo Negrete, Kennewick 3:24:02.
Women’s marathon: 1. Anne Theisen, Seattle, 3:01:29; 2. Jordan McPhee, Seattle 3:09:56; 3. Shelaine Dolce, Renton 3:25:41; 4. Lara Malpass, Bellingham 3:29:04; 5. Laurie Pearson, Charlestown (Mass.), 3:40:25; 6. Emily Seminerio, Medfield (Mass.) 3:42:01; 7. Brittney Clark, Seattle 3:50:39; 8. Nancy Schubring, Novi (Mich.) 3:51:11; 9. Brenna Boyd, Seattle 3:54:58; 10. Emily Powell, Lynnwood 3:55:40.
Men’s half marathon: 1. Steve Allen, Yakima 1:17:33; 2. Vic Horne, Redmond 1:30:21; 3. James Innes, Yakima 1:34:33; 4. Lowel Krueger, Yakima 1:35:28; 5. Brian Alexander, Ellensburg 1:40:10.
Women’s half marathon: 1. Carissa Norman, Selah 1:37:52; 2. April Norman, Yakima 1:38:31; 3. Jennifer Nichols, Pasco 1:42:27; 4. Hilary Conway, Yakima 1:44:28; 5. Kathy Tierney, Yakima 1:44:44.
Full results at nsplit.com/results.
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Debbie Holbrook made her first hole-in-one on March 22 at the Yakima Country Club.
She used a 23 hybrid on the 143-yard 17th hole. The shot was witnessed by Cricket Callarman and Merilee Hurson.
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Debbie Holbrook made her first hole-in-one on March 22 at the Yakima Country Club.
She used a 23 hybrid on the 143-yard 17th hole. The shot was witnessed by Cricket Callarman and Merilee Hurson.
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What a way to finish a sweep of a city series and stay unbeaten.
After rallying to win Tuesday's first game 10-8, Davis baseball earned two walk-off victories over Eisenhower, 3-2 with a no-hitter and 9-8 in nine innings, to close out a week of crosstown clashes in CBBN play on Friday at Pete Orgill Field.
Chase Hansen and Bryan Alcazar combined on a no-hitter with seven strikeouts in the opener, but the Pirates needed a run in the bottom of the seventh to win it.
In the nightcap, Joel Fernandez and Trent Willsey were both 2-for-3 with two doubles as Davis recovered from Ike's five-run first inning and eventually won it with a run in the bottom of the ninth.
Eisenhower's Jacob Manley was 3-for-3 with a double, three runs and two RBI and teammate Damian Gama was 3-for-4 with two doubles and three RBI.
The Pirates moved to 6-0 in league and 7-0 overall and will host Eastmont for a single game on Tuesday. Eisenhower travels to Wenatchee on Tuesday.
In other games Friday, Wenatchee swept Sunnyside 4-1 and 18-0 while Moses Lake improved to 6-0 in league with a sweep over Eastmont, 8-2 and 4-0.
Highlights — Game 1: Chase Hansen (D) 2.2 IP, 0 hits, 2 BB, 5 K, 2-4, RBI; Bryan Alcazar (D) 4.1 IP, 0 hits, 3 BB, 2 K; Corbyn Aills (D) 1-2, 2b, run, RBI; Machai Lincecum (E) 6.2 IP, 1 ER, 5 BB, 6 K; Danny Gomez (E) 0-2, run, RBI. Game 2: Joel Fernandez (D) 2-3, 2 2b, 2 runs, RBI; Trent Willsey (D) 2-3, 2 2b, 2 sb, run, 2 RBI; Aills (D) 2-5, run, sb; Nathan Gonzalez (D) 2-4, run, RBI; Jacob Manley (E) 3-3, 2b, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Damian Gama (E) 3-4, 2 2b, run, 3 RBI; Gomez (E) 2-4, 2b, run.
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ZILLAH 10-7, LA SALLE 0-8: At Zillah, Kayden Heffner pitched a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts in the opener for Zillah, and Eddie Messer fanned nine over five innings in the second game to help the Lightning earn a split.
Highlights — Game 1: Kayden Heffner (Z) CG, 6 IP, 0 hits, 3 BB, 10 K, 0-2, 3 runs; Braydon Flood (Z) 2-4, 2 runs, 3 RBI; Avery Dulude (Z) 2-4. Game 2: Eddie Messer (LS) 5 IP, 1 ER, 5 BB, 9 K; Justus Barker (LS) 3-4, 2b, run, 2 RBI; Jacob Rettig (LS) 2-3, 2 runs, 2 RBI.
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CLE ELUM 11-12, RIVER VIEW 4-9: At River View, Caleb Bogart scored two runs in both games and pitched three innings with six strikeouts in the opener as the Warriors moved to 4-1.
CE highlights — Game 1: Caleb Bogart 3 IP, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 2-3, 2b, 2 runs, RBI; Sam Dearing 1-2, 2b, run, RBI; Cole Singer 1-3, 3 runs. Game 2: Clay Titus 1-3, run, 3 RBI; Dearing 2-3, 2 RBI; Dominick Johnson 2-4, RBI.
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WEST VALLEY 1, EISENHOWER 0 (SO): At Eisenhower, freshman goalkeeper Andres Campos made 11 saves in regulation and one in the shootout, which the Rams won 5-4.
West Valley (1-3) picked up their first league win and play at Eastmont next Friday. Eisenhower (0-3) travels to Eastmont on Tuesday.
First half: No scoring.
Second half: No scoring.
Shootout - West Valley 5 (Jonathan Wright, Josh Reinmuth, Fabian Ramirez, Carlos Andrade, Jackson Rotondo), Eisenhower 4 (Josue Lopez, Brayan Montez, Ulises Alvarez, Ivan Flores).
Saves: Andres Campos (WV) 12, Caleb Coronel (E) 5.
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SUNNYSIDE 1, DAVIS 0 (SO): At Sunnyside, the Grizzlies prevailed in a 5-4 shootout to push their records to 3-1 in league and 6-2 overall. Sunnyside plays at Moses Lake on Tuesday while Davis (1-2, 3-4) hosts Wenatchee.
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TOPPENISH 5, WAPATO 1: At Wapato, scoreless and down a goal at the break, Toppenish stormed back on the strength of Alexander Magana's hat trick on Thursday.
The Wildcats improved to 4-0 in league and 6-1-2 overall.
Wapato (4-2, 5-3) jumped ahead early with Angel Serrato's tally in the fourth minute and Toppenish wasn't able to counter until Rafael Garcia's equalizer in the 47th minute. Christopher Gutierrez put the Wildcats ahead four minutes later and then came Magana's barrage.
First half: 1, Wapato, Angel Serrato, 4:00.
Second half: 2, Toppenish, Rafael Garcia, 47:00; 3, Toppenish, Christopher Gutierrez, 51:00; 4, Toppenish, Alexander Magana, 54:00; 5, Toppenish, Magana, 60:00; 6, Toppenish, Magana, 73:00.
Saves: Hector Godinez (T) 3, Josue Celestino (W) 5.
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HIGHLAND 9, NACHES VALLEY 1: At Naches Valley, seniors Ruben Lozano and Alex Ramos had two goals and an assist each for the Scotties, who moved to 5-0 in league and 6-0 overall.
First half: 1, Highland, Jose Perez (Ruben Lozano); 2, Highland, Lozano; 3, Highland, Alex Ramos; 4, Highland, Jose Carrasco (Ramos).
Second half: 5, Highland, Lozano (Alfred Magallon); 6, Highland, Francisco Silva (Carrasco); 7, Highland, Alex Ramos (Jorge Lopez); 8, Highland, F. Silva (Alex Silva); 9, Naches Valley; 10, Highland, Fietka Dorantes (Magallon).
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LA SALLE 4, GRANGER 1: At Marquette Stadium, Erkan Shamyrbekov and Elias Castillo netted two goals apiece for the Lightning, which plays at Cashmere on Friday.
In nonleague play, Zillah defeated Kiona-Benton 4-1.
First half: 1, La Salle, Erkan Shamyrbekov (Marcos Ramirez), 25:00.
Second half: 2, La Salle, Elias Castillo (PK), 44:00; 3, La Salle, Shamyrbekov (Carlos Morales), 47:00; 4, La Salle, Castillo (PK), 66:00; 5, Granger, James Torres, 71:00.
Saves: Alexis Garcia (G) 7, La Salle 8.
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West Valley boys 7, Davis 0
Singles: Henry Preacher (WV) d. Connor Lincoln 6-0, 6-0; Alexander Garcia-Widmer (WV) d. Aldo Valencia 6-1, 6-2; Axel Fulton (WV) d. Matthew Bethel 6-1, 6-1; Yaani Shah (WV) d. Lucas Tweedy 6-3, 6-0.
Doubles: Kel Griffiths-Dhruv Kumar (WV) d. Cesar Cervantes-Charlie Miranda 6-0, 6-0; Nolan Preacher-Will Rojan (WV) d. Adam LaMarche-Brigdon Feen 6-4, 6-4; Josh Raj-Kai Padilla (WV) d. Raul Meza-Coleman Russel 6-0, 6-1.
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Selah boys 5, Kennewick 2
Singles: Kellam Adams (S) d. Jackson Clary 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-4); Kaden Giles (S) d. Kiefer Schwartz 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Sean Francis (K) d. Braden Moss 6-0, 6-2; Zach Glenn (K) d. Will Moultray 6-4, 4-6, (10-4).
Doubles: Malachi Young-Quentin Garretson (S) d. Markoneous McClintok-Dawson Gerbers 6-0, 6-0; Kade Wurtz-Riley Christianson (S) d. Reed Taylor-Uriel Lara 6-0, 6-3; Isaac Merrell-Matthew Merrell (S) d. Jaxson Price-James Ferguson 6-0, 6-0.
Selah girls 5, Kennewick 2
Singles: Lotte Steinbach (S) d. Janey Buckingham 6-4, 6-3; Addison Ladd (S) d. Victoria Martinez 6-2, 6-2; Sage Gardner (K) d. Hannah Rees 6-1, 6-2; Tamlyn Prince (K) d. Ella Godfrey 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles: Maya Hall-Janae Hall (S) d. Zoe Haws-Marisa Haverluck 6-0, 6-1; Kendra Adams-Jenna Bond (S) d. Kimberly Booth-Simeron Matharu 6-1, 6-1; Gabi Young-Robin Willey (S) d. Brookly Estes-Amelia Bake 6-2, 6-0.
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La Salle boys 3, Goldendale 2
Singles: Max Christensen (G) d. Jackson Dhane 6-1, 1-6, 6-3; Noah Sauer (LS) d. Rogen Bothamley 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles: Kyden Blunt-Sam McCandless (G) d. Dominik Tamez-Gregorio Marrique 6-1, 7-5; Aiden Bliesner-Nathan Do (LS) d. Tristen Toledo-Logan Speer 6-1, 6-1; Garrett Judd-Ethan Britt (LS) d. Jacob Harris-Hans Martin 6-4, 6-2.
La Salle girls 4, Goldendale 1
Singles: Annika Richardson (LS) d. Gwen Gilliam 6-0, 6-1; Isabella Alegria (LS) d. Jeslyn Berry 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles: Taylor Beam-Lizzy Hedges (G) d. Genevieve McCoy-Mikayla Mendoza 6-0, 6-1; Alaina Heneghen-Jela Wawrzyszuk (LS) d. Logan Armstrong-Jewelia Siglin 6-4, 6-0; Nataly Clark-Hailey Lopez (LS) d. Angelina Owen-Frankie Shawtraw 6-1, 6-1.
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Granger boys 5, College Place 0
Singles: AJ Cardenas (G) d. Mason Willwand 6-1, 6-3; Gabriel Fisk (G) d. Gabe Fazzari.
Doubles: Adam Asher-Eden Asher (G) d. Curtis Reeves-Gabe Fazzari 6-2, 6-1; Paul Stewart-Kenyon Slade (G) d. Lara Cisneros-Sam Anquino 6-3, 7-5; Arthur Heckert-Fernando Romero (G) for.
College Place girls 5, Granger 0
Singles: Sumi Leavell (CP) d. Marian Alaniz 6-0, 6-1; Tiana Tran (CP) d. Hannah Valenzuela 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles: Mia Ferrero-Grace Casagrande (CP) d. Eliana Rios-Jasslyn Ramos 7-6, 4-6, 6-3; Veronica Sierra-Emma Morasch (CP) d. Brissa Solis-Idaly Cardoza 6-2, 6-1; Karen Perez-Genesis Martinez (CP) for.
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Toppenish girls 4, Highland 1
Singles: Lucia Martinez Leal (H) d. Maria Cervantes 6-2, 6-0; Viviane Ochoa (T) d. Ashley Gonzalez 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles: Karen Romero-Paola Parbol (T) d. Jackie Ceja Flores-Yazmin Flores 6-1, 6-1; Norma Gomez-Jessica Wesley (T) d. Anahi Silva-Maritere Medina 6-1, 6-2; Jeanette Torres-Alyssa Gonzalez (T) d. Judith Silva-Athziri Silva Hernandez (T) 6-1, 6-4.
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Cle Elum boys 2, White Swan 0
Singles: Luke Chafin (CE) d. Isaac Sauer 6-3, 6-0.
Doubles: Colin O'Cain-Jett Favero (CE) d. Eli Sauer-Andres Zuniga 6-4, 6-1.
Cle Elum girls 3, White Swan 2
Singles: Jimena Gutierrez (WS) d. Lucia Martinez 6-4, 6-4; Maddie Castro (CE) d. Nadia Espindola 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles: Michelle Gutierrez-Yadira Zuniga (WS) d. Lola Favero-Ruby Anderson 6-1, 6-0; Jessica Korich-Sadie Melhorn (CE) d. Angela Chavarin-Elva Gomez 6-0; 6-0; Avalon Dewitt-Naroa Mendial (CE) d. Cassandra Contreras-Mckayla Broncheau 6-0, 6-0.
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Team scores: Wenatchee 324, West Valley 327, Eastmont 345, Moses Lake 355, Sunnyside 412, Eisenhower 415, Davis 429.
Reported local highlights: Trey LeCheminant (WV) 74 (at Black Rock), Bradley Hammermeister (WV) 82, Ethan Froula (WV) 85, Brady Komstadius (WV) 86, Ryker Wilburn (WV) 93, Trenton Rose (WV) 98, Anthony Naught (S) 100.
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CHICAGO - An 80-year-old man who was sitting in a car was shot in the chest in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood on Saturday.
The victim was in a car on Marshfield near 52nd Street around 3 p.m. when he was shot.
He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
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SKOKIE, Illinois - Cook County Sheriff's Police have arrested Adam Schall, 39, formerly of Skokie, for alleged possession of thousands of child pornography images, some involving babies.
The Sheriff's Department said that Schall was taken into custody at O'Hare Airport on Wednesday; Schall works as a flight attendant and is currently a resident of Pewaukee, Wisconsin.
The Sheriff's Department said that Schall admitted to using social media to view child pornography, that he shared images and videos of children while living in Skokie. They said they found thousands of child pornography files on his multiple social media accounts.
Schall appeared in court in Rolling Meadows on Friday and was released on a $10,000 bond.
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Chicago Fire tie Dallas 0-0
CHICAGO - Gabriel Slonina made one save for the Chicago Fire in a 0-0 draw against Dallas.
The Fire moved to 2-0-3 and Dallas is 2-1-2.
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NEW ORLEANS – Kansas men’s basketball defeated the Villanova Wildcats 81-65 on Saturday to advance to the National Championship. Led by multiple big performances, Kansas avenged its loss to the Wildcats in the 2018 Final Four and advanced to Monday’s title game.
Senior forward David McCormack led the way with 25 points and nine rebounds. Senior guard Ochai Agbaji impressed as well with 21 points off of a 6-8 shooting night. Junior guard Christian Braun emerged late and finished in double figures as well with 10.
The Jayhawks got off to a blistering start and led by four points from McCormack and six from Agbaji, Kansas took a quick 10-0 to start off the ballgame and headed into the first media timeout with a 10-2 lead.
The Jayhawks also played stern defense early with two steals from redshirt sophomore guard Dajuan Harris to stifle any attempt for the Wildcats to get into an offensive rhythm.
Agbaji continued his hot start to the game as he hit two more threes over the next few minutes to bring his total to 12 points less than nine minutes into the game on 4-4 shooting and had Kansas up 19-8 with 11:33 left in the first.
The Jayhawks didn’t just let their foot off the gas pedal, they floored it harder and just kept applying pressure as the game continued. Led by a 70% shooting from behind the arc up to the six minute mark which had them up by a sizeable margin at 36-18.
The defense continued to stifle Villanova as well and held the Wildcats to under 40% shooting from the field during that same period of time as well.
The Wildcats managed to narrow the lead to 38-26 with under two minutes left in the half and gained momentum heading into the final 90 seconds of the second half and looked to narrow the gap even more.
One aspect Kansas struggled with throughout the first half proved to be rebounding, and that showed on one play in particular where the Wildcats grabbed multiple offensive rebounds in a row before nailing a three to bring the lead down to 38-29.
The Jayhawks ended the half well, however, and managed to take a double-digit lead into the locker room at 40-29. McCormack led the way in the first half with 13 points and Agbaji followed right behind at 12.
The Jayhawks defense proved crucial in the first as well as they managed to hold the Wildcats to only a 33% shooting performance from the field.
Kansas started the second half hot as they went 4-4 from the field and extended the lead to 14 at 50-36, led by two threes from Agbaji and Harris.
Despite the deficit, the Wildcats fought back over the next few minutes and after some timely threes and had narrowed the gap to single-digits at 50-42.
The shootout began after that with both squads hitting shot after shot at peak efficiency and 22 points were scored over just a few minutes between both, but Kansas had fought back and extended the lead back to double-digits at 62-50 with 10:25 left to play.
Villanova responded with another timely three after, followed by a Kansas miss and two made free throws by the Wildcats to cut the lead to seven.
Although the Wildcats got it down to six not long after, the Jayhawks responded swiftly and scored two quick baskets to bring the lead back up to 10 with 4:29 left to play.
Despite Nova bringing it down to nine, what followed proved to be a miraculous three ball from Braun at the end of the shot clock to extend the lead to 12, followed by a block from Agbaji, who then got fouled on a fast break attempt.
Braun proceeded to hit a three shortly after to all but put away the Wildcats and the Jayhawks hunkered down and punched their ticket to Monday’s National Championship game.
Kansas will play the winner of Duke and North Caroline on Monday for the title of National Champion.
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Ukrainian women and children who have fled their war-torn homes to neighboring countries face an entirely different and growing threat — human and sex traffickers looking to prey on the destitute refugees.
Multiple refugees have reported being extorted for safe passage into Western Europe, others have been propositioned for babies to adopt – while women face sexual predators and kidnappers, the Times of London reported.
“The way I see it, this is a war on women and children,” anti-trafficking adviser Tatiana Kotlyarenko told the Times.
“And we may be sending them from one hell to another,” added Kotlyarenko, who is set to testify before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations this week.
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine since the war began five weeks ago, according to the UN’s latest estimates. The vast majority of those who’ve fled are women and children — partly due to the Ukrainian government’s ban on all military-age men from leaving the country.
The invasion has sparked the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The situation is a “toxic cocktail of risk,” according to Val Richey, a representative for combating human trafficking at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
According to The Times, in the days after war broke out there was a surge in online searches for “Ukrainian women and sex,” large enough that security agencies were alerted.
Aagje Leven, secretary-general at Missing Children Europe, said in Europe’s last refugee crisis in 2015, at least 10,000 children went missing. Today, the number of refugees is likely far greater, with fewer security checks because the European Union has offered visa-free movement in Europe for Ukrainians.
“This level of chaos and mass of people is a huge opportunity for traffickers to get in touch far faster than governments will take measures,” she said.
One volunteer at the border told the Times he received a phone call ordering “a female Ukrainian and a 12-year-old boy,” while others said they were asking for babies to adopt.
In another incident, two attractive young women and a small child — tired and exhausted from their journey to the Polish border — met a man who claimed to be a Danish doctor and offered them a free ride. The man claimed to be so moved by the stories he’d heard of the war that he had driven 1,000 miles from Copenhagen to rescue people, according to The Times.
The women quickly realized they had made a mistake and that the ride was not free, the Times said. When he pulled in to charge his car at a spa hotel in the Polish town of Rzeszow they were terrified and begged the spa manager for help when their captor went to get coffee.
“I could see there was something wrong,” Tomasz Filipek told the paper. “The man looked more like a gangster than a doctor and the girls were scared.”
When Filipek threatened to call the police, the man allegedly fled. Filipek and the owner took the women and girl in and assisted them to go to Germany where they are now.
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The US Navy will have a commemorative commissioning for USS Delaware SSN 791 on April 2, 2022 in Wilmington Delaware. First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden the ships sponsor will announce the command to bring the boat to life.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...East winds 20 to 25 knots, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Big Island Windward Waters, Maui County Leeward
Waters, Kauai Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Kauai Northwest
Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County
Windward Waters, Oahu Windward Waters and Oahu Leeward Waters.
* WHEN...Until 6 PM HST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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Hawaii Island police are investigating a rash of recent burglaries in the Hilo area that have resulted in the arrests of three men in connection to several crimes.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 32-year-old George Akana Cruz Labrador, of Hilo was charged with burglary, theft and fraudulent use of personal information stemming from an incident in February. Police say Labrador stole electronics and other items from a Kinoole Street business.
Labrador was spotted breaking into a car in March, where he took an undisclosed amount of money and other personal information.
His bail is set at $60,000.
Labrador is also a suspect in the burglary of a restaurant on Pauahi Street in Hilo. Charges are still pending in this case.
On Wednesday, March 23, 30-year-old Antanacious Keoni Nau, of Hilo, was charged with stealing power tools from a Kalanikoa Street business and breaking into a closed Kinoole supermarket, causing property damage.
His total bail is set at $42,000.
On Wednesday, March 30, 37-year-old Alexander T. Keith of Hilo was charged with several counts of theft and burglary after police say he stole items from a Kilauea Avenue restaurant. When Keith was arrested, he was in possession of a stolen credit card and mail.
His total bail is set at $8,750.
In addition to these cases, police are investigating several other burglaries and thefts in the downtown Hilo area.
The public is urged to call the police department’s non-emergency number at (808) 935-3311 if they have information relative to these cases or if they witness any other suspicious activity.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) — If you saw some odd posts coming from the @IndStatePolice Twitter account Saturday afternoon, it was not actually from Indiana State Police officers.
The account, which has “Official Twitter for the Indiana State Police” written in its bio, was hacked, ISP confirmed Saturday. As of 3 p.m., at least one of the posts from hackers had been deleted from the account and Sgt. John Perrine was “working to get it rectified,” police said.
“I don’t like that that was poo poo head I don’t like that” a post from ISP’s account, which was a quote retweet of a Wall Street Journal article on actor Sean Penn, said. A screenshot of the now deleted Tweet is shown below.
Other presumably hacked posts included replies to state troopers in Evansville with little punctuation. These are shown below.
It appears that as of 3:50 p.m. Saturday, the account is back under ISP’s control.
“It appears our Twitter account was recently hacked, the previous tweet sent 15 minutes ago was not sent by ISP personnel. Please notify us if you see any suspicious activity from our account. Thank you.”
Post from @IndStatePolice on Twitter
It is unclear at this time who hacked the ISP account or how.
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Baseball: Hillsborough starts strong but falters in loss to Mendham
MENDHAM – The Hillsborough High School baseball team got out to the kind of start it needed to on Saturday afternoon at Mendham.
The Raiders sustained the good feeling for awhile too, as senior right-hander Jack Smith threw a strong 92-pitch, five innings and his team played sound defense.
Hillsborough scored twice in the first inning and held a 2-1 as Mendham came to bat in the sixth.
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That’s where Matt Mosko’s first game as the Raiders’ head coach changed course.
Mendham scored five runs in the inning and went on to win 6-2. Former Ridge standout Erik Dial got his first win as head coach at Mendham after a couple of seasons at Union Catholic.
Hillsborough lost its 11th-straight game dating back to last year’s 4-2 win over Ridge on May 13. The Raiders were 2-20 last season under Tom Augello, who stepped down after one season.
In last year’s final game, the Raiders had a 2-0 lead in the seventh inning as graduated pitchers Jayden Bloch and Vinny Versaci combined for a no-hitter. But Immaculata rallied for four runs in the seventh to win 4-2 on Hillsborough’s senior day.
Catcher Justin Ciambrone, right fielder Owen Bartolomeo and third baseman Rocco Viscel are the every day starters who returned from last season. Center fielder Ryan Hvozdovic would have been, but broke his ankle the day before the Raiders’ opener last spring. Hillsborough will need several role players from last season to contribute if the team is to make a marked improvement.
On Saturday, the Raiders started out like a team hungry to quickly turn things around.
Kyle Elmalis reached on an infield error to open the game, Hvozdovic singled and Matt Westcott followed with a single. Graham Ross had an RBI sacrifice fly to left, and Viscel’s RBI-double made it 2-0. But that was all the Raiders could muster off Mendham righty Tim Winters, who pitched a complete-game five-hitter, walked one and struck out six.
"Their pitcher found a groove. Their pitcher found his curveball and his off-speed pitches after that first inning," said Mosko, a 2009 Hillsborough graduate, who graduated and played and was a graduate and assistant coach at the University of Scranton.
Hillsborough wasted Evan Adinolfe’s one-out double in the fourth. Winters then retired the next 10 batters until Ciambrone’s two-out infield hit in the seventh.
"There’s potential, the potential is there, it’s just a matter of playing (getting offense) one through nine and not just from two or three guys," Mosko said. "We will have a good defense. It’s a matter of keeping the bats alive for all seven innings and not just a couple innings here or there."
Hillsborough was hurt by hitting five batters and walking four, leading Mosko to remind his team, "Strikes, strikes, strikes. I don't care if they hit it, we'll catch it."
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Kennewick, WA - Officers from the Kennewick Police Department responded to a two vehicle collision at the intersection of W 10th Ave. and S Sharron St. in Kennewick.
Only the drivers were in the vehicles, no other people were involved.
One driver had minor injuries from the seatbelt and airbag being deployed.
The other driver was transported by Kennewick Fire to a local hospital to be treated for injuries. The driver was later transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where they died from their injuries.
According to KPD, no drugs or alcohol were a factor of the accident.
KPD is still investigating the collision.
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Tri-Cities, WA - With events like the Apple Cup and the USAG Tournament coming to the Tri-Cities, the economy in the Tri-Cities is seeing the effects.
After two years of no live events, the Apple Cup brings new money into the Tri-Cities, building the economy.
Hector Cruz, Vice President with Visit Tri-Cities says all money put into the economy, goes back into the community.
"New dollars that come and support our tax base. That's really what's helping our cities pay for construction or police and fire," says Cruz.
A lot of what the Tri-Cities offers is outdoor programs. Cruz encourages the community to go out and explore the Tri-Cities.
Just because you live in the Tri-Cities, doesn't mean you don't contribute to the economy.
Much of the money made, may come from outsiders, but Cruz says a majority of the constant revenue is from current Tri-Citians. This is why he encourages the community to go for a bike ride or visit museums.
During the Apple Cup press conference, West Richland Mayor Brent Gerry says he hopes more events like the Apple Cup can lead to a hotel in West Richland.
"One day we'll have a hotel here so, we'll have that hotel/motel tax, but I think these guys (Visit Tri-Cities) are already up to that," says Mayor Gerry, "and rightfully so because this an economic sprinkler through the entire region."
Hector Cruz says the nicer weather will allow for more outdoor events but he wishes to have more conversations with the community about ways to improve the Tri-Cities.
He hopes people visiting because of the Apple Cup plan to come back, so they see more of what the Tri-Cities has to offer.
If you're looking for something fun to do, head to the Visit Tri-Cities page.
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Can We Move On: From the Trope of the Woman Who Must Transform Her Looks to Win a Man’s Love
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In Can We Move On, we revisit old tropes and question whether they have any remaining cultural relevance.
I was exposed to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai at an age when I was so impressionable; the rom-com left a lasting impression on my mind. My takeaway from the classic: if I don’t adopt a soft, feminine aesthetic for my wardrobe, the man of my dreams will ditch me for someone who does, and might only return if I fundamentally change myself (read: undergo a makeover) to fit his idea of a “woman worth loving.” Given that the movie was released in 1998, more than two decades ago, some would argue that the trope is a relic of the past — one that just hasn’t aged well.
But the thing is, having made its way into the present, the trope is not a throwback to another era. While 2013’s Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is one of the more recent appearances of the trope in a superhit movie, 2004’s Main Hoon Na was, perhaps, one of the first times it resurfaced in a classic in the 2000s.
While Kuch Kuch Hota Hai introduced the trope to my generation, Main Hoon Na reinforced the idea in many women my age that looking good in a conventional way is a must in order for men to find us attractive. It functioned, or much rather functions, as gospel truth in most rom-coms. Needless to say, the trope does much harm; it propagates toxic ideas about desirability, unhealthily lowering our expectations from a partner, complicating our relationships with our natural bodies, and restricting our self-expression.
In the 2004 movie, we see the character of Sanjana, played by Amrita Rao, undergo a makeover on the advice of Shah Rukh Khan’s character, and the guidance of Sushmita Sen’s. The reason behind her transformation from a “boyish” aesthetic to a “girly” one — complete with a pink suit and silver jhumkas — was to get Lucky, her love interest played by Zayed Khan, to find her desirable. It works, of course, as his jaw drops open and everyone breaks into Tumse Milke Dil Ka Hai Jo Haal… (a song-and-dance sequence) to show him falling head-over-heels in love with her.
“Bollywood clearly states that nature, character, and the heart of the person [don’t] matter. Just change your wardrobe, get some girlish style, imbibe some grace, and you are ready to get the man of your dreams,” states an article.
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Can We Move On: From the Trope of the Woman Who Perfectly Balances Sanskaar and Sexinesss
In 2013, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani managed to advance the same trope yet again. Naina, played by Deepika Padukone, transformed from a straight-haired spectacled woman with a “nerdy” aesthetic to a wavy-haired, non-spectacled one with a… umm… “hot” aesthetic, for lack of a better descriptor. Turns out, it was her pair of glasses that were stopping Bunny, played by Ranbir Kapoor, from noticing how attractive the conventionally beautiful Padukone was. It’s a bizarre notion to think non-spectacled people are better looking. It may not have made sense, but the reason it was easy to let logic go was that it was using a trope that had, by this point, been drilled deep into our psyche through its repeated iterations in pop culture. It inspired ideas of romance, that we’ve ceased to question — almost as if we think, “yeah, this is how it works.”
Except, it shouldn’t. And that’s precisely why the messaging of this trope is so harmful. Yet, its usage in Bollywood abounds. From 1986’s Naseeb Apna Apna to 2003’s Kal Ho Na Ho to 2010’s Aisha, the trope has endured the test of time. “From introducing the term “chashmish” (spectacled) in the vocabulary of every guy I went to school with, to actually making Naina [played by Priety Zinta] believe that she only looks beautiful without her glasses, this movie made every teenage girl doubt herself — including me,” Akansha Bhatia wrote of Kal Ho Na Ho.
Moreover, the movies also portray women who don’t dress a certain way, or seem conventionally alluring, as unequivocally “undateable.” In fact, it’s something Bollywood manages to do even without the makeover trope. Commenting on 2002’s Mujhse Dosti Karoge, Bhatia says, “Hrithik’s character walks right past Rani Mukherji and assumes Kareena Kapoor is the gorgeous girl he’s been fantasizing [about] a childhood romance with. For once can Bollywood give us a story where they pick the not-so-fancy girl on purpose and not out of compulsion?” added Bhatia.
In 2003’s Ishq Vishk, too, we see Shahid Kapoor’s character, Rajiv, being embarrassed about his friends teasing him with Payal, played by Rao again, until she shows up looking pretty for a college event. However, he does ditch her temporarily for a conventionally better-dressed, “hotter” woman — actually, an unexpectedly realistic depiction of a guy, who chooses to date women based on how they look.
Moreover, movies tend to promote a glorify a Euro-centric ideal. “Before her ‘makeover,’ she doesn’t have pink cheeks which blush like a white woman’s skin might. It’s natural and brown. Apparently, this is all supposed to be a sign that she’s not pretty. So, once she gets the makeover and puts on pink-toned lipgloss and paler eye makeup, she’s suddenly this Paris Hilton-approved picture of femininity,” reads an article from 2020.
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These movies — representative of the toxic male gaze — not only further a homogenous beauty standard but also promote the idea that women dress up only to seduce men. Perhaps, that’s why men feel entitled to constantly comment on women’s looks — for better or for worse — and offer unsolicited opinions like, “I’d prefer if you did that instead of this.” Well, who asked you, dear sir? The trope can distort a women’s sense of self by manipulating young minds into calculating their worth based on how attractive men might find them — furthering patriarchy’s stronghold on society.
Arguably, the trope of “looking good to be worthy of dating” feeds into a sense of insecurity and undesirability for women. Even when they are in relationships, the idea that their partner might leave them for a more attractive woman, just like Rajiv did, continues to linger and haunt them.
Thankfully, some movies have begun to question the sexism inherent in the trope. In Main Hoon Na, Sanjana not only calls Lucky out for being shallow but is also seen donning clothes from her pre-makeover wardrobe afterward. “While it is still problematic, Sanjana calling out Lucky’s hypocrisy after was an important addition. Sanjana says what we’re all thinking: she became the object of Lucky’s attraction once she changed herself… Through this, her character shined a light on the sexism and unfair gender expectations that start and end with her appearance,” Saumya Kalia wrote in The Swaddle.
It’s another matter that Sanjana still ends up with Lucky to keep up with the “all’s well that ends well” narrative. But in 2010’s Aisha, Shefali, played by Amrita Puri, is valiantly more assertive; rather than pursuing a relationship with the guy she had dressed to impress, she chooses the guy who liked her before her makeover too.
However, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, which was released after both, chose to undo the progress made by Sanjana and Shefali, and instead, fortified the trope.
With women around the world struggling with make-up tax, unrealistic beauty standards, and the resultant low self-esteem, perhaps, it’s time we moved on from this deeply embedded notion of transformation-for-love. The idea we must spend thousands of rupees, if not more (hey, makeovers can be expensive), to let go of our individual sense of style just so we can get our love interest to reciprocate our feelings is misogynistic, untenable, and ridiculous. Maybe we should hark back to Jab We Met’s Geet when she says: “Main apni favorite hoon” (I’m my favorite person) rather than changing ourselves for whose interest in us is no more than skin-deep.
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Woe Is Me! “I Don’t Trust Men Who Give Me Attention. What Gives?”
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Woe Is Me! is a series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you’ll probably ignore.
“I can’t settle on the right guy who shows attention, because I think all men only want sex.”
— Let the trust fall
DR: I think it’s important, first of all, for you to find out exactly why you think that’s the case. Is it pop culture that has led you to believe this? Or, is it past experiences — either your own or of someone close to you — that have a role to play here? If it’s the former, I’d suggest you start by getting to know the men you’re interested in and let yourself be the judge of how they are as people, rather than basing your life decisions on tropes. If, however, past experiences have informed your perspective, I’d suggest you work on processing them before venturing into the dating space.
Having said that, yes, you’ll quite likely come across men who just want sex. If that’s not all you want — no harm if you do, though — you’re going to have to keep looking; there’s no quick litmus test for you to find out who’s looking for a long-term relationship and who’s simply looking to hook up. Hey, no one ever said dating was easy — it can be a walk through a minefield, where you must stay vigilant of red flags. Think of it as an adventure as opposed to a leisurely stroll, perhaps? Before you embark though, what I’d urge you to ensure is that you’re not in a space where dejections, which are bound to happen, take a toll on your self-esteem.
Lastly, I want to address one thing in your woe that’s kinda bothering me; you said you “can’t settle on the right guy who gives me attention.” Why are you restricting your choices to the people giving you attention, or even basing your decision about the person(s) you want to be with, on that? I think you need to figure out if you, independent of the attention they’ve showered on you, like them. If, alternatively, there’s someone else you like, who hasn’t paid you attention or is unaware of your interest in them, you know you’re allowed to pursue them and find out if they reciprocate, right? Just checking.
SM: It depends entirely on what you’re looking for. But I would say this idea that all men only want sex is a stereotype that we’ve been conditioned into believing. The corollary to that is that women only want commitment/serious romantic relationships, and we know that’s not the case either. I do, however, understand why it might seem like the men who are giving you attention only want to sleep with you, because that is likely the case if that attention is based on superficial interactions. The only solution to this is to not wait for/pick from guys who are giving you attention, but to turn that on its head and start approaching/giving attention to the guys you want to form meaningful relationships with.
RN: I think a good way to filter people out is to tell people you’re not interested in sex or pull the old “waiting for marriage” cliche! But in all seriousness, this is a very relatable feeling and I’m sorry you’re going through this. Once you get past the initial block, trust your gut about the guy in question. Observe the little things — a lot can be gauged from things that aren’t explicitly spoken about. Is he interested in what you have to say? Does he care about you and respect you? Is he mindful of your comfort and safety in the little ways? Things like these can say a lot about a person’s intentions. And finally, make your expectations clear. The other thing to do of course would be to swear off men for a while and live your best life!
PB: Your distrust is understandable, men are most often ghoulish, chauvinistic, and incredibly creepy. Our media culture does not endear men to be particularly genuine or smart, and the widespread objectification of women plays a big part in that. Putting all of this together, well, most men who give you attention probably do want only sex. Distrust them on principle.
But I will also say that there are men who want intimacy, sure- but not just in the physical sense. They want to love and be loved just like everyone wants to be — and most of them do not know how to express that. Men are taught to be everything but vulnerable, and they learn from a young age that they are expected to be idiots who must act a certain- very masculine way. To be truthful, honest and yearning is “feminine” and is to be avoided at all costs. Very few learn to break those bonds, and even fewer actually do. A man who gives you attention in a respectful manner, and is not overbearing or pushy- is difficult to come by, I admit. But it seems there’s a bit more of them today than there were 10 years ago.
Here’s a test to find out if a man’s feelings are genuine- go get a platter of nachos, and as you’re eating them, ask him what he’s thinking of. If he replies “You,” he’s lying; he’s thinking about the nachos. If he replies “The nachos, of course,” that’s how you know if he’s a truthful person.
But in all seriousness, take smart decisions, distrust every man, and hope one of them inspires trust in a truthful way. A measure of a man is how often he lies.
Also nachos.
SK: I want to address two things in your woe. One, it’s interesting you think all men want sex; there seems to be enough evidence in pop culture and even anecdotally to paint a rather limited picture of desire and intimacy across all genders. Surely, there may have been personal experiences too that might have lead to a distrust in general. There’s no screening test to gauge what any degree of attention could mean — it all depends so much on the person, context, level of expectations from both sides. And most of all, how honest and clear you are. Do you think it will help to clear the air at the very start when you speak to someone in a dating situation?
Two, and this may be more pertinent, you may want to think about your distrust of men and what you want out of romantic relationships as two different things. What do you want out of a relationship? Who is the person you want to pursue a relationship with? Maybe being more active in thinking about these aspects can soothe some anxiety about what the other person wants. Dating is hard — I wish you luck and I hope you tread through it with your self-esteem intact.
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An FBI agent instrumental in the arrest of University of Kansas professor Feng “Franklin” Tao will be called as a defense witness next week as Tao’s lawyers seek to discredit the government’s handling of the case.
Special Agent Steve Lampe is expected to take the witness stand Monday as the Tao trial, which has been closely watched by civil rights advocates, enters its final few days. Lampe was part of the investigation of the chemistry professor and researcher and has been sitting at the prosecution table during the trial.
Tao was arrested in 2019 after extensive law enforcement surveillance of his interactions with a Chinese research program and university. At the time, federal agents were operating under a Trump administration program called the “China Initiative” aimed at stopping alleged intellectual property theft.
The Biden administration terminated the program, which has ended with several cases being dropped. Critics have said the China Initiative unfairly targeted Asian and Asian American scientists.
Defense lawyer Peter Zeidenberg said during his opening statement that the defense team would focus on what they said was a rush to prosecution without a deeper look at the evidence. He mentioned a former graduate student of Tao’s who allegedly took revenge for a perceived slight by submitting a false report under assumed identities claiming that Tao was a tech spy.
Since Tao is charged with wire fraud, not espionage, mention of the China Initiative has been limited by the judge. Prosecutors have focused on allegations that Tao deceived KU by hiding his acceptance of a position at a Chinese university and attempted to recruit students to work with him in a lab there.
The government claims that Tao accepted a full-time position with Fuzhou University and did not disclose it to KU, while also receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Questioning of the prosecution’s final two witnesses on Friday focused on supporting the charge that Tao was actively working with the Chinese university. He had been named a Changjiang Scholar, a prestigious award bestowed by the Chinese Ministry of Education. A requirement of that talent program was that recipients accept full-time, exclusive positions at Chinese universities.
Prosecutors presented batches of emails in which Tao tried to recruit promising students as researchers, along with contract negotiations with the university for building a lab to his requirements. They also submitted unsigned contract drafts. There were no signed contracts, but they called experts to the witness stand who spoke about other indirect indications from Chinese sources that made the appointment seem more final.
Defense lawyers pushed back against those allegations, arguing that exhibits from a Chinese website could not be verified as truthful without someone to question in court.
James Churchill, a Chinese Language specialist who was brought in to help investigators translate Tao’s documents, testified about a document he translated as saying Tao was “certified” to the position.
Defense lawyers disputed that translation, arguing the Chinese character could also mean he was merely “approved,” or “authorized” for hiring. Churchill acknowledged the other definitions as correct, but said he chose his translation based on context.
Another witness, Dr. Glenn Tiffert, a Chinese history expert at the Hoover Institution, a think tank based at Stanford University, testified about the importance to the Chinese government of developing talented scientists. China is among the most active countries offering government grants to support promising students, he said.
He also testified about the publication of a finalized list of Changjiang Scholars that would have been made public after the recipients accepted their full-time positions. Academics on that final list could be assumed to have signed on with their respective universities, he said.
No such list, however, was found during the year Tao was negotiating with Fuzhou. Tiffert suggested the lists had once been accessible but had been “scrubbed” because the Chinese government was aware of scrutiny of the scholars.
Defense attorney Michael Dearington disputed that, saying, “You can’t be confident something was scrubbed that you never knew was there in the first place.”
The defense team also sought to refute documents in which Fuzhou University appeared to be promoting the addition of Tao to its faculty. The university had an incentive to oversell Tao in order to promote itself, they said.
Tao believed Fuzhou was not a top-tier university and contract negotiations indicated he wanted more of a financial commitment than the university offered, Dearington said. In one communication, Tao complained that it was difficult to recruit students to work there.
The prosecution is expected to rest on Monday, after which defense witnesses will be called. It’s not known whether Tao will take the stand.
The case is likely to go to the jury by midweek.
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The school of Naismith — of Wilt, of Danny and the Miracles, of so many trophies weighed against all those early-tourney knockouts — got what blue bloods expect.
The University of Kansas Jayhawks won a chance Saturday to play in the biggest game possible.
That made the blue-and-red Rock Chalk crowd happy from the Superdome stands in New Orleans to the Bourbon Street-like vibe that took over downtown Lawrence. An NCAA Final Four appearance went the way they wanted.
“I teared up a little bit,” said David Paul of Lawrence. “It was a very good moment.”
Saturday’s 81-65 win means the team plays in the finals Monday night in one of the biggest annual events in U.S. sports.
Throughout the least socially isolated NCAA tournament since the pandemic, KU’s blue-chip players showed why the oddsmakers favored them. And fans could celebrate in a way they hadn’t for two years.
IT’S A PARTY IT’S PARTY IT’S A PARTYYYY #RockChalk pic.twitter.com/u5ZSV4I40U
— Bryan Love II (@TheBryanLove) April 3, 2022
On a court in a football stadium Saturday night, the Jayhawks’ 10-0 start had the Philadelphia-area team trying to claw back all game and never inched closer than six points.
Members of the team spoke after the game about how playing for a storied program like KU’s comes with expectations.
“When we win the Final Four game, we say that we don’t come to Kansas to win the Final Four,” said Christian Braun, the junior guard from Burlington, Kansas. “We come to Kansas to win a national championship.”
It helped to have the broad shoulders and inside footwork of David McCormack. He weathered early foul trouble to lead KU with 25 points. Ochai Agbaji, the senior from Oak Park High School in Kansas City, launched the team’s quick start with two early three-point shots.
After that, KU was off. Jayhawk fans had mild reason to get nervous at points in the game, but not much.
In 2018, Kansas lost to Villanova’s Wildcats in a semifinal game.
“It was kind of the reversal from ‘18,” said KU coach Bill Self.
Latest polling shows @KUHoops has a pretty solid shot Monday night…#RockChalk #MarchMadness https://t.co/vxiIYAvFeJ
— Kevin Barry (@KevinBarryTV) April 3, 2022
The game was the third between Villanova and Kansas in the tournament’s history. And the first time KU came out on top.
“This is our time,” said Virgil Smith. He came to the game from Kansas City, Kansas, with his wife son and their grandson — it was his birthday — Caleb Jordan High.
Shortly after the final buzzer sounded, thousands of Jayhawk fans flooded downtown Lawrence in celebration. A sea of red, white and blue filled several blocks of Massachusetts Street.
Fans paraded down the street, sharing high-fives and “rock chalk” chants. Others watched from outdoor bar patios and horns honked across town.
“I don’t want to jinx it,” said Annie Calvert of Kansas City, “but this might be the time.”
It was hopes of a KU win that brought Gabbi Taylor, a KU freshman from Olathe, and her father, Eddie Taylor to New Orleans. They stood in line 30 minutes for beignet before the game, but hoops drew them to the Big Easy.
Many people are searching: "What’s a Jayhawk?”
— Hannah Wise (@hwise29) April 2, 2022
Well, the name is a combination of two real birds: the blue jay, a noisy bird known to rob nests, and the sparrow hawk, a stealthy hunter.
Read more about Kansas’ mythical bird mascot #RockChalkhttps://t.co/oG6wDeyWDS
“Villanova just lost one of their star players (starting guard Justin Moore), so I’m really hoping that KU can step up and Ochai (Agbaji) can play better than he’s been playing,” she said.
She got her wish
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Residents of Kansas City’s east side say the next leader of the Kansas City Police Department should prioritize spending time in their communities.
Community members gathered Saturday morning at Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center to discuss what they want in the next chief of police. The majority-Black crowd said they want a chief that looks like them, lives in or spends time engaging with their neighborhoods and someone who isn’t afraid to call out or own up to wrongdoings in the police department.
Da’Nearle Clarke, owner of Clarke and Sons Funeral Home, said he wants the next police chief to introduce him or herself to urban core communities who suffer from higher rates of violent crime than other areas. Clarke said the next police chief of the Kansas City Police Department needs to walk through neighborhoods, show up at community events and even go door-to-door to really get to know the people who live there.
“If the community has someone that they can lean towards and rely on, actually build a relationship with, I believe the city can be a lot safer,” said Clarke.
Clarke’s father, Pat Clarke, said because of the police brutality Black Kansas Citians face, he wants a chief who is willing to eliminate bias in the department, someone who is unafraid of calling out officers in the wrong.
“Going forward, we're gonna definitely need somebody that can pick up the pieces where we're broken and continue to strive for success in Kansas City,” said Pat Clarke.
Pat Clarke, who is executive director and president of the Oak Park Neighborhood Association, said Black communities like his own are suffering from bad policing and high crime and murder rates.
“We just had a homicide here a month ago, you know, where a guy was killed on his porch, mom thrown on the ground. And she's disabled. I mean, what kind of excessive force is that?” Clarke said, referring to Shawn Wilson, who was shot on his mother’s porch by police in early February. Police say Wilson was armed with a knife, although his mother denies having seen a knife, according to the Kansas City Star. Wilson later died from his injuries.
“It's not just happening in the Black neighborhood, but the Black neighborhood is the one that's suffering from it,” said Pat Clarke. “So bringing in a police chief who has no problem with creating a sensitivity training, you know, somebody that's saying, ‘Oh, I don't have to be hard knocked every day’. No, you don't, but you have to be sensitive to the people that you serve.”
Residents split over whether new chief should come from outside the department
Another topic discussed at the event was whether or not the next leader of the police department should come from within the force.
Steve Young is an organizer of Friday Night Protest, a group that gathers every Friday outside the Kansas City Police Department headquarters to protest police brutality and call for justice for victims. Young was spokesperson for his table at the listening session. He said he and the people at his table hope to see a leader recruited from outside the department.
“Right now, KCPD has so many issues. I would not trust somebody who came up in the ranks who’s gonna be my chief of police. I can’t trust it,” said Young, eliciting applause from the crowd.
“We need somebody from the outside who can come in and see what’s happening, and actually do a whole clean up. Because there’s a lot of officers who are continuing to traumatize our neighborhoods, officers like Blayne Newton,” he said.
Newton has been involved in three high-profile cases of excessive force, including the shooting of an unarmed Black man in 2020.
Resident Gloria Hailey, however, disagreed. She said she thinks the next chief needs to be an officer in Kansas City.
“If you’re here in the city, I think you know a lot about what’s going on. I think you’d be advanced because you are in the know,” said Hailey.
Young said as a part of community engagement, the next police chief should make monthly Board of Police Commissioner meetings more accessible. He said meetings should take place in the evenings, instead of weekday mornings, so more residents can attend. He also said the meetings should be held in community buildings instead of the police department headquarters.
“We don’t like to be at police headquarters, it’s traumatic," said Young, who added that many in the Black community avoid those spaces.
Next chief should push for local control of the department
Several community members said they hoped the next chief of police would push for local control of the department. Currently, KCPD is overseen by a five-member Board of Police Commissioners, composed of Mayor Quinton Lucas and four other members appointed by the Missouri governor. Many attendees said they want more say in what happens with the police department.
Da-Nearle Clarke, who also serves as 7th Ward Committeeman of the Jackson County Democratic Committee, said he wishes residents could vote on the next police chief instead of being limited to listening sessions.
"My thoughts on that is, just like we elect our sheriff (in Jackson County), I believe the people should be able to elect the police chief as well. We should take that totally out the government's hands."
The Chamber of Commerce will host three more listening sessions this month:
- Wednesday, April 6: 6 p.m.– 8 p.m., Mattie Rhodes Cultural Center, 1701 Jarboe St. (Bilingual)
- Thursday, April 7: 6 p.m.– 8 p.mm, Northeast Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, 2657 Independence Ave. (Multilingual)
- Thursday, April 14: 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., KC Chamber Board Room, 1st floor of Union Station
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After making headway Friday, Kansas sports gambling legislation abruptly stalled as the House struggled to pass a final agreement and senators left for a break without taking a vote on the plan.
Now, uncertainty surrounds the fate of a sports betting deal forged Friday by House and Senate negotiators.
The day was a whipsaw for the issue. Both chambers had previously passed slightly different sports betting plans, and through meetings on Friday a group was able to smooth out the differences and reach a final agreement.
The progress then slowed when the bill came to the House floor for final approval after midnight. Some lawmakers wanted to send it back for more work, but that failed on a tie vote.
The bill struggled even though legalizing sports gaming has support from both parties. Finally, the agreement narrowly passed the House with the bare minimum of support.
“It’s something that we’ve been wanting for a long time,” Democratic Rep. Louis Ruiz said in support of the bill. “We’ve been kind of falling behind.”
Under the terms of the plan, the Kansas Lottery would outsource sports betting to approved casinos. It also allows for sports bets to be placed in person or online through apps.
The Kansas Lottery estimates taxes on legal sports betting would result in the state collecting up to $10 million a year by 2025.
Republican Rep. Paul Waggoner raised concerns that the deal gave up too much control and revenue to casino companies and didn’t leave enough for the state.
“Once you get this deal, there really is no turning back,” Waggoner said. “We can do better than this.”
Lawmakers could take up the issue again when they return for the final part of the session late this month.
Had the chambers approved the plan, it looked likely the bill would become law. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly signaled earlier in the week that she supports legalizing sports betting in Kansas and is expected to sign an agreement.
“I know so many people who go to Iowa every weekend (to bet on sports),” she said. “I’d like for them to stay here and spend their money in the state of Kansas.”
Dylan Lysen reports on politics for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @DylanLysen or email him at dlysen (at) kcur (dot) org.
Stephen Koranda is the news editor for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @Stephen_Koranda or email him at stephenkoranda (at) kcur (dot) org.
The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on health, the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy.
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Eight years ago, Vladimir Putin wanted to bring Crimea back under Russian control and launched a campaign of propaganda and armed actions to make it happen.
At that time, Vitaly Chernetsky was an associate professor at the University of Kansas having come to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine for his doctorate and to teach.
In a 2014 interview with Up To Date, Chernetsky said based on his conversations with family and friends at home, "only a very small insignificant minority of the population actually strongly wants a reunification with Russia."
As the professor was watching from America, Mickey Cesar was teaching English in Kyiv, Ukraine, after completing his master's degree at the University of Kansas.
Cesar told Up To Date in 2014, "The Kremlin would have to be insane to try and take the entire country . . . It would be untenable for any Russian commander to think that they could take and hold this country without years of bloodshed."
Chernetsky, however, voiced a prescient concern: "A lot of people in Ukraine are really worried, indeed, that the Putin government's appetite might not stop with Crimea."
- Vitaly Chernetksy, associate professor, Department of Slavic languages and literatures, University of Kansas
- Mickey Cesar, American poet and teacher living in Kyiv, Ukraine
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The consensus box of Santa Anita picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for races on Sunday April 3, 2022.
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It should be the easiest and most sustainable way to get around Kent. And for the most part Southeastern Railway services are a reliable and simple way to get to pretty much anywhere in the county.
Over the years I’ve spent more money on train tickets than I’d like to think about, no part of me ever wants to sit down and actually crunch the numbers to find out exactly how much that figure is, I assure you. But I, like most people, have noticed the ticket fares rising steadily over the last few years.
Currently the UK is battling a rather intense cost of living crisis, where the prices for almost anything you can think of have risen, from petrol and energy bills to the cost of your weekly shop. As mentioned, those Southeastern ticket prices have been showing a notable rise too.
Read more: I took an Arriva bus and the price was borderline extortionate
While out and about for a recent story, I had to take the train from Sandwich back to Medway and my jaw dropped when I saw the price of the ticket. Here’s how the journey went.
Price
I arrived at Sandwich train station just after midday to an almost empty platform that looked like any number of stations you can find in Kent. I was early for my 12:09 train to Ramsgate, which is where I had to change for the next train to Medway.
Knowing that this would be a fairly long journey, I dreaded to think about how much it would cost. There were just over 40 miles between where I was and where I was headed - a one hour journey by car that takes more than two hours by train.
I find it very strange how they price train tickets: a standard ticket from Rainham in Medway to London Victoria would cost £16.50 for the hour-long journey. Meanwhile, a trip from the same station to Canterbury is only about £4 cheaper at £12.50 despite taking half the time.
So, why my journey from Sandwich, which took double the length of time of a London to Medway journey, only cost £2 more at £18.80 is beyond me. I wasn’t exactly happy about paying so much but I didn’t really have much choice in the matter as I needed to get back.
Now, if I had used a railcard, which I’m really starting to realise I should probably look into, the price would have seen a drop down to £12.40, a more than substantial difference to a price that I would consider to be way more fair. A 16-25 Railcard would cost me just £30 for the year it seems after a quick search, so that will pay for itself in no time if you decide to get one.
On the plus side, my train did arrive on time, which is always a small victory. Because of this, I got on the train in a mostly good mood, if only a little grumbly about the ticket fare.
Experience
The journey itself wasn’t too bad and was about as exciting as a train journey can be really. I had a seat, there were some nice views - it was fine.
Once in Ramsgate at just after 12:30 I quickly found my new platform and had to wait another half an hour for the next train to arrive and take me home. Waiting on a train platform may be one of the most British pastimes there is and always gives a great opportunity to get some people watching in, which provided adequate entertainment and the half hour flew by.
The next half of the trip was much more enjoyable as the train journey along the Kent coast gave some excellent scenery to take in while travelling through the likes of Margate and Whitstable. For a fair few moments I did genuinely forget about how much I had spent to get myself on the train before a ticket inspection quickly snapped me back to reality and I was once again reminded of the small orange bit of card that had burned a hole in my wallet.
Before long I had my headphones back on (crucial for a long train journey) and was back to being transfixed by the sights out of the window. However, these grew less scenic the further I got away from the coast, unfortunately Sittingbourne doesn’t quite boast the same natural beauty as Broadstairs.
Verdict
In all, the two hour trip from Sandwich to Rainham was rather pleasant in the end. I always quite like a train journey when it isn't too stressful as it provides a good chance to switch your brain off for a little bit and, depending on where you are heading, take in some nice views along the way.
Was I happy about how much I paid though? No, definitely not. If one good thing has come out of that ticket price however, it’s that I’m much more inspired to finally get myself a railcard - silver linings.
With the cost of living going up, the additional cost of train tickets really will have a huge impact on so many people. It is an unavoidable obstacle. What the future holds remains to be seen but for now, I’m sure I am not alone in feeling frustrated by these costs.
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The recent sunny weather has got us all thinking of things we can do when the weather heats up, and swimming will be high on the list for most people.
When the temperature rises what better way to cool down than with a dip in the pool. Whether you prefer to dive straight into a lake or ease your way off a sunbed into a heated pool, there are plenty of options to choose from across Kent.
Some locations remain open all year round, others are due to open for the summer season in the next couple of months. Booking is required at some of the more popular destinations so check with the venue to ensure you get your spot.
Read more: Kent-based craft beer and cider brand 'Jake's Drinks' secures nationwide listing in Majestic stores
Faversham Pools
Address: Leslie Smith Drive, Faversham, ME13 8PW
Indoor and outdoor swimming is available at this much loved venue in the heart of Faversham town centre.
The 30m outdoor pool has a 1m, 3m and 5m diving board and is open 7 days a week. There is also a wild water rapids pool with splash zone and toddler pool with slides.
Normally open from May to September, they recently announced on Facebook that they are opening the outdoor pool complex earlier than usual this year with this statement.
"We've got a surprise for you.
"So many of you have asked and we're thrilled to confirm that we'll be opening the outdoor pool complex a full month early this year, in time for the Easter holidays.
"From Friday April 1 the outdoor pool, rapids and paddling pool will be open 11am-5pm daily."
Advance booking is strongly recommended, for more information you can visit their site HERE
Tonbridge Swimming Pool
Address: Castle Street, Tonbridge, TN9 1HR
This unique heated outdoor pool is open from April to September. It has a water arch, beach area and a swim through channel to the indoor pools.
A booking band system is in place and customers are limited to a 90 minute stay.
For more details on what is available at this facility and information on how to book, you can visit their website HERE
The Strand, Gillingham
Address: Strand Approach Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1TT
Medway's only open air lido offers something for everyone, from families to serious swimmers. The 25-metre pool includes a paddling area and lazy river.
The pool uses filtered salt water from the nearby River Medway, and is open from May to September.
An online booking system is currently in place and can be found on their website HERE
Walpole Tidal Bay Pool
Address: Cliftonville, Margate
The Walpole Bay Pool is the largest tidal pool in the UK, so a great choice for those who might enjoy getting closer to nature with a longer swim outdoors. According to the Walpole Bay Swimmers Community Facebook page, swimming the width of the pool is roughly equivalent to swimming 6 lengths of a 25m pool.
Described by one reviewer on TripAdvisor as a "Great wild swimming treat"
Another said: "Lovely place for a swim with grandchildren without worrying about the tide and waves."
Leybourne Lakes
Address: Lunsford Ln, Larkfield, Aylesford ME20 6JA
This is an all year round destination for open water swimmers in Kent, you can also go scuba diving, kayaking, and windsurfing at this venue.
It is compulsory to complete an induction before swimming at Leybourne, and everyone must use a tow float. Children from the age of 8 can complete an induction but must be accompanied by an adult at all times when swimming.
More information and booking procedure can be found HERE
Haysden Lakes
Address: Lower Haysden Ln, Tonbridge TN11 9BB
There is a 1000m and 600m circuit at Hayden. Opening from May 6 and running through until September, sessions take place on Mondays 5-8pm and Fridays 5-8pm
Swimming here is organised by Triswim who offer open water training for all levels including juniors. Wetsuits and tow floats are not obligatory.
Triswim is an award winning pool and open water swim community that operates in open water and wild swimming venues across the South East of England.
For more information visit HERE.
Chipstead Lake
Address: Chipstead Sailing Club, Longford Lake, Chipstead, TN13 2SD
Open water swimming on the lake is also ran by Triswim, not the sailing club so if you are interested in swimming at Chipstead you will need to contact Triswim to organise this.
To find out more you can go HERE
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Hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion of their country have arrived at the Mexican border city of Tijuana to seek US asylum and more are expected, a Tijuana city official and a volunteer told CNN on Saturday.
"Approximately at this moment in Tijuana, there are about 1,500 Ukrainians," said Enrique Lucero, director of migrant affairs for the city. "We had a surprising influx in the past four days, mainly because after the conflict we started seeing arrivals as of March 11," and the numbers of people arriving have grown greatly since, Lucero said.
Inna Levien, who lives in Orange County, California, and is part of a group spearheading volunteer efforts to help Ukrainians near the border, told CNN the number of Ukrainians quadrupled in the past three days.
Lucero told CNN that while he expects all the migrants to enter the US, American authorities have been slow to process them, and that's why so many people have gathered.
"They're processing like 100, 150 a day or even 200 a day and it takes nearly three hours to process them," Lucero said. "That's the reason why we have seen this minicamp at the border."
The Department of Homeland Security is allowing Ukrainians, on a case-by-case basis, to be exempted from Trump-era pandemic restrictions that allowed for the expulsion of migrants encountered at the US-Mexico border and that were continued to be used by the Biden administration.
Those restrictions will end on May 23, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday.
CNN has reached out to the State Department and US Customs and Border Protection but did not receive a response Saturday.
Providing a little relief
Levien's volunteer group -- which is made up of California mothers who met on Facebook -- has provided arriving families with essentials such as food, blankets, tents, and toys to keep their children occupied.
Those who are financially able to are encouraged to stay in hotels, which cost roughly $40-60 a night, Levien said.
The group also helps by putting the people arriving at the border on a list and assigning them a number, so that they won't have to stay in line the entire time they wait for entry -- a wait that can take more than 24 hours.
But the city of Tijuana has also been instrumental in providing some relief, Levien said: the city recently converted a bus stop into a temporary shelter while a network of churches stepped up to help house families who are waiting for their turn to be processed.
The city is also working to convert a sports facility into a temporary shelter, Lucero said.
"We've been told that about 500 migrants will arrive on these next flights, so it would increase to two thousand during the course of the day," he said.
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AUGUSTA, GA. (Seminoles.com) — Following consecutive birdies on holes 15 and 16, Florida State’s Beatrice Wallin was within one stroke of the lead at the Third Annual Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship at the famed Augusta National Golf Club. She finished the tournament at 1 under par on her final four holes of the championship and finished in a tie for fourth place in the final standings of the ANWA as she played on the grandest stage in the sport of golf for the third time in her career.
Wallin carded a 1-over par score of 73 in the final round and finished with a three round total of 217 (+1). She closed out her outstanding play just two strokes behind the Anna Davis, the individual champion. Wallin totaled three birdies (including two on her final four holes) and 11 holes scored a par in finishing with her score of 73. She carded scores of 73-71-73 and finished as one of six golfers on the field of 72 with a tournament score of 217 or better.
Wallin’s tied for fourth place finish allowed her to earn her third career top 10 finish in three appearances at the ANWA. She finished in a tie for fourth in 2022, a tie for seventh in 2019 and a tie for 10th in 2021. She is the only player in the history of the tournament to finish in the top-10 in each of the first three ANWA’s.
“The Augusta tournament was a lot of fun,” said Wallin. “It is a crazy atmosphere when you are on the course. It’s hard to not smile when people are cheering on you and screaming Go Noles! It’s a very special moment and I’m sad that I won’t be playing it again. But I’m also so happy and thankful that I had the opportunity to play it not only once but three times. I hope many more girls get the chance and the same experience I got from this week.”
Seminole Head Coach Amy Bond, who walked as part of Wallin’s large gallery throughout the tournament, could not have been more proud of the Seminoles’ All-American.
“Today was one of the most special days I have ever been a part of,” said Seminole Head Coach Amy Bond. “Bea smiled her way around Augusta National and played great! She came up a bit short but made it exciting. She represented herself, her family, Florida State, and Florida State Golf proudly! She also hit some unbelievable shots which was fun to watch.”
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BIG RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A motorist is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Big Rapids Township Saturday afternoon.
The Mecosta County Sheriff’s Office says the crash occurred on US-131 and 15 Mile Road after 5 p.m.
We’re told the driver left the road and collided into one of the concrete pillars supporting the bridge. The driver succumbed to severe injuries at the scene, deputies say.
The crash remains under investigation.
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Pasta puttanesca is a southern Italian dish that hails from Naples in the Campania region. Puttanesca refers to the potent tomato sauce that brims with black olives, red chiles, capers and anchovies.
It’s safe to say that this dish is no shrinking violet, as its name might suggest (puttana is the Italian word for “whore”), and indeed this sauce is salty, briny, spicy and vibrant.
There’s no denying puttanesca sauce goes exceedingly well with pasta. It’s also a wonderful condiment that is more than a fiery addition to spaghetti. Use it as a vibrant ragout; ladle it over fish, such as swordfish or halibut; or use it as a bed for garlicky shrimp. Dollop it on grilled steak and chicken, or add a drizzle to eggs. Even a smear on crostini will stand in for an easy appetizer in a pinch.
You can count on this sauce as a year-round kitchen staple. While tomatoes at their peak of season are always a desirable ingredient, there’s no issue with using packaged grape or cherry tomatoes in the off-season. Just cook them down to a sludgy consistency and let the other ingredients deliver their wallop of flavors. This recipe does just that.
It takes inspiration from the traditional puttanesca sauce with a liberty or two — namely, an extra dash of sweetness to boost the flavor of supermarket tomatoes. A simple splash of balsamic vinegar and orange juice provides the extra kick. I encourage you to taste as you go and add these two ingredients in the end as needed.
Puttanesca Sauce
Active time: 20 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
Yield: Makes about 1 1/2 cups
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 pound grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/4 cup cured black olives, pitted, finely chopped
1 to 2 anchovies, mashed
1 tablespoon drained capers
1 teaspoon chopped fresh oregano or 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 to 2 teaspoons fresh orange juice (optional)
Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the tomatoes and cook until they break down, 6 to 8 minutes, stirring often. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the olives, anchovies, capers, oregano and black pepper and cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Taste for seasoning — you may or may not need salt, due to the saltiness of the ingredients.
Stir in the balsamic vinegar and taste again. If too tart, add the orange juice. Remove from the heat and cool to allow the flavors to develop. Refrigerate for up to 2 days.
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An injured fisherman was medevaced Saturday morning from a fishing vessel near Port Fourchon.
The Coast Guard says the 48-year-old injured man was airlifted on April 2 from an area approximately 15 miles south of the port
Watchstanders were notified at 9:36 a.m. by personnel aboard the fishing vessel Challenger that a crewmember sustained severe hand injuries.
A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew was launched to assist the fisherman.
Coast Guard arrived at the scene and administered care to the injured crewmember before transferring him to awaiting emergency medical services at the port.
The crewmember was last reported to be in stable condition, the USCG says.
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ALLENDALE, Mich. — After a month long search, Grand Valley announced that they've hired Cornell Mann to be their new men's basketball coach.
Mann comes to GVSU after a five year stint at Missouri. With the Tigers he was their lead recruiter and helped get them into the NCAA tournament during his first season in Columbia. He has also had coaching stops at Oakland University, Iowa State, Western Michigan and Central Michigan.
According to Grand Valley, he is the first black head coach in the history of Lakers Athletics.
A former introduction ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 7th at 11am.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — No Griffins player from here on out will ever wear the number 10. The team officially retired that jersey in honor of former team captain Jeff Hoggan.
Hoggan played in Grand Rapids for four season. He was the captain through those years and helped the Griffin's win the Calder cup in 2013. He also is still the only AHL captain since 2005 to lead his team to at least one playoff win each season.
"As you're planning what you're going to say you start thinking about all those memories so you know it's something you never imagine, right? but to just be there and watch it go up with your family. my kids, i can't wait to see their reaction when we start talking about it but it was special for sure," said Hoggan.
The Griffin's played the Texas Stars on Saturday night and ended up losing that game 3-2. They will be on the road in Milwaukee on Sunday.
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