Louisiana State College star ahead Angel Reese opened up Monday about a few of the on-line abuse and assaults she’s confronted together with her ascension to stardom over the previous yr.

The faculty basketball star tearfully mentioned her experiences throughout a press convention on Monday evening after the LSU Tigers misplaced 94-87 to Iowa’s Hawkeyes within the Elite Eight stage of the NCAA match.

“I don’t actually get to face up for myself. I imply, I’ve nice teammates, I’ve an important assist system, I acquired my hometown, I acquired my household that stands up for me,” she stated. “I don’t actually get to talk out on issues simply because I simply attempt to ignore. I simply attempt to stand sturdy.”

“I’ve been by a lot, I’ve seen a lot. I’ve been attacked so many instances,” she added. “Dying threats, I’ve been sexualized, I’ve been threatened — so many issues, and I’ve stood sturdy each single time.”

The LSU star stated she has targeted on remaining sturdy for her teammates.

“I’m nonetheless a human,” she stated. “All this has occurred since I gained a nationwide championship, and I stated the opposite day, I haven’t had peace since then.”

However Reese added that she “wouldn’t change something” regardless and that she’s “unapologetically me.”

The ahead’s remarks adopted touching speeches by teammates Flau’jae Johnson and Hailey Van Lith, who each praised her management and power amid the web criticism she faces.

“Everyone can have their opinion on Angel Reese, however y’all don’t know her. Y’all don’t know Angel Reese,” Johnson stated, later including, “The crown she wears is heavy, bro.”

Johnson then known as out the media for vilifying Reese, saying that her teammate makes her a “higher participant.”

Van Lith chimed in: “Folks converse hate into her life.”

Final yr, the Tigers defeated the Hawkeyes within the championship sport of the NCAA Division 1 girls’s basketball match, marking LSU’s first nationwide basketball title.

Reese, who was named most excellent participant final yr, was criticized for her trash-talking conduct within the aggressive sport.

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Within the closing moments of the sport, Reese waved her hand in entrance of her face in a gesture towards Iowa’s famous person level guard, Caitlin Clark. The hand gesture, often called the “You’ll be able to’t see me” transfer, was popularized by professional wrestler/actor John Cena.

Reese had additionally pointed to her ring finger whereas taking a look at Clark, indicating that her group was set to obtain championship rings.

Some criticized the LSU participant as “classless” over the gestures.

Sports activities commentator Keith Olbermann tweeted on the time that Reese was a “fucking fool,” though he later walked back his remarks.

Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy known as her a “classless piece of shit.”

Many have since known as out the truth that the outrage directed towards Reese, who’s Black, was rooted in racism and sexism, since male gamers and white feminine gamers sometimes are handled otherwise for comparable conduct.

Clark, who’s white, had completed the identical “You’ll be able to’t see me” gesture, and he or she memorably waved off South Carolina participant Raven Johnson when she didn’t hassle to protect Johnson throughout a sport final yr. She didn’t face the identical form of backlash that Reese did.

The College of Iowa basketball star even acknowledged the tough response Reese had acquired after the championship sport, telling ESPN final yr that she didn’t assume Reese ought to have confronted “any criticism for what she did.”

On Friday, Los Angeles Instances columnist Ben Bolch was broadly criticized for referring to the LSU Tigers as “soiled debutantes” and “villains.” He later issued an apology after a firestorm of criticism, together with from LSU coach Kim Mulkey.

“Our society has needed to cope with so many layers of misogyny, racism and negativity that I can now see why the phrases I used had been fallacious,” Bolch wrote in his apology.

Van Lith, who’s white, known as out the column over the weekend.

“I’ll discuss trash and I’ll get a unique response than if Angel [Reese] talks trash,” she instructed ESPN. “I’ve an obligation to my teammates to have their again. A number of the phrases that had been utilized in that article had been very unhappy and upsetting.”

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Thirty graduate college students shared their ongoing analysis through the inaugural Heart for Clear Power Engineering (C2E2) Graduate Pupil Analysis Summit in Sustainability.

The summit, held Feb. 16 and 17 on the Innovation Partnership Constructing (IPB), showcased the work of scholars from a number of disciplines in engineering. Graduate college students Alanna Gado and Leila Chebbo organized and led the occasion.

“Graduate college students at C2E2 don’t have many alternatives to follow analysis displays outdoors of conferences and Ph.D program milestones,” Gado says. “We needed this to be a priceless expertise, the place graduate college students would obtain suggestions on their presentation abilities whereas additionally networking with friends.”

The occasion opened with an introduction and welcome from C2E2 Director Xiao-Dong Zhou, the Connecticut Clear Power Fund Professor in Sustainability and Nicholas E. Madonna Chair in Sustainability and a presentation from Theo Menounos, assistant director of the of the Heart for Profession Improvement and Faculty of Engineering profession readiness lead. Menounos provided ideas and recommendation on public talking and learn how to be assured when presenting and answering questions. “Theo’s presentation was very useful,” Chebbo says. “The notes and recommendation he offered shall be in my thoughts every time I’m getting ready for a presentation.”

This summit additionally gave college students the chance to broaden their data and refine their analysis presentation abilities, whereas receiving priceless suggestions from friends and school, even partaking in some discourse. College students mentioned their analysis and sustainability challenges with their friends, furthering their connections.

“It’s at all times attention-grabbing to get an outline of what analysis is happening outdoors the bubble of our lab and direct collaborators,” says chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate scholar Christopher Hawxhurst. “Typically it even ends in new alternatives for collaboration or sharing data.”

Ali Bazzi, the Charles H. Knapp Affiliate Professor in Electrical Engineering, had a number of of his personal graduate college students, together with Chebbo, take part within the occasion. He seen how college students linked with one another and even different school members inside the Heart.

“This summit introduced collectively college students from numerous disciplines inside C2E2 and throughout no less than 5 engineering departments and colleges. They had been in a position to talk about analysis, and extra importantly, they had been in a position to socialize and hook up with develop the neighborhood spirit in C2E2,” he says. “It not solely gave college students the power to study from their friends, however gave school the power to study extra from the scholars and their work, particularly when their subjects weren’t straight linked with their very own analysis/ self-discipline.”

Analysis subjects ranged from cultivated beef, the effectiveness of air filters, desalination, desulfurization, area exploration, and electrolyzers, to gas cells, and membrane purposes, and extra. Every scholar was given quarter-hour to current his or her work and interact in a Q&A. A rubric, which graduate scholar Andres Ortiz Godoy contributed to, was used to assist rating every presentation. The scholars scored every presentation anonymously on a Google discussion board.

Leila Chebbo gained first place together with her presentation titled “Modeling and Operation of Microgrids for Deep Area Habitats Underneath Environmental Disturbances.” Christabel Adjah-Tetteh gained second place together with her presentation on “Praseodymium and Gadolinium Doped Ceria as Interlayer for Excessive-Temperature Stable Oxide Cell Utility.” And Gado, Hasnain Nisar, Yasmin Bimbatti, and Ben Cohen, gained third place. Hawxhurst, Elena Ford, and Hasan Nikkah took honorable mentions.

“All of the presenters did a wonderful job at sharing their analysis work and fascinating with their friends and different school, whereas furthering the objective of C2E2; constructing the subsequent era of vitality applied sciences and tackling numerous areas of sustainability challenges,” Zhou says. “All of the presenters are winners.”

It appears like Pat Sajak is able to depart “Wheel of Fortune” ahead of anticipated — or so it appeared.

The April 1 episode of the favored recreation present opened with Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto coming onto the set with Vanna White as a part of an April Fools’ Day joke.

“Girls and gents, listed here are the celebrities of our present — Jared Leto and Vanna White,” the announcer mentioned because the pair walked out arm in arm, as they waved to the viewers.

The duo then thanked all people.

“Thanks and have an amazing present. See you quickly,” Leto advised White earlier than she walked to the puzzle board and he sauntered over to the spot the place Sajak typically stands by the contestants.

“Alright all people, seize these units. It’s time to present away some cash,” he advised the three contestants. “A thousand {dollars} in our first toss-up. The class is on the map,” he mentioned, with nobody acknowledging the prank.

The present then resumed with Sajak taking on with no point out of what occurred. Nonetheless, beneath the “Wheel of Fortune” clip shared on their YouTube, the outline reads, “Did you discover something completely different in tonight’s present?! #AprilFools”

Leto is a fairly busy man. Along with a stellar performing profession, he additionally fronts the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, which has expertise with “Wheel of Fortune.” Final fall, he and his brother, bandmate Shannon Leto, appeared in a cheeky video wherein they had been contestants on the present — with Sajak and White participating — to announce the band’s 2024 world tour.

Leto, in fact, won’t be taking on for Sajak on “Wheel of Fortune.” Sajak, who introduced his departure final June from the present, will likely be changed by Ryan Seacrest, starting this September.

“My model would be the model that’s,” Seacrest advised Willie Geist throughout their “Sunday Sitdown” episode final September. “The sport works. All you wish to do is stroll in and say, ‘Good night, seize your units and this is the primary puzzle.’”

Seacrest additionally made certain to acknowledge the job his predecessor has completed.

“Pat Sajak is an icon on this enterprise, and he’s made (Wheel of Fortune) so snug for everyone to observe,” he mentioned. “I’m like a child so enthusiastic about simply seeing the set, you recognize, to stroll out on that set.”

TORONTO – After the toughest stretch of his life, RJ Barrett lastly returned to his “sanctuary.”

Barrett, from close by Mississauga, Ont., led all scorers with 28 factors as his Toronto Raptors misplaced to the Los Angeles Lakers 128-111 on Tuesday. It was Barrett’s first time taking part in in an NBA sport for the reason that loss of life of his youthful brother Nathan Barrett.

“It simply felt good to be again on the market with the blokes,” stated Barrett, who stated after follow on Friday that basketball is his sanctuary. “Taking part in undoubtedly helped me really feel higher.”

Barrett added six assists and 6 rebounds as Toronto (23-52) misplaced its 14th sport in a row. The Raptors’ report for longest dropping skid is 17 consecutive video games, set throughout the 1997-98 season.

Immanuel Quickley additionally returned to Toronto’s lineup on Tuesday, scoring 20 factors with six assists. Quickley took a depart after his uncle Shawn Hamilton died of most cancers on March 20, lacking six video games. Barrett, whose 19-year-old brother died on March 14, missed 9 video games.

Barrett and Quickley performed collectively on the New York Knicks after which have been traded to Toronto on Dec. 30. Attending to return to the Raptors’ lineup following their private losses meant loads to Barrett.

“Throughout the entire course of, we have been continually checking on one another,” stated Barrett. “I’ve identified him for a very long time, we’ve been collectively for the previous 4 years, so it was undoubtedly laborious to undergo that however having any person like that to speak to positive helps.”

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D’Angelo Russell scored 25 factors and added seven assists as Los Angeles (43-33) received back-to-back video games.

All eyes have been on future Corridor of Famer LeBron James and all-star centre Anthony Davis, nonetheless. James had 23 factors and 9 assists whereas Davis earned a double-double with 21 factors and 12 rebounds.

“There’s all the time been mutual respect and love respect each time I come right here and play right here,” stated James, who obtained cheers each time he made an enormous play. “These followers are all the time appreciative of myself and I simply attempt to all the time give it again to them once I step out on the ground.”

Bruce Brown (proper knee soreness) left the sport within the fourth quarter and didn’t return. His damage was simply the newest in a sequence of well being setbacks for Toronto.

All-star ahead Scottie Barnes (left hand fracture), centre Jakob Poeltl (left hand torn ligament), guard Ochai Agbaji (proper hip contusion), ahead Chris Boucher (partial MCL tear), guard D.J. Carton (proper ankle sprain) and Jontay Porter (private causes) are already out.

Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic stated that Barrett and Quickley’s return to the lineup did extra than simply enhance the on-court product.

“Basketball is an escape for all of us,” stated Rajakovic. “It’s one thing that gamers love, coaches love, you guys love, everyone loves.

“That is our escape, and that is our protected place and we’re blessed to do basketball for a residing.”

Toronto is mathematically eradicated from the post-season however the remaining seven video games within the season nonetheless matter.

The Raptors’ first-round choose on this summer season’s NBA Draft is conditional, following a commerce with the San Antonio Spurs final season for Poeltl. Toronto has the sixth-worst report within the NBA but when the draft lottery on Might 12 shuffles them to seventh or greater that choose goes to San Antonio.

The Raptors have a 37.2 per cent likelihood within the lottery of transferring up into one of many high 4 draft spots and a 9 per cent likelihood of drafting first general.

Davis and James had 9 factors apiece within the third because the Lakers blew the sport vast open, with a 17-5 run within the last 4 minutes of the quarter lifting the guests to a 100-79 lead. Barrett introduced the sold-out crowd of 19,800 to their toes with a thunderous dunk with 2.1 seconds left within the interval.

Los Angeles, making an attempt to realize floor within the aggressive Western Convention playoff chase, didn’t let up within the fourth quarter, main by as many as 32 factors. Lakers head coach Darvin Ham put all his starters on the bench with six minutes left to play.

“It completely helps. Each minute counts,” stated the 39-year-old James about taking part in lower than 29 minutes within the sport. “I used to be capable of get again right here and get occurring the remedy and my prep, and begin making ready my physique, hopefully, for tomorrow night time.”

UP NEXT — Toronto visits the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.

The Lakers proceed their East Coast swing on Wednesday with a cease in Washington, D.C.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 2, 2024.

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Jared Leto hosted a portion of “Wheel of Fortune” on Monday as an April Fools Day prank. Originally of the present, Leto walked out with the present’s letter-turner, Vanna White. The announcer of the present then stated, “Listed below are the celebs of our present, Jared Leto and Vanna White.” They then parted methods as White does each evening with the standard host Pat Sajack, with White going to the board and Leto going to the wheel with out explaining why he was there. Leto then hosted the opening puzzle, with the friends being barely confused as to why he was there.After the primary puzzle was accomplished, Pat Sajack returned to the wheel and Leto left, with none rationalization.Later, Wheel of Fortune posted on Instagram in regards to the host switcheroo saying, “Did you discover something completely different in tonight’s present?! #AprilFools.”

I wouldn’t understand how to decide on the music, however my luxurious merchandise for Desert Island Discs can be simple: binoculars. My one objection is asking them a luxurious. I’ve had a pair round my neck for what looks like many of the final 50 years.

It’s not solely you can see issues extra clearly: binoculars allow you to expertise the dwelling world as people seldom do. A feminine adder, for instance, went from the solely formal form in a random scatter of vegetation to a exact triple coil of black zigzags on brown.

With my “bins” I may see her blood-red eyes like polished garnets – and dorsal scales all through her 50cm size, each one marked with a raised keel just like the central vane that runs by means of a feather. As she rotated slowly, these keels – in addition to the dimensions edges when the solar caught her twisting physique – offered as momentary splinters of sunshine.

Each person of binoculars is aware of that, if I’d been capable of get nearer, I may have turned the lenses the other way up and seen her magnified to the form of beautiful element her mate should know. For she was joined by a male. They had been virtually definitely of breeding age, and it was unusual to assume that they’ve lain hereabouts for 4 years and, since they possess neither eardrum nor tympanum cavity, have by no means as soon as heard this skylark music rolling overhead. Actually, rattled cans and blown bugles have been proven to elicit nothing from resting adders.

But if I took a single step nearer they might immediately really feel my vibrations by means of the bottom. Think about what info flows by means of a snake’s underside, every one of many ventral scales a heightened nerve-ended receptor attuned to the world because it strikes about them. How they need to really feel the earth.

I inferred a bit of this as I watch him sidewind throughout her, his stomach pressed down in order that the underside scales scraped slowly over her in curving ritual, till I couldn’t inform one snake’s coils from the opposite’s, and his head, shunting ahead in awkward, excited, jerky actions, appeared at odds with the candy circulation of his complete physique.

Tous les décès se sont produits dans la région de Hualien, près de l’épicentre du séisme dans l’est de l’île, a annoncé l’agence nationale de lutte anti-incendie. Trois des victimes ont péri sur un sentier de randonnée, et la quatrième dans un tunnel routier.

Le centre des opérations de secours de Taipei a confirmé ce bilan et fait état de près de soixante blessés.

La magnitude du séisme sous-marin a été estimée à 7,5 par l’Agence météorologique japonaise (JMA), à 7,4 par l’Institut américain d’études géologiques (USGS) et à 7,2 par l’Agence météorologique taïwanaise (CWA).

Il s’est produit peu avant 20 h (HAE), selon ces agences, et a été suivi de plusieurs répliques. Son épicentre a été détecté en mer à faible profondeur au giant des côtes est de Taïwan.

J’ai voulu m’enfuir, mais je n’étais pas habillé. C’était tellement fort, a raconté Kelvin Hwang, un shopper d’un hôtel de la capitale Taipei, qui s’est réfugié dans le corridor de l’ascenseur au neuvième étage.

Des règles de development strictes et une bonne préparation aux catastrophes naturelles semblent avoir permis d’éviter une disaster majeure pour l’île, régulièrement frappée par des séismes.

À Hualien, deux bâtiments se sont effondrés et ont pris au piège des personnes, a indiqué un responsable des pompiers de ce port de près de 100 000 habitants, situé au pied d’une chaîne de montagnes et de gorges.

Des bulldozers ont été mobilisés pour dégager des rochers qui bloquaient des routes vers Hualien, selon des photographs diffusées par les chaînes de télévision locales.

Le tremblement de terre a initialement déclenché des alertes au tsunami à Taïwan, dans les îles du sud-ouest du Japon et dans plusieurs provinces des Philippines, où la inhabitants des zones côtières a été priée de gagner les hauteurs.

Les autorités japonaises et philippines ont finalement annulé leurs alertes, et le Centre d’alertes au tsunami du Pacifique, un observatoire régional basé à Hawaï, a annoncé vers 22 h que la menace de tsunami était maintenant largement passée, tout en appelant les habitants des régions littorales à rester prudents.

L’aéroport de Naha, le plus necessary de l’île japonaise d’Okinawa, a suspendu le trafic aérien et les vols prévus vers cette vacation spot ont été déroutés. Les enregistrements des vols au départ ont cependant repris après la levée de l’alerte.

Aucune victime n’a été signalée dans la région d’Okinawa, a dit le porte-parole du gouvernement nippon, Yoshimasa Hayashi. Selon la JMA, des vagues de 30 cm ont été signalées dans les îles de Yonaguni et de Miyako, et de 20 cm dans celle d’Ishigaki, toutes situées à l’extrême sud-ouest de l’archipel.

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À Taïwan, des pictures publiées par l’Agence centrale d’informations (CNA) ont montré un bâtiment rouge de sept étages à Hualien partiellement effondré et incliné à environ 60 degrés.

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Un séisme de magnitude 7,6 avait alors fait 2400 morts, la pire disaster de l’histoire moderne de Taïwan.

Dans la capitale taïwanaise, le métro a brièvement cessé de fonctionner, mais le trafic a repris au bout d’une heure. Les habitants ont été priés de vérifier d’éventuelles fuites de gaz provoquées par la secousse.

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Situés à la frontière de plusieurs plaques tectoniques, Taïwan et le Japon sont fréquemment touchés par des séismes. Pour limiter les risques autant que attainable, les deux pays appliquent des normes de development parmi les plus strictes dans le monde.

Au Japon, la disaster de Fukushima en mars 2011, qui a fait environ 20 000 morts et disparus, est encore dans toutes les mémoires.

Un séisme sous-marin de magnitude 9,0 avait entraîné un gigantesque tsunami sur la côte nord-est du pays, lequel avait aussi provoqué l’accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi, le pire depuis celui de Tchernobyl en 1986.

La péninsule de Noto, dans le centre du Japon, a par ailleurs subi un séisme de magnitude 7,5 le 1er janvier, qui a fait plus de 240 morts, notamment à trigger de l’effondrement de nombreuses maisons anciennes en bois.

Dans une publication sur X, Emergency Information BC a indiqué qu’il n’y avait pas de menace de tsunami pour la Colombie-Britannique.

De plus, le Centre d’alerte au tsunami pour la région du Pacifique a avisé qu’aucune menace ne visait Hawaï et le territoire américain de Guam.

LeBron James’ son Bronny has actually had a novel first yr as a university scholar at USC being the kid of among the best basketball gamers of all time.

Nonetheless, the youthful James will reportedly be taking a step that has turn into fairly widespread amongst school athletes.

On Tuesday, veteran basketball reporter Dick Weiss first reported that Bronny James is coming into the switch portal.

The transfer would come after USC’s coach, Andy Enfield, left for a similar place at SMU after the Trojans went simply 15-18 within the 2023-24 season.

Listed by USC at 6-foot-4 and 210 kilos, Bronny James appeared in 25 video games as a freshman with six begins and averaged 4.8 factors and a couple of.8 rebounds in 19.6 minutes per sport.

He missed the primary eight video games of the season after struggling cardiac arrest final summer season.

The 19 year-old has had a substantial amount of hype surrounding him for a few years and there was vast debate relating to his readiness and skill to play within the NBA, one thing his father has mentioned he wish to do along with his son.

It’s unclear whether or not or not Bronny James will switch to a faculty sponsored by Nike, which was a think about his resolution to go to USC out of highschool, as LeBron James has a lifetime contract with the corporate.