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三個歐洲國家的警方正在尋求幫助，以識別22名被謀殺的女性，她們的名字仍然是個謎。
這些屍體於1976年至2019年間在荷蘭、比利時和德國被發現。
在阿姆斯特丹，一名女子被謀殺，兇手被發現在河裡的一個垃圾桶裏，這起案件尚未解决，引發了國際刑警組織的行動。
這是國際員警組織首次公開一份名單，尋求有關身份不明屍體的資訊。
這些所謂的黑色通知是作為“識別我行動”運動的一部分發佈的，通常只在國際刑警組織全球警詧網絡內部傳播。
1999年在阿姆斯特丹垃圾桶中發現的這名女子頭部和胸部中彈。
法醫偵探Carina Van Leeuwen自2005年加入該市第一個感冒病例小組以來，一直在試圖解開這個謎團。
荷蘭警方表示，當案件在大約三年後仍未解决時，通常會變得“冷清”。
在竭盡全力之後，她和一比特同事聯系了鄰國德國和比利時的警方，瞭解到更多可能發生的謀殺案件，受害者為身份不明的女性。
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Roger Vivier published a new series of new spring and summer, please go to the socialite actress Sun Yi breaks through the traditional design model. Sun Yi, who loves to wear slippers, exaggerated the classic elegance of Roger Vivier, and this season’s popular casual sandals and Muller slippers also made her happy to call it “15 years ahead of my fashion vision”. ”
The usual dress up neutral style of the Sun Yi self cannot wear too high heels, “comfort is the most important key I pick shoes, usually love to wear slippers or flat shoes. Roger Vivier’s shoes are decorated with a water drill, so that even if they are wearing a slipper, they don’t seem to be slovenly. “She also said, before living in Losangeles when wearing a very casual, return to Taiwan can not change the habit, also commonly used body suits, pants slippers style in the party,” when friends often laugh, but now you can see the trend is to go to the whims of style, I look at 15 years ahead! ”
Roger Vivier has made many new breakthroughs in the spring and summer, which skillfully combines classic and modern style. Inspired by the crown of Elizabeth Taylor (Liz Taylor) princess, the new square button Vertigo Diadem with the top technology laid on the high and low staggered drill is created, and the arc retro Vertigo buckles are sewn with gold edged leather, which is graceful and charming. For the first time, the Trekky Viv ‘casual sandals launched with Rhine stone drilling buckle for the first time, let Sun Yi love to the seaside. Bab ‘Viv’ on the type of casual shoes is the creative director of Bruno Frisoni’s trip to Morocco to extend, while the new La ‘Bel Viv shoes on Mr. Roger Vivier from the classic sign of Paris founded the first boutique when printed in the shopping bag and box, put on shoes with the side of the shoe, show the romantic atmosphere with soft leather, by Sun Yifeng as “the princess’s sports shoes. ”
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英國東薩塞克斯郡沿岸前日出現來歷不明的「化學霧霾」（圖），233人不適送院治療，當局一度疏散和封閉多個沙灘，正調查「化學霧霾」成因，呼籲市民關閉門戶留在室內。
當地警方指，前日下午5時左右接到多達50宗眼喉不適報告，受影響地區介乎伊斯特本和柏令海崖之間，估計霧霾由海飄來，但來歷不明，消防部門相信不大可能是坊間盛傳的氯氣。至晚上有233人因事件入院求醫，他們出現呼吸困難、雙眼刺痛和嘔吐等。
當時正於柏令海崖沙灘享家庭樂的克里克莫爾指，霧霾「不知從哪裏出現」，「有強烈的氯氣氣味」，人們感到不適後沙灘在10分鐘內清空。剛巧在該區的《衞報》記者柯本指，霧霾吹近時「眼睛開始刺痛和流出淚水，附近有數名兒童在清洗眼睛」，離開30分鐘後仍感覺痛。
警方相信今次屬個別事件，不會再發生同類情況，昨日已重新開放該區的沙灘。英國廣播公司（BBC）指事件疑是化學洩漏，指法國的工廠過去曾被指飄來一些氣體，但未獲證實。
幫助唐納德·特朗普總統寫他的開創性著作《交易的藝術》的那個人說這位前真人秀藝員將很快離開白宮。
在星期三的一系列推特上，共同撰寫了1987本幫助界定房地產巨頭公眾形象的書的Tony Schwartz說，他認為這些牆正在逼近特朗普，他很快就會離開辦公室，試圖挽回面子。
施瓦茲星期三發來的每一條微博都是關於特朗普的。認為特朗普作為一個小孩，W /反應性依戀障礙，囙此在一個永久性的致命的脾氣。他在7歲時就結束了學業。他後來說，“記住，每次特朗普責備和貶低他預計他深感和自我憎恨別人身上。”
趨勢：誰是Pershing？王牌援引軍隊領導人，他錯誤地認為用猪血子彈射殺穆斯林恐怖分子。
後來，他在一系列三條推特上寫道，特朗普的結局會在一年前結束。圓圈以令人目眩的速度接近。特朗普將辭職並宣佈勝利，繆勒和國會讓他別無選擇，”施瓦茲在推特上寫道。特朗普的總統任期實際上結束了。如果他能活到年底，他會很驚訝的。更可能辭職到秋天，如果不是更早。”
對於那些不支持特朗普的美國人來說，很多人認為總統的支持率徘徊在37%左右，施瓦茲警告說，如果他們想讓億萬富翁辭職的話，他們必須繼續施加壓力。王牌必須孤立。每天抵抗。結尾很近，但必須保持高壓力，”他在推特上寫道。
別錯過了：美國通過轟炸日本，然後使自己的阿兵哥在核清理任務中生病而贏得了第二次世界大戰。
施瓦茲現在是能源項目的首席執行官，他一直是特朗普的責備者，他登上了白宮，並經常試圖解釋總統是如何做出決策的。月，施瓦茲寫在華盛頓郵報特朗普沒有價值也不一定認識的品質，往往成為人們越來越安全，比如同情心，慷慨，反思的能力，延遲滿足，首先，良心，正確與錯誤的內在意義。”
相反，他所做的一切都是交易性的，被認為是贏或輸。如果這是真的，顯然，特朗普將沙漠就任總統前，可以認為它是一個不可挽回的損失。
評論員似乎覺得施瓦茲一樣。最新的賠率從莊家立博，例如，給48%的機會他沒有完成第一學期由於是彈劾或辭職特朗普。
The International Tennis Federation is considering disciplinary action against Romania’s Fed Cup captain after he reportedly made a racist comment about Serena Williams during a Friday news conference.
Ilie Nastase, a former men’s world No. 1, reportedly said the following about Williams, who is pregnant with her first child: “Let’s see what color it has. Chocolate with milk?”
In December, Williams announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who is white.
“The ITF does not tolerate discriminatory and offensive language and behavior of any kind,” the ITF said in a statement. “We are aware of alleged comments made by Romanian captain Ilie Nastase and have begun an immediate investigation so that we have the full facts of the situation before taking further and appropriate action.”
On Saturday, Nastase was ejected from the court and banned from the Fed Cup tie between Romania and Great Britain after he made a series of foul-mouthed remarks toward the British.
Nastase escorted back to the locker rooms pic.twitter.com/4M9Ck4Frng
— Eleanor Crooks (@EleanorcrooksPA) April 22, 2017
British No. 1 Johanna Konta was leading Romania’s Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 1-2, when Nastase got into a confrontation with the chair umpire about the crowd noise.
“What’s your [expletive] problem?,” Nastase reportedly told the umpire. He also reportedly referred to Konta and Great Britain’s captain Anne Keothavong “[expletive] bitches.” He was then escorted out of the stadium.
The ITF and ITF President David Haggerty released statements on the incident, noting that “a formal investigation is already underway.”
The ITF has issued the following statement regarding Ilie Nastase pic.twitter.com/yiYP1DycCz
— ITF (@ITF_Tennis) April 22, 2017
ITF President David Haggerty has released this statement following the actions of Ilie Nastase at the @FedCup tie in Romania pic.twitter.com/vqPEBApMLt
— ITF (@ITF_Tennis) April 22, 2017
Nastase also sparked controversy in March when he accused Williams of doping in a Romanian publication.
“Russia’s image when it comes to sport suffered a lot because of doping, but it’s pretty clear in Serena’s case as well. Don’t you see how she looks like?” Nastase said, according to Digisport.ro. “No one controls the Americans when it comes to doping.”
Cuba Gooding, Sr., lead singer for the 1970s soul group The Main Ingredient and father to Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., has reportedly died. He was 72.
According to TMZ, Gooding was found dead in his car on Thursday (April 20) in Woodland Hills, California.
Gooding joined The Main Ingredient in 1971 when the former lead singer Donald McPherson died unexpectedly of leukemia. He had served as a backing vocalist on some of their recordings previously. While he was with the RCA-signed band, the act scored five top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, including their highest-charting effort: 1972’s “Everybody Plays the Fool,” which peaked at No. 2 for three weeks. The track also was their biggest hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, climbing to No. 3. The Gooding-led act also notched top 10s on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with “Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely,” “Happiness Is Just Around the Bend” and “Rolling Down a Mountainside.”
In 1977, Gooding left the band to pursue a solo career on Motown in 1977, releasing two albums. In 1979, he reunited with his Main Ingredient bandmates they continued to work together through the 1980s. Gooding resumed his solo career in 1993 and did not participate in a 1999 reunion of his old band. Gooding also had a minor acting career.
Gooding himself as a solo artist notched two R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart hits of his own: 1978’s “Mind Pleaser” and 1983’s “Happiness Is Just Around the Bend,” which reached Nos. 91 and 43 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, respectively. More than two decades later, Gooding returned to Billboard’s charts with the top 10-charting Adult Contemporary airplay chart hit “This Christmas” (Richard Kincaid featuring Cuba Gooding Sr.). It climbed to No. 9 in December of 2012.
The singer had four children with his wife Shirley Gooding: actors Cuba Gooding Jr., Omar Gooding, April Gooding and musician Tommy Gooding.
BEIRUT (AP) — Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be “cosmetic” if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.
The airstrikes on the opposition-held northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, where 87 people were killed in the chemical attack earlier this week, killed a woman and wounded her son, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, an activist collective.
Elsewhere in Syria, U.S.-led airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including a woman and her six children who were fleeing on a boat across the Euphrates River near the Islamic State group’s self-styled capital, Raqqa, the target of a major offensive by U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces, activists said.
An airstrike on a rebel-held town in the northern Idlib province killed at least 18 people, including women and children, according to the Observatory and Ariha Today, an activist group. It was not immediately clear who carried out the strike.
Near the central city of Homs, a bomb exploded aboard a bus carrying workers, killing a woman and wounding more than 20, according to state TV and the Observatory.
The chemical attack prompted the U.S. to launch nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian air base early Friday, which killed nine people and marked the first time Washington has directly targeted Syrian government forces since the war began in 2011.
The move was welcomed by the Syrian opposition and its main backers, including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but harshly condemned by Russia and Iran, who back Assad and said striking his forces would complicate the struggle against extremist groups.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the U.S. strike should be the start of a renewed effort to end the civil war, which has killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced half of Syria’s population.
“If this intervention is limited only to an air base, if it does not continue and if we don’t remove the regime from heading Syria, then this would remain a cosmetic intervention,” he said.
He said the best outcome would be a peace agreement that leads to a transitional government accepted by all Syrians, followed by elections in which all Syrians, including those living abroad, could vote for new leadership. For that to happen, he said, “this oppressive Assad needs to go.”
Iran, which has provided crucial military and political support to Assad, meanwhile called for a fact-finding mission to determine what caused the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun. State television quoted Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as saying the committee should be impartial and “must not be headed by Americans.”
Rouhani said “neutral countries should come and assess to make it clear where the chemical weapons came from.”
Syria’s government has denied carrying out any chemical attack, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said the toxic agents were released when a Syrian airstrike hit a rebel chemical weapons arsenal and munitions factory.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson canceled a planned trip to Russia because of fast-moving events in Syria. Johnson said the situation in Syria has changed “fundamentally” following the chemical attack and the U.S. response.
Johnson condemned Russia’s continued defense of Assad “even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.”
He had planned to travel to Russia Monday on a trip intended to start a fresh dialogue with Moscow.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meanwhile plans to meet with G-7 foreign ministers in Europe next week before going on to Moscow. Johnson said Tillerson will be able to give a “clear and coordinated message to the Russians.”
In Damascus, dozens of Syrian students gathered outside the offices of the United Nations to protest the U.S. missile attack, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
University student Ashraf Fadel said he came to denounce “the unjust American aggression against Syria.” He added that the United Nations was “created to support America instead of serving the wronged people.”
In a separate development, activists opposed to the Islamic State group said a U.S.-led coalition airstrike hit a boat carrying civilians fleeing across the Euphrates River. The groups Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently and Sound and Picture said the attack killed a woman and her six children. The attack occurred in the Shuaib al-Zeker area, near where U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have been battling IS under the cover of coalition airstrikes.
Activists and state media said a separate airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on the northern IS-held village of Hneida killed at least 14 civilians, including children. The Observatory said 15 people, including four children, were killed in the airstrike. The Sound and Picture group said the airstrike hit an internet cafe, killing 14 people.
In Saudi Arabia, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken by telephone with King Salman about the U.S. missile strike on Syria.
The news agency reported that during the Friday phone call, the Saudi monarch congratulated Trump for his “courageous decision.”
Saudi Arabia said the missile launch was the right response to “the crimes of this regime to its people in light of the failure of the international community to stop it.”
The kingdom is among the most vehement opponents of Assad and supports Sunni rebel groups fighting to oust him. The Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia are in a power struggle for regional dominance with Iran’s Shiite government.
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Associated Press writers Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria contributed to this report.
Sophie Simmons probably will not be racing out to pick up a copy of Katey Sagal’s new memoir, Grace Notes.
In the revealing book, the Married With Children star, 63, details an affair she had with Gene Simmons 43 years ago. Sophie Simmons, the 24-year-old daughter of the Kiss rocker, thinks the account is unnecessary.
“I feel like it’s no one’s business, really,” she said on the Allegedly With Theo Von & Matthew Cole Weiss podcast on Tuesday. “I mean, if Katey wants to write a book about her life, cool — but to write about someone and then have it affect their family I feel like is a really kind of low place to go to try and sell a book.”
Simmons added, “And she should probably look at her own family — I’m just saying — before pointing fingers … because other people could write books too.”
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Sagal — who has been married to screenwriter Kurt Sutter since 2004 — met Gene Simmons, 67, in a bar in Santa Monica, Calif., where she was singing as a waitress in the ’70s.
“At first, I thought Gene was really weird,” the Sons of Anarchy alum writes. “I took him home with me that night because he was quite persuasive, and I like men.”
Simmons ended up signing Sagal and her band to his label, but they were dropped after one album. The affair was on and off for several years, but ended when she told Simmons she was going to marry bassist Freddie Beckmeier unless he married her instead. Simmons reportedly laughed at the idea, so Sagal did tie the knot with Beckmeier in 1977. They divorced three years later.
Sophie Simmons, who is a musician as well, said her family will brush off the story. “It really doesn’t affect us — we’re so tight as a family,” she explained. “My parents are so crazy in love. I mean, congrats to the one groupie who thought they got ahead, but apparently didn’t. … You’re a really talented actress, so it worked out.”
Gene Simmons wed his longtime love, Shannon Tweed, in 2011 after three decades together. They have two children: Sophie and Nick, 28. Sagal, meanwhile, is on her fourth marriage. She and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter share a 10-year-old daughter, Esme, born via surrogate. Sagal is also mom to a daughter, Sarah, 22, and a son, Jackson, 21, from her third marriage, to Jack White.
A McDonald’s employee in Doral, Florida, rescued a
A McDonald’s employee in Doral, Florida, rescued a police officer on Tuesday after she became unconscious at the restaurant’s drive-through window, according to a local ABC News affiliate report.
Surveillance footage provided to Miami-based station WPLG shows the fast-acting employee, Pedro Viloria, jumping out the restaurant’s drive-through window after a customer very slowly pulls away.
Viloria said the customer — an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer who had her two children in the backseat — was suffering from a medical emergency.
Viloria said the customer pulled up and paid for her order without a problem, but he noticed that she was having trouble breathing when he returned to the window with her food.
“In that moment, I thought, ‘I’d rather save that woman’s life,'” he told WPLG on Tuesday. “I see she’s, like, inflating her neck, like trying to breathe, like ‘ahh,’ and basically I thought something was going wrong.”
After checking on the customer and finding her unconscious, Viloria said he rushed back into the restaurant to get help.
Thankfully, he did not have to look far.
A customer, who identified herself as a paramedic, jumped into action and assisted the officer, WPLG reported.
Moments later, an off-duty Miami-Dade Fire Rescue worker entered the store and offered his assistance as well, according to the report.
“The real heroes are the fire rescuers,” Viloria told WPLG.
He said the first responders performed CPR on the woman and used an automated external defibrillator to revive her.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A convenience store is disputing a new documentary’s claim that previously unreleased surveillance video suggests Michael Brown didn’t rob the store shortly before he was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
One of the filmmakers, Jason Pollock, told The New York Times he believes the footage shows Brown trading a small amount of marijuana for a bag of cigarillos around 1 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2014. The video doesn’t clearly show what was exchanged, but shows Brown leaving behind the bag of cigarillos.
Pollock reasons Brown intended to come back later for the cigarillos. Pollock argues the new footage challenges what authorities have said about Brown pushing a worker and taking cigarillos during another visit to the store about 10 hours later, shortly before he was killed.
Jay Kanzler, an attorney for the store and the employees shown in the video, said no such transaction took place.
“There was no understanding. No agreement. Those folks didn’t sell him cigarillos for pot. The reason he gave it back is he was walking out the door with unpaid merchandise and they wanted it back,” Kanzler told the newspaper.
The store’s co-owner, Andy Patel, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday that Brown “grabbed the cigarillos and stole them” when Brown returned to the store later that day. Previously released surveillance video shows Brown strong-arming Patel and pushing him as he left.
Brown, who was 18, was fatally shot minutes later by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Brown, who was black, was unarmed. Wilson is white.
The shooting led to months of unrest and sometimes violent protests in the St. Louis suburb. A local grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice found no evidence of wrongdoing by Wilson, who resigned in November 2014. But the shooting and protests led to scrutiny of Ferguson, resulting in a scathing Justice Department report alleging racial bias in the city’s criminal justice system.
Some of the local officials who investigated the fatal shooting said they didn’t think the new footage shed much light on the case.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he wasn’t surprised that Brown was in the Ferguson Market earlier in the day. Belmar said his department focused on investigating the shooting, not the incident at the store.
Former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said he hadn’t seen the earlier surveillance video, but that he didn’t think it was fair to connect the store to a drug transaction.
The new documentary called “Stranger Fruit” premiered Saturday at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
It took 10 years for AnnaLynne McCord to stop blaming herself for the rape she experienced as a teenager.
The 29-year-old 90210 actress gave a harrowing interview to the BBC on Wednesday in honor of International Women’s Day, where she spoke again about her assault and what she’s learned now that could help other survivors.
Recounting the incident, McCord noted how her rape happened in a different way than those often described by society.
“I was never raped in these scenarios they tell you you’re going to get raped in,” she said. “I was in my own home. Let a friend come stay at my place because [he] needed to crash. And I woke up to find my Southern hospitality, if you want to call it that, was being greatly taken advantage of. I woke up, and he was inside me — and my whole body shut down.”
At the time, McCord was just 18-years-old and living in Los Angeles where she was pursuing a career as an actress. Though she had grown up the pastor’s daughter in a devoutly Christian household, she had also experienced strict discipline from her parents as a child.
Leaving home at 15, she admits to going “a little crazy-wild in New York, dancing on tables wearing little miniskirts.”
Those things combined made her feel responsible for her own rape — though she admits now “how I dress does not mean yes.”
“For 10 years I thought it was my fault,” she said. “I didn’t fight back. I found out recently through my studies of neuroscience that my body completely shut everything down and wouldn’t let me fight back because I thought that was the only way to cope with abuse.”
After the incident happened, McCord said she completely shut down.
“I wasn’t the one seeking any kind of solace or consolation from what happened — I pretended like it didn’t occur and went on with my life,” she explained. “I thought I was fine and continued ‘living,’ if you want to call that living.”
“I became very, very dark,” she added. “Suicidal. Self-harming – cutting up my arms.”
But she also found herself drawn to charity work, especially with survivors of the Cambodian sex trade.
“I fight human trafficking, working with survivors of consistent rape every day — all day,” she said. “We’re working to get them back to some sort of normalcy.”
When she was asked by writers on 90210 if she was comfortable playing a storyline in which her character Naomi was raped by a teacher, McCord jumped at the chance thinking of her charity work — but not realizing her own connection to the material.
“The producers came down and asked, ‘Would you want to portray this — it’s very dark.’ It was the story of my character being raped. And I was like, ‘Yes, this is such an important topic,’ ” she said. “It was something I was really excited to tackle.”
“I did months and months of episodes,” McCord continued. “I was in to a second season of the storyline when I had a moment on set and what happened to me all came back in a flash.”
Since then, she hasn’t looked back — first revealing her story in a May 2014 Cosmopolitan piece and since taking her message to college campuses with her short film, I Choose.
“The support has been amazing,” she previously told PEOPLE. “You think in your head that the opposite is going to happen. You think that you’ll be shamed and there will be even more degradation, humiliation. And the opposite has been apparent. But what’s even more important than that to me has been the outreach from survivors who are telling me their stories.”
She said thousands victims have reach outed to her about their own experiences — emails that she personally takes the time to answer.
“Eighty percent of them have told me for the very first time – a complete stranger, someone they don’t even know, a random actress in Los Angeles – because I said, ‘Hey, I was raped too and it’s okay,’ ” McCord shared. “And the ‘it’s okay’ part is the most crucial part.”
Model Hunter McGrady knows the importance of proper clothing selection. The rising star walked the iHeartRadio Music Awards red carpet in an outfit that could’ve come straight out of Christian Grey’s red room. Although the ensemble stood out not just for its risqué factors, but for the designers behind the pieces. She wore Chromat and Prabal Gurung for Lane Bryant with Fashion to Figure, all body positive brands that design clothes for curvy women.
McGrady, who recently shot for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, opened up about the importance of feeling sexy — and of clothes that make that possible for curvy women. “I just threw on what I wanted to wear. I feel like a lot of people try to put curvy girls in this category of ‘you can’t wear this. You can only wear this,’” she told Yahoo Style. “I kind of said, ‘You know what? I’m just going to wear what I want. And so I threw it on, and here I am. I feel supersexy in it!”
Supersexy is an understatement. The outfit, consisting of a sheer pencil skirt that covers up a cut-out bustier and garter belt, was more than 50 Shades of Grey — it was like 100 Shades of Black.
As the curviest model ever featured in Sports Illustrated, McGrady has plenty to say about how our culture perceives flaws. “It’s something that’s always been in my heart and something that I’ve been so proud of. I struggled with a lot of insecurity when I was younger. I mean I still do. Of course I’m only human,” she said.
She continued, “I just want women out there to know that you are beautiful in the skin that you’re in. And what people deem flaws are not flaws. Everyone has these things, whether it be stretch marks, cellulite, acne, whatever it is.” Translation: Whatever you’re most insecure about, work hard to embrace it (and maybe you’ll also end up in Sports Illustrated.)
When Emma Watson was featured on the cover of the latest issue of Vanity Fair, with an accompanying spread that sees her braless with a cutout top, she got a fair bit of criticism online from all sides. And while the star of Beauty and the Beast had not responded before, she recently did on a press junket interview for the new film. “Is there a controversy about this?” she asked sarcastically.
“It just always reveals to me of how many misconceptions and misunderstandings there [are] about what feminism is,” the 26-year old told the BBC about the reaction to the Tim Walker photograph. “Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality.”
“I really don’t know what my t*ts have to do with it,” she continued. In the photograph, Watson is wearing a Burberry crochet cape — with no blouse.
“I was slightly taken aback by [that specific shot] because we were doing so many crazy things on that shoot,” the U.N. Women’s goodwill ambassador said. “It had felt so artistic, and I had been so creatively involved and engaged with Tim. I am so thrilled with how interesting and beautiful the photographs were.” But for some, the comments seem hypocritical.
Feminism should not be used as a measuring stick to criticize and ridicule other women, but it should advocate for a woman’s right to choose how she presents her body, thoughts and emotions. Watson’s track record doesn’t exactly reflect that, as some have pointed out.
In an interview with Wonderland magazine, Watson commented on Beyoncé’s self-titled album. “As I was watching it, I felt very conflicted,” she said. “I felt her message felt very conflicted in the sense that, on the one hand, she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, but then the camera, it felt very male — such a male, voyeuristic experience of her.” But wait, as we all know, it’s Beyoncé who makes the final decision on how she is portrayed, in every sense. So what’s the difference?
That ability to talk out of both sides of your mouth about feminism is what some have derisively deemed “white feminism.” It is categorized as having the sort of viewpoint that, on one hand, defends the speaker (usually a white subject), while at the same time criticizing feminism as it is expressed by others (typically women of color): that is, using feminism as a stick with which to beat other women, essentially.
Here, Watson contends that feminism is about giving women a choice. It was her choice to appear in the way that she did in Walker’s photograph. It was partially her version, apparently, as she was creatively involved in the shoot. But wasn’t Beyoncé, as well? Hasn’t she engineered and directed all aspects of her career and her image, since firing her father back in 2011? Wasn’t she also creatively involved in the final look of her album?
To be fair, Watson may have evolved since her original statements and come to understand that one can be both a feministand appear in lingerie. One can be both sexy to men and adamant about the rights of women. And while it’s her choice whether she reveals this maturation to the public, doing so could go a long way toward letting people understand her seemingly contradictory positions.
John Ross shocked the football world Saturday with an incredible 40-yard dash time. Ross’ run of 4.22 seconds brokeChris Johnson’s record from 200a8 of 4.24 seconds, and everyone is freaking out about it.
First, the former record-holder weighed in after seeing Ross run:
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— Chris Johnson (@ChrisJohnson28) March 4, 2017
@watchjross congrats ????????????????
— Chris Johnson (@ChrisJohnson28) March 4, 2017
He picking em up n putting em down boi
— Chris Johnson (@ChrisJohnson28) March 4, 2017
Johnson wasn’t the only football star to show respect for the new king of the 40-yard dash.
John Ross is beyond fast????
— Jonathan Stewart (@Jonathanstewar1) March 4, 2017
GMs looking at 4.2 Ross like this right now pic.twitter.com/jFv1u0PEkq
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) March 4, 2017
John Ross ????????????????
— Jermaine Kearse (@JKearse_15) March 4, 2017
WAIT. @WatchJRoss RAN WHAT?????!! ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? #NFLCombine
— Patrick Peterson /P2 (@P2) March 4, 2017
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— Tavon Austin (@Tayaustin01) March 4, 2017
Blessings 0n Blessings !! Words can’t express how Happy I am 4 my Young brother ‘ Knew it w0uld…https://t.co/82JZEBTrZf
— Desean Jackson (@DeSeanJackson11) March 4, 2017
Wow!!!! The hand time speed is str8 Up #FlashGordon hearing 4.19 ???????????????? https://t.co/lABmDHMRd4
— Steve Smith Sr (@89SteveSmith) March 4, 2017
4.22! ???????????? have lyft come pick u up on the field. You’re all done ???????????? drop the location marker right next to the 30 yard line
— Rod Streater (@rodstreater80) March 4, 2017
His speed gotta be 100 on madden lol
— DeVante Parker (@DeVanteParker11) March 4, 2017
Congrats Brodie @WatchJRoss
— Shaq Thompson (@ShaqThompson_7) March 4, 2017
BLESSINGS ON BLESSINGS! @WatchJRoss ????????????????
— Jay Ajayi (@JayTrain23) March 4, 2017
Even Ross’ Washington classmates couldn’t contain themselves. Basketball stars Markelle Fultz, who could be this year’s No. 1 overall NBA draft pick, and Kelsey Plum, the NCAA D1 Women’s Basketball all-time scorer, were amazed by Ross:
Yessir bro @WatchJRoss
— Markelle Fultz (@MarkelleF) March 4, 2017
@WatchJRoss congrats you BEAST ???????????? https://t.co/fCucBsZnxX
— Kelsey Plum (@Kelseyplum10) March 4, 2017
While the run was great, it’s a shame he won’t win the island after wearing Nike cleats instead of Adidas. But that didn’t stop NFL players from advocating for Ross.
When your choice of shoes was the difference in whether or not you won an island ????…
— Brett A. Hundley Jr (@BrettHundley17) March 4, 2017
Give that man that private island. Who cares who he signed with #4.2Ross #RossIsland
— Shaq Thompson (@ShaqThompson_7) March 4, 2017
Houston Fox 26 reporter John Donnelly was doing a normal story on how to stay safe in a road rage incident, talking to people on the street. You’ve seen these types of TV news stories before; they’re fairly common.
What was unusual here is that the man on the street Donnelly interviewed happened to be future Pro Football Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson … and Donnelly had no idea.
The story comes via TVNewsStoryTellers.com, and it’s awesome. At the end of the interview, Donnelly asks the guy he’s been talking to about road rage his name, like he would with anyone else, and the subject says “Adrian Peterson.”
“Wait a minute, you’re not … ” Donnelly said.
“Yeah,” Peterson says after a brief, awkward pause.
That’s just amazing. The flip side of the story is funny too. Peterson must have figured he was being stopped to talk about his NFL future – he’s set to be a free agent on March 9, after the Minnesota Vikings made big news this week by announcing they won’t pick up his 2017 option – or whatever else a reporter would ask of Peterson if he saw him on the street. It must have been nice for Peterson to be treated for a minute like John Smith from Katy, Texas, just talking about how to handle a road rage situation.
Donnelly had fun with the video, posting on Facebook, “Here I am interviewing people on the street and not realizing I’d stopped a celebrity. Enjoy the awkwardness!” He and Peterson took a picture together after he figured out this was Adrian Peterson.
The Peterson video now ranks No. 2 in “didn’t realize it was an NFL player during a man on the street interview” history, behind “Hopeful Powerball player” Chris Long.
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