Duke men’s basketball is back in the Elite Eight after outlasting a physical Houston with a 54-51 win in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on Friday night.
Houston’s top-ranked defense kept Duke at bay in the first half, but the Cougars suffered a tough blow when All-American guard Jamal Shead went down with an apparent foot injury while driving towards the basket with just a little over six minutes left in the half.
After remaining on the ground visibly in pain, Shead was helped up and eventually walked back to the locker room.
According to reports, his X-rays came back negative, and he was diagnosed with a severely sprained right ankle. He would remain on the sidelines for the rest of the game.
But without Shead, Duke managed to pull away in the second half.
Kyle Filipowski had 16 points and nine rebounds to lead the charge, but Jeremy Roach’s 14 second-half points kept the momentum going.
“I’m really proud of these guys and really proud of the game tonight – that was a big time college basketball game,” Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said after the game.
Scheyer went on to compliment Houston’s fortitude despite the loss of Shead, and made a point to silence any criticisms about Duke’s own toughness after a loss to Tennessee in the second round last year.
“Look, we started four freshmen last year,” he began, “I think for us, some of the criticism about toughness or whatever – try being at Duke as a freshman or sophomore and battling your ass off in the tournament, and then talk to me about being tough.”
Duke now moves on to face Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina State for a spot in the Final Four.
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, has repeatedly advocated for cutting the state’s prison population in half, eliminating cash bail and other progressive criminal justice reforms.
Before entering public office, Barnes previously worked as an organizer for Milwaukee Inner City Congregations Allied for Hope, a Milwaukee-based social justice group, when he teamed up with another organization, Wisdom, to launch a 2012 initiative aimed at cutting Wisconsin’s prison population in half.
The 11×15 campaign sought to reduce the state’s prison population to 11,000 inmates by 2015, Barnes told local media at the time.
Barnes later served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly before he was chosen as the running mate to now-Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
During their campaign in 2018, Evers signed onto Barnes’ idea of halving the state’s prison population. Evers, who at the time was the state schools superintendent, said he wanted to do that by allowing inmates to be released for good behavior, creating or expanding court diversion programs and treating 17-year-old offenders as juveniles instead of adults, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported at the time.
Evers did not put a time frame on halving the prison population, but he called it a “goal” and said he would not release violent offenders.
Months before the election in July 2018, Barnes celebrated Evers and other Democratic gubernatorial candidates for supporting his initiative.
“6 years ago when we kicked off the 11×15 campaign to cut the prison population in half, we could hardly find elected leaders or candidates to get onboard,” Barnes tweeted. “To see it embraced at a gubernatorial candidate forum makes me proud to have worked with such visionary organizers/activists.”
After Evers and Barnes won the election in November 2018, narrowly defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch, Barnes continued supporting the prison initiative, tweeting in October 2019, “Cool, let’s cut our prison population in half.”
Since Evers and Barnes entered office, Wisconsin’s prison population has been reduced by about 15%. In 2019, the population was 23,777, compared to 20,123 today, according to 2022 statistics from the state Department of Corrections.
The vast majority of those currently incarcerated – 68% – are classified as “violent” offenders, meaning it would be impossible to cut the population in “half” without releasing at least some of those violent offenders.
In 2016, when he was still a state legislator, Barnes sponsored a bill to end cash bail in Wisconsin. The measure, which did not make it out of committee, would have required a defendant to be released unless there was “clear and convincing evidence” that he or she was a flight risk or a danger to society, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
During a September 2018 podcast, Barnes also said he supported allowing inmates to vote.
“I’ve long championed restoration of voting rights immediately once someone has served their sentence, and I mean, honestly, even when someone is locked up,” he said.
Barnes has also made statements online with a soft tone on the defund the police movement, and his campaign has received funding from five groups that advocate for defunding cops.
“Defunding the police only dreams of being as radical as a Donald Trump pardon,” Barnes tweeted in July 2020.
On Sept. 3, 2020, Barnes blasted the criminal justice system after the police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor did not face charges.
“You can feel how you want about to calls to reform, defund, or abolish but the question is, how can a system that allows this to happen continue to be upheld?” he wrote.
The lieutenant governor also spoke at a major meeting for the Center for Popular Democracy — a far-left group that supports defunding the police and claims Israel targets Palestinians with “violent attacks.”
“Defund police. Defund police states,” the group tweeted in May of last year. “Defund militarized occupation. Defund state-sanctioned violence.”
Barnes has stated in the press that he does not support the defund the police movement, despite his past statements.
Johnson’s campaign slammed Barnes as “dangerous” in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Lt. Gov. Barnes is a socialist liberal who cares more about catering to his ‘woke’ base than keeping Wisconsin families safe,” Johnson campaign spokesman Alec Zimmerman said.
“Crime is out-of-control in Wisconsin, and we can’t afford to elect a radical who cares more about criminals than their victims. Mandela Barnes is dangerous for Wisconsin,” he said.
Barnes’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News’ Houston Keene contributed to this report.
To be fair no AI tool is perfect yet as technology isn’t there yet.
And to give you perspective the AI wrote this post and then I had to modify it and add specific sections and steps.
When I look back and did an analysis, AI wrote roughly 25% of this post.
That’s not too bad. Sure, I had to write 75%, but the hardest part about writing isn’t putting words on a paper it’s coming up with the ideas and the overall format.
So today I am going to show you how to write a blog post using AI… keep in mind over time it will get better as technology improves.
But first, something you should know…
Don’t worry about duplicate content
Google doesn’t penalize for duplicate content and even if they did this AI tools makes 100% unique content for you.
So, you won’t have duplicative or plagiarism issues.
It’s not just mixing words around it is trying to understand what you are trying to write your article on, do research, and come up with words that encompass everything you are trying to get across.
First, enter in the keyword you want an article on. For this example, I chose the term “digital marketing” as my blog is on digital marketing.
Then you will want to select a title from the list provided. You don’t always have to use it at the very end but a lot of the titles are based on what people are searching for.
Next, you will want to choose a meta description.
Similar to the above, meta description is also based on keywords that are popular from a traffic perspective.
After you select your meta description you will want to select a few headings.
Keep in mind headings are like book chapters. Pick the ones that work the best, and again keep in mind you can always adjust the text later on.
The last step is, that Ubersuggest will take all of the data and spit out content for you.
By no means is the content perfect and I wouldn’t recommend publishing it or any AI content written by any tool for that matter.
More so use it as a starting ground.
So how do you modify the article?
Well, the AI tool won’t always be contextually accurate, but most of the time it is.
More so the way you make the AI piece amazing is by getting more detailed.
So for example in the digital marketing above, in the “create an online presence” section I would go in-depth on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest on how you can use them for marketing.
As for Google + it doesn’t exist, so I would delete that part and expand the other platforms and give step-by-step instructions on how to leverage them.
I would also include screenshots so each step is clear.
Under the “promote your brand” section I would discuss ads and other ways to promote your brand such as running promotions, sales during holidays, or even doing webinars.
I would give examples of other successful ones that businesses have run and give examples of failed campaigns that have been run and break down what you can learn from them.
The “grow your audience” section already talks about what to do if you have no followers. They are all good tips that the AI tool wrote, but the tips are too surface level. I would dive deep into each one.
From how you should think about commenting on other profiles and blogs to what email templates to use to convince people to collaborate with you.
And the measuring success section was cut off from the above screenshot but it mentions Google Analytics. I would go more in-depth on how to set up goals in Google Analytics and tie in revenue.
Conclusion
The Ubersuggest AI tool isn’t meant to replace humans or for it to perfectly write your content for you.
It’s meant to give you a start.
You have experienced writer’s block and we all hate it. The tool solves that part plus it gives you a head start.
It not only gives you title and meta description ideas, but it writes some of the content for you as well as gives you popular headings based on keyword search volume.
All you have to do is adjust and fill in the rest.
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