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NFL milestone could come exactly as Lamar Jackson prefers it
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The records and achievements have come at such a prolific rate for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson that they've almost become white noise in an MVP-caliber season.
On Wednesday, the 22-year-old became the first Ravens quarterback to ever be named AFC Offensive Player of the Month after an incredible November that included 13 touchdown passes, three touchdown runs, a 76.2 completion percentage, a 143.7 passer rating, 777 passing yards, 300 rushing yards, no turnovers, and — what he cares about most — a 4-0 record. But his next potential feat isn't a run-of-the-mill weekly award or an obscure record you'd need the Elias Sports Bureau to confirm.
A week after surpassing Randall Cunningham and Bobby Douglass on the single-season list, Jackson needs only 63 rushing yards — a total he's eclipsed in nine of his last 11 games — to break Michael Vick's NFL record for most rushing yards by a quarterback in a single season. Vick rushed for 1,039 yards in 2006, but Jackson is currently on pace to run for an amazing 1,302 yards in his first full season as a starter. For context, a player rushed for 1,300 yards only eight times over the previous four NFL seasons and no Raven has reached that mark since Ray Rice (1,364) in 2011.
For a young player who's tried to downplay weekly awards and MVP hype in favor of team-oriented goals throughout the season, this record certainly carries meaning.
"It would be an honor. Like I've said, Michael Vick is my favorite player," Jackson said. "For me to do such a thing, it's incredible. He had that record for a long time, and it will be pretty cool. But I'm focused on the win regardless."
With winning always at the forefront of Jackson's mind, breaking Vick's record on the same day the Ravens can clinch a playoff spot with a win at Buffalo — and possibly their second straight AFC North division championship if Pittsburgh also loses at Arizona — would be exactly how he likes it.
Jackson has now rushed for at least 60 yards in nine straight games, the kind of consistency for which the best running backs in the league strive. That he's continued to run at such a historic pace while also being a top 10-caliber passer — if not even better than that — is why he's the clear favorite to be NFL MVP. It's the stuff of video games if a game of Madden were as fun as watching the electrifying Jackson make defenders look silly in the open field.
"Lamar is a generational talent in my opinion running the ball, and a lot of people understand that," right tackle Orlando Brown Jr. said. "People want to stop him. People want to slow him down and all those different things. People haven't really figured out how to do it yet. I'm sure there isn't an answer."
There really isn't one at this point, but Jackson would gladly take a quiet day with his legs against the Bills as long as the Ravens officially punch their ticket for January football. And that mindset is part of what makes him so special.
Cleaning up run defense
The 174 rushing yards allowed — 146 by Raheem Mostert — in last Sunday's 20-17 win over San Francisco grabbed the Ravens' attention preparing for Buffalo's fifth-ranked ground attack this week.
The Bills rank 10th in the NFL in rushing efficiency while the Baltimore run defense will try to bounce back from its worst game since the Week 4 loss to Cleveland. The Ravens did limit the 49ers to just nine yards on five carries in the fourth quarter after San Francisco had much success running outside.
"There were some edge issues that we had with Jaylon [Ferguson], and it was just a different look that a rookie hasn't seen," defensive coordinator Wink Martindale said. "We worked on it because we know how this league is. If they see a scab scratched, they're going to keep trying to attack it and we've worked on it. That's been a point of emphasis for us going into this game. We just had too many missed tackles on that [40-yard touchdown run], and what I liked is how we bounced back in the second half."
Should Ferguson's Week 13 problems holding the edge carry over against Buffalo, veteran Jihad Ward seeing more snaps at outside linebacker wouldn't be surprising.
Special moment for Humphrey
Marlon Humphrey said he'd never blocked a field goal in practice, college, or even high school, but his deflection of 49ers kicker Robbie Gould's 51-yard attempt to end the first half proved to be a critical play in the three-point win.
The play sparked an enthusiastic embrace as part of a big day for the Baltimore special-teams units.
"We prepared, we talked about it. We said, 'We have an opportunity,' if we got in that situation," special teams coach Chris Horton said. "I was really excited for him. It was our first blocked kick as a staff, so it was just a really exciting moment. And I think it was deserving of a big hug."
Thursday's injury report
Defensive tackle Brandon Williams was the only player on the 53-man roster not to practice on Thursday as he received a veteran day off.
Wide receiver Marquise Brown (ankle) was added to the injury report as a limited participant, which hasn't been uncommon over the course of the season.
Below is the full injury report:
DID NOT PARTICIPATE: DT Brandon Williams (non-injury)
LIMITED PARTICIPATION: WR Marquise Brown (ankle), CB Marlon Humphrey (thigh), LB Patrick Onwuasor (ankle), WR Seth Roberts (knee)
FULL PARTICIPATION: TE Nick Boyle (illness), CB Brandon Carr (non-injury), RB Mark Ingram (non-injury), CB Jimmy Smith (non-injury), S Earl Thomas (non-injury)
DID NOT PARTICIPATE: LB Lorenzo Alexander (non-injury), RB Frank Gore (non-injury), OT Ty Nsekhe (ankle), G Quinton Spain (illness), RB T.J. Yeldon (illness)
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Twelve Ravens thoughts following Week 1 win over Miami
With the Ravens winning their season opener in a record-setting 59-10 final at Miami, I've offered a dozen thoughts, each in 50 words or less:
1. Jimmy Smith missing "multiple weeks" with a knee injury will test the diminishing depth at cornerback, but the silver lining is an extended audition for Anthony Averett, whom the Ravens have viewed as possible starter material. Averett can now prove it with Smith in the final year of his deal.
2. You can't expect an 83-yard touchdown every week, but Lamar Jackson's first scoring throw to Marquise Brown came on a simple run-pass option against an eight-man box. Those backside double slants will kill defenses if Jackson simply plays pitch and catch.
3. Jackson's "not bad for a running back" quip received much attention, but the image below shows a third-and-three play in which the left edge was clear and Ronnie Stanley was signaling for him to run to easily move the chains. A moment later, Jackson threw the beautiful bomb to Brown.
(Screen grab courtesy of NFL Game Pass)
4. Speaking of the 2019 first-round pick, just 14 snaps produced four catches, 147 yards, and two touchdowns. Just imagine what he might do when fully acclimated to the offense. For those keeping track, he's now one touchdown shy of Breshad Perriman's career total with Baltimore.
5. The pass rush produced three sacks and 12 quarterback hits, but failing to create havoc against that overwhelmed Dolphins line would have been a red flag. Tim Williams and Tyus Bowser played pretty well, but pass rush remains a real question mark until we see it against a better opponent.
6. Bradley Bozeman received praise from John Harbaugh and earned another start at left guard for Week 2 at the very least. He helped set the tone for the day with a excellent pull block to spring Mark Ingram for 49 yards on the first play from scrimmage.
7. Patrick Onwuasor is so aggressive that he occasionally takes himself out of the play and still has to show consistency in coverage, but he's the fastest linebacker Baltimore has had since a young Ray Lewis. He was incredibly active and played all but one defensive snap.
8. After a quiet first half, Mark Andrews became the monster reporters watched all summer with six catches for 93 yards and a touchdown after intermission. Deep-strike passes may not be there every week, but you should get used to hearing "Jackson to Andrews over the middle."
9. Leading 35-0, the Ravens had every right to run a fake punt with plenty of ballgame left late in the second quarter. However, going for a fourth-and-goal at the 3 with a 52-10 lead and under 10 minutes to go seemed a bit much or "Belichickian," if you will.
10. Despite Chris Board having a clear lead throughout the spring and summer competition, Kenny Young played eight more snaps at the weak-side inside linebacker position. A preseason concussion cost Board some time last month, but Young has apparently stepped it up in recent weeks.
11. In his first game as general manager, Eric DeCosta watched his two big free-agent acquisitions — Ingram and Earl Thomas — immediately make splash plays and his first ever draft pick catch two touchdowns in the opening quarter. DeCosta couldn't have written a better opening script.
12. Reports of Miami players wanting out after the embarrassing loss raise a real question. Tanking in basketball or baseball is one thing, but putting your body on the line with no chance of winning in a sport with greater safety concerns and non-guaranteed contracts? I don't blame them at all.
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Jackson, Ravens put defenses on notice with Week 1 explosion
Lamar Jackson was sensational in the Ravens' season-opening blowout win over Miami.
It was far and away the best performance of his young career and a tremendous showing by any NFL quarterbacking standard. His 324-yard, five-touchdown, turnover-free showing was the most efficient regular-season game ever played by a Ravens quarterback. Such damage being done on just 20 passing attempts — for context, Joe Flacco never threw more than two touchdowns on 20 or fewer throws — isn't something to dismiss because of the quality of opponent.
Yes, the 2019 Dolphins were as terrible as advertised Sunday, but their secondary was one of the few position groups resembling a representative NFL group — at least on paper. Many Baltimore quarterbacks have played bad opponents over the years with Jackson producing the only perfect passer rating (158.3) in team history. Only two other Ravens quarterbacks — Flacco in 2014 and Tony Banks in 2000 — had thrown five touchdown passes in a game. Jackson couldn't have been more impressive, regardless of who was on the other side or what happens going forward.
After too frequently missing wide-open throws as a rookie, Jackson completing 85 percent of his passes reflected the improved footwork, mechanics, and accuracy he showed over the summer, variables having little to do with the opponent. And while there were definitely examples of poor coverage Sunday, NFL Next Gen Stats calculated the expected completion percentage (how the "average" quarterback fares with the same variables on each of those passing plays) on his 20 throws at only 60.2 percent, meaning he dramatically outperformed the degree of difficulty.
Trying to determine how much of Sunday's outcome was the result of Jackson's growth compared to Miami's ineptitude is really a fruitless exercise, but what can we take away from the performance? Jackson may never post another perfect passer rating or five-touchdown game in his career, but that doesn't mean his career day was devoid of real improvement.
Below is a look at Jackson's passer rating divided by area of target last season:
His 170 passing attempts during his rookie season didn't make for a huge sample size, but it was large enough to show his success over the middle and that he was better throwing to his right than his left.
Below is his passing chart from Sunday:
To no surprise, we saw plenty of passes between the numbers and to the right with the obvious change being the deep passing explosions, the game-changing development. There isn't much passing activity to the left, which could have been a product of the presence of Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard on that side of the field as well as the struggles showed there last year. This isn't a negative as offensive coordinator Greg Roman and Jackson should be playing to his strengths in the same way that a pitcher with a great slider and a mediocre changeup should be leaning much more heavily on the former.
According to Pro Football Focus, Jackson was 10-for-11 for a whopping 276 yards and five touchdowns inside the numbers compared to 7-for-9 for 48 yards outside the numbers for a more pedestrian 5.33 yards per attempt. Anyone wondering about the 22-year-old's progress on intermediate and deep throws to the outside didn't learn much as those simply weren't required in Week 1.
Ironically, the Miami defense achieved its goal of preventing Jackson from running as Dolphins defensive tackle Davon Godchaux indicated after the game. The speedy quarterback had only two real rushes for seven yards with his other attempt being a kneel to end the first half.
Head coach John Harbaugh was asked Monday if that might be closer to the new norm after Jackson set a modern record for rushing attempts by a quarterback last season. The number of times he runs — or doesn't run — will remain a hot topic for everyone outside the team's Owings Mills training facility.
"If they allow Lamar to run, he's going to run. They didn't," Harbaugh said. "They were taking it away for sure. It was part of their plan not to allow him to run. If people decide that that's going to be the way it's going to go, he's not going to run. That's the way the offense is organized. We're not worried about it at all."
What Sunday showed is that the Ravens may now have another dangerous way to beat you if you're going to sell out to try to stop the run, something many teams failed to do down the stretch last year anyway. The Dolphins stacked the box and dared Jackson to throw down the field, and that's exactly what he did with overwhelming success as Miami rarely pressured the pocket or covered effectively.
We may not see another five-touchdown performance or an 85-percent completion percentage anytime soon, but opponents must now think twice about moving a safety so close to the line of scrimmage after seeing Jackson repeatedly throw the ball over defenders' heads with such precision. The mere threat of a deep ball to Marquise Brown could force secondaries to back off and help the Ravens gash teams with the run more than ever, an unsettling proposition for opponents assuming they were still too one-dimensional.
That kind of push-pull dynamic between the run and pass has been consistently lacking in the Baltimore offense since the days of Ray Rice and was never like what the Ravens could have with Jackson being a dual-threat quarterback. It also helps that the ground game now includes two-time Pro Bowl running back Mark Ingram.
Stopping the run against the Ravens was already a a must, but defenses have now seen a need to be able to cover or at least pressure — preferably both. The Dolphins may have kept Jackson in the pocket, but they achieved none of those three major objectives, which is why the Ravens set franchise records for points, touchdowns, total yards, and margin for victory.
The Baltimore offense is unlikely to come close to those numbers again this year, but the message delivered to the rest of the NFL was more than just a fun day in Miami and a win over a bad team.
Watching where Jackson and this offense go from here should be fun.
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A "Lamarvelous" performance by Ravens as Mr. Jackson brings the heat all day long in Miami
Posted on 09 September 2019 by Nestor Aparicio
It was over early on Sunday afternoon in Miami. The Baltimore Ravens ran left and threw right and did almost everything perfectly.
I won't be the guy who points out that they bobbled the opening kickoff.
The legendary performance of Lamar Jackson and the offense will be talked about until the next time a quarterback around here goes 9-for-9 with four touchdowns to start a day and ends it with a "perfect" passer rating of 158.3 in a 59-10 road win over a team and a franchise in a world of aquamarine hurt.
Books might one day be written with this as Chapter 1. And I might be the only one writing them again but I can say I was there in Miami on that steamy Opening Day when the purple mystery was unleashed on the NFL.
Look, Lamar ran the ball like crazy last year. He took over an offense that wasn't his – in midflow with the season on the line and the job of the head coach in limbo – and made it work every week for two months until the Chargers gave him fits and sent him home.
But everyone in the NFL sphere knew it was going to take more than the mentality of a running back and pitching the ball around backwards to win consistently. And Lamar is so insulted and driven by that. It clearly stands in the center of motivating him, this criticism of his ability to read defenses and beat an NFL team with his arm.
"Not bad for a running back," said the 22-year old with the purple Heisman chip on his shoulder.
Apparently, Sunday was what it looks like when he's mad.
Lamar Jackson feels like a winner.
Whatever the "it" factor and aura that permeates greatness – all legends are constructed and created of those events when athletes do things that no one has ever seen done – Lamar has that kind of ability.
I've been to Miami a lot of times (and by the way, the stadium still sucks, Stephen Ross). I've seen a handful of World Series games, three Super Bowls, the Rolling Stones and a couple of playoff football games. I was even there the night that they put Dan Marino into the Hall of Fame in the rain.
I won't soon forget the Lamar Jackson Show on a 94-degree day in Miami Gardens.
Sunday was a kid coming back to his home turf and showing what he's learned so far. It was as impressive as anything you'll ever see in a professional sporting event – a 59-10 win with QB rating perfection and a seat on the bench at 3 p.m.
Looking up at the scoreboard when the score was 28-0, it was clear we were seeing No. 8 do the things that needed to be done if that Chargers fiasco in January is not to be repeated. And eight months later, whatever that "Lamarvelous" performance was to begin the 2019 season at Hard Rock Stadium, it should roll into some legitimate expectations in Baltimore for the rest of the year.
The Ravens appear to be a good NFL team with one of the most exciting players in the sport emerging with a unique skill set.
When it became apparent that the outcome wasn't going to be in question – and I'm not sure if that was when it was 28-0 or 35-3 – I tweeted that Ryan Fitzpatrick would provide a fair test the rest of the day for the defense. And Fitzpatrick did until he was pulled for Josh Rosen, who every team in the NFL preferred over Lamar Jackson just 18 months ago.
And Ravens defensive coordinator Wink Martindale couldn't have a paid a more wily veteran than Fitzpatrick, who would gunsling and fearless his way throughout the heat of the afternoon, challenging a young-ish defense that is trying to learn to communicate and gel.
It's one thing to have preseason or backfield "friendlies" during August. But the game moved at a different speed in the heat of Miami and the Ravens as a team really answered that call.
It could've gotten sloppy or chippy or stupid late in a blowout win. It didn't.
Lamar to Andrews looks special. Mark Ingram looks like a leader. Earl Thomas looks like a franchise kinda player with plenty to prove in his November.
All of the toys of Eric DeCosta were brought out of the purple garage for a spin.
I was the idiot asking Marquise "Hollywood" Brown some South Florida geography questions at his locker last week. On Sunday, he ran toward both oceans and away from anyone who can't get him on the ground immediately.
Hollywood Brown. No one can catch him!
When the only thing you've done wrong all day is field questions about running up the score on the road with fake punts, you've had a helluva day.
And no coach named "Harbaugh" has ever pulled the foot off the gas. And, I'm sure he's said at some point repeatedly, "I don't even know what that means!?"
If you don't want a fake punt run at you when it's 35-3, then defend the play.
Now, the Arizona Cardinals will visit Baltimore to deal with the next round of purple mystery mayhem at the hands of this Lamar offense.
What will we see next week that we didn't last week?
Youth is being served in Baltimore. Defenses are going to be physically tested – as will the passing prowess of Lamar Jackson under duress once better teams start appearing on the other sideline.
This is the part where I mention that the Miami Dolphins will get blown out of a dozen games this year with that ragtag outfit.
Kansas City on the road in two weeks will prove more. Hapless Cleveland will be playing for their season by the time they limp in here in a few weeks. And the Pittsburgh Steelers looked quite vulnerable late in the Foxborough evening under the lighthouse.
Now, it's time to dazzle the home crowd against Kyler Murray on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Make no mistake about it – it is a fun time to be a Baltimore Ravens fan. Lots of hope and fun and unknowns.
The purple bandwagon will welcome you back onto the boot.
We still have some room.
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Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith exits Sunday's win with knee injury
The only damper on a spectacular record-setting performance by Lamar Jackson and the Ravens in their 59-10 demolition of Miami Sunday was another injury to a secondary already testing its depth.
Cornerback Jimmy Smith suffered a knee injury in the first quarter and didn't return. The 31-year-old limped off the field and went to the locker room soon after inside linebacker Patrick Onwuasor fell into Smith's right knee on the sixth defensive snap of the game. Smith returned to the sideline in the second half wearing street clothes.
"It's not a season-ending injury as far as we know right now," head coach John Harbaugh. "It does not look like that at all. I'm sure he'll get an MRI tomorrow. We'll just see if it's days or weeks or what. We'll know tomorrow after we get the MRI."
The Ravens were already dealing with the loss of standout slot cornerback Tavon Young, who sustained a season-ending neck injury last month. Rookie fourth-round cornerback Iman Marshall was also placed on injured reserve last week, but he remains eligible to return later in the season.
With Smith out, the Ravens turned to second-year cornerback Anthony Averett on the outside with veteran cornerback Brandon Carr now playing extensive snaps inside at the nickel in Young's absence. Averett fell down in coverage on the Dolphins' lone touchdown of the day to wide receiver Preston Williams late in the second quarter, but the 2018 fourth-round pick from Alabama finished with four tackles and a pass breakup.
"It's always tough to see one of my boys go down," said Carr, who played in his 177th consecutive regular-season game Sunday. "We put so much work into this game and we know it can be taken away at the blink of an eye, and that's what happened to [Smith].
"Of course, the football game is the next-man-up mentality, and we had [Averett] that's been champing at the bit to get out there and make some plays. He had his work cut out for him today, but he made some big plays for us and he had some fun."
Injuries have been the story of the talented Smith's career as he's played more than 12 games in a season just twice in his first eight years. The 2011 first-round pick is in the final year of his contract and is making $9.5 million this season.
The Baltimore defense had two interceptions against the Dolphins with six-time Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas picking off a Ryan Fitzpatrick pass on his first defensive series as a Raven and cornerback Marlon Humphrey intercepting Miami backup Josh Rosen on the first play of the fourth quarter.
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Ravens-Dolphins: Inactives and pre-game notes
The Ravens begin their 2019 season where they dream it will culminate five months from now.
Miami will host Super Bowl LIV in early February, but the rebuilding Dolphins first stand in the way of a 1-0 start Sunday. The opener is a homecoming for second-year quarterback Lamar Jackson and rookie wide receiver Marquise Brown, who both grew up less than 30 miles away from Hard Rock Stadium. The Ravens hope Sunday will be the start of a special connection between the first-round talents in the years to come, but the two did not play together in any preseason games.
After helping lead the Ravens to a 6-1 finish and their first AFC North championship since 2012 as a rookie, Jackson will become the first quarterback not named Joe Flacco to start an opener for Baltimore since the late Steve McNair in 2007. The 22-year-old is the second-youngest quarterback to make a season-opening start for the Ravens with only Kyle Boller being younger back in 2003.
As expected, Brown is active and will make his NFL debut after spending much of the offseason recovering from Lisfranc surgery on his left foot. Head coach John Harbaugh deemed the Oklahoma product "full-go" physically at the beginning of the week, but Brown was added to the injury report Thursday and missed Friday's practice, a reminder that the condition of his foot remains a factor.
Despite not playing in the preseason while recovering from a fracture in his right thumb, Robert Griffin III is active and will serve as the backup quarterback a day after his wife gave birth to their daughter. Rookie quarterback Trace McSorley is inactive.
.@RGIII welcomed a new baby girl, Gameya Griffin, yesterday.
The proud dad is rocking his wife's hospital bracelet in her honor at today's game 💜 pic.twitter.com/SQY1ihyzh1
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) September 8, 2019
Third-round rookie Jaylon Ferguson headlines the list of remaining inactives for Week 1. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale was complimentary of Ferguson's late-summer improvement earlier this week, but he is fifth in the pecking order at the edge rusher position and has yet to carve out a role on special teams, making his deactivation less surprising.
The Ravens also deactivated rookie defensive tackle Daylon Mack, leaving them lighter in the trenches despite the Miami heat. That will be a real factor to watch over the course of the afternoon with just four true defensive linemen — Brandon Williams, Michael Pierce, Chris Wormley, and part-time fullback Patrick Ricard — active.
With Bradley Bozeman expected to start at left guard after working with the starters throughout the week and in the latter stages of the preseason, rookie guard Ben Powers and second-year offensive tackle Greg Senat were healthy scratches. Baltimore will go into Week 1 with veteran James Hurst and rookie Patrick Mekari as backups who've shown more versatility.
Dolphins wide receiver Albert Wilson (hip) and safety Bobby McCain (shoulder) are active despite being limited in practices throughout the week.
Sunday's referee is Jerome Boger.
According to Weather.com, the Sunday forecast in Miami calls for partly cloudy skies and temperatures around 90 degrees at kickoff with winds 10 to 15 miles per hour and only a slight chance of an afternoon thunderstorm. However, it will feel like it's over 100 degrees on the field Sunday afternoon, a factor to watch over the course of the game.
The Ravens are wearing purple jerseys and white pants while Miami dons white jerseys and white pants at home for Week 1.
Sunday marks the sixth time in the last seven years that the Ravens and Dolphins have met in the regular season with Baltimore holding a 7-6 lead in the all-time regular-season series. Including the postseason, Harbaugh is 7-1 against Miami.
The Ravens are aiming for their fourth straight season-opening win and are 8-3 in openers under Harbaugh.
OLB Jaylon Ferguson
CB Ken Webster
Rb Myles Gaskin
RB Patrick Laird
G Shaq Calhoun
OL Chris Reed
OT Isaiah Prince
LB Trent Harris
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Ravens-Dolphins: Five predictions for Sunday
Sunday marks the official beginning of a new era for the Ravens.
Of course, the soft opening of the Lamar Jackson era last year brought the first AFC North championship since 2012 and a return to the playoffs after a three-year absence, but the Ravens have since said farewell to future Hall of Famer Terrell Suggs, four-time Pro Bowl linebacker C.J. Mosley, six-time Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle, and 2018 team sacks leader Za'Darius Smith in addition to former Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco. The mass exodus from the NFL's top-ranked defense leaves Baltimore without a former first-round pick at outside linebacker or in its entire front seven for the first time in franchise history, putting more pressure on a deep and talented secondary to account for concerns about the pass rush.
How quickly a younger defense adjusts and a rebuilt offense grows will determine how successful John Harbaugh's team will be in 2019. The first test comes against Miami, a rebuilding team with no immediate direction beyond collecting assets for the future.
It's time to go on the record as the Dolphins play the Ravens for the sixth time in the last seven seasons with the latter winning four of the previous five meetings. Baltimore leads the all-time regular-season series 7-6 despite a 3-5 record at what is now called Hard Rock Stadium. That doesn't include the Ravens' two postseason victories in Miami during the 2001 and 2008 campaigns.
Below are five predictions for Sunday:
1. Lamar Jackson will start fast with a touchdown pass and a run for a score. I'm really looking forward to watching Jackson in his first full year as a starter and expect the Ravens to be more aggressive passing the ball in the first half, especially on first downs when he completed just under 68 percent of his throws and produced a 100.6 passer rating on 56 attempts last year. That said, there isn't much experience in that Miami front seven to expect the discipline to contain Jackson's mobility on zone-read plays and run-pass options, which will lead to some rushing opportunities off the edge.
2. A communication breakdown will lead to a Ryan Fitzpatrick touchdown to Albert Wilson. We all know the story with Fitzpatrick, who is capable of getting into a groove in which he torches opponents and then reverts to looking like one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. Meanwhile, Wink Martindale has said the biggest challenge in replacing the veterans on his defense has been communication with the pre-snap adjustments and disguise the Ravens use. Even against a below-average offense, a hiccup won't be surprising considering how little starters played in the preseason.
3. Tight coverage will contribute to four sacks and an Earl Thomas pick in his Ravens debut. I'm admittedly not a believer in the pass rush going into 2019, but that won't be a problem Sunday with the Dolphins replacing both of their starting offensive tackles and coming off a season in which they surrendered 52 sacks. Strong pass coverage will again help create sacks for the Ravens this season, but Thomas reminded this week he was brought to Baltimore to help create more turnovers. He'll get one against an overly-aggressive and desperate Fitzpatrick in the second half.
4. Mark Ingram will headline a 215-yard effort from the Baltimore ground game. We'll see more offensive balance from the Ravens this season, but not when they have a lead in the second half as they will Sunday. The Dolphins ranked 31st in run defense and 26th in yards per carry allowed at 4.8 last year, and there's little reason to think that will markedly improve under new head coach Brian Flores. Ingram will carry the workload in the first half, but Greg Roman will mix in more carries to Gus Edwards and rookie Justice Hill after intermission to shorten the game.
5. The Ravens do what they're supposed to do in a 30-10 win over a bad football team. You gladly take this kind of road game on your schedule, but there's little upside from an eyeball test perspective with the Dolphins front office tanking in 2019. The Ravens simply need to play a clean football game in which they take care of the ball, minimize penalties, and take what Miami gives them. It's in Martindale's nature to be aggressive on defense, but Fitzpatrick is the kind of quarterback who will eventually give you the game the longer you remain disciplined. We know anything can happen in the NFL and Miami still has some talented football players on both sides of the ball, but there's little excuse for Harbaugh's team to leave South Florida without a season-opening win.
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Marquise Brown listed as questionable, expected to play in Ravens opener
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Ravens are healthy going into their season opener against Miami, but Friday brought a twist to their injury report.
Rookie wide receiver Marquise Brown didn't take part in the week's final practice, raising some concern about his surgically-repaired left foot that continues to be managed carefully. The first-round pick from Oklahoma was added to Thursday's injury report despite being listed as a full participant. Since his practice debut on July 31, Brown has received occasional practices off in his recovery from a Lisfranc injury originally sustained in the Big 12 championship game on Dec. 1.
Having described Brown as "full-go" physically at the start of the week, head coach John Harbaugh said he didn't suffer a setback and would play against the Dolphins despite being listed as questionable on the final injury report. The extent of his Week 1 involvement is unclear after the 5-foot-9, 170-pound speedster missed so much practice time in the spring and at the start of training camp and played only 19 offensive snaps in the preseason — none of them with starting quarterback Lamar Jackson.
"He's doing well. Really, it's everybody getting those first plays in, getting those first hits in, et cetera," offensive coordinator Greg Roman said Thursday. "It was good that he got a little time in the preseason, but certainly, you don't get the sense at all that it's going to be too big for him. He definitely belongs."
The Ravens also listed cornerbacks Brandon Carr (hip) and Cyrus Jones (finger) and defensive tackle/fullback Patrick Ricard (foot) as questionable after all practiced fully Friday, leaving very little doubt about their availability. Carr was limited in Wednesday's practice, but Sunday will mark his 177th consecutive regular-season game — all of them starts.
Not listed on this week's injury report was quarterback Robert Griffin III, who didn't play in the preseason while recovering from a fracture in his right thumb. Griffin continued to practice on a limited basis all summer and will back up Jackson against the Dolphins.
"I'm ready to go. I'm excited. Really, in my role, no one wants to see me go out there," said Griffin as he laughed. "And I'm not rooting for anything to happen to anybody. My job is to help L.J., help him lead this team, and if called upon, be ready to roll."
With Griffin fully cleared to play, rookie quarterback Trace McSorley will likely be inactive as the third quarterback. Temperatures in Miami are expected to near 90 degrees Sunday afternoon, which could prompt the Ravens to activate an extra lineman or two on either side of the ball.
Picking among 53 healthy players is always a good problem to have — even in Week 1.
"You've got to put seven guys down, so we'll just do it based on versatility and game plan really," Harbaugh said. "I don't feel like there's anybody that we wouldn't want up. There's nobody that couldn't play and contribute. All 53 guys could play for us, so we'll just have to take the 46 that help us the most this week."
Running back Kenneth Dixon (knee) was waived from injured reserve with an injury settlement Friday. Harbaugh confirmed earlier this week that Dixon would be "moving on" from the organization.
For the Dolphins, starting wide receiver Albert Wilson was designated as questionable after being limited in practices all week with a hip injury originally suffered last season. Starting safety Bobby McCain (shoulder) is also questionable after being limited throughout the week.
Below is the final injury report of the week:
QUESTIONABLE: Marquise Brown (foot), CB Brandon Carr (hip), CB Cyrus Jones (finger), FB/DL Patrick Ricard (foot)
QUESTIONABLE: CB Johnson Bademosi (hip), DE Charles Harris (wrist), LB Trent Harris (foot), G Danny Isidora (hamstring), S Bobby McCain (shoulder), WR Albert Wilson (hip)
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Let the great Lamar Jackson experiment begin in Miami
It has been said that the pioneers take the arrows and settlers take the land.
Make no mistake about it, Eric DeCosta and the Baltimore Ravens franchise has staked its claim to the new territory and against all odds – and perhaps the few analytics a football fan would think they understand about quarterbacks running into linebackers on purpose – plan to run to the Super Bowl in Miami, as opposed to flying.
And where it starts this Sunday amidst aquamarine fish chaos in South Florida is exactly where head coach John Harbaugh and the Ravens want this to end in early February – on the turf at the Hard Rock Stadium for Super Bowl LIII.
The NFL has had a few variations of this RPO offense in spurts over the years with running quarterbacks but this would be unprecedented in the modern era – keeping a running quarterback healthy long enough in a ferociously violent game to establish a program and win a championship 20 weeks later.
The boldness of this rather quick transition from a wannabe aerial team under Joe Flacco, with a minor in "balance" and "long field goals" that never made the grade after 2013, to a ground and pound and dazzle (on occasion) does not come without a lingering trail of limited success. Last season, when Lamar Jackson took over a seemingly forever scuffling offense and made magic happen with his feet for two months as the air chilled, it made the exit of Flacco and his exorbitant contract an easy decision for this transition period of Ravens football.
And while most of the football world thought John Harbaugh was a dead-coach-walking last November, he has re-signed on for the new youth movement and "offensive revolution" while also bringing the stability you'd want for a team with a lot to prove on both sides of the ball.
The January reality thud of the Chargers perfecting a defensive game plan (on the road, no less) to impair the Ravens and neophyte Jackson is now "to be continued" but the organization and its football cognoscenti have now built the entire operation around No. 8. The plan is to run the NFL and its defensive coordinators ragged week to week with preparing to play left-handed against a supercharged, speed offense with a quarterback who plays with the fearlessness of a kid who won the Heisman Trophy when he was 19 years old.
The Dolphins have already endured two storms this week – Hurricane Dorian went up the coast but the turmoil of the selloff of Laremy Tunsil, Kenny Stills and the general awfulness of everything about the team of Stephen Ross is expected to settle onto the South Florida turf at 1 p.m. on Sunday. This mess of a franchise in absolute disarray should provide an interesting backdrop for the homecoming of Lamar Jackson, who played his high school ball 45 minutes up the road and might have more friends in the stands than the Dolphins will have fans. Meanwhile, first round draft pick Marquise "Hollywood" Brown could walk this Sunday to the former Joe Robbie Stadium from his bright lights, beachy hometown just across I-95 and University.
While so much emphasis and attention will be rightly focused on the offensive concepts that Greg Roman will employ around Jackson and a plethora of speedy weapons, it'll be a Ravens defense that many will similarly need a scorecard to identify early this Sunday.
Earl Thomas is the new Hall of Fame bully in town. Marlon Humphrey has changed his uniform number and will be moving into a new role as a team leader in a secondary that is stacked yet still depleted with the loss of Tavon Young early in training cap.
Who will rush the passer? Who will set the edge? Who picks up the slack for losing C.J. Mosley and Za'Darius Smith in their prime and the wisdom of Eric Weddle and Terrell Suggs pre-snap? Will Matt Judon step into a budding role as a franchise-type that the Ravens will want to pay at the end of this walk season? Can Jimmy Smith still be a difference maker in the secondary?
The preseason showed nothing – on purpose, according to Harbaugh and virtually everyone in the locker room this week in Owings Mills.
These first two weeks of real football – visiting hapless Miami and having the scuffling Arizona Cardinals as a homecoming feast next week – might not allow the Ravens to prove much beyond what should be easy wins if this team is going to be a contender this winter. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale has been very confident in his unit but the questions will certainly linger until later in the month when the Ravens see Patrick Mahomes, Baker Mayfield and Ben Roethlisberger as the leaves begin to brown.
But will the Cleveland football franchise "brown" as well as the AFC North darling and favorite?
Will the Pittsburgh Steelers overcome the losses of Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell to prosper with addition by subtraction?
The mystery is what makes this league so much fun and why I'll be on a plane to South Beach this weekend.
Eric DeCosta is building a bold, different kind of program in Baltimore in his first effort after two decades of "In Ozzie We Trust."
It has been called "an experiment" – trying a college offense in a pro game of adjustments and speed.
I like Lamar Jackson.
I am on the record: I have never thought it was a good idea to have a quarterback who
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Marriage proposal videos have been appearing in my news feeds. I remember that two years ago I found this proposal cute. Although there were anti-climactic and cheesy parts, it is, after all, an amateur video. The concept was novel then.
Quite recently, Filipinos have caught on with this trend. Proposing marriage has now become a production number. Take this hostage drama situation. Good thing that the acting was bad and the girl did not suffer a heart attack. Otherwise, this proposal could have gone awry.
Then there is this flash mob proposal which I think is cute but in a situation like this, how can you say no? Everyone is looking at you and there was a considerable effort to make this proposal possible.
Another proposal video shows how musically gifted Filipinos are. People bursting out into a song and dance number does not only appear in the movies but in real life as well. Ha!
Here's another proposal that, I think, was well-executed. It appeared like an ordinary day with a surprise proposal in the end.
And here's another one where the girl really can't say no. He gave her a car for her birthday and then he proposed in the end!
I do not know if these proposals put pressure to those who are in a relationship. A wedding has become an expensive event. Years ago, pre-nuptial photo sessions were unheard of. Recently, it seemed that it had become a norm. Now, proposal videos have entered the picture. I wonder what's the next trend.
I really wish they all live happily every after.
The car proposal is definitely irresistible. At least, the proposals add more excitement to the upcoming marriage.
I am such a sap. All wedding proposals make me tear up. These are cute.
I loved watching these wedding proposals! If you are a true romantic (like me), watching these turns me into mush!
It's uso na. I like it that because it's uso, a lot of men are making effort in doing such a romantic scene their ladies won't forget.
Cute ways to get their fiance's big YES!
The men are making a lot efforts for the proposal! What a sweet gesture!
Those proposals are really over the top. It would certainly make a very memorable occasion for the couple but not so for me. I would prefer a simple proposal too.. that was what I got 12 yrs ago.
I've seen this proposal years back and it made me cry talaga. Grabe the hirap of the guy ha and he's a gentleman talking to the girl's dad. WTG!
Marriage proposal is very unforgettable its always makes you cry coz there's always something happen unexpedtedly that makes you surprise and burst into tears.
It's really trending nowadays. I like watching proposal videos, too. But I think I still prefer a sweet, simple and memorable proposal better. Glad I got it when my husband proposed years ago. Hihi!
Naging mas uso ata ito dahil kay Zoren at Carmina eh, hahaha!
I applaud the people who do these surprise proposals… It would freak me out for sure. God bless them all. Great videos too.


The STANDARD 24 is an analogue 24 hour clock. It is a traditional expression of your computer's time. It has hour, minute and second hands presented in cyan. Numerals and tick marks are in white on a black background. The time displayed by the clock is taken directly from the time on your computer. Placing your cursor in the hand hub and clicking will bring up the information panel.
The 24 hour clock creates a dilema. Most of the time people are used to dealing with 12 hour clocks, where midday is at the top - in the "12 o'clock" position - and naturally 12 is the largest number on the dial. With a 24 hour clock, if the largest number, 24, is put at the top of the dial, then that space has to be associated with midnight, and midday is relegated to the bottom of the dial - an unnatural place for most people. The Mark I High Noon addresses this problem by putting the 12 at the top, and the 24 at the bottom. Day time is in the top half of the clock, and night time in the bottom.


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Arts for Art Will Present The Sun Ra Arkestra on September 6
Performance is being held in tribute to NYC poet Steve Cannon
Published August 26, 2019 – By JazzTimes
The Sun Ra Arkestra at the Newport Jazz Festival, August 2, 2019 (photo: Marek Lazaski)
Arts for Art, in partnership with A Gathering of the Tribes, will present a special evening of performances in tribute to Poet Laureate of the Lower East Side, Steve Cannon, on September 6.
An iconoclastic mainstay in the Lower East Side, Cannon was known for opening his apartment as a gathering space for poets, artists, musicians, and people from all walks of life. He served as a mentor to many young artists and also helped nurture many careers through the founding of his multi-disciplinary arts and culture nonprofit, A Gathering of the Tribes, which he started in 1990 with help from visual artist David Hammons and writer Ishmael Reed.
Cannon was a consistent supporter of Arts for Art, and was a featured performer at the first Vision Festival in 1996 as well as subsequent years. Steve also helped curate the poetry programming at the festival in the early 2000s.
In tribute, the Sun Ra Arkestra will perform a full set on September 6. William Parker will also perform.
A Gathering of the Tribes has curated a group of poets with close ties to Cannon for the event. They include: Yuko Otomo, Lydia Cortes, Edwin Torres, Steve Dalachinsky, Anne Waldman, Tracie Morris and Julie Ezelle Patton. Organizers noted that the City of New York and especially the Lower East Side, lost a cultural icon with Cannon's passing on July 7, 2019.
Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased online at stevecannon.brownpapertickets.com, or when doors open at 6 p.m.
Founded in 1996, Arts For Art is dedicated to the promotion and advancement of free jazz. Spearheaded by the Vision Festival, Arts For Art's programming brings together multiple generations of vibrant, diverse and highly skilled artists. To further its goals of diversity and accessibility, the group fosters education initiatives and produces events that build community amongst artists and audiences.
The Clemente Flamboyan Theater
107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002
Opening by Melanie Goodreaux & Patricia Nicholson
Poetry readings from: Yuko Otomo, Lydia Cortes, Edwin Torres, Steve Dalachinsky
William Parker's What It Is
William Parker – bass, composition
Patricia Nicholson Parker – dance
James Brandon Lewis – tenor sax
Devin Brahja Waldman – alto sax
Melanie Dyer – viola
Val Jeanty – percussion
Poetry readings from: Julie Ezelle Patton, Anne Waldman, Tracie Morris with Graham Haynes and Elliott Sharp
Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra
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Auckland is set to host the World Masters Games next year, but could it pull off the Olympics? And would it want to?
Auckland. City of growing homelessness; city with such a boom in property values that even people on average incomes fear they will never be able to own a home. City where many people — teachers, nurses, office workers, people in the arts and entertainment industries, the very construction workers we desperately need to make the city bigger — worry about how much longer they'll be able to afford living here.
Auckland will host the World Masters Games in April next year. That's 25,000 athletes from 100 countries competing in 28 sports and 45 disciplines. On a participatory basis the games are the biggest multi-sport event in the world.
That's right, they're bigger than the Olympics. So does that mean if Auckland can stage a successful Masters Games, it will be able to stage the Olympics too? And what has the housing crisis got to do with any of that? What, for that matter, has the work of Lincoln University's Dr Andreas Wesener, a lecturer in urban design at the university's School of Landscape Architecture, and environmental scientist Dr Suzanne Vallance got to do with either the housing crisis or sports extravaganzas?
The Rugby World Cup in 2011 was a financial bonanza for Auckland, if we define "Auckland" as "Irish bars, people who rented out their homes and shops selling Tongan flags". But by and large restaurants missed out on the fan frenzy and so did a great number of other businesses.
It's what always happens with big sports events: the host city gets all excited about the potential, then the fans turn up and they don't spend money the way they were supposed to. And afterwards, the city counts the cost and wonders what to do with those smart new venues that are not suited to its regular sporting programme.
In 2011, Eden Park soaked up all the capital — financial and political — for a great Auckland stadium, and yet it's badly suited to almost every event it hosts, and it's unlikely anyone will do anything about it. Still, that's not as bad as Athens, where stadiums and swimming pools from the 2004 Olympics are derelict.
The Olympics have a bigger problem than that: the cost. In 1984, the Los Angeles Olympics cost a mere US$320 million and made a profit — the first for a Summer Olympics since 1932. They did it because they didn't build any new stadiums, and they privatised the risk and rewards. The city was not saddled with crippling debt, but the Games themselves were smothered in advertising. It was the McDonald's Olympics.
Four years later, Seoul spent more than 10 times as much and the cost topped a billion dollars for the first time. Barcelona (1992) pulled it back under a billion but Sydney (2000) set a new mark of US$5 billion, then Athens (2004) came in at US$15 billion and Beijing (2008) at an extraordinary US$44 billion. The sport was great; the event had become ridiculous.
The cost of the Rio Games isn't known yet, but the government contribution is estimated at US$12 billion. The full cost could be three times as much.
This is very good news for Auckland. Why? Because it's completely crazy. It used to be said that only a few cities could afford the Olympics. But the reality is that no cities can. We know this. In the 21st century, it's appalling for any city to spend tens of billions of dollars in the way Olympic host cities have.
So here's an idea for Auckland and its housing crisis, and the Olympics and the Lincoln University academics who inspired this whole rumination. It's based on what Suzanne Vallance says planners should do and what Andreas Wesener sees as the potential of community-initiated activities.
Let's use the World Masters Games to invert the usual planning process, by engaging local communities from the start. From the ground up. Don't tell them what to do; ask them to tell you. What new transport and housing will we need? What venues? What can we reinvent? Pretend the Masters Games are the Olympics: how do we stage a wonderful sporting spectacle without bleeding every last cent out of the city?
Of course, some of that is not doable in the time available. But it will be if it's done virtually. If we do pretend the Masters Games are the Olympics and do the whole thing as a kind of computer game, we could then roll bits of it out in real time, come April next year, and start thinking about the real Olympics as well.


This year, Zambia is the ITB Berlin 2018 Convention & Culture Partner. We asked Hon. Charles R. Banda, Zambia's Minister of Tourism and Arts what the key reasons were for the decision to partner with ITB Berlin.
Zambia went into partnership with ITB Berlin due to the growing demand of Zambian tourism products across the globe. Zambia will leverage this partnership with ITB Berlin to sell the country's unique setting to lure tourists, investors and general visitors to explore the amazing beauty of Zambia and to create an environment that ensures an equitable balance between the developmental needs of the country and an investment climate for wealth creation. As the Convention & Culture Partner of the World's leading outbound Travel market, Zambia is taking its people, attractions, rhythms and food delicacies to Berlin to ignite the passion of the travel industry, and the German outbound market towards destination Zambia.
How important is sustainable tourism for your nation?
How are tourism and transport infrastructure evolving in Zambia?
The promotion of tourism in Zambia is part of a conscious strategy by the Government to diversify the economy. Zambia is an emerging and one of the fastest growing economies and is still one of the largest copper producing countries of the world. Now more than ever before, Zambia is looking for more investments in the various sectors of the economy. The Zambian Government has rolled out a robust country infrastructure programme covering air and road sectors of the economy. Currently, the main airport, Kenneth Kaunda International Airport has been upgraded to world class to meet the ever-demanding needs of the travellers. The other two airports, the Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula in Livingstone at the Victoria Falls as well as the Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport in Ndola on the Copperbelt province have also been upgraded to enable direct ights to these towns. On the road infrastructure, Government has rolled out the Link Zambia 8000, the pave Zambia 2000 and the Road Tolling programs. These projects are aimed at transforming Zambia into a truly land-linked country in Southern Africa.
The Government has already provided an enabling environment which stresses the existence of a "government led" and "private sector-driven" tourism industry which aims at achieving 6% contribution to GDP by 2030. The Tourism sector is expected to grow faster than the wider economy and many other industries over the next decade.
What is your key message to the world's travel agents and tour operators present at ITB Berlin this year?
As a country, at ITB Berlin, we want to demonstrate our tourism distinctiveness and the unspoiled exploits that we continue to enjoy. We have registered over 30 private sector operators who will be exhibiting at the Zambian stands whose pro les cut across most of the scope and destinations of our tourism in Zambia. Zambia still offers a truly authentic African holiday experience, where the only thing that gets spoiled is you. The depth of her cultures, the drama of her landscapes and wildlife plus the delightful and peaceful people- all of this is closer than you think. This is the Zambia we want the world to take with them, this is the untold story we want to be told.


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A 28-year-old Penn Hills woman accused by accompaniment badge of alteration $1 actor of heroin has several cartage violations and is accused of battlefront a gun at a boyfriend, but has no drug-related arrests, annal show.
Badge said Candice Alexander's brusque lane change in advanced of a accompaniment trooper on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on July 17 led to the assay of 2,000 artery of heroin hidden in a alcove beneath her aback seat. That's about 100,000 brand accoutrements of the drug, badge said.
Accompaniment badge did not acknowledgment a alarm Friday, and it is cryptic how she may accept acquired such a ample amount. Little abroad in her annal credibility that direction.
In June, she accustomed a parking admission from Pittsburgh police. In February, she was chock-full for dispatch in Fulton County. In 2011, she was cited for abnormal window tinting, and in 2010, she was begin not accusable on accuse of active after allotment or inspection.
Alexander lived in a small, apple-pie brick home on Paris Road. Potted flowers and a few toys blowzy the backyard in a quiet adjacency off Long Road in Penn Hills. No one answered the aperture Friday morning.
She charcoal confined on $100,000 bond.
Details of her action are scarce; ancestors beneath to allocution about her. A Facebook folio that appeared to accord to her has been taken down.
Neighbors, who beneath to accord their names, said that with the barring of loud music on occasion, Alexander was a acceptable acquaintance who maintained her abode able-bodied and lived with two adolescent accouchement who were affable and played able-bodied calm in their backyard.
Canton backer Amie Downs said that, by law, the Appointment of Children, Youth and Families cannot acknowledge whether it is involved.
Penn Hills badge Chief Howard Burton said Alexander was not accepted to his administration as an offender, except for a June 2 calm altercation in which she allegedly accursed several shots at her boyfriend.
According to the affidavit, Robert Thornton, 25, of Penn Hills, said he and Alexander argued in her Paris Road home about "something she had said to his mother beforehand in the day," and she approved to bang him with a canteen bottle. He said the altercation continued, and Alexander retrieved a gun from her bedchamber closet.
As Thornton ran from the house, Alexander accursed at him and absent at atomic twice, according to the complaint.
Burton said badge answerable Alexander with adventuresome chance and the admirer with harassment, but the admirer beneath to columnist accuse and active a non-prosecution anatomy that will be presented during an Aug. 3 basic hearing. From there, Burton said, the allegation adjoin Alexander will acceptable be dropped.
According to the affirmation of apparent account filed by accompaniment badge in the heroin case, Alexander cut off a barter on the Turnpike in Mt. Pleasant. Accompaniment Trooper Justin Coda happened to be active abaft Alexander and pulled her over for the alarming lane change.
Badge said Alexander owns the vehicle.
Coda wrote in the affirmation that Alexander showed "multiple indicators of bent activity," but did not detail them; she consented to a chase of the vehicle, which led troopers to ascertain heroin beneath a aback seat, the affirmation said.
That bulk of heroin has a artery bulk of $1 million, said canton Detective Tony Marcocci, who has decades of acquaintance in biologic investigations. He is not complex in the case.
That bulk of heroin acceptable would ample two ample accumulator totes, Marcocci said.
Biologic traffickers frequently use corridors through Westmoreland Canton branch west, he said.
U.S. Advocate David Hickton agreed.
"The highways are the byways of biologic trafficking," Hickton said.
He said the Administration of Justice works carefully with authorities and commune attorneys in areas of the accompaniment a intersections of above highways, such as the Erie area, area Interstates 79 and 90 intersect.
Chuck Ardo, a agent for the advocate general's office, said that because the accompaniment and country are criss-crossed by superhighways, it should be no abruptness that those active drugs are active them.
He said law administration has been advantageous greater absorption to those above arteries in an accomplishment to axis the breeze of drugs and added contraband.
"This appointment has put a greater accent on intelligence assay to advice actuate area the drugs appear from as able-bodied as the routes that they booty in hopes that we are able to bigger yze couriers," Ardo said.


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Cleveland ISD – Bond Program Management
Cleveland, Texas
LAN is the program manager for Cleveland ISD's $198 million bond program. The bond package includes a new middle school, three new elementary schools, staff development and administrative offices, and new softball and baseball fields.
The first project completed was the new $24.4 million Pine Burr Elementary School. The two-story facility accommodates 1,050 Pre-K to fifth-grade students and is based on the adaptation of an existing Cleveland ISD campus.
The new Santa Fe Middle School is located on a master-planned campus along with the new Santa Fe Elementary School.
With significant savings realized on Pine Burr Elementary School, Santa Fe Elementary School, and Santa Fe Middle School, the District was able to build a brand new Northside Elementary School rather than renovating the old Northside campus as originally planned. The re-purposed savings were also used to provide new Baseball and Softball fields closer to the high school in lieu of renovated fields.
The Staff Development and Administration Building is currently under construction and estimated to be complete early 2024.
LAN also performed bond planning services for the November 2022 bond election.
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New Middle School for 1,600 Students
Three New Elementary Schools
Staff Development and Administrative Offices
New Softball and Baseball Fields and Concession Building
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Zakaria Botros went on to read from more sources, such as Sunan al-Nisa'i, wherein Muhammad used to in a single night "visit" all his women, without washing in between. Asked the priest: "Why even record such obscene and embarrassing things?"
After conquering the Jews of Khaybar, and plundering their belongings, among other things, a donkey fell into the lot of the prophet, who proceeded to ask the donkey: "What is your name?"
The donkey answered, "Yazid Ibn Shihab. Allah had brought forth from my ancestry 60 donkeys, none of whom were ridden on except by prophets. None of the descendants of my grandfather remain but me, and none of the prophets remain but you and I expected you to ride me. Before you, I belonged to a Jewish man, whom I caused to stumble and fall frequently so he used to kick my stomach and beat my back."
Here, chuckling, the priest added, "a taqiyya-practicing donkey!" He continued reading, "The prophet – may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him – said to him, 'I will call you Ya'foor. O Ya'foor!' Ya'foor replied, 'I obey.' The prophet asked, 'Do you lust after females?' The donkey replied, 'No!'"
Next, reading from Sahih Bukhari (5/2012), Fr Botros relayed an account where Muhammad went into the house of a young woman named Umaima bint Nua'm and commanded her to "Give yourself to me!" The woman responded, "Shall a queen give herself to the rabble?" Shaking his fist, Muhammad threatened her, and then sent her off to her parents.


There is NO embassy/consulate of Vietnam in Burnie, Australia. Travellers from Burnie can contact the nearest embassy of Vietnam in Canberra for visa information.
Australian nationals and foreign visitors living in Burnie, Australia can choose between applying for a visa through the embassy of Vietnam in Canberra or applying online for an approval letter to pick up the visa on arrival.


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2 tonnes of lobster stolen from N.S. storage facility
Category: Canada News
Published Saturday, January 16, 2016
CAPE SABLE ISLAND, N.S. -- Police are on the lookout for efforts to sell over two tonnes of lobster swiped from a Cape Sable Island storage pound earlier this week.
RCMP Const. Jennifer Botham says 48 crates of the valuable crustaceans, or about 2,200 kilograms, were snatched from one of the community's lobster pens sometime overnight on Tuesday.
At current market prices of about $6.25, that's roughly $30,000 worth of seafood that may be circulating illegally.
Botham says officers are aware the lobsters have a limited shelf life, which puts pressure on the thieves to attempt a rapid sale of the pilfered catch.
The constable says she's asking the public to watch out for people trying to sell an unusually large number of the lobster.
"Watch for people who are trying to move a large quantity," she said.
"We're talking a lot of lobster to try and keep alive."
She says there are between 15 to 20 lobster pounds in the Cape Sable Island and the theft is having a significant effect on the community.
"It's their livelihood in that area. It's the industry there," she said.
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Lawyers for Canada's attorney general will make the case Wednesday for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition to the United States. After two days of listening to defence arguments, the Crown will try to convince a B.C. Source
One man is dead and five others are missing after their snowmobiles went through the ice along Lac Saint-Jean Tuesday night. Emergency services and the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) were called to a channel at the edge of the lake, between the towns of Saint-Henri-de-Taillon and Alma, at 7:30 p.m. Source
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Chinese health authorities have urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings, after warning on Wednesday that a new viral illness that has infected hundreds and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. Source
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES -- The Saudi embassy in Washington on Tuesday dismissed suggestions the kingdom hacked the phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as media reports linked the security breach to a WhatsApp message from an account of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Source
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OTTAWA -- The Canadian Armed Forces needs to nearly double the number of women it has been recruiting in recent years to reach its goal of having women represent one-quarter of all military personnel by 2026, according to an internal study from the Department of National Defence. Source
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Commercial flights were set to resume out of St. John's, N.L., this morning, as eastern Newfoundland continues to dig itself out from last week's record-breaking blizzard. Today is the sixth day the provincial capital has been under a state of emergency after a storm dumped more than 76 centimetres of snow on the city. Source
VANCOUVER -- Lawyers representing the Canadian attorney general are set to begin arguments today at an extradition hearing for Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. The hearing in Vancouver this week is focusing on the legal test of double criminality, meaning that the allegations against Meng must also be a crime in Canada for her to be extradited to the United States. Source
'You could literally go around the Earth' before symptoms start: Screening for new coronavirus
Medical screening at airports, border crossings and health-care institutions takes on new urgency when a viral threat looms. Tuesday's announcement of the first infection in the U.S. — a man who returned to the Seattle area last week after travelling to the outbreak's epicentre in Wuhan, central China — adds to more than 400 people infected with the new coronavirus, which has sickened people in China as well as Thailand, Japan and South Korea. Source


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Earle Wilton Richardson, (1912–1935) was an African-American artist made famous mainly for an oil painting of his dating from 1934 titled Employment of Negroes in Agriculture.

This now iconic picture (size 48 × 32 inches) depicts two male and two female Black cotton workers, one of them a child, in an unidentified Southern state loading cotton into bales. Like many other artworks at the time, the painting was commissioned and financed under the New Deal. Richardson committed suicide the following year. He was born and lived in New York City, NY.

"Richardson and fellow artist Malvin Gray Johnson planned to say more about the history and promise of black people in their mural series Negro Achievement, slated to be installed in the New York Public Library's 135th Street Branch, but neither young man lived long enough to complete the project."

"After Johnson's sudden illness and death in November 1934, Richardson continued to work on their mural project. But within a year he too was dead; ill with fever and heart-broken over the death of Johnson, who had been his lover, Richardson leapt from his fourth-floor apartment window and died of his injuries in December 1935."

Works
 Profile of a Negro Girl, 1932
 Benjamin Banneker, 1934
 Columbus Soldiers—Estavanico, 1934
 Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934

Bibliography
 Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, Jonathan Weinberg (Editors), The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, Penn State Press, 2005,

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1912 births
1935 suicides
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National Academy of Design alumni
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1935 deaths
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Value on all levels at Keeneland
November 22, 2017 / Karl Patterson
Sudden Wealth helped defray Brett Howard's travelling expenses to the Keeneland November Sale with a potent kick at Morphettville on Saturday.
The Time Thief mare flew home from second-last on the corner to win the Zonte's Z Force Hcp (1200m) by more than a length eased down. She even had enough in reserve to swerve across and give runner-up Vivaldi's Quest a hip-and-shoulder at the furlong.
"Actually, her manners have improved and I would like to step her up to a mile at some stage," trainer Will Clarken said. "We're just teaching her to relax."
Howard's Randwick Bloodstock Agency (FBAA) bought Sudden Wealth for $28,000 at the Inglis Sydney Broodmare Sale in April. She was purchased in association with Rushton Park's David & Kayley Johnson a week after winning a Kembla Grange maiden for Paul Murray.
The new partnership has banked over $70,000 since the sale and the pedigree is also improving with her half-sister's first foal Lycurgus (Star Witness) ready to win again after recent placings at Caulfield and Rosehill.
Howard returned to the Keeneland November Sale for the first time since 2014 when his buys included Guapa (Rock Hard Ten). An unraced 3yo daughter of G2 La Prevoyante Stakes winner Last Approach, she sold for a mere $7,000.
Shipped to Australia, Guapa was mated with Deep Field and produced a filly that was purchased by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA) for $110,000 at this year's Magic Millions National Foal Sale.
A few days later, Guapa was on-sold to Rosemount Stud at the National Broodmare Sale, in foal to Hinchinbrook, for $150,000.
Even after factoring in the air freight of approximately $22,000 there's value to be found on all levels of the market at Keeneland and Howard is hoping for a similar outcome after buying My Dinah Lee last Thursday.
My Dinah Lee (Discreetly Mine) cost just $10,000. The 4yo filly is from a sister to G3 Natalma Stakes winner Fortuitous (Dynaformer) and she won at Gulfstream Park after a stakes placing at Laurel.
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When my husband passed away in 2011, grief writing was a term that did not once cross my path. Yet now, five years later, it seems like every time I turn around there is a course or workshop for grief writing. I am fascinated by the concept of it. I'm sure there are many counselling supports that can give very clinically sound information as to the benefits of grief writing. I'm not really interested in that. On a day-to-day level, I'm not someone who partakes in journal writing in any way, so I can't say that it appeals to me on that level. And yet I feel drawn to grief writing, that chance to really have an avenue to express what I felt, and continue to feel. I like the idea of grief writing because, I think, it's so much more than a journal entry. The format, first of all, doesn't have to be a journal at all. It can be a letter, a book (including fiction), just a few notes jotted down. Anything you want, really. The main point, is that it is a way to express all those deep emotions we have when we're grieving. Which perhaps is why I'm so drawn to it. It is, in a way, a form of mourning. Mourning is an outward expression of our grief and although we traditionally think of it as a wearing of something, a ribbon, a poppy, an armband, the underlying function of mourning is that it provides a way for the bereaved to express those deep, deep emotions. The advantage of wearing mourning attire is that it serves the function of expressing of grief when words perhaps escape us or are just too difficult to utter. In those early days after my husband passed away, it was enough work just to breathe, let alone have words. Yet now, I think I could wander down the path of words. For some, the words are there right away, and just need to come out. Grief does not have a time limit, and so grief writing seems like a wonderful outlet. Can it still be considered mourning if you choose not to show anyone my grief writing? I think so. As I processed my grief and explored mourning when my husband passed away, I really felt like mourning had 3 main purposes: to express those deep emotions, to identify yourself as someone who is grieving, so that others can support you, and as a token of honor and remembrance. Grief writing, whether someone sees your written work or not, meets these criteria. The moment you write something down, regardless of how formal or informal it is, you have honored your loved one by caring enough to need to sort through your grief. Grief writing is often taken as a workshop, and you can create a sense of community (even online) with the others in your workshop without ever having to show them your writing. And again, regardless of who sees it, the writer has expressed their emotions. So, I would consider grief writing to be a form of mourning. And mourning is such an important part of the grief journey that, as always, I encourage anyone who is bereaved to mourn. Find the way that suits you, but do mourn. Do express your grief.


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Epidemiologists are using increasingly precise means to determine just how much fine dust we inhale. This may help us to find out more about the health risks of these particles. By Angelika Jacobs
(From "Horizons" no. 105, June 2015)
There are hundreds of scientific publications describing the health effects of breathing in the fine dust and chemical compounds that arise principally from combustion processes. It seems obvious to everyone today that air pollution contributes to respiratory illness, but in fact such links are difficult to prove.
One major criticism of epidemiological studies on air pollution is that they rely on data from just a few central measuring stations that don't necessarily reflect the actual exposure of the participants in the study. The concentration of pollutants can vary greatly according to location.
Individual exposure
For some time now, epidemiologists have been focussing particularly on so-called ultrafine particles (UFPs). Their very small size – less than 100 nanometres – means they can enter the bloodstream and quite possibly even advance into the brain. However, the health effects of this fine dust have been little researched until now. UFPs are distributed very unevenly in the air. So when epidemiological studies use data gathered at a central measuring location, there's no way to be sure just how reliable it is.
This issue has been under investigation by Nino Künzli and Reto Meier of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH) in Basel. They have compared UFP measurements from central reference stations in 80 residential locations. Their research is part of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA) headed by Professor Nicole Probst-Hensch. "The measurements can differ by a factor of two and more", says Meier. UFP concentrations depend on the distance from the emission source, which is primarily road traffic. This is why attention has to be paid to the proximity to roads and to the wind direction when choosing locations for making representative measurements.
Indoor air, outdoor air
All the same, doubts remain as to just how representative such data really is. Most people spend a large portion of their time indoors, but most measurements have always been made in the open air. This is why Meier and his colleagues have also investigated the connection between the air quality in living spaces and the air quality outside. Exposure inside buildings was generally rather lower, but in fact correlated pretty well with measurements made outside during the course of the day. As Meier explains, this means that data from outside measuring stations could actually allow us to estimate the concentration of indoor pollutants. "But there are also sources of pollutants in people's apartments. UFPs occur while cooking, for example". So there was a clear, corresponding rise in air pollution indoors at mealtimes, namely at midday and in the evening.
There has already been a series of studies on the relationship between indoor and outdoor air quality, says Josef Cyrys of the Environmental Science Center at the University of Augsburg, who was not involved in the current project. "But the available data is meagre, especially on UFPs, and every new study helps us to get a clearer picture". However, what he finds the study lacks is a perspective on how the new findings might be useful to epidemiologists.
Reto Meier cautions that this question can become exceedingly complex. Particles indoors can also be composed differently from outdoor particles. "These contrasts will probably only become greater in future, as buildings are constructed or renovated according to new energy standards and become more and more sealed off from the outside", confirms Künzli. In future, people will be able to carry out personal pollutant measurements with their smartphones. This, says Künzli, will open up whole new possibilities for matching the impact of particles to their different sources.
Angelika Jacobs is a science journalist and is currently working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
R. Meier et al.: Ambient Ultrafine Particle Levels at Residential and Reference Sites in Urban and Rural Switzerland. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015.
R. Meier et al.: Differences in indoor versus outdoor concentrations of ultrafine particles, PM2.5, PMabsorbance and NO2 in Swiss homes. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 2015.
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Dan Burns served for over 10 years as CEO of EXOS, where he currently sits on the board as Executive Chairman. Under his leadership, EXOS successfully pivoted from solely an elite athlete service-based human performance provider branded Athletes' Performance to one that integrates technology with methodology and coaching to drive personalized employee program engagement and measurable health outcomes for large employers. During his tenure, EXOS raised $70m in venture and growth capital and grew from under $10m to over $170m in revenue. The company received accolades including Fast Company Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Sport, Fast Company Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Fitness, Inc. 5000 for four consecutive years, and the Presidential "E" Award for Export Service. In 2018, Burns led the sale of EXOS to Madrone Capital Partners and BDT Capital Partners. Previously, he began his career in consulting at Bain & Company and then in business operations at the National Basketball Association.
Burns earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and History from Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Investment Committee for the Arizona Founders Fund and supports several portfolio companies with their business strategies. He also serves as an advisory board member of Arizona State University's Sports Law and Business program. Burns has been honored by and served as a keynote speaker at the Economic Club of Phoenix, Arizona Business Leadership, and Arizona Growth and Leadership Forum.
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Vretta, along with Humber College and the Luxembourg Ministry of Education, were once again recognized for the implementation and the impact of their Assessment-for-Learning projects, MathemaTIC and the OCMT, with two awards from the international 2019 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards.
MathemaTIC, developed by Vretta and the Luxembourg Ministry of Education, in partnership with socio-economic research and education testing institutions, won the Gold award for the Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development for developing essential mathematics skills for students across Luxembourg. This award marks the second year in a row that MathemaTIC has won a Gold award from the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards.
Last year, MathemaTIC won the Gold award for the Best Advance in Custom Content for its successful implementation and progress towards raising attainment and reducing the equity gap at primary and secondary schools in Luxembourg.
The OCMT, developed by Vretta in collaboration with all 24 colleges and 72 school boards in Ontario, and led by Humber College, won the Silver award for the Best Advance in Custom Content for successfully raising the level of numeracy for students in secondary and post-secondary institutions across Canada. This award marks the third year in a row that the OCMT has won an award from the Brandon Hall Excellence Award.
Last year, the OCMT won the Gold award for the Best Advance in Competencies and Skill Development for successfully raising the level of numeracy for student success and in 2017 won the Gold award for Best Advance in Custom Content for addressing the numeracy gap through immersive technology solutions.
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This is not the first time that "Beagle Channel" is the headline of an entry of this blog. So far it meant travelling from Ushuaia to the Drake-Passage (or back). This time, not so.
How many times did I see these beautiful mountains further west in the Beagle Channel without ever getting there. So, today!
We set sail in Puerto Williams and enjoyed the company of many Black-browed albatrosses, shags and even a few dolphins. South of Ushuaia a Humpback whale waved us off with his fluke. Very friendly.
The rest of the day? A scenic dream made of sky and sea, islands and fjords. Mountains and clouds were mirrored on the water. New islands, new views mile after mile. A dream coming true.
Late in the evening, the anchor fell in Caleta Olla (Caleta seems to be the word for little, well-sheltered natural harbours) under a beautiful southern sky of stars. No artificial light anywhere around us! The Milky way, Magellanic cloud, the Southern cross … so beautiful that a small group of us even went ashore to put the tripods up in darkness. Well, amazing how quickly the clouds can cover the sky down here … anyway, it was still a nice way to finish the day.
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