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Anatomy of a wild-card win: Why the Browns need to watch ‘Varsity Blues’ before Sunday – Touchdown Wire

Bud Kilmer was the villian inVarsity Blues,of that there is no doubt.

Jon Voights portrayal of a hard-driven, old school high school football coach hit home for many washed-up high school athletes. In the film Voight portrays Bud Kilmer, the long-time head coach at West Canaan High School. He has a way of doing things that is his own, and when he is forced to turn to his backup quarterback, played by James Van Der Beek, the message is simple:

Stick to the basics.

With Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski sidelined this weekend due to COVID, along with a number of starters, the path to a win Sunday night comes along similar lines.

There were many questions about Baker Mayfield entering 2020, but chief among them was just how well he would fit into Kevin Stefanskis offense. Many this author included believed the play-action design elements off of outside and wide zone plays was ideal for Mayfield. After all, a season ago there was only really one area where the young QB excelled: Throwing off of play-action. Among qualified passers, Mayfield saw the biggest jump in completion percentage last season when using play-action, an increase of 10.1%. His NFL passer rating on play-action throws clocked in at 102.5, ranking him 11th in the league, and a far cry from the 68.8 NFL passer ration on plays without play-action.

This season both numbers have increased, but Mayfield remains a much better quarterback when using play-action. Again using numbers from Pro Football Focus, Mayfield has an NFL passer rating of 84.8 on traditional dropback passes, an increase of nearly 20 points from last season.

On play-action? Mayfield has a passer rating this year of 121.9, fifth-best in the league. He has also thrown 12 touchdowns passes against just one interception when using play-action.

For the Cleveland Browns, play-action passing is the basics. As Coach Kilmer would say, stick to them on Sunday night. This is something that shows up on film, even against the Steelers and even in that Week 6 meeting where Mayfield was hurt and the Browns were blown out. Take this second quarter completion from Mayfield to Odell Beckham Jr., with Mayfield working off of play-action:

Working off play-action, Mayfield scans the middle of the field before throwing to Beckham along the right sideline.

In fact, Clevelands most explosive play that afternoon came off, you guessed it, play-action:

Mayfield executes the run fake and retreats into the pocket as tight end Austin Hooper runs the wheel route to the left side of the field. Mayfield is forced to climb in the pocket due to pressure, but he finds his tight end for the big gain. This play comes out of 13 personnel three tight ends and as we have seen this season the Browns love to throw downfield out of heavy personnel.

Of course Bud Kilmer would hate this. He was all about running the football. What did he hate more than throwing it? Throwing it out of empty formations. In a scene from early in the film Kilmer clashes with Van Der Beeks Jonathan Moxon when the backup QB tries to run a play in practice out of an empty set. Moxons points about the explosive Mississippi Valley State offense were not received well by his coach

However, the Browns might want to pay attention to them this week. Because with the injuries mounting up front, spreading the Steelers out with empty formations and throwing quickly might make sense. And that was part of their game plan last week, with Mayfield attempting 20 passes against the Steelers out of empty formations. Mayfield completed 16 of those an 80% completion percentage for 170 yards. He had six different completions out of an empty formation that went for 14 yards, including this one to Jarvis Landry in the third quarter:

Throwing out of these empty formations allows Mayfield to get the ball out quickly minimizing what the offensive line has to do and might work to get T.J. Watt forced to play in space rather than off the edge. It also puts Kareem Hunt to the outside, where he can be a very effective weapon as a receiver.

Maybe Jonathan Moxon was on to something after all, Coach Kilmer.

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An Expert Explains the US Capitol Hill siege: Anatomy of an insurrection – The Indian Express

Almost every clich of political theory has been used to describe the events of January 6 carnage, coup, even riot. But while Donald Trump may have incited the mob, the events at the United States Capitol were the unfortunate but logical conclusion of the way in which a dominant section of the Republican Party has articulated its political strategy over the last decade or more.

The swearing-in of Joe Biden as President on January 20 may, therefore, formally end the tenure of Donald Trump, but unless and until the Republican Party transforms itself, January 6 will be one more marker on the route of destructive politics that is dividing the US more strikingly than at any time since the American civil war.

In many ways, the events of January 6 could have been foretold when Trump and the core of his support base refused to accept that he had lost the presidential election. It was clear that Trump would not, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, go gentle into the good night.

For most of his term, almost everyone who has observed Trump closely including many who have worked with him have been convinced that the incumbent in the Oval office is not entirely stable.

Almost a year ago, nearly 350 psychiatrists and other mental professionals petitioned to Congress that the Presidents mental health was rapidly deteriorating. At least two well-known psychiatrists from Yale and George Washington University stated that Trump appeared to be showing signs of delusion by doubling down on falsehoods and conspiracy theories. They concluded there was real potential that Trump could be ever more dangerous, a threat to the safety of our nation.

These delusions have only aggravated since the election, which Trump was convinced was stolen from him by fraud committed by the Democratic Party in collusion with local officials.

The dangerous politics of the Republican Party

However, the deeper cause that goes beyond the delusions of Trump lies within the Republican Party itself. While its core support is derived from an elite who are attracted to it on the basis of free market fundamentalism and what the writer-thinker Ayn Rand described as the virtue of selfishness (Rands The Fountainhead and its story of the architect Howard Roark is Trumps favourite novel), it needs a wider base to become electable.

In his review of Jacob S Hacker and Paul Piersons Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, Franklin Foer wrote in The New York Times: From their 19th-century inception, political parties of the right have faced an electoral disadvantage since, for the most part, they emerged as vessels for the wealthy, a definitionally small coterie. Their growth seemed further constrained by the fact that they could never match their opponents enticing promises of government largesse because their wealthy backers steadfastly refused to pay higher taxes

In order to become electable, the Republican Party has had to widen its constituency by adding toxic emotional content to its political ideology that has helped it to win the support of sections of the white working class.

It has done so by appealing to faith, patriotism, racial prejudice, and the so-called core American values and by exploiting the sense of victimhood of the white working class. While pre-Trump, much of the messaging was limited to dog whistling, the President was brazen in representing the Democratic Party as being against God and American values and freedoms (including the right to bear arms), and responsible for disenfranchising white voters by weakening voting laws and following pro immigration policies. Even the obvious need to wear masks during the Covid-19 pandemic was projected as an attempt by Democrats to undermine the fundamental rights of American citizens.

In the period after the election, Trump was publicly elusive, but was using the subterranean web and social media to mobilise his supporters to gather at the Capitol on the day Congress was to certify Joe Bidens election victory. His message was simple and direct: We will never give up, we will never concede You dont concede when theres theft involved. The former Mayor of New York and Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani added: Lets have trial by combat.

What followed at the US Capitol was a reflection of the delusional personality of Trump and the dangerous politics of the Republican Party, particularly aggrieved by losing both Senate seats from Georgia which was to a large extent due to an unprecedented mobilisation of black voters by Stacey Abrams, who almost single-handedly built a coalition of grassroots support for the Democratic Party in the state.

Capitol consequences, case for 25th Amendment

The short-term consequences of the events of January 6 are obvious. There is widespread outrage within most sections of public opinion, akin to a political catharsis. Internationally, US democracy is no longer the shining city on the hill.

But whether the outrage will be a moment of awakening, or epiphany as the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi put it, remains to be seen. Much will depend on whether the Republican Party realises the limits of destructive Trumpism; there is some evidence in the distancing of key figures of the party from Trump and his follies.

As of now, for many, every one of the next 13 days that Trump has remaining in the Oval Office is a day too many; this is true for Americans as well as for the world. Trump is still in charge of the worlds largest nuclear arsenal, weapons that could destroy the planet as we know it several times over.

Therefore, there are serious moves to invoke the 25th Amendment. The Amendment, ratified in February 1967, deals with presidential disability and succession. While Section 3 of the 25th Amendment allows a President to declare his own inability (and has been invoked in the past during the Reagan and Bush eras), Section 4, which allows the Vice President and Cabinet to declare the Presidents inability, has never been invoked before. This is the critical section at issue today.

Under Section 4, if Vice President Mike Pence and the majority of the Trump Cabinet or another body approved by Congress give a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate, Chuck Grassley, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, stating that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, Vice President Pence would assume power as the Acting President.

Thereafter, President Trump would have the right to challenge the decision through a written declaration stating that no inability exists. The Vice President and the majority of the Cabinet (or another body approved by Congress) would then have another four days to provide a second written declaration of the Presidents inability.

Within 21 days of this declaration, Congress would need to confirm the Presidents inability through a two-thirds vote of both Houses. However, this step would be unnecessary in Trumps case, because his term ends on January 20.

The American constitutional law scholar, Joel K Goldstein, has argued that while the 25th Amendment does not provide a definition of inability, legislative authorities indicate that Sections 3 and 4 of the Amendment refer to a wide range of physical and mental inabilities, which could be produced by attack, injury, illnessor could result from a degenerative process.

This definition could clearly encompass a range of possible psychological assessments of Trump. Moreover, as Goldstein points out, Section 4 applies both when a Presidential candidate refuses to recognise an inability, as well as when he is unable to do so. Thus, Trumps refusal to accept an assessment of his inability is irrelevant to an invocation of Section 4.

Going forward, India and post-Trump United States

Will the Trump Administrations perceived proximity to India cast a shadow on bilateral relations during the Biden-Harris era?

India-US relations have bipartisan support and a majority within the US Congress recognise the importance of India, given particularly the rise of a belligerent China. Nonetheless, it is critical for New Delhi to dispel the impression that it had a special relationship with the Trump Administration or that it would have been more comfortable with the re-election of a Republican President.

This demands also subtly tempering sections of the India diaspora who were enthusiastic Trump supporters, and reaching out to Democrats beyond key figures within the Biden-Harris administration. A willingness to engage with critics within the Democratic Party, and to be more open on sensitive issues could help to quickly ensure that the transition from Trump to Biden could be seamless at least for bilateral relations.

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Deep Science: Using machine learning to study anatomy, weather and earthquakes – TechCrunch

Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect the most relevant recent discoveries and papers particularly in but not limited to artificial intelligence and explain why they matter.

This week has a bit more basic research than consumer applications. Machine learning can be applied to advantage in many ways users benefit from, but its also transformative in areas like seismology and biology, where enormous backlogs of data can be leveraged to train AI models or as raw material to be mined for insights.

Were surrounded by natural phenomena that we dont really understand obviously we know where earthquakes and storms come from, but how exactly do they propagate? What secondary effects are there if you cross-reference different measurements? How far ahead can these things be predicted?

A number of recently published research projects have used machine learning to attempt to better understand or predict these phenomena. With decades of data available to draw from, there are insights to be gained across the board this way if the seismologists, meteorologists and geologists interested in doing so can obtain the funding and expertise to do so.

The most recent discovery, made by researchers at Los Alamos National Labs, uses a new source of data as well as ML to document previously unobserved behavior along faults during slow quakes. Using synthetic aperture radar captured from orbit, which can see through cloud cover and at night to give accurate, regular imaging of the shape of the ground, the team was able to directly observe rupture propagation for the first time, along the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey.

The deep-learning approach we developed makes it possible to automatically detect the small and transient deformation that occurs on faults with unprecedented resolution, paving the way for a systematic study of the interplay between slow and regular earthquakes, at a global scale, said Los Alamos geophysicist Bertrand Rouet-Leduc.

Another effort, which has been ongoing for a few years now at Stanford, helps Earth science researcher Mostafa Mousavi deal with the signal-to-noise problem with seismic data. Poring over data being analyzed by old software for the billionth time one day, he felt there had to be better way and has spent years working on various methods. The most recent is a way of teasing out evidence of tiny earthquakes that went unnoticed but still left a record in the data.

The Earthquake Transformer (named after a machine-learning technique, not the robots) was trained on years of hand-labeled seismographic data. When tested on readings collected during Japans magnitude 6.6 Tottori earthquake, it isolated 21,092 separate events, more than twice what people had found in their original inspection and using data from less than half of the stations that recorded the quake.

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The tool wont predict earthquakes on its own, but better understanding the true and full nature of the phenomena means we might be able to by other means. By improving our ability to detect and locate these very small earthquakes, we can get a clearer view of how earthquakes interact or spread out along the fault, how they get started, even how they stop, said co-author Gregory Beroza.

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Sunderland University’s to build anatomy training hub – The Northern Echo

THE University of Sunderland is set to build a multi-million pound facility to help train the medical professionals of tomorrow using human tissue.

Sunderland City Council has granted planning permission for a new cadaveric centre at the universitys city campus and work is expected to start in around six weeks.

When completed, the centre will be key to the newly-established School of Medicine, provide training for other students within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing and offer vital facilities and benefits to surgeons and surgical trainees in the region.

The latest development comes after the university opened its first School of Medicine in September 2018.

Professor of Anatomy Debs Patten said: We deliver anatomy teaching to a range of healthcare education programmes across the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing using a blended approach of virtual dissection, digital and clinical imaging, portable ultrasound and living anatomy as well as using anatomical models.

These learning resources are greatly appreciated by our students and staff, but undoubtedly, the inclusion of cadaveric anatomy will be of huge benefit to our institution and indeed the region.

Anatomy is widely appreciated as being one of the most significant elements of medical education.

Digital resources are highly effective educational tools, but cannot reproduce the variability and complexity of the human body and for this reason, medical students and their educators consider cadaveric anatomy to be the gold standard for anatomy education.

Most UK medical students will study cadaveric anatomy in fact only a handful of UK medical schools do not offer cadaveric anatomy but cadaveric provision for allied healthcare students is often limited.

Our facility will offer cadaveric provision for our medical students and our allied healthcare students.

The facility will allow learners to improve their depth perception, spatial orientation and visualization of body structures below the skin.

Professor Patten added: A hands-on experience uniquely provides authentic tactile information on tissue texture which, when coupled with 3D visualization of anatomic structures, offers learners highly memorable learning experiences.

In addition, cadaveric anatomy is often students first encounter with death and it provides educators with a unique opportunity to teach students about death and to respect their patient at all times, in life and in death.

As well as the universitys medical students, the centre will be used by those on other programmes including paramedicine, physiotherapy, nursing and others.

Professor Patten went on to say: Moreover, the opportunity to provide a cadaveric facility and resources will be of great benefit to our surgeons and surgical trainees across the region as we will be able to host cadaveric Continued Professional Development (CPD) Courses.

Provision of CPD for surgeons will enhance our reputation and have positive impact within the region, providing training and research opportunities for our surgical colleagues.

Andrew Bumfrey, Associate Director of Space Architect, who designed the new centre, welcomed the planning approval.

It has been fantastic to closely collaborate with the School of Medicine to create this unique brief, generate a bespoke design response and achieve full planning approval, he said.

The project provides a great future for the teaching of anatomy and further enhances the schools facilities.

The new building will support a range of dedicated, state-of-the-art learning environments for staff and students, influencing the education of future generations of doctors, nurses and other key healthcare workers.

Dr Ian Pattison, Clinical Chair of NHS Sunderland CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group), said: This new learning facility is a fantastic addition to the medical and surgical graduate offer in Sunderland and will help set the University of Sunderland as a centre of excellence in surgical training.

The practical education that will be provided here will ensure that graduates are equipped with the specialist skills required to help patients for the whole of the North East region.

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Anatomy of a wild-card win: In Josh Allen, the Bills must trust – Touchdown Wire

The Buffalo Bills won the AFC East for the first time in 25 years, finishing with a 13-3 record and earning the second-overall seed in the conference. However, their goals are much higher. If the Bills are going to reach those lofty expectations theyll need to start with a win this weekend over the Indianapolis Colts. How that accomplished might come down to a phrase that a few years ago, heck even a few months ago, might have sounded outlandish.

Theyll need to trust Josh Allen.

Think back to when he was drafted, and what was written about him by so many, including this author. There were skeptics, those questioning his ability to play at a high level in the NFL. Those skeptics grew louder after a rookie season where Allen struggled. Yes the talent was there, but with the rest of the Bills roster looking strong, was he a talented quarterback waiting to break out, or the anchor holding the team back.

Then there was last season, when Buffalo took another step forward and earned a playoff birth. Yet think to that Wild-Card game, when you saw Allen running around like a child on Christmas morning, throwing scramble drill vertical routes to his triple-covered fullback. Was this truly going to be the savior for the Bills?

Then think back to the start of this season. Expectations were still high around the Bills, but if there was a question mark it was the quarterback. Could Allen be good enough for this team to get over the hump?

Question, answered.

Allen was more than good enough this season, he played at an MVP level and made the leap from quarterback you win with to quarterback you win because of. Teams had to try and find ways to slow him down, and they could not. Allen had an answer for anything that defenses threw at him, and perhaps a Week 16 demolishing of Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots a defense that had given him fits in the past is a prime example of the strides he took this season.

So lets work through that season a bit, starting with a win early in the year against the Miami Dolphins. This video is a breakdown of Allen working the middle of the field on crossing routes, something that has become a staple of the Bills offense:

As you see in this video, Allens ability to layer throws into the middle of the field was a huge sign of things to come. That was a massive question mark about him coming out of Wyoming, and he showed early this season an ability to answer that question.

Then there was this outing against the Las Vegas Raiders, where Allen displayed more of the touch necessary to attack defenses, as well as the ability to move defenders with his eyes and his mind (more on that in a bit):

You saw more of that ability to manipulate defenders in this win against the Pittsburgh Steelers, particularly on the third play broken down in this clip, a touchdown to Gabriel Davis:

When the Bills beat the Denver Broncos a few weeks ago to clinch the division, you could see the power of this fully assembled quarterback. Allen is playing in rhythm even when working through multiple progression reads, a huge sign of his development. And the touchdown that splits the safeties here where he uses his eyes to influence the safeties is a thing of beauty:

That leads us to the game against the Patriots. Week 16, in Foxborough, a chance to perhaps put the stamp on the season. As you will see in the first two plays broken down, Allen is tasked with manipulating a defender.

But not any old defender. Devin McCourty, one of the best safeties in the league.

Allen does it with ease:

Think about what those first two throws represent for a moment. The growth in Allen to the point where he is trusted to play the cat-and-mouse game against McCourty, and win.

But that is how far he has come, shutting people like me up along the way, leaving us to simply mutter this freakin guy as he carves up another team. To see a quarterback viewed by skepticism by so many, trusted to make plays like this against one of the games best, shows the development from him, and the trust by his coaches in him.

That trust needs to continue. If the Bills are going to win this weekend, and beyond, the trust that Josh Allen has earned from his coaches will be why.

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Grey’s Anatomy: 5 Characters Who Give The Best Romance Advice (& 5 Who Give The Worst) – Screen Rant

They may be great at fixing breaks and bones but not all of the surgeons at Grey Sloan should be trusted to give out relationship advice.

For 17 seasons, the strong cast of Grey's Anatomy has helped patients through broken legs, arms, gunshots, and more. But what they've had trouble with is their own personal lives. Not one character on the show can honestly saythey have had smooth sailing in the relationship department.

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While Grey's has captured the hearts of fans with marriages, one-night stands, and budding romances, they also have their fair share of divorces, affairs, and scandals. With that said, who on the show can you go to for sound relationship advice?

Meredith Grey lost the love of her life and was thrown for a loop. With one accident, everything in her life changed. Meredith went from a wife to a widow and to a single mom in just a matter of moments. She and Derek were positioned to be the perfect couple on Grey's Anatomy and then Derek was gone.

What Meredith is saying here is that if you love someone, tell them. There is no such thing as forever in this life. One day they are here and the next, they are gone.

Owen is that character that fans want to root for but he just makes it hard sometimes to do that. His heart could be in the right place but his emotions are scattered all over Seattle. With Cristina, it appeared they were the perfect fit until Owen wanted to create a family. It was the same with Owen and Amelia.

What Owen is saying here is that he's in love and that she's the love of his life. Not bad advice but isn't this recycled, especially for Owen? He still hasn't found that true love but telling every woman that is not the way to go.

As awful as Jackson Avery has been in relationships, it's not to say that he hasn't been in love. Despite his issues with April Kepner and others, Jackson has put his heart on the line a few times for love. His relationship with April is still viewed as one of the best ever on the show but he has other skeletons in his closet.

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What Jackson is saying here is that despite the flaws in a person, he still loves them. This is what love is all about. It's more than just loving the good in a person, one always must take them with their flaws.

Cristina Yang, during her time on Grey's Anatomy,was all business. Yes, she did have time for some extracurricular activity but still fell short in that department with two failed marriages. She and Preston Burke appeared to be soulmates but careers got in the way. Still, she was Meredith's person and what was supposed to be solid advice, just came out wrong.

What Yang is saying here is that you should shine no matter who your partner is. Well, in a union, it should be both of you. Cristina's point of view is more individual-based than what a true partnership should be like. Bad advice.

In his early stages before Jo Wilson, Alex Karev was still wandering around the hospital and in his personal life searching for meaning. While he and Izzie Stevens didn't work out on their first try, Karev meant his words.

What Karev is saying here is that he now has more than himself to worry about. He's was entering an equal partnership, where he agreed to care and protect someone other than himself. For a character like Karev, this was a huge step as his background was a bit shaky in regards to his upbringing.

Callie Torres is missed. Her character development over the seasons was great to watch from living in the basement of the hospital to becoming a top surgeon, a mother, and then a wife. But her skeletons were just too much to bear by the end. She made her fair share of mistakes relationship-wise but in the end, she made the right decision.

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What Callie is saying here is that she has no time for games. If you aren't ready to be with that person, then do not waste their time chasing them. For viewers, this may hold true, but coming from Callie it was hard to swallow with all the games she played.

Talk about a character who got the wrong end of the stick in the romance department. Stephanie Edwards finally got her chance with Jackson Avery and he disrespected her in one of the worst ways imaginable. Was she perfect? No.

What Edwards is saying here is that the person you are involved with must have their baggage in check. Life is too short to bring that and then unload it on a person who does not deserve it. She has lived it and speaks from the heart.

Arizona Robbins earned her stripes on the show for her grit, her smile, pain, and perseverance. However, Arizona was not perfect. Her relationship with Callie was filled with love but also anger. Once she lost her leg, it took Arizona a while to get back to the beautiful soul fans fell in love with.

What Arizona is saying here is that you should fight for what you want, even if you're the one making the mistakes. Considering she was the one who cheated on Callie, this is another hard pill to swallow.

Mark Sloan entered Grey's Anatomy as the new eye candy for fans and the other female surgeons at the hospital. Once the best friend of Derek Shepherd, their relationship went sour once Sloan slept with Derek's wife. There were rough times for him until he met the woman of his dreams in Lexie Grey.

What Sloan is saying here is to go for what your heart wants. With Lexie, he knew it was wrong but he nor she didn't care. They were in love. Mark made his mistakes, but his love for Lexie was real.

Richard Webber is a master when it comes to teaching. He's a great leader but his personal life is not one that anyone should want to follow. Webber has cheated on his wife, had a child come out of that affair, and almost let another marriage slip away.

What Webber is saying here is that it's okay to be scared to lose things that you care deeply for. Great advice but coming from a man who still has not found a way to grow closer to his daughter and cheats on his wife, this is not the best advice.

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Anatomy of a wild-card win: How the Seahawks can (and must) neutralize Jalen Ramsey – Seahawks Wire

If the Seattle Seahawks have had abte noirethis season, it is unquestionably Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who has feasted on Seattles passing game, and specifically receiver DK Metcalf, in two matchups. This season, per Pro Football Focus, Ramsey has allowed 32 receptions on 64 targets for 309 yards, 127 yards after the catch. three touchdowns, one interception, and an opponent passer rating of 73.0. But against Seattle in Weeks 10 and 16, Ramsey gave up just two catches on only five targets for 16 yards, 16 yards after the catch, no touchdowns, and one pass deflection. Not only did the Seahawks apparently fail to have an answer for Ramsey; they admitted as much by refusing to target him as if Ramsey were Deion Sanders in his prime.

Hes improved, and hes got a great quarterback,Ramsey said about Metcalfbefore the Week 16 game, in which Metcalf was targeted eight times, catching six passes for 59 yards in a 20-9 win. Hes a Pro Bowler this year. Hes probably going to be an All-Pro. But I live for these type of matchups because I believe my value is extremely high in this league, and on this team.

I was brought here to stop guys like him. And Im going to do my best to do that again, this week.

The box-score scouting, even at the advanced level, tells us that Metcalf, as great as he can be, has never been able to figure Ramsey out. But there have been plays left on the field that contradict this narrative, and the Seahawks had better capitalize on those and on Ramseys own tendencies if they want to ensure a win this Saturday in the wild-card round.

In Week 10, per Pro Football Focus, Ramsey shadowed Metcalf on 77.1% of his routes the most hes done so against a wideout this season and allowed no receptions on two targets. Metcalf finished with two catches on four targets for 28 yards.

But on this play with 13:47 left in the game, Metcalf (No. 14) has Ramsey (No. 20) beat downfield on a deep boundary route, and Wilson overthrows it just a hair. But based on Metcalfs ability to separate, that wasnt a great rep for Ramsey.

And on this deep throw with 2:02 left in the game, Metcalf leads Ramsey to the boundary with a route nod before cutting to the quick comeback. Score one for those who dont still believe that Metcalf cant run routes. If the timing of this throw doesnt take Metcalf out of bounds yeah.

The comeback must be a key part of Seattles attack in the passing game. On curls and comebacks this season, per Sports Info Solutions, Ramsey has allowed 11 catches on 17 targets for 93 yards.

Here, with 44 seconds left in the first quarter of the Week 16 matchup, Metcalf looks like hes going straight downfield on a boundary vertical route, which is about the worst thing you can do against Ramsey. But he pulls up after 15 yards, and if end Terrell Lewis doesnt bat this ball down at the line of scrimmage, its an easy completion for chunk yardage. (Of course, it would also help if guard Damien Lewis had not been busted as an ineligible downfield presence, but I digress).

Ramsey didnt always track Metcalf wherever he went in Week 16, and this near-miss from Russell Wilson on a deep pass with 8:54 left in the first half shows another way in which the Seahawks can get Metcalf open and ready for big plays if his quarterback can hit those throws. Pre-snap, Metcalf and tight end Will Dissly run a neat little mesh motion pre-snap, and that lands Metcalf right in the lap of Darious Williams, one of the NFLs most underrated cornerbacks this season. But Metcalf has Williams off the line with no deep safety, and this is probably six points if Wilson hits him in stride.

Meanwhile, Tyler Lockett has Ramsey at sixes and sevens with a stutter-go on the other side of the formation, which is another thing to consider traditionally, bigger cornerbacks like Ramsey struggle more with smaller, quicker receivers like Lockett who are excellent in and out of their breaks than in big-on-big matchups like the Ramsey-Lockett reps.

Seattles passing game has beenunusually out of structureover the last month, leading to some underwhelming performances from Wilson. Seattle will face a stern test against Ramsey and the fourth-best defense in the NFL per Football Outsiders, but there are codes that can be cracked, and setting Metcalf up with more angular routes, as well as giving him different receiver matchups, should be Job One.

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Anatomy of the NGO Vaccine Libel – Jewish Journal

Powerful organizations claiming moral agendas have increasingly gained political influence, especially through human rights and international law. In particular, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with massive budgets for public relations and lobbying have focused worldwide attention on favored targets in some cases with justification, but in others to promote hate and conflict.

Israel has long been a target for demonization based on false claims, and the template NGOs use is familiar.It begins when NGO officials with a history of Israel-bashing launch a campaign based on allegations of dastardly deeds. The facts are twisted or invented, but since they are made by ostensible experts, the media from fringe groups dedicated to the anti-Israel cause to mainstream journalists repeat and amplify these falsities.

NGOs latest accusation is that Israel is violating its legal obligations by failing to provide vaccines to the Palestinians that live under Israeli occupation. As Israels success vaccinating its citizens became more visible and gained praise from around the world, the NGO conspiracy machine went into action, applying their standard template used so successfully in the past twenty years.

NGOs ignored convenient truths, such as the fact that the Palestinian Authority had no interest in Israeli assistance and had already ordered vaccines, in part via Russia and in part through the World Health Organization. Organizations and the media also dismissed the Oslo framework agreement governing relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which states that Powers and responsibilities in the sphere of Health in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be transferred to the Palestinian side, including the health insurance system. Acknowledging the reality would have aborted the political campaign before it could get off the ground.

The NGO attack involved numerous organizations, many funded by European governments under the faade of promoting human rights, democracy and international law. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al Mezan took the lead, issuing a statement under the heading Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems and including the hand waving claims attributed to international law.

Officials of both organizations are involved with or linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a recognized terror group by the United States, the European Union (EU), Canada and other governments. These connections notwithstanding, both NGOs are funded primarily by the EU and western European governments and act as policy subcontractors. In addition, a number of Israeli opposition NGOs promoting the Palestinian narrative and also funded by Europe joined the public relations push.

To get the vaccine campaign out of the fringe anti-Israel arena, global NGO superpowers must enter the fray. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International did exactly that, repeating the accusations word for word. Kenneth Roth, the head of HRW with a long record of singling out Israel tweeted the package of libels to his 350,000 Twitter followers, declaring, the Israeli government has already vaccinated 10% of its citizens .but as the occupying power it has not vaccinated a single Palestinian. Roths second tweet went for the emotional jugular by falsely invoking discrimination: Someone doesnt want you to know about Israels discriminatory treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in distributing the Covid vaccine. Presumably, Roths followers will not know that Israels Arab citizens are receiving vaccinations exactly as their Jewish neighbors do, and that Palestinians outside of Israel are not citizens and have their own government and health system.

To get the vaccine campaign out of the fringe anti-Israel arena, global NGO superpowers must enter the fray.

At this point, the propaganda campaign jumped the tracks to the mainstream media, and from there, was ready to be quoted in the United Nations and by diplomats and politicians. Some outlets and journalists cited the various NGO accusations against Israel verbatim, without bothering to examine their accuracy or relevance. One headline in The Guardian read Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers. Others were more circumspect in their coverage, referring to anonymous Legal experts and human rights activists [who] said Israel was obliged to provide the Palestinians with vaccines.

Like many previous NGO campaigns on Israel, the COVID-19 vaccination conspiracy theory is likely to remain and be cited for many years, regardless of the facts or the absence thereof. In 2002, during the height of Palestinian terror bombings, many of the same NGOs led the false allegation of an Israeli massacre and war crimes in the Jenin refugee camp. These attacks remain on their websites and in Wikipedia entries, available for student papers. The same is true for many similar examples in the intervening years, all following the same pattern.

The result is not only more hate directed at Israel and Jews, contributing to violent attacks, but also the continuing erosion of human rights and international law as little more than propaganda tools. For those remaining committed to these principles, confronting the abuses of the ideological NGO industry is essential.

Gerald M. Steinberg is emeritus professor of political science at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and heads the Institute for NGO Research in Jerusalem.

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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and more have paused production as California faces rising virus spread and slow vaccine uptake – Yahoo!…

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Several Hollywood guilds and labor unions recommended a temporary halt to in-person production of television shows and independent films.

Warner Bros., Walt Disney, Netflix, Sony, Universal, and Showtime pushed production of shows like "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Grey's Anatomy," and "Jeopardy" back to mid-January.

California hit another single day record for new coronavirus cases; meanwhile Gov. Gavin Newsom said only 35% of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the state have been administered so far.

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TV producers opted to halt in-person production of shows like "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Grey's Anatomy" for a week or more, following a recommendation from several Hollywood guilds and labor unions that called for action amid rising Covid-19 cases in the state, CNBC reported.

"It is simply too great a risk to performers, crew and industry personnel to continue production knowing that hospitals are in crisis mode and the number of cases continues to rise," Stacy Marcus, chief negotiator for the Joint Policy Committee, said in a statement.

California posted a new single-day record of more than 74,000 new coronavirus cases Monday, according to data from the LA Times. Meanwhile, state Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a press briefing only 454,000 of 1.29 million vaccines delivered to the state have been administered so far, or 35%. "We got work to do on this," he said.

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With the rise in cases, Warner Bros. paused production of CBS series "Mom," "B Positive," and "Bob Hearts Abishola," Showtime drama "Shameless," and Netflix's "You," until next week. CBS Studios similarly pushed production of "NCIS," "Seal Team," and "Why Women Kill," to January 11. The same goes for Universal TV, which halted NBC's "Mr. Mayor," "Kenan," and "Good Girls," HBO Max's "Hacks," and Netflix's "Never Have I Ever."

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Production of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," won't resume until January 18. Walt Disney-owned 20th Television and ABC have paused production on 16 shows including "Black-ish," "Mixed-ish," "Grey's Anatomy," "Station 19 and "This is Us," until at least January 18, according to Variety. Sony Pictures Television pushed production of ABC's "The Goldbergs" and Netflix's "Atypical," until the week of January 18, as well.

Since Covid-19 hit the U.S. early in 2020, tv and film producers have had to push back production schedules for new shows and movies. Some companies have opted to skip the movie theaters and release new films on streaming services instead, as Disney did with the live-action Mulan. Just last month, Warner Bros. said it would release all its movies in 2021 on HBO Max the same day they hit movie theaters, giving streaming services a leg up as theatres continue to wait for a return to normalcy.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Did We Ever Figure Out Why Denny Had $8 Million to Give to Izzie? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Over the years, Greys Anatomy has featured a number of controversial relationships. From George and Olivia to Owen and Amelia, the show creators have certainly put together some interesting pairings. But over a decade later, one of the most talked-about relationships is that of Izzie Stevens and her patient Denny Duquette.

The affair between Izzie and Denny was short but intense. And its tragic ending was one that left everyone surprised. But perhaps even more surprising was the $8 million check Denny left his fianc upon his death. Now, fans want to know, did we ever find out why Denny had all that money anyway?

From the beginning, it was clear the relationship between the young intern and her heart patient was doomed for disaster. Denny was a longtime patient at Seattle Grace and immediately smitten at first sight of the beautiful Dr. Isobel Stevens. And while Izzie initially tried to refrain from any sort of romantic relationship, she quickly fell head over heels.

Sadly, Denny had a bad heart. And when he lost his chance at a transplant, Izzie tried to steal one for him by cutting his LVAD wire. This decision ultimately led to the patients death and one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Greys Anatomy history.

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No one could have expected what would come next in the days that followed Dennys death. Amidst her grief over her dead fianc, Izzie was surprised by a visit from Mr. Duquette, Dennys father. But Mr. Duquette wasnt just there to meet the woman his son so quickly fell in love with, he was there to deliver a gift. As it turns out, one of Dennys final actions was to ensure his fianc received an $8.7 million check upon his death.

That check became everything central to Izzies storyline. It was the last piece that remained of Denny, proof that Izzie had not moved on, and who could forget how it almost became a part of breakfast. While Izzie initially struggled with what to do with the nearly $9 million check, she ultimately decided to use it to start the Denny Duquette Memorial Free Clinic.

Denny would live on through the people helped by the clinic.

Dennys gift went on to help hundreds of people who visited Seattle Grace, but in the midst of the tragedy that followed Dennys death, not many fans stopped to question exactly where this money came from. A recent Reddit thread brought up the issue again with one user asking, What on Earth did [Denny] do to make $8.7 mil by his mid-30s?

As other users pointed out, his medical bills certainly could not have been cheap and Denny never mentioned anything about being rich. Was it savings? Good investments? There was one clue that may have hinted at where the money came from.

When Mr. Duquette visited Izzie, what he really wanted to know is how the doctor got her patient to propose to her on the day he died. He jumped straight to the point, asking, Did you think that Denny would pay for everything? This implies the money wasnt any sort of insurance policy, but rather, money Denny had all along.

So, no. Fans never found out where Denny got all his money. But as we have all seen, Greys has brought this character back before. Theres always the possibility that one day the ghost of Denny will return and with that, well find out more about his past.

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