John Gosling, MD, professor emeritus ofanatomy, textbook author and authority on neuro-urology, died July 17 in Manchester, England. He was 81.

Goslings work focused on nerve cells in the sexual organs and lower urinary tract. He co-authoredHuman Anatomy: Color Atlas and Text, an award-winning book now it its sixth edition. He also contributed to dozens of other books and co-authored more than 100 papers.

John Gosling was instrumental in the creation of Stanford Medicines clinical anatomy division, saidLloyd Minor, MD, dean of theSchool of Medicine. He forever changed medicine through his research to understand urinary anatomy and touched countless lives through his excellence as a teacher and clinician.

According to his longtime friendIan Whitmore, MD, professor of anatomy at the School of Medicine, Gosling was typically English in that he would never sell himself. I think he deserved to be a Nobel winner for his research into genitourinary anatomy.

Born May 19, 1939, Gosling earned a medical degree from Manchester University in 1967. He began teaching anatomy there as a student and later became a professor at the university. His career took him around the world. In England, Southern California, Hong Kong and the Middle East he taught pharmacology and anatomy and oversaw anatomy courses.

He first arrived at the Stanford University School of Medicine as a visiting professor in 1975. He returned as a visiting professor six more times until 1991, when he joined the faculty as a full professor. In 2019, he retired and moved back to England, where he lived close to family members.

He won the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching three times: in 1989, 1996 and 2000.

He put a great deal of effort into maintaining the quality of the anatomy division, Whitmore said. He was really dedicated to its teaching.

Gosling was also an avid rock climber: During his visiting professor stints in California, he made time to climb its mountains, Whitmore said. In his later years, Gosling limited his sport to climbing gyms.

Gosling is survived by two daughters and seven grandchildren, all in the U.K.

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Grey's Anatomy has seen many of its most popular characters say goodbye to the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital over the past few years. The first major farewell was that of Dr Cristina Yang (played by Sandra Oh) who left in 2014. Despite moving onto new projects, Oh is still asked the same question time and time again.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Grey's Anatomy.

Cristina was Dr Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) no nonsense best friend who fans greatly admired for her confidence and wit.

She knew her own mind and wasn't afraid to speak it, even when it wasn't always in her favour to do so.

Cristina supported Meredith throughout a lot of the drama until her former fianc suddenly showed up in season 10.

Little did fans know that this was the beginning of the end for Cristina on Grey's Anatomy.

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Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington) called off the wedding after he realised she didn't really want to go through with marrying him.

To save her from ending it, Preston stopped the big day himself and left the series.

When he did briefly return in 2014, Preston offered Cristina an opportunity she couldn't refuse.

Preston was moving to Italy with his wife and so said he needed someone to take over his medical facility in Zurich, Switzerland.

With a heavy heart at leaving Meredith behind, Cristina packed up her bags and left for good.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the time about the decision to make her exit, actress Oh explained: "Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.

Its such an interesting thing to play a character for so long and to actually get the sense that she wants to be let go as well.

[Cristina] wants to be let go, and I am ready to let her go.

In a recent interview with ET Canada, Oh was once again asked the all important question: Would she return to Grey's Anatomy for its final ever episode?

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Oh said: "I wish I had a dollar for the number of times [I've been asked this question].

"It's OK, I'm happy to answer it, I'm extremely grateful you're asking me that question because that means people are still invested in Cristina Yang, a character who I left six years ago.

"[But] there are so many new projects and I'm a different person so I'm going to have to say no."

While fans will be disappointed to hear this, it doesn't seem like Grey's Anatomy is going to be ending any time soon.

In July, cast members Kim Raver, Camilla Luddington and Kevin McKidd all signed three-year contracts for Grey's Anatomy.

This means ABC are already looking to the future of the medical drama.

Creator Shonda Rhimes has previously said though Grey's Anatomy will continue just so long as actress Pompeo wants to still be in it.

As of writing this article, Pompeo hasn't signed up for another series beyond season 17 so the future of Grey's Anatomy really does lie with her.

Grey's Anatomy is available to watch on ABC.

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Roughly one year ago, researchers in Myanmar found a new species of beetle encased in amber. At the time, they were unable to describe the insects full morphology, so they christened it Mysteriomorphidae (mysteriously shaped). Now, researchers in Europe have reconstructed the insects from four new samples.

These findings allowed the team to better place the species in the tree of life, finding it is closely related to a living family of beetles.

The current findings were made possible by a collaboration between members from the University of Bonn, Germany, and Palacky University, in the Czech Republic. They used computer tomography (CT) to study the body structure (morphology) of the beetles from four specimens found encased in amber since the species was first described.

Some of these specimens were very well preserved, allowing the team to carry out a digital reconstruction of their bodies from CT scans. This technique has seen ample use in paleontology as it allows researchers to study tiny features of fossils, even internal ones, without damaging the specimen.

This isnt the first attempt to describe the outer morphology of Mysteriomorphidae. However, previous research still left some open questions, which the current results answer. In particular, they were able to take a better look at the insects thorax, abdomen, and mouthparts, which are tell-tale elements of individual beetle families.

We used the morphology to better define the placement of the beetles and discovered that they were very closely related to Elateridae, a current family, explains Dr. Robin Kundrata from Palacky University, co-lead of the study and an expert on this family of beetles.

Earlier models had pointed to beetles enjoying a low extinction rate throughout their evolutionary history, even through periods such as the Cretaceous period when extinctions were the name of the game (this time saw the dinosaurs wiped out). But species such as Mysteriomorphidae and similar groups of beetles are known only from Cretaceous ambers, suggesting that they didnt survive past this period of time.

The team believes this comes down to the rapid development and expansion of flowering plants during the Cretaceous period. These essentially reshaped most ecosystems of the time, placing extra pressure on the species adapted to the previous status quo. This expansion made it possible for pollinators to evolve, which outcompeted many of the previous species of insects.

Our results support the hypothesis that beetles, but perhaps some other groups of insects, suffered a decrease in their diversity during the time of plant revolution, says Dr. David Peris, one of the two main authors of the study.

The paper Unlocking the mystery of the mid-Cretaceous Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) and modalities in transiting from gymnosperms to angiosperms has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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NARRATOR: Hi, Im Antonio Campos, and Im the director of The Devil All the Time. So were about 2/3 of the way into the movie, were entering the third act. And Arvin has been spying on this preacher and has figured out that he did something to his stepsister. And so he is coming to get revenge. And one of the things I wanted to convey in this scene is that Arvin isnt a killer. He comes in with the intent of killing him, and in the moment when hes going to shoot, he gets nervous and he sits down, and hes got to muster up the courage to go through with the act. Hes a violent kid, but hes not a killer yet. And so what I wanted to do is I wanted to try and give you two perspectives in this scene, one from the perspective of Teagardin talking to this young man thats come in. You got time for a sinner? Who wants to confess, get something off his chest, and the other, in close up on Arvins face, where we are with Arvin, where were with him, were seeing that hes nervous, and that hes a little anxious. Ive done lustful acts. So we get this angle here, this close-up angle, and thats where were in it with him, and we get to see into his eyes. And then theres the frontal angle, and the frontal, were withholding his eyes. Were seeing it the way that Teagardin sees him. The other thing there is this little technical thing is Teagardin has seen Arvin in church with his grandmother and with his stepsister, but with his hat on, and the angle that hes looking at him, he cant quite identify him. So thats the other reason why this wardrobe was really important for the scene. This is, by far, my favorite scene in the whole movie. And I was so excited for these two characters to come together. And for this force of good and this force of evil to finally meet. And its the beginning of what becomes Arvin coming up against a lot of different evil forces in the story. Its a very long scene, so we really wanted you to feel every single beat. And so this scene took about I think we edited this scene on and off for about nine months. One day I got this girl in my truck and I drove her out to the sticks, and I had my way with her. [SIGHS] She put up a fight? No. And it was really about trying to capture every single detail that these two great actors gave us. I really think that Tom Holland is the greatest actor of his generation. And I think hes so natural, and he conveys such a wonderful humanity, but still manages to capture this kind of danger. And that Rob Pattinson is this kind of mad genius, and you dont know what hes going to give you on the day. And so I had this wonderful footage to work with. And it was really about trying to nail every little micro expression, every gesture. And by doing that, we create this kind of we start building up the tension to the point where then Arvin stands up and, with standing up, he reveals his eyes and reveals his identity to Teagardin. Ive been watching your every move for the last couple weeks. You cant get enough of that Reaster girl, can you? Is that how you did my Lenora, too? And this kind of face off, here, was really this is where it kind of, like, really finely tuned the editing to make sure that every little gesture, once the gun revealed itself, is dangerous for Teagardin. Dont do anything youll regret, son. Why dont you put the gun down, and we can talk all about it? So we really wanted to highlight each beat, and feel every time that Tom gets worked up and Teagardin gets scared. In the sound design, here, you really hear the rattle of the gun. It was just like this this Reaster girl. You get the shake of Arvins hand through the sound of the gun rattling, which is one of these things that we didnt plan on, but when we got into the mix, you really kind of you realize you needed a sound to convey that sort of nervousness, to heighten the nervousness. soul too? Look, I I didnt have nothing to do with that. And then you get this sort of, like, this anger building up. So now Arvin, who came into the scene so, so nervous to go through with the act, is now getting angrier and angrier and angrier. And hes building up the courage to either shoot or not shoot. We dont know yet. We dont know if hes going to change his mind, if Teagardins going to manage to talk his way out of it. I aint going to take the blame for no bastard child. It would ruin me, man. My wife is the editor, Sophia Subercaseaux. She and I always loved every one of Robs deliveries here. She was delusional. Shes crazy. Thats it. Or she was just lonely.

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Only a few weeks after the first of what would become near-daily Black Lives Matter protests in New York City, Justina Heckard found herself on her bicycle in Brooklyn, leading a march in loose formation with other cyclists. An altercation with a driver left a protester injured, and Ms. Heckard and her fellow demonstrators decided they would need to sharpen their tactics.

As protest organizers learned to handle everything from physical confrontations to dehydration, they developed strategies and clearly defined roles designed to keep marches on track and participants safe.

Some of these tactics, however, can put protesters in direct confrontation with both the police and bystanders.

Heres a breakdown of some of the most common roles.

At a demonstration last month, Larry Malcolm Smith Jr., noticed a female protester quarreling with a photographer. She had told the man that she didnt want to be photographed, Mr. Smith recalled. Although he had a right to photograph in public, the photographer seemed to be unusually aggressive.

As a marshal, Mr. Smith, 21, was there to make sure that the demonstration ran smoothly. He intervened in the argument and told the photographer to move away from the woman.

Mr. Smith said he tries to pay attention the needs of Black women. There needs to be more Black men that come out and show up for Black women, he said.

Marshals tend to be scattered throughout a march often equipped with bullhorns and are there to answer questions and keep the energy alive in the middle and back end of a protest.

Born in Jamaica, Queens, Mr. Smith began protesting at age 8, after Sean Bell, an unarmed Black man, was shot by plainclothes officers in Mr. Smiths neighborhood.

I dont feel like I chose activism, he said. Activism chose me.

In early June, Justina Heckard, who works as a music manager, took her bike to demonstrations as a social distancing measure. She said she was soon asked to help divert traffic along with other bike protesters.

At a march on June 6 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Ms. Heckard, 32, and a dozen other cyclists pedaled ahead to clear a route. It was there, she said, that they crossed paths with a motorist who refused to take another street and threatened to drive through the incoming marchers.

With their fellow protesters approaching, the cyclists didnt know how to respond. One stood in front of the car, as shown in a video of the incident, and another tried to jump on the cars roof.

A few seconds later, Ms. Heckard said, the driver accelerated, injuring one protester. That night, demonstrators realized bicyclists needed to be better prepared if they were going to be the first line of defense against motorists.

Now, bike blockers work to de-escalate tensions when they meet uncooperative motorists and form tight lines to block traffic.

This tactic, however, is technically not allowed without a permit, which most protests lack. For the safety of all New Yorkers, we cannot support any blocking of traffic that is not authorized by a government agency, said a spokeswoman for the Police Department.

The danger posed by bike blocking doesnt concern Brandon English, 31, a visual artist. Growing up in Cobb County, Ga., Mr. English recalled being heckled and verbally threatened by white drivers on his way home from school.

Thats something thats been understood for me as a Black person in the United States, Mr. English said. Whether Im protesting or not, my life can be in danger.

Robert Thorne was volunteering at the medical tent at Occupy City Hall in July when he heard that a protester on the Brooklyn Bridge had sustained a head injury after falling off a bike. Mr. Thorne, 33, who has a background as an emergency medical technician, got to the bridge before the ambulance and tended the protesters wounds.

Now, along with his wife, Laney Thorne, 31, he joins protests across the city as a street medic, walking along the edges of the march, ready to treat wounds and help people exposed to pepper spray.

Street medics carry backpacks, usually marked with red crosses, stuffed with first-aid supplies.

Mr. Thorne and his wife came to New York from their home in Elkhart, Ind., after they both lost their jobs because of the pandemic.

Mr. Thorne said his commitment against police brutality had intensified after helping as a street medic: If this goes on in the wintertime, Ill be out there, said Mr. Thorne. I have no intention of stopping any time soon.

Kevin Mora, a lab technician, joined protests as a street medic in May. But in early June, while helping a protester who was exposed to pepper spray, Mr. Mora searched through his backpack only to realize he didnt have any water with him. As he began to panic, a protester from a supply crew rushed over with a bottle of water.

Mr. Mora, 23, said it made him realize there was work to be done at protests aside from moments of crisis, and led him to start Your Fight Too, a mobile bodega that provides supplies everything from masks, food and water to feminine hygiene products.

Mr. Mora, who is Ecuadorean and bisexual, grew up in a culturally homogeneous town Easton, Conn., said his participation in the protests had made him question what it means to be an ally: Ive been re-evaluating the word..

He used to be more concerned, he said, with how others were being allies for him.

Now he asks himself: How have I been an ally in return?

At a demonstration in August, Erica Johnson, who attended as a legal observer, watched as officers approached two protesters who were driving behind the march to help control traffic. She started recording the interaction in her notebook. One of the officers who had approached the car noticed Ms. Johnson and then walked away.

Legal observers attend demonstrations to document interactions between protesters and police officers. They also connect protesters to legal representation and help those who are arrested.

Civilian observers are allowed, according to the New York Police Departments Patrol Guide.

We welcome legal observers and encourage their coordination, a police spokeswoman said in an email. Still, legal observers are subject to arrest: At a June 4 demonstration, nine legal observers were arrested.

Later that month, the police commissioner, Dermot Shea, defended the arrests during testimony before New Yorks attorney general, Letitia James.

Having a shirt or a hat that says legal observer doesnt mean theyre an attorney, Mr. Shea said, or theyre actually performing any legal functions.

Ms. Johnson is a brand manager at a marketing company and has been volunteering with the National Lawyers Guild for nearly a decade. She said she had noticed a greater demand for legal observers at protests in recent months.

Especially when its my own community, I feel like I have to show up a lot more, she said. I feel like I cant do enough.

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Third year students at the NUS medical school using a simulated virtual reality device called Pass-It to be trained on peri-operative care as they can no longer accompany a doctor to a patient's bedside due to the pandemic.

Courtesy of NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

SINGAPORE Donning virtual reality headsets and hand-held controls, medical undergraduates in Singapore enter a simulated hospital environment to learn about patient care digitally.

Even though the setting resembles a virtual game, the experience is designed to teach future doctors the procedures required for surgery, from anesthesia and safety protocols to patient management.

The coronavirus outbreak has forced educators in the city-state to get more creative and has advanced online learning.

Singapore has reported more than 57,500 cases of the Covid-19, and migrant workers make up nearly 95% of them. The spread of the infection outside migrant dormitories appears to be largely under control, but the country will face the same post-pandemic challenges that the rest of the world faces.

The virtual experience for the medical students is the latest education technique used by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Also known as Pass-Itor Patient Safety as Inter-Professional Trainingit helps students understand how to treat patients safely where they would have otherwise accompanied a doctor to a patient's bedside or the operation theater.

"Pass-It's 'gamified' style lets multiple learners be immersed in situations where they are given the opportunity to participate in what would usually be a highly restricted environment," said Associate Professor Alfred Kow, a surgeon and Assistant Dean of education at NUS Medicine, who is one of the educators spearheading this digital initiative.

"With the Covid-19 situation, students have also been removed from these settings of practical learning due to the risk of exposing them to aerosol-generating procedures."

Medical undergraduates during an anatomy class at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.

Courtesy of LKCMedicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Digital learning is not new to Singapore schools, but the pandemic has made remote learning more important than it was before.

Even before the pandemic, medical students at theNanyang Technology University were already taking their education digitally, with somescanning bar codes of diseased organs stored in jars, while others bent overhuman bodies preserved in plastic polymers at the dissection table.Others who prefer a more hands-on experience use 3D printers to reconstruct scans of an organ with color codes.

"In this part of the world, we may be the first ones to deliver a curriculum with plastinated specimens," said Dr. Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali, head of anatomy at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU.

Singapore's government is pushing universities and other schools to come up with better ways to prepare students for the more digitized jobs they'll encounter in the future.

Another university, the Singapore Management University (SMU), is trying to make use of so-called e-learning and artificial intelligence.

"With AI and machine-learning, you can use data to make smarter recommendations to students in terms of what courses they should pick, or how they can leverage their strengths, or perhaps work on their weaknesses," said Dr. Lieven Demeester, director for the Centre for Teaching Excellence at SMU. "The pandemic and the online teaching that came with it has generated renewed attention to the value that instructors bring."

With funding from Singapore's government, most universities are investing in artificial intelligence.

NTU is using AI to track the progress of students, and develop a platform that gives virtual lessons.

The school is looking at the impact of technology on society, AI and ethics. It is also working with IBM Watson, an artificial intelligence platform, to develop a virtual tutor to help with digital learning at its school of medicine.

Medical undergraduates during an anatomy class with Dr. Sreenivasulu Reddy Mogali, head of anatomy at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore.

Courtesy of LKCMedicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

"We are also using AI in other purposes for the general student population because the Watson AI engine can help us to track based on data about students' assessments," said Prof. Kam Chan Hin, deputy provost of education at NTU. "Who are the weak students, what are the topics they are weak in we are then able to tailor some of the remedial type of modules for students who are weak in certain areas."

In line with its goals to extend learning into the digital realm, NUS is offering its engineering undergraduates three new specializations: Internet of Things, Robotics and Digitalization in Urban Infrastructure.

"NUS has leveraged digital technology to broaden our teaching pedagogies," said Prof. Bernard Tan, Senior Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at NUS, in an email. Examples include the use of game-based learning and "flipped classrooms," a teaching method where courses are delivered online to students who later attend follow-up classroom activities to practice and discuss the subject.

He said the university also uses augmented reality and virtual reality for learning. Augmented reality is an enhanced reality created through computer graphics and technology, while virtual reality uses computer technology to create a simulated 3-dimensional environment that is interactive and can be used for educational or entertainment purposes.

The Singapore government has invested heavily into preparing its citizens for a digital economy through projects such as SkillsFuture, which was started in 2015 to encourage people to upgrade their skills in order to meet workforce requirements. The government credits 500 Singapore dollars to all Singaporeans aged 25 and older to help them develop new skills.An additional one-time credit of the same amount is also being provided now to support mid-career transitions for citizens between the ages of 40 and 60.

"We operate in four countries but the support we've got from the Singapore government has been number one so far," said Nitish Jain, President of S.P. Jain School of Global Management. The college was invited by the Singapore government to set up a campus on the island, along with graduate business school, INSEAD, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Dr. CJ Meadows from the S.P. Jain School of Global Management in Singapore conducting a virtual class where her students log in from anywhere in the world.

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Undergraduate students at the college study in different campuses across Singapore, Mumbai, Dubai and Sydney, and get conferred an Australian degree. As part of its digitization efforts, the school runs classes in Singapore where working professionals can log in from any part of the world, interact with faculty members, as well as collaborate and share documents with fellow students that are saved in the university's cloud system.

"We've seen our Executive MBA online classes grow by six times since the pandemic," said Jain, citing student enrollment from Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Australia, Europe and U.S. "No need to travel, no quarantine, nothing."

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How the rookie team of Joe Morris, Jason Roth and Gabe Prewitt helped post a record handle of $55.3 million at the Columbus, OH track an increase of more than $35 million (and 184 per cent) from 2019.

by Bob Roberts

It almost figures. In a year in which only a sprinkling of fans were on hand to watch the Hambletonian and none will be allowed to take in the Little Brown Jug, another track in central Ohio first with no fans in the stands and then with just a handful of them shattered every wagering record in its 62-year history.

Until this spring, the futuristic-looking Scioto Downs, which opened in 1959 and lost a photo-finish to the St. Lawrence Seaway as a nominee for Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement, has been a perennial also-ran in the race for North American simulcast dollars.

That all changed when the first-year team of senior vice-president of racing Joe Morris, racing secretary Jason Roth and director of racing Gabe Prewitt put their heads together and turned Scioto Downs into a major player in the signal export business.

In 2019, Scioto Downs totaled $19.5 million in wagering dollars over 90 race dates for an average of $216,666 a program.

This year, it took in $55.3 million over 82 days and nights of betting for an average of $674,390.What made for such a dramatic increase?

Were a new team and we went through things and tried to do whats best for the horsemen and the horseplayer, said Prewitt. Of course, we were lucky to get the jump on the competition.

Scioto Downs COVID-19-delayed opening on May 22 made the south Columbus oval the first track in North America to welcome back pari-mutuel racing.

It allowed us to get our product out there, especially to people that had not previous seen Scioto racing, said Prewitt. It also helped that everybody wanted to enter and race with us. We had a seven to 10 day jump on the competition.

Scioto Downs took full advantage of their calendar advantage by opening with 12 consecutive handles of over $1 million.

Prewitt employed another and rather unique yardstick for measuring success.

I knew we were making an impact when I heard 15 different pronunciations of Scioto the first week of the meeting. There were a lot of new players.

He said that in Morris giving him the green light to try new things, and with Roth putting together attractive racing cards that bettors embraced, the season was off and pacing.

Gabe is a bright guy, Morris told Harness Racing Update. Hes already established a substantial audience for our racing product.

Prewitt focused on managing post times, constructing a wagering menu that attracted fire power, and staying on top of social media.

Scioto Downs kicked off the season with free past performances and live video on its website, as well as placing some of its races on the TVG network.

When the first weekend of racing was over, Scioto had posted its second, third and fourth highest handles in track history.

We revamped the betting menu, completely. We created several carryover opportunities for players, said Prewitt. And my thing is the scheduling of races. Its very important to get your races in the right spots.

Prewitt said he would position himself in a room he called the dungeon (actually the basement tote room) where he would monitor the signals from up to 12 different tracks.

I did everything I could to stay off major signals, he said. I was always looking for a good spot for us, even thinking three or four races down the card. Its like playing poker every night. Youre zigging and zagging to position your races. I learned by watching Dave Bianconi (vice-president of racing at Northfield Park). Hes the best at it.

Sciotos all-time single card betting record ($1.2 million in 1996) fell twice this past season, first with a handle of $1.6 million on May 28, and then $2.09 million seven days later. On the year, there were 15 $1 million handles.

The season was so great that it took Scioto Downs only 17 programs to top the $19.5 million it collected in wagers in all of 2019.

Prewitt pounded the Twitter world each racing night when betting updates and carryover teasers under the banner of #Senditin Army.

He also paired with track announcer Barry Vicroy to handicap the races, not only giving selections, pointing out hot (or cold) drivers and trainers, and studying the odds board for underlays and overlays.

We tried to add to the broadcast, offering horseplayers what they couldnt find on the program pages, said Prewitt. Barry has been around long time. He knows Scioto and its horsemen.

Prewitt knows the pressure will be on next year to maintain or increase Scioto Downs numbers.

Hopefully, well have a few tricks up our sleeves, he said. I think we should do a half-million every time we turn on the lights and race. So, if we race 90 nights, thats a $45 million. And well build on it from there, as we grow the brand.

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Marvel's iconic X-Men leader Storm is an Omega-Level mutant, and she can do so much more with her weather-controlling powers making it rain.

To put it mildly, X-Men comics have a tendency to make the backstories of Marvel's mutants intricately complicated, with multiple points that hinge on odd points of continuity and twists of fate. Decades of story twists and turns compound with sci-fi and fantasy mythology to make characters far more deeply complex than you might imagine, and there's no better example of that than Ororo Monroe, the weather-controlling mutant and X-Men leader known as Storm.

While she might just appear to have some control over localized weather patterns, Storm has evolved into a far deeper, stranger character since she was created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum in 1975's Giant-Size X-Men #1, and her powers have changed along with her.

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Storm's ability to control the weather is certainly considerable, and it usually puts her in the top tier of most any given X-Men squad she serves on. Controlling all of that power can be difficult, but aiding her in the task is an extension of her mutant abilities that is not quite as obvious as hurling lightning or whipping up rainstorms: she feels an almost spiritual connection with the planet and its weather cycles, physically perceiving them as energy patterns.

Storm's senses allow her to predict the weather even when she does not influence it and sense any abnormalities in its rhythm. This can have the side effect of inflicting discomfort on her when the Earth is in pain, but she never views her connection as a hindrance. Her claustrophobia is in part so traumatic because it cuts her off from the world around her, so it's understandable why losing such a connection would be anxiety-inducing.

Even with her connection to the planet, Storm's powers don't just work exclusively on Earth. Her powers have been accessible on other worlds, in the vacuum of space and even on the astral plane. The environment very seldom negates Storm's capacity to produce weather phenomena on a whim, although it can prove a limiting factor where she is not as powerful as usual.

This means that Storm maintains her ability to hurl lightning even while underground or to create billowing rainstorms within the constricted confines of an indoor environment. She frequently makes storm clouds just small enough to water her plants, a convenient trick for an avid gardener like Ororo.

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BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Surprises abound in the new IDTechEx Research report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041". In 2010, there were no Chinese manufacturers in the top ten supercapacitor manufacturers. In 2020, 40% of them are Chinese. This has been achieved by world-class R&D, being in one of the largest markets globally, strong investment and government support including protective trading. However, China is not leading in capacitor-supercapacitor hybrids where the USA saw a $7 million follow on order recently.

Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx advises, "Supercapacitor manufacturers used to be divided into those making small ones for electronics and those that also made similar flat or cylindrical formats for electrical engineering such as the archetypal 2.7V 3000F cylinder. No longer. A considerable market for even large supercapacitors is rapidly emerging. The first big success with large ones is boxed car stop-starters at around 20Wh, with over five million sold. The number of automakers going for that fit-and-forget, grab more electricity, waste less electricity proposition still increases. The natural extension of this logic is the newly committed adoption of larger supercapacitors for peak-shaving and acceleration boosting at 30-100Wh across the batteries in mild hybrid cars then full hybrid then totally replacing the lithium-ion battery if pure electric cars have not destroyed the hybrid car business by then."

The new large versions appear in trains at 1kWh and 1MWh appears as hospital and data center uninterruptable power supplies that double for peak shaving. It is a long way from small supercapacitors usually made to standards, easy to make and mostly commoditized at prices of 1 cent/F or less. IDTechEx counts 89% of supercapacitor manufacturers making them though Panasonic recently exited. 37% of these are in China because it exports them strongly, its share of the supercapacitor value demand being only 27% because of its giveaway pricing and lateness into car stop-start.

An exception to the commoditization is small supercapacitors in the form of battery-supercapacitor hybrids BSH, aerospace and military ones working at 150C, capacitor-supercapacitor hybrids beating tantalum electrolytics on ripple and one fifth to one tenth of the size and weight and ones in odd formats such as to go in a watch or smart card. Those working at 85C, -40C and 3V as single cells are less common and in demand.

Battery-supercapacitor hybrids (BSH) are almost always lithium-ion capacitors. They offer higher energy density often with effectively infinite cycle life and better charge retention than pure supercapacitors. Energy density several times that of pure EDLC supercapacitors. There is almost always confined to small units for electronics. IDTechEx measures that 24% of supercapacitor manufacturers now have a BSH range and of those 32% are made in China, where they are most successful commercially. China leads the world here, partly because they have so many large BSHs.

Several companies declare their supercapacitors to be "graphene" as a badge of honor. It can mean non-flammable, relatively non-toxic, no use of the volatile, toxic carcinogen acetonitrile, valuably improved series resistance, better voltage and energy density in a pure EDLC all good things justifying a higher price.

Raghu Das adds, "IDTechEx measures that 8.75% of supercapacitor manufacturers now offer graphene versions, up from zero ten years ago. 43% of the manufacturers using graphene are in China so they are ahead in numbers, though certainly not in graphene supercapacitor research, much of which is aimed at the massive emerging market for replacing lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries with highest energy density of 100Wh/kg or more. In research, this is usually achieved by boosted pseudocapacitance though some perfect the technology of the newly commercial 100 Wh/kg lithium-ion supercapacitors. 33% of supercapacitor material research graphene-centric followed by carbon nanotubes then metal organic frameworks."

Large supercapacitors are more difficult to make, more profitable and represent the majority of the addressable market 2021-2041. Unlike small ones, they typically come with integral power electronics for optimal safe operation, microprocessors for intelligent response, often cooling systems. 47.5% of supercapacitor manufacturers now claim to make them, up from few in the past. However, many of those are barely in the business, their web entries being more of a wish list that reality. 34% of these are in China no dominance though it is coming up fast in this respect. This is assisted by the fact that a disproportionate amount of the demand for large supercapacitors is in China with the Government requesting that all parts of trains, buses etc. be made in China. On the other hand, China is badly behind in researching supercapacitor bodywork, smart skin and other radical advances scoped in the IDTechEx Research report, "Supercapacitor Materials and Formats 2020-2040".

Raghu Das predicts, "Acquisitions and mergers will continue. One billion dollar supercapacitor businesses may be created by 2045. If the addressable markets we have analyzed are strongly penetrated, then it will be much earlier. Given past disappointments, our upside forecast currently stands at $7 billion in 2041."

For more information on this report, please visit http://www.IDTechEx.com/supercaps or for the full portfolio of research available from IDTechEx please visit http://www.IDTechEx.com/Research.

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NARRATOR: Hi, Im Antonio Campos, and Im the director of The Devil All the Time. So were about 2/3 of the way into the movie, were entering the third act. And Arvin has been spying on this preacher and has figured out that he did something to his stepsister. And so he is coming to get revenge. And one of the things I wanted to convey in this scene is that Arvin isnt a killer. He comes in with the intent of killing him, and in the moment when hes going to shoot, he gets nervous and he sits down, and hes got to muster up the courage to go through with the act. Hes a violent kid, but hes not a killer yet. And so what I wanted to do is I wanted to try and give you two perspectives in this scene, one from the perspective of Teagardin talking to this young man thats come in. You got time for a sinner? Who wants to confess, get something off his chest, and the other, in close up on Arvins face, where we are with Arvin, where were with him, were seeing that hes nervous, and that hes a little anxious. Ive done lustful acts. So we get this angle here, this close-up angle, and thats where were in it with him, and we get to see into his eyes. And then theres the frontal angle, and the frontal, were withholding his eyes. Were seeing it the way that Teagardin sees him. The other thing there is this little technical thing is Teagardin has seen Arvin in church with his grandmother and with his stepsister, but with his hat on, and the angle that hes looking at him, he cant quite identify him. So thats the other reason why this wardrobe was really important for the scene. This is, by far, my favorite scene in the whole movie. And I was so excited for these two characters to come together. And for this force of good and this force of evil to finally meet. And its the beginning of what becomes Arvin coming up against a lot of different evil forces in the story. Its a very long scene, so we really wanted you to feel every single beat. And so this scene took about I think we edited this scene on and off for about nine months. One day I got this girl in my truck and I drove her out to the sticks, and I had my way with her. [SIGHS] She put up a fight? No. And it was really about trying to capture every single detail that these two great actors gave us. I really think that Tom Holland is the greatest actor of his generation. And I think hes so natural, and he conveys such a wonderful humanity, but still manages to capture this kind of danger. And that Rob Pattinson is this kind of mad genius, and you dont know what hes going to give you on the day. And so I had this wonderful footage to work with. And it was really about trying to nail every little micro expression, every gesture. And by doing that, we create this kind of we start building up the tension to the point where then Arvin stands up and, with standing up, he reveals his eyes and reveals his identity to Teagardin. Ive been watching your every move for the last couple weeks. You cant get enough of that Reaster girl, can you? Is that how you did my Lenora, too? And this kind of face off, here, was really this is where it kind of, like, really finely tuned the editing to make sure that every little gesture, once the gun revealed itself, is dangerous for Teagardin. Dont do anything youll regret, son. Why dont you put the gun down, and we can talk all about it? So we really wanted to highlight each beat, and feel every time that Tom gets worked up and Teagardin gets scared. In the sound design, here, you really hear the rattle of the gun. It was just like this this Reaster girl. You get the shake of Arvins hand through the sound of the gun rattling, which is one of these things that we didnt plan on, but when we got into the mix, you really kind of you realize you needed a sound to convey that sort of nervousness, to heighten the nervousness. soul too? Look, I I didnt have nothing to do with that. And then you get this sort of, like, this anger building up. So now Arvin, who came into the scene so, so nervous to go through with the act, is now getting angrier and angrier and angrier. And hes building up the courage to either shoot or not shoot. We dont know yet. We dont know if hes going to change his mind, if Teagardins going to manage to talk his way out of it. I aint going to take the blame for no bastard child. It would ruin me, man. My wife is the editor, Sophia Subercaseaux. She and I always loved every one of Robs deliveries here. She was delusional. Shes crazy. Thats it. Or she was just lonely.

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Revolutionary Paris was the center of things in more ways than one. Dr Phillipe Pinel, a child of the Enlightenment, laid down principles of psychiatry that many still follow today. Pinel, followed by his epigone Dr Jean-tienne Dominique Esquirol, believed that the root cause of mental illness lay in the environment. Patients therefore required moral treatment, based on the belief that individuals exhibiting mental illness could be carefully re-educated in the humane and orderly regime of a reformed asylum.

Paris, a city associated with hedonism, indulgence, creativity and apostasy, was the home of a new psychiatric illness: generalised paresis of the insane (GPI). It was characterised by grandiose thinking, disorganized behaviour, emotional outbursts, and flights of wild fantasy culminating in collapse, rapid dementia, and paralysis. Patients were unable to care for themselves, dying mostly in lunatic asylums.

The Pinel school attributed GPI to environmental causes. But then one of the most original and unusual characters in the history of psychiatry arrived on the scene and challenged the environmental hypothesis. His name was Antoine Laurent Jesse Bayle. As a Royalist, he was swimming against the political currents of the day and a possible candidate for persecution. He had trained under Dr RenLaennec, a proponent of the then-unfashionable anatomico-pathological view and inventor of the stethoscope.

Bayle went into psychiatry at the Royal Asylum for the Insane at Charenton in 1818. Up to one-third of the male patients had GPI, and it was clear that moral therapy was not going to provide a solution to their illness.

On November 21, 1822, Bayle presented his doctorate, describing 6 autopsy cases of GPI with gross thickening of the meninges and inflammation of the vasculature. GPI, he stated, was due to chronic meningo-vascular arachnoiditis. Its cause was anatomical, not environmental or moral. This extraordinary discovery was made by a young man at the level of what today would be regarded as internship. He was precociousness personified.

The significance of Bayles finding cannot be understated. It was the first description of the visible and definable neuropathological cause of a psychiatric disease and deserves to go down in history as the fons et origo of the scientific roots of the discipline.1

In 1825, Bayle pushed the envelope by claiming that all insanity was due to chronic meningeal inflammation. The response from his peers was critical, if not caustic. Dr tienne-Jean Georget (making sure he did not leave anything out) condemned Bayle of being shallow, impertinent, showing exaggerated pretension, immature, reaching impossible conclusions, and having a rash nature.

Undeterred, Bayle went on to write up 100 autopsy findings in 1826, warning that the moral school could lead one astray by making one neglect the organic cause of diseases, by focusing too exclusively on derangements of function.

At the age of 27 Bayle walked away from psychiatry to become an archivist and sank into obscurity.

If the environmentalists won the battle, it was a short-lived victory; the war was eventually lostdecisively. Bayle had correctly anticipated a paradigm shift. Within decades, the anatomico-pathological model ruled supreme. The center of psychiatric gravity accordingly moved to the Germanic world, and French psychiatry was never the same.

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Grey's Anatomy star Chandra Wilson has revealed that she can struggle to sometimes switch off after filming "really emotional" scenes.

The actress has played the role of Miranda Bailey in the hit series since its debut in 2005, taking on some pretty hard-hitting storylines in the process.

One recent and particularly heartbreaking one saw the character learn that she had suffered a miscarriage at work, and the actress has opened up to the Radio Times about the aftermath of filming such moments.

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"One thing I have discovered as an actor, especially with really emotional things that we have to do on the show, is that your body doesn't know the difference your body doesn't know that you are acting, so it does sometimes take a minute to calm your body down and tell it, 'no, we were just pretending'," she said.

Last year, meanwhile, Wilson addressed her future as Bailey on the show, saying she wanted to play the character "until the wheels come off".

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"I always say until the wheels come off, I'll be there," she said. "I think there have been so many versions of when the show would end and how the show will end that there isn't a version at this point. I keep showing up when they call me and tell me that we're doing another one!"

The star added: "I would love to see the end of her I would love to see the completion of that arc, not only as a character, but with the show, but everything is dictated by story, as always but what a great story to be able to tell that I was a starter and a finisher, that's a very cool story."

Grey's Anatomy season 17 airs on ABC in the US. It airs on Sky Witness in the UK with selected episodes also available on NOW TV.

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We imagine your first encounter with a wind turbine was through the window of your car as you zip down a remote highway. Wind turbines are unforgettable because of their large and impressive stature and are emblematic of the widespread global adoption of this power source as a means to generate more sustainable energy solutions for communities.

India has been at the forefront of renewableenergy revolution and has emerged as the one of the world's largest and most competitive markets for cleanenergy innovations. Wind power saw a stable growth in the country over the past few decades, and India currently ranks fourth in the global wind energy capacity ranking.

TwoIEEE Power and Energy Society (PES)members, Pouyan Pourbeik and Nicholas Miller, explain how wind power technology works, and why it is so important.

What is a wind turbine?In simplest terms, a wind turbine is a mechanical machine that converts the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical rotational energy that can be used to do some work, says Pourbeik.

Utilizing the natural resource, wind, as a source of energy production is not a new technological practice. In fact, wind turbines have been developed in various ways for several centuries. Pourbeik says that the first recorded wind turbine dates back to the seventh century in Iran and was used to grind grain and pump water from wells.

Todays modern wind turbines are used to run electrical machines that then convert the rotational mechanical energy into electrical energy that can serve the electrical needs of residential homes, commercial buildings and industry, says Pourbeik.

How is wind power a sustainable technology?

Wind turbines are sustainable because of the power conversion process; by tapping into the wind, the process is cleaner than having to mine or burn material that creates massive amounts of emissions as a result. Wind energy is a solution to reducing those carbon emissions, eliminating other forms of pollution in the air, and eventually moving away from traditional methods that have the opposite effect on our planet.

Another benefit of wind power is that this source of energy is free and bountiful. When I lecture on wind turbine basics, I often start with the statement a wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy in wind/moving air into money, says Miller. The fact that there is electric power generated is incidental.

You cant afford to build a wind turbine that captures all of the available energy all the time, says Miller.

What are the challenges of wind energy?

Every technology comes with its own set of challenges that engineers are equipped to solve. Integration into pre-existing power grids and gaining general public awareness of the technology as a sustainable tool are the current hurdles Pourbeik and Miller face as power engineers.

There are challenges with engineering such systems and reliably integrating them into the world-wide electric infrastructure but that is what makes the current technical environment in the field of power and energy engineering so exciting, says Pourbeik.

One of those challenges to the energy grid is energy storage and reliability. Traditionally, when a customer demands electric power, the generation and the power grid is capable of meeting that demand. But with the advent and explosive growth of wind and solar power, it is Mother Nature who decides when the electric power will be supplied, not the consumer, says Miller.

Since the birth of the electric power system in the late 19th and early 20th century, energy has been converted from mechanical energy to electrical energy through the use of rotating electrical machines, which are directly connected to the bulk power grid, explains Pourbeik. These conventional machines run at a constant speed, which means that the frequency of the electrical power they produce is also constant.

Because wind turbine speed is constantly changing due to the wind, power engineers must figure out a way to efficiently convert the wind energy to mechanical rotating energy. The solution is a rotating electrical machine connected to the wind turbine that runs at a wide range of speeds.

So to interface the machine (running at different speeds) to the bulk electrical power system (which has a fixed frequency) one needs to use a power-electronic converter interface, says Pourbeik. Thus, the electrical behavior of the power generating device becomes very different as seen from the grid.

While power-electronic converters have been used in other ways, they have never been used at such a large scale as they are now to connect the heart of wind power plants to the grid. Over the last few decades, the power and energy industry has been learning how to utilize this technology in the most reliable way possible.

Pouyan and I have worked through the first stages of the revolution, says Miller. Since the turn of the century, we have watched (and participated) as innovations in technology, markets, regulation and understanding have steadily moved the challenge out. Today, we (the U.S. and other world grids) regularly operate at levels of wind and solar generation that we thought would be nearly impossible or wouldnt happen for decades into the future.

IEEE PES and the renewable integration community have a large focus on how to make the grid work in a reliable, safe, clean and affordable fashion. But Pourbeik and Miller are hopeful about the future of sustainable energy and the technology being developed.

We are continuing to move at an astonishing rate, adding innovations on all those fronts, says Miller. Very honestly, there has never been a better, more exciting time to be a power engineer.

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Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Grey's Anatomy will return for a 17th season in November.

ABC announced a premiere date, Nov. 12, for Season 17 in a press release Thursday.

The two-hour season premiere will air Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. EDT. Season 4 of the Grey's Anatomy spinoff Station 19 will premiere the same night at 8 p.m.

ABC shared a moving poster for Grey's Anatomy Season 17 on Twitter featuring Ellen Pompeo as her character. Dr. Meredith Grey.

"Sometimes... we all need saving," the tagline reads.

The network also released a teaser for the season featuring Dr. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd).

ABC also announced premiere dates for other fall shows. The Good Doctor Season 4 premieres Nov. 2 at 10 p.m. EDT, while David E. Kelley's new series Big Sky will make its debut Nov. 17 at 10:01 p.m.

"Our fall schedule is now complete with a dynamic lineup of new and returning drama series," ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke said. "From fan-favorite shows like Grey's Anatomy and The Good Doctor to David E. Kelley's thrilling new drama Big Sky, our strength is in our storytelling, and we could not be more energized to bring these compelling series to our viewers."

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Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's time at the New Zealand Warriors has been a turbulent one. Photo / Photosport

When Roger Tuivasa-Sheck signed for the Warriors almost six years ago, it should have been the start of a golden era for the Mt Smart club. But it never quite happened.

A carousel of coaches and assistant coaches, the ownership saga and shareholder disputes, a constantly rotating roster, poor recruitment decisions and some injury misfortune have seen the Warriors mostly struggle since his arrival.

While Tuivasa-Sheck has delivered, he's been part of an organisation that hasn't been able to match his standards of dedication and professionalism.

Michael Burgess examines how it could have all been so different.

The 21-year-old was an emerging superstar. His switch to fullback at the Roosters had been a revelation and landing his signature, confirmed in April 2015, was a massive coup.

Tuivasa-Sheck saw the club's potential, as they had finished ninth in 2014, missing the finals on points differential. Alongside a desire to live in Auckland, Tuivasa-Sheck was sold on chief executive Jim Doyle's legacy pitch.

Doyle told him that while winning a grand final with the Roosters was special, being part of the first Warriors team to land the NRL premiership would still be talked about in "50 years".

The Warriors were flying high in mid-July 2015, fourth on the NRL ladder after a memorable win over the Storm.

But they lost Shaun Johnson with a season-ending ankle injury in the following game and never recovered, dropping their last eight matches in an awful run.

Instead of arriving at Mt Smart with something to build on and the club on a high, Tuivasa-Sheck walked into an environment with more questions than answers and coach Andrew McFadden under intense pressure.

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Tuivasa-Sheck had a short pre-season, coming off the 2015 Kiwis tour of England. He had carried a heavy load on that trip, with an added playmaking role in the absence of Johnson, Kieran Foran and Thomas Leuluai.

The Warriors lost their first three games, including a shock defeat to the Tigers, but then started to turn the corner, with Tuivasa-Sheck scoring the winning try to defeat his old club in Gosford.

That optimism turned sour in round seven, when the fullback tore his anterior cruciate ligament playing against the Bulldogs in Wellington.

"It's the cruel side of football we've certainly had more than our share of bad luck," noted McFadden.

Tuivasa-Sheck was desperately missed. The Warriors were still seventh equal in mid-August, despite three golden point defeats, but lost their last four matches to miss the playoffs by three points. McFadden was axed, replaced by Stephen Kearney.

The club's dogged pursuit of Foran ahead of the 2017 season like Sam Tomkins a few years before illustrated a misplaced obsession with the spine. It was also a major gamble, as the club hierarchy poured massive amounts of time, energy and resources into Foran, who was rehabilitating mentally and physically after his exit from Parramatta.

But more importantly, the most pressing need was a dominant leader in the pack.

It was symptomatic of decisions made between 2015 and 2019, when the Warriors were either unable or unwilling - to land the big fish they needed, to provide the platform for Tuivasa-Sheck's talents.

Instead, there were puzzling decisions; signing Kiwi international Gerard Beale, when they already had Peta Hiku and other centres and throwing big money at Adam Blair when, for all his qualities, he wasn't the yardage forward they required.

Coaches and management would talk tough, but it was the likes of Tuivasa-Sheck that had to battle behind a pack that rarely dominated.

"We don't have the biggest forward pack, but can still do damage with the forwards we have," said the diplomatic captain ahead of the 2020 season.

Tuivasa-Sheck was a surprise choice as skipper before the 2017 season.

Kearney correctly saw his potential, though it added to the burden for a marquee man who had barely played for the club.

While Tuivasa-Sheck embraced the role, it was a brutal season. Seven defeats in their first 11 games ended any playoff ambitions and they didn't win a game after the 23rd of June, with a club-record nine consecutive losses.

Playing on home soil, the tournament was meant to be a career highlight for Tuivasa-Sheck but it turned into a nightmare.

Coach David Kidwell was out of his depth and defections, injuries and withdrawals severely weakened the Kiwis squad, who were beaten by Tonga then stunned by Fiji.

After witnessing the fervour, hype and packed stadiums that had greeted the British Lions tour earlier that year, Tuivasa-Sheck noted the contrast playing in front of a half-empty Wellington stadium for the miserable quarter-final loss.

The Warriors had high hopes playing in their first finals match since 2011, but they evaporated when Tuivasa-Sheck limped off in the 28th minute against Penrith.

The team was already struggling the forward pack couldn't assert themselves and halves Johnson and Blake Green were poor but were only trailing 14-12, before the loss of their talismanic captain.

Tuivasa-Sheck, who had become the first Warrior to claim the Dally M medal, had a wonderful season, setting the tone in the first game with an incredible defensive stop against the Rabbitohs.

Tuivasa-Sheck played in nine playoff matches at the Roosters but has only one finals appearance for the Warriors.

Johnson's departure had massive ramifications.

It remains one of the biggest strategic blunders in the club's history; even if it was decided Johnson wasn't the long-term option, to engineer a situation where the halfback demanded an early release was a lose-lose situation.

Instead of building on 2018 where the club finished two points behind the minor premiers the Warriors floundered.

Their attack lost creativity and punch without Johnson the right edge had been near unstoppable in 2018 and Tuivasa-Sheck had to carry an increased burden, as the major source of offensive inspiration.

It was meant to be a consolidation year, with another finals appearance, but they were out of the picture in 13th place.

The 2019 failure meant Kearney, the football staff and the team were under more pressure, especially with ambitious new owner Mark Robinson.

But Tuivasa-Sheck didn't shirk; instead he wrote a three-page plan, which he presented to chief executive Cameron George and other management staff.

"I wrote my own report about how I see the club going, and how I was going," he said in January 2020.

"I took the way we went [in 2019] really personally and really want us to do better."

The Covid-19 pandemic, then the abrupt sacking of Kearney, caused major upheaval for the Warriors but also exhibited the qualities of Tuivasa-Sheck.

His leadership was outstanding, and his playing standards never dropped, as they transformed into a more consistent outfit under Todd Payten.

But it was probably the final straw for Tuivasa-Sheck.

As well as being marooned away from his family, he carried a captaincy load unmatched in the NRL.

Tuivasa-Sheck enjoys that challenge, but the thought of several more years of upheaval was maybe too much to contemplate.

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Everyone believes that Meredith and Derek are Grey's Anatomy's best couple when, in reality, it is Ben and Bailey. They define relationship goals!

Grey's Anatomy features many outstanding friendships and relationships. But so many of the relationships on the show are fought with strife, or fizzle out after explosive beginnings. However, there is one relationship that has managed to stand the testament of time: Miranda Bailey and Ben Warren.

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These two headstrong characters form an unbeatable team that defines the term "relationship goals" in the Grey's Anatomy universe. With many cute moments between them, and other moments that show the depth and strength of their relationship, here are some ways in which they personify the phrase "relationship goals."

Ben Warren was probably the first person to take on Miranda in such a fashion. He stops her from just making assumptions on his behalf and very straightforwardly tells her to ask questions, which will be answered by him. They make their boundaries clear, and their plans and intentions clear as well.

When Bailey is afraid that this might lead to them just ending up as friends, Ben makes it clear that they won't. The clarity of their conversation and the communication between them lay a strong foundation for their relationship. Their first kiss is therefore reflective of all this, while also being filled with intense chemistry.

It is very clear that Tuck is of utmost priority to Miranda. So the fact that Ben was able to connect to him, and actually bond so well with him was something that meant a lot to Bailey. The three of them formed a very cute family unit and they were family goals as well. Ben fits into the dynamic between Bailey and her son quite well and this is a very important factor that makes their relationship so strong.

It is such an adorable moment when both these parents freak out when Tuck says that he has a "thing" with someone and puts his arm around a girl. They both discuss their plan of action and make the decision together that Ben would give the 'talk' to Tuck.

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This incident beautifully portrays their ability to be an incredible team and the strength of their relationship. And it's also a funny moment to see them both freak out in this manner.

When Bailey was struggling with her mental health, she asks to take a break from their relationship, wondering if it was Ben's job that was the thing giving her anxiety. But even when they were on a break, Bailey was constantly missing him and wanting him.

And even Ben couldn't stay away and boarded up the windows to their house when he knew about the snowstorm coming. Even when they are not technically together, they cannot but help but be concerned about each other.

The incredibly talented Miranda Bailey ends up being the first-ever female chief of the hospital. She is hardworking, persistent, and reaches heights that no one else had reached before.

Even though they had their fair share of highs and lows, Bailey excelled at her job and Ben was incredibly supportive of his high-achieving wife. They were quite the power couple with Ben being as ambitious as Bailey, albeit in different ways and in different trajectories of their career path as well.

The only issue Ben had with the situation was the fact that Bailey hadn't discussed the matter with him beforehand. Ben very quickly came to terms with it but they decide to never make big decisions without asking each other.

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Both of these are very reflective of the strength of the relationship. And the very small fight they have with Ben sleeping on the couch, and the manner in which they make up so quickly and so well shows what a strong but also goodcouple they were.

Nothing goes to plan on their wedding day, with Bailey deciding to perform emergency surgery on Adele and leaving Ben waiting. But, unlike her earlier experiences with her ex-husband, Ben is completely understanding of the situation and is in no way even mildly annoyed by the delay.

The immense amount of respect they have for each other is quite evident here with Bailey's belief in doing her work, and Ben's belief in her priorities as well. And even though their wedding ends up happening quite late, it is still an incredibly enjoyable occasion and the love they share was celebrated.

The way in which the proposal played out was incredibly typical of this couple. Ben had taken so much time to pull off a very cute surprise proposal, but because of Bailey rushing out to surgery before finishing breakfast, it had fallen quite flat.

When Bailey finds out that she had sort of spoiled Ben's proposal, she pulls off her own version of a proposal which is quite extreme as well. They both ended up proposing to each other and it was a very funny thing to have happened to this resolute couple.

After their engagement, Ben has moved to California making their relationship a long-distance one. So whenever Ben is in town, they are constantly spending every waking moment together in the hospital - to the point that they become the talk of the hospital.

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Especially amongst the new set of interns who have seen this version of Bailey in their first year, they start referring to her as Booty Call Bailey. Despite the unruly nickname they gave her, it was incredibly sweet to learn how happy and so in love they are with each other.

Bailey and Warren's relationship is not very simple or dreamlike. It takes genuine work and commitment to keep it going. There have been many highs and lows in their relationship, with Ben changing his field, moving away, becoming a firefighter, Miranda's difficulty with mental health, and so on.

But despite it all, they chose to be with each other every single time and that is what makes their relationship quite amazing. They have both survived it all and they still love each otherbutthat's what makes them relationship goals on the show.

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T.R Knight's George O'Malley will always be an unforgettable part of Grey's Anatomy, both for his shameless and decent, compassionate actions.

Actor T.R Knight's George O'Malley will probably remain etched into the memories of Grey's Anatomy fans forever. One of the most gentle, compassionate male characters ever written forpopular television, George was an instant fan-favorite and the fact that his character died such a devastatingdeath made him all the more memorable.

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One of the original interns at Seattle Grace Hospital, George was beloved in almost every way possible but there were twists in his character that messed with his arc at times. There were very few things the kind and empathetic George did that can be considered shameless but here are some that can come close, and a few others that would make any man proud.

George was one of the only people at Seattle Grace aware of Burkes tremor after his shooting and the fact that he and Cristina were keeping it a secret. Now,George was completely justified in his discomfort sinceBurke and Cristins little team effort where they continued to perform surgeries even though Burke wasnt ready, was completely unethical.

The duo was even ready to operate of George's own father. But perhaps he took it a little too far when he stopped talking to Cristina even though no damage had really been done. After all, Cristina was already under a lot of stress fromshielding Burke.

When Joe, everybody's favorite bartender, collapsed inside his own bar, the doctors at the hospital naturally did their best to save their go-to guy who was privy to so many of their little secrets.

However, Joe refused the brain surgery he needed due to the insurmountable expense it would involve, which might, in turn, cause him to lose his bar. It was George who took it upon himself to convince Richard Webber to fund the cost of the surgery by getting Joe into a grant with a research foundation. The effort George took to save Joe and help him keep his beloved bar was indeed commendable.

George himself might not have even realized it, but he seemed to be using Callie as a kind of rebound and a way to make himself feel better after his unfortunate incident with Meredith.George had, as fans would recall, always harbored an enormous crush on Meredith.

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But unfortunately, the latter, who was going through a phase at the time, had started crying when she was in bed with himwhich was totally unfair. George's affair with Callie started soon after and although it was Callie who took the initiative, George's whole storyline with her felt forced, and somewhat like a rebound.

George came from a family where becoming a surgeon was almost unimaginable. He was intellectually much more advanced than most other members of his family, especially his two brothers who teased him relentlessly when they realized he wasn't yet a proper doctor and only an intern.

George, however, didn't let his family tie him down or pull him back. He became a surgical intern and then a resident and would surely have gone on to be a successful surgeon in time.

George and Alex started fighting in the episode "Where The Boys Are" becauseAlex had just told George that Callie had been unfaithful to him with Mark Sloan. Interestingly enough, Alex was actually telling the truth, and the slap-fight led to Walter,the bartender Joe's boyfriend, hitting his head against a rock.

Even though the whole thing was an accident, George was left feeling guilty. Although it is hard to necessarily call this shameless, he could surely have been more mature and responsible.

George performed an extraordinary feat when he operated on a young patient who needed heart surgery inside an elevator that had got stuck due to a power shortage.

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George was only an intern at the time and not ready to take on such a daunting task on his own. However, while Alex froze, it was George who stepped up and took charge, thoroughly impressing Preston Burke. Under Burke's instructions, he went on to perform the surgery inside the elevator, saving his patient's life almost single-handedly.

Young Lexie Grey had a crush on George when she first arrived at Seattle Grace. She was extremely sweet to George, which was typical of her gentle nature. She even tried to protect himfrom getting hurt by keeping the fact that he was repeating a year as an intern from her fellow-interns.

However, George never seemed to notice her rather obvious feelings, even though the two shared a dilapidated apartment for a while. George and Lexie would have made an ideal couple, but the former ended up hurting Lexie when he failed to pay her any attention. This wasn't exactly shameless but really, however, Lexie did end up getting hurt.

George O'Malley was inspired by Owen Hunt who had just joined the hospital after a tour of Iraq to become a trauma surgeon. Owen had told George that despite his passiveways, hehad the potential to become an excellent trauma surgeon.

For soft, gentle George to enlist in the army would have taken unbelievable courage and motivation to help people. Of course, George never ended up actually joining the military as a surgeon but this was something he should have been incredibly proud of.

One of the worst things George did and possibly thetrulyshameless one was his affair with Izzie while still being married to Callie Torres. Callie and George were not the best fit and they got married too early. However, George cheating on Callie who had been nothing but good, caring, and loving to him, made no sense at all.

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The Callie-George-Izzie triangle was one of the worst storylines in the series, receiving quite a bit of flak from fans, and sending George's character completely haywire. It was thoroughly uncharacteristic of himto stoop to this level and definitely rather shameless.

While his cheating on Callie wasn't his proudest moment, George did something else that would quite literally become the most selfless thing he ever did. He threwhimself in front of a bus to save a random stranger on the street.

Fans remember the season 5 finale as one of the most shocking and tragic season finales in the history of the series as George O'Malley was admitted to Seattle Grace as a John Doe after getting hit by a bus to save a woman he didn't even know. His face was so badly disfigured that his own friends were unable to recognize him. George died painfully, practically giving his life for a stranger, which was the ultimate sacrifice and the proudest thing one can do.

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As one of the last remaining original cast members on Greys Anatomy, Chandra Wilson has been playing Dr. Miranda Bailey since the show premiered in 2005. Tonight, Wilsons character narrates the latest episode a task usually done by Ellen Pompeos Meredith Grey.

Now, in its 17th season, Greys Anatomy is one of the most influential shows in television history, inspiring generations of young women to enter the medical field. But never in its long-running history has the medical drama been as impactful as this season, as it tackles the coronavirus pandemic.

In the latest episode, Dr. Baileys mother dies after contracting COVID-19 in the nursing home she recently moved into, after Bailey moved her parents in an assisted living center, so that they could be living closer to her in Seattle.

At one particularly moving moment of the episode, when Bailey realizes her mother is dying from the virus, the character says, I dont want her to be another Black woman statistic. Later on in the episode, Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) and Dr. Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) have a conversation about the pandemic taking more lives of Black and Brown people, shedding a light on the real-life racial disparity of the current health crisis with certain groups at increased risk from COVID-19.

Watching the news every day, you kind of get bogged down in the numbers and the statistics. Things people say on TV just end up being news items, opposed to someones life, Wilson says.

The hope is that by illuminating these things on Greys, were putting these things in the mouths of people you know these characters so that there is relevance and resonance where maybe there wasnt before, she continues. From the perspective of doing some good, if you can stomach something coming from Jackson Averys mouth better than you can stomach it coming from your mayor or your governor, then weve served a good purpose.

Here, Wilson talks about her latest storyline, the power Greys Anatomy holds during the pandemic, what it was like having Patrick Dempsey and T.R. Knight back on set plus, Baileys future on the show.

Why was it important to include a storyline about coronavirus in nursing homes this season?

There is a myriad of material out there right now, as far as how people are affected differently. Specifically in Washington, at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a big light shone on nursing homes being affected in a large way, so it just made sense for Greys Anatomy, since Washington is our home, that we would highlight nursing homes. Bringing Baileys parents to Seattle and having them live in an assisted living facility was one way to do that.

Did you have input in Bailey leading the nursing home storyline?

No, not at all. This is something that was given to me, and I said, We have to tell that story, because we are talking about a lot of peoples experiences but it is actually rare that Bailey was able to at least be there with her mom, whereas, for the most part, people arent able to be with their loved ones when they pass away.

How will her mothers death affect Bailey moving forward?

You could see in the scene between Maggie and Bailey, there is a lot of guilt there with taking responsibility for having brought her parents to Seattle. Bailey notoriously pushes through everything, but I think its hard to push through and persevere right now. I dont have a seasons worth of perspective, as far as how its going to affect Bailey, but right now its about pushing through. Eventually shes going to have to deal with it. As far as the timing is concerned, it may not be right away. But eventually, this is going to hit her.

Going into this new season, the writers knew that the show had to cover the pandemic, since youre a medical show, but since the pandemic is not slowing down, will coronavirus be the center of the rest of the reason? And was that always the plan?

Well, I know that we were starting in the COVID environment we were just going to jump in time a bit to get us into the pandemic, and then we were going to flash back into things that may have been missed at the end of Season 16 [since production was shut down]. In my heart, just as Chandra Wilson, I was hoping by the time these episodes aired, we would be talking about the past. But we are so present right now, in sort of a frightening way. So thats been really unexpected for me.

So do you know whats mapped out for the rest of the season? Or is the storyline in flux, depending on what happens with the pandemic and the vaccine?

Im not sure how much the current circumstances are changing our overall arc. Our arc has had to remain very fluid this season, based on even if were allowed to work at a certain point, depending on how our national numbers do. The relevance grows episode-by-episode, and I think it makes for an interesting journey for our writers right now to figure out where the arc goes because I think its about as fluid as the times are right now.

You went through a shutdown last spring when Season 16 was cut off early when there was an industry-wide production halt, due to the pandemic. Have you gotten used to being on set now with all of the safety protocols?

It will never feel normal and thats good because it shouldnt. It certainly feels required. This is what we need to do, in order to keep our environment and ourselves safe enough and by extension, our families, so that work is possible. One way or another, we all have to figure out what can we do during this time because we cant stay home indefinitely. It really is about honoring the requirement and going above and beyond, in order to make sure that we are as safe and as healthy as we can be, so that people can work.

You are an actor not a real doctor but since the show is influencing millions of viewers each week, do you feel a heightened sense of responsibility to keep shooting the show, during these times?

Its our responsibility to keep the quality of the show, but were not trying to beat people over the head with facts and opinions. We are ultimately entertainment.

Its an interesting responsibility. There is endless television on, and there are endless avenues as ways to watch things, but I know that if I just have to look at Zoom one more time, or something created by the iPhone, its really difficult [laughing]. Its kind of a breath of fresh air to be like, Hey, theres a show that was actually shot on a stage with actors in the room! On a level of importance, take that for what it is, but I feel good about bringing some new dramatic series content to the air, and I think thats what all the shows are trying to do. Television and movies, we are the place of escape right now. We are the thing that people are relying on, while spending so much time at home.

The biggest responsibility of that is being able to light a path in getting people back to work on set and create a model.

Another major moment of the episode is when Bailey is talking to Meredith, who is unconscious in a hospital bed with COVID-19, and then you show up in her dream sequence on the beach. Is it supposed to be implied that Meredith can hear Bailey, or anyone else whos talking to her, even though shes not responsive?

I think weve left that up to personal interpretation. Some sedated patients will tell you that they can hear everything. I think we would all like to think that in our world, Meredith can hear us and she is part of the conversation she just happens to be at the beach.

What is the future for Meredith, in regards to her health?

Im not being evasive, but only because of how fluid the season is, I think we thought we were going some place, but now were going a different place, and Im not sure where that place is. That one is up in the air because I honestly dont know and even if I did, I wouldnt tell you [laughing].

Back to Merediths dreams on the beach, what was it like havin
g Patrick Dempsey and T.R. Knight back on set?

Wasnt that fun? It was so fun. Its just so nice to welcome people home to Greys, and with familiar faces and the familiar crew, it just makes it real easy because we all worked together for so long.

Had you kept in touch since they were both off the show?

Oh, sure! Especially, during this pandemic, I was trying to reach out to everybody to make sure that people were doing okay.

Showrunner Krista Vernoff said that she kept Patrick Dempseys return insanely under wraps even many of the actors did not know. Did you know?

Yeah. I got a chance to be in-the-know on that.

What was it like to keep that a secret?

I just know when I was on the beach with T.R., there were a few people around that seemed like they were coming to see what show was shooting, and maybe have taken out a phone, and we had people on phone watch, just to make sure that nobody was going to be able to get the scoop. And Im sure it was the same thing when Patrick was on the beach.

What was your reaction when you found out that Derek and George would be returning?

Ultimately, its about story. If you present somebody with a cool story opportunity then its like, Yeah, sure why not? This had to have been attractive for Derek to be there on the other side potentially with Meredith, and for OMalley, it had to have been. Its just a really cool story.

I know you wont tell me if there are plans for any more characters to show up this season because your lips are sealed, but which character from the past do you think would be best for Bailey to reunite with?

Well, heres the thing everybody that comes to the beach is there for Meredith, so we dont even really get to see each other in that other realm, so the other characters dont have anything to do with that. But as a fan, Id like all my babies the dead ones and the ones that are all alive in all places that would make me so happy! Just as a fan of the show, that would make me so happy [laughing].

Youve directed many episodes of Greys Anatomy. Any plans to direct this season?

That, too, is fluid. With all the protocols in place and with the PPE and the zones on set, I think its just easier for me to be Bailey. I think they need me to be Bailey right now, and to be well. There is not a season where I dont catch a cold, and its usually around the time that Im directing, and we cant have that this season because I wouldnt be allowed to come to work. So Im just focusing on being healthy and being Bailey. When we can put all this behind us, then theyll send me back to direct, and Im sure Ill do four episodes instead of two, to make up for it.

The show has been on for so long and so many actors have left the show throughout the years, so the inevitable question is always, how much longer? So how much longer for you?

That is the million dollar question. I always say until the wheels come off, Ill be there [laughing]. I think there have been so many versions of when the show would end and how the show will end that there isnt a version at this point. I keep showing up when they call me and tell me that were doing another one! I would love to see the end of her I would love to see the completion of that arc, not only as a character, but with the show, but everything is dictated by story, as always but what a great story to be able to tell that I was a starter and a finisher, thats a very cool story.

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However, a complete skateboard features a total of 12 different individual components. Each of these elements has a function and requires fine adjustments.

The most intricate and complex component is the skateboard truck.

Trucks hold the deck a few inches above the ground, sustain the skateboarder's weight, and are responsible for keeping the wheels rolling.

If you want to assemble your skateboard with select components, all you need is a good skate tool for tightening wheels and mounting hardware and adjusting the kingpin's height.

Let's take a detailed look at the skateboard anatomy.

The deck is the skateboard's wooden platform where the rider places his or her feet and to which other parts are attached.

They come in different sizes and shapes, but most popsicle-shaped skateboard decks feature a kick in the tail and the nose.

Skateboard decks have subtle differences that distinguish the front (the nose) from the rear (the tail), so they're not exactly symmetrical.

The deck also incorporates some kind of concave and a more or less gentle end-to-end curve - rocker or camber.

Generally speaking, a narrow skateboard is more responsive and flips easily but will also be less stable; a wide board provides stability but is more difficult to maneuver.

If you are buying your first skateboard, place different decks on the ground, and choose a size that is slightly narrower than the length of your feet.

In other words, when your heels are even with one side, your toes should stick off the other side by about an inch.

A standard deck is made from seven layers of 1/16-inch thick hard maple veneer laminated with PVA glue and pressed to a complex form.

Grip Tape

The grip tape is a top surface sandpaper-like sheet that helps the skateboarder to grip the skateboard.

Bolts

Trucks are attached to the deck by bolts.

There are two sets of four holes drilled into the deck. A total of eight bolts hold the trucks onto the board.

You can loosen them for easier turning, but make sure they're tight enough so that you cannot undo them with your fingers.

Trucks are the central and most complex part of a skateboard deck.

They feature the mechanics that allow the rider to skate around, turn, and get to the air.

A skateboard truck is made of steel and is exceptionally resistant. Often, it outlives all the other components of a skateboard.

The truck comprises several parts: the baseplate, the kingpin, the hanger, the bushings, and the axles.

A truck's width is determined by the length of its hanger (127-187 mm) and axle (193-254 mm).

In the end, and ideally, a rider wants the outside of the wheels slightly hidden inside both sides of the deck.

So, ultimately, the choice of a deck has an impact on the correct size of trucks for the board.

Baseplate

The baseplate is a flat and solid base metal plate featuring machine-drilled holes that mount to the skateboard's deck.

Kingpin

The kingpin is a large threaded pin - or large bolt - that sticks out of the baseplate.

Hanger

The hanger attaches to the other end of the kingpin.

It's a T-shaped metal component that takes all the beating. As a result, it is the heaviest and sturdiest part of a skateboard.

It is usually made of steel, but there are also lighter, more durable, and more expensive alloys available in the market.

The hanger houses the axles that stick out and incorporate both wheels.

Bushings

Each truck has two bushings, the elements that allow the skateboard to turn.

The bushings are two small rubber cups that pivot when the skateboarder leans left or right.

They are sandwiched between the baseplate and the hanger, i.e., the metal parts of any skateboard.

There's a bolt holding the bushings and hanger onto the kingpin that can be tightened or loosened to adjust how easily the board turns.

Bushings have a variety of hardness levels, depending on the riding conditions.

Technical and heavy riders often opt for stiffer bushings; cruisers and light skaters prefer softer bearings for easy turning.

Bushings may need to be replaced when they become worn out and start to crack.

Axle

The axles, also known as hanger shafts, connect the two wheels on each truck and are held in place by axle nuts.

They range from 193 to 254 mm and set the standard for how trucks are measured.

As a general rule of thumb, the axle length should put the wheels within one-quarter of an inch of the deck's edge.

Skateboard wheels should run smoothly on their axles.

Risers

The riser is an optional element that can be placed between the baseplate and the deck.

It's a plastic or rubbery pad that absorbs shock and offers extra cushion.

It may increase the wooden deck's life by protecting it from sudden and powerful impacts transferred through the wheels and trucks.

They also add space between the wheels and the bottom side of the deck to prevent the wheels from hitting the board's underside.

They make flip tricks difficult to land because they raise the skater's center of gravity.

A complete skateboard features four urethane wheels attached to the trucks and are categorized by diameter and hardness.

They range in size from 50 mm to 70 mm+ and have a hardness scale (durometer) that goes from 78A to 100A+.

Large and soft wheels are more forgiving and absorb impacts better. They're good for cruising and vert riding and range in size from 67 mm to 80 mm.

Small and hard wheels are fast and good for performing tricks and shredding skateparks and sidewalks. They range in size from 52 mm to 58 mm.

Axle Nuts

A complete skateboard uses four axle nuts that keep the wheels in place and spinning.

They tend to wear out quickly, so they should be replaced once in a while.

The standard size is 5/16'' for trucks that have 8 mm axles.

Washers

Most skateboards assembled in skate shops have two small washers between the nuts on the axle and between the hanger's inner bearings.

Washers help wheels spin smoothly.

Bearings

A complete skateboard has a total of eight bearings - two inside each of the four polyurethane wheels.

They look like rings with small steel balls inside.

Bearings fit into either side of the wheel and allow it to spin smoothly on the axle.

The most expensive bearings are ceramic bearings.

These high-performance bearings absorb the heat generated from the friction of a fast-spinning wheel and make the skateboard go fast.

However, precision steel bearings are the most common bearings used in skateboards.

Sometimes, there's also an aluminum spacer inside the wheel, between the bearings, that keeps everything aligned.

Bearings are rated for their ABEC (Annular Bearing Engineer's Committee) factor. That is to say they are rated for their quality and smoothness.

The ABEC scale ranges from 1 (low quality and cheap) to 9 (better quality and expensive).

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ByMichael Hurley, CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) Figure this one out: A year ago, the Patriots had the best defense in the NFL, yet they got run over by the Baltimore Ravens.

This year, the Patriots entered Sunday night with one of the worst run defenses in the league and a bottom-third overall defense. Yet they somehow put together a tremendous performance in slowing down Lamar Jackson and the leagues No. 1 rushing offense and pulled off the upset victory.

Given the way things were going for the Patriots with a four-game losing streak followed by a nail-biting win against the winless Jets there werent many folks who believedthisupset was possible.

Heres how it happened.

Response

The Patriots fell behind early in the second quarter. They fell behind again just minutes after tying it up. In both instances, they answered with authority.

Following the Ravens endless touchdown drive (13 plays, 94 yards, 8:04), Cam Newton and Co. came right back with a marathon drive of their own. With a 19-yard pass to Jakobi Meyers and a rare 20-yard connection from Newton to Ryan Izzo, the Patriots scored with ease on a first-and-goal play from the 7-yard line. NKeal Harry set a perfect and legal block to spring Rex Burkhead for six.

After a Baltimore field goal, the Patriots once again answered, this time with a 10-play, 75-yard drive to take a lead. Theyd never give it back.

Playing from behind against Baltimore is a recipe for disaster. But those drives coming right after Baltimore scored flipped the script and changed the game.

Red Zone D

That field goal drive by Baltimore wasactuallykind of a loss for the Ravens, as they had driven to the New England 6-yard line. But on third-and-6, the Patriots forced an incompletion, forcing Baltimore to settle for a 24-yard field goal.

The Ravens did reach the end zone on their other two red zone trips, but that stop at that time was critical.

Ball Security

The Ravens certainly had no intention of heading into halftime trailing 13-10. So despite limited time left, they mounted an aggressive drive to try to at least get the tying field goal on the board.

They made it as far as the Patriots 38-yard line before Jackson went for it all, launching a deep bomb up the right sideline to Marquise Brown. Thats when Mr. Interception himself, J.C. Jackson, made sure that Baltimore wouldnotbe adding points before the break.

As that tweet notes, this was the fifth straight game with a pick for Jackson. And it was a big one.

The Patriots also had zero fumbles all night, despite the rainy conditions, and Newton threw no interceptions. The Ravens recovered all three of their fumbles, which all came on bad snaps, but they lost 27 yards in the process. One of those bad snaps came on a fourth down attempt, essentially serving as a turnover.

Damien Harris told reporters after the game that hemighthave played in the rain during his college career once, but it was nothing like the rain that fell on Sunday night. Despite that lack of experience, Harris held on to the ball on all 22 of his carries, rushing for 121 yards as the teams offensive MVP.

We had a couple close calls with trying to gather the snap. Obviously, it was a factor for them, Newton said after the 23-17 win.But having the mentality to stay mentally tough throughout that whole tsunami it felt like, we just wanted to make sure that we do great things while we have the football protecting the football, making great decisions.

Trickery

In a span of about five minutes, the whole world got whacked over the head with the information that Jakobi Meyers used to be a quarterback. But clearly, that wasnt the worlds most well-known tidbit prior to Josh McDaniels and Bill Belichick pulling the trigger on some trickery.

Really, the trick part of Meyers touchdown pass to Rex Burkhead didnt really work, as Patrick Queen was tight in coverage on Burkhead. It was, simply, a tremendous pass and an even better catch.

A trick play or a gadget play or really anything other than a standard football play is always a risky call. If it doesnt work out, all the critics come out with pitchforks and question why the call was made.

But when they work, they create some special moments. Add this one to that list.

Defense

It goes without saying, but you cant beat the Ravens if you cant stop Lamar. Or, more accurately, limit Lamar.

The Patriots did that. He did rush for 55 yards, but he didnt break any runs longer than 11 yards, and he didnt find the end zone. And while his passing numbers were good (24-for-34, 249 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT), it really wasnt an impactful performance from the reigning MVP.

Bulking up the secondary with Kyle Dugger helped, as the rookie led the team with 12 total tackles (seven solo). John Simon was disruptive in the backfield, recording a sack and batting a pass down. Jason McCourty broke up a pass on a third down, as did his twin brother Devin. Rookie Josh Uche also had a sack the first of his career. Terez Hall was once again actively involved with JaWhaun Bentley out.

It was a team performance, and it ought to be a good day or two in the video room when the defense looks over this film.

Weather

One cant help but think that the Ravens last-gasp drive in the final minute of the fourth quarter might have been different if not for a 10-year storm rolling through Foxboro at that exact moment. While the rain was falling all night, the dial turned to 11 for that final drive somewhat reminiscent of the Patriots loss in Cincinnati during the 2013 season.

The Ravens took over at their own 22-yard line with 1:05 left in the game. They needed a touchdown and a PAT to win the game. They had no timeouts, but a win was still very much in reach. (The Arizona Cardinals provided proof of that earlier in the day.)

Despite that situation, the Ravens really didnt look like they believed they had a chance. A few short completions drained the clock further, before Dugger alertly tackled J.K. Dobbins before the running back could get out of bounds. That brought the clock down to single digits, and on the next snap, Dobbins dropped a pass that hit him directly in the hands. That incompletion resulted in a turnover on downs, ending the game.

Conspiracy theorists will likely suggest that Bill Belichick somehow negotiated the precipitation to increase at that precise moment, but the reality is that the weather is the weather. Sometimes it hurts you, sometimes it gives you a break. For that particular drive, the Ravens got a rough deal.

The weather wasnt on our side, Lamar Jackson said. Every time we was up, it was like the rain just started pouring down even harder. But you know, its part of football. Things happen. The weathers not always going to be perfect, and we still have to find a way to pull out a victory. We just didnt tonight.

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