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We Live in Packs

SAN FRANCISCO — Men are dogs, some more so than others.

There are those, for example, who wear puppy hoods, harnesses, chain collars and tails while out and about. Sometimes they appear in packs. While hardly as mainstream as walking the red carpet with kink-adjacent accouterments, dressing up doggy style has become more visible in San Francisco and beyond.

Puppy play enthusiasts are part of a larger community interested in bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism, collectively known as B.D.S.M. Participants primarily consider it a form of sexual role play, because they get to act like puppies — friendly, frisky, often nonverbal — and gain pleasure from doing so. Adherents, lots of whom are young gay men, adopt pet names: Pups named Turbo, Wonkey, Level, Twitch, Trigger, Cakes, Amp and Mowgli spoke to me for this story.

“You stop using words and start communicating in growls. It’s really fun,” said Phillip Hammack, 42, a University of California Santa Cruz psychology professor who goes by Pup Turbo. “You’re disconnecting from the human side of thinking about every little thing you’re doing. You’re being instinctual and playful.”

Jason, a 27-year-old entrepreneur in Boulder, Colo., who goes by Pup Level, said that pup play has accentuated the tendencies he had before he began practicing it. He said his puppy gear allows him to “be more who I am.” (The Times agreed to not use his last name to prevent professional consequences.)

“I was always nuzzling and whimpering like a puppy,” he said. “Sometimes words are hard to assemble in the right way to express emotions. If I’m feeling lonely or sad about something, and I’m cuddling next to my partner, I’ll give him a whimper and a nuzzle to engage him.”

Jason described himself as an “emotional support puppy.”

“My dog was there for me when I was depressed as a child, so I guess I’m trying to project that back into the world,” he said.

Puppy play isn’t new, but it is newly popular.

“Pup play has exploded in the past few years. We can’t keep up with demand,” said Rob Gammel, an inventory manager who has worked at Mr. S. Leather for seven years. The store sells fetish gear and sex toys in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, and it’s the commercial heart of the puppy play lifestyle. Every man I spoke to had purchased gear there.

“We used to stock only one or two hoods as part of a bigger mask section. Now we’ve expanded to 20 different colors and materials. We’ve even re-formatted part of the store to focus on it,” Mr. Gammel said. The expanded section is called Mr. S. Kennel.

Mr. Gammel believes the barrier to entry of pup play is lower than that of other kinks, making it more accessible to newcomers. Others echoed this sentiment. The fetish doesn’t require the same level of aggression as, say, rope bondage or a 24/7 master-slave relationship, though it can go there.

“It’s a playful kink. It’s not so dark, not so brooding, not so dungeony — where people are tied up and being whipped,” said Amp Somers, a 29-year-old designer for Mr. S. who goes by Pup Amp. Mr. Somers was the first runner-up for the Leather Heart Award (that’s puppy Miss Congeniality) in the Mr. SF Leather competition the first weekend in March. He also produces a YouTube series on kink education and said his videos on puppy play are consistently his most viewed.

San Francisco has long been a home for sexual subcultures. The Folsom Street Fair, an annual outdoor festival in the city focused on B.D.S.M., now teems with pups, where once there were few. The fair is the Coachella of kink — the fetish community’s biggest event, the place to see and be seen flogging someone who’s begging for more.

Patrick Finger, executive director of the fair’s parent organization, said that puppy play has become the fastest-growing subgenre of B.D.S.M. in the past five years, though he remembers seeing pups at the fair for at least 10 years. He attributes the fetish’s success to the internet.

“The world has become so much smaller due to technology, which has made a huge difference in kink being accessible online,” Mr. Finger said. “And something eye-catching like a guy wearing a puppy hood is going to get attention both in photos and in person.”

Pups are the cousins of some other dogs you might meet as you walk down the street. Furries, who dress up in mascot-esque animal suits, also venture out in packs. Their aesthetic is more “Lady and the Tramp” than “50 Shades of Grey,” though, and multiple pups said there was little overlap between the two communities.

Pups both leather and fur once found a home on Tumblr, but in the wake of the social network’s ban on sexual content, they’ve migrated to Instagram and Twitter. Their conversations take place under hashtags like #pupplay, #humanpup and #gaypup, and their user names draw from their pup identities. People like Mekelé, a Washington, D.C., resident who goes by Wonkey, indulge their desire for public puppy displays on Instagram. Wonkey poses at the beach, naked save for his hood, or in Times Square. He said he bought the mask just six months ago and describes his alter ego as “wild and crazy and random” in opposition to his “anxiety-ridden” everyday self. (The Times agreed to not use his last name.)

“Pup play has morphed into my own therapy session. It’s me surrendering to the mind-set of who Wonkey is,” he said. “The pup community is the best community I’ve come across. If you see a new pup, you’ll definitely say hi and probably bark.”

When sexual fetishists form communities around their shared pastimes, their bedroom interests often manifest in nonsexual settings. Pup play is no exception.

Scott Friesen, 37, asked to be identified as “Gunner,” his pup name, for more than four years at his job at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation — except, of course, in legal contracts. And for a time he asked co-workers and friends to refer to him by the pronoun “pup.” He belongs to a pack called the Pedal Pups that’s raising money for H.I.V. research through the AIDS/LifeCycle fund-raiser.

A handler or an alpha can act as sexual partner and/or life coach to his pup. Mr. Hammack, known as Pup Turbo, is one of two alphas of the Fog City Pack, a four-year-old group of nine pups in San Francisco who together run an event business.

“Our pup identities are integrated into our everyday identities. They’re natural extensions of ourselves,” he said. “The alpha/beta dynamic extends beyond the sexual and romantic dynamics. It’s a mentoring concept. Our alphas are 10 or so years older than the other pups.”

Mr. Hammack identified himself as a beagle. His puppy hood matches the breed’s coloration.

“A beagle is a family dog, very protective. It’s got a very good sense of smell, and I’m very much a scent hound. It’s medium-sized, which I am, and has a deeper bark and growl, which I do,” he said.

In addition to personal identity and group affiliation, pup play also presents a financial opportunity: The pup community will pay to play, and leather purveyors are happy to oblige. A leather puppy hood from Mr. S. Leather in one of four staid color combinations — black and gray, black and tan, black and brown, or all black — costs $320, but a custom version with wilder options like crimson and electric blue is $350. A neoprene hood costs $140 in any of 16 standard colors — camouflage, lime and aqua among them — or $170 if you want a personalized colorway. Mekelé estimated he’s spent more than $2,000 on kink gear.

The Fog City Pack and bars throughout San Francisco throw puppy play events, charging for admission. On the first Saturday of the month, there is the SF Eagle afternoon pup-oriented event called Woof. In the evening, the bar becomes home to a party called Frolic, which, according to its Facebook page, is for “puppies, bunnies and furries!”

Puppy play has even found its way into the most traditional expressions of love. One married couple in San Francisco, Pup Twitch and Pup Trigger, wore dog collars to show their commitment to one another before their wedding. Twitch, whose given first name is Will, tattooed a dog bone on the inner side of his right bicep. Within it he inked the geographic coordinates of City Hall, the couple’s wedding venue. They still wear their collars, in part to identify themselves to others as pups — a symbol of commitment more visible than a ring, and more specific.

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duaneodavila · 6 years ago

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SEC Heroically Stops Big Banks’ Quarter-Billion Dollar Fraud, Pretentious Financial Jargon Keeps Anyone From Noticing

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a noble mission: “The mission of the SEC is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.” Right now, this mission is on pause, because the SEC has only a skeleton crew in place due to Trump’s tantrum government shutdown over his border wall. But just before the SEC went on hiatus on December 27, the agency announced a massive victory in service of its mission.

On December 26, the SEC announced that JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. would be paying more than $135 million to settle fraud charges. As part of the settlement, JPMorgan Chase neither admitted nor denied the SEC’s findings, but did agree to a pretty specific breakdown of the total settlement amount: disgorgement of more than $71 million of ill-gotten gains, $14.4 million in prejudgment interest, and a hefty penalty of $49.7 million. Remember hearing about that? Yeah, didn’t think so. You probably also don’t remember earlier in December when the SEC forced Bank of New York Mellon to pay more than $54 million for (allegedly) doing the same thing, or when Citibank N.A. fell under the SEC’s crosshairs in November and agreed to pay $38.7 million in a similar settlement, or when two U.S.-based subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank settled virtually identical charges for almost $75 million back in July. That’s more than a quarter of a billion dollars recouped from four big banks in less than six months. And that is just a sampling of the big fish the SEC has netted in this crackdown.

So what was JPMorgan Chase allegedly doing? Well, if you guessed that it had to be something pretty bad for them to have jumped at a nine-figure settlement, you are correct.

The charges were for improper handling of “pre-released” American Depository Receipts, referred to as ADRs. You can’t be faulted for not knowing what the hell that means, so let me try to explain. It’s actually pretty simple when you cut through all the needlessly confusing terminology. ADRs are American securities that represent foreign shares of a foreign company. As should surprise no one, to issue ADRs, depository banks, like JPMorgan Chase, are required to maintain custody of a corresponding number of foreign shares. You can buy an ADR as an investor, and that ADR represents shares in some foreign company, and in order to issue you the ADR, institutions like JPMorgan Chase are actually supposed to be holding the foreign stock that the ADR says you own. Makes perfect sense, right?

The “pre-released” part is where things got sticky. Technically, although it seems like a horrible idea to me, ADRs may be issued by a depository bank through the practice of “pre-release” without the depository bank actually holding the corresponding foreign shares. This is legal as long as the broker receiving the ADRs or its customers own the number of foreign shares that correspond to the number of foreign shares the ADR represents, and as long as the broker has an agreement in place with the depository bank.

The problem, according to the SEC’s charges, was that JPMorgan Chase improperly provided ADRs to brokers thousands of times in pre-release transactions when the brokers and their customers did not actually own the foreign shares that were supposed to be underlying those ADRs. As the SEC put it in their press release, “[s]uch practices resulted in inflating the total number of a foreign issuer’s tradeable securities, which resulted in abusive practices….” As I’m going to put it, they were basically writing bad checks. Lots of really big, intentionally confusing bad checks. They were pumping out worthless shares with nothing to back them up, and saying there was something of value backing them up. They were issuing ADRs that neither they nor the brokers actually had enough foreign shares to cover. For profit. Allegedly.

The hardworking staff at the SEC deserves a big pat on the back for putting a stop to this. I’d sure as hell like to see more work like this from the SEC in the New Year and less pointless babysitting of Elon Musk’s Twitter feed. For now though, kudos SEC. Great work! I hope you are all enjoying your involuntary shutdown-related vacations, and that you come back at the end of this government shutdown refreshed and ready to continue your noble struggle against the financial oligarchs robbing us all blind. Maybe just a little more pizzazz with the headlines next time.

Jonathan Wolf is a litigation associate at a midsize, full-service Minnesota firm. He also teaches as an adjunct writing professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, has written for a wide variety of publications, and makes it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn’t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at [email protected].

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U.S. Open betting guide: favorites, sleepers, special bets and Tiger

Must you guess on Dustin Johnson this week? Sure. (Photograph by Jamie Squire/Getty Photos)

The U.S. Open has arrived, a couple of months late however nonetheless welcome. One among 2020’s three majors gives a difficult alternative for bettors, because it’s traditionally the hardest match of the 12 months. The USGA, American golf’s organizing physique, takes a very sadistic enjoyment of attempting to “protect par” — that’s, crank up the diploma of problem so excessive that execs appear like the remainder of us hacking away on the market.

Over at BetMGM, you’ll discover a full slate of U.S. Open strains, together with favorites and particular bets. Let’s stroll via a couple of notables.

How you can guess the U.S. Open

Golf is most undoubtedly not the game to guess for newcomers — at the very least, not in the event you’re simply attempting to choose the winner. Even the most effective gamers heading right into a match are hardly ever higher odds than 10-1. As Jason Scott, MGM vice chairman of buying and selling, says, “Don’t attempt to choose a needle out of a haystack.”

The place your odds get a lot better is in the event you begin angling for these gamers to complete High 5, High 10, and even simply make the minimize. You’re giving them, and your pockets, a little bit of cushion to permit for the strangeness that at all times appears to crop up at each single main. (Who, exterior of his household, would have straight-up picked Collin Morikawa to win this 12 months’s PGA Championship? Precisely.)

So as to add a bit life to the proceedings, Scott recommends head-to-head betting, the place you choose two gamers and select a winner. Watching them in a featured group gives a uniquely exhilarating and wrenching expertise. Test the groupings for potential matchups; a Dustin Johnson-Bryson DeChambeau head-to-head match on Thursday or Friday is the golf equal of a heavyweight struggle.

Who’re the favorites?

The 2 finest gamers on this planet are coming in sizzling, with Dustin Johnson at +800 (guess $100 to win $800) and Jon Rahm at +900. DJ is coming into one more main because the betting favourite, however he has just one victory to indicate for it. Will this week be any completely different? Will Rahm’s famed mood maintain up beneath a sustained four-day assault from the USGA and its model of devilish course setup? With two-time U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka out of the combination with an damage, the door is open vast.

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Just a little additional down the road, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele are each +1400, whereas Morikawa and perpetual menace Rory McIlroy are simply behind them at +1600. Nobody else is available in at higher than 20-1 odds, not even Golf Hulk Bryson DeChambeau. Size off the tee impresses once you’re at a regular-season match, however on the U.S. Open, it may well simply plunge you deeper into bother.

Who’re the sleepers?

Scott’s tip: search for gamers who can stripe the ball whereas staying roughly throughout the fairway; the extra you need to play from the ankle-deep tough, the extra strokes you’ll be able to tack onto your rating. Which brings us to the deeper bets. Scott recommends gamers like Tyrell Hatton (+4000) and Kevin Kisner (+9000), amongst others.

“Rahm is nice on arduous programs, however he’s a bit wayward for me,” Scott says. “I wish to see a constant ball striker like Hideki Matsuyama (+3300), Viktor Hovland (+5000) and Sungjae Im (+7000), guys who can whack it up the center.”

Ah, Tiger. Woods has performed in 21 earlier U.S. Opens and received three of them, and if he wins one other it’ll qualify as essentially the most miraculous main of his profession. His recreation is simply not at U.S. Open degree any longer, and the percentages — he’s +4500 to win — are proof of that. There’s an automated Woods legal responsibility baked into each Tiger line; he’s at all times a favourite for informal bettors who need to throw a couple of bucks Tiger’s means, so casinos must account for that on the off probability that he comes out of nowhere to win, the best way he did in 2019 at Augusta. However that’s not taking place right here.

Must you be inclined to throw some cash Tiger’s means with at the very least a faint expectation of recovering it, contemplate a few of the Thursday specials: a birdie on the primary gap (+1400), an eagle at any level (+1400), or a par-or-better spherical (+130). You received’t financial institution as a lot cash as you would possibly with a Tiger victory, but it surely’s a extra affordable allocation.

When you’re trying to pair Tiger with a fellow legend, contemplate a guess on Woods and Phil Mickelson to make the minimize at +160. Contemplating the brutality of the Winged Foot format, these aren’t nice odds, however who is aware of … the previous guys would possibly shock us.

By himself, Woods is -200 to make the minimize and +140 to overlook, so in the event you’ve acquired some particular love — or hate — in your coronary heart for Woods, there you go.

What are some particular bets?

When you’re angling to play the sector somewhat than tie your fortunes to a selected participant, contemplate some particular bets. As an illustration, you’ll be able to guess on the profitable margin — a single-stroke win is +225, whereas a blowout four-or-more-stroke victory is +350. In search of a playoff? “Sure” is +350, whereas “No” is -500.

When you resolve to go together with a Ryder Cup-style betting play, American gamers are an combination -143 to win, whereas European gamers are +190 and the remainder of the world +600. You might even tease two separate nationalities; a DJ-as-top-American and Rahm-as-top-European parlay lists at +2800.

There may be, nonetheless, no line for whether or not gamers will complain in regards to the course setup, doubtless as a result of it could pay a couple of nickel on a $100 guess.

What affect will the dearth of followers have on the motion?

The U.S. Open would be the second main with out followers in attendance, after final month’s PGA Championship. The affect will likely be as a lot psychological as bodily; some gamers want the gang to get them fired up, whereas others are comfortable simply taking part in what’s going to really feel like a apply spherical. Anybody teeing it up with Tiger Woods will take pleasure in sudden calm, that’s for sure.

From a logistical affect, the dearth of followers signifies that the tough will likely be completely punishing the deeper you drift off the golf green — with out followers to trample down the tough, gamers will likely be in a world of bother if they’ll’t hold their photographs on line.

The shortage of followers and grandstands additionally robs gamers of 1 essential asset: the flexibility to backstop a protracted shot into the inexperienced. It’s not precisely swish golf, however nearly each participant has aimed for the grandstands with the information that if their shot flies far, it’ll chill towards the inexperienced. Not anymore.

From a betting perspective, BetMGM hasn’t noticed any important alterations in taking part in patterns with out followers on the course. It’s not a home-field state of affairs, the place followers might affect referees. Out at Winged Foot, each participant’s on his personal … which is strictly how the USGA likes it.

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Jay Busbee is a author for Yahoo Sports activities. Observe him on Twitter at @jaybusbee or contact him with suggestions and story concepts at [email protected].

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How to Add a Click-to-Call Button in WordPress (Step by Step)

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Why Add Click on-to-Identify Button in wordpress

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Review: In Tarantinos latest, a radiant Hollywood fable

Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what’s so great about movies — or at least, what he thinks is so great about them.

He’s made an old-fashioned double-feature (“Death Proof,” of “Grindhouse”), resurrected the wide-screen format of 70mm Ultra Panavision (“The Hateful Eight”) and generally presided as the pre-eminent B-movie evangelist for a generation. The power and thrill of exploitation movies, he has earnestly espoused, can conquer all evils — or at least slavery (“Django Unchained”) and the Nazis (“Inglourious Basterds”).

But “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” set in 1969 Los Angeles, is Tarantino’s most affectionate and poignant ode yet to the movie business. It’s a breezy, woozy Hollywood fable that luxuriates in the simple pleasures of the movies and the colorful swirl of the Dream Factory’s backlot. Some pleasures are nostalgic, and some — like driving down Sunset Boulevard or martinis at Musso & Frank — are everlasting.

Here, movie love feels contagious, like something in the air. In one of the film’s best scenes, Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate explains at a theater’s ticket office that she’s in the movie, the newly released caper “The Wrecking Crew,” (“I’m the klutz!” she says cheerfully). Inside, she giggles with delight at seeing herself on the big screen, giddily mimicking her character’s martial-arts moves and watching to see if the audience laughs at one of her lines. (They do.)

The pleasures in “Once Upon a Time” are also ours. Tarantino, has lowered his typically feverish temperature to a warming simmer, bathing us in the golden California light and the movie-star glow of his leading men, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. They spend copious amounts of time driving through the Hollywood Hills in a creamy Coupe de Ville, riding along like Butch and Sundance and just as nice to look at.

DiCaprio is Rick Dalton, a Burt Reynolds-type actor of TV Westerns (his claim to fame is the ’50s hit “Bounty Law”) whose career is stalling. Pitt is Cliff Booth, his stunt double and best friend, a war veteran with a bad reputation but a friendly, relaxed manner. They have a natural, easy rapport, with Booth doubling as a drinking buddy and support system for Dalton, who’s increasingly anxious about his typecast future. (Al Pacino, as his agent, urges him to head to Italy for a spaghetti Western.)

In DiCaprio’s finest sequence, he chats between takes on a Western called “Lancer” with a frightfully serious Method Acting 8-year-old co-star (Julia Butters) before forgetting his lines. After a bout of self-loathing in his trailer, he returns and nails the scene. DiCaprio, a preternaturally self-possessed actor himself, captures the whole arc beautifully.

When word got out that Tarantino’s latest film would take place around the Manson murders, it was easy to wonder what genre mayhem the director would bring to this epochal moment. We know what carnage resulted when Zed was dead, so what did Tarantino have in store for the demise of the ’60s?

It’s not that “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” doesn’t revolve around that grisly tragedy. It looms always in the background, and eventually in the foreground, too, after Booth picks up a hitchhiker (Margaret Qualley) who leads him to the Manson compound at Spahn Ranch, the former production site of TV and film Westerns where Manson’s mostly female acolytes emerge and Booth goes to check on the owner, an old friend, George Spahn (Bruce Dern). Dalton and Booth are fictional concoctions surrounded by real people, including their neighbors: Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha).

By the film’s climax, blood will spill and movie-made historical revisionism will have its day. But I suspect a lot of Tarantino fans will be taken by surprise at the film’s leisurely pace, set more to a (and this a good thing) “Jackie Brown” speed. As in that film, Tarantino isn’t purely living in an over-the-top movie fantasy world, but one teetering intriguingly between dream and reality. The dialogue and action has slowed down enough to allow a little wistfulness and melancholy to creep in.

At times, his path is a little wayward and prone to digressions. Tarantino feels perilously close to simply turning his movie into several of Dalton’s, so eager is he (like the Coens were in “Hail, Caesar!”) to lovingly adopt those period styles. But usually, the detours are hard to resist. In one, Booth ends up in a fight with Bruce Lee (Mike Moh) on the set of “The Green Hornet.”

And if you’re going to make a movie that celebrates what’s grand about Hollywood, it helps to have Brad Pitt in it. The chemistry between him and DiCaprio, together for the first time, is a delight; I would gladly watch them drive around lacquered, golden-hour Los Angeles, with cinematographer Robert Richardson trailing them, for longer than the already lengthy running time of “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”

Pitt, in particular, appears so utterly self-possessed. It’s a swaggering grade-A movie star performance in a movie that celebrates all that movie stars can accomplish — which, for Tarantino, is anything. That the youthful, exuberant Tate was robbed of that potential is one of the wrongs Tarantino is righting here. But his fairy tale also swells with an even larger and optimistic vision. For today’s doomsayers of movies, which are seen by some as a less potent art form, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” imagines an apocalypse denied. Tate, and the movies, will live forever.

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language throughout, some strong graphic violence, drug use, and sexual references. Running time: 161 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

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MPAA definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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This Morning on Sunday vs Sunday Brunch: who triumphed? A minute-by-minute review of the weekend shows

Sunday morning tv historically is low-hanging fruit for TV bosses.They know there’s a entire nation inevitably switching on; a 3rd hungover from the night time earlier than, a 3rd who have been up since 6am with youngsters and may’t cope with The Go Jetters anymore and third who simply need one thing on in the background whereas they scroll by means of their socials.

No one requires Query Time, just a few fodder to get you thru to lunch, which may solely clarify the reputation of the long-running Sunday Brunch on Channel four. Set in a chat present format over three hours (9.30 to 12.30), it’s interspersed with cooking segments and highlights of the week’s coming TV and music releases, all presided over by Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer. It’s good, it’s advantageous, it’s Sunday morning TV.

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However earlier this month, ITV behemoth This Morning introduced that it too can be throwing its hat in the circle to seize some of that captive viewers again for his or her channel. And on Sunday 20 January – introduced by Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford – so started the first episode of This Morning on Sunday, on air for an hour at 10.30 to 11.30.

This weekend, Sunday Brunch boasted friends Rylan Clark-Neal (himself a This Morning presenter), Laurence Fox, Abigail Lawrie and Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox. Fleur East – recent from the jungle in I’m A Celeb – carried out.

This Morning on Sunday had: properly, Holmes and Langsford. Oh, and chef John Torode. Look, perhaps everybody was simply busy?

So how did the two shows play out and who gained the battle of the weekend? Right here’s what occurred, minute by minute:

The review

10.00 Sunday Brunch (SB): Half an hour earlier than This Morning begins, a newly hirsute Lovejoy – twiddling his beard – and Rimmer grilled actress Lawrie about her position in gritty Sky thriller, Tin Star. As Lawrie mentioned the darkish themes from present, together with a violent episode together with her on-screen father, Lovejoy goes full Partridge, off on a tangent, and jumps in: “I hear there was a cougar on the set. How big was it? Also, how you know if a cougar is going to smell you and go ‘oh, this is an actor and not dinner?’”. Lawrie, to her credit score, manages to politely reply and get to the finish of the interview with out rolling her eyes.

Kevin Clifton’s tattoo

10.30 This Morning on Sunday (TMoS): The acquainted strains of This Morning start as the opening credit roll, with headlines flashing up on partitions promising us ‘Bros: what happened next?’ and ‘Kevin Clifton’s tattoo’. We’re in for a wild journey immediately!

10.31 TMoS: Holmes and Langsford – who is sticking firmly to the script by sporting a gray jumper with the phrase ‘Sunday’ on it – are shimmying on chairs to beige anthem, Maroon 5’s Sunday Morning. Holmes says: “Welcome to Sunday mornings and to This Morning on a Sunday, because you can’t get too much of a good thing.” This might later be proved as not the case.

Holmes and Langford (Photograph: ITV)

10.32 TMoS: Hey guys at house, what do you rise up to on Sunday? the Langsford-Holmes’ enquire. A painful try at banter ensues as the husband-and-wife duo attempt to burn one another about who does the least at residence at the weekends. “You get treated like a queen!” he tells Langsford, “I make an Ulster Fry!” “When you’re not reclining in your chair watching football!” she joshes again. Please, subsequent merchandise.

10.33 TMoS: Lastly, they announce, they’ll be discussing the difficulty that’s presently dividing the nation: Hen or beef roast? And may you will have Yorkshire puddings with each? Fortunately, they inform us, chef Torode shall be on the present to prepare dinner a particular dish. Ooh, what’s he making? A good, spicy Sri Lankan curry for this chilly climate? Perhaps a hearty Spanish paella or one thing? Beef. He’ll be making roast beef, potatoes and veg. This is actually the Brexit of chat shows.

Rylan Clarke-Neal will host a Saturday afternoon present on Radio 2

10.40 SB: Rylan Clark-Neal is on the couch, chatting about turning into the subsequent host of Grocery store Sweep (RIP Dale Winton) and his new present on BBC Radio 2. Clark-Neal’s truly fairly humorous, and of course, the video footage of Nicole Scherzinger telling him he’s by means of to the subsequent spherical of the X Issue is all the time going to be the spotlight of any present it options in. Chalk one up for the Sunday Brunch workforce. Particularly as Clark-Neal reveals he was out getting pissed with Caroline Flack til 7am, simply two hours earlier than the video was filmed.

10.41 TMoS: First correct phase of the present and it’s the cheery story of a Love Island contestant’s brother realising he had testicular most cancers. Wait! This is only a clip from final weeks present! Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield are interviewing him prefer it’s not even Sunday! We’ve been robbed. Change again over to SB.

From Partridge-esque to precise partridge

10.50 SB: They’ve received the full line-up of visitors munching on recreation. Lovejoy goes from Partridge-esque to precise partridge (breasts full of fig, because you ask), whereas Laurence Fox pipes up: “I can’t eat mallard as my son would kill me.”. He eats stuffed mallard.

10.53 TMoS: One other repeated interview. It’s Strictly‘s Kevin Clifton getting a tattoo saying ‘I love Glasgow’. Look, it’s too boring to get into right here.

10.55 TMoS: They’re providing money bungs to maintain watching now, with the announcement of their £100,00zero money prize. (Aspect notice: how do you get signed as much as be the superstar announcer of these? Sweetest job in showbiz: every week’s work in a Maldives resort to learn out a telephone quantity). Then, it’s a montage of Gino DeCampo’s greatest bits. This is the equal of your aunt posting a video of This Morning on Fb, captioning it: “Phil and Holly cracking up on the show today – gave me the giggles too! Xx”

11.00 SB: The SB lot breakout halftime martinis to have fun the world’s greatest martini being introduced in the UK this week. It’s not even noon! Lovejoy slurs “it’s going to become a new traddissshhun.” Assume the producers may need one thing to say about that. Nonetheless, cheers!

11.04 SB: Fox steps as much as make a vinegar-braised hen with Rimmer, which finally ends up wanting a lot nicer than it sounds.

11.05 TMoS: Good god, Alice Beer continues to be going on about methods to make your garments look like they’ve been to the dry cleaners once they haven’tZzzz. This was deemed value repeating from the week of content material? Don’t remind us that our laundry basket is at present overflowing. Allow us to have this one morning with out occupied with home tasks, FFS.

Nick Knowles (Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)

11.08 TMoS: One other interview from earlier in the week, Nick Knowles speaking about auctioning up his pants from I’m a Celeb for charity. Holmes tells Langsford she’s made a stunning cup of tea, and he simply can’t have a cup of tea with no biscuit. Eats a biscuit. Langsford then tries to open up the debate “milk in first or not?” to which even Holmes shuts down with “I couldn’t care less.” It’s hardly the black/blue or white/gold gown furore, is it?

11.15 SB: Fleur East is being interviewed and actually eager to stay to the script about why she and Simon Cowell and his label Syco parted methods: “We were just on separate paths”, she chirps brightly. Kudos to Lovejoy – he goes in with the query all of us need to know: “How much is it was to do with Simon Cowell?” She excellently deflects the query. On going chart-success for you now, Fleur.

11.17 TMoS: Lastly! A reside slot and never a repeat. However it’s simply Torode telling us how one can prepare dinner an enormous rack of three ribs of beef. Veganary? Pfffft, not on our watch, snowflakes. He explains the key to flavour in a roast is the juices in the tray afterwards. Exhausting to pay attention as Holmes could be seen at the edge of the display, lifting a Yorkshire pudding and making an attempt to surreptitiously eat a bit morsel – you’ve been clocked.

11.20 SB: They’ve pulled out the massive weapons with Jason “Foxy” Fox from SAS Who Dares Wins. Lovejoy and Rimmer are struggling to include how cool they assume he’s. Lovejoy strokes his personal beard once more with pleasure.

11.22 TMoS: “Have you seen the Bros documentary?” asks Langsford. Sure. Final yr, together with the relaxation of the nation. There’s an enormous construct as much as present the previous (repeat) interview of the Goss bros after that battle in the This Morning dressing room. “Look at that body language!” says Langsford. She and Holmes then talk about preventing with households and Langsford repeats 3 times that Holmes is “a sulker.” And on that pass-agg word, it’s throughout till subsequent week. Time to modify again to Sunday Brunch for relaxation of the morning, now.

Over on social media and viewers appeared to be in equal measures confused and irritated to seek out that This Morning was primarily repeats of segments from the earlier week’s shows.

One Twitter consumer stated: “What a disappointment! It’s just a show made up of repeats from the previous week’s show.”

Disgrace it’s simply clips from the week and never new content material. Bit of a cop out. *turns @SundayBrunchC4 on as an alternative* #thismorning #sundaybrunch

— Amy Lee (@Amykinsypoo) January 20, 2019

Thought it was Monday and I used to be late for bloody work once I turned on the telly to see @thismorning! What they enjoying at?! Don’t prefer it. Keep in your lane #thismorning

— Kimberley Walker (@KimberleyHW) January 20, 2019

WHAT a disappointment it’s only a present made up of repeats from the earlier week! Shall be watching #SundayBrunch from now on @thismorning #ThisMorning on Sunday

— Janbo25 (@JaniceGilfillan) January 20, 2019

Finally, it appeared to boil right down to the content material: do viewers need reheats of lukewarm footage from the week earlier than, or getting caught into breakfast cocktails with Rylan Clark-Neal whereas laughing at Lovejoy’s beard? The viewing figures will quickly tell us.

In the imply time, move one other slice of the stuffed mallard, will you?

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This Morning on Sunday vs Sunday Brunch: who triumphed? A minute-by-minute review of the weekend shows

Learn extra

Viewers surprised by ladies stockpiling meals for Brexit on This Morning

This Morning on Sunday had: properly, Holmes and Langsford. Oh, and chef John Torode. Look, perhaps everybody was simply busy?

So how did the two shows play out and who gained the battle of the weekend? Right here’s what occurred, minute by minute:

The review

Kevin Clifton’s tattoo

Holmes and Langford (Photograph: ITV)

Rylan Clarke-Neal will host a Saturday afternoon present on Radio 2

From Partridge-esque to precise partridge

10.53 TMoS: One other repeated interview. It’s Strictly‘s Kevin Clifton getting a tattoo saying ‘I love Glasgow’. Look, it’s too boring to get into right here.

11.04 SB: Fox steps as much as make a vinegar-braised hen with Rimmer, which finally ends up wanting a lot nicer than it sounds.

Nick Knowles (Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)

Over on social media and viewers appeared to be in equal measures confused and irritated to seek out that This Morning was primarily repeats of segments from the earlier week’s shows.

One Twitter consumer stated: “What a disappointment! It’s just a show made up of repeats from the previous week’s show.”

Disgrace it’s simply clips from the week and never new content material. Bit of a cop out. *turns @SundayBrunchC4 on as an alternative* #thismorning #sundaybrunch

— Amy Lee (@Amykinsypoo) January 20, 2019

Thought it was Monday and I used to be late for bloody work once I turned on the telly to see @thismorning! What they enjoying at?! Don’t prefer it. Keep in your lane #thismorning

— Kimberley Walker (@KimberleyHW) January 20, 2019

WHAT a disappointment it’s only a present made up of repeats from the earlier week! Shall be watching #SundayBrunch from now on @thismorning #ThisMorning on Sunday

— Janbo25 (@JaniceGilfillan) January 20, 2019

In the imply time, move one other slice of the stuffed mallard, will you?

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This Morning on Sunday vs Sunday Brunch: who triumphed? A minute-by-minute review of the weekend shows

Learn extra

Viewers surprised by ladies stockpiling meals for Brexit on This Morning

This Morning on Sunday had: properly, Holmes and Langsford. Oh, and chef John Torode. Look, perhaps everybody was simply busy?

So how did the two shows play out and who gained the battle of the weekend? Right here’s what occurred, minute by minute:

The review

Kevin Clifton’s tattoo

Holmes and Langford (Photograph: ITV)

Rylan Clarke-Neal will host a Saturday afternoon present on Radio 2

From Partridge-esque to precise partridge

10.53 TMoS: One other repeated interview. It’s Strictly‘s Kevin Clifton getting a tattoo saying ‘I love Glasgow’. Look, it’s too boring to get into right here.

11.04 SB: Fox steps as much as make a vinegar-braised hen with Rimmer, which finally ends up wanting a lot nicer than it sounds.

Nick Knowles (Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)

Over on social media and viewers appeared to be in equal measures confused and irritated to seek out that This Morning was primarily repeats of segments from the earlier week’s shows.

One Twitter consumer stated: “What a disappointment! It’s just a show made up of repeats from the previous week’s show.”

Disgrace it’s simply clips from the week and never new content material. Bit of a cop out. *turns @SundayBrunchC4 on as an alternative* #thismorning #sundaybrunch

— Amy Lee (@Amykinsypoo) January 20, 2019

Thought it was Monday and I used to be late for bloody work once I turned on the telly to see @thismorning! What they enjoying at?! Don’t prefer it. Keep in your lane #thismorning

— Kimberley Walker (@KimberleyHW) January 20, 2019

WHAT a disappointment it’s only a present made up of repeats from the earlier week! Shall be watching #SundayBrunch from now on @thismorning #ThisMorning on Sunday

— Janbo25 (@JaniceGilfillan) January 20, 2019

In the imply time, move one other slice of the stuffed mallard, will you?

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This Morning on Sunday vs Sunday Brunch: who triumphed? A minute-by-minute review of the weekend shows

Learn extra

Viewers surprised by ladies stockpiling meals for Brexit on This Morning

This Morning on Sunday had: properly, Holmes and Langsford. Oh, and chef John Torode. Look, perhaps everybody was simply busy?

So how did the two shows play out and who gained the battle of the weekend? Right here’s what occurred, minute by minute:

The review

Kevin Clifton’s tattoo

Holmes and Langford (Photograph: ITV)

Rylan Clarke-Neal will host a Saturday afternoon present on Radio 2

From Partridge-esque to precise partridge

10.53 TMoS: One other repeated interview. It’s Strictly‘s Kevin Clifton getting a tattoo saying ‘I love Glasgow’. Look, it’s too boring to get into right here.

11.04 SB: Fox steps as much as make a vinegar-braised hen with Rimmer, which finally ends up wanting a lot nicer than it sounds.

Nick Knowles (Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)

Over on social media and viewers appeared to be in equal measures confused and irritated to seek out that This Morning was primarily repeats of segments from the earlier week’s shows.

One Twitter consumer stated: “What a disappointment! It’s just a show made up of repeats from the previous week’s show.”

Disgrace it’s simply clips from the week and never new content material. Bit of a cop out. *turns @SundayBrunchC4 on as an alternative* #thismorning #sundaybrunch

— Amy Lee (@Amykinsypoo) January 20, 2019

Thought it was Monday and I used to be late for bloody work once I turned on the telly to see @thismorning! What they enjoying at?! Don’t prefer it. Keep in your lane #thismorning

— Kimberley Walker (@KimberleyHW) January 20, 2019

WHAT a disappointment it’s only a present made up of repeats from the earlier week! Shall be watching #SundayBrunch from now on @thismorning #ThisMorning on Sunday

— Janbo25 (@JaniceGilfillan) January 20, 2019

In the imply time, move one other slice of the stuffed mallard, will you?

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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Opportunity Knocks

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POETRY publishes from 100-150 poets in each of its biannual editions. The editors are screening submissions for their fourth edition and are open to emerging and established poets and long poems and simultaneous submissions. $5 submission free for up to six poems. Details HERE.

LUXINE, We live off your creative impulses is a publication created by two students in Edinburgh who feature the work of students. Themes are color based and for issue five, the color is nude. Featured: art, articles, interviews and poems. Deadline: 25 October 2017. Details HERE.

HOWL, Where Writers Go to Read accepts submissions of fiction, non-fiction, graphic narratives, poetry, art, and drama. This is a lit art mag published by the students of Deitona High School in Deitona, Florida. Submission guidelines HERE. I love this:

“Mission Statement: Howl is the vanguard of education in the publishing of the literary arts for the perennial generations. Our goals are to publish great literature from around the world, promote the literary arts in our own community, and all the while educate young writers and editors to carry the “lit” torch into the 21st century.”

EDINBURGH REVIEW is in the process of reviewing a backlog of submissions and moving their offices. The editors will announce their reopening of submission calls on their Facebook page and through their Twitter account. Follow and stay tuned.

AGNI is an American literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and artwork twice a year in print and biweekly online from its home at Boston University. Its editor is Sven Birkerts, the literary critic and essayist; its senior editor is William Pierce.”AGNI regularly features emerging writers and ‘among readers around the world . . . is known for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time” (PEN American Center). Most of what we publish is unsolicited. The print magazine appears twice yearly, in spring and fall. The website grows biweekly with postings of new online-only fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. AGNI welcomes unsolicited manuscripts between September 1st and May 31st. Details HERE.

CALLALOO, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters “is a journal devoted to creative work by and critical studies of the work of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora. Visual art and studies of life and culture in the Black world are also published regularly in Callaloo, as is wide-ranging cultural criticism. Callaloo is published five times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer, Art, and Fall), and accepts original submissions of scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art.” Details HERE.

MOTHER JONES works mostly with writers with whom there is an established relationship but “will consider solidly reported, hard-hitting, groundbreaking news stories. We’re also open to thought-provoking, timely opinion and analysis pieces on important current issues.” Details HERE.

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES, Literary Adventure Fantasy publishes “stories with a secondary-world setting and some traditional or classic fantasy feel, but written with a literary approach.” Word count limit: 14,000. Details HERE.

SEQUESTRUM “is a competitive, paying market which publishes high-quality short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts on a rolling basis. Recent contributors include Pulitzer Prize nominees, Guggenheim and NEA Fellows, award-winning novelists and poets, as well as many new and emerging voices. We’re committed to publishing the bulk of our publications from unsolicited manuscripts and are open to all stylistic schools and “isms,” including the occasional genre piece.” Details HERE.

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THE BeZINE call for submissions for the November 2017 issue – themed Hunger, Poverty and Working-class Slavery – is now open and the deadline is November 10th. Send submissions to me at [email protected]. Publication is November 15th. Poetry, essays, fiction and creative nonfiction, art and photography, music (videos or essays), and whatever lends itself to online presentation is welcome for consideration. No demographic restrictions.

Submissions of work on your country and its history and culture are welcome no matter your citizenship, national origin, first language, religion or lack thereof. The more diverse the representation, the better. English only or accompanied by translation into English. Please check out a few issues first and the Intro/Mission Statement and Submission Guidelines. We DO NOT publish anything that promotes hate, divisiveness or violence or that is scornful or in any way dismissive of “other” peoples.

I do consider previously published work if you hold the copyright. / J.D.

HEADS-UP ON THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF The BeZine: the theme is Spirituality (Spiritual Paradigms, Awakenings, Miracles). Deadline: November 10.

THE BeZINE NEWS: Beginning January 2018, we’ll move to a quarterly format with themes and – possibly – sub-themes. Your suggestions for sub-themes are welcome. Email me at [email protected]

CONTESTS

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SEQUESTRUM New Writer Awards: Poetry deadline is October 15. $15 submission fee. Cash awards. Details HERE including those for Fiction and Nonfiction awards.

GLIMMER TRAIN PRESS Short Story Award for New Writers. Details HERE.

CLOUDBANK BOOKS: Vern Rutsala Book Prize $1,000 and publication, Deadline October 31. Reading Fee $25; the Cloudbank Poetry Prizes and Flash Prizes, $200. Deadline February 28, 2018. Reading Fee: $25. Details HERE.

TWO SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT WRITERS AND GRAPHICS ARTS DESIGNERS. Details HERE.

Asking yourself: What can I do about horrors like Las Vegas and Sandy Hook? Give your thoughts a platform, be apart of the solution…design our 2017 logo. Facebook friends, fans and followers will be the judges. Send entry to [email protected].

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Poetry & Music: Stephen Alltop ad Josefien Stoppelenburg, October 10, 7 pm – 8 pm CDT, Poetry Foundation and Poetry Magazine, 61 W Superior St., Chicago. Details HERE.

Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May 4 and 5, poetry readings, workshops, lit fair,panels, and slams. Proposals deadline is October 30. Details HERE.

O, Miami Poetry Festival, April 1 – 30, community based. Details HERE.

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Rick Rubin Talks “breathtaking” Poetry of Tom Petty, Kory Grow, RollingStone

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game-refraction · 7 years ago

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GameStop Celebrates 10 Years of Granting Wishes

“You’re going to WrestleMania!”

Those were the words 12-year-old Make-A-Wish kid Solomon heard from WWE Announcer Renee Young and WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose today as his wish was revealed in front of nearly 4,000 GameStop store leaders at the company’s annual Store Leader Conference and EXPO in Las Vegas. Solomon, who battles muscular dystrophy, wished to go to WrestleMania. Now, thanks to those nearly 4,000 store leaders, GameStop guests, and WWE, his wish will come true. Solomon’s wish serves as the kick-off for GameStop’s annual point-of-sale campaign benefiting Make-A-Wish®.

GameStop, announced today, the launch of its fourth annual in-store donation campaign benefiting Make-A-Wish. The campaign runs in the U.S. and Canada from August 30 – October 31. Funds raised during the campaign help grant wishes for children battling critical illnesses like Leeanna, 15, who recently had her wish for an electronics shopping spree granted at GameStop.

In celebration of 10 years of partnership, GameStop and its family of brands invites customers to help make more wishes like Leeanna’s and Solomon’s come true. Customers can donate $1, $5, or $10, or “round up” their total bill at checkout. One hundred percent of all customer donations collected during the campaign dates at GameStop, ThinkGeek and EB Games Canada stores, and on gamestop.com will be donated to Make-A-Wish. The company’s tech brand stores including Spring Mobile and Simply Mac will collect in-store donations from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.

“It has been our company’s distinct pleasure to help grant shopping spree wishes in our stores nearly every day. Together with our guests, we are committed to raising even more donations for Make-A-Wish so that they can continue to provide a lifetime of happy memories for kids fighting big illnesses,” – Rob Lloyd, chief financial officer of GameStop and Make-A-Wish North Texas board member.

As a thank you for donating, customers at GameStop and EB Games stores will receive:

GameStop PowerUp Rewards members will score triple PowerUp Rewards Points on donation amounts of $1 or more from August 30 – October 31

EB Games Edge Rewards members earn 100 bonus Edge Rewards Points on donation amounts of $1 or more from August 30 – October 31

“Research is showing that wishes can truly be a transformative part of a wish child’s medical journey and it is a privilege to work with partners like GameStop who truly understand the power of a wish come true, Make-A-Wish needs everyone’s help to grant more wishes for children with critical illnesses and GameStop’s campaign provides a simple way for customers to help make a lasting impact on the lives of wish children and their families.” – David Williams, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America.

About GameStop

GameStop, the world’s largest video game retailer, offers the best selection of new and pre-owned video gaming consoles, accessories and video game titles, in both physical and digital formats. GameStop also offers fans a wide variety of pop vinyl toys, collectibles, board games and more. Through GameStop’s unique buy-sell-trade program, gamers can trade in video game consoles, games, and accessories, as well as consumer electronics for cash or in-store credit. The retailer operates thousands of locations around the world under the GameStop, EB Games and Micromania retail brands. Fans can find their local GameStop store using the company’s online store locator tool.

To get the latest news on video gaming and gear, follow GameStop on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. GameStop, EB Games, and Micromania are part of GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), a global specialty retailer that makes the most popular technologies affordable and simple.

About Make-A-Wish®

Make-A-Wish grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. According to a 2011 U.S. study of wish impact, most health professionals surveyed believe a wish-come-true has positive impacts on the health of children. Kids say wishes give them renewed strength to fight their illness, and their parents say these experiences help strengthen the entire family. Headquartered in Phoenix, Make-A-Wish is one of the world’s leading children’s charities, serving children in every community in the United States and its territories. With the help of generous donors and more than 33,000 volunteers, Make-A-Wish grants a wish somewhere in the country every 34 minutes. It has granted more than 285,000 wishes since its inception in 1980; more than 15,300 in 2016 alone. Visit Make-A-Wish at www.wish.org to learn more.

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yahoo-roto-arcade-blog · 7 years ago

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Fantasy WR Busts 2017: Amari Cooper will leave owners disappointed

Forget Cooper’s end year total matching one of his jersey numbers, says Brad Evans. (AP)

The road to title town is full of potholes. How many wheel-displacing hazards one avoids ultimately determines success. Below we list candidates, drafted often inside the top-60 overall, who we believe drive off a cliff in 2017. To ensure full accountability, we also included our biggest hits/misses from 2016. Tuesday’s topic: WRs.

T.Y. Hilton, Ind (15.9 ADP, WR8)

There’s no denying Hilton’s reliability, he’s surpassed 1,000 yards for four straight seasons, and has managed 46 starts over the past three years. Heading into 2017, however, his draft stock has crept higher than an army of White Walkers scaling the Wall. This sort of thing happens on the heels of a career campaign in which a player reels in 91 balls. But it’s worth noting that Hilton’s target volume was inflated by Donte Moncrief’s seven-game absence. In fact, T.Y. averaged nearly two more catches per game when Moncrief was out than when both receivers were on the field. Jack Doyle and Erik Swoope should also negatively affect Hilton’s opportunities. Throw in Andrew Luck’s potential shoulder issue and the Colts’ No. 1 WR is woefully overpriced. (Liz Loza)

Liz’s big bust WR hit in ’16: Donte Moncrief; Big whiff: Doug Baldwin

Terrelle Pryor, Was (41.7 ADP, WR21)

These days, if you want to draft Pryor, you need to be prepared to select him among the top-20 wide receivers. I’ve seen him repeatedly selected as a Round 4 fantasy asset, by owners who then celebrate as if a 1,200-yard, 10-TD season is already in the bank. We need to try to recognize a range of outcomes for Pryor. He’s stepping into an offense that already features a pair of trusted receivers in Jordan Reed and Jamison Crowder. It’s not at all clear that Pryor will immediately lead this team in targets. And even if he does, we need to remember that no Washington receiver saw more than 116 chances last year. Pryor is a huge talent, of course — to the point that I take no pleasure writing about him as a potential bust — but we’ve priced him at a level that demands high volume and substantial production. (Andy Behrens)

Andy’s big bust WR hit in ’16: Jeremy Maclin; Big whiff: Michael Thomas

Julian Edelman, NE (55.6 ADP, WR29)

It’s tough to disparage a receiver who saw 159 targets last year while playing for New England, but Edelman turned all those looks into just three touchdowns. He also got a modest 1,106 yards thanks to an underwhelming 6.9 YPT that ranked No. 72 among wide receivers. In fact, his fantasy points per target (1.44) ranked No. 80 in the NFL. He did make this remarkable catch in the Super Bowl, but Edelman isn’t a threat deep or in the red zone, so his upside is limited (obviously he gets a boost in PPR formats). He’s only surpassed 1,000 receiving yards one other time before last season, and his career high in touchdowns is seven (he’s averaged 5.0 over the last four years). The Patriots added Brandin Cooks during the offseason, and it’s possible Rob Gronkowski stays healthy for 16 games, so Edelman’s target share should diminish in 2017 (he had the third most in the NFL last year). You won’t make a profit on Edelman based on where he’s going. (Dalton Del Don)

Dalton’s big bust WR hit in ’16: Kelvin Benjamin; Big whiff: Larry Fitzgerald

Amari Cooper, Oak (17.2 ADP, WR9)

Assumption is extremely powerful. Fantasy speculators in every time zone steadfastly believe Cooper will suddenly dominate red-zone targets and become the object of Derek Carr’s affection. You’re nuts to buy into it. Coop is good for 80 catches and 1,000-plus yards, but Michael Crabtree’s role inside the 20 combined with Marshawn Lynch’s presence arrow to another 4-6 TDs. Recall a season ago, Cooper enticed a mere 14.1 percent of Oakland’s red-zone targets share. Even when placed in the crosshairs near the goal-line he flopped, evidenced in his 38.5 catch percentage. Largely going inside the top-10 among WRs, he simply won’t return on investment. Essentially, he’s the Willie Snead of the West Coast, an overpriced asset who’s sure to underwhelm in touchdowns. Doug Baldwin and Brandin Cooks are two receivers, among many, I would circumvent Cooper to acquire. (Brad Evans)

Brad’s big bust WR hit in ’16: Allen Robinson; Big whiff: Doug Baldwin

Alshon Jeffery, Phi (37.6 ADP, WR19)

Jeffery’s endgame in Chicago wasn’t pretty. He made it through just 21 of 32 games, scored just six touchdowns and dealt with a gaggle of soft-tissue injuries. He struggled to gain any traction as a red-zone receiver. Blame the Bears quarterbacks all you want, but how do we know Carson Wentz is any better?

I don’t understand why Jeffery isn’t coming with a notable discount this year. You’re paying a third or fourth-round ticket everywhere I look, which is far too early for a player this variable. The downside is the last two years: inconsistent play and hampering injuries. What is the upside, exactly? Do you see king-maker potential with Wentz? Do you expect Jeffery’s red-zone efficiency to take off after two horrible seasons in that department?

The Philly media is spinning a happy Jeffery tune, which could be driving some of the ADP price. Come on, Yahooligans, you’re better than that. And don’t tell me about Jeffery being motivated by his one-year contract — he was in a contract year last year, too. Heck, the way the NFL is shaped, most players are just one bad season away from an unceremonious cut. Unless there’s a correction in the price, I won’t consider Jeffery all summer. (Scott Pianowski)

Scott’s big bust WR hit in ’16: John Brown; Big whiff: Jordy Nelson