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forgot to post this last year or whenever it happened

[dear-indies]

I think I messed up my ask before, sorry!! I’m looking for some help finding fcs for two brothers and a sister that are in their 20s and they’re about 1/3 Chinese but I know that that’s a really specific and a hard ask so if it’s okay then I’d love suggestions for half Chinese and half white fcs. Thank you and sorry again!!

Hey anon! Sadly I couldn't find anybody to match but you said it's OK to list half suggestions, I also listed everybody I could find regardless if they'd have suitable sibling suggestions in hopes our followers know of more!

Ben Levin (1987) Chinese / White - has younger roles!

Kaitlyn Leeb (1998) Chinese / Irish - has younger roles!

Janel Parrish (1988) Han Chinese / Irish, English, German - has younger roles!

Katie Cockrell (1988) Chinese / English and Irish - has younger roles!

Kellie Cockrell (1988) Chinese / English and Irish - has younger roles!

Natasha Liu Bordizzo (1994) Chinese / Italian.

Keanu Lee Nunes (1996) Chinese / Portuguese.

and:

Lewis Tan (1987) Chinese Singaporean / Irish, possibly English - has younger roles!

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English - has younger roles!

and:

Ross Butler (1990) Chinese Malaysian / British and Dutch.

Bonus suggestions because I don't see many people using Taiwanese and Hongkonger faceclaims!

Taiwanese suggestions:

Rhydian Vaughan (1988) Taiwanese / British.

Lauren Tsai (1998) Taiwanese / Polish, Italian, English, German, Irish.

Hongkonnger suggestions:

Sam Tsui (1989) Hongkonger / English, German - has younger roles!

Melissa O'Neil (1988) Hongkonger / Irish - has younger roles!

James Ha (1992) Hongkonger / English.

Sean Tse (1992) Hongkonger / Irish.

Jessie Mei Li (1995) Hongkonger / English - is a gender nonconforming woman and uses she/they.

Matt Orr (1997) Hongkonger / Unspecified White.

Alexandre Dujardin (1998) Hongkonger / French.

And to answer your other messages, you didn't do anything wrong and the duplicate ask wasn't regarding your asks but the one I reblogged from my friend after! I'm sorry this took longer than you'd have liked but I hope it's helpful regardless!

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My Top 100 Albums of 2020

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Taylor Swift - folklore/evermore

Halsey - Manic

Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor

Ruston Kelly -  Shape & Destroy

Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight

I’m Glad It’s You - Every Sun, Every Moon

Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter

The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form

Paris Jackson - Withered

Hannah Georgas - All That Emotion

BTS - MAP OF THE SOUL: 7

Stand Atlantic - Pink Elephant

Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

Ryan Adams - Wednesdays

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 4

I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - RAZZMATAZZ

Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

PVRIS - Use Me

The Naked and Famous - Recover

The Weeknd - After Hours

Nightly - night, love you

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud

Everything Everything - RE-ANIMATOR

Empathy Test - Monsters

HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III

Caroline Rose - Superstar

Maita - Best Wishes

Thad Cockrell - In Case You Feel The Same

Katie Pruitt - Expectations

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

E^ST - I’M DOING IT

Charli XCX - how i’m feeling now

Soccer Mommy - color theory

beabadoobee  - Fake It Flowers

Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was

Caitlyn Smith - Supernova

NIKI - MOONCHILD

Whale Bones - Close All the Blinds, Lock All the Doors, Say No One's Home

Matt Beringer - Serpentine Prison

Brian Fallon - Local Honey

The Aces  -  Under My Influence

Ava Max - Heaven & Hell

Vistas - Everything Changes in the End

Dream Wife - So When You Gonna…

Oh Wonder - No One Else Can Wear Your Crown

Yours Truly - Self Care

Derek Webb - TARGETS

Tired Lion - Breakfast for Pathetics

Fenne Lily - BREACH

Smokey Brights - I Love You, But Damn

Movements - No Good Left to Give

Cold Years - Paradise

Seer Believer - Bent

Some Stranger - Meet in Secret, Speak in Code

Pinegrove - Marigold

Overcoats - The Fight

Enter Shikari - Nothing is True & Everything is Possible

Lauv - ~how i'm feeling~

Sam Smith - Love Goes

Delacey - Black Coffee

Bartees Strange  - Live Forever

The Secret Sisters - Saturn Return

Slaughter Beach, Dog - At The Moonbase

Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone

Weathered - Everything All at Once

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

Ariana Grande  - Positions

RJ Thompson - Lifeline

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Reunions

Gordi - Our Two Skins

Coin - Dreamland

Delta Spirit - What Is There

Liza Anne - Bad Vacation

Kate Miller-Heidke - Child In Reverse

Into It. Over It. - Figure

The Classic Crime - Paterns in The Static

Fleet Foxes - Shore

Chris Stapleton - Starting Over

Lydia Loveless - Daughter

Seahaven - Halo of Hurt

Seaway - BIG VIBES

W O L F C L U B - - Runaways

Allie X  - Cape God

Dogleg - Melee

Beach Bunny - Honeymoon

Oldsoul - You Were Overwhelmed

Neon Trees - I Can Fell You Forgetting Me

Ball Park Music  - Ball Park Music

Lady GaGa - Chromatica

Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather

Eden - No Future

Johanna Warren - Chaotic Good

Early James - Singing for My Supper

Mandy Moore - Silver Landings

Lizzy Farrall - Bruise

O’Brother - You and I

5 Seconds of Summer - CALM

[fireinmywoods]

Do you have any songs that you associate super hard with McKirk?

I sure do! I have a couple curated playlists that I’ll probably share when certain fics are posted, but even those are only a fraction of the music I associate with them.

Some songs I associate with a particular fic because I listened to it a lot while writing, such as:

Hello My Old Heart - The Oh Hellos (craquelure)

Paper Planes - East of Avenue (anagnorisis)

The Weight - Amber Run (sforzando)

To Love Someone - Ben Abraham (stellae fixae)

Nobody - Hozier (WIP flirting fic - not quite as literal an interpretation as the others, but Hozier and McKirk is a match made in romantic horndog heaven if you ask me)

Here are a few other songs that I have on either my Jim or Bones playlists. Can you tell which are from which?

Infinite Space - Young Mister

Hiding - Florence + The Machine

The Life I Was Missing - Flannel Graph

Pride (Won’t Get Us Where We’re Going) - Thad Cockrell

I’ll Stay (Carla’s Song) - Matt Stinton

Painting Roses - Dresses

Now I’ll throw it out to all y’all. What are your McKirk songs?

[goalhofer]

2021-22 Wheeling Nailers Roster

Wingers

#14 Jake Cockrell (Readfield, Maine)

#15 Shaw Boomhower (Belleville, Ontario)

#16 Cam Hausinger (Anchorage, Alaska)

#19 Felix Pare (Lévis, Quebec)

#27 Sean Josling (Toronto, Ontario)

Centers

#9 Tim Doherty (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)

#17 Brandon Saigeon (Grimsby, Ontario)

#20 Justin Almeida (Kitimat, British Columbia)

#21 Matt Alfaro (Calgary, Alberta) A

#23 Brendan Harris (Brookhaven, New York)

#25 Bobby Hampton (Middletown Township, New Jersey)

#26 Matt Ustaski (Northfield Township, Illinois)

#41 Tyler Drevitch (Middleborough, Massachusetts)

Defensemen

#2 Dylan MacPherson (Redcliff, Alberta) C

#4 Jake Flegel (Ajax, Ontario)

#5 Matt Miller (Columbiana County, Ohio)

#6 Alex Smith (East Gwillimbury, Ontario) A

#10 Alex Stevens (Plymouth, Minnesota)

#11 Josh Victor (Round Rock, Texas)

#24 Josh Maniscalco (Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania)

Goalies

#31 Stefanos Lekkas (Kane County, Illinois)

#35 Louis-Philippe Guindon (Montreal, Quebec)

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Matthew “Matt” Cockrell Death – Obituary, Matthew “Matt” Cockrell Has Died

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Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

The Coronavirus Outbreak

Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

With restaurants, hotels and schools closed, many of the nation’s largest farms are destroying millions of pounds of fresh goods that they can no longer sell.

A tractor mulches green beans at an R.C. Hatton farm in Florida. “It’s heartbreaking,” an owner of the farm said.Credit...Rose Marie Cromwell for The New York Times

By David Yaffe-Bellany and Michael Corkery

April 11, 2020

In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil.

After weeks of concern about shortages in grocery stores and mad scrambles to find the last box of pasta or toilet paper roll, many of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with another ghastly effect of the pandemic. They are being forced to destroy tens of millions of pounds of fresh food that they can no longer sell.

The closing of restaurants, hotels and schools has left some farmers with no buyers for more than half their crops. And even as retailers see spikes in food sales to Americans who are now eating nearly every meal at home, the increases are not enough to absorb all of the perishable food that was planted weeks ago and intended for schools and businesses.

The amount of waste is staggering. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day. A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week.

Many farmers say they have donated part of the surplus to food banks and Meals on Wheels programs, which have been overwhelmed with demand. But there is only so much perishable food that charities with limited numbers of refrigerators and volunteers can absorb.

And the costs of harvesting, processing and then transporting produce and milk to food banks or other areas of need would put further financial strain on farms that have seen half their paying customers disappear. Exporting much of the excess food is not feasible either, farmers say, because many international customers are also struggling through the pandemic and recent currency fluctuations make exports unprofitable.

“It’s heartbreaking,” said Paul Allen, co-owner of R.C. Hatton, who has had to destroy millions of pounds of beans and cabbage at his farms in South Florida and Georgia.

The widespread destruction of fresh food — at a time when many Americans are hurting financially and millions are suddenly out of work — is an especially dystopian turn of events, even by the standards of a global pandemic. It reflects the profound economic uncertainty wrought by the virus and how difficult it has been for huge sectors of the economy, like agriculture, to adjust to such a sudden change in how they must operate.

Even as Mr. Allen and other farmers have been plowing fresh vegetables into the soil, they have had to plant the same crop again, hoping the economy will have restarted by the time the next batch of vegetables is ready to harvest. But if the food service industry remains closed, then those crops, too, may have to be destroyed.

Farmers are also learning in real time about the nation’s consumption habits.

The quarantines have shown just how many more vegetables Americans eat when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they have to cook for themselves.

“People don’t make onion rings at home,” said Shay Myers, a third-generation onion farmer whose fields straddle the border of Oregon and Idaho.

Mr. Myers said there were no good solutions to the fresh food glut. After his largest customer — the restaurant industry — shut down in California and New York, his farm started redistributing onions from 50-pound sacks into smaller bags that could be sold in grocery stores. He also started freezing some onions, but he has limited cold-storage capacity.

With few other options, Mr. Myers has begun burying tens of thousands of pounds of onions and leaving them to decompose in trenches.

“There is no way to redistribute the quantities that we are talking about,” he said.

Over the decades, the nation’s food banks have tried to shift from offering mostly processed meals to serving fresh produce, as well. But the pandemic has caused a shortage of volunteers, making it more difficult to serve fruits and vegetables, which are time-consuming and expensive to transport.

“To purchase from a whole new set of farmers and suppliers — it takes time, it takes knowledge, you have to find the people, develop the contracts,” said Janet Poppendieck, an expert on poverty and food assistance.

The waste has become especially severe in the dairy industry, where cows need to be milked multiple times a day, regardless of whether there are buyers.

Major consumers of dairy, like public schools and coffee shops, have all but vanished, leaving milk processing plants with fewer customers at a time of year when cows produce milk at their fastest rate. About 5 percent of the country’s milk supply is currently being dumped and that amount is expected to double if the closings are extended over the next few months, according to the International Dairy Foods Association.

Before the pandemic, the Dairymens processing plant in Cleveland would produce three loads of milk, or around 13,500 gallons, for Starbucks every day. Now the Starbucks order is down to one load every three days.

For a while after the pandemic took hold, the plant collected twice as much milk from farmers as it could process, keeping the excess supply in refrigerated trailers, said Brian Funk, who works for Dairymens as a liaison to farmers.

But eventually the plant ran out of storage. One night last week, Mr. Funk worked until 11 p.m., fighting back tears as he called farmers who supply the plant to explain the predicament.

“We’re not going to pick your milk up tomorrow,” he told them. “We don’t have any place to put it.”

One of the farms that got the call was the Hartschuh Dairy Farm, which has nearly 200 cows on a plot of land in northern Ohio.

A week ago, Rose Hartschuh, who runs the farm with her family, watched her father-in-law flush 31,000 pounds of milk into a lagoon. It took more than an hour for the milk to flow out of its refrigerated tank and down the drain pipe.

For years, dairy farmers have struggled with low prices and bankruptcies. “This is one more blow below the belt,” Ms. Hartschuh said.

To prevent further dumping, farming groups are trying everything to find places to send the excess milk — even lobbying pizza chains to increase the amount of cheese on every slice.

But there are logistical obstacles that prevent dairy products from being shifted neatly from food service customers to retailers.

At many dairy processors, for example, the machinery is designed to package shredded cheese in large bags for restaurants or place milk in small cartons for schools, rather than arrange the products in retail-friendly containers.

To repurpose those plants to put cheese in the 8 oz. bags that sell in grocery stores or bottle milk in gallon jugs would require millions of dollars in investment. For now, some processors have concluded that spending the money isn’t worth it.

“It isn’t like restaurant demand has disappeared forever,” said Matt Gould, a dairy industry analyst. “Even if it were possible to re-format to make it an 8-ounce package rather than a 20-pound bag, the dollars and cents may not pan out.”

Those same logistical challenges are bedeviling poultry plants that were set up to distribute chicken to restaurants rather than stores. Each week, the chicken processor Sanderson Farms destroys 750,000 unhatched eggs, or 5.5 percent of its total production, sending them to a rendering plant to be turned into pet food.

Last week, the chief executive of Sanderson Farms, Joe Sanderson, told analysts that company officials had even considered euthanizing chickens to avoid selling them at unprofitable rates, though the company ultimately did not take that step.

In recent days, Sanderson Farms has donated some of its chicken to food banks and organizations that cook meals for emergency medical workers. But hatching hundreds of thousands of eggs for the purpose of charity is not a viable option, said Mike Cockrell, the company’s chief financial officer.

“We’re set up to sell that chicken,” Mr. Cockrell said. “That would be an expensive proposition.”

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Rams vs. Buccaneers score, results: LA defense shuts down Tom Brady in the second half

The Rams couldn’t have asked for much more from their defense in the second half Monday night in a 27-24 victory over the Buccaneers.

LA held Tom Brady and the Bucs to just 251 total yards for the game and 113 yards of offense in the second half. Brady was picked off twice down the stretch, including on a last-chance march down the field in the final two minutes of regulation.

The Rams’ offense wasn’t spectactular, but Jared Goff did enough to outperform Brady. Goff finished completing 39 of 51 passes (76.5 percent) for 376 yards and three touchdowns, with two interceptions. Cooper Kupp was his top target, hauling in 11 catches for 145 yards.

Much of LA’s production came in the first half, with Goff tossing TDs to Robert Woods and Van Jefferson. The Rams tacked on a field goal at the end of the half thanks to a great job by Goff and the offense to hurry down the field and spike the ball with 1 second to spare following a 35-yard reception by Woods. That gave LA a 17-14 lead at halftime.

Brady completed just 26 of 48 (54.2 percent) for 216 yards and two touchdowns, with two interceptions in the second half.

Still, Brady and the Bucs had a chance thanks to the Tampa Bay defense. Jason Pierre-Paul picked off a screen pass on the first drive of the second half, setting up a Ryan Succop field goal to tie the game at 17-17. And Jordan Whitehead came up with another interception, which led to a touchdown drive that ended with a 13-yard pass from Brady to Chris Godwin to tie it again at 24-24.

Goff and the Rams’ offense came through when it mattered though, moving the ball into field goal range from Matt Gay, who connected from 40 yards out to take the definitive 27-24 lead.

LA’s defense came up with one more big play to end the game as rookie safety Jordan Fuller came up with his second interception of the night, allowing the Rams to run out the clock and end the game on a Johnny Hekker punt.

The Rams (7-3) are now tied for first with the Seahawks in the NFC West, while the Buccaneers (7-4) fall 1.5 games back behind the Saints in the NFC South.

Sporting News tracked live scoring updates and highlights from  Rams vs. Buccaneers  on ” Monday Night Football .” Check out complete results from the Week 11 NFL game:

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Rams vs. Buccaneers final score

  Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total Rams  7 10 7 3 27 Buccaneers 0 14 3 7 24

Rams vs. Buccaneers highlights from ‘Monday Night Football’

( All times Eastern )

11:22 p.m. — FINAL: Rams 27, Buccaneers 24.

11:17 p.m. — INTERCEPTION.  Brady with another overthrow and Fuller with another pick. Rams take over at 37-yard line with 1:49 remaining, Bucs only have one timeout.

11:14 p.m. — Two-Minute Warning.  Buccaneers have it, first and 10 at their 38-yard line.

11:11 p.m. — FIELD GOAL, RAMS.  Gay hits from 40 yards to give LA the lead, 27-24 with 2:36 remaining.

11:00 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, BUCCANEERS.  Brady finds Godwin wide open on the right side and Godwin leaps and reaches across for the score. Tampa Bay ties the game at 24-24 with 3:53 left to play.

10:55 p.m. — INTERCEPTION.  Jordan Whitehead makes a great play to jump the route and the Buccaneers get the ball back at the LA 44-yard line, 7:17 to go.

10:53 p.m. — TURNOVER ON DOWNS.  Godwin gets tripped up by Evans, who was being jammed at the line of scrimmage by Jalen Ramsey, and can’t catch Brady’s pass on fourth down. Rams take over at their 43-yard line, 8:16 remaining.

10:48 p.m. — Rams punt.  Another three-and-out for LA. Looked like they might have gotten the ball on a fumble on the return, but a Rams player touched the ball first so it’s automatically Tampa Bay ball. Bucs have it at their 37-yard line, 10:18 left to play.

10:42 p.m. — Buccaneers punt.  Strange play on third down as Brady’s pass is batted back to him, and he throws it a second time to Evans. The illegal forward pass penalty is declined because Evans was brought down short of the line to gain, so Tampa Bay punts it away. Rams get the ball back at their 12-yard line, 11:51 remaining.

10:38 p.m. — Rams go three-and-out.  JPP swats down Goff’s pass this time on third down and the Buccaneers get the ball back at their 20-yard line, 13:35 left to play in regulation.

10:32 p.m. — Buccaneers punt.  Another three-and-out for Tampa Bay and the punt brings an end to the third quarter.  END OF 3Q: Rams 24, Buccaneers 17.  LA has it, first and 10 at its 42-yard line to start the fourth quarter.

10:26 p.m. — Rams punt.  Big play by Ross Cockrell to tackle Woods in the backfield on third down. Buccaneers get the ball back at their 13-yard line, 1:24 remaining in the third quarter.

10:20 p.m. — Buccaneers go three-and-out.  Really tough start for Tampa Bay’s offense in the second half. Rams get the ball back at their 20-yard line, 4:41 left in the third quarter.

10:14 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, RAMS.  Goff hits Cam Akers in the flat for an easy 4-yard TD toss. LA leads 24-17 with 5:39 remaining in the third quarter.

10:07 p.m. — INTERCEPTION.  This time LA’s defense comes up with the big play as Brady overthrows his man and Jordan Fuller comes up with the easy INT. Rams take over at the Tampa Bay 37-yard line, 7:42 left in the third quarter.

10:04 p.m. — MISSED FIELD GOAL, RAMS.  Gay pushes this one fro 44 yards wide right; Buccaneers take over at their 26-yard line, 8:25 left in the third quarter.

9:55 p.m. — FIELD GOAL, BUCCANEERS.  Tampa Bay goes three-and-out but the big play by JPP still sets up a 38-yard field goal for Ryan Succop to tie the game at 17-17 with 12:41 remaining in the third quarter.

9:52 p.m. — INTERCEPTION.  Goff is rushed on the screen pass and Jason Pierre-Paul cuts it off for the pick. Buccaneers take over at the Rams’ 22-yard line, 13:32 left in the third quarter.

9:50 p.m. —  We’re back for the second half; Rams receive the opening kickoff.

9:35 p.m. — FIELD GOAL, RAMS.  Matt Gay connects from 38 yards out. Hell of a job by the Rams to spike the ball with 1 second left on the clock after 35-yard completion from Goff to Woods.  HALF: Rams 17, Buccaneers 14.

9:29 p.m. — Buccaneers punt.  Brady can’t connect with Chris Godwin on third down and the Rams will get the ball back at their 19-yard line with 1:00 remaining. They have two timeouts to spare.

9:17 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, RAMS.  Goff hits Van Jefferson in stride for a 7-yard touchdown and LA ties it up at 14-14 with 4:31 left in the first half.

9:07 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, BUCCANEERS.  Leondard Fournette punches it in from 2 yards out and Tampa Bay takes a 14-7 lead with 8:35 remaining in the second quarter.

8:55 p.m. — Rams punt.  LA comes up short and Tampa Bay will get the ball back at its 24-yard line, 12:00 left to play in the first half.

8:47 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, BUCCANEERS.  Brady throws it to Evans, who does the rest and fights through a couple of tackles for the 9-yard TD. It’s all tied up at 7-7 with 14:10 left in the second quarter.

8:44 p.m. — END OF 1Q: Rams 7, Buccaneers 0.  Tampa Bay has it, second and 5 at the LA 13-yard line to start the second quarter.

8:34 p.m. — TOUCHDOWN, RAMS.  Jared Goff finds Robert Woods on third and goal for a 4-yard TD and LA leads 7-0 with 3:55 remaining in the first quarter. Nice opening possession for the Rams.

8:21 p.m. — Buccaneers punt.  Brady can’t quite connect with Mike Evans. A touchback gives the Rams the ball at their 20-yard line for their first possession, 11:47 left in the first quarter.

8:15 p.m. — Rams win the toss.  They defer to the second half, so Tom Brady will lead the Buccaneers out for the opening drive.

Rams vs. Buccaneers start time

Kickoff: 8:15 p.m. ET

TV channel (national): ESPN

Live stream: ESPN app, fuboTV

‘Monday Night Football’ schedule 2020

Week 1 Sept. 14 Steelers 26, Giants 16 Week 1 Sept. 14 Titans 16, Broncos 14 Week 2 Sept. 21 Raiders 34, Saints 24 Week 3 Sept. 28 Chiefs 34, Ravens 20 Week 4 Oct. 5 Packers 30, Falcons 16 Week 5 Oct. 12 Saints 30, Chargers 27 Week 6 Oct. 19 Cardinals 38, Cowboys 10 Week 7 Oct. 26 Rams 24, Bears 10 Week 8 Nov. 2 Buccaneers 25, Giants 23 Week 9 Nov. 9 Patriots 30, Jets 27   Week 10 Nov. 16 Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings Week 11 Nov. 23 Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Los Angeles Rams Week 12 Nov. 30 Philadelphia Eagles vs. Seattle Seahawks Week 13 Dec. 7 San Francisco 49ers vs. Buffalo Bills Week 14 Dec. 14 Cleveland Browns vs. Baltimore Ravens Week 15 Dec. 21 Cincinnati Bengals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Week 16 Dec. 28 New England Patriots vs. Buffalo Bills

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it's okay, matt's mom isn't on tumblr, so he doesn't have to come clean with her yet

[junker-town]

The Panthers’ rebuild hinges on surrounding Teddy Bridgewater with playmakers

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images

The Panthers decided to burn it down. Here’s how they keep their rebuild short.

The Panthers broke from tradition in 2019 by missing the playoffs for consecutive years for the first time since 2012. That’s kicked off a small-scale rebuild that turned into a big one.

Cam Newton became the latest tenured veteran to leave Carolina when he was released this spring. He joined a distinguished list that includes Ron Rivera, Luke Kuechly, and Greg Olsen among the big names who’ve either left or been forced out of Charlotte. The Panthers’ offense now belongs to newly signed quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. He’s gonna need some help to bring the team back to the postseason.

Carolina Panthers (5-11), missed playoffs

New coach Matt Rhule is tasked with leading Carolina back to the postseason. The Panthers didn’t really have the cap space to pull off a full makeover in free agency, but they can buttress that with the No. 7 pick in this year’s draft and plant the seeds of change with smart moves.

Before free agency:

Defensive end: Brian Burns is a promising young pass rusher, but the Panthers’ sack leaders last season were Mario Addison and Bruce Irvin, neither of whom are rostered for 2020. Adding veteran help will bolster a defensive line that ranked second in the NFL in sack rate.

Offensive line: For what feels like the 10th straight year, offensive line is a major need for the Panthers. Past attempts at beefing up the blocking through big contracts have had varying rates of success (hello, Matt Kalil). Will 2020 — which already saw the team swap out perennial Pro Bowl guard Trai Turner for tackle Russell Okung — be any different?

Cornerback: The Panthers ranked 11th in the league in passing defense, per Football Outsiders’ DVOA metric, but James Bradberry, Tre Boston, Ross Cockrell, and Javien Elliott are all free agents in 2020. Rhule and general manager Marty Hurney will have to figure out who stays and who goes while adding some new contributors to the mix if they’re going to slow down opponents next season.

What Cat Scratch Reader wants most this offseason: The Panthers desperately need to rebuild their offensive and defensive lines after a dismal 2019 from both units. They were terrible at protecting the quarterback and stopping the run last year, so any help they can get in the 2020 draft would be a welcome addition. They also need to replace Olsen, which isn’t an easy task. Ian Thomas looks promising, but they need to add some depth behind him before the season starts. — Bradley Smith

After free agency:

Carolina saw more talent leave than it took in in the free agent period, but the Panthers still added interesting pieces like Robby Anderson, Tahir Whitehead, and Stephen Weatherly. And they got their QB in Bridgewater. He’ll have a useful lineup of skill players to target, but the club can’t afford to waste its shots at this year’s draft.

Offensive line: The QB room is now Bridgewater, XFL star P.J. Walker, and Will Grier. Protecting the team’s new investment will be paramount to completing this rebuild quickly and efficiently.

Cornerback: Bradberry is now a Giant, and the only defensive back to join the roster thus far is cornerback Juston Burris — who was good in limited targets last season but has only started 11 games in his four-year career. Reinforcements are needed.

Tight end: Carolina still hasn’t moved to replace Olsen. While Thomas could make a leap in his second year as a pro, the Panthers shouldn’t feel comfortable with him unchallenged atop their depth chart just yet.

After the draft:

The Panthers went all defense in the draft and while they didn’t address offensive line or tight end, they still got some nice pieces. First-round pick Derrick Brown was a monster defensive tackle for Auburn. Second-round pick Yetur Gross-Matos could’ve gone on Day 1 and should provide a strong pass-rushing presence (nine sacks last year for Penn State) right away in Carolina.

The Panthers traded up for Southern Illinois safety Jeremy Chinn, another immediate starter. Safety Kenny Robinson from the XFL should be ready to contribute too. Although they waited until Day 3 to add to their cornerback depth, Notre Dame’s Troy Pride could be a nice fourth-round pickup.

Dan Kadar’s draft grade: B+

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Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell Death – Obituary, Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell Has Died

Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell Death - Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell, 41, art teacher at Martha Layne Collins High School, Shelbyville, KY, died of COVID19 on September 19, 2021.....click link to learn more

Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell Death – Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death Matthew “Matt” Kevin Cockrell, 41, art teacher at Martha Layne Collins High School, Shelbyville, KY, died of COVID19 on September 19, 2021. He leaves behind his wife and family. Matt had recently completed his second master’s degree. Through a social media announcement, DeadDeath learned on September 20, 2021, about the…

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Panthers in rebuilding mode under new coach Matt Rhule March 17, 2020 at 4: 12 pm By The Associated Press CAROLINA PANTHERS (5-11). UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: CB James Bradberry, DE Mario Addison, DT Gerald McCoy, DT Dontari Poe, RT Daryl Williams, OLB Bruce Irvin, CB Ross Cockrell, WR Jarius Wright, S Tre Boston, DT Vernon…

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Steelers smash Dolphins; will face Chiefs in Divisional Round

Steelers smash Dolphins; will face Chiefs in Divisional Round

The Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t let the Miami Dolphins get the best of them twice.

The Steelers, who lost to the Dolphins in the regular season, won the game 30-12. It was the first game that Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown all played together in the postseason.

Roethlisberger didn’t waste any time getting on the scoreboard. Roethlisberger’s two touchdowns came in the first…

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Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

At a time when many Americans are hurting financially and millions are suddenly out of work and in need of food, farmers have a large surplus of perishable food -- milk and fresh vegetables -- due to the closing of restaurants, hotels and schools, and food pantries do not have space for storing perishable products. As a result, farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day. A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week. What can be done, if anything, to connect over supply with over demand in certain areas? 

In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil.

After weeks of concern about shortages in grocery stores and mad scrambles to find the last box of pasta or toilet paper roll, many of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with another ghastly effect of the pandemic. They are being forced to destroy tens of millions of pounds of fresh food that they can no longer sell.

The closing of restaurants, hotels and schools has left some farmers with no buyers for more than half their crops. And even as retailers see spikes in food sales to Americans who are now eating nearly every meal at home, the increases are not enough to absorb all of the perishable food that was planted weeks ago and intended for schools and businesses.

The amount of waste is staggering. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day. A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week.

Many farmers say they have donated part of the surplus to food banks and Meals on Wheels programs, which have been overwhelmed with demand. But there is only so much perishable food that charities with limited numbers of refrigerators and volunteers can absorb.

And the costs of harvesting, processing and then transporting produce and milk to food banks or other areas of need would put further financial strain on farms that have seen half their paying customers disappear. Exporting much of the excess food is not feasible either, farmers say, because many international customers are also struggling through the pandemic and recent currency fluctuations make exports unprofitable.

“It’s heartbreaking,” said Paul Allen, co-owner of R.C. Hatton, who has had to destroy millions of pounds of beans and cabbage at his farms in South Florida and Georgia.

The widespread destruction of fresh food — at a time when many Americans are hurting financially and millions are suddenly out of work — is an especially dystopian turn of events, even by the standards of a global pandemic. It reflects the profound economic uncertainty wrought by the virus and how difficult it has been for huge sectors of the economy, like agriculture, to adjust to such a sudden change in how they must operate.

Even as Mr. Allen and other farmers have been plowing fresh vegetables into the soil, they have had to plant the same crop again, hoping the economy will have restarted by the time the next batch of vegetables is ready to harvest. But if the food service industry remains closed, then those crops, too, may have to be destroyed.

Farmers are also learning in real time about the nation’s consumption habits.

The quarantines have shown just how many more vegetables Americans eat when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they have to cook for themselves.

“People don’t make onion rings at home,” said Shay Myers, a third-generation onion farmer whose fields straddle the border of Oregon and Idaho.

Mr. Myers said there were no good solutions to the fresh food glut. After his largest customer — the restaurant industry — shut down in California and New York, his farm started redistributing onions from 50-pound sacks into smaller bags that could be sold in grocery stores. He also started freezing some onions, but he has limited cold-storage capacity.

With few other options, Mr. Myers has begun burying tens of thousands of pounds of onions and leaving them to decompose in trenches.

“There is no way to redistribute the quantities that we are talking about,” he said.

Over the decades, the nation’s food banks have tried to shift from offering mostly processed meals to serving fresh produce, as well. But the pandemic has caused a shortage of volunteers, making it more difficult to serve fruits and vegetables, which are time-consuming and expensive to transport.

“To purchase from a whole new set of farmers and suppliers — it takes time, it takes knowledge, you have to find the people, develop the contracts,” said Janet Poppendieck, an expert on poverty and food assistance.

The waste has become especially severe in the dairy industry, where cows need to be milked multiple times a day, regardless of whether there are buyers.

Major consumers of dairy, like public schools and coffee shops, have all but vanished, leaving milk processing plants with fewer customers at a time of year when cows produce milk at their fastest rate. About 5 percent of the country’s milk supply is currently being dumped and that amount is expected to double if the closings are extended over the next few months, according to the International Dairy Foods Association.

Before the pandemic, the Dairymens processing plant in Cleveland would produce three loads of milk, or around 13,500 gallons, for Starbucks every day. Now the Starbucks order is down to one load every three days.

For a while after the pandemic took hold, the plant collected twice as much milk from farmers as it could process, keeping the excess supply in refrigerated trailers, said Brian Funk, who works for Dairymens as a liaison to farmers.

But eventually the plant ran out of storage. One night last week, Mr. Funk worked until 11 p.m., fighting back tears as he called farmers who supply the plant to explain the predicament.

“We’re not going to pick your milk up tomorrow,” he told them. “We don’t have any place to put it.”

One of the farms that got the call was the Hartschuh Dairy Farm, which has nearly 200 cows on a plot of land in northern Ohio.

A week ago, Rose Hartschuh, who runs the farm with her family, watched her father-in-law flush 31,000 pounds of milk into a lagoon. It took more than an hour for the milk to flow out of its refrigerated tank and down the drain pipe.

For years, dairy farmers have struggled with low prices and bankruptcies. “This is one more blow below the belt,” Ms. Hartschuh said.

To prevent further dumping, farming groups are trying everything to find places to send the excess milk — even lobbying pizza chains to increase the amount of cheese on every slice.

But there are logistical obstacles that prevent dairy products from being shifted neatly from food service customers to retailers.

At many dairy processors, for example, the machinery is designed to package shredded cheese in large bags for restaurants or place milk in small cartons for schools, rather than arrange the products in retail-friendly containers.

To repurpose those plants to put cheese in the 8 oz. bags that sell in grocery stores or bottle milk in gallon jugs would require millions of dollars in investment. For now, some processors have concluded that spending the money isn’t worth it.

“It isn’t like restaurant demand has disappeared forever,” said Matt Gould, a dairy industry analyst. “Even if it were possible to re-format to make it an 8-ounce package rather than a 20-pound bag, the dollars and cents may not pan out.”

Those same logistical challenges are bedeviling poultry plants that were set up to distribute chicken to restaurants rather than stores. Each week, the chicken processor Sanderson Farms destroys 750,000 unhatched eggs, or 5.5 percent of its total production, sending them to a rendering plant to be turned into pet food.

Last week, the chief executive of Sanderson Farms, Joe Sanderson, told analysts that company officials had even considered euthanizing chickens to avoid selling them at unprofitable rates, though the company ultimately did not take that step.

In recent days, Sanderson Farms has donated some of its chicken to food banks and organizations that cook meals for emergency medical workers. But hatching hundreds of thousands of eggs for the purpose of charity is not a viable option, said Mike Cockrell, the company’s chief financial officer.

“We’re set up to sell that chicken,” Mr. Cockrell said. “That would be an expensive proposition.”