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[bornetoblood]

All The Men I Know Are Just As Miserable As Me

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stray sheep of the stray sheep

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[opalai-pixel-witch]

I can’t believe Todd and Archie from Catherine are getting married and running a donut shop together

[thatwriterchicklol]

An Updated List On Who I Write About

Movies

• Sweeney Todd

• The Crow

Bands/Singers

• Alex Terrible

• Pierce the Veil

• Corpse

• Nastya (ic3peak)

• Marcus Mumford

• Motionless in White

• Corey Taylor

• Phil Bozeman

• Ville Valo

• Marcus Mumford

Other

• Aaron Hotchner

• Spencer Reid

• Bo Burnham

• Bam Margera (younger)

[projektimpworld]

[Koikatsu] Catherine - Katherine McBride

[Koikatsu]  Catherine The Game character card series.

Name : Katherine McBride (キャサリン・マクブライド)

Origin : Catherine

Costume : Deafault

Birthday : Unknown, Height : 5'9"/175cm

Character Build : Projekt IMP

Mod by : Evaan

Profile : https://catherine.fandom.com/wiki/Katherine_McBride

Katherine McBride (キャサリン・マクブライド Kyasarin Makuburaido), also called K, is the loyal and steadfast girlfriend of Vincent Brooks who has been thinking more about their relationship and wants him to fully commit to her by marriage, but his indecisiveness is starting to increasingly annoy her as time goes by.

Katherine currently works as an office manager for a clothing company called Bantam Suits, the same company Todd Bozeman and Archie Wallace work for. She and Vincent don't live together for unknown reasons (possibly because of their workplace commutes), although she occasionally visits him to see how he is doing and drop off snacks.

Asides from the main Golden Playhouse storyline, Katherine is a playable character in Babel, where she and Vincent must work together to ascend its stages.[1] If a second player is present, they will control Katherine. Katherine is also available in the DLC roster of Catherine: Full Body.

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SavATree continues pattern of growth with latest merger

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Graphics by Ella Koeze

One theme of the 2018 election was that Democratic senators from rural, red states became an endangered breed. Three Democratic senators on deep-red turf1 — Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota — lost their seats.2 Two others managed to squeak out wins — Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — but they saw their support shrivel up in many parts of their states.

In the six years since these senators last appeared on the ballot (in 2012), Democratic support has become increasingly confined to America’s metro areas. In their states, which are heavily rural, it’s tough for candidates to win with cities alone — they must appeal to rural voters. These five Democratic incumbents didn’t all manage that; as it has for Democrats nationally, their support deteriorated significantly relative to 2012 in areas outside of cities and suburbs, according to a county-by-county analysis of U.S. Senate results.3

Let’s start in Indiana. After winning by 6 percentage points in 2012, Donnelly lost by 6 points in 2018. Donnelly improved upon his 2012 performance in only three counties — Boone, Hamilton (these two are in the Indianapolis suburbs) and Monroe (home of Bloomington, where the Indiana University flagship campus is located) — and even there, just barely. As you can see in the map below, the size of the circle — which represents the margin of Donnelly’s or his Republican opponent’s win — stays about the same in these counties. In contrast, the red circles in most of Indiana’s rural counties swell in size, representing how most other counties — especially lower-population ones4 — swung far out of Donnelly’s reach. Donnelly’s loss of rural support, coupled with his inability to make up for those losses with more votes in urban areas, sealed his fate.

In Missouri, McCaskill lost by 6 points six years after winning her previous race by 16 — a really robust margin for a Democrat in a state that Mitt Romney simultaneously won by 9 points. But her overperformance in 2012 was thanks, in part, to her opponent, Rep. Todd Akin, who was abandoned by the Republican Party after his “legitimate rape” comments. In 2018, her Republican opponent Josh Hawley was a better candidate than Akin, and McCaskill didn’t outperform her previous vote margin in a single county. She lost the least amount of support in Missouri’s urban areas, particularly St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia (home of the University of Missouri’s main campus). But her margin dropped by huge amounts in less populated counties. In the most severe example, she lost Clark County (population 6,807), in the northeast corner of the state, by 45 points. She won it in 2012 by 16 points — a 61-point swing! McCaskill proved unable to avoid this urban-rural difference despite a concerted effort to appeal to rural voters.

North Dakota’s U.S. Senate margin shifted to Republicans by 12 points — from a 1-point Heitkamp win in 2012 to an 11-point Heitkamp loss in 2018. Re-election was always going to be difficult for Heitkamp in such a red, rural state, but she did worse in 2018 in every single county except three. The one county where she improved the most was Cass County (Fargo), which is by far the most populous county in the state. The other two counties where Heitkamp did better are actually quite low in population: Rolette County and Sioux County. But they are both around 80 percent Native American, a heavily Democratic demographic that may have been especially energized to go to the polls this year because of North Dakota’s new voter-ID law, which made it harder for many people who live on reservations to vote.

Tester’s performance in Montana, however, defies clean categorization. The rural-urban sorting is still there to some degree: Tester improved upon his 2012 performance in 10 counties (including four of the six with populations greater than 50,000 — those containing Bozeman, Butte, Helena and Missoula) and did worse in 46 mostly smaller ones.

But there are exceptions: Tester lost Yellowstone County (Billings), the state’s largest county, by 4 points after winning it by 1 point in 2012. And Tester improved his margin by 8 points in Beaverhead County and 5 points in Madison County, both of which have populations under 10,000.

What probably saved Tester is that he didn’t drop off by as much in sparsely populated counties as other Democratic senators did. In counties with fewer than 20,000 residents, Tester’s average dropoff was 8 percentage points. Donnelly’s was 27 percentage points, Heitkamp’s was 21 points and McCaskill’s was 43 points. As a result, Tester won the state overall by 3.6 points — just a shade worse than his 2012 margin of 3.7 points.

A big part of why Tester triumphed while the other three didn’t is that he appears to have been the only one who maintained his appeal among rural voters. That might be because voters in Montana are significantly more elastic — that is, persuadable — than those in Indiana, Missouri or North Dakota.

Democrats were probably lucky to hold onto the final red state we looked at: West Virginia. Manchin’s 24-point win in 2012 all but vanished in 2018; he won by 3 points. Manchin improved upon his 2012 margin in just one county, Monongalia (Morgantown).5 He more or less held steady in West Virginia’s largest county, Kanawha (Charleston), faring just 3 points worse. Manchin consistently lost ground in the remainder of the state’s mostly sparsely populated counties, including Mingo County, the heart of West Virginia coal county. Once reliably blue, Mingo County leaned 16 points more Republican than West Virginia as a whole in the 2018 Senate election.

Overall, in all five states, there is a clear relationship between the size of a county and how its political preferences changed from 2012 to 2018.

Democrats lost more ground in lower-population counties

The average margin shift from 2012 to 2018 in U.S. Senate races in Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia, by county population

Average margin shift Counties by population Indiana Missouri N.D. Montana W. Va. 0-10k people R+25 R+47 R+22 R+9 R+29 10-50k R+25 R+39 R+15 R+5 R+30 50-100k R+13 R+28 R+12 D+1 R+20 100-500k R+9 R+18 D+3 D+5 R+2 500k+ R+2 R+9 N/A N/A N/A

North Dakota, Montana and West Virginia have no counties with more than 500,000 residents.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ABC News, secretaries of state

As you can see, the smallest counties overwhelmingly lurched toward the Republican. Higher-population counties shifted less dramatically to the right — and even moved toward the Democratic incumbent in some states. Since most people in Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Montana and West Virginia live in lower-density areas, that was a recipe for Republican success. (Montana and West Virginia are exceptions, of course, although Manchin’s support did erode; it’s just that he had such a large cushion from 2012 that he could withstand the sharp dropoff. Tester is the only one who was able to keep rural losses to a minimum, and even then, Montana’s urban and rural areas still diverged to a small degree.) While the combination of lower Democratic support in rural areas and higher Democratic support around cities may help the party in more urbanized states like Texas, it’s a bad trade for them in states like these and may make winning a majority in the Senate, with its small-state bias, more difficult.

[xtruss]

American Pride

Most U.S. Eagles Suffer From Lead Poisoning, Study Suggests

The majority of adult bald and golden eagles carry high levels of lead, which derives from hunters’ ammunition, a large study found.

— By Douglas Main | February 17, 2022

A group of bald eagles on the ice in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. These animals are regularly exposed to lead from hunters’ ammunition throughout their lives. Photograph By Alan Murphy, Bia via Minden Pictures

Most bald and golden eagles in the United States have been repeatedly exposed to lead throughout their lives, new research shows. The primary source of exposure is ammunition—as eagles scavenge on the carcasses of animals shot by hunters, they can ingest lead fragments from rifle rounds and shotgun pellets.

In the study, published February 17 in the journal Science, researchers examined lead levels in 1,210 eagles across 38 states—the biggest effort of its kind to date in North America. They found that more than half of the adult birds had bone lead concentrations above 10 parts per million, which pathologists define as chronic lead poisoning.

This level of lead poisoning is slowing the population growth rate of both species, says study co-author Vincent Slabe, a wildlife biologist at Conservation Science Global, a research organization based in Bozeman, Montana. Since both species are of conservation concern, anything that might suppress their numbers is therefore highly relevant, he says.

While acute poisoning can kill eagles in horrific fashion—for example causing them to become immobile and slowly starve to death—chronic exposure can also have other less visible effects, such as impairing movements and flight, reducing sperm quality, making it impossible to swallow and digest food, and lowering immunity.

The data were relatively consistent across species and regions, though some measures of lead exposure were slightly higher in the Central Flyway of the United States.

“Nearly every single eagle we tested had some lead exposure over the course of its life,” says co-author Todd Katzner, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey based in Boise, Idaho.

When hunters shoot creatures such as deer with lead shotgun pellets or rifle rounds, ammunition fragments can spread throughout the animal. After a kill, hunters often first gut the animal, leaving its innards on the landscape, which may be tainted by splintered bits of lead ammo. Sometimes animals that get shot escape and die later. Either way, eagles can be exposed when scavenging on tainted gut piles or carcasses.

Conservationists have long called for incentives or laws to get hunters to switch to steel or copper ammunition, which costs the same as a high-quality lead shot.

“It is really frustrating that lead poisoning in birds of prey has been well known for more than 50 years, and there have been very limited movements in the regulations adopted in most of the countries” to reduce use of lead ammunition, says Rafael Mateo Soria, a researcher with Spain’s Institute for Game and Wildlife Research, who wasn’t involved in the paper. In Eurasia, golden eagles, white-tailed sea eagles, and other large raptors are similarly widely poisoned by lead from ammunition.

A golden eagle pouncing on prey in the snow. Photograph By Robbie George, National Geographic Image Collection

No Safe Exposure

In the study, the scientists collected samples from living and dead eagles. In the former, researchers measured levels of lead in the blood of birds they captured, or in the course of receiving veterinary care unrelated to the study, while they tested the dead animals’ bones, livers, and feathers.

Bones store lead, a heavy metal that can replace calcium and be released back into the bloodstream. Analysis of feathers suggests up to one-third of bald and gold eagles—which can live up to 20 years in the wild—had suffered recent acute lead poisoning.

Of 620 live birds, 28 percent of bald eagles and nine percent of golden eagles had blood lead concentrations indicative of acute poisoning, potentially enough to cause death. But the vast majority of these eagles had blood levels above five micrograms per deciliter, the threshold that the World Health Organization categorizes as a level of concern in people.

Decades of research in humans has shown there is no safe level of lead exposure, says Howard Hu, a physician and epidemiologist at University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine who wasn’t involved in the study.

“I would expect eagles to be just as susceptible to lead’s biological effects as human beings,” Hu says.

A Better Alternative

Researchers have long known that birds of prey, especially scavengers, are particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning from ammunition. It nearly drove California condors to extinction. Lead can also poison birds in other ways. Waterbirds that consume small pebbles to help them digest food can inadvertently consume shotgun pellets or ammunition fragments. (Learn more: Banning lead ammunition could give condors a chance.)

For this reason, since 1991, lead ammunition has been banned for use when hunting waterfowl in the U.S.

Co-author Slabe, who is also a deer hunter, has begun promoting and testing the efficacy of programs to get hunters in the U.S. to voluntarily replace lead ammunition with alternatives such as copper. Most hunters don’t realize lead ammo can end up hurting eagles, he says, and are willing to explore alternatives.

“Previous research has shown they respond very well to the messaging,” Slabe says. “Hunters are the primary solution to this problem.”

A single lead bullet or shotgun shell can contain several grams of lead, more than enough to hypothetically kill many eagles. Though the birds can be successfully treated for lead poisoning, it rarely happens in the wild. (Learn more: This lead-poisoned eagle miraculously recovered. Most aren’t so lucky.)

Future Outlook

Research shows that before the industrial era, lead concentrations in the bones of humans and wildlife such as eagles were below 0.1 parts per million, hundreds of times lower than the average concentration found in adult eagles in the Science study.

To better grasp the nationwide implications, the scientists created a population model, which calculated that lead exposure is reducing the bald eagle’s growth rate by 4 percent per year. Even so, the bird’s populations are expanding due to concerted conservation efforts, rising to at least 315,000 in the lower 48 states during the 2019 breeding season, an increase from the 72,000 counted in 2009, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The situation with golden eagles is more serious; lead is likely reducing their growth by at least one percent annually, says study co-author Brian Millsap, national raptor coordinator with the service.

“Golden eagle populations are stable at best,” he says, “so a one percent reduction in the [growth rate] could mean the difference between continued stable populations or population decline.”

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[opalai-pixel-witch]

Waiting (Catherine fanfic thing)

A couple of people seemed interested in this, so here we are! Basically a thing I wrote a long time ago that’s based on what happens if you save Todd but let Archie die in the game. Yep...this story is about minor characters :P I always seem to get attached to the barely noticed ._. There’s no real shipping, but it’s kinda...implied, I guess? See it how you’d like to see it. Also there’s a lot of angst, but I hope you like it anyway ;u;

Warnings: Profanity, character death, one mention of blood. Let me know if you think I should add anything else.

“Archie Wallace, age 28...”

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The regent-haired man managed to climb upon the last platform before the landing. He stopped for a moment and sat down, letting out a heavy sigh before catching his breath.

"Whew...finally, the next landing...I was starting to think I wouldn't be able to get past that..."

After resting for a moment, Todd stood up and made his way to the landing. He went over to the book on the podium to sign it so he could save his place.

I'll stop here to take a break for a bit, maybe catch up with the others about techniques...

As he wrote in the book, he looked around the area. The merchant sheep was in his usual position, and a few other sheep were sitting around in different places. A crazy sheep with what appeared to be a big, red mane was standing near the confessional booth, giggling maniacally to himself. Not very far from that sheep was one with a striped tie, muttering to himself about how he'd "get her back".

Todd simply assumed that that sheep was crazy too.

Finally, he looked off to the side, where the group would normally meet up to discuss techniques. He saw the sheep wearing glasses and a vest, the blonde-haired sheep with the sunglasses and scarf, and the sheep wearing a police hat. The sheep with fluffy black hair wasn't there yet, but Todd wasn't too worried--that one normally arrived a couple minutes late. But...

Wait a second...there's one less sheep there than I remember. The long-haired one...he didn't...die...right??

The regent-haired man walked over to the group, and all three other sheep looked his way, the glasses-wearing one waving to him in greeting.

"Oh, you're here! It's good to see you're okay!" The sheep with glasses gave him a warm smile as he said this, as if he was legitimately happy to see that he was alive. "Do you want to talk about techniques?"

"Eh, maybe later," Todd answered, shrugging his shoulders. "I have something else on my mind right now."

The sheep with glasses tilted his head a bit to the side. "What's that?"

"Did you see that guy with the long hair around here?" Todd asked.

An expression of worry came to the glasses-wearing sheep's face. "Now that you mention it...I don't think I ever saw him climb up here. He could be taking a little longer--that last stage was a lot harder than the other ones."

"I hope that's all it is." Todd exhaled softly, ducking his head downward a bit. "...to be honest...I think I might know him. In reality, I mean."

"Is that so?" the sheep with glasses asked.

"Yeah..." The regent-haired man gave a small nod. "There's this guy who works for me...his name's Archie. He's kinda stand-offish, a little uptight, but he's a good guy. He's my best friend...well, I don't know how he feels about me, but...to me, he's the closest friend I've had in a while."

He hesitated in his speech, as if waiting for the other sheep's encouragement to continue. Once the other sheep nodded, he spoke up again.

"He's got long brown hair that reaches just at his shoulders. That sheep had it too, along with this red tie that kinda looks like the one I see him wear at work. I didn't talk to him much down here, but thinking back on it now...his voice sounded similar too. And now...I'm just putting the pieces together, and..."

His voice trailed off. His jacket-clad shoulders began to tremble as he remembered what had happened earlier. His entire body started tensing up as his fear became more and more evident.

"Go on," the glasses-wearing sheep coaxed him gently.

"...this morning...when I came over to pick him up and drive him to work...he wouldn't open the door. I kept knocking and calling out his name, but he never showed up. On my break, and after work, I went back over to his place to check on him, but he still wouldn't answer...the last thing I did tonight was try to call him, but he wouldn't pick up the phone..." Todd did everything he could to keep himself together, taking a deep breath before continuing. "...a-and, n-now that I'm thinking back on this...he seemed really stressed out the day before. I tried talking to him, but he wouldn't tell me anything. He just told me to get away from him..."

"If he's in this nightmare with us," the glasses-wearing sheep speculated, "then he had good reason to be stressed."

"Fuck," Todd muttered. "Why didn't I realize it sooner...?! I shoulda talked to him in here more, then maybe..."

"You mustn't assume the worst just yet," the sheep with glasses reassured him. "He joined us frequently in our meetings, and came up with plenty of techniques with us. And I just saw him last night, at the Clock Tower...he has to have a strong will to survive if he made it that far. It's the truth."

"I guess so...but..."

"He's probably just running a little late," the glasses-wearing sheep said, giving a comforting smile. "Just wait around a bit longer, and you'll most likely see him come up."

"Yeah...you're probably right. I...I--I think I just need to be alone for now."

The sheep with glasses nodded. "I understand. Feel free to talk to us anytime."

Todd walked away from the group and went over to sit by the podium, keeping his eyes locked on the stairs below and hoping he'd see the long-haired sheep climbing up them. After a couple of minutes, he saw a pair of sheep arms holding onto one step, and he leaned in closer with anticipation...only to back off a bit in disappointment when he saw short, fluffy black hair instead of long brown hair.

The black-haired sheep walked over to him after signing the book on the podium, and Todd looked up at him.

"Hey...you see him?" he asked. "You know, the guy with the long hair who talks about techniques and stuff? I think he works for me..."

The black-haired sheep shook his head in response, with a look of concern on his face.

The regent-haired man looked back down at the ground and sighed.

"I'm an old man. There's no point in me surviving..."

A few minutes passed, and everyone else had left the landing. Todd kept watching the stairs, hoping that the long-haired sheep would come up soon. But he never came.

"Maybe...M-Maybe h-he just went ahead to the floor above?" Todd asked himself. His voice was quiet, but anyone who heard it could tell that he was growing desperate. "Yeah, that's it...he has to be on the next landing...h-he's GOT to be!"

Once he was finally convinced by his false hope, Todd hurried into the confessional booth. The next several minutes were a blur to him--he remembered telling the voice to shut the hell up and just give him his question, but all he remembered was just pulling on a rope at random without even focusing on the question or the answers. He kept his thoughts focused on Archie as the confessional flew up to the next trial.

During the trial itself, Todd climbed like there was no tomorrow, but at the same time he kept a look out for the long-haired sheep, in case he was climbing there too, or was having difficulty doing so. He made it to the red platform without even a single glimpse of him.

When he made it up to the next landing, the long-haired sheep was still nowhere in sight. He went over to the group again, panic now clearly showing on his face.

"Did you see him?" he asked. "At all? Did he leave...?"

"I never saw him come up," the sheep with glasses answered, his voice a bit lower and a look of heavy concern in his eyes.

Todd threw his arms up in the air and walked away, and sat himself down by the podium once again. He gazed down at the ground, wondering if he would even see the long-haired sheep again--wondering if he would see Archie again.

"Archie," he murmured under his breath. "He's not here either...dammit..."

He looked over at the stairs, prepared to keep an eye out for him again, unaware of the black-haired sheep listening in on him. "I'm waiting...until he comes, I'll keep on waiting..."

"I understand how you feel, but..."

Todd quickly looked towards the source of the voice, only to see the black-haired sheep standing there, giving him a worried look. He narrowed his eyes and huffed.

"But? But what?" he snapped.

"...didn't you say on the first landing tonight that you'd leave behind anyone who sat around too long?" the black-haired sheep asked.

"Not Archie," the regent-haired man answered firmly. "I'm not leaving him behind, ever."

"A-Archie would want you to go on, wouldn't he?"

"Don't talk about him like that. Like--Like he's already dead. He can't be dead. Not now."

The black-haired sheep let out a light sigh and walked away, knowing that nothing he would say could change this decision. Todd turned his back to the sheep behind him and kept watching the stairs. He wasn't going anywhere until he saw Archie again, and no one could convince him to do otherwise.

A few minutes later, the landing was empty. Todd was still in the same position, eyes never leaving the stairs, still hoping to see Archie come up.

"I'm not leaving him behind," Todd repeated to himself. "I'm waiting. I'm waiting until he comes."

Soon, he felt the ground beneath him begin to shake, and he immediately knew that the landing was about to fall. Even as he descended into oblivion, he still attempted to convince himself that Archie was safe.

Maybe he's already on the stage above...maybe he's already facing the "big one"...maybe he's already escaped...

If only he could believe himself.

Thud.

Todd found himself lying on his back, letting out a weak groan in response to his excruciating pain. The distance between him and the top of the corridor seemed to have no end, and it was a real struggle to move around at all. But as he managed to look around him, he saw something that gave him the motivation to go through with it.

It was the body of the long-haired sheep, lying lifelessly next to him. The ground right underneath him, along with some places in his wool, was stained red--Todd knew damn well where it came from. And the expression on his face was a mixture of horror and defeat.

"...Arch--...Archie..." Todd reached for the sheep with extreme difficulty and grabbed onto his shoulder. He pulled him closer to himself and held onto him as tightly as he could.

"I...I could've protected you...fuck, I...I-I could've fucking protected you...! I...Goddammit, Archie..."

He felt tears begin to build up in his eyes. He couldn't remember the last time he had ever cried. He let out his sobs, but kept them as quiet as possible, in case anyone could hear the noises from down below. He buried his face in the long-haired sheep's wool as he cried himself to unconsciousness.

"...I'm sorry, Archie...I...I'm so sorry...I should've been there...I-I should've...tried harder...I'm sorry I let this happen to you..."

Eventually he lost all feeling in his body. Eventually his vision faded out.

Two dead sheep--two dead men--were lying at the bottom of the abyss, the regent-haired one still holding onto the long-haired one.

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“Todd Bozeman, age 45...”

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Todd Bozeman out as head basketball coach at Morgan State

Todd Bozeman out as head basketball coach at Morgan State

BALTIMORE, Md. — The Morgan State University men’s basketball team will have a new coach next season.

Morgan’s Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Edward Scott announced Wednesday his decision to not renew Todd Bozeman’s contract as head coach of the Morgan State University men’s basketball program. Bozeman served as the Bears’ head coach since joining the University in 2006.

“Today’s decision…

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Broncos start fast, fade faster in loss

BALTIMORE, MD -- It was the rare Sunday when everything that went right amounted to a painful tease. Instead of a eye-opening result, the Broncos punctured their hopes with a gaggle of penalties, an underwhelming passing attack until the fourth quarter, frayed defenders and an ejection that left them strapped with a 27-14  loss to the Baltimore Ravens at soggy M&T Bank Stadium.

There was practically nothing wrong with the beginning and nothing right when it was over. First to the mess. The Broncos grew undisciplined and, in the officials' view, unhinged after falling behind 17-14 midway through the second quarter.

Like the day itself, the unraveling started with a juxtaposition. Continued special teams excellence kept the Broncos within striking distance. Broncos safety Justin Simmons jumped between the guard and center, batting down Justin Tucker's 43-yard attempt. It snapped his streak of 23 straight, and set into motion a wild chain of events. Cornerback Chris Harris Jr. returned the block for a 58-yard touchdown. However, it was negated by nose tackle Domata Peko's illegal block as Bradley Bozeman flopped from a one-armed push 20 yards behind the play. 

That became pivotal moments later.

Rookie star Phillip Lindsay was thrown out of the game for entering a pile and throwing a punch. It symbolized a day when the Broncos showed fight, but missed their mark. Denver owned 10 penalties for 100 yards with eight minutes remaining in the game. Officials flagged every lineman, save for center Matt Paradis. 

Broncos left tackle Garett Bolles, who struggled throughout, held Terrell Suggs, negating a 39-yard play by Demaryius Thomas. And left guard Ron Leary was tagged for unnecessary roughness on third down in the fourth quarter, pushing the Broncos out of range when they were gasping for points. Instead of a field goal attempt to shave the deficit to 10, the Broncos punted for the seventh straight possession. 

Case Keenum, who was 22-for-34 for 192 yards and one interception with two minutes left,  looked hurried and frazzled. He had 56 yards passing midway through the third quarter. He wasn't sharp, but the line did him no favors as he sidestepped relentless pressure. This became an issue given the Ravens' efficiency.

One drive haunted the Broncos more than the rest. Leading 20-14 at half, the Ravens plodded and plowed 82 yards on 14 plays. Not only did they inflate their cushion to 27-14, but it represented their 12th consecutive touchdown in the red zone top open the season.

How did it get here, with Denver's eighth road loss in their last nine games? 

As fast starts go, Usain Bolt blushed at the Broncos. They might have equaled last year's road highlights in the first 90 seconds. Outside linebacker Bradley Chubb posted his first solo sack, lighting up Joe Flacco like the Vegas strip. Linebacker Joe Jones raced free and blocked the punt, setting up the offense at the 6-yard line. On the first play, Royce Freeman darted in for the score, shoving the Broncos ahead 7-0 with 13:29 remaining in the first.

It proved short lived. The Ravens cruised in for an easy score. The drive featured 35 yards by tight ends. Rookie Mark Andrews toasted linebacker Todd Davis for a 30-yard gain, and Alex Collins tip-toed in for a 6-yard touchdown as Josey Jewell, playing in base defense for Brandon Marshall, became engulfed in traffic. 

The first quarter boasted a bizarro world. The Broncos looked nothing like the team that lost by an average of 13 points per game on the road last season. Keenum connected on third down conversions to Courtland Sutton and Devontae Booker, setting up trickery. Emmanuel Sanders zoomed into the end zone from 35 yards out on a reverse. If the play looked familiar it's because it was. Sanders scored on the identical call at Washington, down to a key downfield block by fullback Andy Janovich. Denver held a 14-7 advantage, but on this slippery Sunday, they couldn't keep it from sliding through their fingers.

The Ravens responded with an eight-play drive, capped by Justin Tucker's seventh straight field goal of 50-plus yards. He celebrated with a bow at midfield. Obnoxious? Perhaps. But he is the NFL's best kicker. 

And Baltimore isn't exactly providing moments for him to excel. The Ravens continued their scalding hot work inside the 20. When fullback Javorious Allen's reach to the pylon was overturned, Baltimore ran its season-opening streak to 11 straight scores in the red zone. The Ravens led 17-14 with 8:25 remaining in the half.

Following the blocked field goal, the Broncos took over. And took an off-ramp to nowhere.

Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs slammed into Broncos Keenum for a sack, jarring the ball loose. As players dived into the pile, Lindsay raced in to help. On the ground, he tangled with a Ravens defender and either jabbed to keep the player's hands off him or punched. He was lying on his back. The refs saw a punch -- a questionable call -- leading to Lindsay's removal. He finished with 20 yards on four carries. 

Lindsay walked off slowly, a mixture of pride and disappointment. He was by himself. He might as well have been a picture of the team. 

Footnotes

Cornerback Adam Jones worked for 20 minutes in the pregame, testing his injured quad and hamstring with trainer Loren Landow. With an eye toward the macro view, the Broncos kept Jones inactive, leaving Phillip Lindsay and DaeSean Hamilton to handle punt return duties. Rookie Isaac Yiadom was active, and drew a 15-yard penatly on kick return duty. ... Tramaine Brock watched from sideline with towel over his head in the first quarter, ruled out with a groin injury. Yiadom worked as the No. 3 corner.  ... Rookie Josey Jewell started at linebacker in place of Brandon Marshall. Marshall was active, but apparently lost his place to Jewell in base defense. ... Joe Jones' blocked punt was the Broncos first since Shaquil Barrett pulled off in a home loss last season to Cincinnati. ... The Ravens Za'Darius Smith sacked Keenum in the first quarter and celebrated with the Ray Lewis dance. ... Safety Will Parks was evaluated for a concussion. 

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Connect the Speakers: Todd Callow on the future of realtor.com

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Todd Callow leads the rental, owner and senior housing categories for Move (across realtor.com and Doorsteps.com), and will speak during the session, “Product update: What’s new at Facebook, Zillow, Google and realtor.com,” at Hacker Connect on Monday, January 22, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.

SAVE MY SEAT

We’re really excited to have you joining us as a speaker for Inman Connect New York, but tell us a little more about yourself. How did you arrive in your current role?

Todd Callow

I took a pretty varied path into my current role — both career-wise as well as inside the company. After working as a consultant with Arthur Andersen, I spent time at a telecom startup in Los Angeles, and then joined realtor.com in 2001, and stayed for a decade.

I branched out again and spent time in business management roles for a couple of years, at Intuit and in the start-up world, then rejoined realtor.com and have been here for the last five years.

During my time, I’ve served in nearly every functional organization at Move, and had the great honor of getting to learn and explore a large part of our business.

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It’s getting to be a joke around here because I’ve served on so many teams, but it’s also been incredibly useful in my current role of a product manager, because I can draw on lessons in finance, operations, account management, sales and business development to help me contribute to our product development team.

Tell us a little more about your session, what kinds of things will you be talking about in January?

I’m sharing an overview of what we’re working on at realtor.com and where we’re focused. This year we’re continuing to improve the experience across many audience categories.

We recently launched My Home to serve our realtor.com audiences beyond the search experience. My Home empowers homeowners to manage their home as an investment, with features like a personal dashboard to manage and track mortgage information and equity options, and a renovation idea sourcebook for remodeling and design enthusiasts.

It’s about becoming an indispensable resource to homeowners throughout their ownership journey.

On Android, we’ve launched Street Peek, which we previewed last year at Inman, and it’s become an important app feature in the service of developing experiences for real estate that speak to how people use technology in their daily lives.

On the professional side, we launched the beta user group for Realsuite, our new all-in-one solution to help real estate professionals manage their business and convert leads to clients. This answers the call for a single solution that leverages technology to handle many of the day-to-day tasks efficiently and effectively, and frees up time for agents to do what they do best — provide their irreplaceable, personalized service to their clients.

What does a typical day look like for you?

I’m currently realtor.com’s one and only Montana-based employee, with my teams split between New York and Santa Clara, so my work life includes a lot of video conferences and a fair number of flights that take me outside the friendly confines of Bozeman.

But I’m also lucky to sneak in some great moments with my family as they live their lives on the other side of my office door (in our house, a hat on the office door means that daddy is in an important work meeting and needs peace and quiet, and plenty of internet bandwidth).

With bicoastal teams, I try to spend my first hour catching up on reading and email, then align my morning toward New York and my afternoons more toward California.

I inevitably mix them up and ping people before breakfast or after dinner, but the team is pretty forgiving. From dinner until around 10 p.m., I flip from my home office to the kitchen/family room and spend time with my wife and kids until things wind down, but I usually sneak one more pass through my inbox before turning in for the night.

What do you think the biggest challenges facing the real estate industry are at the moment?

I look at this from the filter of engineering design and business development. We all are trying to solve the same problem — how to take this complicated, complex journey and make it simpler and easier and more productive for everyone involved.

For our part, we have spent a lot of time researching and thinking about our audiences — what they are looking for, how they behave on our sites, how they use technology outside of the real estate category, and what lessons we can bring in.

And then it’s about leveraging all of that information and the insights that we can learn through technology and machine learning to build an experience that becomes indispensable for our users, because it is so simple, so convenient and so useful.

2018’s shaping up to be a really exciting year, and as we look ahead, what are your hopes for the next twelve months, and what will you be working on?

We’re continuing in this trajectory of building out our experiences — taking them feature by feature and looking at the way they’re designed and determining better ways to deliver on that solution.

We’ll be adding new tools for My Home, we’ll be launching components of Realsuite, continuing to enhance our customer dashboard and agent profiles, and leveraging more and more of our behavior analytics and machine learning seamlessly into our offerings for the most simple, elegant experience.

SAVE MY SEAT

Want to connect with Todd? You can find him on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Email Matthew Shadbolt.

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Here's the mugshot of Greg Gianforte, the Congressman who assaulted a reporter the day before his election

A Montana judge ordered on Wednesday that the mugshot of Greg Gianforte, the recently-inaugurated Congressman who assaulted a reporter the night before his election, be released to the public.

The mugshot was taken in August when Gianforte was booked on a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from his attack on Guardian journalist Ben Jacobs in May.

Gianforte, then a Republican candidate in the special election for Montana's at-large House seat, body-slammed Jacobs at his campaign headquarters in Bozeman.

The mugshot can be seen below:

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Gianforte initially denied the attack, but was discredited after The Guardian released Jacobs' audio recording of the incident. A Fox News reporter who witnessed the attack wrote that Gianforte "grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground."

News of the altercation sent shockwaves throughout the state, and three newspapers rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte that night. Nevertheless, Gianforte handily defeated Democrat Rob Quist the following day to take the congressional seat.

Gianforte pleaded guilty to the assault charge in June and was sentenced to a 180-day deferred sentence, 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management, and a $300 fine. As part of his settlement with Jacobs, Gianforte also donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The release of the mugshot comes after a lengthy legal battle in which a Gallatin County attorney argued the photo could not be released without a court order. Several Montana newspapers then filed requests for the mugshot to be made public, a move that Gianforte's attorney did not contest, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

"Greg Gianforte, as a publicly elected official of Congress, believes in transparency," defense attorney Todd Whipple said in a statement.

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