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Brian Dilworth inks with the Jayhawks on signing day – Rivals.com – Kansas

Posted: February 3, 2022 at 3:47 pm

All eyes were on Brian Dilworth going into the late signing period. He was the only recruit left on the board who was expected to sign.

Shortly after 7 a.m. eastern Dilworth sent his letter of intent into the University of Kansas.

Oh, it's great, Dilworth said. Everybody's into it. The fans and the community of the Jayhawks are real welcoming. I had a lot of people follow me on Twitter, giving me applause for becoming a Jayhawk and just wishing me the best. I'm proud of it. And the coaches seem just as happy as I am. So, I'm happy to be a Jayhawk.

It has been a long road for Dilworth to get to signing day. The cornerback from Florida picked up early offers from Auburn, Cincinnati, Penn State, Kentucky, Miami (FL), Arkansas and several other schools.

He gave a verbal commitment to Auburn but ended backing off that pledge. He went through his senior season uncommitted. When Jordan Peterson was hired as the cornerbacks coach at Kansas, he started to recruit Dilworth.

After a month of phone calls with Peterson he took an official visit to Lawrence. On Sunday when his visit ended, he gave the coaches his commitment.

It's a big relief, Dilworth said. Because I know I have somewhere I love to go, and I have a home after high school with some coaches behind me and parents and everybody else with the Jayhawk community. I'm really relieved that I have a great school to go to, great coaches to coach me and everything else.

As a junior Dilworth was a first team selection by the Miami Herald. He played football, basketball, and volleyball at Chaminade Madonna High.

After he visited Kansas, head coach Lance Leipold and Jordan Peterson visited Hollywood to see Dilworth and his family.

After I came back from Kansas, Coach Leipold and Coach Peterson came down to come talk to me about all the papers and signing day things and like that, he said. They just welcomed me home to becoming a Jayhawk and just tying it up before I actually signed.

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John Elway Would Like to Inform You He Was Not a Sloppy, Hungover Mess When He Interviewed Brian Flores – Barstool Sports

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. but Brian Flores suing the NFL is kind of a big deal.

And perhaps the least explosive allegation in the lawsuit was the stuff about Flores' interview with the Broncos, in which he alleges that John Elway showed up an hour late, looked like an unmade bed, and basically acting like he had no interest in being there.

I say "least explosive," not because that experience was any day in the park for Flores. Job interviews, by their very nature suck as it is, even in the best of circumstances. But we've all been through the process. We've all sat across from some manager with a thousand other thing on their plate and they make it abundantly clear that if you weren't there, forcing them to try and look into your soul to see if you could be trusted to grill their burgers or sell their products or write their humor blogs, they'd be dealing with more immediate issues. Or sitting quietly in their office with the door shut dreaming of retirement.

On the other hand, we've all shown up to some work-related thing not at our best. Doing the Walk of Shame into the building, looking like the drink in last night's glass. Mailing it the fuck in because nothing could be more important at that moment than a little coffee and quiet contemplation until it's time to go home.

But it's important to Elway that we all know that was NOT the deal in the situation.

Source - Elway said the Broncos strongly considered, Flores [and met with him] at a Providence, R.I., hotel.

While I was not planning to respond publicly to the false and defamatory claims by Brian Flores, I could not be silent any longer with my character, integrity and professionalism being attacked.

I took Coach Flores very seriously as a candidate for our head coaching position in 2019 and enjoyed our 3 1/2-hour interview with him. Along with the rest of our group, I was prepared, ready and fully engaged during the entire interview as Brian shared his experience and vision for our team.

Its unfortunate and shocking to learn for the first time this week that Brian felt differently about our interview with him.

For Brian to make an assumption about my appearance and state of mind early that morning was subjective, hurtful and just plain wrong. If I appeared disheveled, as he claimed, it was because we had flown in during the middle of the night and were going on a few hours of sleep to meet the only window provided to us.

So we've got here is your classic he said/he said thing. An Eye of the Beholder scenario. Where one man's "Hard Working, Dedicated Professional Operating Without Sleep" is another man's "Probably Had Dinner on Federal Hill Then Hit the Foxy Lady Because He Stinks of Booze, Cheap Perfume and Hopelessness." Nobody knows except the people who were in that room.

And I have to assume this is going to be a huge issue in the suit should it ever go to trial. Flores isn't just suing because he says Elway was unkempt and uninterested in talking to him. For 3 1/2 hours. He's trying to demonstrate a pattern of behavior from all the teams he's talked to over the years, and claiming it applies to the entire NFL, solely because of his race. If it turns out Elway's version of events is the truth, and these Broncos execs rearranged their lives and had a restless night just to chat with him for 3+ hours like it was Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, that is not going to help Flores prove a pervasive attitude and a pattern of behavior. So this is going to be very interesting if we ever get to hear more.

For the rest of you, let this be a lesson to you. Whether you're the interviewee or the interviewer, always show up looking your best, projecting an air of competence, and above all, demonstrating professionalism.

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Toyota Lunar Cruiser: Off-Roading on the Moon – GearJunkie

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Home Motors Toyota Lunar Cruiser: Off-Roading on the Moon

Complete with living quarters, workstations, and cutting-edge scientific instruments, the Lunar Cruiser could be the key for lunar and ultimately, Martian colonization.

On Friday, Jan. 28, Toyota and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) greenlighted the Lunar Cruiser project. After years of research and testing, engineers have started developing the advanced Land Cruiser-inspired rover, which Toyota expects to launch at the end of this decade.

Successful deployment on Mars is the ultimate goal, company officials say.

The Lunar Cruiser, whose name borrows from Toyotas perennially popular SUV, should be a live-in laboratory on wheels. Van life meets Star Trek, really. According to project lead Takao Sato, the vehicle will provide a space where people can safely live, work, and communicate with others while on the moon. If all goes according to script, Toyota should get there by 2040.

The projects been in the works for a while now some digging around in the Toyota press room unearthed a March 2019 announcement of the automakers collaboration with JAXA.But that release merely announced the two organizations agreement to consider the possibility of collaborating on international space exploration.

The pair entered into a joint research agreement to work on a manned pressurized lunar rover in June 2019.

A press release from August 2020 stated that the research involved the use of simulations to confirm power and heat dissipation performance while driving, the manufacture and assessment of prototype tires, and the use of virtual reality and full-scale models to consider the layout of equipment in the cabin.

The same statement revealed that JAXA and Toyota met with officials from various industries to discuss the vehicles potential as a starting point for lunar colonization.

Toyota brought in Gitai Japan Inc. for help developing the Lunar Cruisers peripheral robotic arm, which will provide essential collection, inspection, and maintenance services. A grappling-like structure at the arms end will allow operators to alternate between a set of specialized tools.

Although additional specifics about the Cruisers architecture are still under wraps, Fridays announcement, revealed bythe AP, seems like a concrete declaration from JAXA and Toyota.

We see space as an area for our once-in-a-century transformation, Sato stated. By going to space, we may be able to develop telecommunications and other technology that will prove valuable to human life.

For updates, follow Toyota Motor Corp. and JAXAon Twitter.

No, we won't get the Land Cruiser 300 in North America, but we will get the 2023 Toyota Sequoia TRD Pro. While the previous Sequoia didn't get us very excited, this one does! Read more

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16 Historical Fiction Books Coming Out In 2022 That Are 100% Worth Picking Up – BuzzFeed

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Release date: January 11

The Stolen may be forced to learn their captors' language, follow their beliefs, and work their labor, but they keep their own tongue, culture, and empathy alive. This is the story of a 19th century plantation, where we meet a cast of characters full of love, sorrow, anger, and hope. There's William, who falls for Margaret, which makes Cato remember his own love who was sold off without warning. And there's their eccentric and tyrannical owner, Cannonball Greene, who rules their lives with a cruel hand. When a mysterious preacher arrives spouting independence and freedom, the Stolen must decide: trust this stranger or stay with the devil they know?

Why you should read it:This slim novel packs a gut-wrenching punch, managing to display the effortless cruelty of life on a plantation with the gentle caress of each character's humanity.

Get it fromBookshopor from a bookstore near you via Indiebound.

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The mystery of the disappearing flash in space – Yahoo Entertainment

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Imagine unexpectedly seeing something so luminous light up the vacuum of space that you couldnt possibly doubt it was there until it completely vanished.

While most of the planet was on lockdown at the height of the pandemic, radio astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker stumbled upon a cosmic flash that seemingly came out of nowhere. She and her colleagues remotely zapped speculation back and forth as they tried to figure out what the thing was. Supernova? Zombie star? Aliens? After supernovas and extraterrestrial superstructures were ruled out, they became suspicious of stars that had gone undead.

The monster was hiding in observations from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Its radio antennas measure polarization, or the extent to which the vibrations of a wave, like radio waves, are going in one direction. After correcting for anything that was in the way, Hurley-Walker and her team, who recently published a study in Nature, found that the pulses were very polarized and linear no matter what angle they were viewed from and lasted up to a minute. But what could have been giving them off?

The MWA observed with a time resolution of 0.5 seconds, so that defines the smallest features we can see in the pulses, she told SYFY WIRE. "But since the pulses last for 30 to 60 seconds, that is quite a lot of resolution. They are sometimes smooth, and sometimes very spiky.

Zombies onscreen are pretty straightforward. Zombie stars, not so much. There are several forms that the cores of dead stars can take. Neutron stars and white dwarfs are cores that remain after the collapse of low-mass (white dwarfs) or high-mass (neutron stars) stars. Pulsars, which are all neutron stars (though the opposite is not always true) form when the cores of massive collapsed stars spin upward and superfast, which compresses their magnetic fields. These highly magnetized stars spew so much energy that they create radio emissions.

Hurley-Walker and her team are not ruling a white dwarf or pulsar out, but there is one type of stellar zombie they are especially focused on. Magnetars are neutron stars with the most powerful magnetic fields ever. These extreme objects behave like highly magnetized pulsars that vomit out gargantuan amounts of energy, including radio emissions, but wear themselves out in a few months. They end up too sluggish to produce radio waves anymore and become undetectable. This is why it is possible the source could be an ultra-long period magnetar.

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There's a mystery as to how our source could be so slow but also magnetic enough to produce radio emission, since neutron star magnetic fields should also decay, Hurley-Walker said. That's why theorists thought that ultra-long period magnetars would exist, but be invisible.

There is always a chance for false positives, which can be set off by everything from TV signals to satellites. That doesnt seem to be what is going on here. Because pulsars and magnetars burn their energy so fast, invisible ones should be scattered all over the Milky Way. This could be one of many dead things. Ultra-long period magnetars are theoretical objects that should rotate more slowly than most magnetars, which could explain the longer pulses, but are also invisible. What was completely unexpected was how bright this thing was if that is what it is.

I think that the evidence points toward an ultra-long period magnetar, in which case, the magnetic field only stayed twisted for some time, and after it relaxed, the radio emission ceased, said Hurley-Walker.

There is also a chance the disappearing flash could have come from a white dwarf pulsar, whose dark spots (sunspots) produced really curved magnetic fields that gave off radio emissions for a while. Whatever it is still has astronomers baffled. Its not aliens, but the truth is out there.

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New Songs: The Range, EST Gee, Aesop Rock, All Them Witches, more – Brooklyn Vegan

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So many artists, so little time. Each weekwe review a handful of new albums(of all genres), round up even more new musicthat we'd call "indie,"and talk aboutwhat metal is coming out. We postmusic news, track premieres, and more all day. We update aplaylist weeklyof some of our current favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.

THE RANGE - "BICAMERAL"

Vermont electronic musician The Range (aka James Hinton) has followed 2016's great Potential with his first new single in six years, "Bicameral," via Domino Records. It's a skittering, upbeat, and very catchy song that has us looking forward to whatever else he's got up his sleeve this year.

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AESOP ROCK - THE RECYCLING BIN (BLOCKHEAD REMIXES)

After reuniting with Aesop Rock last year for the great collaborative album Garbology, Blockhead has remixed three Aesop tracks that he didn't produce, giving them the Blockhead twist. They're drastically different versions, and very cool in their own right.

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EST GEE - "WHO HOTTER THAN GEE"

Louisville rapper EST Gee follows his great Bigger Than Life or Death with a new single, and it's a tough-as-nails new song that proves Gee is just getting better and better.

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SICAYDA - "K-Y-G"

Toronto's Sicayda have put out a new single, "K-Y-G" (aka "Kill Your God"), a companion to their recent single "K-Y-E" (aka "Kill Your Ego"), and it's a very appealing fusion of heavy shoegaze and hooky post-hardcore.

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LA SEN - "HYASYNTH"

London-based singer, songwriter and producer La Sen has released her debut single for Partisan Records, "Hyasynth," which she says "is about my journey from my home in Cergy in the outskirts of Paris to London. I had to accept all the past mistakes Ive made back home that I couldnt go back to. I had to accept and move on. In a way, I ran away from certain things. In another way I also made the first step into growing into the person I really wanted to be. Sometimes I feel like my past mistakes haunt me, thats what I felt making this song. Its about wanting to grow and handle life with more wisdom."

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ALL THEM WITCHES - "BLACKSNAKE BLUES"

Stoner rockers All Them Witches have launched a new project, Baker's Dozen, with one song each month in 2022 plus an extra track. The first is "Blacksnake Blues," a jammy, 11-minute song that'll take you right back to the original blues rock era.

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LOVE BURNS - "IN A LONG TIME"

"The Triffids song 'Do You Want Me Near You,' from In the Pines was a big influence on 'In a Long Time,' along with Petula Clark's 'Downtown,' says Phil Sutton (Comet Gain, Pale Lights) of the new single from his upcoming album as Love Burns. "The former has a fantastically melodic bass line, and then a great metallic, reverb-y guitar solo that makes me think of wide open spaces in (the) Australia (of my imagination). The lyrics capture loneliness and isolation very well, which is what I tried to do with my song. Where it differs, I think is that Ive tried to make 'In a Long Time' a New York City song, rather than a relationship song; it's a sort of upside down, melancholic version of "Downtown," where someone new to the city is on the subway, looking at twinkling lights, and all the Saturday night people, but is quite alone.

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MADI DIAZ - "RESENTMENT" FT. WAXAHATCHEE

Madi Diaz is releasing a companion EP to her excellent 2021 album History of a Feeling, and the first single is a gorgeous rendition of "Resentment" featuring gorgeous harmonies with her soon-to-be tourmate Waxahatchee.

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CASSANDRA JENKINS - "IT'S YOU" (ANIMAL COLLECTIVE & VASHTI BUNYAN COVER)

Cassandra Jenkins' cover of Animal Collective& Vashti Bunyan's "It's You" --their collaborative 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer -- is from Under the Radar's upcoming Covers of Covers comp. Cassandra does a gorgeous version, with her voice sounding marvelous against swirling harp.

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PETER BJORN AND JOHN - "SONGS OF LOVE" (DIVINE COMEDY COVER)

Also from Covers of Covers, Peter Bjorn and John take on The Divine Comedy's 1996 track "Songs of Love" which was also the theme song to British sitcom Father Ted.

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Guidance Teams Up with Energy, Boysie Roses And Real Flava For Shamballa Rock – DancehallMag

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Reggae singer Guidance has released a new single, Shamballa Rock featuring BoysieRoses, Energy Di Dancer and Real Flava. A video for the song was released on January 27th on the Kerron Records label.

The response has been great so far to the Shamballa Rock, the streets are working with it, the song plays every night at all the dances in the Corporate Area, ah the hottest ting right now. and now that the video is released, this movement has gone international now, I see Shamballa Rock going far, Guidance said.

Shambhala or Shamballa is a mythical Buddhist kingdom where all of the citizens have achieved enlightenment, so it is the embodiment of Tibetan Buddhist perfection. However, the dance is inspired by a music insider called Shamballa who

The idea for the dance comes from Shamballa from Roses who is known for his signature move, the rock. The song came about when we wanted to pay tribute to him cause you know we always rocking. So we all go in a voice the riddim, Energy come, Boyzie forward, Real Flava likewise and a history create. A lot of skankers start out and reach different so ah just Shambala Rockis a simple rock, All Father Pow ah dance. It ah get feedback from all over the world, Europe, Africa, everywhere, Guidance said.

Boyzie Roses and Energy are popular dancers in the street while Real Flava is a dancehall artist. Shambala for whom the dance is named, is a long-time member of the Roses Crew which was led by the late dancer Bogle.

Guidance is known for the hit song, Love What You Got, but lately, he has been doing more dancehall-themed songs with a dance twist like the popular Logo Boss was officially released on Kerrons Records in February 2020.

Guidance is looking forward to shows in Europe this summer.

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Rock The Universe Delivers A Spirited Weekend Experience MUSICFESTNEWS – Music Fest News

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If ever proof is needed that music is the universal language, you need to look no further than how this weekends Rock the Universe music festival pulled people together during these extraordinarily difficult times, uniting them spiritually and musically, leading many to raise their hands in the air and shed tears of joy in celebration. Thousands of families along with countless youth groups from across the nation gathered at what has now become an annual go-to destination for the largest Christian music festival in Florida. For more than 34 years, Disney held a similar event at the Magic Kingdom but a few years ago decided to pull the plug on the event, making Rock the Universe at Universal Orlando Resort the only Florida event of its kind. Those who had tickets to the after-hours event that took place from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. got to experience an all-night music and thrill-ride experience at the annual two-day event at Universal Music Plaza Stage, featuring some of the biggest names in Christian music, including for KING & COUNTRY, Casting Crowns, Crowder, Matthew West, Rhett Walker, Jordan Feliz, Riley Clemmons, Zach Williams, Big Daddy Weave, We the Kingdom, Cory Asbury of Bethel Music, and other bands that performed on three separate stages scattered across the theme park grounds for two nights of unforgettable performances.

While the name of the festival is Rock the Universe, the festivals music lineup was comprised of a diverse set of genres that included everything from pop and country to folk, hip hop, and rock, all sharing a common Christian message that filled those who attended with hope, faith, and fun. On opening night on Friday, temperatures dipped into the low 50s, quite unusual for Orlando and Florida in general, but a jam-packed crowd of more than 8,000 relentless music lovers endured the coldest temps of the year while waiting patiently for the opening night headliner.

Southern/country rocker Rhett Walker made a reappearance at Rock the Universe. This highly talented singer/songwriter didnt disappoint and has what it takes to play country, Southern rock, or whatever genre he wants. A highly underrated artist who needs to be kept on your radar, Walker performed a memorable show, and one of the highlights of his performance was singing a duet with his 17-year-old daughter.

Rock the Universe favorite folk rocker Crowder returned to Orlando for his second time, his first during pre-pandemic 2019. The Waco-based Crowder got the audience moving and waving their hands in the air while performing crowd pleasers Run Devil Run and I Know a Ghost among others while priming the crowd for headliners for KING & COUNTRY.

After incredible performances by Walker and Crowder, the stage lights dipped at exactly 11 p.m., setting the stage for Rock the Universe veteran headliners to rock the freezing fans. Australian-born pop duo for KING & COUNTRY quickly warmed up the crowd by delivering a high-energy performance that kept fans of the Christian alternative rockers dancing and singing along to every word of their nearly two-hour set.

The now Nashville-based four-time Grammy Award winning brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone known as for KING & COUNTRY are widely recognized for their magnificent stage productions that include outstanding set design, heavy drums, and a terrific light show. They opened the night by appearing on stage in separate elevators as the duo slowly descended as they got into their first tune. The duo continued with a non-stop run of their very best songs including Relate and For God is with Us, two recently released singles that are quickly climbing the charts and both from their soon-to-be-released fifth studio album What are We Waiting For? They continued through fan-favorites God Only Knows, Joy, and Burn The Ships among the many tunes they performed along with the other six band members of for KING & COUNTRY.

On night two, Saturday was by far the coldest night of the event that had festival-goers bundled up with scarves and gloves in thirty-two degree weather. Undeterred, the cold weather wouldnt dampen the spirits of those who came for a second night of rides that included Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, Transformers 4D: The Ride, Race through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon, Fast and the Furious Ride, Woody Woodpecker Nuthouse Coaster, E.T. Adventure, The Simpsons Ride, Kang & Kudos Twirl n Hurl, Men In Black Alien Attack and Hogwarts Express. If the rides alone didnt keep you entertained, the music sure did. Whether you wanted a more intimate experience with your favorite bands who performed on the smaller stages or the huge concert experience taking place at Universal Music Plaza Stage, there was a buzz in the air as kids from nearly every corner of America gathered with friends or perhaps made some new ones, these new friends and memories will remain long after the road trip back home and return to normal life. For the final night of Rock the Universe there was plenty of good music to be enjoyed despite the freezing temperatures. Perhaps the biggest decision to be made was whether to ride the rides or catch a set of music; clearly, the music was the choice of many, and there were overlaps with three stages working.

On the Universal Music Plaza Stage, Florida-born Christian rocker Zach Williams performed several of his most recognized chart-topping hits, including Rescue Story and Less Like Me, both from his second studio album Rescue Story released in 2019. The stage setup featured church-type stained glass windows that served as a backdrop to the bands incredibly melodic sound that kept fans on their feet and moving hands in the air from side to side during the 75-minute set.

With fans crowding and packing tightly into every inch of the concert grounds at the plaza stage, a buzz filled the chilled air as fans welcomed back one of the regular performers at Rock the Universe, Casting Crowns, led by Mark Hall, who is a pastor when not performing and used to attend RTU with his youth group before making a name for himself in the music world. Casting Crowns now travels the world performing to sold out shows regularly. The band is comprised of part family, part youth group and together they create the bands hard-hitting tunes that have won several awards, including both Grammy and Dove awards. Serving as the headlining band on the final night of Rock the Universe, they immediately engaged the crowd with an inspired message of hope that its never too late for greatness before getting into the bands very best tunes that included Nobody, Only Jesus, One Step Away, and Scars in Heaven among other notable songs. Casting Crowns doesnt rely on special lighting or stage props; what they deliver is music that comes from the heart; it is pure emotion and music that you would most likely sing along to in church on Sunday morning.

It was no surprise that when you get two extraordinary talents like for KING & COUNTY and Casting Crowns along with a dozen other talented performers on one incredible weekend that the atmosphere was going to be something truly special. What can we expect for next year? Perhaps better weather, but one thing is for sure, many are already making plans for next years Rock the Universe 2023.

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Sex/Life Season 2: Will Netflix Release It In 2022 Or Not? – Gizmo Story

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After making long-long duos, finally, the second new season for the Sex/Life series is said to arrive soon on Netflix screens. But, before talking about the second new season, lets start with an introduction to the series for all the ones living under a rock all these days.

The sex/Life franchise has been standing as one of the biggest Netflix blockbusters for 2021. Well, it doesnt need any complex math to find the logic behind its success.

The American romantic franchise, which is mainly based on sensual pieces of stuff, makes its primary focus on the suburban mother of two who had taken a fantasy-charged trip all the way memory lane, and the trip becomes a new reason to bring a conflict in her married Life and with her wild past.

The sex/Life whole franchise has got its adaptation from BB Eastons novel 44 Chapters About 4 Men, which makes the series include elements from 50 Shades of Grey and evens 365 Days appear harmless in contrast. So, now you might have got a better picture of the Sex/Life is all about. Lets directly jump in and exchange more updates for the second new season for the Sex/Life franchise.

As good news, yes, immediately, Netflix gave a new renewal for thesecond new season for Sex/Life back in August 2021itself. But, this stands out as a no surprise to all of us looking at the sudden renewal! All thanks to all the fans who showed so much excitement for new episodes and supported the whole franchise all through its airing.

As per Netflixs track on hourly watch time data, the Sex/Life franchise enumerates 282,100,000 million hours and made Sex/Life take the position for being in the top ten for the list of global Netflix list.

Sex/Life stands in the third position for being the most-watched Netflix Original series for 2021. The series also got its higher position for being the most-watched English Original series for the year. The record has been taken since enumerating from its first season release on 24th June last year.

As of now, we can assure you that Netflix has added Sex/Life Season 2 to its production chart and for its release. But, talking about the 2022 release. We have many reports claiming that the production is still yet to start, which gives us a big question mark about the 2022 release for Sex/Life Season 2.

But, as a relief, the starting date for the production has been confirmed by Netflix, which is slated to be from 7th February, and many rumours claim that the product will be brought under-wrapped by the end of April this year.

However, the official release date is yet to be confirmed by Netflix. Maybe, as the production begins, we will get to see Netflix coming up for a release date and trailer as well. So, lets just be holding back and show patience.

Lets go with it again! Alongside the release, even the appearing casting members for season 2 hold back as a mystery to us. But, lets overthink, but we do expect that the casting would remain the same from the first previous season, as they all have to support the plotline further from where the plot left off from the first season.

Considering this, we will see Billie, our main heroine, divided and left in confusion between two men playing a crucial role in her Life here, one man is from her past, and another man is from the present.

Brad, the man from her past and her former husbands character role, has been taken by Adam Demos, Cooper, who appears as her current spouse, and Mike Vogel has taken up this characters role.

Margaret Odette will be casting as Billies best friend, named Sasha. Sasha is another essential character for the series as she is Billies best friend and supports Billie as a conduit to help her express her mixed thoughts about her marriage.

Sasha has been staying single and is living a sort of Life alongside Billies desires. She has been spending most of her time in the series, somehow persuading Billie to quit jeopardizing her marriage and to come out of her past.

Hey hey! Lets not forget Cooper, who has been taking all of his wifes misgivings; Cooper found himself confronting himself to leave his marriage when his boss, Francesca, whose role was taken up by Li Jun Li, discloses her emotions and feelings she has for him. This gave us a good hint about them getting together in the future in the first season. So, maybe we can expect Francesca to play an essential role in Coopers Life.

Lets connect the dots from season 1. In the first season, we got to see Billie, who seems to have taken her final decision about whether she wants to give herself another chance to make her marriage thing work.

But, with more episodes coming, we even saw Brad, who had gained a feeling for her, and in no time, he even revealed his love and feelings for her and his desire to marry Billie. But Billie declined Brads proposal straight up as she didnt want to lose her family, which she had formed.

Although slowly even Billie finds only her family life isnt enough for her Life, she also gains desires for the adventurous sex life with Brad. So, by leaving her childrens performance, Billie approaches Brad and reveals to him that she still doesnt want to leave her husband, but the twist comes when she reveals her sexual attraction towards Brad and her desire to have sexual relations with him.

With a total of eight episodes being aired showing Billie, who is agonizing over her decision, it does bring a lot of confusion and twists about whom she will be choosing among these two men in her Life. As we mentioned above, we will also get to see Coopers life changed with the second season as his boss, Francesca, reveals her feelings for him.

With no production being started yet! The trailer for Sex/Life Season 2 is still a thing to wait for. So, we will have to wait a little longer to see the trailer coming to the screens. We will get updates as the trailer gets official.

The first season for the series came up with eight episodes. So, we will probably get to see more than eight episodes being added for the second season. Maybe, the number of episodes can be increased, but it wont be decreased.

Until now, Netflix has given its renewal for the second season only. So, maybe after the aring for the second season, we will see the renewal happening for the third season, but yes, as the series is so popular on Netflix, the chances for the season is high.

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I used to curl with Alaska’s Olympians. Here’s what I’ll be thinking about as I watch them compete in Beijing. – Anchorage Daily News

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A nine-year-old Vicky Persinger, far right, tells the members of the 2002 Alaska junior men's curling team (from left, Leo Johnson, Colin Hufman, Martin Sather, Chris Benshoof and Steven Birklid) how they've inspired her during an event at the Fairbanks Curling Club in March 2002. (Persinger family photo)

The speakers in the minivan bumped Ludacris Back seat, windows up as Colin Hufman reached to turn it up further. In the drivers seat, our long-suffering coach Bill Gryder navigated toward the Rochester Curling Club. Colin had a habit of spiking the volume during the raunchiest verses of the Dirty South rap we listened to on the way to and from our hotel, and Bill had long ago resigned himself to just letting it happen. It was early 2001, and the Alaska junior mens curling team was on its way to the semifinals at the national championships.

I was the teams alternate, the same spot on the team that Colin has this year on the U.S. Olympic squad as it seeks to defend its 2018 gold medal. What being the alternate meant for me, for practical purposes, was that I sat at the end of the ice sheet with a laptop, running the statistics software that tracked my teammates performance. If I played a game to spell someone who needed a break for a physical or mental reset, the decline in our overall skill was noticeable, even if I wasnt the one tracking it with CurlStat. This is not the case with Colin, who is just as capable as the other four members of our Olympic team, and who has a knack for providing a spark when his team needs one a fact Im sure contributed to his selection for the Olympics.

I started curling in seventh grade, at the urging of my English teacher. I felt like I had nothing to lose, having proven mediocre-to-poor at baseball, basketball, soccer and wrestling. Also, my mother and her family are Canadians, and I wasnt cut out for hockey, so I figured it was the only way to honor their legacy on the ice. I was decent, but nowhere near as good as Colin or the other kids who had been curling since they were able to walk.

A young Vicky Persinger gives a Fairbanks Curling Club stone a shove circa 1997. (Persinger family photo)

Getting started right around when I did, though so small she couldnt yet throw a rock all the way down the 150-foot sheet, was Vicky Persinger, the scion of Fairbanks most prominent curling family. The Persingers are numerous, and nearly all of them are excellent curlers; friends have half-joked that the Fairbanks Curling Club should host a Persinger Spiel a tournament where each team that registers needs to include at least one Persinger. This would also solve an issue that often presents itself in Fairbanks curling spiels: If a teams members are all Persingers, theyre the odds-on favorites to blow everyone else off the ice.

[With world-class skill and hometown pride, a Fairbanks curler slides toward Beijing]

Our junior mens team took third place at nationals in 2001, though USA Curling somehow mailed me a runner-up medal a few months later (if anyone from USA Curling reads this, no, I will not send it back). The next year, I was in college out of state, but the rest of the team stayed together and won the junior national championship. In a testament to how small the curling world is, the team they beat in the championship match was helmed by John Shuster who is now the skip of our Olympic team.

It was the first, and so far only, time that Alaska had won a junior national championship. At the curling club reception after they returned, a 9-year-old Vicky Persinger told Colin and his teammates what their win meant to her how a kid from Fairbanks could grow up and win a national championship, maybe even win the Olympics. There was a spark lit in Vicky that day, and shes nurtured it ever since.

So how do you go from the Fairbanks Curling Club to the Beijing Olympics? The short answer: 20-plus years of hard, unrelenting work. Curling is a sport where just about anyone can be competitive, but its strategy can take decades to master and its heartbreaks are enough to drive all but the most resilient off the ice. Colin moved to the Lower 48 to be closer to his team members and competition at its highest level, which is concentrated in the upper Midwest for U.S. players. Vicky is the rarest of Alaskan Olympians, alongside folks like Lydia Jacoby those who compete at their sports highest level while still living in-state.

For more than a decade, Vicky has flown Outside for competitions and training with her team, working at a real estate title agency whose manager is also a curler and knows how much travel it takes to keep Olympic dreams alive. When her family could, they would go to bonspiels to cheer Vicky on, sometimes leaving me in charge of their chocolate lab Cocoa.

Vicky came tantalizingly close to making the Olympics once before in 2017, when her team made the final at the U.S. trials, only to lose on the final shot. It was a devastating loss, shes said since, but one that was liberating in its own way: Once youve been that close and lost, you feel like youve taken the worst the sport can throw at you, and youre less inclined to go on tilt when things start falling apart. She kept that lesson with her at the qualifying tournament for the Olympics, where in the final game she rebounded from a couple of bad misses to close out the win that sent her and teammate Chris Plys to Beijing.

Despite their massive growth as curlers, both Vicky and Colin are very much the same people they were when we played together as kids. Colin is a goofy, earnest class clown with a shocking amount of directness and emotional intelligence. Vicky is an intensely focused, gracious teammate and competitor whos so considerate she didnt even celebrate on the ice after winning the final game of the qualifying tournament and finally realizing her dream of going to the Olympics she remembered all too well what it felt like to be in the losing teams shoes. The emotional weight of the game only became apparent when she ducked behind the scoreboard, where the cameras couldnt see her, and let loose a ragged, relieved sob.

Vicky Persinger opens mixed doubles curling play at the Olympics Wednesday with matches against Australia at 3 a.m. and Italy at 4 p.m. Alaska time. Colin Hufman and the U.S. mens curling team begin round-robin play Feb. 9 against Russia.

Tom Hewitt is the ADNs opinion editor and a halfway (but only halfway) decent curler.

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