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A former seaman who had to retrieve the dead bodies of Indonesian and Somalian asylum seekers from the sea was so tormented by what he saw he is still haunted by the memories 10 years later.

He also said his attitudes towards the asylum seekers had radically changed after witnessing their desperation and suffering and the way they were being treated by the Australian government.

The seaman, anonymously identified as Witness BR2, told the royal commission into defence and veteran suicide he had been with the navy for less than a year when he was deployed on Operation Resolute.

Its mission, he said on Thursday, had been to intercept suspect vessels off Australias north coast.

But none of the rushed training the crew had prepared them what was to come.

BR2 said the first time he and the crew had found bodies in the water they were forced to abandon them because it was untenable due to the decay of a body at sea after time.

I remember one of my mates saying, I think that is a doll in the water. It was actually a baby. I just remembered he lost the innocence in his face a bit.

On another occasion, the crew had come across 230 Somali asylum seekers in rough seas in a vessel that looked like a doubledecker bus, he said.

He said during the rescue that night conditions had been so dangerous he feared for his life as he was forced to lean out towards the water as he tried to hook a line to the vessel from the ships crane.

This was at night time in high seas so there were quite a few times when it was that dangerous we had to wave off and come back round again, BR2 said.

During the process a female asylum seeker had been hit by the hook and knocked out.

He said on one occasion he had been moving a dead Somalian woman from the sea, and her child had become so distressed he had to comfort him because his father was in shock.

I was a pretty ignorant 21-year-old kid, thinking that these people dont deserve to come here because why are they jumping the queue, he said. That changed pretty quickly meeting these people. These people are some of the most genuine people Ive ever met.

He said he had felt a growing sense of guilt and anger because doing his job meant handing over people theyd saved just to put them basically in prison ashore.

BR2 said once he was back onshore he was haunted by what hed seen.

He had started drinking even more heavily to cope with his anger and distress and had daily thoughts of suicide.

After he and his crew put much on the line for these people and sacrificed a lot of our own mental health he felt they had been essentially lied to about their real mission.

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The commission heard that over the next four years BR2 struggled with his mental health without telling the navy, for fear he would be medically discharged.

He said the one psychological debriefing he was given after his first three months at sea took less than 15 minutes. It wasnt really a conversation, it was more a tick and flick, he said.

He told the commission the navys reliance on psychologists of higher ranks was too intimidating and stopped seamen seeking help.

It would take five years before BR2s drinking became so bad he was finally diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and a raft of other mental health conditions.

Once classified as medically unfit he went from being a high flyer to having no future in the navy.

BR2 said he had since found his purpose, beyond defence. But there had been no support from the Australian defence force.

Essentially you feel like nothing, he said. If you do not train or attempt to train someone to move on from defence these people are more than likely to fail.

In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255 or chat for support. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. Other international helplines can be found at http://www.befrienders.org

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The problem with the world today is that people have forgotten the value of living by outlaw codes. Everywhere you look, the old values of high seas pirates go ignored. The youth are carelessly living their lives, disrespecting their hook-handed leaders and bragging about the spots where theyve buried untold riches in the sands of tiny Caribbean islands.

They would do well to model themselves after Tommy Thompson, a research scientist who still respects tradition enough thats hes about to mark a sixth year in jail for refusing to tell authorities where hes hidden a stash of gold coins he retrieved from a shipwreck.

CBS News explains that, in 1988, Thompson located the shipwreck of the S.S. Central America (otherwise known as the Ship Of Gold), which sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard. The gleam of treasure glinting in his eyes, Thompson apparently kept more of the gold he retrievednamely 500 gold coinsthan his expeditions investors would like.

Since December 15th, 2015, Thompson has been held in contempt of court and fined $1,000 each day for refusing to tell authorities where his gold is being kept. He was first ordered to appear in court to disclose the coins whereabouts by a federal judge in 2012 and, in response, took off for Florida, where he hid for three years until his arrest.

Six years since his imprisonment began, Thompson still refuses to explain where the treasure is squirreled away. Thompson says hes already said everything he knows about the coins, the article reads. It also gives us some excellent quotes from a hearing last year, that opened with a judge saying: Mr. Thompson, are you ready to answer the seminal question in this case as to the whereabouts of the gold?

Thompson kept mum and, just like the imperial sea powers of old, the American justice system has continued to punish him for adhering to a code they could never understand. Maybe, in time, Thompson will decide to relent ever so slightly while still keeping to his pirate morality and offer his captors a weathered map, covered in strange clues.

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Tesco's last toy sale of the year starts todayand we can't believe the bargains to be had.

The supermarket is offering up to half price off its selected toy lines to help parents tick off those Christmas lists.

The sale includes discounted toys from your kids' favourite brandsLEGO, Harry Potter, Barbie, Nerf, Paw Patrol and more.

With less than two weeks left before the big day we know that many parents will still be looking for toy bargains for their kids," TescoCategory Managerfor Toys, Nursery and Sport,Anne Borrett said.

Two toy sets included in the Tesco sale. Credit: Tesco

The good news is that we have some great toy offers in our stores, including all the top brands such as Lego, Harry Potter, Barbie, Nerf and Fisher-Price with something for kids of all ages.

The sale will include some of our top sellers this year such as the Nerf Alpha Strike Mission Pack, Barbie Convertible Car and Doll, and Paw Patrol Pirate Vehicles.

Tesco's up to half price toy sale runs from December 13 to December 26.

Barbie Convertible Car and Doll

Barbie doll and convertible. Credit: Tesco

Barbie and your kids can cruise all day Christmas day with this convertible and doll.

The classic pink carhas two seats,rolling wheels, an open roof and silvery side view mirrors.

It was 32 originally but has been reduced to 16 in its major sale.

Paw Patrol Pirate Vehicles 2 pack

Paw Patrol Pirate Vehicles. Credit: Tesco

Calling all Paw Patrol fans, these pirate vehicles are also included in Tesco's toy sale.

Your children can spend hours on Christmas day playing with thesePirate Pups Chase and Marshall customised pirate ships.

Sail away on the high seas for just 12.

Funko Pop Mandolorian 4 pack

Funko Pop Mandolorian. Credit: Tesco

Star Wars mad kids will adore this Funko Pop Mandorlorian collectable figure.

Impress them with your knowledge of the force with his fan fact: it might look like Baby Yoda but this figure is actually called The Child!

Reduced from 40, you can add it to your basket for20.

Nerf Alpha Strike Mission Pack

Nerf Alpha Strike Mission Pack. Credit: Tesco

Your house might turn into a battlefield this Christmas but we think it will be worth every penny.

Tesco has discounted this Nerf Alpha Strike Mission Pack from 50 just in time for the festive season.

It can be yours for just 25 now.

Playdoh Create N Canister

Playdoh Create N Canister. Credit: Tesco

Get your kids doing some Christmas crafting and creating with this Playdoh Create N Canister.

The canister features 45 pieces to keep your children inspired throughout the festive season.

Reduced from 35, pick it up for17.50.

Paw Patrol Ready Race Rescue Vehicle

Paw Patrol Pit Stop Rescue Vehicle. Credit: Tesco

Come to the rescue this Christmas with the Paw Patrol rescue vehicle.

With a built-in launcher, figure and two vehicles, your kids will have hours of entertainment from this Paw Patrol set.

Instead of paying 40, you can get it for half price for 20 in Tesco's sale.

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On the back of a petition, the Government is weighing up further restrictions on bottom trawling in fragile, underwater eco-systems. But the fishing industry says calls to ban the controversial practice are based on misinformation. Andrea Vance reports.

Just after dawn, on a bitterly cold September morning, five activists and their skipper slipped out of Bluff Harbour in a rigid inflatable boat.

For four hours they huddled in the bow as the churning seas buffeted the pontoons and the Roaring Forties whipped around them.

Eventually, the rusted hull of an enormous trawler rose out of the grey gloom, the sign they had reached their destination. Fiordlands snow-capped mountains rose from the shore behind them.

The vessel was positioned over the Puysegur Bank, a ridge deep beneath the shifting waves, and a productive fishing ground.

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A catch of mainly orange roughy caught in the Tasman Sea.

Film the Trawlers is a new project, begun by environmentalist Siana Fitzjohn, to document the activities of New Zealands commercial fishing fleet.

Top of mind is bottom trawling, a now controversial fishing practice where weighted nets are dragged along the sea floor, hauling some of our most popular fish: orange roughy, hoki and oreo.

The trawl doors disturb the sea bed, stirring up sediment which hides the net and generates a noise which attracts fish.

At first they swim in front of the net mouth, but as they tire they slip backwards into the net, finally falling exhausted into the tapered cod end.

For hours, the team watched, filmed and photographed as the San Discovery, a Sanford Limited trawler, worked. Also on board was Jasmine Black, who spent five years on Sealord trawlers.

Further south lies the Puysegur Benthic Protection Area, west of Stewart Island, where bottom trawling is restricted. In March Sanford Limited was ordered to forfeit a $20 million vessel, and fined $36,000 for illegally targeting orange roughy there in 2017 and 2018.

We're setting out to film the biggest and most destructive factory trawlers operating around Aotearoa, Canterbury-based Fitzjohn, 30, says. She has also campaigned for climate action group Extinction Rebellion.

Bottom trawling is out of sight and out of mind for most of us, because we can't see the nets scraping along the ocean floor picking up everything in their path. We want to meet the trawlers at sea and make these companies feel witnessed by the public.

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Siana Fitzjohn says her project aims to bear witness to industrial fishing practices.

The Puysegur Bank has multiple seamounts, ocean floor landforms which create an upwelling of nutrients. These attract marine species to feed, and for centuries have been known as good fishing sites.

But this ocean twilight zone is also home to delicate, slow-growing coral, and sea sponges, which are destroyed by the heavy fishing gear the doors that keep the nets open can weigh as much as 200kg.

New Zealand doesnt have the shallow, tropical reefs we often associate with coral. Its deepwater varieties provide habitat, sanctuary, and nursery areas for many other species.

These forests are often ancient samples of black coral taken from the Chatham Rise off the East Coast were estimated to be as old as 2,672 years. Bubblegum coral was aged between 300-500 years old.

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Seldom seen or explored by humans, these underwater mountains are the focus of growing political awareness about the environmental impacts of industrial fishing.

Bottom trawling was also implicated in the collapse of populations including orange roughy and hoki.

In 2015, Chile became the first nation in the world to permanently ban bottom trawling around seamounts within its exclusive economic zone (its ocean jurisdiction).

A year ago, the Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition, an alliance of 90 NGOs, delivered a petition to Parliament, calling for a ban on bottom trawling on seamounts in New Zealands waters.

They argue little or no bottom trawling occurs on seamounts in the high seas in other oceans.

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Eugenie Sage is chair of a select committee deliberating over a ban on trawling seamounts.

The Environment Select Committee is considering the petition, signed by 52,000. It is chaired by MP Eugenie Sage, whos Green Party has gone even further, pushing for a total ban across New Zealands four million square kilometres of ocean.

Separately from the select committee process, Oceans and Fisheries Minister David has confirmed to Stuff that officials are working on new measures.

We are taking steps to review whether the current management settings relating to bottom trawling on seamounts and seamount-like features need to be amended, he said.

Fisheries New Zealand is working with the Department of Conservation to establish a forum to discuss approaches to managing the effects of trawling on the benthic environment in New Zealands Exclusive Economic Zone.

He said it is hoped the forums work would begin early next year.

The forums discussions will be supported by use of a spatial decision support tool that incorporates the best available information on the distribution of benthic species, fishing activities, and seamounts and seamount-like features.

In the last week Greenpeace presented a new, 60-page report to the select committee, which details the extent of rare, endemic species of coral found on seamounts, and how the depths that they live in overlap with commercial trawling.

It shows is that some of the rarest, unique corals found in Aotearoa are vastly unprotected from destructive fishing, oceans campaigner Ellie Hooper said.

The places where these corals live are the depths bottom trawlers operate at, and that the majority of seamounts in New Zealand are unprotected from this fishing method.

The report details how 196 endemic coral species, some of which are listed as protected by the Department of Conservation are vulnerable, because trawling is permitted in their habitat.

Protection doesnt mean anything in this case. Commercial fishing companies are permitted to destroy an unlimited amount of them, dragging heavy, weighted nets right through where they live, she said.

The latest report from DOC indicates seven tonnes of protected coral was dragged up by trawlers in last years fishing season alone.

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Black coral is among the fragile species at risk from bottom trawling.

Fisheries New Zealand data shows that in the 11 years between 2007 and 2018, 21 per cent of the fishable area within New Zealands waters was bottom-trawled.

And Greenpeace fears fleets are expanding into new unfished areas: in the 2017/18 fishing season, 455 square kilometres were trawled for the first time.

The DSCC also argues that New Zealand is now the only country bottom trawling every year in the South Pacific. As of April 2021, the government has issued permits to six trawl vessels belonging to four companies to fish in international waters of the South Pacific.

And the coalition points to recent convictions for illegal fishing in closed areas. Only one of the six New Zealand bottom trawl vessels currently permitted to trawl in the South Pacific belongs to a company that hasnt been convicted in the past year of illegal fishing in closed areas, the coalitions evidence to select committee states.

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Representatives from seven environmental groups presented a petition to ban bottom trawling on a giant model of paragorgia (bubblegum) coral outside Parliament in November 2020.

However, the $4.18 billion fishing industry is strongly urging the Government to reject the petition. It estimates 90 per cent of the catch, for both inshore and deep sea fisheries, comes from bottom trawling.

Collin Williams is Sanfords general manager of fishing, and has almost four decades in the sector, including a decade in compliance at the then-Ministry of Fisheries.

Close to 94 per cent of the companys catch is bottom-trawled. And there is no alternative to net the type of fish in demand from consumers, the ingredients in our freezer favourites like fish fingers.

The species that we bottom trawl are demersal fish, they're literally on the bottom. Things like orange roughy, hoki, you don't catch them with long lines.

We catch it by the most efficient and economical, and viable method to catch the volumes that we need to catch.

Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

A graphic from the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition illustrating what bottom trawling is.

Williams argues only 3.5 per cent, or 122,000sq km of the EEZ is subject to bottom trawling operations.

Since 2006, bottom trawling has been banned in a third of New Zealand's waters (although a large percentage of these areas were never viable for the method in the first place).

Williams says vessels furrow repeatedly over the same narrow tracks they wouldnt plunder an entire seamount.

A trawl corridor or trawl lane down a feature like that is a very narrow sector. We go to the same place, for very good reasons. We are not in the business of harvesting coral, we are in the business of harvesting fish.

As a result, much of what is hauled up is dead rubble, not live coral.

And he contends it has environmental benefits. Fish is one of the most carbon friendly, sustainable, sources of protein in the world. So it's a real positive food contributor for arguably the least damage to any terrestrial or subterranean.

One overseas study claims trawling releases more carbon in a year than the pre-Covid global aviation industry, but the industry strongly disputes its findings.

The sector, represented at the select committee by the Deepwater Group, also takes issue with conservationists definition of a seamount.

Greenpeaces report, and the evidence submitted by DSCC, describes a seamount as an underwater feature standing over 100m, and as such there are 800 in New Zealand. It is a classification used by DOC and many NIWA scientists.

However, the Deepwater group argues the internationally accepted definition of a seamount, as understood by the International Oceanographic Commission, the International Hydrographic Organisation and the New Zealand Geographic Board, is a feature with an elevation of more than 1,000 metres.

Under that definition, there are 142 known seamounts within the EEZ, 89 per cent of which are either closed to trawling or have never been trawled.

The group further claims trawling has only occurred on 9 (or six per cent) of seamounts over the past decade.

Hooper says the industry is arguing semantics. We know coral is growing in these areas.

Getting into what we define as a seamount is a pointless argument it is about the depth from the surface which determines whether these corals are going to grow there.

There are a large number of people in New Zealand now who support restricting bottom trawling. They see it as important to protect native biodiversity and the ocean, which we know is struggling. What is missing is the political will to rein in the industry and protect the environment.

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The fishing industry and conservationists are in dispute about the extent of trawling on seamounts.

Doug Paulin, Sealords chief executive says the fishing industry is tightly regulated to ensure a balance between conserving biodiversity while still providing jobs and food security.

Sealord, as the countrys largest deep sea fishing company, is always interested in pushing to do more, and we have several future based action plans that we are currently developing, he said.

We are also open to discussion with the Government, the public and eNGOs [environmental non-governmental organisations] on whether or not further management measures might be required.

We need to sit down and talk and ask, what is a viable place we can get to where we can assure that conservation is absolutely maintained at a world-leading status and that food production can still occur in New Zealands EEZ, including bottom trawling.

While politicians and the industry mull over policy, Fitzjohn is planning her next mission, pouring over maps and marine traffic data.

We hope that by filming as many trawlers in as many locations as possible over the next few years, we'll be able to help connect the public to the different habitats and species under siege, and get people on board with the kind of protection measures that the ocean so desperately needs, she says.

Unless we start to connect with the industrial scale of damage being done at sea, we'll destroy a lot of the precious ecology around these islands without even knowing what was there in the first place.

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Until recently, scientists knew relatively little about the lives of birds on the open North Atlantic. But a group of researchers has identified a habitat in the ocean teeming with great shearwaters and other seabirds. Simon J. Pinder

Ewan Wakefield had been sailing across the North Atlantic for days when the ocean suddenly greened. A phytoplankton bloom had emerged at the edge of an oceanic cold front roughly 1,000 kilometers south of Greenland, attracting precisely what Wakefield was hoping to find. Dozens of seabirdsgreat shearwaters, fulmars, and othersappeared, swinging in high arcs near the vessel, bombing the sea surface, and feeding like crazy, he says. It is what we call a hotspot.

Seabirds comprise one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates. Almost half of all seabirds are in decline. Until recently, scientists knew relatively little about the lives of the birds that dwell on the open North Atlantic. These species spend most of their existence beyond the continental shelves, where life is diffuse and at-sea surveys are costly and dangerous. Not knowing where they live or feed has made protecting the birds nearly impossible. But a group of about 80 scientists, including Wakefield, a biologist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, has been scouring the North Atlantic to find out more. In the process, theyve identified an ocean habitat teeming with birds.

In an area spanning nearly 600,000 square kilometersreaching from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Labrador to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and from the Azores to the Labrador Basin off Greenlandscientists have found the highest concentration of seabirds ever documented on the open ocean. According to the researchers, an estimated 2.9 to five million seabirds visit the area yearly.

It is a surprise, says Wakefield, who surveyed the area in 2017. The North Atlantic is bounded by some of the most developed countries in the world. And we werent doing that research in our backyard.

The discovery, announced in aseriesofpaperspublished this year, has already prompted a multinationalagreementdeclaring that this vitally important area for seabirds needs to be protected.

I dont think anyone really thought it would be this big or this many birds consistently using the site, says Tammy Davies, a conservation scientist and marine science coordinator at the conservation nonprofit BirdLife International, who led the research that identified the area.

Davies and her colleagues at BirdLife International first became aware of the outsized importance of this stretch of the North Atlantic in 2016, when they began mappingdatafrom previous studies that had tracked 1,500 birds from 56 breeding colonies. The area jumped out. At least 21 species were using it, in many cases for hunting and foraging in the months after the energy-intensive mating seasons. Some, such as the great shearwater, were in molt, a vulnerable period when birds shed and regrow feathers. Wakefield says the birds are likely drawn to the areas oceanic frontswhere the Gulf Stream abuts cold northern waterswhich are rich with phytoplankton, small fish, and crustaceans.

Theres always some hesitancy when extrapolating beyond a few tracked individuals, says Autumn-Lynn Harrison, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center who was not involved in the research. But theres no doubt that the absolute number of species that use this place is real.This place is very important.

The agreement to establish this area as the North Atlantic Current and Evlanov Seamount Marine Protected Area (NACES MPA) was made by the Oslo-Paris Convention on the protection of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), an international body representing 15 countries and the European Union. OSPAR was the organization that established the first network of marine reserves on the high seas in 2010, protecting areas beyond the reach of national jurisdictions. The NACES MPA is the conventions 11th high-seas reserve and its largest. Yet OSPARs declaration only marks that the area should be protectedexactly what shape that protection will take has yet to be decided.

Its a starting point, says Erich Hoyt, a research fellow with the international NGO Whale and Dolphin Conservation, who has written extensively on marine protected areas. Every protected area starts out on paper, and its what you make of it that becomes something.

OSPARs high-seas reserves offer some protection, but because there is at present no global consensus on how to regulate the open ocean, OSPARs powers are extremely limited. It does not have sole jurisdiction in its protected areas, and it cannot ban longline fishing or seafloor mining, which are managed by separate organizations.

There are lots of opportunities for ensuring [the NACES MPA] doesnt become a paper park, though, says Davies. OSPARs members have committed to monitoring human activities in the area and addressing new threats as they arise. Carrying this out falls to the individual governments that make up OSPAR.

When Wakefield zigzagged across the region four years ago, he noticed a small number of cargo ships and longliners. We also saw fishing gearghost gearfloating around out there, which would still be catching birds, he says, but given that its so far from shore, the NACES area sees relatively few impacts.

Still, as global fish stocks shrink, pressure to develop fisheries in international waters is expected to increase. Threats from deep-sea mining, fossil fuel extraction, and climate change arent going away either. So, while the NACES MPA is unblemished compared to many parts of the ocean, the challenge will be to keep it that way.

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com.

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Detroit took on the expansion Seattle Kraken tonight at Little Caesars Arena. The Kraken have struggled in their first campaign thanks in large part to poor goaltending. Getting the start tonight for the Kraken was Philipp Grubauer who is the face of those woes. Grubauer has a .890 SV% thus far this year with a 3.03 GAA and is still desperately searching to regain his form in Seattle.

In the Red Wings net, Thomas Greiss got the start after being on the bench for the last 4 games while Alex Nedeljkovic has seemingly taken over as the leader between the pipes.

Detroit received late word that Tyler Bertuzzi would have to miss this game as a late scratch due to Covid-19 protocol. Details will emerge whether this was an unavoidable absence or if his vaccination status led him to miss a game he would have otherwise been able to suit up for.

As a result of Bertuzzis absence, long time Griffin Kyle Criscuolo cracked the lineup, making his Red Wing debut. He slotted in on the 4th line as the Red Wings juggled their lineup from the late change.

In the opening lineup to start the game, Robby Fabbri was in place for the absent Tyler Bertuzzi. Greiss showed a little rust early as he blockered a distance shot straight up into the air and it ended up landing right in front of him, albeit with no harm done.

The second line had Zadina sliding back up to replace the elevated Fabbri, he was alongside Suter and Smith. Detroits first chance came a few minutes in when Smith pulled up at the half wall and hit a trailing Zadina with a pass at the blue line. Zadina tried to use the defender as a screen with a shot from the high slot but it was blocked to the corner.

Fabbri had a nice hustle play when he made a strong push to get back to break up a 2 on 1 when Hronek pinched at the offensive blue line. The Seattle forward crashing to the net may have still got a touch on the puck but Fabbri made it a difficult play for him.

The first penalty of the game went to Seattles Appleton for putting the puck over the glass. On the ensuing Detroit powerplay, Suter looked to take over the Bertuzzi net front position with Larkin, Fabbri, Raymond, and Seider manning their usual positions. Early in the Detroit powerplay the Wings struggled to gain the zone. It wasnt until late that they were able to even start passing it around the offensive zone. They maybe managed one shot from the point with minimal traffic, a disappointing start for their special teams.

Rasmussen came very close to notching the first goal of the game when a point shot hit him in front of the net landing in front of Grubauer where Rasmussen swiped it just wide of the far post.

The next chance went to Seattle when on a net front scramble Greiss made a nice save followed by a very timely point blank block by Staal that prevented what was a sure goal with Greiss beating out of position following the first save.

But moments later a Seattle point shot found its way through traffic and beat Greiss high to the blocker side. Greiss was deep in his net and down. But the referee immediately waved it off, indicating there was goaltender interference. It seemed odd as it didnt appear anyone was near Greiss. But the review showed Appleton, with some help from Seider did bump Greiss as he passed through the crease just prior to the shot, no doubt affecting Greiss ability to make the save. Seattle considered challenging but ultimately decided against it, the game remainded 0-0. A tough start for Appleton.

Seattle followed up with another good chance when Greiss had to swallow a shot from in tight from Johansson. Detroit gained some relief when Seattle took another penalty, this time in the offensive zone when Geekie took several slashes at Ramussen trying to knock the puck away. It was an easy call for the ref to make and an odd decision by Geekie. But the powerplay was short lived as only 0:22 into it Leddy got called for holding on Sheahan who was trying to make a shorthanded break for the net.

Seattle continued to get pressure at 4 on 4. But following a Red Wing breakout Larkin and Raymond connected on a give and go at the Seattle blue line. Raymond from a very tight angle at the goal line beat Grubauer on the short side for a very ugly goal by the goaltender to allow. But Seattle challenged the give and go play by Raymond and Larkin for offside. On the replay it was pretty clear when Raymond touched a soft pass over to Larkin he entered the zone before the puck crossed. The challenge was successful, and it was a pretty clear one to overturn.

Namestnikov took a slashing penalty through the neutral zone late in the period late in the period. Seattle hit a post with seconds left in the period on the abbreviated powerplay opportunity but had to settle for taking the man advantage into the 2nd period.

The period wrapped with each team having had a goal taken away. Seattle had the shot advantage in the opening frame, 7-6. The early portion of the period was fairly uneventful with the action picking up later. Rasmussen had a noteworthy period with a close chance, drawing a penalty, but also firing a shot about 15 feet wide at one point on a rush entry.

Seattle had a couple of decent looks on the carryover powerplay but no great chances. But they did take some momentum from that powerplay through the first couple of minutes.

But it was Detroit with the first great chance when Seattle got caught puck watching on a Wings breakout and Suter was able to hit Zadina with a pass at the Seattle blueline and send the young winger in alone. He made a quick deke backhand to forehand but count beat Grubauers outstretched leg. He did however draw a hooking penalty by Larsson on the play sending Detroit to another powerplay.

On the powerplay, Detroit looked much improved from the previous attempts. They got a few attempts and a goalmouth scramble early. Then a quick pass play from Raymond down low to Suter who sent it across the crease front didnt find the intended target on the other side. Then Larkin hit a goal post and on the resulting scramble the puck found its way to Fabbris stick who made no mistake hammering it into an empty net. It was an odd scramble as Larkins post shot sat in the crease momentarily before ending up back on Larkins stick where he banked it off the side of the net and it bounced out to Fabbri in the slot, 1-0 Red Wings.

Detroit took over through the early part of the 2nd period amassing a 9-5 shot advantage and similar zone pressure through the midway mark. But then Detroit took a penalty on a Rasmussen minor. On the powerplay, Seattle got Detroits penalty killers to collapse down low when the puck went down behind the goal line. A pass went back out to the point to Dunn who shifted towards the top of the circle, and sent a shot through traffic that beat Greiss high to the glove side, 1-1.

The game was all square on a couple of powerplay goals. Shortly after tying it, Seattle nearly took the lead when a shot from distance beat Greiss but caught the post and bounced away to the corner. Detroit had the next opportunity to break the tie when Rowney had a chance from in tight to Grubauers left but couldnt jam it past the netminder.

As Oesterle went to collect a puck in his own corner he lost his footing and turned the puck over. With the rest of the Red Wings starting to break out in anticipation of Oesterle gathering the puck, Seattle quickly found Donato in front with a pass and he promptly beat Greiss who couldnt get over in time, 2-1 Kraken.

Tough break for the Wings who were coming on strong in this period but started to get on their heels late in the period.

Detroit responded though with 2:00 to play when Namestnikov tried to fire a shot through traffic from the left circle. The shot was blocked but went back to Namestnikov who shot it again. It hit traffic in front, with Rasmussen among those parked in front. The puck squeaked by Grubauer and credit for the tying goal went to Namestnikov, 2-2.

The period came to a close with the teams tied at 2-2. Detroit took a 19-16 overall shot advantage in a much more eventful second period.

Early in the 3rd period, Oesterle tried to sneak one past Grubauer when he spun and fired a shot from the half wall trying to beat the goaltender high to the short side. Grubauer knocked it down with his shoulder and smothered it.

With 13:30 to play Raymond found a puck in the middle of the slot after a point shot by Seider was blocked. He had his back to the net, but spun and fired it through a defenders feet and it beat Grubauer on the blocker side, 3-2 Red Wings.

A fortunate bounce for Detroit, but also a result of Raymond being willing to go to the front of the net and reacting quickly to the puck.

Seattle came close to tying it again when there was a net front scramble that resulted in Greiss laying flat on his back before the puck was eventually cleared from the zone by Rowney. Seattle again came close when they hit yet another post behind Greiss from the top of the circle which marked at least three for them off the iron to this point.

Gagner absorbed an ugly hit from behind along the boards in the Seattle zone, but with no call on the play. He looked a little shaken up but still able to play after he went to the bench. Seider was also hobbled after blocking a shot just on the inside of his knee. He winced on the bench but remained in the game.

Detroit went into their usual defensive shell when holding a one goal lead. It didnt take long for Seattle to gain momentum and with just under 7:00 to play they broke through. Oleksiak rushed down the right side and attempted to pull up and move to his forehand at the faceoff dot before losing control. However Donato picked up the loose puck and fired it immediately, beating Greiss low the far blocker side off the post and in. After tempting fate too many times the post did not bail Greiss out this time, 3-3.

The question naturally becomes how many blown leads will it take before Blashill and his staff decide sitting on one goal leads for long stretches just does not work. They were taking control of this game and couldve continued to apply pressure but completely let off the gas after taking the lead.

Erne was set up on a great one timer opportunity from the right circle that he hammered on net but Grubauer made a solid glove save on the play.

Shortly later, Erne set up Rasmussen on a similar attempt but Rasmussen whiffed on the one timer attempt.

The period ended with the teams all square and Detroit with a 25-23 shot advantage in the game. Detroit again flirting with holding a lead and unable to hold on to it. One day theyll figure it out.

Detroit opened the overtime session with Larkin, Raymond, and Seider looking to capture the same magic they did the other night against Buffalo. Detroit started with possession but after a lengthy fight down low in the offensive zone turned it over.

The teams tepidly attacked each other for the next several exchanges with no shots. Rasmussen found himself with the puck and almost immediately turned it over as the last man back. Luckily for him Greiss made a big save on Donato as he cut across the goal after the turnover. Erne earned cheers when he doggedly pursued the puck in the Seattle zone and forced a turnover.

With less than 2:00 to play, Detroits original trio of Larkin, Raymond, and Seider were back on the ice trying to create a late goal. But they too were rather conservative turning back several times. With just seconds to play Zadina made a pass to Hronek for a one timer from up high and it caught the post nearly ending it in dramatic fashion

First to shoot was Fabbri for Detroit. He came in with some speed down the right side. He tried to snap one low to the far side after a fake to the backhand but fired it wide.

Donato was Seattles first shooter and he had a hot stick tonight. On the attempt, he came in slow and tried to beat Greiss with a series of moves. Greiss did bite on one eventually but Donato bobbled the puck and couldnt jam it past Greiss pad.

The captain Larkin took Detroits next attempt. He went way out wide right, stalled as he came back across the hashes. He made a quick move to the forehand side and snapped it to the far side beating Grubauer for the first tally of the shootout.

Jared McCann was next up for Seattle. He raced in and tried to make one too many moves and Greiss easily swallowed up the puck taking away any space from McCann.

With a chance to end it, Lucas Raymond attacked from the left side. He cut well low, not cutting back across the net front until he got below the faceoff dot. After a couple of quick stick handles he hit the post with a shot low to the far side.

To extend the shootout, Joonas Donskoi was up for Seattle. He fumbled the puck on a backhand deke but was lucky as Greiss missed the puck on the poke check and it squeaked through his pads and went in. The referees decided this was worth a review to see if Donskoi touched it after losing control. Following review it was a good goal and the shootout continued.

Adam Erne had the next chance. With a rather simple attempt he beat Grubauer over the elbow with a shot to the blocker side from the hash mark.

Trying to again extend the shootout, Alex Wennberg drew the puck back between the hash marks and tried to rip one past Greiss but the goaltender was able to deflect it away, giving Detroit the win 4-3 Red Wings, LGRW!

While it was a good end result for Detroit, theres a bit of a sour taste from blowing yet another 3rd period lead. This team always finds a way to keep it exciting. Blashill and his staff are going to need to throw the book away on current strategies for holding a lead because the team continues to drop them. Perhaps being more aggressive with the lead is the answer but we havent seen them try.

That being said this was a good win for the team playing the second half of back to backs after playing in Boston last night. Giving up the lead twice in this game couldve been enough to break a team running low on gas especially after Seattle took the 2-1 lead. But they climbed back in and showed strong resilence.

Raymond and Seider are not showing any signs of slowing down, they continue to take the league by storm and make several noticeable plays each in almost every game. Wings fans need to be prepared that a wall could be coming for these two given the slower schedules theyve been used to in Europe, especially given the big minutes and roles theyve been playing. But thats no reason not to enjoy it as long as it lasts.

Larkin and Raymond showed that even without Bertuzzi that top line can drive play all game long. But behind them Zadina had some impressive stretches tonight. He could easily have backed down after his demotion but he looks driven and continues to try and make plays. Yes he still needs to finish more regularly, like the goal against Boston, but there could be a breakthrough soon.

Despite playing on the second line, Givani Smith played a team low 6:28, less than newcomer Criscuolos 9:17 tonight. It seems Zadina may find his way back up sooner rather than later.

All in all a win is a win and one Detroit will happily take. On to the next one Saturday when the Islanders come to town.

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Mila McKey, the Shinnecock aquaculture manager, farms oysters in Heady Creek, Southampton.

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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. The Shinnecock Indian Nation once had seasonal villages that stretched across the eastern end of Long Island. But after centuries of land loss and forced relocation, more than 600 tribe members now live on a shrinking 1.5 square mile peninsula.

The Shinnecock, whose name means the "people of the stony shore," are fighting to save what's left of their land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and eat away the shoreline. The tribe has used nature to restore the land, from building oyster reefs to lining up boulders on the shoreline to blunt the energy of the waves of Shinnecock Bay.

"This is the only place we have to remain. This is our homeland," said Shavonne Smith, director of the tribe's environmental department, walking near a scared burial ground that's at risk of flooding. "And this is all that's left of it."

Since the mid-19th century, the Shinnecock have had a reservation of about 800 acres a fraction of their traditional lands. Sea level rise on the Shinnecock lands is projected to reach between 2.1 to 4.4 feet by the end of the century. Nearly half of the peninsula is forecast to be inundated by floods if a 100-year storm occurs in 2050, when sea levels are projected to be 1.5 feet higher than today, according to the tribe's climate adaptation report.

"The water levels are getting higher. I've seen it," said Shinnecock aquaculture manager Mila McKey, who grows oysters and restores clam populations in a creek on the tribe's land. "Everyone's affected by it."

Across the shoreline from the reservation, rising sea levels also plague the affluent beachfront communities of Southampton, where some homeowners have resorted to building sea walls that temporarily hold back water while causing the beach to wash away. The federal government is set to spend billions of dollars shoring up the coastline and protecting real estate in areas like Fire Island, Southampton and East Hampton.

The Shinnecock's battle to save their land from rising seas and erosion reflects a broader problem of racial inequity and environmental justice in the U.S., where historically oppressed and disenfranchised indigenous groups have been left more exposed to the effects of climate change. As global temperatures rise and climate disasters grow more frequent and intense, marginalized groups are under greater pressure to fight and adapt to climate change.

For centuries, European settlers, and later the U.S. government, have forcefully relocated Indigenous tribes onto marginal lands more vulnerable to climate hazards. Research published in the journal Science in October found that tribal nations have lost 99% of their historic territory. The land they were left with is often more prone to disasters like heat waves, wildfires and drought, as well having diminished economic value due to lower mineral resource potential.

The Shinnecock are restoring clam populations in Heady Creek and building an oyster reef to blunt the energy of the waves along the bay.

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Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was particularly destructive for the reservation. It washed away bluffs along the shores in the Great Peconic Bay area, inundated the cemetery and ripped roofs off tribal buildings and residential homes. Research shows that more than $8 billion of the total $60 billion in damage from Sandy was attributable to rising sea levels.

Mass relocation due to climate change would be devastating for the Shinnecock, who have inhabited this slice of land for generations. Unlike many of the beachfront homeowners in the Hamptons, who could relocate inland, the Shinnecock, along with other Indian reservations across the U.S., have strict boundaries and a cultural connection to the land.

"The Shinnecock have been restricted," said Alison Branco, the coastal director for the Nature Conservancy in New York. "It's one thing to ask people to move inland when they have a town. But when your reservation is already small and shrinking from sea level rise that's a completely different situation."

The Shinnecock descended from the Pequot and Narragansett Nations of southern New England. In the mid-17th century, European settlers arrived in eastern Long Island and encroached on the tribal lands, bringing infectious diseases that decimated the Shinnecock population.

For generations, the Shinnecock lived in seasonal villages on Long Island, where they moved closer to the water in the spring and summer and moved to woodland areas in the fall and winter. Now, the majority of the reservation resides in a low-lying, south-facing peninsula on Shinnecock Bay that's particularly vulnerable to ocean storm surges and floods. Climate change is also harming the quality of the water by increasing temperatures, salinity and acidification.

Shavonne Smith, director of the Shinnecock Nation's environmental department, stands on the shore of the Shinnecock Bay.

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Today, one in five people on the reservation live below the poverty line. Life on the reservation marks a sharp contrast to surrounding communities, home to the Hamptons elite, many of whom have clashed with the Shinnecock over the tribe's plans to construct a casino to stimulate the economy.

The tribe is now doing everything in its capacity to work against the rising sea levels that have eroded the beaches and flooded homes.

In 2014, the tribe received a $3.75 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore some of the shoreline. The Shinnecock used to money to build anoyster shell reef along the bay that works to mitigate the energy of the waves and protect nearby homes from storm surges. The tribe also planted sea and beach grasses to hold the sand in place and lined large boulders near the high tide line to protect the grasses.

The Shinnecock also recently received state funding to conduct a Heady Creek management plan to study water quality and coastal erosion. The tribe is expanding an oyster hatchery and hopes the facility will produce more reefs along the bay, improve the water quality and produce oysters for the local market.

Heady Creek is located between the Shinnecock reservation and Meadow Lane, a street that runs from the tip of Southampton's barrier island and consists primarily of mansions valued at tens of millions of dollars. McKey said the fertilizer runoff from those homes has affected the creek's water quality and worries that the rise in acidification will harm his shellfish.

"The ecosystem is so precious," McKey said during a walk along the creek. "It's more vulnerable as the area gets built up."

Expensive beachfront homes in Southampton are vulnerable to coastal erosion and rising sea levels.

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Nature-based solutions to prevent erosion often cost less and are better for the ecosystem than other projects like building sea walls, which the town of Southampton has urged residents against building. So far, Smith said, the Shinnecock's efforts have successfully held the water back.

Moving forward, the tribe said it requires additional funding to pour more sand on the beach and expand the oyster reef. Still, these plans are only temporary.

"None of these things are preventing the water from rising. Eventually they will become overwhelmed," Branco said. "The only solution that will be enduring in the long-term is making space for the ocean through mass relocation."

The problem is dire across the world. Half of the world's beaches could disappear by the end of the century from climate change-induced rising seas and coastal erosion, according to a study published in thejournal Nature Climate Change. The Shinnecock area in Southampton could experience chronic floods of more than 6 feet by 2050, according to climate models.

Branco said that while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has given some grants to Shinnecock Nation, the scale of what the tribe is receiving is an order of magnitude smaller than the scale of investment the federal government is set to funnel into shoring up coast lines in affluent areas on Long Island.

Since the mid-19th century, the Shinnecock have had a reservation of roughly 800 acres a fraction of their traditional lands.

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The U.S. is set to spend at least $1.7 billion over the next three decades to shore up about 80 miles of Long Island waterfront with sand infusions, as part of theFire Island to Montauk Point project.

The project, directed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and slated to begin in December,includes millions of dollars to pump offshore sand back onto beaches and lift waterfront homes onto stilts in areas like Fire Island, Southampton and Montauk, where waterfront homes at higher risk of flooding currently sell at a massive premium. The project is also targeting thousands of homes for lifting projects in the less affluent area of Mastic Beach, where the median home priceis roughly $330,000.

The Army Corps project will focus funding on areas that will prevent the most economic damage possible while protecting the environment. In areas with expensive real estate, it's typically cheaper for the government to lift a flood-prone house up rather than buying and destroying it. This could lead to more buyouts and relocation in less affluent areas as flood conditions worsen, while people in high-value property areas might be able to remain in place longer.

"It's a fallacy that we're only lifting homes that are worth a lot of money," said James D'Ambrosio, a spokesman for the Army Corps in New York. "We're doing the best we can with the funds we have to give the taxpayer the biggest bang for their buck."

The Shinnecock, in their adaptation report, said that mass relocation from climate change is not a realistic option because their people are inherently tied to the land. But given grim projections of sea level rise on Long Island, experts say the tribe and many others on Long Island may eventually have no choice.

Smith, who's lived on the reservation her entire life, described how the Shinnecock elders have noticed the changing shoreline and worry over what the land will look like for their grandchildren.

"We have an emotional, spiritual and genetic attachment to this place," Smith said. "The potential of having to leave it would bring up a lot of trauma to a people who already live with historical trauma."

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A new season of Tribes of Midgard will start up this month, expanding the Viking game with new mechanics, new gear, new runes and a fearsome new saga boss to hunt down and destroy before the arrival of Fimbulwinter. Season 2: Serpent Saga kicks off December 14, and when it does, prepare to take to the high seas.

Season two introduces new seafaring mechanics to Tribes of Midgard. The free update adds the shipyard, which youll find near your village on an ash beach. Once youve rebuilt it, youll be able to craft boat kits, which you can use to create a range of boats. These will prove to be important in season two, since youll be searching for a new saga boss, which developer Norsfell hints is hidden away in a mysterious island lair.

While Norsfell hasnt said so officially, the Serpent Saga title for the season suggests rather strongly that youll be hunting down Jrmungandr, who is both a massive sea serpent and the middle child of trickster god Loki and Angrboa, the legendary jtunn and mother of monsters.

This new saga boss wont be replacing season ones boss, Fenrir in fact, Norsfell says that daring warriors will be able to attempt to take down both saga bosses in a single session.

Also new in season two is swimming, which will become a vital skill to have should anything unfortunate happen to one of the boats youve built. You can only swim for as long as youve got stamina left in your meter, however, so make sure youve got another ship or some dry land to climb onto close at hand when you go overboard.

The launch of the new season will also mark the kickoff of the seasonal Yulidays event, which runs December 14 January 3. The event features a list of themed challenges, and youll earn new cosmetics, a pet, and other festive goodies for participating.

Norsfell has also updated the Tribes of Midgard roadmap for the near term. In early 2022, as part of season two, you can expect a new saga boss variant, more new gear to loot, new quests, and more.

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Life of Pi had a first life as a Booker prize-winning novel by Yann Martel and a second as an Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. Both were utterly captivating. Now comes playwright Lolita Chakrabartis stage spectacular (first presented in Sheffield in 2019) about Piscine Pi Patel, the zookeepers son from Pondicherry who claims to have survived a shipwreck in a life-raft with a Bengal tiger in tow.

The magic here lies firmly in aesthetics, from the teeming menagerie of large-scale puppets, exquisitely designed by Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, to visual effects that surge, dazzle and undulate like ocean waves (stage design by Tim Hatley with video design by Andrzej Goulding and lighting by Tim Lutkin).

The script and characterisation are flat-footed by comparison: Ive had a terrible trip, says Pi from his hospital bed at the start (the framing device here is different from the book and film). It is meant to be wry but, like much of the dialogue, lands with a thud.

Martels original, unreliable narration left enough space for us to decide if Pis story was one of hope, faith and tiger-taming or of survivors guilt, trauma and delusion. His subtle explorations of truth and the necessary comforts of make-believe are shoe-horned in as soundbites about God, the beauty of the world and storytelling.

The visual effects seem to compete with, and ultimately drown out, the quieter, more philosophical elements of the drama, not leaving enough room for Pis existential rumination, which is key to his tale.

As Pi, Hiran Abeysekera looks every inch the puckish man-boy and is incredibly light on his feet. He plays him as a 17-year-old survivor with PTSD in hospital, and as a slightly maniacal castaway on the boat. He is good at conjuring alarm in whooping, adrenalised highs but seems tense and overwrought in the softer moments.

The characters on the whole are vividly drawn but ironed to a cartoonish flatness, and the tone between them is barking and shrill. Pis father (Nicholas Khan) has a touch of Basil Fawlty, his mother (Mina Anwar) and sister (Payal Mistry) lack distinction and ancillary characters feel like cardboard cut-outs. As a childrens show, the jokes hold but an older audience feels the lack of a finer, more subtle script to square up to the sophisticated visuals.

Still, under Max Websters direction, the stage is full of energy and surprise. Once upon a time, says Pi, as he takes us on the first of many flashbacks, which transform the stage in seconds. There is a flurry of butterflies, a starry sky, iridescent shoals of fish and immersive storms that wrack the extremities of the stage.

Zebras, giraffes, hyenas and turtles are manipulated sublimely, transporting us to the family zoo and then to the high seas. The first sight of Richard Parker, the tiger, is a breathtaking moment and emulates the CGI effects in Lees film. The life-raft rises out of the floor and the back screen cracks open from its middle, like a suitcase, as the family sets sail for Canada. These animals and effects are a wonder to behold and become the real stars of this show.

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Klay Thompson is working his way back to the basketball court. After each of the last two seasons were taken away from the Golden State Warriors sharpshooting wing due to injuries, Thompson has spent the early part of this season on the road to recovery, and its believed that he hopes to suit back up for the Dubs sometime before Christmas.

While Thompsons been going through this, hes carved out a niche as the NBAs premier boat guy. Thompson will go live on Instagram while hes on a boat, navigating the open waters with vibes that are absolutely pristine. In his latest video, Thompson explored the high seas and expressed his belief that the fine city of Seattle, Washington deserves to get an NBA team again.

Bring back our Sonics! Thompson exclaimed. Seattle deserves a team. Give Seattle our team back. Bring back our Sonics!

Thompson, of course, went to Washington State and spent time in Lake Oswego, Oregon as a child, which is a few hours away from Seattle. He actually grew up a fan of the Portland Trail Blazers his dad, Mychal, played for the team growing up but wanting the Sonics back in Seattle transcends any type of fandom.

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