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After months of steadily declining cases in Ohio, progress in reducingnew COVID-19 infections stalled out this week.

State health officials reported 1,551new cases on Friday, bringing the week's daily average to 1,506, a bit beneath the three-week average, but only three fewer than last week's average daily infections.

On Thursday, the state reported 2,104 new infections, about 500 above the three-week daily average, to markthe first time cases exceeded the 2,000-mark since March 3.

In a no-audience appearance at the Cleveland City Club on Friday, Gov. Mike DeWine said of the numbers, "We feel pretty good about where we are ... what is driving this down is the vaccine." Yet, he remains worried about more-contagious virus variants.

The state will eclipse 1 million coronavirus infections in coming days with the pandemic total standingat 997,336as Ohio nears the one-year mark since the state's March23 stay-at-home order.Slightly less than one in every 12 Ohioans has contracted the virus.

Amid limited testing for the strain, cases of the more-communicableB.1.1.7 virus variant detected in Ohio increased from 91 to 108 across 29 of Ohio's 88 counties, according to revised figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State health officials fear thevariant that originated in the United Kingdom could become the dominant strain in Ohio. DeWine called the variant a "dark cloud" on Friday, saying, "The cycle indicates this should be coming back up. We're concerned."

The state on Friday reported the deaths of 348more Ohioans, boosting the total among state residents to 18,340. The increase rests partly in the state previously withdrawing deaths from the total until they wereverified by federal health officials.

The total number of coronavirus patients being treated in hospitals Friday was 855, down 30% from three weeks ago.

Another 81,656vaccinations were reported, bring the total of vaccines started to 2.6million or 23% of Ohio's population. A total of 1.5 million, or 13% of the population, havereceived second and final doses.

Ohioans age 40 to 49 and those with certain health conditions became eligible for shots on Friday, with all Ohioans age 16 and older now cleared to receive vaccinations beginning March 29 as supplies increase.

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After months of decline, Ohio COVID-19 cases not dropping this week - The Columbus Dispatch

The mayor and commissioner say investigations will look into the culture of the Portland Police Bureau.

Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty announced "significant progress" Friday on the investigations into the unauthorized and inappropriate release of information that falsely identified Hardesty as a suspect in a hit-and-run crash.

The March 19 announcement also said there had been progress into broader issues of public trust, racial and political bias, and culture within the Portland Police Bureau.

Hardesty had been falsely accused of being in a hit-and-run crash in a police report that was determined to be false after it had been leaked to the media and pro-police activists. Hardesty is a leading police critic.

Wheeler and Hardesty confirmed that police bureau and Bureau of Emergency Communications internal investigations have been underway since shortly after the initial incident occurred. Both Wheeler and Hardesty expect both bureaus to move as quickly as possible to complete their investigations.

In addition, Wheeler and Hardesty also said the city has contracted with the OIR Group to conduct an outside, independent investigation of the unauthorized and inappropriate release of information. The contract was completed this week and the OIR Group is beginning its independent investigation immediately.

Wheeler and Hardesty also said they are close to completing the scope for an additional independent look at broader issues related to the police bureau and community trust. The initial scope for the third investigation includes:

Racial bias: Are the police bureau's policies, culture or actions influenced by racial bias? If so, what is the extent of any racial bias, what are the root causes of any racial bias, and what are the best practices to addresses those root causes?

Political bias: Are the police bureau's policies, culture or actions influenced by political bias? If so, what is the extent of any political bias, what are the root causes of any political bias, and what are the best practices to address those root causes?

Resistance to change: Are the police bureau's policies, culture or actions resistant to change sought by the community? If so, what is the extent of that resistance, what are the root causes of that resistance, and what are the best practices to address that resistance?

Wheeler and Hardesty hope to finalize the scope and select an independent party to conduct the third investigation as soon as possible.

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Mikel Arteta has had time to sleep on Arsenal's performance against Olympiakos - albeit not much time, given he is back at London Colney for a 9am start - but his assessment the following morning is no less scathing than the one he gave after the game.

"Not acceptable," he tells Sky Sports with a shake of the head. "Our demands internally and individually have to be much higher than that. We cannot just accept losing a game. We are qualified, we are happy. But we know if we continue to do that we will be in trouble."

As ever with Arteta, the message is clear. His Arsenal side have developed a habit of making life difficult for themselves. Their last four games, starting with the 1-1 draw against Burnley and including Sunday's 2-1 win over Tottenham, are proof of that.

But there is no doubting Arteta's determination to rectify the issues and there seems little danger of his standards slipping.

Just ask Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, dropped against Spurs after reporting late on the morning of the game. Or any of the players pushed towards the exit since his appointment.

"When you have clear ideas and principles, it's about applying them," explains Arteta. "There's no point just telling people what we expect from them, then not making the decisions when those things are not accomplished."

The Spaniard is trying to build something at Arsenal, and while he is under no illusions about the areas in need of further attention - of which there are plenty - it is worth listening when he says, as he did last week, that his project is primed to explode into life.

"There are still margins for improvement," he says. "Sometimes it's been the game management. Sometimes it's been the poor decision-making. Sometimes it's been a lack of discipline. Those are the things we have to eradicate if we want to fight with the top teams.

"But I'm seeing the direction that we're taking. I'm seeing the energy that we play with, that we train with. I'm seeing the environment that we are creating around Colney and how involved everyone is, including the staff, the board, everybody.

"That gives me a positive feeling, that if we make some good, positive decisions, we will be really strong."

For now, Arsenal remain 10th in the Premier League, a long way from where Arteta wants them to be. But performances have improved markedly in recent months. The Boxing Day win over Chelsea was the catalyst and the table since Christmas has them in fourth.

The frustration, of course, is that they would be higher if not for those familiar acts of self-sabotage but the underlying numbers suggest better results will come. Opta's expected goals model shows Arsenal have become more dangerous at the top end of the pitch and more resilient at the other.

"I think the ratio of what we are creating and conceding is really, really positive," Arteta says. "When we look at all the stats in the games, the winning probability is really high all the time."

Even, he points out, during Thursday night's defeat to Olympiakos.

"Again, I insist that in possession we weren't at our best, but we still created more than enough chances to win the game," he added. "It was probably not a fair result for what we did on the pitch."

The challenge is to increase efficiency in front of goal - "the solutions have to be found from the players we have," Arteta says - and cut out the errors when playing out from the back. He can only do so much from the dugout but insists both areas are his responsibility.

"I think it's always my responsibility when it's related to things that happen on the pitch," he says. "We have some rules and some principles we have to apply. The worst thing is to send someone out to do certain things and them be scared to do them.

"That's when we have to stay strong. It's about risk and reward. Where you do it and when you do it. You have to get that feeling right and that's obviously a decision for the players to make on the pitch.

"It's true that sometimes, when conceding very little [in terms of chances], we have conceded a goal," Arteta adds, using the recent meetings with Wolves and Burnley as examples.

"We need more clean sheets and we have talked about that. We haven't had enough, even though the defensive performances have been really, really strong."

Arteta will hope to see progress in that department against West Ham on Sunday but his Arsenal side is already a lot closer to what he wants than it was in the first half of the season.

He puts the improvement, in large part, down to the comings and goings of the January transfer window, when Arsenal trimmed their squad of Mesut Ozil, Shkodran Mustafi and others while also recruiting Martin Odegaard and goalkeeper Mat Ryan.

Arteta felt the upheaval was necessary.

"I think what we did in January is unprecedented," he says. "If you look at the amount of changes that we've made in 12 months, it's incredible.

"That has consequences as well because you need some stability. You have to get to a point where you can do two or three things [in a window] and it's done.

"But we had to establish ourselves as a squad as well as a team. We are no longer 32 players, which was impossible to manage. We've got some players who have given us a real boost. I'm talking about the young players but also senior players who started to raise their level.

"We changed our formation, which helped us as well, and we started to find more chemistry around the players and more fluidity. We were much more of a goal threat, and we got more confidence when we started to get results, which in football is one of the main parts."

The mood around the club is now transformed from the first half of the season, when a run of one win from 10 Premier League games between October and December put Arsenal on the brink of crisis.

But as challenging as that period was for everyone at the club, not least the rookie manager at the middle of it all, Arteta believes it also taught him valuable lessons about his players.

"I think it was necessary," he says. "Sometimes you have to reach those levels to have a better picture of why you are there, but also to see who is going to react when those difficult moments come, because you are going to have difficult moments in a season.

"You want to see who stands in front of people and says, 'I'm ready to push', and who just holds the boat.

"Then you can make some decisions.

"I'm really proud the way we managed that situation because there were a lot of things going on - and not just on the pitch.

"To manage that, in this environment, when we can't really spend a lot of time together as well because of the Covid situation, I think we did it well. I'm thankful to everyone that was there because they really pushed to be where we are now."

Arsenal's squad is tighter as a result, and Arteta believes the improved chemistry is helping them on the pitch.

"Every day, you see their faces when they walk to the training ground, always paying attention, and then how they connect with each other and how they talk to the staff," he says.

"When they are doing any activity, where is the energy there? What is the focus when they are training? How much attention are they paying to what we are demanding to do? How do they interact with each other when things aren't going that well?

"And, for me, the most important thing in the end is when they talk about the club, about how they are feeling here, how is their body language? What are the words that they use to describe how they are? When that's positive, I think you are in the right direction."

That is not to say Arteta isn't keeping them on their toes.

Aubameyang's absence against Spurs was a reminder that the manager's stance on his "non-negotiables" is unchanged.

"It's our platform, it's the way we live together, and if there is not respect, if there is not trust, if there are not values that we represent every day, nothing is going to happen to achieve what we want to do," Arteta adds.

"We have to be so stable. We have to be so specific, so detailed and so good to challenge the top teams in this country and in Europe, that if you don't have that discipline and that togetherness, you're not going to achieve it, I'm 100 per cent sure, because quality-wise we are still not there."

Arsenal hope to add more quality this summer. Arteta says he is already in "constant communication" with technical director Edu about potential targets and areas in which they can strengthen.

"We are planning everything for the summer, the same with the board, with [chief executive] Vinai [Venkatesham], with [non-executive director] Tim [Lewis], and with the owners," he says.

"We are very clear on how we want to do it.

"When you have to change 10 or 12 things in one window [as in January] it's a lot, and that has some consequences with what has happened in previous months and what is going to happen in the following months.

"We still have to do quite a lot of things to do, but we will get to the point, hopefully, where it's just ticking off a few things and the stability is there, because you need that as well to be consistent and be competitive."

One important consideration for Arteta when it comes to this summer's recruitment is ensuring pathways are not blocked for the club's young players.

Academy graduates Emile Smith Rowe and Bukayo Saka have become key figures for Arsenal in recent months while Gabriel Martinelli's late cameo against Olympiakos, following a period out of the side, was a reminder of his considerable talent.

For Arteta, it is a question of striking the right balance between patience and opportunity.

"It's about doing things in the right moments, when they can shine, when they protected and when they have the right players around them as well," he says.

"It's not about playing all the young players in every game, but we are putting a plan together, so they have space around the squad, space in the team, and we have the right flow between the players so they can become really important at the club. That path is being created."

It is just another reason for optimism about what Arteta is doing at Arsenal. The Premier League table does not yet reflect their progress and results like Thursday's are a reminder of the work ahead. But the future looks brighter with him at the helm - even if there are a few more of those scathing assessments still to come.

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Believe it or not it is getting easier to receive a vaccine here in Rockland; nearly 23 percent of our population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That equates to 73,783 people who have gotten a shot in their arms to protect themselves, their families, and our community from this disease.

And with New York State finally removing some of the internal hurdles they set up we are now able to give doses to ANY eligible individuals. Prior to this week we were extremely limited in who we could give shots to due to NYS mandates. I am incredibly pleased that the State has finally seen the error of their ways and agreed to let local health departments vaccinate those who we know need it most.

We have heard of additional doses also being supplied to pharmacies by the Federal government though we dont know how many or to which locations. Still, every vaccine coming here to Rockland is a great step in the right direction. Our recent allocations are vastly improved over the numbers we were seeing in the early weeks and we are making hard fought progress.

Our Health Department is working with community groups and municipalities to host vaccine clinics around Rockland in the areas which need it most. We were in Spring Valley last week and you can expect to see them in Haverstraw soon. You can check on our local vaccination progress by visiting the newest map created by our Planning Department here:

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The map shows a breakdown of zip codes and the percent of their population which has received a vaccine. Some areas are doing very well, others not as well. The professionals in our Health Department will continue to focus their efforts on the areas lagging behind because this disease affects everyone regardless of gender, race or religion and the only way to fully protect our community is to get everyone vaccinated.

In addition to our Health Departments outreach efforts to areas that have been underserved by the vaccination process so far, we have now streamlined the sign-up process on our COVID-19 website to make it easier for residents to get appointments to be vaccinated at our clinic in Pomona: http://rocklandgov.com/departments/health/coronavirus-covid-19/

We appreciate hearing from so many of you who have been recently vaccinated and encourage you to tell your friends, families and neighbors to get the shot when it is their turn. In the meantime, if you still need help obtaining a vaccination, we in County government are here to help.

Rockland residents age 60+ can sign up for the Senior COVID-19 Vaccine Waitlist by calling the Rockland County Office for the Aging at 845-364-2110, Monday through Friday (except holidays), 8:00 am 5:00 pm. Spanish and Creole speakers are available. In addition, residents can sign up online at http://rcklnd.us/c19-waitlist.

Anyone else with questions can call the Rockland County COVID-19 Call Center at 845-238-1956 Monday-Friday (except holidays) from 8:00 am 5:00 pm or email [emailprotected]

We truly are making progress and we will get through this process by working together, supporting each other and by acting as true neighbors and looking out for those who are the most at-risk.

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The city of Paragould is to review bids received to build the Eight Mile Creek biking and hiking trail at the end of this month.

The spearheading Greene County Future Fund has been tracking the progress on the project since its inception. According to information made available by Kimberly Dale of the Fund, it has lined up nearly $1 million in grants to make the project happen. And as previously reported, the city of Paragould appropriated $882,500 for the project in its 2020 budget. Of that total, the city spent only $48,040; the balance remains available for appropriation this year.

Paragould Mayor Josh Agee, also a member of the Greene County Future Fund, said on March 8 that the estimated cost of the project will be around $2 million. Well be taking bids at the end of March, he said, so well know.

The bids are to be opened on the 30th at 2 p.m. in City Hall, 301 W. Court St.

When finished, the trail will stretch about four miles from Bland Park on the west to the Highway 412 bridge over the creek between Eighth and 11th Avenues. The trail is to consist of a 10-foot wide, two-inch thick asphalt path, for walking and bicycling. Its aim when completed, according to information from the Future Fund, will be to:

Provide health benefits of biking and walking to area residents, and reduce the incidence of diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

Attract more businesses to Paragould and raise property values, in the expectation that (according to the National Association of Homebuilders) more people will want to move to a city with such amenities, creating more customers for those businesses.

Provide a physical connection among Paragould High School, Paragould Primary School, Greene County Tech Primary School, Harmon Park, Bland Park and Labor Park.

Although the route of the trail intersects Highways 412 and 49, the trail itself will pass beneath the roadways. Then-mayor Mike Gaskill had insisted the trail not actually cross roadways, and routing the trail along the creek beneath the roadways satisfied the concern.

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At its regular meeting, Monday, March 22, at 7 p.m., the Livermore City Council will hold a public hearing to consider the Annual Progress Report (APR).

This progress report tracks the citys progress toward implementing the housing element of the general plan and meeting its Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA).

The city completed its sixth year of implementing the 2015-2022 housing element.

Government Code Section 65400 requires the city to submit the APR to both the State Housing and Community Development Department and the Governors Office of Planning and Research by April 1.

Government Code Section 65400 also requires that city council consider the report and allow public comment. If council accepts the report, staff will file it with the state prior to the April 1 deadline.

In addition, the Surplus Public Land state law Assembly Bill (AB) 1486 and AB 1255 made changes to the Surplus Land Act and established a new statutory reporting requirement for the 2020 APR. This legislation requires each local agency to establish and report an inventory of publicly owned parcels it has identified as surplus land.

Staff has identified two publicly owned vacant parcels near the northwest corner of Stanley Boulevard and Murrieta Boulevard that will not be necessary for the city's use. The city has not used them, because they have access constraints and are adjacent to a flood channel.

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On March 3rd last year Marcus Stewart and Susan Wrafter found themselves among thousands of travellers at Innsbruck Airport.

Austria had just confirmed two Covid-19 cases and immediately went into a lockdown. Tourists feared they might get stuck.

The couple originally planned to go skiing in northern Italy, but this was cancelled when the region became Europes canary in the coal mine of the pandemic. Their alternative holiday in Austria was cut short, too.

Stewart and Wrafter spent 11 hours at Innsbruck Airport waiting for a flight. On the day before they left the Saint Anton am Arlberg resort, an older lady they had met went into hospital with suspected Covid-19 symptoms.

At the airport Wrafter (37), a personal trainer and pharmacist, developed a cough. I genuinely thought it was psychosomatic. We were so saturated with news of coronavirus, she says.

When they arrived in Dublin, both were exhibiting flu-like symptoms - a heavy fever and fatigue. After two weeks they thought they had seen the back of Covid-19, but a year on they are still suffering.

Stewart (40), producer of RTs Eco Eye programme, says the symptoms never really went away.

Wed be grand for a while and then we would be hit with it again. We dont get the fever anymore, but we get the extreme fatigue, he says. Every time I exercise thats when it really kicks in. I just hit the wall. I feel and look like death. Id be up all night sweating vinegar.

Stewart and Wrafter have long Covid and because Covid-19 is a relatively new disease, sufferers do not know when it is going to end.

Before catching the disease, both had trained as fitness instructors. Wrafter represented Ireland at touch rugby two years ago, but now struggles at times to carry their daughter Sofia (2) up the stairs without becoming breathless. She has been in and out of hospital for the last year.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. You think you are making progress, you think you are over the worst of it and then it rears its ugly head again.

Long Covid mainly affects women, according to Prof Frances Williams of Kings College London, who is part of an international team overseeing the Zoe Covid Symptom Tracker App study, which has produced findings about who is most at risk of long Covid.

Women tend to come forward more readily with symptom reporting, but our work with the Zoe app shows there is an increased risk in women and this is reflected in the fact that women are more likely to get post-viral fatigue, she explains. Fatigue and chronic pain in women can be a factor in long Covid and the menopausal symptoms dont help that as well.

Williams says it is difficult to get a statistical handle yet on the prevalence of long Covid in women compared to men as the definition is still evolving. The UKs National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has defined long Covid as symptoms that persist after three months. The previous definition was eight weeks.

Around 2 per cent of people infected with Covid-19 develop long Covid. It is not a huge proportion, but amounts to around 5,000 people in Ireland.

Stewart says it is a debilitating condition.

The hardest part is not knowing then it will end or if this is a permanent situation. Myself and Sue both go through phases where we think were getting better and improving but then were hit again.

Oonagh Carr (45), who lives in Clontarf, Dublin, picked up Covid-19 last March from her husband, who was working in London at the time. He fully recovered, but she has endured a year of sickness that has required her to take long periods off work.

After being out of work for 10 weeks I returned in June but had to sign out again in October as I had a bad relapse of symptoms, she says.

I have been having extreme dizzy spells (a new symptom) and gastrointestinal symptoms, too. I still have some issues with vision despite having had my eyes checked and the ophthalmologist not finding an explanation for this.

Tanja Buwalda (46), from Crosshaven, Co Cork, said her symptoms were initially so mild that it could be confused with anything. She felt tired and run down, and then lost her sense of smell. Six weeks later she noticed she was out of breath.

Symptom after symptom started to pile on during the summer. From August to October I was bed-ridden.

She discovered an online community that had 35,000 people worldwide with long Covid signed-up. She now says she is 70 per cent better, thanks to a cocktail of supplements.

I have had to come to terms with the fact that I have a chronic illness. My energy levels are very low, she says. You have to hope that the science will catch up. They are still learning so much about this disease.

Anita OLeary (39), from Thurles, Co Tipperary, had two underlying conditions before contracting Covid-19 last March. She is a coeliac and has an underactive thyroid. She now has another autoimmune condition, Psoriatic arthritis, which she says she developed as a result of long Covid.

Doctors have given her everything they can to help, but nothing has worked.

I am taking myself off tablets because nothing is helping me, she says.

She has been offered anti-depressants by doctors but has refused them.

I have never been an anxious person. I am very much the person who gets up and copes. I have never liked being a victim in my life before, but it is very hard when you are getting to the stage that doctors are offering you anti-depressants.

Prof Clona N Cheallaigh , an infectious diseases specialist at St Jamess Hospital in Dublin, says there is a lot doctors do not know about the disease.

We dont understand what causes long Covid at all. Until we understand it, we dont know how to treat it. Its a wait and see approach, she says.

What is certain that it is a disease that primarily affects women of childbearing years.

That may be a clue as to what is causing it. Some women report that symptoms come with their menstrual cycle and it may be related to oestrogen or progesterone.

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Long Covid: You think you are making progress...then it rears its ugly head again - The Irish Times

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) -- Louisville's football team wrapped up spring practice Wednesday afternoon and afterwards coach Scott Satterfield called the 15 workouts "very successful."

"A lot of good stuff, a lot of good work this spring," he said during a media teleconference. "I thought we had very good energy throughout the spring on both sides of the ball and on special teams. It's good to see a lot of young guys make plays and get better from the start to the end."

In that category, Satterfield mentioned defensive linemen Ashton Gilotte and Michael Gonzalez and wide receiver Ahmari Huggins-Bruce.

Satterfield, coming off a 4-7 season and operating with four new assistant coaches, said the spring was valuable in giving the newcomers on the staff the opportunity to blend in and get to know the players. He also noted that 10 true freshmen who enrolled early and four key transfers were getting their first indoctrination into the Cardinals' system.

Several players changed positions, including Jack Fagot, from safety to outside linebacker; walk-on Greg Desrosiers from wide receiver to running back; and Desmond Daniels, from tight end to the offensive line.

Fagot (6-0, 195), a former walk-on who was rewarded with a scholarship prior to the 2019 season, has played in 29 games during his career, including three starts last season.

"He's a very heady player to be able to move down closer to the box and I think it will help him," Satterfield said. "He's still learning the position and has to get better, but he gives us more depth at outside linebacker, where we need depth."

One of the most pleasing things for Satterfield was seeing junior running back Hassan Hall show indications that he will return to his 2019 form after regressing last season. He was an All-ACC Second Team choice two years ago after rushing for 501 yards and five touchdown while also returning kickoffs for 793 yards, with a 30.5 average that ranked fourth nationally. But last season he played in only eight games, gaining 223 yards with two TDs, and his kickoff return average dropped to 21.2.

"I thought Hassan, for where he was at in the fall, was a new player this spring," Satterfield said. "We didn't get a lot of production from him last year, we all know that. But he came in with a different attitude and he's worked his tail off. We all know he's very explosive. Hopefully, he's back to that old form he had when we first got here, when he had some big plays for us."

One newcomer to keep an eye on next fall is Shai Werts, a grad transfer from Georgia Southern, where he had 6,000 yards of total offense in 46 games at quarterback. At Louisville he will be primarily a slot receiver but will also fill the role of emergency quarterback.

"He's played a lot of college football, and with that experience it doesn't matter what the position is," Satterfield said. "Understanding blocking assignments as a receiver I think is probably the biggest thing for him. But I think he's a guy that gives us depth at the receiver spot, and we need it."

Last week with two practices remaining, Werts had this to say about his move from quarterback to receiver:

"I have my good days and my bad days. The transition has been smooth and it feels natural. At the end of the day, I'm an athlete, so it's been smooth overall."

Limiting turnovers was a focus going into spring drills because UofL lost the ball 24 times last season, rankin 124th of 127 teams in the FBS. Satterfield thought the Cards made progress, although he acknowledged that he won't know for sure until they face someone other than themselves.

"It's hard to gauge when you're going against each other," he said. "You basically look at decision-making in the throwing game, whether you're throwing interceptions and why, and I think we made some strides in that. I also thought we took care of the football in terms of fumbles a lot better as an overall offense."

UofL will open the 2021 season on Sept. 6 against Mississippi in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Classic in Atlanta.

"We still have a lot of work to do," Satterfield said. "But the good thing is we still have six weeks left in the semester. We'll use that time learning and growing as a team, we just won't be able to use a football now. But we'll be able to do a lot of things within our team to finish out the semester."

Russ Brown, a former sportswriter for The Courier-Journal and USA Today, covers University of Louisville sports and college football and basketball for Kentucky Today. He can be contacted at 0926.russ.brown@gmail.com.

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Paul Clemence Releases New Images Highlighting SHoP's 111 West 57th in Progress

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Paul Clemence has released a new series of images, showcasing the on-going construction works on 111 West 57th, designed by SHoP. Located in New York, the residential tower is set to become the second-tallest building in the city by roof height, and the most slender tall building in the world, once completed.

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Originally planned to be completed in 2020, works on SHoP's 111 West 57th are still undergoing, as documented in Paul Clemences recent photo series. Positioned to create an almost perfectly symmetrical view of Central Park for residents, the tower that topped out in 2019, is a superstructure measuring 1428-feet-tall.

Located on Billionaires Row, two blocks south of Central Park, the residential tower is a slender structure with a facade of glass and terracotta. Constructed by JDS Development and Property Markets Group, the project was expected to be the first $100 million sale in NYC.

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A bike rack at the Spring Hill Metro by GKJ.

Alternatives to cars have made progress in recent years in Tysons, particularly with the opening of the Silver Line. In many parts of the edge city, some or most errands can be done by foot, though often not without facing off against wide crosswalks and long superblocks. Multiple public transportation options are available throughout Tysons. But bicycling through Tysons, according to a market study, is still hazardous.

While Tysons has some bike lanes on certain roads there is still work to be done to create a connected network, reads the market study conducted by HR&A Advisors for the Tysons Partnership (note: Tysons Partnership underwrites this coverage but has no editorial oversight.) Compared to more urban peers like Downtown DC, Tysons lacks protected bike lanes and a denser street network more suitable for biking.

According to the report, 39% of road segments in Tysons are rated caution by Fairfax Countys Department of Transportation. Out of 25 miles of road, only about two miles get Fairfax Countys highest bikeability rating of preferred. Nearly 10 miles rank in the most dangerous category.

Areas of comparable bike friendliness are often isolated and do not necessarily connect neighborhoods or across busy intersections and streets like Route 7, the report says.

Much of Tysons challenge with bikeability is how it was built: as a suburban center of superblocks built to optimize car traffic. Fast-moving busy arterials like Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) and Route 123 (Dolley Madison Boulevard and Chain Bridge Road) cut through the center of town, forcing bicyclists to navigate traffic and speed limits built for much larger vehicles.

The studys conclusion that much of Tysons is still hostile to bicyclists matches how those who do ride bicycles in Tysons have described the experience. A GGWash article last year quotes bicyclists who call the experience intimidating and describe close calls as flirting with death.

Fairfax County's bike map of Tysons, showing bicycle routes, trails, and bike shops.

The market study cites Walkscore.coms bikeability rating, which gives 57% of Tysons addresses the lowest score, somewhat bikeable. Only 2% of Tysons addresses are very bikeable.

Walkability scores better than bikeability, with 63% of Tysons addresses being rated either somewhat or very walkable, according to Walkscore. But that includes commercial addresses when residential addresses are sectioned out, more than half of them are in car-dependent locations.

Lingering challenges with bikeability and walkability could help explain why even though more Tysons residents work in Tysons ZIP codes than in any other, only 6% of residents walked or biked to work in 2018, the most recent year in the HR&A report.

Walkability is a major component of the Tysons Comprehensive Plan, the master planning document introduced in 2010 to transform Tysons from a suburban office park to a multi-use urban center. To make Tysons more walkable, the Comprehensive Plan established a goal of building out a series of grid streets, smaller streets to break up Tysons superblocks and create safer, more pleasant pedestrian travel routes.

A look atcurrent and conceptual grid of streetsin Tysons. Image from Fairfax County.

That new pedestrian-friendly network can be seen in a handful of new developments such as The Boro, as well as pedestrian and bicycle trails but most of it hasnt yet been built.

Although the proportion of residents walking or biking to work hasnt changed much since the Comprehensive Plan was first implemented, the percentage of residents commuting to work alone by car has declined, from 75% in 2010 to 70% in 2018. Most of that decline is attributable to an uptick in residents taking transit to work, largely due to the opening of the Silver Line.

As in most places, the pandemic threw a wrench into Tysons travel and commuting patterns, but its not yet clear what commuting will look like on the other side. What does seem clear, however, is that for more people to choose walking and bicycling in Tysons, structural changes will have to come first.

Editors note: A member of Greater Greater Washingtons Board of Directors is also a partner with HR&A Advisors. Our board has no influence over editorial decisions, nor content, in any way.

This article is part of our ongoing coverage of Tysons underwritten by the Tysons Partnership and community partners. Greater Greater Washington maintains full editorial independence over its content.

Libby Solomon is a writer and editor for GGWash. She was previously a reporter for the Baltimore Sun covering the Baltimore suburbs and a writer for Johns Hopkins Universitys Centers for Civic Impact. A Baltimore resident, Libby enjoys running and painting in her spare time.

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