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Are sex offender registries reinforcing inequality?
Trevor Hoppe, University at Albany, State University of New York
Public sex offender registries are at the forefront of what I've described in my research as a "war on sex."
Offenders convicted of sex crimes are now singled out for surveillance and restrictions far more punitive than those who commit other types of crime. More than 800,000 Americans are now registered sex offenders. Tracking them has created a booming surveillance industry.
In my work on sex offender registries, I have found that black men in the U.S. were registered at rates twice that of white men – resembling disparities found in the criminal justice system at large. However, these findings speak to the scope of the problem of American sex offender registries, as approximately 1 percent of black men in the U.S. are now registered sex offenders. My research suggests that inequality is deeply tied to sex offender policies.
Studies have found that rates in sex offender registration have ballooned more than 24 percent between 2005 and 2013. I wondered, is this in line with other trends in American corrections?
Data show it is not.
Although the U.S. still incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, correctional supervision rates in the U.S. (including people in jail or prison as well as those on parole or probation) peaked in 2007 and have been declining since, albeit at a molasses pace. That means sex offender registries have grown while the prison population has shrunk.
Imagine being punished for something you did three decades ago. You served your time and thought it was in the past. Under American sex offender laws, moving on is nearly impossible: Most state policies are retroactive, meaning they apply to offenders who committed offenses before these laws were put in place. While these laws are the subject of several ongoing court battles, most remain in effect.
A sex offender registry board image.
AP Photo/Steven Senne
Offenders are subject to extensive public notification requirements, which include state-run search engine listings that feature their address, mugshot, criminal history and demographic information. In some cases, offenders are also required to publicly post flyers with their pictures or run newspaper notices advertising their residency. Some states, such as Louisiana, stamp "SEX OFFENDER" in large red script on driver's licenses.
Having a mugshot disseminated across internet search engines is only the tip of the iceberg; once registered, offenders are subject to a wide array of housing and employment restrictions.
In many places in the U.S., sex offenders are effectively zoned out of cities and towns because there are no residential areas that satisfy all of the numerous regulations. For example, offenders may be prohibited from living within a certain number of feet from a playground.
They are often left with no choice but to live under highways or in improvised communities, such as the one in Pahokee, Florida depicted in the New York Times 2013 short film, "Sex Offender Village."
Why have registries?
Punishment scholar Jonathan Simon argues that the rise of sex offender registries is the result of lawmakers' efforts to "govern through crime." In other words, today's lawmakers assert their authority by enforcing order and promoting fear of crime. This approach differs from, say, politicians who secure authority by promoting a social welfare agenda and social safety net.
Lawmakers offer a different explanation. They argue that more invasive policies are necessary because sex offenders are highly likely to commit future crimes. In their view, informing the public of their criminal history will offer protection. But as the U.S. federal government's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking notes, sex offender registration requirements "have been implemented in the absence of empirical evidence regarding their effectiveness."
Now that all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. have developed such registries, the evidence testing the effectiveness of sex offender registries is beginning to mount. It is mixed, at best.
Do registries work?
One study followed sex offenders who were labeled "high-risk" for reoffending and who were released from Wisconsin prisons in the late 1990s. That study compared offenders who were subjected to limited public notification requirements with those who were subjected to extensive requirements. The researchers found no significant difference in the average time between release and a future offense. In other words, extensive public notification did not deter future offenses.
However, another study evaluated the likelihood of reoffending for sexual offenders labeled "high risk" released from Minnesota state correctional facilities. Here researchers found that offenders subject to community notification were somewhat less likely to commit another sexual offense.
Finally, a recent study found that sex offenders released in Florida between 1990 and 2010 had lower rates of recidivism than offenders of other types of crime – 6.5 percent for sex offenses, as compared to 8.3 percent for nonsexual assaults and 29.8 percent for drug offenses. Moreover, that study found that recidivism rates increased after the state legislature implemented sex offender registration requirements in 1997.
While the evidence is mixed that these policies are effective at deterring crime, the evidence of their collateral consequences is more consistent. Several studies of registered sex offenders have revealed how registries reinforce class inequality by creating patterned experiences of unemployment, harassment and homelessness.
From a public safety perspective, scholars note that registries provide the public with a false sense of security: While the existence of sex offender registries reinforces a myth of "stranger danger," most offenders in reality are acquaintances or family members. Balancing the thin support of the registries' effectiveness against the more robust evidence of their negative effects, one scholar recently concluded these policies do more harm than good.
My research suggests there is also a racialized dimension to the war on sex offenders that complicates arguments in their favor. The evidence does not strongly suggest registries are effective at deterring crime. Rather, their most lasting impact may be their exacerbation of inequalities based on race, class and gender.
Trevor Hoppe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York


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Q: Increment one of two variables randomly by one Given two variables:
var counter1 = 0;
var counter2 = 0;

at the press of a button how can i make one of them increment its value by one?

A: try something like this:
if(Math.random > 0.5){
    counter1 += 1;
} else {
    counter2 += 1;
}

A: This should add 1 point to one of the 2 random numbers

var count1 = 0;
var count2 = 0;

function randomIncrement() {
  if(Math.random() < 0.5) {
    count1 +=1;
    console.log("count1 = " + count1);
  } else {
    count2 +=1;
    console.log("count2 = " + count2);
  }
}
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A: Here's some code that will increment counter1 when a button with id myButton is clicked:
document.getElementById("myButton").addEventListener("click", function(){
    counter1++;
});

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Joyful Iraqi Christians return to Nineveh Plains to celebrate Holy Week
By Bashar Jameel Hanna for CNA
April 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print
A Christian family in Qaraqosh sporting their traditional dressing for Holy Week in April 2022. / Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA
Qaraqosh, Iraq, Apr 11, 2022 / 15:08 pm (CNA).
After almost a decade of death and destruction, and one year after the historic visit of Pope Francis to Iraq, more than 25,000 Assyrian Christians in Qaraqosh chanted "Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna."
Qaraqosh, a majority-Christian Assyrian town located at the heart of the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, is less than 20 miles southeast of Mosul, the city that in 2014 was the de facto capital of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the region.
Two decades ago, Mosul, Qaraqosh, and other towns in the Nineveh Plains were the home of approximately 1.5 million Christians in northern Iraq. After the second U.S. invasion in 2004 and the ISIS uprising in 2014, only about 300,000 Christians remained.
But on Palm Sunday, April 10, the town became the Christian epicenter of Iraq during a procession and a Mass presided by His Beatitude Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Yonan and Patriarch of Antioch and all the East for the Syriac Catholic Church.
Patriarch Joseph III Younan of Antioch leads a Palm Sunday processing in Qaraqosh, Iraq, on April 10, 2022. Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA
Accompanying them were Archbishop Mitja Lescovar, the apostolic nuncio to Iraq; Bishop Nathanael Nizar Samaan, metropolitan of the Syriac diocese of Hydiab-Erbil and the rest of the Kurdistan Region; Archbishop Ephrem Youssef Abba Mansour, of the Syriac Diocese of Baghdad, and Bishop Atanasius Firas Mundher Dardar, patriarchal vicar for the Syriac Catholics in Basra (Basorah) and the Arabian Gulf.
The multitude of the faithful surrounded and walked along with Patriarch Younan, who was carrying a cross adorned with olive branches.
The procession around the town set off from the Great Church of St. Mary at Al-Tahira, the largest church building of the Syriac Catholic Church, and the largest church in Iraq since its consecration in 1952. The church was desecrated and burned by ISIS, but thanks to the help of Catholic organizations in the West, such as Aid to the Church in Need, it was restored in time for Pope Francis' visit in March 2021.
Palm Sunday crowds gather outside the restored Church of St. Mary at Al-Tahira, in Qaraqosh, the largest Catholic church in Iraq, on April 10, 2022. Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA
Walking through the streets of the city, praying the rosary in Arabic and Syriac, and singing Palm Sunday songs were Christians from surrounding villages, different regions of Iraq, and even Iraqi expatriates from Europe, the United States, and Australia.
Among the returnees was Sabah Yacoub, who was visiting from Germany.
"(Qaraqosh) lives in our blood because it is our rock. And all of Iraq lives in our blood, because it is our original land. We were forcibly displaced from it because of ISIS, who wanted to kill us, our families, our daughters, so we had to migrate from the country to a safe place," Yacoub told ACI MENA, CNA's Arabic-language sister news agency.
"I settled in Germany," Yacoub continued, "but when we fall asleep it comes to our minds, so every year I come to Iraq on the holidays, in particular, and I consider it a pilgrimage to my country, and we wait for the day when we can find stability in (Qaraqosh) and our beloved Iraq."
Around 25,000 Christians in Qaraqosh participated in the Palm Sunday procession on April 10, 2022. CREDIT: Bashar Yameel Hanna/CNA
Qaraqosh has been only partially rebuilt and it is estimated that only half of its original Christian population is back. But the Catholic clergy, the first group to enter the town after ISIS' defeat, continues to lead the reconstruction effort.
The Palm Sunday procession was decorated with palm fronds, roses, bright colors, and folkloric costumes characteristic of Holy Week and Easter.
As one of the six members of the Hana Qasha family told ACI MENA: "All people are rejoicing in the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We welcome our Lord Jesus Christ with songs, hymns, chants, various folk costumes and bright colors, the colors of spring. This is (Qaraqosh's) wedding."
His Beatitude Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan, Patriarch for the Syriac Catholic Church, at Palm Sunday ceremony in Qaraqosh, Iraq, on April 10, 2022. Bashar Yameel Hannah/CNA
The procession included the participation of the traditional confraternities of the Immaculate Conception and the Sacred Heart, and the catechumens who will be received into the Catholic Church on Easter.
"We are here to announce to the world that we are in this region as the children of hope, the children of love who want to live a life of dignity under the banner of the cross and the banner of the one Iraqi flag," Patriarch Younan said.
"Here we celebrate the occasion of the Lord's entry into Jerusalem, as even the stones cry out, 'Hosanna to the son of David,' and the church that was burned down by the Islamic State, was restored to scream, as its stones cry out, 'Hosanna to the son of David,'" he said in closing.
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Nonscheduled 14 CFR Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
Accident occurred Monday, June 23, 2014 in Texarkana, TX
Aircraft: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS AS-350B2, registration: N407EM
The commercial pilot and two flight crewmembers were conducting an emergency medical services flight. The helicopter was in cruise flight when the pilot noticed that the rotor rpm had rapidly increased and that the high rotor aural warning had sounded. Despite troubleshooting efforts, the pilot was unable to reduce the rotor rpm, so he performed on autorotation to a field. During the subsequent runon landing, the helicopter touched down hard. During the landing, the main rotors contacted and partially severed the tailboom.
Disassembly of the fuel control unit (FCU) revealed that the two drive bearings that ensure drive integrity between the FCU and the fuel pump had failed. The failure of the bearings led to excessive wear in the races and degraded the drive shaft such that it could no longer provide positive drive to the FCU, which the FCU interpreted as an underspeed condition. This led the FCU to command more power to the engine and resulted in an engine overspeed condition. Metallurgical testing of the FCU drive bearings did not reveal the reason for their failure. As a result of this accident, the engine manufacturer adjusted the FCU bearing replacement schedule from a one-time replacement to replacement every 600 hours.
The failure of the two fuel control unit drive bearings for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence, which resulted in an uncommanded engine acceleration and subsequent overspeed condition. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing.
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USA Team Handball (USATH) is pleased to announce that the Men's Junior National Team (MJNT) will compete at the 2019 IHF Men's Junior World Championships from July 15 to July 29 in Vigo, Spain.
Team USA will be in Group A with Spain, Slovenia, Serbia, Tunisia, and Japan, and lead off the tournament on July 16 against host Spain.
The USA Team Handball selection committee comprised of Robert Hedin, (MNT Head Coach/Chair), Christian Latulippe, (WNT Head Coach), David Thompson, (Athletes' Rep), Julio Sainz, (Men's JMNT Head Coach), and Mark Ortega, (MNT Assistant Coach), selected sixteen athletes, and their alternates, from the existing Men's Junior National Team athlete pool. All selected athletes have met all of the requirements for selection.
The Men's Junior World Championship staff will be Julio Sainz as the Head Coach, assisted by Youth National Team Coach Craig Rot, and Martin Bilello; Lauren Church will serve as the Certified Athletic Trainer, and Dee Miller as the Team Leader.
These are the selected athletes and their alternates (in alphabetical order):
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Q: Unable to create Transactional ORC table in Hive I am trying to create a transactional ORC table in Hive using beeline.
DDL:

CREATE TABLE employee_trans (
 id int,
 name string,
 age int,
 gender string)
 STORED AS ORC
 TBLPROPERTIES ('transactional'='true');

I have also set the below properties:
SET hive.support.concurrency=true;
SET hive.txn.manager=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lockmgr.DbTxnManager;

But I am getting the below error,
Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:The table must be bucketed and stored using an ACID compliant format (such as ORC))

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The Foundation for Economic Growth is a group of like-minded individuals who have decided to act rather than accept New Zealand's continuing poor economic performance. The Foundation is not affiliated with any political party. Add Your Comments Here.
I am not an economist but I had that feeling that New Zealand was not doing very well. It was 2003 and when I began looking for answers it seemed that indeed New Zealand was not doing well and in fact it was running down hill and had been doing so since around 1950.
The answer seemed to lie in Economic Growth and perhaps GDP was the measure to use. Not because it was the best measure but because economists had been using it for many decades and for all countries so we could at least get some idea of how we were doing compared with the rest of the world.
So I emailed a few of my friends and explained that we ought to get some growth into the economy and stop sliding down hill and start moving back up to where we once were.
The next Saturday at the squash club, when we were sitting down for a small ale, my very good friend pulls my email out of his pocket and says, "Well, what are you going to do about it?"
And so the Foundation for Economic Growth was born.
When I found more information about GDP history around the world I had the information for the graph you see on the Home Page. New Zealand since 1950 had indeed been a disaster and although it looked as if the David Lange and Roger Douglas government had managed to pull things around and start the upward growth spurt and National had not done anything to impede the natural growth capabilities of lower taxes and more freedom. But the new Helen/Michael Labour government seemed to us to be aiming in the opposite direction.
During 2004 we set up our Society with the original 15 members from amongst our friends and signed up a further 45 members in the ensuing year or two.
We were off to good start! Or at least we thought so.
The Search For The Truth.
Then of course we had to find out how our economy worked and was it as simple as just increasing GDP. Like all the real economists I discovered that the answer is, "Yes and No".
Yes, GDP was a good measure of wealth in a country and since it had been widely used and calculated for all countries for more than 100 years it showed lots of interesting comparisons as countries became more or less wealthy compared with each other over the years. Argentina, for instance, was right up there with us (we were at number 2) in 1900 but had plummeted to number 100 by 1950 and is only recently pulling itself up the table and is still well below us today. We were level with Australia in 1973 at around number 17 but since then Australia has gone up a few places and we have declined to 38. People in Australia were wealthier than us. They were living in a high waged society. No wonder so many Kiwis were shifting over the Tasman.
It surprised me to learn that their is no natural order of things and that in fact countries could stuff things up and make their people very poor. Just like Mugabe is doing for his people in Zimbabwe at the moment. Other countries could break the habits of many generations and suddenly start climbing the wealth mountain in dramatic spurts - like Ireland for instance.
So, on the face of it we should increase our GDP growth rate and if we could maintain it at a higher rate than other nations at around the same level as ourselves we would become a country of wealthy people once more.
No, because there is so much behind the simple GDP number that we need to understand. For instance, part of the make up of GDP is growth in government. So a burgeoning public sector would help show an increasing GDP but as we learned, larger governments produce poor people. (This is obvious when we consider the socialist countries of last century.) When the government ran everything the growth was reversed and countries with some wealth became poverty stricken.
But to get back to the main line we did manage to find out what would increase GDP and the wealth of all citizens. And we found out that economic growth made everybody wealthier. Sure, wealthy people got even wealthier but everyone else got wealthy as well. Thus economic growth would make our poorer citizens wealthier. The other big advantage of running a society aimed at economic growth was that it had to be a very free society and it had to have a very small government. This provides much opportunity for the least wealthy citizens to work hard and become as wealthy as their ambition dictated! And studies showed that although there was always a bunch of people struggling on low incomes in every society - in the wealthy growth oriented countries this bunch of people was always changing. That is, people didn't remain poor. Some of them became wealthy and thus served as an inspiration to others. Others might make mistakes and find themselves (temporarily) down but not out!
Way, way back in 1972 I went back to 'Varsity to study Economics 101. I found myself studying Maths around broadly sketched Supply/Demand Price curves. I was quite good at this but I didn't learn much economics.
This was a fortunate experience because when I came back to study Economics this time, I decided to teach myself from the InterNet and I have managed to miss out on the standard indoctrination.
1) In Economics we cannot perform reproducable experiments. In Science, such as Physics, we can do an experiment, for instance, which shows that as we apply pressure to a fixed volume of a gas the gas will reduce in volume. And if we keep the temperature and everything else constant during this experiment we find that the same thing happens each time. When someone else does the same experiment they get the same result. When everybody finds that there is a straight line relationship between pressure and volume our hypothesis becomes a law. And it will remain so until someone finds something else when performing this experiment. This is Science.
Physics is a science but economics is not. In Economics we cannot perform experiments where we hold all variables constant except the one we want to measure. Economies have too many variables and are too fluid to even contemplate such a course of action. There are techniques (Multi-variate analysis) for comparing a number of continually varying attributes but this gives approximate conclusions and works best with just a few variables. Economies have thousands of variables which makes it impossible to measure or even estimate all of them.
2) Physics is concerned with the real world which consists of 92 natural elements and few man-made ones. They are made up of atoms which are very small. A million carbon atoms is about the same as a human hair for instance. So when we start experimenting with materials in Physics we are looking at things which consist of an enormous number of atoms. A cube of hair as long and as deep as the width of one hair for instance would consist of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms if they were all carbon.
The world of economics is concerned with human actions which are on completely a different scale. We have billions of differing actions and only thousands or millions of examples of identical ones. Quite the opposite set of circumstance from real world materials as studied in Physics. The same kind of mathematics is not suitable for dealing with both phenomena. Trying to use calculus on economic data will not produce real world results like it does in Physics.
So econometrics (the maths of economics) doesn't work very well in predicting the future.
Economics in the real world is the study of human actions. It is the study of people interacting to satisfy their needs. Early societies learned that if they could agree on what to use for money, people could become more specialised and instead of the baker exchanging five loaves for a pair of sandals he would sell his loaves for money and then use the money to buy sandals or anything else as and when he needed things.
So society changed from simple tribes and bartering to complex civilisations with large towns and many human interactions. Specialisation increased to meet the needs of the times.
Economics is the study of all these human interactions.
Many different things have been used for money but the thing that worked best was gold, closely followed by silver. These metals were rare so had value to people and could be divided up into different sizes to become coins of particular weight and value. Unfortunately people being people and not angels were inclined to cheat a little and perhaps file a little off each coin. Kings were also inclined to mint coins with more and more base metal in the gold and thus defraud the populace. If only we could be trusted!
Later in civilised society people started to leave their gold for safe keeping with goldsmiths and receive a receipt for the amount stored. Since anyone could take the receipt back to the goldsmith and reclaim the gold the receipt became a proxy for gold and thus paper money was born. How convenient. We no longer had to lug around heavy weights in the form of coins. China discovered this over 1000 years ago - they called this paper, "Fly Away Money".
After a time the goldsmiths realised that they did not have to have as much gold in the store out back as they had pieces of paper issued to customers. The chance of everyone wanting their gold back at the same time seemed very small so they started using the gold as if it was their own and as long as they kept "enough" on hand to meet redemptions they were making a fortune and had no problems.
Thus was born the modern banking system.
The original banking concept consisted of two types of deposits. The first was a temporary deposit where the customer could call at any time to reclaim his gold and this type of deposit was really storage for which the bank could charge and the bank would KEEP the gold in a safe place and return it on demand. On demand deposits returnable at any time and stored for a fee. The gold deposited would be acknowledged by giving the customer bank notes to an equivalent amount. Thus bank notes issued would equate to gold in storage.
The other type of deposit was a time deposit where the customer would lend the gold to the bank for a set period, such as one year, and receive interest payment for doing so. The bank would then lend this money to a third party who would pay a higher rate of interest and promise to return the gold at a certain time. The depositor would receive a certificate showing the details.


The review has sparked a great deal of national debate, with voices from all over Australia calling for a comprehensive national vision for the arts.
The National Association for the Visual Arts has called for the establishment of a new Artistic Investment Framework to replace the MPA Framework, and is joined by independent, experimental, contemporary and cross-artform organisations from across the country.
Meanwhile, recent research by leading cultural policy academics Dr Ben Eltham and Prof Deb Verhoeven published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy has found an inverse relationship between levels of funding and artistic innovation: the more funding to individual companies, the less they innovate. The Australia Council's own research in partnership with Macquarie University, Making Art Work, shows a decline in artists' incomes, financial security, gender parity, artist numbers and career progression.
And with so high a proportion of its grant budget dedicated to the Major Performing Arts, the Australia Council's scope is limited when it comes to co-investing with sector organisations to redress these trends and invigorate the arts.
An Artistic Investment Framework would offer secure, long-term and rigorously assessed investment in organisations across all artforms who partner with government to achieve shared sector development vision.
The immediate inclusion of all VACS companies – the Visual Arts & Crafts Strategy that comprehensively stimulates our sector – would be the foundation of the Artistic Investment Framework, which would apply across all artforms and include the current Major Performing Arts companies. Its eligibility and assessment criteria would be led by arts peers, and its cultural assumptions would be validated by peers. Specialist artform approaches within the new framework would ensure that industry-specific conditions are observed and supported.
A long-term contractual period set at twice the contractual term offered by the Australia Council's organisations program would offer a fair model for securing public investment with appropriate accountability measures.
A regular program of detailed sector scans would inform the Artistic Investment Framework's sector development priorities, as well as its eligibility and assessment decisions, ensuring the new framework is rigorous and effective.
A new Enhancement Fund for Artistic Investment Framework partnerships would be created to stimulate innovation and risk-taking – and importantly, its eligibility would be limited to those companies not currently part of the Artistic Investment Framework, so that great new ideas come from outside that framework to inspire the entire sector.
Importantly, a rethink of organisational funding frameworks with increased investment must also be matched by ambitious increases in funding available for artists. Without such confident investment, Australia's arts has no future.
Through such confident policy and increased investment, the Australia Council will be empowered to reassert its role as the key national body that exists to foster the arts across all artforms.
An outline of the Artistic Investment Framework is included with NAVA's submission to the Major Performing Arts Framework Review.
Together, we encourage the Meeting of Cultural Ministers to develop a vision for Australia's arts that's ambitious and fair.


Step 1: Call or e-mail the daycare to inquire about available spaces.
Step 2: Schedule a tour (preferably with your child) to see the facility, teachers, daily routines, and answer any additional questions you might have.
Step 3: Upon registration ($50), your space will be officially reserved.


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Indiana couple married 33 years dies of COVID a day apart, were planning to get vaccinated
Family of 'missing' Texas woman whose baby was left in a car says she called to assure them she's safe
Nets top Bucks in high-scoring thriller
Body of Florida man found off coast of Puerto Rico after 'clean jump' from 10th story of Royal Caribbean cruise ship
By Jessica Schladebeck
Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas arrives to the Navantia Shipyard in Cadiz, Spain in September 2019. (Royal Caribbean)
The body of a man authorities believe jumped from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico was recovered by a team of divers overnight.
Surveillance video aboard the Oasis of the Seas captured a 46-year-old Florida man make what the United States Coast Guards labeled "a clean jump" from the 10th story of the vessel, CBS News reported.
The drop to the water below was around 177 feet in total, Coast Guard spokesperson Juan Ricardo Castrodad said.
The cruise ship, docked in San Juan on Wednesday when the incident occurred, was reportedly hosting an event aimed at the LGBTQ+ community.
The Coast Guard said it was alerted around 7:30 p.m. by the San Juan police for a report of a person overboard and immediately worked to set up a "safety zone" around the ship.
The 300-yard perimeter has since been lifted, but not before it stalled two departing cruise ships from leaving the dock.
A dive team from the police department recovered the body of a Naples man a short time later, just off Puerto Rico's north shore, according to the news station. His identity has not yet been released.
Shortly after the incident, officials on the cruise ship were forced to round up guests and perform a roll call in a bid to figure out the name of the man.
It's unclear whether any drugs or alcohol were involved. The incident is currently under investigation.


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A Communications Giant With Local Pride Clear Channel Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas | 95,000 GSF
The Clear Channel Communications Corporate Headquarters was the main operations base of a family-owned business that has become a global leader in the field of communications media. The three-story facility houses office and meeting spaces for clients and workers, while providing numerous areas for entertainment, dining, and relaxation.
Special Needs For An Evolving Industry
Clear Channel was a local communications business that had grown rapidly in a very short time to become a major player on a global scale and was in need of a new corporate headquarters. The land that had been purchased was in a prime location with strong local roots—adjacent to an historic limestone quarry that was being redeveloped into a mixed-used retail, residential, and recreational area which included a golf course. Overland was already very familiar with the site and understood its potential, as it had been used for a university thesis project done by the firm's founding partners.
The client wanted a headquarters that would impress their own potential clients, keep employees happy, and express their family and corporate values of stability, integrity, and fair dealing. Being in the communications field, the building also needed to include state-of-the-art technology that could be easily upgraded to keep in line with ongoing innovations in the industry. One of the most challenging problems was what to do with the many satellite dishes necessary to connect digitally with clients and partner organizations around the world.
Considering Location And Function
When Overland took on the project, the team was already familiar with the site, having played a role in creating the master plan for the quarry's redevelopment. To link the new headquarters conceptually to the historical context of the quarry, they chose the same type of limestone that had been mined there for the new facility's walls. To connect the building visually to the neighboring environment in an awe-inspiring format, they opted for large glass windows that look out upon the golf course so that, upon entering the building, visitors are immediately greeted by a panoramic view of a beautiful green landscape.
The Clear Channel building expresses the fundamental architectural values of durability, comfort and delight with pervasive care and refined exuberance.
Mike Greenberg San Antonio Express News
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of the project was dealing with technology issues. To conceal the large amount of wiring and allow for eventual upgrades, the Overland team designed a modular ceiling structure, leaving spaces for the cables and wires within a wood raceway ceiling. So, if cables needed to be replaced, this could be done easily without moving any ceiling tiles or replacing any walls. According to Principal in Charge, Tim Blonkvist, "We had these superhighways of all the cabling and fibers. You can get in, move, reconfigure, and redo them and never have to actually do any reconfiguration of the building itself." To integrate the satellite dishes (which come in different shapes, sizes, and colors) into the structure seamlessly, a tower was designed to store them, thereby concealing them from view without inhibiting their function. Additionally, a state-of-the-art board and communications room on the second floor houses cutting-edge technology for multimedia presentations.
To ensure that the interior environment was conducive to inspiring productivity, well-being, and feelings of camaraderie, Overland paid special attention to bringing natural daylight into the building. To increase daylight's reach, they installed light shelves that shade the windows while bouncing natural light into more distant open areas.
A Contemporary, Comfortable Place To Conduct Business
Viewed from afar, the Clear Channel Communications Corporate Headquarters is a sleek modern structure defined by broad expanses of glass and stone. Inside the building, an open ground floor, dynamic stairway, and upstairs offices and meeting spaces are united by natural daylight and vistas to outdoor green spaces. With landscaped patios, roof gardens, and terraces throughout, the facility provides a harmonious atmosphere for conducting business and encouraging employee productivity. According to Mike Greenberg, former architecture critic for the San Antonio Express News, "The Clear Channel Building expresses the fundamental architectural values of durability, comfort, and delight with pervasive care and refined exuberance."
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Q: get a probeGC crash in Fabric Crashlytics This crash is happening only on iOS 13.3.1 & 13.4.0
This crash is happening randomly and is a real deterrent to my customers.
I have update fabric library to lastest version (1.10.2).
Crashed: com.apple.main-thread
0  libobjc.A.dylib                0x1947be090 objc_msgSend + 16
1  Foundation                     0x194e564f0 probeGC + 120
2  Foundation                     0x194d6cd64 -[NSConcreteMapTable rehashAround:] + 204
3  Foundation                     0x194d6cc68 -[NSConcreteMapTable removeObjectForKey:] + 248
4  UIKitCore                      0x198fbd484 _UIAnalyticsGatherMultitouchAnalytics + 632
5  UIKitCore                      0x198b38a10 -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 204
6  UIKitCore                      0x198bb0c20 __dispatchPreprocessedEventFromEventQueue + 5880
7  UIKitCore                      0x198bb317c __handleEventQueueInternal + 4924
8  UIKitCore                      0x198babff0 __handleHIDEventFetcherDrain + 108
9  CoreFoundation                 0x194a18a00 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 24
10 CoreFoundation                 0x194a18958 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 80
11 CoreFoundation                 0x194a180f0 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 180
12 CoreFoundation                 0x194a1323c __CFRunLoopRun + 1080
13 CoreFoundation                 0x194a12adc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 464
14 GraphicsServices               0x19e9b3328 GSEventRunModal + 104
15 UIKitCore                      0x198b2063c UIApplicationMain + 1936
16 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                0x1029863dc main + 17 (main.m:17)
17 libdyld.dylib                  0x19489c360 start + 4

A: probably you can get some information here:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/130095


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Utilisation

Le g insulaire culbuté est utilisé par  en 1790 dans la grammaire cornique Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica pour représenter une consonne nasale vélaire voisée .
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Représentation informatique
Le G insulaire culbuté peut être représenté par les caractères Unicode (latin étendu D) suivants :

Notes et références

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EU Commission mocks agreement to improve health & safety of hairdressers
Better RegulationHair & Beauty
In a recent "explanatory" publication on better regulation, the Commission openly mocks the ongoing efforts of social partners to implement a European Framework Agreement on health and safety in the hairdressing sector.
In the publication, the Commission repeats its mantra of "The EU must not be big on small things" alongside with two images, one of them being a hairdresser cutting hair and a pair of high-heeled shoes – crossed out.
The social partners in the hairdressing sector, Coiffure EU and UNI Europa are surprised by this display of mockery of their ongoing efforts to improve the health and safety of European workers in the hairdressing sector. Needless to say, these images belittle the serious health and safety risks faced by the workers in the sector, who are mostly female.
Irrespective of the fact that the graphic in the publication is incorrect (the agreement does not mention high-heeled shoes), it's extremely worrying that the Commission puts into question its own ongoing legislative process.
Coiffure EU and UNI Europa fail to see how the protection of workers from work-related diseases, such as breast cancer, can be interpreted as a "small thing," not worthy of the Commission's attention.
Furthermore, the publication calls into question the Commission's commitment to the promise it made last March, namely to relaunch the social dialogue and give it priority.
Therefore, UNI Europa and Coiffure EU have sent a joint letter on 16 November to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, Marianne Thyssen requesting clarification over the European Commission's Better Regulation and Transparency publication. We too have requested that they officially retract the graphic on hairdressers in the publication.
Read the full letter here


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Have 'The Talk'
Advance directives ease burden on families
By Norris Burkes
Just before the quarantine started, my wife Becky and I sat with a lawyer redoing our estate plan. "I love that word 'estate,'" I told the lawyer. "It makes me feel like I own the Ponderosa."
"Right," added the attorney. "It's pretty much just a will."
She paused. "But there's more. You'll need to do an advance directive."
As a hospice chaplain, I knew this was crucial paperwork that would spell out my health care wishes should I ever be unable to state them clearly. I definitely wanted to get this done because I'd seen the heartache caused by several patients who lacked them.
The moment triggered a lot of memories, but in particular I remembered visiting one patient during my days in 2013 working as a per-diem chaplain at the Sacramento VA Medical Center. Joining me for the visit was our Palliative Care Team consisting of a psychologist, social worker and doctor.
Our patient was an 84-year-old farmer and Korean War veteran whom I'll call Ken.
As we walked into the room, Ken's wife of 51 years stood to shake our hands with a self-assured grip. The woman, likely in her 70s, had the well-heeled look of a senior model. Ken, the victim of multiple strokes, did little to greet us, preferring instead the revolving wheel of a TV game show.
With introductions made, we pushed our chairs into a semicircle around Ken's bed. Our psychologist, a ponytailed man pushing 60, began with screening questions directed toward Ken's wife. Had her husband been able to dress, feed and bathe himself? Did she think he had much understanding of what was going on with his body?
"No" to all questions.
The doctor then assumed control of the meeting by picking up her stethoscope. She was an athletic woman who'd had some luck cheating her 50s with youthful blue eyes and a pixie cut.
She bent over Ken, searching his expression for understanding, but she saw little to indicate he was aware of his surroundings.
"He really needs a feeding tube," the doctor concluded.
"Then let's do that," the wife said.
Actually, there were few options left for the old farmer. He'd had multiple hospitalizations and suffered several recent bouts of pneumonia. Each illness was followed by weeks in a rehabilitation facility in the Bay Area.
With great sensitivity, the doctor told the woman that even with the feeding tube, Ken would likely choke, aspirating his saliva. In addition, he'd have to be restrained or heavily sedated because stroke-induced confusion would cause Ken to pull out the tube.
"Is this the way your husband wanted to live his later years?" the psychologist asked.
"No," she said. "I suppose it really isn't."
"Sounds like he values the quality of his life," I reflected.
She nodded. "He knows that heaven awaits."
The hour-long meeting ended when Ken's wife agreed to let us implement comfort-care measures.
Comfort care means that every person taking care of Ken would adopt a new goal—one designed not to make Ken get better, but to make him feel better. Our goal shifted to helping him live as well as possible for as long as possible. With the help of social work, psychology and chaplaincy, we would now care for Ken's whole person.
The real reason behind this difficult meeting was that Ken had failed to have "the talk" with his wife. Like many people, he had failed to discuss crucial questions with loved ones prior to arriving on his deathbed.
Those questions are contained in the advance directive (sometimes called a living will). An advance directive is the document that directs the doctors to follow the wishes of patients who are unable to speak for themselves.
These quarantine days provide you with a crucial time to have "the talk."
If you don't have a written directive, or you haven't appointed someone who can confidently speak for you, then doctors will be obligated to do everything possible to save your life, even if "everything" means a painful delay of your death.
Do you really want to be on a respirator for untold days? Or can you imagine a limit?
Ken was well loved by family and fellow vets, but the truth is that a well-written advance directive could have eased the burden on his family and ensured that he'd have spent his final days with the dignity of his choosing.
If you don't have an advance directive, I urge you to get started today. For information and to access state-specific documents, visit www.caringinfo.org.
Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. Burkes is available for public speaking at civic organizations, places of worship, veterans groups and more. For details and fees, visit thechaplain.net.
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Well DD got to speak for the very first time to a packed audience at the Cottonwood Hotel. Knowledge of our appearance had them standing in the aisles, back of the room and at the entrance to the room- 6 Councillors and 2 MPs totalling 110 bodies! After sitting still for 90 minutes our turn to speak arrived. With much trepidation, I had to open my mouth which usually is not a problem but I had to alter my prepared speak to tailor it to my audience who were not in the flush of youth! Started reasonable but some could not hear me- well turn up the ear piece then I thought. We were actually well received and got the loudest applause from our audience (not difficult) and then nice words from Cllr M Filer. Made some contacts and possible new recruits including Cllr Anne Filer, no less. Next pick Tuesday 2pm.


Four-time Olympic gold medalist diver Greg Louganis will finally appear on his own Wheaties box, General Mills has announced.
The announcement follows a petition campaign which gathered more than 40,000 signatures.
Louganis will appear as part of the 'Wheaties Legends' series. Also getting their own boxes are four-time gold medalist distance swimmer Janet Evans and two-time gold medalist track and field athlete Edwin Moses.
Louganis has said that homophobia was most likely the reason that Wheaties did not put him on its box after the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. There were rumors that he was gay during his Olympic career, but he did not come out publicly until the Gay Games in 1994. In his autobiography the next year, he revealed that he had tested positive for H.I.V. before the 1988 Summer Games. Out of fear, Louganis did not tell the doctor about his condition after he bloodied his head on the springboard during the Games.
Louganis said that he had no hard feelings about General Mills from the 1980s and praised its diversity program and its support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.


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Alpha-Gal In Black-Legged Tick Saliva: Study Reveals Potential Implications For Lyme Patients
In the United States several studies associate the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum) with an allergic reaction to "red" meat due to the presence of the carbohydrate galactose-α-1, 3-galactose (αlpha-gal). New research confirms the presence of alpha-gal in the Lone Star tick's saliva. Significantly, for the first time, the study also reveals the presence of alpha-gal in the saliva of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis). While the black-legged tick (which is heavily concentrated in the northeastern US) is primarily known to transmit Lyme disease, the discovery that it may also transmit alpha-gal has important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of patients for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in the US.
Some people bitten by a tick will develop "Alpha-gal Syndrome" (AGS), a sensitivity to mammalian-derived foods, products, and medications. I've met people who might only suffer mild symptoms such as blotchy skin or upset stomachs, yet others experience severe symptoms including anaphylaxis and have taken multiple ambulance trips to the ER. Very little is understood about the mechanism of transmission between ticks and humans, and in the US the Lone star tick is deemed the primary culprit. The medical community has collectively scratched their heads because alpha-gal is the only known carbohydrate to cause an allergic reaction; as often summed up by lead investigators, "Alpha-gal breaks all the rules."
In a recent study led by Shahid Karim, Ph.D at the University of Southern Mississippi in collaboration with groups at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Univ. of Georgia, researchers have now discovered that both the Lone Star tick (Am. americanum) and the Black-legged tick (Ix. scapularis) can produce alpha-gal in salivary glands. Significantly, this is the first research to show a direct association between alpha-gal and the black-legged tick.
This is significant because earlier hypotheses about how the allergy developed were based on exposure to alpha-gal as a result of two tick bites, the first a non-primate mammal and the second, the affected human. These findings show that one tick bite from an alpha-gal producing tick may be sufficient. Two other tick species, the Gulf-Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) were not found to harbor the alpha-gal carbohydrate.
Because AGS is still relatively unknown, misunderstood, and considered to be "merely" an allergy, it often does not fall on the radar of healthcare professionals . However, what many people do not realize is that — similar to Lyme disease — some patients experience far reaching and life altering consequences. In fact, I have often referred to AGS as "Lyme 2.0" because so many similarities exist between the two conditions, including physical symptoms and adverse social and economic consequences.
Stories abound of incorrect diagnoses and lack of awareness about AGS. As such, an urgent need exists to educate health care providers and others about AGS and its implications. Further, the startling discovery that the black-legged tick also can carry alpha-gal significantly impacts how to diagnose and treat patients who present with the myriad symptoms that overlap with Lyme. In addition to the obvious avoidance of red meats, patients with AGS must be careful to avoid medications that include mammalian ingredients such as some gelcaps (which can be either vegetable or animal-derived). Lyme patients who unknowingly suffer from AGS and are being treated with mammalian-containing medications could inadvertently experience painful consequences.
The aforementioned study is in the final stages of peer review for journal publication, with additional research and publications underway. As quoted by study author Karim, "There is still so much we do not know about alpha-gal." In addition, the link between Lyme Disease and AGS is in the earliest stages of scientific investigation. There has currently been no published evidence that the Black-legged tick is associated with AGS. While this does not mean Black-legged tick bites do not give rise to AGS, patients with Lyme should not be alarmed that they also have an allergy to red meat. Instead, they should observe themselves for symptoms just in case as it's always difficult to have multiple things wrong with you. Stay tuned to Tick-borne Conditions United for continued updates about research on alpha-gal and other tick-borne conditions.
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Dr. Platt's personal experience with tick-borne illness led her to create TickWarriors in 2016, which provides eco-friendly tick protection for people, pets, and property. The pervasive need for education and awareness led Dr. Platt to co-found Tick-borne Conditions United in 2018 with Beth Carrison.
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Kevin Hogan
For other people named Kevin Hogan, see Kevin Hogan (disambiguation).
Kevin Michael Hogan (born October 20, 1992) is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Stanford University and was their starting quarterback from 2012 to 2015. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft, and has also played for the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins.
Hogan with the Broncos in 2018
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(1992-10-20) October 20, 1992 (age 26)
218 lb (99 kg)
Gonzaga College
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Hogan was born in McLean, Virginia, the son of Jerry and Donna Hogan. He has an older brother, Brian, and an older sister, Kelly. His grandfather played football at Navy, while his uncles played football at Notre Dame.[1] Hogan attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. where he played high school football for the Eagles and was a two-time first team All-Washington Catholic Athletic Conference selection.[2] As a senior, he earned D.C. Player of the Year honors and was a 2010 Washington Post First Team All-Met selection.[3] He was also named the 2010 Outstanding High School Player of the Year for private schools by the Fairfax County Football Hall of Fame.[2]
Hogan against the Washington Huskies in 2013
Hogan saw extended play for the first time in his college career on November 3, 2012, when the Stanford Cardinal played the Colorado Buffaloes at Folsom Field. Hogan replaced Josh Nunes after the first two possessions and went 18-for-23 for 183 yards, throwing for two touchdowns and no interceptions, and recorded 48 rushing yards on seven carries.[4] Following the game, Hogan was named the starting quarterback for the Cardinal, replacing Nunes.[5] After becoming Stanford's starting quarterback, Hogan led the Cardinal to three straight regular-season victories against ranked opponents: #13 Oregon State,[6] #2 Oregon,[7] and #17 UCLA.[8] When #17 UCLA and Stanford met in the 2012 Pac-12 Championship six days after their regular-season meeting, Hogan led the Cardinal to a 27–24 victory, earning Most Valuable Player honors and sending the team to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1999.[9][10] At the Rose Bowl, Hogan led the Cardinal to a 20–14 victory against Wisconsin, ending the season on a five-game winning streak to finished with a 12–2 record.[11][12] Despite limited playing time until late in the season, Hogan's 263 rushing yards were the seventh most by a Stanford quarterback in a season in school history.[13]
Hogan with the Stanford Cardinal in 2013
Hogan was again named the Cardinal's starter for the 2013 season.[14] In the season opener against San Jose State on September 7, 2013, Hogan threw for 207 yards and two touchdowns.[15] Hogan went on to lead the Cardinal to an 11-2 regular season record, with notable wins over Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and Arizona State in the Pac-12 Championship game.[16][17][18][19] In the 11th game of the season, Hogan threw for a career-best 349 yards and 5 touchdowns (all in the first half, and the most by a Stanford quarterback since 1999) in a 63–13 victory over rival California.[20] These wins helped the Cardinal earn a spot in the 2014 Rose Bowl against Michigan State, where the Spartans won a narrow 24–20 victory after stopping Hogan and the Cardinal offense on a critical 4th down play, late in the fourth quarter.[21] Hogan finished the season with 2,630 passing yards, 20 touchdowns passing, two rushing touchdowns, and 10 interceptions.[22]
Hogan in 2014
Hogan remained the Cardinal's starting quarterback for the beginning of the 2014 season. They finished the regular season with an 8-5 record, with losses to their rivals, Notre Dame, along with four in-conference losses to USC, Arizona State University, Oregon, and Utah.[23][24] Stanford defeated the Maryland Terrapins 45-21 in the 2014 Foster Farms Bowl.[25] In this game, Hogan completed 14-of-20 passes for 189 yards and two touchdowns, and also ran for 50 yards on seven attempts, earning the game's MVP award.[24] He finished the season with 2,792 passing yards, 19 passing touchdowns, five rushing touchdowns, and eight interceptions.[24]
After an upset loss to Northwestern in their opening game in 2015, the Cardinal rebounded by winning their next eight games and ended the season with a 12-2 record.[26] They were the only team in college football that season to play only Power 5 teams throughout their schedule. During the 8-game winning streak, Hogan threw for 1,676 yards, 16 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, and also scored 3 rushing touchdowns.[27] In a Halloween victory over Washington State, Hogan rushed for 112 yards and two late touchdowns, becoming only the second Stanford quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in a game.[28] After a loss to Oregon, Hogan and the Cardinal won the rest of their regular season games, including a win against #6 Notre Dame, and claimed their third Pac-12 championship in four years. In his final college game, the 2016 Rose Bowl, Hogan helped lead Stanford to 35-0 halftime lead in an easy victory over Iowa.[29] He finished the season with 2,867 passing yards and 27 touchdowns (tied for 3rd in school history), and rushed for 336 yards and 6 touchdowns (tying Jim Plunkett's 47-year-old school record). His 171.0 passing efficiency that season was a school record and fifth in the country, while his total offense of 3,203 yards is fourth all-time at Stanford.[30] His 67.8% completion percentage was 2nd in the Pac-10 and 6th in the country, and his average 8.2 yards per play led the conference and was third in the country.[31] He earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors.[32]
Hogan ended his career with a 65.9% completion percentage,[33] 9,385 passing yards,[34] 75 passing touchdowns,[35] and a school-record 15 rushing touchdowns. His 1,249 rushing yards is the most by a Stanford quarterback, and includes four of the top seven seasons in that category. His combined total offense of 10,634 yards is also a school record, and his career passing efficiency of 154.6 is second only to Andrew Luck, and he holds three of Stanford's top 10 seasons in both categories.
StatisticsEdit
10 5 109 152 71.7 1,096 7.2 9 3 147.9 55 263 4.8 2
14 14 180 295 61.0 2,630 8.9 20 10 151.5 84 355 4.2 2
13 13 232 352 65.9 2,792 7.9 19 8 145.8 91 295 3.2 5
Sources:[36][1]
Pre-draft measurables
40-yard dash
Vert jump
Wonderlic
(1.91 m) 218 lb
(99 kg) 32 3⁄8 in
(0.82 m) 10 1⁄4 in
(0.26 m) 4.78 s 6.90 s 32.5 in
(0.83 m) 9 ft 5 in
(2.87 m) 38[37]
All values from NFL Combine[38]
Kansas City ChiefsEdit
Hogan was selected in the fifth round (162nd overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs on April 30.[39] He was released by the Chiefs on September 3, 2016.[40]
Cleveland BrownsEdit
Hogan was signed to the Cleveland Browns' practice squad on September 5, 2016.[41] On October 11, 2016, he was signed to the active roster.[42] On October 23, 2016, versus the Cincinnati Bengals, he made his NFL debut. He initially entered the game being used in several read option packages at quarterback, rushing three times for 37 yards. However, once starting quarterback Cody Kessler suffered an injury in the second quarter, Hogan then played the rest of the game. Hogan finished the game having completed 12-of-24 passes for 100 yards with two interceptions while also rushing seven times for 104 yards and one touchdown.[43][44] His touchdown was a 28-yard rush, which set a record for the longest touchdown run by a quarterback in Browns history.[45] He was also the second Browns quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in a game,[46] and the first quarterback in franchise history to do so as a rookie.[47] He did not see much action after the Cincinnati game. In the next game, against the New York Jets, he came into the game and completed two passes for four yards in the 31–28 loss.[48] He appeared in two more games over the course of the season but only recorded one rush for one yard against the Baltimore Ravens.[49][50]
On September 8, 2017, Hogan was named the backup to DeShone Kizer.[51] On September 17 against the Baltimore Ravens, Kizer left the game in the second quarter with a migraine headache. Hogan then entered the game, completing 5 of 11 passes for 118 yards, 1 touchdown, and 1 interception before Kizer returned in the third quarter.[52] On October 1 against the Cincinnati Bengals, Hogan relieved Kizer with over six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Hogan completed 5-of-8 passes for 65 yards as the Browns lost by a score of 31–7.[53] During Week 5 against the New York Jets, Hogan relieved the benched Kizer following halftime and completed 16 of 19 passes for 194 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception as the Browns lost by a score of 17–14.[54] On October 11, Hogan was named the Week 6 starter for the Browns at quarterback.[55] In Week 6 against the Houston Texans, he completed 20 of 37 passes for 140 yards, 1 touchdown, and 3 interceptions as the Browns lost by a score of 33–17. He also rushed 5 times for 36 yards.[56] Kizer was then re-named the starter.[57] Hogan was also listed as inactive for the next three games due to a rib injury he sustained in his first start.[58][59][60]
Hogan with the Redskins in 2018.
On April 6, 2018, Hogan was traded to the Washington Redskins in exchange for a swap of sixth round picks in the 2018 NFL Draft.[61] He was waived for final roster cuts before the start of the regular season on September 1, 2018.[62]
Denver BroncosEdit
On September 2, 2018, Hogan was claimed off waivers by the Denver Broncos.[63]
On March 21, 2019, Hogan re-signed with the Broncos.[64]
2016 CLE 4 0 14 26 53.8 104 4.0 0 2 31.6 8 105 13.1 1
2017 CLE 4 1 46 75 61.3 517 6.9 4 5 71.9 10 71 7.1 0
Source:[65]
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