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Lions offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell met with the media in a Zoom call on Wednesday. The Detroit News

Lions offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell is eager to get an up-close look at his top rookie addition, DAndre Swift, the second-round running back out of Georgia, whenever training camp begins

Were super excited to have him, Bevell said. We feel like hes a really talented, well-rounded running back. A guy you feel like could handle the run, but he has ability in the pass game where you could do some things with him there. So, really, just a complete guy.

D'Andre Swift(Photo: John Bazemore, AP)

I think youre be able to do a lot of things with him. He can handle as much as you want to give him.

Swift will vie for the starting duties with incumbent Kerryon Johnson, who has spent time on injured reserve each of his first two NFL seasons in Detroit. The Lions also bring back Bo Scarborough and Ty Johnson, among others, and they added another back in the draft in fifth-rounder Jason Huntley, whom Bevell described as a little scat-back style, dynamic runner. Hell likely need to earn a roster spot with his return ability initially.

Its going to be a really competitive room, Bevell said. I think thats what youre trying to do with each and every position is get the room as competitive as you can, let the cream rise to the top and youll end up with a really good team when youre doing that.

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As science advances and technology evolves, doctors and other medical professionals can perform procedures with even more precision than ever before. At Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco, surgeons perform many procedures using robotic technology.

One of Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Friscos surgeons, is Sheetal Patel, MD, who primarily uses the robotic technology for bariatric (weight-loss) surgical procedures. Dr. Patel has been performing robotic surgery since 2012, and she is amazed by how rapidly the technology has evolved.

We have a pretty extensive robotic surgery program that encompasses multiple disciplines, including urology, general surgery, colorectal surgery, gynecological surgery, and bariatric surgery, Dr. Patel says. We are very fortunate to have the most advanced robotic surgicaltechnology available for our use at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco.

In addition to being extensively trained on how to perform procedures using robotic technology, Dr. Patel says that Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco has invested greatly in the training of clinical robotic teams in the operating room to ensure they can fully support her and other surgeons during procedures. These highly specialized teams know the ins and outs of every component of the robotic technology and allow for a highly efficient operating room focused on patient care and good outcomes.

Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco was one of the first hospitals in north Texas to implement this technology. Patel says that the robotics program at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Frisco also serves as a mentor site for surgeons and medical professionals around the country who want to learn and observe how a robotics program works.

Weve been very fortunate and proud to serve in the capacity of a mentor site for other surgeons across the country who want to learn more about robotic surgery, Patel says. The methods we use and the way in which our team works is so fantastic that we have hosted other facilities to come to Baylor Frisco to observe. Not just to observe us as surgeons, but to observe the whole team as we work together.

Along with many other accolades, Baylor Frisco is accredited by the American College of SurgeonsMetabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). Faced with clinical evidence that the most experienced weight loss surgery programs have the lowest rates of complications, MBSAQIP was created to recognize weight loss surgery centers that perform well, help weight loss surgeons continue to improve the quality and safety of the care they provide and ensure the best possible outcomes.

Though robotic surgery may sound a bit daunting, Dr. Patel assures us that it is indeed safer and allows for improved surgical accuracy. With robotic surgery, we can enhance our control, reduce incision size, reduce blood lose, and typically provide a quicker recovery for our patients, says Patel. The robot is equipped with a three-dimensional camera that allows for 10-times magnification and an improved field of vision. The hands of the robot allow for more precise movement in seven different directions. The instruments that we use robotically allow us to virtually have our hands inside the patient without making large incisions, Dr. Patel says.

All of the instruments can do more than what a wrist can do as far as rotating and maneuvering.

With robotic surgery complications and the recovery period are proven to be 14 to 45 percent lower than those of traditional procedures.

The whole point of minimally invasive surgery is to decrease pain to the patient, decrease operative time, improve recovery time and get patients back to living their lives, Dr. Patel says.

As a surgeon trained across different platforms, I can tell you that robotic surgery is one you will see more and more. Other surgeons will adopt the technology because its becoming a mainstream method. When, as a surgeon, you see your patients doing so much better, and you know that using robotics has allowed for that to happen, its a pretty profound thing.

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At Baylor Frisco ensuring the health and well-being of our patients and team members, as well as our community as a whole, is our first and most important priority. As such, we haveimplemented a COVID-19 safety plan consistent with CDC guidelines known as COVID-19Safe Care. The program is designed to keep our patients and team members safe so that they can feel confident as they receive and provide care. Some of the components of COVID-19 Safe Care include:

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UNStudio Designs a Multifunctional and Flexible Education Building for TU Delft in the Netherlands

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Part of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), in the Netherlands, Echo is a new multifunctional and flexible inter-faculty building, now under construction and due for completion in Dec 2021. Designed by UNStudio, in collaboration with Arup and BBN, the future-proof facility meets the needs of the ever-increasing numbers of students.

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Designed in line with the Dutch universities requirements of extra teaching space, the latest intervention at TU Delft engenders larger teaching rooms. Supporting educational typologies with an energy-generating building, Echo is centered on the adaptability and wellbeing of the user. Housing a total of seven teaching rooms and more than 300 study spaces, with flexible layouts, Echo includes a large lecture room, which can accommodate 700 people and can be divided into three separate rooms.

The future campus needs to be programmed with a series of agile spaces that invite students and faculty to learn, collaborate and co-create. As student numbers continue to grow, educational buildings need to be extremely flexible: they not only need to operate for shared, interfaculty use, but also need to house a large variety of flexible spaces that cater for various ways of teaching and studying and varying class sizes. -- Ben van Berkel.

Designed according to the new and future needs of the lecturers and students, Echo puts in place space for lectures and tutorials, group work, project-based teaching, debates, and self-study, for around 1,700 students. In fact, the teaching rooms can accommodate between 150 and 700 people, and project-based teaching of four-level rooms can host 70 people each. Moreover, a case-study room will introduce motivational teaching/interaction between lecturers and students. In addition, two auditoria define the space in a lively open square where numerous and varied activities can take place. A centrally positioned grand stair facilitates and promotes physical movement through the building.

Transcending current learning environments, the design supports the contemporary culture of 'Everything Anywhere', where the in-between space is also of great importance. Echo not only connects with the surrounding public space, but it also defines it. The ground floor, turned into a covered flexible public square holds two sculptural volumes that direct the flow of people. With a robust yet sleek exterior, the structure opens up to the activities taking place inside to the surroundings.

The design of Echo fulfills the progressive sustainability ambitions of the TU Delft. [] Not only has a great deal of attention been paid to the environmental impact of the materials used in the construction, but the building has been designed as much as possible according to principles of circularity. -- UNStudio

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BYU Basketball Head Coach Mark Pope announced on June 12 that former UVU guard Brandon Averette will join the Cougars as a graduate transfer for the upcoming 2020-21 season, helping to fill out a roster that lost seven seniors.

Pope found immediate success in his first year at BYU after moving from UVU himself, thanks to the veteran leadership and experience of starters like TJ Haws, Jake Toolson and Yoeli Childs. The team climbed the national rankings all year, eventually cracking the top 15, and Pope hopes to continue the trend by adding older players instead of just relying on high school recruits.

This will be Averettes third stop in his college basketball career. He played his first two years at Oklahoma State, after which Pope recruited him to come to Utah and attend UVU. He redshirted the 2018-19 season, Popes last with the Wolverines, due to NCAA transfer rules, and then earned a spot on the All-WAC Newcomer Team last year as a junior.

Brandon Averette is one of the most explosive, cat-quick, clever playmakers in college basketball, Pope said in a statement. We feel so blessed to have him join our locker room. He is universally beloved by his teammates for his competitive spirit and playmaking ability. Its going to take about two seconds for Cougar fans to fall in love with his quiet charisma and winning charm.

The teams announcement on Twitter welcomed Averette to, The Best Locker Room in America, showing the priority that Popes program puts on camaraderie and chemistry.

With Averettes playmaking abilities and the departure of point guard TJ Haws, he will likely take over the primary ball-handler duties, allowing fellow senior Alex Barcello to remain in the shooting guard, off-ball position he flourished in last year as a starter.

The 5-foot-11 Averette lacks some of the size that Haws had at 6-foot-4, but with six players over 6-foot-6, BYU can make up for the lack of height in the backcourt with a wealth of size at the three forward spots.

Averette joins Purdue transfer Matt Haarms as the two marquee additions to the BYU Basketball roster this offseason, but there are a few other names mentioned in a BYU press release that show the group is nearing its finished form.

Freshman Hunter Erickson, a returned missionary from Timpview High School, and junior college transfers Gideon George (New Mexico Junior College) and Spencer Johnson (Salt Lake Community College) were also named as newcomers to the upcoming seasons roster.

Assistant Coach Chris Burgess appeared on BYU Sports Nation on Thursday, June 11, confirming the direction the coaching staff is going in with prioritizing more experienced graduate transfers when re-tooling the roster.

Transfers and staying older makes you really good, Burgess said. Youre getting a leader, an older guy. We love older players and guys that have been through it. They know whats important and they know what matters. Its sacrificing yourself, having no agenda and winning.

Burgess, who was part of Popes coaching staff at UVU that recruited Averette, told Cougar fans what they can expect from the recent addition.

Lets go! Fired up to coach BA again! Burgess said in a Tweet. Cougar Nation is gonna love how hard he competes on both ends of the floor.

Toolson, who also transferred from UVU to BYU just one year ago, said hes glad BYU didnt end up getting other transfer targets such as Mac McClung and Daivien Williamson earlier in the offseason. He had the chance to play with Averette at UVU two years ago and says he was the best player on the team.

Consider it a blessing we missed out on every other guy in the portal, Toolson said in a Tweet. BA was the best player on our UVU team two years ago during his redshirt, and it wasnt even close. So excited to watch him ball out.

Averette followed up the announcement Tweet with a highlight reel, showing off his impressive athleticism for a smaller point guard.

I would like to thank God for putting the talents and the people in my life to help me grow and succeed, Averette said in a Tweet announcing his transfer. Thank you to my family, all my coaches and teammates that have helped me to this point.

Between Averette and explosive forwards like Haarms and Gavin Baxter, BYU Basketball will have no shortage of exciting plays in the Marriott Center this season.

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The meteoric rise in popularity of the Chinese steamed bao, folded over fillings into a taco-shaped sandwich, has continued across the city. As adapted here by restaurants like Momofuku, it was initially loaded with soy-braised pork belly, shiitake mushrooms, and other mainly Asian ingredients, but the list of fillings eventually became endless and international. Now, in New York, this enticing assemblage has figuratively come to the Caribbean, or at least the nearby Bahamas.

The chef responsible is Kermit Ray Mackey, co-owner of Bun Hut along with Kevin Mathiasen, a CPA. Mackey was born in the Bahamas and worked in resort restaurants on several of its islands, including Great Exuma and Bimini, before coming to the States. After visiting China, he was inspired to fold typical Bahamian fillings into steamed bao, including coconut shrimp, cracked conch, curried goat, and pulled jackfruit, to intriguing effect.

Bun Hut is located near the bucolic intersection of Stanton and Attorney streets on the Lower East Side, far from the fleshpots of Hell Square, so the streets will likely be nearly empty when you arrive. The premises was previously the most recent home of Colors, the legacy restaurant of Windows on the World, and before that Lowlife, a restaurant partly inspired by a Luc Sante book, which merged French food with Lower East Side classics, putting borscht and lamb tartare on the same menu. Obviously, both restaurants failed.

With doors flung open three weeks ago to reveal a mainly darkened interior with a bar in the rear, Bun Hut is another of the surprisingly large number of restaurants that have appeared during the pandemic. It is also the only restaurant in town I know of specifically devoted to Bahamian fare, though many of the menus dishes are shared with other islands. In addition to bao, the bill of fare features wrapped rotis (rather than the bust-up shot favored in Guyanese restaurants); entrees like jerk chicken and braised oxtail, served with rice and beans; sides; punches; and desserts.

The bao come disassembled in a box, comprising two warm bao, a main ingredient, a craisin-studded mayo slaw, and sauces that run to honey lime chipotle aioli, Haitian pikliz, and Mackeys very sweet mango chutney. I tried two of the nine bao offered (all $10 or $12). I liked the Bahamian coconut shrimp, a dish popularized in the East Village by Sugar Reef in the early 90s. The dish finds five spice-coated crustaceans fried to order its tempting to simply pop them in your mouth without bothering with the bao.

Even better was the cracked conch, the pink-shelled creature rendered as small flat fritters that went especially well with the steamed buns when a little slaw was tucked inside and the chipotle aioli liberally applied. Other bao that Im itching to try include she-crab cake and pulled jackfruit.

Part of my delight at hearing about Bun Hut were the rotis. These Indian-inspired wraps, native to the Caribbean, are one of my favorite viands, and sadly lacking in Manhattan since Terrys Gourmet, the Trinidadian-run deli at 16th and Sixth Avenue, closed. (You pretty much have to go to Jersey City, Flatbush, or South Richmond Hill to get a great one, though some pan-Caribbean restaurants sell them.) Bun Huts examples use a diversity of ingredients, including shredded cabbage, potatoes, and plantains, in addition to coconut curry chicken, jerk chicken, spicy pork, and curry goat.

Unfortunately, the kitchen was out of goat the day I ordered it, but the chicken curry was fine, with a nice mixture of light and dark meat and a mild curry flavor. This roti deploys a real dal puri as the wrapper, a flatbread with crushed yellow split peas between its flaky layers. Most priced at $12, these rotis constitute a full meal; in fact, I shared mine with a friend.

Though I found the hibiscus lemonade ($6) forgettable, the coconut tart (two for $8) was spectacular. Paved with granulated sugar and bulging with shredded coconut, it was shaped like an empanada. According to co-owner Mathiasen, it was inspired by a Bahamian pastry the chef ate as a child called guava duff. Eat one, and give the other to a friend. Theyre that rich. 178 Stanton Street, between Clinton and Attorney streets, Lower East Side

This is the second in a series of columns called Sietsemas Picks, in which I cover places Im enjoying in our takeout-centric times. In the first entry, I visited Happy Hot Hunan on the Upper West Side.

A couple of other new restaurants I like and have written about that have opened during the pandemic: Pane Pasta and Terra Thai.

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ESPN will present a special evening of programming exploring the multi-faceted issues of racism and social justice in sports Wednesday, June 24, starting at 7 p.m. ET. The previously announced Time for Change: We Wont be Defeated from ESPNs multiplatform content initiative exploring the intersections of sports, race and culture, The Undefeated, will air at 8 p.m. on ESPN and at 11 p.m. on ESPN2 as the centerpiece of the five-and-one-half hours of programming.

We want to augment Time for Change with an important and ambitious night of programming, said Ilan Ben-Hanan, ESPN senior vice president, programming and acquisitions. The night will be dedicated to impactful storytelling around the issues of racism, diversity, inclusion, and social justice on a global scale.

The one-hour Time for Change will examine black athletes experiences with injustice and the unifying role that sports continues to play in bridging the divide between law enforcement and people of color in America. SportsCenter anchors Elle Duncan, Michael Eaves and Jay Harris will be joined by ESPN college sports reporter and NBA studio host Maria Taylor to host the show. Time for Change will feature a series of roundtable discussions with athletes and other leading voices in sports and culture.

The evening will begin at 7 p.m. with a re-air of the 30 for 30 documentary The 16th Man. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, the film showcases the South African Springbok National Rugby Team and its impact on South Africas transition from apartheid to beginning cooperation including interviews with players and political activists alongside archival footage. Of note, June 24 is the 25thanniversary of Nelson Mandelas famous Sport has the power to change the world speech at the Rugby World Cup Final in South Africa.

At 9 p.m., Giants of Africatells the storyofMasai Ujiri, currently the President of Basketball Operations for the Toronto Raptors and in 2010 became the firstAfrican-born general manager for a major North American sports team, the NBAs Denver Nuggets. The 90-minute film highlights his journey to create lasting change and empower others to dream big by growing the gameofbasketball inAfrica. This is the U.S. premiere of the program.

At 10:30 p.m., ESPN will air the U.S. premiere of The Australian Dream, a two-hour documentary film released in Australia last year. FeaturingAustralianFootball League (AFL) playerAdam Goodes, the film examinesAustralianAboriginal identity and racism in Australia, with Goodes being called an ape by a 13-year-old spectator as the catalyst event to his advocacy work for indigenous people. The film is an inspiring and empowering story, through which a deep and powerful narrative is told about sport, race and belonging.

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Comedian Chris D'Elia first noticed Michaela Coletta's Instagram photos years ago, when she was 17, according to the now 25-year-old. He took the opportunity to DM her.

"He noticed I liked some of his photos on Instagram and immediately started messaging me," Coletta told Mashable. "From my Instagram photos, you could visibly tell I was still in high school."

In an emailed statement to Mashable, Coletta described behavior she knew to be a pattern. "This man is HORRIBLE," she wrote. "The amount of messages I've gotten from other girls that are too afraid to speak up is... insane. With almost the exact same stories, same ages... some as young as 14 [sic]."

In a span of hours on Tuesday night, Coletta and dozens of other women both named and anonymous went public with stories about D'Elia on Twitter.

Survivors of sexual misconduct and inappropriate advances have taken to whisper networks in recent years as police often don't believe accusers when they come forward. Many also never report what happened to authorities due to fears that nothing will happen even after they endure an excruciating trial. In this current moment of social upheaval, the whisper network is more public and vital than ever, and much of it is happening on Twitter. Some other famous examples include the Harvey Weinstein Google doc and the Shitty Media Men list, but while those documents contained the whispers, Twitter fueled their delivery.

In this current moment of social upheaval, the whisper network is more public and vital than ever, and much of it is happening on Twitter.

And it's not just sexual misconduct being revealed in these online whisper networks. As accusations against D'Elia piled up on Twitter, people separately began raising concerns about systemic racism in their workplace. Emboldened by the police brutality protests unfolding on the streets, people took to Twitter to share their own stories of discrimination. The media industry has had a "racial reckoning," as CNN called it, with present and former Black employees and other employees of color exposing deep-seated racism at publishers from Bon Appetit to Refinery29. Crisis Text Line employees and volunteers' Twitter complaints led the nonprofit's board to oust its founder and CEO. These discussions were, if not sparked on Twitter, then at least amplified considerably on the platform.

When the wronged feel like the powerful will ignore them, they embrace another outlet: Twitter. Opponents of whisper networks say social media isn't the right venue to seek justice. But after the individual whispers turn into a collective roar, the powerful start to listen.

After Coletta and D'Elia moved their conversation from Instagram DMs to email, she said he began talking to her with his now-infamous RocketMail account. The same email account appears in several screenshots from various accusers. He told her he wanted to see her when he performed in Vancouver, where she lives, she said. After that, they moved their conversation to Kik, a messenger app popular with both teens and predators.

"That's when he really started getting explicit (probably because Kik is easy to wipe and leave no trace)," wrote Coletta. "He said he wanted to see my body and it felt SUPER weird. I sent him one though, because I felt pressured to."

Coletta continued, "The way he spoke to me was intimidating and also extremely straight to the point. He also sent a shirtless photo of himself back to me. I remember him saying how tiny my waist is and how I have such big breasts perfectly. I also remember exactly what photos he's seen of me, that are VERY clearly taken in a child's bedroom with pink walls."

In a statement to People, D'Elia denies the dozens of accusations, hopping around an apology and blaming his "lifestyle."

"I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point," D'Elia said in his statement to People. "All of my relationships have been both legal and consensual and I have never met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me. That being said, I really am truly sorry. I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. Thats MY fault. I own it. Ive been reflecting on this for some time now and I promise I will continue to do better."

Coletta said D'Elia told her he wanted to make-out with her a recurring theme in his messages to young women and that he wanted to fly her out to Los Angeles. After that, Coletta slowly stopped responding "just so he would go away," she said. He did message her when he was in her area, but she kept ignoring him.

"I have been public about it since it happened," said Coletta, who told her friends and her boyfriend at the time. She tweeted about one of D'Elia's emails in 2015 (and recently tweeted the screenshot of said email), and then she tweeted again when she saw his character in Netflix's series You "because of the insane irony that he is literally playing himself in that role," she said. On the show, D'Elia plays Henderson, a comedian who drugged and raped victims and took photos of them while unconscious.

Coletta deleted the second tweet soon after because a friend had previously been vocal about D'Elia and she said he subsequently threatened her. "I deleted the tweet about 'You,'" said Coletta, "because he's KNOWN for searching his own name and fighting with people or harassing, like he did to my friend."

On Tuesday, that same friend sent her a tweet by Simone Rossi, who goes by @girlpowertbh on Twitter. "I still cant believe netflix cast chris delia as the pedophile...like the literal IRONY," Rossi tweeted on June 16, also evoking D'Elia's You character:

Rossi threaded her tweet with screenshots of email conversations she said she had with D'Elia that were sent in 2014, when Rossi was 16.

"Imagine being 16 and being groomed by a stand up comedian twice ur age and the only reason you never met up and never got physically m*lested was because u had just gotten a boyfriend ur own age," Rossi then wrote.

These tweets prompted Coletta to speak out once again on Tuesday. "I immediately made a tweet about it because FINALLY it was getting attention," she said.

Twitter erupted almost immediately with similar stories about D'Elia. In addition to other women coming forward on their own accounts, many others messaged their stories to @SheRatesDogs, an account that spotlights gross messages women receive from men. Michaela Okland, who runs SheRatesDogs, threaded anonymous DMs she received as well as other tweets:

In a matter of hours, dozens of women both named and anonymous spoke up about him. And in addition to these accusations going viral, D'Elia's thinly-veiled pedophilic "jokes" started going around as well:

We know that stories like the ones about D'Elia don't exist in a vacuum. Not only are we entering the third year of the #MeToo era calling anything "post-MeToo" seems like a farce but we're in a time of deep social unrest. (The "Me Too" phrase was actually coined in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, but it took on new life after the New York Times and New Yorker investigations exposed Weinstein's pattern of sexual harassment.) The recent protests have made more Americans question whether the police actually "serve and protect," whether our justice system actually carries out justice. When authorities won't give a voice to the victims of wrongdoings whether these wrongdoings happen on the streets, in an office, or in someone's DMs the victims turn to social media to give themselves a voice.

In addition to brutality and racism, the police system's often shambolic handling of sexual assault cases has come up in recent weeks. In response to protesters who've called for the abolition of police, opponents often cite rape as a crime that we need police to investigate. Yet, the vast majority of assaulters do not go to jail or prison; they're not even reported. Tweets like the one below (about the Minneapolis police discovering 1,700 untested rape kits) go viral and highlight the police's incompetence:

While protesters fight racial inequality and police brutality in the streets, others do so online, especially on Twitter. This is seen in the circulation of bail funds and other requests for donations; protest and supply organizing; and coming forward with harrowing stories about racism. Exposing racism has snowballed into exposing other injustices, as is the case with D'Elia.

"I use twitter more than any other socials and have been on it for probably over 12 years [so] I had a bit of a follow[ing] already," said Coletta. "Plus [it's] my main news source that I feel like I can actually trust since its coming straight from the people experiencing it."

Okland started SheRatesDogs in 2018 and her following has ballooned to over 500,000. She said she chose Twitter (though she subsequently made an Instagram account) because of the retweet function.

"It's more of an echo chamber on Instagram," said Okland. But not on Twitter, where retweets allow her to get on feeds of people particularly men who may not have thought about these issues before.

Many reports on D'Elia went viral on Twitter, including the SheRatesDog's thread. But this isn't the first time the account has exposed abusers, Okland told Mashable. She had previously shared stories about a professor and a would-be Bachelorette contestant though nothing quite on this scale.

She became aware of the emerging conversation about D'Elia from Rossi's tweet, which Okland saw before it went massively viral. "I had actually gotten a DM about Chris two months ago," she said, and that's what she quote-tweeted Rossi with and jumpstarted her thread.

"I'm not usually an exposing account," said Okland, who said she feels guilt and anxiety at the thought of something bad happening to someone she posted about. That's why she usually keeps everyone anonymous. "If I was logging on and ruining three or four lives a day, that wouldn't be healthy," she said. "Even though there are people who say shitty things or do shitty things, that's just not a good life to live." But given Rossi's tweet, what Okland has heard in-person from female comics about D'Elia, and the two-month-old DM, she decided to get involved.

That DM several months ago came from a woman in Cleveland, Ohio, who chose to remain anonymous on both Twitter and in her discussion with Mashable, in order to not jeopardize her employment:

As in her retelling to SheRatesDogs, the woman told me that D'Elia stayed at the hotel where she works two years ago. Her supervisor at the time, another woman in her early 20s, worked the overnight shift. D'Elia allegedly called the front desk to say that his air conditioning wasn't working. Due to the hotel not having overnight maintenance, the supervisor went to D'Elia's room to help.

The supervisor said D'Elia exposed himself to her and didn't cover himself when she asked. He called the front desk again some time later, but the supervisor refused to go back to his room and told him that maintenance would arrive in the morning.

"I came into work the next day and the hotel's assistant general manager told us the story as a 'do not go to the room alone' warning and named D'Elia and his room number," the woman told Mashable. "He wasn't removed or barred from the hotel, but I don't know that he ever came back."

"Nobody would even see or believe me posting it on my own"

The woman said she loves the account SheRatesDogs in general because it made her feel less personally attacked and alone when she received abusive messages on dating apps. She told the account her D'Elia story because she saw that Okland tweeted something about him one day, "and I had to get it out," she said. "I didn't think she'd ever see it, but I didn't have anyone else to tell."

The hotel management didn't do anything about the incident, the woman said. "I can't call the police two years later and they wouldn't care anyway, and nobody would even see or believe me posting it on my own," she said. "She created a place online where women could be believed *and* let the frustrations out and be funny or angry or whatever."

D'Elia is far from the only example of allegations against someone gathering steam on Twitter. This month alone has ushered in a similar trend at several American universities.

In the same way students have created accounts to unmask their fellow students' racism, they're also creating Twitter accounts to expose sexual assaulters. Students at a number of universities, including Rutgers and UC San Diego, have followed the lead of Assaulters at UMich, which now has over 12,000 followers.

The University of Michigan account started because the account owner, who chose to remain anonymous, wanted there to be a voice for survivors.

"The University of Michigan has failed one too many survivors by simply doing nothing when approached with sexual assault cases," said the account owner. In 2018, a dozen assault incidents at the university were logged in an academic whisper network created by Karen Kelsky. Earlier this year, the university saw two #MeToo scandals back to back.

In a statement to Mashable, the University of Michigan took issue with the criticisms and pointed to a website outlining the university's response to sexual assaults:

While we certainly understand the difficulty of reporting sexual misconduct and the ensuing process, it's just not accurate to say the University of Michigan is doing nothing.

We've implemented new processes, added staff to our Office for Institutional Equity that handles investigations, created a special victims unitwithin our campus police department, made reporting easier and more visible, implemented mandatory training for all employees and students and are constantlyrevising and updating our policies. And we publish an annual report with details on all reports of sexual misconduct that are shared with the university.

The account's creator chose Twitter because it's a global platform. "I believed it would have the most impact," they said. Scrolling through Assaulters at UMich's now-locked feed is a similarly visceral experience to scrolling through SheRatesDogs' D'Elia thread: Account after account of assault, often contrasted with the alleged assaulter's smiling LinkedIn photo. The account has received thousands of stories, even from people who don't attend the University of Michigan or even reside in the state.

As of publication, the account is locked due to an individual posted about on the account threatening a lawsuit. In addition, the account owner said, they locked it following an attempted hack. While they eventually plan on unlocking, they want to ensure that survivors and their stories are completely safe.

Assaulters at UMich has received both positive and negative feedback. One common criticism is that Twitter isn't the best way to seek justice, but the account's owner said there isn't any better way to empower survivors at the moment. "Until something has been created, I will continue to use this platform to shed light on the prevalence of assaults that take place on college campuses," they said.

Okland, too, has no plans to get rid of SheRatesDogs anytime soon. She said she's received over 500 DMs about D'Elia, from accusers themselves and their loved ones. The responsibility overwhelms her, but she loves running the account and has no plans to give it away.

What's more, is that her messages are already flooding with stories about other abusers.

"It'll probably happen again," said Okland. "Especially just after this situation... I mean I have, like, five completely unrelated DMs about another guy."

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Part 1 of a series on food insecurity in Alexandria during the coronavirus

The regular Thursday morning pop-up grocery at Historic Christ Church has been closed for the last three months and transformed into a delivery service. The pop-up grocery served more than 30 families in need each week.

The church has kept the Lazarus Food Pantry (pop-up grocery) running but in drastically modified ways, according to Barbara Fallon who is the volunteer coordinator of this effort, now run out of a staff members home and the Methodist Church across the street. We are reaching those in tremendous need who are falling between the cracks from some of the other major City food efforts, Fallon says.

In February they were hearing about the coronavirus but the pantry kept going. We had an arrangement with Marymount nurses, and Pamela came with music and meditation yoga for people waiting for the pop-up pantry to open. Fallon says the last two weeks they moved the pantry outdoors for the first time.

March 12 was very chilly. We set up a long line of tables for safetys sake and 40 chairs. We had hand sanitizers. The next week the health situation was getting more serious, so instead of clients having the usual shopper experience, the volunteers prepackaged grocery bags for the first time ever and served them from the Meade Room kitchen at the church. We had to be quick.

Fallon says they prepackaged 90 bags of food. People were starting to get nervous. Fifty came out the final day and got fresh vegetables, eggs, frozen meats. We were as generous as possible. We had 35 extra grocery sacks, thank goodness, because the calls kept coming in for food. Some people walking by on the street who saw the line of people said they didnt know they offered the food, and we reached additional people in need that way.

At the last two pantries they took the phone numbers of those who wanted to participate so they could send a group text to the clients telling them what to expect in the future, and about other food resources such as the ALIVE! Free giveaway and Hunger Free Alexandria.

Fallon says she delivers to people who are really in dire need. For instance, 87-year-old Magna, who has a room in a Del Ray house. She hadnt been out for a month, and she had no food. I text her that Im coming. I leave the food in her front yard and wave. She must cook because she loves the fresh produce.

Fallon says, Most of the people are families with kids. I delivered to a Spanish single mother with a darling first grader who translated for her. Fallon said she had gotten the call asking her to make another delivery the same day for this familys emergency. They had no food. She said when the mother got the sacks of groceries she could say only one English word with a smile Happy.

Melanie Gray, Director of Outreach and Mission at Christ Church, says the former pop-up grocery volunteers now sack up groceries. The network of volunteers I created years ago is able to work now. It took a while to pull it together to make it work, but once its working, it works really well. The food pantry volunteers do the shopping and another group of go-getters deliver the groceries every day.

There was a lull of a few weeks and we wondered how we were going to regroup. Gray set up a Care Team of volunteers who called 200 people in the Christ Church records to check in and see if they needed food. Fallon says a lot of these people are sequestered and dont have the internet or any way to find out about the resources the City offers. A lot is by word of mouth.

But we were getting all of these callswhat are we going to do? The church building was closed. Thats when Liz Denson, Grays Assistant at Christ Church, offered her home as a storage place. Denson says she had all the groceries and other supplies in her living room but eventually there was too much. So she approached the Methodist Church across the street that offered their refrigerator and storage space.

Today Denson, with a couple of Methodist church volunteers, will load up bags for deliveries and carry them across the street to her home where Christ Church volunteers will pick them up for delivery. I try to recruit the help of my 10-year-old son to carry the bags and the 8-year-old and three-year-old help in small ways. I make it a point to talk about what I am doing so they understand what is happening in the City.

Denson pulls out her handy spreadsheet by zip code to cluster the daily deliveries. She has a list for each client. We ask what they need. They mostly all get the same food but today one single mom with two kids has requested paper towels, dish soap, toothpaste, baby wipes. We give them what we have.

Denson put out the word to volunteers to drop off groceries at her house. Fallon says volunteers bought food with their own funds. They got a couple of grants to provide Giant gift cards and ALIVE! generously provided Denson with a lot of food. In addition, gleaning will begin at the Farmers Market, which will add fresh produce to their supplies. Fallon says originally it was food, food, food. But now they have been able to add diapers and toiletries. And now were adding crayons and coloring books.

Gray says they have learned as they go along and we make corrections. The families asked for more masa flour, rice, snacks for the kids, cups of noodles, laundry detergent, trash bags, very specific things. And the airlines repackaged their snacks and provided packages of pretzels and things which the kids loved.

Lazarus Counselors at Christ Church helps residents in the City in crisis situations by addressing the immediate needs. Gray says since March 19, Lazarus Counselors have taken 462 calls and spent over $119,000 on 339 client bills and 128 gift cards and groceries. Gray explains the churchs Lazarus ministry reaches out with financial counseling and support for people facing financial emergencies as well as offering a shop and share assistance through the pop-up grocery. They have spent $14,630.15 on groceries for 128 families, including 475 people with 54 receiving groceries and 109 receiving gift cards.

In addition to food, the Lazarus ministry has been able to give people $250 to pay a portion of their rent. Even so, This is like putting a bandaid on a cancer. But, Gray says, People are so grateful for something; they want to be heard. It shows the system is working.

Gray adds starting today the ACT fund has been set up to help City of Alexandria employees making under $60,000. Lazarus has a phone call for intake and a City employee can go online and start the application. We plan to get back within 48 hours. Nobody needs to know you need money. It can be used for gas, food, whatever you need.

These efforts are funded through a cooperative effort from six churches, grants from United Way, FEMA, and ACT for Alexandria as well as over $75,000 from 198 individuals.

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