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As a rookie picked in the fifth round, Darius Slayton led the New York Giants in receiving yards in 2019. Then the former Auburn standout did it again in 2020.

But if Slayton leads the Giants in receiving yards in 2021, it might be a bigger surprise than when he did so as a rookie.

New York has invested in its wide-receiver corps this offseason by signing free agents Kenny Golladay and John Ross and using a first-round draft pick on Floridas Kadarius Toney, a former Blount High School star.

Im excited about all the guys they brought in -- KT and John Ross and KG, Slayton said. Im excited about all the guys we added to the room. I think you should take a more-the-merrier mindset. Its never a bad thing to have a bunch of talented guys in one room.

Golladay missed 11 games with a hip injury in 2020 after catching 65 passes for 1,190 yards and 11 touchdowns in his second straight 1,000-yard season in 2019 for the Detroit Lions.

The Cincinnati Bengals used the ninth pick in the 2017 NFL Draft on Ross after he ran a 4.22-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine. But he missed 37 of Cincinnatis 64 games over the past four seasons.

Toney caught 70 passes for 984 yards and 10 touchdowns in his final season at Florida.

The influx of new wide receivers could reduce Slaytons targets, or Golladay could draw the top cornerbacks in coverage throughout the season, decreasing the difficult of getting open for Slayton.

Slayton isnt analyzing the effect of the Giants acquisitions on New Yorks passing attack.

I dont really worry about it, Slayton said. I just try to go out and be my best every day I can be, and I plan to serve whatever role this team has in store for me.

Right now, Im just focused on trying to make sure I know all my plays, make sure I know all my assignments and make sure I make plays when my name is called.

Slayton caught 48 passes for 740 yards and eight touchdowns in 2019, when led the leagues rookies in touchdown receptions even though a hamstring injury delayed his NFL debut to Game 3 that season.

Before Slayton, no rookie from Auburn had caught more than five TD passes in the NFL, and it had been 68 years since Ray Pelfrey did that for the Green Bay Packers.

In 2020, Slayton caught 50 passes for 751 yards and three touchdowns as a 15-game starter.

In both seasons, Sterling Shepard and Golden Tate were deemed more likely to be the Giants top receiver. But they combined to miss 19 games over the past two seasons.

While Shepard had 25 more receptions than Slayton over the past two seasons, he had 259 fewer receiving yards and five fewer touchdown receptions.

When New York drafted Toney on April 29, Giants coach Joe Judge said he talked to Shepard about the pick. Shephard is preparing for his sixth season with the Giants.

If theres an older, experienced, vet player at a position, and we draft a player, I do talk to the players and let them know, Judge said. Last year when we drafted Andrew Thomas, I had a conversation with Nate Solder on the phone afterwards. This year after the draft, I called Shep. To me, its important to understand that, look, we are bringing in players to help this program and that the better each player plays, the more it helps each player on the team.

We dont look at any player on this program coming in as a threat or replacement. We look to go ahead and breed competition in this program, and the best players will play. But I do think theres merit to talking to your older, veteran leaders on the team and when you add someone at their position and just clarifying who youre bringing in and what the immediate plans are for that player.

Judge did not talk to Slayton about the Toney selection.

I would say (Slayton) is a veteran player, Judge said when asked last week about speaking with Shepard but not Slayton about the addition of Toney. Hes not in his first year right here, so hes got skins on the game right there.

In terms of Darius, everyones going to play to their strengths. Darius and Toney, will they be on the field at the same time? Different times? Different packages, different positions at times, but I think everybody on the team affects the other by the way they work and how they produce.

In terms of specifically that position, I felt it was necessary to talk to Shep specifically because when we drafted Toney the word in the press as he was reading those headlines was specifically hes a slot receiver, which, look, were not bringing in someone just to play one position. But I thought it was relevant at the time to contact Shep out of respect for how he is with our program to communicate that with him.

The Giants have one practice left on their offseason schedule on Tuesday. After the summer break, the players are scheduled to report for training camp on July 27.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at@AMarkG1.

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New year, new roster. With every new season comes a lot of change, even for teams that are able to retain most (or all in the Buccaneers case) of their starting lineup.

Because of these changes, there is always roster turnover. However, this may come as a surprise to some players, especially those that have been on the team for a number of years.

The NFL world is cut-throat, if youre not better than the next guy, your career might be in jeopardy. With the influx of rookies and free-agents, some of these veterans are going to need to fight tooth and nail to hold their spot against these newcomers.

Thats why Im going to be bringing out my crystal ball again to predict who I think might not be able to beat out their training camp competition to end up on the final 53 man roster.

While I dont think anyone from the starting lineup with end up losing their spot, there are some depth pieces that might be replaced by Week One, so lets dive in.

Now this might be a player that comes as no surprise. With the Buccaneers drafting Jaelon Darden in the 2021 draft, the writing is practically already on the wall for Mickens. He was signed during the 2019 season to act as a return man and an emergency receiver and was actually quite a spark in the return game throughout the 2020 playoff run.

He even stepped in as a receiver for a few games this past season and caught seven passes for 58 yards. Despite his success in limited opportunities, he just doesnt really have a place anymore on this loaded Buccaneers roster.

With the aforementioned Darden predictably taking over the return duties, Mickens could really only find his way as a receiver. However, if the Buccaneers have a spoil of riches anywhere on this roster, its in the receiving room, which would make it difficult for him to stick there. Because of this, Mickens may be wearing a different uniform in 2021.

The long time Buccaneer veteran might finally see his road come to an end in Tampa Bay. After serving as the third string quarterback since 2015, Griffin is finally being faced with competition that might oust him from his current position.

In the five years that Griffin has been in Tampa Bay, other quarterbacks have walked through the door to test his spot, but Griffin has always prevailed as the third option.

But, with the Bucs selecting Kyle Trask in the second round of the 2021 draft, it seems as if Griffin will find himself as the odd-man out for the first time. However, the fan favorite will forever be immortalized on the T-shirts of many Buccaneers fans after keeping Brady upright after the Super Bowl boat parade.

Ok so now this one may come as a surprise, but hear me out. Tampa Bay has a fearsome pass rush and one that ranks pretty high amongst NFL teams. However, outside of their starting duo of Jason Pierre-Paul and Shaq Barrett, theres not a lot of production.

One of the biggest culprits of this is Anthony Nelson, a talented run defender who just doesnt really add anything from a pass rush standpoint. Following the trend of bumping someone off the roster due to the draft, I think Nelson has the potential to be a depth casualty after the Bucs selected Joe Tryon in the first round.

After a season in which the Buccaneers only carried four outside linebackers, Nelson is falling to the bottom of that list and may lose out to another guy whose pass rush is stronger than his. While I would think Cam Gill gets the axe before Nelson, anything is possible when deciding between multiple players for the same spot.

For the final player on this list, I wanted to look at a guy who I am almost positive will be on the outside when the dust settles. While Watson was seen as someone who couldve been a diamond in the rough after coming out of the University of Pennsylvania, he never really amounted to more than a special teams player.

It isnt really his fault though as hes primarily been stuck behind more talented players like Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, DeSean Jackson, Adam Humphries, Antonio Brown, etc. which have pushed him to the bottom of the receiving depth chart year after year.

On top of this, a less than optimal connection with Tom Brady in 2020 and the addition of some special teams players through the draft forces Watson to fight an uphill battle. While he has shown flashes of being capable as the third or fourth option on an NFL roster, he just wont find that on an absolutely loaded roster.

Almost anything can happen in training camp, which means that there are probably a lot of surprises in store before the season begins. For the Buccaneers, I dont think well see many surprises since a good amount of their roster is already set.

However, the four players that Ive listed here are sitting in a potentially precarious situation due to the amount of depth that Tampa Bay will be bringing to the table. In the receiver room, the addition of Dardon and some other special teamers might mean the end for Mickens and Watson.

At the outside linebacker position, Joe Tryon is going to force someone out, it just depends on who that will be. While my belief is that Cam Gill will be the odd man out, we might see a surprise cut in Anthony Nelson just because his pass rush and pass coverage (which Bowles loves to do with his OLBs) is well below average.

As for Griffin, the addition of Trask and the re-signing of Gabbert is probably the end for him. While it will be sad to see some of these players go, just remember, they all got a Super Bowl ring out of it and probably wont be too sad to compete for actual playing time elsewhere.

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The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) is likely to make its flood control room functional later this week, to manage waterlogging issues in the district during monsoon, officials said on Tuesday.

This year, we are setting up the flood control room early as Gurugram has been receiving rainfall at frequent intervals in the past few weeks. We usually take a timeline of monsoon arrival by July 1 and make it functional by then, but this year, preparations started early. At present, the negotiations for setting up the flood control room are done, and we are waiting for a final approval from senior officials, following which, it will be functional by the end of this week, said a senior official, infrastructure-II division, GMDA.

The flood control room ensures that waterlogging issues being reported by the people are resolved at the earliest, with workers and machinery available on time for smooth functioning of the stormwater system during the monsoon.

Usually, two people manage the work at suchflood control rooms, but the information about this facility is yet to be released.

The GMDA had invited tenders last month, and it set a deadline of June 1 for companies to submit proposals for the flood control room worth 69 lakh.

This year, the authority has arranged for six temporary additional suction pumps that will be used in addition to the permanent ones placed at critical points. They will also make arrangements for super sucker machines in case of heavy waterlogging during the peak monsoon.

At a few critical points, like Narsinghpur service lanes, water can be removed from the streetsonlyby using machinery,saidtheofficials.The authority plans to deploy pumping sets and diesel generator sets at these locations, so that the work is not hampered during power cuts. Places such as Golf Course Roadunderpass, Sheeba Apartments in Sector 28, and Hero Honda Chowk among others, are some of the critical locations.

In 2019, the GMDA had placed eight dewatering pump sets, four tractor-mounted suction pumps, one earthmover, two super sucker machines, and 5,000 gunny bagsat a flood control room in Sector 53. About10 people worked there 24X7, in shifts.

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Cowetans whose homes were destroyed or are unlivable because of the tornado (or any other reason such as a fire) are exempt from paying the 8 percent hotel-motel tax but many paying for stays were not aware of it until recently.

Local groups paying for the lodging of tornado victims allege some hotel and motel operators have not been following state and local guidelines regarding tax exemptions in the wake of a disaster.

In Coweta County and the city of Newnan, there is an 8 percent hotel-motel tax charged on hotel stays but local ordinances and state law provide exemptions for hotel stays related to property that was destroyed in a disaster.

Local hotel operators were reminded of the exemption by county and city officials several weeks ago, and some have been cooperative in not charging the taxes or in granting refunds for taxes already charged.

Others have been less easy to deal with, according to local nonprofit organizations that are paying for a large number of hotel rooms for those impacted by the March 26 tornado.

In addition to the disaster exemption, local hotel-motel taxes, as well as the $5 per night state charge, can't be charged on "extended stays" of over 30 nights.

The tax is charged on the first 30 nights, but isn't allowed to be charged on nights 31 and above. The 30-night provision remains even if someone moves to a different room in the same hotel.

According to the Georgia Department of Revenue's regulations, the consecutive stays in different rooms add up to the 30-day extended stay regardless of whether the right to occupy the room is granted under separate, successive contracts," as long as the customer's days of consecutive occupancy are not interrupted.

Local nonprofits have received reports of hotels making clients check out and then check back in to avoid it becoming an extended stay.

For the disaster exemption, the local ordinance language reads: "the tax imposed by this article shall not apply to: charges made for any rooms, lodgings or accommodations provided to any persons who certify that they are staying in such room, lodging or accommodate as a result of the destruction of their home or residence by fire or other casualty."

To receive the exemption, the person occupying the hotel room must certify that their home was destroyed, said Newnan City Manager Cleatus Phillips.

"I think most people were unaware and did not submit the certification," he said. Though the ordinance states "destroyed," Phillips said he thinks any home that received a "red card" listing the property as unsafe would qualify.

However, if people who should have been exempt did pay the tax, it is the responsibility of the hotel to refund them, Phillips said.

"The individuals should make the request to the hotels and that request should include the certification," he said. The hotel can then issue the tax refund, and adjust their tax remittance for the following month to show credit for the refund.

"Our hotels were notified of this refund process several weeks ago," Phillips said. "If anyone has an issue with this process, they should notify us immediately."

The city manager's office can be contacted at 770-254-2358 or cphillips@cityofnewnan.org .

Coweta County sent out a letter to the 10 hotels in the unincorporated county on June 1, according to County Administrator Michael Fouts.

The letter states "it has been brought to our attention that some of the hotels in Coweta County are continuing to charge the hotel-motel excise tax for these individuals who were affected by this declared disaster," and lists the county ordinance language for the exemption.

"Coweta County hereby requests that all hotels comply with this regulation regarding exemption of the hotel-motel excise tax for these affected individuals in accordance with the code of ordinances, Fouts writes.

Hotel operators should contact Fouts at mfouts@coweta.ga.us or 770-254-2601 with questions.

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David Dennis Jr., a freelance journalist, educator and commentator based in Atlanta, Ga., has joined The Undefeated full-time as a senior writer covering music for the culture vertical of the ESPN multimedia content initiative on sports, race and culture. A frequent contributor to The Undefeated, Dennis will also write long- and short-form pieces on other topics at the intersection of race, culture and sports.

Dennis will begin his new role with The Undefeated on Monday, June 21.

With David officially joining the team, we are fast-tracking thecontinued expansion of our Culture vertical,said Raina Kelley, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, The Undefeated.David is at home within The Undefeated brand and will continue to deliver the brilliant and thought-provoking stories hes well known for. Thathes starting during Black Music Appreciation Month is an absolute bonus.

Dennis joins The Undefeated after ten years as a critically-acclaimed and award-winning writer whose work has appeared inThe Atlantic, The Washington Post,Atlantamagazine,HuffPost,Medium, and more. His articles for The Undefeated ranged widely, from a sweeping history of the Black communitys involvement insocial mediato an assessment of rapperKanye Wests career and a look at actressHalle Berrys filmography after the debacle ofCatwoman.

This year, Dennis received the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Award for his work, including an Atlanta magazinestory Ahmaud Arbery Will Not Be Erased a reflective piece about the young Black man killed while jogging in Brunswick, Ga. Based on confidential nominations from about 150 entries, a panel of 10 journalists from top-tier media outlets NPR, NBC News, CBS News, Telemundo, The Boston Globe,The Wall Street Journal, andOxford American selected Dennis and his work for the prize.

Its been such a delight working with The Undefeated team as a freelancer for years and Im so excited to join the team full-time, added Dennis. I cant wait to tell the stories Im passionate about with writers and editors I admire so much. Im so excited for you all to see what we have in store next.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Dennis served as a visiting professor of Journalism and Social Justice at Morehouse College, the prestigious Historically Black College and University in Atlanta. He was a faculty advisor for the schools newspaper, The Maroon Tiger.

Dennis is currently working on his first book, The Movement Made Us,scheduled for publication by HarperCollins in 2022. The book tells the story of his father, civil rights activist David Dennis Sr., a CORE field secretary in the 1960s and was a member of the Freedom Riders.

A 2008 graduate of Davidson College in Charlotte, N.C., Dennis majored in English and ethnic studies. He later obtained a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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Following a completed investment of more than $200 million, Harrah's Las Vegas now features 2,542 redesigned guest rooms, a complete casino floor remodel and two new LED marquees at the north and south entrances. Guests can also enjoy a variety of hotel, dining and entertainment offerings including The Spa at Harrah's Las Vegas, PizzaCake by Buddy Valastro and Donny Osmond's first-ever solo residency. Additionally, the center-Strip resort provides convenient, direct access to CAESARS FORUM Conference Center.

To commemorate the resort's recent enhancements, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Harrah's Las Vegas Dan Walsh ceremoniously switched on the new purple lighting on the building's exterior on Thursday, June 10.

Following the first two renovation phases of 1,622 Valley Tower rooms in 2016 and 2018, Harrah's Las Vegas completed the redesign of all 2,542 rooms and suites in 2020, including the Mountain Tower with an additional investment of $70 million. Designed by Marnell Architecture, the refreshed guest rooms feature bold purple and blue hues that complement the cream-colored dcor, dark wood accents and contemporary fixtures. Each room offers an oversized backlit vanity station, in addition to the backlit vanity mirror in the modern bathroom. Guests can also enjoy stunning views of the city or the High Roller Observation Wheel in select rooms. To book, please visit harrahslasvegas.com.

Additional highlights of the suites include ceramic dark plank tile flooring, a separate living and dining area with a wet bar and entertainment area, an oversized soaking tub and the option for two connecting bedrooms with a king bed and two queen beds. These suites are part of the Caesars Suites program, where guests can conveniently book more than 2,000 suites and villas within Caesars Entertainment's Las Vegas portfolio on one comprehensive website, caesarssuites.com.

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On May 28, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions.

The Louisiana Manufactured Housing Commission functions to: license manufacturers, retailers, developers, salesmen and installers; work with manufactured home consumers, manufacturers, retailers, developers, salesmen and installers to hear complaints and make determinations relating to construction defects, warranty issues and service complaints; and conduct hearings on any violation of the provisions of the law.

Gary P. Millet, of Prairieville,Phillip David Ridder Jr., of Tickfaw, andChristy A. Smith, of Albany, havebeen reappointed to the Louisiana Manufactured Housing Commission.

Millet is the owner of Rollin Homes Inc. He will serve as the representative of the 3rd Public Service Commission District.

Ridder is the owner of D.M.B. Mobile Homes and will serve as an at-large member.

Smith is the owner of S.E.T. Mobile Home Movers LLC. She will serve as a representative of the 1st Public Service Commission District.

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Residents unhappy about proposed development on land, off Arthur Street, Blakenhall

They have now raised a petition bearing 87 signatures which is to be submitted to Wolverhampton City Council objecting to the application made by W G & M Marshall Limited.

Councillor Jasbinder Dehar and Councillor Paul Birch went to view the site and listen to the complaints of residents.

Previously an outline planning application for homes and car parking spaces on land at the rear of the caravans at Chaletland has been refused by planners.

Under the latest application, the company is seeking outline permission for access to the site.

It has reserved further details such as landscaping and the application for access from Cockshutts Lane is expected to go before the council's planning committee in July.

Mother-of-two Bernadette Clowery, aged 58, said residents were fearful the application could lead to homes being built on the site.

She said: "The land in question is a self-perpetuating wood which was once a disused asphalt area.

"I believe there are more than 175 trees on this area and because of this proposed access there would be problems with parking and noise.

"There are wood-peckers and blue-tits in the wood and a fox.

"We are concerned because we have all done our mobile homes up to a good specification and we are worried because our peace and tranquillity will be lost.

"Pedestrian access is planned at the bottom of Arthur Street and at the moment there are parking problems, deliveries are not being made.and we also believe fire regulations would be breached.

"There are mainly semi-retired and retired people living on the site and we are all concerned about the application."

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Ryan Smith, director of Washington State University's School of Design and Construction, is an an expert on prefab construction.

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Smith, also an architecture professor, moved to Pullman with his family three years ago from Salt Lake City, where he taught and worked for 14 years at the University of Utah. It was a bit of an adjustment moving to the much smaller city at first, he says, noting that "the kids at first were like, 'Where's Forever 21?'"

There was also that whole pandemic thing this last year, which moved teaching to a virtual setting. But the good news is faculty and staff will be able to return to campus come July.

In addition to his tenure teaching architecture, Smith has also literally written the book well, six of them actually on prefabrication, a.k.a. prefab construction.

In a nutshell, prefab refers to projects where instead of doing something like framing a house bit by bit on site, different elements are constructed in a factory to a fairly finished state before being brought to the building's ultimate location.

There, cranes can lift full walls, rooms or even full living units into place to be quickly sealed together.

The process isn't novel, Smith explains, with the idea really taking root a century or so ago.

"It's been toyed with by architects and builders since the Industrial Revolution," Smith says. "Taking advantage of machines to build our houses isn't necessarily new."

But since that time, the technique has had fits and starts in popularity, he says. First, there was a boost in prefabrication's popularity just after WWII when soldiers returned and started settling down and starting families.

Then in the late 1960s and early '70s, Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, took charge of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, Smith says. Romney came from the auto industry, known for its assembly lines.

"George was an industrialist, and he had this idea: 'Can we meet the pent-up demand for housing by using WWII factories that lay dormant across the country?'" Smith says.

So the federal government invested in several factories across the country, including one in Seattle, to explore prefabrication techniques for housing. But Smith says when Ronald Reagan took office, funding for the program dropped off.

While HUD had come up with high quality designs to meet the need for single-family housing, Smith says the most well-known idea that came out of the program was a lower quality product: the mobile home.

"That is the legacy from our country's last major investment in prefabrication," he says.

Unfortunately, mobile homes built to federal standards often leaked, were inefficient and became associated with lower quality of life, even as they helped meet the overall need for housing, Smith says.

Fast forward to 2002, he says, and people were asking why the U.S. wasn't using prefab construction with the same success as other countries such as Sweden and Japan. So Dwell magazine ran a contest telling architects to partner with mobile home/prefab factories to design high quality, affordable homes.

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Prefab homes are constructed in sections at a factory and then assembled on site, reducing construction labor costs and saving time.

The creative ideas entered for that contest spurred some companies that still exist today, Smith says, and helped put prefabrication back in the spotlight.

Currently, labor shortages in the construction industry are causing a bit of a prefab resurgence, Smith says.

"Labor has increased in cost, and the availability of labor to build homes is not there. It's a real problem right now," he says. "Because of that, now people are saying, 'Wow, this idea of prefabrication could really fly economically. It makes so much more sense: It's more productive, and frankly we don't have the labor. This could be something we look to.'"

In the Spokane area, Katerra, a cross-laminated timber manufacturer, has big plans to expand production of prefabricated walls and building elements.

Another company, Washington-based Blokable, has designed full modular affordable housing units that can be stacked next to and on top of one another. They're completely finished in the company's factory, making it much faster and more affordable to finish a multifamily apartment project.

So far, while prefab techniques definitely save time on projects of different sizes, Smith says it's really in that multifamily or hotel size where the speed translates to cost savings.

"The advantage that has been realized has been speed. We've seen 30 to 50 percent time savings," Smith says. "That may not benefit you all that much financially on a single-family home. But on a big, multifamily project or a hotel where you've gotta open to get revenue? Yes."

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If you'd like to help reduce the impact of your new home, you could build it to the voluntary international building standard known as a "passive house." These homes require very little to no energy to heat and cool.

Smith says he's also a fan of something called ICF or insulated concrete forms, in which semi-hollow foam blocks are put next to one another to create the form for concrete pours for, say, a basement. The blocks help insulate the room better and reduce the time that would've been spent building steel or plywood forms, he says.

Another recent innovation Smith says he's seen is something called "BamCore," which is a framing alternative to wood.

"So you're building walls not out of two-by-fours, out of lumber, but out of bamboo that is rapidly renewable and sustainably harvested," Smith says. "I think there's a lot of potential for this, though it still needs to go through a lot of testing."

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