The former second-round pick grew into a playmaker for the Bears' young secondary in 2022, starting all 15 games he was active for and compiling 103 tackles and a team-high four sacks. His 73 solo tackles were the third most among all NFL rookies during the regular season.

While Brisker's stat sheet proves his rookie year was a success, the Pittsburgh native felt his performance last season didn't meet personal expectations, adding: "just looking at what I did last year, I know that wasn't me. I could have been better."

His biggest disappointment was not playing in all 17 games, as he missed Weeks 12 and 13 in concussion protocol. He also dealt with an injury in the preseason, limiting his training camp reps. Brisker said he can't remember missing a game since his sophomore year of high school and believes "availability is the best ability."

After finishing out the 2022 season healthy, Brisker went into the offseason with an emphasis on taking care of his body. With more time to himself the last few months, the safety has been able to "get back to the drills that I always used to do," and focus on eating right and strengthening certain parts of his body to prevent future injuries.

That offseason work included training in California, Chicago and at his alma mater, Penn State. Brisker said he spent time working with three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and fellow Pittsburgh native Aaron Donald along with former college teammates Joey Porter Jr. and Ji'Ayir Brown.

Staying connected to his teammates throughout the offseason was another focus for Brisker as he wanted to keep building on relationships established in the locker room last season. When Brisker was back in Chicago throughout the offseason, he often worked with veteran safety Eddie Jackson, who he grew close with during his rookie season, and saw teammates like quarterback Justin Fields at Halas Hall.

"Just keep building the chemistry, that's always important because we all have the same goals," Brisker said. "But it's even better when you're working out with each other and obviously you're having conversations and going to each other's houses and things like that. It's also important to train with the best players in the league and just really getting a feel for each other and things like that, always learning from each other and always taking something away."

While Brisker spent much of the last three months concentrated on football, he knew it would be beneficial to take some time away before ramping up for the 2023 season.

Prior to returning to Chicago last Monday for the Bears voluntary offseason program, Brisker was back home in Pittsburgh for 12 days and hosted his inaugural toy giveaway April 7. Brisker said he was proud of the event's turnout and saw "a lot of smiles on kids' faces," as the "kids really enjoyed themselves."

Brisker said adding a positive influence to his hometown community has been a priority of his even before entering the NFL. Finally having the opportunity to serve as a role model and give back to kids in the area where he grew up was a monumental moment for Brisker, who often searched for someone like that during his childhood.

"When I was a kid, I always felt like I needed someone in my position to come around or to always give back or just wondered where those players were," Brisker said. "I feel like with me, I always wanted to give back. I've always said that. You never know, you could change one, maybe five, ten people's lives just by showing up.

"So I just feel like as a kid, that's what I always wanted. And not too many people give back. Especially for my city, kids don't see guys like me come back and actually be face-to-face with them and do things like that. So I feel like that was very big, especially to help kids in need and kids who don't have two parents or however the situation is. I was one of those kids before, so I know how it feels."

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By Arunesh Kumar Sharma: What will your day look like in terms of health, romance, finance and fortune? Read everything here.

Monetary gains- Performance will be according to expectations. Exercise caution in financial transactions. Maintain control over investments. Create a professional and desired environment. Increase compliance with rules. Participate in discussions and dialogues. Avoid borrowing. Success will remain average. Move forward with preparation. Maintain vigilance in career and business. Maintain coordination in work relationships. Keep the system strong. Work according to plans. Focus on facts.

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Love life- Do not rush to express your thoughts. Maintain simplicity and humility. Will do better in discussions and dialogues. Will increase patience in emotional relationships. Will maintain respect for everyone. Will remain alert. Will improve balance in relationships. Will bring clarity to personal matters. Avoid unnecessary reactions. Essential information is possible.

Health- Will emphasize hard work. Will avoid neglecting health. Will remain alert to symptoms. Develop the habit of meditation and breathing exercises. Maintain routine. Pay attention to responsibilities. Keep enthusiasm and mental strength.

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Kelly Clarksons latest Kellyoke song hit very close to home.

The singer performed her highly anticipated new single, Mine, on The Kelly Clarkson Show.

Standing in front of purple backlights, Clarkson wore a floor length black dress with lace sleeves. The dramatic performance seemed especially poignant given the lyrics' personal resonance for the singer.

She sings, I hope one day someone will take your heart and hold it tight / Make you feel like youre invincible deep inside / And right when you think that youll try again, they cross a line / And steal your shine like you did mine.

Afterwards, Clarkson tells her studio audience that the lyrics in that song are pretty self evident.

I was feeling all the feelings when I wrote that one, she says.

Clarkson explains that she had never really done anything like that on a chorus and never changed tempo on a song.

It was just a different vibe for me overall, so I was very excited about it, she says. Obviously I was also just very angry and sad. But anyway, I did, I let it out and I feel great now.

Prior to the performance, the show released a behind-the-scenes glimpse of all the work that went into the performance.

I hope you all like the song, if you dont its OK, Clarkson says. It was therapeutic for me.

Clarkson also dropped the official music video to Mine, along with another track, Me.

Both songs are seemingly about her divorce in June 2022 from Brandon Blackstock. The pair were married for nearly seven years and share kids River Rose, 8, and Remington Alexander, 7.

Earlier this month, the singer posted a black-and-white clip of herself recording the track in the studio.

Someones going to show you how a heart can be used like you did mine, she sings in the clip.

The raw song is a track from her upcoming album Chemistry, which is set to be released on June 23. Last month, Clarkson opened up about the meaning of her album title: Chemistry can be a really amazing, sexy, cool, fun thing, but it can also be very bad for you

She said the record couldn't be described with one or two emotions.

This album is definitely the arc of an entire relationship, she said. And a whole relationship shouldnt be just brought down to one thing. So theres the good, the bad and the ugly kind of thing going on in it.

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Anthony Edwards wasn't ready for his season to be over. And he certainly wasn't ready for the Denver Nuggets to send the Minnesota Timberwolves packing without winning a game in their first-round series.

"I don't ever want to say I got swept in my career," Edwards said Sunday night. "So I definitely took it personally tonight."

With their backs against the wall, the eighth-seeded Timberwolves took down the top-seeded Nuggets 114-108 in overtime to avoid the sweep and send the series back to Denver with the Nuggets leading 3-1.

It looked like the Timberwolves were going to cruise to victory late in the game as they took a 12-point lead on an Edwards jumper with 2:52 remaining, drawing a timeout from Nuggets coach Michael Malone.

From there, Denver finished regulation on a 12-0 run to send the game to overtime and quiet the Target Center faithful.

The Nuggets hit three consecutive 3-pointers -- one by Nikola Jokic and two from Michael Porter Jr. -- and then Jokic hit a jumper in the lane with 48.9 seconds left to cut Minnesota's advantage to 96-95. With 12.7 seconds left, Jokic was fouled and hit one of two free throws to tie the game.

Edwards had a chance to win the game in regulation but was stripped by Kentavious Caldwell-Pope as he rose for a shot in the final seconds.

"At that point it was like, [there's] nothing we can do about the last two minutes. But we can control the next five," Timberwolves veteran point guard Mike Conley said. "Let's come out here as a group and lock back in on what we did to get that lead."

Despite finishing with a team-high 34 points on 12-of-27 shooting, Edwards was critical of his play in the fourth quarter and his overall game in general.

"I played terrible if you ask me," Edwards said. "I took three bad 3s, three terrible possessions, and I damn near shot us out the game. I didn't play that good tonight."

Edwards was 1-of-5 in the fourth quarter, with his jump shot to put the Timberwolves up 12 his only make. He missed three shots prior to that -- although one was a midrange 2-point attempt -- before also missing the potential game winner at the end of regulation.

With the win in hand, Edwards said he knows what he'd do differently if the Wolves are in that situation again.

"If we're up six or eight with three minutes, I'm definitely getting downhill to the rim or getting a midrange shot," Edwards said. "I'm not going to settle. I settled for three bad, bad, terrible 3s, and it won't happen again."

Edwards hit both of his shots in the overtime period, with both coming at big moments. First, he hit a layup with 1:29 left to stretch Minnesota's lead to seven. But after the Nuggets scored on three consecutive possessions, the Wolves were again staring down a potential meltdown.

But with 11.5 seconds to play, Edwards confidently stepped into a 3-pointer after a hard crossover dribble to give the Wolves a four-point lead.

"I wasn't passing the ball," Edwards said. "I was taking the shot. I was going to live with whether I lost us the game or we won. And I ended up hitting the shot."

While Edwards' shot put the Wolves up comfortably, he called Nickeil Alexander-Walker the "MVP" of the game.

With Jaden McDaniels out because of a broken right hand, Alexander-Walker has picked up the assignment of guarding Nuggets star Jamal Murray. But it was Alexander-Walker's offense that helped decide the game late.

Despite missing all three of his 3-point attempts to that point, Alexander-Walker came through with two back-to-back corner 3s in overtime to give Minnesota the lead and then push it to five.

"Shot ready," Alexander-Walker said when asked what he was thinking as the ball was passed to him late. "I know the rotations, watching a lot of film. Just stayed prepared. I know my teammates are going to rely on me because they're making that right play. And just being confident in my work, trusting it and knowing that eventually the law of averages, the shots have to fall."

Malone was critical of his team's defensive performance in the overtime period. After his team held the Timberwolves to just 16 points in the fourth quarter, Minnesota had 18 in the five minutes of overtime.

"The hardest thing to stomach about this game is that we were unwilling and unable to get necessary stops," Malone said.

According to ESPN Stats & Information research, the Timberwolves became the first team to score more points in the first overtime period of a game than they did in the fourth quarter since the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of the 2006 playoffs (21 in OT, 17 in the fourth quarter) against the Lakers in the first round.

Part of what allowed Minnesota to get its offense going again was ball movement. The Timberwolves had two assists while going 7-of-19 from the field in the fourth quarter but assisted on four of their six baskets in the extra period.

"I think we got to continue to get into something," Wolves coach Chris Finch said. "I think that's part of the problem is we get down [on ourselves] or we're trying to close out the game too early."

Edwards continued his great postseason run, and Finch said the All-Star guard is building off what he started a year ago. In his first 10 career playoff games, Edwards has scored 280 points. That's the seventh most of any player in their first 10 playoff games since 1979, behind only Michael Jordan, Luka Doncic, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Trae Young and Allen Iverson.

It was Edwards' fifth 30-point game in those 10 games. The only player with more 30-point playoff performances at age 21 or younger is James. Edwards broke a tie with Kobe Bryant with four.

When asked about being in the same conversation as those two legends, Edwards was quick to dismiss it.

"It's just stats," Edwards said. "Those guys have won championships ... but I haven't done anything. I haven't made it out of the first round. It's great to be mentioned with those guys, but I still have work to do."

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Advocating for yourself at work is serious business, and TikTok's Corporate Natalie is here to help you get the job done.

So before your next performance review, consider the social media star's advice on knowing your worth.

"It's incredibly important,"Natalie explained of her stancein an exclusive interview with E! News. "I think if you're doing the right things to make yourself indispensable on your team and you know that you are providing something, that you're not replaceable. I've said before being a single point of failure. You're someone that if you left, the company would hurt. You are providing something to your team, your job, your company overall that's truly irreplaceable."

Whenyou demonstrate this, she noted, "You're able to show that you're doing more and you're worth more and build that package." Another one of Natalie's recommendations? Make a record of all your contributions.

"We do so many different things," she continued. "You wear so many hats. You get lost in all the day-to-day tasks that if you're not tracking it and kind of building your story every day that goes by, you lose track of the actual impact that you're doing. So, I always say track your performance so that you're able to, when your performance review comes up, show like, 'Hey, I did X, Y, Z. This was the impact I had.'"

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Amlan Borgohain was the hero of the Indian Grand Prix 4 at the Kanteerava track in Bengaluru after completing the sprint doubles, winning both the 100m and 200m. He did the same thing earlier this week at the Indian Grand Prix 3.

Another standout performance was Beranica Elangovan's spectacular personal best of 4.10m in the pole vault (only missing the national record after previously winning while trying 4.22m).

Jyothi Yarraji raced a personal best of 23.60 seconds in the 200m into a stiff headwind, winning a commanding victory over the incumbent national champion. Reliance Foundation athletes finished first, second, and third in the men's sprints, and first and second in the men's 200m.

There were 10 personal best results from seven Reliance Foundation competitors throughout both Indian Grand Prix events. Tejas Shirse (110m Hurdles in 13.81 seconds) and Ragul Kumar (400m in 48.48 seconds) set personal bests at the Indian Grand Prix 3.

Personal bests at Indian Grand Prix 4 included Baranica Elangovan (Women's Pole Vault with 4.10m, Jyothi Yarraji (200m in 23.60), Sapna Kumari (100m in 12.20s), Animesh Kujur (100m in 10.69), Ragul Kumar (100m in 10.77), Laxmipriya Kisan (400 m in 59.37s), Kishore Jena (Men's Javelin Throw with 77.22m) and Tejas Shirse (100m in 10.89 seconds) and (200m in 21.96s).

Tejas' 200m effort was his third personal best in three events, capping off an incredible week.

What particularly impressed James were the competitors who achieved personal bests amid significant headwinds. The -2.0m/s headwind in the Men's 100m Race A, for example, did not dissuade any of RF's competitors, with Amlan Borgohain, Ragul, and Tejas demonstrating their skill and tenacity despite the terrible circumstances.

Given that the Indian Grand Prix 3 and 4 were the athletics season openers, the coach is better informed of his game plan for the next months.

Coach James is sure that the athletes will do even better in the forthcoming tournaments after ironing out a few kinks and making some modifications.

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Asset allocation is like a full course meal full of different recipes, says Priyadarshini Moreshwar Mulye, a SEBI Registered Investment Advisor and Founder, ARTHA FinPlan.

In an interview with MintGenie, Mulye said that indexation benefit was one of the major distinguishing factors which debt funds used to have before changes in their tax implications.

To get better returns from the existing portfolio of mutual funds, one should first get the updated valuation. If the investment is made randomly and without any goal assigned, then please decide on the goal first. For short-term goals, one can assign short-term debt funds and for long-term goals, suitable equity funds.

Further, reduce the number of schemes which are repetitive from the same category and do not deliver returns at par with the respective benchmark for more than two years at least. This will help to curb overdiversification. Now you can clearly view your portfolio which will further help you to review regularly and make suitable changes along. While making any fresh investment too, decide on your basics, viz., future goals, investment tenure and risk appetite.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken a Pause" for now with respect to repo rate changes. But it may change in the next policy meetings. When it comes to debt reduction", it gives us psychological relief and we can better utilize the money for other meaningful purposes. Considering this pause in rate hikes", if the loan borrower has surplus money, then as per applicable terms and conditions of the respective loan, one can pre-pay in the best possible capacity. However, he/she should not compromise on investments for future priority goals.

Balance is the Key!

Indexation benefit was one of the major distinguishing factors which debt funds used to have before changes in their tax implications. Now, as debt funds come with the same tax implications as fixed deposits, people have started considering them to invest. Along with them, hybrid funds are gaining attention too as they offer dual benefits and exposure to debt & equity asset classes.

However, one should invest in them if his/her goals & risk appetite fit for the same. Investors must invest in hybrid funds due to their features & suitability, not just because they offer tax advantage over Debt funds.

Asset allocation is like a full-course meal full of different recipes. We eat what we like & most importantly what suits our health. Likewise, asset allocation is selecting a suitable asset class in the right proportion to invest in suitable underlying investment options.

Now, to decide on asset allocation, investors should first decide on future goals & Investment tenure. This will help them to select broadly the allocation of asset classes, e.g., if short-term goals are more, then allocation to debt will be more in the portfolio.

Furthermore, investors must screen through suitable investment options under that asset class as per risk appetite, goal and tenure. Also, for short-term goals with fixed tenure, one can choose a bank fixed deposit, start a recurring deposit or post office investment.

For short-term goals with flexible tenure, liquid funds, money market funds or short-term debt funds can be suitable. For long-term goals, one can select suitable equity mutual funds. Apart, investors must read and understand the basics of the investment option before investing.

New fund offer these days come with different objectives and themes. Along with the positive scenario of the market, low NAV" is also the reason investors consider investing in the first place. However, in mutual funds, the growth potential of the fund irrespective of the NAV, and consistency in delivering returns at least at par with that of benchmark matter a lot along with its suitability to our future goals, risk appetite and tenure. So, be thoughtful while investing in the fund offer.

The sole purpose of 'investing' should be to achieve future goals. Many times, investors fail to achieve goals not only due to bad market conditions or changes in macroeconomic scenarios but also due to many behavioural aspects. Some of the reasons are-

So, though the reasons are many, one should invest with at least basic knowledge about the option. We must invest with discipline, have a proper review regularly and make suitable changes accordingly. Keep your portfolio simple and easy to understand.

Be thoughtful while investing!

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Todd Central Greenhouse Offering Expanded Variety Of Plants | WKDZ Radio

The Todd County Central High School Greenhouse is offering an expanded selection of plants for sale to the public this spring.

Todd Central High School FFA Advisor and Horticulture Instructor Shayla Berry says the students in the greenhouse and horticulture classes she teaches have worked hard this year to offer a great selection for their customers.

click to download audioBerry says they are selling everything from ferns to succulents.

click to download audioShe adds the horticulture-related classes she teaches provide several important lessons for all students who take them.

click to download audioThe students spoke with News and Farm Director Alan Watts about their work in the greenhouse and through the horticulture classes.

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Taylor says that the course and Harnishs senior thesis, a play she wrote about the course material, This is Your Computer on Drugswhich she is also directing on April 29 and 30 at Columbiarepresent the culmination of their three-year collaborative relationship.

Harnish took her first class with Taylor, Philosophy of Religion, during the spring semester of her freshman year, after which she decided to become a religion major instead of the double major she had declared in philosophy and theater. This was also when COVID hit, right when Harnish was writing her midterm paper, so the course was completed over Zoom. She then enrolled in two more courses with Taylor during the fall 2020 semester, Theory and Recovering Place, because he had hinted at retirement. Both classes were conducted virtually.

It was the depths of the pandemic, and Harnish, who had returned to Indiana, where she grew up, was having a hard time. She was living alone in a government-subsidized apartment for artists in Indianapolis, working two jobs, taking 16 course credit hours, and trying to cope with life during COVID.

Come midterms, she emailed Taylor to alert him that she was planning on withdrawing from Columbia for the rest of the semester because of her difficulty managing everything. He offered to Zoom with her later that day.

He talked me into staying in school, said Harnish, and its a good thing he did, because my final project for Recovering Place was my first full-length play, The Foundation of Roses.

The 60-page script is a ghost story about her challenging childhood experiences, said Taylor. It was so remarkable that I nominated it for the Religion Departments Peter Awn Award, which is given annually to the most outstanding undergraduate paper or project in the department. My colleagues agreed with my assessment, and Alethea won the award in 2021.

Harnish has since written four more plays. One of them, Phantasmagoria, a one-person, autobiographical show, made its Off-Broadway debut in June 2022 when she performed it at the Downtown Urban Arts Festival, where it won second place for the Best Play Award. The work was about leaving her rural roots in Indiana to attend college in New York.

According to Harnish, she was the first person from her high school to get into an Ivy League university, and traveling halfway across the country to a big city was a culture shock. Meeting Taylor, who became a mentor, was very beneficial for her.

Over time, the relationship has morphed from a mentor-mentee one into something more reciprocal, said Harnish.

Taylor, who started teaching at Williams College in 1973, and arrived full-time at Columbia in 2007, said that early on he detected something very special about Alethea. It was not just her exceptional intelligence, interest, maturity, and determination, but also a rare imaginative creativity.

Once campus came back to life in fall 2021, at the start of Harnishs junior year, the two continued their conversations in person, and Harnish started sending Taylor examples of her writing. They met regularly during Taylors office hours to discuss her work. One day, she asked him what he was working on for his next book. Hegel and quantum mechanics, he said.

In one of those strange moments the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the psychologist Carl Jung labeled synchronicity, said Taylor, Alethea said, Thats weird because I want to write and produce a play for my senior thesis about quantum physics and New Age spirituality.

Out of that convergence came the course theyre now co-teaching. They started by delving deeper into their shared interest in the material through reading and further discussion. Few people realize that personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the Metaverse all trace their origins to hippies and the drug culture of the 1960s, said Taylor.

The more I thought about it, the clearer it became that this would be the perfect subject for my last course, he continued. My professional career spanned precisely the half-century from the 1960s to the present.

When Taylor asked her to co-teach the course, Harnish was initially terrified. We had spent almost two years in conversation by that point, and I knew that this would be the opportunity of a lifetime, she said. His insisting that he was also learning from me gave me the confidence to take on such a role.

Although Harnish has fully embraced her leadership role with the course this semester, she is not sure if she will pursue a career in higher education. Her immediate plans after graduation are to travel to Greece this summer with a Brooklyn-based theater company, providing administrative support for its apprentice program. She then wants to spend a year in New York, completing the applications for various playwriting fellowships and other writing programs.

Back in the classroom, the next time Hippie Physics meets, Harnish, dressed in a jean shirt, long, pleated skirt, and cowboy boots, leads the discussion on the assigned readings from The Book by Alan Watts and Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. One of her touches has been to start every session spending a few moments listening to one of the eras classic rock songs, and then opening the floor to a parsing of the songs meaning. Todays selection is Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven.

After she stops the music, she says, What is the implication philosophically of there being a stairway to heaven for us? Were down here, and we have to get up there.

As he watches her effortlessly command the classroom, Taylor says, Strangely, the success of this course makes it both easier and more difficult for me to stop teaching. We hear much, perhaps too much, today about the problems with higher education, and especially with the humanities. But as I watch Alethea teach and her fellow undergraduates respond to her, I have hope for the future.

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