Davis joined a Falcons squad in need of offensive talent in 2021 in a move that also returned him to his native Atlanta. He received 138 carries, gaining just 3.6 yards per carry in an offense that ended up deploying running back Cordarrelle Patterson as a do-everything playmaker and diverting targets to rookie tight end Kyle Pitts.
Davis didn't see as much action as he might have expected, finishing with fewer carries than in his final season in Carolina. He'll hit the open market at 29 years old after the draft with the hope he'll be able to land on a roster with a chance to compete for a spot this summer.
In other Falcons roster news, Atlanta will be picking up the fifth-year option for guard Chris Lindstrom, NFL Network's Mike Giardi reported Monday.
Roster moves
The Arizona Cardinals announced Monday that they had re-signed safety Charles Washington to a one-year contract. Washington has played the last three seasons with the Cardinals.
The Cincinnati Bengals announced the re-signing of punter Kevin Huber to a one-year contract.
The Cleveland Browns have released kickers Chris Blewitt and Chase McLaughlin. The move comes days after the Browns selected former LSU kicker Cade York in the fourth round of the NFL draft.
The Houston Texans are picking up the fifth-year option for versatile offensive lineman Tytus Howard, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Monday. The Texans are signing former Seahawks defensive end Rasheem Green to a one-year contract, per Rapoport. Green logged 6.5 sacks in 16 starts with Seattle in 2021.
The Jacksonville Jaguars announced the addition of 15 undrafted free agents and the release of offensive lineman Brandon Murphy and linebacker Elijah Sullivan.
The Kansas City Chiefs are signing undrafted Clemson wide receiver Justyn Ross, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reports, per a source. Following a breakout freshman season, Ross appeared to be a future first-round draft pick in the NFL but multiple injuries held him off the field since 2020. The 22-year-old first had a congenital fusion of his upper cervical spine and then a surgical fusion on his neck. Ross' return in 2021 ended after a stress fracture in his left foot required surgery. Rapoport reported on NFL NOW that many teams took Ross off their draft boards because the risk was real.
The Los Angeles Chargers are declining the fifth-year option for defensive lineman Jerry Tillery, per Rapoport. According to Rapoport, sources say Tillery is still in the Chargers' long-term plans as he comes off the most productive year of his career, collecting 51 tackles and 4.5 sacks.
The New Orleans Saints are expected to signTyrann Mathieu, Rapoport reported Monday, per a source. The signing should be finalized in the coming days, according to Rapoport.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are declining the fifth-year option on LB Devin Bush, Rapoport reported Monday.
The San Francisco 49ersre-signed veteran cornerback Jason Verrett to a one-year contract.
The Washington Commanders are signing veteran guard Trai Turner, per Pelissero. It is a one-year deal worth $3 million, per Rapoport, per a source.
Maile Crewdson wins Great Chocolate Showdown, Canada. Photo Courtesy of Food Network Canada.
The sweet taste of success
The sweet taste of success is covered with chocolate and lots of aloha. “The secret ingredient is Aloha. I put a lot of love in what I do,” said Maui’s Maile Crewdson, during the grand finale episode of the Great Chocolate Showdown.
The eight episode series aired on the Food Network in Canada, with the final bakeoff broadcast on April 19.
The 35-year-old stay-at-home mom of three “took the judges on a journey to Hawaiʻi with her flavors from home,” winning a $50,000 prize, and new found confidence in her refined baking skills.
Homemade haupia filled malasadas. “Growing up, my dad would take me to the bakery as a special treat, and we would get Hawaiian malasadas–and that’s what started my love for baking,” said Maile during grand finale showdown. PC: @cyrusbakingco Instagram via Maile Crewdson.
Measuring up… where baking begins
According to Maile, her baking story started with inspiration from her childhood, but gained focus five years ago with the birth of her middle child, Cyrus.
“He was born with really severe food allergies in 2017. Towards the end of that year, I had to learn how to completely change the way that I ate. That was probably where this whole journey started,” said Maile in a phone interview following the win.
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“I’ve always loved baking… I’d bake a cake once or twice a year, but nothing where it was learning techniques or baking for other people,” said Maile. “When my son was diagnosed, he was allergic to so many things, it was really like a grieving process.”
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The shift started with a change in her diet to satisfy her newborn, and eventually became a lifestyle adjustment she embraced by learning and challenging herself to explore new recipes.
“With the pandemic and lockdown–that was when I really wanted to start to learn how to bake all the things that I always thought were too hard. I was just like… what can I make that’s safe for our family and a creative outlet, and then also bring to our neighbors to check on them.”
In 2020 she made croissants for the first time. Then every week or so, they’d load the kids up in a wagon and bring platefuls of donuts or malasadas to the neighbors, many of whom are elderly–to check on them during the pandemic.
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Maile also posted pictures of some of her finished products to her @littlemauifamily Instagram, and that’s what caught the eye of a Food Network casting agent. But she waited until the second year of the pandemic before signing on, wanting to ensure it was the right fit for her and her family.
“Every step of the way, we were just like–Let’s just pray about it and let’s just keep walking in faith,” said Maile of conversations she would have with her husband, Ken.
Right before she flew out for the competition, Maile said her mom, Lauri Cerizo, bought for her a book on chocolate. It was the beginning of her formal education on the proper preparation of the decadent dessert. That was followed by videos on how to temper chocolate like a pro.
She thought to herself, “whatever I can’t do, I’m just going to go and give this 100%.”
Maile Crewdson competes in The Great Chocolate Showdown, Canada. Photo Courtesy of Food Network Canada.Three-lated gluten-free vanilla buttercream cake. PC: @cyrusbakingco Instagram via Maile Crewdson.
Layers of love baked in-between
Throughout the series, baking contestants went through various challenges, testing their techniques at tempering chocolate, creating choux pastry, perfecting macarons, and utilizing surprise ingredients.
In each challenge, Maile found comfort in creating pieces reminiscent of home. In one challenge she made chocolate haupia mini-pies made in a canoe shaped mold–a playful piece that brought back memories of her days paddling with Hawaiian Canoe Club.
In the macaron contest, Maile used bananas in her theming, reflecting upon her youth, growing up in Haʻikū on a two acre apple-banana farm. She also helped on her grandparent’s kalo and fruit farm in Waiehu/Waiheʻe, where there were coconuts, and a variety of other trees including avocado, mango, and breadfruit.
She recalls going to work on the farms on the weekends to clean kalo, and harvest fruit to sell at the farmer’s markets like Eddie Tam in Makawao.
“And if I ever needed money for something, we would go and work extra, or my dad would help me make stuff so we could raise money to go on school trips. He always found a way using what we had,” Maile said of her father, Patrick Cerizo.
From her days at Doris Todd school, then Kalama Intermediate, and graduating with the class of 2003 at King Kekaulike High School, Maile is now nurturing a family of her own.
In another challenge, Maile created a raspberry cheesecake ice cream waffle sandwich with ruby chocolate. It was made as a tribute to her young family of five, who love waffles and try to make them every Saturday together.
“For my eldest daughter Ruby [age 7], I’m using Ruby chocolate; for my middle child Cyrus [age 5], I’m doing chocolate chips in the waffles; and for my youngest daughter Rosie [age 3], I’m going to put little roses on each bubble waffle,” she explained to the judges, who delighted in the joyful celebration of childhood.
Gluten-freen Hawaiian Guava White Chocolate Cake. PC: @cyrusbakingco Instagram via Maile Crewdson.
The cherry on top
For the final challenge bakers had seven hours to complete four tasks in the Once Upon A Baker finale, which was judged on originality, presentation, and taste.
The instructions were precise: create an ode to a loved one who inspired their love of baking; complete a pre-selected judge’s choice order; craft an interactive dessert that’s playful and surprising; and pull off a dazzling showpiece.
For her inspiration piece, Maile baked Hawaiian-style malasadas (Portuguese donuts) filled with guava white chocolate pastry cream.
“Growing up, my dad would take me to the bakery as a special treat, and we would get Hawaiian malasadas–and that’s what started my love for baking,” said Maile during grand finale showdown.
“It’s the best style of donut that I’ve ever had in my life,” said judge Steve Hodge, pastry chef and master chocolatier during the program.
For the judge’s choice challenge, Maile was tasked with creating a chocolate raspberry Charlotte Royale–a sliced jellyroll cake that surrounds a luscious Bavarian raspberry creme white chocolate mousse.
As her interactive entry, Maile created a tempered dark chocolate heart with flourless chocolate almond torte within, featuring mascarpone cream.
“This interactive desert was so well thought out. That flourless chocolate cake is elegant and refined. The marscapone cream is rich, and then topping it with a combination of fig and mango really shows us how much your palate has grown,” said judge Anna Olson, pastry chef and best-selling cook book author during the final episode.
Rounding out her dessert story, Maile created a monstera leaf anti-gravity cake: with chocolate cake, a dark chocolate ganache, and a coconut milk chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream. The cake was completed with a tempered white chocolate rainbow collar.
Worried if her plant cake, inspired by foliage in her back yard, was a lofty enough entry, Maile reflected upon the theme.
“All of the things I made throughout the season center around my inspiration of home–our little 500 square foot house, and my children. Everything I made was kind of like a little tribute to them.”
Organic Meyer Lemon Cake. “A special simple cake to mark the coming home from our epic family trip to Alaska. A cake the kids helped me decorate… which we then sliced and delivered to our neighbors.” PC: @cyrusbakingco Instagram via Maile Crewdson.
Passion project
Maile has since started the @cyrusbakingco Instagram page, calling it her “passion project.” “One of my dreams is to have a brick and mortar store, but right now I’m mostly baking for friends and family, [and] by word of mouth.”
From memorial services to friends giving birth, Maile has found herself baking for every occasion. “I’ve been so blessed to help out… that’s my heart, and I’m trying to get that off the ground right now–an allergy friendly, cottage style baking business,” she said.
Cyrus Baking Co. seeks to provide allergy friendly baked goods with rustic cakes for special occasions. Specialties are laid out in a colorful grid with delightful descriptions of Maile’s handmade creations.
An allergy friendly donut board was created for her son Cyrus’ birthday earlier this year, featuring old fashioned creations and confetti sprinkles. “Think Krispy Kreme meets Corner Bakery, but allergy friendly and hand-forged,” the caption reads.
Also on the grid is a gluten-free Hawaiian Guava White Chocolate Cake, described as “the vibrant pink star of the dessert board,” with fresh edible flowers from ʻĀinalani Farms.
Further down the feed is an Organic Meyer Lemon cake made with freshly-squeezed lemons from the family tree, and “plump-ripe blueberries sandwiched between pillows of lemon zest-vanilla buttercream.” Other back yard ingredients include mint and lilikoʻi.
While still in the passion stage of development, Maile used her neighborhood baker abilities to serve up 300 cookies and dozens of breads and rolls at the 8th Annual Waikapū Street Fair last Christmas.
Saturday morning donut board. PC: @cyrusbakingco Instagram via Maile Crewdson.
Home sweet home
At home on Maui, Maile’s husband Ken, who works full time, got help watching the kids from his mom who flew out from Alaska, as well as Maile’s mom, who lives on island. There were also aunties and uncles who pitched in during the filming of the show.
“It was literally one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done in my life. I think it was more intense than giving birth three times,” Maile said with a laugh. “It was so hard because I felt… I think I’m kind of naive in a way. I didn’t know much about chocolate… I definitely felt like I was the least experienced baker there.”
“I was almost eliminated more than half of the season,” she said jokingly. “It’s truly funny. It was a really great experience.”
Rounding out the top three were office manager Bri, and Zoo guest services manager Evan.
“I loved cheering on my fellow competitors… Even though it was a competition, we all wanted to grow a lot and I think that set it apart from other shows,” said Maile. “We had so much fun, but the clock is real, and it was stressful, and it was really hard, but we also laughed a lot.”
When she won, her family was elated and celebrated the hopes for their future.
In an Instagram post, Maile said, “My kids were screaming, jumping up and down, cheering for Mom! It means we get to build our house here on Maui. I get to build my passion project Cyrus Baking Co. and bring more allergy friendly bakes to my community.”
Those dreams include peanut-free baked goods, supporting those with food allergies, gluten-free products, and vegan options.
She was hopeful that the experience would help her not only to learn and grow in baking, but also help to build their home. “It’s just so expensive,” she said.
In the end, Maile said her family is looking into what makes most sense financially. “We’re seriously looking into getting a food truck to sell malasadas,” she said. “I feel like there’s room for these kinds of things that reach a different demographic of people… reach the food allergy community.”
“I think our biggest joy right now in winning is that we can build our main house on our property and then build a bigger kitchen for me to expand my cottage baking business… and also, I’d love to invest in buying a food truck this fall, Lord willing.”
“It was really healing in a lot of ways being in this competition, I feel like it gave me a greater confidence in my ability to make things that were safe for my family.”
Chocolate chasers
Filming of the Great Chocolate Showdown took place in Toronto Canada over a six week period in the fall and early winter.
The show just finished airing internationally, in Canada first; and the CW Network reportedly bought the first season recently. According to Maile, some viewers were able to tune in from Maui during the Canada broadcast by securing a VPN (Virtual Private Network) access.
It’s still undetermined if the show will air in the US.
TEXARKANA, Texas -- An antitrust lawsuit filed this week in Texarkana federal court accuses Cisco Systems of using coercive practices to maintain a monopoly in the commercial networking equipment and services market.
The suit was filed Wednesday on behalf of Dexon Computer Inc. and names Cisco and CDW Corp. as defendants.
The suit accuses Cisco of employing a strategy of fear, uncertainty and doubt, or FUD, to keep customers from doing business with Cisco's competitors through allegedly false claims that the competitor's products are bootleg, unauthorized or infected with malware or spyware.
The complaint alleges that Cisco forces customers to buy equipment it doesn't need or at higher prices than it could negotiate with a competitor in order to extend service packages the customer must have. CDW is accused of being a favored distributor of Cisco's, which acts to further Cisco's alleged monopoly.
According to the complaint, Cisco's conduct has made an impact on hospitals, school districts and other entities.
"Cisco's anticompetitive conduct also impacted a local Texas emergency 911-center which had purchased networking equipment from Dexon. In the midst of a five-year SmartNet service package the 911-center had purchased from Cisco, Cisco told the Texas emergency 911-center it needed to purchase new routers and Ethernet switches from a non-Dexon vendor when the customer checked on its account for purposes of a service issue if it wanted to receive the service it was due (from Cisco)," the complaint alleges.
The complaint alleges Cisco, with the help of CDW, uses a FUD-based strategy to shut out competitors and force customers to pay more for products.
The complaint accuses Cisco of violating the Sherman Act and the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act and asks the court for an order directing Cisco and CDW to stop their "anticompetitive conduct."
The complaint asks for treble damages, including for lost profits, in an amount to be determined at trial, attorney fees and costs, punitive damages and an order restraining similar conduct in the future.
Dexon is represented by the Davis Firm of Longview, Texas, and Manatt, Phelps and Phillips of New York. Cisco and CDW have not filed responses. The case is pending before U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
When the world shut down in March 2020 and people were stuck at home for months, many used the experience to rethink their lives and their jobs and start looking for opportunities to create their own businesses.
At the same time, a new social network was launched, specifically aimed at people who were looking to take control of their working lives for the first time. In just two years beBee has seen over 15 million freelancers and entrepreneurial job seekers sign up worldwide, many of who have never been on a work-related social network before. Over 1.5 million of those users are based in the U.K., a figure expected to reach 4 million by the end of 2023.
Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, beBee was cofounded by CEO Javier Cámara and CMO Rafael Garcia. During lockdown, the pair envisaged the creation of a social network that would bring together a range of professional opportunities that addressed both supply and demand; freelancers, professionals offering local services and entrepreneurial job seekers, as well as those in need of a specific service.
The pandemic became a catalyst for the emergence of a new generation of entrepreneurs, keen to make up for lost time and realize long-held ambitions of becoming their own boss. Users of the network hail from a diverse range of professions and industry sectors, from technology and design to medicine and law.
“They could be a job seeker, taking a more proactive approach to securing employment in a company of their choosing, or a recent graduate, who in effect is saying: ‘This is me, what I can offer you. Now tell me what you can offer me’,” says Cámara. “Or they may have recently retired but need to earn some extra money to help them through the cost of living crisis affecting so many people right now. Employers also now understand their obligation to improve working relationships with their remote staff, which is creating happier situations for all parties involved.”
The network was launched in 2020, with Cámara using his background in technology to focus on the product and technical side, and digital marketing professional Garcia looking after marketing and sales.
The business also had the support of successful online entrepreneur Juan Imaz, who pioneered the first webmail in the Spanish language, Mixmail, and is the main investor in beBee. “We have had 100% support from him,” says Cámara. “We also had the help of several angel investors, and in total, we received an initial investment of €3 million.”
What sets beBee apart from other job portals and career platforms, says Cámara, is that it focuses on the candidate rather than the company and the job. Many of those who have registered are not present on LinkedIn.
“As someone who provides a service, you can create an authentic profile of yourself that goes way beyond the CV; an authentic representation of who you are, your skills and your interests,” he says. “You can blog and engage with other users, and highlight exactly what you can bring to any given role while simultaneously creating business relationships where your skills and personality traits are in high demand.”
The company now has a team of 30 and is available in over 50 countries, with the largest number of registered professionals based in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Spain, Japan, France, Canada and Germany. The number of users is expected to reach 30 million worldwide by the end of 2023, and Cámara says the goal now is to become the global ‘go to’ reference site for professionals.
“This isn’t a corporate site, but a true social network for the new generation of freelancers and entrepreneurial job-seekers who are taking ownership of their personal brand on a scale never seen before,” he says. “But we also know that real success comes through humility and hard work, so our fundamental aim is to continue to make beBee an incredible experience for all users. Right now, we are riding the wave of the Great Resignation, particularly in the U.S. and U.K. and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.”
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