Colossal Although she doesn’t live right by the ocean, artist Emily Botelho channels her passion for marine landscapes with frequent trips to explore where soil and sea meet she photographs the colors and textures that appear on the rocky waterfront: lichen and small sea creatures all create unique visual patterns U.K.-based artist then prints her photographs on cotton fabric and embellishes them with long straight stitches Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member now Join more than 200,000 subscribers and get the best of art and visual culture from Colossal Copyright © 2025 Colossal. See our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy the breathtaking athleticism that the Notre Dame coaching staff calculated would allow one of the nation’s top high school linebackers to evolve into an elite college defensive end didn’t matter anymore Jordan Botelho so consistently got in his own way as a freshman early enrollee and even more so as a persistent violator of the Irish football team’s COVID-19 protocols when the players reconvened on campus last June he was put on a plane and sent home to Honolulu 248-pound sophomore-to-be 10 months later is one of Notre Dame’s most convincing spring feel-good stories is his buy-in "Jordan had a long way to go in maturity and accountability,” Notre Dame defensive line coach Mike Elston said Thursday after ND’s practice No “The best thing for him was that he was sent home “He realized that we're here about a holistic development And this isn’t just about him getting sacks on Saturday But not to compromise the rest of our group and coach (Brian) Kelly's culture inside the program.” Elston’s actual official title at Notre Dame this season encompasses 14 words what the only assistant coach who’s been with Kelly for all 12 springs at ND has done since Kelly’s own introspective coaching reboot four years ago is help build the defensive line into the ND position group that perennially most resembles that of a College Football Playoff team Through one of the best player development models anywhere Through a culture that allows the Irish to roll 10-12 players deep across the front Through uncompromising standards on and off the field Notre Dame’s 43-6 on-field surge since the 4-8 cratering in 2016 included a return of Elston to coaching the defensive line One of his first stabs at gauging the cohesiveness and shared trust of a D-line unit that in 2016 was 65th out of 65 Power 5 teams in sacks (3) was to cram all of them into an escape room (beyond its preferred capacity of 12 as he and the players struggled to follow the series of puzzles and riddles that led to clues on how to escape from the locked room within the one-hour time limit chemistry became the calling card for that very same group and still is today Which is why Botelho’s second chance extended to him in August was conditional after tanking his first (team) chemistry test “It was a reality check,” Elston said of the Honolulu Saint Louis High product’s time away “He came back and had a few bumps in the road Then he and I had a really good heart-to-heart.” with Botelho’s role limited to special teams more than all but three members of his freshman class and amassed four tackles and a special teams TD on a blocked punt a personal story,” Elston said of the midseason meeting There are plenty of other spring breakthroughs among Elston’s group which is why there’s so much collective optimism in the face of losing probable NFL Draft picks Ade Ogundeji and Daelin Hayes Defensive tackle Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa has so taken to an experimental shift to defensive end he’s become the D-line’s most productive player this spring There’s so much productive depth among all four positions that midyear freshman enrollees Gabriel Rubio Devin Aupui and Will Schweitzer can incubate instead of pushing through growing pains And even with Jacob Lacey out of the mix because of shoulder rehab the nose guard position has surged in part because of Howard Cross III’s dramatic development “Howard Cross is just a dynamic accelerator,” Elston said “He's always in the backfield and he's quick with his hands He's got good speed and really good agility So it also appears will junior Vyper end Isaiah Foskey who is thriving in new defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman’s multiple fronts Foskey is able to play the big defensive end spot as well as kick inside at times to defensive tackle which allows him and Botelho to be on the field at the same time in certain situations Now that Botelho has earned that kind of trust “He's not on any lists of bad decisions and he's taking care of his business off the field in schoolwork,” Elston said but definitely the maturity is showing through and I'm super proud of him and I love him for it “The connection we have (is) because we've gone through the trials and tribulations together And he's made a lot of growth and I'm excited for him." A Superior Court jury began work Wednesday hearing opening arguments in the trial of Tavares for the Oct Botelho’s skeleton was found buried in a backyard on June Street in 2000 after Tavares lead investigators there by stabbing her to death in 1991 in their Somerset home Tavares was not charged with killing Botelho until April of 2013 when he was indicted by a Bristol County Grand Jury for her murder Those charges came after detectives from Fall River went to Washington state to interview Tavares Tavares is serving a life sentence there after being convicted of the murder of a young couple in that state in November of 2007 Botelho lived across the street from the apartment on June Street where Tavares lived with his mother Daniel Tavares was a dealer of cocaine,” McCauley said Botelho and her boyfriend owed Tavares money for cocaine “What he said was that he had more cocaine “He was going to front her some cocaine so they could sell it so they could raise money to pay him back.” Tavares laid out a line of cocaine in the bedroom of his home for Botelho pulled to the body and stabbed repeatedly,” McCauley said how she attempted to breathe as blood filled her mouth.” Tavares dropped Botelho’s body off a second floor porch and buried her under a tree in his backyard She was not found until Tavares lead police there in 2000 Tavares said he was only a witness to the killing “His plan was to shave off time from his sentence by using the murder of Gayle Botelho.” Tavares made more admissions in 2012 to the police the motive for why he killed Gayle Botelho,” McCauley told the jury “He ultimately would admit he acted alone.” Tavares sent a letter to Detective John McDonald warning him to stop speaking to his neighbors and friends as part of the investigation “He said he would get amnesia,” McCauley said But defense lawyer Christopher Belezos asked the jury to judge Tavares by more than his words Botelho’s remains were found because of Tavares His information to the police revived the investigation long after it had become a cold case “He is the one who put his head in the lion’s mouth,” Belezos said “He was the one who brought this investigation Belezos added: “All the breaks in this case were brought to the Commonwealth by Daniel Tavares This can be understood by looking at Tavares life in prison he would rather be considered a murderer than someone who cooperates with the police you promised to give a fair shake to a person who killed three other people.” The trial is underway before Superior Court Judge Gary A Portuguese striker Rui Botelho needed some time to figure out how to break through Yuta Watanabe’s defense at ONE: REIGN OF VALOR on Friday he proceeded to overwhelm his Japanese rival in the final period of their ONE Super Series kickboxing flyweight bout that late surge helped carry Bothelo to a unanimous decision victory at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon Rui Botelho puts on a kickboxing masterclass to clinch a unanimous decision victory over Yuta Watanabe! Rui Botelho puts on a kickboxing masterclass to clinch a unanimous decision victory over Yuta Watanabe!Watch the full event on the ONE Super App 👉 http://bit.ly/ONESuperApp | TV: Check local listings for global broadcast Posted by ONE Championship on Friday who had a noticeable height and reach advantage utilized his natural gifts from the very beginning of the contest Japan looked to establish his dominance in the opening exchanges and he used his powerful left kicks to good effect Botelho — a WKA European Champion — attempted to charge forward with strikes before sliding out of range but found it difficult to close the distance and settle into the contest after taking the first round to assess his opponent’s range and read his timing the Portuguese striker upped his intensity in the second frame and then followed up with multi-punch combinations The momentum truly shifted late in the stanza as he unleashed a sustained flurry of strikes in the pocket to put an exclamation point on an excellent round Clearly encouraged by his improved performance the Lisbon native looked to seal the victory in the third and final round Watanabe briefly derailed his European foe’s momentum in the opening seconds of the frame with a beautiful sweep Botelho returned to his high-pressure strategy and got his reward — a huge overhand right dropped the Japanese warrior to the canvas for the first official knockdown of the contest a brilliant right-left combination stunned Watanabe sufficiently enough to force a standing eight count Knowing a third count would see him win the contest by TKO Watanabe gamely survived the remaining seconds to take the match to the scorecards Following a strong display in rounds two and three the Portuguese striker deservedly got his hand raised in the center of the cage The kickboxing victory added another notable win to his professional record It joins his 17 Muay Thai wins and shows Botelho is equally adept under both rule sets in ONE Super Series This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Sheila Botelho told her boss at an Ann & Hope outlet store that she and her husband were retiring earlier than expected She didn't mention the reason why: a $151.9 million winning Powerball ticket which Botelho's lawyer — and two burly bodyguards — cashed in Friday at the Rhode Island Lottery "We didn't know she won the lottery," said Dick Travers He finally realized Friday why Botelho left her job in the curtains department won the largest lottery prize in Rhode Island history on Nov 28 and have spent weeks quietly consulting with attorneys financial and estate planners and a small handful of trusted associates and have tried to avoid their newfound fame One has a medical condition that discouraged the couple from making a public appearance He said the couple has temporarily left home to avoid curious reporters they asked Saulino to retrieve the winning $5 ticket from a safety deposit box drive it to Rhode Island and make the arrangements for wiring the money They purchased the ticket at a Warren convenience store they opted to take the prize in a lump sum about $51 million after subtracting federal and state taxes the couple has not decided how to spend their winnings They plan to keep their home in Swansea for now "They know that $151.9 million is a nice Christmas gift." But he said their happiness was tempered by the knowledge that winning so large a prize could bring undesired publicity money seekers and other trouble for them and their family the Botelhos have spent their adult lives working then owned her own beauty salon in Fall River "They had nothing at the start," Escobar said Friday marks the second time someone in the Botelho family has claimed a major lottery prize won a $10 million Megabucks drawing in 1991 a spokesman for the Massachusetts State Lottery Botelho's husband spent 30 years as a business partner at Ark Bait a Swansea-based company that fishes for menhaden which is ground into oil or sold to lobstermen as bait Company President Gerald Souza said Botelho broke the good news to him about three weeks ago but Souza would not describe the conversation further By Rosemarie Bernardo and Gordon Y.K. Pang a Circuit Court jury found Makuola Collins guilty of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder in the fatal shooting of former Castle High School football teammate Joel Botelho outside of Botelho’s parent’s Kaneohe home in the early morning of January 2 He was also found guilty of firearms violations faces a maximum sentence of life without parole The jury will return for a hearing on January 5 to decide if Collins should be eligible for parole The trial before Judge Karen Ahn lasted for nearly eight days Deputy Prosecutor Wayne Tashima showed the jury a photo of Botelho’s bloodied knees in an attempt to prove the victim had been forced to kneel before he was shot and then a photo showing where a bullet entered above the victim’s chest as an innocent peacemaker who "paid" for attempting to step between a violent and simmering dispute between his younger brother argued that there are many gaps in the information that leave a reasonable doubt for the jury and Hayakawa suggested repeatedly that it was Leon Botelho who shot his brother and then hid the evidence Leon Botelho has been the only person to identify Collins as the man who shot his brother Hayakawa said there were also inconsistencies in statements made by Leon Botelho and other prosecution witnesses Tashima said Collins had gathered a group of relatives and friends to go the Botelhos’ home during the early morning hours of Jan 2 after Bubba Botelho had "false-cracked" him at the Club Komo Mai bar in Kaneohe a few hours earlier When Leon Botelho fired a warning shot into the ground Collins forced Joel Botelho to kneel and then shot him Collins took the stand in his trial and denied shooting at the Botelhos He testified that he had gone to the Botelhos’ home to urge his friend Joel to control his younger brother and said as he and several others were walking on a driveway to the Botelho home in the early morning darkness Joel Botelho was living on Hawaii island but was in Kaneohe on the night of his death to celebrate his 27th birthday with his family Collins and Joel Botelho both played on the Castle High School football team on which Botelho was a star quarterback During the trial and the reading of the verdict family and friends of Collins and Botelho sat across the aisle from each other in the courtroom "We just wanted our sons Joel and Leon to be vindicated as they were protecting us that night," Nonohe Botelho said after the verdict She said it’s been an emotional case for her and her family the community and her son’s friends and teammates "We’re just very relieved and just very thankful to the jury that they made the right decision in this case," she said.  Unlocked: Jai Glindeman’s Stab Edit Of The Year Entry Stab Interview: WSL CEO Ryan Crosby On The Tectonic Shifts Coming To The Championship Tour Ramzi Boukhiam’s Season In Jeopardy After Injury Isabella Nichols + Jack Robinson Win Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach The Electric Acid Surfboard Test With Dave Rastovich “I went 10 minutes without breathing back when the Democratic presidential candidate race was something that mattered the WSL held its first tow-only big wave event at Nazaré By most accounts it was a fabulous day of competition and so forth. But just as the event was coming to a close there was an incident that would turn the whole experience sour After riding his final wave of the day to completion Portuguese competitor Alex Botelho was picked up by his partner it’s better if you just watch.  Alex Botelho was knocked unconscious by his impact with the ski Below is Alex’s official account of what happened that day and how he’s been doing since.  Can you tell me a little bit about the competition Like what happened up until the point of the incident? Alex Botelho: Well The whole contest was pretty nice and everybody was respecting each other but it was just a good time with my partner Hugo [Vau].  It was really just one of those moments where you’re like “Let’s catch one more wave!” you know And when we were going back out after that wave I didn’t watch the event live—all I saw was kind of the stuff that ended up Instagram afterward So what happened on the wave and on the pickup? Okay Hugo told me into the wave and I rode out clean and there was another wave breaking on the same path as the one I’d just ridden Nazaré sometimes has these crisscross waves kind of like it does at Blacks in La Jolla So we’re trying to get out of the way of the primary wave but there’s this side-wedge coming right for us—there was nowhere Hugo could go at all I remember seeing the the whitewash coming straight toward us there was the actual full-size wave that was breaking in the inside This is going to be rough.’ Then we hit the whitewash and the ski just completely projected into the air—‘cause at the same time we hit it both waves hit each other and just exploded us into the air especially because it’s like a 300—it’s a huge machine you must’ve actually been pretty conscious of what was going on…I was always like We’re gonna land right now.’ I wasn’t expecting to be in the air that long I didn’t have a visual reference of how high we were because I was laying down on the back of the sled and there’s water flying up all over the place I want to be able to grab the ski in case Hugo falls off.’ And that was my thought if I had known I was flying that high up in the air I should have completely let go of the sled because of So then you came down onto the sled and what happened the right side of my thoracic.  That’s how I perforated my lung And I remember feeling like I was going to blackout it wasn’t that instant blackout where you don’t remember anything I remember landing and still holding onto the ski and just thinking I’m going out,’ and that’s the last thing I remember.  where there’s a second wave that rolls your unconscious body toward the shore watching that back after the fact?It was like a really slow puzzle trying to put everything together and process everything I had to watch everything a few times and hear different stories to put it together The first thing I remember was just hearing voices of people around me And then I opened up my eyes and they were as they were lifting me up and putting me into the ambulance and the first person I saw was my girlfriend Celeste I remember having this vague awareness of what happened I’m—you’re being taken care of and looking after.’ And that was really comforting actually and were you in a critical condition or pretty stable at that point?I was still in a pretty critical condition I was just throwing up water and trying to breathe really shallow breaths and I would throw up water immediately after.  I remember at first I had no breathing machines in my lung But then after later on was when things started to get worse—which I guess now I’ve learned that that’s a normal thing when you have a situation like this happen That night I was totally unable to breathe by myself They had to manually supply air to my pleura but you have a little air chamber around your lung that has negative pressure and makes your lung compress after you inhale So they had to intubate me to put a breathing machine in my And for some reason they have to connect those tubes in your chest while you’re conscious Then they put me out and connected the tubes down my throat until my breathing normalized And that’s why I was in the ICU for a week What was the process like while you were there?Well one of the first things was doing a brain scan because I basically had 10 minutes without breathing It took them six minutes to get me out of the water and then it was another four minutes before I restarted breathing on the beach I had a really long time without oxygen.  I was fortunate enough to not have any brain damage The rest of my time in the ICU is kind of blurry because I was on morphine it being hard to keep track of time or what day it was I also wasn’t eating because I had the tube and the whole machine in my mouth.  I felt like my day was revolving around getting visited by my girlfriend and my mom.  I guess the one good thing is that you were at home when this happened It was easy or for my family to come and be there with me The hospital is like four hours away from where I live but it was nice because… if you’re familiar with the language So it definitely was a positive side of it and the people in the hospital took such good care of me.  Has all of this been covered by the WSL’s insurance everything that happened in the hospital was covered by the WSL insurance you said you went 10 minutes without breathing…how?Yeah I only found this out after I came out of intensive care ‘cause then I was in the normal hospital for another eight days getting treated and the doctor that was accompanying came and asked ‘Do you mind if we use your case for a clinical study?’ And I said What’s the study?’ Then she showed me the report which said I went 10 minutes without oxygen So I don’t know what kind of angel is next to me or what allowed me to go that long without breathing.  I guess it also goes to shows the psychological side of it like how much more our body can take than what we’re mentally willing to allow.  So how long have you been home for and how are you feeling? I’ve been home for just about a month now I feel like I can finally do my normal chores without feeling any consequences you know—getting up to walk to the kitchen or or getting dressed—I would have to take breaks in between everything because my lungs are weak The whole recovery basically about healing my lungs because both of them were filled with water so they need time to recover and regain the ability to oxygenate the body But in the last week I’m feeling much better Just before this whole situation with the of the Coronavirus started I was just starting my first few sessions of physiotherapy and getting that going I had to put that on hold and stay at home now does it seem like you will be able to make a full recovery?Yeah The doctor said I would have a full recovery just from how my body is feeling at this moment I still can’t believe you didn’t have any brain damage like not even a concussion.I also can’t believe in When you watch the video of the second wave it looked like I went over the falls with the ski but do you feel any differently now about big wave surfing Is it something you still want to pursue once you’re healed? A lot of people that I’ve seen around my hometown you should never go again,’ or ‘Aren’t you traumatized by the experience?’  I haven’t been in the ocean since the accident I keep going back to the fact that it was ultimately the waves that brought me back to shore Nobody picked me up and brought me to shore and I’m deeply thankful for everyone who ditched their skis trying to get me but it’s just so hard out there with the crisscross waves to pick someone up.  the people grabbed me and I was assigned a medical team—five stars But between the accident and arriving to shore like I have a stronger relationship with the ocean Because it could’ve dragged me out to sea There’s so many rips out there that pull you around The ocean could’ve easily pushed me in the other direction and that gives me a good feeling about going out there again when do you think you will be able to get back in the water—at least to surf small waves?I think if I was doing physiotherapy I probably could be getting back into the water pretty soon maybe a month I could have enough lung capacity to get into the water.  but I went to the beach one day with my girlfriend before this whole coronavirus lockdown and I was just kinda holding my breath as she was duck-diving each little wave and I couldn’t hold my breath for the duration of a single duck-dive I realized that I’d probably drown out there on a two-foot day in my current situation looking back at that versus how I’m feeling now I think in a few weeks up to a month I could probably get back in the water and we look forward to seeing you back out there and really just getting back to full health Is there anything else that we didn’t cover?I just want to say thank you to everyone to everybody who sent messages and showed me support and good energy because it really was helpful and it gave me a lot of strength—from people as close as my family to people that I’ve never met.  On3 is a registered trademark of On3 Media More Special Sections industrial and financial news about global economies with a focus on understanding them from within