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MAXIE JUZANG
CEO, PRESIDENT
ARIANNA GARCIA
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CORNELIO MAMBOLEO
VICE PRESIDENT OF STAFFING
RANDY HAMAMOTO
ISMAEL FLORES
MARKETING/SALES OPERATIONS MANAGER
IVAN JUZANG
PATRICK HAIZ
ROOSEVELT BOUIE
Maxie Juzang has over 30+ years of experience in the Healthcare, IT and Staffing Industries. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a Degree in Engineering and Economics. After 4 years of working as a System Engineer and Account Executive for IBM, Maxie left IBM to start his own company, a Healthcare IT company, named Specialized Systems, Inc. (SSI). After ten years, the success of Specialized Systems, Inc. brought attention to Maxie Juzang's incredible work ethic and allowed for Specialized Systems to then be acquired by Web MD. Maxie, then, worked as the VP of Western Region and the VP of Radiology Division for Web MD for seven years until he left in 2006 to start our company Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc. (HSP, Inc.).
Arianna Garcia joined HSP with over 10+ years of Payroll/HR and Administrative experience. She brings to HSP, Inc her vast experience and knowledge with regards to Payroll/HR matters in the healthcare industry. Arianna constantly and diligently ensures that employees are paid accurately, on time and in accordance with all local, state and federal laws and regulations. She is a certified Human Resources Manager & a member of the SHRM.
Cornelio Mamboleo graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.S. in Communications and got his MBA from the University of La Verne. Cornelius has over 11+ years of Staffing experience. Cornelius manages Healthcare Staffing Professionals (HSP) account acquisitions and oversees all Staffing Operations.
Randy Hamamoto joined Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc. with over 24 years of Healthcare IT sales and sales management experience and has led teams for small privately held businesses, venture-backed organizations and large publicly traded companies. He has an eye for talent and an innate ability to inspire, motivate success and build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with clients.
Randy holds a BA in English with a specialization in Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ismael Flores graduated from California State University, Northridge in 2015 and joined the HSP, Inc. team as part of their marketing department. Since then, he has become a valuable asset to our company as he was promoted to Marketing Manager, as well as Sales Operations Manager. His role at HSP, Inc. contributes to all of our departments as he helps find new leads in terms of candidates and business contracts, as well as helps our company be tech savvy to make finding candidates for positions hassle-free.
Before joining HSP, Ivan worked on projects that focus on health disparities and public health issues affecting low income, under served and devalued communities for 24 years. He focused on identifying the barriers, arguments and counter-arguments related to helping communities of color improve their health outcomes and engage low-income urban audiences in healthier behaviors. He is a board member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and has served on the Boards of the Nurse Family Partnership and The Alan Guttmacher Institute. Ivan received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick is a private equity investor with a track record in investing and building successful middle-market companies in healthcare industry. Most recently, he served as an Investor/Chairman of the Board of STAT Health Management and was a Partner at ClearLight Partners, a middle-market private equity firm in Newport Beach, CA. Earlier in his career, Patrick was a principal at Gryphon Investors, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. Patrick received an undergraduate degree in accounting and finance from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Roosevelt Bouie began his career as a superstar basketball player at Syracuse University from 1976-1980. Shortly after dominating as a center, he received All-American honors and a BA degree in Speech Communications. He was the 34th pick for the NBA draft with the Mavericks, however Bouie decided to take his talent to Italy where he became a legend. After retiring from basketball, Bouie worked with companies to expand business opportunities. In 2004, he organized the first European Basketball tryout camps in the U.S. He has also stayed connected with Syracuse through his own digital show "The Orange Appeel".
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Quit Your Day Job Vid
Video Reviews December 29, 2016
Most people don't know exactly what you mean when and if you say the words "women's skateboarding." It's still just beginning to blossom like skateboarding did for males so many years ago… There had not been a full-length girl-only skate video in over a decade, but that has been changed for the better because of the passion and dedication of two producers, Monique O'Toole and Erik Sandoval.
The vision for this era's all-female skateboarding video was an ambitious one and a brave move. Even men often don't get paid well to ride a skateboard, and their female counterparts (generally) are at least twenty years behind on that curve. All those long nights at lit up spots and weeks on the couch nursing injuries are rewarded with nothing but the love of skateboarding. I don't mean to imply that the love of skateboarding isn't freaking amazing. It is, and otherwise no one would be breaking themselves without getting a check in the mail. But it's important to acknowledge the drive and perseverance required to keep skating hard, day in and day out for an eventual shot at a career in this thing.
Samarria Brevard – Crooked Grind
Quit Your Day Job is the most recent and best attempt at an all-female skate video: they absolutely nailed it. The vision of Monique & Erik coupled with the raw talent of so many skaters made it everything we all want in a full-length video. With an opener from Mariah Duran, they booted it up with some serious skating (and she turned pro at the premiere!). We're not going to give away the full line-up and ender, but there are solid full parts from young shredders like Samarria Brevard and Savannah Headden, alongside veterans like Vanessa Torres. The vibe of the video is quasi-early 2000s, with structured parts and a solid soundtrack. The editing is almost flawless, coordinated with music and b-roll in a playful yet real way. And the skill level of these girls is fully mind-blowing! To be honest, there is a difference in the skill level of professional skateboarding by guys and girls, but this video will blow you away. Almost every single minute, you will see something that draws a reaction. You'll want more of it, and at the end of the feature you'll be wondering when the sequel will be released.
Get your hands on a copy somehow! Their crowdfunding campaign was a success, so check out that page for more info. See for yourself how real and rad women's skateboarding has become! It'll stoke you out more than you know, we're sure.
At the end of the day, we're all skateboarders, and we all deserve similar opportunities for our craft. As a pro skater, it's crucial to be supported while living the dream, and we hope that skateboarding grows to be more inclusive of all the girls growing up now, in the skateparks and the streets alike!
Now Monique, where's Quit Your Day Job II?!?!
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Volcom Stone has been a household name since I can remember, as a twenty-something year-old skate nerd. Always for the surfers, always for the skaters,…
TWS' "Substance"
The final act of the 18th Annual TWS Awards was, fittingly, the showing of the 27th full-length Transworld Skateboarding video, "Substance." After all, isn't that…
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Keeping our heads spinning 🌀 @trevormcclung ♻
New enjoi rider @gusbus240 is a killer 🔪 ♻
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Mark Suciu, A Legacy
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25 Best Netflix Original Series (January 2023) — UPROXX
Netflix changed the game when they shifted from mailing something called "DVDs" to sending the shows straight to our TV back in 2007. They changed it again when they made it clear that they weren't content to stream other production companies' movies and TV series — aiming a moonshot at making their own original programming in the hopes that they'd become a dominant studio as well as the spot where you can binge old episodes of Frasier. Make their mark, they did. Within only a few years, they became a powerhouse of original programming, due to a massive budget and the ability to say yes to some unusual ideas.
Here are the 25 best Netflix original series you can watch right now.
Last updated on January 20.
25. You
Year: 2018-present
Cast: Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Zach Cherry, Shay Mitchell, Victoria Pedretti
Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: Seasons 1-3: 30 episodes
Created By: Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble
Trailer: Watch here
The hit show that dares to ask the question: "Is it okay for me to like this?" Based on Caroline Kepnes book series, the show stars Badgley as a handsome, charismatic stalker sometimes named Joe who…we're supposed to root for? It's gross and manipulative and so, so, so compelling. It's Talented Mr. Ripley run through the romance ringer where the narrator's voice in our heads is the man of many names who should really be in prison. The magic of the series is in watching this American psycho get away with following his worst impulses while surrounded by an enthusiastic cast of characters (some of whom are just as bad as he is). The fourth season lands February 9th, and it very well could run as long as "Joe" can. Even then, jail probably wouldn't put an end to the show's potential.
Watch it on Netflix
24. Santa Clarita Diet
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Skyler Gisondo
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Created By: Victor Fresco
When Sheila Hammond turns into a zombie, she and her family have to figure out how to transition into a slightly more murdery lifestyle. A girl's gotta eat, right? But beyond the inconvenience of regularly scheduled killings, the biggest change is that Sheila has almost zero impulse control. Great for parallel parking confidence, but bad for just, you know, general living in society type stuff. There's probably a version of this show that's gritty and surreal and dominating an alternate universe HBO, but Fresco and the team decided to go super goofy with it, establishing a hilarious series where Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant can smile their way through it all, no matter how much blood is on their business casualwear.
23. Unbelievable
Cast: Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, Kaitlyn Dever
Genre: Drama, True Crime
Runtime: Seasons 1: 8 episodes
Created By: Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon
A young girl reports her rape to the police, the cops handwave it, and then charge her with lying. Then the details start to line up with a series of other rapes spanning from Colorado to Washington state. Based on a true story and anchored by chilling performances, this knockout series is a chronicle of bad police work, insulting police work, and then heroic police work in service of solving heinous crimes. Dever is phenomenal here as the young woman publicly branded a liar while her rapist stays at large, and the tag team of Collete and Wever is a potent force that showcases how much the well-intentioned have to swim upstream against an uncaring system.
22. The Umbrella Academy
Cast: Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher
Genre: Action, Drama, Superhero, Sci-Fi
Created By: Steve Blackman
The adaptation of the bombastic comic book from Gerard Way (yes, the dude from My Chemical Romance) and Gabriel Ba continues to unfold in bizarre and fantastical ways. It features a dysfunctional team of supers who were all born of a confounding event wherein 43 women all gave birth at the same time on the same day even though none of them were pregnant. What's the right response? If you're eccentric billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves, you adopt a bunch and see what weird powers emerge. It often follows traditional superhero storytelling with villains, fights, and the combination of cool powers, but it's consistently transgressive in vibrant, colorful divergences from the tropes that have been burned into our brains by Marvel.
21. Lupin
Cast: Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde Hesme, Soufiane Guerrab
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Runtime: Seasons 1: 10 episodes
Created By: George Kay, Francois Uzan
Slick, smart, twisty. This French riff on the iconic thief did most of its heavy lifting by casting Sy, who has perhaps never been in the Bond conversation because he's too cool. In Lupin, he plays a second-generation Senegalese immigrant named Assane Diop who is gifted an Arsene Lupin book by his father — a humble man who is wrongly arrested for stealing a valuable diamond necklace, leading to his committing suicide in prison. The show weaves heists into an ongoing tale about Assane trying to get revenge while balancing his complicated personal life. With directors like Louis Leterrier behind the camera, the series is a fun crime spree with a lead worth cheering on.
20. The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance (RIP)
Cast: Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nathalie Emmanuel, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jason Isaacs, Simon Pegg, Benedict Wong, Mark Hamill
Created By: Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews
Gone too soon, but nowhere near forgotten, the prequel to the Jim Henson movie that scarred every '80s kid permanently was a triumph of puppetry and fantasy storytelling that was too excellent to survive the streaming jungles. The imagery of the planet Thra is astonishingly beautiful, and that world is filled with an imaginative journey offering us the origin of a conflict between the cruel and corrupt ruling Skesis and the other entities living under their thumb. Whereas the iconic first film was about fulfilling a prophecy, Age of Resistance is about a population waking up to the truth about the ruthlessness of those in power. Plus, that cast list is only about half of the notable names breathing life into these characters, and hearing Mark Hamill's raspy take on skekTek is a true joy.
19. Godless
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kim Coates, Sam Waterston, Jeff Daniels
Genre: Western, Drama
Created By: Scott Frank
We're in a bit of a Western resurgence, and Godless is a major part of dusting off the old tropes. Released the same year as Frank's Logan (or Western Wolverine), it takes the genre seriously even as it slyly reinvents the wagon wheel. O'Connell plays an outlaw on the run from his crime lord after stealing his loot, taking refuge in a town populated almost entirely by women following the horrific collapse of a mine that killed all the men. Life is nasty, brutish, and short, and now they've got a fugitive from a revenge-hungry bastard heading right for them. Every character could be described as not taking no guff from no one, and everyone in this murderer's row cast understood the assignment. A stellar series where the premise is simple so that everything else can be complicated.
18. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Cast: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane, Jane Krakowski, Daveed Diggs
Created By: Tina Fey, Robert Carlock
After 30 Rock, everyone wanted to know what Tina Fey and Robert Carlock would do next. Their follow-up concept couldn't have been further from the sketch show writer's room. It takes a world-class comedic brain trust to turn a childhood victim of kidnapping and sister wife brainwashing into belly laugh gold. Kimmy missed out on her youth, attacked by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) and locked in a bomb shelter with several other women until they're all rescued as adults. Now, she's trying to adjust to the modern world with the curiosity and mind of a middle schooler. Fortunately, even though New York City is a hell of a town, she has human firework show Titus and cranky landlady Lillian to guide her toward independence.
17. Dark
Cast: Andreas Pietschmann, Maja Schone, Anne Ratte-Polle, Florian Panzer
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
There's no definitive evidence for it, but my theory is that the creators of Dark took the True Detective missive of time being a flat circle and just ran with it. The German series dares to set up a mystery where the main question is not whodunnit, launching a harrowing search for missing children without losing sight of the science fiction weirdness laced throughout its first-degree foundation. As it turns out, the missing kids are just the start, allowing the lives of the Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler, and Tiedemann families to unravel thanks to their own secrets. Jumping effortlessly between four separate time periods, Dark matches popcorn-munching intrigue with the chilling terror of a good mystery.
16. Bridgerton
Cast: Adjoa Andoh, Julie Andrews, Nicola Coughlan, Rege-Jean Page, Jonathan Bailey, Phoebe Dynevor
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Fiction
Created By: Chris Van Dusen
Courtship. Is. War. Stamped with the Shondaland pedigree, Bridgerton has the plot of a '90s teen rom-com in the bodice of a Regency era romance. Oh, and a little Gossip Girl thrown in for good measure in the form of Lady Whistledown's hand-delivered rumor rag. Festooned with all the gorgeous costuming and set decoration befitting something of its high title, the show focuses on Daphne Bridgerton, a young woman newly presented to society but deemed unworthy of marriage. She strikes up a mutually beneficial deal with the highly sought-after Duke of Hastings, who both agree to pretend to be attached to each other to solve their problems. But will it develop into something real?
15. Midnight Mass
Cast: Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Annabeth Gish
Genre: Horror, Drama
Created By: Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan had tried to get Midnight Mass made since the earliest part of his career, keeping the passion project alive first as a fictionalized novel in his movie Hush, and then using the fake book as an Easter egg in other projects like Gerald's Game. When he finally got the chance to tell the tale, he nailed it right to the church door. Brimming with his continual obsession with "hauntings," Flanagan's series focuses on a declining island where a slew of strange things start happening when a cagey priest rides into town. Pro tip: if hundreds of dead cats show up on a beach after a weird priest shows up, get out of town. At least for a little while. Take everyone who will listen with you.
14. When They See Us
Cast: Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Jharrel Jerome, Marquis Rodriguez, Michael K. Williams, Niecy Nash, Vera Farmiga
Created By: Ava DuVernay
On April 19, 1989, dozens of teenagers assaulted and robbed people in Central Park. Following the initial chaos, a woman was raped, resulting in the arrest and conviction of five Black and Latino youths who became known as the Central Park Five. But they weren't guilty of the crime. Those convictions weren't vacated until 2002, and a settlement for the wrongful imprisonment and discrimination wasn't reached until 2014. It's been a long road through injustice — a sensitive story surrounded by trauma and real-life stakes — and DuVernay's series is worthy of telling their story. A stirring and powerful show that seeks the humans behind all the headlines, it's a poetic and thought-provoking masterpiece of true crime.
13. Orange Is The New Black
Cast: Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Kate Mulgrew, Uzo Aduba, Natasha Lyonne, Samira Wiley, Dascha Polanco, Laverne Cox, Diane Guerrero
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Created By: Jenji Kohan
The original hit is still one of the best Netflix has to offer. Kohan's Weeds follow-up delved into deeper into the world of crime by jumping inside a woman's prison. A bit of a Trojan Horse, the show initially focused largely on Schilling's character — a middle class white woman who was in prison on a kind of fluke — but quickly morphed into an ensemble piece about women from all backgrounds and walks of life. Based on Piper Kerman's memoir, the series continually pushed boundaries, utilizing a format which gave us deeper and deeper backstories into dozens of prisoners that layered a tight, complex plot about these people who all had to live together against their own will. They found love, hate, violence, and grace while rattling their cages.
12. Russian Doll
Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Charlie Barnett, Elizabeth Ashley, Chloe Sevigny
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Urban Fantasy
Created By: Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, Amy Poehler
This show is an absolute delight. A harsh-lipped riff on Groundhog Day where a snarky software engineer keeps dying at her 36th birthday party. Honestly, the start of your late 30s can feel that way. She, appropriately, freaks out before using her seemingly infinite lives (all restarting in a bathroom to an infectious Harry Nilsson jam) to figure out what the hell is happening. Then she meets a man experiencing the same thing. The show's unique blend of comedy, nihilism, and personal tragedy is a tightrope walk of perfection that the whole team manages episode after episode. Like other repeating day stories, it's about righting wrongs, but Russian Doll does it with both a towering sense of glee and a big middle finger stuck high in the air.
11. Narcos/Narcos: Mexico
Year: 2015-2017/2018-2021
Cast: Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Michael Pena, Diego Luna
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biographical
Runtime: Seasons 1-3: 30 episodes/Seasons 1-3: 30 episodes
Created By: Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro
There are few outlaw figures in the modern era we're more obsessed with than Pablo Escobar. The drug lord with the biggest mug shot smile of all time has been the subject of tons of books, movies, and TV shows, but Narcos is at the top of the powdery heap. Escobar (played with fantastic intensity by Wagner Moura) faces off against rivals and the DEA while trying to expand his cocaine market dominance through brutal terrorist acts. The show, and its companion series Narcos: Mexico shifts smartly beyond Escobar to explore other drug reigns over a combined 6 seasons of pulse-pounding genius. It's a good show to watch before you try your hand at the global illicit drug trade because it'll convince you to take up kite flying or literally anything else.
10. GLOW
Cast: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Marc Maron, Chris Lowell, Sydelle Noel, Kate Nash
Created By: Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch
Way, way back in the 1980s, Ruth Wilder was an inch away from giving up on her dream of becoming an actress. She was broke, cheating with her friend's husband, and then she was drawn like a moth to the flame of a vague audition. A last chance. If she'd known what it was for, she probably wouldn't have gone because it was for a rinky dink wrestling show angling for an F- grade from OSHA. Inspired by the real-world creation of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, this show gave a safe place to a dozen weirdos all looking for a tribe. And health work-life balance. Sometimes you only get to pick one. It's hilarious and heartfelt, unleashing the intense pressure these women are under as kinetic energy in the ring. Plus, any show with a Rocky IV-esque robot with drugs inside it is an automatic winner.
9. Maid
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Tracy Vilar, Billy Burke, Andie MacDowell
Created By: Molly Smith Metzler
Stephanie Land's memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive opens with the line, "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter." It's an unflinching look at the strain of poverty, the hatred baked into the red tape system of public assistance, and the struggle to bring up a child when you can't afford to take care of yourself. The series based on the book carries that unflinching spirit, led by an outstanding performance from Margaret Qualley as a young woman fleeing with her toddler from an alcoholic, abusive husband with no money in her pocket and almost no options. She gets a job cleaning houses, and the daily struggle continues. And continues. And continues.
8. Wednesday
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Christina Ricci
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Drama, Supernatural
Created By: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
The Addams Family has existed for almost a century, and who could have guessed that the morbid family that first graced issues of The New Yorker would one day go viral for a limb-bending dance sequence on a Netflix show? This series is a huge hit because it focuses in on a single member of the family — offering the scene-stealing Wednesday a chance to lead her own YA horror show — and because Jenna Ortega is a blast in the role. She's creepy. She's kooky. She's altogether ooky. Stuff all that into a winning YA formula of a private school for special/weird kiddos, mix in some nostalgia bombs, set it all to a Danny Elfman score, and you've got a show that's more fun than burning down a summer camp.
7. Ozark
Cast: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skyler Gaertner, Julia Garner
Created By: Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams
Here's the deal: there are a lot of crime shows on this list. There are a lot of crime shows on television. We love watching people commit crimes — especially big ones that dominate their entire lives and continue on for years and years as they evade capture and death. What makes Ozark special is how the Byrde Family all pull their weight when they have to relocate from Chicago to Missouri to expand a money laundering scheme. It's miraculous that they kept the plates spinning so fast for four full seasons, performing a circus act of deception and violence that made for hellaciously dramatic television. Bateman (him?) is fantastic in the against-type role, and Linney commands every scene, whether they're butting heads with low level criminals or the, no kidding, Kansas City Mafia.
6. Squid Game
Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, HoYeon Jung, O Yeong-su, Wi Ha-joon, Heo Sung-tae
Genre: Drama, Survival, Thriller, Horror
Created By: Hwang Dong-hyuk
It's easy to see the young woman from Maid being targeted to play the Squid Game. Another series exploring the cruelty heaped upon impoverished people, the South Korean phenom features a group of people all trying to survive a sadistic game show for the pleasure of the wealthiest business people from around the globe. The smirking design of children's games where you can get shot by a giant doll or tug-of-warred off a high ledge is deviously clever, but the appeal of the show goes far beyond the plot concept. Seong Gi-hun offers us a man to root for, cheering this broken divorcee with a gambling addiction who only wants to get enough money to buy his daughter a nice birthday present. That sweet instinct lures him into a horrorscape of late night fights, fallen friends, and an ever-growing piggy bank of cash.
5. American Vandal
Cast: Tyler Alvarez, Griffin Gluck, Jimmy Tatro
Genre: Mockumentary
Created By: Dan Perrault, Tony Yacenda
The most important question of the last ten years: who drew the dicks? Parodying Serial might have been simple in a sketch comedy kind of way, but the team behind American Vandal went all in to create a full series focused, first, on the drawing of 27 penises on cars in the faculty lot of a public high school and, then, on the truly corruptive act of putting laxative in a Catholic school's cafeteria lemonade. The temptation to wink throughout both seasons must have been excruciating, but everyone involved never flinches as they treat these sophomoric pranks with the deadly seriousness of overturning a wrongful murder conviction.
4. The Queen's Gambit
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Bill Camp
Created By: Scott Frank, Allan Scott
Elizabeth Harmon is so cool that I wish chess were a real game. All jokes aside, this show is whip smart and turned an ancient game into a global powerhouse of popularity. Starting in her troubled years as an orphan, the series follows Harmon as she discovers a natural gift for chess and develops it to international acclaim while her home life with adopted parents collapses. A colorful cast of characters flows in and out of her life as she finds a home and a giant mountain of sexism inside the professional chess world. It cruises through the cool styles of the 1950s and 1960s while making chess a sexy clash of big intellects. It's addictively easy to binge and will have you hooked before you can even Google "En Passant."
Cast: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies, Jonathan Pryce, Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham Carter, Lesley Manville, John Lithgow, Gillian Anderson
Genre: Historical Drama
Created By: Peter Morgan
It's hard to overstate the scale of ambition it takes to produce a show about 8 decades of Queen Elizabeth II's life. Somehow, through the clatter and acclaim and scandal, Morgan and a seasoned cast have made it happen. At least, they're five seasons in, up through the 1990s, with still a little ways to go, but so far the results are impeccable. From the ashes of WWII through Thatcher and Princess Diana, the show has been a jaw-dropped that always edged slightly more toward soap opera salaciousness than historical truth. The results are magnificent, crafting a through line of history that offers fascinating context once it lines up with people and places we recognize from our own childhoods and beyond. A peerless life, drawn in lush costuming, high drama, and memorable performances.
2. Stranger Things
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Created By: The Duffer Brothers
Somehow the Duffer Brothers found a Nostalgia Tree and tapped it, letting flow raw, pure nostalgia into a giant tin bucket before dumping it over all of our heads. Naturally, we couldn't stop asking for more. The series where a group of Dungeons and Dragons-loving kids have their fantasy monster game spill out into real life has evolved since the early days of little science experiment/orphan Eleven telekinetically fighting back against bullies. They've grown up a bit, had hearts broken, and explored places as wild as Soviet gulags and the food court at the mall, all while staying true to a wicked 1980s aesthetic that clashes with the muddy hellscape of the Upside Down. It's a fun ride unafraid to shred Metallica while the monsters close in, and still the best advertisement for frozen waffles.
1. BoJack Horseman
Cast: Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins, Aaron Paul
Genre: Black Comedy, Drama, Satire, Surreal Animal Pun Delivery Service
Created By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
One of the best (if not the best) television show of the 21st century, it's impossible to describe the tonal balance of all human emotion to be found in a cartoon show about a talking horse who used to be the star of a wholesome '90s sitcom who's trying to claw his way back to relevance in Hollywoo. It is a show about fame, about addiction, about found families, about trust, about life, the universe, and everything. Couched in the colorful world of talking animals and world-class puns, it's impossibly silly while presenting the depths of depravity of a broken man. No show is as funny or as sad, and beyond its sarcasm and sorrow, several episodes experimented with form in a way almost no other series would dare to even conceive. An absolute all-timer.


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Pregnancy carries many concerns for women, but one of the biggest worries is about carrying the baby to term.
While most pre-term births are not preventable, there are certain risk factors that increase the odds of not carrying a baby to full term.
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In the U.S., one of about every 10 babies is born pre-term, meaning the baby is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Babies that are born too early are at a higher risk of serious disability or even death.
Zanotti said one risk factor is weight. She said, "So making sure that you have a normal weight, and as we all know, obesity is such a problem in this country, so that's one thing we can really try to encourage women to work on doing."
Zanotti said that women who are carrying multiple babies are usually at a higher risk for pre-term delivery, and are therefore monitored very closely as a precaution.
Women who become pregnant at a very young age, as well as women who become pregnant after the age of 35 are also at a higher risk.
Another risk factor for pre-term delivery exists for women who have had previous procedures performed on their cervix because of pre-cancerous concerns.
Zanotti said, "If you've had a procedure to your cervix because of abnormal pap smears and precancerous changes, you are at a higher risk for pre-term labor and pre-term delivery."
Lifestyle habits can play a role too; which is why it's important to avoid smoking, alcohol or the use of illicit drugs.
Zanotti said that women who have had previous pre-term births are at a higher risk in future pregnancies. However, advances in pre-natal care have made it possible to significantly reduce that risk for these women.


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Arrested Development Is Returning for Season 5
The Bluth family will return to your TV screen once again... more than 12 years after their show was canceled by FOX.
Netflix announced on Wednesday that Arrested Development's fifth season will premiere in 2018. The show's fourth season officially premiered on Netflix in May 2013. So that means it will have been just about 5 years between the show's fourth and fifth seasons.
Netflix hasn't given us too many details about the show's fifth season, but we do have more good news. The show's core cast is all signed on for the project, according to today's release.
Yes, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat will all be there.
Now the story of a wealthy family, and the one streaming service that had no choice but to keep them all together. @arresteddev S5. 2018. pic.twitter.com/sn9jKH2hYp
— Netflix US (@netflix) May 17, 2017
It is not clear, however, how many episodes we can expect or when they'll premiere on Netflix. Arrested Development's fourth season was 15 episodes. There have been rumors that Netflix was planning on removing earlier season's of the show from their streaming service, but they have denied those rumors.
Seasons 1-4 of @arresteddev are NOT leaving! These rumors are so flamboyant and dramatic, they make me want to set myself on fire! https://t.co/Tpm1R1xcl2


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With the Sandy Bridge chipset issue all sorted now, we look at the CX640 Notebook carrying the H67 chipset. Is it something you should be looking at?
The Sandy Bridge issue no doubt caused problems for motherboard manufacturers, but many forget about the issue affecting notebook ones. With the issue all sorted now, it's time for companies to start releasing notebooks based on the Sandy Bridge chipset.
The first one we're looking at comes from MSI and is labelled the CX640, and on the specifications front it does indeed look the goods with an Intel i5-2410M clocked at 2.3GHz on the H65 chipset. We've also got 4GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1333MHz in the form of two 2GB modules. Graphics comes from NVIDIA with the 520M that carries with it 1GB of GDDR3. You can check out all the main specifications in our CPU-Z validation here.
Looking at storage, we've got a 500GB Hitachi drive. The screen is quite large at 15.6" and carries with it a 1366 x 768 resolution. Outside of these specifications there's a fair few extras on the CX640. On the left side we've got our power plug, 10 / 100 / 1000 networking port, VGA and HDMI out along with two USB 3.0 ports.
On the right side we've got audio in and out ports, two more USB ports, but in this case just 2.0 ones, along with a DVD burner and our power button. The back is completely bare and the front holds only a card reader that supports all the major formats.
It's a clean design and MSI say it's a "Clutter Free" one, as if you want to use a mouse on the right side, no cables will come out and get in the way. Of course, if you're left handed the benefit is non-existent. Overall, the laptop comes in at 380mm x 260mm x 34mm and 2.6 Kg. It's not a heavy laptop, but quite bulky due to the 15.6" screen.
Out of the box the CX640 carries with it a 64-bit copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. There's a bit of bloat ware, but nothing too major that you might find yourself uninstalling quickly.
Opening up the CX640, you're dealing with a good looking notebook. We've got an aluminium look, but the casing is plastic. The fact it's plastic probably makes it feel a bit more convertible and if you wear a bracelet you don't have to worry about that screeching noise.
Across the bottom and slightly to the left we've got our touch pad which not only looks great, but works well and above that we've got quite a large keyboard that offers a numpad. Above that we've got some speakers that are actually quite good and that is thanks to the slightly larger format of the CX640.
Firing up Battery Eater Pro, we're able to see what kind of battery life we can get out of the CX640 in an absolute worst case scenario. When we hit 0% we had been running Battery Eater Pro for 86 minutes which is very good considering it's a larger laptop.
Firing up Far Cry 2, we're able to look at gaming performance at the CX640s native resolution. In DX9 and the present at medium we've got a 26 FPS minimum and 33 FPS average. With a 33 FPS average we would normally say this isn't playable, but because the minimum is very close it's not bad at all. If we move the settings to low we get a 37 FPS minimum and 51 FPS average which is ultra-smooth.
Since we were getting some decent FPS from Far Cry 2, we thought we'd fire up the favoured NVIDIA H.A.W.X. 2. At the native resolution and most of the settings low and off, we ended up with an average of 93 FPS which is extremely strong. Upping the detail a good chunk we managed to achieve a 50 FPS average which is very impressive. Gaming on this notebook is really an option and that's something worth noting.
Overall, the CX640 from MSI is a very good middle of the road notebook that should set you back less than $1,000 AUD / USD. While it lacks some of the fancier features like an LED-lit screen or Blu-ray player, the price and performance is strong making it a good option for people who want something larger and more powerful than a netbook or 13" notebook, but don't want to go to the expense of gaming notebooks with higher end graphics and bigger screens.
At just over 2.5Kg it's not too heavy and its battery life of 86 minutes as we mentioned is very strong. Considering this was at full brightness and the CPU at 2.2GHz, you'll be able to extend that battery life further by dulling the brightness and slowing down the CPU.
Throw in little features like USB 3.0 support which comes thanks to the Sandy Bridge chipset and you've got a great middle of the road notebook from MSI that a lot of people will have interest in.


There are three basic classifications for natural stone: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Igneous rocks are formed from the solidification of minerals from a molten or partially molten state. Mineral gases and liquids penetrate into the stone and create crystalline formations with various colors. Metamorphic rock is formed when heat, pressure or chemical reactions alter sedimentary or igneous rocks. The change may be a development of a crystalline formation, a texture change or a color change. Sedimentary rocks are formed by the solidification of organic elements such as sediment and plants through heat and pressure.
Dimension stone is a natural building stone that has been cut and finished to specifications. The most common types of dimension stone are granite, marble, travertine, limestone and slate.
The term granite is used to cover a group of related igneous stones, all of which have their origins deep in the Earth's molten mantle. As this extremely hot liquid material rises, cools and solidifies it forms a crystalline, granular structure, hence the name granite. Granite is made of minerals such as quartz (35%), feldspar (45%) and smaller amounts of mica and hornblendes, which are fused together and is a 6-7 on the Moh's scale of hardness.
Granite is an excellent choice for interior countertops and floors, exterior cladding and pavement material. Statistics from various sources indicate that granite quarried in Brazil, India and China comprises approximately two thirds of the granite used worldwide.
Granite has tiny pits, spaces between the various mineral crystals, and fissures, surface cracks. All granite contain varying amounts of pits and fissures that are visible to the eye, but do not affect the strength or durability of the stone. Granite can resist scratching from knifes, but can be chipped with enough force. Granite is typically heat resistant up to temperatures of +/- 480 degrees Fahrenheit; direct, localized heat is still discouraged. All stones are porous to some degree and should be sealed. Absorption rates of granite range from 0.05% to 0.40% indicating staining is very slight.
Marble is a metamorphic rock found in the mountainous regions of many countries, most quarried in Italy, Spain and Turkey. Marble is recrystallized limestone that formed when the limestone softened from heat and pressure and recrystallized into marble. Marble ranges in color, is usually heavily veined with lots of grain; hardness of marble can range from 3-5 on the Moh's scale of hardness.
The calcite crystal is the basic building block of true marbles and is vulnerable to damage by mild acids, including those commonly found in a kitchen. The user, selecting marble for a kitchen, should be aware of and accept the maintenance, patina and scratching with this application.
Onyx – Onyx is often confused with marbles; onyx is sedimentary rock, formed as stalactites and stalagmites in cave interiors. This formation results in the cryptocrystalline structure that creates translucency in the stone.
Travertine is a type of limestone; it is actually the terrestrial (land) formed version of limestone, as opposed to the marine based formations of many other limestone's varieties. It is formed through the accumulation of calcite from hot springs. It contains holes that were formed from water flowing through the stone that are filled with resins and cements. Travertine has a hardness of 4-5 on the Moh's scale of hardness.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock mainly consisting of calcite containing organic matter and displaying fossils in the material. Limestone has a smooth granular surface; dense limestone's can be polished and varies in hardness from 2-7 on the Moh's scale of hardness.
Travertine and Limestone, like marble, are of a calcium carbonate base, and as such, are vulnerable to damage by exposure to mild acids. Absorption varies from <1% to >10%, acid sensitivity and high absorption limit the number of suitable applications.
Slate – Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic stone that is formed from clay, sedimentary rock shale and sometimes quartz that hardens by heat and pressure. Slate can be processed into this sheets and still maintain serviceable strength and rigidity. Slate can be used for roof shingles to interior flooring.
Soapstone – Soapstone is made of a variety of talc, it is a dense material and is often resist to oxide. Soapstone is highly heat resistant and traditionally been used for laboratory in chemistry labs.
Honed – provides a flat to low sheen gloss, different levels of gloss can be selected. This surface is very smooth, but often porous.
Polished – a smooth, glossy surface due to polishing brick and powders used during fabrication. The reflectivity of polished crystals brings out the brilliant colors and grains of natural stone; the shine comes from the natural reflections of the stone's crystals, but from a coating.
Flamed – a rough surface that is created by heating the stone crystals, which begin to pop.
Sand Blasted – this surface is the result of a pressurized flow of sand and water that provides a textured surface.
Bush Hammered – a pounding action that develops a textured surface, the degree of roughness can be selected.
As you can see, there are so many granite varieties and so many colors and patterns to choose from (esspecially since no two pieces are the same!). You can narrow down your options by basing your granite choice on the overall theme and style of your room.
Now that you have all of these granite options to choose from, you will be able to select the right granite for your needs and aesthetic. Whether you choose to go with granite kitchen countertops or a granite bathroom vanity, you will surely enjoy the beauty and functionality of granite.


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"Jewish Homes Only" and Palestine: Pressured by Washington, the UN Security Council Upholds the Interests Israel
By Jamal Kanj
Global Research, March 19, 2014
jamalkanj.com
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: United Nations
In-depth Report: PALESTINE
FOLLOWING serious cajoling by the US, the European Union and arm twisting by Arab governments, the Palestinians entered what was to be nine months of negotiations with Israel. The Palestinians, who had forgone demands for Israel's compliance with previous signed agreements before starting new negotiations, were promised that this time Israel would enter into serious discussions to reach a final agreement by April 29.
After stalling for four months, Israel refused to discuss any issues but security arrangements. Negotiations were effectively over late last November when US Secretary of State John Kerry mobilised a large team, led by a former American Israel public affairs committee employee, to resuscitate it.
The looming deadline is around the corner and there is no indication that the two sides are any closer than when they started. In fact, the Israeli prime minister added two fresh conditions this week: No final deal with Palestinians unless they relinquish the rights of refugees, and an additional recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
For Israel, which has perfected the temporising game, these nine months were just a prelude to seek another extension in the talks and to deflate the propensity of the international boycott movement while undermining the peace process by building new "Jewish only homes" – over 7,000 units since July.
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also declared in an interview with the Los Angeles Times newspaper that "It will take us at least a year to exhaust these negotiations."
Soon after the 1991 Madrid peace talks, the then departing Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir revealed in June 1992 to an Israeli newspaper that he would have kept negotiating "for 10 years and in the meantime we would have reached half a million," in the West Bank.
He lamented "in the next four years I will not be able to complete the (Jewish) demographic revolution," explaining that "without this demographic revolution, there is no reason to hold autonomy talks as there now is a risk of a Palestinian state."
True to Shamir's vision, consecutive Israeli governments (from left and right) dragged the negotiations over almost a quarter of a century, surpassing Shamir's goal of more than half a million, thus making it geographically unfeasible to establish a liveable Palestinian state.
The ostrichised US and its subservient European Union suffer delusional denial syndrome. They refuse to read palpable writings on the wall: Israel perceives the Palestinian state a risk for which they use peace talk to realise the Jewish "demographic revolution."
The Israeli-centric overextended use of US' privileged veto power at the UN Security Council has become the main obstacle to reaching peace in the Middle East. It can even be argued that it is contributing to many of the world's conflicts today.
Incidentally, it was Israel's US firsters who fabricated the evidence to justify occupation of Iraq, and are now advocating war with Iran and Syria.
Other world powers have got a grip on it too. As we speak, Russia is employing the same tired "privileged" UN Security Council authority to probably annex Crimea. But only with one difference, unlike the population in Crimea who ostensibly sought Russian support, residents of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights overwhelmingly rejected Israeli annexation.
China is employing the same "privileged" veto power in its islands dispute with Japan and to maintain its influence over Korea.
Acting on behalf of Israel, the US has turned the UN Security Council from a guardian of world peace to a club of hubris kingpins violating international law and creating a New World Disorder
The original source of this article is jamalkanj.com
Copyright © Jamal Kanj, jamalkanj.com, 2014
Articles by: Jamal Kanj


I just stumbled across the Fabrica blogs mainly due to the link to the old antirom photo that I blogged the other day. Then, of course, I found Andy Cameron's ridiculous but amusing blog documenting all the food he has ingested, mainly in Italy.
Go check the Fabrica blog, it contains some goodies. A nod to Ann too who looks after the Fabrica blogs and makes lovely work too.
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Q: Tensorflow 2.3 -TypeError: Fetch argument None has invalid type  when using .get_session().run(tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer I have a yolo_non_max_suppression method as shown below:
  def yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes, max_boxes = 10, iou_threshold = 0.5):
    max_boxes_tensor = K.variable(value=max_boxes, dtype='int32')
    print("printing max_boxes_tensor:",max_boxes_tensor)
    print("Data type:",K.dtype(max_boxes_tensor))
    init= tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer([max_boxes_tensor])
    print("printing tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer:",init)
    K.get_session().run(init))

    nms_indices = tf.image.non_max_suppression(boxes, scores, max_boxes_tensor,
    iou_threshold=iou_threshold)

    scores = K.gather(scores, nms_indices)
    boxes = K.gather(boxes, nms_indices)
    classes = K.gather(classes, nms_indices)

    return scores, boxes, classes

When I test the above code out using the following test stub:
   with tf.compat.v1.Session() as test_b:
    scores = tf.random.normal([54,], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1)
    boxes = tf.random.normal([54, 4], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1)
    classes = tf.random.normal([54,], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1)
    scores, boxes, classes = yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes)
    print("scores[2] = " + str(scores[2].eval()))
    print("boxes[2] = " + str(boxes[2].eval()))
    print("classes[2] = " + str(classes[2].eval()))
    print("scores.shape = " + str(scores.eval().shape))
    print("boxes.shape = " + str(boxes.eval().shape))
    print("classes.shape = " + str(classes.eval().shape))

The get the following output:
  max_boxes= 10
printing max_boxes_tensor: <tf.Variable 'Variable:0' shape=() dtype=int32>
Data type: int32
printing tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer: name: "init"
op: "NoOp"
input: "^Variable/Assign"

scores[2] = 6.938395
boxes[2] = [-5.299932    3.1379814   4.450367    0.95942086]
classes[2] = -2.2452729
scores.shape = (10,)
boxes.shape = (10, 4)
classes.shape = (10,)

I now try to invoke the above method from yolo_eval as shown below:-
def yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape = (720., 1280.), max_boxes=10, score_threshold=.6, iou_threshold=.5):

    box_confidence, box_xy, box_wh, box_class_probs = yolo_outputs
    boxes = yolo_boxes_to_corners(box_xy, box_wh)
    scores, boxes, classes = yolo_filter_boxes(box_confidence, boxes, box_class_probs, threshold = score_threshold)
    boxes = scale_boxes(boxes, image_shape)
    # here i invoke the above implemented yolo_non_max_suppression
    #scores, boxes, classes = yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes, max_boxes = max_boxes, iou_threshold = iou_threshold)
    scores, boxes, classes = yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes)
    return scores, boxes, classes

The tested the above  yolo_eval method using my test stub:
with tf.compat.v1.Session() as test_b:
    yolo_outputs = (tf.random.normal([19, 19, 5, 1], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1),
                    tf.random.normal([19, 19, 5, 2], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1),
                    tf.random.normal([19, 19, 5, 2], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1),
                    tf.random.normal([19, 19, 5, 80], mean=1, stddev=4, seed = 1))
    scores, boxes, classes = yolo_eval(yolo_outputs)
    print("scores[2] = " + str(scores[2].eval()))
    print("boxes[2] = " + str(boxes[2].eval()))
    print("classes[2] = " + str(classes[2].eval()))
    print("scores.shape = " + str(scores.eval().shape))
    print("boxes.shape = " + str(boxes.eval().shape))
    print("classes.shape = " + str(classes.eval().shape))

I get the following output:
max_boxes= 10
printing max_boxes_tensor: <tf.Variable 'Variable_1:0' shape=() dtype=int32>
Data type: int32
printing tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer: name: "init_3"
op: "NoOp"
input: "^Variable_1/Assign"

scores[2] = 138.79124
boxes[2] = [1292.3297  -278.52167 3876.9893  -835.56494]
classes[2] = 54
scores.shape = (10,)
boxes.shape = (10, 4)
classes.shape = (10,)

So far, so good. However when I test the pretrained model on images ( exactly as per Andrew's coursera assignment with absolute zero deviation, except for upgrading the code to tensorflow 2.3) , things start to behave differently.
sess = K.get_session()
class_names = read_classes("model_data/coco_classes.txt")
anchors = read_anchors("model_data/yolo_anchors.txt")
image_shape = (720., 1280.) yolo_model = load_model(model_dir)
yolo_model.summary() # no issues here..

yolo_outputs = yolo_head(yolo_model.output, anchors, len(class_names)) # another library method available as part of the assignment
print(yolo_outputs)

Giving the following output:
(<tf.Tensor 'Sigmoid:0' shape=(None, None, None, 5, 1) dtype=float32>, <tf.Tensor 'RealDiv:0' shape=(None, None, None, 5, 2) dtype=float32>, <tf.Tensor 'RealDiv_1:0' shape=(None, None, None, 5, 2) dtype=float32>, <tf.Tensor 'Softmax:0' shape=(None, None, None, 5, 80) dtype=float32>)

Now I call my previously implemented yolo_eval as shown below:
scores, boxes, classes = yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape)

This where I get the following error:
max_boxes= 10
printing max_boxes_tensor: <tf.Variable 'Variable:0' shape=() dtype=int32, numpy=10>
Data type: int32
printing tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer: None

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-15-1c93a2e863cf> in <module>
----> 1 scores, boxes, classes = yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape)

<ipython-input-9-86120a47e84f> in yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape, max_boxes, score_threshold, iou_threshold)
     37     # Use one of the functions you've implemented to perform Non-max suppression with a threshold of iou_threshold (≈1 line)
     38     #scores, boxes, classes = yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes, max_boxes = max_boxes, iou_threshold = iou_threshold)
---> 39     scores, boxes, classes = yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes)
     40
     41     ### END CODE HERE ###

<ipython-input-7-f4ff9df30d44> in yolo_non_max_suppression(scores, boxes, classes, max_boxes, iou_threshold)
     25     print("Data type:",K.dtype(max_boxes_tensor))
     26     print("printing tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer:",tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer([max_boxes_tensor]))
---> 27     K.get_session().run(tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer([max_boxes_tensor]))
     28     #K.get_session().run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
     29

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py in run(self, fetches, feed_dict, options, run_metadata)
    955
    956     try:
--> 957       result = self._run(None, fetches, feed_dict, options_ptr,
    958                          run_metadata_ptr)
    959       if run_metadata:

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py in _run(self, handle, fetches, feed_dict, options, run_metadata)
   1163
   1164     # Create a fetch handler to take care of the structure of fetches.
-> 1165     fetch_handler = _FetchHandler(
   1166         self._graph, fetches, feed_dict_tensor, feed_handles=feed_handles)
   1167

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py in __init__(self, graph, fetches, feeds, feed_handles)
    475     """
    476     with graph.as_default():
--> 477       self._fetch_mapper = _FetchMapper.for_fetch(fetches)
    478     self._fetches = []
    479     self._targets = []

~/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py in for_fetch(fetch)
    260     """
    261     if fetch is None:
--> 262       raise TypeError('Fetch argument %r has invalid type %r' %
    263                       (fetch, type(fetch)))
    264     elif isinstance(fetch, (list, tuple)):

TypeError: Fetch argument None has invalid type <class 'NoneType'>

What stands out is that the tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer return None this time around. Not sure why. I am going nuts trying to get some clue.

A: I managed to solve it as follows:
 with tf.compat.v1.Session() as sess:
   class_names = read_classes("model_data/coco_classes.txt")
   anchors = read_anchors("model_data/yolo_anchors.txt")
   image_shape = (720., 1280.)
   model_dir=os.path.join("./model_data/","yolo.h5")
   print(model_dir)
   print(os.path.isfile(model_dir))
   h5 = h5py.File(model_dir,'r')
   yolo_model = load_model(model_dir)
   yolo_outputs = yolo_head(yolo_model.output, anchors, len(class_names))
   print(yolo_outputs)
   scores, boxes, classes = yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape)
   out_scores, out_boxes, out_classes = predict(sess,yolo_model,"cars3.jpg")

A: Use with statement instead of sess = K.get_session().
with tf.compat.v1.Session() as sess:
    class_names = read_classes("model_data/coco_classes.txt")
    anchors = read_anchors("model_data/yolo_anchors.txt")
    image_shape = (720., 1280.)
    yolo_model = load_model("model_data/yolo.h5")
    yolo_outputs = yolo_head(yolo_model.output, anchors, len(class_names))
    print(yolo_outputs)
    scores, boxes, classes = yolo_eval(yolo_outputs, image_shape)
    out_scores, out_boxes, out_classes = predict(sess,"test.jpg")

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Q: Multi Pointer Window Manager I test Multi Pointer X (MPX) and I read that there is Multi Pointer Window Manager (MPWM) which has additional fetures to support MPX. The problem is that I can not find MPWM. I googled it and there are only this and Mutli-Cursor Window Manager in the search results.
Where can I download MPWM?

A: I am not sure why your googling did not come up with this MPWM git repository, but that should help you on your way.
From the README there:
MPWM is the multi-pointer window manager, a MPX-aware window manager that
supports window operations from multiple devices.

MPWM is a proof-of-concept, not a real window manager. It's lacking most
features that you'd expect from a window manager so don't use it in
production. Or on your desktop. Or really anywhere.

It's also unmaintained, I just keep it here because the source can be of
value to someone.


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Thomas H. Roddy
Thomas H. Roddy, M. D., a well known practicing physician of Ooltewah, and clerk and master of the chancery court of James County, is a native of Tennessee , and was born in Meigs County , December 28, 1830. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Lane) Roddy. The father was of English descent, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., about 1795, and died in Hamilton County, Tenn., in 1844. His father, James Roddy, was quite a prominent citizen of Jefferson County , and was a member of the constitutional Convention of Tennessee, in 1836. The mother of our subject was a native of Georgia, and was born in that State about 1800. She died in Hamilton County, Tenn., in 1863. The parents were married in Jefferson County, Tenn. The father was engaged in agricultural pursuits during life, and made the business a success. He was an old line Whig. Our subject is the youngest of eight children. He secured a good academical education in his youth, by his own effort, in his native county. At the age of fourteen his father died, and for the next ten years he gave his time and attention to the support of his widowed mother. In 1848 he commenced the study of medicine, by reading under Dr. John L. Yarnell, and for the four or five years, while clerking in Dr. Yarnell's store, he gave all of his spare time to the study of medicine, and in the fall of 1856 went to the medical department of the University of Nashville, where he duly received his diploma as doctor of medicine in the spring of 1858. After his graduation lie located at Harrison , Hamilton County , commenced to practice, and continued at that place until 1865, at which time he came to Ooltewah, where he has since been engaged in practice. At the organization of James County, or soon thereafter, he was appointed, by Hon. D. M. Key, clerk and master of James County, and six years afterward he was reappointed by Chancelor William M. Bradford to the same office, and now holds the same. Our subject is a self-made man. He now owns a farm in James County of 320 acres of good land, under a high state of cultivation, one improved lot and five unimproved lots in Ooltewah, and a half interest in sixty-five acres of iron ore land on White Oak Mountain. He has been married three times: First to Miss Zerelda Yarnell, who was a daughter of his old preceptor in medicine. This marriage occurred in April, 1851; this lady died in March 1854. Second to Mrs. E. D. Watkins, whose maiden name was Martin, in 1871; died in August, 1874. Third to Miss Sidnah C. McDonald, December, 1876; this lady is still living, and presides over his hospitable home. One son was the result of the first marriage; two daughters of the second, and four by the last marriage. One daughter, Pearl , by the second marriage, died in August, 1874. Our subject before the war was an old line Whig, and is now a Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His first wife was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; his second wife of the Missionary Baptist Church , and his present wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
"Goodspeed's History of East Tennessee," James County , 1887.


Donald R. Dial, 81, Topeka, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, at a Topeka hospital.
He was born July 27, 1937, at Topeka, the son of Leslie and Wilma Scheiber Dial. He graduated from Valley Falls High School and attended the University of Arizona for two years. He served in the US Air Force.
Don worked in Topeka at Sante Fe in the Payroll Department and retired after 42 years of service.
He was a high school boys football and basketball referee for 40 years and an umpire for slow pitch softball. Don enjoyed being a father and grandfather and was dedicated in following their participation in sports and other activities.
He married Margaret M. Love, April 6, 1963, at Burlingame. She died April 14, 2018.
Survivors include his son, Scott (Janet) Dial, Topeka; his brother, Roland Dial, Topeka; his sister, Kay Rigdon, Tecumseh; and four grandchildren, Alexis, Taryn, Manning, and Easton.
A Memorial Visitation will be from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, at Highland Heights Christian Church, 2930 SE Tecumseh Rd, Topeka.
Private inurnment will be at the Valley Falls Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Shawnee County Girls Softball Association and sent c/o Mercer Funeral Home, PO Box 6, Valley Falls, KS 66088. Online condolences are welcome at www.mercerfuneralhomes.com.


This month's imaging object is a single star shot – this time I've gone for Regulus in Leo. A nice bright star central to an image can make a spectacular picture, and Regulus is no exception. Taken using the Sky 90 and M25C with 4-minute subs and a couple of hours total exposure time, this is the sort of result you can expect. However – what I didn't expect was to see a trace of the dwarf galaxy Leo 1, which looks like a tiny wisp of a cloud right next door to Regulus! This was pretty much unexpected and I believe it is due to the superb contrast provided by the Sky 90 – I can guarantee that I wouldn't be able to see Leo 1 in a similar Hyperstar III image. It would be interesting to know whether you can pick up Leo 1 using reflectors and CCD cameras with Regulus providing it's own unique form of "light pollution" in this region.
Until April's IOM – clear skies!


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Passengers heard window popping on Southwest plane
By Mark Gillispie and David KoenigThe Associated Press
May 2, 2018 at 3:04 PM May 2, 2018 at 11:13 PM
Flight bound for Newark forced to make emergency landing in Cleveland.
CLEVELAND A cracked window forced a Southwest Airlines plane heading from Chicago to New Jersey to land in Cleveland on Wednesday, just two weeks after a jet engine blew apart and broke a window in a deadly accident aboard another Southwest flight.
There were no reports of injuries after Flight 957 landed safely after making an abrupt turn toward Cleveland while over Lake Erie, according to tracking data from FlightAware.com.
Some of the 76 passengers told The Associated Press said that they heard popping and those sitting near the window moved away quickly. They said the plane's crew handled the situation smoothly.
Dallas-based Southwest said that the plane was diverted to examine damage to one of the three layers in the window, but didn't immediately release details on how it was broken. Photos taken by passengers and posted on social media showed one window with a large, jagged crack.
Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King said that the plane never lost cabin pressure — that would have triggered oxygen masks to drop down for passengers — and that the pilots did not declare an emergency before landing.
There were no other mechanical problems with the Boeing 737, which was taken out of service, King said.
The timing of the incident could hardly be worse for Dallas-based Southwest, the nation's fourth-biggest airline. Airline executives said last week they have seen ticket sales slow since the April 17 engine failure than sent debris flying into a plane, breaking a window and killing a passenger, 43-year-old Jennifer Riordan of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Southwest estimates the drop in sales will cost it between $50 million and $100 million.
Robert Mann, an airline consultant and former American Airlines executive, said windows are periodically polished to remove crazing, the formation of tiny cracks in the acrylic windows from exposure to chemicals and the sun's rays. He said he couldn't recall a similar incident caused by crazing and that the pilots were right to make a quick landing.
The window on the flight that landed in Philadelphia blew out after being hit by a loose engine part and Riordan died of injuries suffered after she was partially sucked out.
After the Philadelphia emergency landing, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of more jet engines like the one that blew apart at 32,000 feet on that Boeing 737 jet heading from New York to Dallas. The National Transportation Safety Board believes one of the blades snapped on the Southwest flight, hurling debris that broke a window.
Boeing declined to identify the supplier that manufactured the windows on its 737-700s, the model involved in Wednesday's incident and last month's fatal accident.
Associated Press writer David Porter, in Newark, New Jersey, contributed to this story. Koenig reported from Dallas.


Yesterday I was kicking cans in the junkyard of my 9-to-5 when it occurred to me, suddenly and without ostensible cue, that for some time I hadn't looked after the status of ailing Norman Geras. When I returned to my desk after lunch, I puttered around the Internet before visiting normblog and there was the news that Norm had died that morning.
Maybe the notion that someone might "let you know" that they're departing is desperate, or unseemly in a parlor-game way, but I think it serves here as a metaphor for the impact Norm had on so many of us, including and perhaps especially those like me who didn't know him in "real life". He was present, even if you didn't often actively think about him.
I discovered Norm's blog in 2003 or 2004 and was impressed by it quickly. Norm was a series of things that were exotic to me back then: an anti-totalitarian Leftist, a European dissenter from bien pensant thinking on America and Israel, and above all a Marxist—that strange and terrible thing—whose writing I respected and very often strongly agreed with.
There were other times over the years when Norm suddenly came to me. Once early on in an email, offering to exchange links. Another back-and-forth, when we discussed how he was from Bulawayo and my father from Cape Town. I wrote him a couple of dumb things, embarrassingly inchoate, about neoconservatism and the Left. Then the happy occasion when he offered to do a "Normblog Profile" on me. I was so proud to be number 361.
Now that I've lived a little, having rounded the startlingly acute bend of 40, I've learned that one of the worst things about death is the enervating sense of futility it imparts—that straw dogs realization that the universe will trundle over you like the sub-sub-atomic particle you are by simply deleting the things that give your life meaning.
So much of what Norm wrote was great. For a bracing tour, visit this round-up by Engage of some of his best writings on anti-Semitism and Left-wing failure in response. For me, the piece of Norm's that struck me most forcefully was this—a lapidary dismantlement of "root cause" apologetics called "Apologists among us".
The root-causers always plead a desire merely to expand our understanding, but they're very selective in what they want us to 'understand'. Did you ever hear a Jenny Tonge who empathizes with the Palestinian suicide bomber also understanding the worries of Israeli and other Jews—after the Holocaust, after the decades-long hostility of the Arab world to the State of Israel and the teaching of hatred there against Jews, after the acts of war against that state and the acts of terrorism against its citizens? This would seem to constitute a potentially rich soil of roots and causes, but it goes unexplored by the supposedly non-excuse-making purveyors of a root-causism seeking to 'understand'.
In this accessible but forensic essay—so measured in tone that it belies the utter destruction it visits on useful idiots—Norm gave us a brilliant, and practical, tool with which to understand and resist the ways in which we in the liberal-democratic West undermine ourselves.
Illiberals will continue to come, in human wave attacks, and the irony of our humanistic civilization is our susceptibility to their vicious ideas. First Christopher Hitchens, now Norm is gone. I hope we have it in our DNA to continue their fight. I'm so tired.
This entry was posted in tributes to Norm and tagged anti-Semitism, John-Paul Pagano, Marxist, The Socialism Of Fools on October 19, 2013 by The Editor.


The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, announces that its next annual conference, DebConf10, will be held Aug. 1 to 7, 2010.
"The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, confirmed the dates and venue for its next annual conference, DebConf10," the organization said in a statement Oct. 30.
"The conference will take place from Aug. 1 to 7, 2010, at Columbia University, in New York City, in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department." Next year's event marks a milestone in that "in DebConf's 11-year history, this will be the first time it has been held in the United States," organizers said.
"The Debian community in New York City is excited to welcome our colleagues from around the world to join us for this rewarding and productive conference," said Jimmy Kaplowitz, leader of the local New York team for DebConf10. "We look forward to energizing North American Debian contributors and introducing interested users to ways they can give back to Debian, making it an even better operating system and an even better community."
"Debian GNU/Linux is a free computer operating system. Over 3,000 volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into 27 languages and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the 'universal operating system.' In the United States, Debian is backed by Software in the Public Interest, a not-for-profit public charity," the organizers said.
DebConf organizers said the event will feature "talks and demonstrations about the benefits of Debian and free and open-source software in general to corporate, governmental, academic and individual users." In addition, there will be a day that the general public is invited to attend.
"The call for papers and registration will open in January 2010," the announcement said. "DebConf10 will be preceded by DebCamp, the yearly developer work sessions, starting on July 25. Information about DebConf10 is updated at http://debconf10.debconf.org as it becomes available."


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How Queen Elizabeth II guided her family through tumultuous times
Under The Queen's historic reign, Britain's monarchy survived and flourished. Campden FB looks at how Her Majesty adapted and evolved to lead her family and inspire her subjects.
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, has left the world in shock. For many generations, The Queen was the only monarch they had ever known, a constant source of resolve who lived a life of extraordinary dedication and service.
As the newly appointed English prime minister Liz Truss said: "It is the passing of the second Elizabethan age. The Queen was the rock on which modern Britain was built."
Honouring Queen Elizabeth II: The longest-serving Monarch in British history
Expressions of gratitude and grief paid to the passing of a head of family and state adored by generations.
Tributes have been paid following the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the long-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, who has died surrounded by her beloved family at Balmoral Castle, aged 96.
The longest-serving Monarch in British history, The Queen famously broadcast to the world on her 21st birthday, "I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service."
FB Roundup: Cyrus Mistry, Daniel Kretinsky, MacKenzie Scott
In this week's FB Roundup, tributes are paid to Cyrus Mistry; Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's Royal Mail stake is under a national security review; and MacKenzie Scott donates $44 million to a mentoring organisation.
Tributes paid to billionaire ex-chairman of Tata Sons, Cyrus Mistry
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has led tributes to business leader Cyrus Mistry, who has died in a car accident in western India. The Indian-born Irish businessman and former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons was 54.
"The untimely demise of Shri Cyrus Mistry is shocking," said Modi on Twitter. "He was a promising business leader who believed in India's economic prowess. His passing away is a big loss to the world of commerce and industry."


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LONDON (AP) — A judge has refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal against a British court's ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard.
Earlier this month a High Court judge rejected Depp's claim that a newspaper had committed libel when it called him a "wife-beater." Judge Andrew Nicol said the article in The Sun was "substantially true."
The judge's main ruling came after a three-week trial in which Depp and Heard gave conflicting accounts of their brief, tempestuous marriage.


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Notre Dame Moves Up to #6 in AP Poll
The AP Poll and the Amway Coaches Poll were released today and Ole Miss' loss to LSU moves the Fighting Irish up one spot in each poll.
The poll that counts -- the College Playoff Poll will be released this Tuesday, October 28th at 7:30 PM ET on ESPN.
LINK: POLLS WEEK 10
Two Domers Score TD's Today in London!
Former Notre Dame student-athletes Golden Tate (#15) and Theo Riddick (#25) led a huge Detroit Lions' second half comeback today -- scoring the FIRST TWO TD's EVER by former Notre Dame players in England! Golden led the Lions with seven catches for 151 yards and the TD!
Be sure to check out Theo's GREAT CATCH -- on the game winning drive!
The Lions erased a 21 - 0 halftime deficit to win the game 22 - 21 on a last second 48 yard field goal!
LINK: GOLDEN'S TD
LINK: RIDDICK'S TD
LINK: RIDDICK'S GREAT CATCH
LINK: GOLDEN'S POST GAME INTERVIEW
My "Great" Uncle Tom's Stained Glass Talent!
My great-uncle Tom Fries, made this piece of stained-glass for my uncle R.J. and it hangs in honor at Gilbert Creek Ranch in Mecosta, MI. My cousins' hunting compound in the mid-Michigan area...
You'll find a group their most Saturday's in the Fall watching the Fighting Irish on TV -- now they can watch them out the window too!
Uncle Tom is in his 80's and he's still knocking out these incredible stained glass pieces of art as gifts for family and friends. He also has a great talent for singing an Irish song or two...
He's been a wonderful GIFT to our family!
Notre Dame Football's "Mid-Term" Report Card
Rachel Terlep -- the Notre Dame beat writer for the Elkhart Truth offered up her "grades" on the Fighting Irish's performance over the first seven games of the season. Just click on the links below:
LINK: DEFENSIVE GRADES
LINK: OFFENSIVE GRADES
SBT: Areas Notre Dame Needs to Improve
The South Bend Tribune's Notre Dame beat writer Eric Hansen authored a piece today on where the Fighting Irish need to improve on the most over the last five games of the season to be a "legitimate" Playoff contender:
LINK: CONTENDER


How many miles per gallon does a 2011 Volkswagen Jetta get?
A 2011 Volkswagen Jetta gets up to 23 miles per gallon in the city, up to 33 miles per gallon on the highway. This means a 2011 Volkswagen Jetta can get up to 26 miles per gallon overall.


As week 11 approaches, the unusually flighty tight end position is starting to paint a more complete picture for fantasy teams. Forerunners in the category have found their home on many lineups, but the drop-off is steep. Luckily for you, some random armchair expert is here to steer you in the right direction if you're trying to decide whether to start or sit three tight ends with good matchups this week.
Pay no attention to the fact that I'm a Jets fan.
Jesse James, the stud turned to dud, seems to be getting the cold shoulder from Big Ben as of recently. His hot start to the season (198 receiving yards and a touchdown through two games) was quickly outlawed, he only saw only 5 targets through the next three games. Vance McDonald, who has the face of a 90's movie bully, has definitely proven reliable at the position. Seeing 25 targets through his first five games is one thing, but the ability to haul in 80% of those passes has also proven him to be a trustworthy receiver. While James might see more snaps, the Steelers certainly seems to be prioritizing McDonald in its passing game. Last week's performance against Carolina yielded him his second best fantasy scoring game of the season. Not to mention the matchup with Jacksonville (last in the league against tight ends) will give McDonald ample opportunities to catch the ball and hopefully take someone's lunch money on the way to the end zone. Granted Jacksonville's poor luck against the position was exacerbated by the 'Ebron massacre' of week 10, they've still allowed at least 5 points to the position through the last three games.
Coming off their bye week, they gave up 41.5 total points to three different Colts tight ends. Though deciding whether to start or sit Vance McDonald might be a somewhat risky play, both his floor and ceiling against Jacksonville is high. Vance McDonald is a definite start. Vance McDonald is a definite start.
Fitzmagic isn't out of magic yet. For a guy named after orange juice, OJ Howard has done pretty well for himself, even with all the quarterback drama in Tampa Bay. While their last outing against the Redskins was absolutely abysmal, there's sufficient hope for Howard in their week 11 matchup against the New York Giants. OJ's target share has been anything but consistent, yet he still finds ways to break double digits in all formats. His biggest game of the season was against the Eagles, one of the stingiest teams when it comes to giving up points to tight ends, when he torched them for 96 yards and a touchdown. He had more than twice as many yards in that game than any other tight end has scored against the Eagles all season. While the Giants haven't always been friendly to the position, they simply haven't faced many good tight ends. Ertz took advantage of them in week six, and they had major issues containing George Kittle last week, surrendering the most yards to a tight end all season. If San Francisco's offense can take advantage of them, Howard should have no problem dealing damage to a defense with a short week of rest. If you're wondering whether to start or sit OJ Howard, consider him a start.
Many of you have never heard this name before, but he's starting to blip on the radar. Most people probably would have never imagined Heuerman would outscore Le'Veon Bell in every game of the season, but here we are. Blow off the dust and grab him off the waiver wire, because he's in for another great game against an up-and-down Chargers defense. Heuerman is coming off his best game of the season, racking up 83 yards and a touchdown against Houston. He had a team-high 11 targets, bringing in 10 of them. Target share hasn't been consistent for Heuerman through their first nine games, but his strong performance in his previous game (and a touchdown in each of the last two contests) has certainly turned some heads. The 3-6 Broncos, coming off their bye week, will be both rested and thirsty for a win on the road. The Chargers have allowed 4 touchdowns to tight ends through the last 6 games, and on top of that, tight ends have been targeted an average of 8.5 times per game through the last 4 games against them. While Heuerman jersey sales might not go up, his stock in fantasy this week is certainly high. The decision to start or sit Heuerman is easier than usual: Most definitely a start this week.
While matchup dependent, these tight ends have a chance to carve a more consistent role in each of their respective teams in the next several weeks. All three of these players should expect some luck in week 11 and will undoubtedly all outscore Le'Veon Bell in all formats.
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There are coloring sheets and crafts and puzzles pages! Enjoy!