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California Mass Shooting 2023: Are The Names Of The Deceased From Monterey Park Made Public?
After two mass shootings in as many days left 18 dead and 10 injured, residents of two different communities in California are in shock. The gunshots that occurred in Half Moon Bay on Monday resulted in the deaths of five males, two women, and one other man. Just days after a shooter opened fire at a dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday, the attack left inhabitants of the community in Northern California in mourning.
The Southern California city saw 11 fatalities and 9 injuries as a result of that incident. The two horrific shootings, which occurred hundreds of miles apart, are alarmingly similar. Both suspected shooters were older than 60-year-old males of Asian heritage. Police reported that farmworkers of both Asian and Hispanic descent were killed in the Half Moon Bay shootings. The majority of the victims of the attack in Monterey Park appear to be Asian.
This year, there have been more than 30 mass shootings in the United States.
2023 has seen more mass shootings in the U.S. than days so far.https://t.co/qvZS5DkPJV
— NPR (@NPR) January 24, 2023
Tuesday afternoon's news conference in Half Moon Bay was about to begin when word of a shooting in Yakima, Washington, began to break. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, declared during the press conference that "Only in America do we see this type of violence."
When he was brought aside to receive information on the second event in Half Moon Bay, he claimed previously that he had been with victims of the Monterey Park attack. Newsom urged political leaders to take action against gun violence and blasted Republicans in particular for not doing enough. Sheriff Christina Corpus of San Mateo County stated that better victim care and mental health treatments are required. She continued by saying she would back leaders' initiatives to stop the "epidemic" of gun violence.
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1 On Wednesday, The Half Moon Bay Shooter Will Appear In Court
2 Are The Names Of The Deceased From Monterey Park Made Public?
On Wednesday, The Half Moon Bay Shooter Will Appear In Court
According to officials in a news briefing on Tuesday, Half Moon Bay is a close-knit community well-known for its ranching, farming, and fishing. With Monday's tragedy, that sense of safety and connection was destroyed. The fatal gunshots at Half Moon Bay were reported by authorities as possibly being a "workplace incident." According to KQED, seven people were shot at two different mushroom farms: Concord Farms and Mountain Mushroom Farm, where the alleged shooter worked.
According to authorities, the initial shooting happened at 2:22 PT. Just a few hours later, Chunli Zhao, the alleged gunman, was taken into custody at a sheriff's station. According to reports, the 67-year-old parked his automobile at the police station. He was taken into custody in the parking lot under threat of force after a deputy recognized his car from a description given earlier. Zhao's car had a semi-automatic weapon that had been legally purchased, according to the police. As of Tuesday, the motivation for the shootings remained a mystery, according to the officials. On Zhao, not much is known.
Are The Names Of The Deceased From Monterey Park Made Public?
Investigators revealed the full identities of the six men and five women who were killed as police continued to look for new information about the alleged shooter. Information about each of these people is beginning to surface as friends and family share the devastating news of their losses. The family of Mymy Nhan sent a statement on Twitter that read: "The Lunar New Year is off to a rocky start for us. We had no idea that her life would end so quickly."
"She frequented the dance studio in Monterey Park on the weekends for a very long time. She enjoyed doing it. Saturday, however, was sadly her last dance." In the horrific massacre at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, Tiffany Liou, whose husband appeared to be linked to Nhan, said that she "was the first person shot and murdered."
The family's description of her on a GoFundMe fundraising website was "beyond words kind She took good care of everyone in her vicinity. A devoted aunt, sister, daughter, and friend, she was also. She served as our staunchest supporter." Browse the most recent news stories on Talkxbox to keep up with the times.


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You're going to need to create a combined field of all the dimension(s) you want to do the Top N for and then build your set off that. So if you want the Top N to be based on product, country, and year, then that's what you'll use.
how do aggregate the individual % of the Top N, I used the default subtotal and while the total "Sales" is what I am expecting the "Percent of Total" is not as expected. As an example (see attached picture), the red circle should be 38.19%+29.43%+20.01%=87.24%.
in combining the fields "Country/Region", "YR(Order Date)" and "Item", I utilized the year of the order date. How could I carry something similar but need to do it in fiscal year (starting from July)? I duplicated a Order Date and set the Fiscal to start from July - Order Date (FY). If I try to create a calculated field (datename('year',[Order Date (FY)]), the result seems to be same as (datename('year',[Order Date]).
Thanks in advice for any advice.
The fiscal date that you set it only for display, not for calculated fields (unfortunately). So you're going to need to build your own field to set the year, such as: IF MONTH([Date]) >= 7 THEN YEAR([Date])+1 ELSE YEAR([Date]) END.
thanks for the code for the Fiscal year, it worked. BTW, any recommendation on how to fix issue (1), to aggregate the percentages correctly?
This is complicated and I'm not 100% sure can be done. Tableau's grand totals are computed as a separate computation of the given measure (% of total in this case) at a different level of aggregation, *not* an aggregation of what is displayed in the view, which is what you're asking for. This will return the same results in many cases, but not all. There's an Idea to have Tableau do what you want, btw: http://community.tableau.com/ideas/1232.
- The goal is to aggregate the % of total table calc in a different way in the subtotal row. This requires a technique that I've only done a few times (and haven't seen anyone else do it) and have yet to write up, I'm still learning the ins and outs of it and have yet to apply it to subtotals, which add a level of complexity.
- The % of total is filtered by a table calc. What's in the grand total and subtotal rows are a separate computation, that is performed in parallel with table calc filters. In other words, grand total and subtotal rows don't aren't affected by table calc filters. That means that we have to make all the table calcs work inside the subtotal rows and effectively implement the filters there. To do that (which I imagine can be done, but I'm not sure) requires increasing the level of detail in the view to have the necessarily granularity within the computation that happens within the subtotal row, and given that we're using a % of total table calc means that that Compute Using (which is already a bit complicated) will need very particular attention so that it continues to work in the regular rows.
Customizing totals of table calculations is like trying to do watch repair in the dark. We can't see the ins and outs of what Tableau is generating for the totals the way we can in a regular crosstab, we have to imagine it and that makes it quite a bit more difficult. Right now I'd say customizing subtotals of table calculations with advanced compute using is like trying to do watch repair in the dark while wearing rubber gloves. I can look at this, but I can't promise success and given my schedule would take a few days (at least).


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Ivy King
on January 11, 2019Posted in: Editorials, Featured, Television
(Warning: I make frequent use of the term "white women." Those with more delicate sensibilities, I do not advise reading further.)
*deep, long-suffering sigh*
Look. There were many, many, many reasons to enjoy Elseworlds, the Arrowverse crossover that aired in November. Every piece of gloriously charming comedy from the body swap between Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). Grant Gustin in the Green Arrow suit. Kara (Melissa Benoist) getting to bond with Kate Kane (Ruby Rose, in her small screen debut as Batwoman). Grant Gustin in the Green Arrow suit (y'all know good and damn well why I said it twice, but here's a reminder anyway). The mind-blowing teaser at the end that has me worried for my favourite SuperFriends.
And, truthfully, the comic-book fan in me loves crossovers, or at the very least the idea of them. I love watching all the heroes who don't usually speak get together, I love the comedy that comes from everyone catching up on what's gone on in their different cities, and I love anticipating which Big Bad they're going to draw from the comics. In theory, they're a comic-book fan's dream. And for many, they hit the sweet spot that Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and the rest of the bigwigs in charge of the Arrowverse were aiming for. Some fans – more, I think, than probably those higher-ups were expecting – were less than impressed, even before the crossover aired. Several bits of news caused them to lose faith in the crossover before they saw it, and they decided to air their grievances in a hashtag called #ElseworldsSoWhite – chief among them, that Iris West (Candice Patton) wasn't crossing over. Again.
The face Iris and I made, upon learning that she wouldn't be crossing over again.
There were other problems, of course, and even the matter of Iris – and more specifically, as we'll come to see, Patton – not crossing over once again is more complicated than it first appears. I was not surprised, as fans of The Flash who care in particular about Iris West have been known to campaign for her in this way, so much so that creators of the show and Patton herself have acknowledged the fact they've made an impact or at least have been noticed. However, upon scrolling through the hashtag, I quickly got annoyed. Not at the fans who were complaining about the mistreatment of minority characters and a Black woman in particular, but at the fans who, upon seeing this…decided to start complaining themselves.
What would discussions about representation be without a white man telling women of colour that their problems don't exist?
…or white women telling us about "actual racism"?
I don't think she's sorry, guys.
These are but a small sample of nonsense that people were putting into the hashtag. They were, literally, complaining about the complaining. They hadn't read the hashtag. They hadn't asked fans why they were upset. They hadn't even attempted to understand the problem. But they were mad. One was even taking the time to create a video about it! It was, to say the least, extremely irritating. Irritating that people were reducing complaints about mistreatment to "ship things." Irritating that people are still so uneducated about diversity and representation that they think it's as simple as having people of different ethnicities on screen. And irritating that as angry as they are about fans campaigning for fair treatment for characters that look like them, those same people are curiously silent on the very real harassment and abuse hurled at the people playing the characters. Which, of course, just so happen to mostly be women, women of colour especially.
#ElseworldsSoWhite isn't about ships, and it isn't about our favourite character. It's about a pattern of racism and exclusion on a network that continues to say that it is "open to all" while being anything but, in a franchise that insists on collecting diversity points while doing its level best to ignore anyone with too much melanin. And so the reaction to it, insisting that people are being dramatic and that they should simply sit down and take representation wherever we can get it even when it's problematic, is stupid.
So. We are going to talk about #ElseworldsSoWhite. We are going to give it context. We're going to talk about what it is and what it isn't. And we're going to talk about how the people complaining need to go sit down somewhere.
Like I said. I'm mad.
So let's talk about it.
Tags: arrow, dc, dctv, elseworlds, supergirl, the cw, the flash
Posted January 11, 2019 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely fantastic article and well worth the wait. Thank you for writing it.
Thanks Jade! Appreciate you.
Absolutely needed to be said, great article!
Posted January 13, 2019 at 3:08 AM
Hey, remember when Flash producers said it was "hard" to write 2 speedsters after Wally left when we now know that they were planning to bring in Nora a season later? (yes, I know Keiynan wanted to leave)
That excuse was obviously because Keiynan Lonsdale wanted time off and they couldn't come up with a better excuse.
"#ElseworldsSoWhite wasn't something that fans of Iris West cooked up in our evil Negro labs of anger, adorned in our all-powerful shipping goggles while we stirred our cauldrons full of fanfiction."
I loved this bit lmao
You once again so eloquently stated the whole truth and nothing but the truth sis. It's gotten so blatant that the Arrowverse showrunners at large don't see Iris as important as she should be via the comics that I even saw some people impartial to her say it didn't make sense for her to crossover, not only because she's Barry's wife but the leader of Team Flash and most of the action took place in Central City. I can't help but wonder if hashtags would be necessary if Iris was portrayed by a white actress. But I think we all know the answer to that one.
Also, lol at the buffoons listing all the other POCs not included to counter the hashtag thus proving our point.
I don't really know what to say at this point. I like the idea of crossovers, but I've always hated these ones because they're not inclusive at all. It's just one long ego stroke for Oliver and sometimes Barry.
Right? How stupid can you get?
I love this so much Ivy.
The only cross-over event that I've been excited about was Crisis on Earth X, even as problematic as that was. After the first part of this year's cross-over, I barely watched the rest, because I knew that it was about to be some BS that would just make me mad. I love Barry, and at one time I used to love Oliver, but the amount of screen time they got in comparison to Kara just got on my nerves.
The fact that once again Guggenheim and his band of misogynistic aholes didn't see fit to include Iris, when we had a new character in Lois Lane that literally had ALL the damned arcs made me mad af. And I'm somebody who LOVES Lois Lane. Love. Her. She has been one of my favourite comic book humans for decades, but I was still mad that she got so much screen time over an established character like Iris.
One of the things that was also glaring was how much Superman got to do on Supergirl's episode. But I guess that's par for the course over there with Kara being sidelined for any white man within a 200 mile radius.
Anyway, it was a fantastic read, thanks.
I liked the Flash part of the first one, hated the second, and the parts of the third with Barry and Kara. Loved the fourth until the end. Seeing as I hate Oliver, crossovers are very hard for me.
Guggenheim is just unspeakably bad. There are no other words. The fact that men routinely get more to do in the Supergirl episodes just says it all.
Girl. I'm so tired.
Thanks for your work, Ivy. It gives a detailed, eloquent, and evidence-based voice to the issues that seem intractable in the Arrowverse. Hopefully, Eric Wallace and the ending of "Arrow" will help with some of these problems.
Thank you! I hope so too 🙂
I saw on Tumblr that Marc Guggenheim will, once again, be in charge of the next crossover. I've tweeted to Eric Wallace asking him to prevent the underutilization of Iris and disrespect of West-Allen that Marc has shown for several years. I just hope that Eric can stand up for Iris and Candice so that she showcases her talents in all the episodes of the crossover and isn't relegated to just be window dressing or seen, but not active and heard in all parts of the story. At least there's no Felicity to eat up all the scenes or upstage Iris' big event, assuming Iris gets pregnant in the crossover. I'm hoping more of Candice's fans put some pressure on Eric and Marc to do better; some people are so oblivious to their own bigotry that only outsiders can shine a light on it.

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New York By the Numbers: Sales Totals Are Down; Guarantees, Not So Much
Colin Gleadell does some number crunching on the New York sales—and a little sleuthing.
On the number crunching side, Gleadell points out that the aggregate low estimate of this year's combined New York sales is "$1.35 billion, which would be a drop of 42.5 per cent" from last year's $2.35bn realized. That 40% drop has been fairly consistent with 2015's overall sales volume.
One common refrain to explain the drop has been the supposed absence of guarantees. Here Gleadell has done real yeoman's service pointing out that of the three houses,
Christie's, which owed its ascendancy in the market to extensive guarantee provisions, is now the most restrained with just 11 per cent of the minimum estimated value of its main Impressionist sale under guarantee, and 30 per cent of its contemporary art sale.
But uptown at Sotheby's there's been a renaissance of deal-making under Adam Chinn, the person who 'owns' the guarantee book now:
Sotheby's, which is seeking to gain majority market share, has organised guarantees of 46 per cent of the minimum estimated value of its main Impressionist sale, and 76 per cent of its main contemporary art sale.
Christie's has tightened the purse strings; Sotheby's is aggressively fronting money and then backstopping it with 'irrevocable bids.' Phillips has done much of the same while keeping the guarantee ratio steady:
At Phillips, […] the guarantee level is at 55.5 per cent, which is consistent with its past efforts to break into this market.
The use of guarantees is clearly evolving. In many ways, guarantees are returning to their original role but that will have to wait for another post in AMMpro. In the meantime, Gleadell isn't done.
Flagging some of the notable opportunistic sellers who are hoping to make strong profits, especially Peter Brant who has an important John Currin at Christie's and a Basquiat at Sotheby's, Gleadell also points to some who are trying to get out while they can:
There is, however, a whiff of hardship sales by Russian buyers, no longer the force in the market they once were, such as a late Chagall, replete with garlanded bridesmaid, violins and donkeys that was bought in 2007 for $6.9 million and is back with a $7 million estimate.
There are signs too of German selling – the unusual sight of works by German expressionists, Max Beckmann and Otto Mueller for sale in New York – to escape proposed restrictions on the export from Germany of valuable works over 50 years old.
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Business task force calls for heat support
A government business taskforce has become the latest body to call for support for heat to promote decentralised energy schemes.
The government should extend its support scheme for renewable electricity to cover heat, according to its own Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production.
The recommendation is in a report on promoting decentralised energy, issued by the taskforce in March.1 The task force, chaired by Johnson Matthey chief executive Neil Carson, formed in 2006 to make policy recommendations on how to lower the environmental impact of products and services (ENDS Report 374, p 6 ).
Distributed energy has a "key role to play in the shift to sustainable consumption and production", the report says. It defines distributed energy as renewable energy connected to local distribution networks and gas-fired combined heat and power schemes.
However, there are hurdles preventing business taking forward such schemes. These include "the complexity [of projects] for companies who don't see themselves as power firms", the difficulty of finding users for any energy generated, the high capital investment in systems, often with a payback period over three years, and low feed-in tariffs offered by energy suppliers. Technical and planning issues are raised as well.
Among ways to overcome this, the report mentions extending the Renewables Obligation to heat. "Fiscal measures that currently promote renewable electricity alone need to be modified to recognise [heating and cooling]," it says. "Extension of renewable obligation certificates to cover heat and, ultimately, the creation of a carbon reduction certificate will drive these efficiencies."
The task force is the latest body to make such a call, but importantly the first from within business. In February, the Business Department (BERR) issued a "call for evidence" on the subject some 30 months after its own Biomass Task Force had first told it to do so (ENDS Report 397, p 42 ).
Unfortunately, the task force's recommendation is lost somewhat among a plethora of other calls for policy changes in the report. None of the recommendations are prioritised or described in much detail, and several of them are already being dealt with either by BERR or energy regulator Ofgem.
For example, in a section on "grants and fiscal measures", it makes recommendations for everything from providing more grants for decentralised energy, "particularly to smaller business", to shifting the tax system to a carbon base.
Talking to individual businesses that are trying to invest in decentralised energy reveals the list of recommendations could be streamlined without making the need for change appear any less urgent. For example, brewer Scottish & Newcastle is to commission a 4.7MWe biomass-fired CHP plant at its Tadcaster brewery in Yorkshire by the summer. A unit of similar size will be commissioned at its Royal Brewery in Manchester by December. Both will be fuelled by a mix of spent grain from the brewing process and wood chip, providing 60% of each site's steam and nearly all of the sites' electricity.
Project manager Andrew McMurtrie's main message to government is the need for a guaranteed rate of support per MWh of generation, including new support for heat. "Anything like that would take away some of the uncertainties you currently have with the price of credits under the EUETS, the uncertainty of ROC banding and so on. The projects are difficult enough without those boundaries constantly changing."
The other major issues for Mr McMurtrie are the bureaucracy in the regulatory process, the time it takes to get decisions - up to six months for Environment Agency permits - and the different approaches electricity distribution companies are allowed to take with such projects. A project to install a CHP plant at Scottish & Newcastle's cider works in Hereford is now in doubt, he says, partly because of the local electricity distribution company's estimated £500,000 cost to connect the works to the grid. This is more than half again that asked for at the other sites.


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This is a short poem I wrote last autumn when I was remembering the wonderful work my Savior has done in me these last few years. Reading it again, almost half an year later, the words have begotten a fresh meaning due to my recent storm. May it encourage and remind others of the freedom that comes when we are set free from the chains that once bound us.
Chains of despair and depression.
Chains of fear and worry.
All broken by the power of Christ.
All no longer hold power over those who have set their eyes on the One who sets the captives free.
"The cross we carry is never so heavy as the chains from which we were freed."
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The Magnificent Trufflepigs review: an empty experience
In this review we talk about The Magnificent Trufflepigs, a game that chooses to use a romantic plot to complement the simulation of metal detecting
The Magnificent Trufflepigs was developed by Thunkd, who makes his own with this title debut on the market, and is distributed by AMC Games. It is a realistic simulation game, which reproduces the experience of metal detecting, however, what distinguishes it from several other titles apparent to this genre is the strong accent which places on plot.
Despite this unique feature, the gameplay minimale and tendentially repetitive make the title a partially successful experiment, certainly able to satisfy that slice of players who are looking for one certain type of experience, but definitely unappetizing for everyone else. Let's find out in this review why The Magnificent Trufflepigs fails to hit the mark.
Escape from the city
When starting The Magnificent Trufflepigs we immediately get to know Beth, One of the protagonist of the game. This is located on the farm where as a child she used to go with her father to devote herself to metal detecting. As can be seen from some calls he makes, the place has been sold and will soon be radically refurbished; before this happens, she intends to traverse its fields in search of hidden objects one last time.
Unable to get any of her friends involved in the venture, Beth decides to call Adam, an old flame of hers, and the latter agrees to join her. The tension between the two is palpable, also because - as Adam soon realizes - it is certainly not a coincidence that the girl decided to contact him again at that moment.
The storyline of the game continues and embraces the five days that the two dedicate to research. What they find will be different from their expectations and will lead Beth to question some moments from her past. The lengthy confrontations she will have with Adam will also lead to reconsider some life choices and, perhaps, wanting him to be part of her future again.
Head Down For The Fields - The Magnificent Trufflepigs Review
The game uses the point of view in first person and puts us in Adam's shoes. As mentioned in the first part of the review, The Magnificent Trufflepigs gameplay focuses on realistic simulation of the metal detecting experience. This implies that the main playful component of the title consists in crossing fields equipped with metal detectors to identify the possible presence of "treasures". In the (rather frequent) case where you find something, you will have to use shovel and shovel to unearth it; finally, when the object has been released, it will be possible take a picture of him to be sent via message to your research partner. If the find is important, she will contact us via Walkie Talkie.
The execution of these actions does not present particular criticalities and the player will take little time to get carried away with the system. This simplicity is even excessive, especially if one takes into consideration the fact that the search and excavation procedures represent the only truly playful elements of the title. In particular, the fact that these operations always take place in the same way considerably reduces the entertaining capacity of the game which, despite the relatively short duration, ends up being boring and repetitive.
On the other hand, it is not possible for us to think that behind this tendency to extreme simplicity there is a conscious choice of developers. Perhaps, the team was just aiming to make one specific experience, through which to convey serenity to the player, encourage him to calmly explore the setting and, finally, rather than chasing the achievements, to focus on the evolution of the relationship between the two protagonists.
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To make the hypothesis that the minimal gameplay is the result of a thoughtful choice more concrete, there is the detailed 3D graphics that the game proposes. Through it, you have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a bucolic and serene environment, which encourages exploration and, also thanks to a good sound sector, suggests a steady pace of play.
As the hours go by, however, one realizes a limitation of the setting: its being repetitive. There is no particularity that makes the individual scenarios stand out and consequently, despite the good technical realization, they lose their charm quite quickly. As in the case of gameplay, one gets the impression that it is exceeded in the search for simplicity.
So we come to talk about the only really complex element of the game: its plot. This is especially striking for the balance between romantic elements, undoubtedly central, and those mystery, which make it intriguing. Furthermore, the choice not to insert excessively dramatic passages gives originality and freshness to its development.
Unfortunately, the choice to carry on the story only through remote conversations and during the films limit engagement of the player. If the developers had more integrated gameplay in the narrative, the first would probably have benefited: the actions that the player is called to perform would have assumed a narrative value, which would at least partially compensate for their monotonous mechanics.
Having reached the conclusions of this review, we are still uncertain about the rating to be assigned The Magnificent Trufflepigs: it is a difficult game to evaluate, which does some specific things very well and which can also count on its own specific personality, undoubtedly fascinating.
In sight of this, however, our opinion is negative. This is because, in the opinion of the writer, the title is flawed in what is the fundamental element: the gameplay. The playful aspect should never be secondary within the economy of a video game and if, as in this case, you intend to use the story as the main driving force, you must be able to create an integrated game structure with it.
The Magnificent Trufflepigs was released on May 3, 2021 and is available for PC and Nintendo Switch. If you are interested in reading other reviews or if you want to stay updated on news regarding the world of video games, keep following us on techigames. You can buy this title and many others through Instant Gaming.
5 Repetitive
Well done graphics
Engaging storyline
Monotonous and repetitive gameplay
Setting devoid of personality
Story not integrated with the playful aspect
The Medium Review: It all starts with a dead girl ❯
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Cover to Cover: RESURRECTION ANNUAL 2008
Review by Matt C
RESURRECTION ANNUAL 2008
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
Art: Douglas Dabbs
Oni Press $3.50
I was coming close to dropping Resurrection. My initial enthusiasm for the series had all but petered out as the gaps between issues grew larger. The premise, the aftermath of an alien invasion, was brilliant, one of those how-come-nobody-did-this-before situations, but the momentum was lost once the delays started to become more noticeable (not helped by the fact that many Oni titles seem to arrive in the UK much later than their release date). You ask most readers of monthly books what their biggest bone of contention is and you'll doubtless find "late books" to be the most popular answer. Waiting around for months on end for the next instalment can cause bad feelings amongst fans, which in turn leads to bad word-of-mouth, which in turn can potentially harm sales of trade paperback version, a format that is often a lifesaver for low-selling books. I'm less likely to big up a book like Gutsville or Infinite Horizon to my trade-buying friends if my interest in those titles has evaporated due to lateness and generally forgetting what happened last issue. Obviously there are exceptions – some books will overcome lateness quibbles basically because they generate a certain level of devotion almost instantly (a recent example being Pax Romana) but for a series like Resurrection which, in its serial format, requires that the reader remember what's going on, delays don't do it any favours.
So it'd come to the point where I almost didn't pick up Resurrection Annual, but I'm really glad I took the plunge as it reignited my interest in the series with a superb semi-self-contained story that finishes off Book One of the title. What's that, you say? End of Book One? Seems to be the case, but more on that later.
This tale deals revolves around the ironically named Spock, an alien who's been kept prisoner by an uber-secret section of the CIA for a couple of decades: captured years before the invasion, he's still in captivity when he's people leave Earth. A drunken mishap enables him to escape, but what will happen when he stumbles across a group of survivors who would jump at any opportunity to unleash their built-up hatred of the "bugs"? As well as giving us further insight into the strange relationship between Spock and his captor, Judith McCreary (possibly the only person still aware of his existence), we get a chance to see how a group of people outside of the regular cast have coped with life under alien occupation. What Guggenheim does so well in Resurrection is give a convincing voice to a varied selection of people as it postulates their different reactions to the possible freedom of the Human Race. There are occasional bursts of histrionics but on the whole the dialogue and reactions ring true.
An aspect I've never been able to get behind fully is the art. Regular series illustrator David Dummer's work often lacks the definition required to connect emotionally with the reader, rendering some scenes a bit flatly. Often, but not always, and there is a sense of an artist still developing and steadily improving. This annual brings another unfamiliar name to my attention in the form of Douglas Dabbs, and while his approach is different than Dummer's, there's a similarity in style in there that makes him well suited to join the team.
So what's all this talk of an End to Book One?! Guggenheim takes the opportunity once the story's finished to announce the conclusion of Resurrection….. for now. Seems the book will be on a short hiatus to allow the creators to sort out the scheduling so that it can finally becomes a proper monthly series. On its return the plan is that the black and white pages will be a thing of the past as it relaunches as a full-colour comic. In the meantime a trade paperback will collect the first six issues plus the annual for the bargaintastic sum of $6!! Which will convert into English pounds as….. well, who knows what shape the exchange rate will be in by the time it's released but it'll still be a damn sight cheaper than I paid for it!
If that last paragraph sounded like I'm trying to sell this book to you, well that's because I am! Resurrection is a series that has the potential to take the reader into some very interesting and unexpected places as it deals with the political, social, religious and philosophical ramifications following the departure of an occupying alien force. This is a story that could run and run if given the support it needs to thrive, and even though I was wavering slightly for a minute, I'm now totally back on board with the series. Anyone tickled by the inventive premise would do well to keep their eyes peeled for when that TPB with it's customer-friendly price is released, and snap it up as soon as they can get their hands on it. I can't guarantee it'll be for everybody but it's certainly worth giving it a shot. 8/10
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Vanja said...
Yours was the only review of the annual I could find, and a very fine critical examination it was! Resurrection is a great series that just hasn't got the buzz it deserves... yet.
Here's a link to my review of the first six issues: http://splintercomics.blogspot.com/2008/09/resurrection.html


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IMPRESSIONS: ∀kashicforce
By Steve Baltimore / May 14th, 2019
∀kashicforce is one of the most unique and confusing games I've ever played. This is a puzzle / rhythm game with some fighting game controls thrown in for good measure. I did all of the tutorial missions and read the manual and I'm still not 100% sure if I'm playing this one correctly, but I'm going do the best I can to give you some impressions on how it plays. If anyone out there can explain this one better, hit me up in the comments.
At first glance you may mistake this game for some kinda of Tetris clone with techno music. Boy would you be about as far away from what this game is as you could be. As Enemy Blocks fall you will shoot them to destroy them. If you line up 4 or more blocks of the same type they will all be destroyed at the same time. This is called a "Trash Wipeout" and you will have to think quickly to set these up cause the blocks come down fast. The other type of blocks on screen are called Hindrance Blocks. These will take more than one shot to get rid of, are resistant to the "Trash Wipeout" and will take more than one shot or a special skill to remove.
As you remove blocks on the screen your Method Gauge will fill on the left of the screen. This will allow you to do some character specific special moves. You will have to key in the correct command, these are fighting game commands, and press the method button to pull this off. These can be offensive or defensive and really turn the tide of battle.
What I found very interesting was that you could spend your time destroying blocks on your own side to try and keep them from building up too much, or you can attack blocks on your opponents side in order to stick them with a bunch of Hindrance Blocks. Then use your skills to control the buildup on your side. The character you choose and the skills they have will play a huge role in the strategy you use.
∀kashicforce features several play modes. Channeling is story mode, Mission mode will halfway teach you the basics of playing the game and some Versus mode options. These include CPU, Local Mulitplayer, and Championship, which has a special ruleset. You can choose 3 different characters and play as each of them in turn. You will need to know what skills each one has very well to win in this mode.
While I had a hard time figuring out exactly how to play ∀kashicforce it is one of the more interesting titles I've played. It's very fast paced, has a fantastic OST and the visuals are quite pleasing to look at. I think casual fans of these types of games will be a bit overwhelmed, but if they find some friend to play with and learn together, I think a lot of fun could be had here at the low $12.99 asking price.
About Steve Baltimore
Steve started with oprainfall not long after the campaign moved from the IGN forums to Facebook. Ever since, he has been fighting to give all non-mainstream RPGs a fair voice. As the site admin, he will continue to do this and even show there is value in what some would deem "pure ecchi." He loves niche games and anime more than anything... well, except maybe Neptune.
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If there was a contest for political panderer-in-chief, Mitt Romney would win it with ease. No candidate has changed his stances on issues more frequent than the former Massachusetts governor. This tendency has earned him the dubious "flip flopper" tag.
The GOP frontrunner's pandering for votes got him into a bit of trouble Wednesday, when he was accused of making an insensitive comment towards America's poor in a CNN interview. Romney's opponents have quickly seized on the comment as evidence he is out of touch with average Americans.
In Romney's defense, the quote was taken completely out of context. The full remark clearly shows that Romney was not being disrespectful to the poor. The incident was simply a poor attempt by the Bain Capital's co-founder to pander to middle class voters. .
This whole episode does, however, expose some of Romney's biggest flaws as a candidate. When you aggressively pander to a certain group of people, you are likely to inadvertently marginalize other groups of people. This is likely what happened to Romney in that interview. The former Massachusetts governor was so determined to appeal to middle class voters in his comment that he gave an impression he doesn't care about the poor.
To be fair, almost all politicians pander for votes. But an experienced candidate will be more artful in explaining his or her positions. Romney, the businessman, has yet to master to this art. In today's 24-hour news cycle and political stereotypes, gaffes like this could have long-lasting implications.
Another thing Romney should be concerned with is his increasingly negative public image. If this remark was made by President Barack Obama, it would not have been a controversy. Romney's rivals and the Democrats have successfully stereotyped him as the rich-man candidate. Consequently, any slightly misstated remark made by Romney will automatically be construed as either insensitive to the poor or favoring Wall Street. The blowups over Romney's $10,000 bet and his "fire people" comment are perfect examples of this.
Unless Romney could drastically improve his communication skills and shed his image as a flip flopper, he will likely become the Republican Michael Dukakis.


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Q: What do you call a map of spaces which is weakly left orthogonal to all $n$-connected maps? $\let\op=\operatorname$In $\op{Set}$, we have an $(\op{Epi},\op{Mono})$ orthogonal factorization system. Strikingly, if we reverse the roles, we get the no-less-important $(\op{Mono},\op{Epi})$ weak factorization system.
In the $\infty$-category $\op{Spaces}$ of spaces, the most direct analog of the $(\op{Epi},\op{Mono})$ orthogonal factorization system on $\op{Set}$ is the $(\text{Effective Epi}, \op{Mono})$ orthogonal factorization system, but this is just the $(-1)$th in a whole tower: for each $n \in \mathbb Z_{\geq -2}$, we have an $(\text{$n$-connected}, \text{$n$-truncated})$ factorization system [1].
It seems that, just as in the analogous case in $\op{Set}$, one can take the left half of each these orthogonal factorization systems, and view it as the right half of a weak factorization system $(\mathcal L_n, \text{$n$-connected})$ [2]. To see this, one shows that the $n$-connected maps are precisely the maps which are weakly right orthogonal to the maps $\{S^k \to 1 \mid -1 \leq k \leq n\}$, and applies the small object argument to obtain factorizations.
In $\op{Set}$, we have the cute fact that the resulting weak factorization system $(\op{Mono},\op{Epi})$ is just the original orthogonal factorization system $(\op{Epi},\op{Mono})$ with the left and right classes swapped. This is not the case in $\op{Spaces}$, even when $n=-1$: a map $A \xrightarrow i B$ of spaces is weakly left orthogonal to the effective epimorphisms if and only if it is a coproduct inclusion $A \to A \amalg S$ where $S$ is discrete; this is more restrictive than being a monomorphism [3].  I don't know how to characterize the left class $\mathcal L_n$ for $n\geq 0$ as cleanly. In fact, unlike the case in $\op{Set}$, I don't think we have either containment $\mathcal L_n \subseteq \text{$n$-truncated}$ or $\text{$n$-truncated} \subseteq \mathcal L_n$ in general. This leads to my

Questions: Let $n \in \mathbb Z_{\geq -2}$.

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*Is there a good characterization of the class of maps $\mathcal L_n$, i.e., the maps of spaces which are weakly left orthogonal to the $n$-connected maps?

*What would be a good name for the maps of $\mathcal L_n$?

Note that by the small object argument, the maps of $\mathcal L_n$ are precisely the retracts of transfinite composites of cobase-changes of coproducts of the maps $\{S^k \to 1 \mid -1 \leq k \leq n\}$. So in some sense this is a quite explicit class of maps. By "characterization" I suppose I mean something which can be "checked directly" without having to find all the data of a construction of this form.

[1] Here a map is said to be $n$-truncated or $n$-connected if its fibers are all so. This convention is off by one from the most classical convention.
[2] Some care should be taken with the definition of a weak factorization system $\infty$-categorically: say that a morphism $A \xrightarrow i B$ is weakly orthogonal to a morphism $X \xrightarrow p Y$ if the map $\op{Hom}(B,X) \to \op{Hom}(B,Y) \times_{\op{Hom}(A,Y)} \op{Hom}(A,X)$ is an effective epimorphism. Spelled out, this says that if we have a commutative square—i.e., morphisms $A \xrightarrow u X$, $B \xrightarrow v Y$ along with a homotopy $\gamma: pu \sim vi$, then there exists a lift, i.e., $B \xrightarrow w X$ and homotopies $\alpha: wi \sim u$, $\beta: pw \sim v$ and (here's the only subtle part) a homotopy of homotopies from the composite $\beta \ast \alpha$ to $\gamma$. Then a weak factorization system is, as usual, a pair of classes of morphisms $(\mathcal L, \mathcal R)$ which are complements to each other with respect to weak orthogonality, such that every morphism admits a factorization as a morphism in $\mathcal L$ followed by a morphism in $\mathcal R$.
[3] Recall that a monomorphism of spaces is a coproduct inclusion $A \to A \amalg S$ where $S$ may be an arbitrary space.

A: This question was answered in the comments $\mathcal L_n$ comprises those maps which are retracts of relative $\leq n+1$-dimensional relative cell complexes.
Tom Goodwillie explains in the comments a cohomological characterization of $\mathcal L_n$ for sufficiently large $n$.

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Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Uber's Stock
Uber's Q1 2019 lacked all the luster of a high growth company. With mounting losses and break-even nowhere in sight, this stock is best avoided.
Michael Wiggins De Oliveira
Jun 4, 2019 10:44 AM EDT
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One of the most highly-anticipated tech IPOs in years, Uber (UBER) - Get Report , released its first quarterly earnings last week. So far, Uber's IPO has been disappointing and upon deeper analysis, an even worse investment case is presented.
Slowing Pace of Growth -- Already?
Uber's earnings results were marked by an abundance of new metrics that presume to reflect transparency over its operations, but in fact, do the opposite.
Uber is Jim Cramer's Real Money Stock of the Day
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Essentially, investors should focus in on what Uber calls its adjusted net revenue. This figure includes its Ridesharing and Uber Eats, as well as its Other Bets (which includes Freight, Logistics platform, and New mobility). Note that Uber's ATG group, its autonomous driving unit, is included within Research and Development, and thus it's not presented within its adjusted net revenue.
You will immediately notice that Uber is not the dynamic high-growth company which many thought it to be. Accordingly, there are plenty of mature tech companies with similar growth rates, such as Amazon (AMZN) - Get Report or even stronger growth rates, such as or Alphabet (GOOGL) - Get Report .
Economies Of Scale Will Bring Better Days
The idea of investing in Uber is that this high growth company would grow unencumbered and rapidly reach massive scale, such that its top-line growth would rapidly offset its losses. However, that narrative doesn't line up with the facts.
As a reminder, Uber's Core Platform Contribution Margin is made up predominantly of Ridesharing and Uber Eats and excludes general and administration, as well as, R&D and its ATG research (autonomous driving) and other technology programs. In other words, Uber uses this metric to define a profit margin solely derived from its Rideshare and Eats operations.
And even then, despite continuous top-line growth, Uber's Core Contribution Margin for the first quarter of 2019 was still negative 4%. Uber asserts that investors should not be overly concerned, and that its business model works well. The company highlighted that its top 5 countries had 54% Core Platform Contribution Margin in in Q1 2019. Furthermore, despite giving no formal guidance, starting with Q2 2019, its margin contribution is expected to improve and investors should continue to see sequential improvements throughout the year, according to the company.
Does Uber Actually Have A Moat?
Uber's story is that of a disruptor company which relies on scale and efficiency improvements to aggressively carve out market share from a total addressable market which Uber says could be as large as $12 trillion.
The reality is that Uber's main platform is its Ridesharing service, which accounts for just over 85% of its total core platform. And ultimately, the only way which Uber can succeed in growing its bottom line is through price increases.
Uber can adopt different strategies such as improving its drivers' productivity through lower insurance and ease of payment, but those are not likely to meaningfully drive passengers to opt for Uber's ecosystem versus that of a competitor's.
For example, Uber's Monthly Active Platform Consumers grew by 33% to 93 million in Q1 2019, compared with 43% growth in the same period a year ago. This slowing growth rate implies that despite its app's ease of use and convenience, passengers remain extremely price sensitive and just as satisfied with a competitor.
Valuation - No Edge
There is no question that investor appetite for Uber and the ride-hailing space, in general, is hot right now. Shares were only down slightly on Tuesday despite news coming out that the IRS is probing Uber's tax returns for 2013-2014, as a wave of analyst buy recommendations on Uber were released with the end of the quiet period.
But as the table reminds readers, Uber has yet to generate cash flows from operations. Nevertheless, investors are pricing the stock off its top-line in the hope that Uber will in the near-term generate vast amounts of cash.
Now, the irony is that highly cash generative Alphabet, with its Waymo project, could in time be viewed as a strong competitor to Uber. And, for now, Alphabet's stock is priced with approximately the same multiple as Uber, implying a vastly better potential investment as its revenue continues to grow faster than the supposedly high-growth Uber.
Despite hemorrhaging large sums of cash, investors continue to clamor for Uber. But readers should remember that putting hard earned cash into largely unproven companies is risky at best. And when such a company's stock already priced beyond perfection, there's even more reason to avoid it.
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Knee Jerk Reactions to Week 12: Patriots vs. Vikings
Jerry Thornton11/25/2022 2:50 PM
Things to consider while recognizing that our forebears didn't escape religious oppression, brave a treacherous ocean crossing, risk starvation, and carve out a foothold on the shore of a vast expanse of wilderness, just so 398 years later we still wouldn't know how to define a touchdown:
--I'm a big believer that the relativity of time is not just a theory; it's the law. I don't just mean in the Einsteinian sense about what e equals and what happens when you approach light speed. But that different times have different value. So for instance, Monday at 11am is not worth nearly as much as Saturday's 11am, and so on. And few times are as valuable as the day after Thanksgiving. I'm not only writing this from a fog that is equal parts lack of sleep, processed sugar, tryptophan and wine, I also have a son home from college. So I was determined to halfass this thing and get back to enjoying my day. Since I first stepped aboard this pirate ship in 2004, I've missed all of one KJR, and that was in 2008, so I think I'm entitled. Not every week needs to be bloody Led Zeppelin IV. Cut me some slack. But given the events of this game, I feel like it deserves at least a 3/4-assing. Maybe an 80%-assing. If it's not good enough for your liking, then take your complaint to Dave Portnoy. Maybe he'll fire me. Which would be bad, but it at least would spare me watching the guys from Scrubs make bedroom eyes with each other over a wireless company for the next month.
--Last night I finally figured out what this 2022 Patriots team is. It's a group that takes whatever your defining quality is, and amplifies it. Either good or bad, they turn you into an exaggerated version of yourself. Like the beggar woman from Beauty and the Beast who turned out to be a powerful enchantress and cursed everyone into whatever their major trait was. So the guy with a name like a light who carried a candlestick around became a candlestick. The pompous fussbudget with "cog" in his name became a clock. The maid became a featherduster, and so on. That's what the Patriots do to you. So for instance, the Jets have a good pass rush, and so they turn them into the '85 Bears. Zach Wilson has poor judgment, so they make him look like he's never seen a football defense before. Kirk Cousins is a fairly mobile quarterback with a talented receiver in Justin Jefferson, the Pats turn them into Randall Cunningham throwing to Randy Moss. And given that this power is never more on display then when they turn every running quarterback into Michael Vick and they've got Josh Allen coming up, they might want to spend the next week figuring out how to reverse the spell.
--And it goes both ways. Jonathan Jones has become a quality ballhawking cover corner, if somewhat limited. So last night he was at times extremely good and extremely overmatched. Facing the toughest assignment in the league, largely in man coverage, he was either brilliant, like the pass broken up in solo coverage on Jefferson to kill the Vikings second drive and the game's only turnover, when he lurked over the top of KJ Osborn's route from his spot at the numbers in a Cover-4 for the pick and return:
But then he lost Jefferson on a drag route crossing the goal line for Minnesota's first touchdown. Which was immediately proceeded and eventually followed with simply egregious facemask penalties. Jonathan Jones' night wasn't so much like that guy who either hits a home run or strikes out. It was more like a season I remember Jim Rice having where he either hit a moon shot into the upper deck, or grounded into a double play. There were moments of feasting, but it was mostly famine.
--You can at least understand Jonathan Jones' struggling. Drawing the Jefferson assignment (Note to self: Write the script for a reboot in which George and Weezy use the dry cleaner business as a front for their real jobs as trained government assassins. Working title: The Jefferson Assignment. Money in the bank.) is a tall order for him. Literally, given the size advantage he's giving away. But there's no one else Belichick could've put on Minnesota's - and the NFL's - WR1. The biggest mistake of the game by New England has no such excuse baked in. And that was Pierre Strong Jr. running into the kicker. In the 4th quarter. Of a tie game. Extending a drive. That ended with the eventual game-winner. Not that anyone would be in the mood to forgive him for being a rookie anyway, but even that wouldn't work as an excuse, since coaches don't wait until your second season to introduce their "Running into the Kicker: A Thing to be Avoided" lesson. It's not the Calculus that follows Algebra. It's right there on the syllabus they hand out on Day 1 of rookie camp. And you could see it coming, even before the snap, as he shifted from lining up opposite the gunner to tight to the formation and was selling out on the punt block. Afterward, he took responsibility and said he needs to learn from it. Let's see if he gets the chance. Chris Harper's Muff at Denver in 2015 was immediately followed by Chris Harper's passkey no longer working One Patriots Place. We lost a good man at Harper's Muff. I'm not sure Strong will survive, no matter what Darwin says. Despite his desire to learn, that was not so much "a Teachable Moment" as it was "an Unpardonable Sin."
--And there we have yet again, another example of a dominant trait becoming exaggerated. In this case, it's the 2022 Pats' proclivity for unforced errors and costly mental mistakes. For a franchise that has done these things less than anyone in the league for 22 years, this group has truly been an outlier. Dumbassery is no longer a bug with these guys, it's a feature. It's gone beyond an occasional vice. Or even a habit. It's an addiction. Jonathan Jones' facemasks. Strong's total brainshart. Hunter Henry ignoring the advice of everyone in New England yelling "Get out of bounds!" and cutting inside to pick up one meaningless extra yard, at the cost of one precious time out. Plus a neutral zone infraction, almost a Too Many Men in the Huddle, and all the various and sundry self-owns that have plagued this season of this franchise since preseason. It's who they are.
--Yet another exaggerated extreme: Special teams. They started out dominating Minnesota's units. Nick Folk is drawing the kickoff duty now that Jake Bailey is out. And with all his old man kicks dropping at the goal line, the coverage was phenomenal. With Marcus Jones, Jahlani Tavai, Jabrill Peppers and Brendan Schooler making stops short of the 25. But then they give up a return touchdown just as they were in a position to put the game out of reach. (More on that one momentarily.) And late in the game, when they absolutely needed to flip the field, they get a 29 yard punt. Michael Palardy is a rescue Belichick adopted out of the Punter Shelter, so I don't want to pin too much blame on him. The larger point is that the good guys are doing the things they could always count on the bad guys to do for two decades. Routinely
--The damned shame of all of this is these breakdowns cost them, not just their best offensive performance of the season, but the best game of Mac Jones' career to date. This is how I expected him to look all season back when he was doing That Trendy Dance - the one guys my age have to Google because trendy dances stop trending with you once you hit about 40 - at the Pro Bowl. He was decisive. Got the ball out before the Vikings rush could apply pressure. (As an aside: "Applying pressure with the Vikings Rush" is one of my signature maneuvers in the bedroom.) And it wasn't all dump offs and check downs and bottoms up (that last one doesn't mean anything, but I felt like the sentence needed a Rule of 3 and didn't have one). He took advantage of the clean pockets he was getting to drive the ball upfield with accuracy. Most notably this 9-route by DeVante Parker, who shook press coverage by Duke Shelley by first giving him a jab step to sell the slant, then getting free release by attacking his outside shoulder. Which Jones read and delivered a sniper round on target:
Credit Matt Patricia for keeping Minnesota off balance by breaking some of the under center runs/shotgun passes tendencies he'd fallen prey to. He mixed in enough handoffs out of gun and 5- or 7-step drops as to be less predictable than he'd been when he had opposing linebackers yelling out his calls before the snap. Right from the opening drive, which was their best possession of the season. And in doing so, took advantage of Jones' play action skills. On the touchdown the officials actually gave Henry credit for, he sold the fake to a defense that was buying it like it was Sam Bankman-Fried crypto, while Henry came out of a stance with a run block look and was completely unaccounted for. Three slipped tackles later he was putting them up by seven:
And Patricia finally got their screen game running the way we're accustomed to. Too many times this year these screens have been slow to develop. The linebackers and strong safeties have been flowing the intended receiver even before the ball is in the air. And he ends up like getting torn apart like the scarce toy on sale at a Walmart Doorbusters Sale. But some of these were executed to perfection. For instance, Rhamondre Stevenson following a wall of his interior linemen and receivers for 40 yards and some hope of tying this one up:
--Not uncoincidentally, the best game the offensive line has had all year led to Jones' best game. Make no mistake, this was a huge bounce back game from what has been the worst unit on the roster all season. All five - L to R Trent Brown, Cole Strange, James Ferentz, Michael Onwenu and Yodny Cajuste - played 100% of the snaps. Not that they were flawless. With the Pats at the Minnesota 30 facing a 3rd & 7 in a 4-down situation, Mac adjusted his protection, physically moved Stevenson like a chess piece to where he wanted him in blitz pickup, came under center to speak directly to Ferentz and went back to the gun with :01 on the play clock. Only to have Brown try to cut block Danielle Hunter and end up on the ground as Hunter killed the drive with a sack.
--But overall, this was what the Year 2 bounce was supposed to look like. And building off last week's impressive numbers against the Jets (three points notwithstanding), this is hopefully not the "Dead Cat Bounce" economists talk about, but true progress. Coordinator and quarterback finally figuring out what works and what needs to be scrapped.
--Maybe they can also figure out why Jakobi Meyers opted to hit the ground on the final completion with no time outs or what Nelson Agholor was seeing to make him opt to slow down and engage with Chandon Sullivan instead of running the flag route Jones was expecting:
But to be fair, when you're power ranking the plays that cost them the game, those one didn't crack the Top 20.
--This one is way up in that poll. Fresh off Strong committing rookie career suicide and Jefferson burning Jonathan Jones and Devin McCourty for 17 to get Minnesota into the red zone, they dialed up a deep vertical switch concept, designed to stress the back end of the coverage and create a rub in the middle:
The "replacement rules" for passing off receivers are complex and varied and my gravy-soaked brain can't pretend to understand them. But it appears from the animation that Jonathan Jones was supposed to sit underneath looking for digs and crosses, while Jack Jones was playing trail technique until the mesh point, then was supposed to stay to his side, while passing Jefferson off on McCourty and JoJones. Then again, Jalen Mills stayed with Adam Thielen the whole time, so maybe both corners were supposed to be in man. So my head might be firmly jammed all the way up my prison wallet on this one. It just looks like Jack Jones caught defending no one, and that ended up being ballgame.
--Now let's pay off that tease about the kick return touchdown. Because not only was McCourty blocked in the back, but Kyle Dugger was held. So clearly in fact, that Tony Dungy and Jason Garrett each caught it. And by no means were they looking for calls that would benefit the Patriots. Still, they shared a good laugh at it. But from where the rest of us were sitting, the non-calls were as funny as a promo for Young Rock.
--But those misses barely scratch the surface of the tip of the bad officiating iceberg that sank the Patriots ship. Going back to Henry's non-touchdown touchdown, I get that the rules are such that until you've gotten the ball home, waited three days to call it, go out with it again, ask it's parents for permission to marry it and pop the question, the officials always have the latitude to rule it an incompletion. But Henry's right hand never left the ball. He pinned it firmly against his shoulder with his fingers wrapped around it. And that's not my admitted bias talking:
And how do you interpret any rule in a way that allows for this?
On that same non-facemask facemask, Hunter Henry was pulled to the ground. Or as Garrett and Dungy put it, "got their feet tangled up." While also thinking the facemask Hunter got away with was a hoot. Dungy loves to wax nostalgic about how Belichick was such a kind mentor and how much he appreciates his tutelage. But under the surface, he still regards the man as he would a talking serpent.
--Still, NBC's worst sin was subjecting us to a heartfelt tribute to John Madden from Belichick. There was enough raw emotion going on between the holiday and the game to expect us to endure that level of soul-bearing. From one great to another. If I wanted my feelings on overload in my half-drunk stupor, I'd have put on the last 10 minutes of Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Nobody did pathos like the incomparable John Candy. Except Belichick.
--This Week's Applicable Movie Quote:
Adrian: "But it was Thanksgiving."
Rocky: "It was Thanksgiving."
Adrian: "It was Thanksgiving."
Rocky: "Yeah, to you. But to me, it's Thursday, right?"
-Rocky
--It's been estimated the original Vikings landed in Newfoundland in 1000. And if Leif Ericson had Justin Jefferson in his boat, he'd have made it to Malibu Beach by the spring of 1001.
--If I were a broadcasting legend like Madden - and by the grace of God I will be soon - my Thanksgiving gimmick wouldn't be the Turkducken or the six-legged bird. I'm a white meat man. So I'd go with the three-breasted turkey. And my catchphrase would be "I wish I had three hands." That's the kind of wholesome holiday family entertainment America needs.
--OK, so I'd consider that a lot more than a halfass effort. I'd say I gave you easily a cheek plus about 75% of the other. If that's still not enough, I don't know what to tell you. You should be eating leftovers and taking advantage of our incredible Black Friday sales anyway.
Holy cats, this ended up being almost 2,700 words. I can't help myself. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to bed. To dream of a world where Henry got that touchdown call.
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Religious scholars, activists demand recovery of occupied land around Bibi Pak Daman shrine
by Shahab Omer , (Last Updated July 30, 2020)
LAHORE: Religious scholars and social activists have expressed concern over the ongoing renovation at the holy shrine of Bibi Pak Daman, and have demanded that the authorities should recover the illegally occupied land around the premises.
They protested outside the Lahore Press Club and held a press conference to push forward their demands.
Dr Ehsanur Rehman the president of Hubullah Welfare Society, along with Allama Hafiz Kazim Raza Naqvi, the head of Quran and Ahl al-Bayt Mission, Allam Muhammad Hussain Akbar, the head of Munhaj-ul-Hussain, and others jointly briefed the media about the issue.
Dr Rehman said, "We strongly protest the ongoing construction of the holy shrine of Bibi Ruqayyah bint Ali (SA) by Punjab Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department with mala fide intention and ulterior motives."
He said that in 2010, Dr Asma Mamdot, the then MNA of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) passed a resolution for the construction of the holy shrine, and the area was specified to be 72 kanals. The said project was approved for 135 kanals of land by the Punjab and federal government and funds were allocated for PC1 of the first phase of 35 kanals, and the design of the project was made by renowned architect Syed Hassan Raza, he added.
Dr Rehman said that with the connivance of corrupt officials of the Auqaf Department and some political figures, the commercial and residential plots of the holy shrine are still under the illegal occupation of different people. "Now the Auqaf Department has appointed Nayyar Ali Dada as the architect for a new design without any logical reason and has shelved the previously-approved design of Syed Hassan Raza," he added.
He said that the efforts for expansion of the holy shrine were sabotaged for 14 years and replaced by a mini project on the existing insufficient area to white wash the issue for corrupt motives. He added that the design by Nayyar Ali Dada is not only unimpressive but it also appears like a Hindu temple, whereas the design of Syed Hassan Raza is eye-catching and attracts the hearts of people. He further said that Nayyar Ali Dada's design reduces the area of the holy shrine and does not even cover the holy graves and is too small in terms of capacity to cater to the needs of millions of devotees who visit the holy shrine every year.
"When approved projects exist, then why are they starting a new design and project? In view of the above, the Shia and Sunni sects altogether reject and disapprove the ongoing construction of the holy shrine and the demand the construction of the first phase of 35 kanals, in addition to the over 72 kanals which take the total area to 135 kanals, as approved by the Punjab Assembly in 2010," Dr Rehman said.
He said that all Shias and Sunnis request the prime minister and Punjab chief minister to personally intervene at the earliest to stop the renovation of the holy shrine, warning that failure to do so would prompt them to protest on roads all across Pakistan.
Later, talking to Pakistan Today, former MNA Asma Mamdot said that according to revenue records, the land of the holy shrine was more than 135 kanals. "We tried our best to resolve this issue but corrupt officials and malicious rulers could not solve this problem and this is why I left the PML-N. The prime minister personally wants this issue to be resolved and he is fully aware of the importance of the holy shrine but in the meantime, some people are deliberately misleading him. We do not accept Nayyar Ali Dada's design," she said. "The prime minister himself should investigate the matter and the land of the holy shrine should be recovered and its renovation should be in accordance with the previously-approved design."
The writer is a member of the staff. He can be reached on Twitter: @shahab_omer, and on email: [email protected]
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The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has initiated a six-month investigation of an application by Avista Utilities to increase rates of its Idaho electric customers by an average 3.7 percent and its natural gas customers an average 2.7 percent. Avista serves about 122,500 electric customers and 74,200 natural gas customers in northern Idaho.
Avista applied for the rate increase on July 5. The commission suspended the requested effective date of August 5 for up to six months to allow time for the commission's staff of auditors, engineers and attorneys to thoroughly review the company's application. It also set a deadline of July 28 for parties who want to intervene in the case to present evidence, cross-examine witnesses and participate in settlement discussions. Customer comment deadlines, workshops and hearings will be announced at a later date. To date, parties that have intervened in the case include Clearwater Paper, the Idaho Conservation League and the Community Action Partnership Association of Idaho, which represents primarily customers on low- and fixed-incomes.
Despite requests from customers to reject the application, state law prohibits the commission from arbitrarily refusing to consider utility rate increase requests without first examining the evidence. State statutes require that rate requests be considered to determine whether the expenses the utility seeks to recover through customer rates were needed to serve customers and if they were prudently incurred. The commission may accept, reject or modify the company's request. When it denies expense recovery it must be able to legally demonstrate why the expenses were not needed to serve customers or were not prudently incurred. All commission decisions can be appealed to the state Supreme Court by the utility, intervenors or customers.
Avista is seeking a $9 million increase to its annual revenue requirement to operate the electric side of the company and a $1.9 million added revenue requirement on the gas side.
If the request were granted in full, the bill of a customer who uses the company's average of 956 kilowatt-hours per month would increase from $83.81 per month to $86.87. That includes a proposed 50-cent increase in the customer charge from $5 to $5.50 per month. The bill of a natural gas customer who uses the company average of 62 therms per month would increase from $60.76 to $62.91. That includes a proposed 50-cent increase in the customer service charge from $4 to $4.50 per month.
Avista is asking the commission to approve an overall rate of return of 8.49 percent and a return on equity of 10.9 percent.
Customers should be aware that their electric rates will increase by about 3.9 percent and gas rates by 0.72 percent on Oct. 1 of this year, in what will be the second-year payment on a settlement to Avista's 2010 general rate case that increased electric rates 9.25 percent overall and gas rates 1.9 percent. That increase was spread over three years to mitigate its impact on customers.
About 90 percent of Avista's requested electric increase is due to net plant investment, according to the company's application. Capital expenditures of about $482 million are planned for 2011-12 to account for customer growth and investment in generation upgrades and distribution and transmission facilities. Avista has upgraded or plans to upgrade four of the five generation units at the Noxon Rapids hydroelectric facility by May 2012. Capital additions are also planned at the Kettle Falls biomass plant, the Colstrip coal plant and the Coyote Springs II natural gas plant.
On the gas side, the proposed increase is not related to changes in natural gas prices, which are accounted for in the annual Purchased Gas Cost Adjustment (PGA), but to fixed costs of providing natural gas such as operations and maintenance and plant investment.
Avista CEO Scott Morris said the utility has a legal obligation to provide safe and reliable service to every customer who requests electric or natural gas service. "When new customers want service, we must hook them up, even if the cost to serve those customers results in increased costs to all other customers," Morris said in written testimony provided to the commission.
Morris' testimony, along with that from other company officials, can be accessed on the commission's Web site. As the case progresses, testimony from commission staff and intervenors and customer comments will be added. The Web site is www.puc.idaho.gov. Click on the electric icon, then on "Open Electric Cases," and scroll down to Case No. AVU-E-11-01. For the gas case, click on the gas icon, then on "Open Gas Cases," and scroll down to Case No. AVU-G-11-01.


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Who Definition of Young
Today, there are 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24, representing 16 per cent of the world`s population. By 2030 – the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which make up the 2030 Agenda – the number of young people is expected to increase by 7% to nearly 1.3 billion. The importance of focusing political attention on young adults has become increasingly evident. One of the objectives of this report is to consolidate information on these efforts and to encourage other federal organizations to undertake similar initiatives. The Committee`s work is part of a rich intellectual and scientific tradition of understanding and studying the evolution of trajectories over the course of life, as described below. In addition, several recent federal initiatives reflect emerging efforts to focus research and policy development on the diverse skills, vulnerabilities and needs of young adults (see Text box 1-2). This report aims to build on these efforts, with a particular focus on the health and well-being of young adults. Description. An ad hoc committee will conduct a study and prepare a report on the state of science and policies relevant to the life course of young adults (approximately 18-26 years), as well as their transitions from adolescence (early (more…) The Committee faced several challenges in deciding how to comply with such a broad charge (see Box 1-1). First, the prosecution demanded a review of "prior art. relevant to the life course of young adults." A wide-angle lens was needed to synthesize knowledge and draw broad conclusions about the health and well-being of the entire young adult population. We have attempted to achieve this in Chapter 2, which provides a general overview of the complex transition from adolescence to early adulthood.
At the same time, the prosecution called for concrete recommendations for action in the "policy and programmatic areas most likely" to influence the lives of young adults. To this end, we have exercised our collective discretion by selecting several areas that should be examined in depth later in the report. The vast majority of young people live in developing countries: According to the United Nations, about 85% of the world`s 15-24 year olds live in developing countries, and by 2025, this figure is expected to rise to 89.5%. Moreover, these majorities are extremely diverse: some live in rural areas, but many inhabit the crowded metropolises of India, Mongolia and other parts of Asia and South America, some traditionally live in tribal societies, while others participate in global youth culture in ghetto contexts. [50] For example, the data sources used in the Healthy People 2020 core indicators for adolescent and young adult health use the following age groups for young adults: 18-24, 18-21, 22-24, 20-24 and 21-24 (HHS, 2012). Many young people in developing countries are affected by poverty, some suffer from famine and lack of clean water, while involvement in armed conflict is common. Health problems are widespread, particularly because of the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in some regions. The United Nations estimates that 200 million young people live in poverty, 130 million are illiterate and 10 million are living with HIV/AIDS. [50] The United Nations Programme on Youth of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), which serves as the focal point for youth at the United Nations, raises awareness of the global situation of youth; promotes their rights and aspirations; and contributes to increasing their participation in decision-making as a means of achieving peace and development.
DESA coordinates the participation of youth delegates in the General Assembly and the ECOSOC system, in which governments regularly include youth in their official delegations. Learn more about the state of the world`s youth. In keeping with this change in social role, the normal retirement age is 66 in the United States and 65 in Canada, both gradually increasing to 67. In 2013, less than 5% of the population was over the age of 65, a figure that is expected to double by 2050. Although there is still no specific limit to the definition of age and it is different in each country, at the moment there is agreement that 65 is still a young age. The choice of tone and accent has been a constant theme in the Committee`s deliberations since the beginning of the study. It is inevitable that a policy-focused discussion about the health, safety and well-being of each population will tend to focus on the left end of the distribution (to young adults with higher needs) and the potential value of interventions, rather than those who are more successful and do not need interventions to stay on track. However, this tendency to focus on the negative has often been countered by reminders that the moment of early adulthood is also a time when even the most disadvantaged youth are resilient and many young people achieve remarkable results and demonstrate extraordinary capacity for creative insight and innovation. That said, this report tends to focus on areas where opportunities for a healthy productive future are now being wasted and where support and protection are most needed to help young adults lead healthy and productive lives and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.
This report defines young adults as persons between the ages of approximately 18 and 26 and focuses on this age group. Recognizing the continuity of human development and the fact that some people take on tasks typical for "young adults" at slightly younger and slightly older ages, the report also takes into account transitions from adolescence (from about 16 years old) to full adulthood (up to about 30 years old). There are no definitive reasons to choose these specific limits and it will sometimes be useful to adjust the age period to take into account specific considerations in a particular policy context. However, in order to promote consistency in data analysis across all areas of research and policy, the Committee, after careful consideration, has reached the 18 to 26 age group. The choice of 18 as the lower limit of early adulthood is conventional from a societal perspective – it is the "age of majority", the time when individuals are legally considered adults not only in this country, but also in many other countries around the world. The choice of 26 as the upper limit is less clear. From a biological and societal perspective, there is no convincing evidence of 26 versus 24, 25, 27 or 28. The selection of the 26 members is mainly based on social considerations. Based on the data reviewed in Chapter 2, section 26 (up to 27th birthday) indicates a time when a large proportion of young adults have completed some of the transitions typically associated with adulthood and become adults in society. Many current data sources use 24 as the upper bound,4 which seems to underestimate the length of this transition period for most young adults. In addition, it should be noted that the 26th birthday is the age used in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to mark the time when young adults are no longer covered by a parent`s health insurance – the most important policy to date to recognize the special needs of young adults during this transition period.
Education is a fundamental right for young people everywhere. Sustainable Development Goal 4 calls for inclusive and equitable quality education and the promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all. To achieve this, concerted efforts are needed to ensure that young women and men have access to free, equitable and quality education and targeted training opportunities. Recent statistics suggest that there are deep global inequalities in education, making universal secondary education a low aspiration for many, especially in the poorest countries. Ensuring access to inclusive and equitable quality education is crucial for a successful transition to the labour market and decent work, and is essential to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals. Quality primary and secondary education should be complemented by affordable technical, vocational and higher education that equips young people with the skills needed for employment and entrepreneurship. On 11 November 2020, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved a project to raise the age limit for young people aged 30-35 (now the range is 14-35). [11] Globalisation and transnational flows have a significant impact on sexual relations, identities and subjectivities. As part of an increasingly globalized world order under diminishing Western domination, within the framework of ideologies of modernity, civilization and social betterment programs, discourses on population control, "safe sex" and "sexual rights." [47] Evidence-based sexuality education programs are the cornerstone of reducing adolescent sexual risk behaviours and promoting sexual health. In addition to providing accurate information on the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases or sexually transmitted diseases and early pregnancy, these programs strengthen life skills for interpersonal communication and decision-making. These programmes are most often implemented in schools that reach large numbers of young people in areas with high enrolment.
However, since not all young people go to school, sex education programmes have also been implemented in clinics, juvenile detention centres and youth-oriented community institutions.
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The exhibition of young Russian photographers "Extended memory" will take place in non-commercial gallery aff in Berlin from 13 May to 5 June 2016.
The exhibition presents some of the most important and interesting positions in young Russian photography of today: Egor Rogalev, Anya Schiller, Alexander Sedelnikov, Yulia Spiridonova, Anastasia Tailakova and Irina Yulieva. This is the first notable group exhibition of Russian emerging photographers in Germany.
"The images are characterized by an attempt to encapsulate permanent presence and flashbacks simultaneously. On the one hand we can see the factuality of the photographic medium placed within a framework, and on the other we realize that fragments are woven together manipulatively to become more than the subject matter. The series creates fictional stories with a sense of destiny and real consequence choreographing miracles. The exhibition shows a variety of juxtapositions and different contexts placed together to remember or perhaps to forget things".
Exhibition is organized in cooperation with FotoDepartament.


The Merritt Centennials have made their first trade of 2009, four days before the January 10th trade deadline.
The Cents acquired 18-year-old forward Scott Jacklin and 19-year-old defenceman Jimmy Geerin from Cowichan Valley in exchange for 17-year-old defenceman Curtis Gedig.
Jacklin and Geerin have 17 and 16 points respectively on the season and Geerin becomes the Cents top scoring defenceman, with four more points than Brad Bourke.
Gedig is a good kid and a very solid defenceman. He battled an ankle injury earlier this season, but definitely has the ability to put points up on the board. He's a strong enough skater that he responsible defensively as well. There's a reason why he was so heavily scouted by WHL teams during the summer. I certainly wish Digger all the best in Duncan.
As for Geerin, I can only remember him briefly from his days with Trail and Penticton last season and he seemed to be a solid two-way D-man that was a thorn in the side of the Centennials. He was part of the trade in December 2007 that saw Nathan Westover go from the Smoke Eaters to the Vees. I don't know much about Jacklin, but looking at his stats, it appears that he's a small, skilled forward that has the potential to put points on the board. This season he's been more of a set-up man with four goals and thirteen assists, but his thirteen goals as a rookie last season show that there's some sniper ability. The Kimberley product had 67 points in 52 games with the KIJHL's Columbia Valley Rockies during the 2006-07 season.
Unless either is part of another trade, I would expect both to make their Centennials debut Friday in Vernon.
The Cents are currently at 22 players on their roster, but I'm not aware of how many player cards they have left, meaning that there could still be more trades to come.


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