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Bass lifts Central Michigan to 63-61 upset win over Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Reggie Bass drilled a 3-pointer with 11 seconds left and Central Michigan knocked off in-state rival Michigan 63-61 in the final non-conference game for both schools on Thursday night.
The teams met for the first time in five years. Michigan is 22-4 all-time against the Chippewas, but Central Michigan now has won three of seven meetings since 2002.
Jesse Zarzuela's 3-pointer with 16:14 left to play put Central Michigan in front, 36-35, and the Chippewas played with the lead for most of the remainder of the game. Dug McDaniel tied the game at 60-60 on two free throws with 3:14 left and Hunter Dickinson put the Wolverines in front with a free throw with 2:27 left, but Jett Howard missed a 3-pointer with 35 seconds left and Kobe Bufkin missed from long distance with 4 seconds left after Bass connected to give CMU the lead.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - DECEMBER 29: Reggie Bass #1 of the Central Michigan Chippewas attempts a shot after getting past Dug McDaniel #0 of the Michigan Wolverines during the first half of a college basketball game at Crisler Arena on December 29, 2022
Central Michigan has struggled with injuries throughout its non-conference schedule and played its eighth game without preseason All-Mid-American Conference point guard Kevin Miller. The victory was the team's first in seven games against a Division I opponent without its leading scorer.
Zarzuela led Central Michigan (5-8) with 19 points and six rebounds. Bass hit 4 of 11 from beyond the arc and contributed 16 points and seven rebounds. Brian Taylor added 12 points, four rebounds and three assists. The Chippewas held a 44-32 advantage on the boards and pulled down 17 caroms off the offensive glass.
Bufkin led Michigan (7-5) with 16 points. Dickinson knocked down 7 of 10 from the free-throw line and added 13 points. Howard hit 3 of 11 from distance and contributed 12 points, while McDaniel finished with 10 points and four assists.
Michigan opens Big Ten Conference play when it plays host to Maryland on New Year's Day.
Central Michigan opens MAC play at home Wednesday against Miami (OH).
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'Like a bomb went off': 2 drivers die in head-on collision in Macomb County
Michigan man accused of murdering, dismembering girlfriend then sexually assaulting cellmate who told on him

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Home Sponsored CEO of C.P. Group Receives Honoree Award at 'The World's Most Ethical...
CEO of C.P. Group Receives Honoree Award at 'The World's Most Ethical Companies 2021' Gala Hosted by Ethisphere Institute
Charoen Pokphand Group (C.P. Group), represented by Mr. Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Executive Officer, received the "World's Most Ethical Companies 2021" award from Ethisphere Insitute, the global institution for evaluating ethical business standards at the Virtual WME Honoree Gala 2021. Ethisphere had announced the results of their selection of the world's most ethical companies at the end of February.
The event was attended by top executives from 22 countries around the world such as Kellogg, LinkedIn, Sony, L'OREAL, Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Prudential. The event was hosted privately online due to COVID-19 to congratulate and provide a world-class virtual experience.
Mr. Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Executive Office of C.P. Group, was named 1 of 6 CEOs from the World's Most Ethical Companies this year to share the organization's experiences in conducting business ethically during the CEO Highlight session with Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies, Jo Ann Jenkins CEO of AARP, Halsey Cook Jr., CEO of Milliken, Julie Sweet CEO of Accenture and Mr. Pakit Iamopas, Chief Executive Officer, DTGO Corporation Company Limited.
Sharing the organization's experiences on the Virtual WME Honoree Gala 2021 stage, Mr. Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Executive Officer of C.P. Group stated that the company today has been able to grow with more than 400,000 employees, was due to a very strong culture of ethical values.
Out of the six cultural values that we have, two of them directly address ethical values. The first cultural value is so-called "The 3 Benefits Principle" and that is everywhere we invest, in whatever country we invest, the country has to benefit first, followed by benefits to the people, and the company would then be the last to benefit. This is the heart of what makes the Group's business grow sustainably.
Furthermore, C.P. Group is committed to the values of honesty and integrity, which is the cornerstone of conducting business, that has gained trust and credibility with our business partners and stakeholders from all sectors. The Group will continue to operate with social responsibility to create sustainable business growth.
"With this recognition from Ethisphere Institution, we are deeply appreciated, and actually are deeply motivated to do more. Being an ethical company doesn't mean that you cannot make mistakes, we may make mistakes, but we learn from our mistakes, not to make them again. C.P. Group will continue to thrive to become a better company and we will never stop our efforts in making this company sustainable through ethical principles. Lastly, I would like to say thank you to Ethisphere Institution, in giving us this recognition. It really means a lot, not only to myself as a CEO of the company but also to all of our 400,000 employees who have been a major part in driving this throughout the company", said the CEO of C.P. Group.
Timothy Erblich, Chief Executive Officer of the Ethisphere Institute, said the business sector is a vital force in helping to provide solutions to various social and environmental problems through business processes. To conduct business sustainably with consideration of environment, society and good governance. (Environment, Social and Governance: ESG) is the power to help propel the world better, Ethisphere is confident that the proud work of all 135 companies from around the world is considered to be the most ethical in the world. It will inspire many businesses around the world to follow. Businesses should turn their focus to ESG even more.
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from validate_app import validateApp
import os
from distutils import spawn
import sys
from parse_files import parseOutHTseq, bringTogether
from bashSub import bashSub

def checkPreprocessApplications():
    applications = ["kmer_filter"]
    source = ["http://catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/stacks/"]
    i = 0

    for app in applications:
        if spawn.find_executable(app) is None:
            sys.stderr.write("It doesn't look like you have app - " + app + "\n")
            sys.stderr.write("You can download it here - " +  source[i] + "\n")
            exit(0)
        else:
            sys.stderr.write(app + " found\n")
            i += 1

def returnReads(dictSampleSeqFiles):
    SE = ""
    PE1 = ""
    PE2 = ""

    # data struct
    # { (sampleKey, seqKey) : [[SE], [SE], [PE1, PE2], [PE1, PE2]] }
    # diving into each of the sub lists in the dictionary value key
    for e in dictSampleSeqFiles:
        # if sublist only has one elment then it is SE read
        if len(e) == 1:
            if SE == "":
                SE = e[0]
            else:
                SE += "," + e[0]

        else:
            if PE1 == "":
                PE1 = e[0]
                PE2 = e[1]
            else:
                PE1 += "," + e[0]
                PE2 += "," + e[1]

    return [SE, PE1, PE2]

def check_dir(Dir):

    if not os.path.exists(Dir):
        os.mkdir(Dir)

class kmerFilterCMD:

    def __init__(self):
        self.metaDataFolder = "MetaData"

    def index(self, ref):
        if not os.path.exists(ref):
            print "Would you mind adding a gtf file? (-R) Thank you."
            exit(1)

    def execute(self, args):
        time =  0
        checkPreprocessApplications();
        logFiles = []

        # checkPreprocessApplications()
        validate = validateApp()
        validate.setValidation(True)
        dictSampleSeqFiles = validate.validateSampleSheet(args.readFolder, args.kmerFolder, args.samplesFile, args.force, True)

        for keys in dictSampleSeqFiles.keys():
            check_dir(args.kmerFolder)
            check_dir(keys[1])
            terminal = []
            #countFile = os.path.join(keys[1], keys[0].split("/")[-1]) + ".counts"

            if (len(dictSampleSeqFiles[keys][0]) == 3):
                terminal.append(bashSub("kmer_filter", dictSampleSeqFiles[keys][0], ['-1', '-2', '-f'], "--normalize " + args.depth + " --k_len " + args.k_len + ' -o ' + keys[1] , ''))
            elif (len(dictSampleSeqFiles[keys][0]) == 2):
                terminal.append(bashSub("kmer_filter", dictSampleSeqFiles[keys][0], ['-1', '-2'], "--normalize " + args.depth + " --k_len " + args.k_len + ' -o ' + keys[1] , ''))

            print terminal[-1].getCommand()
            terminal[-1].runCmd("")
            sys.stderr.flush()
            #time += runSortByName.returnTime() + runView.returnTime() + htseqCmd.returnTime()
            #logFiles.append(parseOutHTseq(keys[1], keys[1].split("/")[-1]))

        #bringTogether(logFiles, os.path.join(args.finalDir, "Counts_Summary.log"))

        print "Total amount of seconds to run all samples"
        print "Seconds: " + str(time)

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Finished the 2010 Buller Gorge Half Marathon Run in 02:02:17 in M4049 class!
He came 113th in class and 568th overall!
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Q: What to filter out if making world map from OpenStreetMap data? I'm making a world pin map, high resolution, high detail map.
I've downloaded the planet-latest and played around with it. Before importing the file into a database I need to filter out nodes/objects so that it fits on my harddrive.
I am a bit lost as to what tags can I remove to still be able to make a good world map.
I've been playing around with osmfilter and osmconvert.
Here's an example of how many tags are in the dataset.
  340712803 building
  195127703 source
  145411170 highway
   87781369 addr:housenumber
   81280839 addr:street
   68157172 name
   64141428 addr:city
   58872520 addr:postcode
   35372957 natural
   26512596 addr:country
   25334436 surface
   25106849 source:date
   24669992 landuse
   18837161 power
   16953011 waterway

I'm pretty sure I can remove building, but I have a hard time figuring out what is safe to remove.

A: It is not so easy to answer your question when we don't know exactly how your map should look like, or what is your detailed usecase.
But what about NOT asking what data shouls be removed, but asking yourself what data to KEEP before proceeding?
See the --keep parameter of osmfilter!
So why not ask yourself:
Do you need streets and highways?
Same for railway infrastructure?
you need landuse data?
and waterbodies and coastlines?
Boundary lines between states/countries?
And what rendering engine do you want to use?

A: All common tags are documented in the OSM Wiki.

*

*Do you want to show buildings in your map? If not, drop all building
tags.

*You can safely drop the source tags since they are not useful for rendering.

*You will very likely need roads, i.e. highway tags.

*Do you want to render addresses? If not, drop addr:housenumber, addr:street, addr:city, addr:postcode, addr:country etc.

*You will very likely want to keep names (on roads, POIs, rivers, buildings, ...).

*The natural key is used for woods, grass, water, coastlines, ...

*You can drop surface except if you want to render the specific surface of roads in different styles.

*...

It might also help to take a look at taginfo for determining the most common keys and most common values for a key, e.g. for natural=*.

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We have entered the peak of the hurricane season. Right now, you can to turn on the TV and see a weather person pointing to some radar blob down in the Caribbean and making two basic meteorological points.
We could all be killed.
Yes, hurricane season is an exciting time to be in Florida. If you're new to the area, you're probably wondering what you need to do to prepare for the possibility that we'll get hit by "the big one."
Buy enough food and bottled water to last your family for at least three days.
Put these supplies into your car.
Drive to Nebraska and remain there until Halloween.
It is located in Wisconsin.
Plywood shutters: The advantage is that, because you make them yourself, they're cheap.
As the hurricane approaches, check your yard for movable objects like barbecue grills, planters, patio furniture, visiting relatives, etc... You should, as a precaution, throw these items into your swimming pool (if you don't have a swimming pool, you should have one built immediately). Otherwise, the hurricane winds will turn these objects into deadly missiles.
If you live in a low-lying area, you should have an evacuation route planned out. (To determine whether you live in a low-lying area, look at your driver's license; if it says "Florida," you live in a low-lying area). The purpose of having an evacuation route is to avoid being trapped in your home when a major storm hits. Instead, you will be trapped in a gigantic traffic jam several miles from your home, along with two hundred thousand other evacuees. So, as a bonus, you will not be lonely.
23 flashlights. At least $167 worth of batteries that turn out, when the power goes off, to be the wrong size for the flashlights.
Isn't it great living in Paradise?


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On the last issue of Les Echos, one of the most important French economics and finance newspaper, Jean – Francis Pecresse shares his opinion on T-OINOS:
"Between Andros and Mykonos, in a legendary landscape, the rebirth of a millennial vineyard. A Homeric adventure.
Here, millions of years ago, gods and giants have fought a battle, throwing granite balls, shaped with their hands like human children do with soft snow. At more than four hundred meters above sea level, in its northern part, Tinos, island of the Cyclades, sister of Andros and Mykonos, culminates in a landscape coming completely out of mythology. Like fallen meteorites, from a cosmic rain, thousands of blocks of stone, granite and schist, litter an arid plateau where nothing grows, except the vine, plant of the extreme.
70,000 PLANTS OF WHITE ASSYRTIKO, ALIGNED ON 8 HECTARES
When men, believing themselves alone in the world, took myths for legends, they invented a very peaceful story, one of those volcanic explosions which allows them to forget that their land was the playground of divine or monstrous creatures. Here in Tinos, Aeolus decided to live. So that nobody forgets it, the meltemi blows from the north almost every day of the year, adding dryness to the heat. Long clinging on gruelling terraces, protected by irregular walls, cultivations were substituted by the more profitable marble exploitation.
Now days, four thousand years after having been planted there by ancient Greeks, and a century after having been uprooted by the moderns, the vines have been put on hold in Tinos. On the plateau of Homeric battles, known today as Clos Stegasta: 70,000 plants of white assyrtiko, aligned on 8 hectares, are making their way between the stone spheres. These rows of vines are a unique landscape in the middle of which seem to have fallen these celestial bombs.
THE WORK ON THE VINE IS BODY TO BODY
Not far from there, in a circus at the top of the world, opening onto a valley forgotten by men: 30,000 plants of mavrotragano, red origin for the vinsanto, are cultivated in twenty-seven "razones", shale and clay terraces. Stegasta, Razonas: two places for a winery whose proper name, T-Oinos, is common with Greek, "wine".
Prophet in his island, Alexandre Avatangelos was well inspired, or well advised, when he began, fifteen years ago, to plant in close to each other rows. Eleven thousand per hectare, the plants shade each other from the scorching sun and shelter from the drying wind. In Tinos, the work of the vine is body to body, with bare hands, of culture and nature. Arms have no place. A man of art, the French Stéphane Derenoncourt, who has been advising T-Oinos for two years, has prohibited irrigation, safe assistance to the vineyards, in favor of deep rooting, demanding but beneficial to the quality of the fruits.
THE ELYSIAN PATHS OF HIGH GASTRONOMY
Businessman in Athens, peasant in Tinos, Alexander the Evangelist carries across the Aegean the message of his wines vibrating with all the energy of the land of the first gods. Assyrtikos penetrated by the active intensity of granite and deploying a saline elegance. Mavrotraganos imbued with the nobility of old extraction, flavored with wild spices from pure Cyclades. Protector of Alain Ducasse's cellars and cards, the wise Gérard Margeon has already opened the Elysian paths of haute cuisine at T-Oinos."
Des soleils et des vignes – L'aventure du CAVE –


At Sacred Space Counseling and Therapy I provide services to individuals, couples and families. Sometimes families experience difficulties that feel too enormous to resolve on their own. Often, families feel that "the problem" lies solely with one individual in the family. For some reason, no matter what they try, say or do, they can't seem to get that individual to change.
The reason for this, is that families are a part of a unique functioning system. Each family has it's own set of "spoken" and "unspoken" rules of conduct. What this means, is that in order for your family member to change – the entire family system has to make changes! And that's where my help comes in.
Let me help you become aware of and recognize both the overt and covert patterns and the rules your particular family functions by – so that your entire family can start to make small shifts – that will allow the changes you desire to happen.
I can't wait to get started and look forward to speaking with you.


Science-fiction thriller. Engineer Michael Jennings has a job 'stealing' new technology from other companies. After each job his employers erase his memory so that he can't give away company secrets. After one particularly sensitive job he wakes up to find himself on the run from his employer and the FBI. His only clues are the twenty objects he mailed to himself before his memory was wiped.


Three days after Gov. Greg Abbott called for a convention of states to amend the U.S. Constitution, his fellow high-ranking Republicans in Texas — typically quick to chime in with support for the governor — have kept uncharacteristically quiet about the proposal.
Abbott received a standing ovation at a conservative think tank's conference on Friday after he unveiled nine proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution, intended to bolster states' rights while reining in the powers of Congress and the federal government. The governor predicted a majority of Americans would support amending the Constitution to require Congress pass a balanced federal budget and allow states to override federal laws and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Yet outside of the Hilton ballroom in Austin, Abbott's proposal has not drawn the same instant praise. Several GOP state leaders including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus have yet to weigh in on the proposal. Neither representatives for Patrick nor Straus responded to questions from The Texas Tribune Monday.
Cynthia Meyer, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's spokeswoman, suggested Paxton believed Abbott's amendments "ought to be considered" but stopped short of confirming he supports Abbott's proposal for a constitutional convention.
"Perhaps this bold call causes Congress and the courts to listen to the American people and return their focus to a limited government," Meyer said.
The ambivalence among many Republican officials underscores the divisions among conservative grassroots about how Abbott proposed for the U.S. Constitution to be amended. The standard method for making changes requires a two-thirds vote from both chambers of Congress. Each of the document's 27 existing amendments was approved that way.
But the Constitution also permits a second, unrealized method for passing amendments. If 34 states ask for a constitutional convention, delegates may meet to consider changes to the Constitution — which could then become law if they had the support of at least 38 states. In 2015, the Texas House passed a bill calling for such a convention but it failed to pass out of the Senate.
Critics say this method would risk leading to a "runaway" convention, where states could radically alter the document that forms the backbone of U.S. governance. Abbott has said those concerns are without merit.
After the governor's speech on Friday, at least one elected Texas Republican suggested disagreement with Abbott's plan.
Simpson is running for the Texas Senate. A spokesman for his chief opponent in that race, state Rep. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, did not respond to a request for comment on his position about Abbott's proposal.
One of the strongest supporters of Abbott's plan, state Rep. Paul Workman, R-Austin, has pledged to pass the proposal in the next legislative session.
"I have committed my full support to the governor in making sure Texas takes the lead in restoring the rights of the states and putting our country back on track," Workman wrote in TribTalk, the Tribune's op-ed site. "Now is the time for a convention of states."
"Texas families deserve serious solutions, not Tea Party nonsense," said Texas Democratic Party Deputy Director Manny Garcia.
Yet the Tea Party is far from united on the issue.
"Texas conservative grassroots have come a long way in educating ourselves and building our influence, but this is not something we are ready for until our numbers are much bigger, our influence is much stronger, and frankly, not until we take seriously our need for much more education on the role of government and how it should work," she wrote in an email.
That view was shared by Konni Burton, formerly of the NE Tarrant Tea Party and now a Republican state Senator from Colleyville, in 2011, when then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry called on state lawmakers to endorse a constitutional convention for a federal balanced budget amendment. Lawmakers that year failed to pass a law calling for a convention.
Burton at the time told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that such a convention could allow "anyone to offer up any number of amendments ... based on their own ideology and interests, which could ultimately radically change our Constitution."
A spokesman for Burton did not return multiple requests for comment since Friday about whether her views on a constitutional convention had changed.
"The worst thing that could ever happen is that the convention would propose amendments that would be beyond whatever scope they were supposedly given, and then three-quarters of the states would have to approve them," he said.
Even U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a longtime Abbott ally who worked under Abbott when Abbott was attorney general, has suggested he may support a constitutional convention in the future but has not gone as far as Abbott on the issue. Campaigning last year in Iowa, Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, predicted there would be "more and more movement" toward a convention if Congress did not act on constitutional amendments.
On this issue, Abbott may be more aligned with one of Cruz's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination. Last week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida called for a constitutional convention in an op-ed published in USA Today.


Check out TOLA's best crowd shots from Sunday at FYF 2013.
The crowd was bigger and a little more laid back on Sunday of FYF 2013, and through a hazy afternoon and balmy evening our people-watching continued. Bandanas and parasols were two accessories of choice (or necessity) to protect festival-goers from the dust and sun, both of which there was plenty. The crowd ranged from lackadaiscal nappers at Yo La Tengo and Beach House to amped up headbangers at Baroness and the Melvins, with a few in-betweeners frantically running from one end of the fest to the other to satisfy their diverse musical tastes. The craft tents and vendor village seemed a little lonely, but food stands did a killer business, especially the fresh juice gents of the Juicebox truck and the triumphant return of Pure Luck, the LA vegan food we love best and miss most. Mmm, jackfruit tacos.


The java-1.6.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java RuntimeEnvironment and the OpenJDK 6 Java Software Development Kit.An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder inthe AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could causea Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. Anuntrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Javasandbox restrictions. (CVE-2016-0483)An integer signedness issue was found in the font parsing code in the 2Dcomponent in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly causethe Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrustedJava application or applet to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.(CVE-2016-0494)It was discovered that the JAXP component in OpenJDK did not properlyenforce the totalEntitySizeLimit limit. An attacker able to make a Javaapplication process a specially crafted XML file could use this flaw tomake the application consume an excessive amount of memory. (CVE-2016-0466)Multiple flaws were discovered in the Networking and JMX components inOpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws tobypass certain Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2016-0402, CVE-2016-0448)Note: This update also disallows the use of the MD5 hash algorithm in thecertification path processing. The use of MD5 can be re-enabled by removingMD5 from the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms security property defined inthe java.security file.All users of java-1.6.0-openjdk are advised to upgrade to these updatedpackages, which resolve these issues. All running instances of OpenJDK Javamust be restarted for the update to take effect.


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A "goodwill" joint naval drill?
Japan, the United States and India conducted their first ever joint naval drill off Japan's eastern coast on Monday. It is absolutely not new for Japan and the U.S. to sit down and plot conspiracies together but it is rather intriguing to get India involved.
It is said that the joint naval exercise was held to carry out rescue operations in case of tsunami and other regional catastrophes, apart from consultations held among crew members on the naval vessel-related skills and techniques.
hough the drills were described by a Japanese official as a "goodwill" one and cited by the US 7th fleet as one designed especially for exchanges and coordination among the involved parties, the Japanese TBS Television, however, said India had begun modernizing the equipment of its navy in the wake of the nation's rapid economic growth, and the naval drill were also designed to contain the rapidly modernizing Chinese navy.
The "Nikkei" of Japan also noted that the naval exercise was to help check the Chinese navy, whose country has had increased military spending for 19 consecutive years.
Japan was the most vital, important military ally of Washington in Asia, while the U.S. has 50,000 servicemen stationed in Japan along with 18 warships of its 7th fleet. According to an AFP report, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had repeatedly appealed for establishing a strategic dialogue mechanism among Japan, the U.S., India and Australia, a proposal described by media as having a self-evident objective.
Meanwhile, the United Press International (UPI) said the joint military exercise was focused on China with a purpose of encircling it militarily, and this constitutes a concrete move to enhance the Japan-India-Australia-US military alliance.
India has so far not yet clarified its intention to partake in the joint naval drills, and it is also scheduled to have joint exercises with China, Russia and Vietnam, its Defense Ministry noted.
For decades, India, which pursues a non-aligned foreign policy, has maintained a certain distance from the US-Japan military alliance, and the US-India ties were particularly cold and estranged after India conducted a nuclear test in 1998.
Only from 2003 on, the naval exchanges of the three nations were on a steady rise. Not long ago, military experts from Japan, the U.S. and India held two rounds of trilateral security conferences, which excluded China, the most populous nation in the region, an Indian weekly said recently.
However, it is up to the stance and role of India that will decide whether the mutual effect of India, Japan and the U.S and the so-called the four-nation alliance will move in compliance with the logic of Japan and the U.S., the weekly acknowledged. Proceeding from its own national interests, India will go on retaining a role of balance instead of hinging solely on the "Japan-US axis."
Some analysts deem that the naval drills have sent out a signal for a new balance of force in the Asia region. As an old-brand power, the U.S. is striving to win the support of Japan and India in a bid to prevent China and Russia from joining forces.
At the time when its navy entered into the Pacific waters, India tried hard to relieve Beijing of any misconceptions about its military action. Hence, India's naval vessels are also set to have joint drills with China. To increase its image of the "non-aligned policy", India will also have joint exercises with Russia.
By People's Daily Online
People's Daily Online --- http://english.people.com.cn/


The Najarana consists of hematite stone, better known as 'Blood stone' and is the mineral form of iron oxide found in places that once had standing water or hot springs. Hematite has a beautiful black steel look and a mirror like shine. The hematite of the Najarana is matched with 18k gold plated 925 sterling silver which brings a sharp but fantastic contrast to the bracelet as a whole. The gold plating is designed to wear at the edges with heavy use to signify that nothing lasts forever.


The MAC S-300 blister machine is capable of both thermoforming and cold-forming. Service Industries is partners with Sepha and is their exculsive distributor of blister packaging machines, deblistering machines, and non-destructive leak testing machines for the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
The MAC S-300 blister machine is capable of both thermoforming with plug assist, and cold-forming.


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Group X, No. 3, Altarpiece, 1915.
Framed art print by Hilma af Klint
I ordered 2 prints as a Christmas present. They arrived very quickly and were everything I hoped for. The quality was excellent and the colours true. I will definitely use this company again.
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a ground-breaking Swedish artist who began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, several years before the first abstract work by Kandinsky in 1911. Convinced that the world was not yet ready to understand her paintings, af Klint kept them largely private and stipulated that they remain hidden until twenty years after her death. When the artist died in 1944 she left behind 1300 unseen abstract works and more than 125 notebooks.
Hilma af Klint's style is defined by her unprecedented, vivid colour palette and original use of scale and composition. Her work explores different aspects of cosmic and human evolution in an effort to visually describe spiritual views of reality, reflecting her deep interest in the natural world and the connection between the spheres of the visible and invisible.
In 1986 Hilma af Klint's work was rediscovered, and in the subsequent decades her work has received major critical recognition and gained an incredible popularity among contemporary audiences. In 2019, the Guggenheim held a survey of her work titled 'Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future' that attracted a record breaking number of visitors to the museum.
More by Hilma af Klint
By Hilma af Klint
Group IX/UW, No. 25, The Dove, No. 1, 1915.
Tree of Knowledge, No. 5, 1915.
The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood, Group IV, 1907.
The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, Group IV, 1907.
Group V, The Seven-Pointed Star, No. 1, 1908.
No.2a, The Current Standpoint of the Mahatmas, 1920.
By Nils Jean
Pool and Rock
By Adrian Bradbury
By Christina Fedyk
Surf Lines
Op. 82: VII
The Blue Lyre


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Glass Review by Staci Layne Wilson
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Love him or loathe him, you can't deny that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is an innovator. Back in 2000, he came out with Unbreakable and was one of the few filmmakers bold enough to present superheroes as dark, brooding, and introspective—just compare Superman (1978) to The Dark Knight (2008). Nineteen years ago, it was refreshing and new to see courageous comic book heroes living in the real world with jobs, families, and dealing with everyday issues while also banishing bad guys with their superpowers. With Unbreakable, he helped break the mold. After a long string of uneven films sprinkled with highs and lows, Shyamalan came out on top with fans again in 2016 with Split, a serial-killer thriller which artfully blended horror with humor.
Glass is the long-awaited Unbreakable sequel which brings back the core characters from that unique universe and merges them with the key players from his most recent hit. It indeed is an interesting idea. Or at least, it would seem so. Unfortunately, Glass is a cluttered, confusing concoction—and if you haven't seen Unbreakable and Split, or if your memory is hazy, heaven help you, which is not to say that previous plot points aren't explained. They are… over, and over again. There are also constant explanations of what's happening right before your eyes: A character actually shouts, as a big fight is about to ignite, "This happens in comic books! They call it a showdown!"
It's not just the characters who are back—the actors who played them also return. Bruce Willis is David Dunn, a middle-class Philly dad who was reborn as a superhero at the end of Unbreakable, thanks to carefully orchestrated maneuvers by budding supervillain Elijah "Mr. Glass" Price (Samuel L. Jackson). From Split, we have Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man horribly afflicted with a dissociative identity disorder. One of his identities is "the Beast," a Hulk-like superhuman who has a taste for blood. The sole survivor of his evil attentions, Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), comes back for round two, as does David's grown son, Joseph (Spencer Treat Clark), and Glass's mother, played once again by Charlayne Woodard (she's only five years older than Jackson, by the way).
A major new player is Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), a doctor who specializes in treating individuals who think they're superheroes. It is her mission to convince David and Kevin that they're not superhuman, and are suffering from delusions of grandeur. She throws a heavily sedated Price into the mix, and soon this alchemy creates a (metaphoric) three-headed monster.
While all of the actors are fantastic, the acting is less so. Willis seems incredibly numb even more so than the medicated Mr. Glass, while McAvoy flicks back and forth between his many oddball occupants so often that it feels more like a parlor trick than a personality disorder. Taylor-Joy's Casey cries continuously. On the other hand, Jackson slows flair and magnetism even when semi-comatose. Woodard and Clark fare well in their minor roles. And of course, many-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Paulson can deliver even the silliest of lines with nuanced gravitas.
If you know Shyamalan, you know there's a twist. While I found the inevitable "a-ha!" moment satisfying enough, there's no doubt it will polarize moviegoers. Whether or not Glass is sequel-worthy remains to be seen, but I can't say it's all bad. There are standout moments, and the cinematography and score help to create a moody, insular ambiance that's undeniably compelling. But will I watch it again? Probably not.
Staci Wilson
Staci is known for her work in the horror genre, having been the producer and host of the talk shows Inside Horror, Dread Central Live, and This Week In Horror and she has appeared on Bravo, Reelz, AMC, M-TV, and CNN as a film expert. She is the author of Animal Movies Guide, 50 Years of Ghost Movies, and several horror novels.
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The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah. The library started as a small collection of books in the president's office in 1876 before moving in 1891. The Heber J. Grant Library building was completed in 1925, and in 1961 the library moved to the newly constructed J. Reuben Clark Library where it stands today. That building was renamed to the Harold B. Lee Library in 1974.

The library was significantly expanded in the 1990s, providing new individual and group study rooms and a special vault area for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. In 2016, the library contained over 4.7 million books, 10.6 million total materials, and served over 10,000 patrons each day. The library was ranked by the Princeton Review within the top three university libraries in the United States three times: in 2004, 2007, and 2012.

History

A collection of books in Karl G. Maeser's office served as the first library at Brigham Young Academy. In 1891, the library moved to a room in the Education Building in the lower campus, which expanded to include Room D about 1906. George Q. Cannon and Reed Smoot helped to acquire documents from the U.S. Department of the Interior and congressional documents. A fire in 1884 destroyed at least forty volumes of the collection. Students rarely checked out books in the early 1900s, generally studying books in the library instead. The Dewey Decimal Classification system was introduced to the library in 1908.

English professor Alice Louise Reynolds helped raise funds to purchase over 1,000 books for the library. She was the faculty chair of a committee to establish the library from 1906 to 1925. The library contained 29,592 volumes by 1923—almost half of them donated—and students had to stand in the library for lack of study space Reynolds' fan club donated over 10,000 volumes in the 1930s. By 1946, the library contained 138,500 volumes of books.

The Heber J. Grant Library was completed in 1925. In the Grant Library, reference books were placed on shelves surrounding the study area, with the rest of the library's holdings on shelves in the book room. Students would find books they wanted in the catalog, and library pages would retrieve them.

The library increased the volume of acquisitions during the 1930s and 1940s, and gifts of books were indiscriminately accepted. This policy changed in 1958, when gifts became subject to a consultation with the Director of Libraries, S. Lyman Tyler. In his time as director from 1954 to 1966, Tyler met Keyes Metcalf at a seminar for library administrators. Metcalf was the former director of the Harvard Library, and consulted with Tyler about the plans for BYU's new library. BYU commissioned Lorenzo Snow Young to make the plans for addition.

The J. Reuben Clark Library was completed in 1961. The library's collection reached 500,000 volumes in 1965, and one million volumes by 1971. The name of library changed in 1974 from the J. Reuben Clark Library to the Harold B. Lee Library to avoid confusion with the J. Reuben Clark Law School. Harold B. Lee was the 11th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A six-story addition was completed in 1976, doubling the library's physical space and increasing the library's seating capacity from 2,500 to 4,500. The addition had moveable walls, integrated student study spaces into the stacks, added group study rooms, and included a vault for archival materials. Art professor and artist Franz M. Johansen created four cast stone panels used to decorate the south entrance of the library and representing four areas of human knowledge.

The HBLL was again expanded and remodeled in the mid– and late–1990s using donated funds, adding , technology classrooms, an auditorium, and a digitization center. After the expansion, parts of the old library were remodeled, and the south entrance was closed. A new south entrance was opened in 2015.

From 2001 to 2011, the Interlibrary Loan program processed 500,000 requests. The library contained over 4.7 million books and served an average of 10,191 patrons a day during 2016. Single-user study rooms were added in 2017, and construction started on a family-friendly study room.

Technological improvements
The HBLL started offering a dial-up access system in 1969 for patrons to access music, lectures, and foreign language recordings, and access to the Library Information Network Center (LINC) was offered in 1974. Through a keyword search, patrons could use the system to search bibliographic resources of articles and recent books from ProQuest Dialog and Orbit II. The library adopted 3M Tattle-Tape in 1975 to detect if patrons were removing books from the library that had not been checked out. The library renamed their NOTIS cataloging system in 1984 to the Brigham Young University Information Network (BYLINE), and ran it on a mainframe computer located in the James E. Talmage Building.

The library collection began being re-catalogued in 1995 from the Dewey Decimal Classification system to a modified Library of Congress Classification. A word processing center in the library made 25 computers available to students at the rate of $1 per hour in 1996. In 1997, the library switched from using the DOS-based BYLINE to the Windows-based Horizon Automated Library Systems. The Horizon system allowed users to access online catalogs from other libraries, and used a client-server model.

The library contained 200 computers but only a portion of them had internet access in 1997. The library launched an online library catalog in 1998 after integrating the search system, providing online renewals and extending undergraduate checkout times. An electronic reserve system with an additional server was added in 1999. The library added wireless internet access points to its study spaces in 2003.

Library instruction

The HBLL instituted a summer program to certify students as school librarians in 1938, later offering the program during the school year. A class on bookbinding was taught during the 1940s. The BYU School of Library and Information Science was established in 1966 and re-accredited in 1978. It had about 50 graduates a year. Prior to this program, Mary Elizabeth Downey taught a six-week class on the use of libraries. The School of Library and Information Science was closed in 1993, despite the program being in high demand. The closure occurred after the administration announced a renewed focus on undergraduate studies.

Collections

The HBLL includes a family history library, the Primrose International Viola Archive, the International Harp Archives, and serves as a designated depository of government documents. The juvenile literature department opened its Lloyd Alexander Collection in January 2010, featuring items  from the author's home office for students and researchers to access.

Special collections
The library's special collections began in 1957 with 1000 books and 50 manuscript collections. A special vault and cold storage facility were built in 2000 and the collection was formally named the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. The collection at the time contained over 8000 manuscript collections, 500,000 photographs, and 280,000 books. Notable items from the collection include a 1967 Bible illustrated by Salvador Dalí, a 13th-century Vulgate, a first edition Book of Mormon, and the papers of Cecil B. DeMille and Helen Foster Snow.

Foreign language collections
The HBLL houses collections in many foreign languages. The collection includes a Welsh library originally sponsored in 1951 by the National Gymanfa Association of the United States and Canada. The Icelandic Library Association of Spanish Fork donated their collection of Icelandic books in 1951.

Religious influence on collections
Starting in 2004, R-rated movies were placed in the Faculty Use collection. The Romance section includes a guide with ratings for the amount of sexual content in the books, and novels with explicit sexual material are not included in the collection.

Awards and recognition
In 2004, the Princeton Review ranked the HBLL as the number one college library, and as number three in 2007 and 2012. The American Library Association awarded the HBLL with the Library Instruction Round Table 2017 Innovation in Instruction Award.

See also
Education in Zion Gallery

References

External links

Scholars Archive, an open repository for BYU theses, dissertations, and journals
Backstage documentary about HBLL

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Cape Town water consumption rose by 46 million litres per day in November
A lot of selfish water-guzzlers are letting the team down in Cape Town
by Tom Head
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille was incandescent over the weekend, as she visited three properties that, quite frankly, are taking the piss with their water consumption.
Flanked by city officials and media personal, de Lille turned up at three properties that were clocking usage levels of 1,000 litres a day or more. That's beyond ludicrous.
The IOL report that the Mayor's travelling party included officers who fit water management devices at the rogue water-guzzlers' homes, to limit their consumption.
Patricia de Lille vents frustration at liberal water consumption
"This past week, we again saw residents behaving badly. because there was some rain, consumption went up to 631 million litres per day. We should be saving more water to meet the target of 500 million litres per day . We need to move Day Zero further away."
"The city is doing everything in its power to bring additional water online. But all Capetonians must reduce their water usage to below 87 litres per person per day."
"We thank the water-saving heroes for all their efforts to help us beat this drought. but not everyone is doing their part."
The news comes as Cape Town's water usage levels saw a dramatic spike in November. The metro began the month on 585 million litres being used per day. This was climbing towards the target of 500 million l/pd set by the Western Cape government earlier this year.
However, the water consumption figure has now swelled to 631 million litres per day. It's a massive own goal for the city, who are trying desperately to avoid a dreaded 'day zero' scenario.
What is day zero for Cape Town?
It's the term given to the theoretical day when Cape Town has to turn it's taps off, because there is so little usable water in the system. When dam levels hit just 13% capacity, the city will be forced into the shutdown, and residents will have to get their water from collection points dotted around CPT.
Currently, the Western Cape dams are about 34% full. That leaves the city with about 20% of dam capacity to play with. It's a margin that is way too close for comfort… and selfish water users are driving the drought-stricken region into a catastrophe.
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The official thread of no of course we're not running concentration camps how dare you imply that and even if we are the Democrats made us do it.
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Well i suppose if this started trend and people did this at every single ICE office.
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Stealth is the superior tech/strategy, regardless of the system used it reduces detection range on top of the fact these radar systems already have reduced detection range, they basically just reduce the disadvantage you're at when facing stealth aircraft. They also do nothing if you were to attack into a nation with stealth aircraft as its hard to get your radar stations set up inside a country that can blow you to hell without you ever seeing them. Its all still just theorycrafting too, we have no idea how effect these systems will actually be in the field, and the only stealth aircraft thats been shot down was an F117 which is far less stealthy than the B2, F22, and F35, and still required its bomb doors to open to be seen. China claiming to have seen F22s over South Korea is also dubious because they were equipped with external tanks for a flight to Japan. You also don't want to be in the less stealthy jet in an A2A engagement, don't care how good your flying is your ass is dead if your weapons can't target anything, regardless of that the F22 is the fastest most agile fighter in the world so if guns do become necessary for some reason it should come out on top assuming pilots of equal skill. The F35 relies more on its electronic warfare systems than its stealth to confuse and block enemy radar systems. The bigger threat to US power is China's anti-carrier missiles.
Also saw that Steve King is having a hard time with fundraising and currently only has 18k cash on hand.
He really isn't going to make it.
Presidential undervote more than doubled in 2016, chances are Dems could win the election by just not having Clinton on the ticket, doubtful those that thought Trump wasn't worth voting for even when they were in the booth are going to think hes not so bad now.
Lol, Warren entered the senate in 2012, old guard indeed. I honestly wonder if he's one of those paid Russian trolls, I mean who the fuck thinks Gabbard is the one. Polling seems to indicate that the top dem candidates can beat Trump, with the closer ones being lower on name ID, the big trend is Trump basically stuck in the low 40s against all of them. On top of this Warren's numbers have been getting better as we go, NBC/WSJ poll out today has her up 5, Sanders 7, Biden 9, and Harris 1. Trump's range in this poll? 42-44%.
Forget that these idiots went to an event of a person who supports them to shout over her, but she went right into the issue instead of ignoring them or having them removed.
I mean i get why they're doing it, but i'd be surprised if the map looks like that, theres a pretty good chance AZ, FL, GA, or NC flip as well, all were within like 5%, with 2018 elections being even closer, the map is changing.
Barry is now a hurricane! Thanks Obama!
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Oh its real, and its absolutely manufactured. The worst part is lying about this shit. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/mike-pence-border-immigration/index.html In McAllen, it was a much different scene: Pence toured a swelteringly hot room called a sally port with hundreds of men, a strong smell of sweat and overcrowding so extreme there was no room for cots, the migrants left to sleep on concrete beneath mylar blankets. The men in the sally port in McAllen told CNN they had been in Customs and Border Protection custody for more than 40 days. They said they hadn't had access to showers or toothbrushes. They yelled before reporters that they were hungry. "This isn't human. I'm not a terrorist," one man said. Patrol agent in charge Michael Banks disputed some of those characterizations. He said a trailer with showers had arrived Thursday, though it was possible some of the men had not bathed yet. He said there were 88,000 disposable toothbrushes on site and that the migrants got three hot meals a day from local restaurants. He said the space, which, despite the heat, does have air-conditioning, was cleaned three times a day. He said none of the migrants had been there longer than 32 days.


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Prospect Hummer EP
Vashti Bunyan
By Mark Richardson
Experimental / Rock
Folk legends past and present team up on this intriguing EP.
British folk singer Vashti Bunyan didn't influence the current [insert modifier here]-folk trend in indie rock so much as anticipate it. There's no way to know if records by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom would sound any different had Bunyan never recorded Just Another Diamond Day in 1970, but songs from her lone album certainly sound fantastic sandwiched between cuts from Nino Rojo and The Milk-Eyed Mender. The record's spare production helps keep it from dating, but what really works today is Bunyan's soft, fragile Peter Pan voice. I imagine her understated whisper sounded out of step in its own time but now it sounds like a founding document of a certain school of indie singing.
Bunyan's return to music after three decades away has been a gradual stroll back to the center stage. Guesting on records from Piano Magic and Devendra Banhart, she hooked up with Animal Collective while they were in London last year to sing lead on three new songs, which, combined with a sound collage by the Geologist, make up this short EP. It's not as immediately obvious a pairing as the Banhart duet on Rejoicing in the Hands because Animal Collective's focus changes so radically from record to record and its priorities sometimes shift from "songs" per se to something else entirely. A thread through the band's work to this point has been a focus on the emotional content of sound, apart from the nuts and bolts of the music. Even with an acoustic and relatively pop record like Sung Tongs the textural fixations remain, if only in the droney guitar sum that's become something of an Animal Collective trademark. How Bunyan's approach would mesh wasn't entirely clear.
Prospect Hummer turns out to be an inspired meeting, as Animal Collective's material meets her Just Another Diamond Day aesthetic halfway. The common ground for everyone involved turns out to be the small details and pastoral mood of rural life. Hearing the familiar guitar swells that opens "It's You" brings us immediately back to the screened porch where Campfire Songs was recorded, while the presence of Bunyan's voice transports to a different but equally remote place. It's like suddenly finding a cluster of Maryland pines rooted on an English moor, something out of a dreamy film, with a vaporous melody that wants to drift up to the stars. The EP's title song is filmic in a different way, conjuring 30s Disney, Bunyan the graceful Snow White with Animal Collective's faithful dwarves trailing merrily behind, with a "wah-wah-wah" chorus that's certainly a marching tune. Words are hard to make out but something like "loved to run up the tree branch/ And in the middle of it is a puddle of water/ Wind of faithful voices" covers three of the four elements in short order.
The Geologist provides the fire, though it's more of a low-level simmer, on his instrumental "Baleen Sample". He wasn't there for the London sessions but his five-minute contribution serves as a contrast with the three vocal songs, incorporating the strummed acoustic but layering in sound effects and various other instruments (nice use of steel drum) to create something comparatively dense. The brief and playful "I Remember Learning How to Dive" has the band singing in unison with Bunyan, ending the record on an appropriately communal note. It's a short EP, in fact it could almost fit onto a 7-inch single, but Prospect Hummer doesn't waste a note or a breathy sigh.
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Brandon Jennings, Josh Smith improve the Pistons at the expense of fans' sanity
There's no question the Pistons will be better next season, but will Detroit actually be able to enjoy it?
By Tom Ziller Jul 31, 2013, 9:54am EDT
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All moves made by the Detroit Pistons this offseason need to be viewed with an eye toward what the team lacks: their own 2014 first-round draft pick if it's not within the top eight. The Pistons let that pick go a year ago to lose Ben Gordon in a trade that freed up the cap space to grab Josh Smith. The trade was almost like a payday loan: the Bobcats gave the Pistons the opportunity for cap space in 2013 instead of 2014 in exchange for a protected first.
So unless the Pistons were really going to suck, there's no reason for Detroit to hold back.
In fact, it's better for Pistons general manager Joe Dumars if the pick Charlotte makes in place of Detroit isn't very good. Add in that the Pistons have been bad for a number of years, that the youth movement has borne some fruit and that there's a gaping hole in the middle rung of the East, and you have a recipe that begs for a decent team.
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Josh Smith is quite good, a fringe All-Star candidate seemingly every year now. He helps a shallow Pistons frontcourt, even if he's required to play some small forward. (He's a superb rebounder at small forward and usually a spectacular defender. Usually.) And the key thing in this trade for Brandon Jennings -- in which Detroit agreed to pay him a really reasonable salary -- is that Jennings is currently loads better than Brandon Knight.
Taken together, Smith and Jennings soaking up all of your cap space in a big summer for the franchise doesn't look optimal. They're two inefficient scorers with scattered reports of clashes with coaches being added to a team filled with young, impressionable talent. But in the Pistons' circumstances, it works. Andre Drummond is going to be good. Greg Monroe is already there and getting better. Rodney Stuckey, despite a down year last season, has historically been solid.
And Maurice Cheeks might just be the right coach for this crew. Known more as a motivator than a tactician, Cheeks should be able to get Smith and Jennings going all-out from Day 1. Early success might spark the team into some confidence, and that can only take them higher.
The problem is, of course, all those bad shots Smith and Jennings are bound to take. Smith is horrid from the perimeter: 44 percent of his field goal attempts were jumpers from outside of 16 feet. He took 221 threes. He shoots below 30 percent on threes. Jennings takes a lot of threes, too, but converts them at a decent rate (36 percent). His problem is that he's never had a decent conversion rate at the rim, yet he often drives to the rim. Most guards shoot 55 percent or better at the rim. Smith, a bigger player but someone often driving in instead of posting up, shot 77 percent at the rim, for example. Jennings shot below 50 percent at the rim last season and an abysmal 28 percent on shots from 3-10 feet away. (Those runners, teardrops and floaters just ain't working.)
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So, Pistons fans are going to be watching Smith fire up jumpers he shouldn't be taking and Jennings take quixotic journeys in the paint when he'd be better off lining up deep balls. Bless you, Andre Drummond. You might average 10 offensive rebounds per game.
Defense should be the calling card of the Pistons, and the offense should largely drive Detroit fans crazy. The best way for Cheeks to keep his charges reasonably sane in terms of shot selection is to challenge them to set up Monroe and Drummond as frequently as possible. In Milwaukee, Jennings had a backcourt mate in Monta Ellis who did a lot of playmaking. Stuckey can do a little of that, and we'll see about Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. But Smith's a fine playmaker who isn't nearly as turnover-prone as you'd think. Encouraging Smith to drive the lane with an eye on his bigs is a far better result for the team than encouraging Smith to fire up jumpers. Anything but jumpers for him. And Jennings is so bad at the rim that it'll be loads better if he looks for Drummond for a drop-off or lob consistently, or kicks it out to Monroe for a mid-range jumper. Monroe and Drummond need to be fed for this team to be good, and asking the two stars to do the feeding might keep them away from their worst habits.
There's no reason the Pistons can't be the No. 6 seed in the East now. The Hawks, Wizards, Cavaliers and Raptors all have opportunities to be that good, but have as many or more challenges than the Pistons. The question is whether Pistons fans will survive the regular season sane enough to enjoy the playoffs.
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Hi Izabella, I have 20+ years of experience in IT, started as a desktop technician and worked my way up to a Global Systems Architect. Computers and Networking are two different technologies. In a small organization you might be responsible for both, in a larger organization, you would specialize in one or the other, with many more specialized layers in either technology! A day in the life of either is Dynamic. You will be expected quickly respond to issues, maintain and build IT infrastructure (PC's or Network devices) on a constant basis, LEARN new technologies almost constantly and sometimes be on-call for issues during nights and weekends depending on the role. IT is critical to most mid to large companies business operations, but you are expected to keep things running without necessarily receiving a lot of accolades. You MUST love the work to get into the field and be a truly top-tier performer. Running Systems or Networks is complex and demanding. Every day brings new opportunities to learn and new challenges. Constant training will be the norm as long as you stay in the field. Think of it like being a nurse or doctor who has to constantly re-qualify in order to stay relevant. There are management and senior management careers that can lead out of these roles as well as sales opportunities. Good luck in your career.
I have recruited for professionals with computer networking experience but I have not done the job. As you may be aware, network engineers and network or systems administrators, install, configure and maintain local area networks, wide area networks and Internet systems that enable businesses to connect with employees and customers. They perform general system maintenance, deal with system failures, apply software updates and fixes, to attending to network related PC support issues.
There are different roles working on this side of technology from administering/supporting the network, to building all the servers in the network to now even automating the building of the servers. There are servers that are housed on the client site as well as servers that are what's called off premise or in the cloud. I have found that the best way to find out about any career is to go online and ask.
As far as a day in the life of a Network Engineer, I went on Google and asked if there are You tube Videos. This is what I have found so far.
There is more information out there that will tell you what people do in certain careers, other sites that might describe a typical day in the role, jobsites with openings and job descriptions as well as salary ranges for the positions, etc. YouTube may have videos explaining the same. If you look at multiple sites, look for consistencies in what they say. This should help you feel more comfortable that the information you are reading is accurate.
Hope this helps. Feel free to reach back out.
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I am have worked in the Information Technology field in various positions. I was never Network Administrator. However, I did study this and worked with Network Administrators. If you were to be come a Network Administrator, you would be responsible for keeping the company network up and running 24/7. Example, you would have a cell phone and laptop so you could monitor software to ensure the network is always up and running. This job requires a proactive approach. You would be heavily relied on.


This report has been prepared by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT), and contains counts of U.S. patent applications by country of origin. These data were originally compiled by USPTO for reporting annually to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); WIPO presents them along with data from other intellectual property offices in the annual WIPO publication, Industrial Property Statistics. Please note, however, that counts presented in this report may differ from those reported in the WIPO report because, in some years, the WIPO report may omit counts of selected USPTO applications (e.g., Patent Cooperation Treaty-based applications received by USPTO).
The country of origin of an application is based on the residence of the first-named inventor. Only utility patent applications are included in the figures for 1975 to the present. Both utility and reissue patent applications are included in the figures for 1965 through 1974. A separate count of reissue applications by country of origin is not available for those years, but is estimated to be very small, compared to the number of utility applications. From 1965 to 1974, 99.67 percent of the summed utility and reissue patent applications were utility applications, based on fiscal year data (see table addendum at the bottom of this web page).
Country names that appear in this table do not imply any expression of opinion by USPTO about the preferred name or the legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities. Changes in the geographic boundaries or the legal status of some countries may result in multiple names for the same geographic area. For example, applications from Egypt may also be reported as United Arab Republic, and applications from Rhodesia, South, may also be reported as Zimbabwe.
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United Arab Rep. 2 1 17 United Arab Rep.
U.S. 288,335 72,317 66,855 61,651 67,180 68,243 72,343 71,089 65,943 66,935 64,093 64,445 65,050 62,863 61,441 60,535 62,098 62,404 63,316 59,390 61,841 63,874 65,487 68,315 75,192 82,370 90,643 87,955 92,425 99,955 107,233 123,958 106,892 120,445 135,483 149,825 164,795 177,511 184,245 188,941 189,536 207,867 221,784 241,347 231,588 224,912 241,977 247,750 268,782 287,831 285,096 288,335 U.S.
(1) Country of origin is based on the residence of the first-named inventor.
(2) Country names that appear in this table do not imply any expression of opinion by USPTO about the preferred name or the legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities.
(3) Data for 1965 through 1974 also include reissue applications.
(4) The USPTO submission to WIPO in 1975 reported two additional applications from "San Salvador" that are not included in this table. However, the total number of applications shown in this table for 1975 is consistent with the figure reported to WIPO.
(5) Applications from the European Patent Office were not reported separately to WIPO after 1987. Applications from the EPO were distributed according to the country of residence of the first-named inventor after 1987.
The following table displays the percent of utility plus reissue patent applications that were utility patent applications, as broken out by fiscal year.


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Protesters stage strike in Chile
Wed, Aug 24, 2011, 01:00
Protesters barricaded roads and burned tires in parts of Chile's capital today as a two-day national strike began against unpopular president Sebastian Pinera, but mining in the world's top copper producer was not disrupted.
The strike, called by Chile's main umbrella labour union CUT and coming on the heels of huge demonstrations by students demanding free education, got off to a slow start.
Public transportation was running and banks were open. While some miners said they supported the strike, operations at some of the world's biggest copper mines were not affected.
Protester demands went beyond educational change, ranging from a new constitution to a revamped tax system.
While previous governments have faced one-day national strikes, it was the first 48-hour national strike since the 1973-1990 Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
Government spokesman Andres Chadwick said police defused some protests earlier today, and that beyond traffic disruptions, the situation was "normal".
"We're all worried about the social climate," said finance minister Felipe Larrain, calling the strike illegal and a threat to the economy. He said the government would not tolerate roadblocks.
"We want to be able to push ahead with our programs. ...government programs are not created in the street but at the polls." Mr Larrain estimated the strike would cost Chile about $200 million a day.
Protesters clashed with police in recent weeks as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to rail against the conservative Mr Pinera, who, according to a recent poll, is the least popular leader in the two decades since the end of Pinochet's rule.
Workers at some of the world's biggest copper mines have stage strikes of their own. Workers at BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's number one copper mine, halted a two-week strike earlier this month that stoked global supply fears.
While Latin America's model economy is seen expanding 6.6 per cent this year and is an investor magnet thanks to prudent fiscal and monetary policies, many ordinary Chileans feel they are not sharing in an economic miracle fueled by high copper prices.
Mr Pinera, who took power a year and a half ago and appointed a cabinet filled with technocrats, has alienated many Chileans with his policies. He is less than halfway through his four-year term.
A major cabinet reshuffle last month, the second since Mr Pinera took power, failed to quell unrest.
The slump in Mr Pinera's support is seen hindering him in congress, and delaying the passage of capital market reforms aimed at turning Chile into a financial hub to rival Brazil.


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The history of transplant surgery is rooted in plastic and reconstructive surgery. In the great tradition of plastic surgeon and early transplant pioneer Dr. Joseph Murray, the Center for Reconstructive and Restorative Surgery Research at Brigham and Women's is focused on improving the outcomes of reconstructive surgery and increasing knowledge in all areas of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA).
Transplantation allows for restoration of form and function of an organ with associated need for immune suppression to prevent rejection. New applications in reconstructive surgery revolutionized our treatment options for the most severe body defects. Replacement of missing parts with identical ones has transformed reconstructive to restorative surgery with unprecedented treatment options for our patients.
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Dem Rep. Says His 'Lizard Brain' Wants 'Bad Things' to Happen to Trump
"Yes, I have my emotional reactions"
Democratic Congressman Jim Himes declared Thursday that his "lizard brain" would like to see "bad things" happen to president Trump.
During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the Connecticut Rep. was asked if he, like Nancy Pelosi, would like to see Trump in prison.
"This isn't about my feelings or about retribution." Himes declared.
"Look, the lizard brain that I have says I hope bad things happen to this man because he has been so destructive to our Republic, to the concept of democracy, to the concept that internationally we are a light unto the nations. So, yes, I have my emotional reactions." Himes added.
"Probably 30-to-40% of the American public wants to see this president in prison." Himes claimed.
"I think what Nancy Pelosi is saying, first of all, I think she's channeling the emotions of a lot of people who are very emotional, who look at the behavior of this president, the constant lying, the use of tariffs against our best allies and biggest trading partners. You know, the attacks on the media." he continued.
Himes admitted that it is far fetched to imagine jailing Trump via impeachment.
"I will tell you flat out that I can't imagine anything happening, anything at all happening that would cause the Senate to convict and, therefore, remove this president, so impeachment stops in the House in my opinion," he said.
"We're going to elect a different president," Himes proclaimed.
"That, to me, that is how this country redeems itself. Whether one nasty individual, you know, spends his years in jail is a lot less important to me than the redemption of the values that animate this country."
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All U.S. drivers are familiar with railroad crossings for freight trains. But sharing the road with light-rail trains is another matter – and it can be a little unsettling for some drivers when traveling in high-density cities.
Here is a video featuring advice from a light-rail operator in Sacramento, Calif. You may want to pass this along to your fleet drivers. The safest drivers are those who establish safe driving habits and don't let the unexpected lead to a panicked response.
To view the video, click on the photo or link above.
Being aware of where light-rail vehicles operate. Buildings, trees, etc., cause blind spots.
Never turning in front of an approaching light-rail vehicle.
Maintaining a safe distance from the light-rail vehicle if it shares a street with vehicular traffic.
Looking for approaching light-rail vehicles before you turn across the tracks. You should complete your turn only if a signal indicates you may proceed.


(WACO, Texas)–The nomination of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging news for Texas farmers and ranchers threatened by the agency's regulatory overreach, according to the Texas Farm Bureau (TFB), the state's largest general farm organization.
President-elect Donald Trump selected Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, to head the federal agency.
Boening said Pruitt has indicated he intends to run EPA in a way that fosters both responsible protection of the environment and freedom for American businesses. Boening said he hopes Pruitt can rein in an agency that is operating, in some cases, outside of its constitutional and statutory authority.
As Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt has been active in legally challenging EPA's controversial Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule.
"Farmers and ranchers want a different philosophy at EPA. Mr. Pruitt is an individual who represents the real change at an agency that has been adversarial against family farmers and ranchers for too long," Boening said.


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Is Claridges a Michelin Star?
Sarah Mendez
Claridges is a 5-star luxury hotel located in the heart of London, England. It has been around since 1856, and it has been a staple of British high-society ever since.
The hotel features luxurious accommodations and fine dining, as well as an array of amenities to make its guests feel like royalty. Claridges is also well known for its impressive list of awards, including the Michelin Star.
The Michelin Star is one of the highest accolades that a restaurant or hotel can receive. It recognizes establishments that offer outstanding cuisine and hospitality.
To earn the honor, a restaurant or hotel must have consistently excellent food and service throughout their operation. Claridges has achieved this honor for over 20 years.
At Claridges, guests can expect an array of exquisite culinary experiences from world-renowned chefs. The menus are full of traditional British classics as well as modern dishes crafted to perfection. The atmosphere is luxurious yet inviting with dim lighting and classic furniture adorning each space.
In addition to excellent cuisine, Claridges also offers an impressive selection of beverages. Guests can choose from a variety of wines and champagnes or opt for one of their signature cocktails. There is also a wide range of non-alcoholic options available.
The staff at Claridges are highly trained professionals who strive to make every stay memorable. From arrival to departure, they will do everything in their power to ensure that guests have the best experience possible.
Yes, Claridges is a Michelin Star establishment with consistently excellent food and service throughout their operation.
The atmosphere is luxurious yet inviting with dim lighting and classic furniture adorning each space. Guests can expect an array of exquisite culinary experiences from world-renowned chefs along with an impressive selection of beverages to choose from.
Is Claro a Michelin Star?
Claro is a Michelin starred restaurant in Leeds, England. It has been awarded one star in the prestigious Michelin Guide since its opening in July 2020. The restaurant is the creation of chef-owner Tommy Banks, who has previously held two Michelin stars at The Black Swan at Oldstead.
Is Lilia a Michelin Star?
Lilia, a restaurant in Brooklyn, is renowned for its modern Italian cuisine. The restaurant has been open for more than five years, and it has become a popular destination for foodies from all over the city. It is known for its creative dishes and fresh ingredients, as well as the knowledgeable, friendly staff that makes all diners feel welcome.
Is Bavettes a Michelin Star?
Bavettes is an iconic, low-key eatery in the heart of downtown Chicago, Illinois. It's been serving high-quality French cuisine since 1967, garnering a loyal following of locals and tourists alike. But despite its long history and popularity, Bavettes has never been awarded a Michelin star.
Is Angele a Michelin Star?
Angele is a French restaurant located in Napa Valley, California. It has been open since 2002 and has become a popular destination for fine-dining experiences. The restaurant is owned and operated by Chef Philippe Jeanty, who has an impressive culinary background that includes experience at some of the best restaurants in the world.
Is the Ivy Michelin Star?
Ivy is a restaurant located in London, UK. It has been praised for its exquisite cuisine and outstanding service since it opened in 1995. The restaurant has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Michelin Star in 2020.
Is Francie a Michelin Star?
Francie is a restaurant located in San Francisco, California. It has been open for two years and has been gaining an ever increasing amount of popularity and acclaim. The restaurant specializes in French cuisine, with a special focus on local California flavors.
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