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No. 1 Seed Kansas to Face No. 12 Seed Richmond in NCAA Sweet 16 Friday at Alamodome
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Kansas in the Sweet 16
No. 1 seed Kansas defeated No. 9 seed Illinois 73-59 on March 20 to advance to its 27th NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Kansas is 18-8 all-time in NCAA Sweet 16 contests. The Jayhawks will face No. 12 seed Richmond at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday, March 25, at 6:27 p.m. on TBS. Should the Jayhawks win, they would play the winner of the No. 10 Florida State vs. No. 11 VCU game on Sunday, March 27 (time to be determined). Kansas is making its fifth Sweet 16 apprearance (2004-07-08-09-11) under head coach Bill Self. The Jayhawks are returning to San Antonio and the Alamodome, the site of their last NCAA National Championship in 2008.
Kansas is 34-2 on the season and its 34 wins tie for the fourth most in school history. The Jayhawks bring a 10-game winning streak into the Richmond contest. Kansas averages 81.8 points per game and gives up 64.7 for a +17.1 scoring margin. KU also leads the battle of the boards with a +7.9 rebound margin. Kansas leads the nation in win-loss percentage (94.4, tied with Ohio State and San Diego State), field goal percentage (51.4) and assists (17.9). Junior forward Marcus Morris, who was named the Big 12 Championship Most Outstanding Player, leads Kansas in all games with a 17.3 scoring average. Marcus' 7.4 rebounds per game are second-best on KU's team. The 2010-11 Big 12 Player of the Year, a three-time Big 12 Player of the Week, an Oscar Robertson Award finalist, a Wooden Award finalist and a Naismith Trophy mid-season candidate, Marcus is second in the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 58.2 percent, just behind twin brother, Markieff, who is shooting 60.5 percent. Markieff, a junior forward, leads the Big 12 in rebounding with 8.3 boards per game and in double-doubles with 12. Markieff is averaging 13.9 points per game. He leads KU with 41 blocked shots. An Academic All-America First Team selection, senior guard Tyrel Reed averages 9.8 points for the season and leads KU with 69 three-point field goals made in 2010-11. Senior guard Brady Morningstar leads the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio with a 2.8 mark in all games and scores 7.0 points for the season. Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor averages 9.3 points per game and 4.5 assists per contest. A Bob Cousy Award finalist, Taylor has 36 steals this season. Freshman guard Josh Selby averages 8.1 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.3 three-pointers per game. Sophomore forward Thomas Robinson is third on the team with a 6.4 rebound average to complement his 7.7 scoring average. Sophomore guard Elijah Johnson comes off the bench and is scoring 3.5 points and has a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio. Other KU contributors include senior guard Mario Little (5.3 ppg, 2.9 rpg), sophomore guard Travis Releford (3.9 ppg) and sophomore center Jeff Withey (2.4 ppg, 19 blocked shots).
Located in Richmond, Va., with an enrollment of 2,750, Richmond (29-7) brings a nine-game winning streak to San Antonio. The Spiders are coached by Chris Mooney, who is 112-86 in his sixth season at Richmond and 153-127 in his ninth season overall. Richmond finished third with a 13-3 record in the Atlantic 10 Conference behind Xavier (15-1) and Temple (14-2). The Spiders won the A-10 Tournament defeating Dayton in the finals 67-54. Richmond averages 70.0 points per game and gives up 60.8 for a +9.2 scoring margin. The Spiders average 7.9 three-pointers and 6.0 steals per game. Richmond is a veteran team as 14 of its 16 players were on last season's NCAA Tournament team. Senior forward Justin Harper leads Richmond in scoring (17.8), rebounding (6.9), three-pointers (75), blocked shots (46) and free throw percentage (79.3). Senior guard Kevin Anderson is next in scoring at 16.7 points per game. He has a team-best 53 steals and 119 assists. His 71 three-pointers are second to Harper. Senior center Dan Geroit averages 9.7 points per game and is third on the team with 100 assists. Sophomore guard Darien Brothers (7.7 ppg) and senior forward Kevin Smith (3.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg) round out the Richmond starters. Other key Richmond contributors include junior guard Francis-Cedric Martel (4.7 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 18 starts), freshman guard Cedrick Lindsay (4.4 ppg) and junior center Darrius Garrett (1.9 ppg).
The Kansas-Richmond Series
Kansas and Richmond are meeting for the second time in men's basketball. The Spiders defeated the then-12th-ranked Jayhawks 69-68 on Jan. 22, 2004, in Allen Fieldhouse. The game came during the first season under current KU head coach Bill Self and in the middle of the Big 12 Conference regular season. Richmond's Tony Dobbins made a 12-foot jumper in the lane with 1.3 seconds left for the win. The loss snapped a KU 52-game home court winning streak against unranked foes. Kansas is 47-14 against current membership of the Atlantic 10 Conference. KU last faced an A-10 team in the NCAA Tournament in the the second round of the 2009 event when it defeated Dayton, 60-43, behind Cole Aldrich's triple-double (13 points, 20 rebounds, 10 blocked shots) at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
Team Notables
–Kansas leads the nation in field goal percentate (51.4) and assists (17.9) and is tied for nation's lead in win-loss percentage (94.4). The Jayhawks lead the Big 12 Conference in scoring (81.8), scoring margin (+17.1), three-point field goal percentage (38.8), rebound margin (+7.9) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3).
–Kansas has held 13 opponents to 60 points or less this season, including both games in the 2011 NCAA Tournament – Boston (72-53) and Illinois (73-59).
–Kansas has out-rebounded 29 of 36 opponents this season, including its last six, nine of the last 10 and 15 of the last 17.
–KU has outshot all but five teams this season.
–The Jayhawks have shot 50 percent or better in 24 games this season, including their last three contests and 12 of the last 17 games.
–Kansas' bench averages 24.8 points compared to its opponents' 17.5 ppg. KU's bench has outscored its opponents' bench in 25 of 36 games this season.
–Kansas is 32-1 when leading at the half (2-1 when trailing) this season and 34-0 when leading with five minutes remaining (0-2 when trailing).
–KU has used eight different starting lineups this season.
–Kansas has scored 50 or more points in the first half five times this season.
–Under Bill Self, Kansas has 10 streaks of 10 or more victories, including the 18-0 start of 2010-11 and its current 10-game winning streak.
–KU is 5-1 against ranked foes this season with a win against No. 13/14 Memphis (Dec. 7) in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden, a loss against No. 10/11 Texas (Jan. 22), a win against No. 19/20 Missouri (Feb. 7), a win against No. 24/22 Texas A&M (March 2), a win at No. 22/24 Missouri (March 5) and a win against No. 10/10 Texas (March 12).
–Kansas ended three home-court winning streaks of 10 or more this season with victories at Baylor (10-0) Jan. 17, at Nebraska (14-0) Feb. 5 and at Missouri (17-0) March 5.
–Kansas' 57-point win against Ohio (98-41) in the Las Vegas Invitational (Nov. 26) was the third-largest margin of victory in the Bill Self era and the largest in a game away from Allen Fieldhouse under Self.
Individual Notables
–Junior Marcus Morris is averaging 16.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in two NCAA Tournament contests. He led Kansas for the 19th time this season with 16 points against Boston U., on March 18. Named the Most Outstanding Player of the Big 12 Championship, Marcus leads Kansas with 17.3 points per game. A 2011 USBWA All-America Second Team selection, Marcus was named the 2011 Big 12 Player of the Year and All-Big 12 First Team by the league coaches. He is averaging 18.9 points in his last nine games, including four double-doubles. He had 17 points and 12 rebounds against Illinois (March 20). Marcus is second in the Big 12 Conference in shooting percentage at 58.2 percent, which ranks 15th nationally. Marcus has 11 games with 20-plus points and his 7.4 rebounds per game are second on the team. He has led KU in every statistical category at least once this season. Marcus was named Big 12 Player of the Week three times (Nov. 29, Jan. 17 and Feb. 14), a Wooden Award Finalist March 13, a Naismith Mid-Season candidate Feb. 11 and an Oscar Robertson Award finalist Feb. 28.
–Junior Markieff Morris is having a solid NCAA Tournament as he leads Kansas with 19.5 ppg. His 10 rebounds average through the two games are second to his twin Marcus' 10.5 rpg. Markieff leads the Big 12 in field goal percentage at 60.5 percent, which is seventh nationally. In two NCAA contests, he is shooting 65.2 percent. Markieff joined his twin brother Marcus on the Big 12 Championship All-Tournament Team and is scoring 13.9 points per game overall this season, which is 14th in the conference. An All-Big 12 Second Team selection, Markieff also leads the conference in rebound average at 8.3 rpg and double-doubles with 12. He has 14 games with double-figure rebounds. Named Big 12 Player of the Week on Dec. 27, Markieff has been the leading rebounder for KU in 18 of 36 games this season.
–Senior Tyrel Reed is averaging 7.0 points and 4.5 rebounds in two NCAA games. He was named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention and has scored in double figures in five of his last nine games. Reed averages 9.8 points per contest for the season. He was named Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team on Feb. 22. He is also a three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team selection. Reed leads Kansas with 69 threes made this season and has made multiple threes in 22 games, including 2-for-3 against Boston U. (March 18) in scoring eight points. Reed also leads KU with 53 steals. In conference play, Reed was KU's third-leading scorer with 10.6 points per game. He is the only Jayhawk to have started every game this season and has an 80.2 free throw percentage. Reed is one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. He graduated from KU in December and has been accepted into KU Medicine's physical therapy school.
–Senior Brady Morningstar has averaged 10.3 points in his last three games with 13 points each against Texas (March 12) and Boston (March 18). Morningstar was named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention and to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team March 6. Morningstar leads the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.8 for all games and was tops in the same stat in conference games at 4.4. Morningstar averages 3.3 assists per game, which is 10th in the Big 12. Morningstar, who graduated in May 2010, is scoring 7.0 points per game for the season and is second on the team with 50 steals, three behind Tyrel Reed. A 2011 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team selection, Morningstar averages 1.4 steals per game, which is 11th in the conference.
–Sophomore Thomas Robinson is shooting 60 percent from the field with 3.0 ppg and 4.5 rpg averages in two NCAA Tournament games. In his last four contests, Robinson is 9-for-13 (69.2 percent) from the field. He scored 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting with nine rebounds in the Big 12 Championship title win against No. 10 Texas March 12. Robinson averages 7.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and is shooting 60.4 percent from the field overall in 2010-11. A V Foundation Comeback Award finalist, Robinson missed the Colorado contest on Jan. 25 tending to the funeral of his mother, Lisa, in Washington, D.C.
–Junior Tyshawn Taylor is averaging 11.5 points, 5.5 assists and is shooting 57.1 percent from the field, 50 percent from three-point range, in two NCAA Tournament games. Taylor has scored in double figures in each of the last four games and is averaging 14.5 points in that span. He scored a season-high 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting with five assists and four rebounds in the Big 12 Championship title win against No. 10 Texas (March 12). He has 15 games in double-figure scoring this season and averages 9.3 points overall per game. Named a Bob Cousy Award finalist (one of 20) on Jan. 12, Taylor is fifth in the Big 12 in assists per game at 4.5. He has led KU in assists in 18 of 34 games played this season, including seven against Boston U. on March 18.
–Sophomore Elijah Johnson averages 14.0 minutes per game with a 3.5 scoring average. He has scored in double figures four times this season. Johnson has a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio for the season.
–Senior Mario Little averages 13.9 minutes, 5.4 points and 2.9 rebounds per game and is shooting 47.7 percent from the field on the season. He has three games of double-figure scoring.
–Freshman Josh Selby has scored in double figures in nine of 24 games played in 2010-11. Selby averages 8.1 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest. He is a two-time Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week (Jan. 31 and Dec. 20).
–Sophomore Travis Releford has played in 28 games this season with a 3.9 scoring average. He missed five contests due to an ankle sprain on his right foot suffered at Michigan (Jan. 9). Releford is shooting 50.0 percent from the field and has scored in double figures five times. A Las Vegas Invitational all-tournament selection, Releford's windmill dunk against UMKC (Jan. 5) was No. 1 on ESPN's Top 10 List on Jan. 6 and is a national dunk of the year entrant by Intersport to be voted on in March.
–Sophomore Jeff Withey is a combined 8-for-9 from the field in his last six games played. Withey averages 6.4 minutes, 2.4 points, 1.8 rebounds and 0.8 blocked shots per game in 2010-11.
Seed Notes
Kansas is the No. 1 seed for the 10th time since the NCAA Tournament started seeding in 1979 – 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2002, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1992 and 1986. This is the fourth time KU has been a No. 1 seed under Bill Self (2007-08-10-11). Kansas is 26-8 as a No. 1 seed, 10-0 against the No. 16 seed, 4-2 against the No. 9 seed and 3-0 against the No. 12 seed entering the Richmond contest.
Kansas in the NCAA Tournament
–Kansas' 40th NCAA Tournament appearance. -The Jayhawks' 40 NCAA Tournament appearances are fourth nationally behind only Kentucky (51), UCLA (42) and North Carolina (42).
–Kansas' 22-straight NCAA Tournament appearances, from 1990-2010, is the nation's longest active streak and ranks second-best all time. North Carolina had 27 straight from 1975-2001.
–Kansas is making its third NCAA Tournament appearance in the Alamodome in San Antonio. KU lost to Bill Self's Illinois team 80-64 in the Sweet 16 of the 2001 NCAA tourney and won the 2008 NCAA National Championship in the Alamodome under Self, defeating North Carolina 84-66 and Memphis 75-68 in overtime.
–To open this year's NCAA Tournament, KU made its third trip to Tulsa. In 1974, Kansas advanced to the Final Four in Greensboro, N.C. KU's journey started in Tulsa with victories against Creighton (55-54) and Oral Roberts (93-90). The following year, KU lost to Notre Dame 77-71 in Tulsa. All three games were played at the Mabee Center on the campus of Oral Roberts.
–Under head coach Bill Self, Kansas is 17-6 (73.9 percent) in the NCAA Tournament, with five Sweet 16s (2004-07-08-09-11), three Elite Eights (2004-07-08), one Final Four (2008) and one NCAA National Championship (2008).
–In the last 10 NCAA Tournaments, including 2011, Kansas has a 26-8 (76.5 percent) record with one NCAA National Championship (2008), three Final Four (2002-03-08) and five Elite Eight (2002-03-04-07-08) appearances.
–Kansas sports an all-time NCAA Tournament record of 87-38 and the Jayhawks' 87 wins rank fifth behind North Carolina (104), Kentucky (102), Duke (96) and UCLA (95).
–The Jayhawks will play their 126th NCAA Tournament game on Friday, which ranks fifth all-time in NCAA history behind Kentucky (148), North Carolina (143), UCLA (130) and Duke (126).
–Entering the 2011 event, KU's NCAA Tournament winning percentage of 69.1 percent ranks seventh all-time for a minimum of 20 games played.
–Kansas coach Bill Self is making his 13th appearance in the NCAA Tournament as a head coach.
–KU is one of six schools that has won at least three NCAA Championships. The Jayhawks won the NCAA crown in 1952, 1988 and 2008.
–The Jayhawks have appeared in the Final Four 13 times, making KU one of just six schools to reach the Final Four 10-plus times.
–Kansas has won 11 games in the Final Four, which is sixth-best all time.
–Five different Jayhawks have been named NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player, including B.H. Born in 1953 and Wilt Chamberlain in 1957, who both won the award even though KU lost in the finals. Clyde Lovellette (1952) and Danny Manning (1988) also won the honor. Mario Chalmers won the Most Outstanding Player Award for the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
–Former Jayhawk player and coach Dick Harp is the only person to play in the Final Four and later coach his alma mater in the Final Four.
NCAA Tournament Notables
–In 2008, Kansas, North Carolina, UCLA and Memphis marked the first time all four No. 1 seeds reached the NCAA Tournament Final Four. KU went on to win the title defeating North Carolina and Memphis.
–In 2007-08, Kansas became only the fourth school to win a BCS game, then play in the Final Four the same academic year. The 2007 KU football team won the FedEx Orange Bowl and the men's basketball team captured the NCAA National Championship. Other schools to accomplish the feat include Ohio State (1999), Wisconsin (2000) and Florida (2007).
–In 1993, Kansas became the first school in NCAA history to make a Final Four appearance, a College World Series appearance and win a bowl game in the same year.
–Larry Brown is one of two coaches to take two different teams to the NCAA championship game (UCLA, 1980 and Kansas, 1988). Frank McGuire took St. John's in 1952 and North Carolina in 1957. Brown attended North Carolina. McGuire's 1957 North Carolina team defeated Kansas for the championship in triple overtimes.
–Brown is the only man to coach teams to the NCAA Championship – Kansas in 1988 – and the NBA Championship – Detroit in 2004.
–When Phog Allen's 1952 team won the NCAA title, Allen was 66 years, four months and eight days old. That is still the oldest age for the head coach of a championship team.
–Adonis Jordan's 5-of-7 three-point shooting performance in the 1993 national semifinal game against North Carolina is tied for the highest percentage ever in an NCAA Final Four game. Donald Williams of UNC accomplished the feat twice, both times in 1993.
–In the 1988 championship game versus Oklahoma, the Jayhawks and Sooners set an NCAA record for most combined points in a first half of a championship game, with a 50-50 halftime score.
–Kansas won the NCAA Tournament in 1988 as a No. 6 seed. Only one team has won the tournament with a lower seed – Villanova in 1985 as an eighth seed. Jim Valvano's 1983 N.C. State team also won the tournament as a No. 6 seed. In the 1990s, the lowest seed to win the tournament was the 1997 Arizona team, which captured the title as a No. 4 seed. The Wildcats upset Kansas, the top seed, in the Sweet 16.
Tyrel Reed on Cusp of Best Four-Year Record in College Basketball
Kansas has won 131 games over the past four seasons, which is the most victories in a four-year span at KU. Senior Tyrel Reed has dressed all four of those years, while current redshirt senior Conner Teahan and fifth-year redshirt senior Brady Morningstar were also part of the team. Kansas has a combined 131-16 record for 89.1 percent (37-3, 27-8, 33-3 and 34-2) in the last four seasons (2008-09-10-11). Included in that span is an 20-3 (87.0 percent) postseason record, four Big 12 regular-season titles, three Big 12 postseason championship titles, one Elite Eight, one Final Four and one NCAA National Championship while at KU. NCAA-wise, the list goes – Duke (133-15, 1998-2001), Duke (132-15, 1999-2002), Kentucky (132-16, 1995-98), Kentucky (132-20, 1996-99), KANSAS (131-16, 2008-11), KANSAS (130-19, 2007-10), Kentucky (130-10, 1946-49), UNLV (129-21, 1987-90).
30-Win Seasons
Kansas has posted 10 seasons with 30 or more victories and has accomplished the feat four of the last five years under head coach Bill Self. KU's 30-win seasons include – 37-3 in 2008, 35-4 in 1998, 35-4 in 1986, 34-2 in 2011, 34-2 in 1997, 33-3 in 2010, 33-5 in 2006, 33-4 in 2002, 30-8 in 2003 and 30-5 in 1990.
Kansas is Tops for the Last Two, Three, Four and Five Seasons
As of March 20, 2011, Kansas is the winningest team in the country for the last two, three, four and five seasons. Here is a breakdown:
Most Wins in Past Two Years (2010-11) – 1. KANSAS (67-5, .930); 2. Duke (66-9, .857); 3. Ohio State (62-10, .861); 4. BYU (61-10, .859); 4. Kentucky (61-11, .847)
Best Winning Percentage in Past Three Years (2009-10-11) – 1. KANSAS (94-13, .879); 2. Duke (97-16, .858); 3. Utah State (87-17, .837); 4. BYU (87-18, .829)
Most Wins in Past Four Years (2008-09-10-11) – 1. KANSAS (131-16, .891); 2. Duke (125-22, .850); 3. North Carolina (118-31, .792); 3. Butler (114-24, .826); 4. BYU (114-26, .814)
Most Wins in Past Five Years (2007-08-09-10-11) – 1. KANSAS (164-21, .886); 2. North Carolina (149-38, .797); 3. Duke (147-33, .817); 4. Ohio State (144-38, .791); 5. Butler (143-31, .822)
Noting Kansas Basketball
–Kansas has 2,037 all-time victories, second most in NCAA Division I.
–Entering 2010-11, over the last four seasons, Kansas has averaged 32.5 wins per year with three 30-win seasons.
–Kansas has held 142 of its last 146 opponents to under 50 percent shooting. Kansas State (Feb. 14, 2011) shot 56.3 percent, Missouri (Feb. 7, 2011) shot 51.7 percent, Oklahoma State (Feb. 27, 2010) shot 60.4 percent and Baylor (Jan. 20, 2010) shot 52.1 percent from the field to end a 91-game string of KU holding foes to under 50 percent shooting. Before Baylor, the last team to shoot above 50 percent against Kansas was Louisiana-Monroe (.510) on Nov. 9, 2007, the first game of the 2008 NCAA National Championship season.
–KU has held opponents to fewer than 100 points in 332 consecutive games. The last team to score 100 on Kansas was Texas on Feb. 11, 2002, a KU 110-103 overtime victory.
–Kansas has sold out its last 164 games in Allen Fieldhouse dating back to the second game of the 2001-02 season.
–Each KU senior class since 1986-87 has won at least 100 games. Fourth-year senior Tyrel Reed is 131-16 as a Jayhawk. Redshirt senior Brady Morningstar is 163-21 in a Kansas uniform. Note: senior Conner Teahan is a redshirt in 2010-11 and came to Kansas in 2007-08.
–Including 2010-11, Kansas has won 23 or more games in each of the last 22 seasons dating back to 1988-89 and has 22 victories 26 times in the last 27 years starting in 1984-85.
–Bill Self has won 23 or more games each of his last 13 seasons as a head coach, including 2010-11.
–Kansas is the only team in the Big 12 to have a winning series record against every conference foe.
–Including 2010-11, KU has led its league in home attendance each of the last 25 seasons dating back to 1986-87 and 30 times in the last 34 years.
–Kansas' 2002 team remains the only squad in Big 12 history to go undefeated in conference play at 16-0. Kansas' 13-0 record to start 2010 was the second-best undefeated league record behind KU's 2002 team.
–Kansas is first in the conference in wins with a 202-39 record in Big 12 regular-season games. Texas is next at 168-73. Including the league postseason championship, Kansas is tops at 232-46. Texas is second at 187-88.
–Kansas is the only Big 12 school to have won a regular-season championship with two different coaches (Roy Williams and Bill Self).
–Under Bill Self, Kansas is 60-4 (93.8 percent) in Big 12 home games: 8-0 in 2004, 7-1 in 2005, 7-1 in 2006, 7-1 in 2007, 8-0 in 2008, 8-0 in 2009, 8-0 in 2010 and 7-1 in 2011.
–Including 2011, KU has won 10 or more league games for the last 17 seasons and 49 times overall.
–Kansas ended the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series with a 3-1 record (1-1 vs. Arizona, 2-0 vs. UCLA).
–KU went 4-0 against Pac-10 opponents this season.
–Kansas has won 42-straight home games against non-conference competition.
–Under Bill Self, Kansas is 39-6 following a loss. The Jayhawks have won 21-straight games following a loss.
Should Kansas win both of its games this weekend, it would advance to its 14th NCAA Final Four. This year's Final Four will be April 2 and 4, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.


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The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee hosted a conference on September 15 to call for investment in building an Intelligent Operations Centre and a Socio-Economic Simulation and Forecast Centre. The two centers are among the key measures in a master plan on developing Ho Chi Minh City into a smart city in the 2017-2020 period, with a vision to 2025. The conference focused on calling on investors to share experience and technologies on building and launching a vision and criteria for building Ho Chi Minh City into a smart city, as well as to select investors for the city's major construction projects. The project aims to resolve the city's existing problems such as unsustainable economic growth, flooding, traffic jams, and environment pollution, as well as enhancing the interaction between city's administration, businesses and citizens in the building and development of the country. (NDO)
Vietnam exported 4.53 million tons of rice in the first eight months of 2018, bringing in US$2.29 billion, a rise of 10.5% in volume and 26.5% in value, according to the General Department of Customs. In August rice shipments saw a strong increase against previous months, with export prices averaging at US$489.1 per ton. The average price over the January-August period reached US$504.4 per ton, up 14.6% compared with the same period of last year. China was the largest buyer of Vietnamese rice, accounting for nearly one quarter of Vietnam's rice shipments. The average price of rice exports to the world's second largest economy was US$521.1 per ton. Rice shipments to Indonesia fell sharply in August but the aggregate figures for the first eight months of 2018 were still strong, up more than 50 times in volume and 67 times in value. The Philippines was the third largest market for Vietnamese rice with strong growth in August. The country currently needs an additional 500,000-800,000 tons until the end of the year to fill its depleted inventory and to stabilize domestic rice prices. (NDO)
Vietnam's exports of processed fruit and vegetables ballooned by 79.5% during the first half of this year, according to the International Trade Centre (ITC). Vietnam was also the second largest supplier of fruit and edible drupes to Australia in the six months, with an export value of US$58 million, down 11.3% against the corresponding period last year yet still accounting for 16.8% of Australia's total imports of such products. According to statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs, the country's fruit and vegetable exports reached US$362.8 million in August, a year-on-year rise of 13.1%, bringing the total value of exports in the eight months to US$2.7 billion, up 14.8%. The main importers of Vietnamese products were China, the US and the Republic of Korea. It's noteworthy that exports to Thailand and Australia saw impressive growth over the first 8 months of the year. (VOV)
The Czech Republic's exports to Vietnam surged 580.5% to more than 45.5 million USD in July from the previous month, much higher than the monthly average of 7-10 million USD, according to the Czech Statistical Office. During the month, the European country's major exports to Vietnam included sound and image recording equipment and television sets worth about 40.5 million USD. Other exported products such as optical, movie and surgery equipment; glass and crystal, plastics, seedlings, pharmaceuticals, medicinal herbs and industrial plants maintained growth or fell slightly. In the seven months of this year, Vietnam's exports of audio-visual equipment to the Czech Republic neared 202 million USD, followed by footwear and similar products worth more than 141 million USD. Shipments of rubber, inorganic chemical compound, leather, garment accessories, apparel, mechanical equipment, wooden furniture reached between 9-48 million USD. By the end of July, two-way trade rose by 18.1 percent to about 681 million USD, which is forecast to top 1 billion USD this year. (VNA)
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) reduced anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese tra and basa (pangasius) fish under its preliminary conclusion of the 14th period of review (POR14) for the period from August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Accordingly, the preliminary anti-dumping taxes on products of two mandatory respondents are 0 USD per kilogram, and 1.37 USD per kilogram. The tariff for voluntary respondents is 0.41 USD per kilogram, while the tax imposed on other Vietnamese exporters not examined as mandatory or voluntary respondents will be 2.39 USD per kilogram, lower than the final results of POR13. Although the DOC is scheduled to announce the final results of POR14 in January 2019, its move to lower the anti-dumping tariffs is seen as a positive signal for Vietnamese catfish exporters. VASEP said that tra fish exports to the US market hit 196.8 million USD in the first six months of the year, accounting for 19.6 percent of total tra fish shipments, and up 11.6 percent from the same period in 2017. A decline in the world supply was attributed to the increase of export revenue as it made the prices of tra fish increase during January-June. (VNA)
The Vietnam National Petroleum Group (Petrolimex) is proceeding to sell a maximum of 60 million treasury stocks on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, the second sale of its kind since its debut in April 2017. Treasury stocks, or reacquired stocks, are stocks which are bought back by the issuing company from shareholders, intended for resale to the public. The sales will depend on the conditions and developments on the stock market but will be conducted as soon as possible in the last quarter of this year after getting the nod from the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the State Securities Commission, according to ndh.vn. The MoIT, which represents the State capital in the company, is the biggest stakeholder of Petrolimex with an ownership of 75.87 percent as of December 31, 2017. JX Nippon Oil & Energy Vietnam Consulting and Holdings Co Ltd holds an 8 percent stake. Petrolimex owned more than 135 million treasury stocks after the sale. These stocks were reacquired in September 2016 at only 10,600 VND per share. (VNA)
Construction of a US$42 million solar power plant commenced on Sunday in the southern province of Long An's Thạnh Hóa District. Financed by BCG Băng Dương Energy JSC, an affiliate of Bamboo Capital Group in HCM City, the 50.2-ha plant targets to produce 60 million kWh of power each year. It is slated for completion no later than June 2019. The investor will also develop a 110kV substation in Thạnh Hóa District, build an internal road system and install a pump system for reservoirs and a 9km transmission line. To support socio-economic development, the country is encouraging renewable energy development to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. Under the plan, the total designed capacity of solar power generation must amount to 850MW in 2020 and 4,000MW by 2025. Meanwhile, the total capacity of solar power set for 2030 is 12,000MW. (VNS)
Kien Giang province has approved a list of 81 projects calling for investment until 2020, said Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Pham Vu Hong. Accordingly, there are seven projects in tourism, 11 in trade, six in environment, 13 in agricultural product processing and high-tech aquaculture, six in urban and rural water supply, 15 in industrial production, 10 in industrial park infrastructure, four in urban and housing development, and nine in transportation. According to the provincial Department of Planning and Investment, the province has to date had 48 valid FDI projects covering over 35,338ha with a combined registered investment of over 2.7 billion USD. As much as 613 million USD has been distributed. Since 2017, the province has lured eight FDI projects from Japan, Russia, Australia, and the Republic of Korea, with a total registered investment of 1.34 billion USD. They are in the areas of transport, tourism, service, oil transport, and footwear production. Many of them have already become operational. (VNA)
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She is survived by her husband, John O. Treuhaft, his brothers Paul, Edward, Lawrence, Robert and Nicholas, her sister Ann, and nieces and nephews. Her children from her first marriage include a son who is a professor at Columbia and a daughter who is on the magazine's editorial board, and her daughter, also on the magazine's editorial board, a poet. She leaves her sister in New Jersey.
Alex Treuhaft, who eventually became a professor at the university, joined Berkeley in 1940 and held several teaching positions before he became the director of the graduate school in 1964. When he retired in 1975, he was one of the most productive scholars of his generation. He wrote an important book in epistemology but apparently never earned his PhD degree, for in his obituary he is described as "having completed his PhD in sociology at Harvard in 1973," to which he then added as a footnote, "Although I never received my PhD, I did receive it on a postgraduate appointment. "
As the qualifications of their editors allude to, the magazine is devoted to the study and understanding of modern and contemporary society as it affects men and women in all walks of life. Thus, we can look forward to long perspectives into emergent trends and changes, the many challenges and the sometimes-heralded "revolution in values" that affect modern life.
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How Persistence Paid Off for New York Times Bestselling Author, Caitlin Rother
NAKED ADDICTION by Caitlin Rother
NAKED ADDICTION started off as a short story, inspired by a news article I wrote when I was the Northampton City Hall reporter for the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts about 25 years ago.
A young woman, who was an old friend of my then-boyfriend, was murdered in New York City and he took me to her wake. That true crime story worked as a creative catalyst for me to create the character of the first murder victim, Tania Marcus, who, by the way, is in no way based on the young murder victim I wrote about in the newspaper. For that matter, no character in this book is modeled on a real person.
At the time I had about four years of newspaper experience, only a few years more than my cub reporter character, Norman Klein, who was nicknamed Inky throughout my earlier drafts because of the newsprint ink smudged on his face. The plot built from there in a year of Sunday writing workshops. In fact Tania's journal entries came right out of those sessions.
As I churned out two to four news stories a day I yearned for a creative outlet and was homesick for La Jolla. And out came my surfing protagonist, Detective Ken Goode. In the opening scene of the book, Goode is paying a tribute to his mother, who committed suicide by jumping off the Coronado Bridge when he was just six years old.
After writing more than 2,000 news stories during my nearly 20-year career as a daily newspaper reporter, I'd forgotten some of these details until I dug up my original author's note for this book for the re-release of this book in November 2014.
Even though I spent much of my journalism career covering government and politics, I've always been interested in stories about bizarre deaths, the psychology of the criminal mind, addiction, murders, and suicide. Those interests have continued for me as the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including a tenth that I'm working on now about the Steven DeMocker case in Prescott, Arizona.
I've been drawn to stories involving addiction not only because I've dealt with those issues in my own family, but also because it's such a devastating problem in our society. Ironically, I conceived of this plot years before I met my late husband, who turned out to be an alcoholic and ultimately committed suicide in 1999. When I was still working to get this book published in the early 2000s, I wondered if I had a strange power to foresee the future.
Getting this novel into print was not just a goal, it was my dream. I rewrote it countless times, trying to please workshop critique groups, agents, and even an editor who read two versions before I signed with an agent. I was working as a professional writer then, but was still an aspiring and yet unpublished author.
Journalism is a good training ground for the kind of rejection you get as a wannabe author, because when one door closes, you go knock on another one. I wanted nothing more than to get a book published, and I was determined to do so.
As the years went by, I began to worry that this venture was turning into a vanity exercise, so I'd often put the manuscript in a drawer for a while, then send it out again. I would wait for a response, and just when I thought I was getting somewhere, I got another rejection.
But time after time, I managed to pick myself off the curb and persist, taking heed of any word of encouragement or positive sign that I should keep going. Sometimes it had nothing to do with me or my writing; it was just part of the learning curve as I tried to navigate a constantly evolving publishing landscape. Circumstances, and even natural disasters such as 9/11, impeded my efforts. The nagging question was how to break in.
Ultimately, I decided to try writing a non-fiction book to see if I had any better luck, and that turned out to be the way to go. My first book, POISONED LOVE, which was published in 2005, was a work of narrative non-fiction, combining the fiction-writing skills I'd learned through many years of weekends working on my craft with the investigative reporting skills I'd honed as a weekday Metro reporter for daily newspapers.
I will always be grateful to bestselling crime author Michael Connelly, who gave me a critique of this book and helped me improve it enough to get it published. With his critique, the nice blurb he gave me, and two non-fiction books under my belt, I was finally able to get this baby published in 2007. It only took 17 years.
Here is the Connelly blurb: "With a journalist's eye for the telling details of life, Caitlin Rother is a keen architect of the most important part of storytelling: character. The people in her prose grip you tightly with their truth."
And now here we are again, six books and seven years of sheer determination later, trying again with a revised and updated edition. For me, persistence and rebounding from rejection have always been the keys to getting—and staying—published.
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NAKED ADDICTION
Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After the Camus-reading surfer finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he is assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy. As Goode explores the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla, California, and its hipster neighbor, Pacific Beach, he clashes with the patrons and employees of a neighborhood bar: real estate agents and beauty school students who have possible ties to an escort service and a drug ring – and keep turning up dead. The untimely disappearance of Goode's sister proves a worrisome distraction as he chases suspects and a dogged cub reporter chases him. In this intricately-layered plot, Rother's characters use substances or other people to try to fill the empty spaces within themselves, with addictions ranging from sex, alcohol, cocaine and cigarettes to Goode's own, caffeine and damaged women.
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Femme fatale Nanette Packard had a knack for seducing, manipulating and victimizing a string of husbands and lovers, often simultaneously. A habitual liar, cheat and thief, this Supermom con artist was married three times, had four children and had spent millions by the time she and her lover, NFL linebacker Eric Naposki, went to trial for conspiring to murder Bill McLaughlin, her older entrepreneur fiance. Like and episode of "The Real Housewives of Orange County Gone Bad," this high-profile fatal love triangle case shows that the pressures to appear wealthy, cosmetically enhanced and mega-successful have only grown stronger.
The desperate search for two lost innocents from the San Diego area, teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois, led authorities to a brutal predator hiding in plain sight: John Albert Gardner, a convicted sex offender who could have been returned to prison several times over. Rother delivers an incisive, heartbreaking story about case that galvanized its community, first by grief and goodwill, then by anger and injustice, as it came to grips with a flawed system that failed ... and adopted a law that will forever change how we keep our children safe.
POISONED LOVE
Kristin Rossum had everything going for her -- beauty, brains, and the start of a brilliant toxicology career. But the 24-year-old San Diegan was torn between three relationships: one with her husband, who was found not breathing and covered with red rose petals; one with her married boss; and one with her old flame, crystal meth. This cautionary tale illustrates how an obsession for passion and easy access to narcotics can devastate not just one life, but many others in the process. In this updated edition, 16 pages of new developments about Rossum's appeals raise forensic questions about her conviction.
This is the authoritative story behind the high-profile murder of Tom and Jackie Hawks by a clan of outlaws led by Skylar and Jennifer Deleon. Skylar, a charming conman and hermaphrodite wanna-be, told the Hawkses he made big money as a child actor in the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," when in fact he had only two small non-speaking roles. He tied the couple to the anchor of their yacht and threw them overboard -- alive -- near Newport Beach, but not before forcing them to sign power-of-attorney documents so he could steal their boat and pillage their bank accounts.
TWISTED TRIANGLE
This is the crazy but entirely factual account of a kidnapping, an attempted murder and a love triangle involving two married FBI agents, Margo and Gene Bennett, and crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. This story made international headlines when it broke in 1996, but Rother is the first writer to tell Margo's exclusive story. Co-authored with former FBI agent John Hess.
The true story behind the murders by serial killer and rapist Wayne Adam Ford, a long-haul trucker who was convicted of killing four women -- and dismembering two of them -- in four California counties. Sentenced in 2007, he is now sitting on death row in San Quentin state prison. Rother offers a comprehensive look at the case, which took eight years to get to trial, and reveal new and exclusive details about Ford and his family.
DEADLY DEVOTION
TV reporter Alysia Sofios risked her entire career to help the surviving female members of the Marcus Wesson family recover from a cult-like life of polygamy, incest, abuse -- and the mass murder of their nine children. Together, they helped each other grow and bond into a new resilient family with a hopeful future. Originally titled WHERE HOPE BEGINS, this book was co-authored by Sofios and Rother.
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This is the NYT bestselling inspirational memoir of former NFL player Scott Bolzan, who lost all 46 years of his long-term memory to a severe head injury. With his college sweetheart Joan at his side, Scott had to rebuild his whole world, starting with the definition of "wife," in this story of hope, love and a medical mystery that gave him a rare opportunity to become a new man. Co-authored with Scott and his wife Joan.


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All over the country, innovative ideas are being implemented in the workplace to improve the health of workers and reduce the rising rate of health care spending. Skyrocketing health care costs are crushing families and companies, impeding businesses' ability to expand and compete, and stunting the country's economic growth. Some employers and unions – spanning industries, firm size, and workforce demographics – are using creative approaches to reverse that trend in their workplaces.
Examples of innovative health care programs in the workplace are everywhere. As a result of many successful programs at businesses across the country, workers have become more engaged in their own health care, productivity is increasing, absenteeism is dropping, and employers are passing some of their health care savings to their workers. Employers are discovering that improving quality of care can reduce health care costs. Small actions in the workplace can generate large benefits.
Today, the President will meet with some employers and unions whose innovations have produced promising results. He will hear firsthand about the best practices that are spreading in workplaces around America. Many in this group have reduced disease risk factors; several have onsite clinics; and all have programs to reduce obesity and improve activity levels. And the President will direct the Office of Personnel Management to work with the Office of Health Reform, the National Economic Council, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Management and Budget to examine successful employer wellness and prevention practices that lower health care costs and improve employees' health and to explore the feasibility of developing such a plan for federal employees and their workplaces.
The President hopes that by encouraging more employers to adopt similar programs, we can improve the productivity of our workforce, delay or avoid many of the complications of chronic diseases, and slow medical cost growth.
Below is a list of the workforce innovators who will meet with the President to discuss their best practices today.
H.E.R.E.I.U. Welfare Fund (Dr. Jerry Reeves, Chief Medical Officer): The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (H.E.R.E.I.U.) Welfare Fund offers multi-employer health insurance coverage for 90,000 eligible employees and their family members. It redesigned its health benefits and health plan administration and implemented wellness and chronic disease management programs to generate millions of dollars in overall savings. The H.E.R.E.I.U. Welfare Fund has also aligned incentives with desired behaviors by informing patients which physicians were high-performing, providing performance bonuses to high-performing doctors, and giving pregnant patients incentives to receive prenatal care. These initiatives have effectively engaged workers to improve their health through widespread use of employee risk assessments, risk-based interventions, and behavior change programs. The H.E.RE.I.U. Welfare Fund also has worksite pharmacies that give out free generic drugs for chronic conditions and provide special care centers for workers and family members who have high cost and complex chronic conditions.
Johnson & Johnson (Bill Weldon, Chairman of the Board and CEO): Johnson & Johnson has one of the longest-running workplace health programs in the United States. The company has a sophisticated set of disease management and prevention interventions, risk-based incentives, pedometers/exercise goals, treadmills available for offices, and other health related programs. According to its recent employee health scorecard for United States employees, at the end of 2007, Johnson & Johnson continued to make health improvement progress and its health initiatives avoided an estimated $15.9 million in health care costs in 2007. As well, from the late 1990s to 2006 in the United States, smoking declined from 12 percent of its workforce to four percent, high blood pressure dropped from 14 percent to six percent, and high cholesterol went from 19 percent to six percent. A 2002 Rand study found that Johnson & Johnson's initiatives had improved employee health and employees had saved an average of $225 per year because of a reduced need for doctor visits.
Microsoft (Cecily Hall, Director of US Benefits): Microsoft creates personalized health goals and has a staff of doctors that makes house calls to avoid emergency room visits. Its obesity program assigns employees to a primary care doctor, behavior health specialist, and nutritionist, and Microsoft provides free meals consistent with diet recommendations to eat on site or to take home. The result of its initiatives has been very low premium growth and a healthier workforce than other companies with workers of similar age. Microsoft has been continually recognized as one of Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work.
Ohio Department of Health (Dr. Alvin Jackson, Director of Ohio Department of Health): The State of Ohio created a "Take Charge! Live Well!" program to reduce health risk factors for state workers, with more than 50 percent of eligible workers participating. Until 2005, health care programs for state employees in Ohio focused on disease management and improving the health of high-risk groups. After reviewing data, the state discovered that while 27 percent of total health care costs were related to high-risk employees, 44 percent of costs were associated with preventable conditions. Ohio's "Take Charge! Live Well!" comprehensive health management program includes online and telephone health assessments, health coaching, online health improvement program, on-site employee health screenings (offered at about 40 locations), preventive care, chronic condition management, and monetary incentives of up to $100 in incentive payments, or $200 when spouses are enrolled, if employees complete a health assessment and participate in a health improvement program.
Pitney Bowes (Murray Martin, Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO): Pitney Bowes offers onsite comprehensive health clinics and fitness centers, redesigned food merchandizing and prices in their cafeterias, incentives management for the health of their employees, and low cost drugs for chronic diseases. The company has also adopted infection control practices and offers low-cost or no-cost preventive screenings and immunizations on-site and off-site. The company's initiatives and its commitment to increase employee participation in managing their own health have resulted in $40 million in savings over the last nine years.
REI (Sally Jewell, President and CEO): REI offers health benefits to all of its full and part-time workers and has been continually recognized as one of Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work. The company offers employees support for outdoor activities ranging from outdoor gear and apparel discounts, free rentals, and outdoor challenge grants. REI employees can earn extra healthy lifestyle dollars to put toward the cost of coverage by engaging in specific "good behaviors," such as getting regular aerobic exercise. REI also supports personal health goals and provides equipment support, discounts, and time off so employees can achieve their goals.
Safeway (Steve Burd, President and CEO): Safeway has innovated in benefit design to reward employees' healthy behaviors and improve adherence to recommended treatments for chronic diseases. Over 74 percent of Safeway's 30,000 nonunion workers have signed up for its "Healthy Measures" program. Under this program, participants undergo screening tests (including cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight control), and employees who score well pay lower health premiums. Safeway has saved millions by making employees accountable for their weight, smoking, cholesterol, and blood pressure. The company also has a free fitness center at its headquarters, offers gym membership discounts, and provides a 24-hour nurse health hotline. In 2006, Safeway's efforts reduced their total health care spending by 13 percent, and employees who signed up have saved more than 20 percent on their premiums.


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40 police officers sent to jail over alleged coup involvement in İstanbul
An İstanbul court ruled for the arrest of 40 police officers on Thursday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Cumhuriyet daily has reported.
According to the report, 43 police officers were detained on early on Thursday in simultaneous raids across İstanbul. Of those, 40 were sent to jail later the same day over their alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock.
ByLock is considered by Turkish authorities to be the top communication tool among followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Tens of thousands of civil servants, police officers and businessmen have either been dismissed or arrested for alleged use of ByLock since the failed coup attempt.
Turkey experienced a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement. The movement denies any involvement.
Over 135,000 people, including thousands within the military, have been purged due to their real or alleged connections to the Gülen movement since a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, according to a statement by the labor minister on Jan. 10.
As of March 23, 94,982 people were being held without charge, with an additional 47,128 in pre-trial detention due to their alleged links to the movement. A total of 7,317 academics were purged as well as 4,272 judges and prosecutors who were dismissed due to alleged involvement in the coup attempt or alleged terror organization links (turkeypurge.com) March 30, 2017
Turkish police conduct raids to detain 37 for using messaging app ByLock
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Willem Dafoe Explains Why He Wanted to Film 'Florida Project' at a Real Motel Near Disney
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Actor Willem Dafoe stars as a motel manager in upcoming film The Florida Project. The movie centers around the lives of families living in poverty in a motel near Disney World. The actor recently reflected on working with kids, filming at a real motel near Disney, and what the motel's real-life employees and residents were like.
This fall, find your kingdom. @A24 presents #TheFloridaProject, from acclaimed filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine). October 6. pic.twitter.com/SIZNGtl26f
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In an interview with Collider, Dafoe said he would have no interest in the movie if it were filmed on a set, as opposed to a real motel. "This would not be a movie that would interest me if we were shooting with a fake location," he said. "It was so rooted in the place and there were still residents there. The place was operational while we were shooting. It was like we were working side by side with the motel staff."
The movie, which is set to release in theaters Oct. 6, was filmed primarily in Osceola County, Orlando Sentinel reported. Dafoe plays Bobby, manager of the rundown, purple-colored Magic Castle hotel. Inhabitants barely get by with waitressing and scamming Disney tourists. Bobby takes it upon himself to help a young mother and her wild six-year-old daughter.
Brooklynn Prince and Willem Dafoe attend "The Florida Project" premiere during the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. | Joe Scarnici/Getty Images
Dafoe talked of working side by side with the staff of the motel, which was still functioning while filming took place. "And when we were shooting it was like literally me taking the seat of the manager for a few minutes and he'd go do some other maintenance. So it was nice because we had that foot in reality. It was concrete; and that helps not only keep you honest but to make sure you don't start making a silly fantasy or pointing fingers but also these people become your people … it's like you don't have to invent stuff because it's there. You just have to free it."
Florida Project received critical acclaim after it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Hollywood Reporter referred to the movie as "a fabulous mosaic of one particular pocket of America's invisible homeless population — families living hand-to-mouth in motels originally designed to catch the tourist overspill from the flashy theme-park resorts across town.
The film is directed by Sean Baker, adapted from a screenplay by Baker and Chris Bergoch. Its name is taken from the early project name given to Walt Disney World Resort.
In another upcoming movie role, Dafoe plays Aquaman's adviser, scientist Dr. Vulko, in Aquaman, which is set to release in December 2018.


Autism rates have been steadily increasing across the US for decades – but nowhere so steeply as in New Jersey, according to a new report.
While modest increases were seen in five other states tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, there has been a staggering 43 percent increase in autism among four-year-olds in just four years.
Awareness of autism has certainly increased and New Jersey has some of the most reliable data on the disorder, but the report's authors say that these factors aren't nearly enough to explain such a sharp rise.
What does explain New Jersey's high and growing rates of autism remains a mystery.
Nationwide, between one in 40 and one in 59 children has autism, depending on which estimate you look at.
In New Jersey, it's one in 35.
Across the seven states included in the new CDC study – Arizona, Colorado Missouri, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin, in addition to New Jersey – autism rates climbed by about 27 percent between 2010 and 2014.
Taken together, the average autism rate is 1.7 percent of four-year-old children.
But in New Jersey, it's three percent – up from one percent in 2000, and marking a 43 percent between 2010 and 2014.
The difference between a 27 percent increase and 43 percent increase is significant and, in this case, difficult to explain.
Autism as we know it – a diverse set of behavioral conditions on a spectrum – got its first recognition in 1994 in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) 4.
Because it described several subsets of characteristics to be treated uniquely, doctors started to learn more about the spectrum of disorders and diagnose more children with autism.
'As with any new invention or discovery, there are early adopters that take it on right away, then the bulk will take more time, so you expect rates to vary upward slightly with growing awareness,' says study co-author Dr Walter Zahorodny, a professor of pediatrics at Rutgers University.
'About 10 to 20 percent [of upward variation] could be explained by better awareness, so you might see a change of say 1.1 percent to 1.4 percent over four years, and then it would stabilize.
Autism is thought to begin with a genetic predisposition – so far, scientists have linked about 65 genes to the spectrum of disorders – and then get 'triggered' by environmental factors.
From there the possibilities become virtually endless.
The most substantial environmental links have been between autism and perinatal exposures, or things that happen while a baby is in the womb and just after their birth, including contact with pollution, having older parents, being a twin or multiple, premature birth, NICU stays and more.
Dr Zahorodny and his research team compared data on the perinatal risk factors faced by the children in their study to the data on rates of autism.
'A number of these factors involved with elevated risk of autism…are all independently or semi-independently risk factors for autism,' says Dr Zahorodny.
'However, all of them taken together don't seem to add up to a magnitude of increase in prevalence like we saw.
For eight-year-olds, the rate at all sites has increased by 150 percent since 2000.
But the surge among four-year-olds, who often don't have clear clinical symptoms yet, was an odd phenomenon and, rather unique to New Jersey out of the seven states.
Missouri had the lowest prevalence of autism, and there were no significant changes in it or any of the other states besides New Jersey.
But there's no clear explanation for the anomaly in New Jersey.
'There's something that might vary and cause rates to increase, something that would affect the broadest populations – all children, all backgrounds and regions seem to be effected – but I'm not even sure I have any good hypotheses about what it was,' Dr Zahorodny says.
For now, our best response to the finding is for everyone to have an eye out for autism, Dr Zahorodny says.
'If you have any question about your child's development between 18 and 30 months, bring it to your pediatrician or family practitioner's attention,' he suggests.


Are Palaistinian real or just a created modern word?
So, recently I watched Middle Ground with Palaistinians and Jews. I heard that Jews occupied Palaistinian's land and thats why they are fighting now.
So I decided to inquire a bit about that matter and found out that Palaistinians are most likely a made up term.
Before Palaistinians had my sympathies but now under new knowledge Jews have my sympathy as I fully understand how is that when foreign people inhabit your land in big waves and because of that main population becomes a minority in their own land.
So right now I am confused and wish to clarify that matter.
I'm afraid you've got it all wrong. Palestinian refers to the people of Historical Palestine, whether Muslim, Christian or Jew. They were the indigenous inhabitants of the region prior to Zionism and the modern Aliyah. The Israelis (or at least the large majority of them) are foreigners who built a new country on the ruins of Palestinian communities using terrorism, ethnic cleansing and colonial dispossession.
Btw, all borders and classifications for groups of people are inventions.
As I recall, up until sometime in the 60s or 70s, the media referred to an Arab-Isreali conflict.
As with any other word, the word itself is less important than the idea behind it. The words Israeli and Palestinian both came into existence in the 20th century. Most Israelis today are immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants. Most Palestinians are descended from people who've been living there for centuries.
George Carlin had a routine about how language changes. In WW1 there was a condition called shell shock. In WW2 it was called combat fatigue. In Korea it was battle exhaustion. In Vietnam it was post traumatic stress disorder. The words changed. The symptoms, the medical condition, and its effects did not change. It's an occupational hazard of historians. We tend to fixate on words. We should be trying to understand the ideas behind them.
The Ottoman Empire, which ruled the region for four centuries, did not possess an official term for the region. The area was usually called either Southern Syria or Palestine.
Well, I'd loved to see a free Constantinople City state. Have nothing against Turks, but I believe we lost big chunk of cultural legacy with it being completely turkified.
AFAIK there was a Jewish kingdom during Romans when they practically banished people from their own homeland. So it's just a historical justice that after thousands of years they are able to get back and re-create their own country. Is it not? And as much as I got before Jews it was just a wasteland and they made it flourish when they came there with hard work(and good funding).
And borders and "classificcations" are not just invention. It always existed. Even animals have borders not just humans.
Well, it's not like Jews moved from there out of their own volition. Israeli nad Jews are same thing to me. And Jews is a known word for a big chunk of time. But yeah, more the reason for them to sort it out since it all came down to it.
describes a person's place of residence, not an ethnic identity.
Palestine is an Ancient name of the region, so yes they are ehtinic group of arab people.
JaddHaidar from Syria wud be able to tell us a bit more about this.
French Report of Trafalgar: Real or Not?


Issue #12719 has been updated by Matthew Mongeau.
Other languages have operators for performing partial updates on maps. I feel like Struct could be more useful if it provided an easy way of performing partial (or full) updates.


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package com.amazonaws.services.redshift.model.transform;

import javax.annotation.Generated;

import com.amazonaws.SdkClientException;
import com.amazonaws.Request;
import com.amazonaws.DefaultRequest;
import com.amazonaws.http.HttpMethodName;
import com.amazonaws.services.redshift.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.Marshaller;
import com.amazonaws.util.StringUtils;

/**
 * AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest Marshaller
 */

@Generated("com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-code-generator")
public class AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequestMarshaller implements Marshaller<Request<AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest>, AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest> {

    public Request<AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest> marshall(AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest) {

        if (authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest == null) {
            throw new SdkClientException("Invalid argument passed to marshall(...)");
        }

        Request<AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest> request = new DefaultRequest<AuthorizeSnapshotAccessRequest>(authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest, "AmazonRedshift");
        request.addParameter("Action", "AuthorizeSnapshotAccess");
        request.addParameter("Version", "2012-12-01");
        request.setHttpMethod(HttpMethodName.POST);

        if (authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getSnapshotIdentifier() != null) {
            request.addParameter("SnapshotIdentifier", StringUtils.fromString(authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getSnapshotIdentifier()));
        }

        if (authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getSnapshotClusterIdentifier() != null) {
            request.addParameter("SnapshotClusterIdentifier", StringUtils.fromString(authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getSnapshotClusterIdentifier()));
        }

        if (authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getAccountWithRestoreAccess() != null) {
            request.addParameter("AccountWithRestoreAccess", StringUtils.fromString(authorizeSnapshotAccessRequest.getAccountWithRestoreAccess()));
        }

        return request;
    }

}

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What Do Mysterious Nord Stream Methane Leaks Mean for Climate Change?
Since 26 September, mysterious leaks have appeared in the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines—which run from Russia to Germany—close to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Given the tense energy situation between Russia and the West following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a real-life geopolitical whodunit has ensued, with NATO now among those attributing the leaks to sabotage. Seismologists picked up data that might help to pinpoint the cause of the leaks, and other researchers are trying to work out how much methane—a potent greenhouse gas—will be released as a result.
Overnight on 26 September, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline's operators saw a sudden pressure drop, from 105 bar (which is 105 times atmospheric pressure) to just 7 bar. Soon after, a 1-kilometre-wide area of the Baltic Sea's surface was bubbling with the escaping gas.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been shut since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, but it is still full of gas, which is assumed to be around 90% methane. The drop in pressure prompted seismologists to look more closely at their data, says Björn Lund at Uppsala University, Sweden. The attention on seismology data has made for an extraordinary week. "I've never experienced anything like it," says Lund, adding that his network detected seismic activity at the same time as the leak that is consistent with explosions, not earthquakes—which have a different seismic fingerprint.
Climate alert
The events have also put the climate community on alert. When Andrew Baxter, once an engineer in the oil and gas industry, now the director of energy transition at the Environmental Defense Fund, based in New York City, heard about the leak in Nord Stream 2, he "switched back into engineering mode" to try to quantify the resulting methane release. "I came up with a very rough estimate, there are so many variables and unknowns here, it's very difficult to definitively say how much methane has made it into the atmosphere," he says.
Baxter estimated that 115,000 tonnes of methane had probably been released during the initial sudden pressure drop in Nord Stream 2, on the basis of the pipe's dimensions and the water temperature. Per unit mass, methane has a much more potent greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide—particularly in the short term. Baxter says the overall impact of this leak is equivalent to the annual carbon emissions from two million cars.
"If these numbers end up being confirmed, it would be the one of the largest single leaks of natural gas in history in a single location," says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, a data-analysis non-profit organization in California. But he adds that this doesn't fundamentally change the magnitude of global emissions.
The event, although huge, accounts for around 0.14% of the global annual methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, says Mark Davis, chief executive of Capterio, a company in London that tracks gas flares from industry, but which didn't detect the vented gas because it isn't burning. He argues that, once the leak was discovered, setting it alight could have mitigated much of the damage, by converting the methane to carbon dioxide. Since the initial pressure drop in Nord Stream 2, leaks have also been reported in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs alongside it and is also currently not operational.
Satellite measurements
Measuring precisely how much methane has been emitted is going to take time. Efforts so far have been hampered by the quirks of geography and bad luck. The public satellites that environmental observations rely on were not facing the right way at the time, says Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate at Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain, who uses satellite data to measure atmospheric methane levels. And the cloud cover common at the northern latitudes meant that it was almost impossible to get any data. That is on top an inherent challenge in monitoring methane over water: water absorbs most of the sunlight and masks any signal from methane in a spectrometer.
The methane spike was detected from the ground by at least one observatory: the Swedish station of the European Integrated Carbon Observation System project at Hyltemossa.
In the coming days and weeks, scientists will continue to try to understand how much methane has been released as a result of the leaks. Seismologists might also be able to help to determine how the pipes were ruptured. By comparing the seismic data they collected on the Nord Stream explosions with that from previous naval blasts, Lund and his team already suspect TNT.
Lund and his colleagues are scrambling to work out from their seismic data exactly how many blasts occurred, but he notes that the complex geology of Earth's crust in the region between Denmark and Sweden makes it hard. "There's a very big change in the thickness of the crust of the rock material," he says.
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on September 30 2022.
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Q: How to connect mysql database with nodejs from google cloud I have a NodeJs application and MySQL database.
I have deployed nodejs application in google cloud and created MySQL database in google cloud and connected to nodejs application
i am able deploye the application successfully but application not able to connect to cloud mysql dayabase.
But when i am trying to connect cloud mysql from my local mysql workbench, it's successfully connecting to database. and i am able to connect cloud mysql database from local nodejs application
but i am not able to connect from deployed nodejs application to cloud mysql db
error Database is not connectedError: connect ETIMEDOUT
Db.js
var mysql = require('mysql');
var PropertiesReader = require('properties-reader');
var properties = PropertiesReader('./db.properties');

var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    connectionLimit : properties.get('pool'),
    host: properties.get('hostname'),
    user: properties.get('username'),
    password: properties.get('password'),
    database: properties.get('dbname')
});

connection.connect(function (err) {
    if (!err) {
        console.log("Database is connected");
    } else {
        console.log("Database is not connected" + err);
    }
}
);

module.exports = connection;

app.yaml
runtime: nodejs
env: flex

A: In your connection configuration for mysql,host does not work on App Engine. You have to use socketPath . socketPath is the path to a unix domain socket to connect to. Socket path must be something like this
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
  socketPath     : '/cloudsql/my-project-12345:us-central1:mydatabase',
  user      : 'username',
  password  : 'password',
  database  : 'db_name'
});
It's a similar process if you're using Postgres on GCloud which is answered here

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Top 11 Best Options Traders You Need to Follow Right Now
Looking for winning and profitable options trading ideas every day? Click here to apply for a membership with Options Trading Club!
A successful option trader can use research to its fullest potential and teach you how to trade. Good research enhances your options trading strategy, helps you be patient, and can enable you to make good profits. Options trading skills are not something you are inherently born with. It takes time to develop a level of expertise. Following a vetted trader can help speed up the process of learning how to trade outside of reading books and subscribing to options alerts . If you are brand new to trading you might want to learn about the best brokerage to use first as there are several including TD Ameritrade.
Best Options Traders
1. Gianmarco's OptionsTradingClub
2. Fuzz from Stock Dads
3. OptionMillionaires
4. Johns Charts
5. OptionsMike
6. OpenOutcrier
7. SteadyOptions
8. OptionsHawk
9. Schaeffer's Investment Research
10. Option Strategist
11. Option Alpha
Here are 10 best options traders that are great resources and can help you build your options trading skills.
This is one of the best discord servers out there when it comes to options trading and if you are looking to potentially be a profitable trader. Often Discord servers face the problem of too much noise. OTC has ensured that the quality of people who come in to learn and trade is maintained at a high level. It provides several different options strategies so there is definitely something for any level of trader. While it started as a premium closed group community for selected individuals, it is now open via application to maintain the quality of the community with only serious traders looking to level up their options trading skillset. You'll understand why people are lining up to join the Options Trading Club discord.
One of the best options traders in the game is Fuzz, an exclusive analyst from Stock Dads. He is Stock Dads Lead Analyst, and for good reason. He is an incredible full-time professional trader who consistently trades at a win rate of 70%+. More importantly, he trades live every day in the Stock Dads Discord and spends a ton of time mentoring and guiding new traders on their own journeys. His style consists mainly of directional options and the occasional breakout swings and debit spreads. Also known as "The Wizard" because of his technical analysis sorcery, he has created, and regularly adds to, the Technical Wizard course. This is another Stock Dads exclusive perk to teach all things Technical Analysis.
He personally utilizes a variety of technical indicators based on the trade including EMAs, MACDs, RSI, ADX, Bollinger Bands, SMAs, VWAP, and TTM Squeeze to determine which trade set-ups present the best risk/reward opportunities. If you want to trade with and learn directly from Fuzz, aka "The Wizard", you can only find him in the Stock Dads Discord. His alerts alone are well worth the subscription price if you're a serious options trader, or want to learn how to become one. Hashtag Investing readers get 30% OFF Stock Dads Discord chatroom using coupon code 30HASH.
This is a community of stock traders specializing in trading options. Their Twitter handle @OMillionaires has over 127,000 followers. They call themselves the Best Options Trading Community. Their website has a bunch of fantastic resources for stock trading. The flagship product is the livestock options chat room. The chat room gets active an hour before markets open.
They have different membership tiers, ranging from $29.99 to $149.99 a month. They have a 3-day free trial period. A full membership gives you access to the chat room and regular weekly webinars. Their track records include one member who transformed a $200 trade into $48,000 and another who transformed $2,000 into $150,000.
This Twitter handle, @johnscharts, has over 164,500 followers. John has been trading for over 23 years and is known for delivering the right investment strategies according to market conditions. The site says, "We realize most traders don't like doing the research when investing in stocks, so this platform may give you ideas if they meet your strategy and financial goals." This is a great tool to find the best 50 from 9,700 listed stocks. Membership to JohnsCharts includes Stock/Options ideas from Focus/Momentum Lists, Zoom and Chat, Market Environment Signals, and access to watchlist archives. Membership prices start from $69 a month to $799 for a lifetime membership service.
Mike Pisani is an options swing trader. Mike "follows the options flow while looking for unusual activity to show him where big money is flowing." This could be a sectoral bet or a repeated call buying a single stock where he makes his money for that day. His Twitter handle @OptionsMike has almost 82,000 followers.
Membership to his services starts at an introductory $25 monthly and is later charged at $100 monthly. Membership gives you access to a "Live Trade Room running from pre-market through the close, including Alerts, Option flow, news, and tradable ideas delivered real-time via our private Twitter feed." You also get a weekly newsletter and one-on-one training. This is an excellent resource if you are a beginner.
This great integrated newsfeed tool ensures you are always on top of stock and options news. It's Twitter handle @OpenOutcrier has around 79,000 followers. Its main feature is the Open Outcrier Feed which delivers info from its Twitter and StockTwits feeds. This info reaches subscribers first and social media later. It also features unusual options activity, large block trades, and commentary. The feed also includes trader chatter and rumors outside of standard news services. You can sign up for a free two-week trial; the charges are $99 per month. It's an excellent resource for experienced options traders.
Kim Klaiman is the founder of this site, which is an excellent resource for options education and trade ideas. His Twitter handle @SteadyOptions_ has over 53,400 followers. SteadyOptions has a track record of 10 years of steady profits. It provides four types of plans across different trading styles.
The Steady Options plan is suited for options traders. It starts at $147 for a month, $385 for a quarter, and $1,295 for a year. The site says, "SteadyOptions is a Premium Options Trading advisory service. We offer a combination of high-quality education and actionable trade ideas. The forum focuses on non-directional strategies like earnings plays based on Implied Volatility, Long Straddles, Iron Condors, Calendar Spreads, Butterflies, etc."
This is one of the best idea generation and research sites for options and stock trading. It prides itself on the "accurate, unique, and high-quality analysis of the equity and options market in real time." It provides a full suite of research and analysis to allow investors to make better-informed decisions. OptionsHawk has two products: Hawk Max and Hawk Elite plans. The Hawk Max costs $300 for 30 days, while the Elite costs $149 for the same period. You can opt-in for a trial plan where you pay $99 for 15 days for Max and $49 for Elite. The Twitter handle @OptionsHawk has almost 97,000 followers.
When you check out its Twitter handle @schaeffers, you might be put off by only 7,200 followers. But don't let this small number fool you. Schaeffer's is the longest-running options trade alert provider in the world. It prides itself on outstanding stock and options trading recommendations, options education, and market commentary. It enables retail investors to trade at a professional level. Its flagship offering is The Option Advisor; a monthly newsletter started in 1981 that features a variety of options, trade recommendations, and educational market commentary. It has a multitude of plans for everyone, from beginners to experts.
Founded by Lawrence G. McMillan, Options Strategist has provided options-oriented advice, money management, and education since 1990. While you can subscribe to the newsletter and educational content here, hardcore options traders will make a beeline for its analysis products. A monthly subscription for the McMillan Spike-Peak Index Buy Signals starts at $30 and goes to $249 monthly for the Expected Return Calculator. There are also a bunch of products in between. McMillan's Twitter handle @Optstrategist has only 14,700 followers, but you are not paying him for his takes on social media.
Their philosophy is best summed up by the first words you read on their website: Every investor should have access to pro trading tools. They have used technology in many ways to enable great trading for retail investors. The monthly membership for its Basic plan is $29.95, while the Elite plan will cost you $199.95 monthly. It's no surprise that their Twitter handle @OptionAlpha has over 30,500 followers.
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package com.example.android.background.utilities;

import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.os.Build;
import android.support.v4.app.NotificationCompat;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;

import com.example.android.background.MainActivity;
import com.example.android.background.R;

import static android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN;

/**
 * Utility class for creating hydration notifications
 */
public class NotificationUtils {
    private static final int WATER_REMINDER_PENDING_INTENT_ID = 100;
    private static final int WATER_REMINDER_NOTIFICATION_ID = 1200;

    // This method will create a notification for charging. It might be helpful
    // to take a look at this guide to see an example of what the code in this method will look like:
    // https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification.html
    public static void remindUserBecauseCharging(Context context) {
        // - sets the title to the charging_reminder_notification_title String resource
        // - sets the text to the charging_reminder_notification_body String resource
        // - sets the style to NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText(text)
        // - sets the notification defaults to vibrate
        // - uses the content intent returned by the contentIntent helper method for the contentIntent
        // - automatically cancels the notification when the notification is clicked
        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
                .setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.colorPrimary))
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_drink_notification)
                .setLargeIcon(largeIcon(context))
                .setContentTitle(context.getString(R.string.charging_reminder_notification_title))
                .setContentText(context.getString(R.string.charging_reminder_notification_body))
                .setStyle(new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText(
                        context.getString(R.string.charging_reminder_notification_body)))
                .setDefaults(NotificationCompat.DEFAULT_VIBRATE)
                .setContentIntent(contentIntent(context))
                .setAutoCancel(true);

        // If the build version is greater than JELLY_BEAN, set the notification's priority
        // to PRIORITY_HIGH.
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > JELLY_BEAN) {
            builder.setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_HIGH);
        }

        // Get a NotificationManager, using context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        NotificationManager notificationManager =
                (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

        // Trigger the notification by calling notify on the NotificationManager.
        // Pass in a unique ID of your choosing for the notification and notificationBuilder.build()
        notificationManager.notify(WATER_REMINDER_NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());
    }

    // Create a helper method called contentIntent with a single parameter for a Context. It should
    // return a PendingIntent. This method will create the pending intent which will trigger when
    // the notification is pressed. This pending intent should open up the MainActivity.
    private static PendingIntent contentIntent(Context context) {
        Intent mainActivityIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
        return PendingIntent.getActivity(
                context,
                WATER_REMINDER_PENDING_INTENT_ID,
                mainActivityIntent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
    }

    // Create a helper method called largeIcon which takes in a Context as a parameter and returns a
    // Bitmap. This method is necessary to decode a bitmap needed for the notification.
    private static Bitmap largeIcon(Context context) {
        // Get a Resources object from the context.
        Resources resources = context.getResources();

        // Create and return a bitmap using BitmapFactory.decodeResource, passing in the
        // resources object and R.drawable.ic_local_drink_black_24px
        return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(resources, R.drawable.ic_local_drink_black_24px);
    }
}


Quarterback Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints couldn't have asked for a sweeter, more dominating "Get Right" game this week after an embarrassing loss to the Seahawks last Monday, capped off by travel issues that stranded them in Seattle for an extra night on an already shortened week.
Sunday night on prime time television against the Carolina Panthers, the Saints and Brees spanked their NFC South rivals, established at least temporary ownership of the division's playoff spot and left the NFL stat recorders furiously re-writing the record books.
Brees joined the exclusive 50,000-yard club in the fourth quarter when he connected with tight end Jimmy Graham for a 22-yard pass. Brees entered the game needing 287 yards to reach 50,000. That pass gave him 296.
Brees now joins an elite group of quarterback icons: Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and John Elway. However Brees has an asterisk by his name because he gained his membership in the 50,000-yard club in just 183 games, the fastest of the five players.
Sunday night, Brees also became the first quarterback to throw for more than 4,000 yards in eight consecutive seasons.
Brees wrapped up Sunday's performance with 313 yards and four touchdowns.
Most importantly though, the Saints defeated the Panthers 31-13, drawing first blood in a duel with the Panthers that resumes in Carolina in 2 weeks, on December 22. Both teams came into this Sunday's game with identical records. This win, at home, was crucial for the Black and Gold's playoff aspirations.
The 10-3 Saints now own the NFC's second-best record behind the Seahawks, a one-game division lead over the Panthers (9-4) and control of their own destiny.