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Asik's Value
Who could I trade Asik for? Do you think any of these one to one trades would be fair (I know some are bad but I want to find out the general opinion):
1. Asik for Anthony Davis
2. Asik for Pau Gasol
3. Asik for Gortat
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7. Asik for Thaddeus YoungSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
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If your trying to maximize Asik's value you shouldn't be shooting for a big man for big man trade...try and fine someone desperate for a C/PF that is guard heavy..still lawson is too much...maybe u can land someone like Felton if someone is in desperate need
If you play in a H2H league, Asik's value should be higher than the list of Blatche, Drummond, Okafor, Pachulia that someone has mentioned below. If your league formats include offensive rebounds, his value should be even higher and close to late mid-round.
If you can pull off ANY of these trades, then I tip my hat to you. NONE of them are fair, but I think Gortat would be the closest, only because of his disappointing start and lack of minutes... Even with Gasol's injury and bad start, the owner would be an idiot to make that trade. I would also highly disagree with the person who said Thad Young is a possibility. He is averaging nearly 14 and 8, with 1.5 stls, .7 blocks, over 50% from the field, and although his FT% is low, his career average is higher so the chance of him improving in pretty good, and he also doesn't attempt a high number so it doesn't effect your team as much. He also has a low TO rate.
Comparing that to Asik, you'd be getting an upgrade of roughly 4 rebounds per game and less than half a block more per game. For a downgrade in FG%, FT%, points, assists, steals and TO's. If your league has A/TO ratio, a player who averages over 3 TO's per game with only 1 assist per game hurts, as does his low FT% on more than twice the attempts per game compared to Young.
Asik helps in rebounds and blocks, hurts in FT% and TO's, and does nothing in the rest of the categories. All the players you listed are either studs, or borderline studs, some of which just happened to get off to a bad start.
Unless you have some managers with very low IQ's in your league, I think you will have to revalue Asik, or plan on keeping him.
Not that I'm recommending these guys, but I think a more realistic list would be players like: Blatche, Drummond, Okafor, Pachulia maybe those guys are a little low, but much closer than what you've listed.
I'd be happy if I could get someone with upside like Seraphin, Vucevic, or maybe at the most a JJ Hickson caliber player?
anyone that would take asik over those guys is a fool. maybe davis if hes that worried about the injury or gortat or hibbert if theyre really freaking out but i would hit reject real quick if i was offered any of those
T. Young is possible. 1-6 are impossible to get..
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He has an example of a business Twitter application. However, I didn't think he fleshed out the example all that much. It could have been a common theme that tied the sections of the book together in a more seamless way.
If you're a designer or programmer who has never been exposed to any of these topics, then you should read it. It will give you a good start on an important topic.
It is a pretty quick read, as I read it over two evenings. It was time well spent for me, and probably for you.
The biggest downside is the lack of color. In my opinion, books about design really should be printed in color. I know Pragmatic Programmers are a small publisher with limited runs, but I don't mind paying extra to cover the additional printing costs. I would like to have seen more analysis of existing designs as well, pointing out the UX errors. Perhaps in a future edition Mathis could take a wireframe of a hypothetical app (or two) that a novice designer might have made, and then walked through the iterative process of improving it. I think this would work well as an appendix perhaps. The book would have benefited from more detail and examples on designing custom controls; perhaps we could have seen a dozen or more examples of custom buttons or other UX widgets and Mathis could have deconstructed why they are good/bad. I also found some of the UX testing to be a bit repetitious and felt that some of the chapters on testing could have been merged. The book is still 5/5 and a great value as is.
No matter whether your project is a website, a digital interface for a communication device, or some kind of CRM-Software, to name just a few - and no matter if you are a designer or a programming pro - you will take big profit from «Designed for Use».
I do not come from the technology side (I'm a graphic designer) and still I read the book in one go. Not all the chapters did have the same level of relevance for my work, but the cleverness contained within definitely helped me to increase my overall awareness towards user experience.
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Richard Norton joined MLA as Managing Director in June 2014. The fifth generation of a beef and sheep farming family from Monaro NSW, Richard began his working life as a rouseabout and jackaroo. He has spent more than 20 years serving livestock producers as a stock agent and auctioneer across NSW, where he still farms beef. His drive to see Australian agribusiness thrive has led him to hold various executive positions, including Head of Live Export and International Trade and then Managing Director of Landmark Operations Australia, a subsidiary of Agrium Inc based in North America. In addition to roles in agribusiness, Richard has held executive positions in retail, manufacturing, logistics and warehousing with Woolworths, Coca Cola, Wesfarmers and Toll Holdings. Richard has an MBA from Monash University, and has held various Board positions including Agrium Asia Pacific, the Australian Wheat Board, RD1 New Zealand, Landmark Harcourts and Australian Wool Handlers. He was also Chairman of Integrated Traceability Solutions (Global) and AuctionsPlus. Mr Norton is also a director of MLA Donor Company Limited, National Livestock Identification System Limited, Red Meat Traceability Systems Pty Ltd and AUS-MEAT Limited.
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Hearty Breakfast of Croissant, ham, bacon, sausages, salami and scrambled eggs with milk!
We went for breakfast begrudgingly and everyone was seen disgruntled by last night's episode. Apparently, the tour agent's boss was also in Paris and he happened to stay in the same hotel! We were very relieved and hoped to convey a message to the boss that, we didn't like the tour guide.
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The view on the way to Reims is breathtaking!
We made our way to Reims to visit a GH & Mumm's champagne factory. The way the tour guide talk also took 180 degrees transformation! He joked and was polite, totally different from the first day when he was grumpy like he was post menopausal and conceited! We prayed really hard that the boss would continue to join us for the rest of the trip, so that we did not have to suffer his "Hyde" side. When he asked how's breakfast, I was so bloody tempted to say out loud, "Why is there no banana peel or egg shells to eat?" just to mock him!
Visiting GH & Mumm
Well, we decided not to let yesterday's incident to dampen our holiday spirit! I bought brut rose champagne (€33) for my sister and husband to celebrate their first year marriage anniversary, even though I was a month late. Heh! Apparently, we can only use the word "champagne" in Paris and no other places in the world. France had taken this case to courts all over the world; more than 700 times and eventually, won the case. "Champagne" from other countries should refer to as sparkling wine. I guess that was why I saw the word sparkling wine when I visited Domain Chandon in Melbourne 2 years ago. Each of us was given a glass of champagne – Mumm de Gramant blanc de blancs, which was said to be a "vintage".
Reims Cathedral
After visiting the champagne factory, we stopped by to visit the Notre Dame cathedral in Reims. It was a smaller one compared to the rather magnificent Notre Dame in the city! Nevertheless, the architecture was simply breathtaking! It was backdated to the 12th century! This building made me feel rather sad for Malaysia. We can't even keep a 100+ year old jail in-tact. No doubt prison is not a very nice place to remember by, but at least, it can fetch money for tourism like the Alcatraz in US! Our government doesn't even want to know our own history and decided to rewrite history themselves! And they want to make history as compulsory subject to pass in school! What history? It can kiss my ass!
After that, we were already on our way for lunch. Lunch was at this small quaint French restaurant in Reims, also serving a 3-course meal. The fried potatoes and creamy mushroom and chicken were simply delicious but unfortunately, gave more pain to my already aching sore throat. I find the French can really eat despite their svelte figures. On our way into the restaurant, we saw two ladies having an 8 inch pizza EACH! We celebrated birthdays of our fellow travel mates for October. I guess it's the way of the manager to apologize for the idiocy of his tour guide!
I've mistaken the crowd going into Louis Vuitton as protestors going for demonstration against the new pension plan!
The rest of the day was spent at Champs Elysees. Most of the tour mates were brand crazy so they joined the maddening crowd making a beeline to enter Louis Vuitton boutique. My friends and I on the other hand, do not conform to such herd mentality. No offence, but I really feel that LV, despite being such a prestigious brand, it's just downright too tacky! You actually don't see many locals using this brand! They probably spotted with more Chanel than LV! I think these people don't even know how to pronounce Louis Vuitton correctly! Owning an LV bag doesn't mean it would alleviate your social status! Like owning a DSLR camera doesn't guarantee you great pictures! Same principle!
Hot stuff strutting down Champs Elysees
We were deliberating on which café to sit and contemplating the menu at George V Café when suddenly, a waiter appeared from the sheltered make shift al-fresco tent and said "Konnichiwa!" We laughed out loud and said that, we were not Japanese. He asked where we were from and we said "Malaysia!" almost unanimously. He reverted by saying, "Ni Hao!" and gestured us to go into the café. We obliged willingly.
One of the many sidewalk shops selling newspapers, mags, snacks & little knick knacks
We spent the hours away, sitting idly at George V Café along Champs Elysees, chatting, laughing and watched the world went by. I had my caffeine fix for the day, café au lait. We were also served mini salty pretzels. Parisians mostly dress in shades of black, grey and brown – contributed more subdued colors to the already pale city.
And to the stupid tour guide who said this is not a romantic city – eat this! I've taken so many pictures of couples being in love and kissing on the entire stretch of Champs Elysees!
Glad to say it was quite a relaxing and enjoyable day.


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The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected socialist president was murdered by the Chilean military in the initial stages of the coup of September 11, 1973, or whether he committed suicide as coup leader General Augusto Pinochet claimed. The 65-year-old president had been in office for three years.
An official investigation has also been opened into the death of world-renowned Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda, who died on September 23, 1973. His death, the junta reported, was from prostate cancer, but newly released military files indicate he too may have been murdered by the Pinochet regime. Neruda was 69 at the time of his death. Neruda's driver has said the poet had been poisoned by Pinochet's henchmen.
Judge Mario Carroza ordered investigations into both deaths. While most appear to support the investigations, some say they will "open up old wounds." While Pinochet continues to have supporters in the Chilean right, most want to see the truth, and perhaps justice.
The wanton nature of Pinochet's regime and their foreign backers, particularly U.S. President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, have caused many to call into question the true nature of the self proclaimed "greatest democracy in the world" and its foreign policy. Even prior to Salvador Allende's election to the presidency in 1970, the U.S. government was at work interfering with Chile's internal affairs and sovereignty. Nixon and Kissinger had funneled in several million dollars to candidates opposing Allende before the election and continued funding opposition figures after the election.
Allende's first act as president was to make sure all school children had milk. This was done because he, as a medical doctor, saw developmental deficiencies in many poor children and he felt the inclusion of milk in their diet would greatly improve their health and wellbeing. Support for Allende and his Popular Unity coalition allies was prevalent among the copper miners, unionists and shantytown dwellers. The political right, rich and foreign corporate interests, particularly Kennecott Copper, Anaconda and International Telephone and Telegraph, were all set in opposition to Allende, particularly as he nationalized most major corporations in the belief that the revenue from a nation's resources should be directed towards the common good, development and poverty alleviation rather than to enrich corporations.
Nixon and Kissinger were particularly active in attempting to manipulate Chile's internal affairs immediately after the election of Salvador Allende. The first act of violent opposition to Allende's government was the assassination of General Rene Schneider on October 22, 1970, who was sympathetic to Chilean democracy. The assassination opened the door for Pinochet to then lead the military.
60 Minutes aired an episode outlining the Schneider story just a few days before the second 9/11 occurred.
Throughout the Allende presidency, the U.S. ran constant interference with Chile's trade and international banking relations. Because of the constant interference and ultimately, the violent U.S. led overthrow of the elected government, we were never allowed to see what a free, socialist Chile would have looked like.
After the coup, with Pinochet in power, Kennecott and Anaconda were free to extract Chile's mineral wealth with no concern for the society or land they saw around them.
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Chile's Road to Socialism by Salvador Allende
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Why is the Core i3-2100T better in game tests than the E-350.
It uses even less energy in 1080p playback.
E-350 certainly isn't going to be better in CPU performance but also a slower GPU/UVD3 for about the same power.
i3-2100T TDP is 35W
E-350 TDP is 18W
It looks like the CPU is the bottleneck for the GPU of the E-350.
Ordinary Kill-a-watt measurement makes no sense in low power platforms. Most of the power is lost during conversion. Linus tech tips measured 32W for a C-50 tablet, but that thing runs 6 hours on a 28Whr battery.
Low TDP does not make E-350 a power efficient processor, just because its raw performance is too weak. It's not surprising E-350 consumes more power than i3 2100T in some of the tests: it has too little compute power, so it needs to be highly loaded in order to complete that task; i3 has a lot to spare, so the workload is very low. This is also the problem for Atom: a weak processor need to work continuously to finish the task done very quickly on a faster processor, which can be idle for most of the time.
Sandybridge is faster and more efficient than Zactate, that's a given because it's 2 times larger, built on 32nm and cost you two times the money. There is no free lunch here. But being 4 times faster than E-350 does not make it a good processor. Llano will have more-much, much more compute power and should consume similar power and it will crush SNB with ease. On the other hand, being only one fourth as fast as Sandybridge does not make Zactate a poor processor: Atom is too slow to do anything, but Zactate can do whatever you throw at it. This relative advantage makes Zactate very competitive in low-end desktop and netbooks; Sandybridge does not aim at this market segment at all.
The numbers themselves have no problem. But the article itself is the problem. It's the same thing as comparing a Chevy with Mercedes.
The XBit review admits that there is a better MOBO to use that does use a few watts less than the i3. Plus Zacate was built for low power entry level perf and shouldn't be compared to an i3. The low voltage Llanos will fit that niche. Perhaps when the 28nm happens the clocks will rise enough from 1.6GHz to make a better competitor for those chips but that's still not the market it addresses. Especially in price.


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Copyrights for articles published in CCSE journals are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author. A Synthetic Player for Ayὸ Board Game Using Alpha-Beta Search and Learning Vector Quantization http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/view/59130 Game playing especially, Ayὸ game has been an important topic of research in artificial intelligence and several machine learning approaches have been used, but the need to optimize computing resources is important to encourage significant interest of users. This study presents a synthetic player (Ayὸ) implemented using Alpha-beta search and Learning Vector Quantization network. The program for the board game was written in Java and MATLAB. Evaluation of the synthetic player was carried out in terms of the win percentage and game length. The synthetic player had a better efficiency compared to the traditional Alpha-beta search algorithm. Oluwatobi, A. Ayilara Anuoluwapo, O. Ajayi Kudirat, O. Jimoh Copyright (c) 2016 Computer and Information Science 2016-06-19 2016-06-19 9 3 1 10.5539/cis.v9n3p1 Assortativity Analysis of Real-World Network Graphs based on Centrality Metrics http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/view/59661
Assortativity index (A. Index) of real-world network graphs has been traditionally computed based on the degree centrality metric and the networks were classified as assortative, dissortative or neutral if the A. Index values are respectively greater than 0, less than 0 or closer to 0. In this paper, we evaluate the A. Index of real-world network graphs based on some of the commonly used centrality metrics (betweenness, eigenvector and closeness) in addition to degree centrality and observe that the assortativity classification of real-world network graphs depends on the node-level centrality metric used. We also propose five different levels of assortativity (strongly assortative, weakly assortative, neutral, weakly dissortative and strongly dissortative) for real-world networks and the corresponding range of A. Index value for the classification. We analyze a collection of 50 real-world network graphs with respect to each of the above four centrality metrics and estimate the empirical probability of observing a real-world network graph to exhibit a particular level of assortativity. We claim that a real-world network graph is more likely to be neutral with respect to the betweenness and degree centrality metrics and more likely to be assortative with respect to the eigenvector and closeness centrality metrics.
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Chest pain is considered to be one of the most important prognoses to diagnose several heart and chest diseases. This domain of knowledge suffers from vague information especially when non specialist people interact with it. This paper presents a consultation system to be used by patients with chest pain or discomfort in order to diagnose the cause of the pain and provide suitable recommendations. The system consists of two subsystems. Determining the caused of the pain is the first stage based on the fuzzy concepts and fuzzy OWL to deal with vague information. Depending on the result of the first stage, the second stage provides recommendations to be accomplished by the patient to save their lives according to SWRL and Ontology engineering. The system has been tested using 55 patients to validate its sensitivity and specificity. The results were compared with the specialists' opinion and the results emphasized the efficiency and the reliability of the system.
 Baydaa Al-Hamadani Copyright (c) 2016 Computer and Information Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2016-07-28 2016-07-28 9 3 26 10.5539/cis.v9n3p26 Refinement for Ocular Ultrasound Images Quality by Utilizing Combination of Enhancement Techniques http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/view/60964 Ultrasound has been used as a diagnostic modality for many intraocular diseases, due its safety, low cost, real time and wide availability. Unfortunately, ultrasound images suffer from speckle artifact that are tissue dependent. In this work, we will offer a method to reduce speckle noise and improve ultrasound image to raise the human diagnostic performance. This method combined undecimated wavelet transform with a wavelet coefficient mapping function: where UDWT used to eliminate the noise and a wavelet coefficient mapping function used to enhance the contrast of denoised images obtained from the first component. This methods can be used not only as a means for improving visual quality of medical images but also as a preprocessing module for computer-aided detection/diagnosis systems to improve the performance of screening and detecting regions of interest in images. The proposed method is experimentally evaluated via 60 ultrasound images of eye. It is demonstrated that the proposed method can further improve the image quality of ocular ultrasound; the results reveal the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method. Zinah Rajab Hussein Zaid Rajab Hussein Copyright (c) 2016 Computer and Information Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2016-07-28 2016-07-28 9 3 37 10.5539/cis.v9n3p37 Observation of a Most Phenomenal Computed Calligraphy in Quran http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/view/60826 Observation of a multifaceted mathematical-computational structure of Quran through analysis of its letter and word frequencies and important implications of such observations have been extensively explained and discussed in a recent article: "Khodadoost B. (2015) The Computed Scripture: Exponentially Based Fourier Regulated Construct of Quran and its fundamentally important Consequences". In the present article we report observation of yet another facet of this mathematical structure of Quran which is a phenomenal "parametric name-printing". This observation has been made through a systematic compute-plot algorithm which uses the given name and chapter frequencies of letters in Quran as its input and shows in the output, calligraphic printing in Arabic of the same name. Several names of God, Major Prophets, and even some physicists are shown to clearly manifest these calligraphic effects. Sensitivities of these observations to changes in letter frequencies in Quran are so high that increase or decrease of even one letter and only in one chapter of Quran can completely demolish the calligraphic effects. These astonishing observations not only are extremely important and interesting in their own right, but also point to an immensely complicated and intricate super-intelligent mathematical design of Quran and reinforce "Mathematically Fully constrained Writing" or MFCW identity of this scripture and its consequences, as have been explained in the above article. Baback Khodadoost Copyright (c) 2016 Computer and Information Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2016-07-28 2016-07-28 9 3 42 10.5539/cis.v9n3p42 Mobile Network Planing Process Case Study - 3G Network http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/cis/article/view/59827 Third Generation cellular networks (3G) were developed with the aim of offering high data rates up to 2Mbps and 384Kbps for stationary and mobile users respectively which allows the operators to offer a multimedia connectivity and other data services to the end customers. In this work we apply techniques to design a 3G radio network, in particular we study the planning and implementation in developing countries, and state of Palestine as a case study. In order to carry a 3G radio network planning for a selected regions, we must follow a roadmap consists of set of phases; First of all, we must determine the region under study on the digitized map in order to obtain some useful information, such as the area distribution; thus using digital maps gives a good clearness for areas classification, land use, land terrain, heights, vectors, etc. Also we must forecast subscriber profile to perform coverage and capacity dimensioning process to achieve nominal cell plan. This paper work studies Nablus as one of the major Palestinian cities. then, subscriber forecast profile is applied in order to calculate the service traffic demand, the capacity and and coverage requirements, this study is carried in corporation with Wataniya which is one of the leading mobile telecommunication service provider in Palestine. For Nablus city we've found that 28 sites are required to be installed to meet the given capacity requirements, on the other hand 46 sites are for coverage. At this point we should make decision about how many site will be implemented. In general we have to select number of sites relative to coverage requirement; so to serve Nablus city by 3G services we should implement 46 sites. At final stage, we have to be sure that our proposed 3G network is suitable not only for the first year of running the 3G services over the deployed network, our design takes into consideration the growth of subscribers number and their demands, so periodically, the networking administrators and the network planning department, assess the network current status and upgrade the network to meet the future demands. Saed Tarapiah Shadi Atalla Kamarul Faizal Bin Hashim Motaz Daadoo Copyright (c) 2016 Computer and Information Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2016-07-30 2016-07-30 9 3 115 10.5539/cis.v9n3p115


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