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A collection of over 100 of the best technology quotes.
Most popular technology quotes
Man cannot live by technology alone.
— Arnold J. Toynbee Civilization on Trial
Invention is the mother of necessity.
— Melvin Kranzberg Kranzberg's laws of technology
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
— Edward Teller The Legacy of Hiroshima
Modern technology owes ecology an apology.
— Alan M. Eddison
Technology comes in packages, big and small.
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.
— Jennifer Stone Mind Over Media
Today even our clocks are not made of clockwork.
— Ian Stewart
That great, growling engine of change—technology.
— Alvin Toffler Future Shock
Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
Technology: the invention, manufacture, and use of tools.
— Arnold J. Toynbee A Study of History
What the country needs are a few labour-making inventions.
— Arnold Glasow
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.
— Daniel Kleppner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
— B. F. Skinner
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
— Daniel Bell The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys
— Arthur C. Clarke Profiles of the Future
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
— Buckminster Fuller
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
— Frank Lloyd Wright in The New York Times Magazine
Technology is a very human activity - and so is the history of technology.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
— Al Boliska
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
— Karl Marx
All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Technology ... the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.
— Max Frisch Homo Faber
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
— Max Frisch
Ours is the age, that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
— Mumford Jones
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate, and stupid.
— William M. Kelly
artificial intelligence computers machines
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
— Larry Niven
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
— J. K. Rowling
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
— Aldous Huxley Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
— Whitney M. Young
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
— Ellen Glasgow Letters of Ellen Glasgow
mind invention
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
— Colin McEnroe
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Science in the service of humanity is technology, but lack of wisdom may make the service harmful.
— Isaac Asimov
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
— Alice Kahn
The important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.
— Jacquetta Hawkes Under Bow Bells
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
Remember, nothing that's good works by itself just to please you. You've got to make the damn thing work.
— Thomas Edison
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
— Walter Lippmann
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Technology doesn't just do things for us.  It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
— Sherry Turkle
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
— John Stuart Mill
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it— whether it be a factory or a government.
— Alexander Chase
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
— Sydney Harris
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
— Eric Hoffer
Technology...is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
— C. P. Snow in The New York Times
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
— Carrie Snow
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
Technology ... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
— C. P. Snow
The acceleration of technological progress has created an urgent need for a counter ballast—for high-touch experience.
— John Naisbitt Megatrends
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Humanity's fundamental weakness is to think we can save ourselves by getting aboard our own design with controls in hand.
— Billy Graham The Reason for My Hope: Salvation
(Graham writes this in the context of an example of the power of Nature over man's technology. Specifically, he was referring to 2012 Costa Concordia disaster where an Italian cruise ship capsized and killed 33 people.)
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self- adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E. F. Schumacher
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you.
— Charlie Munger A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business, USC Business School, 1994 http://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html
(explaining that it's possible that technological innovation reduces costs but that the cost reductions benefit the customer instead of the business.)
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
— Havelock Ellis
Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
— T. S. Eliot
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
— Jesse James Garrett
The most profound technologies are those that disappear.  They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
— Mark Weiser Scientific American
Concerns for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
— John F. Kennedy
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
— Neil Postman The Disappearance of Childhood
The next digital literacy won't be about the nuts and bolts of how to use the web or a mobile phone, but how to set boundaries about when we let them encroach on our downtime.
— Aleks Krotoski Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You
social media Internet education
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man—the airplane, the automobile, the computer—says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
— Mark Kennedy
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
— Warren Bennis
artificial intelligence machines
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
— Alan Kay
Men are going to have to learn to be managers in a world where the organization will come close to consisting of all chiefs and one Indian. The Indian, of course, is the computer.
— Thomas L. Whisler
computers artificial intelligence
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.
Without even noticing, just as astronomy entered a golden age most people cut themselves off from the sky, a cosmic isolationism that ended only with the dawn of space exploration.
— Carl Sagan Contact
(Sagan is writing about how, as technology has developed, light pollution in cities has made the night skies starless.)
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
— Steve Jobs Fortune Magazine, November 9, 1994
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely.  But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.
— Freeman Dyson Disturbing the Universe
When Consumer Reports begins to describe the potential for dire calamity that lies behind most everyday activities, my hands tremble, my vision blurs, and I have to go lie quietly for a while.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labour-saving machinery it employs.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
— Ellen Goodman
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labour does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
— Pearl Buck
We don't think that televisions and personal computers are going to merge. We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
— Steve Jobs Macworld, February 2, 2004
television computers
We cannot get grace from gadgets.  The dishes in the bakelite houses of the future may not break, but the heart can.  A man may be as unhappy in the spun glass trousers of tomorrow as he is today in worsted ones.
— J. B. Priestley Here's a Faith For You
To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
— Antonio Garcia Martinez Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
artificial intelligence future
Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the New Technology.  The father was a Corporation, and the New Technology grew up in the Corporate image.
— Alice Embree Sisterhood is Powerful
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
— Dennis Gabor Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social
[Social] networks, search engines and e-commerce sites are conceptually designed to reduce our concerns about privacy. The technologies themselves aren't passive. "These technologies are as neutral as guns", says Jim Adler.
— Aleks Krotoski
Internet social media
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
— Bill Vaughan
A good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls 'turn-key totalitarianism'.
— John Perry Barlow
future freedom
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man—if man is not enslaved by it.
— Jonas Salk
Technology can help create or disorient. It can re-create things and inform us about reality, thus helping us see the options and decisions before us, or it can, on the contrary, create virtual simulations, illusions, fantasies, and fictions.
— Pope Francis Homily, 2002
At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by the true dimensions of even the Milky Way Galaxy, they took steps that ensured that their descendants would be unable to see the stars at all.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
— Brian Eno
A society that performs miracles with machinery has the capacity to make some miracles for men if it values men as highly as it values machines. This is really the crux of the problem. Are we as concerned for human values and human resources as we are for material and mechanical values?
— Martin Luther King Jr. All Labor Has Dignity
[Technology] doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. Technologies can make it easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in a radical new light, that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
— Steve Jobs The Independent, October 29, 2005
ROAD SENSE
God save us, now they're murdering
another winding road,
and another lovely countryside
will take another load
of pantechnicon and car and motorbike.
They're busy making bigger roads,
and better roads and more,
so that people can discover
even faster than before
that everything is everywhere alike.
— Piet Hein
As you've pointed out I've helped with more computers in more schools than anybody else in the world and I'm absolutely convinced that is by no means the most important thing. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.
— Steve Jobs Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, April, 1995
[The importance Google places] on the number of links to a site stems from the philosophy that the crowd is always wise. Sure, it can be. But groupthink can also lead to dangerous booms and busts, like the South Sea Bubble, Tulip Mania, or the recent US mortgage crisis. As long ago as 1841, the author Charles MacKay worried about the "madness of crowds".
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
— Lewis Mumford
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
There are human value judgements in each of [Google's] core components. Someone at some point had to make a decision about them in order to program them in. And this is what we should be aware of: Google doesn't deliver information that's independent. It is a cyborg: part machine, part human. It filters our problems through a technological system that is, at its most basic level, subjective.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation ... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
— Jean Arp
Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind—the drought, floods, communicable diseases—are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making—the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them.
— J. Clarence Davies
modern life environment
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light—that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
— Steve Jobs Wired,February 1996
One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other. In Silicon Valley and at most technology companies, I swear that most people think the creative process is a bunch of guys in their early 30s, sitting on a couch, drinking beer and thinking of jokes. No, they really do. That's how television is made, they think; that's how movies are made. People in Hollywood and in the content industries, they think technology is something you just write a check for and buy. They don't understand the creativity element of technology. These are like ships passing in the night.
— Steve Jobs CNN, Tech, June 2011
media business
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Deployment Of Marines Has All The Signs Of Another Embarrassing Biden International Incident
With little fan fair a contingent of Marines and a US special operations unit has been deployed and the situation has all the makings of another embarrassing Biden international incident.
The Wall Street Journal reported that two dozen members of a US special operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been sent to Taiwan. Their mission is to train Taiwan's ground and maritime forces.
The CCP has done a lot of saber rattling the past couple of weeks including sending 150 war planes buzzing the island nation.
The Chinese government does not view Taiwan as an independent country and claims they have gone rogue. It is expect that Xi Jinping will deliver a speech over the weekend emphasizing reunification.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Generals are telling Xi they want permission to take Taiwan.
BREAKING: Chinese Generals Tell Xi They Want Green Light on Taiwan#HumanEventsDaily pic.twitter.com/CuIuKbo5tm
— Jack Posobiec ✝ (@JackPosobiec) October 7, 2021
China's foreign ministry has demanded that the US follow the prior agreement and stop all military aid to Taiwan. "China will take all necessary steps to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity," it said.
Before Trump left office he declassed a US Strategic Framework outlining the area to hold the incoming Biden administration accountable. It highlighted that China will take "increasingly assertive steps to compel unification with Taiwan" and said that the U.S. "enable Taiwan to develop an effective asymmetric defense strategy and capabilities that will help ensure its security, freedom from coercion, resilience and ability to engage China on its own terms."
However, the Wall Street Journal noted that the Biden administration has done nothing:
The document hasn't been supplanted by a new Biden administration strategy, nor is it technically being implemented. Biden administration officials have acknowledged that there are areas of continuity between the two administrations on China policies.
Just one day ago Biden said that he would abide by the Taiwan Relations Act which limits the amount of aid America can give Taiwan.
"I've spoken with Xi about Taiwan. We agree we will abide by the Taiwan agreement. That's where we are and I made it clear that I don't think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement," Biden told reporters.'
Meanwhile, National Security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Yang Jiechi, China's top diplomat in Zurich earlier this week.
Sullivan was the driving force advising Biden during the Afghanistan withdrawal and we all know how that turned out.
This has all the makings of another international crisis that will be caused by Joe Biden.
Wall Street Journal | The Hill
Written by	Staff Writer - October 9, 2021

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Marvel is pleased to announce that THOR: SON OF ASGARD - previously solicited as a six-issue miniseries - is now an ongoing, monthly series! Details on the upcoming story arc are available in Marvel Previews #10, on sale now.
Thanks to popular demand, the adventures of young Thor, Balder & Sif will continue with the same creators, writer Akira Yoshida and artist Greg Tocchini, with covers by Runaways cover artist, Jo Chen!
Writer Akira Yoshida offered, "Thanks to Marvel for believing in the book and standing behind it. I work with a great team and look forward to giving the fans a great saga!"
Series artist Greg Tocchini said, "To continue this series is awesome. I'm enjoying this so much, I can't put it in words -- but I promise to try to show my joy with my drawings!"
Series Editor MacKenzie Cadenhead said, "The first six issues of Son of Asgard were wonderful to work on both because of the compelling story we were telling and thanks to the amazing collaboration of the creative team. To continue working with Greg, Akira and Guru eFX is reason enough, but knowing what they have in store for the next arc has got me really excited. Also, having worked with Jo Chen on Runaways, I am thrilled to have her on board-she'll be a terrific addition."
Marvel Editor in Chief, Joe Quesada, added, "This is a testament to Marvel's commitment to taking chances on new talent. Here was a series featuring a classic Marvel hero in a new light, done by a cast of relatively unknown creators. We believed in the book, supported it, and are now enjoying a nice bit of success."


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Professor Astrid Schloerscheidt
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Astrid is a Cognitive Neuroscientist with a wealth of experience in research, teaching and academic leadership.
Astrid started her education in Germany where she obtained a degree in Business Studies. She then moved to the UK, where she completed an MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, before heading to the University of St. Andrews where she obtained a PhD in Psychology.
Astrid joined Oxford Brookes University in September 2016 as Associate Dean for Strategy and Development in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences before being appointed to the role of PVC/Dean in May 2017. Prior to this Astrid worked at the University of Dundee for 12 years. During her time there she held a number of strategic leadership roles including Dean of the School of Psychology and Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Social Sciences.
Astrid's research interests lie broadly in the relationship between neurobiology and behaviour, particularly the occurrence of individual differences in executive function and their relationship to personality traits and psychopathology. For a number of years Astrid was a scientific expert on a sub-working group of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which reviewed scientific evidence pertaining to effects of nutrition on cognition and mental health.
Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution
Women in Science: UK-Brazil Gender Equality Partnerships Call (led by OBBS) (25/10/2021 - 31/10/2022), funded by: British Council, funding amount received by Brookes: £6,095


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Queens Tribune: May 12 2005
News, Press
Flux Takes 'Novel' Approach To Art
"Novel" makes writers and their lives part of a new exhibit at Flux Factory.
By Molly Langmuir
For the past three months, Ian Montgomery has been rummaging through dumpsters, collecting wood. "It's all found wood," he said as he walked through the small living space he was constructing in Flux Factory's gallery. It was one of three such spaces furiously being built last Friday that are part of a living installation at Long Island City's Flux Factory.
On Saturday, May 7, three writers were enclosed in the habitats and for the next 30 days they will live in them, emerging at the end having completed a novel. Every day the writers are allowed to leave for an hour and a half, but each time they do they have to sign out a card with the time they leave, the time they return, and the reason for leaving. At the end of the 30 days, all the time cards will be displayed on the walls of the gallery.
Each night, the writers will eat together, with the meals provided by guest chefs and local restaurants. Once a week, they will be allowed to use their cell phones.
"We're regulating them," said Kerry Downey, who is curating the show with Morgan Meis, "But the idea is that with a couple regulations they can focus."
Montgomery's domicile is the only one with a window to the outside world and the view is the very large and decidedly unorganic-looking New York Presbyterian Church across the street. Inside the space, a found-wood staircase curved up to the second level, where there was a Spartan looking bed and a large bell hanging next to it. By the window were shelves with books and a bottle of Aberlour whiskey.
Montgomery said he was leaving the whiskey for the writer.
Down on the first level, there was a desk, a small fridge, and some grasses growing under a bright light. "The plant life will mark the time," Montgomery said, and then pointed up to the wooden slats that made up the roof, "The roof is also growing." The floor will be covered in dirt to catalogue the areas of movement.
Once the writers and artist/architects had been chosen, the group had to decide amongst themselves who they would be paired with. As it turned out, Montgomery got Grant Bailie, Salazar Davis Architects got Laurie Stone, and Tricky ink. got Ranbir Sidhu. Each living space is entirely different. Salazar Davis's, which was being worked on by Paul Davis last Friday, was going to have white wall-to-wall carpeting, translucent plastic shingles and a zebra stripe on the outside. Davis said, when finished, it would look something like "a glowing chartreuse zebra-striped box."
Each week, there will be public readings on Saturdays, and viewers can come observe the writers at work Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Stone, the writer paired with Salazar Davis, had expressed that she was nervous about being observed. In response, Davis explained that her space was set up in such a way that Stone would be able to see the visitor better than the visitor could see her. "She called herself our rat," Davis said. "We've made the visitor her rat."
Tricky ink's installation, which will house Ranbir Sidhu, has walls made of shipping boxes. Their domicile was described by Downey as more process oriented than the other two. "It's about compartmentalization," Downey said, "and about how the writer accumulates ideas."
Flux Factory is also very process oriented. Asked what would happen if the writers didn't produce a novel after the 30 days, Downey said that there was only so much Flux Factory could do, "We're doing this because we believe in the process."
For directions and specific hours go to www.fluxfactory.org.
Fluxington Mill
Islington Mill, a cultural collaborative organization in Salford (UK), will produce, commission, and collaborate on new works with Flux Factory during their residency this October.
Time Out New York – March 3-9 2005
Portrait of a Fluxer
Former Flux Artist-in-Residence Lawman Lynch was recently profiled by Framing the Cause Pictures. The segment was produced for freeDimensional, an NGO working with international artists who are living in the United States under political asylum after facing persecution in their home countries based on their art.
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Making it happen: the programme. Breaking the isolation.
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Links : a newsletter on gender for Oxfam GB staff and partners
French Speaking Africa
Mediterranean Countries
Socioeconomic Factors
Women'S Status
Terrorism in Algeria has made women a primary target; this has only served to make the women there more determined to change their status, a process that began with independence in 1960. During preparations for the Fourth UN Conference in Beijing, Algerian women began networking with women from Tunisia and Morocco. Since then, Nadia Ait Zai, a lawyer and a member of the Collectif, at the invitation of the Oxfam Beirut Office, met with her Lebanese counterparts; the women shared experiences and developed strategies for working together. Nadia met with Sukaynah Salameh, the director of the Vocational Training Association centers in refugee camps in Beirut (which she visited); a group of grassroots women organized by the Youth Social League; and a group of disabled women. The meeting at the National Association for the Rights of Disabled Persons focused on family laws, which rule the lives of women. Nadia described efforts by the Collectif to bring about an egalitarian civil law.
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This PhD scholarship is associated with the new EPSRC-funded research project "quantMD: Ontology-Based Management of Many-Dimensional Quantitative Data". The research will take place under the direction of Professors Frank Wolter and Boris Konev and Dr Martin Zimmermann at the Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool. This is a joint project with Professor Michael Zakharyaschev at University of London and with the following partners: Free University of Bolzano (Italy), Siemens (Germany), Sirius (Norway), J. Pilsudski Institute (US), and Siris Academic (Spain).
The PhD student on this project will have a good background in one of the following areas: computational logic, mathematical logic, databases, or knowledge representation and reasoning.
The studentship covers EU/home fees and approximately £15,000 per year stipend, for three years.


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extern crate ws;

use self::ws::{Handler, Sender, Result, Message, Handshake, CloseCode, Error};
use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
use std::collections::HashMap;

use std::rc::Rc;
use std::cell::Cell;

struct Server {
    clients: Arc<Mutex<HashMap<u32, Sender>>>,
    out: Sender,
    count: Rc<Cell<u32>>,
    id: u32,
}
trait HasBroadcast {
    fn broadcast(&self, msg: Message) -> Result<()>;
}
impl HasBroadcast for Server {
    fn broadcast(&self, msg: Message) -> Result<()> {
        for (key, client) in self.clients.lock().unwrap().iter() {
            if *key != self.id {
                // println!("{:?} {:?}", *key, self.id);
                client.send(msg.clone()).unwrap();
                client.send(format!("hello {} from {}", key, &self.id)).unwrap();
            }
        }
        return Ok(());
    }
}

pub fn create() -> Result<()> {

    println!("0.0.0.0:3012");
    let count = Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
    let uuid = Rc::new(Cell::new(100));
    let map: HashMap<u32, Sender> = HashMap::new();
    let mutex_map = Arc::new(Mutex::new(map));

    let ws = ws::listen("0.0.0.0:3012", |out| {
            uuid.set(uuid.get() + 1);
            let id = uuid.get();

            Server {
                out: out,
                count: count.clone(),
                clients: mutex_map.clone(),
                id: id,
            }
        })
        .unwrap();
    Ok(ws)
}

impl Handler for Server {
    fn on_open(&mut self, _: Handshake) -> Result<()> {
        self.clients.lock().unwrap().insert(self.id.clone(), self.out.clone());

        Ok(self.count.set(self.count.get() + 1))
    }

    fn on_message(&mut self, msg: Message) -> Result<()> {
        println!("The number of live connections is {}", self.count.get());
        println!("msg {}", msg);
        self.broadcast(msg)?;
        return Ok(());
    }

    fn on_close(&mut self, code: CloseCode, reason: &str) {
        self.clients.lock().unwrap().remove(&self.id.clone());

        match code {
            CloseCode::Normal => println!("The client is done with the connection."),
            CloseCode::Away => println!("The client is leaving the site."),
            CloseCode::Abnormal => {
                println!("Closing handshake failed! Unable to obtain closing status from client.")
            }
            _ => println!("The client encountered an error: {}", reason),
        }

        // The connection is going down, so we need to decrement the count
        self.count.set(self.count.get() - 1)
    }

    fn on_error(&mut self, err: Error) {
        println!("The server encountered an error: {:?}", err);
    }
}

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Last week we posted details of the UPro, a Qualcomm Snapdragon smartphone with flexible display and dual rear cameras that costs half the price of a Samsung Galaxy S9, now today the same company behind the U Pro has announced an even more affordable Android smartphone.
Costing less than £80, the ELEPHONE A4 is an entry-level smartphone with a difference, that difference being it doesn't look like your average budget handset.
Built from glass and metal, materials usually only associated with more expensive boutique phones, the A4 has been designed to attract "lifestyle" users, i.e customers less interested in gaming performance and bleeding edge gimmicks, but instead appreciate a solid spec and attractive design.
This isn't to say that the A4 is lacking in any way, far from it in fact! The phone actually comes with an iPhone X-esque 5.85in full-screen notched display and a face ID unlock feature. If you prefer a traditional fingerprint scanner, there's one of those too but neatly built into the side of the handset.
For those of you who do like to delve into the specifications, the A4 ships with Android 8.1 Oreo running on a quad-core MediaTek processor and 3GB RAM. Internal storage is a little lacking at only 16GB, but then there is the option to use a 128GB SD card or if storage isn't a concern you can use the space for the memory card to insert a 2nd SIM card. Fast charging, another often overlooked feature of budget Android phones is included too.
The first round of pre-sales begins today with a special introductory price of just £72.78 valid until 29th April after which the price will increase to the full retail price of £93.24, but will then include a free pair of Bluetooth headphones to soften the, slight, blow to your wallet.


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Charles Francis Darlington, Jr. (September 13, 1904 – April 11, 1986) was an American diplomat and economist. He was United States Ambassador to Gabon from 1961 to 1964. Darlington was ambassador to Gabon during the 1964 coup d'état. He published books on his experiences in Africa including African Betrayal (1968).

Early life and career
Darlington was born September 13, 1904, in Manhattan. He earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and traveled overseas to pursue graduate studies at Oxford University and the University of Geneva.

Darlington served as a gold expert in the economic and financial section at the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1928 to 1931. Shortly after, he worked at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. Upon returning to the US in 1935, Darlington served the State Department as assistant chief of the Division of Trade Agreements until 1939. He then served as foreign exchange manager for the General Motors Overseas Corporation until 1942.

During World War II, Darlington saw action in North Africa and Italy, as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. After the war, he spent 15 years as an international oil executive. Darlington was named Ambassador to Gabon by President Kennedy in 1961 and served in the post for four years.

He was a part of JFK's last official White House meeting on November 21, 1963.

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1904 births
1986 deaths
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Korean legend YE Yang, Asia's first and so far only male Major winner, will make his tournament debut at next week's US$2.5 million Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Yang, who held off Tiger Woods to win the 2009 US PGA Championship, will be part of a strong Asian contingent at Doha Golf Club that also includes six-time European Tour winner Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand and young compatriot Kiradech Aphibarnrat.
Defending champion Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose – three of the world's top six – are among the tournament favourites.
Yang, who turns 43 on Thursday, and Rose, the 2013 US Open winner, are among several Major winners in the field, including Ernie Els (2002 and 2012 Open Championship; 1994 and 1997 US Open), Darren Clarke (2011 Open Championship), Charl Schwartzel (2011 Masters Tournament) and Paul Lawrie (1999 Open Championship), a two-time winner in Doha.
In November 2006, Yang won his first European Tour title at the HSBC Champions in China and in March 2009 became only the second Korean to win on the US PGA Tour when he claimed the Honda Classic. After his Major breakthrough at the PGA Championship in August 2009, he won his third European Tour title at the Volvo China Open in April 2010.
"I'm very honoured to be playing in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters for the first time and hope I can play well on my debut," said Yang, who won four Japan Tour titles from 2004 to 2006, the year he also won the Korea Open.
Thongchai is coming off one of his finest seasons, spending much of last year in the world's top 40 after winning his sixth European Tour title at June's Nordea Masters in Sweden, where he beat Victor Dubuisson and Stephen Gallacher in a playoff.
Last month, Thongchai started his 2015 European Tour season with a joint-seventh place finish at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa and the 45-year-old Thai hopes to continue that form in Doha, where he will be competing for the 13th time in his career.
"I had a really good season and I'm hoping to continue playing consistently in 2015. I had good results in Thailand and South Africa last month, so now I'm looking forward to playing well at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters," said Thongchai, who posted ninth-place finishes in Doha in 2007 and 2013.
Kiradech, 25, will make his Commercial Bank Qatar Masters debut boosted by a fifth-place finish at the Nedbank Golf Challenge. After injury problems last year, the big-hitting Thai is rediscovering his form of 2013, when he earned his first European Tour title at the Maybank Malaysian Open and won the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
Hassan Al Nuaimi, President of the Qatar Golf Association, said Yang's debut and the increasingly strong challenge from Asia were further attractions for spectators.
"We are delighted that YE Yang will compete in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters for the first time in his great career, during which he became a hero in Korea and Asia by winning the 2009 PGA Championship," Al Nuaimi said.


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