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Connecticut tribes reject Lamont's casino proposal
Gov. Ned Lamont's unexpected pitch to Connecticut's federally recognized tribes over expanding their gambling interests in the state – including in Bridgeport – is apparently also unwanted.
The governor's proposal essentially would have required the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations – which operate the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, respectively – to cancel longstanding plans to build a jointly owned, $300 million casino in East Windsor called Tribal Winds. Instead, they would be granted exclusive rights to Connecticut-based internet betting and the go-ahead to build a tribal casino in Bridgeport.
Lamont's plan came to light a couple of days after state Sen. Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) unveiled the Connecticut Jobs and Revenue Act (CJRA), supported by a bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators. That plan – which the tribes voiced support for – would among other things require the tribes to spend a minimum of $100 million toward a $300 million entertainment and gambling facility in Bridgeport.
In return, the tribes would be allowed to conduct sports wagering at their casinos, through mobile applications and online. Sports wagering would be taxed at 8% while internet gambling would be taxed at 10%. The tribes would also pay the state 10% of casino table game revenues. They already pay 25% of their slot machine revenue to the state.
The CJRA – which was crafted without input from Lamont – would also allow the tribes to go forward with Tribal Winds, something that Andrew Doba, spokesman for the tribes' MMCT joint venture, said was key.
"They are not willing to walk away from the Tribal Winds Casino in East Windsor, a project where they've invested nearly $20 million," Doba said.
According to the Hartford Courant, Lamont's alternative proposal also involved the tribes acquiring Hartford's XL Center and developing it as a casino. A spokesperson for the governor denied that the XL Center was part of Lamont's plan.
Both Lamont's plan and the CJRA would need approval by the state legislature, which so far has not scheduled hearings on either.
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REVIEW: Christopher Robin
by Robert Greenberger · November 20, 2018
Ever since Loggins and Messina tugged on our heartstrings with the wistful '70s ballad "House on Pooh Corner", the notion of saying goodbye to childhood playmates has tinged A.A. Milne's delightful Winnie the Pooh stories. It was seemingly inevitable that the song would be turned into a story, which more or less explains this summer's Christopher Robin. The film, out now from Walt Disney Home Entertainment is incredibly predictable but still charming in its own way.
We have an adult Christopher (Ewan McGregor) who has married Evelyn (Hayley Atwell) and they have a daughter Madeline (Bronte Carmichael). However, the joy of childhood is gone in his life, replaced with drudgery, as he has become the London equivalent of the salaryman, working for a gray luggage company with inept management.
While the audience is shown that the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood gang – Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), Owl (Toby Jones), Tigger (Jim, Cummings), Eeyore (Brad Garrett), Rabbit (Peter Capaldi), Kanga (Sophie Okonedo), and Roo (Sara Sheen) – are aware Christopher has grown and left them behind, they have no real sense of time.
Circumstances, though, allow Pooh to enter Christopher's world and they have an awkward reunion, as at first, he's delighted to see the "silly old bear" but has already given up his much-needed family vacation to find a plan to salvage the company or fire half the staff. Pooh becomes an impediment, as he has to bring the playmate back to the Wood.
Once home, we know he's going to reconnect with his childhood, resolve the work issues, rekindle his family connections, and all will be well with the world. So, the question comes down to execution. The screenplay by Alex Ross Perry, Tom McCarthy, and Allison Schroeder is serviceable but lacking in whimsy and charm so director Marc Foster does what he can. The CGI is a delight and the interaction of humans and animals works just fine.
Foster makes an interesting choice in having London and the Wood but darker, overgrown, and less than welcome, equating the two is odd when we're expecting more of a contrast. They certainly stand out in sharp contrast to the visual humor and wide-eyed reactions when people meet the animal gang for the first time.
The film is entertaining enough but you wanted more than the expected. At least the high definition transfer, retaining the original 2:39:1 aspect ratio, nicely captures the tonal differences in location. It comes with a fine 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix as well.
The Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD multiscreen pack offers up some nice, not great, special features. We start with "A Movie is Made for Pooh," (5:28) the standard behind-the-scenes featurette with cast and crew chatting it up; "Pooh and Friends Come to Life," (3:16) Carmichael narrates this look at the 3-D CGI renderings required for the production; "Pooh Finds his Voice," (2:43) Cummings gets the well-deserved spotlight and he nicely credits his predecessor, the late Sterling Holloway; and then we end with "Pooh and Walt Become Friends," (2:43) which revisits Walt Disney's introduction to Pooh via his daughter Diane, and what happened next.
For those who use the Digital HD at Movies Anywhere, you get an exclusive feature: "In Which…We Were Very Young" (3:51), which gives us insight to the real Christopher Robin.
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Robert Greenberger is best known to comics fans as the editor of Who's Who In The DC Universe, Suicide Squad, and Doom Patrol. He's written and edited several Star Trek novels and is the author of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia. He's known for his work as an editor for Comics Scene, Starlog, and Weekly World News, as well as holding executive positions at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
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Q: How to superimpose a small bitmap onto a larger bitmap in C at a certain x, y position? I am trying to write a program that detects pixel collision (overlapping of bits that have a value of 1) between two bitmap images. I know the position of the left side, right side, top and bottom of each bitmap in x and y coordinates relative to the LCD screen. My thinking is that I could superimpose the first bitmap onto a large, blank (0's everywhere) bitmap that is the size of the screen, at its x and y position. Then do the same for the second on it's own canvas. After that I could do a binary & operation of the two bitmaps that are of the same size. If the result is greater than 1, I know some of the pixels have overlapped.
The problem with this is I don't know how to superimpose two bitmaps. Does anyone have experience with this who could offer some advice?
EDIT: We are expected to use bitwise and bit-shifting operations to detect pixel level collision, with a maximum of 1 for loop.

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Ridley Scott Returning for Another 'Blade Runner' After 'Prometheus'!
Source: Deadline
You've come a long way, Ridley Scott. The man who once said that sci-fi is as dead as westerns has caught the sci-fi bug once again. Deadline reports that Ridley Scott is returning to direct "another installment" of Blade Runner after he finishes working on the potential-Alien-prequel Prometheus for Fox. Scott has fully signed on to direct and produce, and is working with Alcon Entertainment to develop. But unfortunately we don't know if it's a prequel, a sequel, or what. So there's no details on what it will be, but at least that Ridley Scott is restarting the Blade Runner franchise again after he finishes with his other science fiction franchise.
Deadline goes on to explain that this news only means the new Blade Runner is just entering it's "first step" of development, which means it could evolve and develop from here, just like Prometheus did once they got Damon Lindelof on-board to revise the script. But here's the most intriguing part of their write-up: "After injecting state of the art 3D in reviving Alien, imagine what Scott can do with Blade Runner? Now, the filmmaker is ready to engage." If you followed our live-blog of the Prometheus presentation at Comic-Con, Ridley participated via live satellite feed from Iceland and spoke, numerous times, about how he was having the best experience working on that film that he's had in quite a long time (ahem, Robin Hood). So maybe sci-fi's aren't as dead as westerns and this is the genre you always were meant to come back to, Mr. Scott?
Ridley directed the original Blade Runner in 1982, 3 years after he directed Alien in 1979. He's following a similar pattern again, jut 30 years later, but with an Alien prequel and maybe a Blade Runner prequel, if that is what it becomes. Deadline adds they don't now if he'll even contact Harrison Ford to return, but my guess (or hope) is that he'll move on to find a new group of actors, like he did with Prometheus. And I'm completely fine with that. If you remember, Alcon picked up the Blade Runner rights earlier this year, and was also vague about it being a prequel/sequel, but did say: "We have long-term goals for the franchise."
This is just awesome, exciting news, especially for die-hard sci-fi fans like myself. And I think it means sci-fi is really on the rise in big ways in Hollywood. Though I guess we still have to see how Prometheus turns out, but based on all the early footage we saw at Comic-Con, I've got a good feeling Ridley is finally back in the genre he belongs. At least at this point in his career, so we'll keep you updated! Thoughts on this news?
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But here's the LEAST intriguing part of their write-up: "After injecting state of the art 3D in reviving Alien, imagine what Scott can do with Blade Runner? Both Alien and Blade Runner were about stories and the way they were filmed, not about their special effects, although yes they helped.
Tester on Aug 18, 2011
Ha, yea I know, 3D isn't everyone's favorite. I think the part I like is "the filmmaker is ready to engage" meaning Ridley is situated, his experience on one big 3D sci-fi film, and is getting more energized for the next one. And if they shoot in 3D from the start, there's nothing to worry about.
Alex Billington on Aug 18, 2011
My comment was not really in regards to 3D, but really towards special effects in general. I remember when the great general Lucas commented on how he was ready to make the prequels because the technology was finally ready for his story.. Well I dont have to tell you how that turned out. Special effects do not make a movie ( Avatar anyone), they certainly help, but they dont make a movie. 3d is not even worth discussing, adds nothing but cool factor to a movie ( that is when done right such as in Avatar). I hope Ridley does not make the same mistake Lucas made.
A moving story is good, but not all the time. Sometimes people just want to be excited and there isn't a roller coaster park or strip club in every town, but there is a cinema. I'm not its biggest fan, but I wish the world would lay off Avatar
Richie G on Aug 18, 2011
Richie G, while I can agree with both U and Alex, were are talking about Blade Runner which is a movie with a great story and backdrop. As far as Avatar, I shit on it but I also gave it praise.
Wasn`t Deckard himself a Replicant? That was what I got anyways
Loser on Aug 18, 2011
I thought that was Republicant.. i always get those confused..
Zot on Aug 18, 2011
There's never really a definite answer. Different versions of the film allude to that possibility. That's one of the best aspects of Blade Runner.
Nthngmn on Aug 18, 2011
This is an absolutely terrible idea. And I absolutely love Blade Runner.
Ricardo on Aug 18, 2011
I think it would be most interesting to see a prequel just to see where all the story began than seeing a sequel because the replicants were a dying breed and to see how they stood up against slavery would be interesting just like Rise of the planet of the apes.
Anonymous on Aug 18, 2011
This is truly idiotic.
Scotty McFanboy on Aug 18, 2011
Idiotic indeed.
Cock McScottboy on Aug 18, 2011
Shia LaBeouf would make a good Rick Deckard. I hope Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy and Edward James Olmos will have cameos as a tribute to the original classic 1982 film.
January James on Aug 18, 2011
I hope that comment about Shia LaBeouf was tongue in cheek.
lerryjee on Aug 18, 2011
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John Simpson on Aug 18, 2011
I'm not nearly as excited by this as you are. Dont get me wrong, I'm a massive scoence fiction fan, and Blade Runner is my all time facorite film. But that doesn't mean I need to see any more BR stories. Scott already goldfish story -- and he told it in a way that feels complete. I don't need to know what happens next, or what happened before. I don't need him to try to recreate the magic that drove the original film -- magic that stemmed in no small part from the film's originality. There is such a thing as overkill -- and over exposure. Blade Runner never was a "property," as such, and that's part of what makes it special. It's a movie -- a great movie. I say, let it stand on it's own. Besides, wouldn't it be great if Scott could bring yet another science fiction movie -- as original as BR and Alien -- to the big screen? Now THAT would get me excited.
Brian on Aug 18, 2011
So true. Why does he need to revive SF in that way? Why not make totally original movies. That's how you revive something - in the long run. This just reminds of transplanting organs into a 80yold instead of having a new baby. (I'm weird).
reeft on Aug 18, 2011
of course you're right. the story was perfectly complete. yes, it has loose ends, that's why it's so good - you can use your imagination, without feeling short-changed. but Hollywood's not that big on originality these days. Blade Runner blazed a trail for the look of so much in the last 30 years, just like Metropolis and a few others before it. i'd like to get excited about this, i really would. but everything's a 'property' now. very happy to be proven wrong, and i still have some faith in Ridley Scott, but very few manage to get the lightning back in the bottle.
90's kid in the house...
I'm a 90's kid and I didn't find Blade Runner boring, so your comment is simply agist. Anyways at least he's honest. There's tons of people that just pretend to like movies like Blade Runner so they can fit in with the film crowd.
Awtan90 on Aug 18, 2011
This is horrible news. Nothing is sacred anymore. It will - no matter how good - be able to reach the heights of the classic. It will always be compared to its predecessor. This is horrible.
Wow, this made my day! And on the mention of Harrison, he said recently in an interview that he knew of this project......fingers crossed 🙂
David Banner on Aug 18, 2011
I'll all for Ridley Scott making more sci-fi, but I wish he would come up with an original idea. Never during the watching of Blade Runner did I ever want to know what happens next or what happen before. When it comes to sequels/prequels the main thing they need to ask themselves is "is there any more to this story that needs to be told." And the answer in this case is no. So basically what you have is a) Ridley Scott being lazy and piggybacking on his past and b) the studios only opening their wallets for an established title.
while we don't know their plans for the world of Blade Runner, you're right in that the story is so well written and portrayed that you know all you need to know about the characters from that film alone. like you, i think the film is self-contained, and rather wonderfully so. the rights owner's response is best highlighted by 'We have long-term goals for the franchise.' ha! i'm sure it won't be long until some studio says they're making a sequel to Moon, in which *spoiler* we see what happens after Sam gets back to earth. and that would be just as pointless.
I don't understand all the negativity here. I'm excited about Prometheus, but the idea of Ridley returning to the Blade Runner world is *extremely* exciting. Plus, if he follows the pattern set with Prometheus, this isn't likely to be a poorly executed and designed sequel, but another story set in the same world.
Timothy on Aug 18, 2011
I'm not totally opposed to the idea if they can come up with 1) a good reason to make another Bladerunner movie and 2) don't try to make it a direct sequel or prequel or something that ties in directly to the first movie. The problem with making another Bladerunner flick is that the original is freaking legendary. If you want to make a film associated with it you're going to have to hit the ball out of the park for critics to like it. Couple that with the fact that the unwashed masses and young people who are the bread and butter of the summer film season have either never seen the original or don't like it because it's too slow and hard for their caveman brains to make sense of. If your sequel has the same sort of plot and pacing as the first film it will bomb in the theater. Don't expect to recoup a $200 Million budget. You won't. I honestly kinda hope this idea gets scrapped. I think I know why Scott is doing this sci-fi flicks, tho. He wants to make Brave New World but can't get a studio to fund it. Alien and Bladerunner are his big sci-fi movies and probably have the same sort of tone going on. I think he's just trying to get that project funded.
It was also mind-blowingly intelligent.
Marty on Aug 18, 2011
I don't know why people are opposing to the idea of this look at "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and its been #1 nationwide for 2 weeks now... You guys have no idea what Ridley Scott has in mind for this story it might be something that would blow all our minds that he intended to do back then but couldn't be done due to technological restrictions. A good story always sells and Planet of the Apes movie proved that.
Since Philip K Dick is dead, there are no "Blade Runner" stories left, unless they mean to actually make "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." That might be interesting. But remaking Blade Runner ranks right up there with remaking The Day The Earth Stood Still. Oh! Wait! They did that. Boy did that suck.
JOHNK55 on Aug 18, 2011
All the people saying this is horrible news, and how the story was complete and what not. It's complete for you, but maybe not for Scott. Maybe he had many more story ideas and paths for characters to tread on. You guys aren't the ones making the movie, he is. It's his baby, let him do with it as he sees fit. Maybe it will follow the same path as Star Wars, but then maybe it won't, maybe he'll make another, fantastic BR movie, and it will be loved and adored just like the first one. Point is, I have enough faith in Scott to believe that he won't mess it up.
horgin on Aug 18, 2011
Bring on Blade Runner 2 The Attack of the Electric Sheeps. Blade Runner is a Cult Movie. Since I first watched it I fell in love with it´s chaotic universe. Bring the whole cast if necessary. What will happen with all those companies that publicised on the movie and now are more than gone.Will the production guys keep them in order to maintain continuity? I want to see more of Olmos.
Supermanx on Aug 18, 2011
"restarting the Blade Runner franchise again..." Blade Runner never was a franchise, right?
Jedibilly on Aug 19, 2011
I like the idea of showing us the replicants' rebellion. I want to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, and C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
Luis M. Milán Leal on Aug 19, 2011
Harrison Ford's Deckard needs to be the main character or I quit.
Quanah on Aug 19, 2011
If the director's cut is a leap forward for the film, the final cut is merely a few more steps after hitting the ground. It's a bit more violent, and Scott's beloved, reinstated unicorn dream sequence is further expanded by a matter of seconds.........
smithjackob on Aug 19, 2011
I love Blade Runner. A friend bought me a sequel novel, Edge of Human, years ago and I have yet to read it. A sequel is a chancy idea at best. If it happens, please do not have Rick Deckard/HF as the protagonist, although he could cameo in his old boss Bryant's job. We know Harry to old to go running around anymore. Re: continuity-age the Blade Runner world 30 years, like ours has. Also, Ridley, you've been great, but I think you're feeling your years...
Greenblade on Aug 19, 2011
Hey, Luis- Watch Starship Troopers-you will see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of the arachnid planet. It is an absolute visualization of that well-loved description.
They shouldn't bother Harrison Ford with a phone call. He's washed up, hasn't made a good movie in 20 years. Ridley needs a hit too.
Not one of you has mentioned Syd Mead, for fucking shame. He was responsible for most of what made Blade Runner such a great film, and the man is getting on. Plus, there aren't really any younger production designers at his level. He is a genius, and any BR film will be empty without him.
Lebowski on Aug 19, 2011


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Q: Sending message between ServerSocket and client I need to send a message from the ServerSocket to the client when the key is writable, I think that the message is being sent in the right way but when I try to read it on the client I get this error:
java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 48656C6C
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:866)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:358)
        at MyTcpClient.main(MyTcpClient.java:22)

How can I read the message correctly in the client?
These are my files:
MyAsyncProcessor.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.*;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

public class MyAsyncProcessor {

    HashMap<Integer, MyTask> hashMap = new HashMap<>();

    ExecutorService pool;

    public MyAsyncProcessor() {
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        new MyAsyncProcessor().process();
    }

    public void process() throws IOException {
        pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(2);
        InetAddress host = InetAddress.getByName("localhost");
        Selector selector = Selector.open();
        ServerSocketChannel serverSocketChannel = ServerSocketChannel.open();
        serverSocketChannel.configureBlocking(false);
        serverSocketChannel.bind(new InetSocketAddress(host, 9876));
        serverSocketChannel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_ACCEPT);
        SelectionKey key;
        System.out.println("AsyncProcessor ready");
        while (true) {
            if (selector.select() > 0) {
                Set<SelectionKey> selectedKeys = selector.selectedKeys();
                Iterator<SelectionKey> i = selectedKeys.iterator();
                while (i.hasNext()) {
                    key = i.next();
                    if (!key.isValid()) {
                        key.cancel();
                        continue;
                    }
                    if (key.isAcceptable()) {
                        SocketChannel socketChannel = serverSocketChannel.accept();
                        socketChannel.configureBlocking(false);
                        System.out.println("Channel hashCode: " + socketChannel.hashCode());
                        MyTask task = new MyTask(selector, socketChannel);
                        hashMap.put(socketChannel.hashCode(), task);
                        pool.execute(task);
                        socketChannel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_READ);
                    }
                    if (key.isReadable()) {
                        SocketChannel socketChannel = (SocketChannel) key.channel();
                        MyTask task = hashMap.get(socketChannel.hashCode());
                        ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
                        try {
                            socketChannel.read(byteBuffer);
                            String result = new String(byteBuffer.array()).trim();
                            String[] words = result.split(" ");
                            task.timeToRead = Integer.parseInt(words[words.length - 2]) * 1000;
                            task.timeToWrite = Integer.parseInt(words[words.length - 1]) * 1000;
                            System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " reads for " + task.timeToRead + " mills");
                            try {
                                Thread.sleep(task.timeToRead);
                            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }
                            System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " ended reading");
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                            return;
                        }
                        socketChannel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_WRITE);
                    }
                    if (key.isWritable()) {
                        SocketChannel socketChannel = (SocketChannel) key.channel();
                        MyTask task = hashMap.get(socketChannel.hashCode());
                        task.readyToWrite();
                        hashMap.remove(socketChannel.hashCode());
                        System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " writes for " + task.timeToWrite + " mills");
                        try {
                            Thread.sleep(task.timeToWrite);
                        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                        System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " ended writing");
                        CharsetEncoder enc = StandardCharsets.US_ASCII.newEncoder();
                        String response = "Hello!\n";
                        socketChannel.write(enc.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(response)));
                        key.cancel();
                    }
                    i.remove();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

MyTcpClient.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Random;

public class MyTcpClient {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Random rand = new Random();
        int secondsToRead = rand.nextInt(5);
        int secondsToWrite = secondsToRead + 1;
        String message = "Seconds for the task to be read and written: " + secondsToRead + " " + secondsToWrite;
        System.out.println(message);
        Socket socket;
        ObjectInputStream ois;
        try {
            socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 9876);
            PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
            printWriter.println(message);
            System.out.println("Sending message");

            ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
            String response = (String) ois.readObject();
            System.out.println("Response: " + response);
            ois.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Error in Socket");
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(-1);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

    }
}

Thank you in advance

A: Here on the server you are sending raw (text) data
                    socketChannel.write(enc.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(response)));

And here on the client you are trying to read this as an Object
        ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
        String response = (String) ois.readObject();
        System.out.println("Response: " + response);

For your ObjectInputStream to work, you need to be using an ObjectOutputStream on the other side. I would recommend against using the Object streams, as these are Java-only and can fail if the two sides are using different versions of the serialized object. Instead, just use raw streams.
Better yet, use WebSockets - WebSockets handle a lot of the plumbing that sockets come with in a more elegant way. You can definitely find an implementation of WebSockets for Java on GitHub

A: I have solved it by using on the client to receive:
ByteBuffer readBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
        server.read(readBuffer);
        String result = new String(readBuffer.array()).trim();

In the server to send:
CharsetEncoder enc = StandardCharsets.US_ASCII.newEncoder();
                String response = "Task completed in " + (this.timeToWrite+this.timeToRead) + " mills \n";


Colonies of hospital superbugs can make poisons similar to those found in rattlesnake venom to attack our bodies' natural defences, scientists heard today (Monday 8 September 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.
"This is the first time that anyone has successfully proved that the way the bacteria grow - either as a biofilm, or living as individuals - affects the type of proteins they can secrete, and therefore how dangerous they can potentially be to our health," says Dr Martin Welch from the University of Cambridge, UK.
"Acute diseases caused by bacteria can advance at an astonishing rate and tests have associated these types of disease with free-floating bacteria. Such free-floating bugs often secrete tissue-damaging poisons and enzymes to break down our cells, contributing to the way the disease develops, so it is natural to blame them. By contrast, chronic or long-term infections seem to be associated with biofilms, which were thought to be much less aggressive," says Dr Welch.
The research team's findings are very important to the NHS, which spends millions of pounds every year fighting chronic long-term bacterial infections which are incredibly difficult to treat.
"For example, these chronic infections by bacteria are now the major cause of death and serious disability in cystic fibrosis patients - which is the most common lethal inherited disease in the UK and affects about 8,000 people," says Dr Welch.
"We think that the bacteria in a cystic fibrosis sufferer's lungs are partly living in communities called biofilms, and although medical scientists have investigated their strongly antibiotic-resistant properties, very little research has been done to investigate any active contribution the biofilms might have in causing diseases in the first place," says Dr Welch.
A widely-held view is that biofilms serve as reservoirs of bacteria that do relatively little harm; they just sit there. The main danger is thought to be from 'blooms' of free living cells which occasionally break away from the biofilm and cause periods of poor lung function in the cystic fibrosis patients. "In this scenario, it follows that bacteria in a biofilm will produce fewer disease-causing chemicals than free-living cells of the same type of bacteria, which is a prediction that we can test," says Dr Welch.
"We found that, in contrast to expectation, biofilms do indeed produce harmful chemicals. However, the type of tissue-degrading enzymes and toxins made by the biofilm bacteria differ from those produced by free-floating bugs, which may help them to survive attacks by our immune systems."
In addition the scientists have found evidence that the trigger for the bacteria to start producing these extra virulence factors is turned on very shortly after the biofilm begins to form. Once the scientists have fully identified the virulence factors created by the biofilm bacteria, the proteins and enzymes may be targeted to develop drugs for a variety of uses, including the treatment of hospital superbugs, cancer and cystic fibrosis.


In a recent interview for a Neil McCormick's Needle Time, Ian Anderson said that he became disheartened after hearing Eric Clapton and that it automatically led him to pick up a flute.
"You just knew this guy was way ahead of everybody else, me included. And also we were hearing rumours of these other gunslinger guitar people like Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore. I was fumbling around, relatively speaking," Anderson admits.
You can watch the whole interview in the video below.
On June 30th, Ian Anderson will be performing the Jethro Tull's classic "A Thick as a Brick" in its entirety at Royal Albert Hall, before kicking off the world tour.


HP Spectre x360 Laptop is a 13.3-inch laptop that is equipped with the latest hardware and comes with excellent battery life, making it a rare combination of sophistication and performance.
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Designed and launched by Apple Inc., iPhone is counted as one of the most liked Smartphones. The first release of the iPhone is recorded on June 29, 2007. This useful device works on Apple's iOS mobile operating system. With its exceptional features, this tiny gadget is touching new heights of success in the marketplace of mobile phones. It is apparent whether it is a person or a thing if it is experiencing great success it means it is appearing with some improvisation every time. Same with the iPhone, all its offered versions got admiration as they came with some kind of changes.
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IAM Local 389
IAM Mourns Loss of Former AA and Aerospace Coordinator Richard "Dick" Schneider
Imail
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our brother and friend, Richard "Dick" Schneider. Brother Schneider peacefully passed away the evening of March 17, 2020, at the Portland Adventist Hospital. A celebration of life is to be planned sometime during the summer.
Dick initiated in 1968 as a member of the IAM and one year later transferred his membership to Local Lodge No.63 when he moved to Oregon and began working at Portland Iron Works. During the next nine years Dick served the membership in a range of positions including Shop Steward, President of the Shop Stewards, Negotiating Committee Member, Local Lodge Vice President and delegate to various councils, including serving as a delegate to District Lodge No. 24. During this time, Dick also took advantage of attending various Shop Steward and Leadership Schools.
On September 5, 1978, Dick was hired as a Business Representative for District Lodge No. 24. Included in his duties was the servicing of a diverse category of shops, including negotiating collective bargaining agreements and the handling of grievance through the arbitration process.
Also during this time, Dick serviced as Trustee of the Oregon Marie Machinists Health and Welfare Trust, Secretary-Treasurer of the Machinists Non-Partisan Political League of Oregon, as well as assisting in the organizing of several new shops.
Dick became Assistant Directing Business Representative to DBR George Miller in October of 1982.
Dick Schneider was appointed as a Grand Lodge Special Representative for the Western Territory by General Vice President Justin Ostro on October 1, 1988.
On April 1, 1990, he became a Grand Lodge Representative with duties that included NLRB work, and responsibility for several contracts.
General Vice President Lee Pearson then selected Dick to become his Administrative Assistant on July 1, 1996. He held that position until November 30, 1997, when International President R. Thomas Buffenbarger appointed him to serve as Aerospace Coordinator for the newly formed IAM Aerospace Department. Dick retired from the IAM in 2007
"Dick was a True Journeyman and a Fighting Machinists to his core. His contributions paved the way for Countless families to have an improved standard of living said General Vice President Gary R. Allen. "On behalf of the Western Territory I extend our sincere condolences to Dick's wife Kathi and his entire family."
"Anyone who worked with Dick Schneider knew how dedicated he was to this union," said IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. "For nearly 40 years he was active in the IAM, and his leadership skills became obvious early in his career. He will be missed by us all."
Dick is survived by his wife Kathi, five children, and several grandchildren, and great-grandchild.
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Most of the city is north of the BNSF Railway tracks with its streets laid out north-south and east-west. Missouri Street is the major north-south artery, intersecting SH 36 and crossing the railroad. Missouri Street goes north as far as Brazos Elementary School. Kibler Road is an important east-west artery on which the town center is situated. Kibler Road starts at FM 1489 to the west of Orchard and ends at Long Lane to the east. FM 1489 intersects SH 36 to the west and goes south toward Tavener and north toward Simonton. Wallis is 6 miles (10 km) to the northwest on SH 36, while Rosenberg is 10 miles (16 km) to the southeast on the same highway.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.0 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 408 people, 147 households, and 110 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,078.9 people per square mile (414.6/km²). There were 156 housing units at an average density of 412.5/sq mi (158.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 76.47% White, 8.09% African American, 1.47% Native American, 12.50% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any national origin were 22.55% of the population.
There were 147 households out of which 39.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 21.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.26.


Ah, summer. The time of year when most people schedule vacations, have family gatherings, relax and rejuvenate.
My schedule will include all those things and a few writing events. I'm really excited to see the local writing communities putting on so many great events.
I love learning new things and I feel there is always room for improvement in everything I do. Some of the events I will be attending will be heaped full of workshops on a wide range of topics. Some will have some really great networking opportunities. I have registered for a couple of these and I can't wait to attend.
Summer wouldn't be complete without some events that are meant for getting together with a great group of people for a few laughs and inspiration. The local Romance Writers Group are doing just that this weekend. They are holding a Winemaking, Women and Writing Day. A fun filled day of winery tours, amazing food, great company, and of course writing. What a way to kick off the summer months!


I like the variety in my job as a school psychologist, working with young children (pre-schoolers) through high schoolers. I enjoy working directly with students, teachers and parents to develop intervention plans to improve academic skills and behavior in children. I like using charts and graphs to make a student's progress easy to see.


The requirement was for a control system that would, during times of power failure, disconnect non-essential loads to a level at which the generators could be safely started. Once generator supplies had been established a load take up routine would operate which would continuously monitor the load on the generator. Excessive generator load would result in shedding of low priority loads. If the generator was running below capacity suitable loads would be connected in stages. An algorithm was created to prevent load hunting and excessive operation of breakers.
The facility used a PLC system and a distributed i/o system networked across the building. A central SCADA system was supplied to provide status and configuration information. The user interface provided a means where the load shedding and take-up behaviour of the system could be customised to changes that naturally occur during the life of a building.
The system is backed up using a UPS system and is immune to normal power outages.
To ensure quick commissioning and minimised disruption a simulation of the entire system was demonstrated to representatives of the building owners, tenants and major contractors.
During times when the hospital is being supplied from five emergency standby generators the PLC controlled LV Transfer System controls the connection and disconnection of non-critical loads to ensure the critical loads of the hospital are protected.


I won't talk about this guy too much, since he's an important character in T9A.
I will say, however, that he is an unstable Kha'Ul with no inhibitions and violent tendencies. He is a member of the Imperial Guard, which is why he wears the metal mask you see over his eyes.
And he's not the brightest guy, but whatcha gonna do?
I like this character, very unique and kinda creepy.


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Hostage Three by Nick Lake
U.S Release Date: November 12, 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
At Book Expo America last summer, Hostage Three was all the buzz at the Bloomsbury booth, so when I saw it on NetGalley I decided to give it a try.
I had a feeling I was in for something unique and compelling since author, Nick Lake, received the Printz Award just last year for his novel about the earthquake in Haiti, In Darkness.
American teenager Amy Fields has been rebelliously living in London with her extremely wealthy but workaholic father and new stepmother. When Amy pushes things too much her Dad decides the only way to get the family back on track is to hire a crew and take a three-month vacation onboard a private yacht. Amy spends the first weeks decidedly ignoring them until the trip take a turn. Amy, her family and the crew are held hostage by Somali pirates. She is stripped of her name and called Hostage Three.
The pirate element of this novel was the biggest draw for me. When it comes to bowdlerization, pirates have probably gotten some of the worse treatment. Lake does a great job presenting his Somali pirates as people who are fully formed and complex. Yes, they are criminals who hold Americans hostage for millions of dollars, but they are also from a war-torn, violent and impoverished country where they don't see another way to make money. It would be easy to villanize them, but Lake doesn't. The pirates and hostages spend much of their time together, and we see that the pirates are very organized and almost professional in what they do. In fact, the pirates don't even use the term pirates, they call themselves the Coast Guard.
It is revealed in the first few pages of the book that while being held hostage Amy starts to get feelings for the Farouz, the young Somali pirate who is also an English translator. It is through Farouz that Amy learns about the nature of piracy and about the struggles and culture of Somalian people.
One of the things I started to ask myself was why exactly Amy was the main character to begin with. I think the story would have been much more interesting if it had been from Farouz' point of view. He's a Somalian teenager who thinks he's only chance at getting something better in the world it to be a pirate. He is in many of the scenes Amy is in and has is own backstory, so there could have been enough for the whole book. It just felt like the typical privileged-rebelling-against-her-father-American- teenage-girl-who-hates-her-new-young-stepmother-and-falls-in-love-with-the-wrong-boy POV felt like something I've read before. Not that Amy doesn't have any depth, but I think this could have been a great chance to have a more diverse POV.
Speaking of POV, I really liked Lake's use of a first-person POV where the narrator seems to have some knowledge of the reader and that they are telling a story from the past. Like, Amy will refer to a "you" to try something or make a reference to how things are now. This structure also lends to some narrative tricks later on in the story, that really came out of nowhere for me.
The most jarring aspect of this novel has to be the format. There are no quotation marks and speech is just offset by a dashed line. Lake does this in his first novel, so I guess this is part of his style. Reading this on a Kindle made it really hard to follow some of the conversations, but once you get into it you stop noticing.
While he does seem to fly under the mainstream YA radar, I think Nick Lake is bringing more unique and challenging stories to the YA genre. Hostage Three dives into a dangerous world bringing in good and bad surprises at every corner to keep the reader guessing.
The Tom Hanks' film Captain Phillips also deals with Somali pirates taking a ship hostage. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. I'm curious to see this film and read the memoir it is based on to see how Lake's version compares.
Kat C
I'm a lifelong reader who started blogging about YA books in 2011 but now I read in just about every genre! I love YA coming of age stories, compelling memoirs and genre bending SFF. You can find me talking all things romance at Romance and Sensibility.