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Foldable Smartphones: Are the Flexpai and Infinity Flex Pure Nostalgia?
The era of the foldable phone may have already arrived. While rumors swirl that Samsung is about to launch its own foldable Galaxy, a foldable phone called the Cosmo Communicator smashed its funding target on Tuesday in just four hours. The developers of the phone, Planet Computers, declared they are "overwhelmed with the response and messages of support."
For a phone that echoes designs from yesteryear, the Cosmo may seem a baffling success. It has a two-inch touchscreen on the exterior that flips open to reveal a QWERTY keyboard and six-inch touchscreen. It resembles the older T-Mobile Sidekick and Nokia Communicator in many respects, but its ability to multi-boot into Debian Linux and regular Android operating systems place it more in the domain of computer geek favorites like the GPD Win. These designs and others are challenging perceptions of what a phone should look like, in a risky bid to make them even more useful than they are today. In the case of Cosmo, its developers are trying to replace your laptop, that giant machine with a full-size keyboard and around 13 inches of screen.
Cosmo's runaway campaign comes as smartphone makers are starting to spread their wings again and rethink the iPhone-style shape that's dominated phones for the past decade — known in the industry as the "candybar" form factor. Beyond the Cosmo, Samsung debuted the Infinity Flex Display earlier this week as a vision of what a future smartphone may look like. The Android-running phones can display up to three apps at once on the inside screen. Unfortunately, it did not release any more information about any potential smartphones using the display.
Before the iPhone in 2007, the market was rife with all manner of exotic layouts, like the Motorola Razr flip phone and the Sony Ericsson Walkman with flip-away music buttons. Nokia became something of a meme as it produced wild designs like the 3600 circular button phone, N-Gage "taco" phone, and the N93 that sort of flipped into a mini camcorder:
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The difference from before and after the iPhone was so pronounced it became a meme:
The iPhone has retained a very similar shape since its initial launch. The screen has ballooned from 3.5 inches to 6.5 inches, it's dropped the home button in favor of gestures, and it's built up more capabilities thanks to faster processors. At its heart, though, it still follows Steve Jobs' basic philosophy: smartphones with buttons are bad because once you ship it, you can't change the buttons. The iPhone is a blank slate, ready to host app makers' creations. A bigger canvas means more space to express these ideas. But a screen can only get so big before it starts becoming harder to use.
Samsung and Planet Computers are not the only ones pursuing this line of thought. Little-known California tech firm Royole unveiled its FlexPai phone in China last month with a four-inch OELD screen, folding out into a 7.8-inch tablet. It has a gap similar to the Microsoft Surface Book, but that didn't stop Inverse from coming away impressed by the latter device. Royole claims the device can be folded and unfolded 200,000 times, and it uses a Snapdragon 8150 paired with a 3,800 mAh battery to power a dual-lens camera packing f/1.8 aperture and a 16-megapixel sensor. Unfortunately, it seems China-bound for now.
The Cosmo launch comes soon after the Gemini, a PDA that attracted warm responses when it was showcased at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in January. The follow-up has a Mediatek P70 eight-core processor, six gigabytes of RAM and 128GB of storage, and a 4,220 mAh battery. Cosmo bills itself as "a true all-in-one replacement for both your mobile phone and your laptop," with a price of $799. Unfortunately, repeated requests for comment by Inverse were left unreturned.
These companies are pursuing a vision of computing that could prove obsolete in the coming years. As the developer and writer Paul Ford recently pointed out personal computing is heading in a direction where "computers won't matter any more."
"That's because they'll be everywhere — small and cheap embedded in everything. And all the little rituals I do to get through my day will be unnecessary — like swiping a MetroCard or buzzing into the office. I might still use a desktop computer, but mostly I'll ask my earbuds to play music, and those earbuds will also serve as a wallet," he told NYMag. "Or maybe I like carrying a wallet, that's fine, too — it'll have a little screen on it. My shoes will talk to my earbuds and the song will speed up if I walk faster. I'll be just a little walking cloud platform with lots of hard drive space, all talking to the internet."
Perhaps the reason why phone designs became so boring in the first place is because so many other means of interaction became commonplace too. Why do I need a bigger screen for choosing music if I can just ask my phone using Siri to choose a song? The multiplicity of ways users can achieve a task with their phones may mean that the form factor has become secondary.
It remains to be seen whether these attempts at redesigning the phone prove a success. But with some critics crying out for smaller phones, a tradeoff that could make them less useful on the go, foldable phones could retain useability for longer sessions while making them more manageable for one-handed use.
That is until Apple's augmented reality glasses make this whole conversation obsolete.
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Differences Between The Nintendo Switch Console And The Nintendo Switch Lite
Nintendo has long put out family friendly handheld systems that delight both adults and children alike. In recent years, the Nintendo Switch has replaced the Nintendo Wii to become the only console available. It serves a great market, functioning both as an at home gaming console and as a handheld unit as well. Today I'd like to discuss the Nintendo Switch Lite, which is slated to be released in a few days. If you're confused between the existing Nintendo Switch console released in 2017 and the upcoming Nintendo Switch Lite, I am here to try and eliminate some of your confusion.
What is the difference between Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite? The reasoning behind the release seems to be to better offer consumers an easy-to-use portable handheld device at a lower price. In this article, we are going to give an overview of the major differences between these game systems. Please note that since the Switch Lite doesn't officially come out for a few more days that some information may have changed.
Nintendo Switch console vs. Nintendo Switch Lite
Console or handheld?
The Nintendo Switch console is a hybrid console that can work as a home gaming console system and as a stand-alone handheld device. The Switch comes up with Joy-Con controllers, motion sensing, standard buttons, tactile feedback, directional analog sticks, and few more features.
The Nintendo Switch Lite is an upcoming installment in the Nintendo product line that will work only as a handheld device, which means that the user will not be able to plug it in with the TV.
Game Compatibility
The Nintendo Switch Lite will support most of the same games as Nintendo Switch console, as long as they work in handheld mode.
The Nintendo Switch measures around 9.4 x 4 x 0.6 inches, while the Switch Lite has approximate dimensions of 8.2 x 3.6 x 0.6 inches. These dimensions clearly indicate that Switch Lite demand less space, making it a pocket-friendly device.
The Switch console weighs around 14.1 ounces while the weight of the upcoming Switch Lite handheld console is 9.8 ounces, which makes it 30% lighter.
There are some changes made in the design of the new Nintendo Switch Lite. In the case of the Switch Lite, the buttons are permanently fixed while in the original Switch console there are two detachable Joy-Cons for gameplay.
Specifications And Storage
Both the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch Lite feature a Nvidia Tegra CPU. Both devices offer a 32 GB of storage space which is expandable via a microSD.
The Switch has an HDMI as an output source while there is no output connection for the upcoming Switch Lite.
The battery life of the original Switch console is around 6.5 hours up to 9 hours while the battery life of the Switch Lite is up to 7 hours.
The Nintendo Switch comes in gray or a neon blue and red combination. The Nintendo Switch Lite Handheld is available in gray, yellow, turquoise and yellow, as well as a special Pokemon Zacian and Zamazenta Edition.
Pricing for the Nintendo Switch console price starts at around $300 while the cost of Switch Lite is around $200.
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On this day, January 15, in 1622, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, was born in Paris, France. A playwright who was wildly popular with both the court and the people in his own time, he is considered one of the masters of Western comedy even today. His hilarious and satirical works – such as Tartuffe and The Misanthrope – remain staples of modern theater. Also a well known actor who often appeared in his own plays, he suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis; legend has it that he died a few hours after suffering a coughing fit and hemorrhaging on stage in the last play he ever wrote, ironically titled, The Imaginary Invalid. He was 51.
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WARWICK, RI--(Marketwired - March 12, 2015) - Powerdyne International, Inc. (OTC PINK: PWDY) today announced that it has finalized its negotiations with Farmacia Brisas del Mar, Inc. in Puerto Rico and has entered into a five-year contract to supply power to their facility. In addition to the custom designed system, Powerdyne will also provide cogeneration capabilities with the integration of chillers to supply cooling in support of their air conditioning demands.
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At the next annual meeting, there will be three positions open for our volunteer board of directors. Each is a three-year term position. The voting will take place in person by paper ballot only at the annual meeting.
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The following board candidates are listed below with their qualifications:
LARRY RIDENOUR
Davenport, Iowa resident Larry Ridenour was initially elected to the credit union board of directors in 1991 and again in 1993 serving to present date. Larry joined Alcoa Davenport Works in 1966 retiring after 30 years as a CAD CAM Programmer. Larry is the past Chairperson of Alcoa DavPak and the 25 year club. Larry received an associate's degree in numerical control programming, computer aided drafting and CAD CAM Programming. Larry has served as Chairperson of the board of directors, Vice Chairperson, Chairperson of the Credit and Audit Committees, ALCO Committee, and has served as the Chief Financial Officer.
Larry currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board, Executive Committee Chairperson, Personnel Chairperson, Community Development Financial Institution Committee Chairperson, Cyber Security Committee Chairperson, Ascentra Credit Union Foundation Chairperson and ALCO Committee Chairperson. He has additionally served on the Building, Nominating, Strategic Planning, Disaster Recovery, Board and Director Policy Updates and Marketing Committees. He was the recipient of the 2014 Iowa Credit Union Cooperative Spirit Award for exemplifying the spirit of the credit union industry and the communities they serve.
During Larry's tenure on the credit union board of directors he has completed the financial achievement program and CUNA's Professional Development Program. This experience has given him significant insight into the operation of the credit union. Larry was instrumental in forming the Ascentra Credit Union Foundation to focus on large-impact community funding. The foundation has made a positive impact on the lives of many.
MARY SOEDER
Mary is a Bettendorf, Iowa resident and worked at Alcoa for 34 years in Supply Chain Management as a Secretary, Coordinator, Order Editor, Plate Planner and Customer Service Delivery Specialist. She retired in 2002 and is a current member of the Alcoa 25 year club. A graduate from Assumption High School and the American Institute of Commerce (AIC) in business, Mary has also completed Excel, Access and Word computer classes at Scott Community College. Mary currently serves as Treasurer of the board, Executive Committee Treasurer, Ascentra Credit Union Foundation Treasurer, Credit Committee Secretary, and serves on the Personnel Committee. She has also served on the following board committees: Audit, Building, Nominating, Strategic Planning Session, and Disaster Recovery and IT Technology. Mary is also a member of the Mississippi Valley Quilting Guild.
THOMAS GIBBS
Thomas was born in Davenport but grew up in Coralville. He graduated from Iowa City West High School and joined the United States Air Force. He served as a Military Working Dog Handler/Security Forces and ended his career doing Bomb Dog Support for Air Force One Mission and Support Complex.
He left the Air Force and worked briefly in private security at the Library of Congress before joining the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. Thomas returned to the Quad Cities in 2004 where he began his career with the Scott County Sheriff's Office. He continues to serve Scott County and the Sheriff's Office as a Lieutenant in charge of Dayshift Patrol Operations.
Thomas joined Ascentra Credit Union Board of Directors as an Associate Board Member in 2020. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Board of Directors in 2020. Thomas has served on the Credit and Audit Committees and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Thomas is married to his wife Heather Gibbs, and they live in Bettendorf. They have two daughters who attend Pleasant Valley School District.
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Prefer Structured Lifetimes: Local, Nested, Bounded, Deterministic
By Herb Sutter, November 11, 2009
What's good for the function and the object is also good for the thread, the task, and the lock
What's Wrong, and How To Make It Right
The code correctly executes the subrange sorts in parallel. Unfortunately, what it doesn't do is encapsulate and localize the concurrency, because this version of the code doesn't guarantee that the subrange sorts will be complete before it returns to the caller. Why not? Because the code failed to join with the spawned work. As illustrated in Figure 1, subtasks can still be running while the caller may already be executing beyond its call to Quicksort. The execution is unstructured; that is, unlike normal structured function calls, the execution of subtasks does not nest properly inside the execution of the parent task that launched them, but is unbounded and nondeterministic.
The failure to join actually causes two related but distinct problems:
Completion of side effects: The caller expects that when the function returns the data in the range is sorted.
Synchronization: The caller expects Quicksort won't still be accessing the data in the range, which would race with the caller's subsequent uses of that same data.
Remember, to the caller this appears to be a synchronous method. The caller expects all side effects to be completed, and has no obvious way to wait for them to complete if they're not.
Fortunately, the fix is easy: Just make sure that each invocation of Quicksort not only spawns the subrange sorting in parallel, but also waits for the spawned work to complete. To illustrate the idea, the following corrected example will use a future type along the lines of futures available in Java and in C++0x, but any kind of task handle that can be waited for will do:
// Example 3: Parallelized quicksort, take 2 (fixed)
void Quicksort( Iter first, Iter last ) {
// If the range is small, synchronous sort is usually faster.
if( distance( first, last ) < limit ) {
OtherSort( first, last );
// 1. Pick a pivot position somewhere in the middle.
// Move all elements smaller than the pivot value to
// the pivot's left, and all larger elements to its right.
Iter pivot = Partition( first, last );
// 2. Recurse to sort the subranges. Run the first
// asynchronously, while this thread continues with
// the second.
future fut =  pool.run(  [=]{ Quicksort( first, pivot ); }  );
Quicksort( pivot, last );
// 3. Join to ensure we don't return until the work is complete.
fut.wait();
As illustrated in Figure 2, just making parent tasks wait for their subtasks makes the execution nicely structured, bounded, and deterministic. We've implemented a barrier where everyone including the caller waits before proceeding, and thus returned the desired amount of synchronicity:
Completion of side effects: We guarantee that when the function returns, it has done its full job and the range is sorted.
Synchronization: After the function returns, some part of its work won't still be accessing the data, and so won't invisibly race with the caller's subsequent uses of the data.
Table 2 illustrates the differences between structured and unstructured lifetimes in the form of a little artsy photo sequence. In the following descriptions, notice how consistently we use synonyms for our four keywords: local, nested, bounded, and deterministic.
Structured: As illustrated on the left side of Table 2, structured lifetimes are like Russian dolls. They nest cleanly, so that each doll fits entirely inside the next larger one. As the program is assembled and executed, each subgroup can be manipulated as a unit. When fully assembled, every individual part is nicely encapsulated and in a well-known place, easy to understand and reason about.
Unstructured (initial intent): When we first buy into unstructured lifetimes, we think we're buying into the middle picture of raw pasta. We start out with a manageable handful of stiff little independent and parallel lifetimes that don't twist or cross very much. Life is good, at least in the initial PowerPoint design…
Unstructured (in practice): Unfortunately, as the final picture shows, we end up with something quite different. Software under maintenance behaves a lot like pasta: Once it's cooked and combined with other ingredients, the unstructured threads don't stay easy to grasp and easy to separate, but rather get intertwined and easier to break. What we actually wind up with ends up being quite slippery -- in the worst case, "spaghetti code."
Just because some work is done concurrently under the covers, behind a synchronous API call, doesn't mean there isn't any sequential synchronization with the caller. When a synchronous function returns to the caller, even if it did internal work in parallel it must guarantee that as much work as is needed is fully complete, including all side effects and uses of data.
Where possible, prefer structured lifetimes: ones that are local, nested, bounded, and deterministic. This is true no matter what kind of lifetime we're considering, including object lifetimes, thread or task lifetimes, lock lifetimes, or any other kind. Prefer scoped locking, using RAII lock-owning objects (C++, C# via using) or scoped language features (C# lock, Java synchronized). Prefer scoped tasks, wherever possible, particularly for divide-and-conquer and similar strategies where structuredness is natural. Unstructured lifetimes can be perfectly appropriate, of course, but we should be sure we need them because they always incur at least some cost in each of code complexity, code clarity and maintainability, and run-time performance. Where possible, avoid slippery spaghetti code, which becomes all the worse a nightmare to build and maintain when the lifetime issues are amplified by concurrency.
Thanks to Scott Meyers for his valuable feedback on drafts of this article.
[1] E. Dijkstra. "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" (Communications of the ACM, 11(3), March 1968). Available online at search engines everywhere.
[2] Here is one example of why deterministic destruction/dispose matters for performance: In 2003, the microsoft.com website was using .NET code and suffering performance problems. The team's analysis found that too many mid-life objects were leaking into Generation 2 and this caused frequent full garbage collection cycles, which are expensive. In fact, the system was spending 70% of its execution time in garbage collection. The CLR performance team's suggestion? Change the code to dispose as many objects as possible before making server-to-server calls. The result? The system spent approximately 1% of its time in garbage collection after the fix.
[3] C# mistakenly called the finalizer the "destructor," which it is not, and this naming error has caused no end of confusion.
[4] E. Lee. "The Problem with Threads" (University of California at Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Technical Report, January 2006). http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf.
[5] The new parallel task runtimes (e.g., Microsoft's Parallel Patterns Library and Task Parallel Library, Intel's Threading Building Blocks) are heavily optimized for structured task lifetimes, and their interfaces encourage structured tasks with implicit joins by default. The resulting performance and determinism benefits are some of the biggest improvements they offer over older abstractions like thread pools and explicit threads. For example, knowing tasks are structured means that all their associated state can be allocated directly on the stack without any heap allocation. That isn't just a nice performance checkmark, but it's an important piece of a key optimization achievement, namely driving down the cost of unrealized concurrency -- the overhead of expressing work as a task (instead of a synchronous function call), in the case when the task is not actually executed on a different thread -- to almost nothing (meaning on the same order as the overhead of an ordinary function call).
[6] The key to avoiding deadlock is to acquire locks in a deterministic and globally recognized order. Although releasing locks in reverse order is not as important for avoiding deadlock, it is usually natural. The key thing for keeping lock lifetimes structured is to release any locks the function took at least by the end of the function, which makes code self-contained and easier to reason about. Even when using a technique like hand-over-hand locking where lock release is not in reverse order of lock acquisition, locking should still be scoped so that all locks a function took are released by the time the function returns. See also H. Sutter. "Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock" (Dr. Dobb's Journal, 33(1), January 2008). Available online at http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/204801163.
[7] H. Sutter. "Effective Concurrency: Avoid Exposing Concurrency -- Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods" (Dr. Dobb's Digest, October 2009). Available online at http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220600388 .
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Why Warriors' Andrew Bogut remains upset with the Los Angeles Lakers
Andrew Bogut: "The Lakers told me I'd be there the whole year" before being waived
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) walks on the court during a timeout while playing the Indiana Pacers in the third quarter of their NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, March 21, 2019. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Indiana Pacers 112-89. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut (12), left, and Golden State Warriors guard Andre Iguodala (9) joke around in the fourth quarter of their game against the Memphis Grizzlies at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The Warriors went on to win their 73rd game and the NBA all-time winning record. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12), top, dunks the ball past Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert (27) in the first period of their basketball game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Utah Jazz's Derrick Favors (15), left, tries to get past Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) in the fourth period of their basketball game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12), left, blocks Toronto Raptors' DeMar DeRozan (10) in the fourth quarter of their basketball game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) reacts after drawing an offensive foul in the first quarter of Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, June 7, 2015. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Cleveland Cavaliers' Iman Shumpert (4), left, gets his shot blocked by Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) in the first quarter of Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, June 7, 2015. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) and Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard (12) battle for a rebound in the first quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference finals against the Houston Rockets at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, May 27, 2015. To the right is Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green (23).(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) passes the ball in the first period of their basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) left, blocks Los Angeles Clippers' DeAndre Jordan (6) in the fourth period of their basketball game in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
With their team in the lead, Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) left, and teammate Stephen Curry (30) talk on the bench in the fourth period of their basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Golden State Warriors' Andrew Bogut (12) dunks the ball against Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (24) and Jordan Hill (27) in the first quarter of their game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
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LOS ANGELES – The phone call still bothers Andrew Bogut nearly 15 months later.
Then, Bogut learned the Los Angeles Lakers would cut him four days before his contract would become guaranteed. Normally such an incident would be chalked up to the business of professional sports. To Bogut, the Lakers breached an unwritten agreement he said he had reached with their front office so long as he remained healthy.
"The Lakers told me I'd be there the whole year," Bogut told Bay Area News Group. "They went against their word and waived me at the deadline. Whatever. That was their decision."
Bogut did not travel with the Warriors (53-24) for Thursday's game against the Lakers (35-43), as part of the team's plan to rest its veterans on parts of back-to-backs. Even if he had gone on the trip, though, it does not appear Bogut would shake hands with the Lakers' president of basketball operations (Magic Johnson) and their general manager (Rob Pelinka) for a simple reason.
"I was basically lied to," Bogut said.
Bogut had reservations initially about agreeing to a non-guaranteed deal with the Lakers to open training camp last season. Bogut had no aspirations to move his wife and two children from his native Australia to Los Angeles, only to relocate following a possible roster cut or trade.
Yet, Bogut understood the Lakers' concerns about his durability. He fractured the tibia in his left leg only 56 seconds into his debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers in March 2017. Before the Warriors traded Bogut to Dallas to clear cap space for Kevin Durant in the 2016 offseason, Bogut injured his left knee in the first minutes of Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals against Cleveland and missed the rest of a series the Warriors squandered after holding a 3-1 lead.
But Bogut said that the Lakers' front office told his agent, David Bauman, "we have no concerns if you're healthy." Bogut added he and Bauman received assurances he would not be waived either for financial reasons or to clear up playing time for younger players.
So Bogut agreed to a one-year deal. After all, Bogut had affection for Lakers coach Luke Walton after he had served as an assistant under Warriors coach Steve Kerr for two years (2014-2016). Bogut also found it appealing to help Walton accelerate the Lakers' rebuilding after missing the NBA playoffs since 2014 with both defense and mentoring.
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(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Instead, Bogut played in only 24 games and averaged 9.0 minutes. The Lakers then waived Bogut on Jan. 6, 2017, four days before his contract would have become guaranteed for the remainder of the season.
"I took their word for that stupidly," Bogut said. "It's part of the business. But it's disappointing because I have two young kids and all that. I was stupid enough to take their word on something I shouldn't have."
Enough time has passed for Bogut to feel fully healthy after playing this past year with the Sydney Kings of the Australian National League. After signing with the Warriors last month as an insurance policy behind DeMarcus Cousins, Bogut has finally adjusted to the jet lag he experienced nearly two weeks ago. He has finally settled in a new Bay Area home with his family. He finally feels fully acclimated with a Warriors team eager to lean on his defense and screen setting, while sparking nostalgic memories about his previous four-year tenure (2012-16) and championship run (2015).
Not enough time has passed, though, for Bogut to soften his frustrations about his brief stint with the Lakers.
"It was a young team and the roster was kind of all over the place," Bogut said. "Now obviously they got LeBron [James] and their own issues they are dealing with. It was definitely an interesting organization to be a part of after coming from Golden State. It's just different. It's ran differently."
The Lakers did not make Pelinka or Johnson available for comment. But the Lakers maintained they would not have made such assurances to Bogut about keeping him on a non-guaranteed contract out of concern that it could violate NBA rules. Otherwise, the Lakers could have just offered Bogut a guaranteed contract.
Either way, that incident set off a series of events that made Bogut question his NBA future.
(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
After his family returned to their native Australia, Bogut continued training in Los Angeles in case any NBA teams wanted him on their playoff roster. Bogut said that four unnamed teams expressed interest, but he decided not to pursue any of those options after his grandfather died unexpectedly.
Shortly after Bogut returned to Melbourne for his grandfather's funeral, he then discovered his wife would have a high-risk pregnancy due in July. At that point, Bogut determined he would stay in his native country for at least a year. He then signed a two-year deal with the Sydney Kings.
"I never had in the back of my mind that I want to get back into the NBA," Bogut said. "I didn't even have my agent reach out to people."
That did not matter. This past December, Bogut said a handful of unnamed Warriors players contacted him and asked a simple question: "Can you get out of your contract?"
Even if he felt the Lakers burned him, Bogut relayed that he had no plans to do that to the Sydney Kings. "I wanted to make sure I finish the right way," Bogut said. Once the NBL season ends in mid February, though, Bogut said he would be interested in joining the Warriors if they still had an open roster spot.
The Warriors had always kept their 15th and final slot open to account for a possible trade or a player available in the buyout market following the Feb. 7 trade deadline. Instead, the Warriors remained intrigued about another reunion with Bogut.
Larry Harris, the Warriors' assistant general manager and director of pro personnel, took a 15-hour flight to Sydney on Feb. 4. Then, Harris watched Bogut both practice and play in a game. They had lunch afterwards to talk about the Warriors. Afterwards, Harris became encouraged with Bogut for his improved health and for averaging 11.4 points, 11.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.7 blocks in about 30 minutes per game.
Nearly a month later, the Warriors agreed to a deal. Since then, Bogut has averaged 3.9 points on 50 percent shooting and 4.9 rebounds in 11 minutes through eight games, including three starts. That is far from what the Warriors expected from Bogut during his previous four-year stint when he primarily started at center and averaged 6.25 points and 8.27 rebounds. Still, Bogut has offered familiar qualities with his defensive intensity, screen setting and communication on a moment's notice. Cousins missed two games with a sore right foot. He often has experienced foul trouble, too. In the playoffs, the Warriors anticipate using Bogut in limited minutes against true centers.
"We throw him out there and it's like he never left," Kerr said. "He's providing us with that extra big we needed."
Kerr also noticed that Bogut "appears recharged and refreshed." That explains why Bogut already has committed toward playing for the Australian national team in the 2019 World Cup in China (Aug. 31-Sept. 15) and in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (July 24-Aug. 9).
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Then, Bogut said that Australia will field its "deepest team," including Philadelphia forward Ben Simmons, Utah forward Joe Ingles, Utah guard Dante Exum, San Antonio guard Patty Mills and Boston center Aron Baynes.
Will that be enough to beat Team USA? At least when at least some of the team's invited stars plan to sit in the 2019 World Cup?
"People will say the best players aren't going to play. But the next 10 after the first 10 are all potential Hall-of-Famers," Bogut said "They're not scrubs. We know whoever they'll put out there is always the team to beat."
Until then, Bogut plans to enjoy his final stint with the Warriors in hopes of offering a small role in the franchise winning their fourth NBA title in five years. Before then, the Warriors will face the Lakers team, which sparked unpleasant memories for Bogut even if he will neither play in the game nor sit on the bench.
Had Bogut traveled with the Warriors on their short trip here, perhaps he would have at least given some sympathy to Walton. Toward the beginning of Walton's third season as the Lakers coach, Johnson met with him and shared his displeasure in a stern and direct tone about the team's inconsistency and start.
Johnson has since given Walton a public vote of confidence, but the sentiment around NBA circles suggest Johnson will replace Walton following the season. Lakers controlling governor Jeanie Buss has supported Walton publicly, but has also empowered Johnson to oversee the team's basketball operations.
Regardless, those around the Warriors sympathize with Walton's circumstances. He has overseen a roster that missed a combined 166 games because of injuries, including season-ending ailments to James, Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball. The Lakers do not have consistent outside shooters. The Lakers also failed to land Pelicans forward Anthony Davis before the trade deadline.
"He knows how to coach, first and foremost. The knocks on him about not being able to coach are wrong," Bogut said of Walton. "He's got a high basketball IQ. He knows the game better than anybody. But there's a lot of politics that go around different NBA franchises. He's fallen victim to that. That's what I think. The results speak for themselves. They aren't great, so that hurts him. But I truly think there are decisions made within that organization that really affected him."
Bogut maintained he knows from experience. And even with nearly a year gone by, Bogut remains upset by it.
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"Of course it's supposed to be a sport of 'no contact'. Well that always amuses us all because there's a lot goes on, goes on 'off the ball'... But it has to be very subtle nowadays, where in my day you could actually decide if someone was roughing you up, you could return the compliment and rough them up, and it sometimes got quite physical..."
The 1984 GB team at Stoke Mandeville; Philip Craven was the captain and Martin McElhatton played.
"Then our club went into the first division which was the National League, so we were travelling all over the country; we'd go up to Scotland for the weekend to play matches, or up to the North West - all over the place- but each year the big competition was the National Games here at Stoke Mandeville."


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Q: Adding a target to link tags, as long as the href attribute doesn't contain a certain word I created this function:
<?php
    function target_links( $html )
    {
        $pattern = "/<(a)([^>]+)>/i";
        $replacement = "<\\1 target=\"_blank\"\\2>";
        $new_str = preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,str_replace('target="_blank"','',$html));
        return $new_str;
    }
?>

The goal is to add a target="_blank" to all the link tags.
Now my problem is that I need to skip all link tags where the href attribute contains a specific word, but I can't seem to find the proper combination. Can you guys help me?

A: I'm not to sure about the "not failing because of broken HTML", but if you can get DomDocument to accept your html, try something like:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHtml('
    some link
    some link
');

$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
foreach ($xpath->query('//a[not(contains(@href, "protected"))]') as $node) {
    $node->setAttribute('target', '_blank');
}

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"');
echo $dom->saveHtml();

A: A regex solution can look like this:
<(a)(?!.*?href="[^"]*SPECIFICWORD)([^>]+)>

A negative lookahead (?!.*?href="[^"]*SPECIFICWORD) is used to check if the "SPECIFICWORD" is within the href attribute, if yes the regex does not match.
See here online on Regexr

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Ability to turn volume to 0 or "mute"
Robert Hokanson
I can't think of any other device that plays music or outputs audio where you cannot use the volume control to turn the volume to 0 (essentially muting the device)
For some reason that I cannot think of, Sena has a minimum volume stop (at about 10%) which I find to be irritating and a possible safety hazard.
For example, if you were to be talking to someone, you have no way to mute/turn the volume all the way down momentarily without turning off your device or trying to access your phone while on the road.
I understand some people may like the settings as it is...but at least can you make this volume option a toggle in the phone app so that we can dial the volume down past the current minimum volume settings already in place for those of us who wish to be able to mute their devices using the volume wheel?
Eaton Blumenstein May 16, 2018 13:38
Id like to see this too, holding down the button, sometimes takes more time then I would like. would be cool at 0 it would pause the music automatically, but thats far from gonna happen.


A/Prof Mansell's group uses a range of cellular and molecular biology methods, live cell microscopy, preclinical models and clinical studies to provide a molecular understanding of innate immunity.
Within the innate immune system, there are mechanisms to recognise and respond to both foreign and self-danger signals. These signals may be bacterial or viral infections or dead/ stressed cells in the host. These responses form the basis of our immune system.
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) constitute a group of three pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) superfamilies, NOD-like receptors (NLRs) and RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs). TLRs are implicated not only in infectious diseases, but also a broad range of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as atherosclerosis, asthma, lupus, diabetes, arthritis and cancer.
A/Prof Mansell and his team are interested in three main research themes related to the TLR superfamily of receptors.
Verstak B, Stack J, Ve T, Mangan M, Hjerrild K, Jeon J, Stahl R, Latz E, Gay N, Kobe B, Bowie AG, Mansell A (2014) The TLR signaling adaptor TRAM interacts with TRAF6 to mediate activation of the inflammatory response by TLR4. J Leukoc Biol 96(3):427-36. doi: 10.1189/jlb.2A0913-487R. Epub 2014 May 8.
Dowling JK, Becker CE, Bourke NM, Corr SC, Connolly DJ, Quinn SR, Pandolfi PP, Mansell A, O'Neill LA (2014) Promyelocytic leukemia protein interacts with the apoptosis-associated speck-like protein to limit inflammasome activation. J Biol Chem 289(10):6429-37. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.539692. Epub 2014 Jan 9.
McAuley JL, Tate MD, MacKenzie-Kludas CJ, Pinar A, Zeng W, Stutz A, Latz E, Brown LE, Mansell A (2013) Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome by IAV virulence protein PB1-F2 contributes to severe pathophysiology and disease. PLoS Pathog 9(5):e1003392. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003392. Epub 2013 May 30.
Lang T, Lo C, Skinner N, Locarnini S, Visvanathan K, Mansell A (2011) The hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) targets and suppresses activation of the toll-like receptor signaling pathway. J Hepatol 55(4):762-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.12.042. Epub 2011 Feb 18.
Verstak B, Nagpal K, Bottomley SP, Golenbock DT, Hertzog PJ, Mansell A (2009) MyD88 adapter-like (Mal)/TIRAP interaction with TRAF6 is critical for TLR2- and TLR4-mediated NF-kappaB proinflammatory responses. J Biol Chem 284(36):24192-203. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M109.023044. Epub 2009 Jul 10.
Mansell A, Smith R, Doyle SL, Gray P, Fenner JE, Crack PJ, Nicholson SE, Hilton DJ, O'Neill LA, Hertzog PJ (2006) Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 negatively regulates Toll-like receptor signaling by mediating Mal degradation. Nat Immunol (2):148-55. Epub 2006 Jan 15.
Luu K, Greenhill CJ, Majoros A, Decker T, Jenkins BJ, Mansell A (2014) STAT1 plays a role in TLR signal transduction and inflammatory responses. Immunol Cell Biol In Press.
Dowling JK, Becker CE, Bourke NM, Corr SC, Connolly DJ, Quinn SR, Pandolfi PP, Mansell A*, O'Neill LA* (2014) Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein Interacts with the Apoptosis-associated Speck-like Protein to Limit Inflammasome Activation. J Biol Chem 289(10):6429-37.
McAuley JL, Tate MD, MacKenzie-Kludas CJ, Pinar A, Zeng W, Stutz A, Latz E, Brown LE, Mansell A (2013) Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome by IAV virulence protein PB1-F2 contributes to severe pathophysiology and disease. PLoS Pathog 9(5):e1003392.
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Yousef Abdo won both in singles and doubles against Greenville (photo credit: Stephen Bates, WCS Photography).
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Illinois Tech men's tennis team traveled to Indiana on Saturday to take on Greenville and host Rose-Hulman, falling 5-4 and 9-0.
The Scarlet Hawks opened strong in doubles, winning in the first spot (Franklin Zhong and Brody Croonquist) 8-3 and second spot (Yousef Abdo and Adam Laitinen) 8-2.
In singles, Zhong (#1) and Abdo (#2) were victorious, winning 3-6, 6-4, 10-6 and 6-2, 6-1 respectively.
While RHIT swept doubles, Abdo and Laitnen were strong once again, playing the Fightin' Engineers to a 8-6 score.
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Q: Limit filter by terms elastic search I would put a size limit per terms, 3 retrieve results for the term "tag", 5 results for the term "dossier" and 1 result for the term "personality".
Can i use limit filter or and other solution ?
{
    "_source":{
      "include":[
        "path",
        "type"
      ]
    },
    "query":{
      "bool":{
        "should":[
          {
            "match":{
              "title.acp":{
                "query":"car",
                "boost":10
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "match":{
              "title.acp":{
                "query":"car",
                "fuzziness":"AUTO",
                "prefix_length":3
              }
            }
          }
        ],
        "filter":[
          {
            "terms":{
              "type":[
                "tag",
                "dossier",
                "personality"
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "highlight":{
      "fields":{
        "title.acp":{}
      }
    }
  };

A: Looks like for a given 'title' you want top x documents for each of the types where 'x' varies with type
One way to do this is use aggregation filter and top-hits in conjunction :
Example :
{
   "size": 0,
   "query": {
      "bool": {
         "should": [
            {
               "match": {
                  "title.acp": {
                     "query": "car",
                     "boost": 10
                  }
               }
            },
            {
               "match": {
                  "title.acp": {
                     "query": "car",
                     "fuzziness": "AUTO",
                     "prefix_length": 3
                  }
               }
            }
         ],
         "filter": [
            {
               "terms": {
                  "type": [
                     "tag",
                     "dossier",
                     "personality"
                  ]
               }
            }
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package de.pfabulist.lindwurm.setec;

import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.eighty.EightyProvider;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.eighty.path.URIMapper;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.eighty.path.WrapperUriMapper;

public class SetecProvider extends EightyProvider {

    public SetecProvider() {
        super(  getUrim(),
                SetecFS::create );
    }

    public static URIMapper getUrim() {
        return new WrapperUriMapper( "setec");
    }
}

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Web-based Instagram feed gets public hands-on: the limits continue!
Chris Burns - Feb 5, 2013, 1:14pm CST
It's time for Instagram to bring the full square photo experience to the web, starting today, with one very important missing feature: photo uploads. While the public has been able to view browser-based profiles of Instagram users for a few months now, the ability of a user to view their own feed (including all of their Instagram friends) has only been made real today. To see your Instagram feed, simply head to Instagram.com and log in – it's just that simple!
With this new user interface for Instagram you'll be able to see all of your own uploaded photos alongside the photos taken by the people you're connected with through the service. At the moment this means you're seeing the same feed that you'd otherwise only be able to see on your mobile device inside the Instagram app. With this interface you're able to "like" photos with the little heart icon below each photo, connect to "photo pages", and leave comments.
Each user name inside this iteration of Instagram connects to that user's profile page on the web. Each profile is exactly the same sort of page we saw with the release of web-based profile pages several months ago, and each "photo page" is also essentially the same as it was back when Instagram arrived on the scene, these pages otherwise able to be linked to via Twitter. If you decide you'd like to connect to someone's Twitter profile, you're in for a treat: the "@" symbol doesn't connect to Twitter profiles, it connects to Instagram profiles instead.
Of course your Tweets via Instagram will still be connecting to "@" profiles if you include said text, so you're once again getting an ever-so-slightly different experience with hot-linking depending on where your content is published. The fun never ends! From your Instagram feed in the web browser you're also able to delete photos and comments – but that's it!
For the real total full Instagram experience you're still going to have to head to the Instagram app on your respective iOS or Android machine – or Windows Phone machine or BlackBerry machine if you're reading this post in the future. Have at it!
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Instagram updates its terms of service after massive backlash
Instagram took the lazy, sneaky way out
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Instagram use surges on iOS and Android, falls 25% on Facebook
Instagram's active users cut in half while Facebook fights loss claims
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21 Must-See Grammys 2020 Backstage & After Party Moments (PHOTOS)
Meredith Jacobs January 27, 2020, 11:00 am
Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images; Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Universal Music Group
Beck and Lewis Capaldi attend the Universal Music Group's 2020 Grammy after party presented by Lenovo at Rolling Greens Nursery.
Anna Webber/Getty Images for Janie's Fund
Nathalie Emmanuel, Sydney Sweeney, and Camila Coelho attend Steven Tyler's Third Annual GRAMMY Awards Viewing Party to benefit Janie's Fund presented by Live Nation at Raleigh Studios.
Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Sony
Machine Gun Kelly and Noah Cyrus attend the Sony Music Entertainment 2020 Post-Grammy Reception at NeueHouse Hollywood.
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Ava DuVernay and Common backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Republic Records
Jessie J and Channing Tatum attend Republic Records Grammy After Party at 1 Hotel West Hollywood.
Alicia Keys and Dua Lipa backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Terry Crews and Kelsey Grammer speak onstage Steven Tyler's Third Annual GRAMMY Awards Viewing Party to benefit Janie's Fund presented by Live Nation at Raleigh Studios.
Charley Gallay/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker, and Shooter Jennings backstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony at Microsoft Theater
Robin Marchant/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Lizzo and Keith Urban backstage at the GRAMMY Charities Signings during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Cynthia Erivo and Keith Urban backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
LL Cool J, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Bonnie Raitt and John Prine backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center
Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images
Terry Crews and Steven Tyler attend Steven Tyler's Third Annual Grammy Awards Viewing Party to benefit Janie's Fund presented by Live Nation at Raleigh Studios.
Daya, Yungblood and Emily Hampshire attend the Universal Music Group's 2020 Grammy after party presented by Lenovo at Rolling Greens Nursery.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Joseph Simmons of Run-DMC backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Dave Chappelle and Ellen DeGeneres backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Flavor Flav and LL Cool J backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Billy Ray Cyrus and Dennis Quaid backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Joe Perry, Kenneth Ehrlich and Steven Tyler backstage at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center
Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for Red Light Management
Carmen Vandenberg and Rosie Bones of Bones UK attend Red Light Management Grammy After Party Presented by Rolling Stone at BOA Steakhouse.
It was music's biggest night, and the celebrations didn't just happen onstage.
Following the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, the stars headed to the after parties, including those hosted by Steven Tyler (to benefit Janie's Fund), Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Republic Records, and Red Light Management.
Grammy Awards 2020: Watch the Best Performances of the Night (VIDEO)
Aerosmith and Run-DMC's reunion, Usher and FKA Twigs' Prince tribute, Camila and Demi's emotional ballads, and more.
There were also some fun moments to be seen backstage during the ceremony between winners like Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X, host Alicia Keys, and many more.
Click through the gallery for a look at the moments you didn't see during the 2020 Grammys.


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Humber College joins struggle to get women into IT
Fawzia Sheikh
Published: May 6th, 2004
The number of women graduating from computer science degree programs has dropped over 20 years, in part because of trends in globalization and students' perception of technology professionals, said speakers on Thursday at a conference about women in IT.
CIPS and the Humber College Institute
of Technology hosted ""Women in IT: Looking Towards the Future,"" an event in Toronto that allowed high school-aged girls to talk to women working in the IT field across several industry sectors.
According to the Software Human Resource Council in Ottawa, a survey this year showed that women account for only 24.2 per cent of IT workers in Canada.
Moreover, statistics collected by IBM Canada Ltd. reveal 15 per cent of women complete school with a computer science degree in Canada, in contrast with 21 per cent in 2000 and 37 per cent in 1984.
Joanne Moore, technical resources program manager at the IBM Toronto laboratory whose job is to attract top talent to the company, attributed the decline to the negative perception young girls have of IT workers.
In Moore's session today, she asked students what they thought of lawyers and doctors, and heard descriptions like smart, sexy, good-looking and rich.
""And then I said, 'What do you think of when you think computer scientist? And they said, 'Big glasses, geeky, no interpersonal skills, sits at a computer all day long, white lab coat.'
""In part, the media and the television portray these computer scientists as off on their own in their own little world, doing things without a lot of interaction, without working with customers, without working in a team environment. I think girls like that social aspect, and also like to feel like they're making a difference in society.""
Fears associated with offshore outsourcing may also have an impact on the decision not to enter computer science and other technology-related fields, explained Rose Wong, technology marketing adviser at the Canadian Innovation Centre in Waterloo, Ont.
""A lot of the basic programming jobs are being moved offshore where the salaries are cheaper, and so what's being retained in North America are the research, highly skilled, the creative-type jobs. So you're seeing even middle-management software jobs, even the software development stuff, is being moved offshore.""
A report released last month by PricewaterhouseCoopers warned the Canadian technology sector can expect 75,000 of 550,000 IT positions to move offshore to regions like India, Russia and Latin America by 2010. Yet a creative local industry can offset these losses by increasing IT jobs in Canada by as much as 165,000 in areas like animation, health informatics and bioinformatics.
Emerging fields like bioinformatics and life sciences offer ""some hope"" to balance the gender playing field because many women in universities like Queen's in Kingston, Ont., for example, are pursuing these disciplines as well as dual degrees like computer science and biology that will bolster their professions, said Moore.
Wong said there's opportunity for women with skills in database management, data visualization and the creation of algorithms now that the human genome has been sequenced. She said already there are ""tonnes of women"" in science and research reflecting a 50-50 split between the sexes.
Although the technology industry is trying to tackle this problem, it's uncertain whether their efforts are working, judging by industry numbers. For the past few years, CIPS has run a women in IT ambassador program in which volunteers visit high schools and talk about opportunities in technology, and another program that allows professionals to talk to girls at conferences like Humber's, said Patricia Gaudet, manager of RBC IT business continuity planning, finance and administration, at RBC Financial Group in Toronto.
Gaudet said CIPS also provides a mentoring program in which teenage girls can e-mail career questions to an address hosted by the association.
Companies like IBM Canada, in which 28 per cent of women hold technical positions, encourage girls in summer workshops when they're in grades eight and nine to consider computer science so they're more likely to pursue it in university, explained Moore. It also hosts Web-page design programs for girls as young as aged nine.
Noting that past technological advances have initially worked better with men than women, such as the first voice-recognition software, artificial heart valve and vehicle air bags, she warned that society runs a risk in allowing IT and the sciences to be dominated by men.
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Which metros have the largest share of service class workers?
The service class is the largest class of all, employing more than 45 percent of American workers. Its members work in home health and elder care, they are lawn service providers, taxi drivers, and retail salespeople, food handlers and waiters, and people who perform routine clerical and administrative functions.
The map above charts the service class across U.S. metros, while the table below lists the top twenty. Las Vegas, in sixth place, is the only large metro to make the list. Smaller tourist destinations continue to top the list as they did in the original 1999 rankings. Myrtle Beach is first, with more than two-thirds of its jobs in the service class. It's followed by Ocean City and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Punta Gorda, Florida, all with more than 60 percent. Florida's Naples, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, and Sebastian-Vero Beach, as well as Barnstable, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) also make the list. But non-tourist destinations like Laredo, Brownsville, and McAllen, Texas, are present as well. Some of these communities not only have a large share of low-wage low-skilled jobs, but number among the least resilient and most vulnerable economies anywhere.
The service class is both the largest (60 million workers) and the least paid of America's three major social classes. The only way to improve its members' prospects is to upgrade the work they perform—to make it more creative and hence more productive and remunerative. As I have written, that is the key task of a jobs strategy today, as well as being required to spur the demand required for broader economic recovery.
Ten years ago, in the original edition of The Rise of the Creative Class, I suggested that the new geography of class might be giving rise to a new form of socioeconomic segregation that is different from racial segregation or the old schism between central city and suburb, and perhaps even more threatening to national unity. Over the past decade and especially since the economic meltdown of 2008, this trend has only become more pronounced.


In medical facility design, almost every decision is significant. Small design choices have big effects that radiate outward at every level, so it's important to examine your options. Consider hospital room doors – you might think there's not much there to explore or experiment with. But, thanks to innovators like Washington-based AD Systems, sliding door technology for medical facilities is now an industry standard option.
Facility designers need to look beyond the conventional options to innovative technology that can create real improvements in efficiency.
Not to mention sliding doors provide many improvements for hospitals and medical facilities.
Create substantial space savings in hospital rooms. Swinging doors can take up to 15 square feet just to swing open and shut. Whether it's in an exam room or an inpatient care area like a restroom, that space can make a huge difference. The doors' slim profile also makes them less obstructive to open in hallways or rooms.
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Attractive, contemporary aesthetic. AD Systems' sliding doors showcase a sleek, minimal look. Additionally, customization is available with different finishes, hardware, and glazes.
ExamSlide: Developed through years of collaboration with architects and medical professionals, the ExamSlide is AD Systems' high-performance hospital room door system. Its high-quality construction, efficient operation, and elegant aesthetics make it an ideal choice for facilities of all kinds.
InsetSlide: As AD Systems gained prominence, their clients began to request a sliding door that could be flush with the wall as opposed to surface mounted. Soon after, the InsetSlide was born. The InsetSlide offers a door and integral sidelite that with the same features and rigorous manufacturing standards applied to AD Systems' other products.
Ready to explore what the future of hospital room doors has to offer? Contact AD Systems today, by phone at 425-374-1360 or email at sales@specadsystems.com.


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Q: server client communication java I have this client, the server information is not important. The output of this code is very random.
class Client {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception

    {
        BufferedReader inFromUser = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        Socket clientSocket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 10004);//this will become the addr of the server you want to input.
        InetAddress host = clientSocket.getInetAddress();
        //      System.out.println(host);

        DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
        BufferedReader inFromServer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
        boolean exit = false;

        while (!exit) {
            while (inFromServer.ready()) {
                System.out.println(inFromServer.readLine());
            }
            String sentence = inFromUser.readLine();
            outToServer.writeBytes(sentence + "\n");
        }
        clientSocket.close();
    }
}

If I run this in debug mode, it has always the correct result. E.g.

*

*please insert password

*the user types pass

*pass correct

*please type command

*and you type command

*etc

*etc

When it's not in debug mode, all goes wrong. I don't even get the initial request from server. What is going on? I think the read line might be executed too fast?

A: in.ready() does not wait for any data to be available. It the server hasn't sent the data yet when you client reads that line, you're going to skip the readLine() completely.
Just remove that while and do a plain readLine().
If there are phases where you need to wait for multiple lines from the server, you'll need to implement more logic. Usually, the server will send an "end of message" marker to signify to the client that it is done. For example, when the server is done, it could send the message "END-OF-MESSAGE". In the client code, you would do:
boolean serverDone = false;
while (!serverDone) {
  String message = in.readLine();
  if (message == null) {
    // handle this problem: the server has closed the connection
    serverDone = true; // or return, or throw
  } else if ("END-OF-MESSAGE".equals(message)) {
    serverDone = true;
  }
}


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In 2010, Autoban's first interiors project outside of Turkey opened in Hong Kong. 208 Duecento Otto offers rustic Italian cuisine from chef Vinny Lauria of New York's acclaimed Babbo restaurant. The interior reflects the signature Autoban aesthetic, with its playful spirit and nod to the diversity of Istanbul, while embracing the local culture. Autoban utilised their signature raw materials as seen in steel pillars, marble tabletops and solid walnut floors and ceiling. Ceramic tiles, another signature, are specially designed for the location, blue and white and printed with Chinese illustrations. The project includes products manufactured by De La Espada including Nest lounge chair, Box Sofa, Holy Table, Butterfly chair and Butterfly Bar Stool.
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