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A star of the videogame documentary ''The King of Kong'' talks about what it takes to get the high score
By Mandi Bierly
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Even if you haven't been inside an arcade in a decade (or two), you might walk out of The King of Kong — an absurdly gripping new documentary chronicling the battle between the world's top two Donkey Kong players — looking for one.
In 2003, perpetual underdog Steve Wiebe, now 38, was laid off from Boeing. In his downtime, he discovered not just that he was good at the arcade game, but that he was good enough to give legendary gamer Billy Mitchell, who'd held the top score for two decades, a run for his quarters. Playing on his own machine in his garage each night (one game at his level can last two hours and 15 minutes), Wiebe finally shattered Mitchell's record with a score over 1,000,000…but for reasons revealed in the movie, Twin Galaxies — the authority on player rankings — refused to acknowledge it. The King of Kong follows Wiebe's two-year quest to prove he's got game, and cocky hot-sauce-maker Mitchell's struggle to hold on to his title. Should there be any doubt that this story is an epic, New Line has plans to make it into a feature (Wiebe could see Greg Kinnear, Nathan Fillion, Mark Hamill, or Ralph Macchio playing him).
EW.com caught up with Wiebe last Wednesday, a day after he'd gotten to the "kill screen" in a warm-up game at Dave and Buster's in Times Square. His score of 946,500 was still on the machine in New York, but he was already back in Seattle, where the previous night's chants of "Wiebe! Wiebe!" had been replaced by his two kids' "Daddy! Daddy!" With Wiebe focusing more on family these days than Kong, it's a good time to learn what it takes to become a World Record-holding gamer. So we asked him.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At Dave and Buster's, you had people all around you while you were playing. How do you develop that kind of focus?
STEVE WIEBE: I'm a teacher. When I'm in the science room and there's lab stations set up, I'm getting bombarded with requests from students. So I guess I'm kinda used to tending to a lot of different things at once. And then my son, of course, you see him yelling at me in the movie. He's helped me learn a different level of concentration. [Laughs]
Yes, that's my favorite moment. You're approaching the record, you've got a camera videotaping the game, and your son, Derek, starts screaming, "Wipe my butt!.. Stop playing Donkey Kong!" He's 7 years old now. Does he realize that he'll be forever remembered for yelling, "Wipe my butt"?
[Laughs] Yeah, I don't know how he'll feel about that when he's going through the teenage years and dating. That might be tough on him.
[Hearing a "Daddy!"] Is that Derek yelling at you right now?
Yeah, we're in the middle of a game of chess. I was teaching him, so he's wants me to get back to it. But don't rush the interview. [To Derek] We're gonna be off in a little bit, okay? [To EW] And I'm gonna take him to see Harry Potter later as a treat.
So let's cut to the chase for Derek's sake: How do we become you?
I think it just takes a passion for whatever you're doing. If you're trying to do something just 'cause you're trying to get your name in the record book, and don't love what you're doin', it's gonna be difficult and not a very fun experience. So you love what you're doin'. You dedicate the hours. And you have patience. For Donkey Kong, it takes a lot of knowledge of the game and hand-eye coordination.
How do we work on hand-eye coordination?
Playing the drums is a good workout for that. But it just comes from playing the game.
How do we analyze the game?
Back when arcades were popular, you'd be talking with your friends and share knowledge that way. But just through experience playing the game, you recognize patterns. I'd film the games, so sometimes I would even look at the game film. [Laughs] Kinda like in the NFL when the players watch the game film to study their opponent. I would review the tapes and try to find anything that could help me.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Donkey Kong is considered one of, if not THE, hardest arcade game. Is there a game whose record we might find easier to break?
I think Pac-Man. To get a perfect Pac-Man score takes an above-average gamer, but there's patterns that you can get books on. Or, at least back in the day, I remember reading books that gave me the patterns. You're maneuvering the Pac-Man character through the maze, so if you have a pattern, that will help you play for a pretty long time. And it's just a single joystick, there's no buttons or anything, so it's pretty simple.
How do we decide which game is right for us?
I think some people have more of an inclination toward the shooter-type games. The Asteroids, Space Invaders, or Defender. I think you just experiment. If you don't have any experience, then try 'em all. Some you'll find come easier to you than others. And some you'll just like the concepts better. I kinda liked the idea of Donkey Kong or Pac-Man, where you're maneuvering something and avoiding obstacles.
The world of gaming is seriously competitive. As evidenced by when you were playing in that one arcade in the movie, and a guy kept calling Billy to give him reports. How do you deal with that — having people who clearly don't want you to succeed so in your face?
I didn't realize he was on the phone, because he'd go somewhere else in the building. I did realize he was trying to disrupt my rhythm because he would want to jump in and play a game every time I'd finished one. So I just kinda looked at thwarting his efforts as another challenge. I knew he was going head-to-head with me in his own way. So I just thought, I'm gonna put up a really high score and really discourage him. And eventually he stopped playing.
Finally, what sacrifices should people be prepared to make?
Be prepared to invest time and energy. If you're married and have a family and they can be supportive, work out some time frame that's suitable so you're not neglecting the family. [To his daughter, Jillian] Jillian, no, we're not.
Are you gonna be late for the movie?
No, we're not. They don't even know what time the movie's at. [To Jillian] Jillian, the movie's at 3:30. [To EW] They're just freakin'. We have plenty of time, don't worry. But yeah, I think most families can agree on just a little bit of time every day. Like in my case, my wife said 10 o'clock or when the kids are in bed. [Kids arguing] First day back from New York, and they're fighting. [Laughs] We're all ready for school to start, I think.
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Latest survey shows no visible signs of nationwide revival
America's Christians are talking about revival. They're praying for revival. They're anticipating revival. But according to an annual national tracking study of religious behavior and beliefs conducted by the Barna Research Group, Americans are not yet experiencing revival.
Each year Barna conducts surveys about church attendance, Bible reading, Sunday school attendance, involvement in small groups that meet for religious purposes, volunteering at a church, and whether the person being questioned can be defined as a born-again Christian or evangelical Christian. For all seven of those measures, the responses from a national sample of 1006 adults questioned in 1998 were statistically identical to the responses from the 1997 survey. In fact, when compared to statistics for 1991, church attendance and Bible reading show lower levels of involvement (the other five measures are essentially unchanged from their levels of seven years ago).
A large majority of adults describe themselves as "religious" – currently more than two out of three adults (69 percent). This is up from six out of 10 (61 percent) in 1991. In fact, more than four out of five adults (83 percent) presently say that their religious faith is very important in their life. That has remained consistent over the last six years.
Other behavioral indicators have remained stable. Overall, slightly more than four out of 10 adults (43 percent) claim they attend church services in a typical week. That is identical to the 1997 figure. While there have been minor dips and jumps in this figure in the past six years, the level has stayed relatively constant since 1993. Church volunteerism and small group involvement have also remained stable. One out of four adults volunteer in a typical week (25 percent); slightly less than one out of five adults (18 percent) attend a small group that meets during the week for Bible study, prayer or Christian fellowship (other than a Sunday school class). Four out of five adults (80 percent) claim they prayed to God during the past week, a figure unchanged from the most recent prior measurement (83 percent in 1996).
Bible reading may be experiencing a bit of a rebound, even though the current levels are well below those experienced in the late '80s and early '90s. Today, slightly less than four out of 10 adults (38 percent) read the Bible during a typical week, other than when they are at a church. This is the third consecutive year in which minor gains have been registered for Bible reading – each year's gain too small to qualify as a statistically significant increase. However, the 38 percent mark is the highest achieved since 1992, when 47 percent of adults said they had read their Bible in the past week.
The study also found that a significant proportion of adults plan to change their church in the coming year. Among people who attend a Christian church at least once a month, 11 percent said such a transition was likely. If true, that represents more than 15 million people changing their church home in the next 12 months.
George Barna, president of the research firm that conducted the survey, summarized the findings. "God and faith are still hot, but long-term or intense religious commitments are not. Despite their fascination with spirituality, most churched people are only moderately devoted to their current church and they are not deeply invested in spiritual growth.
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Arnis federation eyes World Championship hosting after SEA Games success
by Gerry Ramos
ARNIS is not about to rest on its laurels after the 30th Southeast Asian Games.
In a fitting follow up to its 14 gold-medal romp in the recently concluded biennial meet, arnis will have its biggest tournament coming over here with the staging of the World Championship in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu next year.
Philippine Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (PEKAF) executive vice president Gerald Canete disclosed the directive to host the 16th World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (WEKAF) by July of 2020 came from no less than PEKAF president Senator Miguel Zubiri.
"We have to take advantage of the success of arnis during the SEA Games with the hosting of the World Championship next year, and Senator Miguel Zubiri has said it's going to be held in Cebu," said Canete over the weekend.
"Arnis is our national sports, and it originated in the province of Cebu, which is celebrating its 500th year," added the PEKAF official, who served as competitions manager of arnis in the SEA Games.
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More than 1,000 arnisadors from the 50-member WEKAF countries are expected to come over and compete in at least 50 events.
Senator Zubiri anticipates a bigger edition of the meet and surpass the gains made in 2018 when Hawaii hosted the tournament.
"We expected a bigger participation next year because the World Championship, the sport of arnis is coming back home, right to where it all started – Cebu," said Canete. "So there is excitement among the member countries, the participating athletes from around the world.
Arnis, considered as the country's national sport, delivered the most number of golds for the country in the last SEA Games with 14, aside from bagging four more silvers and two bronzes.
In light of this, Zubiri is looking to lobby hard for the sport to be finally included as part of the regular sport of the biennial meet.
Vietnam, a country known for practicing arnis, will host the next Games in 2021.
"We've already talked to our counterparts from Vietnam and they've expressed intention to include arnis in the 2021 SEA Games. Hopefully, we'll be able to make final calendar of events," said Canete.
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Cisco adds 129 crorepatis in a year to retain talent
by January 16, 2015 June 2, 2016
The number of crorepatis at Cisco India shot up to 132 in 2014 from just three in the previous year, a development that comes at a time when the USbased network equipment maker is gearing up to cash in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' initiative. With a fresh investment of $1.7 billion, the company is offering huge salary hikes to retain employees, even as it looks to hire the best engineering and sales talent from local as well as international markets.
"Cisco faced high attrition in the middle and top management in 2012-13 and, thus, it was important for them to do everything they could to retain their top talent," said Sanchit Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research. "The company is betting big on Modi's 'Digital India' campaign and is improving its engineering skills in India to build better solutions. Therefore, apart from top engineers, the company has also hired many highly paid sales executives." In August 2013, Cisco announced a global plan to lay off 4,000 employees.
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Sept. 7-14 Healing Fields effort honors lives lost in tragedies
The Annual Northern Arizona Healing Field display presents thousands of U.S. flags in a beautiful formation at the Prescott Valley Civic Center. This event will run from Friday, Sept. 7 through Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (Les Stukenberg/Courier file)
By Sue Tone
Originally Published: September 5, 2018 11:03 a.m.
Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority firefighter Jeremiah King places a pair of wildland boots with one of the Granite Mountain Hotshot flags as volunteers at the Prescott Valley Civic Center place the 3,000 flags honoring the 3,000 victims in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as part of a Healing Field. (Les Stukenberg/Courier file)
It can be just a number – 3,000 lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack – but viewing 3,000 flags, each honoring a victim, brings home the enormity of loss of human lives.
In its seventh year, the Prescott Valley Healing Fields of Northern Arizona will open to the public Friday, Sept. 7, and stay on display until Friday, Sept. 14, the duration of Patriot Week, at the Prescott Valley Civic Center, 7501 E. Civic Circle.
It takes many hands to set up that many flags and place boots at the base of some of the flags. Residents of Prescott Valley and surrounding communities never fail to show up on the first morning to help place the flags, and on the final morning to remove them.
In addition to the 3,000 flags representing the victims of 9/11, viewers will find 19 more that honor the Granite Mountain Hotshots lost on June 30, 2013.
Each flagpole's tag contains information about the individuals of the 9/11 attacks and the fallen Hotshots. Visitors come to pay their respects to friends and family, and to the victims and the first responders who lost their lives trying to rescue them.
PV Councilwoman Mary Mallory started the push to gain support for a Healing Field in 2012, when her efforts resulted in the first Healing Field event with about 1,200 flags purchased through donations. The flags cost about $20 each. By the following year, 3,000 flags appeared on the field.
Mallory learned how the fields could impact people after attending a similar event in Tempe a few years before where she walked out onto a field of 4,000 flags.
"It brought an emotion about what really happened that day. You see in on TV, but that day made such an impact on me," she said. "It wasn't a news report any more. It captured my soul and my heart, and I felt that more people need to know. I just had to bring it here."
So she spoke to town, city, county and civics organizations and raised enough money to build a Healing Field every year. She encourages people to walk out amongst the flags, read the tags, and meet the people represented by the flags.
"People need to appreciate what we have, appreciate their life and appreciate whatever days that we have," Mallory said.
Darlene Packard, chair of the Prescott Valley event, said volunteers are welcome to help set up and take down the flags. They can show up at the Civic Center no earlier than 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Volunteers are not allowed on the grounds before then so that others can put into place the infrastructure for the flagpoles, Packard said.
"It has to be done correctly," she said, adding that firefighters, PV police, and Stoney Creek Builders staff will complete that work by 8 a.m. Take down begins at noon on Friday, Sept. 14.
Volunteers are also needed to help at the information table in one-hour shifts every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. They may guide people to the flag of a loved one, or listen as others share their stories and experiences.
"I am so honored and blessed that Mary has asked me to take over the 'baby,'" Packard said. "She allowed me the honor and privilege, and I'm very grateful for that and for everybody who comes out and lends a hand and appreciates the field and spends time in the field."
For more information, visit the PV Healing Fields Facebook page, or call Darlene Packard at 928-848-0626.
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Чет Кидрашович Кидрашев (, село Озерне Бійського повіту Томської губернії, тепер Усть-Канського району, Республіка Алтай, Російська Федерація — , Російська Федерація) — радянський державний діяч, голова виконавчого комітету Ойротської (Горно-Алтайської) обласної ради, 1-й секретар Горно-Алтайського обласного комітету ВКП(б). Депутат Верховної ради РРФСР 6—7-го скликань. Депутат Верховної ради СРСР 2-го скликання.

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Народився в бідній селянській родині. У восьмирічному віці став сиротою. З 1925 по 1930 рік виховувався в дитячому інтернаті Усть-Канської школи селянської молоді. З 1930 року навчався в Ойратському зооветеринарному технікумі.

З 1932 року — рахівник Усть-Канського відділення Ойратської автономної області Державного банку СРСР. У 1932 році вступив до комсомолу.

Потім працював зоотехніком в селах Козуль і Ябоган Усть-Канського аймаку.

З 1936 по 1938 рік служив у Червоній армії.

У 1938—1939 роках — помічник начальника політичного відділу із комсомолу Ябоганського державного кінного заводу Усть-Канського аймаку Ойротської автономної області.

Член ВКП(б) з 1939 року.

У 1939—1940 роках — секретар Ойротського обласного комітету ВЛКСМ із кадрів.

У 1940—1944 роках — інструктор відділу пропаганди і агітації Ойротського обласного комітету ВКП(б); завідувач організаційно-інструкторського відділу Ойротського обласного комітету ВКП(б).

У 1944 році — секретар Ойротського обласного комітету ВКП(б) із пропаганди і агітації.

У жовтні 1944 — лютому 1948 року — голова виконавчого комітету Ойротської (Горно-Алтайської) обласної ради депутатів трудящих.

29 лютого 1948 — 2 жовтня 1949 року — 1-й секретар Горно-Алтайського обласного комітету ВКП(б).

У жовтні 1949 — серпні 1952 року — слухач Вищої партійної школи при ВКП(б).

У 1952—1954 роках — заступник голови виконавчого комітету Алтайської крайової ради депутатів трудящих.

У 1954—1959 роках — 1-й заступник голови виконавчого комітету Горно-Алтайської обласної ради депутатів трудящих.

У березні 1959 — червні 1971 року — голова виконавчого комітету Горно-Алтайської обласної ради депутатів трудящих.

З 1971 року — персональний пенсіонер.

Помер 23 лютого 1997 року.

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It shows a circular pattern in thinking. That way is more the Chinese way of thinking, the advanced seems so basic. Yet the basics are so advanced.
Robert Chu studied with Hawkins Cheung (among others) and together with Rene Ritchie, he wrote a book back in 1998 called Complete Wing Chun: The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions.
This was one of the first books I bought back in my early training and it (if I recall correctly) did a pretty good job of explaining how Wing Chun became so diverse and they examined various lineages in a fair and balanced look.
Here is a video with Sifu Chu delving into a few of the basic techniques.


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Host your next event at the historic Daley Center Plaza.
The stunning landmark offers a variety of options for large and small gatherings – from galas, banquets and cocktail receptions to corporate events. Host your next event under "The Gift to The People of Chicago, The Picasso". The venue's close proximity to hotels, shopping, transportation and convention centers makes it the ideal special events destination. And the grace of this historic building is enhanced by city lights and architecture.


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Eastham, Morey, Edward, Clara and Parker
Nestled into an arc of headstones at River View Cemetery is a fine marble monument that on its west face reads "Eastham" and on its east, "Morey." Historians of Portland, especially of Portland's electrical utilities, may recognize those names and wonder why they are both found on one marker. I certainly did.
Parker F. Morey was a mechanical engineer who arrived in Portland in about 1879 and, in 1884, started the United States Electric Lighting and Power Company, one of Portland's earliest power utilities. Edward L. Eastham was an attorney in Oregon City. Prominent and successful, he was among the first to recognize the hydroelectric potential of Willamette Falls and began buying up water rights there with the idea of building a huge generation plant. In 1888 Eastham, with his water rights, and Morey, with his knowledge and Portland customer base, joined forces and created the Willamette Falls Electric Company. Eastham was named President. The following year the new company transmit DC, Direct Current, power from their "Station A" at the Falls all the way to downtown Portland, a distance reported at either 12 or 14 miles, depending upon the source, but universally recognized as one of the first "long distance" transmission of electricity in the world. The rest, as they say, is history. The Willamette Falls Electric Company was wildly successful, began buying up its competition both in generation and electric trolleys. Morey replaced Eastham as President, when the latter died in 1891, and by 1906 the company they founded emerged as the Portland Railway Light and Power Company. Today that firm is better known as Portland General Electric, which still produces power at the Willamette Falls.
But still, most business partners, even successful ones who may have had high respect and friendship between them, don't share a burial plot and there was no report that Eastham and Morey were otherwise related by blood or marriage. In the normal sense, they weren't.
Edward Eastham, born in Oregon City in 1848, died on January 18, 1891, before he ever saw how successful his power company would become. He left a widow, Clara, and six children, one just an infant. Eastham, also a State Senator, was mourned as "Oregon City's foremost citizen.
Parker Morey, born in Missouri in 1847, lived longer, though he was just 56 years old when he died. He and his wife Maud had three children, two girls and boy, before Maud passed in 1888. I'm not sure exactly when, but soon after Edward's death, Clara and Parker joined their families into one, Clara inheriting three step-children and Parker six. When Parker died, on July 7, 1904, the entire family was with him on their farm near Oregon City.
Clara Eastham Morey, died July 23, 1927, at the age of 72. She was survived by two daughters and four sons, two stepdaughters and one stepson. At River View Clara's modest headstone is at the center point of the Morey-Eastham monument. It is flanked on the west by Edward. Parker is on the east.
Labels: Cemeteries, Hydroelectric, Portland
Phoenix Survey- Whatta Ya Got?
We recently began work on a survey and inventory project in Phoenix, one of the eleven incorporated cities in Jackson County. Phoenix, originally known as "Gasburg," was founded by the incredibly interesting Samuel Colver along Bear Creek, in the 1850s. Colver, a former Texas Ranger, poet, horseman, and character par excellence, built a huge hewn-log home along the main road through the valley. Colver Hall, sometimes called Fort Colver, was an imposing presence for 150 years, until it burned in a spectacular fire and was, sadly, demolished. As a student at UofO, I was part of the effort to list the building on the National Register, working with the great Philip Dole. I can still recall its absolutely great attic.
But there are other fine structures in Phoenix, some almost as old as the Colver House. One is the Hiram Colver, or Patrick McManus House, shown above as photographed by the original HABS Survey in the 1930s. Hiram was Sam's brother or cousin, I forget which. The house has been listed on the register but most of the others in town are just itching to be identified. There are dozens of 19th and early 20th century vernacular forms, foursquares and bungalows, related from Phoenix's rise from rural service center, to railroad station, to Pacific Highway wayside. Among the cooler things is the former Dr. Malmgren House and Store, the former a rare temple front, shown below, and the latter the last bearing stone building that I know of in southern Oregon.
The town continued to grow after WWII, and I expect to find more than a few former Camp White buildings tucked in among the small ranch houses and minimal eave designs. And then there is all the cool commercial and institutional stuff, including a fine former Texaco gas station and the Skinner Building, a rare small-town streamline moderne two-story that even has a portal window or two.
The one thing I rather expect to be in short supply is higher-style Victorian-era. Phoenix wasn't that kind of town, not since it was called Gasburg.
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Labels: Architecture, Jackson County, Phoenix, Residential Architecture, Vernacular Architecture
Macadam- The White House Road to River View Cemetery
River View Cemetery, located at the corner of Taylors Ferry and Macadam in south Portland, is a largely undocumented gem that I've written about here before. Founded by three of the most influential Portlanders of the 19th century, William S. Ladd, Henry Corbett and Henry Failing, and designed by the noted landscape architect Edward O. Schwagerl, River View's construction began in 1879 and the cemetery's governing Association was formed (in Ladd's office) in December 1882. For the past few weeks I've been writing up what will likely qualify as the most detailed history of River View, from its beginnings through all the changes over the past 130+ years. This is a continuation of earlier work, all related to the construction that will replace the Sellwood Bridge, just east of the cemetery main entry gates. Lately I've been researching transportation to River View.
Macadam Avenue, the road that runs the length of the cemetery, west of the river and the railroad line, has an interesting history. Begun in 1863 by the creatively named Macadamizied Road Company, the route was initially a toll road, providing access to the Fulton House (later renamed the Red House) near Taylors Ferry, and then the White House (there's that creativity again), which was located further to the south, toward Oswego (no "Lake" yet). The color-coded houses were saloons of sorts (the White House had a racetrack too), and seem to have been semi-tolerated retreats of the type later called "speakeasys." Apparently there was enough traffic to justify what was considered the best roadbed in the Portland area and the road was often just called "The White House Road." When the White House burned in a spectacular fire in July 1904, it was described as "a resort of sybaritic splendor" (!). About 1880 the Macadam Road was sold to Multnomah County and the tolls were ended.
Macadam, named after Scottish engineer John Macadam, was a mixture of tar and small gravel, compacted into a state-of-the-art smooth surface. Mr. Macadam called it "Tarmac," essentially a predecessor to today's common asphalt road surface. The White House Road, with its long straight-aways along the riverfront, quickly became the favorite hangout of Portland's horse set, attracting races between the city's fastest carriages. The Multnomah Driving Club, unimpressed by the County's maintenance of the road, actually raised its own funds to periodically grade and water the route (to reduce dust) so that they could race in style. It's not hard to envision grudge matches a'la American Graffiti, with the loser buying everyone a round at the White House.
The route along the river was a logical place for new forms of transport too. River View was located where it was, at least partially, because it avoided the ferry across the river to Lone Fir Cemetery. River View built its own wharf, where steamboats with funeral corteges could tie up before the carriage ride up the hill to the gravesite, but the day's of steamboats were numbered. One of Portland's first electric trolley lines led from downtown to River View (and the Greenwood Hills Cemetery, nearby). That line, completed by mid-October 1889, was called the Fulton-Cemeteries Line. It was among the city's most popular, and beautiful, rides, cruising along the river, with views to Mt. Hood, and the cemetery itself. People would take weekend excursions to River View, both to visit the dead and have a picnic lunch under the trees. By the turn-of-the-century the City & Suburban Railway Company was running special "funeral cars" directly to the cemetery, after building a depot within its grounds. The Southern Pacific Railroad (built upon a narrow gauge route developed by the Portland & Willamette Valley RR), also had a line running parallel to Macadam. When SP built a standard gauge line for its trains, it converted the earlier route for use by its Red Electric Interurbans. And finally, as carriages and trolleys gave way to automobiles, the old Macadam Road was widened and upgraded again and emerges as a portion of Oregon's Pacific Highway, later US Highway 99, the major route along the entire west coast of the nation.
While River View's history inside the gate is fascinating, and certainly worthy of the extended study it's finally getting, there's a lot of transportation history just to the east. Next time you drive down what is now SW Macadam Avenue, imagine yourself in a fine carriage, pulled by a fast pair. Maybe you can stop somewhere had have a beer.
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Percona Delivers Percona Server for MongoDB
Percona, a provider of enterprise-class MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, is introducing Percona Server for MongoDB, an enhanced, open source, fully compatible drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition that offers additional enterprise features and lower total cost of ownership. Completely open source and free to download and use, Percona Server for MongoDB offers all the features of MongoDB 3.0 Community Edition, along with two additional storage engine options - PerconaFT and Facebook's RocksDB - and enterprise-grade functionality, including Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) and advanced auditing.
MapR Collaborates with SAS to Deliver Big Data Storage Independence
MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of a distribution for Apache Hadoop, has extended its support for SAS, a provider of business analytics software and services. According to the vendors, the collaboration between SAS and MapR provides advanced analytics with ease of data preparation and integration with legacy systems, assurance of SLAs, and security and data governance compliance. Additionally, joint customers can cost-effectively grow their big data storage infrastructure without relying on storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS).
Splunk Enterprise 6.3 Features Advanced Analytics and Visualizations
Splunk, a provider of real-time operational intelligence solutions, has announced a new version of the Splunk Enterprise platform and the availability of a new solution that targets the complexity of IT intelligence.
Platfora 5.0 Improves Data Preparation and Real-Time Capabilities for Hadoop
Platfora, a data discovery platform native to Hadoop, is reaching another milestone for its solution, bringing modern data preparation and real-time capabilities to a wide audience.
Oracle Updates Software Platform for Logistics Management
Oracle announced new releases of Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management, which help customers optimize their logistics and global trade compliance operations. The solution provides comprehensive transportation and global trade management functionality on a unified platform, spanning transportation, compliance and customs processes across industries and geographies.
Data Management Platforms Drive Activation of Data for Real Results
Marketers continue to become more technologically astute as their roles evolve, but one tool remains under-utilized: data management platforms. These platforms provide numerous ways for marketers to slice and dice data to develop compelling ways to reach customers, often in real time. However, when used incorrectly, these platforms can push marketing campaigns off-course - which is why marketers must get smart on what the platforms are designed to do and how to use them most effectively.
Tableau Unveils Version 9.1 of its Data Visualization Platform
Tableau is releasing an upgraded version of its comprehensive data visualization platform, introducing a new mobile app and a web data connector that will allow developers to do more with their data.
WebAction Lands $20 Million in New Funding and Rebrands Streaming Analytics Platform as 'Striim'
WebAction unveiled several key advancements that will help expand its brand and platform, allowing the company to continue to derive value and insights from big data. The company has a new $21 million round of series B funding, led by Intel Capital, and is rebranding its streaming analytics platform as "Striim," pronounced as "stream."
IBM Acquires Internet of Things Connectivity Vendor
IBM is acquiring StrongLoop, Inc., a software provider, to help developers connect enterprise applications to mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and web applications in the cloud. StrongLoop is a provider of application development software - known as enterprise Node.js - that enables software developers to build applications using APIs (application programming interfaces). Financial terms and conditions were not released.
VMware Seeks to More Deeply Integrate Software Defined Data Centers
VMware recently made a slew of announcements spanning cloud deployments, data center, and devices. The company introduced what it calls the first fully automated software suite for delivering the software-defined data center as an integrated system. Serving as a foundation of VMware's Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, the solution, called VMware EVO SDDC, will extend the virtualization principals of abstraction, pooling and automation across all data center resources and services.
Reconsidering Legacy BI Architectures in the Age of Big Data
By now, we all know the value of big data analytics. In the 1990s, data mining and business intelligence (BI) efforts were used mostly for after-the-fact reporting and problem solving. The need for these capabilities will always remain, and high levels of confidence and investment in these disciplines will continue. However, the current focus on big data analytics emphasizes predicting and influencing the future, based on real-time analysis of 100% of enterprise data.
Which Data Modeling Pattern is Better: "Discrete Attributes" or "Going Vertical"?
Data modelers face a choice when encountering multiple variations of a data item. Designers must focus on the longer term appropriateness of their decisions when choosing how their designs will play out; and going vertical or horizontal does have an impact over time.
SAP Combines HANA Vora and Hadoop Big Data to Help Organizations Make 'Precision Decisions'
To help companies get more value from big data, SAP has introduced HANA Vora, a new in-memory computing engine that leverages and extends the Apache Spark execution framework to provide enriched, interactive analytics on Hadoop. HANA Vora is a completely new product built from the ground up and is aimed at better processing of data to make business decisions.
MongoDB Brings NoSQL to the Mainframe
MongoDB announced plans to offer support for MongoDB's products on IBM z Systems mainframe. The announcement comes as IBM launches LinuxONE, a new portfolio of hardware, software and services solutions based on the z Systems mainframe that's designed for enterprise-grade Linux applications.
Impetus Technologies Offers Free Versions of its Streaming Analytics Platform
StreamAnalytix, offered by Impetus Technologies, is now available for free, allowing enterprises to tap into a streaming analytics platform based on a variety of leading open source technology components. Three free versions of the platform, StreamAnalytix Lite, StreamAnalytix Developer and StreamAnalytix Sandbox, will be available indefinitely and meet specific needs of its user.
Birst Advances Enterprise Analytics with 'Networked BI'
Birst, a provider of cloud BI and analytics software, has introduced a new technology it calls "Networked BI" to enable global governance with local execution. According to Birst, the new approach furthers its vision of trusted and agile collaboration between both centralized and decentralized teams.
Oracle Snaps Up Customer Experience Optimization Specialist to Expand Marketing Cloud
Extending the Oracle Marketing Cloud's capabilities with a new solution to optimize web and mobile customer experiences, Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Maxymiser. The digital marketing insights and data specialist firm provides software that enables marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a web page or mobile app to increase engagement and revenue.
The Oracle Ecosystem Gets Cloudy
With the release of Oracle Cloud Platform 2015 and new Oracle Cloud Platform Services, things are clouding up across the Oracle landscape—but in a positive way. Larry Ellison, chairman and chief technology officer for Oracle, has made it clear in pronouncements that Oracle is in the cloud to stay.
Databricks Expands Feature Set to Bring Apache Spark to More Enterprise Users
Databricks is enhancing its cloud-based platform to strengthen its security, manageability and ease of application development. According to the vendor, the new features securely manage data access for large teams while streamlining Spark application development and deployment for enterprises dealing with complex and fast-paced environments.
Magnitude Software Expands EIM Capabilities
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management solutions, is introducing new additions to its technology suite designed to assist users in making informed business decisions faster and easier. The release of its Kalido Information Engine 9.1 SP2 makes a variety of advancements in data warehouse automation capabilities including increasing automation that accelerates the migration process and reduces overhead tasks when moving from development to production.
Syncsort Open Sources Technology for Mainframe Connector to Apache Spark
Syncsort, a provider of specialized solutions for big data, is making a major open source contribution to the IBM z Systems mainframe with a connector for Apache Spark. Syncsort's mainframe connector conforms to Spark's Data Sources API specification, and because of Spark's ability operate on data in memory, the connector will allow queries to access mainframe data without offloading the data first.
Cloud Is Changing the IT Landscape - Q&A with VMware's Mathew Lodge
Just before VMworld, which is going on now, Mathew Lodge, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Services, VMware, discussed the conference whose theme is "Ready for Any," as well as best practices for cloud strategies and the changes taking place today in IT infrastructure.
Unitrends Free Extends Data Protection to Free VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor
At VMworld going on in San Francisco this week, Unitrends, a provider of enterprise-level cloud recovery, introduced Unitrends Free support for the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).
OAUG Creates 'Mobile Apps for EBS' SIG
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) has formed a new Mobile Apps for EBS Special Interest Group (SIG) to provide timely information about the various Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Applications released by Oracle. The SIG enables users to more effectively share educational information and best practices related to all mobile apps for the various modules of Oracle E-Business Suite.
10 Reasons Why Windows 10 Will Be Important for Developers
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard Microsoft has introduced the initial release of Windows 10. Windows 10 has been a widely anticipated release on the part of consumers and business alike, with Microsoft aiming to deploy Windows 10 on more than one billion devices within the next few years. Here are 10 technical and market reasons why Windows 10 will become Microsoft's biggest release ever.
BlueData Announces $20 Million Funding Round Led by Intel and New Intel Partnership
BlueData is undergoing two big changes that will augment its infrastructure software platform. The company is announcing a $20 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital and a partnership with Intel that will blend together BlueData's infrastructure software for big data with the data center architecture based on Intel Xeon processor technology.
Hortonworks Inks Deal to Acquire Onyara to Leverage 'IoAT' Data
Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Hadoop, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara, Inc., the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, an open source project. The acquisition will make it easy for customers to automate and secure data flows fueling the fueling the "Internet of Anything (IoAT)" and to collect, conduct and curate real-time business insights and actions derived from data in motion. As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks is introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi, which was made available through the NSA Technology Transfer Program in the fall of 2014. The Hortonworks acquisition of Onyara is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.
Basho and Cisco Team Up to Integrate Riak KV NoSQL Database with Apache Mesos
Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak software, has announced that, in collaboration with Cisco, it has developed a framework enabling the Riak KV NoSQL database to run on Apache Mesos, bringing operational efficiency and high-elasticity to big data services. "The goal is to try and simplify and make it easy for clients to get business solutions as quickly as possible instead of worrying about the distributed data tier," said Adam Wray, CEO of Basho.
Sharding Technology Now Available from ScaleArc after Acquiring ScaleBase
ScaleArc is acquiring ScaleBase in an effort to enhance its database load balancing solutions with sharding technology. By incorporating ScaleBase's technology and Intellectual Property ScaleArc's offerings will broaden around application availability and zero downtime for enterprise application.
Ricoh Uses Oracle-Based Private Cloud to Support IoT Solution
Ricoh Company, Ltd, the printing and document management company, is using Oracle's SPARC T5 servers with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Database to analyze data from RICOH @Remote, its real-time support service for customers in more than 100 countries and regions. To unify the data across the company for accurate views and analysis, Ricoh built a private cloud accessible by the entire remote service group that allows high speed access from internal networks.
Don't Miss IOUG at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
The Independent Oracle Users Group is headed to San Francisco this October to join the Oracle technology community at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Representing the voice of Oracle technology professionals, IOUG members will present more than 35 sessions on critical Oracle technology topics, including big data, cloud, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, and more. There is a lot to discuss with the Oracle database and technology community, and I am looking forward to connecting with Oracle professionals with similar interests to address challenges and solutions face-to-face.
Big Data Analytics Vendor Datameer Closes New $40 Million Funding Round
Datameer, which offers a big data analytics application purpose-built for Hadoop, has closed a $40 million round of financing. ST Telemedia (STT) led the round, joined by Top Tier Capital Partners (TTCP) and participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Redpoint, Next World Capital, Software AG and Citi Ventures.
IRI Releases Solution to Discover and Protect Data in Excel
Innovative Routines International (IRI) has released an enterprise-class, data-centric protection solution for corporations storing personally identifying information (PII) in Excel 2010 and 2013 spreadsheets. The IRI CellShield Enterprise Edition provides a full-featured, professional compliance package for Excel workbooks that can locate and automatically protect sensitive data across a network.
HP Vertica "Excavator" Expands Big Data Capabilities
HP is enhancing its Vertica platform to allow organizations to quickly ingest and analyze high-speed streaming data from various sources, including IoT applications. The new version of Vertica, dubbed "Excavator," is integrated with Apache Kafka to allow organizations to analyze volumes of data in real-time.
Platform9 Releases New Service to Accelerate OpenStack Adoption Among VMware Customers
Platform9, which provides an OpenStack powered service that allows an organization to turn its existing servers into a self-service private cloud, has announced general availability of Platform9 Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere environments. The new solution enables interoperability of OpenStack with VMware vSphere and is intended to facilitate OpenStack adoption among VMware customers.
Cloudera Expands Cloud Deployment Support for Hadoop
Hadoop distribution provider Cloudera has released Cloudera Director 1.5, an integrated solution for deploying and managing enterprise-grade Hadoop in cloud environments that enables deployment flexibility through an open API. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first to integrate with the API.
Melissa Data Introduces Integrated Global Address Verification for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Melissa Data has introduced data quality integration for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to simplify global address verification for enterprise users. Available as a pre-integrated package with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the Melissa Data plugin enables global address verification capabilities without complex programming or development resources.
Informatica Completes $5.3 Billion Transaction to Go Private; Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures Join In
Data integration software provider Informatica has been acquired by a company controlled by the Permira funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Microsoft Corporation and Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce's corporate investment group, are also strategic investors in the company alongside the Permira funds and CPPIB. In making the announcement, Informatica said the new ownership would allow it continue to grow while taking a longer view rather than focusing on quarters.
Google Creates Its Own Disruptive Force
Google, whose name became synonymous with internet search, is reorganizing to maintain its innovation and competitiveness. The company is creating a new public holding company called Alphabet, with Google as well as other companies, housed within the new structure. According to Larry Page, CEO of Google, the reorganization is part of an effort to avoid getting "too comfortable," observing in a blog post that in the tech industry, "where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.
Is Your Database The Next Ticking Time Bomb?
Let's rephrase the question above: The next ticking time bomb is your database. Regardless of whether you run Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, the odds lean toward your organization having a ticking time bomb. The only question to be posed is whether you are going to become collateral damage or diffuse the bomb before the damage happens.
Rocket Software and MultiValue Technology Mark Milestones
In 1965, Dick Pick and Don Nelson originally implemented PICK as the "Generalized Information Retrieval Language System" (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 at TRW for use by the U.S. Army to control the inventory of Cheyenne helicopter parts. That was 50 years ago and MultiValue is still thriving today. It is a testament to the quality and flexibility of the technology for it to be going strong 50 years after its creation. Coincidentally, Rocket Software is also marking a significant event as it celebrates 25 years in business.
Cirba Extends Infrastructure Analytics to NetApp Storage Solutions
Cirba Inc., a provider of software-defined infrastructure control solutions, is now supporting NetApp storage solutions, enabling organizations to optimize a variety of storage resources. Customers will be able to use NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) to leverage Cirba to place VMs and achieve visibility into storage requirements and health.
Lavastorm Analytics Encourages Collaboration with New Platform Release
Lavastorm Analytics has launched an update to its analytics engine that builds upon its self-service software for enterprises, providing a seamless way of sharing governed data analytical flows.


How useful would a home automation system be where you could only interact through MQTT messages? Not very, so that's why we'll start working on the User Interface today. The goal is to create some generic UI elements, which can be linked to the MQTT topic. The element will display the current status clearly and will let the user interact with it.
Button – a simple push button. The background visualizes the state and tapping it will toggle the state.
Slider – a slider to be used for e.g. a dimmer module. The position on the slider shows the current state. Minimum and maximum values can be defined.
Info – a tile without any interaction. Just displays the current state of for example the temperature.
Each tile can have some properties defining how it looks. Options include a title, an icon, a value and the selected state.
ps: if you're familiar with Swift and UIKit, you might notice that – for the purpose of learning – I'm using Swift 3 and iOS 10. They are still in beta and will be available in fall.
As you can see we don't do anything yet in the callbacks, except for logging. We'll arrange that later; let's firstly create the UI elements themselves.
let payloadString = selectable.isSelected ? "on" : "off"
This brings us the result of this blog post: a working iPhone app which communicates with Thuis through MQTT.
When messages arrive on the status-topics, the selected-status of the button-tiles and the value of the info-tiles are updated. When one of the button-tiles is tapped a message is send to the set-topic with the new status. As described in Publishing activity from Z-Way to MQTT this is already picked up and executed.
You probably do notice that it looks very plain yet: we'll fix this in a next blog post. We'll also add some more controls, like slider, which can be used for dimmers and a volume control.
Some of the code windows above are cut off at the right margin.
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Aballéa, Martine
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French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active in France.
Born 11 August 1950, in New York.
Installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.
Art Narratif.
Aballéa studied epistemology. She lives and works in Paris. Aballéa's work stages natural phenomena and scientific descriptions entirely of her own invention, which she describes using writings in the form of tales. Her work generally involves an environment in which light has a predominant place: 'In my work, I like to tell stories. I tell them through space, image, situation and text. I don't believe in any defined limitation between the real and the unreal, but rather a large, fluctuating zone of possibilities. My works are situated in this large zone.' She willingly refers to Borgès and Lewis Carroll, provoking a mêlée between elements of reality and textual fiction. She often uses photographs re-touched with pastel colours which she accompanies with texts....
Acconci, Vito
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 January 1940, in New York.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Body Art, Conceptual Art.
Vito Acconci was born in the Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn. He studied at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at the University of Iowa. He has taught in various art schools and universities and in particular at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University and the Parsons School of Design in New York....
Aitken, Doug
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1968, in Redondo Beach (California).
Installation artist, photographer, film maker. Multimedia.
Doug Aitken is a graduate of the Pasadena Art Center College of Design. He started as art director for Fatboy Slim, Iggy Pop and Barenaked Ladies' video clips. He operates from New York and Los Angeles. His installation ...
Born 5 June 1947, in Chicago.
Installation artist, performance artist, photographer, musician.
Computer Art (Multimedia Art).
Laurie Anderson graduated in art history at Barnard College in 1969, and obtained a second degree of Fine Arts in sculpture from Columbia University in ...
Arfaras, Michalis
Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 1954, in Athens.
Draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, video artist. Multimedia.
Michalis Arfaras first studied painting at the school of fine arts in Athens between 1972 and 1974. He continued his studies at the college of fine arts in Brunswick in Germany where he specialised in engraving and produced book illustrations and comic strips. He now lives and works in Hildesheim where he teaches graphic art at the university....
B., B.th
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Installation artist, video artist, photographer, sculptor, film maker. Multimedia.
Beth B. attended art school as a child. She studied at University of California, Irvine, and at San Diego State University, and obtained a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She took her initial as a surname from 'B-Movies', the film company she founded in New York City in the late 1970s. Beth B. has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York State Council on the Arts. She is co-founder of the artists' group Collaborative Projects Inc. She lives in New York City....
Barry, Judith
Active in New York and Berlin.
Born 1949, in Columbus (Ohio).
Installation artist, sculptor, mixed media, video artist. Multimedia.
Judith Barry studied finance, architecture and art at the University of Florida, graduating in 1972. She received an MA in Communication Arts from New York Institute of Technology in ...
Beban, Breda
Croat, 20th century, male.
Active in Great Britain since 1991.
Video artist. Multimedia.
Breda Beban is from Zagreb. He settled in London in 1991 and produces videos.
Belloir, Dominique
20th century, male.
Dominique Belloir participated in the ninth Videoformes festival in 1994.
Bertrand, Jean-Pierre
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1937, in Paris.
Painter (mixed media), draughtsman, installation artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Jean-Pierre Bertrand was the winner of the French state prize for art in 1990. He lives and works in Paris.
His largely unclassifiable work - paintings and installations, often featuring highly unorthodox materials - holds a special place in French contemporary art. Cameraman turned artist, Bertrand's work is indeed reminiscent of film, often featuring a series of rigourously 'framed' elements unfolding along a wall surface. Since ...
John-Paul Stonard
(b Birmingham, September 25, 1970).
English photographer and video artist. Billingham graduated from the University of Sunderland in 1994 and in the same year took part in his first group exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The series of photographs for which he has become known shows the activities of his family at home. Taken over a period of years beginning in 1990 and initially intended as source material for paintings, these photographs are a stark, painful and often humorous documentation of the emotional, sometimes violent relationship of his parents and brother. They are noted for the extraordinary sympathy with which they explore their subjects and the domestic environment. Both the black-and-white and colour prints are mounted on aluminium, unframed, and untitled, suggesting that they are to be seen as a series rather than as isolated images. The images were published together for the first time in book form in 1996. In the following year he won the Citibank Photography Prize and was included in the exhibition ...
Boéno, David
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1955, in Brest.
Photographer. Multimedia.
David Boéno started his career as a newspaper photographer between 1979 and 1987, collaborating on various daily papers and reviews, and on artists' catalogues. He also executed portraits of French artists at work, exhibited in Nantes in ...
Boezem, Marinus
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 28 January 1934, in Leerdam.
Painter, draughtsman, video artist. Multimedia.
Conceptual Art, Mail Art.
Marinus Boezem lived and worked in Holland; he embarked on his artistic career by exhibiting a section of a Dutch polder in 1960. Following this 'statement', which would have done credit even to Marcel Duchamp, he discovered what he termed the 'plasticity of air': in ...
Borgeaud, Bernard
Painter, installation artist, intervention artist, performance artist, photographer. Multimedia.
Conceptual Art, Land Art, Body Art.
The beginnings of Borgeaud's work, as it was to develop subsequently, can be dated from 1969, the year of the exhibition event ...
Boyce, Sonia
British, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1962, in London.
Painter, draughtswoman, photographer, multimedia artist, installation artist.
Sonia Boyce studied art at East Ham College and the Stourbridge College of Art until 1983. Her work is informed by her experience as a black woman growing up and living in a white society, and addresses the themes of race, gender, religion, private and collective experience and cultural stereotyping. She came to prominence in the 1980s with her figurative works in chalk, pastel, charcoal and watercolour and digital and laser photographs. Since the late 1990s she has explored the potential of new media technologies for artistic expression. This has resulted in what she refers to as 'improvisational collaborations' involving other artists and audience participation. In ...
Bublex, Alain
French, 20th – 21st century.
Born 1961, in Lyons.
Draughtsman, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia.
Neo-Conceptual Art.
Alain Bublex trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Mâcon, then at the École Supérieure de Design Industriel in Paris. For a few years, he worked as an industrial designer for the car makers Renault. His job as a designer had a strong influence on his early works: ...
Buchanan, Roderick
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1965, in Glasgow.
Video artist, multimedia artist.
Roderick Buchanan studied Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art and completed an MA in Fine Arts at the University of Ulster. He lives and works in Glasgow.
In his videos, installations, screen projections, sculptures and photographs, Buchanan takes his hometown of Glasgow as a vantage point from which to explore global issues of national, social, cultural and religious identity. Glasgow has a long history of sectarian tension that is reflected in the rivalry between the city's two major football clubs, Celtic and Rangers. In works such as ...
Burson, Nancy
Monica McTighe
(b St Louis, MO, 1948).
American photographer and multimedia artist. Using newly developed computer technologies in the 1970s, Burson designed ways to manipulate photographs digitally. She relied on this technique to produce images of people at an older age, fantastical composites of humans and animals, as well as composites of celebrities and politicians. She has also worked in the media of painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Burson began her career as a painter, studying for two years in the mid-1960s at Colorado Women's College in Denver, CO. In 1968 she moved to New York City where she saw the Museum of Modern Art exhibition titled The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, which focused on the connections between art and technology. This exhibition helped inspire her development of 'The Age Machine', an interactive device that allowed viewers to see images of their aged faces. For help with this project, she approached Experiments in Art and Technology...
Bustamante, Jean-Marc
Born 1952, in Toulouse.
Sculptor, installation artist. Multimedia.
Jean-Marc Bustamante started out as a photographer on the periodical Knowledge of the Arts ( Connaissance des Arts) before going on to work as assistant to William Klein. He worked alongside Bernard Bazile in the eponymous ...
Cao Fei
Chinese, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1978, in Guangzhou, China.
Photographer, performance artist. Video, multimedia.
Cao Fei graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2001, having attended middle school at the same institution four years earlier. She was a co-founder of the partnership Ou Ning + Cao Fei. Her early photography and subsequent interactive sound and video-game environments, or 'machinima', emerged from her initial interest in commercial advertising and electronic entertainment videos. Her works often blur reality by involving virtual cosplay figures who imitate manga superhero figures, often artist friends or youths. These performances take place in the urban environment and engage the art world with virtual economies, as well as linking to the rapid modernization and consumerism emerging within China since the turn of the century. She has become known for her ongoing experimental, animated, ethnographic documentary that engages the online world of Second Life to create the virtual RMB City. The video was first shown at the Venice Biennale (China Tracy Pavilion, ...


There are plenty of blogs out there covering the startup ecosystem. The likes of TechCrunch, Inc., and Forbes instantly spring to mind. And while each of these blogs are great, they don't always offer the practical advice and knowledge that founders are looking for. With that in mind, we've created our ultimate list of startup advice blogs that you should be following as a startup founder.
Robot Mascot create expert content that covers startup branding, marketing and fundraising. Articles are written to give practical and actionable advice based on the most common problems startups have, gathered from their own personal experiences of working within the sector. They regularly feature guest articles from industry experts and each month their Startup Spotlight feature gives insight and advice directly from fellow startup founders. As well as practical advice, information and strategies, it offers a number of free downloads on their resource page.
SeedLegals offer an extremely comprehensive blog, and they don't just cover the legal side of things either. The blog is packed full of startup advice, funding guides, founder stories and deal data – as well as a whole section giving tips on how to meet investors – from "must attend" events, to list of the most active investors in locations across the UK.
The Seedrs blog is split into three parts. Investors, Entrepreneurs and News. For startup founders, its' the Entrepreneurs section which we feel is of most value. Under their tips and tricks category, they offer a range of great advice. They don't just focus on crowdfunding either, they expand into startup PR and more general startup advice.
Unlike the previous three, which each focus on specialist areas, Startup Donut is a great choice for well-rounded coverage in many different areas of startup business. They cover many areas including business financing, tax, law, business planning, sales, marketing, HR and IT.
Their content does include sponsored posts, however, they make this clear at the end of the article, and mark any affiliate links in their content with an *. That said, it doesn't detract from the quality and usefulness of their content.
Foundr aims to be the go-to resource for founders at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey. Their blog covers digital marketing really well, but also touches on life-hacks, advice on starting a business and leadership tips. They also run a podcast with over 200 episodes that interview industry experts and startup founders.
Just Entrepreneurs is another well rounded blog with loads of great content for startup founders. Just Entrepreneurs feels a bit more "human" than Startup Donut and Foundr, perhaps because it's smaller outfit. However, their size does not diminish from their great content. Their topics cover finance, growth and marketing, as well as interviews with startup founders and is made up of a range of regular and guest contributors.
Now, it may seem a little odd to head over to an Asia specific blog for a UK startup. However, by accessing their "tips" category you can find some cracking content which will help you to grow your market and build your business.
If Asia is market of interest to your startup growth, then this is defiantly the blog for you, as you'll also be able to keep up to date with relevant tech and startup news across 13 Asian markets.
Startup mindset is a very established blog, and covers a large range of topics for startups. Their website is not the best looking and can feel a bit crowded, but if you bear with it, we think their "Find Your Way" category is particularly useful for early stage founders. It covers many of the things you'll need to know in the early stages of starting, running, and growing a business.


Lukoil, one Russia's largest oil companies, opened new offices in Singapore with a clean architectural approach incorporating sleek linear lighting. Designers integrated EcoSpec® Linear INT luminaries to create a clean ceiling with slim, recessed ambient lighting. Linears also accent unique architectural details throughout the common spaces ensuring clean, modern aesthetics.
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As soon as you create your account, you will be heading over to our Rummy Lobby. The top of the lobby displays information about your username, practice chips, Available Balance in your account, Provision to add cash, and details about your bonus points and Loyalty Points.
At the bottom, you have tabs and sub-tabs to play rummy game that you like.
Games available under cash game are those games which you can play for real money. The cash tab displays three rummy 13 card rummy variants game wise namely, Points, Deals, and Pool Rummy. Rummy Games are listed under each sub-tab based on their stakes – from low to high. To make it further easy to locate the game you want to play we have provided a filter using which you can sort your games based on stakes. The sub-tab contains further information like the active players and the number of players playing rummy online on each table. All the players need to do is to click on Join button to start playing rummy games.
Players can check the tournaments that are available by clicking this tab. Furthermore, the tab contains 5 sub-tabs about the tournaments available at Deccan Rummy – Free Rolls, Cash, Depositor Free Rolls, Loyalty Freerolls and Special Tournaments. These Sub-tabs would list the tournaments available under each section and also contain information about the tournaments like the Prize pool, Number of Players, Registration/Tournament timings, and buy-ins.
Clicking on the details will display the tournament structure and prize pool distribution. Just click on join and confirm your participation to play the tournament.
Practice tab displays the practice Online Rummy games that you can play for free at Deccan Rummy. Players who create an account with Deccan Rummy get 10000 practice chips in their account. Just like cash tab Practice tab have 3 sub-tabs games wise, namely 13 cards Point Rummy, 13 cards Deals Rummy, and 13 cards Pool Rummy. These games can be played with practice chips instead of real cash as the idea behind this to get a good grip of the game. To make it further easy to locate the game you want to play we have provided a filter using which you can sort your games based on the number of practice chips.
Hope this article about rummy lobby was informative. Should you have any doubts with regards to this topic, feel free to post a comment below.


Blizzard has another diabolical plan - he now turns his attention to Ferris, the doctor who had needlessly amputated his legs. He begins by kidnapping Ferris's assistant and taking him to the fully equipped operating room that he had set up in his cellar for this very moment.
Then ... He then calls Ferris telling him his daughter Barbara is at his house, injured. He wastes no time rushing over.
and Now... this is 59 Wentworth Place in Chinatown, described in more detail in an earlier post. Note that the sidewalk has since been widened and the lampposts shifted outwards.
... but they arrive to find that, instead, Ferris had finally treated the original injury, a contusion on the brain that had all along been the cause of Blizzard's bizzare and criminal behavior. Rose is overjoyed to see that he is now not only mentally cured but determined to right his wrongs.
Blizzard's new life - he and Rose are now married, is short-lived when Frisco Pete shows up and dispatches him with a single shot.


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681643 GNR. G. S. MILLSON. R.F.A.
George Samuel Millson was born in the last quarter of 1896 in Rotherham, West Yorkshire. His father was George Millson (b. 1869 in Ashby, Lincolnshire), a carter working on the railways. His mother was Ellen (maiden name not known). George and Ellen were married in Rotherham in 1894 but Ellen had already been married – to Frederick William Rose (b. 1865 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire). Fred and Ellen had two children (John Robert b. 1888 and Fred b. 1889), before Fred died in 1893 and Ellen remarried the following year. She and George then had five children: Joseph (b. 1895), then George, then Albert (b. 1899), Harry (b. 1901), and Arthur (b. 1904). By 1911, Ellen's oldest two boys had left home and she and George were living with the five youngest boys at 212 Kimberworth Road, Rotherham. George jnr had started to work as an errand boy for the Cooperative Society.
George was only 18 when War broke out and he enlisted the following year, 1915. He was assigned service number 681643 and posted to "B" Battery of 286 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. This was part of the divisional artillery for 57th (2nd West Lancashire) Division. 57th Division landed in France in February 1917 and they were deployed in the first half of 1917 in the defence of Armentières. On 2 May 1917 the War Diary reports that "a raiding party of the enemy, strength unknown, attempted to enter our trenches… but were at once caught in our barrage fire and withdrew". Four men from "B" Bty were killed that day, among them was George Millson. CWGC records his age as 19 but I believe he had turned 20.
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery, "B" Bty, 286 Bde.
Cemetery/memorial reference: VIII. B. 1.
Cemetery/Memorial: CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES
Additional Information: Son of George and Ellen Millson, of 212 Kimberworth Road, Rotherham.


Most people say that they ALL and ALWAYS leak!
The one thing I've done and suggest everyone do with theirs, is that once they are done fitting and painting and are good to go, pull the seals and goop the channel up with RTV then reinstall it. Mine only leak a tiny bit at that damn lower corner on the passenger side and it's only because it ended up with a larger than normal gap there.
Front floor is next! Still studying how to tackle this one.
Are there holes in the floor? If it is just rust then how about wire brush and POR/Masterseries, etc.
Not my decision to make. The Funky Green floor replacement is at hand already. Prolly start dicking with it this week.
Mad skills have you grasshopper!!
My Wolfgang safaris have the kink in the corner and they leak!
or at least only a , tiny bit!!
I ask the same question to every person that has Safaris: "Do they leak?" And the answer always is: "Yes".
The Mrs.: "Safaris would look great on the Single Cab!"
Me: "Yes, but they leak."
The Mrs.: "Can't that be fixed?"
One person told me the leaking is not that bad. "You just keep some towels on the parcel shelf to stuff at the base of the window to absorb the rain water."
Someone could make a lot of money if they could design a system that would seal.
Mine leaked on the old bus, but I would tape them closed when it rained which isn't that often here in San Diego. After years of doing this let me recommend using two inch wide electrical tape. Try not to stretch it when applying it. Why electrical? It won't dry out and stick forever to the body and frame and it won't pull the paint off when you remove it.
That's my two cents. Bacteria to our regularly scheduled program.
excellent work all around Pyro. Guess you been busy in retirement.
isn't that how it always works? You retire and you are busier than when you were working.
True that, but with a difference. You are busy with things that are mostly your decision about what to do and when to do it. And you have time to take care of things without scheduling around 8-10 hours a day of "work".
yes it is all those things that you couldn't do because you were working.
True that! I put in anywhere between 2 to 6 hours a day depending on how I feel about it, the weather and anything else I can think of!
Anyway, the floor has become quite the bish to deal with! This center section was a Royal PITA to remove!
The "perimeter" I had to remove bit by bit. Then, after deciding to install the floor whole, it became obvious that it was NOT going to happen! So ended up slicing it in half.
On a side note, I needed to remove the old accelerator pedal from the old floor and at first thought to remove the pin to get better access to the base plate which is welded to the floor. Then figured to just drill it out in one piece. Good thing I did!
That pin ain't coming out now or ever!
After some 13 hours on the floor alone, I'm almost ready to start welding it down.
Most holes "punched", some are drilled then cleaned out for "stick"!
Enough for today as it's getting way too hot here, but just about ready!
Saw the work in person today. Looking good Ivan. The safari install was noice.
So, after telling Jonathan (this bus' owner) that the accelerator pedal would be a bish in it's eventual need to be replaced, I decided to just bolt it on instead of welding it.
Welded a couple of old bolts to the base. this way, if and when it fails, it will be a bolt on affair. Easy peasy!
This hole is "key", for the hi/low beam switch wires run through it as well as the brake light switch and horn wires. I had to enlarge it some, then slotted to make the floor get to its proper place!
Also, the brake switch and horn wires then go through the floor but the new floor did not have the required hole punched on it. So I'll have to compare it with mine since I already threw away the old floor.
Here it is all welded down. Now grinding and grinding and grinding and grinding and grinding.... all them darn welds!
Welding is the easy part. This grinding sh!t is taking quite a few hours to get done!


CHEF BOSCO OSENDURU-It takes a while but I'll roast fish and you will not want to eat fried fish again. – For Food's Sake Eat!
Chef Osenduru Bosco is the man at the helm of the kitchen at Carnival restaurant and Capitol palace hotel . With 16 years in cooking; his is a story of patience and a love of roasting.
As a child, I used to help my parents cook. I am a man but I could cook. I used to cook local food; kaalo, beans, meat. Things like sweet potatoes and matooke; those are like snacks in Nebbi where i'm from. I joined YMCA where I did a 2 year culinary course.
My first job was at Shanghai hotel, a friend recommended me. I started as a cleaner and I did that for 2 years. I was very active in the kitchen and when my employers saw that they decided to teach me how to cook.
Chinese cooking is very organized. If you are to chop vegetables, you do that for some time. If you are chopping meats, you do that. You graduate slowly by slowly. I did not learn how to make Chinese food in class, I learnt this at the restaurant. After 4 years at Shanghai, that was in 2006, a friend called me about an opportunity at Capitol palace.
No it was another friend. I am social and cooperative and I'm easy to work with so people always call me.
You have to be firm to work with the Chinese. It's not easy, but I like that hard treatment because it gives you a strong heart and helps you concentrate.
Carnival is all about meats, we only do barbecue. What we do is marinate and roast. Buffalo, crocodile, antelope, warthog and of course chicken, beef and the ones you are used to.
We treat buffalo like beef, its tough meat so we tenderize. As for crocodile, we grade it under white meat. It's naturally soft on the inside. When you look at a crocodile live, it looks funny but the meat is soft. To sell game meat, you need to have a license and I think we are one of the few places that does this type of meat.
Antelope is red meat but its texture isn't tough…it's softer than goat. Warthog is soft. They are tough animals but their meat is soft.
In school, the love of what you are learning has to come from your heart. But someone who learns 100% from school is not better than someone who learns on the job. Here, you learn by doing, and doing daily. Today you find that this has not come out, tomorrow you come and say let me do it differently.
I'm a small man but I am the head here. I love someone who comes and says I don't know things. I can then start teaching them from zero. When this happens I know that person is going to turn out fine in time.
If you want your food to taste the way it tastes (to have its flavours), don't over spice and use only fresh spices; the ones we grow here in Uganda. Garlic, lemon grass etc. We get them from the market. Sometimes imported spices are old, and they might even spoil the taste of what you are cooking. We prefer to make ours fresh so that you can enjoy the taste of what you are eating. That's what we do at carnival.
We use pineapple. It doesn't change the taste. It just makes the meal taste wow. Squeeze the juice and leave for like 2 hours. Ripe or not, any pineapple will do.
What's the biggest lesson you've learnt from your work?
Most annoying thing you face in the kitchen.
You know people have different characters…but really someone who acts like they haven't heard you when you tell them something. They hear you, then they pretend. This also pisses you off.
Do you want your children to be chefs?
When I'm cooking I wash my rice. In this process I remove some of the starch. With all of it there, it may not be good for some.
The biggest number you have cooked for at a go?
Did you sleep the day before?
Do all chefs always get a day off?
I don't know if other people don't do this for their employees, but in the hotel industry a day off every week is a must. This is very important because it gives your mind time to relax and also gives you time to learn new things. In the process of visiting and talking to friends, you learn a lot.
Why a cooking course at YMCA?
I chose cooking because I love it. Anything that you do without love, it will not work for you. I didn't think I would be where I am today, I thought I would stop cooking but fortunately I'm still doing it. Till this day, I love and enjoy cooking.
I enjoy barbecuing and roasting. Even though you pick me and drop me somewhere new, just give me meat, I'll look for a way of roasting it. I love fish, even if its stew, frying or charcoal roasting. It takes a while but I'll roast fish and you will not want to eat fried fish again.


Because of the difficulty in being sure all backdoors are closed, a compromised system should be rebuilt from scratch - even restoring from a backup may simply restore the compromising code.
If a computer has been compromised, all the tools and data on that computer that you may want to use to determine the integrity of the machine are suspect. Sophisticated tools, commonly referred to as root-kits, are widely available. They replace all the commands a person would use to investigate a Unix machine. Similar kits exist and are refined for Windows machines.
A careful and sophisticated system cracker will not leave any evidence for you to find. Others may leave traces that may be picked up, but you will need to be familiar with the operation and layout of your particular system. Since most computers nowadays have tens of thousands of files and multiple running processes that vary widely during operation, this can be a complex and tedious process. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. The cracker only has to plant one needle to get into your system and you have to examine every straw. If you're using your system to look at the straws, there is a chance that the cracker can effectively force you to wear rose-coloured glasses causing you to miss the needle. That said, relatively unsophisticated individuals do many compromises, by random execution of mass produced hostile code, and/or on untargeted computers. In those cases, the compromises leave readily identifiable fingerprints for us to find.
Desktop firewalls can be used to restrict or allow incoming or outgoing applications as appropriate.
Desktop firewalls can tell you what network activity they're seeing.
Access logs to see what systems have accessed your system.
Audit logs if you have auditing turned on.
Startup files - Unix inittab/ rc/ inetd - to see what processes are being started at boot time.
Unix crontab entries to see what regularly scheduled processes are being run.
Unix .rlogin files, particularly the one for root.
Analyze network traffic to and from your machine with an external protocol analyzer or firewall logs. This is not a practical option for most system owners and won't detect actions by locally logged on operators. Compare the contents and attributes of the files on your computer with the contents and attributes of the files that are supposed to be there. This requires advance preparation. Tools like Tripwire will allow you to compute file information for files on your computer. These should be stored off the computer to be used for later comparisons.
Scripts can compare the information nightly and alert you if something has changed. However, you must be aware of which files change during the normal course of operating your computer and adjust your monitoring and reaction accordingly.
System and root path variable settings.
Windows \windows and system folders containing system DLLs.
Windows operating system images and loaders.
System and administrator path variable settings.
System binaries Unix bin, etc, and lib directories.
Unix operating system image and loaders.
Unix cron configuration, web server configuration, NFS configuration, FTP server configuration, etc.
Red Hat Linux has a utility called RPM that can be used to check the installed files against prepared packages available from the vendor's web site or from CDROM distribution media.
There is a commercial version of Tripwire that will run on Windows OSes. Many other commercial tools are also available such as Axent's ESM. Dr. Solomon's anti-virus product included a tool called viverify that could be used to perform the same task.
The following sites can be useful as they provide tools and resources for troubleshooting and forensic analysis.


Open plan benching has become one of the most popular ways to set up workstations in an office. As an update on the cubicle, benching provides a much more efficient freestanding solution for offices with teams that frequently collaborate, yet also need to work independently in private at times. With a variety of options for storage and layout, we will find a unique benching solution that meets any company's needs.


Aim: To determine Hepatitis B vaccination rate and determining factors for health care workers (HCWs) at AKUHN.
Methodology: Two hundred and sixty six (266) eligible HCWs of all cadres were stratified then randomly recruited after giving informed consent. A questionnaire was then administered to assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards HBV infection, risk of infection, vaccination status and reasons for non vaccination.
The analysis included vaccination rate, association between knowledge, attitude and practice with vaccination rates and reasons for non vaccination.
Results: The hepatitis B vaccination rate is 56.01%. More than 95.5% of the HCWs know about hepatitis B, more than 86.8% know the routes of transmission. There is an association between knowledge of Hepatitis B and vaccination status (p=0.01). Fifty three percent (53%) of the non vaccinated HCWs either didn"t know the need or procedure for vaccination, while 19.6% were concerned about side effects and costs of vaccination.
Conclusion: The vaccination rate is low and efforts should be put in place to educate the HCWs on vaccination, offer reassurance on the safety of the vaccines and maintain updated vaccination records.
Ekea, H. (2011). Hepatitis B vaccination rate and determining factors amongst health care workers at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (Unpublished master's dissertation). .


I absolutely loved the first book in this series! Kate Stewart hit the ball out of the park with this as well. I love when an author can give you two books in the series that blow you away.
Alice has been wanting to set up Andy with April but he would never let her. As it gets closer to Alice and Rafe's wedding the two spend more time together. With them being the best man and maid of honor they end up helping out the couple more while Rafe is away for baseball.
Andy who now spends most of his time running his bar and brewing beer is starting to miss baseball. When he decides to still be involved in the sport he loves but in a different way. April is a 911 dispatcher and never knows what she's going to hear when she answers the phone. She is a loving person who loves what she does and puts her family first.
When Andy finally got up the nerve to peruse April he told her it wouldn't be anything serious. At the time that was fine with both of them but the more they were together you could feel the pull between them. The build up to their relationship was sweet and at times funny. If your looking for a good read that will make you laugh and melt all at once this for you. I absolutely love this series and was sad when the book ended.
Thanks for review Ashley have to check this series out it sounds so good!