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In my own mind, I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.
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Terrence Steve McQueen was born March 24, 1930 in Beach Grove, Indiana. He had a very arrested childhood, his father abandoning the family when Steve was barely six months old, and his mother leaving Steve with his uncle in Missouri before his second birthday. Steve worked on his uncle's ranch until he was twelve, when his mother sent him a bus ticket to come live with her in L.A..
Steve was a troublemaker, joining a gang and getting arrested twice for petty theft. His exasperated mother finally sent him to the California Junior Boys Republic in Chino. Here, Steve was molded into the charming and successful man of his older years (but not before being caught escaping twice!). He never forgot the teachings and help Boys Republic gave him, creating the Steve McQueen scholarship fund for the Republic's best student, and visiting the school frequently after he had become famous.
By the time Steve had finished school there in 1946, his mother had relocated to New York City with her new husband-to-be. Another bus ticket arrived - only this time, the reunion was very short-lived. That same year he ditched New York City for a new residence on the sea. Getting an illicit seaman's card from some working friends, he started working on a tanker, the SS Alpha. The life didn't suit him much, though, and when the ship docked in Cuba, Steve exited.
Steve spent two years moving first from Cuba to Bermuda, and then to the Dominician Republic before returning to the States. He served as a handyman, doing all kinds of odd jobs to get by. Steve said of himself, "I was an old man at seventeen." Finally, after he grew bored of his transient lifestyle, Steve decided to join the Marines, and enlisted on April 12, 1947, just one month after his seventeenth birthday.
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The ever-ephemeral Steve was frequently in trouble with his commanding officers - he spent two months in the brig for going AWOL for two weeks and fighting with the patrolmen sent to pick him up. However, Steve proved he was not just the rowdy and undisciplined boy of his youth. While training near the Arctic Circle, Steve's transport ship struck a sandbank, sending several tanks and their crews into the icy waters. Steve leapt into the water and saved five men, earning him a medal for heroism and a position on Harry S Truman's at-sea Honor Guard. Three years after joining the Marines, Steve was honorably discharged.
Steve continued to travel around, doing whatever jobs were available - a heavy lifter on an oil derrick in Texas, a lumberjack near Ottawa, and finally settling again in New York City delivering TV sets for a mere pittance. Steve was unhappy with always being nearly broke, and when his actress girlfriend suggested Steve try his hand on the stage, he agreed and joined the Neighborhood Playhouse acting school, where he studied for two years. The school itself was very pricey, so Steve took on a second job hauling mail from a postal center in Trenton to the City. "I would drive all evening until two-thirty a.m., then be in school the next morning. I did that for a year. It almost killed me," Steve remarked later, with his typical detached cool. He also became something of a poker shark to make extra cash on the side, and developed a love for motorcycling, taking part in weekend races.
The Big Break
Finally, Steve got his first break as part of a repertory playing various lead roles on Second Avenue. He also began taking lessons on scholarship at the Herbert- Bergoff Drama School, finally earning one of two exclusive spots at the Actors Studio (along with Martin Landau). He got his first Broadway role in 1955, replacing Ben Gazzara for the lead role in the Michael Gazzo's play "A Hatful of Rain". Here he met Neile Adams, one of the understudies for the play, and they hit it off wonderfully. When Steve decided to move to Los Angeles to get into movies, Neile moved with him. They eventually married in 1956.
Steve's movie career, like so many others, began in low budget flicks, and Steve seemed particularly suited as the straight man in two cheapies that were churned out in the mid 1950s - Never Love A Stranger with John Barrymore, Jr., and the now famous The Blob. Steve also won many television roles, appearing on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", the weekly teledrama "Climax!," and the western series "Tales of Wells Fargo." His appearance here led him to TV western director and writer Gene Reynolds, who cast the bronzed young star as Josh Randall in a new series, "Wanted: Dead Or Alive." As Randall, McQueen was a cool cigarette-smoking bounty hunter, evoking Marlon Brando as much as John Wayne. His first child, daughter Terry, was born on November 19, 1959.
The Big Star
The show's success gave McQueen stronger movie roles - he led an amazing group of co-stars in the Frank Sinatra war flick Never So Few, and was given the lead in The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, a true-life crime story about a heist gone wrong. He then received perhaps his most famous role, that of Vin in John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven. Playing alongside Yul Brynner, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, and Eli Wallach, McQueen's cold blue-eyed killer Vin was a masterpiece of Old West rough and tumble mentality mixed with a sweet solitude.
On December 28, 1960, Neile and Steve had their second child, Chad. McQueen continued to act in a string of films with war as the backdrop - The Honeymoon Machine, Hell is For Heroes, The War Lover, and finally culminating in the greatest war film ever made, The Great Escape. Set in a German prisoner of war camp after the D-Day invasion, it tells the story of the "Cooler King" Virgil Hilts (McQueen) and the other captives who plan a daring escape to keep the homeland Germans busy. Hilts, the defiant American captain, sacrifices himself throughout the movie to secure vital information and logistics for the escapees - only to have the entire scheme end in failure. A haunting movie, and McQueen's vitality and determination shine throughout. By his next picture, Soldier In The Rain, McQueen was the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
In 1965, he put his early poker skills to work as the title star of The Cincinnati Kid, and returned to Westerns again as Nevada Smith in 1966. That same year, McQueen made another leading performance in The Sand Pebbles with Great Escape co-star Richard Attenborough. For McQueen's role as a newly-arrived engineer to a United States boat stationed in 1920's revolution-ravaged China, he was nominated for his first and only Academy Award.
The King Of Cool
Two years later, McQueen made the first of his "cool" movies, starring as Thomas Crown alongside Faye Dunaway in the crime caper classic The Thomas Crown Affair. That same year, he rode a Mustang Fastback to eternal movie magic glory in Bullitt, as a tough San Francisco cop. Next, Steve made an odd turn by playing Boon Hogganbeck in the 1969 adaptation of William Faulkner's The Reivers, delivering the famous line, "Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you don't." It is perhaps the most underrated and unwatched Southern drama of all-time, and McQueen shines in the unheralded role.
Steve McQueen's love of cars almost caused the end of his Hollywood career - he had talked seriously about joining an auto racing circuit in California. He even entered the famous 12-race in Sebring with the equally famous (and tragic) Formula One driver Peter Revson, finishing second. Finally agreeing to make more movies, Steve did what came naturally, and did a movie about racing. 1971's Le Mans, shot in France as a pseudo-documentary about car racing, is a gorgeous picture, but Steve seemed distracted in the role. Perhaps this was due to his failing marriage (he and Neile divorced in 1972) or his eagerness to leave the industry for good. One famous story about Steve during this era is that despite his high wages, he had a notoriously demanding rider, often asking for dozens of pairs of jeans and razorblades in his trailer. After his death, it was revealed he donated all of these extras to the Boys Republic who had helped him so many years ago.
1972 saw him in another eerily-similar to real life role as Junior Bonner, a man who recently left his family and was heading back to the days of his youth as a rodeo rider. He also played Doc McCoy in the crime comedy The Getaway, opposite Ali McGraw. The two really took a liking to each other, and were married in 1973. That same year saw Steve's good friend and part-time martial arts instructor Bruce Lee die unexpectedly of a cerebral edema. Steve served as a pallbearer, but little did he know his own fate was to be cut short.
Following Lee's death, Steve took on his most challenging role, that of Henry Charriere, the infamous Papillon, who was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to various French penal colonies. His attempts to escape were valiant, but McQueen internalized the role brilliantly, showing a man more sinned against than sinning. By the end of the film, McQueen's character is physically broken, but spiritually intact. It seemed almost a perfect continuance from his role as The Cooler King in The Great Escape.
The Dark Decline
Steve's next role was as Chief O'Hallorhan in the Irwin Allen disaster flick The Towering Inferno. An all-star cast of McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Richard Chamberlain, and, yes, O.J. Simpson couldn't save the fated office building at the center of the movie from crashing and burning. It would be McQueen's last role for four years. Steve began dabbling in all kinds of drugs - cocaine being the worst - and his womanizing was too much for Ali to take. He would return in 1978 (after a second divorce) to play Dr. Stockmann in the celebrated Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy Of The People, a cautionary tale about commercialism versus public safety.
Using his time off, Steve earned his small craft pilot's license, and in late 1979, Steve met and married model Barbara Minty. Only two months later, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer. Hearing of a new treatment in Mexico, he and his wife headed south of the border. Steve was put on a program where he took over 100 vitamins a day, and was injected with animal cells with the hopes it would stop and remit the cancer. It appeared to be working, and several of McQueen's benign tumors actually vanished, thanks to the Laetrile. But things weren't perfect. Finally, on November 6, 1980, an abdominal tumor he had became so large it had to be removed. The surgery was a success, but complications from the cancer caused Steve's condition to worsen, and he passed away one day later of a heart attack. He was 50 years old.
Two movies, Tom Horn, and The Hunter were posthumously released. Largely looked over by critics in his own time, his legend has grown greatly since his untimely death. He was, however, always considered Mr. Cool, and he played by his own rules. His life is the virtual blueprint for the man who's done it all and has something to show for it. The Tao of Steve lives on in his movies, as does the actor, star, and king of hip - Steve McQueen.
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You'll find a donation-only lemonade stand 11 a.m.-2 p.m. this Friday (June 8) in the Wells Fargo Plaza at the corner of South Tryon Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Proceeds will benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, which raises awareness and money for childhood-cancer research. Wells Fargo will be lighting up the Duke Energy building in yellow the night before, according to Svend Deal of Cozen O'Connor, the firm doing the stand.
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ALSF is an OUTSTANDING charity. I hope everyone can stop by, cool off with some lemonade, and help kids affected by cancer.
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Residence | Austintown, OH |
Education | Austintown Fitch graduate, Class of 1969 Plumbers & Pipefitters Apprenticeship 4 yr. program |
Employer | Morrone Mechanical |
Family | Shelley Chine- wife of 37 years Adam Chine- son Aaron Chine- son Lana & Lucy- granddaughters |
Reasons for running | I have been a blue collar worker all of my life. I think it's time to get the common workers perspective on issues in our district. Austintown is blue collar, and it is time to have that representation. Also, the four years I was on the Board of Education we made a lot of positive strides in our district and I would like to continue in that direction. |
Priorities | Naturally, the children in the district and their education is number one. We are there now with our new schools, which are state of the art and second to none. Also, I have been a part of this community all my life and I want people in our district and outside of our district to look at Austintown and its schools in a positive way. We have to remove the negativity to move forward. |
Qualifications | I was on the Board for four years and had a very good relationship with the AEA, OAPSE, PTA, and all of our organizations. I think getting along with people doing positive things in the district makes for a smooth running district. |
Positions on the issues | Communication seems to be a big issue right now. I think having an open door policy with the Board members and administration is something that has to happen. There are too many people with questions and problems and don't know where or how to get answers. That then creates rumors and negativity. Every question deserves an answer. |


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Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 3
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 278.0
- Total Fat: 18.1 g
- Cholesterol: 16.4 mg
- Sodium: 150.2 mg
- Total Carbs: 21.7 g
- Dietary Fiber: 3.3 g
- Protein: 9.5 g
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I wanted lots of vegetable. You can mix and match. I wanted lots of vegetable. You can mix and match.Number of Servings: 3
Yellow Peppers (bell peppers), 1 pepper, large
Green Peppers (bell peppers), 1 pepper large )
Red Ripe Tomatoes, 15 cherry
Garlic, 3 tsp
Olive Oil, 3 tbsp
Chicken Breast, no skin, 3 ounces
Pacific Natural Foods Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Broth, 1 cup,
Tortilla Chips, 1.5 oz
Take the peppers and tomatos and cut them up in small pieces. Put the garlic and cut up vegetable in a big sauce pan with the extra virgin olive oil. Add the black beans. Saute for about 10 min. Add vegetable broth and grilled chicken. Bring all of it to a simmer. Let it simmer for about 10 more minutes. Serves 3. Eat with the tortilla chips
Number of Servings: 3
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hi folks, sorry for the off topic post, but i figure somebody on this list must know how to solve this problem. my source document contains something like this: <contract> <service name="mail"> <service name="calendar"> </contract> my stylesheet has these definitions: <xsl:variable name="text.mail">Mail</xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="text.calendar">Calendar</xsl:variable> it also has the following template: <xsl:template match="service"> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
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Buoyed by a captivating infusion of Hawaiian and Okinawan songs and dances, this production of Jon Shirota's poignant, life-affirming interracial romance, warmly affirms that even the most tragic heartbreak can be the basis of joyous, personal growth and renewal.
Buoyed by a captivating infusion of Hawaiian and Okinawan songs and dances, this production of Jon Shirota's poignant, life-affirming interracial romance, warmly affirms that even the most tragic heartbreak can be the basis of joyous, personal growth and renewal. Though director Tim Dang hasn't solved the problem of the often clunky, mood-diminishing scenic transitions, he wisely paces the ensemble to enhance Keone Young's deeply effective, introspective performance.
The action kicks off in 1960 at a hilly grave site on Maui, where Japanese-born Yasu (Young) has returned after more than 20 years; his mission is to remove the ashes of his older brother Kama (Michael Hagiwara) and sister-in-law Tsuyu (Dian Kobayashi) from Hawaii and then rebury the couple at the family burial site on the Japanese island of Okinawa. As the deeply unhappy Yasu sings a lament in tribute to the pair, their ghosts rise to oversee the reclamation of his life-saddened soul. The activity then moves back and forth between 1960 and the late 1930s, when the overly cautious, class-conscious Yasu was reluctant to commit himself to his love, the exuberant native Hawaiian Leilani (Melody Butiu). The pair are separated when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor while Yasu is visiting his homeland. The young man is drafted into the Japanese army while his pregnant love is forced by her family to move to Honolulu, where she eventually marries, bearing her lover's child. In a cathartic re-examining of themselves and each other in 1960, Yasu and Leilani learn they can forgive the past, while Yasu rediscovers the joy of life in the acceptance he receives from his grown daughter, Emma (Lilia Dominguez). Keone anchors the production with an intriguing stoicism that communicates a world of emotion with minimal energy. He is balanced beautifully by the sensuous vitality of Butiu, whose performance reflects the monumental loss Yasu has suffered. Dominguez is beautifully effective as Emma, the young woman whose happy life of ignorance is shattered by her father's presence but can still demonstrate the character and self-confidence to find a place for the man in her heart. As the hovering ghosts, Hagiwara and Kobayashi are occasionally out of sync with the flow of dialogue as they provide ongoing lighthearted commentary and reflection that balance nicely against the often morose musings of Young's Yasu. Shaun Shimoda and Cathleen Chin are credible as Yasu's Americanized nephew and niece, respectively, who are reluctant to have their parents' ashes removed. The designs of Akeime Mitterlehner (set), Rae Creevey (lights), Ken Takemoto (costume) and Robert Shinso (sound) do much to enhance the Maui hillside setting. Leilani's HibiscusLeilani's Hibiscus
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East West Players presents a play in two acts by Jon Shirota, directed by Tim Dang.
Yasu - Keone Young
Leilani - Melody Butiu
Kama - Michael Hagiwara
Tsuyu - Dian Kobayashi
Ichiro - Shaun Shimoda
Kimiko - Cathleen Chin
Emma - Lilia Dominguez
Set design, Akeime Mitterlehner; lighting design, Rae Creevey; costume design/props, Ken Takemoto; sound design, Robert Shinso; Okinawan choreographer, Aiko Majikina; music consultant, Keone Young; Hawaiian hula movement, Casey Kono. Opened Sept. 22; reviewed Sept. 26; runs until Oct. 17. Running time: 1 HOUR, 40 MIN.


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The substitute struck twice inside six second-half minutes as the Magpies imploded having dominated the opening 45 minutes. Alan Pardew's men would have been out of sight by half-time had it not been for the heroics of keeper Adam Federici, but led only 1-0 courtesy of the returning Yohan Cabaye's superb 35th-minute free-kick.
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Accordingly, I ensure that my stuff is sufficiently dispersed around the bedroom, living room, bathroom, lobby, other bathroom, study, and foyer and head off for a walking tour of the city.
Literally, I walk the entire city in one day. I take the futuristic tunnel across the river to and walk down the Bund taking in views of the skyline from the other side of the river. The Yu Yuan Gardens are amazing and offer a relatively quiet place to escape from the mayhem that is the neighborhood surrounding the walled paradise. I navigate the intense crowds at the 9-step bridge which bring back memories of Ta Phrom in Siem Reap!
A pit stop at a local barber shop/spa brings many laughs from the local patrons and the guy cutting my hair but it also results in a quality cut and an opportunity for me to laugh at people laughing at me...
By the time I got to the People's Square I was ready for any sort of food. Accordingly, when two very nice girls started talking to me I was quick to take them up on a tea ceremony offer. I was later informed that this was a scam and that the girls actually worked at the tea house and that there was no special tea ceremony, but I still want to believe that they were actually really nice.
Regardless, I had a great time and learned about all sorts of teas and customs and didn't think I got ripped off all that bad in terms of prices given that this sort of ceremony only happens once every other year!!! Haha.
I check out the Jade temple and walk back through the main shopping district. By the time I get back to my suite I'm in need of a brief nap. I summon myself in time for a scrumptious dinner and head out to Xan Tian Di, the most popular nightlife neighborhood in Shanghai. It rivaled Clarke Quay in Singapore, but only in appearance as it wasn't nearly as wild with a much more conservative crowd. I enjoy some live music, a few beers, and head home before Beijing in the morning.
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STARKVILLE -- Starkville High School''s boys track team will lean heavily on its distance group this season after a solid performance last weekend at the Paul W. Bryant Stampede Invitational.
The Yellow Jackets'' second-place finish at their first meet of the season was powered by distance standouts Kamau Bostic and Joseph MacGown, who finished second and third, respectively, in the 1,600-meter run.
Bostic, a junior, clocked in at 4 minutes, 54 seconds, while MacGown, a freshman, was two seconds behind.
Sophomore Damien Grady added more expectations of the distance group by taking seventh at 5:11. His personal record is nine seconds faster.
Bostic and MacGown''s times in the mile event would have clinched top eight finishes at last year''s Mississippi High School Activities Association Class 6A state meet.
"They''re going to be the ones, from what I''ve seen, who will be our top guys to score throughout district, region, north and state," Starkville High track coach Chris Barnett said. "And it''s still early in the season so we expect those guys to get much better."
With Tupelo''s Max Holman, who won the 3,200 and 1,600 state events by at least seven seconds, currently running for the University of Mississippi, the gap between placing in the top five at state and challenging for a state title is shorter for Bostic and MacGown. The duo placed in the top 15 of the state cross country meet in the fall.
But they''re not alone.
Grady''s late-season cross country surge is carrying over into track season, and the arrival of soccer midfielder Kase Kingery has surprised the coaching staff.
"If he was in shape right now, he''d be running up there with Kamau and Joseph," Barnett said.
Grant Woomer''s expected return from a hip injury will also add depth to the versatile distance group, which hasn''t been a major scoring threat since former state champion Quartez Rogers graduated two years ago. Though Rogers scored valuable points for back-to-back state championship teams, the Yellow Jackets didn''t have multiple runners who could score in multiple distance events.
Bostic, MacGown, Woomer and Grady will run the 1,600, while Grady and MacGown will run the 3,200. Bostic, Grady, Kingery and Woomer will also run the 800.
Starkville''s distance group shined in the opening meet, but hurdler Charles Hughes posted top-5 times in two events and sprinter Julian Lewis showed his early-season form was on point.
Hughes ran 41.96 seconds in the 300 hurdles (fifth) and set a new personal record of 15.1 (PR) in the 110 hurdles (third).
"Last year, 38.35 was the top time, which would be ranked around sixth or seventh in the state in the 300 hurdles," Barnett said. "So we''re pretty excited about Charles."
Lewis took seventh in the 100 at state last season with a time of 11.1 seconds, and the junior ran 10.92 at the Paul Bryant Invitational. Lewis also ran 22.45 in the 200.
Much like Starkville''s boys, the Lady Jackets'' early season standouts have been their distance runners.
Walker Mattox won the 3,200 at the Paul Bryant Invitational with a time of 12:47. Mattox took third in the 1,600 at 6:02.
Her younger sister, Kate, would have won both events with times of 12:15 in the 3,200 and 5:39 seconds in the mile. Just a sixth-grader, Kate''s times didn''t count toward Starkville''s sixth-place varsity finish.
"We couldn''t move her up this year even if we wanted to," Barnett said. "But the future is bright for Kate."
A pair of middle school runners who will be making the step up to varsity this season are Abigail Arinder and Emily Woomer.
Woomer, unlike her distance-running siblings, is a threat in sprint events. Woomer 28.96 in the middle school 200 event, which would have placed sixth in the varsity final.
Arinder won the 800 middle school race at 3:01 and would have landed in eighth if she had ran the varsity race.
Starkville''s distance group will be led by Mary Elizabeth Stringer, who missed cross country season because of leg surgery.
Stringer missed the Paul Bryant Invitational due to spring break, is close to full fitness, Barnett said.
"As far as her actual form over the whole year, it hurt her not being in cross country," Barnett said, "but she''s getting back to shape. She''s going to be a great asset to both teams. With any injury, it''s always going to set you back, especially in distance because there''s so much as far as lung capacity and maintaining speed over long distances."
Both boys and girls teams return to action at the Homewood (Ala.) Invitational on March 26. Thirty teams on each side are expected to compete in the event.
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Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed he's "been booked" for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, telling BBC Radio 5 that he will be "closing the opening."
A full lineup for the opening ceremony celebration has yet to be announced, but the former Beatle being involved has been rumored for for awhile. In January, McCartney revealed he was in talks to take part.
McCartney also just performed for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, performing as the final act for the star-studded concert Monday, June 4. McCartney also told BBC Radio that "on certain occasions" he still gets nervous before performing. We wonder if the Diamond Jubilee was one of those times, or if the Olympics will be?
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Designing, Capturing and Validating History-Sensitive Security Policies for Distributed Systems
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2011
We consider the use of Aspect-oriented techniques as a flexible way to deal with security policies in distributed systems. We follow the approach of attaching security policies to the relevant locations that must be governed by them, and then combining them at runtime according to the interactions that happen. Recent work suggests using Aspects in this way to analyse the future behaviour of programs and to make access control decisions based on this; this gives the flavour of dealing with information flow rather than mere access control. We show in this paper that it is beneficial to augment this approach with history-based components, as is traditional in reference-monitor-based approaches to mandatory access control. Our developments are performed in an Aspect-oriented coordination language, aiming to describe the Bell-LaPadula policy as elegantly as possible. Furthermore, the resulting language has the capability of combining both history-sensitive and future-sensitive policies, providing even more flexibility and power. Moreover, we propose a global Logic for reasoning about the systems designed with this language. We show how the Logic can be used to validate the combination of security policies in a distributed system, either with or without exploring the entire state space.
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Journal | Scientific Annals of Computer Science |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 107-149 |
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Informix Wingz
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Original author(s) | Innovative Software |
Initial release | 1988 |
Operating system | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Unix |
Type | spreadsheet |
Wingz was a spreadsheet program sold by Informix in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally developed for the Macintosh, it was later distributed on Microsoft Windows, OS/2, NeXTSTEP and several other commercial flavors of Unix. In spite of many positive reviews, including one calling it "clearly the spreadsheet of the future", the market was rapidly entrenching Microsoft Excel.[1] Informix eventually gave up on the desktop market and reverted solely to database sales in the mid-1990s. Claris licensed and sold an extensively cleaned up version as Claris Resolve in 1991, but it was far too late to market to have any effect.
Wingz was originally written solely for the Macintosh by Innovative Software in Lenexa, KS (publishers of the SmartWare Suite on the PC) and was ready for release in late 1988. Informix wanted to enter the desktop software market with products that could link to their back-end databases, and Wingz seemed like a good fit. They purchased the product and released it largely as-is in early 1989. The release was built up by extensive promotion on the part of Informix, including giving away a then-unprecedented array of "convention swag," including high quality Wingz red canvas tradeshow bags.[2] For nearly a year, the buildup was focused around the "Wingz Time Shuttle," an enclosed theatre which traveled MacWorlds in 1988 and 1989. The focal creatives included a video narrated by Leonard Nimoy and automated demos of the product. The video took attendees into "the future of spreadsheet design, past the legacy of failed old products [like Excel]".
The most obvious feature, and the easiest to "checkbox review", was the size of the spreadsheets Wingz could process. Excel's maximum size was 256 columns by 16384 rows, while Wingz could handle spreadsheets up to 32768 in both directions. At the time spreadsheets were still being compared primarily on this feature. A less-obvious feature was that Wingz allowed simple in-cell editing, whereas contemporary versions of Excel forced you to use a separate data-entry bar.
Another clear difference between Wingz and Excel was Wingz' powerful graphing system, once regarded as the most powerful available in any spreadsheet.[3] Wingz' graphing system allowed the resulting graphs to be placed directly in the spreadsheets. At the time Excel offered an anemic variety of 2D graphs, and they could only be displayed in a separate view. Additionally Wingz made it easy to make the graphs and modify them, allowing you to see your changes in real-time directly in the spreadsheet where the changes were being made. At the time it was an "obvious" feature, but one that no other program had managed to make work correctly.
A more hidden feature was HyperScript, a macro-programming language deliberately modelled on HyperCard's HyperTalk.[4][5] HyperScript allowed even new users to write fairly powerful macros, which could include user-interface features such as buttons and dialog boxes. HyperScript 1.0 was missing some rather obvious features. For instance it could not open another spreadsheet, although it could refer to one if the user opened that for it.
A less hidden "feature" was that the program shipped with a number of bugs, which tainted the release. It also lacked a number of mathematical functions that Excel handled internally, and had no direct importer/exporter for Excel files.
Microsoft responded to the release of Wingz, and others such as Ashton-Tate's Full Impact and the Mac version of Lotus 1-2-3 that came out about the same time, by starting an extensive upgrade to Excel. They were soon showing it around claiming it would have all the features of Wingz — in-sheet graphics, large spreadsheets, etc. When it was finally released it was true many of these features were supported, but it was not considered user-friendly.[citation needed]
It was only a short period of time before a Wingz 1.1 release fixed many of these issues, but it was long enough that the product was never able to regain its momentum. It also seemed that Informix never really understood how to market the product, and it is likely 'Not Invented Here' played a major part in the problems as well — the purchase of Wingz and Smartware prompted Roger Sippl, one of the founders of Informix, to leave the company.
Shortly after Sippl left, Phil White, the new CEO of Informix, announced that Informix would no longer be competing in the desktop application space. Joe Erickson, the lead developer of the Smart Spreadsheet, Wingz, Formula One VBX, Formula One ActiveX, Formula One for Java and SpreadsheetGear for .NET, left shortly after that.
Future releases focused on bringing the product to new platforms as their GUI's matured, and adding functionality to HyperScript to allow it to directly interact with databases. Soon it was being marketed primarily as a data access tool, and eventually the name Wingz was dropped and the product became HyperScript Tools. After several years of ignoring it further, it was sold off to Investment Intelligence Systems in the UK. At some unknown point Wingz was bought by a company in San Jose, CA called PDF Solutions which now uses Wingz as a private base for their DataPOWER Semiconductor yield management software packages.
Claris, Apple Computer's onetime software arm, licensed Wingz in the early 1990s after Informix lost interest in the Mac market. They updated it slightly with the addition of the Claris-standard UI (toolbars, color palettes, etc.) and released it as Resolve in 1991. By this time Excel was entrenched, and sales of Resolve were tiny. Claris never released a Resolve-MacWrite-Claris Impact bundle, and so were unable to gain a foothold in the high-end market now dominated by Microsoft Office. They eventually cancelled development in 1993, ending sales in 1994.
Claris did offer an "Office suite", composed of MacWrite Pro, Claris Resolve, and MacDraw Pro. Although this suite didn't include a database (e.g., Filemaker Pro) or a dedicated Desktop Presentations application, although MacDraw Pro did provide some such features, they positioned it to compete against MS Office. The ClarisImpact program was released much later than ClarisOffice and was never included as part of the suite.
- ^ InfoWorld Dec. 4 1989.
- ^ "International Informix User Group".
- ^ InfoWorld Nov. 20, 1989.
- ^ Brian Murphy, et al, "Spreadsheet Statistics for Teaching and Production", ICOTS 3, 1990
- ^ T. C. O'Haver, "Object-Oriented Spreadsheets as a Custom Software Development Environment", University of Maryland, 1992


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Statistics are sobering but none caught my attention more so than when I ran into a website called the Sisters of Rwanda here (http://sistersofrwanda.org/). This is an NGO run out of Rwanda by Jared N Miller (a partner in The Incubator Group, a private equity firm out of Nashville) and Joseph Ayienga (Pastor from Kenya).
The NGO is actively involved in helping prostitutes (former and current) on the streets of Kigali, Rwanda lead better lives by teaching them about better opportunities and slowly but surely convincing them to stay off the streets.
The numbers that caught my eye were the results of this group interviewing random samplings of women in and around Kigali. Some averages taken from interviewing groups of 50 women were as follows: (from their website)
-5 Men per day
-7 Days per week
-3 Weeks off per year
-A condom was used less than half of the time
-If a man pays 5,000 RWF ($9.00 USD) he doesn't have to use a condom. If a man pays 1,000 RWF – 3,000 RWF ($1.80 USD - $5.40 USD), the girl has some bargaining power and can get them to use one about half the time. The more the man pays, the less likely he is to use a condom.
They had images of women on their site that bespoke a kind of suffering that I could hardly imagine and I decided to paint one of them. This is what I have created and I decided to call it "5 Men a day 7 days a week 49 weeks a year". The painting is 3 feet wide and 4 feet high.
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Painting post: Exploitation in Rwanda
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- Angela said...
It would be a good thing if nobody got into that sort of lifestyle. Sad what can come of it all. You making a painting with that meaning is outstanding! I think!!!! WONDERFUL WORK!
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Very moving painting and post. Thank you
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Movie Review: The Bling Ring
In 2011 a crack burglar unit was sentenced to prison by a Los Angeles court fofor a series of crimes they most certainly committed. This group of mostly girls had burglarized the homes of nearly a dozen high-profile celebrities, making off with nearly $3 million in clothes and jewelry. Today, a film based on their exploits is being shown in theatres. If you can find it, if there's little else playing or you're tired of hearing about Man of Steel, maybe you can see The Bling Ring.
I write that because I'm still not sure what Sofia Coppola's new movie is about — it opens with Nicki (Emma Watson) giving one of those humanitarian speeches that clearly wasn't proof-read by an attorney and has about as much basis in thought as — Ooo! A penny! And then follows Marc (Israel Broussard), the awkward new kid at the remidial school. He's mocked and picked on, partly because he's the new kid, partly because he harbors some cross-dressing tendencies. Fortunately one of his classmates, Rebecca (Katie Chang) befriends him and, during a casual drive, asks which if any of friends are out of town. He mentions one. She suggests they break into the house. And they do. And they steal some cash, clothes, and jewelry. They meet up with some other friends afterwards and brag about robbing the poor saps.
And eventually the gang gets the idea to rob celebrities' houses. Their plan is ingenious — track when a particular celebrity will be away, say for a party or box social. Then go to Google to look up their address. Then go there when the celebrity is not there. And then rob them blind. Paris Hilton is their first and most popular target, for a reason that provides one of the film's best jokes, so I won't reveal it here.
But that's basically the film — following robbery after robbery after robbery after robbery after robbery — and I think there's some I missed, too. Whatever Coppola finds so fascinating about this concept is never clearly revealed, but she does, and she delights in filming each caper, from the slight planning to the break-in (or, in many cases, wander-in), the girls (and guy) dressing up in the dubs of the rich and famous and rattling off the names of brands whose products evidently cost the GNP of small European countries, and then enjoying the spoils at home. They smoke and drink and party all nights as well.
Naturally it's a bit difficult to put myself in the place of a materialistic teenage girl; I'm the wrong gender, and shoes with exotic names don't exactly blow the skirt I'm not wearing up. Granted some of the heists are gorgeous to watch — particularly one shot exclusively from the outside, and in one take that shows Coppola's been watching some Jacques Tati. And Watson is fine as Nicki, devoid of decency and self-doubt, ensconced in a world that hasn't any room for other humans. Leslie Mann is a welcome surprise, too, but, as with the robberies, her constant New-Age/The-Secret-obsessed schtick wears itself out quickly.
But again, what is the point? Coppola said the story resonated with her because "It says something about our culture." What is that? Or rather, what is she saying it says? Despite the endless parade of expense, I don't think she's been sucked in by the very excess she seems to want to condemn. Even when she went all bubble-gum-girly-pop before in Marie Antoinette, she grounded that film with a rather sympathetic portrayal of her subject. The girls here have no such depth — nor any reason for their crimes other than ability; that they can justifies their doing so. They learn no lessons, feel no remorse and even less loyalty, and…and talk vapidly. So yes, people like this may exist. What of it?
Perhaps the message is that there is no message — maybe the emptiness is the point. Maybe I'm just looking too deep into shallow puddles.
Rating: 2.5/5
The Bling Ring is rated R. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Based on the Vanity Fair article "The Suspect Wore Louboutins" by Nancy Jo Sales. Starring Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Georgia Rock, Leslie Mann, Carlos Miranda, Gavin Rossdale, Stacy Edwards, G. Mac Brown, Marc Coppola, Janet Song, and Annie Fitzgerald.