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The article offers views of the author on classism by siting examples of artist such as Leslie Woodhead and Jo Durden-Smith, which includes class, the British anxiety, and class problems that persist in powerful first-world cultural spheres.

For remote PC access, the boundary router is a simple solution THERE HAS RECENTLY BEEN A FLURRY OF industry talk about a new breed of Ethernet router, the boundary router, […]

An interview with Swedish-American sculptor Claes Oldenburg is presented, with topics that include his exhibition "Things Around the House" in New York City, the surprising themes and continuities in his work, and his studio process.

Thanks for another comprehensive article on the importance of location ('The top 50 logistics-friendly cities in the U.S.,' October 2005 LT). DC location is always an issue and clearly is [...]

I believe your article 'Outsourcing is not child's play' (Oct. 2003 LT) reflects a trend our industry leaders are becoming more aware of, but only those that are behind the [...]

* Microsoft SQL Server If you've worked with SQL, you know it's a set-oriented language, meaning you can apply a change to a set of rows as a group instead […]

An interview with the American video and performance artist Michael Smith is presented. Topics addressed include: how he initially became involved in art, his interest in humor and comedy, his creation of the alter-ego known as Baby Ikki, the role of television in his work, and the themes of loneliness and consumerism in his work.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making a bamboo clock.

The article focuses on the history of the art organization Gallery Connections in London, England. The art group, which was established by artist Angus Fairhurst, focused contemporary art and attracted several member artists and curators. It also provides images of the different works of several artist members of the organization and their significant meaning and relevance.

The article discusses the views of several artists on their relationships to curators and curatorial discourse. Daniel Buren says that without art, curators are nothing. Ed Atkins emphasizes the element of collusion in working directly with a good curator and the possibility for artists and curators to be the same. Nick Mauss stresses that nobody likes the functionary role of curator which entails pushing artists' profiles through the templates of the art system.

WORKGROUP HUBS, ONCE CONSIDERED the refuge for cost conscious, isolated departments have now grown up with the introduction of local bridging, integrated routing and many other features that blur the […]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of bowhunting a bear.

The article discusses the foundations of architecting and building smart client applications in Visual Basic .NET. Leveraging the Windows user interface is the most obvious of the pillars and entails creating applications that take advantage of the Windows Forms application program interface in the .NET Framework and installing them locally on the client machine. The need to create a responsive and appealing user interface is not particular to smart clients. Primary among these techniques is designing your user interface to be adaptive. This will be useful if you want your smart client to be able to add new features over time through the auto-deployment of additional assemblies. The second pillar of smart client applications is the need to work seamlessly in both connected and disconnected scenarios. To support this kind of functionality, an application with offline usage in mind must be designed. The third pillar is the ability for smart client applications to be auto-deployed and updated. To many,this is the quintessential feature of smart clients and addresses the second of the two driving factors that led architects and developers to move away from Windows-based applications installed on the desktop in the first place. The infrastructure of the .NET framework supports both auto-deployment and auto-updating by providing automatic application isolation through the use of private assemblies and removing the need to register code on the machine, as was the case in the unmanaged world. The final pillar in building smart client applications is to provide secure access to data and services.

This article discusses the changes made to ADO.NET in Visual Studio .NET, code-named Whidbey. These changes include an extended object model, enhanced support for objects and Extensible Markup Language, and features that take advantage of the SQL Server, code-named Yukon. Microsoft Corp. implements all of the .NET data providers such as SqlClient, OLE DB, ODBC, and OracleClient using a common pattern that involves extending a set of interfaces that include IDbCommand, IDbConnection, IDataReader, IDbDataAdapter, and IDbDataParameter, among others. A DbProviderFactories class includes a shared GetFactory method that returns the appropriate factory class based on an invariant string passed to the method. One of the most interesting aspects of the DbTable object is that if a table name to the object is provided, it can generate the update, delete, and insert Structured Query Language statements, the way a commander builder does, when the Update method is called. Whidbey implements the asynchronous methods using the familiar async pattern used elsewhere in the .NET Framework. ObjectSpaces is an object-relational mapping layer that lets developers work with true .NET objects as data suppliers, rather than being limited to DataTables and DataSets.

Focuses on the implementation of data access functionality as core activity of most developers working with the .NET Framework. Ideas to consider when building a data access layer with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework; Advantage of object-oriented techniques and the .NET Framework infrastructure by using base classes; Creation of an abstract base class using implementation inheritance.

Explains the implementation of Web Services Development Kit (WSDK). Information on the Web Services Interoperability Organization; Requirements of WSDK; Samples of WSDK; Programming model of WSDK.

Presents information on Timberking TK1162, a feller buncher used in cutting trees in forests in Great Britain. Capabilities of the feller buncher; Number of harvesters and feller bunchers operating in Great Britain. INSET: INDUSTRIAL FORESTRY.

The article describes paintings by Los Angeles, California-based artist Math Bass, which are characterized by puns and the use of pictograms and props.

Several letters to the editor are presented commenting on articles published in the June 2014 issue which include "Evolution of an Icon" about the 283-cubic-inch incline-six, "Big is Back" about large engines, and "Trend" about the 1995 Chevrolet Cobalt.