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Building Web Reputation Systems

2010-03-16T09:22:00.001-07:00

Product Description
What do Amazon’s product reviews, eBay’s feedback score system, Slashdot’s Karma System, and Xbox Live’s Achievements have in common? They’re all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.

Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they’re critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It’s a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.

Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions
Determine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others
Become familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions
Discover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently
Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return
Examine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay

About the Author
F. Randall “Randy” Farmer has been creating online community systems for over 30 years, and has co-invented many of the basic structures for both virtual worlds and social software. His accomplishments include numerous industry firsts (such as the first virtual world, the first avatars, and the first online marketplace). Randy worked as the community strategic analyst for Yahoo!, advising Yahoo properties on construction of their online communities. Randy was the principal designer of Yahoo’s global reputation platform and the reputation models that were deployed on it.

Bryce Glass is a principal interaction designer for Manta Media, Inc. Over the past 13 years, he’s worked on social and community products for some of the web’s best-known brands (Netscape, America Online and Yahoo!).

Product Details :

Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (April 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 059615979X
ISBN-13: 978-0596159795

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Developing Large Web Applications

2010-03-16T09:18:00.001-07:00

Product Description
How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You’ll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.

Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers
Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications
Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements
Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components
Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies
Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering
Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier

About the Author
Kyle Loudon is a software developer at Yahoo! where he leads a group doing user interface development. Some of Kyle’s experiences prior to joining Yahoo! include working on the user interface for the original Apple iPod, writing software for various other mobile devices, and leading the user interface group at Jeppesen Dataplan (a Boeing company) in the development of a flight planning system used by airlines around the world. He also spent a small amount of time with IBM in the early 1990s. For several years, he has taught object-oriented programming part-time at the University of California, Santa Cruz while working as a software developer in Silicon Valley.

Kyle received a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1992 with a minor in French, and was elected there to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He has also done some advanced education in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Product Details :

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 1 edition (March 16, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596803028
ISBN-13: 978-0596803025

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Teaching Pilates

2010-03-16T09:15:00.000-07:00

Teaching Pilates for Postural Faults, Illness and Injury: A Practical Guide by Jane Paterson

Requirements: PDF Reader, 7.2 MB
Overview: Pilates is a particularly safe and effective exercise system which aims to strengthen the body in a balanced way by specifically improving the function of the weaker muscle groups. Emphasis is placed on strengthening the muscles of the trunk so that support of the spine increases plus posture and shape improve. The exercises enhance overall flexibility and fitness, improving co-ordination and balance. Muscles are gently stretched and lengthened as the exercises progress and overall body strength improves.

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Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed

2010-03-16T09:12:00.001-07:00

Stacy Tyler Young, Michael Givens, and Dimitrios Gianninas illustrate the power of this technology through practical application examples based on the official 1.5 release of Adobe AIR. You'll discover how Adobe AIR helps you solve problems you just couldn't solve before by extending the reach of your web applications onto users desktops. Building on your existing knowledge of Adobe Flex, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax software, you'll master the powerful Adobe AIR platform moving quickly from task-oriented examples to larger-scale, real-world projects. The authors don't just cover coding, they help you maximize your effectiveness throughout the entire development lifecycle via design patterns, frameworks, build process, continuous integration, and automated testing.

If you're ready to build the next generation of rich hybrid desktop applications, Adobe AIR is the development platform you've been searching for! and this is the book you need to kick-start new projects using this exciting new technology.

Detailed information on how to:

Install and configure your Adobe AIR development environment
Build the next generation web/desktop hybrid applications to run on Adobe AIR
Add new desktop capabilities to your web applications such as native windows, local file I/O, and client-side databases
Create HTML/Adobe Flex mash-up applications
Push data to Adobe AIR clients using BlazeDS, an open source Java remoting and messaging technology
Package, distribute, and update Adobe AIR applications
Work with display objects in 3D space by leveraging Adobe Flash Player 10
Build Adobe AIR applications using common frameworks like Cairngorm
Create automated builds using Apache Ant, complete with FlexUnit testing strategies
Create a peer-to-peer photo-sharing application by combining Adobe AIR and Java

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Audio Pro International

2010-03-16T09:06:00.000-07:00

Audio Pro International - January/February/March 2010
English | PDF | 3 issue | 50 Mb

Audio Pro International is the leading publication in its field because it has changed what the industry expects from a trade title. We do not believe in an elitist circulation reaching only the select few, Audio Pro International has always been committed to having as broad a circulation as possible.

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Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Finance

2010-03-16T09:03:00.000-07:00

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations of the key concepts covering the whole of the fast changing field of contemporary finance. Bringing together specially commissioned and carefully edited entries from an international team of the world's best known and respected finance scholars and teachers, this will become the standard reference for students, researchers, academics and practitioners.

The Dictionary has been carefully designed to give both the expert and the newcomer overviews and succinct presentations of the most important concepts, terms and techniques in modern finance. With entries ranging from extended explorations of major topics to short definitions of key terms, this major reference work gives the user: Authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the whole field.A fully indexed and cross-referenced for detailed research with relevant citations for further study.Definitive entries covering the very latest development in finance.A completely international perspective and author base. This dictionary is part of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management which contains ten further volumes covering each of the key areas of management science developed under the editorship of Professor Cary Cooper from the Manchester School of Management and Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard Business School.

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Template Monster Video Tutorials - Flash Website

2010-01-21T13:46:00.001-08:00

Language: English
2:58:35 | 500 x 394 | 25fps | DivX | MP3-96kbps | 397 MB (1,4GB unpacked)
Genre: Video tutorials | Video learning

"Flash Website Templates How-To" is a compilation of 3 hours video learning tutorials to learn everything about Flash website templates.
Tutorials will teach you how to use, edit and completely customize any flash website template. You will be able to do whatever you wish from flash templates in no time.

The 29 video tutorials are well explained and shown on practical examples so you will really learn everything you need to know about flash templates. Template Monster is a world's leader in building various website templates. They are well known among many internet users for really awesome stunning flash templates, breathtaking intros and beautiful audio-visual effects which make their websites of a superior level...

Flash Templates

Flash templates are pre-made web design products that are basically standard website templates enhanced with Flash technology. This technology is the latest trend among internet users and webmasters today and it is the reason that our Flash templates are in such great demand. Because of that demand we pay special attention to the Flash platform in our development. All of the Flash templates we produce are of the highest quality and their production process is very well organized here. We have even started a Flash template quality control program that has resulted in a much appreciated deepening of our customer loyalty.

Each and every Flash template from our collection can be easily customized in order to meet the unique requirements of your project. We also provide 24/7 customer support for everyone who purchases our Flash website templates. This all adds up to ensuring the best possible result for the customer who uses Template Monster's Flash templates.

Flash Templates from Template Monster

Flash templates produced here at Template Monster are of premium quality as according to the company s policy quality control is essential for keeping our customers satisfied. The staff that works on creating our Flash website templates is highly skillful and they all have years of experience in working with Flash. Besides every Flash template produced is being approved by the production manager before being made available to you. We also constantly hold educational trainings for our support managers so that they would be able to help every single customer that has been lucky to purchase one of our Flash templates.

Tittle: Template Monster Video Tutorials - Flash Website Templates How-To
Chapters: 29, txt list included
Source: SWF
Media type: AVI (DivX)
Size compressed: 397 MB
Size decompressed: 1,4 GB
Lenght: 2hrs 58min 35sec
Genre: Video tutorials, Video learning
Video: DivX 500x394 - 25fps - 1130 kbps
Audio: MP3 96 kbps - 44,1KHz
Language: English

Contents:

Flash Site Structure
How to edit text in flash
How to find and edit any text in any flash file
How to replicate a text area with a scroll bar based
How to duplicate and swap objects in flash
How to create a button and assign a link to it
How to assign an external link to a menu button
How to center flash content
How to make a flash site load faster
How to change the order of pages in a flash site
How to add and modify metadata in a Flash template
How to edit pop-up windows
How to add more text to a pop-up window
How to resize pop-up windows
How to create a new pop-up window
How to relocate a pop-up window
How to create an emailto link
How to enable and edit a contact form
How to find pages in any .FLA file
How to edit the company name
How to edit some text and images
How to add more pages
How to manage images in Flash
How to add more images to a gallery
How to extract images and edit them with Photoshop
How to manage fonts in Flash
How to activate empty thumbs in a gallery
How to edit a background color
How to adjust rollover effect

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The Mystic Arts of the Ninja

2010-01-21T13:35:00.000-08:00

The Mystic Arts of the Ninja
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | pages: 160 | 1985 | ISBN: 0809253437 | PDF | 29,2 mb [/center]
Ninja . . . that single word conjures up images of mystery and power. The ability to move swiftly and silently, to mesmerize one's victim, to strike infallibly, and then to disappear into the night--this is the legend of the ninja. These nearly sorcerous aspects of the ninja, as well as the exotic weapons they use, are the focus of The Mystic Arts of the Ninja. Its author, Shidoshi Stephen K. Hayes, is the sole American to be granted teaching credentials by the 34th grandmaster of the Togokure School of Ninjutsu in Japan. Going beyond the basic conditioning and training techniques of his best-selling Ninjutsu: The Art of the Invisible Warrior, Hayes explains the most sought after secrets of his ninja training.

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Neurocritical Care: A Guide to Practical Management

2010-01-21T13:34:00.000-08:00

Neurocritical Care: A Guide to Practical Management
Publisher: Springer 2009-12-18 | 177 Pages | ISBN: 1848820690 | PDF | 7.7 MB [/center]
Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death in young people in the UK and USA. The vast majority of these patients will be initially managed outside the teaching hospital environment and many will remain there for the duration of their treatment. As clinicians, what happens during the first hours and days after injury can have a huge influence on the patientâ€™s chance of survival and also their quality of life after the injury.

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Beginning Physics II: Waves, Electromagnetism, Optics and Mo

2010-01-21T13:27:00.000-08:00

Beginning Physics II: Waves, Electromagnetism, Optics and Modern Physics
Publisher: McGraw-Hill | pages: 592 | 1998 | ISBN: 0070257078 | PDF | 26,2 mb[/center]
If you want top grades and thorough understanding of beginning physics, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get hundreds of additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examples, and lack of dreary minutie, SchaumOs Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwideNand this guide will show you why!

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Build Your Own PC For Dummies

2009-12-22T08:09:00.001-08:00

If you ve dreamed about having a customized multimedia PC or one tricked out for your favorite games, build your own and make your dreams come true! Build Your Own PC Do-It-Yourself For Dummies makes it easy.

Not only is building your own PC a really rewarding project, it can also save you a nice chunk of cash. This step-by-step guide helps you decide what you need, teaches you what all those computer terms mean, and tells you exactly how to put the pieces together. It shows you:

What tools you need (not as many as you might think!)
All about operating systems
How to install CD and DVD drives
The scoop on sound and video, and how to put a sound system together from start to finish
How to connect a monitor and install a modem
All about setting up and configuring the hard drive
Secrets for securing your system, and more

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CBT Microsoft 70-403 SCVMM and 70-652 Hyper-V

2009-12-22T07:48:00.000-08:00

CBT Microsoft 70-403 SCVMM and 70-652 Hyper-V | Video Training | Duration 7h | Size 500 MB | RS â€“ HF System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Configuring (MCTS: Exam-Pack 70-403) & Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring (MCTS: Exam-Packs 70-652) â€“ Includes 20 Videos
Trainer: Greg D. Shields (Trainer Comments)
Running Time: 7 Hours

Once youâ€™ve completed Gregg Shieldâ€™s training, youâ€™ll have all the skills and experience you need to completely design, spec, architect and build a fully-functional, enterprise-worthy Hyper-V environment. Plus, along the way, youâ€™ll gain the knowledge you need to be successful with not one, but two Microsoft MCTS virtualization exams (70-652 and 70-403).

Greg addresses all of the necessary topics an IT administrator or engineer will need to be successful with a Hyper-V architecture and implementation project â€” including backups, high availability, disaster recovery and performance management.

This series explains in detail:

Adding high-availability atop Windows Failover Clustering
Adding PRO Tips monitoring via System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr)
Creating the necessary automation for rapid deployment of virtual machines through SCVMM

By the time youâ€™re done youâ€™ll thoroughly understand the following topics about Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager:

Introduction to Hyper-V, VMM, and Microsoft Virtualization
Planning your Virtualization Infrastructure
Configuring Windows Server 2008 for Hyper-V
Creating & Working with Virtual Machines
Monitoring Virtual Machine Processing
Managing Snapshots & Backups
Understanding & Installing Failover Clustering
Managing High Availability & Quick Migration
Configuring User Permissions in Hyper-V
Introducing & Installing VMM
Managing Hyper-V Hosts with VMM
Understanding & Working with the VMM Library
VM Rapid Deployment in VMM
Managing High Availability in VMM
Converting Machines, P2V & V2V
Configuring User Roles & Self-Service
Installing and Using PRO Tips
Integrating VMM with vCenter
Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell
What to Expect with Hyper-V in R2

Hereâ€™s what youâ€™ll learn in each video of the Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center

Virtual Machine Manager series:
Video 1 â€“ â€œIntroduction to Hyper-V, VMM, and Microsoft Virtualizationâ€ â€“ Welcome to Hyper-V! Microsoftâ€™s virtualization solution is enterprise-ready and primed for introduction into your datacenter. But you need to know about it, and this video series will get you there, starting with a short introduction into the CBTN learning style, the environment weâ€™ll be building over the next 20 videos, and the test elements you need to prepare for. Whether youâ€™re preparing for Microsoftâ€™s MCTS exams, or you just need some on-the-job training, your starting point is here for Hyper-V excellence.

Video 2 â€“ â€œPlanning your Virtualization Infrastructureâ€ â€“ Did you know that 44% of virtualization deployments arenâ€™t considered a success by their business? Were you aware that 55% of companies report that they experience more problems with virtualization than benefits? The results of a few recent studies show that you canâ€™t just Next, Next, Finish your way to virtualization success. You must plan for it, prepare for it, and determine which physical machines make sense for your virtual environment. This video discusses just those steps in your virtualization implementation, helping you plan for success in your virtual infrastructure.
Video 3 â€“ â€œConfiguring WS2008 for Hyper-Vâ€ â€“ Once your planning is complete, the next step is in getting your Windows Server 2008 machines ready for Hyper-V. This nugget discusses the prerequisites for Hyper-V as well as some tips and tricks for quickly determining whether your existing infrastructure will support its needs. It concludes with an installation of the Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 computer, showing you how easy it is to enable a server for Hyper-V.

Video 4 â€“ â€œCreating & Working with VMsâ€ â€“ There are a lot of common tasks that need to be done with any computer, no matter if its physical or virtual: powering on, powering off, resetting, creating, removing, etc. Virtualization makes many of these processes easier, while adding new ones like taking snapshots with rollback, changing virtual hardware, among others. This nugget will roll you through what you need to know to operate your virtual machines with Hyper-V.

Video 5 â€“ â€œMonitoring Virtual Machine Processingâ€ â€“ One of the most importantâ€“ if not the most important task â€“ in managing your virtual infrastructure is keeping tabs on your virtual machinesâ€™ performance. Doing that with Hyper-V alone requires looking at some new PerfMon counters that werenâ€™t there before. It also requires looking at counters in different ways than youâ€™re used to. Learn about those new methods as well as the new counters in this video. Youâ€™ll discover which counters are useful and which you can safely ignore.
Video 6 â€“ â€œManaging Snapshots & Backupsâ€ â€“ Virtualization improves the utility of backups while at the same time it makes backups more complicated. Were you aware that adding virtualization to an environment can quadruple the perspectives where backups can come from? Learn each of those four perspectives as well as when each makes sense in this nugget. Youâ€™ll learn how to configure Hyper-V for backups, as well as when to backup from within virtual machines as opposed to from the perspective of their host.

Video 7 â€“ â€œUnderstanding & Installing Failover Clusteringâ€ â€“ Consolidating many virtual machines to a few hosts does great things for reducing your data centerâ€™s footprint, but it also increases the effect of a single hostâ€™s loss. Environments that canâ€™t tolerate downtime (and who can these days) need high-availability if theyâ€™re to survive the loss of a virtual host. In this nugget youâ€™ll learn the basics of high availability with Windows Failover Clustering. Youâ€™ll learn what you need to be successful with a cluster, as well as what it can protect. By its end youâ€™ll know everything you need to deploy a cluster to keep your virtual machines safe.

Video 8 â€“ â€œManaging High Availability & Quick Migrationâ€ â€“ And yet deploying that cluster is only the first step. Microsoftâ€™s solution for high-availability uses general-purpose clustering technology that often requires a few extra steps to properly manage. Keep on top of your cluster management with the information youâ€™ll gain in this nugget. Youâ€™ll learn the tips and tricks necessary to be successful with clustering, as well as Hyper-Vâ€™s Quick Migration.

Video 9 â€“ â€œConfiguring User Permissions in Hyper-Vâ€ â€“ If youâ€™re not the only administrator in your environment, the odds are good youâ€™ll want some additional lock downs for your Hyper-V infrastructure. Hereâ€™s the hard part: when using Hyper-V alone, creating those user permissions isnâ€™t a trivial task. Learn how to customize Microsoftâ€™s AzMan, the Authorization Manager, to build Hyper-Vâ€™s user permissions system.
Video 10 â€“ â€œIntroducing & Installing VMMâ€ â€“ Using Hyper-V alone works great when you have but a few hosts. But when your count of hosts gets much beyond one or two, youâ€™ll probably need the extra management capabilities you get in System Center Virtual Machine Manager. VMM automates many common tasks in the Hyper-V virtualization environment, making it possible to manage multiple hosts as one. It also spreads itself across multiple servers in your environment such as SQL, file, IIS, and OpsMgr. Learn in this video what VMM needs, as well as how to get it installed onto the right hosts in your environment.
Video 11 â€“ â€œManaging Hyper-V Hosts with VMMâ€ â€“ Getting VMM installed is just the first step with its management as well. Step two is involved with connecting it to your Hyper-V hosts. But thereâ€™s more to VMM than just the Hyper-V hosts in your domain. Hosts outside the domain and outside your firewall are options for management. Even the VMware ESX servers in your environment are good candidates. This video will show you many of the different options to consolidate your virtualization under VMMâ€™s unified management.
Video 12 â€“ â€œUnderstanding & Working with the VMM Libraryâ€ â€“ A VMM Library is a collection of resources that are used in the management of your virtual machines. It sits atop a file server and contains needed elements like ISO files, virtual machine disk files, and configuration templates. This video explores creating and working with VMM Library servers and shares, as well as how to get the most out of them.

Video 13 â€“ â€œVM Rapid Deployment in VMMâ€ â€“ One of VMMâ€™s great powers is in its rapid deployment of virtual machines. Using VMM, you can create templates for virtual machine deployment that create new VMs in just a few clicks. The result is a further improvement to your daily workflow, especially for environments with large levels of turnover. This video discusses the process youâ€™ll need to create your â€œgolden imagesâ€ from which new virtual machines are created as well as how to rapidly deploy them as you need them.
Video 14 â€“ â€œManaging High Availability in VMMâ€ â€“ To this point, weâ€™ve spent some time working with highly-available virtual machines in the context of Hyper-V. VMM does high-availability too, and with much greater ease than Hyper-V alone. Expand on your Windows Clustering knowledge with this third video, which explains the high-availability options and best practices you get when you upgrade to VMM.

Video 15 â€“ â€œConverting Machines, P2V & V2Vâ€ â€“ The P2V and V2V tools available today are stable, mature, and ready for use. Microsoftâ€™s tools also arrive at no extra cost when you upgrade to VMM. This short nugget explains the processes as well as some of the gotchas youâ€™ll discover when you start rolling physical machines into your virtual environment. It also discusses the steps youâ€™ll need to know to convert virtual machines from VMware to VMM.

Video 16 â€“ â€œConfiguring User Profiles & Self-Serviceâ€ â€“ AzMan is a challenging tool with Hyper-V alone. VMM enhances its usability by creating a friendly GUI for user management. It also adds self-service capabilities through an IIS-based self-service portal. Combining rapid deployment with VMM along with this portal, you can enable your users themselves to generate their own virtual machines, based on the templates you create. This single feature can dramatically reduce your time creating new machines over and over to feed the needs of your users, freeing you for the more useful and interesting tasks in IT.

Video 17 â€“ â€œInstalling & Using PRO Tipsâ€ â€“ Letâ€™s face it: PerfMon is a challenging tool, no matter if its physical or virtual. Monitoring virtual machines with PerfMon is a tough process, even if youâ€™re familiar with its idiosyncrasies. VMM combines with Microsoftâ€™s System Center Operations Manager to take PerfMon far beyond the next level. This nugget discusses the integrations between OpsMgr and VMM, as well as using this combination to create automated actions for load balancing and pre-failure failover with Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips.

Video 18 â€“ â€œIntegrating VMM with vCenterâ€ â€“ Hyper-Vâ€™s relative late arrival on the virtual scene means that you may already have a VMware-based virtual infrastructure in place. If you want to leverage both solutions, you probably wish for a single pane of glass to manage them both. You can do just that with VMMâ€™s vCenter integrations. Using VMM, you can manage your VMware ESX hosts in the very same ways you manage your Hyper-V infrastructure. All you need is a connection and a few passwords to create a single management GUI out of both virtualization platforms.

Video 19 â€“ â€œManaging Hyper-V with PowerShellâ€ â€“ One of VMMâ€™s greatest powers is that it lies atop Microsoft PowerShell. Every action you attempt within the VMM console is actually run via a PowerShell script. This means that a smart administrator can easily create their own custom PowerShell scripts to accomplish common tasks without the overhead of the VMM console. Learn some of the common PowerShell commands that work with both Hyper-V and VMM, as well as how to automatically create your own PowerShell commands for later customization right within the VMM console.

Video 20 â€“ â€œWhat to Expect with Hyper-V in R2? â€“ From the perspective of its GUI management consoles, Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2 looks very similar to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 RTM. Yet under the covers and away from view, there are a number of key improvements that make it more stable, more powerful, and more highly-available. Whatâ€™s best is that upgrading your skills from R1 to R2 doesnâ€™t require much in the way of new processes. Learn just what those few new processes are in this final video, which closes out the series, and finishes your preparation for your Hyper-V exams and your future virtual management!

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Polyesters and polyamides

2009-12-18T14:12:00.001-08:00

Polyesters and polyamides (Woodhead Publishing in Textiles)

CRC Press | 2008 | ISBN: 1420079727 | 632 pages | PDF | 7.1 MB
Polyester and polyamides remain the most used group of synthetic fibres. This authoritative book reviews their methods of production, ways of improving their functionality and their wide range of applications. The first part of the book describes raw materials and manufacturing processes, including environmental issues. Part two considers ways of improving the functionality of polyester and polyamide fibres, including blending, weaving, coloration and other finishing techniques as well as new techniques such as nanotechnology.

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Build Profitable Websites Fast

2009-12-18T14:01:00.000-08:00

Build profitable websites fast by Joel Comm

Get your website indexed fast and free by the search engines
Tap into unlimited sources of free laser-targeted, copyright-free web content
Create thousands of pages of keyword-targeted content in mere minutes
Pick the most profitable keywords and keyphrases that your competitors don't even know about
What to do when search spiders won't index your website
Format your text and links for higher rankings
Build profitable and search-friendly link partnerships
Skyrocket your Google PageRank
Clean up "trash code" that can hurt your rankings
Save bundles of cash on web hosting by knowing the exact needs of your website
Accept credit cards with your own online storefront
Create professional-looking web pages in minutes
Learn how Pay-per-click programs work, and how to milk them for more profits
How to calculate (and minimize) your cost per conversion
Choose a domain name for increased traffic and brand-building
How to write for the search engines
Attract laser-targeted visitors for as little as 5 cents per click...even in the most hotly contested categories!
Find the hottest affiliate programs to turn your visitors into cash
Stop wasting your money and zero in on proven Internet Marketing programs, techniques and software, which deliver real returns for your buck!
...And many more secrets that I can't mention here (with thousands of competitors on the prowl!)

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How to make money online

2009-12-18T13:57:00.000-08:00

How to make money online with Ebay, Yahoo and Google

Groundbreaking strategies for reaching millions of customers online and boosting traffic, sales, and profits. This full-color, seminar-in-a-book presents a proven plan for maximizing your online profits by leveraging the top three services: eBay, Yahoo! and Google. Youâ€™ll learn to: expand an existing eBay business to reach millions of targeted buyers; Open a Yahoo! store to build a thriving direct-to-customer business; and send more customers to their online retail business with improved search engine placement and targeted adword buys using Google. How to Make Money Online with eBay,Yahoo!, and Google explains how to use cross-merchandising and integration strategies to promote sales and manage inventory across multiple sales channels.

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Make Easy Money with Google

2009-12-18T13:19:00.000-08:00

Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program

Eric Giguere, "Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program"
Publisher: Peachpit Press | 2009-06-23 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0321321146 | Ð¡ÐÐœ | 8,7 MB

Get your Web site to "show you the money" by using Google to draw more eyes--and wallets--to your content. In this friendly, four-color guide from veteran author and Web developer Eric Giguere, you'll learn all about Google's AdSense program and how you can use it to make your Web site or blog more profitable. Written in an easy-to-read, non-technical style, this book follows three average people--Claude, Stef, and Anita--as they learn to create money-making blogs and Web sites. Through their experiences, you'll learn: basic Web terminology; the Google Adsense nuts and bolts; how to host, build, and publish targeted ads and Google search boxes to your Web site; filter out inappropriate ads; track page performance; drive traffic to your site; and more. A four-part companion Web site features a blog, includes reader

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The Secret Ever Keeps

2009-12-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

Author: Art Tirrell
Release: 2007
Publisher: Kunati Inc.
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
ISBN: 1601640048 (1-60164-004-8)
ISBN 13: 9781601640048 (978-1-60164-004-8)
List Price: $24.95

Description

High adventure and chick lit combine as billionaire tycoon Jake Eastland nears the end of a long life of shady dealings, lost love, and failed relationships, and is given one final chance to atone. Themes of greed, lust, guilt, family karma, and the power of forgiveness play out as a granddaughter arrives whose relationship with Jake could change everything for both of them. This sprawling epic adventure of feuding families, prohibition rum-runners, and present-day treasure hunters is equally thrilling and heart-warming.

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The Bible For Blockheads

2009-12-18T13:14:00.001-08:00

Author: Douglas Connelly
Release: 2007
Publisher: Zondervan
Format: Paperback 480 pages
ISBN: 0310273889 (0-310-27388-9)
ISBN 13: 9780310273882 (978-0-310-27388-2)
List Price: $19.99
Edition: Revised

Description

This user-friendly guide to the Bible will help you make sense of all the book's mysteries to reveal its truly amazing content. Now revised and updated to reflect the most recent cultural changes, this book includes new features and engaging artwork.

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The Rape Of Lucretia

2009-12-18T13:13:00.001-08:00

Author: Melissa M. Matthes
Release: 2001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Format: Hardcover 188 pages
ISBN: 0271020547 (0-271-02054-7)
ISBN 13: 9780271020549 (978-0-271-02054-9)
List Price: $47.95

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A study of the way in which republican theorists in different eras - Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau - retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their conceptions of republicanism. The recurring presentation of the story as theater reveals the performative elements of republicanism

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Petroleum Geo - Science

2009-12-18T13:11:00.001-08:00

Author: Jon Gluyas; Richard Swarbrick
Release: 2003
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Paperback 376 pages
ISBN: 0632037679 (0-632-03767-9)
ISBN 13: 9780632037674 (978-0-632-03767-4)
List Price: $110.00
Edition: 1

Description

Petroleum Geoscience is a comprehensive introduction to the application of geology and geophysics to the search for and production of oil and gas. Uniquely, this book is structured to reflect the sequential and cyclical processes of exploration, appraisal, development, and production. Chapters dedicated to each of these aspects are further illustrated by case histories drawn from the authors' experiences. Petroleum Geoscience has a global and "geotemporal" backdrop, drawing examples and case histories from around the world and from petroleum systems ranging in age from late Precambrian to Pliocene. In order to show how geoscience is integrated at all levels within the industry, the authors stress throughout the links between geology and geophysics on the one hand, and drilling, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, petroleum engineering, facilities design, and health, safety, and the environment on the other.

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Mama's Home Remedies

2009-12-18T12:58:00.000-08:00

Author: Svetlana Konnikova
Release: 2008
Publisher: Aurora Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback 328 pages
ISBN: 0979175828 (0-9791758-2-8)
ISBN 13: 9780979175824 (978-0-9791758-2-4)
List Price: $19.95
Edition: illustrated edition

Description

Interwoven with centuries-old herbal remedies, time-tested techniques, and women’s wisdom handed down through the ages, this kaleidoscopic whole-health tapestry reveals myriad of natural methods for achieving and maintaining good health and all-around happiness. At the heart of the narrative is a compilation of natural recipes for infusions, poultices, teas, and tinctures—garnered by the young Svetlana while listening to her mother and “the girls” (other medical professionals like her mother) as they shared their bond of friendship and their tales of healing success while gathered for tea in the family’s blossom-filled garden—intertwined with her grandmother’s fairy tales, family vignettes, legends, and herbal lore. Filled with easy-to-make, natural, healing recipes for common ailments and illnesses—such as allergies, asthma, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, and respiratory problems—this all-encompassing guide to wellness offers a holistic approach that intermingles alternative treatments with folklore, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to foster optimal health and joyful living.

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The Handbook of Good English + Vocabulary

2009-12-18T12:56:00.001-08:00

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E Ncyclopedia Of Human Nutrition

2009-12-18T12:53:00.000-08:00

From Library Journal
The current status of human nutrition is clearly summarized in this three-volume set. The editorial board and the contributors are highly respected academics and practicing nutritionists from around the world. Topic coverage is extensive, ranging from nutrition policies in developing countries to pregnancy and steatorrhea. Each entry ranges from four to 48 pages in length and contains a list of contents, references to related articles, and suggestions for further reading. The intended readership is students, researchers, physicians, social workers, and nutritionists, but the writing is such that the work is accessible to the lay reader. An added feature is a web-accessible electronic version, which is available to libraries at a minimal yearly fee and can be IP restricted for colleges and universities (that is, the web page looks at the numerical Internet address of the computer logging to the web page to make sure it's authorized to log in). The main drawback is the high price, which puts the set out of the reach of most public and small college libraries. They may instead want to look at David Bender's Nutrition: A Reference Handbook (Oxford Univ., 1996). Recommended for medical, university, and large college and public libraries.AEric D. Albright, Duke Medical Ctr. Lib., Durham, NC
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From The New England Journal of Medicine, June 3, 1999
The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is a superb attempt to incorporate into one three-volume textbook the many elements of the rapidly expanding science of nutrition. The book is timely, given the increased interest in diet and health by the general public worldwide. It is broad based and covers the physiologic aspects of nutrient and energy requirements of different populations; measurements of dietary intake and nutritional status; the nutrient composition of the main food groups; associations between diet, lifestyle, and disease; clinical applications of nutrition to improve health; topical issues relating to the food-processing industry; influences affecting food choice and eating behavior; nutritional guidelines and public health policies in both developed and developing countries; international aspects of food labeling; and a range of other, related topics.

The effects of the globalization of modern life are particularly apparent in the field of nutrition. Food production and the availability of food in individual countries are highly dependent on the world market, and rapid changes in agricultural policies in a few key nations can have a global impact on the prices and availability of food. For these reasons, any encyclopedia of human nutrition must be international in its content. Appropriately, this book has an international editorial board and an international set of authors.

Because the table of contents is arranged alphabetically, many unrelated topics follow one another in the three volumes. I found this approach somewhat confusing. By contrast, the cross referencing in the table of contents is excellent and helps one find a particular subject easily. Each volume ends with a comprehensive set of tables and charts (Appendix II). The index is excellent and user-friendly in terms of helping the reader find tables, discussions of major topics, and cross references. The format of the index should serve as a template for other comprehensive textbooks. However, it seems to me to be a waste of pages to reproduce Appendixes I and II in each volume.

In general, the coverage of most of the topics in nutrition, ranging from molecular biology to agriculture and food science and from social sciences in human behavior to clinical medicine, is excellent. The section on drug-nutrient interactions is extremely useful. However, the discussion of parenteral and enteral nutrition is superficial, and the references are not up to date. The section by Wilmore on long-term nutritional management provides additional information on these subjects. Likewise, the discussion of childhood nutrition is somewhat superficial, although the section on infant nutrition is quite good and comprehensive. Finally, fetal nutrition is a new and emerging subject that is barely mentioned.

The Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition is a superb attempt to produce a comprehensive textbook of human nutrition and should be in the library of every physician and nonphysician interested in the subject.

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Art and Science

2009-12-18T01:42:00.001-08:00

Art and Science of Personal Magnetism By Theron Q. Dumont

This book teaches how to exert a powerful, irresistible influence upon the reason or will of another.

Here are the secrets of mental fascination. Mr. Dumont felt the need to offer his teachings to an American audience, and with the help of one of his American students, was able to create this popular book.

Every person is possessed of personal magnetism to some degree, but the majority of persons have a weak magnetic force.These teachings give you the key to improve yourself by altering your personal magnetism from negative to positive. A truly fascinating self-improvement book.

From the author: "A belief in the existence of a personal power, influence, or atmosphere, on the part of certain individuals, which enables the possessor to attract, influence, dominate or control others, has been held by the race from the earliest days of written history.

"In this book, I give you the key to the secret of personal magnetism, but it will still remain for you, yourselves, to determine just what degree of success you shall attain. I give you the best tools, and instructions as to how to use them; but you will have to do the rest yourself.

"This I will say, however, success must and will be yours if you will follow the instructions carefully, persistently and perseveringly. That is all I can do for you; the rest is in your own hands."

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2009-12-18T01:14:00.000-08:00

From the author of Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Healing comes this remarkable book that will help men achieve a new kind of pleasure in bed--and please their partners in the process. Barbara Keesling, a professor, sex therapist, and former sex surrogate, provides the instruction to enable you "keep going all night long." Whether you're a man who wishes to enhance his sex life or a woman who'd like to work with her partner in order to gain a little more lovemaking satisfaction, How to Make Love All Night may provide the answers. By learning the methods for achieving multiple orgasms, Keesling says, men will be able to prolong lovemaking, keep their erection after orgasm, have stronger, more intense orgasms, and more. She notes, "I have never met a motivated man who couldn't master the techniques that lead to male multiple orgasm. Never." This book is full of exercises, each broken into two sets: one that can be practiced with a partner, and one for a man to use alone, so that he can learn to be multiorgasmic whether he's single or part of a couple. As Dr. Keesling herself says, "What do you have to lose, except sleep?"

Product Description

No matter how old or young, experienced or not, anyone can achieve levels of fulfillment and satisfaction never before thought possible.Sex therapist Dr. Barbara Keesling tells men and women the simple secret that can give couples unmatched pleasure for years. Using Dr. Keesling's techniques, you and your partner will embark on an erotic exploration of the realm of the senses and experience intimacy like never before. Her proven, helpful tips include:

* How to prolong lovemaking for as long as you want
* Excercises that can enhance pleasure
* Learning how to touch and how to feel
* Igniting your partner's passion
* And so much more!

# Paperback: 192 pages
# Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 23, 1995)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 006092621X
# ISBN-13: 978-0060926212

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