Thursday, August 4, 2011

Kim (Classic Fiction)

  • ISBN13: 9789626340189
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Java Message Service (JMS) represents a powerful solution for communicating between Java enterprise applications, software components, and legacy systems. In this authoritative tutorial and comprehensive reference, Sun's Java Message Service architects offer start-to-finish coverage of peer-to-peer JMS development with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, Release 1.3. JMS is now fully integrated into the J2EE platform -- and this is the first book to show how to make the most of JMS in the context of sophisticated J2EE application development. The authors begin by introducing the JMS API to developers who are new to it. Then, with the help of extensive programming examples, they demonstrate key JMS tec! hniques for enabling applications to create, send, receive, and read messages, and for integrating with existing back office and enterprise systems. Coverage includes: consuming messages asynchronously with message-driven beans; producing messages from application clients; accessing entity beans from message-driven bean; producing messages from session beans; and much more. For all Java developers building applications that must communicate and share information.Aimed at the more experienced Java developer who needs to work with enterprise messaging, Java Message Service API Tutorial and Reference delivers starter code and a complete reference to all JMS classes that you will need to know to work effectively with this powerful feature of the J2EE platform.

The no-nonsense, just-the-facts approach of this dual tutorial/reference is perhaps its salient feature. It explains the basics of asynchronous messaging and its advantages for robust enterprise-level applica! tions before digging right in to JMS. The authors do a good jo! b at exp laining the difference between point-to-point and publish/subscribe models of message delivery. They also give a laundry list of areas to look at to ensure reliability and robustness in JMS systems, including looking at dos and don'ts for acknowledgement, message priority, and durability.

The real focus early in the book is on the simple, but effective, sample code used to illustrate the basic APIs with short, complete examples. Though somewhat demanding, this code will be for the more experienced reader all you need to get going with JMS. There are examples of both point-to-point and publish-subscribe APIs in action. Importantly, because working with JMS can be tricky, the authors don't skimp on the practical details of compiling, deploying, and running each application. Other examples look at JMS used with Enterprise JavaBeans, including the new EJB 2.0 message bean, plus how to use JMS correctly with session and entity beans. (This can also be tricky, and the author! s go through the steps of packaging up and deploying bean JAR files, as well.)

More than half of this book is an alphabetical listing of the 46 classes available in JMS. Each class is explained, along with options and tips for using the class where appropriate. There is full coverage of basic message and exception classes and the classes you need to use for basic point-to-point and publish/subscribe processing. Obviously, this material is a must for those who prefer a printed reference instead of online help. With a quick-start tutorial and concise (yet complete) reference to all JMS classes, this title will serve a useful function for the working enterprise Java developer. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Introduction to messaging, the Java Message Service (JMS) API architecture, point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging domains described, essential JMS programming APIs (connections, sessions, message producers and consumers), the structure ! of messages, simple point-to-point and publish/subscribe examp! les (inc luding guide to deployment and execution), JMS used with multiple systems (including J2EE and non-J2EE messaging interoperability), JMS reliability mechanisms (acknowledgement, persistence, priority levels, durable subscriptions, local transactions), building J2EE clients used with message, session, and entity beans (including deployment and execution tips), a sample using multiple J2EE servers, reference to all JMS APIs: including topic and message classes, exception classes, queue classes, sessions and connections, and appendix with JMS client examples.Chander is the only tailor in his colony. Though talented, he doesn't like to work hard. He is very lazy. He thinks that one fine day his fortune will shine and he will be a king. His friend Pyare and cloth seller FTV try to convince him to do hard work, but in vain. In this process Chander Tailor meets a fortune-teller who informs that he has "Rajyog" written in his hand. Provided he'll have to marry a "Padmini jati" girl. Additionally that girl should also have a mole on her right lap. Chander is very happy to hear that. He thinks that the time has come for him to become the King. Just marry a girl with mole on thighs. He runs happily. But there's a problem. Pyare and FTV help Chander in remembering Janardhan Bhai. The colony has a saviour in form of Janardhan Bhai. If anyone tries to misbehave with the girls in the colony, he chops off their arms. But for time being he is in the prison. But Janrdhan Bhai has left Jeeva to take care of the colony. But FTV is a old time friend of Jeeva. So FTV manages to bribe Jeeva and carry on the mole searching work smoothly. Chander, Pyare and FTV start searching for the girl with mole. They target a yoga teacher, a widowed doctor and an unmarried girl with poverty. Chander tries out various ways to get close to them and searches for the mole. He stitches beautiful clothes for them and promises to marry each of them. But hell breaks on him when he discovers that there's no mole on any of the three girls laps.HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.' Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia's political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldier grows up as a street-wise orphan in the city of Lahore. Upon befriending an aged Tibetan Lama, the playful and spirited Kim journeys with him across India, experiencing the exotic culture, religion and people of the subcontinent. On their travels they come across Kim's father's old army regiment. The Colone! l quickly spots Kim's ability to blend into his surroundings and trains him to become a spy for the British Army. As his adventures take him further into the world of secret agents and political intrigue, Kim is torn between his spiritual self and the expectations of his British compatriots. In this exotic tale of mystery, friendship and struggle, Kipling gives a fascinating insight into the British Raj and the volatile age of Imperialism in India.One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:

Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a c! lipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of p! erfect e quality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"

In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India ! in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Girl, Positive

  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25. Lifetime explores this staggering statistic, and the world of teen love, sex and gossip, in the must-see Lifetime Original Movie Girl, Positive.Seventeen-year-old Rachel Sandler (Andrea Bowen, Desperate Housewives) is shocked out of her carefree world when word spreads through
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of all new HIV infections occur in people under age 25. Lifetime explores this staggering statistic, and the world of teen love, sex and gossip, in the must-see Lifetime Original Movie Girl, Positive.

Seventeen-year-old Rachel Sandler (Andrea Bowen, Desperate Housewives) is shocked out of her carefree world when word spreads through her upper-middle class community that Jason, a popular athlete who recently died, was an IV d! rug user. But it's a mysterious computer message that really hits home: Jason, who Rachel had unprotected sex with, may have been HIV positive. Wanting to learn more about HIV, Rachel is urged to visit the local AIDS clinic by her new substitute teacher, Sarah Bennet (Jennie Garth, 90210). While there, Rachel takes a rapid AIDS test, but panics and leaves before learning the results. When Sarah discovers Rachel's test is positive, she breaks the shocking news to her, later revealing to Rachel that she herself has secretly been living with HIV for more than seven years. While both women wish to keep their privacy, they soon find out that with today's technology of instant messaging, cell phones and blogs, gossip--just like the disease--can spread fast and furiously.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Carmen

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Dedication

  • Dedication is a modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex children s book author named Henry is forced to team up with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&n
Dedication is a modern love story in which a misanthropic, emotionally complex children’s book author named Henry is forced to team up with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.At first glance, Justin Theroux's directorial debut looks like a romantic comedy, but it's really a character study. And misanthropic childr! en's book author Henry (Billy Crudup, who worked with Theroux in Broadway's Three Sisters) is one heck of a character. For inspiration, he turns to the Japanese cult classic Gamera. When feeling stressed, he piles books on his prone chest. Henry has worked with illustrator Rudy (Tom Wilkinson, Crudup's Stage Beauty co-star) for 15 years when the unthinkable happens. Contractually obligated to produce another Marty the Beaver adventure, his agent (Bob Balaban) partners him with doctoral-candidate-turned-artist Lucy (Mandy Moore). While Henry mourns his only friend, Lucy nurses a broken heart--her mother/landlord (Dianne Wiest) has just evicted her and her boyfriend/thesis advisor (Martin Freeman) has just dumped her. It's discomfort at first sight, but feelings soften as these wounded personalities learn to work--and heal--together. You can see the conclusion coming from a mile away, and Moore's character is underwritten (David Bromberg penned the! script), but Crudup makes what could be an indie film cliché! --the Ne w York neurotic--almost seem fresh. As for Theroux, a busy actor best known for his movies with David Lynch, like Mulholland Drive, the first-timer has a sharp eye for the arresting image and a discriminating ear for the evocative tune--the soundtrack includes music by alternative rock favorites Deerhoof, Cat Power, and Joanna Newsom. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Saturday, July 30, 2011

When I Turned Nine Movie Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2004) Korean Style A -(Seok Kim)(Se-yeong Lee)(Myeong-jae Kim)(Ah-hyeon Na)(Baek-ri Park)(Seon-kyeong Jeong)

La Tropical

Friday, July 29, 2011

2003 Shannen Doherty "Charmed" Playboy magazine

  • 2003 playboy magazine shannen doherty charmed
Featured Stories include: Covergirl: Nicole Narain Survey Says... Smooth Operations Survey Vote or Die: Hip-Hop Politics Sports: Sex - The Ultimate Recuiting Tool Rap Session: Mr. Marcus Can I live - Snoop Dogg Smooth Girl: Michelle Regognize: Francine Dee Smooth Readers Just Jokes 411 All Things Women Quiz, Part 2 U DA MAN - How to Make it Last Entertainment Guide Ones2Watch Porn 101: No She Didn't Smooth Style: New Edition Toys: Sex Objects RPM: Sex on Wheels Rear View: TiaraPlayboy Magazine December 2003 Table of Contents COVER STORY She's back. Shannen Doherty, who made hearts skip a beat on Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed, has teamed up with top photographer Michel Comte to deliver a revealing, unforgettable PLAYBOY pictorial. Don't believe the rumors that Shannen is tough to work with-the gorgeous host of Scare Tactics bowled us over. Shannen puts our Rabbit in stitches. FEATURESs 78 THE LAST DAYS OF JAM MASTER JAY 114 WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE AND HOWARD DEAN? Will Democrat Howard Dean be the next president of the U.S.-or another landslide-losing antiwar candidate like the man to whom he's often compared, George McGovern? For the first time, McGovern speaks out. BY GEORGE McGOVERN 150 PLAYBOY'S ANNUAL MUSIC POLL 2003 156 COLLEGE BASKETBALL PREVIEW 161 CENTERFOLDS ON SEX: NICOLE NARAIN Nicole instructs on the oohs and aks of erogenous zones. We're hot for teacher. 164 20Q WILLIAM H. MACY INTERVIEW 71 JOHN CUSACK PICTORIALS 84 THE GREAT PLAYMATE HUNT Next month PLAYBOY celebrates its 50th birthday with a special anniversary issue featuring the perfect Playmate. Here are the curvaceous candidates. 106 SEX IN CINEMA 122 PLAYMATE: TELES TWINS Our gift to you this holiday season is twice as nice. 168 SHANNEN DOHERTY She left Charmed. Here she leaves behind her clothes. NOTES AND NEWS Lauren Michelle Hill makes a sexy video with Justin Timberlake; Pete Yorn's favorite Playmate.

Dead in 3 Days Movie Poster (11 x 17 Inches - 28cm x 44cm) (2006) Spanish Style A -(Miriam Yeung Chin Wah)(Eason Chan)(Bo Huang)(Shui-Fan Fung)(Siu-fung Fung)(Kin Kwan)