Masters of New York is a story of one man conquering evil on behalf all of mankind. Joey Patroni has just returned to New York City after serving in Iraq. He has taken a job as driver for one of America's most powerful men, David Rockefeller. As Joey travels through New York City along with brothers, David and Laurance, to meet the delegates of the ancient and highly secretive Red and Green Societies, they dare to cross paths with a gentlemen from oldest family of the New York City's eastern establishment, Mr. Alex William Bayard Van Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, the holder of the mysterious 'Book of Ages'. The Red and Green Societies share co-ownership in the highest priced real estate in the world, Midtown Manhattan's, Rockefeller Center. The two groups via for support from the historic land owner, the Regent of Columbia University, Alex Van Rensselaer. As the three parties break from a simple land deal into a push for all out war, it has become apparent to Joey that the world in which we live must change. The time has come to pass the burning torch of wealth and power onto new players, but pass the torch onto whom?

From the beaches of Formentera to prison in Afghanistan to seeking Nirvana in India and back, Schultz shares in a delightful writing style anecdotes of pleasure, humor, suspense, fear, and reflection that ultimately transformed him into a well-respected orthopaedic surgeon. In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you'll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when "dropping out," "turning on," and "free-love" were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, seances, very far-out "Road People," and his parents' unremitting love, author Robert Schultz comes to truly appreciate the American way of life. In an admittedly unconventional way, Schultz discovers the rather conventional joy of having a family and the awesome responsibility that comes with it.

Masters of New York is a story of one man conquering evil on behalf all of mankind. Joey Patroni has just returned to New York City after serving in Iraq. He has taken a job as driver for one of America's most powerful men, David Rockefeller. As Joey travels through New York City along with brothers, David and Laurance, to meet the delegates of the ancient and highly secretive Red and Green Societies, they dare to cross paths with a gentlemen from oldest family of the New York City's eastern establishment, Mr. Alex William Bayard Van Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, the holder of the mysterious 'Book of Ages'. The Red and Green Societies share co-ownership in the highest priced real estate in the world, Midtown Manhattan's, Rockefeller Center. The two groups via for support from the historic land owner, the Regent of Columbia University, Alex Van Rensselaer. As the three parties break from a simple land deal into a push for all out war, it has become apparent to Joey that the world in which we live must change. The time has come to pass the burning torch of wealth and power onto new players, but pass the torch onto whom?

John Ordway is an artist obsessed with his work. In New York City that preoccupation merely aroused the ire of feminist art critics, but now that he and his girlfriend, Jamie, a potter and weaver, have retreated to tiny Delphi, Iowa, he finds himself the object of a more pointed suspicion. Then Jaime leaves him, and one of his local models is attacked. Surrounded by judgment and no longer able to view his work with detachment, he is forced to question the impulses that drive him to it. As events spin out of control, he must answer questions of urgent personal importance: What is the fate of a body in the world? And what does it mean for a man to see a woman truly? Art collides with life, painfully and revealingly, in this evocative first novel, which brings a poet's sensibility to the charged question of women's bodies and men's desires. Subtly conceived and artfully executed, THE MADHOUSE NUDES is part love story, part mystery, a brave exploration of guilt and innocence.

An updated version of the bestselling Game Testing All In One, Second Edition, this book equips the reader with the rationale for vigorous testing of game software, how game testing and the tester fit into the game development process, practical knowledge of tools to apply to game testing, game tester roles and responsibilities, and the measurements to determine game quality and testing progress. The reader is taken step-by-step through test design and other QA methods, using real game situations. The book includes content for the latest console games and the new crop of touch, mobile, and social games that have recently emerged. A companion DVD contains the tools used for the examples in the book and additional resources such as test table templates and generic flow diagrams to get started quickly with any game test project. Each chapter includes questions and exercises, making the book suitable for classroom use as well as a personal study or reference tool. Features: Uses a wide range of game titles and genres, including newer gaming experiences such as social networking games, games utilizing music and motion controllers, and touch games on mobile devices Includes a new chapter on Exploratory Testing Includes test methodology tutorials based on actual games with tools that readers can use for personal or professional development Demonstrates methods and tools for tracking and managing game testing progress and game quality Features a companion DVD with templates, resources, and projects from the book On the DVD: Contains the tools used for the examples in the book as well as additional resources such as test table templates and generic flow diagrams that can be used for individual or group projects All images from the text (including 4-color screenshots) FIFA video from a project in the book eBook Customers: Companion files are available for downloading with order number/proof of purchase by writing to the publisher at [email protected].

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Informatik - Angewandte Informatik, Note: 1,00, AKAD-Fachhochschule Pinneberg, Veranstaltung: Anwendungsentwicklung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unter der Bezeichnung Enterprise Application Integration (kurz: EAI) werden Ansatze zur Schaffung einer einheitlichen Anwendungsarchitektur unter Einbeziehung von heterogenen Systemen entwickelt. Dabei umfasst EAI die Planung, die Methoden sowie die Software, um heterogene, autonome Anwendungssysteme - ggf. unter Einbeziehung von externen Anwendungssystemen - prozessorientiert zu integrieren. EAI ist somit die prozessorientierte Integration von Anwendungssystemen in heterogenen IT-Anwendungsarchitekturen. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Integrationstechniken, wie der Funktionsintegration oder der Datenintegration, werden beim EAI-Ansatz die Implementationen der einzelnen Geschaftsfunktionen nicht verandert. Alle funktionalen Schnittstellen werden mittels Adaptern (Schnittstellenumsetzer) abstrahiert. Aufgrund der prozessorientierten Integration stellt EAI nun nicht nur eine technische Integrationsplattform dar, sondern - so zumindest der konzeptionelle Anspruch - auch eine Integrationskomponente zwischen der Organisationsarchitektur mit den Strukturen und Geschaftsprozessen und der IT-Architektur eines Unternehmens. Keller grenzt EAI von E-Commerce ab, da hier in der Regel mehrere Parteien beteiligt sind. Allerdings werden die Konzepte strukturell und technisch als identisch erklart. Der einzige Unterschied besteht in der unternehmensubergreifenden Sichtweise des E-Commerce-Ansatzes und des unternehmensinternen Fokus von EAI.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Agrarwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, 89 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zuge der fortschreitenden wirtschaftlichen Integration der EU gewinnt die Region als Analyseebene zunehmend an Bedeutung. Wahrend auf europaischer Ebene Konvergenzprozesse zwischen den Mitgliedstaaten zu beobachten sind, zeigen sich abhangig von den verwendeten Kriterien die regionalen Disparitaten weitgehend persistent oder vergrossern sich noch. Als wichtiges Merkmal zur Beurteilung der wirtschaftlichen Lage einer Region gilt dabei die Beschaftigung. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich daher auf die Identifizierung der empirisch entscheidenden Determinanten der Beschaftigungsentwicklung, die Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen ihrer Wirkungsweise und die Diskussion der Umsetzbarkeit dieser Mechanismen in einem regionalen CGE Modell. Untersucht werden die systematischen Auswirkungen des regionalen Lohnniveaus, der Branchenstruktur, der Betriebsgrossenstruktur, der Qualifikationsstruktur und der Siedlungsstruktur. Vor allem die Wirkungsweise der Branchen- und der Qualifikationsstruktur erweist sich als empirisch bedeutsam und theoretisch fundiert. Die Analyse der Siedlungsstruktur ermoglicht daruber hinaus Erkenntnisse uber den Einfluss der landlichen Regionen auf deren Beschaftigungsentwicklung. Dabei wird deutlich, dass der Effekt der landlichen Regionen in der Nahe von urbanen Zentren deutlich positiver ausfallt, als der Effekt der peripheren Regionen. Die Abgelegenheit einer Region lasst sich somit als entscheidender Bestimmungsfaktor ihres Entwicklungspotentials einstufen. Fur die Simulierung der Beschaftigungsentwicklung in regionalen CGE Modellen bieten die bislang zur Analyse von Handelspolitiken eingesetzten Modelle eine erste Grundlage. Besonderes Augenmerk bei der Erweiterung sollte auf die Modellierung des Arbeitsmarktes inklusive einer Differenzierung des Fakto