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A land of tension and segregation, relatively unchanged since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison nearly a decade ago, South Africa is a country fraught with deep racial divides. While white citizens enjoy lifestyles similar to Westerners, black citizens inhabit a world of poverty and deprivation. Despite Mandela’s regime-shattering election as President, there has been little improvement in the ability of the two sides to communicate, limited both by race and language.

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Amazing
Jason Carter has written an insightful book relating his experiences while living and working in South Africa in one of the most exciting periods of our history.The challenges he faced continue to test South Africans today.An excellent read to experience a vicarious adventure in a beautiful land.

Just received the book...
Just received Power Lines and am excited to read it. I glanced at the Introduction written by the author's grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter, in which he describes how his own mother joined the Peace Corps at 70. She was based in India; her grandson spent his time in Africa. Looking forward to reading!

Path to New Hope
I loaned this book out from the library hoping to find something relating to travel, to the Peace Corps, and something relating to new ideas and places. I got this and a great story from a very successful teller. Carter's experiences are exactly what many dream of while working in the Peace Corps. But this book is full of history and even more personal experience. I enjoyed it immensly.

Ubuntu
Read this book to learn about Ubuntu which is a philosophy of life that Jason Carter found to be thriving in the Swazi.This approach to people and thus community is held out as a core strong hope for the South African native culture. This book is well worth reading.I have not stopped thinking whether Ubuntu is possible in our country or not.Let's hope it is not too late...we need it!

Wena Wekunene Jason (You're Great Jason)
A great book that gives rare insight into Swazi culture and life in rural South Africa.Having lived in the area as a school teacher and a researcher, I enjoyed the innocence with which Jason re-created and shared his impressions and experiences.

Jason's immersion in the language and culture of poor rural South Africans is admirable.He clearly "goes native:" identifying with "the Blacks" and uncomfortably, judgmentally, dealing with Westerners and South African Whites.The brilliant twist in the story comes when Jason struggles to come to terms with South Africa's Black elite.He's the rugged, White bushboy reaching out to victims of apartheid who are now more like American yuppies than real "Africans."

I also appreciated his attempts to reveal the differences in experiences that Black (like me) and White Americans often have in South Africa.Interestingly, Jason's feelings about race in America affected how he perceived South Africa, and his South African experienced revised his sense of US race relations.

Definitely worth reading, along with James Hall's Sangoma! ... Read more

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Are you new to PeopleSoft? Experienced, but somewhat baffled by PeopleSoft Security? Just wondering what the heck a Primary Permission List does anyway? Well, The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security is for you.

The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security provides all the information you need to successfully implement and administer security in PeopleSoft 8. Covering specifics for PeopleTools versions 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4, it is the first book to provide an in-depth look at one of the most important aspects of the PeopleSoft System. The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security provides knowledge and insight for Administrators, Managers, Developers and Users alike.

The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security covers the topics essential to your success, including: Security Design, User Profile Setup, Role & Permission List Setup, Process Security, Query Security, Row Level Security (for HR and Financials), Portal Security, Security Migrations, Definition Security, LDAP Authentication, Password Controls, Dynamic Role Creation and more. Additionally it provides an indispensable reference to PeopleSoft Security Tables as well as SQL scripts to query the security information most requested from the system.

All in all The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security provides a comprehensive look at one of the most misunderstood but essential parts of the PeopleSoft System. Is your system properly secured? ... Read more

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Not perfect, but very good.
As a PeopleSoft programmer and administrator for the past many years, needless to say, I've struggled with the variety of components of PeopleSoft security. This book does an admirable job of putting it all in one place.The bright points of the book is that it is written in a concise and straight forward manner. It does cover all the key points of PeopleSoft Security.A weakness of the book, in my opinion, is it's lack of suggestions for how to use the tool set.Oracles "PeopleBooks" also provides guidance on the tools. This book does do a better job of tools guidance than PeopleBooks, but it'd be a big feature if tactics or strategies for use of the tools were offered.

All in all, this book is worth the investment and is a good reference source.

The Expert Guide to PeopleSoft Security
The title may have expert in the name but this book is far from it. The author rehashs the same information ,what little there is, in most of the chapters. All of the data can be found in the 101 PeopleSoft manuals.

I found it very disappointing.

Points you in the right direction
My credentials; MBA, PMP, CISSP, CISA, CSSLP

For the price and thickness, I was not expecting much when I purchased this. I must say though, that this little thing was very handy when designing queries to go against the PSoft database. It didn't always have the best answer or exactly what you are looking for, but if you are technically inclined, you can do that on your own. Both myself (a newbie at PSoft) and someone well versed would pop this open and look through the table listings and quickly identify where we needed to go.

I rarely recommend a book, but in this case - for building queries - I would recommend this one.

High level, not very detailed
This book offers a very high level overview of Peoplesoft Security.You won't become a security architect overnight (or even in a few weeks) after reading this book.That said, it does do a good job of what it sets out to do.

Just The Facts!
Like a navigators chart to a new world this book helps you avoid the shoals and rocks often hidden from view. With stark simplicity and a little forced humor, you are shown all of the paths one might take to reach your security destination. Sounding at times like PS's own introduction to security Mr. Carter leads you through possible routes and why they should be taken. Well worth the $, good to have for a quick reference, especially for those of us who are starting to deal with Senior Moments. ... Read more

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Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. There is very careful and gentle graduation from Band to Band. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real, satisfying stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. Rosie's Rides is at Book Band 3 in the Start Reading series. Rosie is going on all sorts of Rides, rollercoaster rides, pony rides, jeep rides and train rides. All have their adventures. ... Read more

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If you are reading this, you're a genius.

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A kid reviewer
[I'm posting this review on behalf of my son Theo, who is nine]

This is a wonderful book!It brings a lot of imagination to a lot of kids.From this book I learned the population of Nebraska quite well!Because I think the author is obsessed with the population of Nebraska, which is 2 million and seven.I liked the story because the Facttracker had a bunch of arguments with the evil Lies in the Liebrary, and Eratze was really evil.I liked how the just small enough boy became the Facttracker at the end.And the old Facttracker went off to Mexico to teach the Mexican hat dance.I recommend this book to all kid readers.It's wonderful!

MGM Aquires "The FactTracker" Book
MGM will direct the live action feature film adaptation". "This is an incredibly rich- family-film franchise says producer Shawn Levy ("Night at the Museum" and will partner with Marc Platt. "Fact vs. Fiction, battled out by a slew of dynamic, boldly drawn characters.

The "FactTracker", is a Ronald Dahl-esque fable about Traakerfaxx, a town that gathers all the facts in the world. When a mysterious salesman arrives in town peddling lies, chaos ensues, forcing a young orphan boy with no facts of his own to ream up with the reclusive Facttracker in order to save their town.

A perfect gift for all CEO's and politicians! Kids love the book.

a homerun!
All I can say is that my 9 year old daughter LOVED it!! She said this is one of the "most FAVORITE books she has ever read!" (and we all remember our favorites from childhood) Bravo Mr. Eaton, you hit a homerun with this one...hope there is more to come!!

An Entertaining Parable
"The Facttracker" uses its own text as a playground, toying with readers' expectations with hilarious results. Yet underneath all of the jokes and asides is a great lesson about the importance of truth in society. It's both funny and insightful.

part roald dahl, part phantom tollbooth
Good book. Really good book. At first I was a little sceptical about the subject: a town that produces facts that turns into a town that produces lies seemed like it might be a bit metaphor-heavy.

But the author's voice, the characters, the jokes, and the insights are really top-drawer. this is easily the most insightful book I've read that doesn't descend into moralizations that will put off most young readers. Plus, it features a flying goldfish. And a pet bullfrog. And some catapults. Highly recommend. ... Read more

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Kyle Daneland is a man who truly loves his wife, Samantha, and would do anything to protect her. Yet, somewhere along the path of his eight-year marriage to his high school sweetheart, the passion that once was has faded away. Upon returning from a vacation that was supposed to rekindle the flames, Kyle- an architect at a successful firm in Costa Mesa, California- slowly becomes involved with a very attractive new designer; a designer who shows him the attention and affection he so craves from Samantha. After a night of passion with his new lover, Kyle is forced to deal with a multitude of emotions and personal decisions. What will Kyle do when his world is further turned upside down upon hearing the news that one of his loves has been found dead? What will happen when Detectives Wallace Trimble and Jonathan Childress come knocking on the Daneland door? ... Read more

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Great Read
I really enjoyed this book.From the moment you start reading, you don't want to put it down.It is a very fast, easy read, with characters you can relate to.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story!

Endless Sacrifice
This book is great. You couldn't help but feel for the characters. It was as if you were living through them and their choices...the books that can accomplish this are rare! The storyline kept me wanting more! I haven't read a book like that in a long time!

Great Read
This new author has captured the ability to make you care about the characters. You may not like the choices they make but you identify with the feelings of love, commitment and loyalty. Can't wait to read the next one!

Endless Sacrifice
I really enjoyed this book.It was very easy to read and keep up with all the characters. The book kept my interest that I finished the book the same day I started it.I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Benajah Harvey Carroll, Joseph Graves Olney, Jason Carter, Ted Williams, James Milton Carroll, Arlene Wohlgemuth, Rolf Krueger. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ChristianityProtestantismAnabaptistsGeneral Baptists,Strict Baptists ... Read more

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Every Saturday night, Adam Carter, a senior, writes in his journal recalling the highlights (and lowlights) of the week just passed and looks forward to one coming up.This book shares those entries from mid-August - during which a tragic accident befalls his younger brother - until graduation in late May - when the wonder of all wonders occurs for him. Along the way Adam finds his first true love and has very successful football and baseball seasons.His overriding concern is the care and rehabilitation of his brother's spinal injury.The reader will enjoy the boys' humor, feel for them in their moments of sadness and despair, and appreciate their courage and unfaltering relationship. ... Read more

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July 4th, 1970- two Russian spies manage to infiltrate a top secret base out in the middle of the desert of Nevada. After managing to escape the base with two documents with written instructions to produce a highly toxic waste, only one of them managed to return to Russia.
Two months ago- a young man who works with the Old West Reenactors and his girlfriend are ambushed while checking out the progress of restoring a ghost town. They had managed to stumble upon something that would require more knowledge and manpower than just two average civilians.
2005- Jason Carter and his friend Allison Johnson were just out to go fishing on Lake Mead when they had managed to save the dashing Dr. Shannon Kessie from an imminent death. Dr. Kessie was doing research on why the local fish were dying at such an extremely high rate. From the shores of Lake Mead to the Hot August Nights in Reno, a boat chase on the waters of the Colorado River, to a car chase in the streets of Las Vegas and the wilderness of the mountains in mid-Nevada, Jason Carter is a man chasing after an illusive figure that wants to harm more that just the fish in a lake. ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Dirac, Chris Morris, Klaus Fuchs, Simon Pegg, Angela Carter, Jason Isaacs, Derren Brown, James Blunt, J. M. G. le Clézio, David Bohm, Jemima Khan, Lembit Öpik, Emily Watson, Chris Langham, Liam Donaldson, Michael Winterbottom, David Walliams, Alfred Pippard, Sarah Kane, Rob Leslie-Carter, Euan Blair, Richard and Judy, Matt Lucas, Simon Conway Morris, Marcus Brigstocke, Philip Payton, Irving Hexham, Bob Marshall-Andrews, Alastair Stewart, Sarah Brown, Ghada Karmi, Dawn Primarolo, Cecil Frank Powell, Bernard Lovell, Josh Lewsey, Iain Stewart, Dominik Diamond, Chris Woodhead, Derek Jones, Chris Beckett, Stephen Williams, Theresa Villiers, Paul Boateng, Hugh Cornwell, Mark Ravenhill, Julian Grant, Julie Myerson, Okot P'bitek, Kyran Bracken, David Rappaport, Will Hutton, Helen Clark, Nigel Anstey, Kim Medcalf, David William Rhind, George Ferguson, John Austin, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Michael Fourman, Emil Wolf, Julia Donaldson, Stephen Crabb, Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver, Graham Wilson, Sean Mann, David Bamber, Jane Hutt, Debby Reynolds, Caron Keating, David Gibbins, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Sahar Hashemi, Arnold Ridley, George Odlum, David Nicholls, Tim Pigott-Smith, Mark Francois, Brian Davies, Philip Campbell, Peter Clarke, Craig Brown, Neil Ardley, Brian Follett, Susanna Reid, William Scammell, Sue Lawley, David Nicholson, Marc Evans, Linda Colley, John V. Tucker, Geoffrey Burbidge, Shaun Mckenna, David Kidney, Charles S. Cockell, Alan Garnett Davenport, Gordon Warwick, William Mckenzie, Baron Mckenzie of Luton, John Saxbee, Laura Wade, Dave Attwood, Leslie Rowsell Moore, Julia Jones, Anastasia Griffith, Martyn Percy, Geoffrey Tovey, David Walker, R. W. G. Dennis, Katharine Mcmahon, Jonathan Evans, Richard Sykes, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Philip Jackson, Susan Jiwey, Sherrie Eugene, Jonathan Webb, Matthew Warchus, Gregory Doran, Doug Stokes, Deborah Moggach, Letsie Iii of Lesotho, Caroline Goodall, Jake Meyer, Andrew ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=416641 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Church and State, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 10012 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "I had a different way of governing": the living faith of President Carter.
Author: D. Jason Berggren
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 47Issue: 1Page: 43(19)

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This digital document is an article from Presidential Studies Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 15034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: In this article, we argue that Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush share a distinctive approach to politics and governing: an "evangelical" style of presidential leadership. Though they differed in terms of party and ideology, we claim, using examples from their foreign policies, that the evangelical faith of Carter and Bush provided them with a particular vision of the presidency and the global role of the United States. Richard Neustadt argued that aptitude for politics is the most essential attribute for contemporary presidential success and that the evangelical approach will inevitably lead to political failure. From our analysis of the Carter and Bush approaches to foreign policy, we conclude, however, that in certain circumstances, the evangelical style can contribute to successful presidential leadership and is worthy of further serious study by presidential scholars.

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Title: Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: faith, foreign policy, and an evangelical presidential style.
Author: D. Jason Berggren
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36Issue: 4Page: 606(27)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Dražen Petrović, Shawn Bradley, Jason Kidd, Vince Carter, Jim Jackson, Phil Jackson, Julius Erving, Devin Harris, Bernard King, Alonzo Mourning, Michael Ray Richardson, Jérôme Moïso, P.j. Brown, Stephen Jackson, Stephon Marbury, Derrick Coleman, Dikembe Mutombo, Desagana Diop, Reggie Theus, Kenny Anderson, Richard Jefferson, Gheorghe Mureşan, Josh Boone, Maurice Ager, Buck Williams, Joe Kleine, Rodney Rogers, Maurice Lucas, Rory Sparrow, Rafer Alston, Nenad Krstić, Rick Carlisle, Anthony Mason, Clifford R. Robinson, Jayson Williams, Rick Barry, Phil Ford, Earl Boykins, Ron Anderson, Kendall Gill, Armen Gilliam, Bob Mcadoo, Jeff Turner, David Wesley, Terry Mills, Sam Cassell, Ron Mercer, Mikki Moore, Jamaal Magloire, Otis Birdsong, Mookie Blaylock, Sam Bowie, Howard Porter, Vern Fleming, Scott Burrell, Darrell Armstrong, Robert Pack, Kenyon Martin, Johnny Newman, Chris Gatling, Rick Mahorn, Kaniel Dickens, Keith Van Horn, Jud Buechler, Bobby Simmons, Orlando Woolridge, Ron Brewer, Xavier Mcdaniel, Joe Barry Carroll, Dudley Bradley, Eddie Gill, Maurice Cheeks, Marc Jackson, Damon Jones, Zoran Planinić, Boštjan Nachbar, Eric Floyd, Brook Lopez, Ryan Anderson, Eric Murdock, Sherman Douglas, Stromile Swift, Kevin Porter, Cadillac Anderson, George Johnson, Yi Jianlian, Michael Cage, Hubert Davis, Leon Wood, Sam Lacey, Chris Carr, Rony Seikaly, Johnny Moore, Kevin Edwards, Eric Montross, Edgar Jones, Kelvin Ransey, David Benoit, Calvin Natt, Chris Dudley, Roy Hinson, Sean Higgins, Chris Morris, Tim Perry, Eddie House, Keyon Dooling, Kerry Kittles, Jarvis Hayes, Antoine Wright. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Dražen Petrović (22 octobre, 1964 - 7 juin, 1993) était un joueur de basket-ball croate né à Š...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A989333. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Heuristic methods of solving exploratory data analysis problems suffer from one major weakness - uncertainty regarding the optimality of the results. The developers of DaMI (Data Mining Initiative), a genetic algorithm designed to mine the CCEP (Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program) database in the search for a Persian Gulf War syndrome, proposed a method to overcome this weakness: reproducibility -- the conjecture that consistent convergence on the same solutions is both necessary and sufficient to ensure a genetic algorithm has effectively searched an unknown solution space. We demonstrate the weakness of this conjecture in light of accepted genetic algorithm theory. We then test the conjecture by modifying the CCEP database with the insertion of an interesting solution of known quality and performing a discovery session using DaMI on this modified database. The necessity of reproducibility as a terminating condition is falsified by the algorithm finding the optimal solution without yielding strong reproducibility. The sufficiency of reproducibility as a terminating condition is analyzed by manual examination of the CCEP database in which strong reproducibility was experienced. Ex post facto knowledge of the solution space is used to prove that DaMI had not found the optimal solutions though it gave strong reproducibility, causing us to reject the conjecture that strong reproducibile is a sufficient terminating condition. ... Read more

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The subject document is actually a reprint of a 1997 Naval Postgraduate Thesis, which followed the original DaMi (Data Miner) project report and publication.The author had limited exposure to and experience with the actual operation of the system, and an even more limited understanding of modern Genetic Algorithm theory.Although an excellent addition to anyone's "Government cover-up of Gulf War Illness" collection, it is an obscure excerpt from the more comprehensive collection of academically peer-reviewed (including IEEE) publications on the subject. ... Read more