John Jacobson

Sometimes a Hero By: John Jacobson They come from around the world each year, over 1,800 firefighters, to race up 69 floors of the Columbia Center in Seattle. Carrying over fifty pounds of firefighting gear and breathing only the air they carry on their backs. Some race for the fastest time, others for the challenge. All do it to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I did it hoping for a cure.

Glimpses into my life as an EMT, Paramedic, Firefighter, and Cancer Survivor

Sometimes a Hero (Sometimes Not)

IBM Redbooks

Greg Hurlebaus

Rashed Ferdous

Li-Fang Lee

Jarek Miszczyk

Pat Nickel

David Peraza

Moises Romo

Kerry Staples

In a traditional deployment model, software is installed on a physical server, and it is configured for the particular data center environment. The cloud deployment model requires that the dependency on a specific hardware configuration is severed. This IBM® Redbooks® publication guides you through the transition from the traditional application deployment model to the cloud-friendly deployment model. It explains how to achieve these goals by packaging the software stacks into industry standard virtual appliances. A key part of this transition involves using the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool. This tool is the IBM tool for creating virtualized workloads that target several private cloud deployment platforms, including platforms from IBM and not from IBM. In fact, this tool is unique in its ability to support such a wide range of cloud offerings. It is also the only tool in the marketplace that can create virtual appliances for both x86 and IBM Power hardware architectures. This book provides an in-depth look at the capabilities and internal workings of Image Construction and Composition Tool. It focuses on the capabilities of this tool, which target the virtualization and cloud offerings of IBM Systems and Technology Group. These offerings include IBM Systems Director VMControlTM, IBM SmartCloud® Entry, and IBM PureFlexTM System with IBM Flex System ManagerTM appliance. The Image Construction and Composition Tool also has a much richer set of capabilities. Specifically, it supports IBM Workload Deployer, IBM PureApplicationTM Systems, and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning. This publication targets software architects, cloud solutions architects, and cloud administrators. Its goal is to provide you with the expert-level skills required to package the existing and newly created applications into self-configurable, smart virtual appliances. Related publication: Smart Virtual Appliances Made Easy with IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool, TIPS1037

Creating Smart Virtual Appliances with IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool

Jon Tucker

Haolun Xu

Reena Doss

Katherine Stairs

Kyle Vermeal

Chelsea Rawlings

Jessica Gershon

Kristina Marchbank

Malak El Halabi

Laura Austin

Rercy  Zola-Zaba

Joseph M

Sandip Saha

Nessa Pianosi

Alex Dako

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well. We have been around since 2010. Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website. We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from our website. Now, video and audio reviews can be sent across to us via this link – poetschoice.submittable.com/submit Simply submit your review in the ‘Video Book reviews’ or ‘Audio Book Reviews’ form. For suggestions, we can be contacted via our Instagram handle - @poetschoice. We are also there on Youtube – Poets Choice

New Decade New Beginning

Carl Wessler

Gerry Boudreau

Jack Butterworth

Flaxman Loew

More classic tales from the original Warren era Vampirella series! Horrors from the grave trap Vampi in an ancient Roman crypt!

Vampirella (Magazine 1969 - 1983) #38

Esteban Maroto

Steve Englehart

Steve Skeates

Ed Newsome

The classic Vampirella series that started it all! Dynamite is proud to offer the original Warren magazine series in it’s entirety as digital editions. Featuring all the classic stories and legendary creators. Vampiress and vampire battle for blood.

Vampirella (Magazine 1969 - 1983) #22

Roger Emerson

(Expressive Art (Choral)). Grab your cameras! We're makin' a movie about the one and only Santa Claus but what style of movie fits the greatest elfin hero of all time? Thanks to a little help from Cecil B. DeGrille, Alfred Pitchfork, Steven Reelberg and a few other illustrious filmmakers, a young group of aspiring directors experience movie-making like never before, from Epic Extravaganza and Film Noir to Spaghetti Western and Super-hero-adventure film. Watch out, Hollywood! This musical offers options for a simple or elaborate production, including the choice of two endings and suggestions for producing your very own movie. We'll even show you how! Either way it will be a blockbuster! This 40-minute musical features six original songs and connecting script with over 50 speaking parts. The Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal song arrangements and choreography, script, helpful production guide and teaching objectives linked to the National Standards for each song. For added value, the ready-to-use student books include songs and script, and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers! Available separately: Teacher Edition, Singer 5-Pak, Preview CD (with vocals & dialog), Preview Pak (1 singer book and 1 Preview CD), Preformance/Accompaniment CD, and Performance Kit/CD (Teacher, 20 Singer books and P/A CD). Approximate Performance Time: 40 minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

A Blockbuster Musical for Young Voices

Lights! Camera! Christmas!

(Choral). John Jacobson, one of America's best-loved musical personalities, is known for sharing his passion, humor and insights with students and teachers, helping them to revitalize and re-energize. Now, he has created a collection of 366 short essays one for each day of the year, including Leap Year to help educators rediscover the fervor and creativity that brought them into teaching in the first place, and inspire the artist that stirs within! Through the readings in this beautifully designed daily companion, a teacher will reawaken the mind, spirit and body to the connection between one's personal art and the art of teaching, tapping the restorative power of creativity in nourishing the soul.

A Teacher's Year of Creative Rediscovery

The Artist Within Me

John Higgins

Wesley (COP) Ball

(Music Express Books). Step into the lives of American composers Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Leroy Anderson, William Grant Still, Leonard Bernstein and Amy Beach with engaging stories, fun facts, songs and active listening lessons, designed for upper elementary and middle school students. Have fun reading and acting out these age-appealing stories and performing a variety of musical styles with the original songs that accompany them. Follow beautifully-designed full-color music maps as you listen to full-length recorded orchestral versions of six masterworks: Hoedown (from "Rodeo"), Variations on "America," Sleigh Ride, Afro-American Symphony, Scherzo (from "West Side Story") and Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor . The Teacher Edition offers piano/vocal song arrangements, easy-to-follow standards-based lesson plans, and a helpful production guide for additional performance options. Full-color singer editions feature song vocals, composer stories and listening maps. The 2-CD pak provides performance/accompaniment tracks for the songs, six masterworks, and recorded composer stories. For cost-saving value, receive all 3 components in the Classroom Kit! Available: Teacher Edition, Singer Edition 20-Pak (full color), 2-CD Pak, Classroom Kit (all 3 components). Suggested for Gr. 4-8.

Resource Collection of Songs, Stories and Listening Maps

I Write the Music in America: Composer Chronicles (Set 2)

John Jacobson

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