John Weber

Eric Dezenhall

The Essential Lessons of Crisis Management

Damage Control

Jordan Gunn can't swim-at least he can't swim in the cold, dirty lake at summer camp. Fortunately, he meets Nick Dietrich, the waterfront director, who helps him overcome his fears and eventually have enough confidence to pass his swimming test and learn to kayak. Jordan's first relationship with Nick is that of hero-worship. When Jordan helps Nick rescue two of Jordan's friends from the lake at night, Jordan's hero-worship turns into a deep friendship. Later, Nick takes Jordan on his first whitewater kayak trip in northern Wisconsin on the Wolf River. Jordan discovers that it's much harder to kayak on a moving river than on a lake and he is terrified of the rushing water. Early in the trip, Nick is seriously injured in an accident that Jordan thinks he caused. Since Nick can no longer paddle, Jordan must overcome his fears of the water and paddle by himself almost twenty miles to the take-out point to get help to rescue Nick. After Nick is rescued, Jordan must confront his guilt and somehow maintain his friendship with Nick.

The Red Kayak

IBM Redbooks

John Burgess

Chris Hui

Simon Ma

FiTeq is an IBM® Business Partner that specializes in fraud prevention technologies for the payments industry. This IBM RedpaperTM publication records the methodologies and results of a performance benchmark using the FiTeq Authenticator, which is a component of FiTeq's family of Secure Transaction Solutions. The FiTeq Authenticator is an IBM CICS® enabled application that was run under CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® V5.1 in this benchmark. The performance benchmark was conducted as a joint venture between IBM and FiTeq in January 2014. In summary, the following FiTeq Authenticator application performance characteristics were demonstrated: A scalable solution: CPU usage scales linearly as the number of transactions per second increases. Cost-effective: Approximately only 500 microseconds of CPU per transaction were used for the single configuration. Efficient: Average response times below 20 milliseconds per transaction were maintained at a transaction rate exceeding 8,000 per second. These benchmark test results confirmed and validated that the FiTeq Authenticator is, in conjunction with the performance, reliability, and scalability provided by IBM z/OS and CICS architectures and associated hardware, fully capable of satisfying the requirements of all top financial institutes. As a by-product of the FiTeq Authenticator performance test, the IBM World-Wide Solutions-Cross ISV Sizing team developed a FiTeq Authenticator Sizing Tool to forecast system requirements based on the transactions per second (TPS) and other system requirements of any future FiTeq client. As a result, the IBM pre-sale team and the FiTeq marketing team will be able to recommend the best fit and most cost-effective IBM software and hardware solution for a particular FiTeq client. Performance is based on measurements and projections using standard IBM benchmarks in a controlled environment. The actual throughput or performance that any user will experience will vary depending upon many factors, including considerations, such as the amount of multiprogramming in the user's job stream, the I/O configuration, the storage configuration, and the workload processed. Therefore, no assurance can be given that an individual user will achieve results similar to those stated here.

IBM CICS Performance Series: FiTeq Authenticator Benchmark

Seth Stein

Nicholas Pinter

Gyula Grenerczy

Damir Medak

Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. Since its first application to geodynamical problems, GPS geodesy has gradually revealed the nature of motion and deformation for most active areas of deformation across the Earth. One of the last remaining regional-scale problems on the planet is the motion and associated deformation in the peri-Adriatic region. Selected local-scale studies have examined aspects of this motion, but to date no truly regional analysis or regional team has systematically attacked the full breadth of this problem. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was held in Veszprém, Hungary from April 4-7, 2004. This workshop brought together a distinguished international group of scientists working in the peri-Adriatic region to: (1) review research activities and results, (2) share technical expertise, and (3) provide a springboard for future collaborative research on Adria geodynamics. Areas of agreement were identified, as well as remaining areas of debate. In addition, attention focused on important scientific questions and the potential for international and interdisciplinary research in the future.

The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards

Have you ever considered what the middle ground between capitalism and socialism would look like? Socially Mixed Economies offers a tantalizing snapshot of this brave new world, a third way born of compromise by countries accepting that social gains can develop in opposed systems. John Weber takes the reader on an intellectual journey through the give-and-take of post Cold War history. Drawing on examples from Europe, the United States, and the developing world this provocative work suggests that today's political landscape is far from polarized between purely socialist and capitalist regimes. Rather than documenting the triumph of "pure" capitalism over "pure" socialism, by means of different country-specific examples, Weber illustrates how much of today's political fabric has been shaped by "concessions." The result is a socially mixed economy, of coexisting capitalist and socialist structures. This is essential reading for economists, political scientists, and historians seeking to understand the evolution of a new transitional society and its important, unprecedented consequences for twenty-first century world politics.

How Social Gains Develop in Opposed Systems

Socially Mixed Economies

Andrew Dunlop

Todd Meyers

Paige Raibmon

Timothy P. Bowman

Kristin Hoganson

Laura Hooton

Josh MacFadyen

Peter S Morris

Alicia Marion Dewey

Sonia Hernández

Rosa E Cobos

Matt Caire-Pérez

Jason McCollom

Thomas D Isern

Suzzanne Kelley

Anthony Carlson

Stephen Mumme

Tisa Anders

Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach. Sterling Evans has curated nineteen essays to explore the contours of “big” agricultural history. Crops and commodities discussed include wheat, cattle, citrus, pecans, chiles, tomatoes, sugar beets, hops, henequen, and more. Toiling over such crops, of course, were the people of the North American West, and as such, the contributing authors investigate the role of agricultural labor, from braceros and Hutterites to women working in the sorghum fields and countless other groups in between. As Evans concludes, “society as a whole (no matter in what country) often ignores the role of agriculture in the past and the present.” Farming across Borders takes an important step toward cultivating awareness and understanding of the agricultural, economic, and environmental connections that loom over the North American West regardless of lines on a map. In the words of one essay, “we are tied together . . . in a hundred different ways.”

A Transnational History of the North American West

Farming across Borders

The Lost Symbol, novel terbaru Dan Brown, mengguncang dunia karena memunculkan simbolisme Freemason dan pengaruhnya dalam sejarah Amerika Serikat. Novelnya dengan cerdas menyajikan banyak misteri dan kekuatan politik berselubung kerahasiaan. Buku panduan The Lost Symbol lengkap dengan ilustrasi ini akan membantu pembaca melihat: · Betapa masif dan terencana riset Dan Brown dan tim dalam mempersiapkan novel The Lost Symbol. · Latar belakang dan ilustrasi full-color, situs-situs dan artefak bersejarah di Washington yang menjadi latar novel itu. · Rincian tentang mistisisme, intrik dan perkumpulan rahasia, yang semuanya tersamarkan di balik simbol tersembunyi. · Sejarah pendirian kelompok Persaudaraan Freemason dan penyebarannya ke dunia baru Amerika Serikat. · Esai-esai menarik tentang sejarah Bapak Bangsa Amerika Serikat, hubungan mereka dengan Freemason dan pengaruhnya dalam dasar-dasar pendirian negara itu. · Makna pendirian Perpustakaan Kongres, Monumen Washington, dan pengaturan kota Washington D.C, serta tujuan misterius mereka. · Tokoh presiden Amerika Serikat yang merupakan perwujudan ideal dari nilai-nilai Mason. Dikompilasi oleh editor John Weber, Patrick Huyghe dan Michael Bober, panduan ini akan memuaskan rasa ingin tahu yang dibangkitkan oleh Dan Brown dalam novelnya. Melalui karya ini, pembaca bisa mengikuti petualangan Robert Langdon, langkah demi langkah, dan memahami teka-teki yang dipaparkan The Lost Symbol, sembari mengikuti tur virtual melalui artefak arcana yang ada di seputaran Washington DC dan maknanya bagi bangsa Amerika sekarang.[Mizan, Bentang, Panduan, Sejarah, Indonesia]

Panduan Berilustrasi Untuk Novel The Lost Symbol

An Illustrated Guide to The Lost Symbol

Rich in world history and political power, veiled in secrecy, and rife with rituals and arcane symbols -- from art and architecture to the images that adorn our currency -- the Freemasons arose from ambiguous origins centuries ago to play a major role in drafting the initial documents of the United States, and even in constructing the intricate landscape of Washington, D.C., itself a virtual mystery by design. These puzzles lay the foundation for Dan Brown's serpentine thriller, The Lost Symbol, and also raise provocative questions. Why do some Masonic symbols remain obscured, while others are hidden in plain sight? Which presidents were the embodiments of Masonic ideals? What is the significance of the construction of the Library of Congress, Washington National Cathedral, the Washington Monument, the Capitol, and the physical layout of Washington, D.C.'s roadways and cul-de-sacs? And to what secretive end do they all lead? Now millions of curious fans can follow Robert Langdon step-by-step, and discover for themselves the answers to the absorbing conundrums posed by The Lost Symbol in this comprehensive, fully illustrated, and intricately detailed tour of the arcana of Washington, D.C. It takes readers through the enigmatic codes, captivating trivia, unfathomable riddles, intriguing records, historic maps, ciphers, and conspiracies of the phenomenal bestseller. What's more, it reveals the fascinating details of a world of unknown locales, mysticism, intrigue, and secret societies -- all of which lie in the shadow of The Lost Symbol.

John Weber

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