All Mitchell wants to do is survive middle school. Heck, that's all any kid wants when they're in middle school, especially for the students of King's Hollow, which may be the roughest school in town. When King's Hollow gets a new band director in the form of Mr. Undergrove, things start to turn around for Mitchell and his bandmates as they prepare for their 1st band competition and begin to experience an emotion they've never felt at school before: hope. Told through two intersecting yet different timelines, Jazz tells the story of teenager Mitchell Williams as a middle schooler, as he deals with getting jumped in the locker room, preparing for a band competition, and meeting a girl with a possessive ex-boyfriend, and then as a high schooler, where Mitchell is faced with bickering bandmates, a school trip to New York City, and learning how to deal with a relationship gone wrong. Jazz is a coming-of-age novel about a school jazz band, but it's also a novel about getting your heart broken, trying to fit in, teachers that don't understand teenagers, bullies, music, love, rejection, movies, and the wonder and awe of friendship, even when you're a band geek.
A 50 day introduction to the third person of the Trinity. Hello, Holy Spirit is designed to encourage personal Bible study, and promotes meditation through a reflection offered at the end of every passage. These fifty devotionals about the Holy Spirit fit into the timeline between the Passover and the Day of Pentecost, but can be enjoyed year round. The goal of this study is for you to not only know about the Holy Spirit, but to know the Holy Spirit personally. He longs to be your friend and have communion with you every day. As you engage in this devotional, may you begin each session as if greeting your best friend by saying, "Hello, Holy Spirit.
Covers the basic probability of distributions with an emphasis on applications from the areas of investments, insurance, and engineering. This book is suitable as a text for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, finance, or engineering.
When Michael Punzak first read this story, in an out-of-print collection of Persian folktales, he immediately fell in love with it. Without ever reading the story again, he re-imagined it as Master Bean (instead of Master pea) adding in such details as the green-and-white baseball cap, the "jewels of all sorts and descriptions," the twenty-one dollar bills" and several others. He has told the story hundreds of times.
A variety of laws at all levels of government seek to conserve various natural resources, such as wetlands or endangered species habitat, by restricting the right to carry out actions that adversely affect them. A common feature ... is that they allow an otherwise prohibited activity if the adverse effects of that activity are sufficiently offset, or mitigated, by appropriate compensatory measures. On one is through habitat banking, wetland mitigation banking, conservation banking, or other banking systems. The amount of funds that are directed to compensatory mitigation on an annual basis in the U.S. is significant.
Mikey was a bright young man. But, like many children, he didn't like nutritious food. Instead, Mikey dreamed of Jelly Bean Soup and Grilled Candy Sandwiches. Sometimes, dreams of such eating habits can lead to hilarious images and inspiring results as told and illustrated in this children's book written by Magician Michael T and illustrated by Joe Santoro. This book also includes children's activities for parents and teachers, as well as easy and nutritious recipes that children will love!
Summary Building on the bestselling first edition, EJB 3 in Action, Second Edition tackles EJB 3.2 head-on, through numerous code samples, real-life scenarios, and illustrations. This book is a fast-paced tutorial for Java EE 6 business component development using EJB 3.2, JPA 2, and CDI. Besides covering the basics of EJB 3.2, this book includes in-depth EJB 3.2 internal implementation details, best practices, design patterns, and performance tuning tips. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Book The EJB 3 framework provides a standard way to capture business logic in manageable server-side modules, making it easier to write, maintain, and extend Java EE applications. EJB 3.2 provides more enhancements and intelligent defaults and integrates more fully with other Java technologies, such as CDI, to make development even easier. EJB 3 in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced tutorial for Java EE business component developers using EJB 3.2, JPA, and CDI. It tackles EJB head-on through numerous code samples, real-life scenarios, and illustrations. Beyond the basics, this book includes internal implementation details, best practices, design patterns, performance tuning tips, and various means of access including Web Services, REST Services, and WebSockets. Readers need to know Java. No prior experience with EJB or Java EE is assumed. What's Inside Fully revised for EJB 3.2 POJO persistence with JPA 2.1 Dependency injection and bean management with CDI 1.1 Interactive application with WebSocket 1.0 About the Authors Debu Panda, Reza Rahman, Ryan Cuprak, and Michael Remijan are seasoned Java architects, developers, authors, and community leaders. Debu and Reza coauthored the first edition of EJB 3 in Action. Table of Contents PART 1 OVERVIEW OF THE EJB LANDSCAPE What's what in EJB 3 A first taste of EJB PART 2 WORKING WITH EJB COMPONENTS Building business logic with session beans Messaging and developing MDBs EJB runtime context, dependency injection,and crosscutting logic Transactions and security Scheduling and timers Exposing EJBs as web services PART 3 USING EJB WITH JPA AND CDI JPA entities Managing entities JPQL Using CDI with EJB 3 PART 4 PUTTING EJB INTO ACTION Packaging EJB 3 applications Using WebSockets with EJB 3 Testing and EJB
Mikey was a bright young man. But, like many children, he didn't like nutritious food. Instead, Mikey dreamed of Jelly Bean Soup and Grilled Candy Sandwiches. Sometimes, dreams of such eating habits can lead to hilarious images and inspiring results as told and illustrated in this children's book written by Magician Michael T and illustrated by Joe Santoro.This book also includes children's activities for parents and teachers, as well as easy and nutritious recipes that children will love!
Vayda Jayne Bean has some words she will share. It's time we all learned that monsters don't scare. It's time we all saw the big light that's inside. It's time that we all threw our hearts open wide. Let Vayda Jayne Bean teach your child about the light that's inside us all! Visit http: //www.michaelsharp.org/
Vayda Jayne Bean has some words she will share. It's time we all learned that monsters don't scare. It's time we all saw the big light that's inside. It's time that we all threw our hearts open wide. Let Vayda Jayne Bean teach your child about the light that's inside us all! Visit http: //www.michaelsharp.org/
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