The Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) provides a unique collaboration system for university campuses: a social network that helps students discuss class materials, pursue research, communicate with faculty, and discover the risks and benefits of sharing personal information—all in a private, rather than public, forum. This example-driven guide will get you up to speed on various methods used to deploy, customize, and manage OAE, whether you’re an IT specialist in an educational institution, or an academic or instructional technologist.

JDBC has simplified database access in Java applications, but a few nagging wrinkles remain—namely, persisting Java objects to relational databases. With this book, you’ll learn how the Spring Framework makes that job incredibly easy with dependency injection, template classes, and object-relational-mapping (ORM).

Men's Health is the UK's best-selling quality men's magazine packed with expert tips and advice on everything today's man needs to feel fitter, healthier, and happier. Every month Men's Health delivers the inside track on the subjects that matter most to men. Naturally there's fitness, weight loss and general health plus the best advice on food, nutrition and meal plans. The award-winning Men's Health also delivers the very best in sex and relationships, gear, style, grooming, travel and wealth. Small steps, big results: It's an essential read for any man who wants to make his life better without turning his world upside down.

A fun-focused set of three hip hop dance styles — Basic, Bollywood and Samba. Billy's add-on teaching makes the workout super-easy-to-follow. He always begins with simple foot patterns at a slow pace. Then he increases the tempo and adds more complex dance steps (along with optional intensity-boosting arm motions). The first segment features hip hop classics like "Superman" and "B-boy." That's followed by playful, Bollywood-inspired moves like "Bolly Bounce" and "Bolly Barbeque".

List of tricks:
Magic Trick Name: Underground Vanish
Magic Trick Description: Vanish an entire deck of card!
Credits: Ben Salinas version. PaulHarris, JerryAndrus(1973),RobBromley UK.

Join Model Helicopter World magazine editor Jon Tanner, as he guides you through choosing, building and flying your first radio controlled model helicopter. You'll learn how to hover successfully and even attempt your first circuit. There's also 3D helicopter flying, including previously unseen footage from Japan of top pilot Curtis Youngblood, to inspire you along the way.

Italian food has always had a touch of the working class hero about it. There are no unnecessary flourishes, no pretensions, no arrogance. Dishes that had their roots in traditional peasant food are cooked with the same desire to feed the soul, and not to indulge the whimsical desires of the food snob.

Feast Greece is a nine-part journey into an ancient land with a gloriously rich past. With its dramatic mountains, magical islands and deep blue seas, Greece is a country which seduces its travellers back time after time. From the awe-inspiring rock pinnacles and monasteries of Meteora, to the mastic trees of Southern Chios.

Part 1 of a 4 part R/C helicopter instructional DVD series presented by model helicopter expert Dave Wilshere. In this very informative first DVD we look at many different areas of R/C Helicopters, aimed at aiding the beginner to this fascinating hobby.

English for academic study: Listening is based around transcripts from authentic lectures recorded in a genuine academic environment and, hence, is ideal for students preparing for English-medium study. The lectures are recorded on DVD to provide the student with an authentic learning experience. The lecture extracts are taken from a range of academic fields, including banking, development economics, marketing, psychology and linguistics. The extracts have been chosen to be accessible to a general audience, while at the same time appealing to students studying these subjects.