An entheogen ("creates god within") in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context.
BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union', Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually. With up to 85% of 'BC Bud' being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business - an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal.
Our economy is in crisis, and our government says that bold action is required. So we're diving in head first to get things back on track. But... what are we diving into exactly? Take a closer look at the government response to our current economic crisis with narrator Nick Gillespie of ReasonTV. And please visit http://stopspendingourfuture.org for more information and to find out what you can do to help!
At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, then uses this rudimentary spear to skewer a tasty bushbaby hiding inside a hollow tree. The footage represents an astonishing breakthrough for primate researchers: It's the first time anyone has documented a chimpanzee wielding a carefully prepared, preplanned weapon.
He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible and pursuing the covert art of alchemy. In this program, NOVA explores the strange and complex mind of Isaac Newton.
The term 'VDI' has been in circulation since around 2005 and has been used to describe a large number of different technologies and ways of delivering client desktops. That variety has led to considerable confusion about what is necessary to deliver an economic, scalable solution. Hence this blog, which will look to discuss the architectures of desktop virtualization, look at the opportunities and challenges of the technology, and show where product releases contribute to desktop virtualization.
This article is about what processes I came from, my definition of the Agile/Scrum process, and how stress has been spread out throughout the project vs. at the end. Stay tuned for #2 in the Agile Chronicles series where I elaborate on the re-factoring challenges.
It’s still unclear whether the IBM-Sun talks might be revived. Since the Sun board evidently rejected a roughly $7 billion offer from IBM as too low over the weekend, there have been reports that it was split into factions led on the one hand by Sun's pony-tailed CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who supposedly wanted to do the deal despite its flaws and lower price, and Sun chairman Scott McNealy, who supposedly didn't.
Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise. However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization.
In a recent report published by Gartner, the market research firm outlined the tremendous opportunity for global cloud services projecting revenues to increase 21 percent this year alone. According to Gartner cloud-based offerings made $46.4 billion in 2008, a number that is projected to increase to $56.3 billion in 2009 and $150.1 billion by 2013. With this phenomenal growth and revenue expected in the cloud computing sector, a few in the cloud industry have begun to ask whether it is time to form a cloud computing industry trade association. As many of you know I have been pushing for the creation of such an organization for awhile. I thought I'd briefly layout some of the opportunities I see for the creation of a cloud computing trade association and how it might look.
Salesforce.com wannabe NetSuite, Larry Ellison's other company, has bundled up a bunch of widgetry much like Salesforce's Force.com platform-as-a-service and dubbed it the SuiteCloud Ecosystem.
Application servers, those dependable workhorses that run most enterprise Java applications, are rarely a hot topic of conversation these days. As a technology category, the application server appears to be fairly “established” and that the focus has moved elsewhere in the stack, but appearances can be deceiving.
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
On the day Barack Obama was elected the 44th President, more than 58 million voters cast their ballots for John McCain. In the months leading up to this historic election, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (HBO's Emmy®-winning "Journeys with George") took a road trip to meet some of the conservative Americans who waited in line for hours to support the GOP ticket, and saw their hopes and dreams evaporate in the wake of that Democratic victory. These voters share their feelings about the changing America in which they live.
A shocking documentary about Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. They serve no security purpose for Israel since these checkpoints lay between Palestinian cities, which brings up the question...why are they there?
Core of Corruption is a documentary film series which details a comprehensive investigation into clandestine intelligence operations and conspiracies. The project is surfacing exclusive whistle blowers, insiders and critical evidence for the very first time.
How were the Pyramids of Egypt designed and constructed? Who hauled the billions of tons of stone to create them? Explore the myths and legends behind these magnificent and mysterious ancient structures.
Documentary that examines the death of President Abraham Lincoln from the assassination to the investigation. The program details the plot and the players and reveals the schemes that went awry in the assassination attempt. Secret service documents, congressman's diaries, old letters and deathbed confessions give insight to the investigation that followed. Features interviews with historians and the descendents of John Wilkes Booth and Dr. Samuel Mudd.
A feature-length documentary from CFZtv, directed by Jonathan Downes and produced by Richard Freeman.
Real Tarzan Kevin Richardson, zoologist and animal behaviouralist, raises and trains some of the most dangerous animals known to man. To do this he does not use the common methods of breaking the animal's spirit with sticks and chains, instead he uses love, understanding and trust.
This is short documentary from the Discovery Channel on the most evil women in history. This episode covers Countess Bathory - also known as "Countess Dracula". She tortured over 600 young girls to death - often showering in the blood as it fell from their cages.
Maxwell tells the story of the dramatic final months of the media tycoon's life. Patricia Hodge plays his beleaguered wife Betty, with Daniela Denby-Ashe as his secretary. Maxwell's world is collapsing. Cracks are appearing in his multi-billion business empire, his marriage is in difficulties and his weight has ballooned dangerously. He owns some of the world's best known media companies Macmillan Publishing; the New York Daily News and the Daily Mirror. But his obsession with both power and his great rival, Rupert Murdoch, is causing his downfall.With time running out he retreats to the heart of his web and sets about saving his skin. He is trapped and paranoid. His attempts to stem the tide of debts culminate in him stealing a billion pounds from his companies and their pension funds. But he is still hurtling towards disaster and, ultimately, death. Maxwell is a gripping account of how greed and ambition destroyed a man and led him to commit one of the world's biggest ever frauds. It also stars Ben Caplan as Maxwell's son Kevin and Dan Stevens as Basil Brookes. The film is written by Craig Warner, who was Bafta-nominated for The Queen's Sister. The 90-minute dramatisation is produced and directed by Colin Barr, who made The Secretary Who Stole £4million and The Lavender List.
I wrote in my previous article, “Interactive Storyboarding with JSP,” that interactive storyboarding is an effective way to define better requirements by eliciting actual business user needs. And I proposed to describe the requirements inJSPs with the J-CASE tag library, which enables business to experience conceptual pages to get a better understanding of the proposed system. As a next step, this article proposes to create a storyboard library that can be reused among projects. This article also shows that aspect weaving makes customization of the library easier to describe application-specific requirements.
Google's now year-old App Engine infrastructure, previously limited to running only programs written in a particular species of Python, a less-than-mainstream tongue but an internal Google favorite, is learning to accept programs written in Java. With the move, Google is reaching out to a broader base and interfacing with what it acknowledges are "businesses' existing technologies."
Master, what is the best way to master iPhone Development? Grasshopper, here are my seven steps to becoming an iPhone Developer. Tread carefully and you will become a wise man... Buy an Intel Based Mac & a Device - though the iPhone/iPod Touch device isn't 100% necessary for this early stage, as the iPhone simulator that you will get with the SDK is free and more that capable for initial development. Saying that, there is no replacement ultimately for having a device.