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This issue contains articles on the making of Shogun, The Terrible Tots of Tennis, Deborah Raffin, Tv Campaign Polls and Game Show Prizes. ... Read more

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"The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderser. Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller who was born in Denmark in 1805 and died there in 1875. People all over the world know his fairy tales, which include "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Princess and the Pea" and, of course, "The Little Mermaid." Here is Andersen's tale of the little mermaid who exchanges her beautiful voice for a human form. That way she can be near the prince whom she has rescued from a shipwreck and with whom she has fallen in love. Although the mermaid and her prince don't live happily ever after, as many other fairy-tale characters do, the mermaid does achieve eternal happiness bacause of her good deeds and loving ways." "Narrated by Richard Chamberlain. Music by Ron Goodwin." "The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. The British author Oscar Wilde, who lived from 1854 to 1900, is best known today for his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his plays. But he also wrote two books of fairy tales, the first one, called The Happy Prince and Other Tales, in 1888. Here is the title fable of that book, the story of a swallow who, while flying over a northern European city on his way south to avoide the cruel winter, alights to rest on a statue of The Happy Prince. The bird sees that the prince is anything but happy. In fact, he's crying, weeping for the poor people in his city. The statue insists that the little swallow strip away the gold and precious stones that adorn him and use them to help the needy. The swallow does this, but then dies of the cold. The prince, now just an ugly lead figure, is melted down...but his heart will not melt. In the end, we find that the swallow and the prince's heart are the most precious things in the entire city." "Narrated by Christopher Plummer and Glynis Johns. Music by Ron Goodwin." "Copyright 1985 The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Reader's Digest Presents. Children's Classic." [from case] ... Read more

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A Rarity from My Childhood
My grandmother bought this for me and my sisters when we were very young and we couldn't stop watching it.It still holds a special place in my heart and just thinking about it brings back wonderful memories from my childhood. ... Read more

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3 video tapes from the Astronomers series. 1991. PBS. Richard Chamberlain hosts. ... Read more

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Sept-Oct 1962 issue. 11" x 8.5"; 34 pages of the latest song hits, artist profiles, and music news. ... Read more

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Chapters: 16th-Century Actors, 16th-Century Plays, William Shakespeare, Francesco Andreini, Richard Burbage, Lord Chamberlain's Men, Intermedio, the Fair Maid of the West, Admiral's Men, Every Man in His Humour, the Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, Edward Alleyn, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, American Shakespeare Center, Mother Bombie, Noye's Fludde, a Looking Glass for London, Isabella Andreini, Sapho and Phao, the Woman in the Moon, Endymion, King Leir, Campaspe, Summer's Last Will and Testament, Midas, John of Bordeaux, the True Tragedy of Richard Iii, the Seven Deadly Sins, War of the Theatres, Augustine Phillips, Robert Wilson, Love's Metamorphosis, an Humorous Day's Mirth, Richard Tarlton, Every Man Out of His Humour, Englishmen for My Money, Edward Iv, the Wounds of Civil War, James Burbage, George Bryan, Richardus Tertius, I Gelosi, John a Kent and John a Cumber, Hot Anger Soon Cold. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 195. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, write...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32897 ... Read more

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Chapters: William Shakespeare, Francesco Andreini, Richard Burbage, Lord Chamberlain's Men, Admiral's Men, Edward Alleyn, Isabella Andreini, Augustine Phillips, Robert Wilson, Richard Tarlton, James Burbage, George Bryan, I Gelosi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32897 ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (7)

Worked for me
I needed to assess whether this application would work for me, and this book did great with getting me this information.

Dissappointing
I was very dissappointed with RT Essentials. I had been using and administering an older version of RT for some time, but when I upgraded to the current version I thought I would benefit from reading this book. There are a lot of new features in the later versions and this book just barely mentions them. I had the feeling that it just almost told me what I wanted to know, but not quite. I would very much like to see an expanded, more detailed more comprehensive edition. I think it would take a book twice the size of the current edition to do RT right. I want complete tutorials on writing scrips, using templates, using custom fields, using saved searches, etc.

Helpful, but already dated
Request Tracker (RT) is a great product. I am the only sysadmin at a small company, and having an automated tracking system is going to be an immense benefit for me. I bought "RT Essentials" to help me get up to speed on RT3 really quickly. And, since it was written by the programmer who's responsible for RT, the book had lots of detail and tips.

However, when it came down to implementing some of the code in the book, I found that it was already outdated. For example, I tried to set up the Autoreply template with Password by copying the code straight out of the book. It didn't work because the program codebase has changed too much since the book was released.

I was able to fix my template problem by hooking into the great RT user community, where the author contributes frequently.

All in all, I thought the book was really helpful for getting RT installed and getting me up to speed. For the nitty-gritty, I'd rely on the online wiki and great user community.

Excellent Software, but Average Book
We've been using RT for several years.As one happy customer mentions at Best Practical's site, managing a project or service driven organization without RT is like watching TV without a TiVo.The software is powerful, flexible, and above all, adaptable to many styles of management for more than just technology projects.No question, the software gets 5 stars.

This book, however, is largely a reorganization of the information provided with the software.If you prefer to read printed materials instead of PDFs or HTML, this book will save you money on printer paper.But if you're looking for best practices, recipies, or enhancements such as those you'll find in the RT Wiki, you may be disappointed.In fact, for most of the advanced capabilities, you are referred by the book to other resources.The book does contain the occasional nugget, such as a half dozen lines of code to truly delete a ticket and related data.With some searching, you'd be able to find those, and better, at the RT Wiki, such as the particuarly valuable contributions from the University of Oslo (do an A9 search for "RT prosjektgruppen").

Compared to most O'Reilly books which set the bar for excellence, this one is merely average.However, I do recommend this book as an introduction for those considering whether it's worthwhile to move to RT from some other enterprise ticketing system, and for techs to give to managers who are more comfortable with hard copies than electronic documents. For any RT admin, it's certainly worthwhile to have documentation printed and organized in an easy reference, considering how much you've saved on the excellent software itself.

QUITE THE TRACKER!!
Are you an end-user, system administrator or developer who interacts with RT on an occasional or regular basis? Authors Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain and Richard Foley, have written an outstanding book that is for everybody who has to use RT to manage tasks.

Vincent, Spier, Rolsky, Chamberlain and Foley, begin by providing some background about what ticketing systems are and how they can help save your job and your sanity. Then, they walk you through the process of setting up an RT server and configuring sane system defaults. The authors continue by showing you how to get up and running with RT's web interface. In addition, they explain how to interact with RT from your shell or console window. The authors also step you through the basics of turning a virgin RT server into a useful tool for tracking what you need to do inside your organization. Then, the authors show you how to extend RT's standard behavior with custom business logic. Next, they provide a look inside the RT configuration at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, a nonexistent company that makes heavy use of RT to manage their internal processes. Next, the authors walk you through RT's files on disk; as well as, the details of its database tables. Then, they describe how DBIx::SearchBuilder works. Finally, they show you how to set up a local sandbox for modifying and extending RT without putting your production server in harm's way.

This excellent book will be considerably more useful to you if you have at least a basic understanding of the Unix command line. Above all, this book will be very useful to you if you also have a basic understanding of Unix systems administration skills, and at least a little bit of experience programming in Perl.
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'"Tolley's Company Law Service" is a complete reference service on CD-ROM and Looseleaf which offers expert commentary and guidance on all aspects of company and insolvency law and best practice. It provides practical analysis of company law, geared to the everyday legal needs of businesses and their professional advisers. "Tolley's Company Law Service" includes: "Tolley's Company Law Looseleaf" - this two-volume manual provides over 70 alphabetically arranged chapters covering every aspect of company law from Accounts to Ultra Vires. Each chapter provides a thorough discussion of the law, cites relevant cases and puts the legal issues into a practical business context. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, it offers an ideal solution when in-depth reading and research is required."Tolley's Company Law-Link CD-ROM": This user-friendly CD-ROM contains the full text of the Company Law looseleaf plus the full text of all relevant legislation including statutes, statutory instruments and EC laws. It also provides the most commonly used Companies House forms which can be completed on-screen and then printed off for immediate filing.'Company Law and Insolvency Newsletter': A monthly newsletter that keeps the user informed of all developments in the fields of company law and insolvency. Each issue features an exciting combination of articles on topical matters, case reports, and relevant news.'Stop Press': A detailed stop press section published as part of each update outlines exactly which chapters have been revised and why. It also details general developments, such as pending legislation affecting several areas of company law and highlights the changes that affect individual chapters not being updated for that issue. Subscribers receive 12 CD-ROM updates per year and six looseleaf updates, plus six 'Stop Press' updates per year, which is included in the yearly subscription fee'. ... Read more