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An insider's look at life on the lines To hockey fans, Ray Scapinello's name and face are as recognizable as any star player or coach in the NHL. Scampy, as he is affectionately known has had a long and storied career as a linesman in the NHL. His 5-foot-7 frame and 163 pounds belie his ability and endurance on the ice. When Ray retired in 2004 after 33 years in the NHL, he had officiated in 2,500 regular season matches (never missing a game), 426 playoff games, and an astounding twenty Stanley Cup final series. His untouchable statistics make him a lock to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame as an official, but even they do not do justice to the respect he has earned from officials, players, coac...
Virtual teams are a new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance and organizations. This text gathers academic research on real, work-based virtual teams. It presents practical research, insight and advice on how virtual team projects can be better managed.
Somewhere near the buckle of Orions belt are four systems, each knowing little of the others, until now. We begin on Core, a hostile desert wasteland covered with red sand and dotted with violet peaks that protrude above the shifting sands. Traveling upward, we find the unique system of Tharcaniah, whose white sun shines on three inhabitable worlds. The moon of the largest world has a satellite that has its own inhabitable satellite. Then, if one takes a diagonal jaunt out and downward, we come to the world of Karphaxi, the home of one hundred clans of six-foot-tall sentient mantis beetles, in which every clan is indispensible. Finally, we shoot straight right for a few million miles and find ourselves orbiting Shagra, a world of feline beings whose territories are divided by a central meeting table about a mile in diameter. These are the worlds of Millennium Legacy.
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What I Need: A Romantic Fairy Tale is the story of how one woman enables a family to rise from relative obscurity to fame and fortune without realizing that she has done so. Nor does the family put all the pieces of Effie Rose Shane Bentmont Trippen together until years after her death. Through three and four generations and beyond, the integrity of the family oath proves that individual fidelity can survive and even thrive. Her vibrant legacy brings the family full circle in this sweet romance novel of love and sorrow and separation brought together.
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This second volume of the “Handbook of Digital Homecare” reviews the attempts to develop new ICT services for digital homecare, i.e. services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices. The book highlights the successful projects as well as failures of Digital homecare and provides several “lessons learned” to the wide audience of Health and ICT professionals.
Collaborative Information Technologies are broadly defined as technologies that enable collaboration among individuals engaged in a common task. Examples of such technologies are Web-based chat tools, Web-based asynchronous conferencing tools, e-mail, listservs, collaborative writing tools, group decision support systems, etc. Collaborative Information Technologies includes research on the design and implementation of such technologies, assessment of the impact of collaborative technologies on organizations, and theoretical considerations on links between collaborative technologies and organizational outcomes.
This book contains the papers presented and discussed at the conference that was held in May/June 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and that was sponsored by Working Group 8.2 of the International Federation for Information Processing. IFIP established 8.2 as a group concerned with the interaction of information systems and the organization. Information Systems and Qualitative Research is essential reading for professionals and students working in information systems in a business environment, such as systems analysts, developers and designers, data administrators, and senior executives in all business areas that use information technology, as well as consultants in the fields of information systems, management, and quality management.