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The Trinitarian Dance presents a model of leadership development based on the Holy Trinity. Part one analyzes the present state of the cultural and ecclesiastical situation in Canada, identifying specific trends and aspects relating to the need for development of effective leadership in the church. This section sets the stage for Part two, where a theology of trinitarian leadership is developed based on the dynamic of perichoresis, with the motif of a dance used to present a paradigm of transformational leadership. Part three offers church-based strategies for leadership development, concluding with a creative application of the doxological formula that captures the thrust of the entire book and leads it to a finale that includes a benediction of hope for the church through this leadership model.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication can help you install, tailor, and configure WebSphere® Application Server for Developers V7 on the Microsoft® Windows® platform. WebSphere Application Server for Developers is a no-charge version of WebSphere Application Server for use in a development environment only. It allows application developers to develop and unit test against the same run time as the production version of WebSphere Application Server. This book tells you how to perform these tasks: Download and install WebSphere Application Server for Developers V7. Use the command-line tools, web-based administrative console, and scripting tools. Deploy a web application with JavaTM Database Connectivity (JDBC) to the application server with the first version of a sample application. Configure the sample application with Enterprise JavaBeans 3 (EJB3) and Java Persistence API (JPA). Add Java Message Service (JMS) and message-driven beans (MDBs) to the sample application and configure the built-in system integration bus (SIBus) messaging infrastructure. Add Representational State Transfer (REStful) web service to the sample application. Incorporate WebSphere-specific application bindings files with the application. Enable debugging and produce and analyze JVM outputs. Learn how to use Eclipse to view and debug the sample applications.

After Old Tam's untimely death, a litter of puppies was born to his mate, Jeannie, on the ranch in Colorado. Though Gwen had intended to keep the most likely pup for a trial dog, her heart is captured by the runt of the litter, little Punk. Punk is mischief incarnate-again and again, Punk tests Gwen's decision to keep her. But again and again, Punk wins Gwen's heart. Though ridiculed by others, Gwen is determined to turn Punk into a working sheepdog. Second book in the "Tam" series.

Tam is a royally-bred border collie who excels in sheepdog trials. Follow him from his birth in rural Scotland through the challenges he faces with different owners, striving always to listen to his instinct and work the "woolies" with his human partners. First book in the "Tam" series.

Stress has been shown to affect eating behavior which may lead to eating disorders. Stress may also affect health by causing the modification of behaviors such as physical exercise, smoking, or food choices. Thus, stress-related eating is a problem that many people need help dealing with. As mobile phones have become increasingly popular, a mobile phone application seems like a potential solution and there have already been several studies involving mobile interventions for eating and stress management. This thesis takes such systems further by allowing for continuous, wireless, non-intrusive data collection of EDA, accelerometer, and skin temperature in the user's natural environment correlated with the user's reports of craving and eating incidences while providing affective support when needed via an Android phone. This system uses affect and interruption methods as well as self-report features to collect real time annotations of the user's stress and eating habits. Such a data collection system will eventually allow for a greater understanding of stress patterns that lead to stress eating behavior. Then, the system can provide just-in-time interventions when it detects that the user may lapse into stress eating. The system has been evaluated in a pilot study with seven subjects who used either the empathetic or non-empathetic system for four days, then used the opposite system for another four days, and finally, were asked to choose which version of the system they would like to use for the last four days. The non-empathetic version of the system was preferred by four of the participants, the empathetic version by two of the participants, and one participant did not notice a difference between the versions so had no preference. Overall, this thesis has contributed a new system for gathering data to study people's eating habits as correlated with their mood and stress level via an Android phone as well as insight into features that would encourage people to use in situ health monitoring systems.