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The world of software is a dynamic one, ever evolving and changing to meet the changing market needs. Based on the diverse businesses in the current scenario and a shrinking global situation, software adapts too, bringing together a world of information on a single interface. With a growing number of software providers and an even large number of softwares in the market, it becomes difficult for students to know which ones to learn. It is also difficult for organizations to hire the right people, as most applicants lack the right mix of software knowledge. Here we at Shalom IT School, bring information on the top three software solutions in the market that will help learners benefit organizations and thus improve their scope during recruitments.   Websphere Belonging to the IBM family of products, the Websphere platform is an important one as it helps businesses optimize their performance. Its scalable operations can easily be adjusted to suit organizations of different sizes and its multiple functions can be adapted to suit company computing requirements. Its range of applications include the WebSphere application server, MQ server, message broker server, integration developer and also server administration. Java Started by Sun Microsystems, Java is a completely object oriented program (OOP) that can be used on any system using any programming language. The software here is written just once and can be used any number of times, enhancing its scope of benefits and usage across a range of organizations. Today, there must be very few organizations that do not use Java, and learning this can prove highly beneficial for most organizations. Range of Java courses that one can avail start from basics to advanced levels encompassing spring and hibernate, EJB and struts and also SCJP.  Microsoft .Net Pioneered by Microsoft, this software runs on Windows operating systems and can help perform a range of functions. Programmers trained on this can help companies easily create desktop applications, dynamic websites and also xml based web applications. This area has various components to it, but market trends indicate the most important ones to be ASP.net, C sharp.net, SQL server, Biztalk server and sharepoint server. Investing your time, energy and resources on these three courses can have immense benefits. And while you are taking these up, ensure that you work with flexible providers who can help you master the course. Distance learning can be useful too, for students who are busy with other courses or for professionals who want to upgrade their skills from the comfort of their homes and offices. Shalom IT School provides such online training sessions at flexible timings for learners from across the world. Besides the above three courses, a range of other courses are also made available to help professionals stay current, and stay relevant. For more information please refer our websites urls: http://shalomitschool.com/dot-net-training.html, http://shalomitschool.blogspot.com/2011/12/websphere-application-serverspring-and.html Other related categories: wesphere admin training, MQ server training, message broker server, spring hibernate training, microsoft .net training, Biztalk server training, sharepoint server training, computer IT  training
1. Casablanca (1942)

Director: Michael Curtiz.
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid.



During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once they get there, they have to obtain exit visas which are not very easy to come by. Now the hottest spot in all of Casablanca is Rick's Cafe which is operated by Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, who for some reason can't return there, and he is also extremely cynical. Now it seems that two German couriers were killed and the documents they were carrying were taken. Now one of Rick's regulars, Ugarte entrusts to him some letters of transit, which he intends to sell but before he does he is arrested for killing the couriers. Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, who is neutral in his political views, informs Rick that Victor Laszlo, the European Resistance leader, is in Casablanca and will do anything to get an exit visa but Renault has been "told" by Major Strasser of the Gestapo, to keep Laszlo in Casablanca. Laszlo goes to Rick's to meet Ugarte, because he was the one Ugarte was going to sell the letters to. But since Ugarte was arrested he has to find another way. Accompanying him is Ilsa Lund, who knew Rick when he was in Paris, and when they meet some of Rick's old wounds reopen. It is obvious that Rick's stone heart was because of her leaving him. And when they learn that Rick has the letters, he refuses to give them to him, because "he doesn't stick his neck out for anyone".

2. The Deer Hunter (1978)
 
Director: Michael Cimino.
Writers: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn.
Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale



Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn.They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda, who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven's wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war.

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  
Director: Milos Forman.
Writers: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman.
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito.



McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.

4. Goodfellas (1990)

Director: Martin Scorsese.
Writers: Nicholas Pileggi, Nicholas Pileggi.
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci.



The lowly, blue-collar side of New York's Italian mafia is explored in this crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill. As he makes his way from strapping young petty criminal, to big-time thief, to middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer, the film explores in detail the rules and traditions of organized crime. Watching the rise and fall of Hill and his two counterparts, the slick jack-of-all-trades criminal Jimmy Conway and the brutish, intimidating Tommy DeVito, this true story realistically explores the core, blue-collar part of the mob.

5. Forrest Gump (1994)

Director: Robert Zemeckis.
Writers: Winston Groom, Eric Roth.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise.



The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
 
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Writers: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas.
Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman.



Spring 1936. In the thick jungle of the South American continent, a renowned archeologist and expert on the occult is studying fragments of a map, when one of his exploration party pulls a gun. The archeologist pulls out a bullwhip and with such disarms the turncoat, sending him running - thus does Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones stay alive. He and a guide enter a dank and oppressively vast cave that contains several traps created by the ancient race which hid inside a famous handheld statue; Indy barely escapes such traps but is cornered by native tribesmen served by Belloq, an old enemy who arrogantly makes off with the statue, while Indy must flee for his life and escape on a friend's seaplane. Back in the US two agents from US Army intelligence tell him of Nazi German activities in archeology, including a gigantic excavation site in Egypt - a site that an intercepted cable indicates to Indy is the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the powerful chest bearing the Ten Commandments, that the Nazis can use to obliterate any enemy. Indy must recruit a former girlfriend (the daughter of his old professor) and an old chum in Cairo to infiltrate the Nazi site and make off with the Ark, but along the way Indy gets involved in a series of fights, chases, and traps, before the Nazis learn the full power of the Ark.

7. The Godfather (1972)
  
Director: Francis Ford Coppola.
Writers: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola.
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan.



Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia Families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, much against the advice of the Don's lawyer Tom Hagen, the Don is morally against the use of drugs, and turns down the offer. This does not please Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by some of his hit men. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.

8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
 
Director: Stanley Kubrick.
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke.
Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester.



When the world is ruled by apes, one particular group discovers a mysterious rectangular monolith near their home, which imparts upon them the knowledge of tool use, and enables them to evolve into people. A similar monolith is discovered on the moon, and it is determined to have come from an area near Jupiter. Astronaut Dave Bowman, along with four companions, sets off for Jupiter on a spaceship controlled by HAL 9000, a revolutionary computer system that is every bit humankind's equal--and perhaps its superior. When HAL endangers the crew's lives for the sake of the mission, Bowman will have to first overcome the computer, then travel to the birthplace of the monolith.

9. Citizen Kane (1941)

Director: Orson Welles.
Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles.
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore.



Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane; they tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath.

10. Schindler's List (1993)
 
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Writers: Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian.
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley.



"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers. 
Dzero · Oct 8 '11
1. Alien (1979)

Director: Ridley Scott.
Writers: Dan O'Bannon (story), Ronald Shusett (story).
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and John Hurt.


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In the near future, during its return to the earth, a commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress SOS from a distant planet. The seven-member crew are woken up from the hypersleep and the spaceship subsequently descends on the planet. While exploring the planet, a three-member team of the crew discovers a derelict spaceship and a huge chamber inside it containing thousands of eggs. When a curious team member goes too near the egg the parasite inside the egg attacks him, rendering him unconscious. He is brought back aboard, the spaceship takes off. After a little while the parasite dies and his host wakes up seemingly unruffled. Everything returns back to normal - but not for long.

2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director: Steven Spielberg.
Writer: Steven Spielberg.
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr.



Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind.

3. Star Trek (2009)

Director: J.J. Abrams.
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman.
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg.



On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Cmdr. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning.

4. Blade Runner (1982)

Director: Ridley Scott.
Writers: Hampton Fancher, David Webb People.
Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young



Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

5. 2012 (2009)

Director: Roland Emmerich.
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser.
Stars: John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor.



Several years before, geologist Adrian Helmsley comes across information that shows the world will come to an end in 2012. No announcement is made but the G8 countries begin to prepare for the event. Jack Curtis is a divorced and a less than successful writer. While on a camping trip with his children in Yosemite, he meets Charlie Frost, who is preaching that the end of the world is at hand. A series of events leads Curtis to believe what Frost has told him and with his family, heads for China where the industrialized countries have been working on a response to the impending disaster.

6. Independence Day (1996)

Director: Roland Emmerich.
Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich.
Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum.



In the beginning of July, a strange spaceship is heading towards Earth. Humans received a strange signal, and this has turned into a global phenomenon. It was aliens. smaller spaceships began to cover entire cities around the world. Suddenly, the wonder turns into horror as the spaceships destroy the cities. Then, when the world counterattacked, the alien ships are invincible to normal weapon systems, then The President of the United States, decides to head to area 51, to formulate a plan to defeat the aliens. Now, the fate of the world rests on a handful of surviving humans.

7. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Director: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Chris Marker , David Webb Peoples.
Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt.



Terry Gilliam's nightmarish low-tech/high-tech future vision takes place in 1997, after a deadly virus has killed 99% of the human population--forcing the survivors to flee beneath our planet's surface. This leaves the (other) animals topside, to rule the Earth once again. The scientists select James Cole, an imprisoned sociopath, to return to the past and gather information useful in the defense against this contagion. Once back in time, he is to investigate the mysterious 'Army of the Twelve Monkeys' and report his findings. Scientific, social, and political themes like time travel (and its inherent paradoxes and nested loops), mental illness, the nature of reality, animal rights, and the Armageddon-potential of unchecked technological advances are artfully and cleverly explored.

8. Sunshine (2007)

Director: Danny Boyle.
Writer: Alex Garland.
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne and Chris Evans.



Space-ship Icarus I failed to kick-start Earth's dying sun back into action and disappeared. Icarus II carries the last available nuclear super-bomb on a mission to try again. The navigator's oversight causes serious damage to the ship, yet returning is no longer a hope, the mission dubious. Having picked up Icarus II's emergency signal from Mercury, they decide to try pick up its bomb. That side-trip comes at a high cost. But an even worse surprise is lurking aboard.

9. Deep Impact (1998)

Director: Mimi Leder
Writers: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood.



A teenage astronomer and his teacher discover an object amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it's a comet on a direct collision course for earth. After the teacher dies in a car crash trying to report his findings the President announces the comet's existence. He also states that there is no need to panic, because NASA is going to send astronauts on the space mission, Messiah. Their mission is to destroy the comet before it gets too close to the earth. When Messiah backfires, the President announces that special caves will have to be built, and the government will have to have a lottery-of-fate to randomly select 800,000 ordinary American citizens to go along with 200,000 scientists, soldiers, and other officials. These 1,000,000 people will be set aside to save the population from extinction when the comet hits.

10. Knowing (2009)

Director: Alex Proyas.
Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden.
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne.



In 1959, a group of primary school students draw pictures for a time capsule of what they think the world will look like in 2009. One of the children, Lucinda Wayland, doesn't draw a picture but completes a long list of numbers. In 2009, the school opens the capsule and distribute the pictures to the students with Caleb Koestler getting the page with all the numbers. Caleb's father John, a university professor and astrophysicist, is intrigued and in managing to decipher the code, realizes that the numbers represent the date, location and number of people killed in major catastrophes, some natural and others man-made. He also sees that there are 3 disasters that have yet to occur. Lucinda Wayland has died but John contacts her daughter Diana and together they try to warn officials of what is coming. The last of the three disasters may be unstoppable however.

Dzero · Oct 7 '11 · Rate: 5 · Comments: 1