Push Back Time

Author : J Dori Callahan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468529746

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"The Administrator requested I give you a presentation of the information we have in reference to JL 1628 and the reported UFO encounter over Alaska within the Alaska Air Traffic Control area. Would you gentlemen introduce yourself?" One man stood up and turned toward the six remaining men. "These are members of the Presidential scientific staff, along with members of the CIA and FBI. I am the team leader." He flashed his identification badge and sat down offering no names of the participants. The software team leader rose and slipped a video in a recorder, a picture of a radarscope filled the television screen which covered an entire wall of the large office. All eyes were transfixed on the JL 1628's aircraft symbol moving across the pale green background. Clearly depicted adjacent to the JL 1628 symbol was an intermitting unidentified target traveling in the vicinity of the B747. The unknown target moved beside, in front of and around JL 1628 for 32 minutes as the group listened to the voice of the pilot, the FAA air traffic controller, and the military controller as the attempted to determine who, what and where the strange target came from and the intention of the invader. The seven men requested to watch the tape two more times before starting their questioning. The oldest of the seven stood up and begin the questioning. He stated that he was from the President's scientific staff and needed a few details. "What was the speed of the antenna?" The lead software engineer responded, "9 seconds." "What was the frequency of the radar?" "126.35 he responded. "What was the beam width?" "3.5 degrees." "What was the algorithm of the height finding radar?" One of the other software engineers responded with the algorithm as if he answered the same question everyday. The leader of the seven stood up, pointing to the many boxes filled with printouts and tapes from the incident. "We are confiscating all this data." He turned in the direction of the large screen, "this event never happened, we were never here. Your are not to utter one word of this entire event to anyone. You are sworn to secrecy. If fact, you will forget any involvement with JL 1628 including us, this room, and every scrap of paper and person connected. Understand?"

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781416587408

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The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time by William Safire Pdf

For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine's column "On Language" -- one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for innumerable fans. He is the most widely read writer on the English language today. Safire is the guru of contemporary vocabulary, speech, language, usage and writing. Dedicated and disputatious readers itch to pick up each column and respond to the week's linguistic wisdom with a gotcha letter to the Times. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time marks the publication of Safire's sixteenth book on language. This collection is a classic to be read, re-read, enjoyed and fought over. Fans, critics and fellow linguists wait with bated (from the French abattre "to beat down") breath for each new anthology -- and, like its predecessors, this one is bound to satisfy and delight. Safire finds fodder for his columns in politics and current events, as well as in science, technology, entertainment and daily life. The self-proclaimed card-carrying language maven and pop grammarian is not above tackling his own linguistic blunders as he detects language trends and tracks words, phrases and clichés to their source. Scholarly, entertaining and thoughtful, Safire's critical observations about language and slanguage are at once provocative and enlightening. Safire is America's go-to guy when it comes to language, and he has included sharp and passionately opinionated letters from readers across the English-speaking world who have been unable to resist picking up a pen to put the maven himself in his place or to offer alternate interpretations, additional examples, amusing anecdotes or just props. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time is a fascinating, learned and piquant look at the oddities and foibles that find their way into the English language. Exposing linguistic hooey and rigamarole and filled with Safire's trademark wisdom, this book has a place on the desk or bedside table of all who share his profound love of the English language -- as well as his penchant for asking "What does that mean?" Or, "Wassat?" This new collection is sure to delight readers, writers and word lovers everywhere and spark the interest of anyone who has ever wondered, "Where did the phrase 'brazen hussy' come from?"

Author : Lawrence Clayton
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781639857500

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The Push Back by Lawrence Clayton Pdf

As our country goes through trying times, the author put together the best of his op-ed columns, published in his local newspaper, The Tuscaloosa News, which deals with the issues facing our nation today. Clayton ranges all the way from the issues very close to home and family, such as what is being taught in our schools, colleges, and universities, to issues straddling the incredibly complex and often rancorous events in public life, from the presidency of the nation all the way down to local school boards. He not only identifies and analyzes issues we are all, more or less, familiar with, like Project 1619, critical race theory, the programs of diversity, equity, and inclusion in virtually all colleges and universities across the country, but the reader will also find suggestions and remedies for a world that has become almost dysfunctional or dystopic in today's language. These suggestions range all the way from establishing new programs of study that emphasize our traditional values, like liberty, equality, the right to vote, personal responsibility, and furthermore, call for a restoration of the home and religion to fashionably modern concerns with sexism, racism, and other expressions leaving young people at loose ends on who they are and what is it that made the nation so prosperous and generous until this day. As a historian, he does not ignore what went wrong over the years in the making of our people but deals with them honestly and explores many answers suggested by a close reading of both natural law and Christian Scripture.

Author : Elizabeth M. Altmaier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498202091

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Push Back the Dark by Elizabeth M. Altmaier Pdf

Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually abused as children or youth. Why aren't they coming forward for help? Their reluctance may be related to wounds given by the faithful--religious people they trusted, who said things like "well, it wasn't rape" or "it's been thirty years--why is this such a big deal?" Such responses from people with religious authority deepen victims' need to shrink into anxiety, depression, and self-degradation. This book offers you the tools needed to undertake caring ministry to adults suffering in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse. Once you understand the scientific research on such topics as trauma memory, consequences of abuse, and forgiveness, you will appreciate how caring collaboration can create hope and healing. In these pages every reader will find helpful content that will take you from feeling out of your depth to knowing you are empowered to be an effective companion in God's transforming work in the lives of survivors of abuse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UFL:31262095130554

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Chart Supplement, Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Stephen Tecklin
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0781710103

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Pediatric Physical Therapy by Jan Stephen Tecklin Pdf

You'll want to keep this practical volume within easy reach! Now thoroughly updated, this Third Edition provides an overview of the knowledge and skills required for current practice in the physical rehabilitation of children. Readers will learn to integrate essential information into a physical therapy evaluation and treatment plan. Organized by disability and diseases, then by specialty, the text addresses the most current information on each disability, and presents evaluation techniques and suitable interventions. Unlike other books, this unique guide covers neurological disorders, neuromuscular problems, developmental disabilities, orthopedic and cardiopulmonary disorders -- all in chapters written by recognized experts. Noteworthy in this edition: coverage of orthopedic and limb deficiency, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and assistive devices.

Author : Kalervo N Gulson,Colin Symes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429684128

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Education and the Mobility Turn by Kalervo N Gulson,Colin Symes Pdf

The ‘mobile turn’ in human geography, sociology and cultural studies has resulted in a hitherto unparalleled focus on the critical role that mobility plays in conserving and regenerating society and culture. In this instance, ‘mobility’ refers not just to the physical movement of goods and peoples, ideas and symbols; it can also be analytically applied to the technologies used to facilitate their movement. One such technology is education, which has yet to fall the under the purview of the mobility lens – something that this collection endeavours to redress. Its contributing authors, drawn from Canada, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, explore salient issues relating to education and mobility. These include studies of the career implications for academics of moving across borders; the impact of university study on prison populations; policy mobility and the charter school movement; affect theory and policy development in Canada; educational advertising on Sydney trains and stations; and the employment mobile approaches to track policy development and implementation. One notable feature of the mobility turn is the willingness of its adoptees to explore innovative research methods. Variously demonstrating the efficacy and cogency of autoethnography, affect theory, textual ethnography and human geography for a mobility-empowered education analytics, this collection is no exception. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

Author : Jeff Steffen,Jim Stiehl
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780736079990

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Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits by Jeff Steffen,Jim Stiehl Pdf

Teaching Lifetime Outdoor Pursuits presents 12 outdoor pursuits you can incorporate in your outdoor program or traditional PE program. The activities are aligned with NASPE standards and presented by experts who provide instruction on content, delivery, and assessment. The CD-ROM has objectives, sample lessons, sample assessments, and programming ideas.

Author : Karen DeVries
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780742430426

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Literacy Activities for Circle Time: Rhythm and Rhyme, Ages 3 - 6 by Karen DeVries Pdf

Strengthen students' language, memory, and attention skills with Literacy Activities for Circle Time: Rhythm and Rhyme for grades PK–1. This 96-page book provides hands-on, cross-curricular activities that develop children's emerging literacy skills. The book provides ideas that engage students through listening, watching, imitating, cooperating, playacting, singing, and chanting. It aligns with state and national standards.

Author : Robert Daniel Austin,Lee Devin
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0130086959

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Artful Making by Robert Daniel Austin,Lee Devin Pdf

The authors show how to "manage" ingenuity--and "manufacture" the next great idea, in other words they tell what managers need to know about how artists and highly creative people work.

Author : Carsten Berkau
Publisher : UVK Verlag
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783739881829

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Financial Statements by Carsten Berkau Pdf

This textbook covers the IAS/IFRS-syllabus of financial accounting on bachelor's and master's level. It covers how to prepare financial statements and tackles special problems in IFRSs-accounting, like asset revaluations, manufacturing accounting, share issues, financial instruments, group statements etc. The content is explained by more than 60 case studies completely illustrated with their bookkeeping entries and financial statements. All chapters outline the learning objectives, provide an overview, cover the contents of relevant IAS/IFRS-standards, include case studies and how-it-is-done-paragraphs. They end with a summary, the explanation of new technical terms and a question bank with solutions for checking your learning progress. On the internet, you can find further cases linked to the textbook by QR-codes and more than 350 exam tasks including solutions as well as youtube-videos from the author. The textbook helps you to learn IFRSs and to familiarise yourself with international accounting in English. It is an accurate translation of the textbook Bilanzen from the same author.

Author : W. Richard Stevens,Stephen A. Rago
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321638007

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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens,Stephen A. Rago Pdf

For more than twenty years, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens’ Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment. Now, once again, Rich’s colleague Steve Rago has thoroughly updated this classic work. The new third edition supports today’s leading platforms, reflects new technical advances and best practices, and aligns with Version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification. Steve carefully retains the spirit and approach that have made this book so valuable. Building on Rich’s pioneering work, he begins with files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O. He also thoroughly covers threads and multithreaded programming, and socket-based IPC. This edition covers more than seventy new interfaces, including POSIX asynchronous I/O, spin locks, barriers, and POSIX semaphores. Most obsolete interfaces have been removed, except for a few that are ubiquitous. Nearly all examples have been tested on four modern platforms: Solaris 10, Mac OS X version 10.6.8 (Darwin 10.8.0), FreeBSD 8.0, and Ubuntu version 12.04 (based on Linux 3.2). As in previous editions, you’ll learn through examples, including more than ten thousand lines of downloadable, ISO C source code. More than four hundred system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you’ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each reflecting contemporary environments. Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment has helped generations of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today’s systems, this third edition will be even more valuable.

Author : Eric Passmore
Publisher : Apress
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484218730

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Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud by Eric Passmore Pdf

This book reveals the technical challenges and successful implementation details of migrating MSN, Microsoft’s consumer content portal--a business with 450 million worldwide users--into the Cloud. Following a technique long used in aviation, medicine, and other fields, MSN’s Chief Technical Officer, Eric Passmore, describes the set of release, deployment, monitoring, and mitigation checklists used to build cloud services supporting hundreds of millions of users on Azure, Microsoft’s Public Cloud. An undertaking of this scale--involving services supported by a large team of engineers--involves unique challenges and risks. This book demonstrates through personal experience how to cut through the theory and provides checklists as a surprisingly simple antidote to the competing methodologies. This book works at two levels. At a fundamental level, businesses need to be successful in the cloud if they want to seize new opportunities and transform their business to compete successfully. This book provides a framework for success by identifying the "hidden" work as part of moving to the cloud. At a more practical, level there is an incredible hunger for simple to follow, "how-to" information on Cloud migration. This book is a reference guide to reduce risk and achieve success without requiring the busy reader to wade through theory. It contains simple to follow, "how-to" information on cloud migration. It is a reference guide to achieving success, and any team can modify these tasks to fit the needs of their own organization. Who This Book is For: Technology professionals who deploy services in the cloud or are thinking of moving to the cloud. Professionals in the DevOps and Cloud services fields need these skills to succeed in their current jobs or advance their careers.

Author : Connie Hamilton,Joseph Jones,T.J. Vari
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071871089

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7 Mindshifts for School Leaders by Connie Hamilton,Joseph Jones,T.J. Vari Pdf

With the right approach, no problem is unsolvable. How do you approach and solve problems in education that have been around so long that they just feel...normal? Perpetual issues—numeracy, reading ability, equity, grading, and teacher retention—are often continually managed, but not solved like the crises they are for future sustainability. This innovative guide introduces seven mindshifts that will help you engage with your community, access diverse resources, embrace radical new ideas, create equity, and chart a course of school improvement to solve those "unsolvable issues" so that your students and teachers learn and grow. Features include Seven adaptable models—one per mindshift—for finding your own solutions to perennial problems Stories highlighting the successful implementation of each mindshift Discussions to help you match mindshifts to particular problems Technical tips and reflection questions Persistent problems in education can only be solved if we approach them as the crises that they are. This book gives you the tools you need to become a new kind of school leader—one empowered to not just deal with the outcomes of perennial complex issues, but extinguish them altogether so that your students can thrive.

Author : Neil Kesterson
Publisher : Dynamix Productions, Inc.
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798989035106

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Push the Right Buttons by Neil Kesterson Pdf

Push the right buttons to jump start an exciting career in audio production. Step by step, learn how to balance creativity with professionalism in the fascinating world of music production, television and film sound design, live sound, broadcasting, advertising, and more. Avoid common pitfalls while streamlining the path to your dream. Take a deep dive into real-world productions and learn techniques, equipment, and problem solving. Discover how to build, navigate, and sustain complex relationships with directors, producers, talent, and clients. Explore studio and film set etiquette, procedures, and best practices. The author, who has spent four decades in the business, shares audio engineering tricks and advice. Get a breakdown of recording basics, nuanced editing techniques, digital audio concepts, time management, and more. The curtain is pulled back and the magic revealed in Push the Right Buttons: A Practical Guide to Becoming and Succeeding as an Audio Engineer and Producer.