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The Longest Match

Author : Betsy Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Eating disorders
ISBN : 195512308X

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The Longest Match by Betsy Brenner Pdf

"'Eating disorders.' Most of us instantly picture a teenaged or college aged girl when we see those words. After all, doesn't age immunize women from the body image, weight concerns and eating disorders that plague the younger years? Truth is that, over 15% women at midlife and beyond suffer from eating disorders, surpassing the number affected by breastt cancer! These are serious, life threatening and heartbreaking illnesses at any age. This story needs to be told and Betsy Brenner does just that. "The Longest Match: Rallying to Defeat an Eating Disorder in Midlife is a beautifully written and heartfelt memoir illustrating the trajectory from early childhood, through adolescence and early adulthood, to midlife when eating disorder thoughts and behaviors took over the author's life. Journal entries reveal occasional negative thoughts about her weight or food in younger years, but the stressors of midlife knocked this high functioning woman off her feet. "Like adolescence and young adulthood, midlife is full of tricky transitions. Unlike earlier in life, however, no one is there to catch you when you fall or to coach you back on your feet. Today women feel pressure to do it all and do it perfectly, constantly multitasking at home, and outside of home, taking care of their children and marriages, their extended families, ill and aging parents, all while trying to maintain an identity of their own. "Eating disorders can devour a woman at any age, but Betsy Brenner rallied, using every resource she had. Thank you, Betsy, for being painfully honest about your experiences and your pain, and for explaining the many factors that make a woman vulnerable to eating disorders during midlife. Thank you for finding the courage to access help, for trusting the treatment process and for inspiring other midlife women to believe in themselves. Thank you for telling your story so women struggling with an eating disorder at midlife will know they are not alone and will see a path to recovery. And, most of all, thank you for staying in the match-the 'longest match' ever-and winning." -Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS "I applaud Betsy Brenner for encouraging women of every age to reflect on their relationship with their parents. Through sharing her story, Betsy demonstrates how we can reframe our painful experiences with self-love and self-compassion. This book shows that, at every age, we can grow and find peace and fulfillment through bravely reaching out, connecting with like-minded others, and doing the hard work required to heal our childhood wounds. It's never too late to start. Thank you, Betsy, for showing us how to be free." -Dr. June Alexander, www.thediaryhealer.com "The Longest Match is an outstanding memoir. I have never seen a documented account of an individual who was first diagnosed with an eating disorder in mid-life. Brenner's description of the path that led to her illness and her route to recovery is remarkable. She eloquently describes her childhood, her family history, her personality traits, and her love of tennis, that all contributed to the development of her illness. She describes the process of her therapy with great clarity and allows us to see that full recovery is possible." -Beth Mayer, LICSW

The Longest Fight

Author : William Gildea
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429942805

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Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America's last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what would become the longest boxing match of the twentieth century—between Joe Gans, the first African American boxing champion, and "Battling" Nelson, a vicious and dirty brawler. It was a match billed as the battle of the races. In The Longest Fight, the longtime Washington Post sports correspondent William Gildea tells the story of this epic match, which would stretch to forty-two rounds and last two hours and forty-eight minutes. A new rail line brought spectators from around the country, dozens of reporters came to file blow-by-blow accounts, and an entrepreneurial crew's film of the fight, shown in theaters shortly afterward, endures to this day. The Longest Fight also recounts something much greater—the longer battle that Gans fought against prejudice as the premier black athlete of his time. It is a portrait of life in black America at the turn of the twentieth century, of what it was like to be the first black athlete to successfully cross the nation's gaping racial divide. Gans was smart, witty, trim, and handsome—with one-punch knockout power and groundbreaking defensive skills—and his courage despite discrimination prefigured the strife faced by many of America's finest athletes, including Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali. Inside the ring and out, Gans took the first steps for the African American athletes who would follow, and yet his role in history was largely forgotten until now. The Longest Fight is a reminder of the damage caused by the bigotry that long outlived Gans, and the strength, courage, and will of those who fought to rise above.

The Longest Game

Author : Jan Timman
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918125

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On September 10, 1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. The clash between the reigning champion and his brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have foreseen what was in store. In the next six years they would play five matches for the highest title and create one of the fiercest rivalries in sports history. The matches lasted a staggering total of 14 months, and the ‘two K’s’ played 5540 moves in 144 games. The first match became front page news worldwide when after five months FIDE President Florencio Campomanes stepped in to stop the match citing exhaustion of both participants. A new match was staged and having learned valuable lessons, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion in history. His win was not only hailed as a triumph of imaginative attacking chess, but also as a political victory. The representative of ‘perestroika’ had beaten the old champion, a symbol of Soviet stagnation. Kasparov defended his title in three more matches, all of them full of drama. Karpov remained a formidable opponent and the overall score was only 73-71 in Kasparov’s favour. In The Longest Game Jan Timman returns to the Kasparov-Karpov matches. He chronicles the many twists and turns of this fascinating saga, including his behind-the scenes impressions, and takes a fresh look at the games.

The Longest Fight

Author : Emily Bullock
Publisher : Myriad Editions
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908434548

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The Longest Fight by Emily Bullock Pdf

Set in 1950s London amidst the gritty and violent world of boxing, this beautiful and brutal debut is the story of one man's struggle to overcome the mistakes and tragedies of his past. Jack Munday has been fighting all his life. His early memories are shaped by the thrill of the boxing ring. Since then he has grown numb, scarred by his bullying father and haunted by the tragic fate of his first love. Now a grafting boxing manager, Jack is hungry for change. So when hope and ambition appear in the form of Frank, a young fighter with a winning prospect, and Georgie, a new girl who can match him step for step, Jack seizes his chance for a better future, determined to win at all costs.

Mastering Regular Expressions

Author : Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596002890

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Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl Pdf

Introduces regular expressions and how they are used, discussing topics including metacharacters, nomenclature, matching and modifying text, expression processing, benchmarking, optimizations, and loops.

Network Algorithmics

Author : George Varghese,Jun Xu
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128099865

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Network Algorithmics by George Varghese,Jun Xu Pdf

Network Algorithmics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices, Second Edition takes an interdisciplinary approach to applying principles for efficient implementation of network devices, offering solutions to the problem of network implementation bottlenecks. In designing a network device, there are dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will perform – sometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. The book provides a complete and coherent methodology for maximizing speed while meeting network design goals. The book is uniquely focused on the seamless integration of data structures, algorithms, operating systems and hardware/software co-designs for high-performance routers/switches and network end systems. Thoroughly updated based on courses taught by the authors over the past decade, the book lays out the bottlenecks most often encountered at four disparate levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware and architecture. It then develops fifteen principles key to breaking these bottlenecks, systematically applying them to bottlenecks found in end-nodes, interconnect devices and specialty functions located along the network. Later sections discuss the inherent challenges of modern cloud computing and data center networking. Offers techniques that address common bottlenecks of interconnect devices, including routers, bridges, gateways, endnodes, and Web servers Presents many practical algorithmic concepts that students and readers can work with immediately Revised and updated throughout to discuss the latest developments from authors’ courses, including measurement algorithmics, randomization, regular expression matching, and software-defined networking Includes a new, rich set of homework exercises and exam questions to facilitate classroom use

Combinatorial Pattern Matching

Author : Ricardo Baeza-Yates,Edgar Chávez,Maxime Crochemore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540403111

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Combinatorial Pattern Matching by Ricardo Baeza-Yates,Edgar Chávez,Maxime Crochemore Pdf

The refereed proceedings of the 14th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2003, held in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico in June 2003. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are devoted to current theoretical and computational aspects of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns, such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets, and arrays. Among the application fields addressed are computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, the Web, data compression, coding, multimedia, information retrieval, pattern recognition, and computer vision.

Computer Science & Perl Programming

Author : Jon Orwant
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449371357

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Computer Science & Perl Programming by Jon Orwant Pdf

In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal ran 247 articles by over 120 authors. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical topics such as regular expressions, databases, and object-oriented programming, and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. The magazine gave birth to both the Obfuscated Perl Contest and the Perl Poetry contest, and remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development.Computer Science and Perl Programming is the first volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its 5 years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes. This volume has 70 articles devoted to hard-core computer science, advanced programming techniques, and the underlying mechanics of Perl.Here's a sample of what you'll find inside: Jeffrey Friedl on Understanding Regexes Mark Jason Dominus on optimizing your Perl programs with Memoization Damian Conway on Parsing Tim Meadowcroft on integrating Perl with Microsoft Office Larry Wall on the culture of Perl Written by 41 of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl.Other books tell you how to use Perl, but this book goes far beyond that: it shows you not only how to use Perl, but what you could use Perl for. This is more than just The Best of the Perl Journal -- in many ways, this is the best of Perl.

Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing

Author : Steve Young,Gerrit Bloothooft
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0792344634

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Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing by Steve Young,Gerrit Bloothooft Pdf

Corpus-based methods will be found at the heart of many language and speech processing systems. This book provides an in-depth introduction to these technologies through chapters describing basic statistical modeling techniques for language and speech, the use of Hidden Markov Models in continuous speech recognition, the development of dialogue systems, part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing, data-oriented parsing and n-gram language modeling. The book attempts to give both a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with sufficient mathematics to understand the underlying principles. There is also an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. Overall, we believe that the book will give newcomers a solid introduction to the field and it will give existing practitioners a concise review of the principal technologies used in state-of-the-art language and speech processing systems. Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing is an initiative of ELSNET, the European Network in Language and Speech. In its activities, ELSNET attaches great importance to the integration of language and speech, both in research and in education. The need for and the potential of this integration are well demonstrated by this publication.

Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences

Author : Dan Gusfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781139811002

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Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences by Dan Gusfield Pdf

String algorithms are a traditional area of study in computer science. In recent years their importance has grown dramatically with the huge increase of electronically stored text and of molecular sequence data (DNA or protein sequences) produced by various genome projects. This book is a general text on computer algorithms for string processing. In addition to pure computer science, the book contains extensive discussions on biological problems that are cast as string problems, and on methods developed to solve them. It emphasises the fundamental ideas and techniques central to today's applications. New approaches to this complex material simplify methods that up to now have been for the specialist alone. With over 400 exercises to reinforce the material and develop additional topics, the book is suitable as a text for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer science, computational biology, or bio-informatics. Its discussion of current algorithms and techniques also makes it a reference for professionals.

The Software IP Detective's Handbook

Author : Bob Zeidman
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780137035793

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The Software IP Detective's Handbook by Bob Zeidman Pdf

“Intellectual property, software plagiarism, patents, and copyrights are complicated subjects. This book explains the key elements better than anything else I have seen. I highly recommend it to anyone who develops software or needs to protect proprietary software algorithms, and to all attorneys involved with IP litigation.” –Capers Jones, President, Capers Jones & Associates LLC “Intellectual property is an engine of growth for our high tech world and a valuable commodity traded in its own right. Bob Zeidman is a leading authority on software intellectual property, and in this book he shares his expertise with us. The book is comprehensive. It contains clear explanations of many difficult subjects. Business people who study it will learn how to protect their IP. Lawyers will use it to understand the specifics of how software embodies IP. Judges will cite it in their decisions on IP litigation.” –Abraham Sofaer, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Definitive Software IP Guide for Developers, Managers, Entrepreneurs, Attorneys, and Consultants In The Software IP Detective’s Handbook, pioneering expert Bob Zeidman–creator of CodeSuite®, the world’s #1 software IP analysis tool–thoroughly covers all technical and legal aspects of IP theft detection. Using his rigorous framework and practical examples, you can accurately determine whether software copying, theft, or infringement has occurred, and fully support your findings in any venue. This book will help you Understand the key concepts that underlie software IP analysis Compare and correlate source code for signs of theft or infringement Uncover signs of copying in object code when source code is inaccessible Track malware and third-party code in applications Use software clean rooms to avoid IP infringement Understand IP issues associated with open source and DMCA Visit www.SAFE-corp.biz to download a free trial version of CodeSuite®, the #1 tool for detecting software copying.

High Performance Switches and Routers

Author : H. Jonathan Chao,Bin Liu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470053676

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High Performance Switches and Routers by H. Jonathan Chao,Bin Liu Pdf

As Internet traffic grows and demands for quality of service become stringent, researchers and engineers can turn to this go-to guide for tested and proven solutions. This text presents the latest developments in high performance switches and routers, coupled with step-by-step design guidance and more than 550 figures and examples to enable readers to grasp all the theories and algorithms used for design and implementation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration

Author : Sander van Vugt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118421437

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration by Sander van Vugt Pdf

The definitive guide to administering a Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 6 network Linux professionals who need a go-to guide on version 6 of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) will find what they need in thiscomprehensive Sybex book. It covers RHEL administration in detail,including how to set up and manage web and mail services, use RHELin enterprise environments, secure it, optimize storage, configurefor virtualization and high availability, and much more. It alsoprovides a great study aid for those preparing for either the RHCSAor RHCE certification exam. Red Hat is the Linux market leader, and Red Hat administratorsare in demand This Sybex guide is a comprehensive resource on Red HatEnterprise Linux administration and useful for those preparing forone of the Red Hat certification exams Covers setting up and managing web and mail services, usingRHEL in enterprise environments, securing RHEL, and optimizingstorage to fit your environment Explores advanced RHEL configurations, including virtualizationand high availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration is the guideLinux professionals and Red Hat administrators need to stay currenton the newest version.

Combinatorial Pattern Matching

Author : Bin Ma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540734369

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Combinatorial Pattern Matching by Bin Ma Pdf

This volume features select refereed proceedings from the 18th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching. Collectively, the papers provide great insights into the most recent advances in combinatorial pattern matching. They are organized into topical sections covering algorithmic techniques, approximate pattern matching, data compression, computational biology, pattern analysis, suffix arrays and trees, and algorithmic techniques.

Network Routing Basics

Author : James Macfarlane
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470038826

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Network Routing Basics by James Macfarlane Pdf

A fresh look at routing and routing protocols in today's networks. A primer on the subject, but with thorough, robust coverage of an array of routing topics Written by a network/routing instructor who could never find quite the right book for his students -so he wrote his own Coverage of all routing protocols. In-depth coverage of interior routing protocols, with extensive treatment of OSPF. Includes overview of BGP as well Not written as a "pass the test" guide. Rather, a close look at real world routing with many examples, making it an excellent choice for preparing for a variety of certification exams Many extras including a networking primer, TCPIP coverage with thorough explanations of subnetting / VLSMs / CIDR addressing, route summarization, discontiguous networks, longest match principal, and more.