designer apos s guide to coping with magic and the supernatural

... contributor to discussions on the Autotools mailing lists, too John kept asking more and more questions, and discussions with him uncovered some bugs in the Autotools sources and documentation, as ... m4, sed, make, and perl packages, among others With respect to the Autotools, it s important to distinguish between a maintainer s system and an end user s system The design goals of the Autotools ... In the first pass, it gathers variables and rules into tables and internal structures In the second pass, it resolves dependencies defined by the rules, invoking those rules as necessary to rebuild...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... exercise settings, and going beyond the theories and research findings—that is the focus of this chapter Researchers, educators, and practitioners need insights into the psychological benefits of ... skills, and willingness of MHPs to play a much larger role in suggesting exercise programs for clients, and the strategies needed to prescribe exercise routines and programs MHPs often suggest ... Targeting specific processes of change to facilitate progression of exercise behavior across stages is based on the assumption that differences between adjacent stages found in cross-sectional studies...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... directly to waiting airplanes Today s UPS repairs laptops, shapes baseball bats, stocks parts for Bentleys, provides warehouse storage for shoes and cameras, and refurbishes cell phones Oh, and they ... Let s turn now to the foundation of any successful business plan: the mission statement Defining the Business Mission The focus of a business plan is to define the organization s mission for the ... Next Steps What This Means for You Actions Requested Why This Matters 34 The Entrepreneur s Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals A True Story about Using Subheads in Business Writing Several...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... own media without the bonds of existing software tools This story is not reserved for computer scientists and engineers This story is for you Who is this book for? This book is for the beginner ... instructions to direct a turtle around the screen, producing shapes and designs John Maeda s Design By Numbers (1999) introduced computation to visual designers and artists with a simple, easy to use syntax ... software sketchbook and professional production tool Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.” — www.processing.org To sum...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 12:20

... Photoshop and follow the steps outlined Do that with this manual and you’ll pick up some new skills In this guide, I’ll show you how to make use of some amazing features that came with CS5, such ... Content-Aware tool called Spot Healing Brush Tool: Make sure it is set to Content-Aware in the upper options panel: Using this tool is similar to using the normal Brush tool Just “paint” over the unwanted ... Photoshop Before I start this chapter you should know 3D in Photoshop CS5 is a huge topic, and may even be considered as a brand new world within the Photoshop universe It is impossible to mention...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 13:28

... Calcium-Sulfonate-based Greases Paraffins Olefins Phospholipids Alcohols Ethers Esters Polymers Starch Amides Special Issues Side Reactions Silicate-Based Muds Studies on Pipe Sticking Differential Sticking ... Noninhibited Systems In nondispersed systems no special agents are added to deflocculate the solids in the fluid The main advantages of these systems are the higher viscosities and the higher yield point -to- plastics ... system for drilling water sensitive shales K+ ions attach to clay surfaces and lend stability to the shale that is exposed to drilling fluids by the bit The ions also help to hold the cuttings...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:06

... liabilities There is an understandable desire on the part of some corporate executives to leave the issue of currency risk to the likes of currency dealers and speculators and to “just get on with the ... barriers has led to investors and corporations seeking to expand and diversify in other countries, so the global currency market has been the facilitator of that, and in the process increased in size ... UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 15:52

... liabilities There is an understandable desire on the part of some corporate executives to leave the issue of currency risk to the likes of currency dealers and speculators and to “just get on with the ... barriers has led to investors and corporations seeking to expand and diversify in other countries, so the global currency market has been the facilitator of that, and in the process increased in size ... UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 15:53

... best way of doing so is by comparing current to historic levels In this case, one should compare the current levels of option risk reversals as expressed by the table results to a historic measure ... risk reversal in their favour Thus, the dollar–Swiss franc exchange rate risk reversal should usually be in favour of Swiss franc calls In other words, Swiss franc calls should be more expensive ... or stop loss orders with their dealing counterparts within the bank in the next time zone Thus, a dealer in Singapore may pass on their customers’ conditional orders as well as their own to London...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... determine the nature and size of those cash flows The two are not necessarily the same To complicate the issue further, there is the small matter of the parent company s currency, which is used to consolidate ... export prices and thus gain market share Secondly, Euro weakness has, just as we saw with the previous Polish example, boosted the Euro value of their US subsidiaries At some stage, the Euro s decline ... benefits as a result of the Euro s weakness against the US dollar over the last two years Firstly, at the direct level, this Euro weakness has made their exports cheaper to the US, allowing them to...

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... issue that has to be managed independently from the underlying business Within the investor world, the battle for hearts and minds on this issue is ongoing There remain specific types of investor ... it is questionable whether the investor s tracking error and Sharpe ratio, not to say the investor themselves, should have to go through that degree of stress! Equally, currency is not the same ... allowed to carry out some of the ideas and strategies presented herein Let us start then with two core principles on the issue of currency risk: Investing in a country is not the same as investing...

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... Currency Strategy Transactional risk or exposure is essentially cash flow risk Translational risk, for its part, results from the consolidation of group and subsidiary balance sheets, and deals with the ... liquidity to the productive areas of the economy The idea that a speculator is a seller and an investor is a buyer is worse than nonsense It is propaganda designed to cover policy mistakes In line with ... from the domestic sales price and the foreign subsidiary sales price Thus, if the parent sales price for a good is USD10 and the Euro area sales price for argument s sake is EUR15, the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... practical This is a business and a business has to achieve measurable results If that business is to succeed, its results have to outperform consistently While there are no guarantees — and certainly ... corporations with factories or operations in Central and Eastern Europe The reasons for this are simple — just as the Euro has been weak against the US dollar over the past two to three years, so it has ... bottom line Talk is cheap The point of this book is to make a difference to the total or relative returns of investors and speculators, and in terms of reducing hedging costs and boosting the...

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... economics has made to currency analysis, rather it is to emphasize the different focus of the two disciplines Whereas economics seeks to determine the “big picture”, currency analysis seeks specific ... countries in terms of quality, cost and speed to market Base-year effects — There is also the question of when to start the PPP analysis Logic might suggest starting from the end of the Bretton Woods ... trade — Such a concept would imply zero import tariffs, r r r r zero export subsidies and perfect competition across all business sectors Needless to say, this is not the case Whatever progress we...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20

... economics has made to currency analysis, rather it is to emphasize the different focus of the two disciplines Whereas economics seeks to determine the “big picture”, currency analysis seeks specific ... countries in terms of quality, cost and speed to market Base-year effects — There is also the question of when to start the PPP analysis Logic might suggest starting from the end of the Bretton Woods ... trade — Such a concept would imply zero import tariffs, r r r r zero export subsidies and perfect competition across all business sectors Needless to say, this is not the case Whatever progress we...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... of the equation is strongly positive, so the same must be the case for the left-hand side Thus, the inescapable conclusion from this is that the sum of (Sp + Sg ) must of necessity be considerably ... becomes alarming and investors start to get nervous as a result Real money investors start to pare back their positions, but speculators continue to pile in Towards the end of a trend, volatility starts ... able to When they reverse, or rather when they just stop, the exchange rate comes under ever increasing pressure until such time as it collapses to restore equilibrium This process can also work...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... best way of doing so is by comparing current to historic levels In this case, one should compare the current levels of option risk reversals as expressed by the table results to a historic measure ... risk reversal in their favour Thus, the dollar–Swiss franc exchange rate risk reversal should usually be in favour of Swiss franc calls In other words, Swiss franc calls should be more expensive ... or stop loss orders with their dealing counterparts within the bank in the next time zone Thus, a dealer in Singapore may pass on their customers’ conditional orders as well as their own to London...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... and hurting the economy and asset markets in turn As interest rates rise, so asset markets fall, forcing those investors who have stayed to cut their losses — and their positions — thus putting ... theory and within the official community, which labels buyers as investors and sellers as speculators Yet, buyers can also be speculating Indeed, some of the best examples of speculative excess gone ... provides crucial support for cash-strapped companies and banks These hastily complete their inventory de-stocking process, switching most of that supply to export markets unaffected by the crisis, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... issue that has to be managed independently from the underlying business Within the investor world, the battle for hearts and minds on this issue is ongoing There remain specific types of investor ... it is questionable whether the investor s tracking error and Sharpe ratio, not to say the investor themselves, should have to go through that degree of stress! Equally, currency is not the same ... allowed to carry out some of the ideas and strategies presented herein Let us start then with two core principles on the issue of currency risk: Investing in a country is not the same as investing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Currency Strategy Transactional risk or exposure is essentially cash flow risk Translational risk, for its part, results from the consolidation of group and subsidiary balance sheets, and deals with the ... liquidity to the productive areas of the economy The idea that a speculator is a seller and an investor is a buyer is worse than nonsense It is propaganda designed to cover policy mistakes In line with ... from the domestic sales price and the foreign subsidiary sales price Thus, if the parent sales price for a good is USD10 and the Euro area sales price for argument s sake is EUR15, the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20