... in the face of
concurrency. On the other side, Clojure shares a symbiotic relationship with the
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Functional programming
Why Clojure ... help you get there. These are exciting
times, and Clojure is the language we hope you’ll agree is an essential tool for navigat-
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incidental ... could make the use of
third-party Java libraries more clumsy. So Clojure went the other way: direct, wrapper-
free, compiles-to -the- same-bytecode access to Java classes and methods. Clojure strings
are...
... guide the spirits back to
their world. Many cooks prepare snacks for the spirits to take with
them on their journey. Once again, lanterns and bonfires light the
way. Finally, people gather ...
Japanese believe that the products of the earth and the sea should be
used in ways that preserve their natural forms and flavors as much as
possible.
When they plan meals during the year, Japanese ... menus.
Cooking the Japanese Way
When they prepare food, the Japanese use basic cooking methods
that preserve or enhance the natural flavors of all the ingredients.
Most of these methods are...
... must determine the fastest way that user
requests are serviced. After the distribution layer determines the best path, it forwards the request to the core
layer. The core layer is then responsible ... Layer
At the top of the hierarchy is the core layer. It is literally the core of the network and is responsible for
switching traffic as quickly as possible. The traffic transported across the core ... processed at the distribution layer, and the distribution layer forwards the
requests to the core, if needed. If there is a failure in the core, every all user can be affected; therefore, fault...
... allow
them to gauge the extent of the starry congregations without
leaving the surface of the Earth.
The most important clue to the distribution of stars is the
phenomenon we call the Milky Way. The ... the last star of the
handle away from the dipper cup, lies about twice as far away
as Dubhe, the uppermost of the two stars in the outer edge of
the cup. In the mind’s eye, we see the stars projected ... movement of the sky is, of course, due to
the rotation of the Earth, not the sky, and we know that the stars
are not all at the same distance, as they would be if they were
fixed to the inner surface...
... at any point.
Either the beginning or the end of the line can be attached to an already
existing object which
can be broken at the intersection point with the double line.
The “DOUBLE LINE” ... allows the user to trace a continuous double line by using straight line
segments and arcs.
The line’s ends can be closed and the angles can be adjusted
automatically.
The width of the double ... image compression standard.
It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in the
year 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine
transform-based...
... When
asked what they’d like to have prepared for them, they
both respond that they aren’t there to make a purchase.
They just want to see “what all the Starbucks fascination
is about.” They become ... to these regions, it would not be re-
spectful to the communities or practical for us. We are relying on
the partners who go to give their own authentic accounts to other
partners throughout the ... and the community.”
—ROBERT SPECTOR,
author of The Nordstrom Way and
coauthor of the forthcoming What’s
Love Got to Do with It?: Courting,
Catching, and Caring for the Ideal
Customer
“Leading the...
... leader of the arrangement and it percol-
ated swiftly up through the hierarchy to the council of the highest
group heads, who directed policy for the entire Galaxy. There were nine
of them and they ... Rolan
and the others out there—they've given us the day off, but the galactics
are all busy in the fields. Everybody has to work, Dad."
Laurent looked through a slight haze at the masters ... and the
invasion of the globular cluster took time. The war emergency lasted
fifty years. When it was over, the slaves called on the galactics to take
back control of the government.
But the...
... FREQUENTLY
. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD
CONSULT WITH ANY APPLICABLE TELEPHONE COMPANIES ABOUT THE SERVICES
THEY OFFER AND THE RATES THEY CHARGE
. YOU SHOULD QUESTION THEM
CLOSELY ABOUT HOW THE NUMEROUS ...
fewer than 50—then measured
service will save you money.
Introduction
xii
The Cheapest Way to Make Phone Calls, Send Faxes or Use the Internet
separates the facts from the hype.
Although ... services—in fact, the author will
avoid doing so—but to provide the most pertinent facts in the most objective
manner.
The Cheapest Way to Make Phone Calls, Send Faxes or Use the Internet also...
... environment.
Significantly, the African regards the earth as a mother. In the Akan language,
the earth is often addressed as Asaase Yaa, i.e. Mother Earth. Mother Earth
is revered as the provider and sustainer ... support.
Since the inception of PLEC in West Africa, the University of Ghana has served
as the management centre for work in southern Ghana and as the principal admin-
istrative node for the country. In the ... Indicator
Plantain Tip of the finger becomes black, and/or browning of leaves around the
pseudostem
Cassava Cracking of the soil beneath and around the base of the stem /the
bulging of the tubers
Maize...
...
obstacles they would ruin their chances for getting their project
approved. In fact, the precise opposite turned out to be the case.
The more they surfaced the key risks and uncertainties, and the ... THE HARD WAY
Leading against the current is the equivalent of making the
free fall worse. By embracing turbulence and not taking the easy
way out, a leader is in a better position to jar the ... turbulence. In the
way that it illustrates the three principles described in the preced-
ing chapters, it is also a compelling conclusion to the fi rst half of
the book.
Leadership the hard way is a...
... illegally on the street. I calculated the likelihood
of getting a ticket, the size of the penalty, and the cost of putting the car in a
lot. I decided it paid to take the risk and park on the street. ... revealing way. If children also
maximize their utility, then the envelope theorem implies that
(7)
Equation (7) has the intuitive interpretation that parents do not give be-
quests when the utility they ... help
children either by investing in their human capital or by leaving them assets.
Since they want to maximize the advantage to children, given the cost to
themselves - parents are not sadistic - they...
... date. The problem with most people, though, is that they tend
to save their files in a ‘read only’ format, which means that they are unable to edit
them in the future. In addition, many of these ... With the Start menu open to display Notepad’s
location, hold down the Ctrl key, and then click and hold down the mouse button.
Now drag the Notepad icon to your desktop. When you release the mouse ... tucked away where you wouldn’t think
to look for them. And if ever you don’t have the tool for the job, there’s almost certain
to be one or more free programs available that can handle the task.
I’ve...
... lungs, never to return .The passengers
huddling on the floor of the stage. The gun shots scaring them so much,
they fear the worst. They begin saying goodbye to each other and to their
loved ones, ... He is surprised at
the speed of the coach, the cargo must be must be important. The
passengers pray that they complete the trip, curse the driver for the
speed. Not knowing of the dangers out side, ... is imminent. The stage continues .The stage breaks
through the forest on to the plains. The fog lifting, they can see the light of
the soon to rise sun, though day is still hours a way. London...
... one which the main the
spaces had to be naturally ventilated, being these the Operational Support Building and
Utilities Centre, and the other where the artificial control of the thermal conditions ... shading. On the other hand, when the wind speed is higher, the
hours in thermal comfort raise to 67.5% of the time in the spots with direct solar irradiance,
increasing to 98% of the time when the ... respects to
the laboratories and their connections to the rest of the research centre, was a fundamental
to the site planning of buildings both in the first phase as in the expansion of the Petrobras...