Tabla de Contenidos: “…9 TEMPORAL PATTERNS AND CYCLES -- Periods Longer than Four Years -- Periods of Four Years or Less -- January Signals -- Events -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- 10 FLOW OF FUNDS -- Funds in the Marketplace -- Funds Outside the Security Market -- The Cost of Funds -- Fed Policy -- Conclusion -- Review Questions -- Part III: Trend Analysis -- 11 HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHARTS -- History of Charting -- What Data Is Needed to Construct a Chart? …”

“…The decade which began in July 1997 saw a global financial system that generated more wealth for more people for a much longer period of time than any other in financial history. …”

“…In short, the established financial model not only has been unable to prevent the crisis but, arguably, has been a cause of it. There is no longer one obvious model that meets all needs. The burst of Japan’s bubble was followed by two “lost decades”. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2015 -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Executive Summary -- Part A: Global Energy Trends -- Chapter 1: Introduction and scope -- Scope of the report -- Methodological approach -- Modelling framework -- Defining the scenarios -- Main non-policy assumptions -- The economy -- Demographic trends -- Carbon-dioxide prices -- Technology -- Energy supply costs and prices -- Oil prices -- Natural gas prices -- Coal prices -- Chapter 2: Global energy trends to 2040 -- Introduction -- Overview of energy trends by scenario -- Energy trends in the New Policies Scenario -- Energy demand -- Energy supply -- Inter-regional energy trade -- Energy sector investment -- Energy-related CO2 emissions -- Topics in focus -- Fossil-fuel subsidies -- Access to modern energy -- Chapter 3: Oil market outlook -- Oil price fall and the long-term outlook -- The story so far -- Demand -- Regional trends -- Sectoral trends -- Trends by product -- Production -- Resources and reserves -- Production prospects -- Refining and trade -- Investment and costs -- Chapter 4: Low Oil Price Scenario -- What could keep oil prices down for longer? -- Key assumptions -- Outcomes in the Low Oil Price Scenario -- Oil demand -- Oil production -- Focus: tight oil - a new balancing element in the oil market? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Task 2: RC on Launch to Landing, No Power -- Task 3: RC on Launch and Landing, Low Power, Cut Throttle -- Task 4: RC on Launch and Landing, Increasing Power -- Task 5: Turning -- The Wind -- Overall Good Strategies for Learning to Fly -- Skill Building -- Precision Landing -- Hit the Balloon -- Fly in Stressful Situations -- Aerobatics -- Conclusion -- 6 Keeping You and Your Airplane Alive: Diagnostics and Repair -- Preflight Checklists of Use -- The Brief Preflight in 3 Seconds: Servos, Up, Down, Left, Right, Power, Launch -- More Complete Checklist for Aircraft of Questionable Integrity -- Crash Kit -- Basic Crash Kit -- More Complete Crash Kit -- Kinds of Repairs -- The Big-Crash Postflight Inspection -- More Specific Fixes -- Completely Dead Airplane -- Completely Dead Airplane: Rebind the Receiver -- Completely Dead Airplane: ESC Not Sending Power to the Receiver -- Completely Dead Airplane: Receiver/Servo -- Completely Dead Airplane: Transmitter -- Water Immersion -- Servos Operate But Motor Does Not -- Evaluating Motor Damage -- Symptom: Motor Has Weak Thrust -- Motor Vibrates -- Motor Gets Very Hot -- Motor Doesn't Work at All -- Battery Damage -- Highly Suspect Battery -- Check Battery Pack -- Battery Disposal -- Servo Damage -- Servo Not Moving -- Servo Arms Are No Longer Vertical When Trim Tabs Are Centered -- Busted Servo Arm -- Broken Propeller -- Kinds of Prop Damage -- Flutter -- Poor Radio Connection -- Conclusion -- 7 Make Your Plane Look Good for Day Flying -- General Considerations to Keep in Mind -- Examples -- Mouse: Avery Stick-on Labels and Sharpies -- Purple Monster: Wrapping Paper -- Big Pink Angst: Fresnel-Lens Plastic -- Silver Shark: Plastic Film 2 -- Brooklyn Aerodrome Orange Plane (BAOP) Paint on Foam -- Blue Angel and Others in Printed Tyvek -- Flying Heart: Sign Vinyl -- Firefly: Balloon Film -- Decorating with Tape…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Summary -- Chapter 8: Regular Expression Pitfalls, Optimization, and Performance Improvements -- Common pitfalls and ways to avoid them while writing regular expressions -- Do not forget to escape regex metacharacters outside a character class -- Avoid escaping every non-word character -- Avoid unnecessary capturing groups to reduce memory consumption -- However, don't forget to use the required group around alternation -- Use predefined character classes instead of longer versions -- Use the limiting quantifier instead of repeating a character or pattern multiple times -- Do not use an unescaped hyphen in the middle of a character class -- The mistake of calling matcher.goup() without a prior call to matcher.find(), matcher.matches(), or matcher.lookingAt() -- Do not use regular expressions to parse XML / HTML data -- How to test and benchmark your regular expression performance -- Catastrophic or exponential backtracking -- How to avoid catastrophic backtracking -- Optimization and performance enhancement tips -- Use a compiled form of regular expressions -- Use a negated character class instead of the greedy and slow .* or .+ -- Avoid unnecessary grouping…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 10: Follow-Up Strategies -- The Proper Way to Set a Call Back -- How to Follow Up with Prospects and Win Business -- Staying Top of Mind Across a Longer Time Frame -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Connect with Mike Brooks -- Call Me -- Other Resources that Will Help You -- About the Author -- Mike Brooks, Mr. …”

“…Legions of salespeople and their leaders are coming face to face with a cold hard truth: what once gave salespeople a competitive edge—controlling the sales process, command of product knowledge, an arsenal of technology, and a great pitch—are no longer guarantees of success. Yet this is where the vast majority of the roughly $20 billion spent each year on sales training goes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Problems That Are Likely to Happen -- SY-SUBRC -- BAPIs -- BDCs -- Field Symbols -- Problems That Really Shouldn't Happen -- Self-Repair: Example 1 -- Self-Repair: Example 2 -- Problems That Should Never, Ever Happen -- Spotting the Impossible -- Dealing with the Impossible -- Dealing with Instability: Using Humans -- What's Wrong #1 -- What's Wrong #2 -- Conclusion -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter 5: Performance: The Third Pillar of Code Quality -- CPO Concept -- Daily Dumps -- Annual In-House CPO -- Static Checks -- Geometric Loops -- Secondary Indexes for Internal Tables -- Runtime Checks -- ST05 in General -- Identical SELECTS -- How to Spot the Problem -- Strategies to Deal with the Problem -- Real-Life Example -- Stuttering -- Asking Stupid Questions -- Reading More Data Than Needed -- Selecting More Columns Than You Need -- Selecting More Rows Than You Need -- The Behavior Never Made Sense -- The Behavior No Longer Makes Sense -- The Behavior Makes Sense -- Existence Checks -- Multiple Reads on the Same Table -- Contract Example -- Partner Function Example -- Shipment Cost Example -- Using FOR ALL ENTRIES -- Indexes -- Indexes: Always Using One -- Indexes: Missing the First Field -- Indexes: SKIP SCAN -- Nested SELECTs -- "Bad" Joins on Database Tables -- Postmortem Checks -- Standard SAP Transactions for Troubleshooting Performance Problems -- SAT -- ST04 -- SRTCM -- Technical Attributes of Database Tables -- Indexes -- Pointless Index -- Terrible Index -- Really Good Index -- Buffering -- Possible Buffering Settings -- Example of How Buffering Can Help -- Common Misconception About Generic Buffering -- How to Decide Which Z Tables to Buffer -- Postmortem Tricks -- Batch Jobs -- Deadlocks -- Sneaky Tricks -- Database Reads in a Loop -- Using Standard SAP "Buffering" Modules -- When to Use Them -- KNA1_SINGLE_READER -- Prefilling Buffers…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Understanding Personal Finance After 50 -- Chapter 1 Looking Ahead to Your Future -- Planning for the Longer Term -- Identifying long-term planning issues -- Taking personal responsibility for your financial future -- Saving and planning sooner and smarter pays off -- Eyeing Keys to Successful Retirement Planning -- Saving drives wealth -- Keeping your balance -- Understanding that planning is a process -- Chapter 2 Protecting Your Employment Income and Your Health -- Assessing Your Need for Life Insurance -- Understanding the purpose of life insurance -- Determining your life insurance need -- Assessing your current life coverage -- Figuring out what type to buy -- Choosing where to buy life insurance -- Protecting Your Employment Income: Disability Insurance -- Why most people lack disability insurance and why you need it -- Identifying needed disability coverage -- Shopping for disability coverage -- Investing In and Protecting Your Health -- Take care of your ticker -- Exercise (and sweat)! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- CAN I MAKE A 12 WEEK PLAN THAT IS SHORTER (OR LONGER) THAN 12 WEEKS? -- DON'T PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEMS DESTROY CREATIVITY? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…General Assessment of the Macroeconomic Situation -- Introduction -- Recent developments -- The outlook is for a significant but uneven recovery -- The global recovery is projected to strengthen as vaccination deployment becomes widespread -- Inflation is expected to increase temporarily but the longer-term outlook remains uncertain, with upside risks -- Trade prospects are improving, but imbalances may widen -- The outlook is subject to upside and downside risks -- Significant uncertainty remains about the pace of vaccine deployment and the evolution of the virus -- Excess saving poses upside risks to household consumption -- Companies have resisted well, but performance has varied across sectors and company sizes -- Pandemic-related risks are still high in some emerging-market economies -- Policy requirements -- The pace of vaccine production and deployment needs to be accelerated -- Monetary policy -- Fiscal policy -- Structural reforms are needed to improve resilience, facilitate reallocation and strengthen growth prospects -- Bibliography -- Annex 1.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inheritance and gift taxes can reduce wealth inequality, particularly in the longer run and if revenues are redistributed -- 2.2.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Editorial -- We must continue to co-ordinate our responses to the ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis, as well as plan for their longer-term displacement -- Executive summary -- Migration flows bounced back in 2021 -- Labour market outcomes of immigrants were more resilient than expected -- The global competition for talent is back on the policy agenda -- Responding to the refugee crisis from Ukraine -- International students make a large economic contribution in most OECD countries -- Key findings -- Key facts and figures -- 1 Recent developments in international migration movements and labour market inclusion of immigrants -- Recent trends in international migration -- Permanent-type migration to OECD countries partially bounced back in 2021 -- Temporary worker migration has not returned to its pre-COVID-19 level -- Inflow of international seasonal workers remained stable during the pandemic -- Other types of temporary labour migration were significantly impacted by the pandemic -- Contrasting trends in the number of worker postings within the OECD-Europe area in 2020 -- Shifts in origin and destination of asylum seekers -- A strong rebound in asylum seeking, but not up to pre-COVID-19 levels -- China and India start to lose their lead as main origin countries -- Size and composition of foreign-born populations in OECD countries -- Foreign-born population continued to rise during the pandemic -- Men still account for more than half of migration flows but their share decreased in 2020 -- Record acquisitions of citizenship in OECD countries in 2021 -- Recent trends in labour market outcomes for immigrants in the OECD area -- In 2021, the labour market situation of immigrants improved in most OECD countries -- The risk of long-term unemployment for migrants increased as a result of the crisis…”

“…Today IT consulting has become a major opportunity for many IT professionals who want to work for themselves. It is no longer only the domain of the high-flying international organization. …”

“… With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. …”

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“…As of March 2005, Microsoft no longer supports this version of Visual Basic. And you can't blame them. …”

“…With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, more and more users are discovering the advantages of Unix for the first time. …”

“… Bigger in size, longer in length, broader in scope, and even more useful than our original Mac OS X Hacks, the new Big Book of Apple Hacks offers a grab bag of tips, tricks and hacks to get the most out of Mac OS X Leopard, as well as the new line of iPods, iPhone, and Apple TV. …”