Where did the Bible come from? Did God or man invent the Bible? Is the Bible used to control people? This is an honest question. Many people have asked this question over the last 2,000 years, but it is only recently that people have begun to doubt the accuracy and validity of the Bible. People are intelligent, and they hear many different and conflicting stories concerning the Bible, from social media, movies, books and claims on the internet. You may be one of those people who want to find out more and know the truth for yourself. Have you ever wondered if the Bible was for real? Or have you ever had people accuse you of believing in "fairy tales", and you did not know how to respond? If so, this booklet by David J. Gonzalez is the perfect resource for you. Use it as a powerful witnessing tool, a complimentary gift for your unsaved family and friends, or just to get real answers to your personal questions about the Bible.
Begin Within: You Are What You Think explores how life's challenges are rarely ever resolved by only changing the external situation. Put forth is the idea that change begins and is sustained from within and indeed, we make and unmake ourselves from the inside-out. Begin Within: You Are What You Think suggests that we are continually thinking our way into our present reality and become that which we contemplate. Learn how to unleash your inner ability and achieve that which you most ardently desire through the power of thought, focus and self-expression.
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding the contributions to U.S. civic life of the Catholic, Jewish, mainline and evangelical Protestant, African-American, Latino, and Muslim communities in the United States, the two volumes in this series gather selected essays from the Commonweal Colloquia and the joint meetings organized by the Commonweal Foundation and The Faith and Reason Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. Participants in the Commonweal colloquia and the joint meetings—leading Catholic scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, novelists and poets, church administrators and lobbyists, activists, policy makers and politicians—produced approximately forty-five essays presented at ten meetings that brought together over two hundred and fifty participants. The two volumes in the American Catholics in the Public Square Series address many of the most critical issues now facing the Catholic Church in the United States by drawing from the four goals of the colloquia-to identify, assess, and critique the distinctive elements in Catholicism's approach to civic life; to generate concrete analyses and recommendations for strengthening Catholic civic engagement; to encompass a broad spectrum of political and social views of Catholics to encourage dialogue between Catholic leaders, religious and secular media, and political thinkers; to reexamine the long-standing Catholic belief in the obligation to promote the common good and to clarify how Catholics may work better with those holding other religious or philosophical convictions toward revitalizing both the religious environment and civic participation in the American republic. This first volume, American Catholics and Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice, i
A practical guide that will help you learn and leverage PostgreSQL's core features KEY FEATURES ● Acquire in-depth knowledge of PostgreSQL's key capabilities and gain a comprehensive understanding of its inner workings. ● Discover the art of extending PostgreSQL's core features and effectively troubleshooting any challenges that may arise. ● Explore the vibrant community and open-source ecosystem that forms the foundation of PostgreSQL's development and innovation. DESCRIPTION PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used in the industry. If you are seeking to acquire knowledge about PostgreSQL, this book is for you. This comprehensive book provides you with a solid foundation in working with PostgreSQL, a popular open-source database management system. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, allowing you to successfully install and configure PostgreSQL across various platforms and methods. By delving into the internal components that constitute a PostgreSQL service and their interplay, you will gain a deep understanding of how these elements collaborate to deliver a robust and dependable solution. From comprehending the process model and shared memory to mastering query execution and optimization, you will acquire comprehensive knowledge of PostgreSQL's internal workings. Furthermore, the book explores essential tasks performed by a database administrator (DBA), including backup and restore operations, security measures, performance tuning, and troubleshooting techniques. Lastly, it explores widely used extensions and compatible tools that can enhance the functionality of PostgreSQL. Upon completing this book, you will have developed a comprehensive understanding of the internal components that comprise a PostgreSQL service and their collaborative dynamics, resulting in a reliable and robust solution. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Gain proficiency in installing and preparing PostgreSQL for various methods and platforms. ● Develop a solid understanding of the internal components of a PostgreSQL service and their collaborative dynamics to deliver a comprehensive solution. ● Acquire knowledge about essential tasks performed by PostgreSQL DBAs, including backup/restore operations, security measures, tuning, and troubleshooting. ● Explore popular extensions and compatible tools that can expand and enhance the capabilities of PostgreSQL. ● Discover the PostgreSQL Community and learn how to actively contribute to the project's development and growth. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is highly recommended for Entry Level Database Administrators, as it provides a suitable starting point for their journey. It assumes some prior knowledge of Database Management Systems (DBMS) to ensure a smooth learning experience. Additionally, senior or experienced developers will find value in this book, particularly in gaining insights into the latest features incorporated in the most recent version of the DB, enhancing their understanding and proficiency in its use. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction to Opensource Database - PostgreSQL 2. Getting PostgreSQL to work 3. Modern Options to get PostgreSQL 4. Global Objects in PostgreSQL 5. Architecture of PostgreSQL 6. PostgreSQL Internals 7. Backup and Restore in PostgreSQL 8. Replicating Data 9. Security and Access Control 10. Most used Extensions/Tools 11. Basic Database Objects 12. Advance Database Objects 13. Performance Tuning 14. Troubleshooting 15. Contributing to PostgreSQL Community
There are several techniques to study noncooperative dynamic games, such as dynamic programming and the maximum principle (also called the Lagrange method). It turns out, however, that one way to characterize dynamic potential games requires to analyze inverse optimal control problems, and it is here where the Euler equation approach comes in because it is particularly well–suited to solve inverse problems. Despite the importance of dynamic potential games, there is no systematic study about them. This monograph is the first attempt to provide a systematic, self–contained presentation of stochastic dynamic potential games.
Learn to develop efficient and scalable microservices for server-side programming in Node.js using this hands-on guideAbout This Book- Real world example explained chapter after chapter with code examples.- Useful concepts for other languages like Java or PHP- Easy to follow by people with little to none experience in Node.js- Node.js Version 0.12.2 and the latest compatible versions of Seneca and PM2Who This Book Is ForNode.js developer with basic server-side development knowledge - but no knowledge of implementing microservices in Node.js applications. Also useful for developers in other languages like Java or C#.What You Will Learn- Identify where the microservice oriented architectures can tackle the most common problems in the software used by the big organisations.- Re-architecture an existing monolithic system into a microservices oriented software.- Build robust and scalable microservices using Seneca and Node.js.- Testing of the microservices in insolation in order to create a solid system.- Deploy and manage microservices using PM2- Monitoring the health of a microservice (CPU, memory, I/O...) and how the degradation of the performance in one microservice could degrade the performance of full system.In DetailMicroservices architecture is a style of software architecture. As the name suggests, microservicess refers to small services. For a large implementation, this means breaking the system into really small, independent services. Alternative to monolithic architecture (where the entire system is considered as a single big, interwoven segment), microservices approach is getting more and more popular with large, complex applications that have a very long lifecycle, which require changes at regular intervals. Microservices approach allows this type of changes with ease as only a part of the system undergoes changes and change control is easy.An example of such large system can be an online store-includes user interface, managing product catalog, processing orders, managing customer's account. In a microservices architecture each of these tasks will be divided and into smaller services. Also, these services will be further broken down into independent services-for user interface, there will be separate services for input, output, search bar management, and so on. Similarly, all other tasks can be divided in very small and simple services.Style and approachThis book is a comprehensive guide to developing production-ready implementation of the microservices architecture with Node.js. Each chapter builds up on the earlier one creating a strong foundation on which you create your own microservice in a distributed environment.
Help your organization join the DevOps revolution About This Book Helps you skill up your DevOps knowledge without a strong set of prerequisites Deliver continuously improved software by showcasing the most advanced tools and techniques Acquire a deeper insight into implementing DevOps in your organization and deliver results from day 1 Who This Book Is For This book is written for engineers and companies that want to learn the minimum set of required technologies and processes to be successful in the DevOps world. This book also targets system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the necessary skills needed to work in DevOps teams. What You Will Learn Master development best practices. Understand how the Agile Delivery Methodology helps you ensure accuracy and quality. Analyze branching strategies such as branch creation, merging, and synchronization. Learn to automate builds to deploy and deliver code faster and more often Explore testing frameworks and how to automate testing Learn to put specific metrics in place to measure ROI of DevOps and monitor logs and events in a system In Detail This book follows a unique approach to modern DevOps using cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform. This book starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud datacenters in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. By the end of this book, you will be able to realign teams in your company and create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and Docker. With strong monitoring in place, you will also be able to react to adverse events in your system, minimizing downtime and improving the overall up-time and stability of your system. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step practical approach to the implementation of DevOps. This book will teach you how to enable IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter through a unique approach using Code-Build-Test-Release-Configure-Monitor (CBTRCM).
This book is intended to help researchers overcome the entrance barrier to Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD), by providing a valuable tool to begin the programming task. Detailed Matlab Codes are included for every chapter in the book, in which the theory previously described is translated into practice. Examples include parametric problems, non-linear model order reduction and real-time simulation, among others. Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) is a method for numerical simulation in many fields of applied science and engineering. As a generalization of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition or Principal Component Analysis to an arbitrary number of dimensions, PGD is able to provide the analyst with very accurate solutions for problems defined in high dimensional spaces, parametric problems and even real-time simulation.
Do you want to learn how to pray more effectively--daily and consistently? Do you have a difficult time making sure to pray every day? Do you sometimes wonder whether some things you want to ask God for in prayer are permissible? Then this book is for you! For 2,000 years, the greatest prayer ever prayed, is the Our Father given to us by Jesus. Yet it is the least valued and greatly misunderstood by many people. This book, "30 Days Praying the Our Father," will forever spark your prayer life in one short month. Discover that the Our Father is a prayer outline and tool to reach deeper prayer. Jesus gave us the Father's outline for how to pray and what to pray.
Manuel González Prada was a powerful Peruvian writer and political reformer whose essays and speeches influenced generations of young radicals. He founded the Party of National Unity in 1891, was linked to the anarchist movement, and served as Director of the National Library from 1912-1914. His writings have had enormous impact on the literary and political life of Peru: taking up the defense of exploited indigenous people, broadsiding the landowning oligarchy, and denouncing the social and political errors of the country. In fact, the radical politics Prada advocated then are still alive and relevant today: Modernization (secularization) of Peru, transformation of a nation through its people, promotion of internationalism (universalism) versus overt patriotism (communitarianism), and condemnation of war. This translation is based on the Obras of González Prada, edited by Luis Alberto Sánchez. It includes essays, speeches and polemical writings drawn from two of Prada's only books of prose published during his lifetime, Paginas Libres and Horas de Lucha, in addition to unpublished manuscripts and works previously printed in newspapers and magazines. His writings are gathered thematically under the subheadings "Peruvian Problems," "Anarchy," and "Philosophical, Literary, and Linguistic Problems.
For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency, terrorism, and other extremist violence and instability to inform military decisions on allocation of analytic and security assistance resources.
Contact us: stuffedworld@gmail.comStraight out of the oven! Stuffed World book brings you a warm muffin story, assorted by three different narrators, with a taste you have never tried before, an outline about an independent woman and her two daughters, proving one more time that love, hope, and faith are enough to change an unexpected loss, for the discovery of a beautiful unfolding. The world is stuffed with many things so is this story, an obvious reason to call it "Stuffed World".Who doesn't like a warm muffin in the morning, or a cold one in the afternoon, covered with colored sprinkles, stuffed with chocolate chips, raisins or anything?Stuffed World could be the story you are looking for, it is fresh and original, in plain English, giving you the chance to feel like if you were listening to a new acquaintance with a lot of potentials to become your friend, could be the story you are about to share, family friendly, giving you the chance to read a book close to the most important people in your life, could be the story you are wondering about, it is inspirational, driving you through the pages that narrate how a whole family can struggle with different things that are all combined at the same time, could be the story you are thinking about reading, being told by more than three narrators from different ages, makes it unique and fresh.DEW M. WHITMANIf there is something about Dew, we can feel related to, is the idea she had of a perfect future, like all of us, she thought she knew what she wanted, until her life shook twice, the very same day, first by a nurse's visit to her adoptive parents, making her biological parents less unknown. While she was pedaling trying to catch the mysterious lady, who ran out of the house, as soon as she realized Dew was listening to their conversation, she had her second hit which was literally a strike, as a car driven by a man, who she later fell in love with, expelled her to the sidewalk miraculously harmless, as a result: a modern family story about hidden facts, lost, and despair, surrendered to love, hope, and faith.JANELLE M. WHITMANJanelle, can make all of us remember our own childhood, the rare combination of opposite factors she has: euphoria, and brain, normally called 'old soul', but tender. Although she's not afraid to speak her mind, and although she always gets what she wants, and always, always seems to know what to do; being raised on a boarding school, wasn't exactly the best basis, for a pre-adolescent who all of a sudden, finds herself traveling around the world, along with her not-very-well-known-sister and her definitely unknown-mother. It's no wonder she invented a binnacle that, the three of them used to state their different point of view.PAULA M. WHITMANA 'peacekeeper' is always useful in any of our families, there's where Paula gets into the scene; instead of complaining about her birth parents' lack of interest about her, she rather feels happy about the ones she has, and she can't find a way to stop trying to make things better for everyone, knowing she is not perfect, always good at finding common grounds and trying to keep everything in place, being adopted by her aunt and uncle was just one of her life's turning points, by the time he passed away, she felt forced to reinvent herself by trying to reconnect with her biological father ... Could this be the solution, or just the beginning of a snowball?
The objective of this report is to highlight the impact of long-term aging effects on parts, assemblies and equipments by investigating characteristics of aging as they impact specific material classes.
This book introduces optimal control problems for large families of deterministic and stochastic systems with discrete or continuous time parameter. These families include most of the systems studied in many disciplines, including Economics, Engineering, Operations Research, and Management Science, among many others. The main objective is to give a concise, systematic, and reasonably self contained presentation of some key topics in optimal control theory. To this end, most of the analyses are based on the dynamic programming (DP) technique. This technique is applicable to almost all control problems that appear in theory and applications. They include, for instance, finite and infinite horizon control problems in which the underlying dynamic system follows either a deterministic or stochastic difference or differential equation. In the infinite horizon case, it also uses DP to study undiscounted problems, such as the ergodic or long-run average cost. After a general introduction to control problems, the book covers the topic dividing into four parts with different dynamical systems: control of discrete-time deterministic systems, discrete-time stochastic systems, ordinary differential equations, and finally a general continuous-time MCP with applications for stochastic differential equations. The first and second part should be accessible to undergraduate students with some knowledge of elementary calculus, linear algebra, and some concepts from probability theory (random variables, expectations, and so forth). Whereas the third and fourth part would be appropriate for advanced undergraduates or graduate students who have a working knowledge of mathematical analysis (derivatives, integrals, ...) and stochastic processes.
Noah Stark is no ordinary archaeologist. Since birth, he has possessed unique power and abilities. He’s stronger and can see and hear better than normal humans. His body heals in moments from most injuries. He views it as a curse. His mother changed their names years ago to avoid detection and exploitation by the military, pharmaceutical companies and villainous entities seeking power and profit. Believing that his abilities are somehow connected to his ancient ancestry, Noah turns to archaeology to try to get some answers to his questions. He gets unexpected assistance from a beautiful and talented young reporter, Jet Nobel, whom he met briefly while they were teens. They discover incredible truths revealing the possible origin of Noah’s extreme physiological anomalies. Could his powers be traced back to the DNA of a supernatural being? Ironically, Noah’s superhuman abilities propel him into a horrifying, deadly, and life-altering sequence of events. Just when things seem darkest, that’s when they get worse. However, through research done by Noah’s late father a stunning revelation changes everything.
The past, present, and future of green chemistry and green engineering From college campuses to corporations, the past decade witnessed a rapidly growing interest in understanding sustainable chemistry and engineering. Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Practical Design Approach integrates the two disciplines into a single study tool for students and a practical guide for working chemists and engineers. In Green Chemistry and Engineering, the authors—each highly experienced in implementing green chemistry and engineering programs in industrial settings—provide the bottom-line thinking required to not only bring sustainable chemistry and engineering closer together, but to also move business towards more sustainable practices and products. Detailing an integrated, systems-oriented approach that bridges both chemical syntheses and manufacturing processes, this invaluable reference covers: Green chemistry and green engineering in the movement towards sustainability Designing greener, safer chemical synthesis Designing greener, safer chemical manufacturing processes Looking beyond current processes to a lifecycle thinking perspective Trends in chemical processing that may lead to more sustainable practices The authors also provide real-world examples and exercises to promote further thought and discussion. The EPA defines green chemistry as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green engineering is described as the design, commercialization, and use of products and processes that are feasible and economical while minimizing both the generation of pollution at the source and the risk to human health and the environment. While there is no shortage of books on either discipline, Green Chemistry and Engineering is the first to truly integrate the two.
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