Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise from local heroes to leading alternative band, before blowing apart on the verge of major rock stardom. Their path was strewn with brilliant singles, astonishing EPs, exceptional album tracks and legendary live shows. Two classic line-ups were created and destroyed: Andrew Eldritch on vocals, Craig Adams on bass, Gary Marx and Ben Gunn – later replaced by Wayne Hussey – on guitars, and a drum machine called Doktor Avalanche. Hussey and Adams styled themselves as the Evil Children and played hard both on and off the stage; neither Gunn nor Marx were natural rock 'n' roll animals, but the latter performed with such abandon that it was hard to believe he also wrote the Sisters' most delicate and beautiful music. Eldritch was the most peculiar and compelling of them all, a singular and mesmerising amalgam of T. S. Eliot and David Bowie who staked a powerful claim to be the greatest rock star of his generation. Drawing on dozens of interviews with band members and key figures in the Sisters' journey, Paint My Name in Black and Gold is the most complete account yet of how – against the odds and all reasonable expectation – these young men came to make transcendent and life-changing music.
This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using the tools and statistical methods to carry out data analysis. Introducing the fundamentals of data science and R before moving into more advanced topics like Multilevel Models and Probabilistic Modelling with Stan, it builds knowledge and skills gradually. This book: Focuses on providing practical guidance for all aspects, helping readers get to grips with the tools, software, and statistical methods needed to provide the right type and level of analysis their data requires Explores the foundations of data science and breaks down the processes involved, focusing on the link between data science and practical social science skills Introduces R at the outset and includes extensive worked examples and R code every step of the way, ensuring students see the value of R and its connection to methods while providing hands-on practice in the software Provides examples and datasets from different disciplines and locations demonstrate the widespread relevance, possible applications, and impact of data science across the social sciences.
Gabriel, the Archangel, imparts a mission upon twelve year old Regina Marie Andrews that bring changes in the lives of those around her. Then a dark plot begins to form that threatens Regina's loved ones.
Jack-Jack may look like a normal baby, but don’t let that cute face fool you! As his babysitter finds out first hand, this little guy can do some incredible things. Based on the original animated short, Jack-Jack Attack is sure to be a super hit with young readers.
Master Photoshop CS5 project-by-project! Using a celebrated combination of real world examples, step-by-step projects and professional advice, two internationally recognized authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors guide you through this powerful software package so you can start creating your own works of art in no time. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, Photoshop CS5: Essential Skills covers all the foundation skills to get you going, and then more advanced techniques to truly hone your image editing skills. A complete section of step-by-step imaging projects helps you practice your skills and learn how to create professional quality images. . Over 12 hours of high-definition movie tutorials . Full resolution project images in Raw, TIFF and JPEG file formats . Multilayered Image Files . More than 100 royalty-free stock images . Presets and Actions to fast-track your workflow
When Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture discovers, in the run up to the Presidential elections, that the country's usual sugar stockpile is in short supply, the government's principal concern shifts to the replenishment of this staple commodity in a desperate attempt to avoid social unrest at a time when it is least desired. Such a mammoth purchase of sugar, however, offers scope for fraudulent activity and the Chinese trading company employed to oversee the transaction uses the purchase as cover-up for an illegal drugs deal. The door is inevitably opened for the various contributors to the overlapping deals to engage themselves in a series of seemingly independent illegal activities, and when the first sugar shipment arrives, complete with one tonne of heroin, the latter is adulterated. with fatal consequences for some and leaving everyone else fearing for their own safety and wondering just whom they can trust in the deal.
Theme: The application of traditional logic and the adaptation of methods from risk analysis enable the law to successfully resolve disputes. A claim to ownership may appear wherever some combination of cultural values assures reliability and exclusivity to an individual´s decision. The claim must fit somewhere within the social contract to obtain such recognition. The social contract is a consensus on risk and opportunity. It is a consensus accepted widely enough in society that a person can rely upon it. There are two possibilities: either a person accepts opportunities and risks alone, or she shares them with others. Each society defines the specifics of its contract, but each uses the same general framework. 1. Each person has an exclusive claim to the fruits of her own labor. 2. No one holds an exclusive claim to wealth that has come to her through some method for which she is not responsible. There exists the possibility that the holder must share this wealth with others. 3. Each person must bear alone any losses that result from her independent actions. 4. Each person may demand that others help cover losses when the losses result from events outside her control. The four causes of change are the analytical method that links the client to an area of the social contract. Most commonly, the four causes are used to show that some area of human activity has become subject to rights legitimately held by the client. The four causes describe the situation before the client's problem started (material cause); the process that created the problem (efficient cause); the situation when this process was finished (formal cause); and the purpose of this change (final cause). The techniques of risk analysis measure the probability that the client's claim is valid. For example, the null hypothesis in science becomes the presumption of innocence in law. The law sets the limits of behavior that is so far from society's expectations that the behavior is illegal; here, the law applies the idea of a standard deviation. The burden of proof performs the same function as a level of confidence. But the law takes this technique a step farther. If the jury is persuaded to the relevant burden of proof, then a statement is accepted not merely within a range of probability, but as a certainty. That statement becomes the finding of fact. Comparing this finding to the pertinent legal standard creates the familiar syllogism where the law is the major premise, the finding of fact is the minor premise, and the judgment is the conclusion. A syllogism is a statistical comparison where the level of confidence is set at 100%. Developments in legal theory have paralleled developments in the natural sciences. The writing of John Locke and Sir William Blackstone (absolutes in law) paralleled the work of Sir Isaac Newton (absolutes in space and time). As Albert Einstein published his theories of relativity, Wesley Hohfeld identified eight fundamental legal relationships, each of which transformed itself in relation to the others. By century's end, Laurence Tribe wrote of the curvature of constitutional space much as gravity curves physical space. Excerpts of the book appear at Claims Analysis.
I was convicted and sentenced to slavery for life. Legally, I knew I hadn't a leg to stand on but my so-called girlfriend set me up and had even arranged witnesses. This is the story of my transition to slave and what happened to me as a consequence.
1. This essay builds a single system of legal analysis and so unifies the disparate disciplines of the law. 2. This essay is a search for common ground. There are basic ideas and methods of dispute resolution that are common to, and unify, the many doctrines of law. The purpose is to define the fundamental parts of the concept of property; to identify the methods used to analyze disputes involving competing claims; and to show that these methods apply without regard to the content of the property rights under examination. Although the goal is to build a single system, the goal is not to show that there is exists one overarching concept of property that applies to all persons at all times. 3. Property Defined: A Durable Choice Property is the ability to make a decision that is both reliable and exclusive in relation to a given goal. "Reliable" means the ability to survive foreseeable risk. "Exclusive" means the ability to prevent other people from controlling the same decision. Property begins as someone realizes that she understands the differences within a set of choices and that she is capable of choosing the one which best suits her goals. This realization marks the difference between darkness and light. So long as someone believes that her life is driven by the Fates, the notion of private property does not arise. Indeed, the notion cannot arise, because decisionmaking would be pointless. But once a person begins to weigh risk against opportunity, and discovers it is possible to pick the safest road toward a goal, the individual begins to own something. 4. Property is not necessarily "good." Over the centuries, philosophies of law have aimed at confining private property to that which supports some idea of justice. Under this view, property is the area of activity where the individual can extend himself legitimately or ethically. But property is merely the ability to perform work, and, by itself, it has no more moral character than units of electric current. 5. Property has a universal definition, but its specific content is relative to each time, place, and person. The fact that property is relative does not mean that it does not exist, nor does it mean that it can be redefined, taken, or stolen without consequences. What a society accepts as property directly affects both its economic and noneconomic transactions. 6. Exclusivity performs two important functions. First, it draws the boundary around the combination of legal relations that one person controls. Second, exclusivity defines the area where people in a society will accept the risks and opportunities of one person making a self-interested decision. What characterizes the Western property system, compared to other cultures, is that the individual's area of unfettered activity is much broader and requires each person to accept more risk. Other societies restrict the individual more but share more risk, as well. 7. Reliability can originate by simple agreement between two people. A law, as such, is unneeded. American society has seen the development of such new forms of property as transferable licenses, which become property by virtue of protection by government, and the persistence of such ancient forms as bartering, often protected only by dark of night. 8. Property in its Context: the Social Contract Allocating opportunity and risk requires society to address and resolve four issues. What opportunities may people keep for themselves? What opportunities must be shared with others? When can a person demand help from others? When must a person bear his injuries alone? Every agreement between two people resolves these questions in some way; when applied to society at large, the answers define justice. Private property exists when a person can expect her decision to survive foreseeable risk. The social contract develops in much the same way. There is a cont
Introducing Windows 95. Underneath Windows 95. Windows 95 architecture. The Win 32 API. Windows 95 and MFC library. Windows 95 and Visual C++. OLE 95. Programs and processes. Multithreading and multitasking. Windows 95 DLLs. Windows 95 networking. Bibliography. Index.
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