This book is designed for readers who learn by doing and employs many examples and screenshots to let the reader dig in and start coding. This book isn't designed to be a reference; instead it has a practical, example-driven approach that teaches you by following along with the examples in the chapters. When you have completed this book, you will fully understand how the template system works, how to extend it when you have specialized needs, and how to optimize the performance and usability of your content. This book is for web developers and template authors who want to fully understand and utilize the Django template system. The reader should have completed the introductory tutorials on the Django project's website and some experience with the framework will be very helpful. Basic knowledge of Python and HTML is assumed.
The renowned actress who played Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless opens up about her sixty-year career in this scintillating memoir. Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her character on The Young and the Restless, who’s seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America’s highest-rated daytime serial. But there’s plenty of drama beyond her character’s plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals the behind-the-scenes saga of her journey to stardom and personal freedom. As Nikki went from impoverished stripper to vivacious heroine, Melody underwent her own striking transformation, becoming a household name in the process. Raised by her abusive grandmother, Melody acted in feature films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood—and endured abuse of industry men before taking control of her life and career in a daring getaway move. Melody shares all this, plus juicy on-and-off-set details of what it’s like to be one half of the show’s most successful supercouple, “Niktor.” In witty, warm prose, readers meet the persevering heart of an American icon. Prepare to be moved by a life story fit for a soap opera star.
Few resources exist for individuals who wish to subscribe to a practical, applied learning approach to higher education administration. To that end, the book’s vignettes: 1) reflect the diversity of issues, roles, contexts and situations postsecondary leaders face—yet are uncommonly addressed in learning resources; 2) place learners in authentic higher education administrative circumstances in which they must respond; 3) facilitate further individual or collective exploration; and 4) may be adapted to a broad array of formal and informal professional development needs. The book’s scenarios include a broad assortment of exhibits (e.g., correspondences, articles, institutional policies, etc.) which allow learners to practice evaluating a range of information sources common in postsecondary administration. In addition, each vignette provides learners with guided opportunities to determine how and why they might respond in the situations presented, and offers chances to assess the responses of actual higher education administrators to authentic situations and challenges. ENDORSEMENTS: “Instead of management theory pronounced from on high, this collection presents 50 real-world situations typical of those higher education leaders grapple with daily. From impassioned-yet-questionable expenditure requests, to nasty intra-departmental conflicts, to intrusive elected officials, responses to these challenges make or break careers in academic administration. Read Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes to understand more fully the land mines that litter the landscape of university and college leadership, as well as how to navigate through them.” Kevin P. Reilly, President Emeritus and Regent Professor, University of Wisconsin System, and Presidential Advisor for Leadership, American Council on Education “In Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes, Scott Newman presents a series of cases based upon actual situations faced by practicing administrators. The cases apply to all levels of leadership and include situations dealing with ethics, peer relationships, interference from a former administrator, political issues with policy makers, fairness of resource allocation, competence of support department personnel, freedom of speech, and many others. This collection of cases is a valuable resource for both current and prospective higher education leaders. Thinking about possible responses to these vignettes will prepare leaders to deal with the situations they will no doubt face in real life.” George R. Boggs, President and CEO Emeritus, American Association of Community Colleges; Superintendent/President Emeritus, Palomar College “Higher education is at an incredibly dynamic point historically. Many of the assumptions about leadership in this tumultuous environment are under close scrutiny. Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes is a very practical and user-friendly group of case studies that allows thoughtful exploration of authentic situations. Each one of the scenarios raises a number of important themes relevant to postsecondary leadership in the 21st century. The text represents a best-practice approach for the preparation of current and future leaders for a range of challenging roles.” Gregg Garn, Dean and Presidential Professor of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, and Executive Director of the K20 Center, The University of Oklahoma “Scott Newman’s well-crafted Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Scenarios represents a unique and invaluable learning resource for any current or future higher education leaders—from graduate students to seasoned administrators. Finding another resource that facilitates such an authentic exploration of so many different dimensions of postsecondary leadership will be difficult if not impossible.” Gerardo de los Santos, President and Chief Executive Officer, League for Innovation in the Community College “Newman’s Higher Education Administration: 50 Case-Based Vignettes is an invaluable, applied-learning resource for anyone interested in pursuing or advancing a career in postsecondary leadership. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this excellent collection of real-world, higher education administration case studies!” Mary John O’Hair, Dean of the College of Education, and Executive Director of the Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab, University of Kentucky
The purpose of this document is to provide brief guidelines on the sampling methods to use when conducting wildlife surveillance, or a morbidity / mortality investigation. Topics covered include animal handling, proper methods for collecting and transporting diagnostic samples related to investigation of avian diseases such as avian influenza, West Nile virus, and Newcastle disease."--Introd.
Provides the veterinary technician student with an easy to understand approach to learning basic mathematical principles as well as formulas necessary for the calculation of drug dosages, drug volumes, and dilution of medications.
Death most often comes to us in sanitized form, suitable for prime-time: "Today a police officer was killed in the line of duty. Three died in a tragic house fire. Twelve lost to a freak storm. The great man finally succumbed." We are told what happened in prosaic though sterile detail. The obituary and the eulogy address only the survivors and only after the fact. But what of the event itself? What of that moment we all must eventually face? The Taximan's God snatches us from the comfortable distance of our pews and breakfast tables and takes us to the very moment of death, the event horizon that marks the termination of this life. And while there we see that life's furthest edge is not uniform but jagged and surprisingly abrupt. No images of life's many chapters pass before our eyes, no last second regrets or confessions pass our lips, no stuttered prayers lift to heaven. "Pardon," a smooth voice murmurs from behind, "do you have the time?" And as we turn to answer we realize we do not. Death takes us in shock to God who is waiting beyond life's terminus. Ready or not
From a global perspective aquaculture is an activity related to food production with large potential for growth. Considering a continuously growing population, the efficiency and sustainability of this activity will be crucial to meet the needs of protein for human consumption in the near future. However, for continuous enhancement of the culture of both fish and shellfish there are still challenges to overcome, mostly related to the biology of the cultured species and their interaction with (increasingly changing) environmental factors. Examples of these challenges include early sexual maturation, feed meal replacement, immune response to infectious diseases and parasites, and temperature and salinity tolerance. Moreover, it is estimated that less than 10% of the total aquaculture production in the world is based on populations genetically improved by means of artificial selection. Thus, there is considerable room for implementing breeding schemes aimed at improving productive traits having significant economic impact. By far the most economically relevant trait is growth rate, which can be efficiently improved by conventional genetic selection (i.e. based on breeding values of selection candidates). However, there are other important traits that cannot be measured directly on selection candidates, such as resistance against infectious and parasitic agents and carcass quality traits (e.g. fillet yield and meat color). However, these traits can be more efficiently improved using molecular tools to assist breeding programs by means of marker-assisted selection, using a few markers explaining a high proportion of the trait variation, or genomic selection, using thousands of markers to estimate genomic breeding values. The development and implementation of new technologies applied to molecular biology and genomics, such as next-generation sequencing methods and high-throughput genotyping platforms, are allowing the rapid increase of availability of genomic resources in aquaculture species. These resources will provide powerful tools to the research community and will aid in the determination of the genetic factors involved in several biological aspects of aquaculture species. In this regard, it is important to establish discussion in terms of which strategies will be more efficient to solve the primary challenges that are affecting aquaculture systems around the world. The main objective of this Research Topic is to provide a forum to communicate recent research and implementation strategies in the use of genomics in aquaculture species with emphasis on (1) a better understanding of fish and shellfish biological processes having considerable impact on aquaculture systems; and (2) the efficient incorporation of molecular information into breeding programs to accelerate genetic progress of economically relevant traits.
Figure/Ground: A Design Conversation, is a collection of six dialogs on design between Scott Johnson and William Fain, the principals of Johnson Fain Partners of Los Angeles. Covering a broad range of topics, the conversations center on such themes as the globalization of architecture, the impact of the Internet, the issue of "big architecture" vs. urban design, and the role of historicism in design. Along the way, Johnson and Fain find inspiration in jazz improvisation, Noam Chomsky, Roman urbanism, passive solar heating in China, Catholic monasticism, and Native American spirituality. With elegant layout of National Design Award winner Lorraine Wild, the dialogs are illustrated with photographs of recent work by the firm, including their plan for central Beijing and the new Native American Center in Oklahoma City.
This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in American politics and civil society. They use their position to change local agendas for youth and public perceptions of youth, and work to strengthen local community support systems. Between Movement and Establishment describes how youth advocacy organizations affect change in a fragmented urban policy environment. It considers the different constituencies that organizations target, including public officials and policies, specific service sectors, and community members, and looks at the multiple tactics advocates employ to advance their reform agendas, such as political campaigns, accountability measures, building civic capacity, research, and policy formation. This work further examines the importance of historical, organizational, and political contexts in explaining the strategies, actions, and consequences of advocacy organizations' efforts at the local level, bringing to light what is effective and why.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex moral decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can religious perspectives—from Catholic to Protestant to Mormon—contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory, James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum, Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion, this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature, religion and philosophy.
From a lifetime of suffering, came an untold strength...Skylar Morgan has lived most of his life in pain and suffering. After tragically losing his mother at the age of 7, he was forced to become an outcast with few friends, an abusive father, and an unstable love life; all the while his home has fallen under the shadow of a twisted criminal empire. However, unbeknownst to Skylar, his suffering has awakened something deep within him... something that could either destroy the good-hearted person he has striven to be... or cause him to become the greatest beacon of hope for the people living in his now dark and corrupted home...
America's most famous werewolf legend lives on in this frightening tale. Ben Thomas recently lost his job as a New York City detective. Forced to return to his hometown of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, he nearly runs off the road when a large hairy animal dashes out in front of him. The encounter reignites the flame to a local legend of a monster that supposedly lives in the nearby woods; a legend that the locals shun whenever it is spoken of. When a half eaten body is discovered not far from the place where Ben encountered the creature, the former detective soon finds himself caught between the hateful prejudice of the locals and the hungry eyes of the Beast.
A practical, dynamic resource for practicing neurologists, clinicians and trainees, Bradley and Daroff's Neurology in Clinical Practice, Eighth Edition, offers a straightforward style, evidence-based information, and robust interactive content supplemented by treatment algorithms and images to keep you up to date with all that’s current in this fast-changing field. This two-volume set is ideal for daily reference, featuring a unique organization by presenting symptom/sign and by specific disease entities—allowing you to access content in ways that mirror how you practice. More than 150 expert contributors, led by Drs. Joseph Jankovic, John C. Mazziotta, Scott L. Pomeroy, and Nancy J. Newman, provide up-to-date guidance that equips you to effectively diagnose and manage the full range of neurological disorders. Covers all aspects of today’s neurology in an easy-to-read, clinically relevant manner. Allows for easy searches through an intuitive organization by both symptom and grouping of diseases. Features new and expanded content on movement disorders, genetic and immunologic disorders, tropical neurology, neuro-ophthalmology and neuro-otology, palliative care, pediatric neurology, and new and emerging therapies. Offers even more detailed videos that depict how neurological disorders manifest, including EEG and seizures, deep brain stimulation for PD and tremor, sleep disorders, movement disorders, ocular oscillations, EMG evaluation, cranial neuropathies, and disorders of upper and lower motor neurons, as well as other neurologic signs.
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