In 1762, Abraham Wing led a group of Quakers to lands he had acquired on the edge of the Adirondacks. Soon, a cluster of log cabins surrounded the mills that Wing had built at the falls on the Hudson River. By the early 19th century, Queensbury consisted of several small hamlets and the village of Glens Falls, which grew into an industrial and commercial center. Factories produced lumber, lime, paper, shirts, and cement, and the city featured many stores, churches, theaters, and a hospital. The surrounding township remained largely agricultural but offered such recreational activities as golf, swimming, fishing, boating, and skiing. After World War II, commercial momentum shifted to Queensbury as motels, tourist attractions, and shopping centers sprang up along Route 9, the main route to Lake George and the Adirondacks.
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In 1762, Abraham Wing led a group of Quakers to lands he had acquired on the edge of the Adirondacks. Soon, a cluster of log cabins surrounded the mills that Wing had built at the falls on the Hudson River. By the early 19th century, Queensbury consisted of several small hamlets and the village of Glens Falls, which grew into an industrial and commercial center. Factories produced lumber, lime, paper, shirts, and cement, and the city featured many stores, churches, theaters, and a hospital. The surrounding township remained largely agricultural but offered such recreational activities as golf, swimming, fishing, boating, and skiing. After World War II, commercial momentum shifted to Queensbury as motels, tourist attractions, and shopping centers sprang up along Route 9, the main route to Lake George and the Adirondacks.
This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The context for the volume is the current situation in China, where twenty years of rapid growth have created a situation in which there are both demands for environmental regulation and needs for choosing a future development path. The advent of "A Macro-Environmental Strategy" for China presents an opportunity to ask how and why China should introduce regulation into its management of its development. The volume includes contributions from leading Chinese experts and established environmental economists from other countries including Timo Goeschl, Ben Groom and Andreas Kontoleon. The volume looks at both the demand side of environmental regulation and the supply side. The demand side of regulatory intervention examines how regulation operates to supplement existing resource-allocation mechanisms, via effective demand aggregation and implementation mechanisms. The supply side of regulation examines how regulation operates to guide industrial growth down particular pathways, in the pursuit of managed development. Both sides of environmental regulation involve the important issue of implementation and enforcement. This volume will be of most value to academics and scholars of environmental economics, growth economics, the Chinese economy and policy-makers of environmental regulations.
Since the first edition was published in 1982, Treatment of Cancer has become a standard text for postgraduate physicians in the UK and beyond, providing all information necessary for modern cancer management in one comprehensive but accessible volume. By inviting experts from a number of disciplines to share their knowledge, the editors have succe
How to build a financial plan that really blends into your life The latest volume in the bestselling Ultimate series, Jim Stovall and Tim Maurer's The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life is a one-stop, comprehensive, personal financial planning book exploring the intersection of money and life. The Ultimate Financial Plan examines the connection between actions, thoughts, and feelings when it comes to all things financial. The key to getting the most out of your wealth, the authors argue, is certainly found in the wise utilization of tools, like budgets, bank accounts, 401(k)s, IRAs, Roth IRAs, education savings plans, and real estate, as well as home, auto, business, health, disability, and long term care insurance, but even more so in the contentment found in balancing money's influence in our lives with personal values and goals. An insider's look into the recently humbled "Big 3"—the banks, brokerage firms, and insurance companies—and the inner workings that often set their proprietary goals and objectives above all A critical examination of the role of various financial sales people, advisors, planners, and consultants A guide to navigating Economic Bias—a conflict of interest involving money—and how it affects every financial decision we make The Ultimate Financial Plan is the application of the resources at your disposal for the purpose of living your life to the fullest, and this book will show you the quickest route to getting started on the path to ultimate success.
This is a comprehensive review of the current state of stem cell bioengineering from authorities in the field. The first part of the book includes the basic research work on stem cells and bioengineering carried out by various laboratories. The second part consists of a review of the current development of various microcapsules in stem cell therapy. The last part will summarize the overall clinical trials on stem cell therapy and myocardial regeneration as well as the most updated personal experience recently completed by well-known experts in this field.
In this spine-tingling new series, the stars of TV’s GHOST HUNTERS introduce readers to a team of paranormal investigators who reunite to defeat a sinister force they unleashed long ago. . . . For fifteen years, Amber, Drew, and Trevor have barely been able to recall—let alone explain—what happened the terrifying night they decided to explore the old, abandoned Lowry House. According to local legend, the house was cursed by a dark past and inhabited by evil. It burst into flames on the night of their visit, leaving the friends traumatized and nearly dead with only vague memories of the frightening events they had witnessed inside. Now, on the eve of their high school reunion, they have gathered to reopen their investigation and figure out, once and for all, what took place that fateful night . . . before the supernatural entity they escaped threatens to overtake them again.
This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and left and explain their significance for mainstream political organizations. The authors outline the defining characteristics of cults in general, and analyze the degree to which a variety of well-known movements fall within the spectrum of cultic organizations. The book covers such individuals and groups as Lyndon LaRouche, Fred Newman, Ted Grant, Marlene Dixon, the Christian Identity movement, Posse Commitatus, Aryan Nation, militias, and the Freemen. It explores the ideological underpinnings that predispose cult followers to cultic practices, along with the measures cults use to suppress dissent, achieve intense conformity, and extract extraordinary levels of commitment.
Seasoned counselors and professors Tim Clinton and Ron Hawkins provide a landmark reference that offers a capstone definition of the emerging profession and ministry of the Christian counselor. Appropriate for professional counselors, lay counselors, pastors, students, and teachers, it includes nearly 300 entries by nearly 100 top Christian counselors. This practical guide focuses on functional aspects of Christian counseling and explores such important topics as...Christian counseling as a profession, ministry, and lay ministry; Spiritual and theological roots; Social, emotional, and relational issues; Skills and essentials in Christian helping; Ethical and legal considerations; Intake, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning; and Premarital counseling, family therapy, and substance abuse. Counselors will also find up-to-date information on solution-based brief therapy, cognitive therapy and biblical truth, and trauma and crisis intervention. An essential resource for maintaining a broad and up-to-date perspective on helping others.
Pixar Animation Studios, the innovators behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, created this genre-defying film with an intriguing and unorthodox question in mind: What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot? WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class) is this last, soulful robot. When his lonely work is interrupted by the arrival of the sleek probe-droid EVE, a rollicking adventure across the galaxy ensues. The Art of WALL-E features the myriad pieces of concept art on which this fantastic, futuristic film was built, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. Astute text-featuring quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team-unearths the filmmakers' historical inspirations and recounts the creative process in intimate detail. This richly illustrated portal into the artistic spirit of Pixar reveals a studio confidently pushing the limits of animation.
When World War II engulfed the nation, the men and women of Akron dutifully played their part in the epic struggle. Keyes Beech ducked grenades as marines raised the American flag at on Iwo Jima. Newspaper magnate John S. Knight watched the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri just five months after his son was killed in Germany. On the homefront, Goodyear manufactured blimps used to hunt down Nazi submarines, and noted Beacon Journal cartoonist Web Brown pledged his talent and his pen to boosting morale at home and abroad. Replete with more than one hundred images, including many of Brown's wartime drawings, this thrilling account by local author Tim Carroll recalls all that Akron gave for freedom.
A synopsis of the bark lice and book lice (Psocoptera) recorded from tropical Southeast Asia, including illustrated keys to all families and genera, together with distributional and biological notes, comprehensive references and a checklist of regional species.
In traditional service architectures that follow the service statelessness principle, the state is primarily held in the data tier. Here, service operators utilize tailored storage solutions to guarantee the required availability; even though failures can occur at any time. This centralized approach to store and process an application’s state in the data tier implies that outages of the entire tier cannot be tolerated. An alternative approach, which is in focus of this thesis, is to decentralize the processing of state information and to use more stateful components in the early tiers. The possibility to tolerate a temporary outage of an entire tier implies that the application’s state can be manipulated by the remaining tiers without waiting for approval from the unavailable tier. This setup requires multi-leader replication, where every replica can accept writes and forwards the resulting changes to the other replicas. This thesis explores the feasibility of using multi-leader replication to store and process state in a decentralized manner across multiple tiers. To this end, two replication mechanisms, namely Conflict-free Replicated Data Types and Operational Transformation, are under particular investigation. We use and extend both mechanism to demonstrate that the aforementioned decentralization is worth considering when designing a service architecture. The challenges that arise when following our approach go back to fundamental impossibility results in distributed systems research, i.e. the impossibility to achieve a fault-tolerant consensus mechanism in asynchronous systems and the inevitable trade-off between availability and consistency in the presence of failures. With this thesis, we contribute to close the exposed gaps of both results by providing usable alternatives for standard IT services. We exemplify the feasibility of our alternatives with a fully distributed IMAP service and a programming library that provides the necessary extension to utilize our approach in a variety of web-based applications. All contributions of this thesis are based on both theory and practice. In particular, all extensions to the existing multi-leader replication mechanisms were proven to satisfy the necessary properties. Moreover, those extensions were also implemented as prototypical applications and evaluated against the corresponding de facto standard software from the industry. Basierend auf dem “service statelessness principle” ist es üblich, Softwaredienste so zu entwerfen, dass der Zustand des Dienstes primär in einer gekapselten Datenschicht verarbeitet wird. Innerhalb der Datenschicht werden spezielle Lösungen verwendet, um die Verfügbarkeit der Daten sicherzustellen. Dieser zentralisierte Ansatz hat zur Folge, dass ein Ausfall oder eine temporäre Nichtverfügbarkeit der gesamten Datenschicht zwangsweise zur Nichtverfügbarkeit des gesamten Dienstes führt. Ein alternativer Ansatz, welcher in dieser Arbeit erforscht wird, ist die dezentralisierte Speicherung und Verarbeitung der Daten in den darüberliegenden Softwareschichten. Um in diesem Ansatz einen Ausfall der gesamten Datenschicht zu kompensieren, ist es zwingend notwendig, dass die verbleibenden Schichten die eingehenden Anfragen ohne die Bestätigung durch die Datenschicht beantworten können. Hierfür wird eine Replikationsarchitektur benötigt, in der jedes Replikat die Anfragen direkt beantworten kann; die so genannte “multi-leader replication”. In dieser Arbeit werden diese Replikationsarchitekturen verwendet, um den Zustand und die Daten eines Dienstes zu dezentralisieren und über mehrere Schichten zu replizieren. Hierbei werden zwei Mechanismen detaillierter betrachtet: “Conflict-free Replicated Data Types” und “Operational Transformation”. Anschließend werden beide Mechanismen erweitert und hinsichtlich der Verwendbarkeit für den beschriebenen Ansatz geprüft. Als Ergebnis dieser Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass ein dezentralisierter Ansatz mit den vorgestellten Mechanismen in Betracht gezogen werden kann. Die Herausforderungen, die bei der Anwendung dieses Ansatzes entstehen, basieren auf nachweislich unlösbaren Problemen aus der Forschung von Verteilten Systemen. Dazu gehört die Unlösbarkeit von Konsensus und die unausweichliche Abwägung zwischen Verfügbarkeit und Konsistenz in einem verteilten System mit Ausfällen. Diese Arbeit trägt dazu bei, die entstehenden Lücken, welche aus diesen fundamentalen Ergebnissen resultieren, zu schließen und die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen für reale IT Dienste anwendbar zu machen. Dieses wird anhand eines dezentralen IMAP Dienstes und einer Programmierbibliothek für Webanwendungen verdeutlicht. Alle Bestandteile dieser Doktorarbeit verbinden Theorie und Praxis. Alle vorgeschlagenen Erweiterungen für bestehende Replikationssysteme werden in formalen Modellen verifiziert und prototypisch implementiert. Die Implementierungen werden außerdem mit vergleichbarer Standardsoftware, welche dem heutigen Stand der Technik entspricht, in praktischen Experimenten evaluiert.
A summary of the highlights of the Second International Forum on Prostate Cancer, held in Cambridge in 1998. The contributors include scientists, epidemiologists and clinicians who provide both a North American and a European view of treatment. The patient's perspective is also considered.
A slot-by-slot analysis of every NBA Draft since 1947. "Best" and "Featured" players are identified at each slot, along with recaps and statistics. The Top 30 slots include the five best players ever selected ine ach slot. Also included is a worst-to-first ranking of each draft in NBA history.
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