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- 3391: Plus (computer Program)
- ... s iterator tutorial. This document also contains several organizational ideas and some text from S. Omohundro's originally planned Sather book. This text has benefitted from corrections, comments and suggestions from several people including Cary D. Renzema, Jerome Feldman, Claudio Fleiner and Arno Jacobsen. Particular thanks to Cary, Arno and Feldman for detailed error reports. Arno also made several suggestions regarding terminology and examples that have been incorporated. 1.2 How ... 1.0 design was largely due to Jerome Feldman, Stephan Murer and David Stoutamire. This document describes Sather 1.1, released the summer of 1996. The compiler was originally designed and implemented by S. Omohundro, D. Stoutamire and (later) Robert Griesemer. Boris Vaysman is the current Sather czar and feature implementor. Claudio Fleiner implemented most of the common optimizations , a lot of debugging support, the pSather runtime and back-end support ... Sather WWW page. [4] C. Lim, A. Stolcke. ''Sather language design and performance evaluation.'' TR-91-034, International Computer Science Institute, May 1991. Also available at the Sather WWW page. [5] S. Murer, S. Omohundro, D. Stoutamire, C. Szyperski, ''Iteration abstraction in Sather'', Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan 1996 p. 1-15. Available at the Sather WWW page. [6] S. Omohundro. ''The Sather programming ...
- 3392: PEPSI VS COKE
- ... ago and unleashed a brilliant ploy to make Coke the early bird in many of the major foreign markets. At the height of World War II, Woodruff proclaimed that Awherever American boys were fighting, they'd be able to get a Coke.@ By the time Pepsi tried to make its first international pitch in the 50s, Coke had already established its brand name and a powerful distribution network. In the intervening ... to make inroads into the Gulf, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. The start of the Gulf War, however, temporarily stunted Coca-Cola's growth in the region. Pepsi's 5 Saudi factories worked 24 hours a day to keep the troops refreshed. The most significant blow to Coca-Cola's return to the desert, however, came at the end of the war, when General Norman Schwarzkopf was shown signing the cease-fire ...
- 3393: Michael Collins Biography Figh
- ... 11 he was subscribed to the "The United Irishman" a nationalist magazine edited by "Arthur Griffith" who later went on to became the founder of Sinn Fein, a nationalist party that still exists to this day. In July 1906, at the age of 15, Michael Collins immigrated to London; he did not take long to become involved in a strong Irish community in London and also became involved in the Gaelic ... the Irish Volunteers with the help of the IRB. Despite this persistent feuding the outbreak of the First World War, the UVF and the Irish Volunteers came together to protect Ireland from invasion. On Easter day April 24th 1916, approximately 2000 Volunteers succeeded in taking over several main buildings in the Dublin in a attempt to proclaim the Independence of Ireland. It was named the Easter Rising and for 5 days the Irish Volunteers seized and barricaded themselves in the main buildings of Dublin. Bitter Street fighting developed in Dublin and on the 5th day of the Easter rising several buildings came under attack by the British forces and the Irish Volunteers were forced to surrender. Fifteen leaders of the uprising were executed, and the surviving volunteers including Michael ...
- 3394: Making The Corps
- ... improvisation (p.64). On Drill Sergeant states that a Marine “will accept nothing less than the very best effort from you at all times” (p.54). In American society, if someone is having a bad day because of something, we say “don’t worry about it, you’ll do better tomorrow”. The Marine expects you to give 100% at all times (p.56), and to be completely honest in all things ... things were recognized, but not that Hoover’s mind is “Marine-like” and his eyes open he realizes that these people are rude and sloppy. The new Marines all feel the same way about ordinary day people including their old friends. They feel that their old friends are losers and that they would rather be back at boot camp making good use of the day. -With the feeling of rather being back at boot camp, some new Marines started to have unusual recollections. The boot camp left such an effect on some of the Marines that when they began ...
- 3395: Is There Hope For The Psychopa
- ... the required therapy.The therapist has to focus on enhancing strength and channeling the sensation of seeking actions on people into more positive socially responsible behaviors, and to teach practical ways in dealing with every day frustration. Medications are not recommended in the treatment of sociopaths, but drugs can diminish the violent episodes. People with Anti-Social Personality Disorder may also have Attention Deficit\ Hyperactivity Disorder for which stimulants are used ... then, all we can do is hope and try to determine and diagnose patients early so that they can get help. References Hales, Dianne. (1995). Caring for the Mind. New York: Bantam Books. Hare Ph.D., Robert. (1994). Predators: The disturbing world of psychopaths around us. Psychology Today, 27(1), 54. Myers, Mark. (1998). Progression from conduct disorder to antisocial personality disorder following treatment for adolescent substance abuse. The American Journal ...
- 3396: Modern Crucible
- ... up from his creaking chair, Terrance slumped over to the door, from the hallway the click of locks was heard and finally the door creped open. “Can I help you guys?” Conner’s, the previous day, was fired from his job and this was just the icing on the cake. “Your under arrest…” said the officer with a stoic tone. “For what?” asked Conner followed by a ridiculous laugh. “…You have ... and along with his past, was all the jury need to convict him of Grand Larceny and sentence him to twelve years with no chance for parole. To Terrance, his life was over. From that day on, he might as well be dead. Conner appealed his conviction several times but with no change in the outcome. His case was too publicized for his sentence to be reduced. Everyday in confinement was a day in hell. Terrance was draw into so much depression that he wouldn’t eat. On April 20th, 1999, his body was found swinging by his sheets from the ceiling of his jail cell.
- 3397: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... Another misconception is that burlap is made from hemp. Actually, its source is usually jute, and practically all of the burlap we use is woven from laborers in India who receive only four cents a day. Binder twine is usually made from sisal, which comes from the Yucatan and East Africa. All of these products, now imported, can be produced from home-grown hemp. Fish nets, bow strings, canvas, strong rope ... claiming wine is more harmful than beer. Myth: Smoking marijuana can cause cancer and serious lung damage. Fact: The chance of contracting cancer from marijuana smoke is minuscule. Tobacco smokers typically smoke 20+ cigarettes every day for decades, but virtually nobody smokes marijuana in the quantity and frequency required to cause cancer. A 1997 UCLA study (see page 12) concluded that even prolonged and heavy marijuana smoking causes no serious lung ... Fact: A 1996 U.S. government study claims that heavy marijuana use may impair learning ability. The key words are heavy use and may. This claim is based on studying people who smoke marijuana every day-a sample representing less than 3 percent of all marijuana smokers. This study concluded: 1) Learning impairments cited were subtle, minimal, and may be temporary. In other words, there is little evidence that such ...
- 3398: My Lai: The Event, The Trial,
- ... drifting non-stop against the war, as opposed to their previous pro-war attitude. There were anti-war demonstrations and peace movements (Almond) that shut down colleges, and sometimes towns across the country. Then one day, as the media was delivering their daily recurrences of the horror that was Vietnam, reports of a massacre in a village designated as My Lai 4 came up. Following these reports and some "thorough" investigation ... Lieutenant William Calley was formally charged with the responsibility of the murder of over 100 Vietnamese civilians (Linder) that took place on March 16, 1968. The exact details of the events that took place that day in March vary from source to source, depending on the point of view the information is based on. The troops of Charlie Company attacked at 7:30 am on March 16, and by noon, the ... Official Army reports of the operation were far from the truth. The reports stated that 128 enemy were killed, and one American was injured. In reality, though, as many as 500 civilians were killed that day, and the American that was injured intentionally shot himself in the foot (Linder). Another interesting statistic that came out of the report was that only three rifles and 10 hand grenades were recovered or ...
- 3399: Malthus
- ... on the starchy foods of grain products. In general, it appears that an affluent society lives on about 17pounds per week per person while people at the poverty level subsist on about a pound a day, or seven pounds per week per person. OUR FUTURE DIET World food production has been keeping pace with population growth until recently. Actually, the food available per person has increased each year until the mid ... if the forecasted effects of global warming materialize. b) The ability to control environmental degradation is becoming increasingly difficult. c) The impact of problems with allocating scarce water are just now beginning to be appreciated. d) The depletion of non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels (gas, oil, etc.) needed for farming and distribution will contribute to the increasing costs of dwindling food supplies. Grain Harvest Projections World farmland planted in ...
- 3400: Marijuana
- ... long-term basis of refusing marijuana include living. This might seem awkward but its true. By refusing marijuana you might have a better chance of living. Say a person decided to take marijuana and one day decided to go to something worse so he took heroin. After a while this person got addicted and one day overdosed and died. See if he refused marijuana he probably wouldn’t have died that specific day. Marijuana itself doesn’t pose as a big threat. The things marijuana lead to is a much greater health risk. An example is as stated above. Marijuana is chemotherapeutic drug. This means that it ...
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