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The Plus

Author : Greg Gutfeld

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 41,99 MB

Release : 2020-07-28

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1982149930

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Greg Gutfeld wants to be your new guru, and he hates himself for it. Before Greg Gutfeld was a Fox News star and a New York Times bestselling author, he was a self-help writer for health magazines who had no idea what he was talking about. But now, after years of experience, he finally feels qualified to guide people on the journey of life—call this book punishment for his sins, and a huge reward for you! In The Plus, Greg teaches you how to brainwash yourself into better behavior, retaining the pluses in your life and eliminating the minuses. His approach to self-help is simple, and perfect for cynics; it’s not about positive thinking in the short term, it’s about positive being in the long term. With tough love and more than a little political incorrectness, he delivers sage wisdom such as: -If you aren’t getting happier as you’re getting older, you’re doing it wrong. -Resist the media’s command to expand destructive narratives. -If you’re in the same place you were three years ago, wake up. -Don’t tweet when drinking. Modern life grows emptier and emptier as society becomes increasingly polarized, and even those who don’t subscribe to New Age beliefs are seeking comfort and meaning. In The Plus, Greg shows how skeptics too can advance themselves for the betterment of their lives and the healing of their communities.



Personality Plus

Author : Florence Littauer

Publisher : Revell

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 27,63 MB

Release : 1992-07-01

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 144120007X

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A revealing "personality profile" self-test and Littauer's insightful advice help readers better understand themselves and others. A bestseller.



Modern Plus Sign Quilts

Author : Cheryl Brickey

Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 40,50 MB

Release : 2018-02-01

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1617455709

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Book Description

Add to your quilting repertoire with the universally popular plus sign! These 16 bold, graphic designs range from modern to traditional, with something for every skill level and style. Detailed instructions and illustrations walk confident beginners and intermediate quilters through traditional piecing, paper piecing, and fusible machine appliqué to create baby quilts, throw quilts, bed quilts, and more. Use your favorite types of fabric—solids, prints, precuts, or scraps—to make the projects your own.



Side by Side Plus 2 Student's Book and EText with Audio CD

Author : Steven J. Molinsky

Publisher : Pearson Education ESL

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,8 MB

Release : 2015-12-14

Category : English language

ISBN : 9780133828986

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Side by Side has helped over 25 million students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners. Now, in this special edition for adult learners in standards-based programs, Side by Side Plus builds students' general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work. Easy-to-use teacher support materials include hundreds of multilevel activities and a wealth of supplemental worksheets, achievement tests, and other resources to assure learner persistence and success. Outstanding Features: Picture dictionary lessons introduce unit vocabulary in a clear, easy-to-use format. The program's guided conversation methodology integrates grammar, vocabulary, and topics through real-life communication practice that is student-centered, interactive, and fun. Standards-based lessons in each unit develop the competencies included in CASAS, BEST Plus, EFF, SCANS, Model Standards, and other major curriculum frameworks and assessment systems. Teamwork, critical thinking, and community tasks promote cooperative learning, problem-solving, and civics connections. Diverse reading and writing activities include realia, narrative readings, and journal-writing to develop skills for daily life, self-expression, and academic advancement. Built-in assessment in each unit includes a check-up test and vocabulary and skill checklists enabling students to assess their progress. Side by Side Gazette magazine sections promote learner persistence through high-interest material that students can use in class or on their own, building a bridge between the classroom and the home. A Bonus Gazette Audio CD included with the text offers entertaining radio program-style recordings of Gazette activities. An all-in-one teacher support package (available separately) includes a Teacher's Guide with Multilevel Activity & Achievement Test Book and CD-ROM providing multilevel activities and an array of reproducible masters, worksheets, and tests. An Activity & Test Prep Workbook (available separately) offers all-skills practice, GrammarRaps, and unit achievement tests.



Oracle SQL*Plus

Author : Jonathan Gennick

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 532 pages

File Size : 49,70 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Computers

ISBN : 9781565925786

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This book is the definitive guide to SQL*Plus. If you want to take best advantage of the power and flexibility of this popular Oracle tool, you need this book. SQLPlus is an interactive query tool that is ubiquitous in the Oracle world. It is present in every Oracle installation and is available to almost every Oracle developer and database administrator. SQLPlus has been shipped with Oracle since at least version 6. It continues to be supported and enhanced with each new version of Oracle, including Oracle8 and Oracle8i. It is still the only widely available tool for writing SQL scripts. Despite this wide availability and usage, few developers and DBAs know how powerful SQL*Plus really is. This book introduces SQLPlus, includes a quick reference to all of its syntax options, and, most important, provides chapters that describe, in step-by-step fashion, how to perform all of the tasks that Oracle developers and DBAs want to perform with SQLPlus -- and maybe some they didn't realize they COULD perform with SQLPlus. You will learn how to write and execute script files, generate ad hoc reports, extract data from the database, query the data dictionary tables, customize your SQLPlus environment, and use the SQL*Plus administrative features (new in Oracle8i). This book is an indispensable resource for readers who are new to SQL*Plus, a task-oriented learning tool for those who are already using it, and a quick reference for every user. A table of contents follows: Preface Introduction to SQLPlus Interacting with SQLPlus Generating Reports with SQLPlus Writing SQLPlus Scripts Extracting Data with SQLPlus Exploring Your Database with SQLPlus Advanced Scripting Tuning and Timing The Product User Profile Administration with SQLPlus Customizing Your SQLPlus Environment Appendices A. SQLPlus Command Reference B. Connect Strings and the SQLPlus Command



The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee

Publisher : The Stationery Office

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 42,7 MB

Release : 2006-03-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780215027979

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During the past two years Jobcentre Plus has faced considerable upheaval in trying to accommodate both organisational change and meet the DWP target for efficiency savings (which requires the loss of 15,000 staff by March 20008). This report looks at how these changes have affected the ability of the Agency to meet its objectives in relation to: employment and training programmes; the capacity and role of Personal Advisors; the performance of the Customer Management System; the principles behind and the performance of Contact Centres. It concludes that too much was attempted too quickly, the planning and IT processes were not up to the job and service levels suffered. As a result Jobcentre Plus failed one of the tests of the Gershon programme that service quality should not deteriorate as a result of the efficiency process.



Max-Plus Methods for Nonlinear Control and Estimation

Author : William M. McEneaney

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 18,72 MB

Release : 2006-07-25

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 0817644539

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The central focus of this book is the control of continuous-time/continuous-space nonlinear systems. Using new techniques that employ the max-plus algebra, the author addresses several classes of nonlinear control problems, including nonlinear optimal control problems and nonlinear robust/H-infinity control and estimation problems. Several numerical techniques are employed, including a max-plus eigenvector approach and an approach that avoids the curse-of-dimensionality. The max-plus-based methods examined in this work belong to an entirely new class of numerical methods for the solution of nonlinear control problems and their associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) PDEs; these methods are not equivalent to either of the more commonly used finite element or characteristic approaches. Max-Plus Methods for Nonlinear Control and Estimation will be of interest to applied mathematicians, engineers, and graduate students interested in the control of nonlinear systems through the implementation of recently developed numerical methods.



Oracle SQL*Plus Pocket Reference

Author : Jonathan Gennick

Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Page : 155 pages

File Size : 27,71 MB

Release : 2004-11-11

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0596008856

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SQL*Plus is an interactive query tool that's ubiquitous in the Oracle world. It's available at every Oracle site-from the largest data warehouse to the smallest single-user system-and it's a critical tool for virtually every Oracle user. The third edition of this popular pocket guide provides quick reference information on SQL*Plus syntax and format elements, including new Oracle Database 10g features. It concisely describes interacting with SQL*Plus, formatting both text and HTML reports with SQL*Plus, and tuning SQL queries using both optimizer hints and the plan table. This new edition covers browser-based iSQL*Plus, the ability to generate HTML, new commands and SET options, and much more. It also contains expanded information on the SQL statements most commonly issued from SQL*Plus (Select, Insert, Update, Delete, Merge, Commit, Rollback, Savepoint, Set Transaction) and adds coverage of new SQL features such as the Oracle Database 10g Select statement's Model clause, flashback queries, partition outer joins, and DBMS_XPLAN. Book jacket.



U-STARS~PLUS Science & Nonfiction Connections

Author : Mary Ruth Coleman

Publisher : Council For Exceptional Children

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 36,9 MB

Release : 2014-12-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 0865864934

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The newest addition to the U-STARS~PLUS product line, Science & Nonfiction Connections provides educators with a complementary companion to the popular Family Science Packets and Science & Literature Connections. This new book includes over 30 lesson plans aligned with both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, focusing on popular, current nonfiction science publications. Science & Nonfiction Connections belongs in every classroom where teachers seek to create exciting, science learning experiences that promote the connection between students' knowledge and new content. Teachers can use this book as a valuable literacy aid in building science vocabulary, while also providing enrichment for and recognizing the abilities of students from diverse backgrounds.



The Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus

Author : International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 22,94 MB

Release : 2013-10-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1484307712

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched the Data Standards Initiatives to enhance member countries’ data transparency and to promote their development of sound statistical systems. The need for data standards was highlighted by the financial crises of the mid-1990s, in which information deficiencies were seen to play a role. Under the Data Standards Initiatives, the IMF established the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) in 1996 to provide guidance to countries that have or seek access to capital markets to disseminate key data so that users in general, and financial market participants in particular, have adequate information to assess the economic situations of individual countries. In 1997, the IMF introduced under the initiatives the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) to provide a framework for countries that aim to develop their statistical systems, within which they can work toward disseminating comprehensive and reliable data and, eventually, meet SDDS requirements. In February 2012, the IMF Executive Board approved the establishment of the SDDS Plus as a third tier of the Fund’s Data Standards Initiatives to address data gaps revealed during the global crisis. The SDDS Plus is open to all SDDS subscribers: those with systemically important financial sectors are encouraged to adhere early to the initiative.