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Knockin' Doorz Down is the inspirational story of one man's heroic struggle against inner demons that nearly destroy him, though he ultimately recovers and finds a unique pathway to redemption and peace.Successful entrepreneur Carlos Vieira was raised on his family's sweet potato farm in Livingston, California. As a teenager, Vieira is popular and athletic, all set to join the family business, but the allure of recreational drug use leads to a party lifestyle that derails both his career and personal life.In this cautionary tale, we see how the isolation of addiction affects every aspect of Vieira's existence. Here are the binges, the excesses, the relapses, the rehabs, the arrests, the nights in jail, and the multiple resolutions to recover. At age thirty-four, he finally stops once and for all.Through it all, he offers a timeless message: no matter what you may be struggling with-family challenges, addiction, financial issues, health troubles, or relationship problems-you can pull yourself from the brink, knock down a new door, and create a brand-new life, becoming the person you were always meant to be.
This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems. The state-of-the-art coverage and carefully crafted pedagogical style lends this book highly accessible as an introductory text not only to GRASP, but also to combinatorial optimization, greedy algorithms, local search, and path-relinking, as well as to heuristics and metaheuristics, in general. The focus is on algorithmic and computational aspects of applied optimization with GRASP with emphasis given to the end-user, providing sufficient information on the broad s...
This book reviews and discusses future opportunities and tools for emerging challenges in HIV/ADS control. Although significant progress has been made in the prevention, control, and care of HIV/AIDS, challenges continue to emerge. Over six sections, the book discusses a myriad of subjects, including obstacles to treatment, risk factors, demographics, testing, comorbidities, mental health, and much more.
The Political Handbook of the World provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies than any other reference guide. The updated 2015 edition will continue to be the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country’s governmental and political makeup. Compiling in one place more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume is renowned for its extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. It also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. And this annual update includes coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of this year.
DESAFIOS E POSSIBILIDADES SOB AS LENTES DA RESPONSABILIDADE CIVIL DOS PROVEDORES "(...) Ademais, é essencial ressaltar que a discussão sobre responsabilidade civil vai além de um simples enquadramento legal; trata-se de uma verdadeira reflexão sobre a condição humana em um contexto tecnológico. A autora nos convida a considerar o impacto das redes sociais na formação de opiniões e na construção de realidades, ressaltando que os provedores têm um papel crucial na modelagem da esfera pública. No aprofundamento das nuances desse estudo, somos desafiados a reimaginar não apenas as responsabilidades legais, mas também as obrigações sociais que surgem com o uso dessas poderosas f...
É bem verdade que um trabalho como esse de composição genealógica é interminável e se dermos sorte, algum ascendente poderá vir se interessar e dar seguimento a este trabalho no futuro, com suas características e preferências, entretanto não poderia chegar ao fim deste meu trabalho sem tentar descrever o quanto tudo isso significou para mim; pouco a pouco fui me apropriando das lembranças que me foram contadas e junto a elas flashes de tantos momentos bons foram pululando de minhas verdadeiras memórias, por vezes me emocionei com as emoções descritas por meus primos, e me entristeci ao ver que alguns familiares, já tão enodoados por suas vidas, mostraram-se aquém preferindo ...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious agenda for environmental sustainability, economic development, and social transformation. The SDGs include targets for governments, in partnership with private industry and communities, to improve access to affordable and reliable energy, reduce inequality, protect natural resources, and invest in transparent legal institutions and resilient infrastructure. Although transitioning energy systems towards a low-carbon future is a core aspect of the SDGs, the International Energy Agency anticipates that oil and gas will remain a significant component of the global energy mix for some time. Host Government Instruments are tools which governmen...