Destiny may be written in the stars, but you have the power to shape it. In Pans Script, author Elkie White, offers a treasure trove of vital information about you, your loved ones, and your life, through astrology and numerology, combined. Pans Script guides you to the discovery of your Astro-Number Signature: the governing resonance of your entire energy-field. It paints a multidimensional personal portrait by showing you how to: enact the power and potential within your date of birth and your name apply your birthday number to make headway in life identify your true personality assess the forces shaping your life time your personal cycles appreciate the various types of intelligence, yours and others interpret your personal years within the context of the worlds year correlate numerology and astrology unite your numbers and your horoscope calculate and interpret your Astro-Number Signature explore the implications of your astronumerology for your career-path and relationships Based on careful research and the refinement of formulae from thousands of case studies, Pans Script teaches you about yourself as it reveals your Astronumerological DNA, because to know is to understand.

The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.

Vale's Technique of Screen and Television Writing is an updated and expanded edition of a valuable guide to writing for film and television. Mr. Vale takes the aspiring writer through every phase of a film's development, from the original concept to the final shooting script. Teachers of the craft as well as writers and directors have acclaimed it as one of the best books ever written on how to write a screenplay. This book combines practical advice for the aspiring or established writer with a lucid overview of the unique features of this most contemporary art form, distinguishing film and video from other media and other kinds of storytelling. It teaches the reader to think in terms of the camera and gives practical advice on the realities of filmmaking. At the same time, Vale, who began his own career as a scriptwriter for the great French director Jean Renoir, provides a solid grounding in the history of drama from the Classical Greek theater through the great cinematic works of the twentieth century. Both philosophical and pragmatic, this is a very readable book for students and active professionals who want to improve their writing skills, and for film enthusiasts interested in knowing more about what they see on the screen. Mr. Vale is that rare combination, a practitioner of great experience who can offer a lucid explanation of his craft. Eugene Vale was born in Switzerland and began his career in France in the 1930s. He was an award-winning novelist, film and TV scriptwriter and teacher, whose works include the bestselling novel The Thirteenth Apostle and the scripts for Francis of Assisi, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and The Second Face. He also worked in many other areas of the motion picture industry, including directing, producing, cutting, distribution and finance. His archives are held by Boston University and University of Southern California. Mr. Vale died in 1997, shortly after he completed the updated version of this handbook.

Summary Hello, Scratch! is a how-to book that helps parents and kids work together to learn programming skills by creating new versions of old retro-style arcade games with Scratch. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Can 8-year-olds write computer programs? You bet they can! In Scratch, young coders use colorful blocks and a rich graphical environment to create programs. They can easily explore ideas like input and output, looping, branching, and conditionals. Scratch is a kid-friendly language created by MIT that is a safe and fun way to begin thinking like a programmer, without the complexity of a traditional programming language. About the Book Hello Scratch! guides young readers through five exciting games to help them take their first steps in programming. They'll experiment with key ideas about how a computer program works and enjoy the satisfaction of immediate success. These carefully designed projects give readers plenty of room to explore by imagining, tinkering, and personalizing as they learn. What's Inside Learn by experimentation Learn to think like a programmer Build five exciting, retro-style games Visualize the organization of a program About the Readers Written for kids 8-14. Perfect for independent learning or working with a parent or teacher. About the Authors Kids know how kids learn. Sadie and Gabriel Ford, 12-year-old twins and a formidable art and coding team, wrote this book with editing help from their mother, author Melissa Ford! Table of Contents PART 1 - SETTING UP THE ARCADE Getting to know your way around Scratch Becoming familiar with the Art Editor Meeting Scratch's key blocks through important coding concepts PART 2 - TURNING ON THE MACHINES Designing a two-player ball-and-paddle game Using conditionals to build a two-player ball-and-paddle game PART 3 - CODING AND PLAYING GAMES Designing a fixed shooter Using conditionals to build your fixed shooter Designing a one-player ball-and-paddle game Using variables to build your one-player ball-and-paddle game Designing a simple platformer Using X and Y coordinates to make a simple platformer Making a single-screen platformer Using arrays and simulating gravity in a single-screen platformer Becoming a game maker

This book offers a theory of writing as representational composition, identifying fundamental elements which underlie all principles of writing and textual composition. For students of writing in all areas as well as writers at all levels.

The SPIN workshop is a forum for researchers interested in the subject of automata-based, explicit-state model checking technologies for the analysis and veri?cation of asynchronous concurrent and distributed systems. The SPIN - del checker (http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/spin/whatispin.html), developed by Gerard Holzmann, is one of the best known systems of this kind, and has attracted a large user community. This can likely be attributed to its e?cient state exploration algorithms. The fact that SPIN’s modeling language, Promela, resembles a programming language has probably also contributed to its success. Traditionally, the SPIN workshops present papers on extensions and uses of SPIN. As an experiment, this year’s workshop was broadened to have a slightly wider focus than previous workshops in that papers on software veri?cation were encouraged. Consequently, a small collection of papers describe attempts to analyze and verify programs written in conventional programming languages. Solutions include translations from source code to Promela, as well as specially designed model checkers that accept source code. We believe that this is an - teresting research direction for the formal methods community, and that it will result in a new set of challenges and solutions. Of course, abstraction becomes the key solution to deal with very large state spaces. However, we also see - tential for integrating model checking with techniques such as static program analysis and testing. Papers on these issues have therefore been included in the proceedings.