Most Popular Books by Ryan Murphy

When Father Malloy came to St. Michael''s Church he knew he was in for a challenge. His parish was in a tough neighborhood filled with kids who were forgotten. Fortunately for Father Malloy, he had a trick up his sleeve...basketball. Hector, one of the forgotten, only cared about two things, his struggling mother and basketball. When his mother loses her job, Hector begins to feel the pressure of having to provide for his family. But when Hector crosses a member of the dangerous gang, the Snipers, he suddenly has one more thing to worry about...his life. Can Father Malloy convince Hector to become part of the team? More importantly, can Father Malloy help Hector turn his life around? A Shot and a Prayer is a story of faith, teamwork and the belief that every one of us can make a difference. "This is the kind of book that is impossible to put down." - Tom Starita, author of Two Ways to Sunday

Ever wonder why the animals at the zoo are always so sleepy? This book will answer your questions once and for all. When Renee asks her father why the zoo animals are snoozing all day, he dreams up an elaborate answer. At night, the monkeys steal the zookeeper''s keys, and all of the animals come out of their cages to dance, eat, and play. Rhinos rock out. Alligators stroll under limbo polls. Elephants pound the piano. Pelicans cater. By the time the visitors arrive in the morning, the animals are all tuckered out. Renee doesn''t believe her father''s tale, but dads have a way of being right about these things. This fantastic story captures the culture and charm of the New Orleans and its beloved zoo with rich illustrations and playful rhyme.

Formed in the early years after the Great Wars, the Champions are a group dedicated to the safety of Jardenia and its people. Aldron, an unassuming young man will quickly learn they are the force that stands between him and his certain demise at the hands of a once sworn Champion, Elian. Elian and his forces have vowed to never allow humans to once more rule the world. Through might or magic they are determined to end the current bloodline. Aldron, the last of his bloodline must face the perils of Jardenia and Elian''s forces in order to take his place in history among the kings of Jardenia. Aldron, with the Champions at his side, learns the truth of his being and that he must return to Rodan to take his proper place amongst his people, as their king. As preparations are made for their departure to Rodan evil arrives in Aldron''s home, the Black Glade. From the outset Aldron, the only human alive with innate magic, is hunted by Elian and Karan who are intent on his demise. The two are determined to destroy any chance the humans may come to hold magic and regain their foothold upon the world and have searched endlessly for Aldron since his disappearance as an infant. They believe the world has been caused enough grief by the humans and their greed. Aldron flees to the safety of Rodan and as quickly as he becomes king he learns there is much to be done to prevail over the evil brothers and their summoned horde of followers. .

The ride of a lifetime! 100,000 miles, four years, two amazing cities, one relentless adrenaline and caffeine-fuelled adventure full of thrills, pills, hills, and bellyache. You''ve Got the Gig! Is an all-access, backstage pass to the little-known yet highly controversial world of the gig economy. The larger-than-life world of the cycle courier is vastly underreported, yet hundreds, sometimes thousands, of these square-shaped backpack-wearing delivery drivers are the blood in the veins of many city centres across the UK and around the globe, taking food and drink to the hungry masses, like efficient worker ants, every hour of every day. Terrified by the prospect of being stuck in the same job for life, and faced with the need for an income while back at uni studying for a change of careers, Ryan Murphy made a break from the ''real world'' and set out to do something he loved. After an exhilarating cycle journey around San Francisco, he turned his attention to the one thing in life which had always brought him unbridled joy and adventure. But what began as a convenient way of earning a living, and a way to escape exams and essays, ended by showing a new way of life, with many unintended and unbelievable consequences. Unshackled from the traditional employer, able to make his own way in the newly emerging gig economy by working for Deliveroo, Ryan has come up against both the obvious drawbacks and the undeniable benefits of riding your bike for a living, and seen the changing face of a huge and growing sector of the modern economy, from its early growth stage to the crucial role it played in the middle of a global pandemic. About the Author Ryan was born in Ashington, Northumberland. He studied sports at Leeds Met, graduated and worked in the leisure industry for seven years. He went back into higher education to study international politics for a postgraduate degree at Newcastle University and has been a cycle courier ever since. He lives in Newcastle, and enjoys investing, house music, politics, economics, coffee, whiskey, fitness and travelling. He has been a beach lifeguard, multi-sports coach and DJ amongst many other jobs. He now spends the majority of the time in the saddle, behind a computer screen, or in bed sleeping.

A look back at the first 100 years of Langley Air Force Base, once Langley Field, and its impact on Hampton, Virginia. The articles orginally appeared in the Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia.

Develop and manage effective real-time streaming solutions by leveraging the power of Microsoft AzureAbout This Book* Analyze your data from various sources using Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics* Develop, manage and automate your stream analytics solution with Microsoft Azure* A practical guide to real-time event processing and performing analytics on the cloudWho This Book Is ForIf you are looking for a resource that teaches you how to process continuous streams of data in real-time, this book is what you need. A basic understanding of the concepts in analytics is all you need to get started with this bookWhat You Will Learn* Perform real-time event processing with Azure Stream Analysis* Incorporate the features of Big Data Lambda architecture pattern in real-time data processing* Design a streaming pipeline for storage and batch analysis* Implement data transformation and computation activities over stream of events* Automate your streaming pipeline using Powershell and the .NET SDK* Integrate your streaming pipeline with popular Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics modelling algorithms* Monitor and troubleshoot your Azure Streaming jobs effectivelyIn DetailMicrosoft Azure is a very popular cloud computing service used by many organizations around the world. Its latest analytics offering, Stream Analytics, allows you to process and get actionable insights from different kinds of data in real-time.This book is your guide to understanding the basics of how Azure Stream Analytics works, and building your own analytics solution using its capabilities. You will start with understanding what Stream Analytics is, and why it is a popular choice for getting real-time insights from data. Then, you will be introduced to Azure Stream Analytics, and see how you can use the tools and functions in Azure to develop your own Streaming Analytics. Over the course of the book, you will be given comparative analytic guidance on using Azure Streaming with other Microsoft Data Platform resources such as Big Data Lambda Architecture integration for real time data analysis and differences of scenarios for architecture designing with Azure HDInsight Hadoop clusters with Storm or Stream Analytics. The book also shows you how you can manage, monitor, and scale your solution for optimal performance.By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in using Azure Stream Analytics to develop an efficient analytics solution that can work with any type of data.Style and approachA comprehensive guidance on developing real-time event processing with Azure Stream Analysis

This paper discusses what evolutionary psychology can contribute to modern political economy.

The Book of Mormon is a controversial text that has a lot of history and makes many claims in regards to authorship. In this study, the Book of Mormon is analyzed using latent semantic analysis to identify if the book as a whole has authorship unity and validity. Authorship unity would suggest only one author wrote the book. Authorship validity would suggest the authors within the text who claim authorship make a valid claim, in the sense that their writings within the Book of Mormon are of uniform authorship. Authorship unity and authorship validity are conflicting terms for this study, meaning both cannot be true about the Book of Mormon since it claims multi-authorship.

At the conclusion of 2017, to the dismay of journalists, pundits, and academics, large numbers of adolescents began consuming Tide Pods, a form of laundry detergent that is candy-like in appearance. This paper argues that purposeful consumption of laundry detergent may in fact be individually rational for adolescents, although with negative externalities. The consumption of Tide Pods may allow adolescents to successfully signal status in accordance with the Handicap Principle, which explains the beauty of a peacock''s tail and the practice of stotting by gazelles in the wild. The Handicap Principle is also a common explanation of adolescents'' willingness to engage in dangerous activities such as drug use. Public policy implications of this theoretic argument would include discouraging Tide Pod consumption, although this would follow from the negative externalities associated with positional goods, as opposed to paternalistic concern for the health of adolescents.

The antibiogram is a fundamental component of antimicrobial stewardship programs. It serves to guide empiric therapy as well as track antimicrobial susceptibilities and resistance development over time. Currently, UCSD publishes a quarterly antibiogram that combines information from all units at both the Thornton and Hillcrest hospitals. While such information provides a global view of susceptibility rates, it masks potentially important differences among units and between hospitals that could be useful in determining appropriate empiric therapy. This project analyzed antibiogram data from 2009-2010 for eight different organisms (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter, Enterococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, and Acinetobacter) and stratified them according to hospital (Thornton vs. Hillcrest), patient setting (inpatient vs. outpatient) and unit (general ward, ICU, ED, BMT service, Cancer Center and Owen Clinic). The results provide insight into how antimicrobial susceptibility rates differ within our own institution and justify institutional antimicrobial therapies.

An expanding literature explores the size of the fiscal multiplier at the state and local level. Often, these papers ignore the “general equilibrium” effects of fiscal policy. That is, they ignore the overall impact on a country like the United States and only focus on the effect on the economy of the individual locality. When general equilibrium effects are discussed, they are often thought of as “spillovers” affecting nearby localities. However, this interpretation is only valid on its own terms in specific macroeconomic conditions or with specific assumptions regarding the policy function of the central bank. It may not be useful generally to view these multipliers as policy-relevant unless localities are interested in beggaring thy neighbor by shifting aggregate demand from other localities to themselves.

This work is devoted to comparing two integral bases for the integral cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the projective plane. Let X be a smooth complex projective surface. One of the more interesting moduli spaces parameterizing objects associated with X is the Hilbert scheme of points, denoted X[superscript [n]], which parameterizes all 0-dimensional closed subschemes of length n in X.W. Wang, Z. Qin and W.P. Li used Heisenberg algebra operators to construct an integral basis of the integral cohomology of X[superscript [n]] whenever X is a smooth projective surface with vanishing odd Betti numbers. On the other hand, a work by G. Ellingsrud and S.A. Strømme gives a cellular decomposition of the Hilbert scheme of points on the projective plane. From this work, we have a second integral basis for the integral cohomology of X[superscript [n]] when X = P2. We compare the elements of these two bases and ultimately give the upper triangular transition matrix from one basis to the other.

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem that can cause blindness and increase the risk of disease and mortality in children. VAD is particularly prevalent in children of sub-Saharan Africa, but there is little reliable information available that describes the spatial distribution of VAD below national level estimates. To target interventions that cover affected populations, a clear understanding of the geographic distribution of VAD in children is necessary. However, collection of data on VAD and other micronutrient deficiencies is often costly and difficult, resulting in large gaps in knowledge of severity of micronutrient deficiencies. In cases where available data is sparse, spatial interpolation methods may provide a way to estimate micronutrient status at un-sampled locations. This study compared the accuracy of five different spatial interpolation methods in predicting the spatial distribution of vitamin A status and deficiency in children under the age of five in Cameroon, using infection-adjusted retinol binding protein concentrations collected in a nationally representative survey in 2009. The methods compared included Inverse Distance Weighting, Thin Plate Splines, Random Forests, Ordinary and Universal Kriging, as well as a combined consensus model. Inverse distance weighting performed the best in predicting RBP concentrations, with a Pearson''s cross-validation correlation coefficient of 0.61. This prediction was then used to create an estimate of the number of Cameroonian children who were vitamin A deficient at a higher spatial resolution than was previously available. While prevalence of VAD in children appeared highest in the Northern region of Cameroon, the overall number of VAD children was higher in the Extreme North and Centre regions of the country due to higher population density in these regions. The national proportion of VAD children predicted (33%) aligned well with the estimate based on the original survey data (35%).

The paradigm of liberalism - the preeminence of some form of universal human rights - has taken hold in much of the developed world, with obvious exceptions. Prior to liberalism, certain subgroups in society were not accorded full moral status and were considered morally as part of the outgroup. With many now professing the belief in universal human rights across all creeds, races, ethnicities, citizenship, gender, and sexuality, to whom is the psychology of the outgroup applied? This paper observes the rhetoric and moral sentiments that have historically been invoked when making ingroup-outgroup distinctions now invoked to characterize large corporations. This characterization, when applied to all businesses in competitive markets, is actually approximately correct, but its most important implication is merely the accuracy of the profit-maximizing assumption already found in all of neoclassical microeconomics. The analysis here may have some implications for the literature on corporate social responsibility, as consumer sovereignty implies that ethical actions by businesses not already demanded by consumers are violations of consumer sovereignty.

This paper constructs a new measure of the quality of the legal system and property rights by U.S. state, combining five pieces of data to develop a novel measure of institutional quality. It integrates this measure to the Economic Freedom of North America index to give a more complete subnational comparison of United States institutions. The quality of the legal system and property rights are measured to be strongest in the upper Midwest and northern New England, and weakest in the South and Hawaii. The integration of this data into Economic Freedom of North America has considerable implications for our understanding of economic freedom at the regional level.

The application of research-based methods of skill development has enabled people across a variety of fields to reach extraordinary levels of achievement. Among the various fields where superior achievement might be attained, training individuals to recognize the dignity of others and strive for remarkable accomplishment in humanitarian service would be an area that would greatly affect our schools, society and world.

One of two winners of the 2002 Aldrich Poetry Competition judged by Robert Hass.

This paper explores the relationship between country membership in major intergovernmental organizations and economic freedom. While claiming no broad theoretically-bound robust causal mechanism, I use fixed effects models to find baseline results finding a correspondence between economic freedom and membership in the EU, NATO, WTO, UN, OECD, World Bank, and IMF. While the results are not simple, the strongest findings are negative effects of the UN, IMF, and WTO, and positive effects of the World Bank and possibly the EU. I make no claims of causality. However, whatever the relationship could be endogenous to, for example the international openness of governments, is yet of interest.

According to popular attitudes in Western democracies, the choice between right-wing and left-wing parties is a choice between socialism and unbridled free markets. In contrast, the cold and staid research of academia has frequently concluded that particular political parties do not really matter, as whichever party is elected will be closely tethered to the will of the median voter. This article considers the effects of the ideology of parties in power over the long run (1928-95) on economic freedom in subsequent periods. Right-wing governments are found to have modest, positive effects on economic freedom, but the effects are not particularly robust. The findings here are consistent with others elsewhere, which conclude that there is minor, uneven evidence of an effect. Nonetheless, historically small effects may not be indicative of the future, should these effects be poorly indicative of today''s tumultuous political landscape.

This book is the accumulation of over 4 years of my trial and error with online marketing.It is not an instruction manual, it is a guide, a manual in the loose sense of something to help you make educated choices, rather than babysitting you through them all.Nothing can give you all the answers, online marketing is too big a subject.What I can do is help you get through the initial learning process, and without making the mistakes I made.Yes, I do want to make money from you. I will not say the same stupid thing the online marketing gurus say, that I don''t need your money and I''m only charging to make sure you are serious because the knowledge is so powerful I can''t just give it away.BS, I know stuff you want to know, I''ve made mistakes and lived and learned and you want to keep from making those mistakes. I wrote and am selling this book to help you while making money.I may not have as good a sales pitch as those guys, but I am honest. I will always shoot straight with you, and not blow sunshine up your backside to make you feel good.You want to make money online? You want to change your life? You''re gonna have to work for it and no guru can tell you anything that makes any of it easier.You want to know how they do things? Easy, the same way anyone with an expanding business does it. They worked hard to get their first few sites making money, then hired people to help them do more. That is the only secret the gurus have. Employees and outsourcing.So if you want to know how to start a website, how to start for free, how to start your own online business. How to do better with what you are already working on even.If those topic interest you, then buy my book. It''s got all the essential knowledge you need, and it''s a damn site cheaper than the guru guys that will sale you a bunch of fluffed out books covering each major topic separately. Probably for more than you will pay for this one alone.Here are the chapters:1. Forward2. Prepare thyself3. Prepare thyself 24. Why me and not some online money guru?5. Free vs Hosted6. Site Solutions7. Dealing with money online8. Affiliate or your own products?9. Coming up with a product10. Topics (aka, what are you going to do the site about)11. The 3 types of sites12. Keyword Research13. My Free Method14. Getting Hosting15. Getting ready for your first site16. Domain Name17. Installing Wordpress18. Wordpress Plug-ins19. Source of content20. Posts vs Pages21. Making Money22. Setting up an e-commerce site23. Social sites24. Backlinks25. The Hats26. Writing27. Building Traffic through content writing28. Demographics29. Sales psychology30. Planning31. Misc32. ExitThe only thing left is for you to ask yourself if you really want to change your life and get a future, or not?That''s your choice. Make the right one for yourself and your loved ones.

Political instability is often exacerbated in periods of aggregate demand shortfall, with both short and long-term implications for economic institutions. It has been conjectured that inadequate policy responses to recessions may be inimical to free economic institutions. This paper uses the Economic Freedom of the World index as its measure of economic institutions, and finds that the change in economic freedom in the following five, ten, and fifteen years is negatively impacted by an aggregate demand shortfall as measured by negative NGDP growth. The result is (largely) robust upon the exclusion of the monetary policy variables from Economic Freedom of the World, but is not robust if economic institutions are measured as trade openness.

We apply System GMM and Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) to investigate the long run relationships between output, human capital, liberalized political institutions, and liberalized economic institutions. We find consistent evidence that economic institutions and human capital both greatly contribute to output. We also find, however, that political institutions typically have no discernable effect. We believe our methodology provides basis for the existence of causal relationships.

This paper undertakes a descriptive analysis of changes in economic institutions across countries from 2000-2016, using Economic Freedom of the World and the “State Economic Modernity” index. This latter index is a recent creation, similar conceptually to state capacity, measuring what can variously be thought of as state building, effectiveness, and economic power. State Economic Modernity can also be thought of as the economic institutions associated with social democracy. These two indexes are used in concert with one another to classify countries into eight directions of institutional change. Despite recent pessimism, countries besides those at the top income bracket have continued to liberalize, while wealthy countries have merely stagnated. At the high level aggregates, there is little movement in “State Economic Modernity” over this period, although there is considerably heterogeneity among individual countries. Rwanda is the single country to make the greatest movement towards the development benchmark of “Getting to Denmark,” while, directionally, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, and Indonesia have made significant positive movements as well.