6/12/2023 0 Comments The rumble in the jungle![]() ![]() The book I am reading is Rumble In The Jungle, I think the theme is to overcome your fear and to do what scares you the most to do. When he confronts the villains to save the crystal, he is reunited with his friends. ![]() Once he finds the tribe Geronimo is asked to help the tribe retrieve a sacred crystal. After a dinner of piranha soup and alligator tail, Geronimo continues into the pantanal in search of the Bororo tribe and hopefully find his friends. Then he heads to the Iguazu falls, then to Pantanal where he meets a local couple and helps on their fazenda (farm). Geronimo heads to Brasilia where he learns the samba and dances in Carnival. He thinks back to things his friends were telling him about Brazil and heads off to try and find his friends. Geronimo is left alone in a strange country where he doesn't speak the language. Geronimo falls asleep on the plane and when he wakes up, his friends are gone. Geronimo Stilton is enjoying a nice, quiet evening at home when his more adventurous friends burst in and kidnap him and take him to Brazil. The book uses different fonts and colours for certain words, such as large words the reader may not know, onomatopoeia, exclamations, and items relating to Brazil. One of my favourite was a recipe for Manjar Branco, a Brazilian pudding. The book keeps kids engaged with bright pictures and asides. This particular story takes place in Brazil, and not only entertains but teaches readers about Brazil and its culture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Medical imaging diagnostics, weather forecasting, and natural language question answering have suddenly become tractable problems. From machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. ![]() We've gone from near-unusable speech recognition, to near-human accuracy. ![]() about the technology Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. You'll build your understanding through practical examples and intuitive explanations that make the complexities of deep learning accessible and understandable. Written by Google AI researcher Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras, this revised edition has been updated with new chapters, new tools, and cutting-edge techniques drawn from the latest research. ![]() The second edition made it even better." - Todd Cook The bestseller revised! Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the field of deep learning using Python and the powerful Keras library. "The first edition of Deep Learning with Python is one of the best books on the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I want the right to share your bed tonight and every night from this day onward. "I want to change your name," he said with a tender smile, "so there's no doubt who you are ever again, or who you belong to." He slid his hands up and down her arms, looking directly into her eyes. Happiness began to spread through Sheridan until it was so intense she ached from it. Now, if that's not what you want, then give me any combination you like, and I will humbly thank you for giving me any child we make." "I would like my sons to have your eyes and your courage. "I would like you to give me daughters with your hair and your spirit," he said, beginning to enumerate his reasons and requests. I also have several things to ask of you before you agree to go in there with me." "I have several reasons for asking you to walk into that chapel, where there is a vicar waiting for us, but guilt is not among them. ![]() "Look at me," Stephen said, tipping her chin up again, and this time her glorious eyes looked into his. “Sheridan bit back a teary smile at his quip, afraid to believe him, afraid to trust him, and unable to stop herself because she loved him. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Osnos age of ambition![]() ![]() ![]() While emphasising Marxist thought (and his own ideology) in a way not seen since the days of Mao Zedong, Xi is using the levers of the Party-state to aggressively tackle the country’s looming demographic crisis. As China’s President Xi Jinping continues to dramatically shape China according to his vision, it appears the country’s “age of ambition” may be behind it. Seven years since publication, that conflict appears to be intensifying. Having spent much of my own early career in Beijing, Osnos’ writing captures the emotional essence of what made the place so intoxicating: an environment of striving, for wealth, for advancement, for meaning, or for connection with the broader world.Ĭentral to the book is the looming conflict between the flourishing of individual aspirations and the heavy hand of the Party-state. ![]() Of the many great books that have been written on contemporary China, there are few that I can recommend more highly than Evan Osnos’ Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Stan musial 1948![]() With his wrists taped, Musial remained in the lineup as the Cardinals pursued the National League-leading Braves.Ī win over the Cardinals on Sept. The next day, he was hit on the right hand, near the wrist, by a pitch. Musial had jammed his left wrist making a diving catch at Brooklyn on Sept. Joining Musial as the only big-league players with four five-hit games in a season: Willie Keeler (1897 Orioles), Ty Cobb (1922 Tigers), Tony Gwynn (1993 Padres) and Ichiro Suzuki (2004 Mariners). No major-league player had done that in 26 years. ![]() ![]() It was Musial’s fourth five-hit game of the season. Shedding the bandages from his ailing wrists, Musial took just five swings in the Cardinals’ game against the Braves at Boston on Sept. Like a scene from the movie “The Natural,” Stan Musial achieved one of baseball’s rarest hitting feats with flair. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Neon Spectacular by Kody Shafer![]() ![]() Japan is now known to be the world's neon mecca. Japan's neon industry, which had sprouted in the 1920s, made a great comeback as the country achieved economic prosperity. From steaming coffee pots to flying neon signs on blimps, it could be argued that the United States was at the top of the outdoor advertising game.In a short period of time, Japan recovered from the destruction of World War II and swiftly reindustrialized. It was a competition to see who could create the most outstanding display. ![]() As the roaring twenties took off in America, outdoor advertisers had a field day creating gigantic and unusual signs to appeal to the public. As defined by the outdoor advertising legend, Douglas Leigh, a neon spectacular is "an oversized advertising display with neon or lamps in unusual animations". ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The wine bible![]() When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected. Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation. ![]() The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them and they were in confinement for some time. ![]() So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. ![]() Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Byzantium book stephen lawhead![]() ![]() In this case, the push came from Andrew Peterson, who made an offhand remark in a book review that he had named his first-born son after the main character in Lawhead’s Byzantium. That’s a pretty strong shove! Often I need a little extra push to plunge back into this fiction vortex, the push that pulls me away from something I “should” be reading and forces me to read something I’ve been wanting to jump into. Reading great literature is as stretching and strengthening as it is taxing and exhausting. ![]() Being robbed of shut-eye, however, pays me back with more vacuum capacity for sucking the marrow out of life. I love to read fiction, but when I do, good plots tend to dominate my free time and steal some hours when I should be sleeping. Lawhead, when Justin Taylor blogged on it. I bought Byzantium, a novel by Stephen R. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Galeano soccer in sun and shadow![]() ![]() Soccer-crazy Brazil has been in revolt over the World Cup - over, in particular, the staggering sums that have been siphoned from the public purse into a string of gargantuan, desperately-behind-schedule construction projects for the competition. ![]() ![]() The 32 national teams arriving in that country will, however, be confronted with another, far more sobering reality. Hundreds of millions will swoon at the sight of the gods of the global game - Argentina’s Lionel Messi, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez, Italy’s Andrea Pirlo, England’s Wayne Rooney - plying their exquisite trade across the newly built or expensively refurbished stadiums on which Brazil, according to the Wall Street Journal, has spent $3.6 billion over the last few years. Over the next few weeks, we will see all that is beautiful and all that is damned in soccer at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, which narrates the thwarted love of Renzo and Lucia, takes place in Lombardy between 16, at the time of the Spanish domination. This work also had a great influence on the definition of an Italian national language. storia Melanese del secolo XVII, storia della Colonna infame. From a structural point of view, it is the first modern novel in Italian literature. I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni, 1875, Rechiedei edition, in Italian. ![]() Rare first illustrated edition, sought after, of this historical novel ("Les Fiancés") published in several versions between 18 and considered as one of the major writings of Italian literature, and as the most representative work of the Risorgimento and of Italian Romanticism. Spine and spine rubbed, second board partly discolored, very rare and very light freckles. Very numerous illustrations engraved in the text after GONIN. But he laboriously revised The Betrothed in Tuscan-Italian, and in 1840 republished it in that form, with a historical essay, Storia della colonna infame, on. ![]() ![]() In-8 half brown basane, ribbed book, gilt title, brown percaline boards with black and gold decoration, red tr. Milano, Dalla tipografia Guglielmini e Redaelli, 1840. I promessi sposi, storia milanese del secolo XVII scoperta e rifatta da Alessandro Manzoni, edizione riveduta dall'autore. ![]() |