![]() When I rolled up a sleeve and looked down at the inside of my arm, the smooth tan skin I was used to seeing was mottled with a spreading red rash. I was twenty-seven, fit despite my chronic gaming habit, used to bouncing around the world with a pack and rifle. My conscript’s uniform only had three badges on it: my platoon, my rank – Private – and my name badge, which was just my surname, ‘Park’. My tent bunked eleven other soldiers, all infected, all of us in the prime of our lives. My joints felt like angry dwarves had been pounding them with hammers while I slept… and it was only my second day of being sick. ![]() The smell made my throat burn raw, and I shook with unfamiliar weakness. Still wheezing, I fumbled across for the box of bleach wipes next to my Army cot and used them to clean up my face and hands. Everyone here was already sicker than me, moaning and rattling in their sleep. There were no nurses in our quarantine tent. I was now at Stage Two of the HEX virus – in three days’ time, I’d be dead. Not just terror of the present: terror of the future that awaited me. My lungs were burning by the time I pitched back onto my pillows, exhausted and shaking with lingering terror. Strangling, eyes throbbing from the pressure in my head, I coughed and heaved and flailed around, unable to see anything but dancing black and white spots. ![]() ![]() The coughing fit kicked me upright before I was even awake. Pre-order Dragon Seed here: Amazon (All Stores) Dragon Seed is being released on the 28th February – that means it’s preview time! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Iron Man was first published by Faber & Faber in 1968, and illustrated by Andrew Davidson. In 1999 Warner Brothers released an animated film, The Iron Giant, based on the novel, directed by Brad Bird and with Townshend credited as executive producer. In America the title was changed to The Iron Giant so as to avoid confusion with Marvel Comics’ character Iron Man. Later in 1989 Pete Townshend, from The Who, released a musical rock adaptation: The Iron Man: A Musical, although critical reaction to the record and sales were mostly negative. Perhaps his best known novel is The Iron Man: A Children’s Story in Five Nights, written as a bedtime story for his own children. Ted Hughes is primarily known as Poet Laureate and one of the best poets of the last century, but he was also a prolifically creative writer for children. Lorraine Kerslake (University of Alicante) explores Hughes's popular children's story Prose by Ted Hughes The Iron Man (London: Faber and Faber, 1968) ![]() ![]() Introduction Breakfast before leaving for race day Race day picnic Making wine, persimmon beer, and a fall preserve Emancipation Day dinner Fall breakfast before a day of hunting Hunting season dinner Morning-after-hog-butchering breakfast Preparations for Christmas - Winter. ![]() Introduction A creamed ham and sweet potato breakfast An early summer lunch of the season's delicacies An early summer dinner of veal, scallions, and the first berries A prepared-ahead summer dinner Midsummer Sunday breakfast A busy-day summer dinner Putting up fruits and vegetables, pickles, and wine Wheat-harvesting midday dinner Making ice cream on a summer afternoon Sunday revival dinner A cool-evening supper The night for a boiled Virginia ham dinner - Fall. Introduction An early spring dinner after sheep-shearing A spring breakfast when the shad were running A late spring lunch after wild-mushroom picking A late spring dinner with spring-hatched chicken A hearty midday dinner - Summer. ![]() ![]() Portions of the Spring section appeared in the May 1976 issue of Gourmet"-Title page versoįoreword / by Alice Waters - Preface / by Judith Jones - Introduction - Spring. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of this has changed, both because of new sources of information (including material from North Korea's former communist allies), but more importantly because of the growing interest in the subject after South Korean democratization in the late 1980s and the first US-North Korean nuclear crisis of the early 1990s. Language: English Language: English Publication Date: Publisher / Label: Little, Brown Author: Hyok Kang. Before the 1990s, little was written about the DPRK beyond official North Korean propaganda and its opposite, anti-North Korean propaganda from the South. But until recently, substantive knowledge of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was notable mainly for its absence. ![]() Kang hyoks this is paradise: my north Korean childhood re- veals how the famine. ![]() Read 147 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. KEY WORDS North Korea, DPRK, Defectors, Human rights, Memoirs. Some of the accusations leveled against North Korea in the Western media and popular press may have a basis in fact, others are more questionable. This Is Paradise My North Korean Childhood book. Of course, North Korea gets this international attention for all the wrong reasons: military provocations, a clandestine nuclear program, a bankrupt economy, an atrocious record on human rights, and an eccentric if not deranged leadership. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il can be criticized for many failings, but if one of his goals has been keeping his country in the global media spotlight, he has been wildly successful. ![]() ![]() Adele has gotten so good at controlling her dreams that she discovers she can astral project her soul to other places. ![]() (Image credit: Mark Mainz/NETFLIX © 2020) Who killed Rob in Behind Her Eyes?Įnter the astral projection. (We'll get to the astral projection in a bit.) At one point, Adele also shares that one of her relatives was a practicing witch, which is one of the few hints about the ending. Adele also feels guilt because she did not realize her parents were dying because she was astrally projected outside of her body during the event. The cause of the fire is unclear, and despite some red herrings that suggested in earlier episodes that David or Adele had something to do with it, it seems it was just your run-of-the-mill deadly fire. When she was a teenager, a fire broke out that killed her sleeping parents, but David, the son of a farmer that worked for her family, saved her from the flames (David sustained bad burns to his arm). Adele is a Scottish heiress whose extremely wealthy family owns estates and grounds. What happens at the end of Behind Her Eyes?īefore we dig into the astral projection of it all, let's review Adele's backstory. So let's unpack the polarizing ending now. “Everything had to have dual meaning so that no one could say this character lied. ![]() She also defended the twists in the end saying it holds up to scrutiny. ![]() ![]() Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. 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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, for invoice related information, the algorithm should understand the invoice items, company name, billing address etc. This will help us to sort out the information we want to extract from the unstructured data. To understand the mechanics of Information Extraction NLP algorithms, we should understand the kind of data we are working on. We’ll be learning more about this in the following sections. This is to make sure the model is specific to a particular use case. However, if we build one from scratch, we should decide the algorithm considering the type of data we're working on, such as invoices, medical reports, etc. ![]() Information Extraction from text data can be achieved by leveraging Deep Learning and NLP techniques like Named Entity Recognition. But with information extraction NLP algorithms, we can automate the data extraction of all required information such as tables, company growth metrics, and other financial details from various kinds of documents (PDFs, Docs, Images etc.).īelow is a screenshot explaining how we can extract information from an Invoice. ![]() Usually, we search for some required information when the data is digital or manually check the same. What is Information Extraction? Information Extraction is the process of parsing through unstructured data and extracting essential information into more editable and structured data formats.įor example, consider we're going through a company’s financial information from a few documents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Socrates’ Defence or The Apology of Socrates is Plato‘s version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in Athens in 399 BC against the charges of ‘corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel’. Socrates, quoted by Plato, SOCRATES’ DEFENCE If I say ‘that would be to disobey the god how can I keep my peace, then?’, you’ll not believe me because you’ll think I’m dissembling if on the other hand I say that it actually is the greatest good for a human being to get into discussion, every day, about goodness and the other subjects you hear me talking and examining myself and others about, and that for a human being a life without examination is actually not worth living – if I say that, you’ll be even less convinced.īut that’s how I say it, Athenians it just not easy to convince you.’ ‘Someone will probably say, ‘But, Socrates, can’t you live in exile without talking, just keeping your peace? Surely you can do that?’ To convince some of you about this is the most difficult thing of all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Hearts and Three Lions is one of many of the classic novels of Poul Anderson. But why did he wind up being transported to a spot where a horse suited for him, and battle armor customized to fit him just happened to be? Who is Holger Carlsen, really, and what is the meaning of his coat of arms? And can he survive in a world where a world war like the one he left may be in the wings, but with dragons and giants instead of bombers and tanks? Not his fight, though, right? Holger needs to get home and fight the Nazis. ![]() The West is held by Humanity, the East is held by Faerie, and the two are locked in a cold war that is looking to run hot. After an accident, he finds himself in a fantasy version of Europe. Holger Carlsen is an Allied covert operative in the Low Countries, fighting the Nazis in World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Velutha is also called "The God of Loss," a sad title that references the loneliness that accompanies living amongst the "Small Things." At the same time, recognizing the powerful presence of "Small Things" means knowing that we are never alone there is always someone watching, even if it is a flea or even a microbe. It can be a good or bad thing to keep watch over "Small Things." Velutha, " The God of Small Things," slips from place to place undetected, enjoying life's small pleasures without paying attention to the "Big" fact that he is an Untouchable and should not be playing with the twins or sleeping with their mother. Because "Small Things" are shunned, they must find refuge in dark, secret places like the river and the History House, or the hearts of those willing to nurture and protect them. They want to strive for culturally significant ideals such as an honorable family and a noble political life. All of these things seem to have no place in the lives of characters like Baby Kochamma and Comrade Pillai. In a society concerned with "Big Things" such as the caste system, political affiliations, and marriage, Roy directs the reader to the "Small Things." These can be small creatures and their activities-the "whisper and scurry of small lives"-as well as secrets, promises, sins, and other emotional 'creatures' that people do not want to acknowledge. ![]() |