Non- White Authors Reading Challenge. This year, I focused on non- white authors*. I’m not about to defend the experiment again, since I have done so already. 11 shitty musical trends and events from 2016, the most heinous year in recent history. Jordan Bassett; 11:39 am - Dec 14, 2016.Title: Heinous Author: Alexis Noelle Genre: MC Romance Standalone Release Date: April 18, 2016 Cover Design: Cover Me Darling I was never meant to have a happily ever. Saturday 15 October 2016 05.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 23 December 2016 10.15 EST.
My top ten picks of what I read in 2. The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family by Usman T. Malik (the short story is available for free at the link; there is also an incredible audio version)A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor. Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon. The Three- Body Problem by Cixin Liu. The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine. White Nights, Black Paradise by Sikivu Hutchinson. After the jump: A full list of the books of 2. I made up, along with my reflections on them. Also of note: 2. 01. That I can check out e- books to my Kindle and audiobooks to my phone has been a game- changer. I listened to about the same number of audiobooks this year as I had listened to in all the years prior. This book is much less tragic than her other works but more sharp of wit. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Shanghai Girls & Dreams of Joy by Lisa See. The first book is a bit typical insofar as it’s a story about immigrants going from being wealthier in their home country to humbly working in America, but the second is far more interesting. Against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, it explores how the children of immigrants can unrealistically fetishize their parents’ home country. The Expatriates by Janice Y. Lee. This book is so, so very soap opera, but in a good way. The book is very well- written and explores interesting issues around expats in Hong Kong. Frog by Mo Yan. I didn’t quite like the fictional style here, but the facts woven into it about the Chinese Cultural Revolution were certainly interesting and edifying. Given that I read two far superior fictional works that also tackled the Cultural Revolution, I couldn’t get into this as much, and the only reason I finished it was that it was an audiobook. Young Babylon by Lu Nei (in progress)Interesting if somewhat brutal and depressing fictional account of modern life as a Chinese worker. What I found most interesting is that the protagonist is not rich or formerly rich, an immigrant, or otherwise exceptional as far as his background. He is a genuine worker from a working- class family who stays in China, which is fairly rare to find in such English- language fiction. Non- Eurocentric Sci- Fi/Fantasy. Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon and Engraved on the Eye. You know how European- centric fiction is set in a world that is kind of Medieval Europe but not really? Saladin Ahmed does the same thing with the Medieval Muslim world. He was also the first male author I read after my year of not reading them, and was a good transition since he doesn’t embed even low- grade misogyny in his works. The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik. Like Saladin Ahmed’s work, this book is casually non- European- centric in the way that a lot of other fantasy is casually Eurocentric. Malik’s work is also steeped in Islam the way Ahmed’s is. The similarities end there. This novella is more magic realism or everyday fantasy than the high- medieval fantasy world of Saladin Ahmed. It left me wanting more, even though it was supposed to be the “I want more” to Malik’s goosebump- inducing short story, The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (audio version), which everyone really should read. Who Fears Death, Lagoon, & Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor. How was I not reading this author before 2. I don’t know. Each of her books that I read this year was enthralling in different ways. Akata Witch is fun and playful and serves to set up some of what is later explored in Who Fears Death (though they are not sequels or canonically connected, the themes echo). Lagoon takes the familiar formula of alien visitation/invasion of a city but casts it in Lagos, Nigeria, instead of the usual New York City, Washington DC, or Los Angeles. I absolutely could not put it down. It’s set in a uniquely African post- apocalypse populated by some of the most real people I’ve ever met in fiction. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. I had just enough familiarity with Hindu mythology that I knew something about the characters in this book, but didn’t know enough that aspects of it founded in myth didn’t surprise me. I’d compare it favorably to The Mists of Avalon in that it takes a familiar, old story and tells it remarkably faithfully to the original but from the perspective of the often- overlooked female lead. Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. This graphic novel is gorgeous and thoughtful and definitely emotionally evocative. I love the non- cliche and complex way in which it tackles the at- least- as- old- as- Frankenstein question of “But who is the real monster?”A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. This book starts slow and picks up its pace in such a measured way that I didn’t realize how gripped I had become by it. Before I had even finished the audiobook, I knew it was going to become one of my favorite books of all time. I agonized over categorizing it, as it is modern fiction when contemplated in a certain light, but as a fan of unusual sci- fi, I classify it as one of the best such works I’ve read. The Three- Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I would call this well- crafted sci- fi that is basically a Chinese version of Contact, but more barbed in its wit and unexpected in the unfolding of the tale. I find its exploration of the good and bad in humanity far more nuanced than is found in a lot of ultimately- optimistic sci- fi. I cannot wait to read the rest of the trilogy. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty- Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. I agree with many reviewers, professional and armchair, that this is far from Rushdie’s best work. However, it is one of the few sci- fi/futuristic tales that is infused with non- European mythology, which makes for a delightfully different sort of story, and is ultimately optimistic about humanity and the future, which is not the most common thing in such works. It doesn’t hurt that Rushdie can write. The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine. Like Rushdie, Alameddine mines The Arabian Nights/1. Night for his fantasy tropes and tales. It’s is irreverent, cheeky, and intelligent. This could be categorized as Modern Fiction but its magic realism elements makes it fantasy to me. Black Panther by Ta- Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze. Waaaaay more angsty than most of the other Marvel fare, but much more heartfelt than the grimdark of DC. I like it but don’t love it yet. Only time will tell. Memoirs. Fresh off the Boat by Eddie Huang. I absolutely adore the sitcom based on this memoir, but given the author’s frustrations with it, I wanted to read the book.
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At the end of the last episode of the first season of the anime, Ichigo and Kashino promise to tell each other about their feelings when they're accomplished patissiers. During the second season she is 1. She is also a part of the Henri- sensei's project, . In the very last episode of Yumeiro Patissiere SP Professional, Kashino tells her that he always wants to be able to make sweets with her, and accidentally kisses her. Makoto Kashino (. Andou is his childhood friend and Hanabusa is his roommate. Kashino is sometimes teased or misjudged due to his height, for he is the shortest of the Sweets Princes. He comes from a prestigious family of doctors who do not approve of his career choice. Due to a condition that his family gave him before attending St. Marie, he is forced to be always at the top of his class. Kashino is generally unsociable, straightforward, easily angered, and prickly. He greatly admires his uncle (who is a chocolatier), and he spent a lot of time in his shop when he was little (which inspired him to become a p. Even though he is initially judgemental and sarcastic due to Ichigo's klutzy personality, he warms up to her to the point of being teammates and friends, and later falls in love with her. In episode 3. 4 it is shown that Kashino has a drawing of Ichigo in his notebook. In the second season, Kashino skipped a year in school because of his excellent grades during Team Ichigo's study abroad in Paris. He is now 1. 6, but still conscious about his height, as Johnny regularly teases him for it. Whenever he sees Johnny holding Ichigo, he becomes visibly jealous (often smacking the back of Johnny's head). At the end of the series, he asks Ichigo if she will stay with him forever. And after that, he accidentally falls on top of her and kisses her. Satsuki Hanabusa (. Hanabusa's dream is to work with his mother, who excels at Japanese flower arrangement, and is the flower arranging teacher at St. Marie Academy. His father was a horticulturist who specialized in roses, and who died in a car accident several years before the story takes place. The bottle of rose water Hanabusa keeps is a memento of his father. Since his father died, Hanabusa felt that he should be kind to his mother and women in general. As a result, Hanabusa always focused on roses, and is extremely nice to all females (to the point of being a borderline perpetual flirt). He also seems narcissistic and heavily concerned about his appearance, at one point his Sweets Spirit Caf. In Yumeiro Patissiere SP Professional, Hanabusa starts to work towards his dream, together with his mother, and takes an indefinite leave of absence from school. He admits that he is also in love with Ichigo, although he tells Kashino that he can have her (presumably to make Ichigo happy), but that if she ever dumps him he will claim her for himself. Sennosuke Andou (. Andou's dream is to open his own shop that sells a blend of Eastern and Western sweets next door to his family's Japanese sweets shop, Yumezuki. Andou is the eldest of five siblings, and he often goes to help at his family's shop during holidays and weekends. He is a childhood friend of Kashino, calling him . Andou is always calm, reliable, and tries to reason with everyone, acting somewhat like an older brother to Team Ichigo. Andou cares about Caramel like a little sister, and he is always overjoyed whenever Caramel does something nice for him. He looks out for Ichigo and tends to worry about her a lot. In the second season Andou is working towards his dream and takes a leave of absence from school, opening a branch of his family's Yumezuki on the international street of Henri- sensei's project. In Episode 1. 1 of season two, he admits that he's in love with Ichigo, but he gives her up for Kashino. Hanabusa claims that the reason behind it was because he was already dating a girl named Kana. Sweets Spirits. Often labeled as Spartan, Vanilla's attitude is quite fiery. She generally fights with Chocolat, though they don't seem to actually hate each other, and in fact they work together in the manga for a Sweets Kingdom test. She is often called pudgy. Ichigo and Vanilla consider each other to be best friends, and are extremely loyal to each other. Vanilla often plays a big part in cheering Ichigo up whenever she feels discouraged. Her sweets magic is decorating plates, shrinking people to the size of a sweets spirit, filling an entire room with a pastry's scent and translating Sweets Spirit language into Japanese. Chocolat (. Chocolat has a competitive spirit but is easily frightened.
Episode 1. 0 » Dramabeans Korean drama recaps. My Hero! I knew you’d swoop in to save the day. It’s bromance and brothers and tough love, in an episode filled with harsh truths for everyone. Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, they do, and that’s just the tip of the Iceberg of Doom. Mom and Jae- shin get word and scramble to go see her, but they’re told that Secretary Eun is taking care of it. Not Cruella de Eun! He tells Hang- ah that North Korea has sent the order for her to return, and she says she was going to stick it out, but if Jae- ha has turned his back on her, then. I say feels because I don’t think it’s one- sided, but if you’re going to let your princess bride get extradited because she hurt your feelings, well, then your feelings don’t count. Secretary Eun asks if she knows what the position means – not her love for Jae- ha, but what it means to be queen. He tells her that if she really wants it, he’ll help her get there. Suddenly you’re her fairy godmother? Perhaps it’s sincere, or perhaps he knew that when he posed it as such, she wouldn’t stay to serve her ambition. She says that she’s a simple girl who wanted to live happily in a simple marriage—the position, the pressure, the people, the foreign country—they all scare her. And now that the king has turned away. All this solidifies the fact that the only reason she was ever here was for love, not that this is a surprise to anyone. Jae- ha walks through the new memorial hall built in Jae- kang’s honor, lingering on the pictures of hyung. The prime minister is at his side, and he gets the report that Hang- ah is headed back North, and asks gingerly if he broke the engagement. Jae- ha counters that they were never engaged, but when the prime minister suggests adding an official South Korean extradition order for her (to save face with the North), Jae- ha shoots him down with a glare. He moves down the wall of pictures, and stops at the one of Hang- ah, smiling back at him. She prepares to leave the palace, and Jae- shin meets her at the front door. Hang- ah tells her that she said something to Jae- ha once, that there’s nothing people can’t do, if their hearts are in it. When North- South relations are better. Please come back.” But Hang- ah has no intention of ever returning: “I’m sorry.” She rides away, and the queen mother watches somberly from her window. Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Theatre and More Online at TicketsInventory.com. Michael Jackson performing during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXVII in 1993. Credit George Rose/Getty Images Long May He Reign: Michael Jackson, the Sports journalists and bloggers covering NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MMA, college football and basketball, NASCAR, fantasy sports and more. News, photos, mock drafts, game. Drama: Fashion King Revised romanization: Paeseon Wang Genre : Romance,Melodrama Hangul: Jae- ha sighs to see engagement banners being stripped from buildings, and returns to the palace with heavy steps. He goes to see Mom, who’s silently burning up with rage, though on the outside she’s calmly tending to her plants, as always. He opens his mouth to ask if Hang- ah left okay, and Mom hurls the rag in her hand right at him. Though I would’ve gone with the potted plant for better hulksmash effect. She demands to know what the hell happened, and he turns away to say that Mom was right all along, about how you should never show your weaknesses to anyone. She practically mocks him, asking if Hang- ah hurt his poor wittle feelings. I love that for this conversation, she has reverted back to banmal, clearly talking to him as her childish son, not the king. She tells him that his father used to have to pee in a bedpan, and once she joked about it and he flipped out, telling her to get botox for her wrinkly face and that this is why royals shouldn’t marry commoners. Jae- ha says this is different, but Mom cuts him off, “People are like that. They’re so childish that once you start countering every word, there is no end or limit in sight. You start seeing them as ways to inflict pain and grab them at any chance. You forget WHY you were fighting in the first place, and can only think of how you can inflict the most pain, scar the deepest.” Gee, sound like anyone you know? She says that the one line you do not cross is “Let’s break up.” There’s no going back from that. She says that if it was Hang- ah who crossed that line, then fine, she can’t forgive her either. Mom doesn’t mince words, that’s for sure. And how much do I love that the smackdown is so immediate, and comes from her? He looks back at her with a pained expression, and her eyes grow even bigger to realize that was the phrase Hang- ah must’ve said to piss him off. Her expression kills me, as if his girlfriend stole his favorite Mr. Bear so he pulled her pigtails and came to tattle on her. Mom: “The whole WORLD knows you’re trash!” Pwahahaha. Her perspective is making their argument seem so silly. She says “trash” over and over and over, saying that he’s worse than trash from leftover food that leaks a trail of soup wherever it goes, and he’s like, “Mooooo~m!”She’s on fire, screaming at him now, wondering how bad it must’ve gotten for Hang- ah to have even said those things. Didn’t he see what she said at the hearing? He looks back at her blankly and asks what she said. She tells him to watch for himself. Oh, I sense a massive tsunami of regret headed this way. When they ask Hang- ah about what she considers her national identity to be, she had answered more obliquely, about her relationship with the king. She says that they fight a lot. And in the beginning, he even told her she wasn’t a woman in his eyes. She says she must have a taste for what they in the South call “bad boys.” Girl, that’s an international affliction. But she continues to say that they bicker and they butt heads, but they’ve deepened their affection for each other as well, and now she thinks she can guess what crazy thing he’ll say next, and sometimes she even looks forward to what new tantrum he’ll throw. And aw. She says that her heart races. And though sometimes her feelings get hurt, and sometimes she feels like she likes him more so that hurts her pride, “But, so what? Just the fact that he’s there, makes me very happy.”He watches with tears in his eyes. Those had better be tears of oh- shit- I- fucked- it- up- real- good, otherwise you don’t get to cry. While all this is happening, Hang- ah arrives at the crossing point, and then the royal aide tells her that she needs to leave all her princess wear behind. Augh, it’s not heartbreaking enough to send her away, but you’re making her strip off every last remnant of clothing? She sits quietly alone in a room, and begins to de- cinderellafy, piece by piece. She finally gets ready to cross back over the border, wearing the same hanbok she wore when she arrived. Dad is waiting for her on the other side, and once she rounds the corner out of view, she collapses on his shoulder in the most sorrowful wails. Oof these tears are heartbreaking. It’s her first real chance to break down, now that she can lean on Dad. As she cries, we hear the rest of her answer at the hearing in voiceover: “My identity? You’re asking who I really am? I’m just a woman who kept a man deep in her heart.” Jae- ha sits in his office, mindlessly trying to crack hyung’s password, this time with a string of all the foods he can think of. You think Jae- kang’s password might be “hamburger”?
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PTSD can happen after a life-threatening situation, such as.However, the terms PTS and PTE are used interchangeably in medical literature. A person with PTE suffers late seizures, those occurring more than a week after the initial trauma. A provoked seizure is one that results from an exceptional, nonrecurring cause such as the immediate effects of trauma rather than a defect in the brain; it is not an indication of epilepsy. People who suffer depressed skull fractures, penetrating head trauma, early PTS, and intracerebral and subdural haematomas due to the TBI are especially likely to suffer PTE, which occurs in more than 3. This excessive glutamate release can lead to excitotoxicity, damage to brain cells through overactivation of the biochemical receptors that bind and respond to excitatory neurotransmitters. Overactivation of glutamate receptors damages neurons; for example it leads to the formation of free radicals. 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He entered the Wisconsin Senate race, immediately grabbed the lead against an incumbent, and has yet to relinquish it. Polls suggest he still holds a comfortable advantage in a race Democrats believe they have already won. Democrats have always believed Feingold would make for a strong candidate, but when he declared his candidacy last year, they still held lingering concerns that the ex- lawmaker might run the same kind of sub- par campaign that plagued his 2. Those fears have proved unfounded. Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, running against Rep. Bayh slips down these rankings, though last month. The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $2. Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public. Bayh, who served two terms each as Indiana senator and governor, remains relatively popular ? But polls that show the race in a dead heat probably aren. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, running against Republican Sen. Her fundraising, at least for a small- state race, is prodigious. Democrats continue to consider her one of their best recruits of the cycle. Kelly Ayotte has over- performed Trump in the Granite State (her role- model gaffe in last week. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, running against Republican Sen. Duckworth has proved up to the task of holding a comfortable lead against Kirk, who, despite his campaign. Todd Young of Indiana, running against Bayh. Young is the kind of fresh- faced, former Marine who gives Republicans a winning contrast with Bayh. Democratic former state Rep. Deborah Ross of North Carolina, running against Republican Sen. Ross still deserves credit for making a race that, six months ago, few thought would be competitive in a contest Democrats now consider a top pickup opportunity. But whether this former state lawmaker can seal the deal against Burr will depend largely on how voters feel about her history as head of the state. Republicans, last month, began an ad campaign noting her previous criticism of a sex- offender registry list. The effects of that effort, they say, won. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona, running against Republican Sen. Democrats have largely given up hope that the battle- tested congresswoman can defeat Mc. Cain, though that. Time is running out for her to change that. Democratic former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, running against Heck (Previous ranking: No. Democratic former White House official Katie Mc. Ginty of Pennsylvania, running against Republican Sen. Toomey (Previous ranking: No 1. Mc. Ginty is gaffe- prone and campaigns without charisma. But she is running hard, raising plenty of money, and successfully positioning herself to carry a state Clinton could win big. Some Democrats wonder whether Joe Sestak, the former congressman whom Mc. Ginty defeated in the primary, would be doing better. Patrick Murphy of Florida, running against Republican Sen. In the end, national Democrats abandoned Florida because of its immense size, expensive media markets, and Rubio. Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio, running against Republican Sen. Strickland moves up this list only because Iowa Democratic nominee for Senate Patty Judge fell off it completely. His stumbling performances on the campaign trail, target- rich record, and inability to raise much money . Chelsea back from Chelsea. 9-10 full honey graham crackers. Magnolia Lemon Pie with Graham Cracker Crust. Light and absolutely stunning, this creamy lemon pie is perfect for summer (or anytime, really!). It only requires a few ingredients and is so simple to make; no wonder I’m in love! My friend Deb loves two things in life: Joanna and Chip Gaines and lemon pie (ok, technically that was three; and as a mother of eight!!! It really was something else! We completely lell in fove (bonus points for Bar J fans) and I may have even declared it then and there the perfect summer dessert. I’ve made this pie several times since Deb brought it to me and it is such a clear winner in the I- Want- Pie- But- Want- A- Life- Too department. It doesn’t require a fussy homemade crust. It doesn’t require an hour plus of baking time (with possible bubbly, syrupy overflowage).
It doesn’t require prayer and fasting before attempting to make (let’s face it – pie can intimidate the best of us sometimes). This is the simplest of all pies and yet it is certainly one of my favorites. Light and creamy and lemony and delicious, I LOVE THIS PIE! So much so that I actually posted a very similar version three years ago but didn’t even realize I had fallen in love with basically the same pie until I went to post this recipe today. I’m going forward with the updated post because a) new pictures, b) garnishing with raspberries is just pretty, and c) there are enough variations to give this new, simpler version it’s own space in time. The base of the pie is so simple: sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, and lemon juice, and it bakes for just a few quick minutes. That dreamy lemon filling with the buttery graham crust and the whipped cream topping is as delightful as it sounds. Can you give me one good reason you shouldn’t make this? Hit me with it – I’m ready. Even lemon haters are bound to love this pie, I just know it. It’s not an in your face punch of lemon – it’s subtle and delicious and well, perfect. One Year Ago: Super Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies. Two Years Ago: Chicken Curry in a Hurry. Three Years Ago: Luscious Lemon Cream Pie. Magnolia Lemon Pie with Graham Cracker Crust. I think this pie would be delicious subbing the lemon juice out for lime juice (or even orange juice!). I highly recommend using fresh citrus juice over bottled juice for a brighter, better flavor. Ingredients. 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (1 package, 1. Fresh raspberries for garnish (optional)Directions. Preheat the oven to 3. F. Bake for 8 minutes until just lightly golden. Lightly tap the bottom of the bowl 2- 3 times on the counter to pop any little air bubbles. Cover the top lightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours or up to overnight. Garnish with raspberries if desired. 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Left: Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1. Right: George Grosz, Metropolis, 1. The Bee and the Lamb. Part 9 (continued)By Takuan Seiyo. A Whole New Road to Serfdom. That Which is Not Seen (continued)For over 6. White mea- culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e. K- 1. 2) and discretionary (e. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 1. Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre- Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa. It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed. Feminism, Socialism and anti- Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL. One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim “No Thanks for Thanksgiving” as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too. Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one- third of America. The self- defined “Feminist- Tauist- Neo. Pagan- Post- Structuralist- Deconstructionist- Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2. Dear White People by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair- haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “Cortez the Killer”, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non- German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 7. China, or the Mughal- Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B? The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser? Inscription on the back (in German): “Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod.”There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time. Heinz Horrmann - Hotelkritiker und Restauranttester. Restaurant Pastis in Berlin- Wilmersdorf. Eines meiner Lieblingsrestaurants in Paris, abseits der gro. Das kleine Familien- Restaurant wird vom Chefkoch selbst, einem geb. Vom Preis- Leistungs- Verh. Von Austern, Burgunder- Schnecken und Froschschenkeln einmal abgesehen, empfehle ich aus . Die hausgemachte Entenstopfleberterrine mit Feigen- Chutney abgerundet, war f. Ein. Renner im Restaurant waren bei den Vorspeisen auch die Flammkuchen, entweder Els. Beim klassischen Tartar vom Rind, das mit kross ausgebackenen. Streichholzkartoffeln (extra d. Angemacht wird es mit 1. Gewiss gibt es auch Standards wie Entrec. 300 ist eine US-amerikanische Comicverfilmung aus dem Jahr 2006. Der Film basiert auf der gleichnamigen Graphic Novel von Frank Miller und Lynn Varley aus dem Jahr 1998. DiePresse.com/wirtschaft/finanzen bietet die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der internationalen Finanzwelt zu den Themen B Und jetzt zur Wildzeit kommt das rosa gebratene Hirschkalbsmedaillon - auch in der Rossini- Kombination hinzu. Hier im Pastis ist die Patisserie ein Schwerpunkt. Beim warmen. Valrhona- Schokoladenk. Das Parfait, das so mancher Fernsehkoch vergurkte, gibt. Amarena- Kirschen. Auch die Profiteroles, die mit Bourbon- Vanille- Eis gef. Alle. Nachspeisen sind einheitlich mit 7,9. Fantastic Four ein Film von Josh Trank mit Miles Teller, Kate Mara. Inhaltsangabe: Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), seine Schwester Sue (Kate Mara), Reed Richards.Euro berechnet. Wie nicht anders zu erwarten und ich empfinde es als sehr erfreulich, ist der Schwerpunkt nat. Als ich nach einem roten Bordeaux fragte, pr. Die Weinpflege war perfekt. Insgesamt muss ich sagen, dass die Erwartungshaltung deutlich . In jedem Fall, sehr empfehlenswert. So habe ich meinen guten Freund und Lieblingspartners Reiner . Die Zuschauer haben es geliebt. Mehr als. 1. 00. 0 haben beispielsweise ein Kommentaren gejubelt, als Calli mich in der Sendung fragte, Heinz, woher kommt der bl? Und ich antwortete: Reiner, das kommt aus der. Indianer- Sprache und hei. Wir hatten keine Agentur, die uns Gags vorbereiteten. Das wird mir sehr fehlen. Doch jetzt schreibe ich mein 3. Er braucht die Zeit f. Alle haben mit Genuss und sch. Die Reisen kosten. Kraft und mit der muss man haushalten. Das habe ich selbst zuletzt leidvoll erfahren. Die Entscheidung von Heinz erinnerte mich ein klein wenig an Philipp Lahm, der auf der H. Er hat mir versichert, wie leid ihm der Abschied tut und wie schwer ihm dieser Schritt fiel. Einer muss ja auch in Zukunft die Teller leer essen. Und mein neuer Mit- Juror Gerhard Retter wird es mir verzeihen, wenn ich ihn am Anfang mit . Einen historischen Bestwert stellte Vox in diesem Monat auf: Mit einem. Tagesmarktanteil von 9,9 Prozent . Juli die gesamte deutsche TV- Konkurrenz. Erstmals seit Bestehen sicherte sich Vox damit die Marktf. Das erste Sommer- Special des kulinarischen Wettkampfs erzielte einen Marktanteil von 1. Prozent (1. 4- 5. Jahre). Der Tausendsassa aus Hamburg gilt als einer der wenigen TV- K. Mit seiner. nordisch- frischen Art, frech und stets h. Und das mit zum Teil deftigen Spr. Sommer- Special von. In der Neuerscheinung hat Horrmann. Klocke Verlag, der wie kein anderes Verlagshaus in Europa die gehobene Hotellerie weltweit kennt, eine kleine Auswahl von Domizilen in Deutschland, Europa und der weiten Welt. Gast die Sternekate? Klocke Verlag, Bielefeld. Bestellung: https: //shop. Januar 2. 01. 6 jeweils um 1. Uhr! Vor allem aber ist er ein bekannter Gastrokritiker. Sein voller Terminkalender hindert ihn nicht daran, sich nun auch als Schauspieler zu versuchen. Bei GZSZ stellt der 7. J. Hier noch einmal ansehen: http: //www. Die Vox- Kochshow Grill den Henssler konnte sich beim Publikums- Bambi 2. Kategorie . Der Bambi ist. Die Fans belohnen mit dem Publikums- Bambi auch ein St. Das freut mich sehr f? Heinz Horrmann gibt wertvolle Hinweise. Posted by Heinz Horrmann on Mittwoch, 1. November 2. 01. 5. Der Gast soll einen unvergesslichen Aufenthalt haben und die Philosophie hinter der Marke Adlon erleben . Mehr dazu lesen Sie. Heinz Horrmann testet die Australien- Tr. Mai 2. 01. 5. Sendung Nr. Zuschauern, 8,7% Marktanteil bei den Zuschauerzahlen - Sendung Nr. Das ist wahre. Toleranz. Auch zu welcher Jahreszeit man am besten nach Tr. Heute hat keine deutsche Stadt mehr Michelin- Sterne als Berlin. Gemeinsam schrieben sie das weltweit beachtete. Service- Credo . Im Breidenbacher Hof in D. Auf dem schwierigen Greg- Norman- Platz Tiburon in Naples/Florida schaffte sie auf der Bahn. Par 3, ein . Der Ball ging mit dem Abschlag (1. Meter) direkt ins Loch. Kommt ganz selten vor, ist aber der Traum eines jeden Golfers. Fast zwei Millionen Deutsche gingen 2. Bord und bescherten Rekordums. Begleitet werden die . Vogel vom Deutschen Reise Verband. Deutschlands bekanntester Hotel- und Gastrokritiker Heinz Horrmann, der ? Hier noch einmal ansehen! Auf den zweiten Platz kam bei einer Umfrage der Hamburger. Ganz eindeutig war das Ergebnis bei der Frage nach dem beliebtesten Juroren- Team. Da stehen Heinz. Horrmann und Reiner Calmund nach mehr als 1. Vox- Kocharenen, . Doch. auch als Einzelpersonen liegen die beiden in der Spitzengruppe der TV- Beliebtheits- Skala. Lesen Sie hier noch einmal die besten Kolumnen aus seiner Serie . Hotel- und Genussbuch, das nun im Klocke Verlag. Autor soviele eigene Werke herausgebracht.. Scratch Programming Projects: The Scratch program was developed by MIT to teach young students programming concepts and develop skill in multimedia communication. S4A - Scratch for Arduino is a Scratch modification that brings the easiness of programming with Scratch to the Arduino prototyping board. Homemade Worcestershire Sauce. Did you know you can make homemade Worcestershire sauce at home? Better for you, saving you money and can be used in any. Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python – An Introduction – Wild. MLGet the code: To follow along, all the code is also available as an i. Python notebook on Github. In this post we will implement a simple 3- layer neural network from scratch. We won’t derive all the math that’s required, but I will try to give an intuitive explanation of what we are doing. I will also point to resources for you read up on the details. Here. Ideally you also know a bit about how optimization techniques like gradient descent work. But even if you’re not familiar with any of the above this post could still turn out to be interesting ; )But why implement a Neural Network from scratch at all? Even if you plan on using Neural Network libraries like Py. Brain in the future, implementing a network from scratch at least once is an extremely valuable exercise. It helps you gain an understanding of how neural networks work, and that is essential for. They are meant to be easy to understand. In an upcoming post I will explore how to write an efficient Neural Network implementation using Theano. Fortunately, scikit- learn has some useful dataset generators, so we don’t need to write the code ourselves. We will go with the make. You can think of the blue dots as male patients and the red dots as female patients, with the x- and y- axis being medical measurements. Our goal is to train a Machine Learning classifier that predicts the correct class (male of female) given the x- and y- coordinates. Note that the data is not linearly separable, we can’t draw a straight line that separates the two classes. This means that linear classifiers, such as Logistic Regression, won’t be able to fit the data unless you hand- engineer non- linear features (such as polynomials) that work well for the given dataset. In fact, that’s one of the major advantages of Neural Networks. You don’t need to worry about feature engineering. The hidden layer of a neural network will learn features for you. Logistic Regression. To demonstrate the point let’s train a Logistic Regression classifier. It’s input will be the x- and y- values and the output the predicted class (0 or 1). To make our life easy we use the Logistic Regression class from scikit- learn.# Train the logistic rgeression classifier. It separates the data as good as it can using a straight line, but it’s unable to capture the “moon shape” of our data. Training a Neural Network. Let’s now build a 3- layer neural network with one input layer, one hidden layer, and one output layer. The number of nodes in the input layer is determined by the dimensionality of our data, 2. Similarly, the number of nodes in the output layer is determined by the number of classes we have, also 2. The input to the network will be x- and y- coordinates and its output will be two probabilities, one for class 0 (“female”) and one for class 1 (“male”). It looks something like this: We can choose the dimensionality (the number of nodes) of the hidden layer. The more nodes we put into the hidden layer the more complex functions we will be able fit. But higher dimensionality comes at a cost. First, more computation is required to make predictions and learn the network parameters. A bigger number of parameters also means we become more prone to overfitting our data. How to choose the size of the hidden layer? While there are some general guidelines and recommendations, it always depends on your specific problem and is more of an art than a science. We will play with the number of nodes in the hidden later later on and see how it affects our output. We also need to pick an activation function for our hidden layer. The activation function transforms the inputs of the layer into its outputs. A nonlinear activation function is what allows us to fit nonlinear hypotheses. Common chocies for activation functions are tanh, the sigmoid function, or Re. LUs. We will use tanh, which performs quite well in many scenarios. A nice property of these functions is that their derivate can be computed using the original function value. For example, the derivative of. This is useful because it allows us to compute once and re- use its value later on to get the derivative. Because we want our network to output probabilities the activation function for the output layer will be the softmax, which is simply a way to convert raw scores to probabilities. If you’re familiar with the logistic function you can think of softmax as its generalization to multiple classes. How our network makes predictions. Our network makes predictions using forward propagation, which is just a bunch of matrix multiplications and the application of the activation function(s) we defined above. If x is the 2- dimensional input to our network then we calculate our prediction (also two- dimensional) as follows: is the input of layer and is the output of layer after applying the activation function. You can think of them as matrices transforming data between layers of the network. Looking at the matrix multiplications above we can figure out the dimensionality of these matrices. If we use 5. 00 nodes for our hidden layer then , , , . Now you see why we have more parameters if we increase the size of the hidden layer. Learning the Parameters. Learning the parameters for our network means finding parameters () that minimize the error on our training data. But how do we define the error? We call the function that measures our error the loss function. If we have training examples and classes then the loss for our prediction with respect to the true labels is given by: The formula looks complicated, but all it really does is sum over our training examples and add to the loss if we predicted the incorrect class. The further away the two probability distributions (the correct labels) and (our predictions) are, the greater our loss will be. By finding parameters that minimize the loss we. Variations such as SGD (stochastic gradient descent) or minibatch gradient descent typically perform better in practice. So if you are serious you’ll want to use one of these, and ideally you would also decay the learning rate over time. As an input, gradient descent needs the gradients (vector of derivatives) of the loss function with respect to our parameters: , , , . To calculate these gradients we use the famous backpropagation algorithm, which is a way to efficiently calculate the gradients starting from the output. I won’t go into detail how backpropagation works, but there are many excellent explanations (here or here) floating around the web. Applying the backpropagation formula we find the following (trust me on this): Implementation. Now we are ready for our implementation. We start by defining some useful variables and parameters for gradient descent: num. We use this to evaluate how well our model is doing: # Helper function to evaluate the total loss on the dataset. It does forward propagation as defined above and returns the class with the highest probability.# Helper function to predict an output (0 or 1). |
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