IlyaThe rest of us woke after a few days, when it became apparent we'd survived the drug. Even Corinne woke faster the first time. This time, three weeks had passed. I was grateful for the scans and other tests Dr. Farrell ran, indicating she was alive.Still, I was terrified for her. And for me. I spoke to her often and lately, I begged her to open her eyes.After surviving the drug a second time, Corinne's abilities are put to the test as the enemy steps up his attacks. Will she survive the attempts on her life, as well as betrayal from within? As she struggles to keep the others alive, a new threat arrives-one even the enemy doesn't see coming.
The Larentii are observers only; their policy is never to involve themselves in the turmoil of other races. Corinne is now one of them.What will she do to protect those she cares for on Earth? Will she risk her life to save them?The Larentii Rebel has arrived.
I was viscerally aware of my overlapping identities. I am a Palestinian Arab, raised with the narrative that Jews and Israelis are the enemy of my people and not to be engaged with in discourse. I am Muslim and an imam who holds every word of the Qur'an in my brain and spirit. I have verses seared into my consciousness telling me to respect and dialogue with those following the Abrahamic traditions. These are "people of the book," and we worship the same God. I am an American. This identity is deeply sacred to me because this is the one I chose. I am an immigrant who fell in love with Lady Liberty and ran to her shores, leaving everything and everyone I knew and cherished behind, just so I could have this identity, so I could hold this blue passport in my hand. I am seen as a traitor by some for having this citizenship.All three identities of my being struggle against one another. I am canvas stretched over frame. But these quarrelling parts cannot be separated. Perhaps on this trip, I thought, they will find peace with one another. There are so many lines drawn by humankind to define each other. Yet I am crossing them all, one cloud mile at a time.
This book is a timely, comprehensive introduction to cloud computing. The phrase cloud computing, which was almost never used a decade ago, is now part of the standard vocabulary. Millions of people around the world use cloud services, and the numbers are growing rapidly. Even education is being transformed in radical ways by cloud computing in the form of massive open online courses (MOOCs). This book is particularly valuable at this time because the phrase cloud computing covers so many different types of computing services, and the many people participating in conversations about clouds need to be aware of the space that it spans. The introductory material in this book explains the key concepts of cloud computing and is accessible.
From author Francine Piriano-Davila comes the thrilling second book in the Cloud Monsters series. With Earth destroyed and Jack and his family living on a planet far from home, Jack is finally living his dream life. He has the perfect family. He loves his job, and is free of the monsters that destroyed his world ten years ago . . . or so he thought. The monsters are back, and they want revenge. What do the Vultans want? Will Jack save his family in time, or will they get to him first? Is there any hope for escape? Follow along with Jack and his family to find out if they can rid themselves of the Vultans once and for all.
The recent development of cloud computing and edge computing shows great promise for the Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV), by enabling CAVs to offload their massive on-board data and heavy computing tasks. Leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, different entities in the intelligent transportation system (e.g., vehicles, infrastructure, traffic management centers, etc.) get connected with each other, thus making the entire system smarter, faster, and more efficient. However, these advances also bring significant challenges to public authorities, industry, as well as scientific communities. In terms of system design and control, current cloud and edge architecture of CAVs need to be refined or even redesigned to better function under uncertainties in demand, and to better cooperate with existing conventional vehicles and infrastructure.From the performance assessment perspective, models and simulation tools based on artificial intelligence and big data have been widely developed for validation and evaluation of cloud computing and edge computing, but the validity of these models needs to be re-examined with field implementations. Finally, while the increasing connectivity among vehicles and infrastructures may help improve their perception of the environment and enable coordinated decision making, it also presents new challenges to ensure system safety and security, with inherent disturbances to wireless communication networks and also the inevitably larger attack surface that may be exploited by malicious attacks.In this tutorial, experts from academia and industry introduce the trends and challenges of applying cloud and edge computing for CAVs, highlight representative works in the literature and discuss their limitations, present new promising solutions, and outline future directions in research and engineering. Particular focus will be given to methodologies and tools for building digital twin frameworks with cloud and edge computing for CAVs, quantitative and formal analysis for ensuring CAV safety under disturbances and uncertainties, system-level CAV security threat landscape and defense solution space, and experiences from practical deployment of cloud and edge computing for CAVs.
Cloud computing is the on demand availability of computing services such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet. It not only facilitates faster innovation and flexible resources but also offers economies of scale. It is cheaper, faster, more secure, reliable, efficient, and accessible compared to the traditional way of availing IT resources. Public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud are the three ways to deploy cloud services. Public clouds are owned and handled by third-party cloud service providers whereas a private cloud is used exclusively by a single entity. Hybrid clouds are a mix of both public and private clouds. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide in-depth knowledge about the theory and practice of cloud computing. There has been rapid progress in this field and its applications are finding their way across multiple industries. This book is a resource guide for experts as well as students.
The delivery of various computing services such as servers, databases, storage and analytics in the absence of any direct active management by the user is known as cloud computing. These are usually provided by large centers which are situated over multiple locations. Some of the important characteristics of cloud computing are agility, device and location independence, performance, productivity, and security. Deployment models refer to the environmental parameters affecting the location and ownership of the infrastructure. A few of the various deployment models are private cloud, public cloud, community cloud and distributed cloud. Cloud computing finds extensive application in the fields of data analysis, audio-video streaming, embedded intelligence, application testing, etc. This book is a compilation of chapters that discuss the most vital concepts in the field of cloud computing. While understanding the long-term perspectives of the topics, it makes an effort in highlighting their impact as a modern tool for the growth of the discipline. This book is a complete source of knowledge on the present status of this important field.
A personal invitation to walk with God through one of the great classics of Christian spirituality. This book of daily devotions is based upon The Cloud of Unknowing. In this edition Robinson sought to remain as true as possible to the voice of this medieval classic. Cloud Devotion follows the original Middle English text sentence by sentence, with Robinson’s own translation and paraphrase, divided work into 366 small portions, with a Scripture passage related to the theme from each daily reading. "My heart has yearned for this book. I wanted a guide to help me savor and reflect on the spiritual classic The Cloud of Unknowing. David has insightfully discerned how we might do this. The partnership of this unknown, ancient writer and this known, living pastor is masterful. I invite you into the clouds with the slow reading of this book." —Dr. MaryKate Morse, author and mentor-professor of formation and leadership
Claude Frollo is a dark, thrilling tale based on the antagonist of Victor Hugo's classic novel. In this book, the reason for Frollo's evil -including the conflicting hatred and lust for a Gypsy woman - is explained in great detail.Everyone knows the fate of Frollo, but this story exposes the past that led him down this path. In a small town in France not far from Paris, Claude's parents Ethelinda and Gaetan meet in the most unlikely of circumstances. They fall in love, but struggle to stay together as Ethelinda's dangerous past constantly leads her away. Claude is left with no control over his own future, his loyalty being pulled in two directions. He chooses the faith of his father, but is always drawn by the customs and rituals of his mother. Full of intense twists and turns, Claude Frollo will open your eyes to the true story of one of literature's darkest villains.
Claude Frollo is a dark, thrilling tale based on the antagonist of Victor Hugo's classic novel. In this book, the reason for Frollo's evil -including the conflicting hatred and lust for a Gypsy woman - is explained in great detail.Everyone knows the fate of Frollo, but this story exposes the past that led him down this path. In a small town in France not far from Paris, Claude's parents Ethelinda and Gaetan meet in the most unlikely of circumstances. They fall in love, but struggle to stay together as Ethelinda's dangerous past constantly leads her away. Claude is left with no control over his own future, his loyalty being pulled in two directions. He chooses the faith of his father, but is always drawn by the customs and rituals of his mother. Full of intense twists and turns, Claude Frollo will open your eyes to the true story of one of literature's darkest villains.
This inspirational children's picture book tells the story of Cloud, a wild stallion living in the Rocky Mountains. It is a compelling saga will capture young readers' hearts and imagination. A wide American viewing audience has already met Cloud in three popular episodes of Public Television's Nature series. Now Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies brings his story to life for kids. With beautiful colour photographs, this book tells how horses actually live in the wild. It shows how they avoid capture, predators and other threats, while providing insight into their fascinating behaviour.
In this second part of the novel - Clad in Light - all the characters in the first part of the novel - Even in Death - encounter light in its entire spectrum, both their visible and invisible capacities. They learn that without the light they could not be transformed into better people. Light is easier to understand if we were to say love provides the means by which light changes our nature. We can see light. We can't see love. When we see the characters in this novel "clad in light" it's another way of saying they are clad in love. When our characters in this novel are "clad in light" they grow to realize that light has unified them with the nature of light and how it renews life with its practical nature. What they quickly learn is that light has an impractical nature and will not tolerate an abuse of the use of the light that wants to contain itself in their being. This leads to the startling realization that light is masking itself as love in its infinite, indestructible nature that extends beyond the source of our light, the sun. Light leads them to know the deep nature of love if one were to doubt that love exists.About the AuthorLinda L. Baldwin has been a writer and reader all her life. While reading a book, she would take herself on a spiritual journey in her mind that was too young to know what a spiritual journey was. Once she imagined that her closet was a doorway to a forest with a mansion where she met, talked and supped with friends and relatives. This was before C.S. Lewis wrote Chronicles of Narnia. She never had trouble writing papers in high school, college, or in seminary where she earned a Master of Divinity. When Baldwin became a minister, her sermons were based on taking her listeners on a spiritual journey in and out of each Biblical text. Her goal was to open new vistas of spiritual insights that people may not have considered possible to attain. Baldwin is the mother of two sons and a grandmother of five. While they live far away, they are close in her heart. She currently lives alone with a deep desire to finish writing all of her books.
The on-demand availability of computer system resources without direct active management by the user is known as cloud computing. It is usually used to refer to the data centers, which are available over the Internet to many users. A few major types of clouds are enterprise clouds, public clouds and hybrid cloud. Enterprise clouds, also called private clouds, are usually limited to a single organization while public clouds are available to many organizations. A hybrid cloud is a cloud computing service, which is made up of a fusion of public, private and community cloud services. Cloud computing majorly relies on sharing of resources to achieve economies of scale and coherence. Cloud computing is an upcoming field of science that has undergone rapid development over the past few decades. Different approaches, concepts and technologies related to this field have been included in this book. It will serve as a reference to a broad spectrum of readers.
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy. François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in whichhe worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure's book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer's death in 1918. The present English translation and revised edition, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure's numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information oncrucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure's seminal work. Rolf's translation-the first ever-will make Lesure's findings accessible to scholars, musicians, and music lovers in English-speaking lands and around the world. FRANÇOIS LESURE (1923-2001) was the Director of the Music division of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Professor of Musicology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Chair of Musicology at the École pratique des Hautes Études. MARIE ROLF is senior associate dean of graduate studies and professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and a memberof the editorial board for the Ouvres complètes de Claude Debussy.
