This book is a very creative testimony of poetic art from Mr. Miller's first years as a poet in sixth grade to this present day. Mr. Miller, like an artist uses paint to create a beautiful picture on a canvas, uses words to paint pictures in people's minds. His many friends and family have loved and raved over his works of literary art, even including one of his best friends, actress and director Courteney Cox who recently said, "I applaud the words in this lovely collection of poems." Whether you're buying this book for yourself, for family member, or for a friend, after reading it for the first time, you'll want to read it again and again while definitely agreeing that Mr. Miller's style of poetry, which shows the combination of a strong, spiritual force in both his struggles as a Christian and his Godly inspiration as illustrated by his poems in this book, is such a force to be reckoned with in the world of literary artists while thus certainly earning him the title, "The Poet Of Mountain Brook!"
Ever since Brett Calman was a little boy, he dreamed of becoming a police officer. But over the decades the ordinary progress of life seemed to get in the way of that dream. As an adult, he found himself working as an upholsterer; he maintained a successful business for a few years, but, despite the name he'd made for himself and how far he'd come, something was missing from his life, and he knew exactly what it was. He just had to figure out how to get it.Brett didn't know anything about the process of becoming a police officer or about policing itself. He didn't know any cops. But he did know that he wanted to be one, and that he'd do whatever it took.It was ten years ago that Brett came to this critical decision in his life, and, within a short period of time, he realized his dream and became an active member of an Ontario, Canada, police force. My Road to the Badge is the story of how he got where he is today and the incredible insights, experiences, and information he collected along the way.
Learn how to render lists of items without repeating your code structure and how to work with conditional rendering items and event handling. Containing all you need to know to get started with Vue.js, this book will take you through using build tools (transpile to ES5), creating custom components, state management, and routers. With Getting to Know Vue.js, you'll see how to combine reusable code with custom components, allowing you to create snippets of reusable code to suit your specific business needs. You'll also explore how to use Single File Components and the Vue.js Command Line Interface (CLI) to build components in a single file and add in build tools as you see fit.Getting started with a new Single Page Application (SPA) JavaScript framework can be an overwhelming task, but Vue.js makes this daunting task simple and easy to learn, allowing you to start implementing business needs with just a script reference to the library and the custom JavaScript required for your use case. Starting with a little reference and a handful of lines of custom JavaScript, you will have a complete Single Page Application before you know it.What You'll LearnExamine Vue.js templating syntaxWork with binding methods Manage the state of your app by comparing your options of building a data store Adapt the more robust options compatible with Vue.jsReview different router options, including creating your own router, using the Vue-router and using Page.js. Who This Book Is For Software developers with an understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript; prior understanding of a Single Page Application framework would be useful but not essential.
Dive into and apply practical machine learning and dataset categorization techniques while learning Tensorflow and deep learning. This book uses convolutional neural networks to do image recognition all in the familiar and easy to work with Swift language. It begins with a basic machine learning overview and then ramps up to neural networks and convolutions and how they work. Using Swift and Tensorflow, you'll perform data augmentation, build and train large networks, and build networks for mobile devices. You’ll also cover cloud training and the network you build can categorize greyscale data, such as mnist, to large scale modern approaches that can categorize large datasets, such as imagenet. Convolutional Neural Networks with Swift for Tensorflow uses a simple approach that adds progressive layers of complexity until you have arrived at the current state of the art for this field. What You'll LearnCategorize and augment datasetsBuild and train large networks, including via cloud solutionsDeploy complex systems to mobile devicesWho This Book Is ForDevelopers with Swift programming experience who would like to learn convolutional neural networks by example using Swift for Tensorflow as a starting point.
After more than two decades and over two thousand presentations, my interactions with parents reveal that although most want to learn and parent their best, they feel ill-equipped. Kids don't come with manuals. The goal of this book is to equip and empower you as a parent, grandparent, or youth leader to help kids navigate all aspects of life in the current culture. How do we sift through the unending philosophies on parenting and be intentional in how we choose what's best for our family? The number of voices is overwhelming. This book distills the essential elements of parenting so you can apply them in your own home. It approaches parenting from a Christian perspective and is filled with practical advice that is applicable to everyone. As we explore the foundations of parenting, we will look at: Parenting. What are the stages of parenting? What is the current state of parenting? What is the purpose of parenting? Parenting styles. What are they and which ones should I be using? What might I need to alter about my current parenting style? Progression of parenting. What are the skills our children need to learn? Time. What does quality time and being present with my kids look like? Communication. How can I gain better communication skills so that I can more effectively connect with my kids? Discipline. How do I effectively discipline my children? Family discipleship. Why is our worldview important, and how we can raise kids with a Christian worldview? Mental Health. How do we address issues like anxiety, panic attacks, and depression? Engaging the Culture. How do we empower our kids to engage the culture around us without compromising their faith? Media. How can we help our kids navigate technology? Sexuality. How do we direct our kids towards healthy sexuality? Pornography. What is the prevalence of pornography and how do we address its impact on our kids? Dating. How do we best avoid pitfalls in dating? Finances and education. How can we help our children make sound financial and education choices? Drugs and alcohol. What tools are available to assist in drug-proofing our kids? Loneliness. How do we prevent disconnection in our kids and help them to create community?
This study guide is designed to go along with Parenting: Navigating Everything. The guide provides intentional and interesting conversation-sparking questions to help you go deeper either on your own or in a group. It will help you focus on and personally apply concepts presented in each of the sixteen chapters outlined below: Parenting. What are the stages of parenting? What is the current state of parenting? What is the purpose of parenting?Parenting Styles. What are they and which ones should I be using? What might I need to alter about my current parenting style?Progression of Parenting. What are the skills our children need to learn?Time. What does quality time and being present with my kids look like?Communication. How can I gain better communication skills so that I can more effectively connect with my kids?Discipline. How do I effectively discipline my children?Family Discipleship. Why is our worldview important, and how we can raise kids with a Christian worldview?Mental Health. How do we address issues like anxiety, panic attacks, and depression?Engaging the Culture. How do we empower our kids to engage the culture around us without compromising their faith?Media. How can we help our kids navigate technology?Sexuality. How do we direct our kids towards healthy sexuality?Pornography. What is the prevalence of pornography and how do we address its impact on our kids?Dating. How do we best avoid pitfalls in dating?Finances and education. How can we help our children make sound financial and education choices?Drugs and Alcohol. What tools are available to assist in drug-proofing our kids?Loneliness. How do we prevent disconnection in our kids and help them to create community?
During the last half century, and for only the second time in over two thousand years, technology has given way to a new groundbreaking and limitless form of artistic expression: the video game. While our society is barely beginning to digest this new medium and redefine our understanding of artistic expression, video games are continuing to evolve and define the medium as the art world's most expressive, dynamic, and evolved art form. All art forms provoke us to reflect, to ponder, to feel, to engage in ideas, to challenge or invoke our strongly held beliefs and biases. They ask us to share and experience the lives, thoughts, and sentiments of others. With video games, for the first time in the history of artistic expression, we are now asked to choose, to explore, to make determinations, to take decisive action, and to follow our choices to their conclusions. We are now world explorers and decision makers, individuals acting on, with, and against the art itself. In The Greatest Art Form: Video Games and the Evolution of Artistic Expression, ideas are explored through the ways in which the video game form's most groundbreaking attribute, interaction, has allowed the video game to become the most malleable, dynamic, expressive, organic, and authentic art form in human history. As part exposition, part summary, and part critical analysis, The Greatest Art Form provides a detailed analysis and conversation about the countless ways video games have come to communicate with audiences through new and profound methods, in order to provide a new lens by which to digest and understand this new medium so full of wonder and potential. It contains content that includes critical analysis and dissection of some of the video game medium's most treasured game titles and series, including: -Silent Hill 2 -Red Dead Redemption -BioShock -BioShock Infinite -Dishonored -Ico -Shadow of the Colossus -Flower -Journey -The Elder Scrolls Series -Fallout 3 Explore the ways in which video games, more than any other art form, hold the most limitless potential to ask us to reflect, not only on the art itself, but ourselves.
From USA Today bestselling author Brett Battles's award winning Jonathan Quinn thrillers series comes The Enraged.The rescue on Duran Island did not go as planned.Jonathan Quinn knows that someone is responsible. That someone decided that throwing people Quinn cares about into the line of fire in a cold-hearted act of self-preservation was a good idea. He also knows that this someone has made a serious mistake.Because when Quinn gets mad, the last place anyone should ever be is in his crosshairs. He will not stop until the guilty pay.Sometimes revenge is best served now. "The best word I can use to describe Battles's writing is addictive." - James Rollins, New York Times bestselling authorPRAISE FOR THE JONATHAN QUINN SERIES: "A pure delight." - Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author"Battles is a master storyteller." - Sheldon Siegel, New York Times bestselling author"Brett Battles makes a grand entrance into the thriller scene." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author"Brakeneck pacing, colorful locales, and dizzying plot twists make the Quinn series a welcome addition to the political thriller genre." - Publishers Weekly"Quinn is one part James Bond, one part Jason Bourne." - Nashville Book Worm"Highly recommended." - Library Journal (starred review for THE DECEIVED)"Battles has a true gift for writing thriller." - Crimespree magazine
