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she had gorgeous eyes. And her butt was as flat as an iron board, just like my father’s. So whenever our family went to the beach, all the children would empty their laughter boxes, because we laughed so hard.
The plasma glucose levels drop resulting in an improvement in the entire glycemic parameters [106]. In summary, traditional and combined approaches to insulin therapy remain important tools in the treat- ment of T1D, but they do not represent a cure and may not be able to achieve the level...
A trip to another country to work on open hearts starts with packing and checklists. It starts in a storeroom under a shed where they keep boxes and boxes of needles and tubes, blades that open chests and drapes to cover the skin. We check off spreadsheets and try to imagine exactly how...
The stone blade snapped in two as the man buckled beneath its impact and Xlenca was forced to drop the now useless weapon as another of the temple guardsmen charged at him. The second Sun Warrior fell with a scream as the first of Lotec’s javelins pierced his shoulder. The soldiers of...
My boys let me know what happened at 10:15 today at school: “the ‘ole drop, cover, and hold” said my 6 year-old. The technical instructions are “drop, cover, and hold on” but we get his drift. The numbers couldn’t have been better today 10-15-2015 for a 10:15am ...
I can be caught off guard. I can take risks. Does everyone live this double life? The life of doing and the life of desire. The life that is and the life that isn’t. I traveled to a conference recently which was really a joy for me professionally, the first conference I’ve ever...
The former predicts the bounding boxes and the class of the input image in a single run. Examples of such systems are YOLO [145] and SSD [146]. The later needs one run to generate bounding boxes and another to predict one of the class for each bounding box and includes systems such ...
Even Marion Nestle complained about how hard all those “annoying drop-down boxes” are to navigate. It’s possible the good folks at CNPP just assumed that the other good folks over at DHHS–responsible for Guidelines online labyrinth–were paying attention so they didn’t have to. Or maybe...
The springs twang as the attic steps are lowered. Light chases me as I drop into the passage and wedge myself against the bricks. I go corpse quiet. I've taught myself not to cough, fart, belch, gurgle, or sneeze. My breathing is soft and silent as cotton gauze. ...