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A detailed account of a crime that has haunted one Iowa town for more than a century describes the 1900 ax murder of John Hossack, a cruel and unstable man; the arrest, trial, and conviction of his wife, Margaret; her account of an intruder who broke into the house and killed her husband; and her eventual release on appeal.

Rev. ed. of: Managing a nonprofit organization in the twenty-first century. c1999.

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you''re a data scientist or coder, this practical book shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library. Transformers have been used to write realistic news stories, improve Google Search queries, and even create chatbots that tell corny jokes. In this guide, authors Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, and Thomas Wolf, among the creators of Hugging Face Transformers, use a hands-on approach to teach you how transformers work and how to integrate them in your applications. You''ll quickly learn a variety of tasks they can help you solve. Build, debug, and optimize transformer models for core NLP tasks, such as text classification, named entity recognition, and question answering Learn how transformers can be used for cross-lingual transfer learning Apply transformers in real-world scenarios where labeled data is scarce Make transformer models efficient for deployment using techniques such as distillation, pruning, and quantization Train transformers from scratch and learn how to scale to multiple GPUs and distributed environments

Managing a nonprofit organization has many challenges. One key to success is building a strong relationship between the executive director and the board of trustees. This book is a treasure trove of information for navigating the personal, political, and legal minefields that cause so many nonprofits to fail. Dozens of case studies illuminate the key issues that often impede the progress of nonprofit organizations. Each chapter also contains a set of questions that enable leaders to reflect on the health of their own organization and also evaluate other nonprofits, as well as to create sustainable, effective business practices and productive working relationships. Topics discussed here include: Communication between managerial parties Sharing powers and responsibilities Fund-raising Financial oversight and boundaries Planning programs Hiring and firing Developing partnerships Assessing business practices Building productive working relationships And much more Whether you are an executive director, a board member, or someone contemplating either important role, Effective Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is an excellent resource for understanding the dynamics of nonprofits and creating a strong organization.

In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country—and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same edginess that pervaded the national scene. On-the-field fights were as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant race, Cubs’ shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet Popovich in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended, the Cubs and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth’s last appearance in the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two games in New York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field, with Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering for the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees’ dugout. In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic turn. As Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he gestured toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run. After Ruth circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed, “Unbelievable!” Ruth’s homer set off one of baseball’s longest-running and most intense debates: did Ruth, in fact, call his famous home run? Rich with historical context and detail, The Called Shot dramatizes the excitement of a baseball season during one of America’s most chaotic summers.

Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships, and an emphasis on customer-oriented service and leadership. In easy-to-understand language, Thomas Wolf explains how to cope with these changes and deal with the traditional challenges of managing staff, trustees, and volunteers.

Drake and his friends finds themselves in a race with the Gods and Goddesses. They must go to other worlds to save Races from being consumed by the Gods and Goddesses. How will they do this? What''s going to happen once they get on the worlds? And what are they going to do when the Gods decides to cheat against them? Will they lose or will they find a way to break through the cheating ways of the Gods?

Drake is soon visited by the Gods with their well awaited answer and Drake is soon back to saving those on other worlds. But the Gods have asked him a strange request, save the Races that they have placed upon a few worlds as well. But that is not all that hits Drake and his friends. When Drake return to celebrate their triumphant victory, they find that Dune has fallen ill and the only way to save him is to obtain a rare flower that grows only in one place, Marlor''s world, Hell. To save the life of Melissa''s large friend, they must venture through Hell or watch as her heart breaks when Dune passes on. Will they find the flower in time? And what will happen when Drake learns a deep dark secret about Marlor and Rasket? And what will they do when someone else decides to joins the party?

After speaking with Seraph, the Mother of the Gods, Drake finds himself pulled from his deep sleep and onto the second level of the Sealed Gates to meet a living Titan, the one that all calls Cronus, the Father to the Gods. Drake barely escapes with his life with the help of this mysterious woman that follows him. After Cronus faces his judgment before Seraph, they learn that Drake''s soul is thrown back into the Sealed Gates by Cronus and on the fifth level, a place that even the Gods and Goddesses can not venture. Drake will now have to fight his way alone through a place of horror that can even consume the Gods to escape the Sealed Gates. Drake''s friends learn that he is trapped in a very bad place that is controlled by someone that even has Seraph worried for who has control over this place. Will Drake survive this place of will the overwhelming fear that rules here claim his soul for good? And what will Drake do when he finally meets those that follows their worst adversaries, the Dark Ones?

Drake decides to go and save a few more Races from their dying planets. Mostly when it is said that one has two individuals there that can help them if a Dark One should ever appear upon Earth. It is on his last run to collect two very deadly Races when everyone quickly learn that Drake is not playing around anymore from his run with those that follows the Dark Ones. It is after they have saved the new Races that Rogue, the Fallen Dark One suggest that the Gods and Goddesses calls for all of the Angels, Gods and Goddesses to Earth when news of an approaching Dark One is known. It becomes an interesting meet when a few Angels arrives and are on the opposite sides of each other and it shocked many when someone that the Gods and Goddesses thought for sure was dead arrives.

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winner On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge of the accused perpetrator—a small, quiet boy weighing just 75 pounds. Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

A blend of memoir and history detailing the story of soldier-athletes who comprised the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

Drake and his friends decides to relax as they wait for the Gods to answer Drake. But their relaxing is hard to enjoy when a few women from Drake''s past decides to make an appearance. Ho are these women? Where did they come from and why are they approaching Drake? Not to mention that one has it out for him and is tied to him closer than anyone there. How is Drake going to handle what is going to hit him when she finally makes her presence known to him and everyone else?

*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale''s Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.

The photoinduced dynamics of radical precursors in solution were investigated by means of femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy assisted by quantum chemical calculations. The investigated systems show a wide range of excited state lifetimes ranging from tens of femtoseconds to nanoseconds. Thus, in the first case, on the investigated time scale the dynamics of the generated radicals can be additionally investigated. In the latter case only the excited singlet lifetime is observable.

Prepared as a sequel to the College Board Educational Equality Project''s "Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need To Know and Be Able To Do," this book examines curricular ideas, teaching strategies, arts learning rationales, and related issues. The arts are defined as separate fields of study which offer a distinctive contribution to high school students'' preparation for college. Creating or performing art works, learning to analyze and evaluate art, and knowing art works of various periods and cultures can teach students to understand and pursue quality, to be expressive and responsive, to exercise their imaginations, and to be interested in the visions and imaginations of others. Teachers must help students develop the special knowledge, sensitivity, and skills that training in the arts require. Selected arts courses are presented to illustrate how students might achieve the goals of production and performance skills, abilities in analysis and evaluation, and knowledge of the cultural contexts and historical development of the arts. The development of outstanding arts courses and the utilization of arts education to assist students in achieving basic competencies in reading, writing, speaking, listening, mathematics, reasoning, and studying is described. Art teachers are encouraged to develop curricula which achieve and maintain excellence in arts education for all high school students. (JHP)

Leistungsfähige State-of-the-Art-Sprachanwendungen mit vortrainierten Transformer-Modellen Transformer haben die NLP-Welt im Sturm erobert Von den Gründern von Hugging Face, der Plattform für vortrainierte Transformer-Modelle für TensorFlow und PyTorch Bietet einen fundierten und praxisnahen Überblick über die wichtigsten Methoden und Anwendungen im aktuellen NLP Hands-On: Jeder Programmierschritt kann in Jupyter Notebooks nachvollzogen werden Transformer haben sich seit ihrer Einführung nahezu über Nacht zur vorherrschenden Architektur im Natural Language Processing entwickelt. Sie liefern die besten Ergebnisse für eine Vielzahl von Aufgaben bei der maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung. Wenn Sie Data Scientist oder Programmierer sind, zeigt Ihnen dieses praktische Buch, wie Sie NLP-Modelle mit Hugging Face Transformers, einer Python-basierten Deep-Learning-Bibliothek, trainieren und skalieren können. Transformer kommen beispielsweise beim maschinellen Schreiben von Nachrichtenartikeln zum Einsatz, bei der Verbesserung von Google-Suchanfragen oder bei Chatbots. In diesem Handbuch zeigen Ihnen Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra und Thomas Wolf, die auch die Transformers-Bibliothek von Hugging Face mitentwickelt haben, anhand eines praktischen Ansatzes, wie Transformer-basierte Modelle funktionieren und wie Sie sie in Ihre Anwendungen integrieren können. Sie werden schnell eine Vielzahl von Aufgaben wie Textklassifikation, Named Entity Recognition oder Question Answering kennenlernen, die Sie mit ihnen lösen können.

Drei in sich geschlossene Aufsätze beleuchten spezifische, unter dem gemeinsamen Nenner "Umwelterfahrung" zusammengefaßte Erlebniswelten eines Schriftstellers, der sich den Zwängen und Bedingtheiten seiner familiären Situation sowie den Fremdbestimmungen seiner geistigen und literarischen Entwicklung durch Schule, Universität und staatliche Obrigkeit anpassen mußte und doch trotz aller Deformationen des äußeren Lebens literarische Werke hervorbrachte, an denen formale Ungezwungenheit und stilistische Brillanz gerühmt wurden. Im aufopferungsvollen Zwist mit den straffälligen Brüdern Karl und Alois trat Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) als ausdauernder Kämpfer und letztlich dominierendes Familienoberhaupt auf. Auch gegenüber Justinus Kerner, der zunächst die Rolle eines geistigen Übervaters spielte, dann zeitweise auf okkultistischem Gebiet ein Gleichgesinnter war, um schließlich als Leitbild abzudanken, vollzog sich - parallel zu Mörikes schriftstellerischer Sozialisation - eine deutliche Entwicklung von Passivität zur Aktion. Mörikes anfänglich starker Autoritätsglaube wich mit der Zeit immer mehr dem Autoritätszweifel, in der Beziehung zum älteren Bruder Karl, in der ungleichen Freundschaft zu Justinus Kerner sowie im Dialog zu naturwissenschaftlichen Koryphäen wie Kurr, Quenstedt oder Oppel. Bei der Betrachtung des scheinbar harmlosen Fossiliensammelns und der obskuren Beschäftigung mit parapsychischen Phänomenen werden nebenbei aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive Grundoperationen der Mörikeschen Poetik sichtbar - etwa das Benennen und Beschreiben von Dingen und Sinneseindrücken, das teilweise pseudoreligiöse Züge trägt.

Drawing on recent examples of corruption in the Baltics and former Soviet Union, this pamphlet analyzes the links between governance and corruption, and emphasizes the high economic cost that corruption exacts. The pamphlet outlines how the IMF is working with the countries of the former Soviet Union to curb corruption and put in place the regulatory and legal changes needed to support good government.