The word success is open to various interpretations, often equated with power and control, financial abundance, having the right sort of friends, fraternizing with the swish set and living the ‘high life.’ Although manifestations of success are many, they all have one common factor – the overwhelming presence of the ego. Many people will tell you that to succeed you need to have a healthy ego, but what if success exists just for itself? What if you can be successful just for yourself? We are both ‘successful’ professionals, excelling and making a name for ourselves in our individual fields. And yet, if you were to ask us what we consider our greatest successes, our answers, individually and collectively, would be non-material and intangible things that enrich our lives and make them successful. Drawing a page (actually, make that an entire chapter!) from our own lives, we sought to re-examine the idea of success, and analyze how it has changed for us. Thus, Spiritual Success hopes to share this vision with you, and inspire you to develop your own idea of success and what it means to be successful. Our endeavour is to enable you to define success as a holistic concept covering not just material success, but also intellectual growth; personal enrichment; development of a compassionate view of serving the society and community you live in; and the evolution of your own chosen spiritual practise that simultaneously invigorates and calms you.
The word success is open to various interpretations, often equated with power and control, financial abundance, having the right sort of friends, fraternizing with the swish set and living the ‘high life.’ Although manifestations of success are many, they all have one common factor – the overwhelming presence of the ego. Many people will tell you that to succeed you need to have a healthy ego, but what if success exists just for itself? What if you can be successful just for yourself? We are both ‘successful’ professionals, excelling and making a name for ourselves in our individual fields. And yet, if you were to ask us what we consider our greatest successes, our answers, individually and collectively, would be non-material and intangible things that enrich our lives and make them successful. Drawing a page (actually, make that an entire chapter!) from our own lives, we sought to re-examine the idea of success, and analyze how it has changed for us. Thus, Spiritual Success hopes to share this vision with you, and inspire you to develop your own idea of success and what it means to be successful. Our endeavour is to enable you to define success as a holistic concept covering not just material success, but also intellectual growth; personal enrichment; development of a compassionate view of serving the society and community you live in; and the evolution of your own chosen spiritual practise that simultaneously invigorates and calms you.
What does it mean to be 21 in the 21st century? Ayaan meets Bianca when he is four-years-old. They become the best of friends until a shattering incident pulls their lives apart, and Ayaan is sent to Northbrook College, a boarding school in Ajmer. They write letters to each other throughout their adolescence. Eight years later, he meets her again in the city of dreams. By now, Bianca’s past is an enemy Ayaan cannot defeat. She is tormented by her inner demons, which to Ayaan’s surprise, begin to arouse his dark desires. Shaken and driven by a need to distance himself from her, Ayaan travels to the West for a quest for his own identity. He traverses through the enchanting Canadian Rockies, through the glamourous New York City—through the 21st-century swamp of sex, drugs, and misinformation —and eventually returns to the pristine blue waters of the Andaman Islands. His journey leads him to a new understanding of one’s purpose in life, and what it means to come of age. What the Young Don’t Tell is a story that reveals the psyche of the new youth and bridges the communication gap with the elders. It illuminates the hidden spiritual path from the clutches of the modern-day Matrix to the bliss of Nirvana.
4-H Indian Langoor Club has been part of the Middlesex County 4-H Youth Program for twelve years since 1996. The club teaches kids about the Indian sub-continent by touching upon all aspects of Indian culture through arts and crafts, literature, performing arts, social studies, and philosophy. Recently, the Club started its Teen Chapter and has begun to offer advanced cultural study programs through philosophy lectures and special projects for young adults over thirteen years of age. Our goal is not just to learn about Indian culture but also to share it with the community. The Club performs at libraries, schools, Heritage Day Festivals, 4-H events and exhibits its work at libraries, schools and other community events. . The Oral History Program "Recording History: Live!" started in 2006 with the help of grants received from the Middlesex County and Cultural Heritage Commission has truly helped us achieve our goal.
One stop guide to implementing award-winning, and cutting-edge CNN architectures Key Features Fast-paced guide with use cases and real-world examples to get well versed with CNN techniques Implement CNN models on image classification, transfer learning, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, GANs and more Implement powerful use-cases like image captioning, reinforcement learning for hard attention, and recurrent attention models Book Description Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is revolutionizing several application domains such as visual recognition systems, self-driving cars, medical discoveries, innovative eCommerce and more.You will learn to create innovative solutions around image and video analytics to solve complex machine learning and computer vision related problems and implement real-life CNN models. This book starts with an overview of deep neural networkswith the example of image classification and walks you through building your first CNN for human face detector. We will learn to use concepts like transfer learning with CNN, and Auto-Encoders to build very powerful models, even when not much of supervised training data of labeled images is available. Later we build upon the learning achieved to build advanced vision related algorithms for object detection, instance segmentation, generative adversarial networks, image captioning, attention mechanisms for vision, and recurrent models for vision. By the end of this book, you should be ready to implement advanced, effective and efficient CNN models at your professional project or personal initiatives by working on complex image and video datasets. What you will learn From CNN basic building blocks to advanced concepts understand practical areas they can be applied to Build an image classifier CNN model to understand how different components interact with each other, and then learn how to optimize it Learn different algorithms that can be applied to Object Detection, and Instance Segmentation Learn advanced concepts like attention mechanisms for CNN to improve prediction accuracy Understand transfer learning and implement award-winning CNN architectures like AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet and more Understand the working of generative adversarial networks and how it can create new, unseen images Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning and deep learning practitioners, Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts who want to move one step further in building Convolutional Neural Networks. Get hands-on experience with extreme datasets and different CNN architectures to build efficient and smart ConvNet models. Basic knowledge of deep learning concepts and Python programming language is expected.
India's rise as a global power in the 21st century will be backed with a strong blue economy. The high volumetric trade activities through its coastal region, mainly due to its geostrategic location and efficient links with the vast potential market in the hinterland and other landlocked states, provides it unmatched leverage. Among such promising enterprising, attracting global investments and trade, the non-conventional security threats within the Indian Ocean region and India's ports and coast cannot be ignored. Therefore, to address these challenges, the law at the seas formulated by various global organisations and other national and international regulatory mechanisms become essential for all those directly or indirectly involved in India's maritime security. Over the years, many state coastal security agencies have evolved with specific potential and restrictions, which creates a certain conditionality of the existing non-conventional security challenges and maritime conflicts with its neighbours. The successful use of security-related technology to outpace such non-conventional threats creates a demand for further bolstering such technologies for India's advantage. Besides, these prevailing threats to the ports and coastal region, the environmental security challenges also directly impact humans and cannot be undermined. The book covers all these facets in detail, identifying the specific fault lines and makes recommendations to address the non-conventional security challenges of India's ports, coast and maritime trade. The book will be of interest to policymakers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, and all those individuals and institutes interested in India's Ports, Coastal and Maritime Security.
We all like story books. On the other hand, majority of the students do not feel like reading academic books because they find them difficult to understand. J.U.I.C.E. contains different short stories explaining the concepts of Economics and Management. Readers would not feel that they are reading something relevant to their academics but still by the end of it, they would attain a lot of knowledge regarding these subjects. Our motto is to make people view these subjects from a different perspective and expand the horizon of their thinking. Reviews: “It is a rare delight to be entirely absorbed in a book when a writer is able to connect all the five senses, so the reader can feel they are truly present.” – PARAG JAIN, Manager Finance System, BioMarin, USA “Required reading for my marketing students.” – SUSHMIT MITRA, Eastern Institute of Management “JUICE encompasses ways and methodologies of studying in right and appropriate directions.” – AUBHI HOME, Indo German Training Centre “By this book the author pushes a bit of himself and pulls a bit of his students to come to a fulcrum from where load and effort would bring remarkable results.” – SAURABH SAXENA, SCG Institute of Management and Technology, Rachael “The very book I have been looking for most of my life….Mohit wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good ideas” – MONALISHA BANERJEE, Director, Nalanda Institute of Advanced Studies
This volume is the compilation of two issues of journal, Advances in Agricultural Research in India. It has two parts, the first part is devoted to Rice Research in India which highlights the research aspect of rice. The second part of the book devoted to Management, which highlights the management aspect of the rice.
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