This free-spirited twist on the applique hexie quilt is playful, creative and forgiving! The improv approach is super easy, and the quilt comes together quickly using half-square triangles made from 5" precut charm squares or scraps from your fabric stash. The pattern combines the freedom of improv with the basic structure of a simple layout, materials list and instructions for 2 quilts.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, FinTAL 2006, held in Turku, Finland in August 2006. The book presents 72 revised full papers together with 1 invited talk and the extended abstracts of 2 invited keynote addresses. The papers address all current issues in computational linguistics and monolingual and multilingual intelligent language processing - theory, methods and applications.

Stitch a scrap-friendly quilt and pillow inspired by Jennifer Sampou's travels to Thailand. The best-selling fabric designer pairs paper-pieced and appliqued motifs with a background of easy-to-sew strips. Gender-neutral and customizable, this artistically modern design is a definite showpiece. The full-size pattern includes complete instructions to make a quilt and a matching pillow. Proceeds from the sale of this pattern will be donated to Elephant Nature Park in Thailand, whose mission is to provide a rescue and rehabilitation center for elephants. Finished Quilt: 50" x 56". Finished Pillow: 24" x 24".

The next generation of autonomous vehicles will provide major improvements in traffic flow, fuel efficiency, and vehicle safety. Several challenges currently prevent the deployment of autonomous vehicles, one aspect of which is robust and adaptable vehicle control. Designing a controller for autonomous vehicles capable of providing adequate performance in all driving scenarios is challenging due to the highly complex environment and inability to test the system in the wide variety of scenarios which it may encounter after deployment. However, deep learning methods have shown great promise in not only providing excellent performance for complex and non-linear control problems, but also in generalizing previously learned rules to new scenarios. For these reasons, the use of deep neural networks for vehicle control has gained significant interest. In this book, we introduce relevant deep learning techniques, discuss recent algorithms applied to autonomous vehicle control, identify strengths and limitations of available methods, discuss research challenges in the field, and provide insights into the future trends in this rapidly evolving field.

Brighten up your winter with some serious shimmer! Sew a stylish quilt and table runner for your home with two stunning projects featuring Jennifer Sampou's Winter Shimmer fabric collections. Piece bejewelled backgrounds with precision, and learn Jennifer's method for turned-edge, fusible machine applique with neat edges. Complete instructions and full-size templates are included in this handy pattern pack.

The inspirational words in Spiritual Stepping Stones show how we are much more than most think, and this helps guide the reader, step by step, towards becoming more spiritual. This leads to many practical benefits such as increased happiness and a sense of peace. It is one of those rare books with the intense positive power to change the reader's life for the better.

It is a personal spiritual guide to spiritual awakening and enlightenment, and it pulls the reader into a profound and deep life-altering journey. Spiritual Stepping Stones is an inspirational book with spiritual teachings and spiritual words of wisdom from an old soul, and the writings and spiritual messages from the author speak directly to the reader and show how to grow spiritually.

The author has been transformed by his spiritual experiences, which include a complete near death like experience with a journey through the tunnel to the light, induced simply through meditation at a very young age, and then later in life also a radical awakening and direct experience of oneness with the One.

In this book the author now openly shares the spiritual truths he has learned from his experiences. The unique, simple and clear writings explain how the reader can increase their own spirituality, happiness and quality of life.

Read this book and join the author on this spiritual journey, towards eternal life, unconditional love, freedom, spiritual connectedness, and a full balanced life where you create, grow, and experience from a spiritual perspective.

The author sincerely wishes all the spiritual stepping-stones this book lays out, will help bring the reader love, happiness, serenity, wisdom, and freedom through a personal inner spiritual awakening and transformation.

Sew modern quilts that illuminate your life with the help of ombre fabrics. Easy large-scale piecing shows the entire ombre gradation, while smaller-pieced quilts let colours dance and glow in hundreds of hues, tints, and tones! With a single fabric containing subtle shifts from pale to dark, colour feels exciting and new again. Jennifer Sampou shows you how to make the fabric work for you, with six brilliant quilt projects featuring her Sky Collection fabric.

Stow your stuff in these colourful zippered Eco Pouches and stay organised everywhere you go. Set of two zip-top pouches: 24 cm x 18 cm features Yellow Bars Quilt image and 22 cm x 13 cm features Whale & I Quilt image, by fabric designer Jennifer Sampou. The pouches are durable and waterproof, and made from 100 % recycled plastic bottles. A portion of the proceeds from this product will be donated to California Whale Rescue, www.cawhalerescue.org.

Stow your stuff in these colorful zippered Eco Pouches and stay organized everywhere you go. Pouches are made of recycled plastic that is tough enough to handle even sharp quilting, sewing, and art tools. (They are also great for pens, jewelry, cosmetics, and all your other must-haves!) Each pouch features two new beautiful quilts by fabric designer Jennifer Sampou.

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.

This book represents a different approach in the study of the Sahel region in North Africa. Due to the hybrid security threats sweeping across the area, the whole region becomes a new security complex different from Middle East and more related to Western and Central Africa developments, including the impact of drug-trafficking coming from Latin America. This book discusses how the Transnational Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus has created a very different dynamics from Middle East’s, hitting hard to people, societies and states there. The contributors argue that the countries in the area and the European Union should recognize this new complex and respond properly and differently to this situation.

Desde la restauracion de los regimenes democraticos, la mayoria de los paises sudamericanos experimento una sucesion de problemas de gobernabilidad de distinta magnitud. En este sentido, la Region Andina se destaca por la cantidad y gravedad de las crisis de gobernabilidad que enfrento. Este libro se centra en la relacion que las crisis de gobernabilidad establecen con la agenda de seguridad regional. Este vinculo, se plantea en una doble dimension: por un lado, a partir de la "securitizacion" de la democracia en el hemisferio y, por otra parte, gracias a la aparicion y el agravamiento de fenomenos transnacionales que devienen de la erosion de las capacidades estatales, en especial a la hora de controlar efectivamente el territorio y los flujos transfronterizos y de ejercer el monopolio legitimo tanto de la fuerza fisica como de la recaudacion impositiva. En Sudamerica, los fenomenos transnacionales que mas se destacan son el trafico de drogas, el contrabando y, en menor medida, las migraciones masivas. Este trabajo, tomara a Bolivia y Ecuador como casos testigos, ya que son los paises de la region que mas crisis de gobernabilidad de mayor gravedad han debido enfrentar."