An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and exhilarating. These courageous men and women are among the elite who forge headfirst into danger when everyone else is running the other way and whose actions make the difference between life and death.

This book introduces the challenges of robotic tactile perception and task understanding, and describes an advanced approach based on machine learning and sparse coding techniques. Further, a set of structured sparse coding models is developed to address the issues of dynamic tactile sensing. The book then proves that the proposed framework is effective in solving the problems of multi-finger tactile object recognition, multi-label tactile adjective recognition and multi-category material analysis, which are all challenging practical problems in the fields of robotics and automation.

This album was Two Hearts first album and my personal favorite. I didn't hear about Two Hearts until their second album came out. I saw them in the Seattle area twice in concert when I was in high school. They have awesome music. Two Hearts are Michael & Carrie Hodge. Carrie primarily sings and Michael plays. He sings from time to time but Carrie dose most of the singing. Carrie has got one of the most amazing voices ever. She is awesome. Carrie is no stranger to music. She released her first album back in the 80's on Motown records as a self titled album. Her big hit "Uh Uh, No, No Casual Sex" earned her guest appearances on a number of TV shows including "Soul Train" where she performed the song. You can see the video as well as the official music video on youtube. In the early 90's, after Michael & Carrie were married, they joined Star Song's label and became Two Hearts.

This book presents a new paradigm of software testing by emphasizing the role of critical thinking, system thinking and rationality as the most important skills for the tester. It thus approaches software testing from a different perspective than in past literature, as the vast majority of books describe testing in the context of specific tools, automation, documentation, particular test design techniques or test management. In addition, the book proposes a novel meta-approach for designing effective test strategies, which is based on recent advances in psychology, economics, system sciences and logic.