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The Neeson Express: "The Commuter" fun and amusingly preposterous before going off the rails
The Commuter (2018)
104 min., rated PG-13.
Practically a genre unto itself, the reliable collaborative efforts of actor Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra (2016's "The Shallows") have resulted in three slickly executed B-level action thrillers (2011's "Unknown," 2014's "Non-Stop" and "2015's "Run All Night") for Neeson's post-"Taken" career as a late-blooming action star. The tradition continues with "The Commuter," an almost-Hitchcockian wronged-man yarn on a train that nearly apes the formula of the airplane-set "Non-Stop" but keeps up the fun for its first two acts before jumping the rails. By the standards raised by Collet-Serra, it is pretty disposable but still amusingly preposterous.
Formerly a cop with the NYPD, 60-year-old Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson) has worked as an insurance salesman for the past 10 years to support his wife, Karen (Elizabeth McGovern), and their college-bound son, Danny (Dean-Charles Chapman). Five days a week, he takes a commuter train every morning from the suburbs of Tarrytown, New York to Grand Central Terminal and back. One seemingly normal work day, Michael is fired with severance pay, just five years short of retirement, and on his commute back home, a woman named Joanna (Vera Farmiga) strikes up a conversation that will leave him making the biggest decision of his life. Purporting to be an expert in human behavior, Joanna asks him a hypothetical question for an experiment that then becomes a proposition: if he can identify a passenger on the train who doesn't belong—by now, Michael knows a lot of the familiar faces on his daily commute—and is carrying a bag with something her associates need, the $75,000 that's stashed away in one of the train's restroom compartments is his. If Michael doesn't comply before the end of the line in Cold Spring, his wife and son will be killed.
Moving like a bullet, "The Commuter" is involving for a long time, as long as one bears in mind that very few of the plot developments hold water. The shrewdly edited opening montage draws the viewer into Michael's day-to-day grind, efficiently establishing the monotonous repetition with slight tweaks up until the mundanity is ripped out of his life. As contrived as it all is—Joanna is apparently omniscient with an eye on Michael's every move and even has the cell phone number of another regular commuter—the film depends on one just accepting such loopy logic and going along for the ride. With a film like this, a surfeit of red herrings abounds, as the viewer tries deciding who the odd passenger out might be before Michael does. There are moments of taut suspense, like when Michael hides underneath the train but must remain on it or kiss his family goodbye, and as one comes to expect by now, there are a couple of well-choreographed scenes of fisticuffs between Neeson and other male passengers, especially one fight (shot as a faux single take) in an empty train car over the seats and through the glass with a guitar used as a weapon. More so than Kenneth Branagh did with his 2017 incarnation of "Murder on the Orient Express," Collet-Serra effectively takes full advantage of the cramped space within the train, his camera sleekly dollying back from train car to car with digital trickery and even through the punched holes of the ride tickets, reminiscent of the impossibly stylish camera movements in David Fincher's "Panic Room."
Liam Neeson is committed and in watchably fine form as usual in a role that Harrison Ford might have played back in the 1990s. A similar character in his wheelhouse, Neeson's Michael is a family man who needs the money, having refinanced his house after the 2008 housing bubble, but wants to do the right thing and still acts with a moral compass in carrying out his task. Also, as most of Neeson's characters do, Michael has a very particular set of skills, having been a cop, in his process of deduction, but as a man nearing retirement, he takes as many punches as he gives them. Vera Farmiga enhances every film she's in, and even as mysterious puppet master Joanna who eventually becomes a voice on the phone, she still brings a cunning to her use of the words, "one little thing." The remainder of the cast does what is minimally asked of them, but it does include the likes of Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern, and Andy Nyman.
Instead of trusting the simplicity of their premise and the morality that it entails, screenwriters Byron Willinger & Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle (2014's "Non-Stop") eventually throw in a few more winding complications involving a conspiracy and one of the passengers being a witness to a city planner's suicide (or was it murder?) to follow through on the film's socioeconomic, screw-the-rich subtext. Once the train literally derails—and, boy, does it derail in cartoonish but awesome fashion—the film morphs into a more routine action vehicle with backloaded exposition and a double-crossing seen coming a few stops before, thanks to a certain casting choice. By then, one realizes all of the film's cards have already been played and the forgone conclusion is set. What "The Commuter" sets up is so intriguing that it's a shame the rest of it pushes its luck and ends up being only passably diverting.
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In no particular order, here's some things that caught our eyes (or those of Managing Editor Eric Bangeman) over the course of the last week.
- One of the problems with controlling Ebola outbreaks is that it's unclear how they start. New research
supports some previous suggestions that the virus may hang out
asymptomatically in bats, which are eaten by the locals in the Congo,
where many outbreaks originate.
- How does something as chunky looking as a bee take to the
skies? By zipping a wing around a 90° arc about 230 times a
second, it appears. Don't trust the researchers? Watch the movie yourself and see.
- Your favorite transitional fossil and mine, the Archaeopteryx is back in the news. A new fossil,
called the best preserved yet, reveals a skull and foot in new detail.
The detail strengthens the link between this creature and the Theropod
- Although the world as a whole is getting warmer, there's always room for local differences caused by climate change. A collection of several years of data
indicates that arctic warming may be slowing down the ocean currents
that help warm northern Europe. Ironically, a heating arctic may cause
Europe to cool off. The data's still pretty sparse, though, so more
study is needed.
- Functional MRI imaging of brains show that caffeine perks people up by increasing the activity of the areas of the brain that handle short term memory and attention.
- Finally, for those of you not sure whether you should be laughing or crying over the new science standards in Kansas, here's a reason to err on the side of laughter.


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My son is in Kindergarten, and he's been bringing home his Songs and Poems book every Friday to read with us. At my school, the Grade One teachers run the same type of program. In this book he had a poem for September which he sung to me. This inspired me to create my own poem for October to send home with my own students.
Now I teach Grade 2, so my students will find this poem very easy to read, but I also work in a ESL (English as a Second Language) environment where the majority of my students do not speak English at home. So to bring home a Songs and Poems book each Friday, and sing it with their parents, helps strengthen the home-school connection, and also gives success to the children struggling with Reading.
I whipped up these little pages using My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up! Arent' those Greeting Card Kids simply adorable?? (I'm talking about the images) I apologize that these are simply in a jpeg form. But if you'd like to take them for yourself, simply left click (I'm a PC user) and save the picture. Then you can print it out as a whole page photo and use it with your own class.


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Book Description:
Bo Luxton has it all—a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops. Or does it? Breathlessly pacey, taut and terrifying, Exquisite is a startlingly original and unbalancing psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
My Thoughts:
All I can say is I did not expect that!
I really don't know what I was expecting from this book, but wow! Really, this is one of those books you need to read for yourself to appreciate how wonderful it is.
This is one of those stories that just seems to softly draw you. The authors writing is literally mesmerising. The first couple of pages I was slightly unsure but then I just seemed to sink deeper and deeper into the pages and didn't come up for air until I had reached the last page. I was so wrapped up in Bo and Alice's life that I was totally lost to the out side world.
I really liked Alice. She is slightly lost and is simply drifting along in life until she meets Bo who gives her purpose in her writing as well as in her love life.
Bo reminded me of one of those women who likes to nurture everything. I have to admit the relationship between the two women was a strange one. In a way I could see Alice's attraction to Bo but I have to admit I wondered why someone like Bo would go for Alice.
The story is arranged into sections which also flicks between Alice and Bo. Any other characters in this story are very much in the background so what you get left with is a very taut and almost frenzied read trying to guess where the author was taking us with her story.
Exquisite is very much a story of psychological suspense. It's stories like these that make the saying 'the suspense is killing me' so true! I loved the pace of the story and literally devoured every word in front of me. Such a great book and can't wait to read more by this author.
My thanks to Orenda Books for an advanced readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own and not biased in anyway.
Goodreads rating 5/5 stars.
Exquisite is available to purchase from Amazon.


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This is a very positive development, if it holds up: A new medicine for schizophrenia that helps the negative symptoms…often the toughest to deal with in recovery.
Schizophrenia Symptoms
RG1678, a so-called glycine reuptake inhibitor, was effective in reducing the "negative symptoms" of schizophrenia, Roche said Dec. 6. These include a loss of motivation and interest in social activities, isolation and difficulty finding pleasure in everyday life, the company said. Current treatments for the disease mostly address the positive symptoms for the disease, which include hallucinations and delusions, Roche said.
The mental disorder affects about 24 million people worldwide and is usually diagnosed in people aged between 15 and 35 years old, Roche said.
via Roche Schizophrenia, MS Drugs Move to Final Stages of Clinical Testing – Bloomberg.


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Bahrain: A Case Study in Despotism
by Stephen Lendman
In summer 2010, sporadic protests began. By mid-February last year, major ones erupted. From then to now, they challenged repressive rule nonviolently. They continue daily. At issue is King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa's regime.
Bahrainis want democratic change, sectarian Shia discrimination ended, equitable distribution of state wealth, political prisoners released, and terrorizing stopped. They also want popularly elected leaders replacing Al-Khalifa rule. It's despotic, ruthless and intolerable.
For months, many thousands braved security force attacks with tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture, and disappearances.
Last March, Saudi troops entered Bahrain guns blazing. They remain, terrorizing Bahraini men, women, children, doctors, journalists, human rights activists, and foreign observers. So do state police.
No matter. King Hamad's a close US ally. Bahrain's the home of America's Fifth Fleet. Generous aid's provided. So are weapons, including armored vehicles, bunker buster missiles, wire-guided ones, others to attack protesters, and more.
On March 26, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) published a report titled, "A BCHR Report on Human Rights Violations since the BICI Recommendations."
BICI refers to the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry. It published its findings last November 23, followed by a final December revision.
Abdul Hadi Al-Khawaja is a former Front Line Protection Coordinator and former BCHR President. Last April, Bahraini police arrested and beat him unconscious. He's currently hunger striking for justice. Earlier, he twice did for nine days. His current one began on February 8. As of March 31, he refused food for 53 days. He demands freedom or death.
His life's seriously at risk. He's been unjustly imprisoned and severely tortured. Last June, he was sentenced to life in prison. At issue is his courageous human rights work. Without help, he'll die. Washington and rogue NATO partners ignore him. So do Arab League despots and major media scoundrels.
BCHR's report discussed months of state terror. It categorized them under separate headings. They include:
Extrajudicial Killings
Over 60 deaths are known. No murder charges followed. A few police "show trials" involved "accidental deaths or beatings" causing death. Bahrain's government denies responsibility.
No independent access to examine forensic evidence was granted. Doctors who wrote false causes weren't held accountable. Families of those killed are targeted. Homes are raided. Arrests follow. Property is destroyed. Bahrainis continue to be terrorized.
Arbitrary Arrests
Since February 2011, they number about 4,000, including over 90 journalists. All were lawless. About 40% were under age 18. Over 50% followed peaceful protests or for attending a martyr's funeral. Most were by pre-dawn raids. Security forces are accompanied by armed men in civilian clothes.
Torture and Excessive Use of Force
At least three torture related deaths are known. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture's planned visit to Bahrain was delayed twice, most recently in mid-March.
Videos and pictures confirm hundreds of excessive force cases. Resulting injuries include wounds, bruises, fractures, and internal bleeding. Anyone involved in helping those affected face reprisal attacks or worse.
Causes of injury include physical assaults, rubber bullets, sound grenades, lead shot pellets, live fire, and tear gas. Some believe toxic gas is used. About 30% of those injured were under age 20.
Video evidence shows security forces throwing molotov cocktails, stones, and iron rods at protesters. Knives are also used to inflict wounds. Many suffer severe beatings.
What's known only represents documented cases. Many others occurred. Security forces continue to ram jeeps and Turkish APV vehicles into nonviolent protesters.
On average, around 15 villages are tear gassed nightly. Security forces fire canisters directly into homes, usually late at night. Those affected report disturbing symptoms, including severe abdominal pains, vomiting, vomiting blood, temporary blindness, temporary memory loss, shivers, seizures, and long-lasting breathing difficulties.
Clearly something more noxious than ordinary tear gas is used. Earlier reports said Bahrain imported toxic gas from America. The Arabic language Al-Alam news channel said it obtained video evidence of poisonous tear gas grenades used. Doctors believe it's nerve gas. Eight or more Bahrainis died from exposure.
Doctors also worry about long term effects, as well as on future generations. When combined with water cannons, protesters risk suffocation.
"Bahraini security forces continue to engage in the systematic torture of demonstrators in detention centers."
For months, those held have been brutally harassed, beaten, arrested, sexually assaulted, and tortured. Medical care's denied. So are lawyer and family member visits.
On January 27, Mohammed Ibrahim Yaqoub died hours after being arrested. Eyewitnesses said up to 20 police officers severely beat him in the stomach and chest. Bahrain's Interior Ministry said death was caused by sickle cell anemia.
Children have been viciously attacked. Examples include 9-year old Abdulla Hussain. He was severely beaten. Others nearly suffocated from tear gas exposure. Infants suffer breathing problems. Children require hospitalization. Others sleep in bathrooms. They're the only tear gas free areas in many homes.
Political Prisoners
All arrests and detentions are lawless. Around 600 detained are politically related. Their sentences range from six months to life. Among others, they include doctors, journalists, and human rights activists.
On February 14, Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights' Naji Fateel was arrested along with BCHR's director Nabeel Rajab. Sham trials ended in convictions. Up to 300 hunger struck for justice.
Religious Discrimination
Thirty-five Shia mosques were destroyed. Rebuilding began in only five. Those involved are being penalized. Religious processions are attacked. People are being tear gassed for praying on demolished mosque land.
Residents trying to rebuild are attacked and prevented. Demolitions follow partial rebuilding efforts.
At least 100 cases are documented. Another 150 are believed to have occurred. The latest incident happened on March 21. Others can follow any time. Typically they include beatings, torture, sexual assault, knife wounds, rape, burns, theft, and threats to cooperate as informers.
In March 2011, dismissals began. Others were suspended without pay. As of early March, the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) estimates 1,776 fired or suspended government and private sector workers, including 46 trade unionists.
In February, a teacher was convicted for refusing to work during a strike. GFBTU also estimates over 14,500 without work because of layoffs. Most are politically related.
Reinstated workers are forced to sign contracts pledging no future involvement in political or civil society activities. They also received lower positions, weren't compensated for time lost, were deprived of leaves, and got salary cuts.
Individuals and companies responsible for state ordered sackings weren't held accountable.
Student Dismissals and Suspension of Scholarships
Over 140 students received show trials. Thirty-seven got one year in prison, another 37 six months, 14 fined 200 Bahraini Dinars, 32 assessed 500 Bahraini Dinars, and 22 found innocent.
Prison sentences have yet to be enforced. Six students are still detained. Military courts sentenced them to 15 years plus fines for participating in an unauthorized event. Although most weren't involved, they're still imprisoned. All were tortured to extract false confessions.
Students continue to be targeted. Earlier in March, 20 school girls were suspended for one week for "chanting political slogans."
Show Trials
Through October last year, 502 Bahrainis were convicted. Another 437 referred from military to public prosecutions remain ongoing. Hundreds of released detainees still face civil trials.
Teachers are being tried and convicted. So are doctors for treating injured protesters. Anyone arrested while protesting faces harsh treatment, detention, torture, and possible imprisonment after show trials. Charges include participating in illegal gatherings.
Military courts sentenced children under age 18 to terms up to 15 years. Public assembly and free expression are crimes. Everyone's vulnerable for any reason or none at all.
Military courts automatically convicted by accusation. Civil ones aren't much better. Rogue regimes operate that way. Justice is systematically denied. Due process and judicial fairness don't exist.
Witnessing Harassment
International journalists and photojournalists were targeted. Others were denied visas. State media ignore protest actions. Press TV reports them often, including live video footage.
Amnesty International cancelled a scheduled March 2 – 9 visit due to government restrictions and perhaps threats. The fate of blogger Ali Abdulemam remains unknown. A military court sentenced him to 15 years. He disappeared after March last year.
In mid-February, blogger Hasan AlJaber was arrested and remains imprisoned. Over 90 sacked journalists and other media professionals still have no work. Some live in exile fearing harassment, imprisonment or death.
Some journalists covering protests were directly targeted with tear gas and sound grenades. Seventeen Witness Bahrain activists were deported. Most were beaten and injured.
"No member of the Bahraini Security Forces has been (charged or) convicted of human rights violations at detention centers." Their names and positions aren't revealed.
Saudi and other GulF Cooperation Council (GCC) forces remain in Bahrain. Under international law, it's illegal. So is brutalizing nonviolent protesters.
Security forces shot directly into Abbas Abdulla's car, setting it ablaze. He's lucky to be alive. He filed a complaint, was arrested, is now detained, likely tortured, and awaits prosecution despite no offense committed.
"Security forces continue to commit violations against (protesters) and human rights activists on a daily basis through excessive force, intimidation, ill treatment, and collective punishment with impunity."
Those implicated in torture cases include members of the Al-Khalifa monarchy. Among other positions, they run the National Security Apparatus, the police, the Criminal Investigation Directorate, Bahrain's Royal Guard, Bahrain's Defense Force, the courts, and all state ministries.
BCHR urges immediately ending human rights violations, violent repression of peaceful protests, unconditionally releasing political prisoners, and ending torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, as well as holding detainees incommunicado.
It also wants all dismissed workers reinstated to former positions and compensated for lost lost wages. In addition, it endorses public assemblies, protests, and free expression, as well as ending harassment, intimidation, and arrests of human rights defenders, political activists, journalists and others
Moreover, it wants doctors freely able to treat the injured, those responsible for state terror held accountable, a culture of impunity ended, an independent judiciary created, redress and reparations for victims, and international law respected.
As long as the Al-Khalifa monarchy's a valued US ally, state terror will remain official policy. US supplied weapons will enforce it. Bahrainis wanting democratic change will be brutalized as are others across the region struggling for their rights.
Washington supports the worst regional despots. Nothing will change until public activism achieves it. It continues throughout the region courageously. Across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, people want freedom and right to protest nonviolently for it. In Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, they're dying for it.
Sustained commitment that strong one day will prevail, including in Bahrain. Bet on it.
A Final Comment
The contrast between Bahrain and Syria is stark. Assad's blamed for confronting months of Western-generated violence. He's obligated to restore security and calm. Most Syrians support him. They deplore raging killer gang terror.
Nonetheless, Obama and other administration officials demand he step down. Under international law, including the UN Charter, no nation may interfere in the internal affairs of others. Washington does it as policy.
It also ignores the most egregious human rights abuses of allies. While wrongfully censuring Assad, it's silent on brutal Bahraini state terror and similar practices in other repressive Arab League states.
The hypocrisy's stark, duplicitous, and abhorrent. So is lockstep scoundrel media support. Washington's imperium alone matters.
No wonder America makes more enemies than friends, and alliances build against it. It's the fate of all empires. They come. They grow. They overstretch and die. They all end in history's trash bin and texts recounting their rise and fall. It's just a matter of time.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.


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Some Useful Tips For A Great Bachelor Party
The ritual of bachelor party or a stag party as commonly termed as quite different from the sacred customs associated with a wedding. It is more of an informal gathering of the groom and some of his closest friends, maybe at a restaurant, a hang-out place, a friend's house or even his home. Bachelor party planning sounds cumbersome, but a little bit of prior preparation can turn it into one of the most memorable and enjoyable occasions associated with the wedding.
Some Tips While Planning For The Last Night Out Party
Plan the date and venue in advance, and send the invitations well in time to avoid any confusion. Such a party should be arranged at some distance from the venue of the bride-to-be's party. This is to allow both the bride and groom to enjoy a blast at their last night out, and avoid all possible conflicts due to proximity of venue.
Any kind of theme must also be made known to the guests, so that they come to the party prepared, and are not taken by surprise.
Try to organize the party a couple of days before the wedding, so that everyone gets time to relax and rejuvenate before the D-day. The bachelor party ideas are meant for enjoyment and not that you turn up with a hangover on the wedding day. Arrange for plenty of drinks and food for the party. Music is a must to lighten up the mood. If possible, bachelor party games can also be planned, as they make the event livelier and involve everyone. Games can vary from adult games, drinking games to even outdoor adventure ones. It is up to you how you make the would-be-groom enjoy his last day of bachelorhood. There is no limit to your imagination in such parties. The wilder your bachelor party ideas, the more enjoyable will be the event for the guests.
Since alcohol runs freely in a bachelor party, it is advisable to arrange for a few dependable designated drivers, or rent a taxi for dropping people home. This is necessary so that untoward incidents do not spoil the mood of the party.
A bachelor party must involve a lot of fun and crazy activities to make the day memorable. It is an event where friends get as close as possible. Your wild fantasies can make the bachelor party the best. Do not feel shy to embarrass the groom. Anything done in the right spirit is enjoyable. However, it is advisable that the groom must not be forced to indulge in any kind of sexual brashness, or made to do anything against his wishes.
The groom-to-be really looks forward to an enthralling bachelor party as it is the final goodbye to his most cherished freedom. Some safety tips and smart planning can make the event a really bombastic one, where everyone goes free and unwinds himself before the final wedding day.
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Placement Exams
Spring 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
Location: Seeley G. Mudd (SGM) Room 123
Items to bring:
- USC I.D. (passport or Driver's license is sufficient)
- Pencil with an eraser (no sharing of erasers)
- No calculators will be allowed
- Scratch paper will be provided for you
**All exams are 50-60 minutes and will begin promptly at the designated start time**
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Please Note: If you would like to take more than one exam but they are scheduled at the same time, please come to an earlier or later exam time to take the additional exam, as no make up exams will be given. You will be able to login to http://myviterbi.usc.edu and view your results the following week. Once you have passed the necessary placement tests for a course, you will be able to register for that course for any future semester. Passing a placement exam fulfills pre-reqs for taking graduate classes, but it does not automaticaly satisfy course requirements for specific degree programs, if any.
EE 450: Introduction to Computer Networks
Recommended Textbooks:
Computer Networks by Peterson
Data & Computer Communication by Stallings
Computer Networks by Tannenbaum
Brief Syllabus
Communications networks and services, classifications of networks, performance measures such as Throughput and Delay. The public Internet and PSTN. Convergence of services. Networking topologies.
Network layered architecture, protocols and interfaces. OSI model, TCP/IP model, two- and three-tier client-server models, peer-process communications
Data communications: Analog and digital signaling, sampling theorem, data and signaling rates, modems, time division and statistical multiplexing, link capacity, transmission media, line coding.
Link layer Procedures: Error detection and control, flow control, sliding window procedures. Examples of link protocols including PPP and HDLC.
Local Area Networks: Ethernet, Token rings and wireless LANs. Media access control procedures, CSMA/CD, Token Passing and CSMA/CA. Shared vs. switched LANs. LAN hardware and software components. LAN performance analysis
TCP/IP and the Internet: The Internet Protocol, packet format, IP addressing and subnetting, fragmentation and re-assembly, address resolution protocol, routing and forwarding tables, routing algorithms (RIP, OSPF and BGP), transport layer protocols, TCP and UDP, connection establishment, end-to-end flow and error control procedures, advertised windows, slow-start, long-fat networks, congestion control, port and socket addressing, etc…
Watch online modules of EE-450 concepts below:
EE457: Computer Systems Organization
Textbook: Computer Organization & Design - The Hardware and Software Interface (2nd edition) by D. A. Patterson (Berkeley) and J. L. Hennessey (Stanford)
Brief Syllabus:
EE102L review: Basic digital system design -- Datapath unit design and Control unit design
Basic concepts of assembly language, unsigned and signed numbers, Booth's multiplication and restoring and non-restoring division algorithms.
CPU performance: relation between execution time of a program and the CPU specs (instruction count, clocks per instruction, and clock period).
Compare and contrast CISC and RISC instruction sets, simple ALU design, CLA (carry look-ahead adder), CSA (carry save adder) and application to multiplication.
CPU design: Single cycle CPU design, multi-cycle CPU design, pipelined CPU design including dependencies, hazard detection, stalling, forwarding, branching, flushing, branch penalty due to flushing, branch delay slots.
Memory and cache organization: fully associative, direct, and set associative mappings, cache TAG RAMs, and cache DATA RAMs, interleaved main memory to facilitate fast block transfer between main memory.
Virtual memory: page tables (single-level, multi-level), TLBs, introduction to multiprocessors, cache coherency (MESI protocol).
EE 477: MOS VLSI Circuit Design
Recommended Textbook: Principles of CMOS VLSI Design by Weste and Eshroghian
Course description
Analysis and design of digital MOS VLSI circuits including area, delay and power minimization. Laboratory assignments including design, layout, extraction, simulation and automatic synthesis.
Brief Syllabus
Static characteristics: structure and (V-I) characteristics of MOSFETs, operation as a switch (including weak values), example CMOS and pass transistor circuits, static characteristics of CMOS and pseudo-nMOS inverters.
Layout preliminaries: Introduction to semiconductor processing, layout, and design rules.
Parasitics and performance: Estimation of parasitics from layout, analytical as well as empirical delay models for gates, wires, and pass transistors. Estimation of power dissipation.
Design of complementary CMOS, pass-transistor and dynamic logic circuits.
Design optimizations: Preferred gate types for various logic styles; buffer design for high fan-out, buffering long wires; transistor level optimizations --- body effect, charge sharing, diffusion capacitance minimization, and transistor sizing; custom layout optimization.
Clocking; latch and flip-flop designs, clocking strategies.
Watch online modules of EE-450 concepts below:
EE 479: Introduction to Integrated Circuit Design
Recommended Textbooks:
Analysis & Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, P. Grey, R. Meyer, et al., 4th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw Hill, 2001.
Brief Syllabus (required material for the EE 536a placement exam)
Active devices principles of operation and modeling
Large signal and small signal models for MOS and BJT
Single- and multi-stage transistor level amplifier design
Common source/emitter, common gate/base, source/emitter follower, cascode, etc.
Differential circuits
Differential pairs, common-mode and differential-mode analysis, half circuit concept, etc.
Current mirrors and active loads
Biasing and voltage/current references
Voltage and temperature insensitive biasing, etc.
Frequency response of amplifiers
Dominant pole, open circuit time constant analysis, short circuit time constant analysis, associating poles to nodes, etc.
Noise in integrated circuits
Noise models in passive and active devices, circuit noise analysis, input referred noise sources, etc.
Basic concepts, circuit feedback models, etc.
Frequency response and stability of feedback amplifiers
Note 1. In addition to the aforementioned syllabus, prospective EE 536a students are expected to have complete knowledge of EE 348L and EE 202 material.
Note 2. Students who don't pass the EE 479 placement exam, should enroll in EE 479. A minimum letter grade of "B" in EE 479 is required to allow for EE 536a registration without another placement exam. Students who pass EE 479 with a letter grade lower than "B" must pass the EE 479 placement exam as well.


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Albuquerque MMA fighter Holly Holm underwent surgery last week to repair meniscus damage in one knee and will be out of action for the remainder of 2018, Lenny Fresquez, Holm's longtime Albuquerque promoter, said on Tuesday.
The story first was reported by Ariel Helwani of espn.com.
Fresquez said the injury was not serious but that it had been bothering Holm as far back as July 2016, when she lost to Valentina Shevchenko in Chicago.
"It just needed cleaning up, tightening up a little bit," he said.
Holm (12-4) will be able to resume training in five weeks or so, Fresquez said, and conceivably could fight again before the year is out. But the fight she wants, for the UFC bantamweight title that she once held by virtue of her upset victory over Ronda Rousey in 2015, cannot happen until next year.
Current bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes is scheduled to face featherweight champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino in Las Vegas, Nev., on Dec. 29. That fight will have no effect on Nunes' status as bantamweight champion.
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Nicolas Winding Refn
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Charles Reece 01/26/2010
And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was good as gold And he can see no reasons 'Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown? -- Bob Geldof
At age 22, Britain's "most violent criminal" Charles Bronson (Michael Peterson, who initially took the name for his short-lived boxing career and then had it legally changed; here played by Tom Hardy) began serving a 7-year sentence for armed robbery. The year was 1974, less than 2 years after Stanley Kubrick pulled his movie Clockwork Orange from the theaters due to death threats. With the exception of just over 4 months, Bronson has spent the last 35 years as a ward of the state, all but 4 of them in solitary confinement. This extended sentence has to do with his seeming love of violence for violence's sake, something like the performance art of an evil Andy Kaufman. As such, he's a child of Alex de Large, or an Agent Orange -- that is, one whose real life lends itself to Kubrick's satire. Or, at least, that's how Bronson's director Refn takes it (some of Bronson's victims tend to approach his nature a little less abstractly). Therefore, Refn gives us Clockwork Orange's malevolent juxtapositions of barbarity and high-toned culture, gravitas and cornball pop tunes, with a comic book color palette and told through the wide-angled, symmetrical perspective of a demented narrator in clown makeup. Not exactly original, but like Cape Fear was to Hitchcock, livelier than most other films that don't steal from only one source.
In fact, there are enough parallels between Alex and Bronson that telling the latter's life as a remake of Kubrick's film becomes an artistic statement: they share a vocation for ultraviolence; they come from solid, conservative and loving middle class parents; the State has tried penal, psychiatric and even artistic means to correct their moral deficiency; they both show a fondness for art, Alex with his beloved "Ludwig van," and Bronson with his writing and drawing; and they were released back into civilian life despite the questionable success of those corrective procedures, only to rediscover their true calling.
Kubrick's adaptation ends on a downer that Anthony Burgess' original does not because Chapter 21 was excised from the American version that the former had read -- 21 being the age of adulthood in which Alex was to have sought redemption for his youthful sins. That doesn't sound like an ending the cynical Kubrick would've used even had he known about it. Similarly, said redemption finds another counterexample in Refn's protagonist. Despite his size, Bronson never reaches Chapter 21's maturity. In demanding complete freedom for his base desires, he achieves it internally (as he periodically demonstrates to a mental audience) while being socially isolated through the most punitive means his society can offer, a smaller and smaller box. Thus, his repeated demands for harsher imprisonment are shown to be paradoxically a dream of absolute power, a radicalization that doesn't look all that different from complete submission to authoritarian control. Imagine that.
In 1974, a misguided 19-year-old named Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawed-off shotgun and a head full of dreams, he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to seven years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. Shot from an intelligent, provocative and stylized approach, Bronson follows the metamorphosis of Mickey Peterson, who nicknamed himself Charles Bronson, into Britain's most dangerous prisoner.
Product Details
- Starring: Tom Hardy, Amanda Burton, James Lance, Matt King, Kelly Adams
- Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85.1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: R
- Label: Magnolia Pictures Entertainment
- Release Date: 02/09/2010
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Catalogue #: 10278
Special Features
- Charles Bronson Monologues
- Making Of
- Training Tom Hardy
- Interviews With: Nicholas Winding Refn, Tom Hardy, and Matt King
- Behind The Scenes


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Jude Louis. BME, MACM, MACE, EDS, MSFP
Founder and Director of Hope for a New Generation
Hope for a New Generation is a global social justice organization established in 1999 by Jude Louis. Its basic objective is to combat poverty and child misuse and abuse by exposing and instructing at-risk urban youth to performing arts and raising their academic achievement levels.
As the founder and executive director of the organization Mr. Louis has used his personal savings to bless many youth that were hopeless. He has reached many with the message of hope, education, spirituality and morality both here and abroad. Mr. Louis' humanitarian efforts have been felt as far away as Africa, Brazil and Haiti after the devastating earthquake. In fact, he was at the forefront helping afflicted Haitian children and women. Youths benefitting from the Hope for a New Generation mentoring program are now in college, still in school or in the military living their lives more positively. Most of the youth testify that if it were not for Mr. Louis' mentoring program they would be in the streets, in jail or dead.
Though Mr. Louis is a talented and educated humanitarian, he remains humble and obtains his satisfaction from helping the underprivileged in the society. For his noble works he has been recognized and honored numerous times by the lay community, music societies, churches, various organizations and other religious associations.
Mr. Louis uses his talents for music and other performing arts to reach out to children whose lives are at risk of poverty and child abuse and help them improve their current situations and build brighter futures for themselves. The key pillars for the organization are Hope, Education, Spirituality and Morality.
Louis' journey to becoming a renowned Opera singer started as a child, at only 6 years old he performed in front of a crowd and the audience's applause and admiration confirmed to him that indeed his future lies in music. He pursued a Bachelor of Music Education and Performance at Barry University, and thereafter a Master of Christian Education/Masters of Sacred Music at the ITC Morehouse School of Religion. His musical talents have mesmerized many audiences and they extend beyond the classical music genre. Mr. Louis along other music performers has participated in the production and direction of musical concerts, interpretation of spirituals and hymns cutting through different cultural divides. As an ambassador of classical music, Mr. Louis and other performing dignitaries have contributed in creating its awareness among public schools music education, recitals, Television, Radio and other charities.
Mr. Louis is an Education Specialist with a degree in Curriculum Instruction Management and Administration, from the Nova Southeastern University. He has incorporated music in his sound curriculums that aim to teach academics. His teaching materials are suited for individual learning and behavioral needs. He is also a patient and understanding children's counselor, who especially advocates for underprivileged children.
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The legendary Ritz Paris hotel will be the location of Chanel's next Metiers d'Art show on December 6. The property reopened in June after an extensive four-year renovation, reportedly costing £340 million. Its relaunch included the addition of the first ever Chanel spa.
For the annual catwalk show, a celebration of the ateliers and craftsmanship that goes into each Chanel collection, Karl Lagerfeld chooses a location linked to Coco Chanel's history. The designer lived at the Ritz Paris for many years, and there is still a suite named after her — a 2,000-square-foot space with unrivaled views over the Place Vendôme.
Previous Chanel Metiers d'Art locations include Salzburg, Edinburgh, Dallas, Shanghai and Rome.
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Recently I started a new project in which I need to choose another database besides MySQL. Since then, I had been using MySQL for basically everything, but given the MySQL licensing scheme and a few restrictions of the project itself, this time I had to use something else. So I choose Firebird SQL.
But there's something about Firebird that always bothered me: why so few developers actually know and use Firebird? Basically (at least here in Brazil) I only see it being used among Delphi developers. Why isn't it as popular as MySQL or PostgreSQL? Given its features (listed below), can we say that the project lives an unfair situation?
Firebird have several features which makes it a great choice:
- Really free:: contraty to MySQL, you can use Firebird in your commercial applications without any fee or legal problem. (BTW: I know that PostgreSQL have this advantage too)
- All the basic features of large RDBMS:: stored procedures, triggers, A.C.I.D. compliance, online backup, generators, referential integrity, etc…
- Small footprint: had you seen its embeddable version? Just amazing: in less then 1 Mb you have all the features of the default one without cutting anything!
- Low hardware requirements: basically, if something computes, it can run Firebird.
- Available in all the major OS platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Solaris and others
- Reasonable performance: Firebird performance remains between MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Really active project: despite its low popularity, it's a quite active project. In april/2009, for example, was announced the 2.5 beta version of the project.
- Databases with unlimited size: the database size limit is determined by the filesystem in which the database is stored. But, if your database exceed its limit its always possible to split it in several files.
(the largest database known have 960 Gb link)
- 100% SQL 92 compability
- Connectivity: basically you can access a Firebird SQL through any programming language
My experience with Flamerobin is being really pleasant, but it's really sad to see that since I wrote my Microsoft Access to Firebird database converter (MDB2FDB http://www.firebase.com.br/fb/downloads.php?categ=8) in 2006 that the Firebird popularity hadn't changed at all!
Since I really like this software, and I think that its current popularity situation is unfair, maybe it could be interesting to list some actions that may help this project. So, here is my list:
- Just use Firebird: really! Just give it a try. You'll get amazed by the amount of functionality can fit in it's small footprint.
- You may donate some money for the projec too:
link: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=ffoundation&id=contributions
- May also be a sponsor:
link: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=ffoundation&id=sponsor_howto
- If you miss some tool for it, you may build your own and then share it with others, just as I did with my MDB2FDB converter.
- Write anything about it.
Of course, I couldn't finish this post without guessing (just guesses) the reasons why Firebird SQL is so unpopular if compared to MySQL or PostgreSQL:
- There's no big player like Sun/Oracle or IBM supporting it right now.
- The official website is terrible (http://www.firebirdsql.org). Seems futile, but the first impression of the project is horrible. Makes you think it's stalled.
Firebird's biggest sponsor today is IBPhoenix , which main business IS Firebird. But even it's website falls in the same problem.
- The fact of being Delphi related since it's begning. With Delphi's decadence, its popularity just floundered with it.
- Poor documentation
Maybe things may change to Firebird SQL after Oracle bought Sun (many MySQL users are getting scared (I see no reason for this by the way)) and may play with Firebird, but it's something improbable to happen. :)
Of course, these are just my opinions about it. I really whould like to know yours. Why do you think so few developers are using Firebird today?


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A new integral transform, derived from the three-dimensional Radon transform, is introduced. The basis functions for this transform, which may be physically interpreted as sheets of dipoles, are shown to be orthonormal and complete. The inverse transform is derived, and an expression for the Fourier transform of the basis functions is found. It is shown that all spherically symmetric functions retain the same functional form under this transform and that it can be used to reduce certain differential equations, such as the Helmholtz equation, to a spherically symmetric form, even if the original problem has no symmetry at all.
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May 15 (Reuters) - China's ownership of U.S. Treasuries fell to its lowest in nearly two years in March amid uncertainty about a trade deal between Beijing and Washington, data from the U.S. Treasury Department released on Wednesday showed.
China's stake in Treasuries declined for the first time in four months to $1.121 trillion in March, which was the lowest since May 2017 when it was $1.102 trillion. It was $1.131 trillion in February, the data showed.
Despite the drop in Treasuries holdings, the world's second-largest economy remained the largest U.S. creditor.
Since last week, there is renewed speculation whether China may sell its U.S. debt in retaliation for increased tariffs on $200 billion of its exports to the United States.
On the other hand, Japan raised its Treasuries holdings to $1.078 trillion, the highest since November 2017, from $1.072 trillion in February.
Meanwhile, foreigners resumed sales of Treasuries in March as U.S. 10-year yields fell to 15-month lows after the Federal Reserve signaled it would not raise interest rates in 2019, according to the latest Treasury data.
They sold $12.53 billion in U.S. government debt in March after buying $19.91 billion the month before.
Overseas accounts also sold stocks for 11 straight months, reducing their equity stakes by $23.64 billion in March.
On the other hand, they bought $4.74 billion in agency securities and $1.11 billion of corporate bonds. (Reporting by Richard Leong Editing by James Dalgleish)


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The Wimbledon Williams Show
[Sports: The Williams Put On A Global Show]
Millions of people the world over watched or at least heard of "The Cosby Show,"
brought to our global world-village by Bill Cosby. There's another kind of show that the world's been witnessing over the last couple of years----it's the "Wimbledon Williams Show," staged in tennis by the phenomenal sisters Venus and Serena William.
The world will have the boon to attend or follow the third "100% Wimbledon lawn tennis final" on July 5 in England.
Actually, the final, pitting Venus William against Serena William on the turf of Wimbledon is becoming the main attraction and a slap-up feature of the "All England Lawn Tennis Championships" that regularly takes place in Wimbledon, south-west London, England. Serena has already raised the Wimbledon trophy twice while Venus's wielded it four times hitherto.
Venus and Serena will scramble on July 5 for the trophy of the oldest and most prestigious Grand Slam tournament, after having kicked out their last opponents on July 3. Venus prevailed over the Russian Elena Dementieva 6-1 and 7-6, winning her 57th Wimbledon match, while Serena booted out the Chinese Zheng Jie 6-2 and 7-6.
Zheng Jie is ranked 133th in the world. Jie is the first female Chinese to ever reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament.
The Williams will play their sixth Grand Slam final Saturday. So far, Serena's nearly always handled the pitch of Venus. The first edition of the "Wimbledon Williams Show" went off in 2002. The second edition came up in 2003. Good things happen in threes, as the saying goes.
Some jealous critics, mentally deranged and severely retarded, now and then, liken the two beautiful sisters and champs to chimps----because the sisters are most successful, the scatterbrain critics are now once for all taken down a peg or two by this third final.
The editions of 2002 and 2003 were both wrapped up by Serena. No matter who chalks up the victory next Saturday, the Williams have already gone down in history as two tennis players belonging to the same family, abiding by the rules of the game, playing fair and thus setting a classic example to other younger aspiring players.
Whoever emerges as the winner of this "Wimbledon Williams Show," future generations will learn a lot from these two sisters; they will gather that excellence is possible.
Serena and Venus haven' t lost a single set during this year's Wimbledon tournament. This won't be any put-up game as the final will be a highly professional and hotly contested match.
Although Serena beat Venus during the two previous editions of the "Show," Venus won the same Grand Slam tournament in 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2007. So who is the favorite this year?
Both are already winners.
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AdventureWorks installation and configuration
AdventureWorks download links and installation instructions.
- SQL Server or Azure SQL Database. For the Full version of the sample, use SQL Server Evaluation/Developer/Enterprise Edition.
- SQL Server Management Studio. For the best results use the June 2016 release or later.
OLTP downloads
Direct links to the OLTP versions of AdventureWorks can be found below:
- AdventureWorks2017.bak
- AdventureWorks2016.bak
- AdventureWorks2014.bak
- AdventureWorks2012.bak
- AdventureWorks2008R2.bak
Data Warehouse downloads
Direct links to the Data Warehouse versions of AdventureWorks can be found below:
- AdventureWorksDW2017.bak
- AdventureWorksDW2016.bak
- AdventureWorksDW2014.bak
- AdventureWorksDW2012.bak
- AdventureWorksDW2008R2.bak
Creation scripts
The below scripts can be used to create the entire AdventureWorks database, irrespective of version.
GitHub links
- All AdventureWorks files for SQL 2014 - 2016
- All AdventureWorks files for SQL 2012
- All AdventureWorks files for SQL 2008 and 2008R2
Install to SQL Server
Restore backup
Follow the below steps to restore a backup of your database using SQL Server Management Studio.
- Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the target SQL Server instance.
- Right-click on the Databases node, and select Restore Database.
- Select Device and click the ellipses (...)
- In the dialog Select backup devices, click Add, navigate to the database backup in the filesystem of the server, and select the backup. Click OK.
- If needed, change the target location for the data and log files, in the Files pane. Note that it is best practice to place data and log files on different drives.
- Click OK. This will initiate the database restore. After it completes, you will have the AdventureWorks database installed on your SQL Server instance.
For more information on restoring a SQL Server database, see Restore a database backup using SSMS.
Attach a datafile
Follow the below steps to attach the datafile for your database using SQL Server Management Studio.
- Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the target SQL Server instance.
- Right-click on the Databases node, and select Attach.
- Select Add and navigate to the .MDF file you want to attach.
- Select the file and click OK.
- The database you selected should be displayed in the bottom window. If the file is listed as "not found", select the ellipses (...) next to the file name and update the path to the correct path.
- If you only have the data file (.mdf), and not the log file (.ldf), then highlight the .ldf in the bottom window and select Remove. This will create a new log file.
- Select OK to attach the file. After the file is attached, you will have the AdventureWorks database installed on your SQL Server instance.
For more information on attaching database files, see Attach a database.
Install to Azure SQL Database
If you do not yet have a SQL Server in Azure, navigate to the Azure portal and create a new SQL Database. In the process of creating a database, you will create a server. Make note of the server. See this tutorial to create a database in minutes.
- Connect to your Azure portal.
- Select Create a resource in the top left of the navigation pane.
- Select Databases and then select SQL Database.
- Fill in the requested information.
- In the Select Source field, select Sample (AdventureWorksLT) to restore a backup of the latest AdventureWorksLT backup.
- Select Create to create your new SQL Database, which is the restored copy of the AdventureWorksLT database.
See also
Tutorials for SQL Server Management Studio
Tutorials for SQL Server database engine


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Optimizing Computer Representation and Computer Processing of Epistemic Uncertainty for Risk-Informed Decision Making: Finances etc.
Publication Date
Technical Report: UTEP-CS-12-04a
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management / European Safety and Reliability PSAM11/ESREL'12, Helsinki, Finland, June 25-29, 2012.
Uncertainty is usually gauged by using standard statistical characteristics: mean, variance, correlation, etc. Then, we use the known values of these characteristics (or the known bounds on these values) to select a decision. Sometimes, it becomes clear that the selected characteristics do not always describe a situation well; then other known (or new) characteristics are proposed. A good example is description of volatility in finance: it started with variance, and now many descriptions are competing, all with their own advantages and limitations.
In such situations, a natural idea is to come up with characteristics tailored to specific application areas: e.g., select the characteristic that maximize the expected utility of the resulting risk-informed decision making.
With the new characteristics, comes the need to estimate them when the sample values are only known with interval uncertainty. Algorithms originally developed for estimating traditional characteristics can often be modified to cover new characteristics.


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During a recent interview with Philadelphia's Power 99, Queens rapper N.O.R.E. didn't hesitate in expressing his appreciation for the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album Cruel Summer. Although N.O.R.E. doted on how much "love" he had for the project, he did offer up one small critique.
According to N.O.R.E., the lack of skits, intros, and outros, Kanye West previously bragged about was the projects one downfall.
"I'm really a student of the game and Kanye West had did an interview and he said, 'The G.O.O.D. Music compilation's a dope album. We got no skits, we got no intros, we got no outros.' And if you look at my Gucci bag right now, the only album I have in my bag is the G.O.O.D. Music compilation," N.O.R.E. revealed. "I love that album. I absolutely love it. This is the first time I ever said that…But the one thing that I saw that was missing was that. Like I want to be entertained in between songs."
With his Student Of The Game album now out, N.O.R.E. has taken on a handful of business endeavors, which include serving as brand ambassador for Flat Fitty and the upcoming launch of his new P.A.P.I. Rosato Moscato. The latter has even gained a handful of fans in the Hip Hop community.
"Right now, I just got named brand ambassador of Flat Fitty hats," said N.O.R.E. "Big up to my P.A.P.I. Rosato, the Moscato that we got coming out. We was drinking it. Last night, we had the album release; Busta drank about three bottles with us. Waka Flocka came through, drank about three bottles with us."
Released on April 16, Student Of The Game features appearances from Pusha T, Tech N9ne, Busta Rhymes, and more.
RELATED: N.O.R.E. (a/k/a P.A.P.I.) Reveals Plans For "Student Of The Game 2"


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Tiger Moth, maybe the agreeable type.
And right now, I'm not too fond of Topaz, Texture effects. I need to turn everything into portrait mode then use the program, kind of counter intuitive, then, when you are okay with it, turn it all back to landscape, or original .... when done. Very frustrating, but I guess the results can be alright sometimes.
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Southeastern provides an online password sync tool to easily sync your Southeastern Google account to one or more handheld/mobile devices so that you have access to your information on the go. The password sync tool should be used when you are initially setting up your Southeastern Google account on a handheld/mobile device that is using POP or IMAP (recommended IMAP) to send and receive information. It may also need to be used if you have recently changed your password and were already set up to use this type of device. In either of these cases, syncing your Southeastern password with Google allows your account to simultaneously send and receive data to your device(s).
Students needing assistance with Gmail or any other technical
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In this creative look into the future, the author offers a scenario in which giving birth without medical intervention is deemed to be ideal. The scene starts in the year 2010 with an interdisciplinary conference to discuss the need to control the rate of caesarean birth. The effects of the Utopian attitude are evaluated in 2031. Interestingly, outsiders had been at the root of the miraculous solutions unanimously adopted in this country. This essay presents a thought-provoking approach that will have you creating your own version of Utopia.


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Ever wonder what it's like in the day of an author? Visit with Marica Lucia today and find out what it's like to be her for one day.
|Liberation Virtual Book Tour
About Liberation: Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles
Amora Madre is content in the Smokey Mountains pursuing her teaching of love, things of the spirit, and metaphysics. Her childhood invisible playmates, Casey and Nia, are always by her side. But, when soul mate Gabriel Ephraim enters her life, she is drawn into the heart of a terrible encounter with the spirit world in the skies over Washington D.C. Catapulted into service for the Intergalactic Supernatural Intelligence Agency, ISIA, the kindred lovers soon discover the existence of an invisible wickedness over the city, its galactic origins, and its evil designs for national and world events.
As part of an Andrusian galactic strike force, assembled to dismantle the malevolent legion's brutal matrix, Amora and Gabriel, seasoned and accomplished, embark on a dangerous adventure filled with Onaweyans, Scorpillians, historical figures, and a confrontation with the dark supernatural syndicate over the fate of the United States and the earth.
With journeys into galactic and dimensional worlds, interactions with fantastic characters and creatures, and revelation of the current struggle between the spiritual forces of good and evil, LIBERATION draws the reader into a world where the spiritual dimensions and reality converge.
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Visit the author's website at Andrusian Chronicles
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Q: What is a typical writing day for you? Tell us about a day in the life of you the writer, what's your writing day like. Do you balance family and writing, or writing and a job outside the house, or writing, a job and family? What was it like for you to write this book along with your busy life?
|Author Maria Lucia
I have found that I have many sides to me that have to be express in order for me to be happy. I have the part of me that has to have physical exercise and good nourishment as part of my daily diet. So, I wake up very early here in Arizona where in the summers it can be 115 by early afternoon! Usually it's about 5:30am when I'm having my cup of coffee and getting ready for my hour long power walk with my new greyhound puppy. We keep up with each other really well and go out into the world together first thing. After a protein drink and light breakfast I answer the many e-mails that come in for any writer who is involved in or launching a new or revised title.
For example, there is the publicist to keep in contact with, the book stores that you will be visiting, the places where you might speak and of course your web mistress who has to keep everything up to date. This writer's life is filled with many avenues that usually surround an author who is serious about getting her work out into the world. All of this usually comes before I sit down to write.
Then there is the spiritual side of me. Even though I don't consider myself religious in any way I'm a deeply spiritual person and so becoming still and quiet usually comes next as a preparation for the writing. I sit on my couch and still my thoughts and my energies and I get in touch with what is most important in the flow of the book. I can "feel" the path the story wants to follow when I get into this still place. I can feel it in my heart. It is like seeing the field, finding your authentic story, like in the movie The Legend of Bagger Vance. You see the way it's supposed to go, that's how I start the flow.
The rest of the day centers on removing distractions from my path until I ground the pieces of the story as I felt them. It is truly a challenge many times, but when I do get it down it is a high, that is overwhelming as an artist or creator. It is truly rewarding at this point to find that I am better company for my beloved or my friends when I've connected with my work in this way.


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The dynamism of colour: its potential and function are seemingly endless.
With an ability to evoke spirituality, emotion and narrative- it is a powerful force. A universal language, paradoxically entrenched with personal attributes. Smeared with memories and smudged onto the senses, particular colours are similarly able to stand in sanctity to individuals. The possibilities that come with colour have always been embraced and explored by artists, notably the works of Mondrian and Kandinsky, where the prevalence of colour manifests itself in starkly contrasting forms.
Re:Coloured seeks to re-visit, re-explore and re-imagine these potentials and powers that pigment holds over the viewer, and the artists that give it prominence in their work. Five artists show in the 541 Art Space, all working diversely with colour across various mediums to produce works that illustrate the influence of colour on production and perception. Still prevalent, still poignant; colour continues to play a major part in the contemporary visual arts, as these five artists demonstrate. Re:Coloured shows that there is no deceleration, or fading, to the phenomenon and effect of colour.
Meghan Rauch is an artist driven by her research in colour theory and linguistic relativity, Rauch's practice is shaped by the cultural eye, psyche and perception of colour in the environment. Rauch works primarily with organic materials to create rich and immersive colourfield environments.
Claire Nakazawa an eclectic and intuitive painter with a style that expresses themes of identity, sexuality, vulnerability and connection. Claire often takes inspiration from her heritage and the transitional, personal and raw nature of her art-making process. Her use of colour is reflective of these primitive forms of expression, alluding to her own connections to particular colours.
Daniel O'Toole who investigates the traversing of mediums; negotiating the crossover between painting, and the moving image. Colour plays a key part in the elusivity of his subjects; in concealing their identity, drenching them in colour to emote personal and potential narratives within his viewers. Similarly carrying with it a connection to the painted portrait in its selected colour palette, highly different to the spectrum visible in most video works.
Doug Schofield explores concepts around physical and perceptual boundaries that exist between people and the organic materialisation, or natural environments, around them. Sharp edged geometric shapes, bold and fluro colours operate within gestural and reductionist style landscapes. Using sharp colour and form he creates visual shifts in his work, glitches, that disrupt and agitate the viewer's perception of landscape and the connoted colours attached to it.
Mie Nakazawa uses intuitive mark making using a range of mixed media. Predominately working with black and white imagery for the last five years, Mie has started to explore the endless possibilities of colour in an interesting aesthetic shift to her practice.


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Chinchilla Health – Symptoms, Causes And Treatment
Chinchilla health issues, could be best described as a scale. Many health issues can arise from negligence and bad management, of their daily, and not only, needs. Contrary, barely and very few health issues could come to foreground and a healthy chinchilla most times is a winner. In general chinchillas are healthy and strong animals and their origin and viability proves that. Chinchillas are prey animals, and therefore do a good job at hiding their illnesses and injuries until many times it is too late when they finally do show symptoms. But there are signs to see and understand if something is wrong with their health. We will adduce many chinchilla health issues, their symptoms, causes and a general treatment.
There will be no medication reference, you must see it as a very basic guide that informs you of the various health issues of chinchillas and all the articles detailing various illnesses and disorders here are not to substitute a vet or a veterinary's diagnoses and care. In these articles we have deliberately not mentioned in rich details most treatments.
Three GOLDEN Chinchilla Health Rules
Chinchilla health issues, most of them, can be treated and avoided if you follow three basic rules.
- Good and proper caring.
- Early diagnosis of a problem.
- Call the VET! Please try to find and know (before buy a chinchilla) a vet (preferably more).
Chinchilla Care for Healthy Chinchillas
Good and proper care for your chinchilla is the most essential thing you can do and that promises healthiness and longevity for your chinchilla.
Chinchilla Feeding the Right Quality – Chinchillas digestive system is very sensitive and many health issues arise by providing incorrect nutrition. A good quality diet is considered to be rich in fiber low in protein and very low on fats and sugar. Minerals and vitamins should also exist. Fibre is very important for chinchilla's digestive track as it helps the gut needs for continual movement but fibre also must be provided in the correct proportions otherwise digestive disorders and other health problems like diarrhea, bloat may occur. Fresh, high quality pellets , variety of hays , fresh water , very limitedtreats , and a supplement of vitamins will provide the optimum health for chinchillas. Many treats cause, most times rapidly, very serious health problems. Don't leave the same food like pellets and hay more than 2 days. Eating moldy food can kill your pet. To maintain the freshness of the feed, store your chinchilla's pellets in a cool, dry environment and in covered containers. Refresh their water every day.
Chinchilla Cage and Accessories – Chinchilla housing requirements are essential for their safety, health and happiness. Chinchilla cages should be all metal, since they will gnaw their way out of a wooden cage. Chinchilla cage must be inspected, before you buy one to be sure, that is safe with no sharply (bad construction) corners or items inside. It must be safe to jump, run and step everywhere they like to. Chinchilla cage accessories like food bowl or water bottle should also be safe. Chinchilla bedding is very important too and is needed to absorb chinchillas urine. DO NOT use chinchilla bedding made from cedar or undried pine , as they have aromatic oils, which can damage the respiratory tracts of chinchillas and cause liver problems.
Chinchilla Environment – Chinchilla's environment is a very vital factor for their health. Room Temperature should never be more than 24 Celsius. Chinchillas ideal room temp is 10-15 Celsius and they can survive temperatures as low as zero. Humidity should be lower than 70%. Finally they should be kept away from windows and radiators. Chinchillas cannot be put in direct sunlight due to the possibility of overheating. You must have or find the best and the most suitable environment to house your chinchilla. Find the best place – room to place their house. Also they sleep at day so they need a quite dark (not completely dark) place. This place must be quiet as much as possible so they can rest and sleep at day. Try not to change environments and do not make big changes to their house too often.
Chinchilla Needs and Behavior – Respect their needs. Stress can also affect a chin's health. They are quite prone to stress and this lead to health problems and diseases. They have difficulties to adopt and need time. Chinchillas are nervous and they can easily be stressed if they don't be handled as they should. Handle them with care and do not over- handle them. Please understand the nature of chinchillas and respect that.
Chinchilla Cleanliness – Chinchilla are very clean animals and dislike getting soiled in any way. Chinchilla dust bath helps chinchilla to stay clean, happy and maintain its coat naturally. Chinchillas seldom get fleas because their fur is very dense. It is important to make sure that they get proper dust baths periodically especially when humidity is high. Try to avoid humid areas because they can get fungus. Try to have a clean environment. Cleanliness in your housing area is probably the best prevention of many diseases. Mustiness in the air may indicate mold and not enough air circulation and maybe not frequent cleaning. They need frequent cleaning and disinfection, every 2-3 days, the cage, the water bottle, the food dish, dusters and maybe some other cage accessories.


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NewsBusters frequently reports Hollywood's finest supporting liberal politicians and causes.
Yet a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics published by The Wrap Sunday found that the top political donors in showbiz so far this year are Florida music producer Bill Edwards and his wife Joanne who gave $164,800 to - hold on to your seats - Republicans.
Look at that. Seven of the top 20 political contributors in showbiz this year have given money to Republicans.
Who'd have thunk it?
On the other hand, for those of you that follow Twitter, you might recall actor Ken Wahl predicting just last week that many "closeted" conservatives in Hollywood are going to soon feel emboldened to reveal themselves.
Is this a sign of that coming to fruition?
Stay tuned.


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I didn't think anyone could get Duchess to relax but Alison can and does. Duchess is one of my most important sled dogs and works hard. Hard enough to tighten up her back muscles quite a bit. Alison's treatments are an important part of my overall dog care and are especially helpful loosening up Duchess' muscles going into the off season. This allows her to recharge fully over the summer and to come back full throttle again in the fall. Pete, Braeburn
"The work you did with Molly really helped. She seems more settled and more puppy like. I find she looks cuter and softer and there have been no accidents in the house at all and she is more settled during the night too. Thanks!"
Ruth Lera
We've been quite floored by the difference in Freya. She is calmer, much less fearful/cautious with other dogs, is coming downstairs on her own without encouragement, and in general seems more upbeat and more like her old self. We're thrilled! (Patricia R.)


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This was a pretty crazy ride. There were several cars on the show floor at VMworld 2015, including the Audi A7 in our booth at Tegile and the Delorean Back to the Future mobile in Rubrik's booth. Curtis and I visited several of them and took a spin in the Time Machine. OMG!
VMworld 2015 Back2theFuture Steering Wheel Cam!
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So you want to know how to be become a better music teacher.
How to keep it fresh and exciting.
How to stay energized about your craft for years and years.
Let's take a few lessons from my years in the trenches of Human Resources:
A good employer knows that they need to keep their employees happy — especially the highly valued, "high potential" employees. I like to call them MVPs (Most Valuable Persons). More money and time off are great incentives, but a good employer doesn't stop there.
MVPs become dissatisfied easily.
And an unsatisfied MVP will jump ship faster than my cat will ditch my lap for the heating vent on a cold day.
A good employer:
- Invests in the future of the organization by investing in its MVPs.
- Knows that training those MVPs to be better at their jobs keeps them satisfied.
- Wants to stuff the talent pipeline with good people ready for the next step in their careers.
- Knows that MVPs who get development opportunities stay a lot longer than those who don't.
An underdeveloped MVP soon gets bored and dissatisfied. She begins to wonder whether there will ever be anything new or interesting in her job. She starts to think about leaving to find another job where she can learn and grow.
Likewise, an underdeveloped music teacher soon gets bored and dissatisfied. She begins to wonder whether there will ever be anything new or interesting in her job. She starts to think about leaving her students and finding a job where she can learn and grow.
When you're self employed, YOU are your MVP. Do you treat yourself that way?
When was the last time you set aside time and money to develop yourself into a better teacher or musician or businessperson?
Professional development is high on my list this week because I just attended the San Diego Simply Music Teachers Symposium. I budget about $1000 and 1 week every year to attend this event, because I am my most valuable (and ONLY) employee.
Aside from a break from the Minnesota Winter, I got to spend 3 ½ days learning how to be a better teacher. I got to meet and make friends with wonderful teachers from all over the world. I got to share struggles, triumphs, teaching tricks, and business practices. I even got to play a glockenspiel!
I am about to go back to my studio feeling energized and full of ideas that will help my students learn and love music.
I am keeping myself on the cutting edge of my field.
This is how to become a better music teacher next month, next year, and for years to come.
Are you doing this music teaching thing for the long haul? If so, budget the time and money become a better teacher every year.
In fact, pretty soon I will have an easy development opportunity for you – My online class, The Happy Studio, will be launching in the next few months. Stay tuned for more!


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Sitting down to recharge your batteries has taken on a whole new meaning in Bristol's Millennium Square, thanks to an art installation called The Energy Tree.
The solar panels store energy which is fed through those pipes you can see above the bench. These allow visitors to sit down, relax, and recharge the batteries in their mobile phones.