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If you want to survive in the game of sports betting, Best Betting Tips in Pretoria then you have to use effective money management. I recommend that you follow these guidelines at all times.
- Only invest what you can realistically afford to lose. Prediction Football Today you have to remember that you really do not need to start with al a lot of money. I got started with only $100 dollars and I followed the system and my money has doubled over and over again over the course of years.
- Do not make your initial bet too high. Only invest 5% of your total bankroll for a flat betting system (in which you bet the same amount each time) and no more than 2% for a progressive system. You need to be patient here and allow your systems to do their slow and steady work.
- Increase your initial bets when your bankroll has increased by 25%. This will increase your earning power, Best Betting Tips just remember to stick to the suggested percentages in #2.
- Remember to Diversify your portfolio. If you have a total bankroll of $1000 and 4 systems that you would like to use, then each system should be allotted $250 and you have to keep those amounts separate.
You have to be disciplined in your use of your systems and in your money management strategy. It can be difficult especially you are doing exceptionally well or if you are losing badly. You may be tempted to deviate from the systems or the money management guidelines in either of those situations. But do not, Top Football Predictions Today just remain diligent and the rewards are sure to follow.
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This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.
Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.
I don't think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.
Let's take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F
But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to 'chase' your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!
What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 'in the hole'. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.
Let's take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!
You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!
Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.
If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive 'red' numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!
Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time "no worries, it's got to be black next time…. Surely?"
But let's go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.
We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It's black. We chase our loss by 'doubling up' and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1
I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.
One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation's newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.
I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.
There is an old saying – "Don't throw good money after bad". If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don't try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.
If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.
Sports Betting Money Management Secrets - 4 TipsWhy A Betting Exchange Can Offer You The Key To Successful Gambling…
Too many gamblers are still living in the 'dark ages' and will only ever place a bet with a traditional bookmaker. They either can't be bothered to learn how the exchanges work or simply don't realise the features and value that can be had when betting within an exchange environment.
Believe me, using a betting exchange is very easy, and if you are not already using at least one exchange you should join one immediately after reading this article…
I'm not saying that a betting exchange should be used for all your betting. There will still be occasions when a traditional bookmaker will offer more desirable odds than those that are available on the exchanges. However, in the majority of cases you will find better value on the exchanges and additionally there are other VERY IMPORTANT features that only the betting exchanges offer. More on this later…
So What Is A Betting Exchange?
Put very simply, betting exchanges are a secure place where members of the betting public can exchange bets with each other anonymously, at odds that they specify themselves. The exchange companies simply act as the 'middleman' and match peoples bets.
As there are no bookie margins to factor in, prices are very often more desirable. The betting exchange companies make their money by taking a commission payment on your winning bets. This is usually in the region of 3 - 5%, but even taking this into account, it's very common to find better prices on the exchange.
The cumulative effect of better prices when combined with a good staking plan, can make the difference between you generating a healthy profit or a bad loss. Using an exchange does not mean you will automatically win more frequently! You still have to find good value winning bets yourself or via a professional tipster but it's the effect of getting a better return on your winning bets that will boost your betting bank and protect you during losing streaks.
Most people use the betting exchanges on the internet, but you can also place bets on the telephone.
Betting Exchange Advantages
As well as regularly finding better prices when backing a selection, exchanges also give the gambler some other very important advantages over traditional bookmakers.
Some of the key advantages are:
1) The ability to LAY a selection if you think it will not win.
2) The ability to BACK or LAY a selection to be PLACED. (This is very different to the well know Each Way bet offered by bookies and can be very powerful).
3) Betting IN RUNNING on many events INCLUDING HORSE RACING. This can give you many advantages and opens the door to new methods that may secure you more profits.
4) If you are very successful, you will not have the exchange company threatening to shut your account down. A very important point !
5) The ability to TRADE on price movements in betting events to guarantee yourself a profit regardless of the result.
6) Arbitrage Opportunities. Bookie and exchange price discrepancies often allow you to take a NO RISK bet.
Those are some of the key benefits of using a betting exchange and I will dig deeper into these and explain how you can use them to your advantage in future betting articles.
For the remainder of this article, lets concentrate on point 1 above, LAYING a selection to Lose.
LAYING A Selection to Lose – A Major Advantage Of The Betting Exchanges
Probably the most important feature of a betting exchange is the ability to LAY a selection. But what does laying a selection mean?
Laying a selection is often referred to as 'Playing the role of a bookmaker'. Like a bookie, you offer a price against a selection / event happening (eg. a certain horse to win a race or a football match ending as a draw). You only do this if in your opinion there is a great chance that the horse won't win or the football match will not end as a draw. The betting exchanges simply match your lay bets with other customers who think the opposite of you (eg they think the horse will win or the match will end as a draw).
Lay Liabilities
The odds that you offer determine how much money you will need to 'pay out' if the selection actually wins (just like the bookie does when you have a winning bet with them). So if you were to place a lay bet of £10 at 5.0 (4/1) against a selection, you would be liable to pay out £40 from your account if that selection won (The other punter gets their £10 back plus £40 profit). If however, the selection does lose you get to keep the £10 staked by the other punter (just like the bookies have done with all your losing bets all these years!). It's as simple as that.
Now, you might be thinking 'great, I'll simply lay all the rank outsiders and clean up'. STOP! Don't even go down this route. If you keep placing lay bets on selections trading with very high odds (eg 50/1), you will win regularly but when 1 of them comes first you will probably wipe out all your winnings and more! A single £10 lay bet at 50/1 would see you liable for paying out £500 should the selection win!
Therefore, I strongly recommend that you decide upon a sensible upper limit for lay odds and stick to it no matter what. Just think about how many favourites get turned over in horse races every day of the year that are perhaps available to lay at very short odds like 1.5 (1/2). Your liability on a £10 lay bet at these odds is only £5, or £50 on a £100 lay bet. I like to keep my lay bets at odds below 4.0 (3/1) but that's just my own personal choice but it gives you something to go on.
Flexible Odds / Placing an Order
The odds you offer obviously need to be realistic in order to be matched, but if you are not happy with the current price being requested by other punters you can simply place an 'order' in the exchange at your odds and hope that somebody eventually accepts your offer. (eg you may feel that the current price of 3.0 (2/1) is too high a price to lay a certain selection, so offer a lay bet at 2.75 (7/4) instead). If your lucky the price may well be matched. If the event starts without your lay bet being matched, your bet is simply cancelled so you gain/lose nothing.
Lay Betting might sound very confusing to the exchange newbie, but believe me it soon becomes very straightforward and you will find yourself laying selections much more frequently than you think. Let's be honest, it must be easier to pick a horse you feel will definitely lose in a average 12 runner race, than find the single winner!
Well that's it for part 1 of my betting exchange articles. In part 2, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange Place markets and how you can benefit from them.


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The UNECE secretariat, in cooperation with the TIR Executive Board, is organizing a Training seminar on the approval and control of TIR vehicles to be held on 24 September 2007 in Geneva (room XII), in conjunction with the 117th session of the UNECE Working Party on Customs Questions affecting Transport (WP.30).
The Seminar aims at capacity building of competent authorities to facilitate a more effective implementation of the relevant provisions of the TIR Convention. It is designed for senior officials responsible for the approval and control of TIR vehicles, but it is also open to officials responsible for customs and transport policies as well as to private companies using customs transit procedures. The Seminar will include presentations by distinguished customs experts as well as by representatives of private sector and the UNECE secretariat. More detail can be found in a provisional programme.
Each participant will receive a free copy of the TIR Handbook and other training materials. English, French and Russian will be the working languages. Full simultaneous interpretation from/into these languages will be provided. Participation is free of charge for registered participants, but participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements and cover their travel costs, accommodation and other personal expenses. Each participant must as soon as possible register with the UNECE secretariat using a registration form.
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Perhaps you are familiar with planking, one of those odd fads forced upon us by Australians. (Just like Hugh Jackman!) One planks by lying completely flat on an odd surface and then photographing it.
Dwight Howard and Gilbert Arenas, respectively the most and least valuable players on the Orlando Magic, took to their Twitter accounts yesterday to share oodles of photos of good, clean, weird fun.
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Before we get into the review of the board itself let's have a look at the features of the chipset this board uses. This chipset has been around for some time now and incorporates a number of enthusiast level features. Intel's Turbo Memory technology is one of these integrated features of this chipset. This technology utilizes NAND cache to boost load times and application performance. With Intel's Turbo Memory Dashboard interface you can control cache utilization of applications and data to increase performance.
One of the most important of these features is Intel's QPI (QuickPath Interconnect) technology. This technology is designed to increase bandwidth and lower latency when used in conjunction with Intel's high-end processors. The processors that allow the use of this feature are from the i7-920 to the Extreme Edition processors.
Another feature of this chipset is native SATA 2 capability. This means that this chipset has up to 6 native SATA 2 ports for 3/Gbps bandwidth on compatible SATA 2 hard drives. This gives this board really good RAID functionality and storage options. With this type of support this chipset sets itself up for the future of mass storage. This also gives native eSATA connectivity support with the option turn the ports on or off. Along with this you also get the ability to disable or enable your USB ports. For SATA 3 or USB 3 support a separate vendor's chip, such as Marvell or JMicron, needs to be incorporated.


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Ben Affleck to Live in Extreme Poverty – on $1.50 a Day
The Argo Oscar winner joins the Global Poverty Project's Live Below the Line effort
Ben Affleck plans to live on $1.50 a day – and he wants you to join him.
While the Oscar winner could certainly afford much more, Affleck is joining other celebrities to shine a light on poverty through the Global Poverty Project's Live Below the Line campaign. That figure represents the extreme poverty line in the U.S. as estimated by the World Bank.
Affleck Tweeted of his efforts: "1.4 billion people live on less the $1.50/day. I'm joining Live #BelowTheLine on behalf of @easterncongo. Will you?" He plans to feed himself on $1.50 for one day, following in the footsteps of other celebrities who have joined the cause to raise awareness of issues of inequality and poverty around the world.
Jonah Hill, Josh Groban, Sophia Bush and The Avengers actor Tom Hiddleston – who Tweeted earlier this month photos of his scant meals – are among the other celebrities who have said they are participating in the campaign.
Hugh Jackman, who sits on the Global Poverty Project's board, kicked off the $1.50 day living challenge in 2011, appearing in public service announcements for the campaign. Others active in this year's project drive are Cooking Channel chefs Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos.
More than 20,000 people are expected to participate this year, Time.com reported, noting that more than $3 million was raised for the project last year. The GPP, on its Facebook page, says currently 1.2 billion people around the world live in extreme poverty, down from 1.4 billion five years ago.


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The second quarter was not kind to the markets or to mutual funds, with the S&P 500 off by close to 3% on a total-return basis. The average balanced mutual fund fell by roughly 2.5%, according to Morningstar.
This could mean further rough patches and certainly more big swings in the near future, experts say.
"Even though stocks rebounded somewhat from their quarterly lows, the stock market was very much in the red for the quarter. What happens next will likely be driven by the same questions that dominated the landscape this quarter," said analyst Jeremy Glaser with Morningstar in a preliminary Q2 report. "Investors should continue to be prepared for more volatility and surprises in the coming months."
How did other categories of mutual funds do in Q2? U.S. diversified-equity funds fell 4.86% for the three months ending June 30, the fund-research firm said in preliminary data shared with AdvisorOne on Thursday. That's about the same decline as the NASDAQ Composite, which was off about 4.75% on a total-return basis.
"At the end of the first-quarter of this year, we remarked that the market was still willing to shrug off the storm clouds over Europe and the rocky recovery in the United States to post impressive gains. Three months later, the market's patience seems to be running out," Glaser explained.
Concerns with the future of the euro, China's economic strength, U.S. jobs picture and other issues "turned sentiment, and stocks, lower in the second quarter," he wrote. "The Morningstar U.S. Index dropped 5.7% during the last 13 weeks." Still, the index is up 5% for the last 12 months and has returned an annualized 16% during the last three years.
Large-growth funds dropped 5.62% in the second quarter, while mid-cap growth products moved down 6% and small-growth 5.42%. Their value counterparts lost 3.60%, 4.81% and 4.83% respectively.
Year to date through June 30, though, U.S. diversified funds are up 7.66%, with growth funds outpacing value products overall. The S&P 500 has improved nearly 9.50% on a total-return basis for the January-June period.
Global Performance
The world-stock group dropped 5.94% in the second quarter, while the overall international-equity category declined by 6.66%. During the past three months, the MSCE EAFE Index moved down 7.13%, according to Morningstar.
For the past six months, though, international-equity funds are up 5.04%, outpacing the improvement of the MSCI EAFE Index of 2.96%.
The best international group is global real estate, which was up 15% for the past six months and 1.12% in the second quarter. India-equity funds have risen 12.05% this year, though they dropped 8.38% in Q2.
When it comes to sector funds, the best second-quarter performer was health care at 1.87%; it improved 15.58% in Q1 and Q2. Precious metals had a decline of nearly 13% in the second quarter and a 14.58% fall in the first six months of the year.
Most target-date fund groups dropped 1-4% in the second quarter. The target date 2021-2025 group, for example, was off 2.64. It is up 5.85% for the first six months of 2012, outperforming the 5.28% six-month performance of balanced funds.
The long-short equity group dropped 3% in Q2 and is up about 1.8% for the first half of 2012. Alternative funds were off 1.5% in Q2 and 1.25% for the first six months of the year.
Fixed Income
The long-term bond group improved 3.86% in Q2 and 6.5% in 1H '12. Inflation-protected bonds rose 2.4% and 3.6% respectively. Taxable bonds were up 1.3% in Q2 and 3.8% in 1H '12, when the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index moved up 1.88% and 3.66% respectively on a total-return basis.
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So this one time? Monte Carlo had a tenth annual film festival. And while I can't speak to the (Monacan?) film oeuvre, the clothes were unquestionably entertaining.
Actress Barbara Bouchet shows that Dynasty chic is, in its own way, timeless. And yes, I do realize that's not what timeless means.
Am I wrong, or is French actress Deborah Grall channeling Kate Middleton Engagement Announcement Style? Listen, there's a good reason Issa sold out. Other than wanting to pretend you're a princess, I mean.
French actress Julie de Bona is doing something abstract-expressionist here; never my favorite movement, but it takes all kinds.
Is Italian TV presenter Sania really excited about Black Swan — or is the Odette look a perennial in Italy?
I always imagined Mother Nature would be, I don't know, earthier. With some brown or green involved. But Italian TV presenter Madre Natura has schooled me otherwise!
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Georgetown University has gone public with its recent adoption of an online application system to replace its manual paper-based process.
According to a news release, the university received more than 6,800 early action applications in the fall of 2013 and the new system, CollegeNet's Intelligent Connections, has improved the "experience for applicants and administrators, saving time and expense by eliminating lost documents, misfiling and data errors."
Intelligent Connections, delivered via software-as-a-service, allows institutions to customize the branding of applications as well as the specific information gathered. Applicants can request materials, such as transcripts or letters of recommendation, directly through the form, then attach those materials to their application.
"The new system has exceeded our expectations," said Charles Deacon, dean of admissions at Georgetown University, in a prepared statement. "It has vastly improved efficiency while allowing us control over the format and content of our application. We believe the information we are able to gather allows us to retain the holistic review of the individual applicant, consistent with our former manual system, and helps us identify the candidates who are a best-fit for Georgetown. Most of all, the CollegeNet system has given us control over our own process, even as we migrated to a completely on-line system — the importance of which cannot be emphasized enough in this college admissions cycle so beset by problems beyond the control of the individual college."
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Ann Coulter is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers —Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America (June 2011); Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America(January 2009); If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (October, 2007); Godless: The Church of Liberalism(June 2006); How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (October, 2004); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).
Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate.
She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hannity, The O'Reilly Factor, The Glenn Beck Show, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle magazine. She was the April 25, 2005 cover story of Time magazine.
In 2001, Coulter was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner.
A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.
Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
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Shanghai To Open Free-Trade Zone To Boost China's Growth
In the NPR business zone, we'll talk about an experiment in China.
GREENE: On Sunday, Shanghai will open a free trade zone that officials say will be a laboratory for reforming the world's second-largest economy.
As NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, the new zone is getting a lot of media attention in China but the details remain sketchy.
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: The formula of low-wage labor and cheap exports that transformed China from a backwater into a global economic power has run out of steam.
XU BIN: The Chinese economy is slowing down. The leadership feels very high pressure, a sense of urgency.
LANGFITT: Xu Bin is a professor of finance at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He says in the 1980s, China's special economic zones focused on manufacturing.
Now, faced with the threat of stagnation, the nation's new leaders hope to use the zone in Shanghai to help reform the country's financial system and boost growth.
Inside the zone, Xu says, foreign businesses will face less regulation. It will also be easier to set up bank branches and move money in and out of China.
BIN: What is really important for the new leadership is to send an early signal of where they want China to go. I think they use the Shanghai Free Trade Zone to send that signal.
LANGFITT: Of course, Chinese politicians are notorious for hyping projects that turn out to be nothing more than window dressing. And Xu says anyone expecting radical change is certain to be disappointed. But he thinks China's leaders are serious about fixing the economy this time. After all, they don't have a lot of choice.
Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Shanghai. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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MSc Computing (Software Engineering)
Key information
Start date: October 2021
Location: South Kensington
ECTS: 90 credits
This course specialises in the application of engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software.
This taught postgraduate course is aimed at students who may not have studied computing exclusively but who have studied a considerable amount of computing already.
If you want to become a specialist in a particular area of computing, this course will provide a first crucial step towards that goal.
This course specialises in the application of engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software. Study areas include computational finance; computer networks and distributed systems; computer vision; computing for optimal decisions; custom computing; databases; distributed algorithms; distributed systems; graphics; intelligent data and probabilistic inference; and an introduction to bioinformatics.
We also offer specialisms in:
- Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Computational Management
- Security and Reliability
- Visual Computing and Robotics
Each specialism has a flexible mix of breadth and depth, consisting of two or three compulsory modules as well as choices from a selection of core and optional modules.
Professional accreditation
Our MSc Computing Master's degrees are professionally accredited by the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology).
Holding an accredited degree allows you to meet the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng). Registering as a Chartered Engineer will help provide improved career prospects, status, higher earning potential. It helps demonstrate your commitment to professional standards, the engineering profession and sustainable development.
The accreditation agreement with the IET is due to be renewed for students beginning these degrees in the 2023–24 academic year.
Modules shown are for the current academic year and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.
Please note that the curriculum of this programme is currently being reviewed as part of a College-wide process to introduce a standardised modular structure. As a result, the content and assessment structures of this course may change for your year of entry. We therefore recommend that you check this course page before finalising your application and after submitting it as we will aim to update this page as soon as any changes are ratified by the College.
Find out more about the limited circumstances in which we may need to make changes to or in relation to our courses, the type of changes we may make and how we will tell you about changes we have made.
Core modules
You take all of the core modules below.
MSc Computing Science (Specialist) Individual Project (Summer)
MSc Software Engineering Group Project (Autumn and Spring)
Software Engineering for Industry (Spring)
Focuses on the tools, techniques, practices and principles software engineers use on a daily basis to successfully build, modify, maintain and grow the large software systems.
Optional modules – Group 1
You choose four to seven modules from below.
Advanced Databases (Autumn)
Provides detailed theoretical and practical knowledge of how database management systems (DBMS) are programmed in SQL, how DBMSs may be linked to form distributed databases, and how DBMSs operate and are tuned to improve performance.
Advanced Issues in Object Oriented Programming (Autumn)
Discusses issues around the design and implementation of object oriented languages, the rationale and explore alternatives.
Advanced Security* (Autumn)
Develops an advanced understanding of security topics from both a practical industrially-focused perspective, whilst also providing a storing research perspective.
Concurrent Processes* (Autumn)
Covers basics of the: process algebra, semantics of the pi-calculus, and the applications of the pi-calculus.
Cryptography Engineering (Spring)
Teaches how cryptographic techniques can be used to design and implement secure communicating systems for a variety of different needs and applications, and to do so by considering all aspects from theory to more practical issues.
Distributed Algorithms (Spring)
Covers key concepts, problems and results in distributed algorithms. Providing an introduction on how to reason about the correctness of distributed algorithms and practical experience of programming them.
Information and Coding Theory (Autumn)
Provides an advanced introduction to information and coding theory which is essential to computer security (e.g. differential privacy, side channel attacks, etc.).
Large Scale Data Management* (Spring)
Covers the evolution of database systems in face of new requirements (different access patterns, scalability, relaxation of transactional guarantees) and new hardware (storage class memory, SSD, main memory and multicores.
Modal Logic* (Autumn)
Develops skills in modal logics for specification, knowledge representation and practical reasoning in artificial intelligence and software engineering.
Network and Web Security (Spring)
Covers network and web security broadly from the network to the application layer. The emphasis of the module is on the underlying principles and techniques, with examples of how they are applied in practice.
Performance Engineering* (Spring)
Introduces the fundamental principles and techniques used in the performance engineering practice. The problems discussed throughout the lectures are common in industrial ICT practice.
Pervasive Computing (Spring)
Pervasive, or Ubiquitous Computing, is the result of technology advancing at exponential rates, enabling computing devices to become smaller, more powerful and more connected.
Principles of Decentralized Ledgers* (Spring)
Decentralised ledgers (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum) have gained rapid popularity, attracting the attention of academics, entrepreneurs, economists, and policy-makers. They promise and already create new disruptive markets, and revolutionize how we think of money and financial infrastructure.
Privacy Enhancing Techniques* (Autumn)
Introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying privacy-enhancing technologies across a variety of areas.
Probabilistic Model Checking and Analysis (Spring)
Scalable Distributed Systems Design* (Spring)
Provides an overview of the challenges when designing and engineering scalable distributed applications in data centre environments.
Separation Logic: Local Reasoning about Programs* (Autumn)
Introduces separation logic and associated verifications tools.
Software Reliability (Autumn)
Provides an overview of exciting recent research into techniques and tools which aim to help developers improve the reliability of their software.
Systems Verification (Spring)
Introduces formal methods for system specification and verification. Particular prominence is given to logic-based formalisms and techniques, notably model checking.
Type Systems for Programming Languages (Autumn)
Courses marked * are half courses, and 2 half courses is equal to 1 full course.
Optional modules – Group 2
You choose up to three modules from below.
Advanced Computer Architecture (Spring)
Develops a thorough understanding of high-performance and energy-efficient computer architecture, as a basis for informed software performance engineering and as a foundation for advanced work in computer architecture, compiler design, operating systems and parallel processing.
Advanced Computer Graphics (Spring)
Introduces modern techniques in realistic computer graphics and image synthesis, particularly image-based techniques for photorealism.
Advanced Statistical Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (Spring)
Provides the theoretical and computational skills to understand, design and implement modern statistical machine learning methodologies regarding statistical component analysis, statistical linear dynamical systems and other statistical models.
Argumentation and Multi-agent Systems (Spring)
Focuses on the foundations and advances in Multi-Agent Systems, specifically the concepts and implementation techniques required.
Complexity (Autumn)
Describes the complexity classes associated with computational problems, and the ability to fit a particular problem into a class of related problems, and so to appreciate the efficiency attainable by algorithms to solve the particular problem.
Computational Finance (Spring)
Introduces the basic concepts of quantitative finance and financial engineering, including hedging and pricing problems in finance, and how to formulate these problems as mathematical models, and understand the computational techniques to solve the arising models.
Computational Optimisation (Autumn)
Develops a deep understanding of optimal decision making models, algorithms and applications to engineering, finance, and machine learning.
Computer Vision (Autumn)
Introduces the concepts behind computer-based recognition and extraction of features from raster images.
Custom Computing (Spring)
Custom computers are special-purpose systems customised for specific applications such as signal processing and database operations, when general-purpose computers are too slow, bulky or power hungry. Development of custom computers is an expensive, time-consuming and error-prone activity. This module introduces approaches enabling the rapid and systematic design of custom computers.
Data Analysis and Probabilistic Inference (Spring)
Aims to teach how probability can be used to make decisions by a computer. Inference networks form a major part of the material along with linear and non-linear methods in statistical pattern recognition.
Dynamical Systems and Deep Learning (Autumn)
Introduces Deep Belief Nets and Convolutional Neural Nets which provide the two main tools in Deep Learning.
Graphics (Spring)
Provides an understanding of basic concepts of computer graphics, and introduces the fundamental mathematical principles used for computer generated imagery, shading and light approximations.
Independent Study Option (Spring)
Study an advanced computer science topic of your choice, ideal for those considering a PhD or a career in industrial research.
Knowledge Representation (Autumn)
Presents the theoretical foundations for the main logic-based formalisms used for knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, particularly non-monotonic logics and consequence relations, and the computational basis of logic programming.
Machine Learning (Spring)
Provides the foundations to Machine Learning (ML) and an understanding of basic ML concepts and techniques. Uses Matlab to design, implement and test ML systems.
Mathematics for Machine Learning (Autumn)
Provides the necessary mathematical background and skills to understand, design and implement modern statistical machine learning methodologies, and inference mechanisms.
Operations Research (Autumn)
Studies quantitative methods for decision making, and the emphasis is on numerical algorithms to solve constrained optimisation programs. The methods studied are applicable to problems in many areas: computer science, economics, logistics, and industrial engineering.
Quantum Computing (Autumn)
Introduces the basic notions of quantum computing with particular emphasis on quantum algorithms.
Robotics (Autumn)
Focuses on the field of mobile robotics both theoretically and practically. Covers wheeled locomotion, control, outward-looking sensors, mapping, place recognition and reactive behaviours.
Simulation and Modelling (Autumn)
Introduces system performance analysis and prediction using computer simulation and mathematical techniques (Markov Processes and queuing theory).
Short Introduction to Prolog (Autumn)
Introduces the concept of logic programming and syntax and procedural reading of the Prolog language. Teaches the ability to write simple programs to query Prolog databases, and recursively process lists and other compound data structures.
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An alert reader clues us into some ESPN tech snafus last Sunday, the first day of the mock Steve Phillips press conference things.
Don't know if you saw the 11:00 SportsCenter on Sunday night, but when they did the original Steve Phillips faux-press conference, where he was the Red Sox GM, they teased it all night and then when they finally threw it over there, they did about 3 minutes and then had horrible technical difficulties (sound cutting out, video crapping up) and had to end it and go back to the studio, to a thoroughly defeated Steve Levy and Stu Scott, who apologized and said they'd have the full version on the later SportsCenters. So I guess they taped it and edited it in later. Loved that they were doing it in Bristol, with presumably hundreds of tech people and staffers available, and they still couldn't pull it off live.
We're hearing all kinds of behind the scenes stuff about these segments, and, if we can talk this person into it, we're actually gonna have a report from one of the "reporters" yelling "questions" at Phillips sometime later this week. We'll have to hurry, too; sadly, they're ending the segments on Friday.
OK, Seriously, Knock It Off You Guys [Deadspin]
(By the way, we LOVE that picture of Buster Olney. You can see thousands of operas and greek tragedies in his eyes.)


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Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020). s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
Dreaming with ARC. Learning Meets Combinatorial Algorithms workshop at NeurIPS 2020 (2020). CBMM Memo 113.pdf (1019.64 KB)
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New 5k Record!!
Posted by Susan
I did it!!! I made my goal of running the 5k in under 27 minutes! I finished in 26:49!!!
The course was actually 3.2 miles and not 3.1, so that's the time it took me to run the 5k distance. It took me just under a minute to run the rest.
My previous PR for a 5k was during a training run, when I did it in 27:13. My last 5k race also happened to be my first race ever, and I did that in 29:24.
My average pace was 8:40 min/mi. Not gonna lie, I thought my chest was going was going to explode out of my chest during my sprint to the finish line! :P My heart rate monitor went up to 190 bpm, but I'm not sure if I even believe that!
I don't think I mentioned it, but today's race was the annual Terry Fox Run.
I'm not sure if Terry Fox is well known outside of Canada, but I would definitely call him one of our national heroes! After losing his leg to cancer, he set out to run across the country on a prosthetic leg to raise money for cancer research. He called it the "Marathon of Hope." Unfortunately, he died in 1981 before he could finish, so now people across Canada run every year to sort of "continue the marathon." One great thing about the race is that there's no registration fee or required fundraising amount. Terry Fox's whole thing was that he wanted to raise just one dollar from every Canadian.
Anyways, it's got me kind of nervous for my 10k race next weekend! It made me realize that I have to remember to pace myself. I want to finish it in one hour, but I may tucker myself out if I get caught up in the excitement at the beginning. And I think I will take walk breaks if I feel so inclined. Seeing as they tend to speed up my pace! :P
Okay, enough babbling, I've got some food pics too :)
Day started off mega early with a breakfast cookie.
Hmm…looks like I had a smudge on the lens. Or my morning haze just translated into the photograph. Chris can take long videos on his camera, so I'm thinking of doing a breakfast cookie how-to when he's home next!
I also tried out my Montreal smoked beef slices from the market.
On a pita with some laughing cow cheese, mustard, tomatoes, onions and romaine. Loved it!! I'm a total carnivore now.
I opted for a larger pre-race snack after I got off work, because it would be a couple hours until I actually started running.
Sliced banana with peanut butter and a couple dates with cashew butter. These are my no-fail foods before exercise. It never, ever upsets my tummy and gives me an excellent burst of energy.
While snacking, I worked on my 5k playlist.
This actually ran at 30 minutes. I like choosing songs with a beat that I can pace to. Keeps me going fast :) I also can't stand exercising to boring songs. They've got to be quick and catchy!
I was a sweaty mess when I got home. It was way too hot to be running today. For me at least. Around 25 C with the sun beating down on us. So I rehydrated with my fave Vega smoothie.
1 box One coconut water, 2 scoops Vega Smoothie Infusion, handful frozen papaya chunks.
I also foam rolled and iced, which I don't always do for shorter runs, but I am definitely feeling the effort! My legs are stiff, and I feel a little woozy from the heat still.
Dinner was very purple. Well, it was supposed to be purple. I steamed some purple potatoes and purple "green" beans:
Except the beans turned green when I cooked them!
The potatoes stayed purple though ;) I had a grilled chicken breast stuffed with baba ghanoush on the side. It was delicious, I love fresh veggies steamed. In case you're wondering, I also smothered them in parmesan cheese. Not the fancy kind, oh no. The processed Kraft kind. Yup! I love the stuff, and I'm not ashamed to admit it! April wrote a wonderful post on the pressure we sometimes feel to show perfect foods on our blogs all the time. Sure, I try to eat whole, unprocessed stuff as much as I can. But I love my fake syrup, Kraft parmesan and protein bars. I think balancing these things out with "real" foods is the key to a happy way of eating :) For me anyways.
Now I'm just doing some major couch sprawling. Going to get up soon and do some cleaning though! Gotta stretch out those legs! Hope you all had a great weekend!
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The Threepenny Opera in America
Brothel scene from act II
New York, 1933, Empire Theatre (Broadway)Director: Francesco von Mendelssohn
Conductor: Macklin Marrow
English version: Gifford Cochran and Jerrold Krimsky
Stars: Robert Chisholm (Mack), Steffi Duna (Polly), Rex Weber (Mr. Peachum). Burgess Meredith played a small role as Crooked Finger Jack.
Length of run: ca. 2 weeks (12 performances)
Notes: First U.S. production, two years before Weill settled in the U.S., and a big disappointment. Neither Weill nor Brecht was present at rehearsals. No copy of the script is known to exist, but reviewers generally objected to its heavy-handedness and lack of humor. Percy Hammond: "The 3-Penny Opera at the Empire is just a torpid affectation, sluggish, ghastly and not nearly so dirty as advertised" (NY Herald-Tribune). Perhaps Gilbert Gabriel summed up the critical consensus best, calling the show "a dreary enigma." But the music got a better reception: the New York Times called it "a splendid score" and Robert Benchley praised "the haunting score of Kurt Weill."
Lenya as Jenny
New York, 1954, 1955-1961, Theater de Lys (off-Broadway)Director: Carmen Capalbo
Conductor: Samuel Matlowsky
English version: Marc Blitzstein
Stars (opening night): Scott Merrill (Mack), Jo Sullivan (Polly), Leon Lishner (Mr. Peachum), Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Peachum), Lotte Lenya (Jenny), Bea Arthur (Lucy Brown), John Astin (Readymoney Matt) Stars (later casts): Jerry Orbach (Mack, Street Singer), Ed Asner (Mr. Peachum), Estelle Parsons (Coaxer), Jerry Stiller (Crookfinger Jake)
Length of run: ca. 6-1/2 years (2,707 total performances)
cast recording: MGM 3121 (LP), CD reissue available on Decca Broadway 012 159 463-2
Notes: Opened about four years after Weill's death, and made his works with Brecht widely known in the U.S. The run was split into two parts: 96 performances in the spring of 1954, after which a previously scheduled show was installed in the theater, with the remaining performances in a consecutive run beginning September 20, 1955. A small-scale production that ran on youth and enthusiasm-many successful actors got their start in the show, and Lenya's career acquired new life. By the end of the run in 1961, the show had set a record for consecutive performances of a musical (beating out Oklahoma!) and had used over 700 actors. Famed critic Brooks Atkinson summed up the reason for its success: "The Threepenny Opera resists virtue admirably," he wrote, and "as a theatre work, The Threepenny Opera is a triumph of style."
Raul Julia (Mack) with
Ellen Greene (Jenny)
New York, 1976-77, New York Shakespeare FestivalDirector: Richard Foreman
Conductor: Stanley Silverman
English version: Ralph Manheim and John Willett
Stars: Raul Julia (Mack), Caroline Kava (Polly), C.K. Alexander (Mr. Peachum), Elizabeth Wilson (Mrs. Peachum). Blair Brown played Lucy Brown.
Length of run: ca. 9 months (307 performances)
Cast recording: Sony Masterworks Broadway 51520
Notes: A milestone in American theater, although Lenya did not like the production. Manheim's and Willett's translation promised fidelity to the original German, to correct Blitzstein's softening of the text. The production, one of Richard Foreman's first ventures outside of his own Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, helped make Raul Julia a household name.
The long run made the show available to a new generation of New Yorkers fifteen years after the Theater de Lys run ended. A couple of brief quotes indicate the schizophrenic reception: Clive Barnes: "the most interesting and original thing that Joe Papp (of the NYSF) has produced since he set up shop at the Vivian Beaumont three years ago." John Simon: "I cannot begin to list all the injuries done to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's masterpiece."
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McGovern, Alvin Epstein
New York, 1989, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (Broadway)Director: John Dexter
Conductor: Julius Rudel
English version: Michael Feingold
Stars: Sting (Mack), Maureen McGovern (Polly), Alvin Epstein (Mr. Peachum), Georgia Brown (Mrs. Peachum)
Length of run: ca. 2 months (65 performances)
Notes: A star-crossed production complete with cross-over stars. With solid musical theater professionals backing up Sting and Maureen McGovern, the show seemed destined for success. Feingold's translation and Rudel's musical direction assured faithful renderings of both words and music. But it was an expensive flop-the "Three Million Penny Opera" in one headline. The stars and the director seemed unable to work together successfully (Dexter was ill throughout rehearsals and died soon after the show closed), and the staging never jelled. Sting has not tried his hand at theater since. As Variety put it: "What seemed like a surefire concept in theory- rock star does Brecht-Weill classic with classy English director of many hits-misses the brass ring in execution."
Philip Casnoff,
Bebe Neuwirth
San Francisco, 1999, American Conservatory TheatreDirector: Carey Perloff
Conductor: Peter Maleitzke
English version: Michael Feingold
Stars: Philip Casnoff (Mack), Anika Noni Rose (Polly), Steven Anthony Jones (Mr. Peachum), Nancy Dussault (Mrs. Peachum), Bebe Neuwirth (Jenny)
Length of run: ca. 1 month
Notes: One of the few major productions in the Bay Area. Broadway, film, and TV star Bebe Neuwirth was joined by Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose and opera and musical star Lisa Vroman as Lucy. The production as a whole was warmly greeted by the press. USA Today congratulated the ACT for capturing the authors' intentions by staging the show as "a political fable rather than a well-considered character study."
Melissa Errico
2003, Williamstown, Williamstown Theatre FestivalDirector: Peter Hunt
Conductor: James Sampliner
English version: Marc Blitzstein
Stars: Jesse L. Martin (Mack), Melissa Errico (Polly), David Schramm (Mr. Peachum), Randy Graff (Mrs. Peachum), Betty Buckley (Jenny), Karen Ziemba (Lucy Brown)
Length of run: ca. 2 weeks
Notes: An incredible cast, with an unforgettable group of women (three Tony Awards and seven nominations among them) matched by television and theater veterans Jesse L. Martin and David Schramm. Director Hunt drew on his experience from two previous Williamstown productions to lead the cast. The New York Times: "The great fun in watching this 'Threepenny' is seeing its leading players meet the challenge implicit in Weill's brilliantly fractured, dissonant score."
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Since the demographic data on this website and in the reports is from the US Census Bureau, we're using the US Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs), which are generalized areal representations of United States Postal Service ZIP Code service areas.
A zip code is technically a linear postal route. I like to imagine zips codes as a postman driving in a line up and down streets delivering mail. Here's a fun animation about how the Census Bureau turns linear routes into polygons:
Sometimes, there isn't a ZCTA for a "weird" zip code. The most common example of "weird" zips are PO Box zips (so zips of only businesses and no residents, and you need residents for demographic estimates). Other weird zips that we've run into in the past include a zip only for the IRS or a post office. And sometimes there aren't enough samples in a zip/ZCTA to produce an estimate (aka too few people living in the zip).
On this website, we use the terms ZCTA, zip code or zip interchangeably, because most people who we work with don't know what a ZCTA is and the difference between a zip code and ZCTA doesn't impact how they need to use the data. But theoretical problems could arise with using ZCTAs if you are doing a mailing list or mass mail project.
Check out this handy zip to ZCTA crosswalk.
Let's say you were asked to rank a list of addresses from most likely to buy to least likely to buy. Since this is a quick test to see if using demographic data will improve your close rate, you are going to simply associate each lead with some basic demographics for the zip like median household income. 90% of your addresses have zips that match ZCTAs, so it's easy to match these leads with their ZCTA demographics. But the remaining 10% of your addresses don't have a matching ZCTA. You could then use the above crosswalk to associate the "weird" zips with a ZCTA and thus pull demographics for the rest of your addresses.
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A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the 2000s, with songs like "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes Me Wonder" all topping the charts worldwide. Previously, bandmates Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (bass), and Ryan Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in Kara's Flowers, even releasing a debut album for Reprise Records while still attending high school. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers found themselves dropped from Reprise's roster. After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped as Maroon 5, adding former Square guitarist James Valentine to the lineup and embracing a more R&B-influenced sound. Several years later, the quintet had officially risen to the forefront of pop music with Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long, both of which went multi-platinum.
Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, but the album was not an immediate hit. Octone Records had signed the newly christened Maroon 5 in 2001, and the debut album Jane received a lukewarm response upon its release in June 2002. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio staple 17 months later and was soon followed by the omnipresent "This Love," whose steamy video (featuring frontman Levine and a barely clothed girlfriend) wooed the TV-watching crowds at MTV. Songs About Jane finally entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than two years after the album's release, and follow-up singles like "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 million copies by year's end.
Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in support of Jane's slow-burning success, issuing two stopgap recordings -- 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the 13th -- while traveling the world alongside groups like the Rolling Stones and John Mayer. Their schedule was especially trying on percussionist Dusick, who sustained wrist and shoulder injuries and was often unable to play. By fall 2006, Dusick had been officially replaced by Matt Flynn (the former drummer for Gavin DeGraw), and the revised band released its sophomore effort in May 2007. It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be less popular than its predecessor (which had sold more than four million copies in the U.S. alone), but it still enjoyed double-platinum certification while spinning off the chart-topping single "Makes Me Wonder."
Maroon 5 had cemented their status as pop/rock heavyweights, and they now had the connections to prove it. Released in late 2008, Call and Response: The Remix Album reinterpreted the band's catalog with remixes by influential producers like Mary J. Blige, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams. Meanwhile, the band worked with a different producer -- veteran rock/country architect Robert John "Mutt" Lange -- on a third studio album, Hands All Over, which was released in September 2010. The following year, Levine appeared as a judge on the NBC reality television talent competition "The Voice". That same year, Hands All Over was re-released with the single "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Levine's "The Voice" co-judge Christina Aguilera. In 2012, Carmichael revealed that he was taking time off from performing with Maroon 5 and would be replaced by touring keyboardist PJ Morton. Also in 2012, the band released its fourth studio album, Overexposed. Featuring production from a bevy of name producers including Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, Benny Blanco, and more, the album included the leadoff single "Payphone."


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Saturday night's dinner was brought to us by Outstanding in the Field who, according to their website, offer "Culinary celebrations at the source. Set between the soil and the sky, Outstanding in the Field's long, linen-draped table beckons adventurous diners to celebrate food at the source. Bringing together local farmers and food artisans, chefs and winemakers, we explore the connection between the earth and the food on your plate. Join us as we feast on the gifts of the land."
We all boarded the Blogger express buses to the Greenleaf Produce warehouse, where we mingled, ate and drank for a few good hours.
This table snaked its way through the warehouse, effectively seating everyone at one table!
Pre-dinner snacks were so more-ish!
Meghan, Andrea and me.
Me, Amir and Chrystal and Chef Sarah from the Bertolli Sauces test kitchen.
And on the menu:
(no photos of this as it was simply being passed around during drinks)
A plate of the calamari to share:
Melt in your mouth beef cheeks!!!
Now THIS is the way to get kids to eat their brussels sprouts!!!
Dessert followed!
A sensory overload for sure – so many good smells and tastes and such beautifully presented food. This was an outstanding meal. Thanks Outstanding in the Field and Foodbuzz.


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I love checking in on Trick or Treat Studios. Their designs are extremely Old School, more so than other mask makers I've seen. And their prices are pretty sweet as well.
Here's to the rubber mask wearers.
Excited to show off their rubber masks. Breathing through a tiny opening. Listening to muffled sounds. Looking through small eye holes (and always looking down to make sure they aren't about to walk over anything or anyone). Feeling like they ARE that monster. I've been there. You really DO feel like someone/something else when you're inside a latex mask. And in a weird way it's sorta like being all alone, and observing Halloween night through someone else's eyes.
So here's to the rubber mask wearers. Cheers.
Trick Or Treat Studios.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Trick Or Treat Studios
I love checking in on Trick or Treat Studios. Their designs are extremely Old School, more so than other mask makers I've seen. And their prices are pretty sweet as well.
14 comments:
- Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...
Rot, I've gotta ask: which is YOUR favorite mask of this bunch?
- October 18, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Rot said...
The Devil.
Something about him says he could be used on a prop...or as a mask...or even as a decoration in the house.
Old School fun.
- October 18, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Rot said...
And I really love the last one...
The Devil is a partial mask..the last is a full over the head deal.
Which is yours?
- October 18, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Unknown said...
HA! i have the one third down - the ghastly ghoul. it's wonderful.
I constantly look down when wearing my mask, i walked into the cat once or twice. Trick or treat studios really do make awesome masks. i like the devil one as well. if i got another it would probably be SHOCK though.
- October 18, 2010 at 10:43 PM
- Anonymous said...
I myself am partial to the second one...it's kinda of a cross between Frankenstein and the Mummy (watching the old Hammer films on Turner Classic Movies this month so waxing nostalgic - oops showing my age)
- October 18, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Mantan Calaveras said...
You gotta love the old "Shock Monster" tribute... now if they'd only get around to reinventing the Topstone Ghoul, I'd be set. Heh heh
- October 19, 2010 at 12:43 AM
- Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...
My favorite would have to be the "Water Zombie" mask. For some reason, I keep wanting to use the mask for a zombie gunslinger prop. I guess I just think that it would look cool in a worn-out cowboy hat. Weird. :)
- October 19, 2010 at 8:16 AM
- Sara said...
Totally digging the Frankenstein's Monster mask. Would buy that in a heartbeat....
Your post reminded me of those "Real American Heroes" Budweiser commercials.
"Mr. Halloween-Latex-Mask-Wearing-Guuuuuy"... No?
- October 19, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Sara said...
Disappointed to find out Frankenstein's Monster is really Radioactive Zombie Swamp guy. :( Oh well...
- October 19, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Dio said...
The devil mask is good - he looks like Salvador Dali.
I made myself a 7-foot tall devil costume about fifteen years ago for a company haunt I used to do - could barely see out of it and I had to have a friend lead me around, but totally worth it for the scares - the devil scares the hell out of people!
I would buy the Ghastly Ghoul mask - those prices are pretty good!
- October 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- JD said...
I like all of them, but I can't get any. My sisters deathly allergic to latex rubber :(
- October 20, 2010 at 7:44 AM
- Yellow Phantom said...
I hear ya, I love the old school vibe of these masks.
I picked up the Ghastly Ghoul earlier this summer and I love it! Thick enough to hold it's shape and the paint job is exactly like the photos on the site.
The Radioactive Zombie is next on my list!
- October 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- Hallow31 said...
The devil hold so much power in its latex..Great masks, its like a second movie of season of the witch halloween 3. Can't wait till sunday... sunny and a crispy cool night. See you halloween!
- October 29, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Chris Zephro said...
Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments. Make sure to check the site in early January, we've got a ton of new masks coming for 2011.
- November 13, 2010 at 1:01 AM


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Hefner Raises Money for Tornado Victims
Between hosting the 2013 All-Star Game festivities and a Nas concert to kick off the second half, it's been a busy week for the New York Mets organization.
It was a much different type of week for Mets right-hander Jeremy Hefner.
Hawkins, Hefner, Shaun Clancy, Gee & Aardsma join forces @ Foley's to raise money for Moore, OK tornado victims. pic.twitter.com/2Ls7tWlaiJ— New York Mets (@Mets) July 21, 2013
Hefner used the All-Star break to visit his hometown of Moore, OK, which was devastated by a tornado in May. It was his first trip home since the disaster.
Hefner and some teammates headed to Foley's Pub and Restaurant in Manhattan Saturday night to continue raising money for tornado victims.
Foley's had already teamed with Hefner after the tornado, adding the "Foley's 405 Burger" to the menu (named after Moore, OK's area code), with all proceeds going toward relief efforts.
So not only did Hefner get to raise money for a great cause, but he also got to bite into a juicy burger.
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Cano's cousin present at Mariners camp
PEORIA, Ariz. -- While Robinson Cano adjusts to a new team, there is one teammate who needs no introduction. At the locker closest to Cano's in the Mariners Spring Training clubhouse sits his cousin, Burt Reynolds, a 25-year-old infielder who played independent league ball the past three years.
Reynolds was signed as a Minor League free agent by Seattle at the same time his cousin inked his $240 million contract in December, a package deal that came with a Spring Training invite for Reynolds.
Reynolds lived with Cano for three years in New Jersey when Cano attended school in the United States for grades seven through nine before moving back to the Dominican Republic. The two reconnected when Cano came back to the U.S. after being signed by the Yankees.
Reynolds was drafted by the Nationals in 2006 and spent three years in the Rays' organization (2008-10), but has never been above Class A.
"This is the first time we've been on the same team," said Reynolds, who was born in the Dominican but grew up in New Jersey. "It's great. Our dream together is to be able to play not against each other in the big leagues, but to play together. Now it's my part to just work hard and see if I can get up there with him."
Reynolds has played third base as well as the outfield in his career. He hit .247 with six home runs and 14 RBIs in 71 games for the Camden Riversharks in the Atlantic League last year.
As for his famous cousin?
"He's going to play his game," Reynolds said. "Obviously he's a great player and has his plan, which is to help the team as much as he can, help the younger guys. He wants to help them win a championship. I try to pick up as much as I can from him. He's a smart guy and knows what he wants. He understands the game and is a very smart player."
The Mariners have previously had family connections whose time with Seattle overlapped. In the organization for a time with Ken Griffey and his son who shared his namesake was another son, Craig, who was on Seattle's 40-man roster at one point and played seven seasons in the Mariners' farm system. Jay Buhner's brother, Shawn, was a Minor League outfielder for the Mariners for six years but was never in Major League camp.