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Over the past few years significant progress has been achieved
in the field of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC), also
referred to as receding horizon control or moving horizon control.
More than 250 papers have been published in 2006 in ISI Journals.
With this book we want to bring together the contributions of a
diverse group of internationally well recognized researchers and
industrial practitioners, to critically assess the current status
of the NMPC field and to discuss future directions and needs. The
book consists of selected papers presented at the International
Workshop on Assessment an Future Directions of Nonlinear Model
Predictive Control that took place from September 5 to 9, 2008, in
Pavia, Italy.
Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which
Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. However, he is talked out
of the quiet life after five years and into taking part in a
police-sting operation by his girlfriend's ex-husband. When the
latter is murdered, Tyler investigates, with the help of his old
police partner (Brian Dennehy) and soon they are trapped in a
dangerous web of murder, treachery and deceit.
In the first FX movie, special effects expert Rollie Taylor (Bryan
Brown) is hired to fake a gangster's murder, but it soon becomes
clear that someone wants Rollie dead. He has to use all his special
effects skills to stay alive. The sequel has the special effects
man called out of retirement to take part in a police
investigation.
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Simone (Paperback)
Eduardo Lalo
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Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin
American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the
English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful
translation of his most celebrated novel, Simone--which won the
2013 Romulo Gallegos International Novel Prize--will introduce an
English-language audience to this extraordinary literary talent. A
tale of alienation, love, suspense, imagination, and literature set
on the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Simone tells the story of
a self-educated Chinese immigrant student courting (and stalking) a
disillusioned, unnamed writer who is struggling to make a name for
himself in a place that is not exactly a hotbed of literary fame.
By turns solipsistic and political, romantic and dark, Simone
begins with the writer's frustrated, satiric observations on his
native city and the banal life of the university where he
teaches--forces utterly at odds with the sensuality of his writing.
But, as mysterious messages and literary clues begin to
appear--scrawled on sidewalks and walls, inside volumes set out in
bookstores, left on his answering machine and under his windshield
wiper--Simone progresses into a cat-and-mouse game between the
writer and his mystery stalker. When the eponymous Simone's
identity is at last revealed, the writer finds in the life of this
Chinese immigrant a plight not unlike his own. Traumatized and
lonely, the pair moves towards bittersweet collaborations in
passion, grief, and art.
(Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the
great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares
his insights into the intimate relationship between music and
drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most
iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt
and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the
Hollywood studios. Schifrin reveals the technical details of his
own working approach, which has earned him six Oscar nominations,
21 Grammy nominations (with four awards), and credits on hundreds
of major productions. Includes the full score of Schifrin's Fanfare
for Screenplay and Orchestra, a treasure-trove of unfettered
dramatic sound painting, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, and a great thesis on the emblematic language of film
music.
Powerful political documentary shot in the occupied territories of
Palestine, drawing a parallel between the Israeli-Palestinian
struggle and the ancient myths of Samson and Masada.
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