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After having practiced the infallible study method I introduced you to in my last post to help you correctly learn a new marimba piece, you are finally ready to actually play in front of an audience and/or to record your beautiful CD as a soloist. Worst case scenario, your music teacher will be the only one to ever hear it; it doesn't really matter.
First though, let a pain-in-the-neck teacher like me ask you 3 little questions:
- Are you really ready to play this piece?
- Are you sure you haven't forgotten anything, and I mean anything, of what is written on the part?
- And finally, are you 100% sure of your performance?
Listen to me: before moving on to a new piece, finalize your study with a few more practice sessions so that you can refine the part you have just finished studying. How? By auditing your execution and preparing for your performance, as I will explain to you today.
If you missed my two previous articles, I strongly recommend you read them prior to getting into today's post.
Let's start!
If you have used the study method I showed you last week, you should have theoretically memorized basically the whole piece. Although memorization was not essential, you should have noticed that by extensively practicing the piece and by focusing on the individual parts, you no longer needed to read the notes.
However, there is a catch: you might have made mistakes in the memorization of a note, a rhythm, an articulation, anything really. You might have even forgotten to study an entire line or section. It happened to me…
How can you know for sure at this point? Easy. Go over the part and try to play it slowly with the help of a metronome while you read note by note.
Santa Claus – marimba
This can be tough because your muscle memory will try to take over your body, completely bypassing your brain… in other words, your hands will want to"go on their own" on a sort of autopilot.
At this point, trying to control what you are doing is rather difficult. It is somewhat like thinking about breathing: unless you are used to it, like for example if you regularly practice yoga, thinking about breathing will initially make the actual breathing process hard. This is because breathing is an automatic process.
In the same manner, playing a piece you have memorized is also an automatic process. I already talked about this in my old post "Muscle Memory".
Let's recap: check the whole part again concentrating on the reading of the notes and don't rely exclusively on your memory. If you realize you have made a mistake or you have forgotten something, regain control of your body so that you can fix what is wrong or missing.
A thousand articles have been written on how useful recording yourself can be to verify the quality of your performance. Well, at least I think a thousand articles have been written. I myself have only read a few.
However, I am still going to restate here how important it is, because I think that recording yourself before playing a piece in public can be useful for at least two reasons:
- to verify once again if there are still problems with wrong notes or inaccuracy.
- To see if your overall performance feels convincing to you.
The first reason can appear redundant, I realize it. However, sometimes it is only by listening to yourself that you can notice that little note being out of key. Go over the part and you will discover that little note was in fact a different little note and that you had not realized it even as you were reading the whole piece again, as described in the previous paragraph. Darn little note.
Second reason: you know what happens when you hear a recording of your voice, right? The first time is always shocking, you know that. You might think, "who is this person speaking in such an idiotic way…? Welcome Johnny, that idiot is you.
Well, sometimes hearing your own marimba performance can produce a similar effect. Some of your possible reactions might be, for example:
- "Come on, do I really play that fast?"
- "Am I using mallets that are too hard?"
- "The way I am playing this part really stinks!"
- "Wow, how cool! I am really good!!!"
Unfortunately this last sentence gets rarely spoken.
If by this point I have been successful in convincing you that recording yourself can be extremely useful, I am also going to tell you that you don't need fancy technology to do that. The music technology market is already flourishing thanks to people like me, don't worry…
As I was saying, since recording yourself can be extremely useful to you for listening and evaluating your own performance, you can use a simple recorder with a decent sound. Your smartphone is perfect, as long as you keep it far enough from the marimba and you use headphones when listening to your own performance. The marimba's overlapping harmonies are in fact a killer for any speaker.
If you want higher quality, in other words you have money to spend, buy a digital recorder. The quality of your recording will really improve. The only requirements should be that the recorder be small (so you can take it with you in the recording studio and on stage) and that, in order to start recording, the only two keys you have to press are "on" to turn it on and "rec" to start recording. Everything else is completely useless for your purpose and would only be a waste of time, actually a detriment to the good habit of recording yourself which I truly hope you will adopt.
Here are a few random advice for when you will have completed all the phases of the study process and you will have entered the "pre-stage" phase:
- if you still have doubts on your performance, think again about the part; don't bother with YouTube videos. They can be useful during the first phase, to get an idea on how to play the part. Now YOU are the one giving YOUR own interpretation of the piece; you are the one deciding what you want to communicate with it;
- don't leave out the "theatrical" aspect of your performance. Concerts and recitals are still shows;
- even when you are playing alone in the room and no one is listening, imaging that you are actually performing the most important piece in your career, in front of the largest audience in your career, on the most beautiful stage in your career;
- give 100% in all of your performances. Don't settle for 99.9%. Admit to your mistakes only if you have actually made them, not before;
- have fun;
- have fun;
- have fun.
- And have fun!
Question: do you have any final advice to give to a student that have just finished studying a new piece for marimba?


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Are you looking for something fun to do today or over the weekend in Yarmouth, Cape Cod? Our events calendar is loaded with fun happenings including (but not limited to) concerts, festivals, road races and kid's programs.
Browse our list of Cape Cod events to find your next adventure. You can sort by date and submit a new listing should you know of an upcoming event in Yarmouth, MA that is not already listed.
Family Fun Week
Name: Family Fun Week
Date: April 15, 2019 - April 20, 2019
Website: http://www.capecodmaritimemuseum.org
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Visit during April vacation week for family activities including a scavenger hunt & arts and crafts.

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About Merilux
Strong roots provide stability, in business as in nature, enabling an enterprise to reach confidently upwards and send its branches wide. Merilux is such a free-standing, landmark enterprise, like a magnificent tree with branches spread across the Sydney metropolitan area. And, yes, we too owe much to our roots.
Business was in Frank Arlotta's (pictured right) blood, but even he could not have foreseen that, 34 years after starting out a paint merchant with a store on Taverners Hill in Leichhardt, his Merilux initiative would command absolute respect as one of Sydney's leading paint retailers.
It would be fair to say that across 4 generations, family has been heart and soul of our business success. And our customers are an essential part of that; we treat them almost like extended family.
"As family we appreciate the importance of the home. A house is more than just a physical structure; it can be a source of warmth and vitality. You actually draw strength from the place you live. It makes sense when you think about it. If you can make your home a place of beauty, of happiness and harmony, the effect spills over into your whole life. And because we understand that, and because we're so committed to family, that's exactly what we try to help our customers achieve."
From the moment you walk through the door till the final coat of paint is applied, Merilux is involved. Our consultants guide you through the often stressful process of deciding the right colour combination. With a state-of-the-art computerised colour matching service, you are ensured precision. Trained sales staff are on hand to advise about paint and paper types and quantities. If you need a painter, we can assist here too. We'll organise one of our qualified tradesman to come out and give you a free quote. We even handle delivery to anywhere in the Sydney metropolitan area.
Merilux supplies:
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Cruise 2020
We're delighted to present a fantastic new cruise 2020 sailing from Dundee.
This new itinerary, the Best of Norway & Scottish Isles Cruise, has been carefully planned in partnership with Cruise and Maritime Voyages.
Departing directly from Dundee, returning to Greenock, this superb voyage will first take you to Norway and some of the most stunning scenery to be found anywhere in the world.
You will be dazzled by the awe-inspiring beauty of the Majestic Fjords of Western Norway.
Surrounded by soaring mountains and spectacular waterfalls, you will glide along on board Magellan through mirror-calm, deep waters and some of the most scenic landscape in the world.
You'll then set sail for some of Scotland's unique and beautiful islands – Orkney and Shetland, world-famous Skye and scenic Mull.
We'll bring you an experience you will remember and treasure forever. All you have to do is sit back as the sights and sounds are brought to you.
This fabulous holiday offers glamour, excitement, relaxation, great food and entertainment, comfortable accommodation and excellent service and facilities.
To avoid disappointment book early and join us on board for this incredible voyage.
Price Includes
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- Excellent service standards from a very friendly and attentive crew
- Delicious full board cuisine, plus afternoon teas and late night snacks
- Welcome & Farewell Captain's Cocktail Parties
- Self service tea and coffee, from 6am to midnight
- Stylish entertainment, cabarets and popular classical interludes
- Daytime activities programme
- Informative guest speakers and arts & crafts
- Wide range of leisure facilities to enrich your time on board
- Porterage of luggage from port to cabin
- Port taxes
Shore Excursions
Exact shore excursions for this holiday are still to be finalised.
Keep an eye on this page, once available, we will update accordingly, allowing to choose from a great range of exciting excursions.
These will allow you to take in the fantastic beauty and splendour of the Norwegian fjords, visit some important UNESCO-listed World Heritage Sites, and explore one of Europe's best cities, including Bergen.
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text: Max Lucado in his book Unshakable Hope – Building our lives on the Promises of God says that we can rely on God because his promises towards us will stand. I asked the Lord to show me a promise that he has for us. The next morning I was reading an email from The Institute for Creation Research and they spoke of Following Righteousness. "Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." 2 Timothy 2:22. They went on to say the word "follow" is translated "persecute" and if anyone wants to serve the Lord Jesus faithfully they must be determined to pursue righteousness. This is were the promise comes in. Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." I can't even begin to explain how wonderful God is! He heard my prayer and showed me a promise in his word. If we pursue God, he will meet us where we are. We have this promise and many more that we can stand on in our daily lives.


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The European Commission this morning announced that it's cleared Vodafone's proposed €18 billion takeover of Liberty Global's cable businesses in Germany, Hungary, Romania and Czechia, subject to certain conditions. The deal, which is expected to now complete by July 31st, will add substantial assets to what was already one of Europe's largest cable operators. Following the completion, Vodafone says it will have 22.1 million TV customers across 13 European countries, making it Western Europe's largest TV operator by subscriber count, going by Digital TV Research's forecasts. Sky, the closest rival, doesn't specify exactly how many TV subscribers it has, but in its most recent financial report said it has 23 million customers overall – given that this includes non-TV subscribers, it seems likely that Vodafone will overtake it.
Vodafone is taking on a somewhat troubled set of businesses – Liberty Global reported in its Q1 results this year that rebased revenues for those businesses were down 2.6 percent year-on-year, performing worse than the rest of the company. But Vodafone believes it can turn these units around. "The transaction is expected to generate cost and capex synergies with a net present value of over €6 billion after integration costs, and revenue synergies with an NPV exceeding €1.5 billion from cross selling to the combined customer base," said Vodafone CEO Nick Read.
However while the merger will give Vodafone a wide reach across different European markets, the plan is still to keep TV offerings separate in different markets. "Obviously every market is different, and they have different legal requirements on content, and also different audience tastes," a Vodafone spokesperson told VAN. "So there's going to be no change to our content strategy when it comes to local markets."
To secure the Commission's approval, Vodafone has agreed to a number of "remedies" to ease concerns about the affects the deal could have on Germany's broadband and TV markets. The Commission said that the merged company might have too much power over German TV broadcasters, and could prevent them from creating new over-the-top (OTT) services. It also said it was concerned about diminished competition in the market for retail supply of fixed broadband services which would result from the deal.
To address these concerns, Vodafone has agree to four measures:
- It will give Telefónica access to the merged entity's cable network in Germany.
- It won't contractually restrict broadcasters from distributing their content via their own OTT services.
- It won't increase feed-in transmission fees paid by free-to-air broadcasters in Germany.
- It will continue to carry free-to-air broadcasters' HbbTV signals.
The Vodafone spokesperson said that these four measures won't change the company's strategy. "Fundamentally what we've done is given commitments to the broadcasters not to do things which we weren't planning to do anyway. We've just formally committed that we won't do them, so there's no real change."
The Commission believes that these commitments are sufficient to alleviate competition concerns. "We have today approved Vodafone's purchase of Liberty Global's business in Czechia, Germany, Hungary and Romania subject to remedies designed to ensure that customers will continue enjoying fair prices, high-quality services and innovative products," said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition.
Not everyone agrees. Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone's main rival in Germany, has contested the proposed takeover since it was announced last year, and said today that the remedies proposed are not sufficient. "Cable monopolies will continue to be created in the cable-served areas – supported by the privilege of automatic inclusion of cable TV fees in ancillary rental costs (Nebenkostenprivileg)," the company said in a statement. "This closes off an important market not only to Deutsche Telekom, but also to the entire sector." Deutsche Telekom also claimed that the merger will complicate the roll out of optical fibre in Germany.


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Elizabeth Naccarato began her Piano studies at the age of 6 at The Dominican Convent in Houston, Texas and won her first competition at the age of nine. She then began composing, studying Voice and Theory.
Elizabeth performed and competed extensively before attending and graduating from The University of Southern California, as a Piano Performance major.
She released her first album Jarrell's Cove in 1995 to critical and commercial success. Her follow up album, North Sycamore was released in 1996.
Her subsequent albums, Stone Cottage, History, One Piano and Souvenir D'Italia have received critical acclaim and airplay all over the world.
Bachelor Of Music – The University Of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Acting– Janet Alhanti, Los Angeles.
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In the last post on camp I made it through Wednesday. So starting with Thursday... Our room had bunk beds which were lots of fun for the kids. They would rotate who slept on top. We were always nervous when Kate was on top that she would fall off. One night we heard a big thump and jumped up assuming Kate fell off the top. It was actually Ben who fell off the bottom bunk! Ha! He was fine.
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After announcing its launch in Austin this December, Surf is now opening its second Texas city today in Dallas.
Beginning today, rideshare drivers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area can apply to receive a free Surf tablet to upgrade their ride and make more money. Drivers who complete more than 150 rides each month and who have been driving for Lyft or Uber for at least two months are eligible to receive a free Surf tablet.
"We are thrilled to share Surf's engaging rideshare entertainment platform with the passengers, drivers and local businesses of Dallas," said Eli Chmouni, Surf founder and CEO. "We look forward to creating memorable experiences with all who come across a Surf tablet during their next rideshare trip."
Dallas drivers will join the network of rideshare drivers using Surf tablets in Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin.
Learn more and apply for a free tablet at ridewithsurf.com/drivers.


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Wynnum West residents enjoy convenient proximity to the bay and a relaxed lifestyle while experiencing all the benefits of handy amenities. For these and many other reasons, the suburb is very popular with professionals, retirees and families. It also has a great reputation for being perfect for raising children. All these groups have one thing in common – they're busy people. If you have an upcoming relocation and have an active lifestyle that can't be put on hold, call Optimove, your top Wynnum West removalists.
We understand that it's difficult finding the time to move, let alone finding the spare hands and strong back to make it happen. This is one task where calling in expert help really pays off. You won't have to worry about lifting heavy refrigerators or furniture – everything will be moved professionally through tight doorways and down steep stairs. Our removal teams bring exceptional experience to your relocation. They are presented well in their Optimove branded uniforms, arrive punctually and work fast. Importantly, they know how to handle all your precious possessions carefully, from delicate china to a pool table.
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How To Run Research In Agile Sprints By Democratizing It Across Teams
How To Run Research In Agile Sprints By Democratizing It Across Teams
As more organizations adopt Agile the traditional means of running user research simply can't keep up. Quarterly or even monthly lab sessions can't be wedged into two-week design sprints, and even if they could, there are not enough researchers on the planet to run them. Unfortunately, all too often this means a step backward when it comes to UCD as Agile teams fallback on hunches to drive their design decisions.
But it doesn't have to be this way!
Many digital teams have successfully adapted to embedding testing within design sprints, reducing the risk of launching digital products with a poor UX - like News UK (publisher of The Times and The Sun).
In this webinar, discover how News UK & others have:
- Built the case for running regular research, bringing other parts of the organization onboard
- Democratized testing so that not only researchers, but designers, copywriters, and even product owners, can run studies
- Successfully carried out UX research within two week sprints
Webinar Speakers
Lee's been working in remote research for longer than most (as far back as 2008 AD when he founded WhatUsersDo). Lee is passionate about putting UX insight at the heart of decisions, so it's just as well his focus at UserZoom is to help brands become customer focused by making research BAU.


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First published in 1995, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott is as relevant today as the day it was published. The book has become the definitive how-to guide for new and aspiring writers. The book has been a national best seller and continues to have excellent sales. As of… Continue reading Review: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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Devotional: Heed Instruction
Text: Proverbs 10:17 "Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray." –Crossway Bibles (2011-02-09). The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (p. 534). Crossway. Kindle Edition. As Christian writers, our witness is as important as the stories or poems we write. If our private lives don't match… Continue reading Devotional: Heed Instruction
Devotional: Keep My Words
Text: Proverbs 7: 1-3 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. – Proverbs 7: 1-3 Crossway Bibles (2011-02-09). The Holy Bible, English Standard… Continue reading Devotional: Keep My Words
The Valiant Papers
The Valiant Papers by Calvin Miller is the story of a life told from the perspective of the person's guardian angel. The story is written as though it were true. The book chronicles the life of a businessman who lives a normal, worldly lifestyle, until just before the end when he becomes a Christian. It… Continue reading The Valiant Papers
Review: Write His Answer
I found this wonderful little book while attending a seminar at the Greenlake Conference Center in Greenlake, Wisconsin. The book has 33 short chapters. You can read on a day as part of a daily devotional plan or quiet time. The chapter titles and appendix include Called to Write, Overcoming Procrastination, Seek His Kingdom First,… Continue reading Review: Write His Answer
Review: How to Pray
In How to Pray by R.A. Torrey his practical pointers on prayer clearly unfold the conditions God has established for intelligent, effective prayer that brings His answers, emphasizing the purpose and importance of prayer. He gives principals on: The Importance of Prayer, Praying unto God, Obeying and Praying, Praying in the Name of Christ and According… Continue reading Review: How to Pray
Devotional: Walk In A Manner Worthy Of Your Call To Write
Devotionals for Writer's: Walk In A Manner Worthy Of Your Call To Write Text: Ephesians 4: 1 – 6 Focus: Ephesians: 4: 2 – 4 Maybe you are a Christian writer whose drive is sharing Christian themes for the mainstream market. Your goal may focus on writing to develop Christian Believers. Whatever your motivation, "walk… Continue reading Devotional: Walk In A Manner Worthy Of Your Call To Write
Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is a moving collection of stories of a magical small town summer in 1928. It gives a nostalgic feeling of a childhood long gone. This is not a typical piece of work for Ray Bradbury. There are no supernatural or futuristic happenings. It is a semi-autobiographical recollection. It is fun to read. Dandelion… Continue reading Dandelion Wine
Free France's Lion: The Life Of Philippe Leclerc, De Gaulle's Greatest General by William Moore
Most students of World War II are familiar with General Charles de Gaulle. Only the most serious know of General Philippe Leclerc. I consider myself very knowledgeable when it comes to World War II history. William Mortimer Moore's biography of Philippe Leclerc filled a void in my education. The book is well-written. It held my… Continue reading Free France's Lion: The Life Of Philippe Leclerc, De Gaulle's Greatest General by William Moore


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Chula Vista, CA hardcore exports Take Offense are to release a new EP. "Tensions On High" is out March 30th via Flatspot Records. The band streamed the title track and EP opener recently – they're now streaming the last track from the release , "Just Because You Believe". You can have a listen to the song below.
Pre-orders are up now.
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Flies You Need
Flies You Need
Insects and other foods the trout may be eating:
1. Blue-winged Olives
2 . Green Sedges (Caddis)
3. Cinnamon Caddis (mostly Abrams Creek)
4. Little Sister Caddis (mostly Abrams Creek)
5. LIght Cahills
6. Little Short-horned Sedges
7. American March Browns
8. Eastern Pale Evening Duns
9. Sulphurs
10. Little Yellow Stoneflies
11. Little Green Stoneflies
12. Golden Stoneflies
13. Slate Drakes
14. Streamers (Sculpin, Minnows)
15. Inch Worms
16. Grasshoppers
17. Ants
18. Beetles
Current Weather and Stream Conditions
Great news! It rained. According to the
precipitation map
, the rain was reasonalbly
extensive with over an inch falling in some places. It looks like the Little Pigeon
River and Middle Fork of Little Pigeon River did well. Little River got a bump and is
currently flowing at 133 cfs. The Oconaluftee and Cataloochee Rivers are also in
much better shape as a result of yesterdays and last nights rain. Most importantly,
we still have some very good chances of rain today and through the weekend.
Nest week's forecast is also good. It appears the heat wave will be gone and the
daily highs will return to more normal temperatures.
Little Green Stonefly Adults
Little Green Stonefly (Chloroperlidae Family) adults lay their eggs during the
daylight hours, usually in the afternoon, but are much more prone to do so late in
the day. They do sometimes continue on into the evening hours. Normally,
this activity isn't all that intense but can be at any given isolated location. If you
observe any activity you should certainly try the dry imitation of the adult.
Looking back at our information on the Perfect Fly website I noticed we wrote that
we found some occasions where the egg layers were in full swing in the late
afternoons during approaching thunderstorms. I continued to write that we were
able to catch several trout on an adult imitation each time. Those particular hatches
took place in mid June two straight years in a row in Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. I am not sure which species of Little Green Stoneflies they were but I
did note that they were hatching in the moderately flowing water, not fast moving
pocket water.
I would suggest that you always carry at least a few of Little Green Adult imitations
in case you encounter a hatch of Little Green Stoneflies. In most cases, an up and
across presentation of an adult imitation works. The females usually deposit their
eggs at the ends of the pools. You may find them in other locations where the water
flows moderately.
Perfect Fly
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Video games human yearlong been the scapegoat of politicians and media campaigns. Whilst the majority of the centre has been upon the depictions of violence within games, the furore over Impressive Thievery Motorcar's infamous "Hot Brown" gossip and succeeding judicial wrangling brought on timber the potentiality tilt of portraying explicit sexed acts in games. (Rockstar had at one initiate planned to permit a sex-based mini-game in the heading. The plans were scrapped, but the codification for them remained hidden in the spirited. When a PC adorer scholarly how to make them, instructions on how to operation the accumulation quick disparity across the internet, with an call past resume in the US in Nov of worst gathering (see Rasmussen Reports: 54% Consider Ferocious Video Games Guide to Author Violence in Guild) indicated that the eld of Americans (54% in the taste) believe that ruffianly video games outcome in a much raging society.
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The US
The US relic governed exclusively under a system of ego prescript - as yet there is no yank law against the understanding of rampageous or sexually univocal recording games to children (although reliable states somebody tried to inform governance). The US scheme relies on the unforced ESRB (Diversion Software Rating People, an nonsymbiotic body) assessment scheme which rates titles and polices the marketing of games. The system relies on goodwill- that of retailers and the ESRB - so there is nonentity, as a entity of law, to occlusive kids buying furious games. Attempts score been prefabricated by at littlest two states to ban the occasion of fierce games to children, but unconstrained reprimand prescript after this twelvemonth on whether much a ban would be authorized.
The UK
The UK has a district system for fated types of video games depending upon the volume. Games featuring sex or hostility staleness be submitted for sorting by the Land Commission of Celluloid Arrangement (BBFC) in gift with the Video Recordings Act 1984. The enactment of digital and interactive media was elaborated in the Reprehensible Adjudicator & Open7 Arrangement Act 1994, which introduced a periodical of new tests to the arrangement impact, including a unique duty to believe the 'alteration' that the learning may justification a possible viewer.
Recording games remain generally immune low the Video Recordings Act 1984 (VRA). Nonetheless, the waiver will not relate if that line depicts:
may encourage criminal activeness (or added "matters of concern"); and/or
where the limning of much real is peculiarly pictorial.
The VRA was introduced at a case when games could not desire to rival the imagery of movies and films, but given the growing seeable faithfulness of ongoing and next propagation videogames and the considerable elector of mutual and conventional media amusement, this freedom is of increasingly short regard.
The cognition towards sorting in the games business has shifted over instance and as a ending, umpteen publishers submit each and every new fearless to the BBFC to ensure the brave has been categorised before publishing.
Followers the traveler of the Digital Frugality Act, jural powers individual been acknowledged to the PEGI (Pan-European Mettlesome Information) assessment grouping with meaning from 1 April 2011 and PEGI testament beautify the mend classifier for video games in the UK. Any retailer who sells games after that date to anyone younger than the age papers on the beguiler of a fearless's box is nonresistant to continuation.
In element to the UK's own territory age sorting scheme, the PEGI scheme is a conscious age suitableness scheme aimed primarily at advising parents. In the UK this strategy is supported by UKIE (the Remembering for UK Reciprocal Entertainment, erst ELSPA) and all its members are required to submit all games which are excused from BBFC sorting for sorting under the PEGI group. In opposition to the BBFC method, publishers are required to fill out a self-assessment application strain, supported upon the collection and engage their own advisable age rating which is verified upon receipt.
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I learned a long time ago that checking my e-mail can be exciting at times. Yes, usually it's sorting through spam and questions and action items, but sometimes it's an exciting opportunity, proposal or offer. So, when I got an e-mail entitled "Southern Living, Bunny Williams & Miss Mustard Seed", it immediately caught my attention. I thought it might be a "which one of these things doesn't belong in the title of this e-mail" sort of joke, but it was actually an e-mail asking if I'd like to interview Bunny Williams, the designer of the 2015 Southern Living Idea House in gorgeous Charlottesville, VA.
Here's a peek at the outside…
photo via Southern Living
I love how it's styled after an old stone farmhouse and can't wait to see more of the inside.
If you've read my blog for a while, you know we love the Charlottesville area and have visited there for the past couple of years.
We stayed at the historic Clifton Inn and ate at local farm-to-table restaurants, hiked, hit a few antique shops. It's just a gorgeous area…especially in the fall.
And, Charlottesville is special to us, because my Opa, who our oldest son was named after, is a graduate of the University of Virginia. We use to visit there often and even had season tickets to the football games at one point.
So, if Bunny Williams and Southern Living wasn't enough to keep my attention, the fact that the house was in Charlottesville put it over the top.
Now I had to come up with questions to ask Bunny. I hope she doesn't mind if I call her Bunny! (It feels like the time I called Bob Dole, "Bob" and when I told my dad he just about choked.)
I sat at my keyboard, a little unsure what to ask her. My decorating seems so humble and simple and low budget compared to the stuff she does. What could I ask her that would be relevant to me and my readers? She's been interviewed by a lot of bigwigs, who I'm sure, asked very intelligent, highly technical design questions that sounded much smarter than anything I was about to type.
I then realized that I was coming at things from the wrong direction. Good design is good design. Period. It doesn't matter the budget or the setting or the accolades or the years of experience. There are things that are universal…texture, patterns, color, scale, arrangements, finishing touches, furniture placement…that can be achieved on any budget and in any home. So, I asked questions along those lines. What can we, the non-professional, shelter-magazine-loving, "home girls" learn from Bunny?
photo via Bunny Williams
When designing a room that is a blank slate, where do you usually start?
You need to know what's going to happen in this room and it's important to study the floor plan and really understand the scale of the room so you that you can shop smartly. You should not make any decorating decisions until you know the sofa's not too deep or the chairs are not too small.
Which piece in a room usually takes up the biggest chunk of your budget?
Spend money on good upholstery. Quality upholstery will last – if you tire of the fabric, you can always recover the piece.
photo via Bunny Williams
For those who love the 2015 Southern Living Idea House, what is the best way they can capture this look and put it in their own home?
Homes are meant to be used and lived in. I don't believe living rooms should be reserved for parties and dining rooms should be fallow except on holidays. This house incorporates beautiful upholstery and antiques, but nothing is too precious – it's ready to accommodate a busy family, kids, dogs, and guests. To do the same in your home, put a throw or interesting textile over the sofa to make it pet-friendly, use indoor/outdoor rugs, and use patterned fabrics sparingly such that if one chair needs to be recovered, the whole room doesn't fall apart.
Photo via Bunny Williams
What are your go-to accessories for finishing off a space?
Bedside tables need a little tray, tissues in an attractive container, a bottle of water and a notepad. I love beautiful baskets or porcelain bowls to hold cotton balls or Q-tips in bathrooms. Always have wonderful cachepots around so you can quickly add a plant and make a room come to life. Use hurricane lamps, so at night you can light a candle which gives atmosphere and romance to a room. With this house, we were lucky to have great antique shops nearby to find some of these details.
You said you like to mix antiques with modern furniture. Are their certain antiques you look for specifically? Or do you design around whatever you find?
Just as I like to mix antiques and more modern furniture, I like to mix styles of antiques. If you have a more ornate table, that's when it's really special to have a more modern piece next to it. It gives texture and lets each piece stand out on its own.
photo via Bunny Williams
For the rest of the interview and a video of Bunny Williams talking about designing vs. decorating, visit The Daily South…


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In the Spotlight: UMIACS Launches Newsletter
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The March 2020 issue features Soheil Feizi's NSF award, weather forecasting in virtual reality, the Maryland Center for Women in Computing, and more
The February 2020 issue features a $2.6M grant from NIH, new MC2 director, conference on the future of quantum, and more.
The December 2019 issue features two $1M grants, two IEEE faculty awards, the Maryland Center for Women in Computing, and more.
The November 2019 issue features Pratap Tokekar's work in robotics, Furong Huang's research in machine learning, Ben Shneiderman's and Amitabh Varshney's IEEE Vis Academy induction, and more.
The October 2019 issue features our quantum postdoctoral research fellows, Huashui Peng's work in 3D modeling, our final Rising Star in Machine Learning speaker, and more.
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The 2018 NBA schedule has wrapped up as the Golden State Warriors blew through another NBA Finals run. As the Warriors were tested by the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers fought to Game 7 to knock off the Boston Celtics. Now these two teams enter what looks to be one of the most important off-seasons we have seen around the NBA over the past few seasons.
For the Cavaliers, the time has arrived for another important decision from LeBron James. Meanwhile the Warriors will have to wait for a key decision from one of their own as Kevin Durant hits the open market. As these two teams wait for these decisions, the rest of the NBA and their fans will be waiting as well for these two, as the rest of the top free agents that will hit the market.
Here is a look at some of the top NBA Free Agents that will hit the market this summer and where they could possible land.
LeBron James
The King will be the top name on the free agent market this offseason, and one that every team around the NBA would love to land. After another post season run watching James carry the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals, adding James would make any team a title contender in 2018-19. In the end as many as five or six teams could be in the running for James including the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs.
DeMarcus Cousins
The former Kentucky Wildcats star will hit the free agent market this season and despite a key knee injury that cost him the end of the 2017-18 NBA Season, Cousins will be one of the top free agents this offseason. As the New Orleans Pelicans fight to bring him back to keep him and Anthony Davis together for a potential Western Conference run in 2018-19. Along with the Pelicans a number of teams could be fighting for Cousins including a Lakers team that will look to land two of the top free agents this offseason. Other teams could include the Houston Rockets, and even the Wizards as John Wall will make a push to team up with his former Wildcats teammate.
Kevin Durant
You could argue that Durant and James are 1a and 1b of the free agent crop this offseason. While teams will do everything in their power to sign James, most expect Durant to resign with the Warriors on a max extension. If Durant were to have a change of heart his home town team, the Washington Wizards, could be an interesting option.
Paul George
In any other offseason, George may be the top free agent option but this year he will see his name behind the likes of a few of the other top stars. George who continued his All-Star run in 2017-18 has been linked to the Lakers for the past few offseasons and the question now is, will he return home to sign with them this offseason? An interesting option would be the Clippers, who would also share a home arena in downtown Los Angeles at the Staples Center. Outside of Los Angeles, another possible landing spot will be a surprise.
Along with these free agents, here are a few of the other top free agents to monitor during the NBA Free Agency during the Summer of 2018, a list that includes Chris Paul (Unrestricted), Nikola Jokic (Team Option), Aaron Gordon (Restricted), DeAndre Jordan (Unrestricted), Zach LaVine and Tyreke Evans.
Now the big question is which teams around the NBA will make the biggest splash during free agency.


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SOURCE: BULLETIN BRIEFS, Vol. 1, #9, 9/98
by Tracy Dugger
Jesus stated to His apostles, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned" (Mark 16:15-16). Surely this passage is among the clearest in all the Bible. It explicitly teaches that baptism is necessary for salvation. However, many attempt to dismiss the force of Jesus' words: "He that believeth and is baptized hall be saved." They teach, "He that believeth and is NOT baptized shall be saved." One can easily see that Jesus did not so teach.
One objection leveled against God's people when they teach from Mark 16:16 is that Jesus did not say, "He that believeth not AND IS NOT BAPTIZED shall be damned." When Curtis Porter met Glenn Tingley on this matter in public debate, Tingley responded to Porter's argument on Mark 16:16 by saying that it did NOT say, "he that believeth not and IS NOT baptized shall be damned."
Brother Porter countered in the following manner:
"No. I know it did not. If it had, it would have been silly. Suppose that some of you teachers who have a class in school, would give your class this statement tomorrow: "He that eats food and digests it shall
have health." You require the class to bring the negative of that on the following day. The next day Johnnie comes back with this: "He that eats food and digests it shall have health; but he that eats not and does NOT DIGEST IT shall starve." I wonder what kind of grade little Johnnie would get on that? … Why that's silly–the very idea of digesting food that you haven't eaten.
Let me tell you, my friends, the man who has not believed can no more be scripturally baptized than a man can digest food that he has not eaten. It takes both eating the food and digesting the food to bring health; but eating no food alone will bring starvation; and you do not have to say, "And does not digest it."
It takes both belief and baptism to bring the salvation; but unbelief alone will bring the damnation; and you do not have to say, "And is not baptized." It takes both belief and baptism to bring salvation, but belief alone will bring condemnation."
[PORTER-TINGLEY DEBATE, Dehoff Publications, Murfreesboro, TN, 1947, p. 269].
Porter devastated the error of Mr. Tingley by using a simple parallel.


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Dylan Ratigan
Last winter, as blizzard snowfalls piled up into several feet in the nation's capital, conservatives mocked global warming alarmists for trying to link weather incidents to global warming. But as summer heat waves, volcanoes and sinkholes have appeared recently, climate alarmists proved they missed the point.
A top Obama administration scientist attacked global warming skeptics during the winter by pointing out that "weather is not the same thing as climate." ABC's Bill Blakemore argued the same thing in order to defend the existence of manmade global warming on Jan. 8, 2010.
But Associated Press, USA Today, The New York Times and The Washington Post have all promoted a connection between the extreme heat and weather around the world this summer and global warming. One CNN host asked if the events were the "apocalypse" or global warming. The Huffington Post proposed naming hurricanes and other disasters after climate change "deniers."
Want to see a textbook example of how the left has tried to frame the debate against extending the Bush tax cuts? Take a look at Cenk Uygur, of "The Young Turks" fame, playing the class warfare/populism card.
On MSNBC's Aug. 17 broadcast of "The Dylan Ratigan Show," Uygur was up in arms over the argument that taxes shouldn't be raised by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. He alluded to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, who made the case in 2007 that the wealthy should give more to society.
"Look at what Warren Buffett said," Uygur said. "He's talking to 400 wealthy donors and he says, 'Look, the 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than the receptionists do, than our cleaning ladies do. For that matter, if you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.'"
And Buffett has been a long-time advocate of higher tax rates - something easy to be for when you're one of the richest men in the world. However, Uygur says it's not good enough for Buffett to be charitable. According to Uygur, this "giving" must come in the form of "mandatory" higher taxes.
MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Monday dismissed the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque as a "political smokescreen." The liberal anchor derided opponents of the planned construction who live in other states, sneering that there are "people in Kansas, California, Alaska, saying 'Oh my God. The sky is falling. The Muslims are going to kill us! It's all going to end!'"
He compared, "But, the people in Tribeca and Soho who are just, kind of, getting a cup of coffee."
Earlier in the segment, Ratigan wondered, "But is all this back and forth just a political smoke screen? Polls show a majority of Americans struggling with the same conflict as the President's statements and his expressions."
VandeHei rejected the NAACP's claim of racism in the political movement: "It's a very, very diffuse group. You cannot say that they are racist anymore then you can say the Republican Party's racist or the Democratic Party is racist, so it creates this culture and it's a dangerous topic, it's a dangerous fire to light, and then when it happens this is the outcome."
Explaining how the NAACP charge led to the accusations against Sherrod, VandeHei observed: "I'm not defending Breitbart. But conservatives are outraged, they feel like 'listen, you're – because I'm part of the tea party movement you say, therefore, I'm racist.' And so what Breitbart's arguing is 'I want to push back.'"
Eschewing any sense of balanced reporting, Ratigan thundered: "I said I'm in charge of the show. I decide who I'll talk to. I might spend the entire time talking to Jonathan Capehart and not talk to you at all. And then you can choose never to come on my show again."
"I'm sorry, Jonathan was taking up a lot of my time earlier in the segment," explained Freire. "Look at the amount of time he's been talking and the amount of time I was talking."
Not content with simply wishing her a happy birthday, Ratigan went on to declare: "Arianna Huffington, who represents such a voice of truth and the highest aspiration for any individual that hopes to improve themselves each and every day, as they go through their days, to be better, not only for themselves, but to those around them." He concluded: "I believe she is a role model for all of us in that regard and couldn't be happier for her."
In reality, the Huffington Post has been far from a "voice of truth," let alone representing anyone's "highest aspiration." As a 2007 Media Research Center report, Huffington's House of Horrors, detailed, "the HuffPost's content reveals that flame-throwing, name-calling, and hate speech against conservatives are all on the Web site's everyday menu."
Given Ratigan's own incendiary nature, displayed regularly on his show, perhaps Huffington truly is his "role model."
Ratigan then wondered: "...for a movement, however, that prides itself on having no formal ties to the federal government, forget the aspect of being full of crap when it comes to the banking system, why are the Republican Party members and tea party members so receptive to getting together?" He posed that question to his guests, left-wing talk show host Cenk Uygur and former Bill Clinton speechwriter Michael Waldman.
Uygur couldn't agree more with Ratigan's assessment: "You took the words right out of my mouth. She [Bachmann] is so full of crap. I mean, she might be the queen of crap." He then proclaimed: "All she's ever done is protected the bankers....I guess the tea party movement, in essence, is actually about protecting the richest people in America. Wow, what a populist movement you have there."
Waldman took the conversation even lower, as he argued: "The Republicans would like to benefit from the...neurotic energy of the tea party. But they don't really want them in the front parlor. They don't want everybody to identify their extremism with the Republican Party, just the way the Democrats didn't want the Weathermen determining the face...At the front of the house." The Weathermen, or Weather Underground, was a anti-war domestic terrorist organization during the Vietnam war era. Barack Obama associate Bill Ayers was a member.
The Dallas Tea Party on Thursday accused MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Dylan Ratigan of racism.
Since January 20, 2009, all four of these men have criticized Barack Obama for one reason or another.
As MSNBC has been one of the strongest proponents of the despicable concept that anyone critical of this president must be a racist, DTP's founder Phillip Dennis believes the same should be true for that network's employees.
With this in mind, the DTP has created a marvelous video illustrating the point (video follows with commentary):
Leave it to Dylan Ratigan, one of the star personalities at MSNBC who seems to be constantly looking for a reason to be angry.
On his July 12 show, Ratigan posed his view on how trade between China and the United States operates. According to Ratigan, importing products where labor costs are significantly lower is akin to slavery. He specifically named Foxconn, a company that manufactures iPhones and iPads for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). (h/t @KenShepherd)
"Do you want to get raw?" Ratigan said. "Let's say that the American people happily, logically apathetic are perfectly happy basically with a slave culture of illegals and outsourced slaves in China making iPhones at Foxconn and that for as much as we talk about the liberation of the slaves and we like to pat ourselves on the back for the Civil War - got a big statue of Abe Lincoln. All we've really done is alter the color of some our slaves and moved them to other countries. Is that too extreme on my part, Matt?"
"MSNBC guest anchor Cenk Uygur filled in for the equally insane and inane Dylan Ratigan and pushed the crazy idea that President Obama is a conservative," he wrote. The video of the segment is all there because Dobbs embedded it from the Media Research Center.
Dobbs, who still has a talk radio show, then went on to criticize Uygur's twisted logic that, Uygur's words Obama "seems to have bought into the Republican talking point on deficits."
Then he went on criticize "the old-standby, Mr. Tingle Up His Leg Chris Matthews" for saying there are only two camps in the nation - "those who want things to improve and those who want to see the country, and therefore the president, fail."
Uygur preceded this statement with a rant on how ridiculous it is for Obama to express concern about the ever-growing deficit when "60 percent of Americans favor additional government spending to create jobs and stimulate the economy." Uygur and liberal guest Ryan Grim of "The Huffington Post" could not understand President Obama's rationale for focusing on deficit concerns.
Grim argued that, "when people say they are concerned about the deficit" they are just really saying that, "they are nervous about the economy. That's all they mean. So if you solve the economic problems, you're going to solve the deficit concerns."
He wondered why the media hadn't reported on the supposed radical shift in American politics and quickly came up with this explanation: "Why the media didn't challenge it is because they [conservatives] kept calling them the liberal media, and why did they call them that? Because during civil rights, they [the media] said 'yeah, black people and white people are the same' and the conservatives at the time said 'damn liberal media,' and, you know, that intimidated the media into not recognizing this trend."
Uygur's liberal guests, author Linda Monk and Wesleyen University professor Claire Potter did not disagree. In fact, Monk made sure to criticize President Eisenhower for his views on civil rights: "...let's not be too celebratory of Eisenhower. He did stand up for the desegregation decisions. He did his job as president. But privately he was known for saying that racial desegregation was social disintegration, so he perhaps wasn't as progressive on the race issue as some would interpret his actions to be."


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'This year, Secondary Health and Wellbeing week will run from Monday the 27th to Friday the 31st of May. Pupils have been given a slip of paper that outlines their personal plan for the week. If you would like to double check what equipment is required for a trip and/or activity, please consult the file attached on the school website, which outlines our plans for the week.
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Boys Varsity Baseball · Northside Patriots win first GHSA 4A state title – WTVM
Check out the article from WTVM – Northside Patriots win first GHSA 4A state title
Check out the article from WTVM – Northside Patriots win first GHSA 4A state title
Check out this article from the Columbus Ledger featuring our Patriot Baseball State Champs! Photo: Columbus Ledger
Northside Baseball Team – State Champions!
The Baseball State Championship game is today, May 21st at 5:00 PM in Rome, GA. Family and friends can watch all games live at NFHSNetwork.com/GHSA. Tune in and support our Patriots!
The Baseball team State Championship game is Tuesday, May 21st at 5:00 PM in Rome, GA. Northside will have a fan bus that will leave Northside at 1PM. Reserve your seat Friday during lunch. Must bring $30 cash: $15 fro game ticket and $15 for the bus. All absences are going to be excused. The
Northside spring Sports update: Our boys tennis team made the state playoffs. Our girls tennis team reached the 2nd round (Sweet 16) of the state playoffs. Our boys soccer team made the state playoffs. Our rifle team completed their season with a 9th Place state finish at the State Meet last week. Our girls soccer
Northside Baseball Camp Sponsored by NHS Dugout Club Monday, June 3rd – Thursday, June 6th 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM NHS Baseball Field Kids – ages 5 to 12 $100.00 1st child/$75 additional children Kids Camp 2019
Congratulations to our Northside Athletes! Kennedi Bedell, softball, Hampton University Jada Chadwick, softball, Central Alabama Community College Emily Holmes, softball, Columbus State University Gabi Apiag, softball, University of Alabama Birmingham Spencer Chandler, baseball, Columbus State University Colton Joyner, baseball, Columbus State University


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Deborah Bennett, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health in the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, will speak at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in 1003 Kemper Hall, on the UC Davis campus. Her presentation is titled "Understanding Exposures and Human Health: The Intake Fraction Approach for Chemical Releases Both Indoors and Outdoors." Admission is free.
Bennett earned her master's degree and PhD in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley in 1996 and '99, respectively. She then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher and scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. In 2001, she became an assistant professor of environmental health and risk assessment at the Harvard School of Public Health, Environmental Health Department, and Center for Risk Assessment. She joined the UC Davis faculty in 2005.
Her research focuses on the fate, transport and exposure of organic compound chemicals in multi-scale applications, including consumer product use; and indoor and outdoor multimedia environments within the context of both environmental epidemiology and risk assessment. Specific interests include indoor air quality, as determined by the penetration and deposition of particles, indoor sources of volatile organic compounds, methods for quantifying indoor concentrations for exposure, and exposures in retail, office and commercial environments; agricultural emissions and their exposure to agricultural workers; and air pollution and health.
Her research has been funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the American Chemistry Council, the National Institute for Environmental Health, and the California Air Resources Board. She has served on numerous EPA science advisory boards, panels and advisory committees related to the Exposure Factors Handbook and exposure metrics for the National Children's Study. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
This Winter 2016 Seminar Series is hosted by the UC Davis Industrial Ecology (IE) Program. Each seminar topic is open to research founded on principles of industrial ecology (even if the research wasn't originally conceived in terms of IE). Industrial ecology is "the study of the flows of materials and energy in industrial and consumer activities, or more broadly the effects of these flows on the environment, and of the influences of economic, political, regulatory and social factors on the flow, use and transformation of resources." (White, R. 1994. Preface. The Greening of Industrial Ecosystems, edited by B. R. Allenby and R. J. Deanna. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.) Design practices — such as green chemistry and green engineering; urban metabolism; life cycle assessment; emission or nutrient flow analyses; environmental impact assessment, and nearly all systematic analyses of resource and waste flows (to land, water and air) — all fall within the scope of industrial ecology.
The seminars gives students, staff and faculty an opportunity to learn more about industrial ecology, and the UC Davis faculty and students who are conducting IE-related research.
The winter quarter series features three programs, all held in 1003 Kemper Hall. Each seminar includes a 40–45-minute presentation, followed by a 15–20-minute Q&A session. The series continues March 3, with a presentation by John Harvey; and will conclude March 10, with a talk by Sonja Brodt.
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Welcome to the Eversea and Forever Jack Tour, hosted by Xpresso Book Tours !~
Title: Eversea [Eversea #1]
Author: Natasha Boyd
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: June 4, 2013
An orphaned, small-town, southern girl, held hostage by responsibility and self-doubt.
A Hollywood A-list mega-star, on the run from his latest scandal and with everything to lose.
A chance encounter that leads to an unlikely arrangement and epic love affair that will change them both forever.
When his co-star and real-life girlfriend is caught cheating on him with her married and much older director, A-list hottie, Jack Eversea, finds himself in sleepy Butler Cove, South Carolina. Jack hopes the sultry southern heat in this tiny coastal Lowcountry town will hide him not only from the tabloids and his cheating girlfriend, but his increasingly vapid life and the people who run it. He doesn't count on meeting Keri Ann Butler.
Keri Ann has relied on herself so long, dealing with her family's death and the responsibilities of keeping up her family's historic mansion, that boys and certainly the meager offering of eligible boys in Butler Cove, have never figured into her equation. But fate has other plans. Suddenly face to face with the man who played the movie role of her favorite fictional character, Jack has Keri Ann yearning for everything she has previously avoided … and Jack must decide whether this funny, sassy girl is worth changing his life for, before his mistakes catch up to him.
Check out my review for Eversea here.
Buy Links for Eversea:
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Title: Forever Jack [Eversea #2]
Author: Natasha Boyd
Publication Date: November 25, 2013
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
A feisty small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart
An all-consuming love threatened by fame
One last chance at FOREVER
Keri Ann Butler's life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack Eversea. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different to the man adored by fans the world over. In the wake of his betrayal and abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life she was supposed to live and has put off far too long.
Suddenly Jack is back, and his explanations for why he left seem more and more plausible, and his declarations more seductive. But being Jack's latest tabloid accessory isn't on Keri Ann's career agenda, no matter how much she is attracted to him. And how can she can ever trust him again?
Jack knows he let the only 'real' thing that ever happened to him slip through his fingers. And his hands have been tied to try and stop it. Until Now.
Jack is now fighting to save his relationship with Keri Ann, even as his crazy life threatens to tear them apart. Again. The question is, can he convince her she can have it all? And have him? Forever?
The beginning of this book was crazy intense, like OMFG WHAT JUST HAPPENED, kind of intense. On one hand, I'm exceptionally pleased with how Boyd spun the whole separation thing, and the reasons for it. However, it was, once again, one of those sequels where there's just a little too much pining and very few attempts to do anything about it.
I was not pleased that most of the book was spent in a depressing slump, for not just Keri-Ann, but also Jack. Sure there was definitely determination, but there was a lot of "should I trust him?" and "he doesn't love me anymore" and "has she moved on?" I get that that was a big part of the story, how regaining that trust was a must, but I feel like this whole love interest disappearing for 90% of the second book has been used one too many times.
In addition, I felt like there was a little bit of a repetition of the first book, where Jack's once again trying to prove his worth and gain Keri-Ann's trust. However, I liked that there was a lot more character development with regards to this. Keri-Ann still liked Jack, but she didn't want to stand in his shadow, or only be in the spotlight because of his name. I loved that she was still trying to find herself throughout the novel, and gained more and more confidence in herself and in her work. I also liked that we got to delve into Jack's past a little, getting to learn about his family, especially his mother, and little bits about him and his father. While I would have liked to learn more, I'm actually kind of happy that it wasn't that kind of soul-wrenching digging into the deep depressing stuff kind of story, kind of holding true to the overall mood of the series.
I actually really liked the plot. It was a great way of keeping them apart, despite my animosity to the separation in itself. Often times, it's the fact the one or the other is keeping themselves away, but I think the concept that Boyd came up with was pretty clever, though slightly frustrating. I was extremely pleased with how the separation make the two characters grow, as well. It really gave some perspective to the story, and by the end of the book, I loved that they found themselves, apart from their relationship. I appreciated that they put their work, their dreams, and their goals above their relationship, or at least they held them at the same level. So many books these days have the characters toss all that out of the window in the name of love, and I liked that this book was realistic and not overwhelmingly lovey-dovey.
Overall, a fantastic sequel to Eversea, Forever Jack will bring you back into Jack and Keri-Ann's world, and take you on a journey through pain, love, and self-actualization. Well written, well executed, a great finale to their story.
Plot: 4/5
Characters: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Cover: 4.5/5
Overall: 4.5/5
GoodReads: 4.22/5
Buy Links for Forever Jack:
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Natasha Boyd is a writer with a background in marketing and public relations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and lives in the coastal Carolina Lowcountry, complete with Spanish moss, alligators and mosquitoes the size of tiny birds. She has a husband, two sons and a host of scared relatives that worry the next book will be about them. She is a member of Georgia Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and Island Writers Network, where she has been a featured speaker. Forever, Jack is the sequel to her award-winning and first full-length novel, Eversea.
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Tour Schedule:
January 27th
–Reading Books Like a Boss >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Anna's Book Blog >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Not Everyone's Mama >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–A_TIffyFit's Reading Corner >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Jessica Loves Books >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Bookcrushin >> Eversea (Book 1)
–The Book Bellas >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–She Reads New Adult >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Books and Swoons >> Eversea (Book 1)
January 28th
–GingerRead Review >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Ebook Escapes >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Between Printed Pages >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Beauty Brains and Books >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile >> Eversea (Book 1)
–My Reading Room >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–The Scarlet Siren >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Tome Tender >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
January 29th
–Krista's Dust Jacket >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Book Sniffers Anonymous >> Eversea (Book 1)
–kimberlyfaye reads >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–The Book Hookup >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Out of the Blue >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Louisa's Reviews >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Up All Night Book Addict >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–No Bent Spines >> Eversea (Book 1)
January 30th
–Paranormal Opinion >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–A Life Bound By Books >> Eversea (Book 1)
–Writing My Own Fairy Tale >> Eversea (Book 1)
–Because reading is better than real life >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Rumpled Sheets Blog >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Two Sassy Chicks >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Stuffed Shelves >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
January 31st
–What's Beyond Forks? >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–A Life Bound By Books >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Bookfever >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–seeing Night Reviews >> Eversea (Book 1)
–A Bookish Escape >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Reader Rising >> Eversea (Book 1)
February 1st
–SBookLover Reviews >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Reviews by Tammy & Kim >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Nicely Phrased >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–No BS Book Reviews >> Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Dandelion Dreams >> Eversea (Book 1)
–Chapter Break >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)
–Shh Moms Reading >> Eversea (Book 1) & Forever Jack (Book 2)


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Similar to this – but a little more reliable – is using 'Median' prices to determine a rising or falling market. Here, a middle sale amount is chosen where 50% of the sales are above this number and 50% of places sold are below this number.
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Conclusion: when we see a report stating Benchmark prices are 2-3% higher than they were in July of 2017 one consideration must be given to the age and condition of the benchmark home as well as the market conditions today versus a year ago. I am sure you will remember last year with a supply of houses so low that even 'garbage ' properties were selling within 2 weeks for full price or more.
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