Less sun today, so it was decidedly chilly, but we know how to wrap up warm.
We did a decent amount of flying including David Humphreys who converted to the Junior. And our latest convert from power flying, Simon, was introduced to glider aerobatics by Gary who took him along as a passenger while he practised. Simon was not deterred by this experience and will be back for more next weekend, having realised that gliding gives him much better value flying than power - and a lot more fun.
Today got off to a shaky start when gremlins got into the clubhouse and attacked the IT and the heating boiler. The hardy Bronze course attenders wrapped up warm and carried on with Jane's lively presentation about air law keeping everyone warm. Things mechanical were soon back working with the assistance of some handy club members, clubhouse now warm again.
Glyn and Heggie flew to Shobdon for Sunday lunch and to check out the wave, for some members every day is like Sunday.
A lovely day to get your feet in the air and all of the two seaters were in the air as well as Junior FZA and the BBC's LS8.
Graham Saw test flew our newly refurbished K13 CFA and reports that nothing fell off. Congratulations to Robin Willgoss and all of the other club members who helped out with this work.
Graham has also been selected as one of the 4-strong British team to compete in the 1st World Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships in Jamijarvi, Finland in July. He is now looking for sponsorship for his mosquito repellent.
After successfully passing her Bronze exam, cadet Siena Whiteside (pictured here with Bob Davey) had the last flight of the day.
Ps Oliver Llewellyn is looking for an insurance share in a Club class glider, if interested please leave a message at the office.
An excellent Bronze lecture on Saturday, Alun Jenkins making meteorology understandable. This was followed by a delicious chilli lunch provided by Donna, mother of Siena who is one of our cadets. Donna is a power pilot who has been converted to the pleasures of gliding through her involvement with the cadets, and is now in danger of being signed up as Catering Manager. About 30 members turned up for the chilli, unfortunately Graham and Robin arrived late from the workshop and had to make do with leftover bread and cheese. As a result of their hard work, CFA is now rigged after its annual and looks immaculate with a refurbished cockpit, it will be back flying as soon as the weather allows. Many thanks to them for their efforts.
followed by an opportunity to take the exam. If you intend to take the exam you will need to bring a protractor and ruler for the navigation section.
Last Saturday 3 brave souls slithered their way up the M40 to attend Bob Smith's renowned talk on Theory of Flight. Today there was a roomful of aspiring pre-Bronze pilots to listen to Steve Williams on Navigation and NOTAMs, a very worthwhile topic. Following on from this, Jane dropped in to promote the club's expeditions to Shobdon (20-28 March - list now open in the office) and Aboyne (3 weeks starting 3 October). And finally, Tim Scott arrived to launch the new Booker mentoring scheme aimed at improving cross country performance and soaring ability for every single member - more information in due course.
Some variety in the clubhouse today as we tried out Graham's latest radio-controlled toys.
'This Saturday saw another batch of enthusiastic pilots go through the popular Aerobatics Course run by Graham Saw and Alun Jenkins. The tug pilots were ecstatic after twenty seven launches to 4000 feet. The courses are on the first Saturday of every month throughout the winter.
The enthusiasm for aerobatics ran on into Sunday with some more advanced figures being flown under Graham's critical eye.
Sunday also saw the first thermal soaring flight of 2010, this year's honours going to Craig Cairns who took Bob Davey along for 32 minutes of soaring in a K21.
Earlier in December we had a special occasion when Hilary Binner was persuaded to leave the warmth of the Booker office to take her first flight in a glider over the snowy Chilterns. The big grin when she landed said it all.


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The federal government's representative, State Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry Robert Kloos, deflated hopes that a ban could come soon. "At the moment, we are missing the legal basis needed for a ban," he said, for the time being we must wait on the EU's approval procedure.
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Doing Business 2019
January 24, 2019 by Walker
The World Bank's latest Doing Business report is out (check out the last couple years). The report "measures regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business. Ten of these areas are included in this year's ranking on the ease of doing business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Doing Business also measures labor market regulation, which is not included in this year's ranking."
It's key findings are as follows:
Doing Business captured a record 314 regulatory reforms between June 2, 2017, and May 1, 2018. Worldwide, 128 economies introduced substantial regulatory improvements making it easier to do business in all areas measured by Doing Business.
The economies with the most notable improvement in Doing Business 2019 are Afghanistan, Djibouti, China, Azerbaijan, India, Togo, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Turkey and Rwanda.
One-third of all business regulatory reforms recorded by Doing Business 2019 were in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. With a total of 107 reforms, Sub-Saharan Africa once again has a record number this year.
The BRIC economies—Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China—introduced a total of 21 reforms, with getting electricity and trading across borders the most common areas of improvement.
The 10 top economies in the ease of doing business ranking share common features of regulatory efficiency and quality, including mandatory inspections during construction, automated tools used by distribution utilities to restore service during power outages, strong safeguards available to creditors in insolvency proceedings and automated specialized commercial courts.
Training opportunities for service providers and users are positively associated with the ease of doing business score. Similarly, increased public-private communication on legislative changes and processes affecting SMEs are associated with more reforms and better performance on the Doing Business indicators.
The World Bank notes, "The most popular reform is making it easier to start a business. More than a quarter of economies did just that in 2017/18. It now takes an average of 20 days and costs 23% of income per capita to start a business, compared to 47 days and 76% of income per capita in 2006. Thirteen of the top 20 economies have at least one procedure that can be completed online in half a day."
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Первая пара посева выигрывает приз впервые с 2008 года; представительница Хорватии побеждает здесь впервые с 2009-го года, а Канады — с 2006-го года.

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Civil Rights Groups Escalate Fight Against High Prescription Drug Costs:
Sharpton Calls for 2021 to be 'The Year of Black Health Equity'
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Rev. Al Sharpton, NAN: "Let us make 2021 the year of Black health equity."
Hilary Shelton, NAACP: "The bottom line is that we believe that health care is a civil right."
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – D. B. Wright, former head of a non-profit religious organization in Washington, D.C., was well taken care of by his leadership board. He enjoyed an employment package that included full health care among other benefits.
"Being gainfully employed and having one of the best health insurances, I never thought about what medicines cost," he said in a recent interview. But then crisis hit. Following a divorce he moved back to his hometown of Albany, Ga., where he took a job with no benefits, which he eventually lost due to severe illnesses over the past five years. That's when reality set in.
"I had to borrow money from my family and friends in order to get the medication that I needed to treat various issues." Those issues included surgery to remove a baseball size tumor on his liver, a gall bladder removal and ultimately chronic pancreatitis.
In excruciating pain, Wright was prescribed a medicine called Creon to help with his digestion and relieve the pain. It worked wonders in the hospital. But upon discharge, he learned that Creon would cost him $850 a month, well beyond his income of zero except what he could borrow from friends and family. Even with a coupon or pharmacy discount, he said, the price "was still beyond my financial ability."
Also dealing with high blood pressure and suffering through a spinal disorder that rendered him temporarily unable to walk, Wright has resolved what he believed to be the bottom line in America when it comes to prescription drugs. The doctors and pharmacists may be sympathetic, but the medication simply "costs what it costs," he said. "It was a horrendous experience. And it's so interesting that you need these medications to survive. It was horrible to go through. You kind of feel like if you don't have the money, you don't matter."
The experience of D.B. Wright, who asked to only use his initials to protect his privacy, is among the reasons that civil rights leaders and lawmakers across the nation are now pressing increasingly hard to establish public policies to monitor and help make prescription drug prices affordable. Best known for their efforts to address police misconduct, voting rights protections, racial inequality, and economic injustices, civil right organizations are now escalating their focus on issues in the area of health care - particularly the high cost of prescription drugs.
"While there has been much partisan back and forth on these issues in Washington, there has not been enough conversation about reining in the profits and excesses of health insurance companies, which refuse to cover critical procedures, medicines and services in order to preserve their billions of dollars in profits," said the Rev. Al Sharpton in an Oct. 30, 2020 letter to Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.) "Let us make 2021 the year of Black health equity."
Sharpton's letter is part of a growing focus on racial disparities and inequities in health care, partially ignited by findings that people living in predominately Black counties are nearly "three times more likely to die of the COVID-19 than predominately white counties," he said in his letter. The letter culminates more than a year of efforts by his National Action Network (NAN) and other civil rights and health organizations to deal with the suffering of people who must sometimes risk their lives by choosing to take care of other crucial bills instead of paying for prescription drugs.
Similarly focused, the NAACP national board of directors last year passed a resolution calling for Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDAB) in every state, which would "act as a watchdog for the public. It will carefully review drug costs and establish fair and affordable costs for state and local government."
The resolution continues, the "NAACP supports the creation of a Prescription Drug Affordability Board in each state to determine how best to make prescription drugs more affordable for their residents, including by examining the entire drug supply chain, including the role of drug manufacturers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), and establishing maximum affordability payment rates for expensive drugs that create significant affordability problems for residents, building upon the tradition of health care cost scrutiny."
The state of Maryland last year became the first state in the nation to successfully create a PDAB with the national and state NAACP chapters "playing a critical role," as well as dozens of Black faith groups, labor, business and other non-profits, said Vincent DeMarco. DeMarco is president of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative (MCHI), which led the PDAB initiative in the state. The Maryland board has won accolades from DeMarco.
"They are doing a very good job right now of examining what drugs are really high cost and what would make prescription drugs more affordable for people," he says. "So, it's really an exciting new way at the state level to address this problem."
Meanwhile, the national NAACP has continued to press for national solutions. Following up with another resolution in September 2020, the organization continued to press for equity and affordability in prescription drug access. The resolution outlined the harsh realities that people like D.B. Wright have faced.
Quoting the 2019 AARP Prescription Drug Survey of likely voters aged 50 and older, the resolution said that of the 463 African-American respondents, "40% believed they might have to limit necessities such as food, electricity and fuel in the future to afford their prescription medication," the resolution states.
Even with state assistance through programs like PDABs, advocates recognize that prescription drug prices are so out of control that some are still far too expensive.
"Maryland has made considerable gains in ensuring that quality healthcare is more affordable and accessible for residents of our state," said a statement on the MCHI website.
"However, expensive life-saving drugs– some of which are close to six figures for treatment– threaten to derail the progress made in expanding health coverage. To contain rising healthcare costs, we must contain skyrocketing prescription drug costs."
The struggle to rein in high prescription drug prices has reached the U. S. Congress, but to no avail. U. S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) last year introduced the Prescription Drug Affordability and Access Act, which would have created "an independent agency—the Bureau of Prescription Drug Affordability and Access—tasked with conducting reviews of drug prices and determining an appropriate list price."
However, the bill, S.3166, was sent to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Jan. 8, 2020, but went no further during the 116th Congress. Technically, with only a few weeks before Congress goes to Christmas break, this means the bill will likely die in committee, but can be reintroduced in the 117th Congress when it reconvenes Jan. 3.
"In a country as wealthy as ours, it's downright shameful that people have to choose between taking their medicine or paying for other basic necessities," Booker lamented in a statement. "Every day, millions of Americans struggle to afford their lifesaving medication while the manufacturers of these drugs profit hand over fist with limited to no oversight. On top of that, many of these drugs were developed through research funding from the federal government. We need systemic change that will meaningfully address the exorbitant, rising cost of prescription drugs and put the focus back on patients, not profits."
Health advocates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders and former senator, now Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris—who co-sponsored the bill with Booker — will likely not give up the fight. And given the incoming new Congress and White House administration the NAACP has said it will support the efforts that Sharpton and Booker, a CBC member, have expended.
"Sen. Booker's bill was an excellent first step," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and vice president for advocacy and policy. "The bottom line is that we believe that health care is a civil right. And that means that the full gamut of what is quality health care is very important. This is one of many issues that still needs to be addressed and improved upon. It's not the only issue and it's not stand alone. It's crucially important in the categories of health care and economics. It's an important component of a comprehensive health care system that provides high quality health care for all Americans."
The issue is no doubt headed for increased debate in Washington as the civil rights community applies the pressure. But outside of the growing political battle, there are real people waiting and fighting alone, says Wright, who recently received a court ruling allowing him 100 percent disability benefits; plus, Medicaid which now covers the cost of his medicines.
"It took four years to get disability insurance or Medicaid," he said. "I would hope that the government grows a heart and recognize that the least that they can do is care for those who cannot care for themselves. I'm not talking about people who are trying to milk the system. I'm talking about real people who are having real challenges in life."
This article is part of a series on the impact of high prescription drug costs on consumers made possible through the 2020 West Health and Families USA Media Fellowship.
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Umetnička kuća Taheles () je umetnički centar i mesto kulturnih dešavanja u Berlinu.

Taheles je prostrana građevina od 9000 m² u Oranienburger ulici, u berlinkoj četvrti Mite u Istočnom Berlinu, koju je skvotirala skupina međunarodnih umetnika, izvođača i muzičara, posle pada Berlinskog zida, u proleće 1990.

Spoljašnjost zgrade je oštećena u Drugom svetskom ratu, i mnoga oštećenja još uvek stoje. Na spoljašnjem zidu se nalazi ogromni oslikani mural u grafiti stilu, a unutra skulpture moderne umetnosti. U početku je Taheles služio za smeštaj i radni prostor umetnika koji su u njemu živeli, a kasnije postaje umetnički centar sa kafićem, bioskopom, radionicama, i prostorom za pozorišne predstave i izvedbe. Jedno vreme ga je vodio poznati kurator Johen Sandig.

Zanimljivosti
 Taheles je bio inspiracija za scenu u nemačkom filmu "Good Bye Lenin".

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News | Corporate Engagement
Pipeline of Indigenous Talent Leads to Social Enterprise Success
A painting social enterprise in Western Sydney is working to improve employment outcomes for young Indigenous people off the back of a delicately cultivated relationship with a corporate partner, writes Nadia Boyce in this week's Spotlight on Social Enterprise.
Lina Caneva | 17 June 2015 at 11:03 am
When national youth services provider Marist Youth Care wanted to improve its employment and training services for its young clients late last year, it sought corporate support from the very beginning, putting forward a carefully crafted business proposition and the offer to provide a pipeline of indigenous talent.
From that the organisation's social enterprise, MYC Painting Services, was born. The organisation provides painting skills training and employment specifically for Indigenous jobseekers aged under 21 years.
Western Sydney has the largest percentage of Aboriginal youth unemployment in Australia, while nationally, the unemployment rate for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is 18 per cent, three times the national unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent (August 2014).
MYC Painting is a step towards the goal of getting those unemployed young people to become job ready, to be reliable, and to understand the expectations of employers.
Pro Bono Australia News spoke with Adam Makepeace, Senior Manager of Employment and Training Services at Marist Youth Care, about the benefits of corporate support and the teething issues the organisation is experiencing as it looks to scale.
Solving A Corporate Conundrum
It is Makepeace himself who is responsible for the pivotal corporate partnership that enabled the founding of MYC Painting. He is enthusiastic as he explains how an entire program was created out of the relationship and the resulting business solution that he worked to develop.
The MYC Painting team was recently invited to paint the offices of PFM in Parramatta
"[MYC Painting has] come about based on a relationship that I've built with a company called Programmed Facility Management (PFM). They're a publicly listed construction company who receive funding from the NSW Government to provide maintenance services to Government housing," he says.
"Through a whole bunch of different discussions, we identified that Programmed were very keen to increase the diversity of their workforce through the hiring of Indigenous job seekers.
"We also identified that there was an opportunity to provide support to programs where they were struggling to source contractors to do some of the smaller jobs – that most contractors don't want to do. Things like small painting, patching and repairing jobs.
"So, they were looking to increase diversity but were struggling to get contractors in that space. We had a discussion where I proposed that by outsourcing those jobs to a social enterprise, one that only hired Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander job seekers who were skilled in painting and decorating, they might be able to kill two birds with one stone.
"We established an operating model where the main purpose was to establish a pipeline of Indigenous talent, so when an Indigenous job seeker came through our enterprise and Programmed Facility Management [needed] a new staff member in the trades area, they would have an opportunity to transition one of our staff members into being a full time employee there."
Makepeace says success in securing the partnership came down to one simple factor – and that was his organisation's ability to offer value and a genuine solution to Programmed Facility Management.
"I think what created the opportunity was seeing that there was a gap – and being able to provide a business solution to Programmed Facility Management," he explains.
"They had two issues that they were working with, two objectives – creating a pipeline of indigenous talent and second, the small jobs they couldn't with others. The art to winning that business was being to provide and find a creative and actually contribute to PFM seeing that themselves.
"Although there were two identified issues, it really took some creative thinking from MYC to come up with a model and a solution to those issues and provide that on a platter to PFM. They didn't have to worry about whether we could actually come in and satisfy their needs. [We were] able to create mutual benefit because we could also create employment outcomes for the communities who needed them."
MYC Painting secured an agreement with PFM in December 2014, which sees the firm pay the organisation a monthly retainer that covers the cost of a supervisor and two first year apprentices. Since January this year, MYC Painting has been working on Government housing projects, but the first major contract didn't come until May, when Blacktown Council hired the organisation to paint nine toilet blocks in Western Sydney's public parks.
"The core of the enterprise doesn't have too much risk because we've got a commitment from Programmed Facilities Management, that as long as they are funded there will be ongoing work for the crew," Makepeace says.
"It's fairly stable, but that being said, our goal is to grow the enterprise, because the larger the enterprise, the more apprenticeships we can offer."
The Trouble With Scale
Makepeace has managed the Employment and Training division at welfare Not for Profit Marist Youth Care for the past three years. MYC Painting has the potential to contribute immensely to alleviating unemployment amongst his young clients, he says, but the organisation must first overcome the obstacles resulting from its small size.
"The idea behind creating [MYC Painting] was that Marist's mission is to create independence for the young people we work with, which is very difficult to gain without employment. [Through the program] it was almost like we were providing an end goal for all of our clients so they could take that final step towards a lifetime of independence," Makepeace says.
"We're not in this space in a transactional capacity, we're here to achieve quality ongoing sustainable employment.
"They come into our program, they get assigned an Indigenous case worker who supports and mentors them. They stay with us for between 10 and 20 weeks to become job ready and then we look to transition them into a long term role.
"Currently we have engaged with five Aboriginal job seekers in that short time, and we're on track to engage with about 10 per year at our current site. With growth we're looking to increase that substantially.
"To date the the five job seekers who have engaged with our program have generally been early school leavers, experienced literacy and numeracy barriers, they will quite often be without a licence and without a car and that is extremely difficult for someone looking to get into a trade.
"They'll usually be long-term unemployed and in many cases come from a family where unemployment is entrenched, they'll have very limited understanding of what an employer expects from a work ethic, a reliability, and punctuality perspective, and in many cases there are often mental health, homelessness or family stability issues – and there may be other factors such as drug and alcohol issues."
It is the need to supervise MYC Painting's young apprentices at all times that has created problems around flexibility and staffing for Marist Youth Care.
"The one area that has been a challenge has been that without scale, we have great reliance on our painting manager…Usually we only have one painting manager and two apprentices," Makepeace explains.
"Without scale, we cannot have any flexibility. For example, if we had two jobs at the same time, we could only go to one because the two apprentices require constant supervision. If the painting manager took leave, we're without support, if he was sick, or went on holidays, we're really stuck.
"With additional scale and additional work, it will allow us to create more employment opportunities which allows us to be more agile, split crews, and be flexible to deliver an increased amount of work."
Pitching the Pipeline
Now established, MYC's focus in the coming months will be to grow and extend its offer of indigenous talent to more corporations and local councils.
"We are looking at other opportunities in the community housing space, we are looking at strata work, we are looking at new builds and residential work, and we are also looking at corporate de-fits," Makepeace says.
"We're currently in conversation with a few people in those areas, but as you know, these deals take a while to pull off.
"I think our focus now, or our focus for the first six months, has been about consolidation, about delivering the services we're committed to delivering in a quality way to our corporate partners and ensuring that they were satisfied with what we're delivering.
"What we're delivering has to be of a commercial standard or the enterprise won't work. So that's where our focus has been around consolidation.
"It now has to move into a growth space and what we need to be doing, starting with the new financial year, is developing a growth strategy. That includes a bunch of different promotional activities, it includes business development, and finding new corporate partners that may be able to able to contribute to the enterprise and create more social impact.
"It includes marketing the program, not just to corporates, but also to the community to ensure that we are creating a pipeline of Indigenous talent for our own enterprise which then can be transferred to our corporate partners."
Makepeace also flags the possibility of MYC Painting diversifying its client base further and seeking work from the general public.
"There are plans in the next couple of months to look into a website, so we can start to get residential work from everyday clients. It's very important that we can negotiate ongoing work with corporate and non-profit partners to ensure we can provide job security for all our apprentices and our staff," he says.
"The experience has been a good one. I have launched and managed other social enterprises that have not been as successful as this one. The process has been successful so far and a lot of that credit should be given to Programmed Facility Management, who've been extremely collaborative. We've pulled together and done some great work to develop it.
"I see MYC painting services as a real opportunity to create a legacy in our community.
"I really see that."
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What can I truly say about this book?
Throughout this entire book, it was such an emotional and beautiful masterpiece that, in my opinion, really should be read by everyone. It's one of those books that just speaks to you and that you can learn from, especially when you're a child and then if you read it again as an adult. This book teaches you about so much and when I finished reading this book, I was left thinking about countless of things. It teaches you about right and wrong, loss and heartbreak and so much more. The innocence only a child has, mixed with the anger and rage of the war. There was so much truth, which made this book just heated with emotion. As an adult reading this book you can see everything and understand it all, whereas a child may not and does not it this book, and that breaks your heart to see. To see such audacity occur to a child. It makes you ask questions and look at yourself a little deeper.
The two main characters, William and Tom, are so different at the start of this book, but by the time you get to the end of this book, they have become so similar. You can see how these two characters have developed and grown throughout the entirity of the book, as their development is and plays a part of the story. I can't point to anything negative to say about this book, because of how much great the writing, the plot, the characters, the story is. This book just emotes so much. What you are left with and what you take away is important.
I saw the movie adaptation when I was younger and had such a strong bond with that movie, that I was hesitant to read this book because I didn't want those memories tainted. This book just added to those and is one of the closest and truest book to movie adaptations I have seen. I give this book a massive 5 stars with a recommendation to everyone, no matter what age or what genre you like to read.
This is a little curious read that I came across and recognised, because of the film adaptation I had seen a couple of years ago. I never knew that this movie was based on a short story, especially one written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, so this took my interest.
This is a book, that is in itself for a better word, curious. Benjamin Button is born, but he isn't born as you would expect, or how his parents had expected. Benjamin is born old. He has a beard, he can talk. Not what you would expect from a new born baby. As Benjamin goes through his life and ages, his body actually gets younger. So, he is going through life kid of backwards. Now Benjamin and those close to him, have to deal with this bizarre abnormality and everything that comes with it.
I honestly wasn't expecting much from this little read, especially when you think that this short story takes place over the whole of Benjamins' life. What can you really get from a short story? Well, I ended up really enjoying it. For such a short read, it contained so much. The writing was so beautifully and carefully done, ensuring to emulate and capture the age that the character was at each stage of his life. The way that this book ended, with the pure gentle child like innocence, was literally breath-taking. The whole concept behind the idea of this book did make me think about what if this was my reality, or if this happened to my child.
I did believe that F. Scott Fitzgerald could have gone so much more into this story and made it into a novel, instead of the short story that it is. If it was done as a longer and more detailed novel, then there would have been so much more emotion at certain parts and made this a much deeper read. This is why I ended up removing a star. However, for the short story that it is, it was still a good read and one I do recommend for people to read and therefore I rated it 4 out of 5 stars. I can't believe I'd only read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald before today, this one definitely beat that for me.
Have you read this story before? Or any of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works? What do you think?
I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review of the book and as part of a Goodreads Bookclub.
When Maddie Chandler was ten years old, her twin sister, Angeline, was murdered. Her mother then goes insane, being placed into an institution and with her father being who he is, Maddie is placed into the care of Aunt Ceci, who then raises and treats Maddie as though she is her own daughter. Maddie goes through high school being blamed for her sisters death, also for being constantly told that and therefore believing that wrong sister died. So, Maddie leaves this town as soon as she's able and leaves for college. It takes her ten years before she comes back to her home town, but sadly, she only come back to attend the funeral of her beloved Aunt Ceci. But as soon as she is back, she is forced to face her troubled past that she has hidden even from herself. There is some happiness, in the form of her old high school crush Zac, her friends and her home made family. Will she find the truth behind the murder of her sister? Is she going insane or is she really seeing her sisters ghost?
I was genuinely shocked that I enjoyed this book as much as I did, simply because I thought that I thought I wasn't going to, I put off reading it until the last minute it had to be read for the bookclub on Goodreads. There are so many topics in this book, which was surprising as it isn't that big of a book, such as; Mystery, Romance, Crime, Death, Paranormal, that I wasn't sure which was the main theme of the book. There is another topic/theme, but I didn't want to include it above, as it will give away one of the main surprises to the plot of this book, but it may be a trigger warning for some.
Some of the characters did have some strong developments, and I did like the relationship between Maddie and Zac. I even liked the relationship, or lack there of, between Maddie and her father. Even the writing was good and easy to follow and once I started reading it, it took me less than 2 days to finish it. There were so many questions left unanswered when I finished this book, which left me wanting answers and unsatisfied. On saying that, there is going to be another book coming out, so maybe that's why there were things left unanswered, as they will be included in it's sequel, but this book didn't leave me wanting more and I wouldn't rush out to buy it. So for that reason, I had to give it 2.5/3 stars out of 5.
Now if you like mysteries you may like this one. It keeps you guessing right up until the last page, with constant twists and turns. If you've read this book, let me know what you thought of this book. Do you agree or disagree with my rating?


It's newsletter time again and i thought I'd post my latest piece in case you haven't had the chance to read it yet and you find yourself here. I can't believe it's the end of the first week again already, but with another great celebration assembly this morning you know it must be nearly the weekend. Well done to those children who were rewarded for their hard work and to everyone who has come back with the same level of commitment and determination to be the best learner they can be. I'm looking forward to this term.
Welcome back to the second half of our Spring term and I am pleased to say this it does feel a little more Spring like than of late. I do hope that you all had a very pleasant half term with your children.
We are straight back into exciting topics and learning opportunities with the children. Already this week, Lotus class and Orchid class have visited Trowbridge to listen to Michelle Paver; an author; talk and inspire them with their reading and writing. Also this week, Thistle and Clover class have been on a school visit to learn more about their dinosaur topic, which was VERY exciting. Not only that, we have already had an informative and well presented class assembly and we've only been back for five days!
Now that we have school meals back at Westwood, they have been very well received with clean plates and happy children. A range of tasty dinners and desserts has meant that our numbers are healthy and lunchtimes have been a sociable occasion, which is something I always looked to do when I arrived, so I am thrilled that it is working so well. Don't forget, if you would like your child to have a hot dinner, please can you ensure that your order arrives with the office by the Thursday before the week you would like to order them. Thank you.
Can I also say thank you for responding so positively to the letter I wrote before half term about the HASP books in your child's reading folder. It makes a difference to our time in the mornings if you can leave a note in the HASP book for issues which aren't urgent, in which case, of course, you are very welcome to talk to myself or the teachers if you feel that it is something we need to know immediately. However, I would hope that most items can be detailed in the HASP books for teachers to respond to, which of course they will.
As a staff we have focused a lot of our time on talking about ways in which we can encourage the children to develop their reading and writing skills, in school, but also at home. Over the next couple of terms we will be concentrating heavily on reading and writing within school and I will be arranging parent meetings to discuss ways in which you can support your child at home, as I believe that an effective home and school partnership will give our children the best possible chance to maximise their potential. In the first instance, can I ask that, where possible, you set some time aside to sit and read with your child, preferably at least three times a week and to use the reading log to record your experiences. Your child will also bring home their homework and they would benefit greatly from some time with you to support them with their writing. By working with your child in this way, you will be both supporting the learning that takes place every day and modelling the fact that learning is fun! Thank you for your continued support.
With this in mind, please remember that Read for my School: http://www.readformyschool.co.uk/ is still going for KS2 children. This is an ideal opportunity to sign up, read free new books and even write a review if they were particularly enjoyable. For the younger (and older) readers, can I also suggest Oxford Owl: http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/library-page. Both are great online resources.
I hope you have a lovely term and please keep checking the website for up to date events that will be taking place. We will also continue to communicate with you regularly and we always welcome feedback so that we can improve as a school.
This entry was posted in School News and tagged assembly, celebration, learning, newsletter on February 28, 2014 by Mr Rockey.
I had a brainwave on the way to school this morning and wondered whether you read this blog, as so many of you clearly do, but do not have time to read the newsletter. So, I thought I'd post my newsletter piece here this week. Please feedback, if you can as to whether this is useful.
Welcome to the final edition of the newsletter for this term, hasn't it gone quickly! I would like to begin by sharing my excitement and enthusiasm for the fact that we are now able to bring hot school meals back to Westwood school after this half term holiday.
After lengthy investigation and with the full support of the Governing Body, I believe that we have found a great solution to something that I know many of you have been asking for. We have worked closely with Mrs B's catering of Frome to ensure that the service that will be provided is high quality, reliable and, most importantly, one which the children will enjoy. With the facilities to now sit everyone together, lunchtimes, I am sure, will be even more sociable. I'm looking forward to not having to make sandwiches again!
I would like to add a couple of reminders to my section this week, please. With the severely inclement weather of late, there have still been one or two children not wearing their coats to school. Please can I ask that everyone brings suitable clothing and footwear, as even on the playground the conditions are quite wet, so covered shoes are essential. I've needed my hat and gloves on duty too, so if you have any, it's really worth sending your child in with some.
Can I also mention the importance of being in school on time each day. When I first started, attendance improved greatly, but I have been noticing a higher level of lateness and currently 23% of the children on roll are below 95% attendance. Therefore, we need to work at bringing our attendance back up again, particularly in light of government guidelines.
I have been talking to the children recently about ways in which we can develop and enjoy our reading. Children from Y2-6 already have the opportunity to Read for my School: http://www.readformyschool.co.uk/ This is an ideal opportunity to sign up, read free new books and even write a review if they were particualrly enjoyable. For the younger (and older) readers, can I also suggest Oxford Owl: http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/library-page.
Again, there is a very user friendly sign up procedure, but children will have access to 250 free ebooks, many of which we use in school. With the development of our school library and World Book day approaching, it would be good to encourage your children to read and enjoy books as often as possible.
For the writer in you, there is also westwoodwriters.schoolblogs.org, a blog full of prompts and opportunities to develop the children's writing skills. Just click on reply to a post and leave your piece of writing, which I will moderate and allow for the world to see. It would be lovely to see more people taking part and there are some really good examples from children already on there. I look forward to reading them!
I hope the rest of the term goes well for you and I wish you a restful half term break. One future date for your diary is Easter tea and cake with the Head, which I have moved from Friday 24th February to Friday 4th April, the last day of term 4. I look forward to seeing you there, it is always an enjoyable afternoon.
This entry was posted in Newsletter and tagged attendance, reading, writing on February 7, 2014 by Mr Rockey.
That's the diversity of learning you could and indeed I did, see on a walk around school earlier this morning. In Thistle class, the children have been fascinated by the story of Mary Anning a famous historical paleontologist. Google her, she's really interesting! Clover class have used blank number lines to successfully practice their subtraction whilst Lotus class were working on their spatial awareness and coordination. I watched and immediately thought I'd have to concentrate a lot!
This entry was posted in Learning and tagged english, maths on February 4, 2014 by Mr Rockey.


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Men's, women's cross country teams sprint to nationals
May 21, 2015 Mara Green	cross country
Jonathan Toman
jtoman@uccs.edu
Both the men's and women's UCCS cross country teams are making the trek to Joplin, Mo., this November to compete in the NCAA Division II National Championships following a successful regional meet on Nov. 3.
At regionals, the women notched a third-place finish while the men finished fourth. The women had four all-region runners who all finished in the top 18: Veronica Sandoval, Megan Burrell, Madison Neher and Angie Martell.
The men garnered three all-region runners: Emilio Trujillo, Sam Feldotto and Oliver Williams, who finished 14th, 22nd and 25th, respectively.
Both the women's head coach, David Harmer, and men's head coach, Mark Misch, were excited by their teams' performances in the tough regional meet.
"Basically, we got done what we expected to do at regionals," Misch said.
"There were six nationally ranked teams in the women's field, but only five go on to nationals. That shows you how strong our regional meet is," said Harmer.
Thirty-two teams qualified for the national championships on Nov. 17. As with regionals, each team is allowed seven runners.
That leads to around 250 runners on one course. While the men's team placed 19th at last year's national meet, the women return to nationals for the first time since 2006, when they took seventh place overall.
"So far it's been a very solid season on many levels, but we're not there yet, and we have a job to do on Nov. 17," Misch said. "The focus has been on [the national championships] since we got home from nationals last year."
"At this point in the season, the teams that make the national championships are all battle tested and ready to race, so I am expecting a very competitive and close field in terms of points and scores," said Harmer.
"We just have to keep focused on our preparation and do what we do. The race will take care of itself. Our expectations are high as a group, so I don't worry about the guys on the competitive side of things," explained Misch.
Both programs have a lot to look forward to now and in coming seasons.
"I am incredibly proud of how the women have competed this season," said Harmer. "With the majority of our team underclassman, I am very excited for the future of the program."
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2006 is centenary of Targa Florio, the amazing road race in Sicily famous in all of the world like 24h du Le Mans, 1000miglia or 500miles Indianapolis.
Come in Sicily, rent a motorbike and enjoy the targa Florio Centenary!
A big thematic park where visitors can admire the cars starring during all the events, including meeting the drivers and other famous people who have contributed to the myth of Targa Florio.
Inside the Village there will also be various exhibition stands for museums, local communities, municipalities, sponsors, together with vintage cars and motorbikes, spare parts, collections, memorabilia, etc.
The race was created in 1906 by Vincenzo Florio. Always one of the toughest competitions in Europe, the first Targa Florio covered 277 miles (446 km) through multiple hairpin curves on treacherous mountain roads, at heights where severe changes in climate frequently occurred.
By the mid-1920s, the Targa Florio had become one of Europe's most important races, as neither the 24 Hours of Le Mans nor the Mille Miglia had been established yet. The wins of Mercedes (still without Benz) in the 1920s made a big impression in Germany, especially the one of German Christian Werner in 1924, as it was the only non-Italian winner in 50 years!
So, over the years, the greats of Grand Prix racing and Formula One such as Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss came in Sicily to challenge Italian champions, Tazio Nuvolari, Alfieri Maserati, Achille Varzi and other, like local hero Nino Vaccarella.
Several versions of the track were used. It started with a length of 148km (92 miles) for a lap, then was shortened twice to the 72km lap that was used in the last decades, for usually 10 laps in the race. Start and finish was at Cerda. The counterclockwise lap lead from Caltavuturo and Collesano from over 600 meters down to sea level, where the cars raced from Campofelice di Roccella on the Buonfornello straight along the coast, at over 6 km longer than at Le Mans.
After winning the race several times, Porsche named the convertible version of the 911 after the Targa. The name of the car with the large roll bar was a wise choice, as targa means shield.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, race cars with up to 600 hp (450 kW) such as Nino Vaccarella's Ferrari 512S raced through small mountains villages while the people were sitting or standing right next to or even on the road. Porsche, on the other hand, did not race its big Porsche 917, but rather the nimble Porsche 908/03 Spyders.
Due to safety concerns, the last real Targa Florio as an international professional race was run in 1973. Today continued like a rally race and historycal competition.


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Civilized language
June 26, 2015 @ 10:25 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and society, Slogans
Sign at a bus station in Inner Mongolia:
yòng wénmíngyǔ 用文明语
("use civilized language")
jiǎng pǔtōnghuà 讲普通话
("speak Putonghua [Modern Standard Mandarin — MSM]")
If you look that up on the internet, you will find that most of the references fall under the categories of biāoyǔ 标语 ("slogans") and xuānchuán 宣传 ("propaganda") — of which there are aplenty.
Such slogans and propaganda are much in evidence throughout the country (note especially the propaganda boards that you see all over the place in China).
The injunction to speak MSM often appears in parallel with the charge to xiě guīfànzì 写规范字 ("write standard characters").
Speaking MSM and writing standard characters fall more or less under the same rubric of a citizen's duty to:
ài guóqí 爱国旗 ("love the national flag")
chàng guógē 唱国歌 ("sing the national anthem")
Other posts discussing "civilized language" include:
"Pushing Pekingese " (11/10/13)
"Spoken Hong Kong Cantonese and written Cantonese " (8/29/13)
It is not difficult to tease out the implications.
[Thanks to Geoff Wade.]
K Chang said,
June 27, 2015 @ 12:40 am
The intent is to displace Mongolian culture with a Chinese one. It's been done in Tibet too, with implication that if you don't speak Mandarin you're a country bumpkin.
Mark Meckes said,
No doubt similar signs have appeared throughout the world, like this one from southern France (from the early 20th century I think).
@Mark Meckes — or the "Speak English" movement that popped up at various times in the US, including… Colorado?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-only_movement
@K Chang, Yes, among many other places in the US. I thought of the French example partly because that's where I am at the moment, and also because the style and intent of the sign seemed very similar. As you say about the sign in Mongolia, the implication of the French sign was that if you don't speak the language of the national capital then you're a country bumpkin. The US "Speak English" movement is slightly different in character in that it's aimed primarily at immigrants, as opposed to speakers of indigenous languages. (Not that I'm defending it in any way!)
D-AW said,
How do you like "Speak white"? :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_White
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_white
Bivalent Jerryrigged Statist said,
Ironic, given that things like classical poetry sound far prettier and far more civilized when read in an uncivilized dialect like 蘇州話.;) Mandarin is depressingly boring; I wish I had a chancc to learn Suzhou dialect…
Matt McIrvin said,
The stigmatization of Black English/AAVE/Ebonics as "bad English" is a closer analogy, as is the stigmatization of Southern US accents more generally.
…whereas you don't hear much of the effort to eradicate indigenous American languages today since it succeeded so nearly completely.
As the tour guide said to us on a visit to New Orleans recently: "It's good thing Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 – otherwise we'd all be speaking English…"
Eidolon said,
@Matt McIrvin I would say that the US today is much more liberal about multilingualism, rather than that the absence of signs is because indigenous languages have already been eradicated. Spanish – specifically Mexican Spanish – is, for example, becoming a second language in large swaths of the US, and multilingualism is encouraged, not discouraged, in a great many US schools. It wasn't always this way, and indeed there are still segments of American society who fear the spread of multilingualism, but it is a long ways from the time when the federal/state governments had to put up posters about the need to speak English.
As for the PRC, they are in that stage of nation-building in which multilingualism is still seen as being subversive to the goal of political unity. But have yet to understand, I think, that hard-nosed propaganda posters of the sort shown above are liable to offend and threaten, rather than to sway.
Wentao said,
@Eidolon "Hard-nosed propaganda posters of the sort shown above are liable to offend and threaten, rather than to sway."
You might be surprised at the size of the general public who actually agrees with these propaganda posters. I have often come across people who believe that their mother tongues are vulgar and uncultured, and take pride primarily in the fact that they contain colorful swearwords. The fact that school education only acknowledges one standard pronunciation when reading literary texts, even in historical cultural centers such as Suzhou, Fuzhou and Guangzhou, further reinforces the stereotype that Standard Mandarin is the sole vehicle of high culture. Sadly, forceful eradication of topolects has been very effective in most areas across China.
Yong said,
You guys read too much into this sign. Without standardization of pronunciation, China would have a higher chance of separation into multiple small countries, not to mention the great inconvenience to everyone living in the country. The negative side is, understandably, less fun to the people that enjoy reading language blogs.
JQ said,
July 1, 2015 @ 10:51 am
@Yong
It's certainly understandable that the government wants to prevent the country from splitting into small countries and is trying to use language as a tool to achieve that, but if China was actually multiple countries (à la Europe) that would not necessarily be a bad thing.
Milan said,
@Yong,
Also there are quite a few countries which are nowhere near falling apart despite not having a common language for all citizens: Switzerland and India come to mind. Or those many African countries where the main lingua franca – English or French – hardly lends itself to national identification.
Anna Johnson said,
Yeah I'm not going to say "we must have nationalistic movements so we don't form into smaller communities" because wow, there's so much political drama going on in that it'd take a long blog post to unpack it.
Suffice it to say that there's no reason to buy into Speak Putonghua without also buying into an ethnic nationalism that prizes Han Chinese speaking one restrictive form of modern Guanhua at the price of everything else.
@JQ I think China is very different from Europe in the sense that its flat-plains geography has never allowed for easily defensible borders for regional states. Even during the Warring States period, when China actually had fairly powerful regional kingdoms, borders were constantly shifting as they were being destroyed/swallowed by other kingdoms, till, as every Chinese school child is taught, the First Emperor "united" all under heaven. The control of water sources being so critically important, even today, it's difficult to see how division in China is not going to result in a few geographically well-positioned states along the great rivers bullying the rest.
@Anna Johnson would you also say the same for the English-only movement in the US? That 'there's no reason to buy into it without also buying into an ethnic nationalism that prizes Anglo-Americans speaking one restrictive form of modern American English at the price of everything else?'


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Ally Talks with Alex of MyBankTracker.com
MyBankTracker.com is an exhaustive resource, featuring information on everything from financial news to credit-card and bank reviews.
We caught up with Alex Matjanec, one of the site's founders, for his thoughts on the state of banking and what he hopes to see in 2012. As MyBankTracker's Media and Communications Manager, he is a firm believer in the possibilities that can exist when personal finance meets digital connectivity.
What made you want to start MyBankTracker.com?
We started it because we were helping institutions and other financial companies update their conversation with what they knew was a growing online audience. But when we were doing that, we saw what we felt was a need for a level of third-party transparency. So we launched MyBankTracker.com in August 2008 — and right after that, a bunch of things happened in the financial industry regarding transparency that made us feel we had the right thinking.
Transparency is about helping consumers make knowledgeable financial decisions. We're not all about helping people change banks — we're trying to help them get the information they need so they can go to their bank and feel comfortable having a conversation.
What advice would you have for someone who's looking for a new financial institution?
The first thing is not to jump ship right away just because you're scared of all the fees you're hearing about. It's really important to understand your banking habits and how you interact with your bank. We've seen people on our website make comments that they switched banks because of one fee, and then they didn't consider other fees at the bank they were switching to. They ended up paying more than the fee they were trying to avoid.
Something we're big on at MyBankTracker are bank reviews. Many consumers make decisions on everyday purchases by looking at reviews, but when it comes to choosing a bank, they don't talk to anybody — they just make a decision based on marketing. We think you should go online and look at reviews, and visit MyBankTracker.
We talk a lot about banking nonsense on the Straight Talk blog. What banking behavior do you find nonsensical?
Three things jump out to me. The first is forcing consumers into relationship accounts to avoid fees. This is when banks tell customers they need to have a checking account and a savings account with them, or they need to have checking account that's connected to a mortgage, in order to avoid late fees. I think consumers should have the ability to mix and match the products that best fit their needs.
Another one is charging for convenience. The new big thing with banks now is mobile deposit capture for checks. But there are banks already out there charging people to use this feature. I think it's unfair to introduce things that make it easier for the consumer and then start charging for it.
The last one is charging for actions only when they're performed in a certain way. An example is making an ACH transfer over the phone. There are banks out there that will charge you as much as $3 for making this transfer over the phone because you can do it online. If it's going to be free, make it free across the board.
We all know how certain financial decisions can reveal their true value over time. Are there any decisions from your financial past — a product you opened, a piece of advice you've followed — that you find are still paying off?
Automation is probably the biggest one. There are too many variables in personal finance, and there are a lot of tools that try to make it easier. But automation, and setting up alerts, really do that. It's been a huge time saver for me, and it's helped me avoid penalties and other fees and allowed me to focus on making smarter money decisions. It's also how a lot of people save: They don't see the money — it comes in and it goes out.
2012 is just around the corner. What financial trends would you like to see in the coming year?
I would definitely like to see more of the online banking experience shift to mobile. I think we're getting there, but I'd like to see an overall richer experience. If you think about mobile in a smart way, you can eliminate the need to go online.
Do you look online for reviews of banks and their products? What financial trends would you like to see in the coming year?


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Figboot dearly loved to paddle along the shores of Lake Vastbegone.
Removing the boots for which he was famous, he'd wriggle his naked toes in the mud and enjoy the soothing squelch on his calluses. The fish would nip at his nails, giving them a bit of a trim, he supposed, and sometimes – sometimes – a pike or carp or catfish or large eel would get lodged between a pair of toes. Usually one of the big ones and the one next door.
Slippery little beggars. He'd have to squat down and gently dig them loose with a finger, trying to prod it back into the lake without squashing it. He didn't believe in killing anything unnecessarily and he wasn't much for food that swam. Besides, they were the smallest of small fry, and wouldn't have filled one of his tooth cavities.
Oh, but he loved that mud. He'd pull his boots back on with some of the stuff still caking his toes and clinging to his soles. Like cool, slimy socks.
The bigger the heart, his mum used to say, the simpler the pleasures it takes to keep it happy.
Figboot had a huge heart. And only modest-sized feet, but he liked to take extra care of them because they were the only pair he was ever likely to own and he did a great deal of walking on them. A spot of lovely mud was a treat for the both of them.
One summer night he'd left his boots off. Walked home along the lake shore, carrying his boots slung over his shoulder, allowing each foot to leave an equal number of impressions in the mud. Like they were signing their names, one after the other, over and over again.
He'd sighed blissfully as he'd suppered and then laid his head on the pillow that night. Yes, it had been a good night's walk for him and his bare feet.
Little did he ever imagine such a tremendous amount of trouble arising from such simple pleasures.
But then, it had never occurred to him that humans might build a town in one of his footprints.
Sigfred pointed hesitantly at his chest, because it seemed as though the Burgermeister was addressing him.
Siggy mumbled an apology. He'd known that – it was one reason why the Burgermeister had scheduled this emergency inquiry in the tavern – and he should have watched his words more carefully. Trouble was, with the way the gods had arranged people's faces it was devilishly tricky to watch the things that spilled out of your own mouth, specially when they could only be heard and not seen.
When he'd moored his boat at the jetty, the whole town had been running, it seemed, to the Big Toe district with buckets in hand. But too late. From what he gathered, ninety percent of the buildings had burned to the ground. He didn't know yet whether that meant nine out of ten buildings or that ten percent of every building was still standing. If the latter, he could only guess what rickety structures there were all across Big Toe. And he thanked the stars he lived all the way down at Heel.
And now, while he thought of his gratitude to the stars he also reckoned it was time to speak up on their behalf. You couldn't go thanking them in one breath then sitting idly by as others condemned them for starting fires they didn't start.
He did remember thinking that of all the big rooftops in Big Toe the spark had settled on the biggest. And really his command of local geography should have been up to working out that it had been the town hall.
Sigfred would not be satisfied if it had been his house on fire. He considered the Burgermeister's attitude gracious and generous under the circumstances.
Sigfred puffed heavily, but there was no more froth to be blown from his pint. He raised his glass and mouthed a toast to Fred over there across the room.
It was a brave chap indeed who got volunteered to go confront Figboot.


"Design of Multiplierless Linear-Phase Comb Corrector Filters for Multi" by Massimiliano Laddomada, D. E. Romero et al.
This paper presents an efficient design of comb-based decimation filters extensively used in the first stage of multistage decimation architectures. The contribution of this work is the introduction of a multiplierless Finite Impulse Response (FIR) low-order linear-phase corrector filter to decrease the passband droop while simultaneously improving the attenuation of classical comb filters in the so-called folding bands. Upon using polyphase decomposition, the proposed filters can be operated at a lower rate. The resulting filters feature compensated passband droop and higher folding-band attenuation than traditional comb filters, while require only shift-and-add operations. Comparisons with other architectures in literature are provided to emphasize the main features along with the key design steps of the proposed filters.
Laddomada, Massimiliano; Romero, D. E.; and Dolecek, G. J., "Design of Multiplierless Linear-Phase Comb Corrector Filters for Multirate Applications" (2012). School of Engineering and Technology Publications. 131.


communikate et al worked closely with Electra House in the planning and execution of a social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) teaser campaign where fans had the chance to #meetelectra through a series of drip fed images and information over a four month period.
This social media campaign was supported by a traditional, digital and street advertising campaign which saw identical designs with the '#meetelectra' tag taking prime position. This deliberate and slow release of information helped create a buzz around South Australia with a steady following on social media, venue bookings, and recruitment requests becoming a daily occurrence.
In the build up to the exclusive launch event, a media campaign was rolled out looking at the announcement of the executive chef, the construction and design of the new space, and also the food offerings. This coverage ran across print, radio, TV, and online with multiple hits including The Australian, The Advertiser, Channel 9, Channel 10, and Adelaide Review.
For the first of two official launches, over two hundred invited guests sampled menu items from executive chef Alfonso Alés, sipped on the extensive range of beer and wine, and posted to a variety of social media channels. The event had a deliberate casual, house party approach without speeches or other official proceedings. This allowed guests to fully experience Electra House without feeling like they were at an official function.
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Tidal is headed back to Brooklyn, New York for its fourth annual TIDAL X: BROOKLYN philanthropic concert, scheduled for October 23rd at the Barclays Center. The artist-owned music and video streaming platform will donate 100 percent of ticket proceeds to non-profit organizations focused on criminal justice reform, including REFORM and Equal Justice Initiative.
TIDAL X: BROOKLYN raises money to support a specific cause each year. Since its 2015 inception, the concerts have raised over $10 million dollars for social justice, education organizations and disaster relief and recovery.
The event has gathered some of the biggest names in music: Jay Z, Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Fifth Harmony, Vic Mensa, DJ Khaled and Kaskade performed at the 2017 ceremony. The 2018 line-up has yet to be announced.
Tickets are currently on sale for Tidal members via the event's website or directly from the Tidal app, and will go on sale to the general public Friday, September 7th at noon EST via Ticketmaster. Those who can't attend in-person can livestream the performances and donate at Tidal's website.
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Minds Machines Group Ltd
Launch of Domain Name Trademark Protection Service
Jun 27 2019 10:28 BST Source: RNS
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Minds + Machines Group Limited
MMX set to launch Adult Domain Name Trademark Protection Service
London, 27 June, 2019 -- Minds + Machines Group Limited ("MMX"), the innovation-led domain registry company, is pleased to announce that the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved its request to introduce a new blocking service that will allow trademark holders to better protect their naming rights across the four adult-themed Top Level Domains (TLDs) MMX acquired in 2018 through its acquisition of ICM Registry (ICM). The new service is set to be formally unveiled to the corporate registrar channel on 15 July, 2019.
Based on information made public by ICANN, the blocking service will allow trademark holders to affordably block both exact match terms across all four of MMX's adult TLDs as well as the many look-alike variations that can be easily generated by bad actors using alternate IDN scripts and homoglyphs to spoof users to visit websites containing malicious code used in phishing and malware scams.
MMX's technical and marketing partner on the initiative will be Uniregistry, a recognized leader in providing name blocking technology.
Toby Hall, CEO of MMX, commented:
"We are truly delighted to have received approval from ICANN and to be working with Uniregistry on the introduction of our new service to the corporate registrar channel. The Uniregistry team have the right balance of technical expertise and corporate registrar reach to be our ideal partner. We very much look forward to unveiling the full details of our new adult blocking service, that will initially be targeted at trademark holders and participants in the original .xxx Sunrise B* launch, next month."
To register interest in MMX's adult domain name trademark protection service ahead of 15 July 2019, please visit https://adultblock.icmregistry.com/
Note to editor
* In 2011, ICM Registry was the first registry to offer a blocking service at the launch of .xxx in response to trademark owners' concerns about reputational damage to their brand resulting from unauthorized registration and usage of their registered marks.
Toby Hall, CEO
Christa Taylor, CMO
About MMX
Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE: MMX) is the owner of a world class portfolio of 32 ICANN approved top-level domains (gTLDs). The Company generates revenues through the registration and annual renewal of names by organisations and individuals within each of its top-level domains, sales being processed through the Group's network of global registrar and distribution partners.
The MMX portfolio is currently focused around generic names (e.g. .work, .vip), consumer interest (e.g. .fashion, .wedding), lifestyle (e.g. .fit, .surf, .yoga), professional occupations (e.g. .law), and geographic domains (e.g. .london, .boston, .miami, .bayern). In 2018, the Company completed its first acquisition, the ICM portfolio, and recently launched its first innovation based project, .luxe, which combines the strengths of the World Wide Web's naming system with that of blockchain. For more information on MMX and its rapidly growing renewal base, please visit www.mmx.co
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1. Be punctual and warm up before each rehearsal or concert.
2. Listen and learn from the conductor, for a competent conductor is also an inspiring teacher.
3. Tune quietly and carefully.
4. Remember that concentration is one of the keys to good orchestral playing.
5. Listen for style, articulation, intonation, etc.
6. Be exact with entrances and releases.
7. When the conductor stops for a comment, stop immediately.
8. Count measures, rests and all silences carefully.
9. Bring a pencil to rehearsal.
and/or concert master, sets bowing policies.
11. Practice your parts at home, not when the conductor is talking.
12. Don't stare at a person who is playing a solo passage.
13. Don't laugh if someone should make a mistake.
14. Place your instrument in a safe place during rehearsal breaks.
15. Check the height of instrument ('cello and bass).
16. Check bridge and string adjustment.
17. Keep your instrument and bow clean.
18. Check the position of your left hand and bow arm. Start correctly every time.
19. Always strive for a full vibration of the string.
20. Look like a professional string player.


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MILWAUKEE — As if the Nets didn't have enough problems, they played last night without star point guard Deron Williams.
Coach Avery Johnson announced before the game that Williams, who has been dealing with various ailments all season long, would miss at least what eventually became a 108-93 loss to the Bucks with a bruised right wrist.
"We talked to him earlier," Johnson said before the game. "[Trainer Tim Walsh] checked him out, and Tim just thought at this stage it was a good night to sit him, and I agreed.
"Deron wants to play, he's a tough guy, but hopefully this game [last night] will give him a chance to just recover a little bit more and get back to being full strength."
The wrist has been a persistent issue for Williams throughout the season. A familiar sight has been Williams slowly peeling himself off the floor and holding on to his right wrist — the same one he had surgery on in April 2011, less than two months after being acquired in a blockbuster deal with the Jazz.
"It's been kind of flaring up all throughout the season, and it seems like every time he falls, he falls directly on it," Johnson said. "We made the decision for him to sit [last night], and we'll continue to evaluate him on a day-in and day-out basis and we'll see where he is for our next home game."
The Nets return home tomorrow to face the Bobcats.
It happened again in Tuesday's home loss to the Celtics, when Williams took a spill while picking up an offensive foul in the first quarter and got up holding his wrist.
"I keep landing on it," Williams said after Tuesday's game. "Every time I take a charge I fall on it. I wish I could consciously not do it, but somehow I keep doing it."
Williams said wrapping the wrist to try to prevent any tweaking of it during games isn't something he'd consider after failed attempts to do so in the past.
"I've tried wrapping it in the past, and it really doesn't matter,'' he said. "After a couple minutes of sweating, it just gets loose again and then it restricts my shot."
* Johnson, as he continues to search for a combination to help the Nets escape from their current funk, again tweaked his rotation. MarShon Brooks was the first player off the bench in both halves, and Toko Shengelia, who had played in each of the previous two games, didn't see any time until the final moments, when the game was out of reach.
Johnson also used Jerry Stackhouse for the first time this season in both ends of a back-to-back.
"He said he felt pretty good," Johnson said after the game. "But sometimes, in this situation, we're asking more of Stack than what we planned on because some of the other guys that we planned on playing a little bit more have been very inconsistent.
"So hopefully when we get that consistency, we won't have to play Stackhouse on a back-to-back game.''
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