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Don't forget to view our Review of Sky Q Ultra HD
As described in our previous article HD and 4k Delivered by Fibre Broadband, Ultra HD content is developing nicely and BT has now arrived on the scene! BT has made a very promising start with the launch of the UK's first Ultra High Definition TV channel in the UK, and pricing is very competitive for its Ultra HD TV service. The performance of the Humax YouView+ DTR-T4000 set-top box is superb, with a well-designed remote control and fast menus and Electronic Programme Guide. Ultra HD content looks brilliant, helped by the high bit rate of about 29 Mbps currently being used, which is nearly double that used by Netflix and Amazon for their Ultra HD services.
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Excellent initial pricing for Ultra HD
We were very pleasantly surprised when we heard the initial pricing of BT's Ultra HD service, although pricing will increase after 12 months. Obviously, with a 12-month minimum term, you have the option to walk away in a year without penalty with the Ultra HD YouView+ box if BT decided to dramatically increase prices.
There is currently a monthly subscription of £15, and an installation charge of £44 (for those who are not existing BT TV customers), although there is no charge for the new Humax Ultra HD set-top box. The Humax DTR-T4000 contains a 1 TB hard disk to record programmes, with enough storage space for an estimated 250 hours of HD content (or about 80 hours of Ultra HD content). The £15 per month subscription provides access to the new BT Sport Ultra HD channel, four BT Sport HD channels as part of the included BT Sport Pack (with all of the EUFA Champions League provided) and an additional 13 HD channels.
While BT also offers a voucher for "up to £500 off an LG 4k Ultra HD TV", discounts are only available through BT's Store, with the highest discounts available on the most expensive TVs. Price comparison against online retailers reveals that it is possible to source LG TVs at competitive prices, and anyway, latest-generation Sony and Samsung Ultra HD LED TVs currently receive more favourable reviews than their LG counterparts.
Ordering and engineer installation reveals potential hurdles
One potential challenge in the ordering process comes from BT implementing a minimum speed hurdle for their Infinity fibre broadband customers. We understand that BT will currently only progress an order if the download speed of the line is estimated to be at least about 45 Mbps. This is to ensure that there is adequate headroom above the data rate required to watch the Ultra HD channel (up to about 30 Mbps) to be able to use the broadband connection for other things (for example, recording another HD channel or browsing the web on other devices).
This 45 Mbps minimum speed is well above the 24 Mbps download speed deemed to be 'superfast broadband' by the Government. Certainly, in our rural location, a significant proportion of households operating to our local fibre cabinet will not be able to order the service, and it remains to be seen how many people across the country will be affected. There have already been a number of people on online forums reporting their frustration from not being able to order the service. BT needs to get on with improving fibre broadband speeds (for example, through the roll-out of vectoring) to maximize the reach of the service. We hope that BT follows this route rather than simply lowering the bit rates required by Ultra HD content, which may adversely impact picture quality.
An area of clear confusion is that 45 Mbps is above the 38 Mbps maximum speed of the BT's Infinity 1 service, and most journalists have reported that that the higher speed Infinity 2 service (with speeds up to 76 Mbps) is required for the service. Rather confusingly, we understand that customers on Infinity 1 can order the service if their predicted speed (i.e. if they actually had Infinity 2) is above 45 Mbps without needing to upgrade to Infinity 2.
There are challenges in installation too. The engineer appeared and said he was instructed to connect the set-top box via Ethernet cable directly to the BT Home Hub 5, and looked rather concerned when he saw that our TV room was on a different floor to our modem router. So, if your TV is a long way away from your router, a significant (and potentially unsightly) job to install an Ethernet cable may be required, particularly as the engineer is not allowed to go up into a loft or put wires under carpets. You cannot connect the set-top box to your router via WiFi.
According to the engineer, the BT Home Hub 5 is required as it has been designed specifically to support the multicast TV streams used by BT's TV service. When he saw that we were using a Billion 8800AXL modem router with a Gigabit Ethernet connection already in place via Cisco switches, he believed that our configuration would not work. At least, he was prepared to give it a try, and we are pleased to report that our configuration worked perfectly. The engineer's experience is that many modem routers that are used instead of the Home Hub 5 do not work properly with multicast, and forums are indeed full of people struggling to get many types of router to work. We can confirm that the following routers that we regularly use work well with multicast:
Billion 8800NL
Billion 8800AXL
Asus RC87U
However, in each case, some default settings need to be changed. To set up these routers to work with multicast, you can view our Setting Up the Billion 8800NL and 8800AXL For BT TV (Multicast) and Set Up the ASUS RT-AC87U For BT TV (Multicast) guides.
If you are currently not using the BT Home Hub 5, we would recommend connecting it in place while the engineer visits to make the installation as painless as possible, which will give you time to get your own router working. Sadly, we have not been able to get one of the routers we regularly use – a Netgear R7000 using DD-WRT firmware – to work properly with multicast. Our heart goes out to all those who have invested in a shiny new router to find out that it doesn't support BT's multicast service.
Operation of the small set-top box is very quick with excellent remote control
BT provides the Humax DTR-T4000 set-top box with its Ultra HD service. The photo on the user guide (shown below) does not convey how small the box is in real life, for example compared with a Sky+ HD box, and one is left wondering why the Sky box has to be so large. Dimensions of the Humax DTR-T4000 are 23.5cm x 14.9 cm x 3.8 cm. While aesthetically the latest Sky+ HD box looks more modern, the DTR-T4000 takes up significantly less space and is certainly not unattractive. Don't be concerned about the bright 'Ultra HD' logo on the box as this is not as noticeable in the flesh as the box is so small.
At the back of the box is a fan, which you can definitely hear, although the noise was not distracting while we were reviewing the service. In use, the box became relatively warm to the touch, so we would advise placing it where there is adequate airflow.
The engineer connected the box to our Sony Ultra HD TV via the HDMI cable that came with the DTR-T4000. According to BT's guide, two of the HDMI slots were compatible with the service. The engineer connected the feed from the TV aerial and Ethernet cable (connected to our broadband router) and it was ready to go. He then ran an update and checked to see everything was working before departing.
We have previously used a TalkTalk YouView+ box that was painfully slow, for example, when scrolling through the Electronic Programme Guide. The frustrations of using that box meant that it had no real chance of convincing us to migrate from Sky TV. In sharp contrast with our previous YouView+ experience, the Humax DTR-T4000 is an absolute delight, and the menus and Electronic Programme Guide are very responsive.
Below is a video taken of the screen. It shows the speed of the Electronic Programme Guide, BT Player, BBC iPlayer and the Discover menu.
Making the previous YouView+ box even more of a disaster was a remote control that was obviously designed by someone who never actually used it to watch TV! The remote control with the DTR-T4000 is superb. Being tall and thin, it allows easy access to the buttons that are used most and provides a premium feel to the service.
So what is Ultra HD and upscaled HD like?
One of the key selling points of BT's Ultra HD service is obviously Ultra HD content and, currently, it's very good indeed, helped by the use of a healthy channel bit rate of about 29 Mbps. This is roughly double the bit rate used for the Netflix Ultra HD service – and it shows. Content is broadcast in progressive format with a resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels at frame rate of 50 Hz, to provide smoother motion than is available with conventional HD broadcasts. All the images in this review are actual photographs of our Ultra HD TV.
At this early stage, BT is to be congratulated by opting to put quality first and not compromising on picture quality by reducing bit rates. It's all well and good Ultra HD TV manufacturers displaying their TVs using non-broadcast, slow-motion content in the showroom but, for Ultra HD to succeed, consumers need to see a significant picture quality difference between HD and Ultra HD channels on 'normal' broadcast content.
On its Ultra HD channel, BT has been continuously running short Ultra HD demonstration clips, which look stunning in places, although (as with most content of this type), the demonstration content is dominated by slow motion sequences.
As well as the single BT Sport Ultra HD channel (channel 434), BT currently offers seven free on-demand Ultra HD programmes in its BT Player section (found by going to 'Library' and then 'BT Sports' and then 'Ultra HD). Our favourite title was 'Perceptions' – a 49-minute programme following a group of snowboard professionals on their journeys across the world. The programme includes some stunning footage of people and Venice. Currently, there are no movies available through the BT Player in Ultra HD format.
HD content scaled well to our Sony Ultra HD TV. In total, 17 channels are available in HD format delivered over fibre broadband by multicast, and these are:
370 Comedy Channel HD
371 MTV HD
372 Fox HD
373 National Geographic Channel HD
375 Syfy HD
377 TLC HD
378 Animal Planet HD
380 Ci HD
430 BT Sport 1 HD
431 BT Sport Europe HD
433 BT Sport ESPN HD
436 Eurosport 2 HD
In additional, all the Freeview HD channels available via terrestrial broadcasting can be watched and recorded, including BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD, Channel 4+1 (HD), 4 Seven HD and BBC News HD. Since launch, BT has added Sky Sports 1 HD and Sky Sports 2 HD, for which an additional monthly payment (£27 per month) is required.
Standard definition channels simply do not make sense with an Ultra HD TV
Moving through the Electronic Programme Guide to look at the available channels delivered via broadband, you are currently presented with a raft of channels, many of which are in Standard Definition. We made the mistake of viewing a Standard Definition channel. Displayed on our Ultra HD TV, it looked absolutely ghastly! Quite frankly, an Ultra HD TV will always struggle to convert a low-resolution picture into something that occupies so many pixels.
In the Sky+ HD Electronic Programme Guide, users can select a menu of only HD channels, and the pressing the blue button in the YouView Electronic Programme Guide allows only HD and Ultra HD channels to be listed.
With so many homes now having HD TVs, it is curious that there are so many SD channels available via multicast. Surely, these are taking valuable resources in the BT network that could be devoted to HD and Ultra HD content.
You don't actually need an Ultra HD TV and picture quality is superb in 1080p mode (at 50 frames per second)
When we tried to order the service, we were asked for the model number of our TV to ensure that it was capable of displaying Ultra HD content, and it is clear that BT is targeting homes with an Ultra HD TV for the service. You can view BT's help page showing TV compatibility and HDMI port settings here for its Ultra HD service.
The good news is that the output of the Humax DTR-T4000 can be easily changed to 1080p (or 720p) and works perfectly with existing HD TVs. Essentially, for owners of HD TVs, the Humax DTR-T4000 becomes a top-of-the-range YouView+ box with 1TB of storage, superfast menus and superb picture quality.
With an HD TV, you can view the Ultra HD channel (and all online Ultra HD content) in 1080p format, with the benefit of superior motion with 50 frames per second (compared with 25 frames for conventional HD content). Obviously, the picture in 1080p mode lacks some of the 'wow' factor achieved with an Ultra HD TV but shows just how good HD can look. We thoroughly enjoyed watching some of the Ultra HD content on our Panasonic VT65 plasma display, with fluid motion and the absence of the digital artefacts that now so often plague HD broadcasts.
With its focus on Ultra HD TV owners only, we think that BT may be missing a trick here as its service could have strong appeal to HD TV owners seeking the best possible picture quality. Broadband delivery potentially frees BT from the constraints faced by terrestrial and satellite broadcasters that currently deliver TV content with 25 frames per second and with constrained bit rates. It has the opportunity to differentiate itself from Sky by providing premium picture quality.
Bit rates used by BT's multicast channels
We watched a number of different multicast channels in different formats and ran an online speed test to gauge the effects these had on the remaining available broadband capacity. Being located close to our street cabinet, we benefit from the maximum 80 Mbps downlink connection speed, giving a maximum throughput of about 74 Mbps. Watching the Ultra HD channel reduced the available throughput of our broadband connection to about 45 Mbps, meaning that the Ultra HD channel was taking up about 29 Mbps. Watching an HD channel gave an available throughput of about 65 Mbps, meaning the HD channel was consuming about 9 Mbps. In comparison, SD channels consumed only about 3 Mbps.
In our case, watching (or recording) the Ultra HD channel had a negligible impact on applications (for example, web browsing) that we were running at the same time. We experienced no glitches when watching the Ultra HD channel.
BBC iPlayer is an absolute pleasure to use
Perhaps we are too used to the rapid responsiveness of accessing BBC iPlayer on an iPad or PC, but most set-top boxes, smart TVs and other devices (such as Bluray players) suffer from slow and clunky iPlayer access and operation. In sharp contrast, iPlayer on the DTR-T4000 is an absolute joy to use. With its impressive responsiveness, it's possible to quickly look through the available programmes and rapidly set your desired programme in motion. Within a few seconds, the stream switches to HD mode, and we've not seen any better picture quality from iPlayer. If you're looking for the best way to watch iPlayer on your TV, then this is probably as good as it gets. The previous video (shown above) shows the real-time speed of iPlayer.
Netflix has now arrived in Ultra HD
One notable missing application on the Humax DTR-T4000 initially was Netflix, which has been incorporated into other YouView set-top boxes since November 2014. This was a shame as it can be very convenient being able to access a range of TV and video services on a single device, particularly one as responsive as the DTR-T4000. Netflix is now available. The addition of Netflix, with its increasing range of Ultra HD content, which includes House Of Cards, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Daredevil, Bloodline, Sense 8, Marco Polo, Grace and Frankie and Video Game High School, significantly enhances the overall Ultra HD content portfolio available on the Humax box.
With Sky currently not allowing access to content from third parties such as Netflix on its HD set-top box, being able to access such content with BT's Ultra HD TV package provides a competitive edge for BT.
Conclusion: there's a lot to like!
This is a very exciting and promising service. Initial pricing for BT's Ultra HD service is excellent and the new Humax box is a corker, being very responsive and capable of delivering superb picture quality. In contrast with an older TalkTalk YouView+ box, this set-top box does not feel like a poor relation to a Sky HD+ box.
Currently, the Ultra HD content looks stunning on an Ultra HD TV, helped by the high bit rates being used and BT is to be congratulated for being first in the UK to launch an Ultra HD channel. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a lack of Ultra HD content available at the moment, and we hope that BT focuses strongly on building its own Ultra HD content portfolio quickly. An announcement about Ultra HD from Sky is probably not too far away, so BT needs to make the most of its timing advantage.
View our review and photographs from BT's first Ultra HD broadcast of the 2015 FA Community Shield match between Arsenal and Chelsea.
For comparison, you may want to view our recent review of the Sky Q Ultra HD service.
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CakeBoxx Technologies' high security two-piece doorless shipping containers have been approved under the U.S. Government's SAFETY Act as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology, making them the only shipping containers in the global transportation industry with this designation.
The Office of SAFETY Act Implementation at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently congratulated CakeBoxx Technologies on receiving SAFETY Act liability and risk management protections for their innovative high-security, 'deck and lid' design containers. CakeBoxx containers are now a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) and are listed on the SAFETY Act's Approved Equipment List. The SAFETY Act 'Designated' mark can now be used by CakeBoxx Technologies products.
Following the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Government established The Department of Homeland Security to focus on preventing and responding to future threats. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 was established, enabling United States Congress to enact several liability protections for providers of anti-terrorism technologies. The resulting SAFETY Act provides liability protections for those companies who provide qualified anti-terrorism technologies. The process of attaining a SAFETY Act designation is arduous, requiring an in-depth examination of the technology and the company behind it. In effect it is a seal of confidence from the US Government security experts that CakeBoxx products are effective against terrorism.
CakeBoxx Technologies' is the first and only shipping container to receive the SAFETY Act protections. The company and its 'deck and lid' two-piece container design were founded with a commitment to global trade security. By removing the cargo doors typically installed on end-loading containers, the 'no doors' CakeBoxx design eliminates the most common vulnerability associated with container security. Container security is a universally recognized problem, but practical, effective solutions for conventional containers have been elusive, and could not be fully developed due to the vulnerability of the doors. The CakeBoxx design is the only industry-friendly solution developed to address this problem since the inception of container-based trade. CakeBoxx containers significantly increase the level of effort required to use the container as an instrument of illicit activities – including human smuggling, conveyance of illegal goods, theft, product tampering and vandalism.
While the raison d'etre for the CakeBoxx design is security-based, response from industry has shown the that the long-awaited combination of security, cargo safety, employee safety and cargo handling efficiency is a welcomed addition to shipping options for containerized freight. In addition to being the most secure container available for high-value / high-consequence cargos, the CakeBoxx two-piece design provides a practical option for many types of freight not previously good candidates for container shipping.


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2020 Healthcare PR Consultancies of the Year
The 2020 EMEA PR Consultancies of the Year are the result of an exhaustive research process involving more than 200 submissions and meetings with the best PR firms across the UK, Europe the Middle East and Africa. Analysis of each of the finalists across 20 geographic and specialist categories can be accessed via the navigation menu to the right or below. Winners are unveiled at the 2020 EMEA SABRE Awards, which will be taking place virtually, with details forthcoming soon.
You can find the 2020 SABRE Awards EMEA winners here.
Winner: 90Ten (UK/Envision Pharma Group)
Healthcare communications specialist 90Ten celebrated its coming of age in 2019 with a fifth consecutive year of more than 25% growth, to fee income of more than £8m. The team of 72 at the London agency includes specialists in public relations, medical education and advocacy, alongside neuroscientists, psychologists and ex-ad agency brand planners, a futurist who specialises in disruptive technologies and an advisory board that ensures the agency is on top of the latest in behavioural science.
A significant proportion of 90Ten's work is for the regional or global HQs for pharma companies based in Europe, including Switzerland, France and the UK: overall, the healthcare communications specialist works for more than half of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical firms. It has particular strengths in purpose-driven communications, influencer marketing and patient advocacy, as well as behavioural science, where it strengthened its offer with a change management communications programme, a new tool to identify the right social influencers to help change health beliefs and behaviours, and a cognitive bias framework to identify subconscious behaviours that are holding back change.
As is the case for all healthcare agencies, finding and retaining talent is a huge challenge; 90Ten tackled this with a number of new initiatives in 2019, including mental health and wellbring programmes and a new approach to flexible working. Thought leadership over the year included the 'Cannes or Canned?' report to boost the creative output of the pharma comms sector, which is now being used industry-wide to foster bigger, bolder healthcare campaigns. The agency was such an attractive proposition that it was bought by global medical communications and technology company Envision Pharma Group in April this year. The 90Ten brand remains intact, however, as does the existing management team, including co-founders Paul Tanner, the agency's chairman, and CEO Carole North, as well as MDs Peter Impey and Alison Doughty. — MPS
Evoke Kyne (Huntsworth)
Kyne was founded 11 years ago by David Kyne in Dublin on the belief that communication is a powerful health intervention that can save lives. The agency is respected for its expertise in bringing together biotech and pharmaceutical companies, non-profits and foundations to address some of the world's most pressing public health challenges, from oncology to malaria. Kyne's work and client roster is so impressive, it was only a matter of time before the agency was snapped up, and in May 2019 it was bought by Huntsworth's Evoke group of healthcare specialist agencies.
Kyne and Evoke PR & Influence joined forces to create Evoke Kyne, with offices in Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles and London, with key consultants also based in Canada, France, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The combined firm now has 107 employees and fee income of over $25 million, making it one of the world's largest healthcare agencies. Both legacy agencies grew by 25% in 2019, including organic growth of 51% and 15 new clients across sectors and geographies, while working hard to integrate the teams into one new culture.
Much of Kyne's client list and work is confidential, but good examples of its work include the Goodbye Malaria campaign, designing evidence-based behaviour change communication strategies to empower communities and inspire sustained malaria prevention in Mozambique and building Insmed's corporate reputation in the rare disease community. The agency also works with many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies on work covering flu vaccinations, mental health, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
The agency has a wide range of initiatives to support its employees, including a diversity and inclusion programme, professional development, exchange and volunteering opportunities, mentorship, and wellbeing programmes. — MPS
GCI Health (WPP)
GCI Health opened its first international office in London in 2013, and has rapidly established itself as one of the leading healthcare specialists in the UK. The rapid growth accelerated in 2019, with organic growth of 33%--meaning that the firm has more than quadrupled in size over the past five years. The growth was helped by the fact that retained all of its existing clients, a list that includes leading pharmaceutical companies Astellas, Bayer, Biogen, Gilead, Merck KGaA, Qiagen, and Vertex, while bringing in new business from AstraZeneca (global and UK assignments), Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and Seattle Genetics.
In EMEA as a whole, however, the growth was an even more impressive 83%, thanks to the acquisition of Hering Schuppener Healthcare, a specialized unit of the leading German corporate and financial communications specialist. That move added offices in Hamburg and Düsseldorf, an additional 30 healthcare specialists to the GCI team including Horst Müther, co-owner and managing director of Hering Schuppener, who continues to manage the operation. The German operations focus on four areas: strategic communication consulting; pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including market access communications; consumer wellness; and corporate communication for healthcare companies and other organizations.
One thing that helps GCI stand out is its approach to its people, with a flexible approach to work, a highly customized approach to professional development, and a suite of offerings designed to enhance mental health. That has helped the firm attract top talent: managing director Kath Kerry; deputy MD Kim Walker; senior director and head of client services Hannah Morris; and Zoe Fleming, who leads the HR function. Highlights of the creative work including supporting access discussions across the globe for Vertex; executing an innovative social media campaign to transcend linguistic barriers and unite the EU MS community for Biogen; and celebrating the 10th anniversary of the formation of ViiV Healthcare, a specialist in HIV therapies created by GSK and Pfizer.—PH
Virgo Health (UK/Golin)
As in many of the networks, healthcare was one of the strongest growth areas – and offers – for Golin, whose specialist healthcare agency Virgo Health grew by more than 13% the year after moving into Golin's offices. As well as enabling the teams to share creative services, including digital and design, operations were integrated to the extent that Virgo Health's MD, Ondine Whittington, also became the group MD of Golin London in March this year.
Whittington leads a 70-strong diverse Virgo Health team in London and New York (17% BME, 90% female leadership). In 2019, the agency transformed its London base into a global healthcare specialist hub and grew its global client roster by turning down opportunities to pitch: Virgo Health pursued just 34% of opportunities and won 86% of them, including a significant win for a multinational pharma company that led to it opening Virgo Chicago. For the first time, Virgo invited sister IPG agency McCann Health to partner on one of the biggest pitches in Europe, together winning more than £1 million in fees. This all contributed to growth from new and existing clients, with 57% organic growth across the team's top five clients.
In addition, in 2019 Virgo Health developed a specialism in internal/change management communications that drove six-figure new revenue, and evolved The Pharmacy, its healthcare creative studio, into a specialist global hub, trebling revenue in two years. Internally, to refocus on its Being Human culture and positioning after moving into Golin's offices, the agency created "cultural ambassadors" who built a new rewards and recognition programme that recognises high performance while still retaining a caring culture; helped determine boundaries around flexible working: and contributed to how the office should act and feel in the new environment.
The company is known for its bold, creative work, which last year included creating "Emma", the work colleague of the future, to drive awareness of how poor workplaces can have a major impact on health. The Fellowes Future Work Colleague Report was brought to life with a full-sized model that showed how the human body could morph in 20 years if current office practices continue. Emma's warning reached 66 countries, with one million organic video views and 155% web traffic uplift. The team also tackled how difficult it can be to know how to talk to people with cancer, by using a stand-up comedian in a campaign for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. — MPS
WE (Independent)
Not so long ago, it would have been unusual to find WE Communications on the healthcare agency shortlist. But the agency founded as a B2B tech specialist in 1983 by Melissa Waggener Zorkin can now claim that its strength in healthcare and consumer work matches up to its technology prowess.
Much of WE's work in the healthcare sector is at the intersection of healthcare and technology, with clients in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, digital health, and devices and diagnostics. The agency's offer spans brand communications, health advocacy and scientific and regulatory communications. EMEA healthcare revenue (across the UK, Germany and South Africa) increased by 10% in 2019, and in the UK, this shot up to 25%, with new business wins including Sinclair, Celgene (now BMS), Abbott Diabetes Care, LEO Pharma, and Bayer, joining Elsevier, GN Hearing and others. Across the region, 24% of WE's revenue now comes from healthcare; it's 20% in the UK, rising to 46% in Germany.
Key hires in the UK included associate director Elizabeth Shearing Green and digital and content strategy director Cecilia Dominici. In Germany, key hires includes head of health Manuela Fastner and Alexander Dopsil, scientific lead and creative director. WE also opened a Frankfurt office in summer 2019 focused on growing the health sector in a stronghold for health agencies and pharmaceutical companies in Germany.
Such is its growth in this arena, the agency's healthcare leads are becoming some of the most senior in the global business, including UK deputy general manager and head of health Catherine Devaney, who is working with UK general manager Ruth Allchurch (who has turned the wider agency round in London since arriving in mid-2018 to achieve overall growth of 14% in 2019) to build a fast-growing, integrated health offering in London. Sarah Gooding, head of health in South Africa, has also recently been promoted to WE's first MD role in the country. The agency also produced robust healthcare thought leadership, including building out its Brand in Motion report to include a dedicated healthcare white paper, 'The New Healthcare Brand Imperative: Be Different in the Face of Indifference'. — MPS
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The Trench is a small group discussion group that meets on Saturdays at 5:00 pm (prior to Great Vespers). The purpose is to offer support to one another through practical ways of applying theology in our daily lives through the roles we play in our everyday relationships. Link below to the videos we will be discussing in our sessions.


* Trust your gut and the advice of those who love you. The idea for the book came from Zinsser's wife, and he intuitively like it.
* Write about what you teach others to do. Zinsser had been teaching writing at Yale for four years, so the book provided him the opportunity to engage course material on a deeper level.
* Consult other sources for inspiration, but don't copy them. Be yourself. Zinsser achieved a breakthrough when he realized he didn't need to be like E.B. White, the author of another classic, The Elements of Style. He merely needed to draw on his own experience and style.
* Seek inspiration from outside your primary area of activity. Zinsser's model was Alec Wilder's American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, not other books on writing.
* Go wherever the process takes you physically and intellectually. In Zinsser's case, that meant speaking at universities around the U.S. and expanding and revising the book as times demanded.
The result: a book that's sold nearly 1.5 million copies, an amazing intellectual and professional journey, and undoubtedly a rich, rewarding life.


First up we've had a meeting and reviewed the current concepts for the Rhorlan and Shelonians, worked out what works and what really didn't look so good. We also discussed what we want the outfits to say for the characters (or at least for the One Horn).
We also agreed more or less upon a style of modelling for the miniatures. We're going for a stylized look with sharp lines and clean silhouettes, making sure it looks cool and grounded yet not too realistic.
Added more reference websites to our web development spreadsheet, as well as roughing out what we actually want displayed on the final website.
Created a list of what we will require for future play testing with new people.
Discussed our world and reaffirmed our commitment to a fun, interesting and colourful world.
Reviewed a print of our Rulebook. Looked snazzy at A5 and almost everything was readable, though a few rules needed tweaking (or at least the writing of them).
Stretch goals: Clean up some of the art regarding the city, add more background information.


I've never attended a Readercon before and I'm very excited! I love ARWA and it's members are a constant inspiration for me. Even though I can't always make the meetings now (hard to find a babysitter during the week!), I keep up to date with ARWA's Twitter page, Facebook page, and website.
My goal this year is to submit TWO of my manuscripts in - I have GOT to do it - I have to take the plunge (well, technically, I have to finish them first!) and just trust in the Universe they will find their way to where they need to be!!!
This summer I intend to spend lots of time outside in my backyard - so while little monkey is playing...Mommy be writing. I found a picture of my DREAM backyard, which frankly, I couldn't have in the Calgary climate year-round anyway, but thought I'd share.
Now tell me...wouldn't YOU feel like writing romance novels if YOU were in this backyard? <sigh> I just absolutely LOVE this backyard.
And, I must add a pic of my little monkey...who was tremendously excited to attend a giant book sale with Grandma, Auntie, Cousin and Mommy this past weekend. Can't you tell?
Although he IS sleeping, he honestly DOES love his books, and he is only 20 months old! He loves for Mommy or Daddy to read to him OR he will just sit there with a book in his lap and turn the pages while studying it most seriously. It IS rather adorable and I am hoping he enjoys books as much as his parents do as he gets older! I think he will!!!


A delicious cooked chicken in a honey-garlic sauce. Best served with hot, steamed rice.
1. Place the chicken breasts in a bowl.
2. Sprinkle salt, garlic powder and pepper.
3. Toss well to combine.
4. Heat butter in a pressure pan.
5. Add the chicken and cook until browned and slightly crisp.
6. Pour the chicken stock and stir.
7. Combine the garlic, honey and soy sauce.
8. Add this to the pan and stir until the chicken is evenly coated.
9. Cover with a lid and pressure cook for 10 minutes.
10. Switch off the flame and allow the pressure to reduce.
Feel free to comment or share your thoughts on this Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe from Awesome Cuisine.
The rice will be raw or half cooked??
There will not be much of a water left. At step 13 and 14, you can sprinkle the leftover water on top if needed. The rice would have by now absorbed most of the water and will be wet.
i didnt understand the 11th point Pressure cook till 3/4ths done and remove. Wudnt the cooker wil have water in it with the rice ?
Please,give me a tasty vegetarian food.
This chicken biriyani looks divine…made me drool!
Excellent recipe. My wife made this at home and came out yummy.
Please note step 10, the marinated chicken is added to the paste and cooked.
Very Good and simple but tasty Chicken Biryani. Thanks Dominic.
You can increase the quantity for 10 person.
PLEASE GIVE ME RECIPE FOR 10 PERSON….
i love chicken biryani especially the smell it taste fabulous really delicious. I copied the recipe so that i will learn by myself to prepare so i can share to my loveones.
nice recipe………but the language is difficult………..
Hi this dish is very yummy iam going to try this asap.
marniate the chicken about five tablespoon onion paste and ginger garlic paste five tablespoons and curd eight tablesppoons and cashew and almond paste eight tablespoons pepper powder fivetablespoons .
shortcut way… what about if it has to prepared in a large quantity?? lets say for 10 to 20 peoples???? where i could get that much big pressure cooker…. plz suggest.
What I feel is 5 glasses of water is too much for 2 cups of rice.Wont the rice become too sticky.
cool and best for beginners!!!!!!!!!!!!
now i used to eat it more than my favourite dishes.
fine few words should be expland in proper waay ,,becoz tey dnt underst wat dos tat means … simple fine,….
You cant have a flavourful biryani in a pressure cooker….
Wah so tasty chicken Biryani Recipe. I will give it a try to know its reall taste.
wow its so easy method to prepare a chicken biryani……..
yes,the method is easy, and the biryani will have a good taste….
These recipe is very tasty and good. My wife made it well.
This is a very good basic recipe. This is how its made in most homes where it is eaten on a daily basis. Only, its not baked in an oven, but the layers are arranged in a deep, preferably aluminium vessel, closed with a lid and sealed with wheat dough to prevent steam escaping. Cook for ten minutes. Its done. I had called in a professional cook to demonstrate a basic Biryani recipe to me once and this is exactly how she did it. You may add saffron soaked in a little milk, about half a glass and pour it on top when done and leave to absorb.
this is very good for prople who do not have that patience to cook a dum biriyani..try it!!.. its very good for biriyani substitute..
r u really cook? i think, this is new invention of chicken biryani.
this recipe is also good. i tried it myself.
i think i will cook this recipe tonite for my pakistani husband . wish me luck.
Thanks for such a wonderful & very easy chicken biryani recepy.just double the ingredients for8 to 10 peoples.
I never feel that chicken biryani would be too easy which canbe prepared in a cooker..Not an ideal hyd biryani..
It is very tasty. in my house all.are liking very much.
good i really like this recipe because it is very easy to prepared this recipe.
I can`t get it…… Its not easy for freshers….
What a gorgeous Recipe! So rich, decadent and delicious!. Real yummy!
it is really very good recipe . by reading only mouth is full of water.
Not good for health.I lost my 400 rs after eating .
This recepie is made for Rich people not for poor like me.so please remove this reccepe from site..
very bad. no layers of rice.
I liked it very much, my better half cooked for me.
I like only non-veg. items.
I tasted it was very good.
with due respect, you need to know the difference between biryani and chicken chawal.


This investigation of the Scopes Trial encourages students to think about historical context. Historical events are shaped by and reflect the world that surrounds them. In this module, students will learn to ask: What else was happening at that time? What was the political, economic, social, and cultural climate? How was the event shaped by the personalities and interests of the people involved?
The Scopes Trial has become synonymous with the debate over evolution. It has been understood as a clash between religion and science over the origins of man. Few people recognize that the Scopes trial was a product of the 1920s, a sign of its times. The trial became a flashpoint for preexisting tensions between rural and urban culture, between agnostics and fundamentalists, between traditionalism and modernity. The trial further reflected the recent expansion of public high schools and the rise of popular culture. Students cannot understand the Scopes trial without understanding its historical context.
Use this module to teach students that the Scopes trial was not a simple debate between evolutionists and creationists; rather, it reflected the larger social and cultural tensions of the 1920s.


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Rosemary Poole-Carter Reading
08.26.2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Join author Rosemary Poole-Carter and The Montford Park Players for a conversation about how the novel Only Charlotte was inspired by Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale. The play will be performed in Montford Park between August 30 and September 14. Learn more at www.montfordparkplayers.org.
Rosemary Poole-Carter explores aspects of an uneasy past in her novels Only Charlotte, Women of Magdalene, What Remains, and Juliette Ascending, all set in the post-Civil War South. This will be a discussion of the production. The play is not being performed.
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Hats Off! to Malaika King Albrecht whose fourth collection of poetry, The Stumble Fields, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag (March, 2020). Malaika is the inaugural Heart of Pamlico Poet Laureate for eastern North Carolina and the president of North Carolina Poetry Society.
Black Socks Poets Reading
Members of the Black Socks Poets - Janis Harrington, Debra Kaufman, Ralph Earle, Maura High, Grey Brown, and Paul Jones - will read as part of an ongoing series sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society.
Rachael Brooks Reading
Rachael Brooks will read from and sign her new memoir, Beads.
Spencer KM Brown Reading
Spencer KM Brown will launch his debut novel Move Over Mountain.
Barbara Conrad Reading
Barbara Conrad and LB Sedlacek will read as part of Waterbean Poetry Night. Free!
Poetry Series
The Regulator Bookshop welcomes Wayne Johns, Ina Cariño and Emilia Phillips for an evening of poetry as part of its Poetry Series; offered with the generous support of Jacar Press. Authors' works will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Free and open to the public.
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A mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus), recently discovered to have the ability to detect the circular polarization state of light. It is not yet known what benefits this animal derives from this ability. There are two states of circularly polarized light: left circularly polarized and right circularly polarized. Light can be in any mixture of these two states, but these two states are all that are required to describe any polarization state of light. That is, the space of light polarization states is spanned by these two states.
The main shortcoming of checkoff systems for performance management applications is that the "states" in the checklist do not span the space of all possible performance histories. That is, the range of possible performance incidents for human performance is not capable of being represented by any combination of the elements of a finite set of checklist elements. It is this shortcoming that creates distortions in the documentation of performance by checkoff-based systems. Photo by Justin Marshall, University of Queensland. Courtesy U.S. National Science Foundation.
Performance review season in many organizations is now in full swing or just passed. As a tool of periodic reflection, performance reviews are a fine idea for accelerating employee development — in theory. But in practice, in most organizations that I've had contact with, performance reviews are downright toxic.
Has serious difficulty listening to others' opinions and maintaining open, two-way communications.
Has some difficulty listening to differing views and weighing them on their merits.
Listens to others with an open mind; receptive to differing views.
A very good listener, open to differing points of view; good two-way communications.
Excellent listening skills, very receptive to new ideas; excellent two-way communications.
Typically, reviewers are directed to select a single option, and then append comments in a space provided.
Such systems presuppose that performance is a constant, independent of context, unaffected by circumstances, and capable of being evaluated according to a limited number of levels. Moreover, they assume that the reviewer's perspective is valid, and that with respect to the performance being evaluated, the reviewer is omniscient. For instance, although in the reviewer's experience the performer might not have been receptive to differing points of view, it's possible that the performer is being subjected to harassment by peers, outside the awareness of the reviewer. But the reviewer's knowledge of such contextual factors is not usually measured.
ordered index levelsystems like these serve two purposes. First, they standardize the reviewer's responses. In the event that the organization encounters a need to justify its human resource management decisions legally, as might occur, for instance, in a lawsuit, documentation containing well-crafted phrasing can provide helpful defense.
Second, checkoff systems dramatically reduce the reviewer's documentation burden, which has risen sharply as organizations have flattened. Checkoff systems provide a low-cost approach to documenting performance assessment.
It's shockingly naïve to believe that a rich, varied, complex, multi-dimensional concept like performance can be captured with a single number or ordered index level. Even when we decompose performance into supposedly orthogonal properties such as listening, communicating, job skills, total output, and so on, it is at best questionable to believe that we can attach a rating to each attribute and then use that data arithmetically to compose a meaningful overall rating result.
Still more shocking is the belief that we can compare the relative values to the organization of the performance of two individuals by comparing their ratings.
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A short but very interesting run with long steep corners to short meandering trails. Great for any keen skier or snowboarder.
The top section here is mainly short turns with flat exits, whichever way you come from as this piste is split into two.
Meandering down for around 1.5 km until they meet, and again split for a further 300m.
This area is a steep yet wide section and is often used as a small off-piste powder section.
After this a 500m section of the pistes is again one track, quite flat but a high speed is obtainable.
Again the piste splits, heading right will be a long wide cat track heading towards the other lifts and pistes- great for a 10 minute cruise.
Heading left however will lead you into a steep valley with short corners and thin piste, although surrounded by an easy access off-piste or free-ride area.
Leading back to the Riffelbahn 1 lift.
You will continue for another 2.5km of wide piste.
Perfect for a cruise or excellent for freestyle as there is a steep top section to the right with powder bowls and trees.
There are two large rollers in the second section which are steeper to the left, so stay right.
You will arrive at the Maasbahn lift.


In a bizarre incident three persons arrested for cow slaughter in Madhya Pradesh have been charged under the National Security Act (NSA). They have also been booked under relevant sections of the Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act. The NSA is usually applied to detain those suspects who threaten the country's security. Therefore the move of MP government to book the persons accused of cow slaughter under NSA is deeply disturbing development. This is the first incident after Congress government came to power in the state in which the police have charged the accused in cow slaughter under the NSA.
The act empowers the government to detain people for up to a year if they suspect that they could disrupt public order, endanger the security of India or its ties with foreign countries. The decision to book three persons under harsh NSA is highly condemnable. The Congress party is pushing for soft Hindutva by misusing this draconian act. They are playing with fire by succumbing to the Hindu hardliners. The Congress president Rahul Gandhi in various forums has been espousing the liberal ideas. The party has always harped about following the Nehruvian ideology which talks of inclusive India. But action of their government in Madhya Pradesh is just opposite of what they preach in public. They have no morale rights to accuse BJP of promoting right wing ideology when Congress itself is behaving like a right wing party.
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Several Boeing 787 Dreamliners will arrive at Chinese airlines before June, as Boeing Co resumes deliveries of the jetliners, Boeing China's president said on Wednesday.
"The delivery of 787s is on track, and several Dreamliners will be delivered to China this quarter," Marc Allen said.
The process of the Dreamliner's airworthiness certification in China is in its phase-out period now, he added.
China Southern Airlines Co Ltd and Hainan Airlines Co Ltd will be the first Chinese customers to get 787 Dreamliners, he said.
China Southern Airlines said that its first 787 Dreamliner will arrive by the end of May and the carrier will get eight of its 10 orders this year, Yangcheng Evening News, a Guangzhou local newspaper, reported on Tuesday.
Boeing refused to comment on the report, but Allen said he is confident that the first batch of Dreamliners will be delivered to China before June.
Four Chinese airlines ordered 41 Dreamliners by the end of 2012, and 58 customers globally are currently waiting for more than 800 Dreamliners.
Boeing plans to improve its production rate from the current seven a month to 10 by the end of 2013.
Meanwhile, Boeing delivered a Dreamliner to All Nippon Airways Co Ltd on Tuesday, the first delivery since the aircraft's problems with its lithium-ion batteries were resolved.
All 50 flying Dreamliners were grounded in January after two incidents on Japanese jetliners in which a battery overheated. A Japan Airlines Dreamliner caught fire while parked at Boston's Logan International Airport on Jan 7. About a week later, an All Nippon Airways jetliner flying over Japan had to make an emergency landing after smoke was detected in an electrical system.
Two airlines are already flying their Dreamliners again now that the US jetliner maker has fixed the problem. Other airlines using Dreamliners already have the aircraft scheduled to fly again, Allen said.
United Airlines Inc, which uses six Dreamliners, plan to fly the aircraft again on Monday and will use the Dreamliner on its Shanghai-Los Angeles route beginning on Aug 3.
"Our customers in the Shanghai market have demanded Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which provide a more comfortable flying experience," said James Mueller, the United Airlines' Atlantic and Pacific sales vice-president.
The Dreamliner, with a small cabin but long range, is more suitable for point-to-point routes, he said, as airlines are looking for more business opportunities in China's smaller cities.
Meanwhile, Chinese airlines also want to expand their international market share with the Dreamliner, which has a maximum range of 16,000 km.
Hainan Airlines, which ordered 10 Dreamliners, plans to use the aircraft on its new China-US route.
"The Dreamliner will be used in our Beijing-to-Chicago route, which will be launched in September," said Wang Yingming, president of Hainan Airlines Co Ltd.
Wang said the carrier also plans to use the new aircraft on its other two routes between Beijing and North America.
The airlines' demands on international expansion make Boeing focus on selling the aircraft with 250 to 350 seats in China, including Boeing 787 and 777 aircraft.
"We expect in the next 20 years, there will be 700 aircraft sold in that category in China," Allen said.
Airbus SAS, Boeing's main rival, is working on its A350 XWB jetliners, which are meant to compete with Dreamliner.
The European airplane builder also forecast that China will have more than 1,000 aircraft with 250 to 350 seats in the next 20 years, said Fabrice Bregier, president and CEO of Airbus.
The A350 XWB, which has 630 confirmed orders worldwide, including 10 orders from Air China Co Ltd, will make its first flight in June or July, he added.


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OCEANS NOW ABSORBING CO2 MORE SLOWLY
A new study, reported in ScienceDaily has for the first time used hard data to measure the level at which the oceans are absorbing carbon-dioxided, and found a significant reduction.
"Researchers have used climate models that suggest the oceans have been absorbing less CO2, but this is the first study to quantify the change directly using observations," said the author of the study, Jeffrey Park, who is professor of geology and geophysics and director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studiesthe Park. "It strengthens the projection that the oceans will not absorb as much of our future CO2 emissions, and that the pace of future climate change will quicken."
He used data collected from atmospheric observing stations in Hawaii, Alaska and Antarctica to study the relationship between fluctuations in global temperatures and the global abundance of atmospheric CO2 on interannual time scales (one to 10 years). A similar study done 20 years ago found a five-month lag between interannual temperature changes and the resulting changes in CO2 levels. Park found that the lag has increased to at least fifteen months, a surprisingly large change, which indicates that the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon-dioxide is much reduced.
NASA SEES UNEXPECTED ANTARCTIC ICE-LOSS
ScienceDaily reports satellite measurements by NASA showing an unexpected, and large, loss of ice in East Antarctica, an area that holds 90% of the world's fresh water, and was previously thought stable.
West Antarctica is losing 132 gigatonnes of ice a year. Now East Antarctica is estimated to be losing 57 gigatonnes a year. (A gigatonne is a billion metric tons.)
CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSIONS UP 29 PERCENT
A report in ScienceDaily says that atmospheric CO2 emissions have risen 29% since 2000 and 41% between 1990 and 2008. 1990 is the reference year for the Kyoto Protocol...
Another report, on a study that has for the first time measured the greenhouse-strength of a range of other chemicals, some of which last for thousands of years in the atmosphere, found that they have far greater heat-trapping power than carbon-dioxide.
HOTTER AMERICA AND GREENLAND MELTING FASTER
Two reports from ScienceDaily show that the Greenland icesheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, and that record high temperatures across the United States are far outpacing lows.
OCEANS NOW ABSORBING CO2 MORE SLOWLY A new study,...
NASA SEES UNEXPECTED ANTARCTIC ICE-LOSS ScienceDa...
CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSIONS UP 29 PERCENT A report i...
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A common question by data clustering is: How stable is the clustering results? It often happens that some data points are classified by an algorithm to a common cluster, but when you run the algorithm again on the same data with slightly different initialization conditions these data points might be classified into different clusters. This phenom seems to be a consequence of the nondeterministic behavior of the algorithm, but it is rather a manifestation of the clustering structure among the data. From certain point of view, these unstable data points tells us actually more interesting information about data than those stable data points.
One way to answer the stability question is using the boosting method (also called ensemble clustering) where we aggregate the results of multiple runs of a clustering algorithm. One of the simplest aggregation method is as following: we classify two points to a common cluster (i.e. assign the same color to two points in a map) if all runs classified the two points to a common cluster.
To visualize the ensemble clustering let us consider a sample as by the following picture. Th picture shows how the k-Mean algorithm clustered a data set in three different runs (i.e. with different random initialization.) When we look closely at these three maps, we can notice, as marked in the circles, that the boundary between two clusters varies among the three maps. This means that data points in this region are unstable. But each individual one of the three maps does not tell us this information; and even with all three maps displayed together, it is rather hard to find these unstable points by visual comparisons.
Now, when we aggregate the three maps with the simple aggregation method mentioned above, we get a map as show in the following picture. We can recognize easily that, as circled in 3 regions, that there are 3 unstable regions: data points in these regions have different colors than those major clusters. We also notice here easily that there are some stable boundaries between some clusters.
Notice that VisuMap version 3.5.881 is needed to perform demonstrated tasks. The sample datasets, i.e. FCS files, used in this video are downloaded from the web site FowRepository.


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Sammy is a fully qualified teacher, and has taught in secondary schools and most recently a Lecturer at Northbrook College. He is fully CRB checked and has been a professional musician for the last 12 years.
Andy teaches the bass guitar, electric/acoustic guitar and Ukulele. These can be done on a one to one basis or in small groups.
Andy has recently graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Music with a BMus (Hons) degree in professional musicianship and has been playing at a professional level for the past 3 years. He has experience in multiple musical styles and settings ranging from large concerts to performing live on BBC radio.
Andy teaches from his home studio in Broadwater and can travel to students, depending on their location.
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Tabitha is a fully qualified teacher. She has previously taught vocals and was choir leader at Northbrook College. Tabitha is fully CRB checked and has been a professional musician and songwriter for 10 years.
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Danny has completed a PGCE and has experience of working in a number of colleges. He's currently Music Technology Course Leader at Shoreham Academy. He is CRB Checked and has professional industry experience including BBC Radio 6 Music Recommends Premieres, Music for Web Sync (GoPro) and record label releases.
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Simon started learning the piano and brass instruments very young, moving to guitar at 16, studying with Steve Dodds (Mica Paris), before completing the Rock Metal and Intermediate guitar courses at the Guitar Institute in London. In his early 20's Simon studied at Berklee College of Music, USA.
Since then he has been teaching and working with a variety of bands including the jazz-funk improvisational group the 'Kings Cross Project', forming the band 'Mobius' with Otto Williams (Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, Amy Winehouse) and 'Indigo' which made numerous appearances on BBC Southern Counties Radio. Currently Simon composes, does session work and performs regularly with Pop Sonic and Licence to Ceilidh as well as running the Brighton Groove Project, a monthly open acid jazz and funk jam.
Simon is based in Worthing and can travel to students depending on location.
Emily teaches vocals in a range of genres (musical theatre, pop, RnB) from beginner to advanced levels. She offers one to one lessons for all ages.
Emily has been singing since the age of 3 and has done a variety of exams with Guildhall in musical theatre and singing (classical), passing with distinctions. She volunteered with a summer school for adults and children with disabilities, teaching them basic singing skills. Emily is CRB checked and is currently studying at Northbrook to continue her career as a fully qualified teacher.
Emily is based in Durrington/Goring by Sea.
Paul teaches percussion and drums, catering to all abilities and ages.
Paul is a Worthing based session drummer/percussionist, one to one tutor, Stomper and workshop leader.
He has been playing live, performing and recording professionally for over 25 years. He studied New York style Latin percussion under Robin Jones (King Salsa, Matt Bianco) and started playing during the Acid Jazz days for bands such as 'The Nightrains', 'Humble Souls' and 'Brothers Like Outlaw'.
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I will create a beautiful, safe space during your treatment. It is important to me that you feel nurtured and supported and I will do my best to make you feel relaxed and comfortable. Everyone's body is beautiful and I will always treat you with respect and provide the best treatment possible.
Enhance, support and balance your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
Answer my clients' questions fully, explaining in detail my work practice and clearly state my costs and length of sessions.
Take appropriate details of personal and medical history, in order to ensure the therapy is appropriate and to enable me to tailor therapy session to my clients needs.
Respect your privacy at all times. Your details will be kept strictly confidential and any records will be held in a locked filing cabinet. I will only use contact details to inform you of session changes or cancellations.
I will respect the trust placed in me, as practitioner, by my clients.
Everything which is discussed during a therapy session is confidential and will never be shared with a third party.
Any testimonials or recommendations will be used only with your permission and published anonymously on marketing materials and websites.
I will work to the best of my ability within the practices and techniques which I feel are beneficial to each client and fall within my training and experience.
Respect clients' human rights and any differences in belief, culture, ethnicity and sexuality.
Treat all clients, fairly and equally, with impartiality and compassion.
Refer clients to other practitioners or disciplines when appropriate.
I will respect your personal boundaries and will always ensure that you are comfortable with the level of draping and will only touch you with your consent and appropriate to the therapy provided.
Maintain the integrity of professional boundaries of the client-practitioner relationship.
I will provide a therapeutic, non sexual therapy with the express intent of healing your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
Ensure that I, as practitioner, am in a fit state to practice, mentally, physically and emotionally, and support myself through continuing personal development.
Enhance the quality of my service through continuing training and learning.
As a therapist I reserve the right to be treated respectfully. This includes respecting my boundaries and also giving as much notice as possible with respect to cancellations. I expect my clients to arrive on time or notify me of any delay whenever possible.
As a therapist I reserve the right to cancel an appointment, end a session or refuse a client if I feel that my safety or personal boundaries are not respected at any time.
Cancellation Policy – I don't charge for cancellations as I understand life can be unpredictable. However if you don't show up for your appointment or cancel repeatedly I will not allow you to rebook.


F*cking up at work: What to do when you screwed up.
I've f*cked up at work. You f*cked up at work. We've all f*cked up at one point in our professional career.
How do you get over that sickening feeling that comes over you when the ball drops? A chain of thoughts go across your mind, over-running rationale and logic, before you can even grasp the true magnitude of the scenario. You're probably already jumping to the worst case scenario.
I let my boss and team down.
1. Take a short walk. Drink water. Breath. Do not cry.
2. Assess the magnitude of damage.
3. Find a potential solution.
4. Loop your manager in with the assessment and contingency plan.
5. Execute on said plan.
6. Implement a better process to ensure that it won't happen again.
We always think about the worst case scenario to prepare ourselves emotionally for the worst. However, this only prevents us from focusing on what can be fixed. In addition, we are our own worst critics. You would beat yourself for missing a deliverable when it is not the end of the world. It's bad, but not to the level you are hitting yourself over and over again.
Nowadays, I change my mindset by thinking "This isn't too bad. Anything can be fixed. It could be worse." Having this in mind allows me to decrease the time spent self-deprecating and increase more proactive, solution-oriented thoughts. It is hard to think that way, but that's part of growing more resilience in the face of adversity.
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#include <stdint.h>

#include "utils/s2n_blob.h"

#include "crypto/s2n_hmac.h"

extern int s2n_hkdf(struct s2n_hmac_state *hmac, s2n_hmac_algorithm alg, const struct s2n_blob *salt,
                    const struct s2n_blob *key, const struct s2n_blob *info, struct s2n_blob *output);

extern int s2n_hkdf_extract(struct s2n_hmac_state *hmac, s2n_hmac_algorithm alg, const struct s2n_blob *salt,
                            const struct s2n_blob *key, struct s2n_blob *pseudo_rand_key);

extern int s2n_hkdf_expand_label(struct s2n_hmac_state *hmac, s2n_hmac_algorithm alg, const struct s2n_blob *secret, const struct s2n_blob *label,
                                 const struct s2n_blob *context, struct s2n_blob *output);

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