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Amosa, W., Ladwig, J., Griffiths, T., & Gore, J. (2007). Equity Effects of Quality Teaching: Closing the Gap. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Avery, P.G., Freeman, C., & Carmichael-Tanaka, D.L. (2002). Developing Authentic Instruction in the Social Studies. Journal of Research in Education 12(1): 50–56.
Carmichael, D.L., & Martens, R.P. (2012). Midwestern Magic: Iowa's Statewide Initiative Engages Teachers, Encourages Leadership, and Energizes Student learning. Journal of Staff Development, 33(3): 22-16.
King, M.B., Newmann, F.M., & Carmichael, D.L. (2009). Authentic Intellectual Work: Common Standards for Teaching Social Studies. Social Education, 73(1), pp 43–49.
King, M.B., Schroeder, J., & Chawszczweski, D. (2001, September). Authentic Assessment and Student Performance in Inclusive Schools. Brief No. 5. Madison, WI: Research Institute on Secondary Education Reform for Youth with Disabilities.
Ladwig, J.G., & King, M.B. (2003). Quality teaching in NSW public schools: An annotated bibliography. Sydney, Australia: New South Wales Department of Education and Training.
Ladwig, J. G., Smith, M., Gore, J., Amosa, W., & Griffiths, T. (2007, November). Quality of Pedagogy and Student Achievement: Multi-level Replication of Authentic Pedagogy. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Lee, V.E., Smith, J., & Croninger, R. (1997, April). How High School Organization Influences the Equitable Distribution of Learning in Mathematics and Science. Sociology of Education 70: 128–150.
Louis, K. S., Kruse, S. D., & Marks, H. M. (1996). Schoolwide professional community. In F. M. Newmann & Associates, Authentic achievement: Restructuring schools for intellectual quality (pp. 179–203). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Marks, H.M. (2000, Spring). Student Engagement in Instructional Activity: Patterns in Elementary, Middle and High Schools. American Educational Research Journal 37(1) 153–184.
Newmann, F.M., & Associates (1996). Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Newmann, F.M., Bryk, A.S., & Nagaoka, J. (2001). Authentic Intellectual Work and Standardized Tests: Conflict or Coexistence? Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
Newmann, F.M., Marks, H.M., & Gamoran, A. (1996). Authentic Pedagogy and Student Performance. American Journal of Education 104(4): 280–312.
Newmann, F.M. & Wehlage, G.G. (1995). Successful School Restructuring: A Report to the Public and Educators. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin.
Saye, J., & Social Studies Inquiry Research Collaborative. (2013). Authentic pedagogy: Its presence in social studies classrooms and relationship to student performance on state-mandated tests. Theory and Research in Social Education, 41(1), 89–132.
Given the nation's emphasis on more intellectually demanding instruction through initiatives like the Common Core State Standards, the lessons learned from this four-year study will be valuable not only for the insight they shed on this particular state program, but more generally and importantly, for how state and local agencies and schools can foster more intellectually demanding instruction that promotes student engagement and academic learning that is aligned with the standards. Learn more here.
Iowa Department of Education. (2012). An initial evaluation of the Iowa DE project to enhance students' authentic intellectual work: Fall 2007 to fall 2011. Des Moines, IA: Author.


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Everyone dressed up for World Book Day and looked amazing! We brought in books to go with our characters, or found them in the school library, and Mrs Gascoyne read them to us throughout the day. After morning playtime we walked to the mobile library van to change our library books. During the day we also learnt a lot about the story of The Gruffalo. Click here to see the photographs.
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The children have been learning 'Polar bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?' and they were each given a different animal to research. For homework they worked with mums and dads to design a mask for their animal. We invited the parents in for the afternoon and they worked with the children to make their masks. The children then wore their masks to perform the story for their parents. Click here to see the the photographs.
We went on the minibus to visit Santa at Baytree Garden Centre. When we got there we saw all the animals in Christmas Wonderland and had a ride on the train. We saw Santa hand told him how good we have been. Finally we fed carrots to the reindeer. Click here to see the photographs.
We have been learning the story of The Little Red Hen so wanted to find out about how bread is made. We walked to Mr Smith's bakery in the village. Once there, Mr Smith told about the ingredients he uses when making bread and showed us how it is mixed and kneaded. We all had a piece of dough to knead and shape. We brought our dough back to school to 'prove' and bake. We thought our bread was delicious! Click here to see the photographs.
17.10.18 - Conker competition
We learnt about the traditional game of conkers and how to play it. We then had a go with a partner at playing conkers. It was much harder to hit our partner's conker than we thought it would be! Click here to see the photographs.
We explored the school grounds looking for signs of autumn. We took leaves back to class to do leaf rubbings. Click here to see the photographs.
We worked hard to knead, shape and decorate the clay to make our hedgehog models. We used broken twigs to represent the prickles. Click here to see the photographs.
No Pens Day – Wednesday 3rd October 2018
The whole school joined The Communication Trust's 'No Pen's Day' on Wednesday 3rd October. The aim was to encourage children to learn all the same curriculum subjects yet develop their language and communication through talking about what they were learning, rather than writing, for a whole day.
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Phonics – we played a range of sound sorting activities and blending games. Click here to see the photographs.
Science – we discussed the damage to the environment by plastic waste and the children had to predict if they thought different plastic bottles would float. We used coloured cubes and dropped them in a bowl to show what we thought. Most of us thought they would float. We then experimented to see if the bottles did float. We found that all the plastic bottles floated. We stuck the cubes together to make a graph. Click here to see the photographs.
Storytime – we talked about the ending to our story. The children used yes/no cards to show their thoughts and compare their ideas. For example: Did we think The Little Red Hen would let the other animals eat the bread or not? What would we do if our friends wouldn't help us? Will the animals help The Little Red Hen another time?
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Journal of Robotics
Volume 2010, Article ID 523757, 8 pages
Deep Blue Cannot Play Checkers: The Need for Generalized Intelligence for Mobile Robots
1U.S. Army Research Laboratory, AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425, USA
2Department of Engineering and Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Received 7 November 2009; Accepted 20 March 2010
Academic Editor: Noriyasu Homma
Copyright © 2010 Troy D. Kelley and Lyle N. Long. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Troy D. Kelley and Lyle N. Long, "Deep Blue Cannot Play Checkers: The Need for Generalized Intelligence for Mobile Robots," Journal of Robotics, vol. 2010, Article ID 523757, 8 pages, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/523757.


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Kind of Like: Stars, Mates of State, The Postal Service (with female vocals)
Genres: Indie Pop, Electronica, Shoegaze
Preview: Ride The Tempo
I've had a thing for these two cuties since I heard the song "Xavia" a couple years back. Yeah, they've been in Apple commercials and all that jazz, but you shouldn't hold that against them. They're really good at fusing together male and female harmonies to poppy, feel-good beats, with a bit of folk mixed in there as well. I'll admit it may be a bit girlier than some people may prefer, but hey, girls read this blog too! This EP just came out a month or so ago, and it features brand-new material, as well as a cover of one of their older songs. I would say that "Your Silent Face" is probably my favorite tune, but the others are catchy as well.
Fun fact: I just learned that the female vocalist, Blake Hazard, is the great-granddaughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald. So not only do I have a girl crush on her 'cause she's super cute and has a lovely voice, but she's also related to one of my favorite writers. Oh, AND she's created a foundation to help children fighting cancer. Yep, it's pretty safe to say that I love her.
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Screen printing is the all-rounder among the printing processes. It is a professional, extremely durable industry standard. Also multi-colored motifs, gradients, effect colors, such as neon, gold or silver and photorealistic prints are possible. Due to the color imprint directly onto the textile without transfer material, such as during digital transfer , the print is so thin that you hardly notice it, a slightly rubberized surface is palpable. Almost all textiles can be printed. For large print runs screen printing is the cheapest and best printing process.
In screen printing, the ink is transferred directly to the textile via a sieve. The color layer is thus applied to the textile. It is then dried in a drying tunnel. For dark textiles, you must pre-print with white to get good coverage and bright colors. A great advantage is the high wash resistance in screen printing and the almost unlimited choice of colors with excellent color brilliance.
Screen printing is a stencil printing process. In contrast to conventional stencils (eg made of paper), this printing technique can also depict very detailed freestanding graphics. This is possible with the help of the screen, which presses the squeegee paint during the printing process. Today you can find the screen printing in a big way, especially in textile printing. Textiles can be printed manually or automatically in short or long runs. Here textiles are printed with a screen printing carousel or a large screen printing machine.The screen printing process can be used for printing on very different materials. The art area is mostly printed on paper, cardboard and canvas.
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Okay folks, I have an announcement to make. We may think we're being controlled by Big Brother, the government, or cults. No, in reality, we are controlled by sports in this country. I mean, the obsession with sports teams and their stats and the VIPs and blah, blah blah, blah blah, I don't GET it. How does it help your life if your favorite team wins? What percentage of the credit can you take for their victory? I mean jeez, people say "We won! we won!" and Seinfeld couldn't be more right on by saying "No, they won, you watched." And you get your ass out there on some basketball court, and only then can you comment on how much a team's pointguard sucks. And only if your fantasy football team wins do you get to walk away with some cash, but other than that, after the finals, you're back to your sad and pathetic life.
But now with the internet, we have hit a new low among the spectator group. At least if people watch the game on tv, I can see the fun in following along and actually seeing the action. But now that the internet offers minute-by-minute updates, if people can't watch the game, they're always on the internet checking the score. And this happened at a party I was at. That's probably one of the worst insults, to get ignored in a conversation because most of the person's attention is on the computer checking the score when they could just find out the FINAL score after the game's over. They look like idiots, like how a man looks dumb-founded when seeing a woman walk by in a bikini on the hiking trail. Yet we don't pay enough attention to the crap our government is trying to pull, something that actually affects us.
If aliens are observing us, and see people fixated on the internet, or watching men in tight pants running around and smacking each other on the butt, who are they going to think is in control?
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Posted by Felda, Jerry Seinfeld's Biggest Fan at 10:12 AM
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- VespaRosso said...
i'm so glad that our cult OBVIOUSLY wins!
- Tim-tambolini said...
The only thing I watch that is sport-oriented is UFC (ultimate fighting). I think it's a true test of strength, skill, and endurance. I don't watch anything else, not even hockey, and I'm Canadian! I just learned today who's playing in the Stanley Cup...go Oilers! (only because they're Canadian too)
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Today's former student post comes all the way from Virginia! "R," as we'll call her, was part of the Studio (my project-based learning classroom) for only a year before moving away from the county and state. Inside, R describes how that freshmen year shaped her thinking academically, and the class's lasting effects on her today. We had lost touch for a little while, but thankfully she recently sought me out for a letter of recommendation. Losing R from the program those many years has always saddened me to some degree. As a teacher, you can go about your day-to-day routine and not always be mindful of students who have passed through your room. While R has not been on my mind all the time, her email to me recently really jogged my memory and allowed me to remember her time in my classroom–a time I think we mutually cherished. Read on to see for yourself.
"Learning to think outside the box and learning not only how to solve problems but how to think of problems to solve were the hardest parts of the class."
When I got the books from my summer reading list after the 8th grade going into 9th grade as a freshman, I was completely frustrated. These books were ones that were actually challenging and ones that I couldn't just breeze through like I had done since I learned how to read. I finished the books just in time for school to start and went into the class hoping that the class was going to be easier than the summer reading; and it wasn't. The first nine weeks of freshman year were probably the hardest weeks of school that I had ever had. This class was challenging me to do more than do the minimum amount of work to get an A. School was easy for me up until this point. The first few projects, looking back on them, were just like any other poster board projects for any other class. What came later was what made it interesting.
Learning to think outside the box and learning not only how to solve problems but how to think of problems to solve were the hardest parts of the class. Once you had an idea, though, the sky was the limit! The projects we made in the class were one step or less away from being reality. I was lucky to be part of a group who took an idea past the class and actually did something. I was part of the team that brought the Learning Garden to Suwannee Georgia. We called sponsors, fundraised, planned, and built a garden which talked about agriculture, its history and the technologies within it.
My favorite part, and the part that impacted me the most, was the expo. At the end of each semester we picked our favorite project, improved it and made it ready to present to the public. We presented our projects to anyone and everyone who showed up. This gave me skills to get a person's attention, to make a table and space presentable, and public speaking skills. These skills along with the research skills and the incentive to challenge myself have helped me through other classes, getting prepared for college, and even figuring out my career path. Because of the expos, I have decided to pursue a degree in hospitality at Purdue University this coming fall and afterwards hope to have a job in event planning and management.
My favorite part is at the end when she cites the class's approach to projects being an inspiration for her career pursuits. Thank you, R, for being willing to share. Thank you for reminding me why I love my job.


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Odell Beckham Jr
Odell Beckham Jr has become a distraction for the NY Giants. The man has a terrible temper that he needs to get under control if he doesn't want to become the next Chad Ochocinco. He is one of the most talented receivers in the league when he is under control. On Monday night, he was not in control and totaled about 8 positive yards for the Giants. Other teams now know his weakness and are going to exploit it. Honestly, I think he needs to be benched for a game. The Giants don't need a receiver headhunting cornerbacks instead of running his designated route. Eli's interception was totally Beckham's fault for doing exactly that. The icing on the cake is his comments about it off the field. He's playing the victim saying, "It's always, it's just my fault. That's all I look at it as: It's my fault. I just have to understand if I sneeze the wrong way, it'll be a flag, it'll be a fine. If I tie my shoe the wrong way, it might be a fine or a flag."
Earlier I said "The man has a terrible temper" but I think I should have said "the kid" because that is what he is acting like – immature and whiny. I say bench him until he learns to grow up.


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The IND is currently sending temporary residence permits to all UK nationals and their family members who live in the Netherlands and who are registered in the BPR (Personal Records Database). This temporary residence permit guarantees the residence rights for the UK nationals in the Netherlands, in case of a "no-deal-Brexit" on March 29, 2019. As there is no definitive deal or no-deal yet, the residence permits are sent with an accompanying letter, explaining how to use the residence permit in the different scenarios.
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In our previous SAS Alert we explained the possible consequences of a no deal Brexit. On February 4, the State Secretary of Finance Menno Snel announced a fiscal transitional scheme in case of a no deal Brexit.
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The United Kingdom (UK) will be leaving the European Union (EU) on 29 March 2019. This departure, better known as Brexit, will affect most British people and their family members living and working in the Netherlands, and vice versa. The European Union attaches great importance to the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital between member states. Brexit means that this freedom of movement between the UK and the Netherlands will come to an end. It is still unclear what the new relationship with the UK will be precisely following Brexit. However, we would like to provide you with further details about how Brexit will affect residency rights.
In Nederland kennen wij heffingskortingen in de loonbelasting. Deze heffingskortingen bestaan uit een belastingdeel en een premiedeel. Vanaf 1 januari 2019 hebben alleen inwoners van Nederland nog recht op het belastingdeel van de loonheffingskorting. Dit betekent dat de loonbelasting/premie volksverzekeringen die u inhoudt op het loon van uw medewerkers, afhangt van het land waar uw medewerker inwoner is – en dit zult u moeten registeren. We leggen u graag uit hoe dit werkt.
Lees meer: Veranderingen in de loonheffingskorting voor niet-inwoners van Nederland
In our previous SAS Alert we have informed you that the Dutch State Secretary of Finance informed the Dutch Parliament that transitionary rules would be introduced for those employees whose 30% ruling would prematurely end in 2019 or 2020 as a result of the earlier announced reduction of the maximum term of the 30% ruling to 5 years.
We can now confirm that the Dutch State Secretary lived up to his words: transitionary rules are included in a second note of amendment to the Tax Plan of 2019.


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26 Feb 2018 | Press Release No. 6
From 26th February to 2nd March 2018, regional administrations, employment agencies and job centres will be promoting dual vocational training among employers and young people - with numerous events, information days, training fairs and advisory services.
The aim is to show companies that they are laying the foundation for the protection of skilled workers by providing training in their own company. The aim is to show young people the diverse career opportunities offered by dual vocational training - from dual studies and a later university degree to a master craftsman's certificate or the takeover of a company.
This year's training week will focus on raising awareness of innovative training models such as part-time vocational training.
Individual living conditions, such as caring for children, can make it difficult in particular for young women to enter the job market successfully. At the same time, we are also dependent on this potential junior staff, because, considering the increasing demand for skilled workers, we have to exploit the entire domestic workforce's potential as far as possible, says Detlef Scheele, Chairman of the Management Board of the Federal Employment Agency. Part-time training is, therefore, a win-win situation for both sides: "The employers secure the necessary young professionals, the trainees can reconcile family and career entry".
All information and events concerning the week of training:
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Okay, i think i maybe might be ready to start thinking about considering preparing to begin to commence with completing the pre-conditions that are necessary for the new kind of dating, which, as you all know, is done on-line.
(Back story) I'm old, but still cute. Dumped by husband after 29 years of wedded bliss. (More backstory, but whatever.) Still recovering although it's been over 2 years. I miss sex. I'm lonely. I have great friends, but don't want to fuck them. Irredeemably straight (dammit!)
I'm funny and a smart ass and irreverent and vulgar and real. I hate denial, i am not all that traditionally feminine. (Painting my toes is a once every year event, maybe.)
Having blabbed all that, what i need to know from you all, who seem to favor OKC, what is the best dating site for someone like me? Match? E-Harmony (is that one kind of religion based? Because that will not work for me.) OKC?


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As a student myself I know how expensive it is to be studying. Besides rent and food, buying textbooks takes a huge bite out of my budget. However yesterday I found a very exciting website. It's called SmteBooks and here you can download or read over 15000 e-books online, totally for free!
SmteBooks offers more than 15000 online books which you can read online or download in pdf. Their selection consists out of IT, business books, medical, SEO and science e-books. On average books are between 50 and 100 pages, however their textbooks seem to be a bit longer, around 150 pages.
The website looks very fresh and is easy to use. You can browse their categories to find the free book you are interested in. But you as well can simply use the on-site search function. I entered Paris and found a comprehensive guide, with interesting walking tours and facts about the sights. If travel books are not your cup of tea, I'm sure you can find free download books which for sure will interest you. For example their selection of personal development books and books explaining how to use one of the many Office programs. You can download individual titles, but if you are a book junky you can download whole categories in zip-files. Have fun reading!
How does this work?
You might be a bit hesitant on using online textbooks for obtaining your university degree. Believe me, I know that feeling. However the textbooks SmteBooks is offering turned out to be pretty good. For my finance study I have been using their finance books. These books give you a clear on overview on what is finance all about. However they publish new textbooks every week. What I like is that you can download their textbooks in pdf which makes it very easy to read on my ipad.


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"I slept with a man last night.
There was a kindness in his eyes that appealed to my sense of giving. But he was the one who gave and gave all.
Empathy was evident in the slight bend of his neck and the whispery hush in his voice when he asked me questions;
'Are you okay?'
'What do you care for?'.
He ordered me a full tilapia inside a bowl of afang soup with wheat and fresh juice. He is the kind of man who made a woman comfortable. The kind that pays the bill. A girl standing across the road levelled a glowering look on my big hand bag in his hands. He carried it happily and led the way while I sidestepped beside him swinging my arms to the sway of my hip.
But at midnight, when he placed a palm tentatively on my left thigh, I shrugged it off.
'You don't want me to touch you' he asked
'Yes, don't!'
'Why?' He asked again, this time a sulking whisper
'Cos it's not necessary.
I squeezed my eyes shut and waited for his reaction. I don't know what full blooded man accepted such lame reason from a girl at night.
'OK' he said and drew a long deep breath. The breath, hot and crisp blew across my nose. He drew the sheets and turned the other way."
"That was it?', Mrs Ebere asked.
"I couldn't believe it too. His niceness made me weary. It bothered me. It bothered me because I couldn't give him back. The attraction was zero mum."
Nneka watched her mum's expression dance to different anxieties. She had been listening with keen interest. Earlier, when she said she slept with a man last night, the knife she was cutting 'ugu' with fell off her hand and clinked on the tray.
That fake naivety of Nigerian mothers. The assumption that their daughters only thread on holy grounds and say hello to angels on the street until a man from heaven comes to marry them. A knowing naivety that didn't help matters. But now, her brows were creased with concern.
"So, where's he now?", she inquired.
"He proposed and I said I will think about it but I'm never going back."
'You are stupid!'
Nneka jumped out of her skin.
"Mum I don't have chemistry for him."
"I said you are stupid!" She lashed out again, emphatically raising her voice at the word 'stupid'.
"How can a rich gentleman come for you and you are blabbing about chemistry and physics?
" But…."
"These many books you read have distanced you from reality."
"You will go back and say yes to him!"
Sprawled on her bed later that night, Nneka wondered why. Why were things not just seamless and straight? Why are there too many scalloped surfaces in this world? If only Kenneth didn't drool spit from the corners of his mouth like a mentally retarded when he spoke or run to the loo, twice in five minutes like a child about to wee on his pants. His niceness couldn't cover for his slowness; A daft unassuming slowness to things.
Nneka knew, although her friends are going to say 'congratulations' to her and her mother will add another lacy buba to her collections, to further hide her womanness, she knew she would never be happy.
"You will go back and say yes to him!". Her mothers voice rang in her head again and caused a sudden dizziness.
She pulled open a can of coke and never drank it all through the night.
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City of Fallen Angels
(The Mortal Instruments, #4)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: April 5, 2011
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Romance, Paranormal
My Rating:
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.
But nothing comes without a price.
Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary's best friend, Simon, can't help her—his mother just found out that he's a vampire, and now he's homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.
The stakes are higher than ever in the #1 New York Times bestselling fourth installment of the Mortal Instruments series.
While I did enjoy the first three books, this fourth installment seems to have gone wrong. It suddenly went downhill and I can sense it all throughout the book. It suddenly made me miss the things that happened in City of Bones, Ashes, and Glass.
I didn't like the plot. It's slow-paced and although it became better on the final chapters, still, there was nothing really exciting. Also, it's very apparent how Ms. Cassandra Clare succeeded in putting the characters through emotional torture. It's no longer fun.
Now, with the characters…
Jace, my Jace, c'mon, what happened? I love Jace but what the heck went wrong with this snarky, strong-willed character? He's acting like a total coward guy who keeps avoiding Clary as though what he is going through is too much to handle. I don't understand why he's acting like he's the one who's the most vulnerable here. C'mon, act like a man, Jace! His situation and the way he handles things, to be honest, don't break my heart. It annoys me to no end.
The only thing that makes this book quite interesting is Simon, my love. 🙂 I guess he's the only character who made such a remarkable development here. Everyone were dull and a bit smudged.
Overall, the book is not a good sequel for me, however, I am still so determined to read its next book and finish the series and hoping that it will make me happy. 🙂
My Rating for this Book: 2 Stars


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Resources minister Therese Coffey has said waste and recycling will feature in Defra's upcoming framework for its 25-year environment plan.
In her responses to two written questions in the House of Commons on 21 October, Coffey said the department would be "consulting widely" on its plans for resources when the framework is published.
Answering for environment secretary Andrea Leadsom, Coffey gave no indication of what the proposals might be.
Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas asked: "If [Leadsom] will make an assessment of the potential environmental benefits of a tax on disposable coffee cups?"
Coffey replied that packaging waste regulation already required major coffee chains to have a financial obligation to recover some of the cups they produce.
"The industry is also taking further, voluntary action aimed at significantly increasing paper cup recycling rates by 2020," she said.
"We will be consulting widely on our plans for resources, waste and recycling in developing our 25-year environment plan."
Coffey made similar remarks about the plan in her answer to Conservative MP Grant Shapps.
Shapps asked: "Whether her department plans to review regulations on food and drink packaging after the UK leaves the EU?"
Coffey replied: "The Government is developing its 25-year environment plan, part of which will consider our regulations for resources, waste and recycling."
Defra minister Lord Gardiner of Kimble recently said the framework would be published "shortly", with the full plan expected next year. The framework was originally scheduled for release in spring 2016 and the full plan expected this year, but both were delayed following the EU referendum result in June.
Defra's initial release dates for the 25-year plan and strategy were included in its departmental strategy until 2020, released earlier this year. The strategy made a commitment to tackle waste crime but it was slammed by many industry figures for not addressing other issues.
At the time, it was criticised by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management for making little reference to industry issues including resource efficiency and security, renewable energy, green economic growth and climate change mitigation.
Outgoing chief executive Steve Lee said: "This plan won't deliver – we can only hope that the 25-year environment plan promised later this year by Defra does better."
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