Sunlabob Renewable Energy, the Laos-based company specializing in rural renewable energy and clean water solutions, this week finalized a $2.1 million investment from Truestone Global Impact Fund, a UK-based impact investment fund jointly managed by Uberis Capital and Truestone Impact Investment Management.
The investment will aid the continued international growth of Sunlabob, which has to-date provided its off-grid renewable energy services in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
Founded in 2000 with a focus on combining high-quality technology with village-based training and operational models, Sunlabob provides its integrated expertise of rural electrification and off-grid energy to governments, multilateral development agencies, non-profit organizations and the private sector.
The company's products, services and programs have enabled access to clean energy or water for more than 250,000 people in rural areas of Laos and more than 600,000 people internationally.
"Sunlabob has, for years, demonstrated a first-rate understanding of renewable energy engineering and rural community development, a skill-set that is proving valuable not only in Laos but throughout the developing world," said Cyrille Antignac, a partner in the Truestone Global Impact Fund, which focuses its investments on positive social and environmental impacts.
"We're pleased to fund a business like Sunlabob that has shown sustainable growth while providing critical, life-changing services like electricity and clean water to underserved and unreached populations around the world," added Antignac.
About Sunlabob Renewable Energy Ltd.
Sunlabob Renewable Energy is a Laos-based venture-backed company specializing in renewable energy and clean water solutions throughout the developing world. Experts in rural remote areas, Sunlabob offers a wide range of products and services that achieve one common goal: to enable long-term access to clean energy and water.
Established in 2000, the company has expanded far beyond its initial focus in Laos, now providing its integrated expertise of rural electrification to governments, multilateral development agencies, multinational companies, NGOs and private individuals throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
For more information please visit www.sunlabob.com. You can also keep in touch with Sunlabob through https://twitter.com/Sunlabob and http://www.facebook.com/Sunlabob.
Truestone is a specialist impact investment manager mainly focused in frontier markets, helping support and develop SMEs for private equity investment. Truestone also provides liquid portfolios of screened funds that seek the most positive social and environmental outcomes, suitable for both retail and institutional investors. For more information visit www.truestoneimpactinvestment.co.uk.
Uberis Capital is an impact investing venture capital firm based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and London, United Kingdom. It supports the founding and expansion of high growth social enterprises that serve the base of the socio-economic pyramid. For more information, please visit www.uberiscapital.com.


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Phillies' Jesmuel Valentin impresses Pete Mackanin
by Matt Gelb, STAFF WRITER, Posted: March 2, 2017
DUNEDIN, Fla. __ The Phillies acquired Jesmuel Valentin in an afterthought trade three Augusts ago. He was a former first-round pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers and has major-league bloodlines; his father, Jose, played for 16 seasons.
Last season, he became more than a long shot. He earned prospect status with an addition to the 40-man roster, and the Phillies big-league coaching staff saw enough in the early stages of Grapefruit League games to imagine him as a possible bench option for 2017.
"He showed really good base-running instincts, and I think that's the way he was advertised," Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. "He's got real good instincts on the basepaths. We're going to put him at shortstop a little bit to see what he can do over there."
Valentin, 22, has a career .348 on-base percentage in the minors. He reached triple-A Lehigh Valley last season and figures to return there as the starting second baseman opposite top shortstop prospect J.P. Crawford.
If there is a spot in the majors as a backup, Valentin is willing to adjust. He smacked a two-run double in Thursday's 8-8 tie with Toronto. He also walked.
"I signed as a shortstop," Valentin said. "Right now, it's a little bit difficult having played second base every day for the past three years. So it's a little bit different of a position. You have to move more. The throw is going to be a little bit longer. But I'm trying to work every day there so I can manage myself. Every single time they need me to do a job there, I will be ready."
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The Phillies received Valentin and injured relief prospect Victor Arano from Los Angeles in a trade for Roberto Hernandez. Former Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. made that deal in 2014.
Valentin served a suspension for most of 2015 stemming from a domestic-violence incident.
The Phillies blew a three-run lead in the ninth with non-roster pitcher Pedro Beato on the mound. They settled for their second tie in as many days. . . . The offense feasted on a former teammate, Brett Oberholtzer, in the fifth inning. Oberholtzer allowed four runs and did not record an out. . . . Dylan Cozens walked and struck out. He has six strikeouts and two walks in 11 plate appearances this spring.
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Source: Phillies have expressed interest in free-agent pitcher Drew Smyly
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The SPARK Golf Tournament will be on Sunday, November 4th at 9:00 a.m. This is a great opportunity to network with friends and colleagues, conduct business or just have fun. It will be played at the Ocean Course on the grounds of The Breakers, recognized as the oldest 18-hole golf course in Florida. Recently redesigned to restore its vintage feel, its 6,167 yards demand exact shot-making. From the first tee until the final approach on the 18th hole, this meticulously designed course entices and challenges golfers of all levels.


You might think an agency that's been around for 50 years would have this business figured out by now. We're happy to say, we don't. The very definition of advertising changes every day. And nothing thrills us more than driving that change. Sure, we're proud of our past. But we are more excited about our future. Even if we don't know what that future looks like.
Ever sit through an agency pitch when they pull out one of those big process charts full of arrows and circles and a clever name with a TM at the end? Fact is it's not the chart you hire but the people. Here's our process: gather the best possible team with the widest range of viewpoints into a room, articulate a clear vision of the client's need, and go. Think. Talk. Experiment. Draw. Challenge. Build. And skip the BS. There really are no circles and arrows to guide you to a great idea. That's what makes the idea so damn great.


Vanessa Bruno is known for her broderie anglaise. She makes different pieces in broderie anglaise for every collection. There's always a beautiful dress or top in classic white and we can't wait to get the spring pieces in store. This will become a wardrobe classic, as well as a saviour for any outfit in your closet. We promise you that.


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Q: How to detect if Local Network permissions are granted in iOS 14 How to detect if the user has granted the local network permission in the app for iOS 14? I have to show an error screen if the user has denied permission and redirects to os settings to grant permission.
Has Apple provided any way to find out just like location permission?

A: I wrote up this class that can be used if you're not on iOS 14.2.

*

*This class will prompt user for permission to access local network (first time).

*Verify existing permission state if already denied/granted.

Just remember this instance has to be kept alive so if you are using this in a function call within another class you need to keep the instance alive outside of the scope of the calling function.
import UIKit
import Network

class LocalNetworkPermissionChecker {
    private var host: String
    private var port: UInt16
    private var checkPermissionStatus: DispatchWorkItem?

    private lazy var detectDeclineTimer: Timer? = Timer.scheduledTimer(
        withTimeInterval: .zero,
        repeats: false,
        block: { [weak self] _ in
            guard let checkPermissionStatus = self?.checkPermissionStatus else { return }
            DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now(), execute: checkPermissionStatus)
        })

    init(host: String, port: UInt16, granted: @escaping () -> Void, failure: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) {
        self.host = host
        self.port = port

        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
            self,
            selector: #selector(applicationIsInBackground),
            name: UIApplication.willResignActiveNotification,
            object: nil)

        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
            self,
            selector: #selector(applicationIsInForeground),
            name: UIApplication.didBecomeActiveNotification,
            object: nil)

        actionRequestNetworkPermissions(granted: granted, failure: failure)
    }

    deinit {
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self)
    }

    /// Creating a network connection prompts the user for permission to access the local network. We do not have the need to actually send anything over the connection.
    /// - Note: The user will only be prompted once for permission to access the local network. The first time they do this the app will be placed in the background while
    /// the user is being prompted. We check for this to occur. If it does we invalidate our timer and allow the user to make a selection. When the app returns to the foreground
    /// verify what they selected. If this is not the first time they are on this screen, the timer will not be invalidated and we will check the dispatchWorkItem block to see what
    /// their selection was previously.
    /// - Parameters:
    ///   - granted: Informs application that user has provided us with local network permission.
    ///   - failure: Something went awry.
    private func actionRequestNetworkPermissions(granted: @escaping () -> Void, failure: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) {
        guard let port = NWEndpoint.Port(rawValue: port) else { return }

        let connection = NWConnection(host: NWEndpoint.Host(host), port: port, using: .udp)
        connection.start(queue: .main)

        checkPermissionStatus = DispatchWorkItem(block: { [weak self] in
            if connection.state == .ready {
                self?.detectDeclineTimer?.invalidate()
                granted()
            } else {
                failure(nil)
            }
        })

        detectDeclineTimer?.fireDate = Date() + 1
    }

    /// Permission prompt will throw the application in to the background and invalidate the timer.
    @objc private func applicationIsInBackground() {
        detectDeclineTimer?.invalidate()
    }

    /// - Important: DispatchWorkItem must be called after 1sec otherwise we are calling before the user state is updated.
    @objc private func applicationIsInForeground() {
        guard let checkPermissionStatus = checkPermissionStatus else { return }
        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1, execute: checkPermissionStatus)
    }
}

//Can be used like this:
LocalNetworkPermissionChecker(host: "255.255.255.255", port: 4567, granted: {
    //Perform some action here...
},
failure: { error in
    if let error = error {
        print("Failed with error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
    }
})

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#pragma once

#include "Engine.h"
#include "SlateBasics.h"
#include "SlateExtras.h"
#include "EditorStyle.h"

class ModoMaterialImporterCommands : public TCommands<ModoMaterialImporterCommands>
{
public:

	ModoMaterialImporterCommands()
		: TCommands<ModoMaterialImporterCommands>(TEXT("ModoMaterialImporter"), NSLOCTEXT("Contexts", "ModoMaterialImporter", "ModoMaterialImporter Plugin"), NAME_None, FEditorStyle::GetStyleSetName()) {}

	virtual void RegisterCommands() override;
	TSharedPtr< FUICommandInfo > Button;
};

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Heartbreaking The Theme Of 'The Kite Runner'
To better understand this theme, consider how important this is for Sohrab. Losing your parents through murder is heartbreaking. Being in an orphanage traumatizes you. These two things make you scared. Here comes Amir, risking his life for your new one. He's bringing you to a loving family, who doesn't care about your past. They want to make a bright future for you, so you can be at peace.
Theme Of Motif In The Kite Runner
"A widespread mythological and literary motif is the one of two brothers, who hate or are in conflict with each other and which sometimes even ends in the murder of one of those brothers."
Theme Of Cruelty In The Kite Runner
Cruelty is a topic that can function as a major plot point in stories and connect to several different literary elements. An author may use cruelty to express a theme, or a message about the real world, exemplified through a story. Cruelty could also be used as a device in order to progress plot. Even as a character trait, cruelty can give the reader more insight into a story's plot, setting, or even the characters themselves. In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, cruelty helps to communicate different themes, progress the plot, and give insight into characters.
Theme Of Empathy In The Kite Runner
A fear of empathy dictates one's ability to achieve true redemption. This is proven many times throughout the novel, "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. The character of Amir often struggles to allow people to both feel for him and to allow himself to feel for others. While the characters Hassan shares similar problems, they have different causations and solution. They both fear experiencing empathy in the beginning, effectively hindering their ability to progress appropriately. However, while Hassan is eventually able to accept his and other people's feeling of empathy, Amir continues to fight against them, letting his fear control his life. This is shown when Amir fights against a relationship with both Baba and Hassan, while Hassan
Critical Analysis Of The Kite Runner
On a day to day basis, an individual is faced with an obstacle they must overcome, ultimately defining their morals and values. In the literature perspective, the novel The Kite Runner delivers multiple thematic ideas that portray the struggles of characters in their ordinary lives. Khaled Hosseini, author and physician, released his debut novel The Kite Runner in the year of 2003. This novel is written in the first person narration of Amir, a Pashtun boy that lives with his father whom he addresses as "Baba" in a large estate in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hassan and his father, Ali, are servants that works for Amir's father
Theme of The Kite Runner Essay
The Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini and published in 2003. It tells the story of Amir, a young boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Hassan, his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's Monarchy, through the Soviet Military intervention, the exile of Pakistan refugees to America, and the rise of the Taliban. The main theme of this book focuses on guilt and redemption. Throughout the novel, Amir is constantly trying to redeem himself. Early on, Amir strives to redeem himself through his father's eyes primarily because his mother died giving birth to him, and he feels responsible. The more important part of Amir's search for
The Kite Runner Essay
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner is a remarkable coming-of-age novel describing and revealing the thoughts and actions of Amir, a compunctious adult in the United States and his memories of his affluent childhood in the unstable political environment of Afghanistan. The novel showcases the simplistic yet powerful ability of guilt to influence decisions and cause conflict which arises between Amir's childhood friend and half-brother, Hassan; Amir's father, Baba; and importantly, himself. Difference in class The quest to become "good again" causes a reflection in Amir to atone for his sins and transform into the person of which he chooses to be.
Cruelty is something that eventually causes agony in the best of us. In The Kite Runner, the author uses cruelty in the novel to push the story and characters in a new direction. Cruelty acts as a driving force for the protagonist, Amir, and the people he interacts with. The author does this by placing the characters in unfamiliar situations and forcing them to react to those situations. Initially, Amir is placed in an unfamiliar situation when his friend, Hassan, is abused. His actions while he is in this situation set off a chain reaction forcing the characters to navigate difficult situations. Throughout these difficult situations, Amir grows emotionally as a result of the cruelty around him.
Despair In The Kite Runner
The kite runner is best described as a story of despair in happiness. Walter Savage Landor once said "we are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier." Being in despair means 'to be without hope' and even thought hope can be a bad thing sometimes hope is all we have. People with cancer hope to survive it and beat the cancer, I hope to pass my classes this year and Amir hopes to impress his father, and later on in life to save the little boy ( Hassan's son ). Too much happiness tends to put people in despair.
How Is The Kite Runner Relatable
The Kite Runner is a novel in which many readers can relate. Although there are some aspects, such as the war, that might not be directly relatable, there are other aspects that definitely are. I think that one of the incidents in the book that I feel is the most relatable and something I have experienced is when Amir was preparing for the kite race in order to impress Baba. The premise of this was that Baba mentioned to Amir that he thought he had a chance at winning, which made Amir even more determined to win than he was before. He was set on impressing Baba and gaining his approval.
Redemption Theme In The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini is a novel with multitudes of themes but the theme most integral to the story concerns friendship, guilt, and redemption. This theme was most important to the novel because the conflict in the book is intertwined with this theme, following the life of a man haunted by regrets. The book is told from the perspective of Amir and this is something he deals with for the entirety of the book after the incident with Hassan. Amir, even as a middle-aged man, is still haunted by what he hadn't done for Hassan all those years ago. Amir's entire life takes a certain path because of what he did or didn't do during and after Hassan's assault. Amir's decision affected not only himself, but also Hassan. Their lives forever changed. Amir and Hassan were each other's best friends and they grew together like brothers, though they didn't know at the time. Amir feels as though he broke the sacred bond they had and he decided to make it right by finding Sohrab. This is the last thing he can do for Hassan. He cannot tell him he is sorry anymore. He doesn't have any other paths of redemption.
Theme Of Happiness In The Kite Runner
True happiness is not simply handed out, it must be produced, cultivated, built from the ground up. Additionally, happiness cannot be measured, nor can it be perceived. Yet, above all else, it is what people seek most. Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini aims to explore the origins of true happiness through the trials and tribulations in the life of Amir, the novel's protagonist. Throughout the novel, Amir suffers through perilous hardships as he strives to attain redemption for the wrongdoings of his past. Subsequently, through the process of cleansing himself of his sins, Amir obtains true happiness. The first step Amir took towards attaining happiness commences with the realization of his father's flaws, which allows Amir to forgive his father's shortcomings. Furthermore, Amir obtains happiness by marrying his love, Soraya, granting Amir the companionship for which he yearned most. Above all, however, Amir reached true happiness as a result of atoning for his betrayal against Hassan and sacrificing himself in order to give Sohrab the life he never had. Despite the hardships and struggles faced by Amir, kite runner beautifully displays the path to true happiness and how one is able to acquire it. In Amir's case, he stumbled upon true happiness with the acceptance of his father's sins, the companionship he gains in soraya, the sacrifices he makes for Sohrab, and the journey to redeem himself from his past sins.
Essay on The Kite Runner Relationship and Symbolism
How does Hosseini use symbolism in 'The Kite Runner' to present key relationships? You should consider different reader responses and the extent to which your critical approach assists your interpretation.
Theme Of Love In The Kite Runner
Love, a universal feeling, the most powerful emotion a human being can experience, love is a significant emotion in The Kite Runner ; it motivates the characters to overcome their problems and creates a bond between one another. A relationship seeked by many, cherished by all. The connection between child and parent, can be pleasant and tender but it may also be filled with pain and regret. Love conquering all is a recurring theme in life, in which the novel and the film of The Kite Runner, displays characters overcoming their hardships.
The Themes Of Betrayal And Redemption In The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a historical fiction novel set mostly in Kabul, Afghanistan and Fremont, California. The novel spans the time periods before, during, and after the reign of the Russians (1979-1989) and the Taliban's takeover (1996) of Afghanistan. It is told through the first person perspective of Amir alongside his father, Baba, his half-brother, Hassan, and Baba's companions Ali and Rahim Khan. Growing up, Amir and Hassan are practically inseparable, as they are always playing games, reading poetry, or simply spending time together. Hassan's mother, Sanaubar, is never present during the children's youthful years, but they both have Baba as a shared father figure in their lives. The themes of betrayal and redemption
Theme Of Redemption In The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells the coming of age story of the main character Amir. Throughout the novel, many themes are apparent as Amir gets older and deals with the events of his past. One of the main themes is regardless of any action there is always a way to redeem yourself. There are many examples of this theme in The Kite Runner, like when Rahim Khan tells Amir that he can redeem himself, another would be when Assef beats up/hurts Amir but he feels healed, finally were Amir is flying a kite with Sohrab and he smiles. The theme of redemption is present throughout the events of the novel.


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Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2018)
This series covers both residential and mainstream education and is written by Dr Rona Tutt, a former Chair of NAHT's Special Education Needs Committee.
The New Year heralded yet another government reshuffle leading to some changes at the Department for Education. So, it's farewell to Justine Greening and welcome to Damian Hinds as the latest Secretary of State for Education. After attending Altrincham Grammar School and studying at the University of Oxford, Damian spent 18 years in the brewing and hotel industries before entering politics and becoming MP for East Hampshire. Damian and his wife Jacqui have three young children.
Robert Goodwill, who had only been in post for a few months, has returned to the backbenches and been replaced by Nadhim Zahawi, MP for Stratford-on-Avon. As Minister for Children and Families, SEND is likely to be part of his brief. He and his wife, Lana, also have three children.
Jo Johnson, son of Stanley and brother of Boris, has moved to transport and been replaced by Sam Gyimah who has inherited the role of Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, whichstraddles the Department for Education (DfE) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
In the previous blog I mentioned the consultation by the DfE and the Department of Health (DoH) on Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision: a Green Paper and promised to provide some details. As it happened, on 17 January, I attended the termly meeting of the Joint Unions on SEND issues at which Matthew Hopkinson, DfE Lead on Mental Health, was present. He highlighted the three main strands:
1. Every school being encouraged to identify a Designated Senior Lead for Mental Health who would receive additional training.
2. The creation of Mental Health Support Teams to ensure closer collaboration between health and education and to provide additional support for schools.
3. A four week waiting time to be trialled for access to specialist NHS services.
We raised our concern about schools taking on more responsibilities and the need to define the boundaries between what schools should provide and what should be provided by health. The consultation ends on 2 March.
Click here to access the consultation.
Building on last year's joint inquiry, Children and young people's mental health – role of education, the Education Select Committee chaired by Robert Halfon, a former DfE Minister, and the Health Select Committee chaired by Dr Sarah Wollaston, MP for Totnes, have launched a further joint inquiry specifically to scrutinise the contents of the Green Paper. In introducing the inquiry, Robert wrote:
" ….we will want to examine the measures proposed by the green paper. For example, what resources are allocated to schools, colleges and universities to help deliver support on the front line? What considerations are there regarding placing mental healthprofessionals in schools? What does it offer to ensure pupils and students are making better-informed choices about social media use?"
The first oral evidence session is on Tuesday 30 January, when Paul Whiteman, our general secretary, will be present along with Sarah Hannafin, Senior Policy Adviser, who leads on mental health issues at HQ. This is the same day as the joint conference on mental health by NAHT and the Royal College of Psychiatrists is being held. I hope to see some of you at this sell-out event, but for those not attending, there will be a report on the conference in my February blog.
Still on the theme of mental health, last week the Duchess of Cambridge was at Roe Green Primary School in Brent to launch a new website, Mentally Healthy Schools. NAHT is one of the organisations working with The Royal Foundation to offer primary schools access to quality-assured information, advice and resources to support pupils' mental health needs. These are due to become available shortly and will be followed by a wider range of resources, including some aimed specifically at Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
And, finally, under this heading, a reminder that 5 - 11 February is the fourth Children's Mental Health Week run by Place2Be, the UK's leading children's mental health charity. Place2Be provides in-school support and expert training to improve the emotional wellbeing of pupils, families, teachers and school staff. Further information about the week is available here.
Safeguarding etc
Over the previous two blogs, I've mentioned some of the ramifications arising from the Children and Social Work Act 2017. As some of the resulting documents are intertwined, and Ofsted always takes a particular interest in anything relating to safeguarding, I thought it might be worth giving a brief overview of the current situation.
The consultation on an updated version of Working Together to Safeguard Children – the statutory guidance, ended on 31 December and is scheduled to replace the previous guidance.
The consultation on Keeping Children Safe in Education (KSIE)runs until 22 February and the aim is to bring in the updated statutory guidance from September 2018.
https://consult.education.gov.uk/safeguarding-in-schools-team/keeping-children-safe-in-education/
In December, the DfE produced, Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools & colleges. This is an advice document that comes with the warning that it could be changed in the light of changes to KCSE.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges
A government amendment, the Children and Social Work Act 2017 places a duty on the Secretary of State for Education to make the subjects of Relationships Education for primary schools and Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) for secondary schools mandatory, and to decide whether or not to make PSHE, or elements of the subject, mandatory in all schools.
Changes to the teaching of Sex and Relationships Education and PSHE – A call for evidence, runs until 12 Feb 2018. There is a short online survey to gather views, which you can access here.
Literacy and the Early Years
One of the last duties Justine Greening had before making way for Damian Hinds was to announce a new Centre of Excellence for Literacy Teaching which is being given £26 million to open 35 English hubs across the country, with a particular focus on teaching language and literacy in reception. In addition, from April 2018, new phonics and reading partnerships will be set up costing £435,000, plus £100,000 for 20 phonics and reading roadshows, again with a focus on reception teaching.
This ongoing fixation with phonics, (or should this be 'fixation with fonics' or possibly 'phixation with phonics'), was also apparent in Ofsted's Bold beginnings: The Reception curriculum in a sample of good and outstanding primary schools, which was published in November 2017, causing a stir that still rumbles on. The key finding that"Reading was at the heart of the curriculum. Children read out loud frequently from carefully selected books that closely matched their phonic knowledge," drew the comment from TACTYC (Association for Professional Development in Early Years) that the Reception year should not be a watered-down version of the key stage 1 curriculum.
On 16 January, over 1,850 early years academics, organisations and teachers signed an open letter calling for Ofsted's report to be withdrawn. The next day, UKLA (UK Literacy Association) pointed out that Year R children are not a homogenous group and that "adjusting to the school environment can be problematic for some children with SEND or those disadvantaged by various social or economic factors."
It seems extraordinary that England stands out as expecting phonic knowledge to be acquired at such an early stage, when it is evident that children in countries such as Denmark, Finland, or Singapore start formal education much later and they not only catch up but overtake our pupils. There is the added risk that forcing formal education on very young children can make them anxious, damage their self-esteem and reduce their motivation to learn. Amongst this group will be those who are identified as having SEND simply because of an inappropriate curriculum being foisted on them. Children don't all learn in the same way or develop skills at the same age. Governments may succeed in making the curriculum more 'stretching', but this doesn't make pupils more ready to be stretched.
Some dates in 2018
NAHT's secondary conference 'Capturing the teenage brain' is being held in Birmingham on Friday 9.
Autism Associates PDA Training Day on 28 Feb in Liverpool. Cost: £175 per person (includes lunch and refreshments) For details and booking: jm.gray5954@gmail.com.
NAHT's Special schools, specialist and alternative provision conference, Celebrating success; succeeding against the odds is being held in Stoke-on-Trent, with the option of starting on the evening of Thursday 8th March or making it a day conference on Friday 9th March. With keynote speeches from Jean Gross, who has been chairing the review, Bercow – 10 years on and the extraordinary Paralympic Athlete, Aaron Phipps, plus a wealth of workshops from the DfE, Ofsted and other movers and shakers, if you haven't already booked then it would be as well to do so now! http://www.naht.org.uk/welcome/naht-events/conferences/special-schools-conference-2018/
NAHT's Annual Conference will take place in Liverpool from the afternoon of Thursday 3rd May to Saturday 5th May, when it is hoped to hear from Damian Hinds. Booking and further details from: http://www.naht.org.uk/welcome/naht-events/conferences/annual-conference-2018/
NAHT's School business leaders' conference, 'Empowering leaders in challenging times' will be held in Birmingham on Tuesday 19th June.
As last year, nasen Live 2018 will be held at the ICC in Birmingham on Friday 6 July. Further details from http://www.nasen.org.uk/nasenlive/ Dr Adam Boddison, nasen's Chief Executive, has recently succeeded Anita Kerwin-Nye as Chair of Whole School SEND.
The TES SEN Show 2018 will again be held at The Business Design Centre in London on Friday 5th and Saturday 6 October. Details will be appearing at: www.tessenshow.co.uk/.
By the time you read this, you may be looking forward to a half-term break, in which case
I hope it provides you with some respite from the daily demands on your time. I'll be writing again in February, when I'll be able to mention the outcome of the first conference to be badged by NAHT and the Royal College Psychology. Hopefully, there won't be any more changes at the DfE…
Social media: are there hidden problems in your school?
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (October 2017)
Are you ready for appraisal season?
Demystifying the teenage brain
SEND: conferences, reforms and funding
Building up a library of resources relevant to neuroscience
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2017)
Participating in social action at the Consortium Multi Academy Trust
SEND - what's in a number?
SEND: Round up of recent policy and personnel developments
We need a new approach to social mobility
SEND pupils deserve proper diagnostic support
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Rona Tutt's SEND summary (April 2018)
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But, as I discovered on a recent visit, there's a new attraction in town: the cannabis shops peppered through its downtown since Washington state legalised recreational marijuana.
They couldn't be further from the smoke-filled coffeeshops of Amsterdam: this is very much America does weed. Show your passport at the door and you're waved into a cheery space filled with brightly lit glass cabinets displaying their wares. Yes, there's row after row of the little packets of greenish stuff you'd expect, with enticing names such as "Pink Lemonade" and "Chocolope". But lots of other cannabis-infused goodies too: vape pens, pre-rolled joints and "edibles", from brownies to jelly sweets to drinks.
It was fascinating talking to Washingtonians about what they've got right and wrong in regulating an industry from scratch. And as I tucked into my first vegan mockburger on the plane home – nicely pink inside, my tastebuds honestly couldn't distinguish it from the real thing – it left me thinking, why are we so willing to wield the nanny state when it comes to cannabis but not something like meat, which does real social harm?
If the goal of cannabis prohibition was to reduce social harm, it's been an unalloyed failure. As even President Obama admitted, it's safer than alcohol: it's much less addictive than smoking or drinking. And while overdosing can be a deeply unpleasant, frightening experience, as the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd found when she consumed a whole chocolate bar that would have been better cut into 16, a fatal overdose is impossible. (There has been a handful of cases in the US where people have attributed extreme violence to ingesting cannabis, but the link between cannabis-induced psychosis and violence remains unproved – and, unlike alcohol, studies suggest smoking cannabis may be associated with lower levels of domestic violence).
Where there are established risks – heavy cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of psychotic disorders – they should be set out so that, as with alcohol, people can make their own decision about whether they're worth taking.
Banning cannabis doesn't stop people using – the industry in the US is thought to be worth $40bn a year, much of it black market, and in the UK, 2.2 million people are estimated to have taken cannabis. But a failure to legalise and regulate it makes it less safe than it need be – users have no idea of the psychoactive strength of what they're buying on the black market, in stark contrast to the Seattle shops, which list the THC levels of every product. Prohibition also results in millions in lost tax revenue: California, the largest state to legalise recreational cannabis, collected more than $60m in cannabis taxes in the first quarter of 2018.
Prohibition has had hugely unjust consequences. It disproportionately snares people of colour into the criminal justice system: in the UK, black people are around half as likely to report using drugs last year, but nine times more likely to be stopped and searched for drug possession and almost 12 times more likely to be convicted for cannabis possession.
But the reason we have prohibition is nothing to do with preventing social harm. It's about the queasiness politicians feel about legalising something that they perceive still has a huge social stigma attached, even though the public is now firmly in favour of legalisation.
Which brings me to the vegan burger. Take a step back and it seems bonkers that our political leaders hold firm on outlawing weed but seem loth to invoke the nanny state where it's most needed: in avoiding catastrophic climate change. We won't succeed in this unless we persuade people to fly less and eat less meat and dairy.
That's a gargantuan task, made harder by the demotivating knowledge that your own efforts are only likely to matter if others match them. Yet the most politicians do is half-heartedly conjure up a few green taxes in the hope they'll nudge people in the sort of right direction. But they're not effective enough, and also hit the poorest most.
Time for the nanny state to get more radical. We should start by banning altogether things that have literally no function, such as bottled water in a country where it's actually safer to drink tap water. And take a leaf out of wartime Britain – climate change is no less existential a threat – and ration activities such as flying and eating meat. If you're not that bothered about a rare steak, you can sell your coupons to someone who can't live without a good ribeye and feel smug as you tuck into your environmentally friendly, fake-meat alternatives.
It's perhaps not surprising that prohibition is based on social prissiness rather than rationality. But, my goodness, we're missing a trick. We should follow Canada, which just became the second country to legalise recreational cannabis. And go after – if not banning, then rationing – the stuff that does society real, undeniable harm.


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Lemma 1. If is an infinite automatic set, then there exist distinct and integers and such that for all .
Proof. Say is -automatic. By the pumping lemma we can take for some with . Note that these are distinct as we don't allow leading zeros. The conclusion now follows from .
Theorem 1 (Minsky and Papert, 1966). The set of prime numbers is not automatic.
Theorem 2 (Schützenberger, 1968). An infinite set of prime numbers is not automatic.
by Fermat's little theorem, a contradiction.
Theorem 3. Let such that as . Then the set is not automatic.
Proof. Assume the contrary. Then there exist integers such that for all , where and are fixed integers. Then as , a contradiction.
Corollary 1. The set of factorials is not automatic.
Proof. Take in theorem 3.
Corollary 2. The set of Fermat numbers is not automatic.
Theorem 4. Let such that as , where is a real number such that for any . Then the set is not automatic.
for all . Therefore, as , it follows that for some . But this is impossible, as for any .
Corollary 3. The set of Fibonacci numbers is not automatic.
Proof. Let denote the -th Fibonacci number. Note that as , and that for all . So the result follows by theorem 4.
Corollary4. The set of Lucas numbers is not automatic.


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David Wilkie (8 mars 1954-) était un nageur écossais, médaillé d'or aux Jeux du Commonwealth de 1970 et aux Jeux olympiques de 1976.

Principaux honneurs

 Jeux olympiques d'été de 1972, Munich (Allemagne) :
médaille d'argent au 200 mètres brasse.
 Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976, Montréal (Canada) :
médaille d'or au 200 mètres brasse ;
médaille d'argent au 100 mètres brasse.
 Jeux du Commonwealth de 1970, Édimbourg (Écosse) :
médaille de bronze au 200 mètres brasse.
 Jeux du Commonwealth de 1974, Christchurch (Nouvelle-Zélande) :
médaille d'or au 200 mètres brasse ;
médaille d'or au 200 mètres quatre nages ;
médaille d'argent au 100 mètres brasse.

Record
 Record du monde du 200 m brasse, le 9 septembre 1973 à Belgrade lors de la finale des Championnats du monde, avec un temps de 2 min 19 s 28.

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  Biographie (janvier 2017, à la suite de son éviction d'un bassin pour y avoir nagé trop vite)

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Champion du monde de natation
Membre de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique
Membre de l'International Swimming Hall of Fame
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So, what is to be done? As David Crosbie indicated in his comment on the previous posting, Crystal has an upbeat message. Teachers of literacy must concentrate on the regularities, not on the anomalies.
Above all, they should not set students the dispiriting task of learning the spellings of lists of difficult words presented out of context.
The "short word rule" for content words accounts for the doubled consonants of inn, egg, add, odd, ill and the final e of eye, owe and bye. Compare function (non-content) words such as in, up, to, if, as, by.
Pay attention to stress, which explains the doubling of the consonants in preferring, preferred but not in proffering, proffered.
Be aware of the morphology (or that of the Latin origin), so as to understand, for example, the single b of aberrant (ab + errant) as against the doubling in abbreviate (ab+brev-). This even explains accommodate (ad (ac) + con (com) + mod-).
I would add the mnemonic value of related words, as when definition reminds us that definite is not *definate, while substantial and residential remind us how to spell the endings of substance and residence.
As far as reforming the system is concerned, Crystal declares baldly that "there can never be a simple solution to the problem of English spelling". On the other hand he twice refers to the fact that Google shows the non-standard spelling rubarb to be increasingly common online. "If it carries on like this, rubarb will overtake rhubarb as the commonest online spelling in the next five years." Then dictionary makers will "eventually have to recognise that a change has taken place" (as they already have in the case of miniscule replacing minuscule).
By this logic, dictionaries of the coming decade will also have to recognize seperate, tounge, accomodation and so on ("misspellings" very frequently encountered online), and abandon such distinctions as lose — loose, rein — reign, sight — site, to — too, your — you're, its — it's (all often confused on the web). Or perhaps ever more intelligent spell checkers and speech-to-text technology will prevent this from happening after all.
I think it's important to recognize that planned, systematic reform is not truly impossible. Consider the case of the chemical element sulphur. That's how it was standardly spelt, at least in the UK, until twenty years ago. But in 1990 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry decided to adopt the spelling sulfur, and two years later the Nomenclature Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry followed suit. In 1992 the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for England and Wales recommended the f spelling, which is accordingly now found in textbooks and GCSE exams. I think it's better for everyone to have an official change like this, so that we know where we are, rather than unofficial and chaotic rubarb-style changes.
Another similar example is the immunosuppressant drug of which the British Approved Name was formerly cyclosporin but is now ciclosporin. What used to be the correct spelling is now considered a mistake; what used to be a mistake is now correct. It might be better simply to allow both versions.
Unofficial changes do sometimes succeed, too, as with today, tomorrow, tonight, which have replaced the hyphenated to-day, to-morrow, to-night of my schooldays.
We could consider, for example, getting the QCA to make an official decision that all words with rh may alternatively be spelt without the h, just as we allow likeable alongside likable and (in Britain) organise alongside organize. That would take care not only of rhubarb but also of rheumatism, rhythm and rhino.


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Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a thrilling misadventure involving three ingenious orphans and a villainous actor named Count Olaf (Jim Carrey) who wants their enormous fortune." It includes a suspicious fire, delicious pasta, Jim Carrey, poorly behaved looches, Billy Connolly, an incredibly deadly viper, Meryl Streep, and the voice of an imposter named Jude Law.
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park
Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But the kids have to do some quick thinking to keep the cops off their tails.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
You Can Count on Me
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
Escape to Witch Mountain
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
A doctor has a lifelike, anatomically-correct medical dummy, with muscles and organs visible through its clear skin, named Pin (after Pinocchio). Via ventriloquism, Pin explains bodily functions in a way kids can relate to. When the over-strict doctor and his wife are killed in a car crash, his son (Leon) transfers his alter-ego into Pin, whom he always believed was alive. He starts using Pin as an excuse to over-protect his sister (Ursula) from admirers and deflect unwanted intrusions, even to the extent of committing murder.
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A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.
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After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, needs an immediate operation in order to remain alive. This heartbreaking tale shows the lengths to which a family will go in order to survive in the harshest of conditions, where even the horses are fed liquor in order to work.
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What VP choice says about Obama
By Kevin Connolly
BBC News, Washington
Joe Biden has a reputation for producing memorable soundbites
No-one embarks on a career in American politics with the ambition of becoming vice-president, any more than athletes train for years in the hope of winning Olympic silver.
But the days when those number two slots on the tickets are finally filled provide some of the key moments in any campaign.
The selection of the vice-presidential nominee is often the first really big public test of judgement that a campaign faces - and the choice of running mate tells us a good deal about how the main candidate sees himself.
The golden rule, of course, is to pick someone who is something you are not.
Ronald Reagan - running as the outsider riding in from California to clean up government - picked George Bush senior, the consummate Washington insider.
When Mr Bush's own turn came to run for the White House he was starting to look a little elderly - so he picked the youthful Dan Quayle as his number two.
It is true that Mr Quayle will largely be remembered for spelling the word "potato" incorrectly on a blackboard during a school visit in front of the world's TV cameras, but at the time it made sense to select him because he balanced the ticket.
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On the surface Mr Obama's choice of running-mate looks a bit cautious and a little counter-intuitive.
After all, we now face the curious spectacle of a man who's going to change the way business is done in Washington running alongside a political veteran who's now serving his sixth term in the Senate.
But the Obama camp obviously feels that drawback is outweighed by the two factors which define Joe Biden.
Joe Biden (R) has described Barack Obama as "clean and articulate"
First, he is a seasoned political professional who has been in the Senate since 1972
He has bags of legislative experience and he's majored in foreign affairs - so he covers one of the glaring gaps in the Obama resume.
You can't help wondering if the campaign finally settled on Joe Biden after the recent violence between Russia and Georgia reminded American voters that it's a dangerous and unpredictable world out there - a world that might call for a little experience at the White House.
Second, and perhaps more important, he has managed to acquire all that experience while remaining in the eyes of most Americans a regular guy.
He was born in the gritty town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and has tales of early hardship that will resonate with the kind of blue-collar democrats who tended to support Hillary Clinton in the primaries - but who have so far failed to flock to the Obama colours.
He still lives in the town of Wilmington, Delaware, which is not far along America's rust-belt from his home town, and he even commutes to Washington by train.
He's a Catholic too, which helps with another constituency of doubters, and he is a witty - if occasionally garrulous - speaker. Expect to see him let loose as the Democratic attack dog, free to savage John McCain and his running-mate with the kind of soundbites that make the news and get remembered.
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Joe Biden on Barack Obama, during the Democratic primaries
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His characterisation of the standard speech by the Republican candidate, and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, as "Noun.Verb.9/11" is still the best gag of the campaign by miles.
At a personal level too, Mr Biden has dealt impressively with hardship - his wife and infant daughter were killed in a road accident just after he was elected to the Senate (he was sworn in at the hospital), but he recovered to work in the legislature and to bring up his two sons. He has since re-married.
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All of those pluses of course, come with plenty of minuses too - Mr Biden was once described as a "gaffe machine", and while that seems a little harsh, there have been plenty of unfortunate moments scattered throughout the Senator's long career.
There are plenty of awkward moments from earlier in this campaign... when Mr Biden had another go at winning the Democratic nomination.
Most damaging of all perhaps was the extraordinary moment in 1988 when it turned out that a stump speech he'd been using as part of his bid for the Democratic nomination had been lifted from the British politician Neil Kinnock.
What made it particularly bizarre was the personal nature of a part of the speech about being the first member of his family to go to college.
It was a misjudgement which Republicans will argue points to some inner flaw.
And there are plenty of awkward moments from earlier in this campaign too when Mr Biden had another go at winning the Democratic nomination.
He described Mr Obama - rather uncomfortably - as a "clean and articulate" African-American, and when asked about the presidential credentials of the man who was then his rival - and who is now his boss - he said "the presidency is no place for on-the-job training".
A Republican attack ad featuring that quote is already running - expect to see a lot more of it.
However, we shouldn't get too carried away with all this.
After all, there's no evidence that a candidate's choice of running mate has any real bearing on their electoral prospects - not since the Texan Lyndon Johnson delivered the Lone Star State for John F Kennedy in the very tight 1960 campaign.
The Obama camp will have weighed Joe Biden's strengths and weaknesses very carefully against each other and decided on balance that he helps the ticket.
As observers we can be sure that his sharp tongue and eventful past will make a race which is already fascinating seem more interesting still.
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BioM: Frane, Shirley M. (1956)
Surnames: Frane, Bane, Burgraff, Schmidt, Serdar, Heise, Steinke, Youmans
----Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 07/05/1956
Frane, Shirley M. (Marriage - 30 June 1956)
Miss Shirley M. Frane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Frane of Athens, Route 2, and Robert J. Bane, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Bane of Colby, Wisconsin were united in marriage Saturday morning, June 30, in a 9:00 o'clock ceremony read in St. John's Catholic church in Athens with Rev. J. J. Burgraff officiating. The bride was escorted to the altar by her father who presented her in marriage.
The bride was attired in a gown of nylon tulle and Chantilly lace which she had designed herself. The snug-fitted lace bodice had long tapering sleeves of lace and V-neckline. Three tiers, the first of lace, fashioned the skirt. Her cascade bouquet consisted of pink and white roses, centered with a white orchid. Tiny rosebuds were caught to the white streamers which tied her flowers.
Four attendants preceded the bride to the altar. Their all-white dresses were complemented with cascades of pink and white carnations. Miss Dianna Frane, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. She was escorted by the best man, Roger Schmidt, of Milwaukee, a cousin of the bride. Others in the bridal party were Mr. and Mrs. William Serdar of Waukegan, Ill., the groom's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Eldorn Heise of Edgar and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Steinke of Milwaukee, friends of the couple. Patrick Youmans of Colby ushered.
Bolero jackets with rolled collars and tiny cap sleeves were worn over the strapless bodices of nylon and shirred nylon tulle. The skirts were of nylon tulle over taffeta.
The bride's mother was attired in a navy blue dress with white accessories and Mrs. Bane wore a black and white print dress with white accessories. Both also wore a white orchid.
Breakfast was served the bridal party immediately following the church ceremony and nuptial mass, and, at 12:30 o'clock, the newlyweds with their guests had dinner in the church hall. Supper was served at 4:00 o'clock following an afternoon reception.
Silk shantung styled the navy blue sheath dress highlighted with a large white collar and navy and white accessories was worn by the bride when the newlyweds left on a wedding trip through western states and Canada.
The bride, a graduate of Athens High School, is working for the Pacific Telephone Co. in Pasadena, Calif. The groom, a graduate of Colby High School, is now attending Pasadena City College. He is employed at the Miller Instrument Co. They will make their home there.


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Ken Caryl real estate remained in a fairly stable holding pattern as we put November in review. When I review Ken Caryl real estate, I divide it into three main categories: Ken Caryl Valley (located west of C470), Ken Caryl Plains (located east of C470), and condos/townhouses (located in the Ken Caryl Plains). These three locations have dramatically different real estate markets all within the same neighborhood, so this will give you a better overall idea of what is happening.
Of the homes that are either pending sale or sold in November, 77% experienced price drops or sold for less than asking price. Less than half of the homes for sale in the Ken Caryl Valley currently have dropped their price.
Of the 4 homes pending sale in the Ken Caryl Plains, 3 were on the market fewer than 5 days.
Of the 7 condos pending sale, 4 were on the market less than one week. 3 of the 6 condos that sold in Ken Caryl sold at or above asking price.
As we look over the past two years, there's nothing about this month's market that really stands out. Age old, common sense adages still hold true: the homes that are priced right are selling very quickly. In situations where the sellers are leaning on false information about their home's value, they are languishing on the market and selling for much less than they most likely would have received had they priced right to begin with.
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Carajo é uma banda de metal de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Formou-se no ano de 2001 com Marcelo "Corvata" Corvalan no baixo e voz, Andres "Andy" Vilanova na bateria e Hernan "Tery" Langer na guitarra e vocais. Os dois primeiros dividem o antecedente de ter feito parte de uma das mais importantes bandas de metal de toda América Latina, A.N.I.M.A.L..

Integrantes
 Marcelo Corvalán - baixo e vocal (2000 - atualmente)
 Hernán Langer - guitarra e backing vocal (2000 - atualmente)
 Andrés Vilanova - bateria (2000 - atualmente)

Discografia
 Carajo (2002)
 Carajografía (EP) (2003)
 Atrapasueños (2004)
 Electrorroto Acustizado 2.1 (2005)
 Inmundo (2007)
 El Mar de las Almas (2010)

Ligações externas

Bandas da Argentina
Rock da Argentina
Bandas de nu metal
Bandas de metalcore
Bandas de metal alternativo
Bandas formadas em 2001


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Home News & Analysis MENA Yemen's Civil War Continues To Expand Beyond Houthis and Saudi Arabia
Yemen's Civil War Continues To Expand Beyond Houthis and Saudi Arabia
Myriam Maalouf
Over the past three years, the civil war in Yemen has expanded internationally. Most recently, the Houthis have increased missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, and though Saudi air defenses have neutralized these launches, they propagate further escalation of the conflict in Yemen.
Understanding the war
During the Arab Spring, a political transition was negotiated in Yemen which sought to maintain stability, transferring power away from president Ali Abdullah Saleh to his vice-president Abdu Rabbuh Mansour Hadi. Due to this change in leadership, the forces of unrest that had been brewing under Saleh's long reign could no longer be contained. High levels of food insecurity, unemployment, and corruption all challenged the government's support, even as the the separatist Houthi movement fought a decade-old insurgency championing the Zaidi Shia Muslim minority.
Previously, this insurgency was largely confined to the northern province of Saadah, but in 2014 an alliance of Houthis and pro-Saleh forces seized the capital of Sanaa and pushed South towards the second largest city of Aden. This prompted Saudi Arabia to form a coalition with several countries in the region to intervene, with allies either sending troops or carrying out airstrikes in Yemen.
While the coalition repelled the Houthis from South Yemen, extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State (IS) capitalized on the fighting and launched deadly attacks in Aden. These terrorist factions have blurred the lines between the warring sides. The conflict is among religious and tribal groups, which are primarily backed by Iran or by Saudi Arabia and its allies. But as AQAP and IS try to take advantage of the power vacuum, the situation becomes more complicated – especially in light of Qatari allegations that Saudi Arabia and the UAE back these groups.
As international players have pushed for negotiations, tenuous peace talks have punctuated the war. Saleh made peace overtures to the Saudis last year, but he was killed as he tried to flee Sanaa on December 4 2017.
Current areas of control in Yemen. The Houthis are shown in green, the Hadi government's coalition in red and yellow, and AQAP aligned-groups in white.
A deepening crisis
With regional stability at stake in Yemen, the conflict has escalated with no clear end in sight. The Houthis have attempted to retaliate through missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, which have in turn led to further attacks by the Saudis. The most notable of these was the November 2017 attack when a Houthi missile, which Saudi media reported was neutralized by its defense system, hit King Khalid International Airport near Riyadh.
The Saudis perceived this attack as being orchestrated by Iran and decided to bolster its offensive against the Houthis by initiating a blockade on all Yemeni land crossings, seaports, and airports. While entry points under the control of the Saudi-aligned Yemeni government were quickly reopened, all others were closed for weeks. The Panel of Experts on Yemen mandated by the UN Security Council warned that implementing such a tactic is to use 'the threat of starvation as an instrument of war." Notably, Yemen has been 80 to 90% reliant on imported food, medicine, and fuel and all of its ports are key in order to meet the population's needs.
While the blockade eased up after a few weeks, the needs of the Yemeni population have remained unmet. With aid and port reconstruction mostly in the hands of Saudi and its allies, the ports receiving attention are the ones under their control while imports are being further limited in others.
The civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict as both sides have exacerbated one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world today. Most of the Yemeni population is concentrated in the rebel-controlled areas in North Yemen and is vulnerable to coalition airstrikes. Thus, 22.2 million out of a population of 27.5 million in Yemen need humanitarian assistance. Of these people, 8 million are on the brink of famine and an estimated 1 million are affected by an outbreak of cholera. While the coalition has taken control of key entry points and either blocked or diverted imports such as fuel, the Houthi-aligned forces have also blocked food and medical supplies and restricted aid workers and delivery.
Repercussions of the conflict
With the three-year mark on Saudi intervention in Yemen being punctuated by an increase in attempted Houthi attacks on Saudi cities, the likelihood of a quick end to the conflict is low. The Saudi coalition has only made modest gains of territory, and talks to end the fighting are not going well. The Houthis have shown that they still possess the ability to threaten Riyadh, although the Saudi Patriot missile defense system intercepts almost all of the Houthi rockets. Riyadh views these attacks as acts of war orchestrated by Iran, which further pushes the Saudis to retaliate. Their conditions for peace in Yemen are victory along with the complete disarmament of Houthi rebels, a condition that is unacceptable to the latter.
Given both sides' refusal to alter their demands, it is unlikely that a compromise can be reached soon. This does not bode well for the humanitarian catastrophe, especially given the heavy toll Saudi tactics have on Yemeni civilians. Amnesty International has documented 3 dozen airstrikes which have led to the death of 513 civilians. This is in addition to the monopolization of crucial entry points by the Saudi-led coalition. The Saudi government has staked its credibility on prevailing in Yemen but its demands are not acceptable for Houthi rebels who have managed to maintain control over a large chunk of the territories they have acquired. More serious blows to Saudi and its citizens may only be a matter of time as tensions increase, peace talks fail, and crisis prevails.
Myriam Maalouf holds an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge. As originally appears https://globalriskinsights.com/2018/04/sides-deepen-conflict-yemen/
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Users of the Nova VMWare integration can't use the distro provided package.
The fix is to drop a distro patch which has all ready been dropped in Debian and utopic.
...to me it seems like there is some problem with the SOAP message... ns0 is not defined as a namespace und <SOAP-ENV:Envelope>?
I also tried a fresh install of the VCenter Appliance 5.1 and 5.5 without any luck. From the error message names above I cannot see any configuration etc. I might have missed?
Fixed version uploaded to trusty-proposed for SRU team review.
Accepted suds into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/suds/0.4.1-11ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
I ran into this bug (the namespace handling regression in Suds) in a different way (congruity package is also broken by this). However, I verified that the python-suds in trusty-proposed resolves the issue in congruity.
Verified using trusty-proposed with the VMware compute driver - marking verification-done.
The verification of the Stable Release Update for suds has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.


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You'll like this if you like... young Grenache.
Pairs beautifully with: Spicy meats, spicy veggie curries, stews and tangines.
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Netflix Alternatives with Free Trials
August 2, 2019 /in How to /by BlossomMarian
Netflix is not the only reliable online movie channel. There are Netflix alternatives also offers free trial offer just like Netflix. on this post, we will be revealing top Netflix alternatives.
Top Netflix Alternatives
Here are some of Netflix alternatives with free trials.
Hulu is a Netflix alternative with a slight difference. Although it is inferior to Netflix in terms of volume and collection of movies, it gives access to recently aired network TV shows.
Hulu's basic package.
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Amazon is a company that has shaped our shopping experience. As a company that strives for more their impact on online TV shows and movies.
Amazon's Amazon video is a worthy Netflix alternative. The major difference includes access to a variety of movies, documentaries, TV shows, and original content.
Amazon Video gifts a 30-day free trial.
With HBO now, you can access your favorite HBO shows (Game of Thrones, anyone?), or choose from their collection of movies and shows. While the plan costs $15 a month, you can get your first 30-days for free.
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HBO Now is a good Netflix alternative if you're a fan of HBO shows and are blocked from accessing them because you don't have satellite or cable. The streaming service gives you total access.
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DIRECTV NOW comes with a 7-day free trial, sometimes offering 30-day free trial promotions.
With DIRECTV NOW, you can choose from a set of channel packages. There are also tons of options for bundling with Apple TV or Fire TV, each of which come with special promotions. The one-week trial could be enough time for you to decide whether the subscription is right for you.
Sling TV gives you the feel of cable with the flexibility of a streaming service. The platform gives you access to a bundle of channels and allows you to add on others specific to your interests. Some plans run as low as $20.
Sling TV differs from cable in that you can watch your shows whenever and wherever you please. Sling TV has a 7-day free trial period.
Offering 40 channels at rock-bottom pricing, Philo is a great Netflix alternative to cable if your focus is on educational, reality, and documentary TV channels. After the 7-day free trial is over you will pay $16 a month for 40 channels with the option to add 9 more channels at $4 each.
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To get started, just sign up with your mobile number for the free trial. You'll need an internet connection, a laptop or you can watch through the app on Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire.
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This thesis presents studies of spatial waveguide power combiners for communication systems. The previous work on spatial power combiners is reviewed thoroughly. After analyzing the pros and cons of all the existing structures, two types of spatial power combiners are proposed. The first one is a new transitional structure from a rectangular waveguide to multiple microstrip lines for high-efficiency power combining applications. The fields of microstrip lines in a shielded rectangular waveguide are obtained by solving a set of homogeneous simultaneous equations. Mode-matching techniques are successfully implemented to analyze the N-furcated rectangular waveguide, the junction between rectangular waveguide and multiple microstrip lines, and the junction between multiple microstrip lines in one rectangular waveguide to multiple microstrip lines in multiple shielding waveguides. Calculated results are verified by the state-of-art field simulation software and excellent agreements are observed. The designed power combiner is fabricated and very good performance has been achieved. The second one is an eight-way radial power combiner. Eight suspended substrate stripline (SSS) peripheral ports are used in the design to minimize the loss and realize a compact design. The field in a SSS is solved using a mode-matching analysis. Good experimental results are presented, which show very good return loss and insertion loss performance. Conclusions and recommendation for future works are given at the end of the thesis.


Hoping Fur A Home is a volunteer run dog rescue organization serving the Southern, WI area. We are dedicated to rescuing dogs left homeless for whatever reason – dogs in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia due to pet overpopulation, dogs given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse or neglect.
We place dogs in loving, responsible, committed permanent homes, following a comprehensive adoption process which includes taking considerable care in finding good matches and educating prospective adopters about the responsibilities and costs of bringing a dog into their homes and lives.
Animals in our care are spayed or neutered, receive all appropriate veterinary care and treatment, and placed in nurturing foster homes while they await placement in their permanent homes. We assist dogs in distress without regard to age, breed or ease of placement. To the extent our finances allow, dogs in the greatest need take priority.
We are determined to keep administrative expenses extremely low so that virtually every dollar taken in goes directly to the care of the animals. Our group remains interested in and committed to the welfare of the dog beyond the adoption process.
Finally, we strive to work with area shelters and other rescue and humane organizations to develop a network of supporters and volunteers in order to create a better world for homeless pets.
HFAH stands ready to help you, the prospective adopter or foster home, find a companion who will thrive in your home. We are here to assist you in every way possible throughout the adoption process and will continue to be a helpful resource after you have welcomed your new pets into your life.
Hoping Fur a Home believes that it's our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of abused, abandoned, and homeless dogs, and to place them in loving permanent homes. We provide any necessary medical care for pets. We work diligently to educate the public on the importance of pet sterilization, responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals.