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New article from Special Needs Jungle: with additional input from Tania Tirraoro In the recent parliamentary SEND debate, a number of MPs spoke passionately on behalf of vulnerable children and their families being failed by their … The post Children with SEND deserve better than being made pawns in the VAT wars appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Rachel Filmer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights reserved

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A website for family, friends, and anyone who lands there to enjoy my photos. For a long time after quitting Instagram in 2021, my photos were nowhere to be seen. Sometimes I would post a few pictures on my blog but it never felt quite right. I thought there had to be a reason to publish one or more pictures, or a similarity between them to build a story. With …

After the excitement of last week, with the news that Rebellion had signed off on THE PHANTOM PATROL and I was waiting on a final proof to turn up, this week has been the eye of the storm. I'm still waiting for the proof, at which point I will be able to start taking orders... but not until I've seen that final proof.I'm also waiting on a copy of another …

After 7 long years, Linkin Park is back with their new lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara, new song "Emptiness Machine", new album "From Zero" (out on November 15), and a new tour.

For the past few years, I’ve been drawn to creating a dish using chicken and yellow squash. In several of my South Texas community cookbooks, this dish appears in several... Source

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Further fitting of the interior insulation has been undertaken, ready for areas to be panelled off.Meanwhile, components have been progressing on the bench, including a correct pattern LNER letter rack for the guards compartment and several steam heater covers intended to go down the side of the vehicle.London North Eastern Railway 1938 Brake Third Open E16631E (GOLD)No progress to report.London North …

Tourists and surfers strolling down the Santa Monica pier in 1979 would have passed a mysterious awning advertising “The Natural Museum of Modern Art”. A nearby explanatory panel did little to clarify: “The Natural Museum of Modern Art project is part of an ongoing interest by the John Doe Co in natural objects and phenomena.” […]

Bain News Service, Library of Congress The Library of Congress has a large collection of high quality prints from the Bain News Service, the first news photography service in the US. The collection focuses primarily on people and events from 1900 into the 1920. George Grantham Bain not only made his own images, but collected important photos from local American and foreign newspapers. The most frequent images are of people …

Although a few fires continue to burn in the state, smoke levels remain low, and the forecasted weather is not conducive to wildfire growth. Let's take a look at how this wildfire season's air quality compares to previous years.In terms of the number of smoke-impacted days, this summer looked more like the relatively smoke-free summers of 2016 and 2019 rather than more recent years. The summer wasn't smoke-free, but we …

Cindy Lee shares an official video for one of the many dazzling highlights from 2024's album of the year, Diamond Jubilee... Continue reading…

Perhaps a month ago I came across a reference to a book about the writing of the Constitution, The Framer's Coup, by one Michael Klarman. (More on him much later.) It took a couple of weeks to get the book, published in 2016 by the Oxford University Press, from the local library system. It includes 631 pages of text and 181 pages of endnotes. It is probably the single best …

I saw the new Dominion expansion at the store last night. I stopped buying them around the tenth or so. Not because I disliked Dominion; but I never got it to the table: A usability problem. I put all of my Dominion cards in a binder, with a card box for the randomizers and tokens etc. It was too cumbersome to ship (if the binder tilted wrong, all the cards …

Thurs. Sept. 19, 2024 – On Sunday, I pushed the Publish button to start my debut novel’s adventure out into the Big Wide World...

Recently, I started a new project. I react to the accessibility of more or less randomly picked websites.Before you get too excited, It's in German. I feel more comfortable recording live reactions to websites I have never seen in my native language. However, I may try it in English if there's demand. So far, I've recorded four videos: Wie barrierefrei ist gruene.at? Wie barrierefrei ist fpoe.at? Wie barrierefrei ist bierpartei.eu? …