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Route Media team up with Cricket Wales North (CWN)
Cricket Wales are delighted to announce a two-year partnership with out of home media business Route which will see the Welsh based organisation, who have an office in Wrexham as well as Cardiff, appear on the front of the playing shirt for the Cricket Wales North (CWN) regional programme.
As a fast growing enterprise, Route lead the way in developing static and mobile products that reach target audiences using engaging and dynamic content across roadside LED screens, digital vans, bikes and walking billboards. Route’s partners range from national sport stadiums and international airports to local charities and independent organisations. They have also worked with the likes of Wrexham FC, Cardiff University, Watches of Wales, Cardiff Blues, Nathaniel Cars and Depot. Route’s expert brand experience creates memorable campaigns that captures attention and turns the heads of the public.
CWN represents part of the regional programme within the Welsh cricket pathway, covering the North East, Eyri and Mid Wales areas and plays an integral role, alongside clubs in the area, in developing the next generation of cricketers for both Glamorgan CCC and the wider recreational game.
Sales Director for Route, Dean Jones commented on the recent partnership by saying, “We are thrilled to be entering into a strong partnership with Cricket Wales and are committed to supporting the region in building on its initial success. We are delighted to be involved in a partnership that will bring huge benefits to the region and sport as a whole and look forward to our joint projects in the future.”
Cricket Wales Head Pathway Matt Thompson commented, “Route are all about creating bold, eye-catching, and exciting campaigns. We ourselves want to deliver innovative and memorable coaching and playing experiences within the pathway so it’s great to partner with Route as they posses many of the same values and aspirations that we do. We can’t thank them enough for their support of the CWN programme and we look forward to a positive relationship for many years to come.”
Image: Route Media Sales Director Dean Jones being presented with a CWN shirt by Cricket Wales Head of Talent Pathway Matt Thompson to mark the company’s support of the region over the two years.
To find out more about Route Media visit their website at: https://www.routemedia.co.uk/about-route


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Tonight there will be another chance to see the Starlink satellites made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
Launched to improve global internet coverage, the spacecraft is now in low orbit, providing the British with an incredible spectacle.
SpaceX Starlink satellites will be visible on Merseyside until April 24.
Here is what time you will see the satellites tonight, along with some helpful tips and tricks.
What time can you see the Starlink satellites tonight?
Around 8:53 p.m. this evening, the Starlink satellites will fly over the region from west to southeast.
Their visibility varies according to their proximity to the Earth and light pollution.
Clouds are likely to block most of your sight tonight as visibility is extremely poor.
But there will be another chance at 10:12 p.m. where 41 satellites will fly over Merseyside from east to west.
Although it’s darker, there will still be clouds, so stay focused.
If you need a visual display to help you see the satellites, download a free astronomy app like Night Sky on iPhones or Sky Map for Android.
When are the Starlink satellites most visible near me?
This useful website uses Google Earth and your location to show exactly when they will pass over your house.
You can enter your location here to find the days and times when they will be most visible in your area.
You can also track satellites using the Starlink Starlink app, which automatically calculates when SpaceX satellites should be visible above your current location.
What do they look like?
Some satellites may appear as a slowly moving star in a straight line.
Satellites will not flicker like a star, but they can appear and disappear depending on the cloud cover and atmospheric conditions.
Almost all the satellites will move in the same direction, with a trajectory similar to the previous days.
What is the best way to see Starlink satellites?
- You can see the satellites better under a clear, dark sky
- Try to position yourself in as dark a place as possible at home
- Move away from street lights or block them with your hands
- Be patient, delays may be a few minutes depending on your location

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We are poised at a pivotal juncture in history. The air around us is thrumming with tension, ideas are clashing from opposite ends of the political spectrum with no small amount of force. In the past couple of years, the topic of free speech has been galloping towards the frontlines of political discussion and has roused and inflamed many.
We’ve seen the advent of micoaggressions, the rise of university speech codes, a preoccupation with “hate speech”, and the notorious ascendancy of safe spaces. All of these things have claimed prominence fairly rapidly, at an almost disturbing pace. The modern appetite for censorship should be disconcerting. It’s anathema to our country’s philosophical origins, after all. To engage in the restriction of free speech is to be complicit in fraying the fabric of liberty that blankets our entire nation. More than chiefly a political phenomenon, the free speech debate is both cultural and psychological as well. A penchant for censorship will — and already is — radically altering our society.
First things first: It’s ironic that the Left is currently hankering after censorship while historically, they were the political persuasion that was “liberal” and “open-minded” and that championed free discussion. We don’t see much of that influence anymore. Interestingly, a lot of classically liberal sentiments that exist in our culture today have shifted to the Right. That the American Left has now become completely identified by its desire for — what else would you call it — restricted speech — is a portentous indication of the direction in which they are headed. And what direction could that be other than something vaguely totalitarian, if not outrightly so?
In modern times, there has emerged a distinct obsession with emotional safety. The individual is regarded not as resilient and intact but feeble and easily wounded. At colleges, large numbers of students rally for the paternalistic protection of their minds, as if it is an outrage to be exposed to ideas that they do not want to entertain. Challenging opinions are thought of as shrouded in danger. Such protestors, clenched and angry, feel righteous in lashing out with condemnations of hate speech, righteous in demanding censorship, righteous in insisting they be thusly protected by the academic elite and the university higher-ups.
Interesting to note: this is a far cry from the Left’s provocations of the 1960s with its ethos of experimentation and revolutionary-esque liberation. The 60s counterparts positioned themselves as rebels against paternalistic figures and institutions. Today, the young generation of the Left is categorically different, imploring these same paternalistic figures and institutions for their clout. This effect is hardly confined to college campuses and can be witnessed to a similar degree on social media, with calls for banning a host of political content, mostly that of right-wingers, which increasingly happens with decent success.
The belief nowadays is this: People are innately vulnerable above all.That’s a scary shift to have undergone. Stemming from this is the notion that the individual is not self-reliant. Victim-culture is rampant in part because it has become established that if you claim the victim, you’ll actually get things! Increasingly, the victim is indulged and is incentivized to continue in their pleas for censorship, amongst other things. Victim-culture also starts straying into politics in the form of laws protecting and benefiting disproportionately minority peoples, for example.
As it is, the leftists posit that individual, subjective offense is grounds for punishment, essentially — usually something along the lines of censorship. Their logic goes: I am offended = I am justified in my demand for censorship. I am involutionary exposed to an opinion I do not like = I am justified in curtailing free speech. And because all of this is based on what each individual person finds offensive and personally disagreeable, there’s an endless multiplication of offenses. It never ends! There’s nothing healthy or advisable about structuring your society in such a manner — that is, in a way that sufficiently encompasses everyone’s need to feel equally protected. Least of all, it’s impossible!
And for all the Left’s championing of diversity, diversity of thought is clearly not what they are after. Offense, it would seem, can negate the necessity of diversity entirely. Offense is like a currency in today’s culture. Collect enough of it and increasingly, you can actually wield power over your opponent.
Interestingly, at the core of the Leftist offense conundrum is that there is no distinction made between speech and action. It is insinuated that being exposed to ideas that one dislikes or strongly disagrees with is akin to a physical attack, equivalent to a direct assault on one’s identity. Leftist protestors unfortunately see themselves as powerless victims, in the sense that they are supposedly powerless against the supposed damage inherent in mere exposure to opposite viewpoints.
Such opposing viewpoints will assuredly do damage to their selves, and they will have no say in it — or at least that’s the belief. Thus, retribution is justified. To those asking for censorship, the swarm of opinions encountered in daily life are not conceived as the natural, healthy consequences of democracy but as direct assaults on one’s identity.
Sure, free speech may cause discomfort. But our preoccupation should not be with comfort or lack thereof. The primary concern of free speech is definitely not “protecting” minds. Speech has never been about that! A free exchange of ideas naturally helps us improve and challenge the ones that we currently uphold. Free speech is about continual intellectual progress and challenge. And such an aim has weak ties to the modern Left. Instead, a lot of the modern Left curiously appears to be in the business of carting around caution tape in an effort to actually shield themselves from anything that might, even mildly, threaten their ideological loyalties.
Of course, there are those that will hurl the claim that to advocate for free speech is to necessarily endorse the entire spectrum of radical, highly controversial political opinions. This is a very damaging thing to insinuate on their part (and they know it) and a radical claim to make.
It’s all-or-nothing and if you defend the right to unequivocal free speech then you are summarily grouped in with the entire gamut of opinions that exist, however unsavory and extremist some of them may be. According to leftist dogma, you are to be identified with them as a consequence of defending their right to exist.
But to defend free speech is not to defend the validity of every opinion out there. Defending free speech is not about credibility. The crux of free speech is the principle of it — the principle of every opinion having an equal opportunity to be aired and to exist. To concern ourselves too heavily and arbitrarily on what is okay to be aired and what is not is risky business; a threat to liberty. And the principle of free speech is not concerned with staking valuations on different opinions and ideas.
Again, to allow it to exist is not to automatically endorse it. (Permission and endorsement being conflated reads as a political strategy to push through anti-free-speech measures.) What it comes down to is this: Allowing the freedom of speech is probably wiser and less harmful than allowing the regulation of speech.
After all, this is important on a psychological level: Suppressing certain discourse will have unintended bad effects. Forcing people not to say, in some cases, generally considered “bad” things is probably not going to accomplish any kind of good in the long run. Logically, such a pursuit will backfire. What happens when you don’t permit people to say the things they want to say? It gets driven underground and that’s where bad things can fester, dangerously so. Regulating the speech of your opponents does not disarm them. It makes people feel restrained and this is usually not a good feeling to engender, especially en masse.
Furthermore, the debate with free speech is so viscerally significant because censorship of our speech inevitably ties in with censorship of our very thoughts. Any censorship smothers, in an ugly fashion, the thought that wanted to be uttered; it does not painlessly evaporate. This suppression is not good (and isn’t it odd that conservatives are the ones arguing for free speech when they are the ones typically associated with traditionalism and “repression”? And yet it’s the Left that hungers for censorship — which, in that case, we should ask why. It’s less about protection and more about power, I think.)
My point is this: it is less dangerous to let people utter their thoughts instead of not allowing them the perfect human liberty to do so. After all, on some level, we humans are aware that it is not natural for external forces to oppress our speech. Censorship is a totalitarian aim at its core and you have to ask yourself what the end result of it is. Where does it lead? To what overarching ideology can censorship, even in mild forms, be connected to? Totalitarian oppression is what. We’ve already seen the evidence of that.
What makes the Left think that they’ll stumble into a peaceful, conflict-free society if they can just get their hands on restricting speech and regulating the public sphere in this manner? All historical evidence directly contradicts this presupposition. Controlling and murderous societies always resulted. Peace remained a fairytale, painfully at odds with the grim portraits of Communist, censorship-rife societies. That’s obviously the worst-case scenario, but it’s one we have to be mindful of.
Censorship to the degree that any opposing opinion deemed even potentially threatening can be silenced is the unspoken goal of many radical leftists. Their logic reads that in doing so, conflict — or potential conflict — will be eventually eradicated. But that will never happen. Never in practice anyways. Only in theory; only in the quixotic imaginations of radicals. Conflict is inevitable in any society and it is not the mark of an “evolved” one to have been successful in stamping it out. If by “evolved” we mean totalitarian societies, then sure, I bet you could find a lot of silenced voices in the hollow, ghostly streets of Communist Russia, as one example. And yet, the conflict that the modern Left is fluent and practiced in is increasingly not that of rational discussion (which they view as characterized by a futility) but attack-and-confrontation-style theatrics.
Liberty is not a concept couched only in politics; it receives a major boost (or lack thereof) from culture itself. It requires sufficient vigilance to stay alive. If we should be protecting anything, it should be liberty itself. Currently, cultural attitudes are indicating widespread hostility towards free speech. In modern universities — a cultural institution — we see the slow crawl to totalitarian censorship in effect. And universities are the very nucleuses of the free discussion of ideas, historically the halls of intellectual diversity! It becomes clear that universities are not so much committed to the free discussion of different ideas but rather, are committed to cultivating groupthink and flushing student’s minds of the “wrong” kinds of thoughts. Intellectual provocation is increasingly viewed as distinctly punishable in this new atmosphere.
A word of warning: This is how societies crumble. Not with a bang but with a progressive degradation, a pernicious peeling away of the things that originally helped us to flourish.
And a word on political correctness: While technically one could call it a mild form of “being polite,” let’s first recognize that in its inception it was used to silence dissenting opinions. Political correctness was derived from the Frankfurt school of thought, aka Critical Theory. It busied itself with creating intellectual conformity and upholding intellectual authoritarianism. Such things bear an eerie resemblance to the modern Left.
A hostility towards free speech will change our society, and not for the better. Genuine inquiry and critique are fading from the mainstream. (And that can go for the whole of the political spectrum.) Instead, strategies of condemnation without evidence or argument and attack-style confrontation are front-and-center. If there’s discourse happening, the prevailing tactic is not to listen to understand but to reflexively attack.
More and more, a slavish adherence to ideology takes precedence. Increasingly, language is used not to reach truth but to gain power. We’re allowing — and in some cases, cultivating — the death of free speech and we don’t want to know the consequences to that — they’re very ugly.

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Join us at the Pacific University Symphonic Band Fall concert, featuring the conducting debuts of five student conductors. The program will include “Amazing Grace” arranged by Frank Ticheli, “Konigsmarsch” by Richard Strauss, Johnnie Vinson’s “Armenian Rhapsody,”the majestic “A Festival Prelude” by Alfred Reed, and much more.
Tickets are available online. General admission is $10 and students and seniors, $8. Admission is free for Pacific faculty, students and staff.


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Russia's capital is leading the way in the global car-sharing boom, with local players like Delimobil emerging as companies to watch.
A regular roundup of the top developments in plastics and sustainability – from regulatory changes to company news.
Retail investors have played a key role in Russia's post-Covid market rebound. But major players are concerned they don't fully understand the risks.
NEO's weekly roundup of the top news in the food and mobility tech industries.
Fitch Group has launched a comprehensive range of ESG ratings in response to market demand for sustainability-linked information.

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Aurora Clinical EMR software system is suitable for hospitals and health systems of all sizes. It is particularly well-suited for clinics and researchers focusing on the management of chronic diseases in specialized areas such as IVF and cardiology.
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Some of the key features of the software are:
Aurora's enhances helps practices increase their operational efficiency by generating reports that assess the effectiveness of personnel and key metrics for both patient and clinic success. The software streamlines scheduling through a comprehensive calendar and allows providers to efficiently assign follow-up appointments for patients based on their activity or specific procedures. Additionally, it simplifies financial processes by automatically creating billing records for multiple procedural tasks.
This feature includes color-coded graphs, charts, and tables to offer a user-friendly and comprehensive view of intricate patient data. This enables easy review by colleagues and helps in preparing for the next phase of treatment. The software facilitates quick access to care-specific key data points during patient visits, ensuring efficient and focused collection of essential information for improved patient care.
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APWA Street Superintendent Roundtable
Thursday, October 23, 2014
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Orlando’s, 2050 Dorsett Village Plaza
Maryland Heights, MO 63043.
The St. Louis Branch of the Missouri American Public Works Association (APWA) will hold a Street Superintendent Roundtable discussion prior to the October St. Louis Branch monthly luncheon.
All interested Public Works Street Superintendents are encouraged to attend to share ideas and information. For more information, please contact Ken Hammell at the City of O’Fallon. email@example.com.
Immediately after the Roundtable will be the APWA St. Louis Branch luncheon with guest speaker from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm. The cost is $20 for APWA Branch members of $25 for non-members.
All St. Louis area cities/counties are encouraged to send the contact information for your street superintendent to Ken Hammell to be added to the distribution list.


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It’s October and the days are getting shorter, nights cooler and the late night listening is turning to a moodier nature. Icy synths and church ready atmospherics all are signs of the approaching winter’s midi melancholy. The Drum’s ambient pics this fall showcase the best whirrs, crackles and drones set to rhythm around. It starts with the best and the rest follow in take it as you wish order.
Having played together over a decade ago in the group Download, Phil Western and Mark Spybey, make good on the name by recollaborating solely online for the richly textured drones and breaks of Beehatch – a brilliant sonic odyssey.
The Happy Error
Michael Santos’ The Happy Error skims a whisper thin border between cinematic ambient and mood enhancing sound art. Santos subtle melodies layered with soft electrical crackles and plenty of atmospheric whirs, pops and drones, transcend their circuit board womb with a surprising amount of warmth.
This Liquid Sky
This Liquid Sky’s promo material asks what is music but organized noise, and it’s the thin divide between the two sampler/keyboardist Ed Matthews and synth player Rick Walton explore in Noise Level. Gaseous synths, low hums and obscure b movie clips ride the occasional beat barrage and cresting atmospherics. This imaginary soundtrack makes the most of the space between stillness and controlled frenzy.
Motion In Mind
Denver based musician Tom Metz, reaches past merely accessible IDM into epic ambient pop with Motion In Mind’s sweeping melodies, glacial synths and fractured rhythms. The metallic tones and shoegazing soundscapes are all perfect backdrop to his yearning vocals, and the rest of the digital grandeur creates a visceral experience that amounts to a collection of soaring IDM serenades.
This for me is now traditional yuletide music. A frosty Scandinavian audioscape mined from the keyboards and microchips of Swedish producers SWOD, Sekund is breathtakingly beautiful. A follow-up to Gehen, SWOD’S artful longing returns with repeating piano chords, disembodied voices and gentle rhythms. All of it is subtly digitized atop an acoustic soul that builds into an intensely intimate and cinematic experience.
Interchill DJ/A&R Nathalie Edell is at the helm as selector of 10 previously unreleased tracks from the globally-minded “organic electronica” label. This time dreamier than ever once again the smooth textures of the Interchill digital polish define the hypnotic psy-glitch and groove on offer.

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Trump defends immigration decision at Minnesota rally: 'The border is going to be just as tough'
President Donald Trump defended his decision to backtrack on the practice of separating undocumented immigrant families on the US-Mexico border at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday.Posted — Updated
The President, however, devoted only a small portion of his speech to the issue of immigration and his border policy, even though it has dominated the conversation in Washington for a week and roiled the Republican Party. During the hour-long event, Trump also praised North Korean leader Kim Jung Un and lashed out against Democrats and Republican Sen. John McCain.
Trump told a fired-up audience that the executive order he signed hours earlier would not weaken his border strategy and again pledged, as he did during the 2016 election, to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.
"Today, I signed an executive order," he said. "We're going to keep families together, but the border is going to be just as tough as it's been."
He added: "The Democrats want open borders -- let everybody pour in, we don't care. Let them pour in from the Middle East, we don't care, we're not going."
Though his speech in Duluth is 1,500 miles from the facilities where much of the family separations have been happening, Trump had been expected to use the issue of immigration to rally his loyal base, with top aides seeing it as a way to fire up the voters who backed him two years ago.
The President also used hyperbolic language in claiming that his administration had "liberated towns" in Long Island, New York that were plagued by members of the MS-13 gang.
The event also brought out vintage Trump, with the President giving a free-wheeling speech that at times veered into a venting session about people who have slighted him.
"The elite, the elite. Why are they elite," he said incredulously to cheers. "I have a much better apartment than they do. I am smarter than they are. I am richer than they are. I became president and they didn't."
During a riff on health care, Trump returned to an oft-attacked enemy: McCain.
"We had a gentlemen way into the morning hours, go thumbs down," Trump said, describing how McCain voted against the health care repeal effort although not naming him. "He went thumbs down."
The comment was not well received by some in the audience, with one woman audibly yelling, "He's a war hero! He's a war hero!"
Trump also used the event to rekindle focus on his historic summit with Kim earlier this month, a subject that has been knocked out of the news by a constant focus on immigration.
Trump praised Kim at the rally, telling supporters that the leader will "turn that country into a great, successful country."
"It was a great meeting," Trump said of his historic meeting with Kim in Singapore earlier this month. "Chairman Kim... will turn that country into a great, successful country. Let me tell you this, a year and a half ago no one thought that was possible."
Trump also said North Korea had sent back the remains of 200 US soldiers killed in the Korean War. It's unclear if the remains have actually been returned or will be returned. CNN, citing four administration officials, reported Tuesday that the administration was expecting North Korea to return the remains, which are believed to be those of US servicemembers, in the coming days.
Trump has sought to cast his meeting with Kim as a turning point in North Korean relations, hoping that the boost on the international stage will help Republicans running in the midterms elections this year.
Trump's trip to Duluth comes at a time where Minnesota is at the center Republican plans in 2018 and beyond.
Duluth and the surrounding area, traditionally a working class Democratic stronghold in the state, was wooed by Trump in 2016, helping him come within 2 percentage points of becoming the first Republican since Richard Nixon to win Minnesota in a presidential election.
And now the state is home to some of the most closely watched House races in the country, two Senate races and a competitive governor's contest, making Minnesota a top Republican target this year.
"My friends, we are the last Midwestern state still dominated by Democrats whose sole purpose is to resist, block and obstruct President Trump's agenda," Minnesota Republican Party chair Jennifer Carnahan told rally-goers. "Our neighbors in Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota have all turned red and now it's our turn. Let's show the world that there is no blue wave coming in Minnesota."
Trump's trip to Duluth was an attempt to do just that.
Republicans in the White House and across Washington hope that frequent visits to states like Minnesota by the President can help build on the gains he made in 2016. In the next eight days, for example, Trump will make politics-focused trips to Nevada, South Carolina, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
"I think the President expects and wants to be as involved or more so than his predecessors," White House political director Bill Stepien told CNN. "I think the next days of travel show that."
But as much as midterm politics is on Trump's mind, his own political future will also be front of mind for the President, whose campaign has already said they see Minnesota as their best opportunity to flip a blue state red during the 2020 election.
With Trump or against him?
The state is also central to the ongoing debate over whether some Republicans candidates should stand with the President or try to create distance with him. Pete Stauber, the Republican candidate running to flip Minnesota's 8th Congressional District from blue to red in November, rallied with Trump on Wednesday.
"Mr. President, these people support you," Stauber said at the rally. "And Mr. President, these are the same people who are gong to send me to Washington so together we can unleash the economic engine in northeast Minnesota."
The same goes for Jim Hagedorn, a Republican candidate from southern Minnesota who drove four hours to rally with Trump on Wednesday night and told CNN he is running for Congress to be a conservative member who stands with the President.
"We are not going to let out of touch, metro-area liberal elites drown out your voices," Karen Housley, a Republican member of the Minnesota Senate who is running in a GOP primary to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, told the audience on Wednesday.
But other candidates, like Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Pawlenty, have been more muted about Trump's presence. Pawlenty, who called Trump "unfit" and "unhinged" during the 2016 election, welcomed Trump over Twitter to Minnesota but said that his lieutenant governor running mate would attend the rally, not him.
And during the section of Trump's speech where he name checks certain Republican candidates, Trump repaid Pawlenty's absence by not mentioning him.
Carnahan said ahead of the rally that any Republican running away from Trump in the state is making a mistake.
"I think the biggest mistake any candidate can make at this juncture," she said, "is to turn against or away from the President."
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You Don’t Need to Know My Child Has Autism to Show Him Kindness
We’re always open about our son’s autism. It’s not like we make him wear a “Hey I’ve got autism!” t-shirt or badge. But we try to share his difficulties with the hope that people understand and then support him and us. Problems arise when we meet new people. Autism is invisible; they don’t see it. So many times we’ve heard the phrase, “But he looks normal; you don’t know by talking to him.”
Recently we had a family photo shoot. The pictures are beautiful, but for me they’re tinged with regret and disappointment. The photographer wanted us to pose in certain ways. The big lad really had trouble following the instructions. The photographer quickly lost patience, and it made him uncomfortable. Hubby and I stepped in, of course; we helped to place our big lad correctly and quickly explained he’s autistic. We tried to protect him, to spare his feelings. It hadn’t entered my head that he may have trouble with this, so we hadn’t prepared the photographer. But he could’ve had more patience and shown more kindness.
Autism isn’t invisible; it is always there …
In the shoe shop when he can’t hold his foot against the measuring device because he doesn’t feel it.
In the restaurant when he spills his drink or has trouble coordinating his knife and fork.
At the playground when he takes his time climbing to the top of the frame, up the slide or avoids anything that spins.
When he can’t find his shoes, bag, pencil, the iPad, etc., even when they’re in front of his face.
When he forgets to flush the toilet again.
When he has trouble buttoning his shirt or fastening his laces.
When he loses every race at sports day despite trying his best.
When he struggles to respond to a question asked.
In the library when he talks too loud.
When he can’t get the game out of the cupboard.
When he doesn’t look at the camera or in your eye.
At the hairdresser when he can’t stand the sound of the trimmers.
When the school year ends.
When he goes to a new place or meets new people.
When he misses verbal instructions.
At the birthday party he wasn’t invited to.
When he gets lost in the supermarket or restaurant.
When he worries that his brother is talking to strange kids (he is making friends).
When he repeats the same question or phrase over and over.
Autism is there when he runs, sleeps, eats, plays and speaks.
My fun, kind, clever son is often made to feel lazy, stupid, dumb, weird and unsuccessful. Not because he has autism, but because of the impatience of other people.
Thank you to the lady in the shoe shop who shows an enormous amount of patience and takes a long time to make sure the shoes fit properly.
Thank you to the teaching assistant who attends courses in her own time to learn how to help my son.
Thank you to the kids who wait patiently at the bottom of the slide.
Thank you to the kids’ club staff who know when to leave him alone and when to encourage him to join in.
Thank you to the friend who encouraged him to climb, who told him, “You can do it!”
Thank you to the therapist who showed him all the positive things about being autistic when he could only see the negative.
Thank you to the teachers who read the books and learn how to help.
Thank you to my friends who always listen.
Thank you to everyone who reads this story.
Thank you to all those people who smile.
Finally, thank you to the people who try to understand!
I don’t want my son to wear a badge or carry a card proclaiming his difference to the world. He shouldn’t need to! A little bit of kindness — a little bit of patience — make a huge difference.
Follow this journey on Diary of an Imperfect Mum.
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The candidates of the ruling BJP-JJP combine have bagged many seats as the poll results for most of Haryana’s 46 municipal bodies were out. The polls were held on Sunday for the 18 municipal councils and 28 municipal committees in the state.
A senior official of the State Election Commission said of the 18 municipal councils, the results for 15 have so far been declared. “Of the 18, the results for 15 have been declared while the results for the Bhiwani, Bahadurgarh and Palwal councils are expected shortly. The BJP has won eight, the JJP one, the INLD one and independents have won five,” State Election Commission Secretary Inder Jeet told PTI.
Of the 28 municipal committees, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 12, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) two, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) one while independents have won 13, the official said. The counting of votes began at 8 am on Wednesday.
Over 70 per cent of the voters had exercised their franchise in the polls. While the ruling BJP-JJP alliance, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the AAP fought the polls on their respective party symbols, many Congressmen had entered the fray as independents.

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Here's an attempt at a tank I have been gathering bricks to build for a while. Sorry about the photo quality - perhaps better photos will be added later.
Inspirational sources for the build have been mostly T-model Russian tanks such as the T-90. In my own opinion I got pretty close but the rear section needs more work. Maybe when I have some more dark green bricks i'll look into it..
I know the main gun barrel is square but LEGO doesn't make 1x1 or 2x2 round bricks in the right color. It doesn't matter to me though, I think it looks kinda neat that way - like an added plate shield or similar.
Very nice tank buddy! And many thanks for your nice comments on my stuffs! Waiting to have done enough to publish the next update, may I suggest you to come over to see my last version with the front canons(the provided LDD file is already more advanced, if you've got the software, with side weaponry...) =) http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/295836

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The COPO 9560 used an all-aluminum 427 cu in (7.0 L) big-block called the ZL-1 and was designed specifically for drag racing. The package was conceived by drag racer Dick Harrell, and ordered through Fred Gibb Chevrolet in La Harpe, IL, with the intention of entering NHRA Super Stock drag racing. Just 69 ZL-1 Camaros were produced, the engine alone cost over US$4,000 — nearly twice that of a base coupe with a V8. Though rated at 430 hp (321 kW) gross, the ZL-1 made 376 SAE Net HP in its "as installed" state. With Exhaust changes and some tuning, the horsepower jumped to over 500 hp.
The ZL1 engines were hand assembled in a process that took 16 hours each, in a room that Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov described as "surgically clean". All ZL1 engines were manufactured at the Tonawanda Assembly Plant before being installed in Corvettes, Camaros, or sold over the counter to racers. This car came with a 5yr/50,000 bumper to bumper warranty.
Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum
A quick introduction video on a series of videos I will be posting shot at
Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum
320 Winfield Dunn Parkway
Sevierville, TN 37876-5507
1969 Camaro Street Rod
A 1969 Camaro gets a
full custom Interior by Steve Holcomb Pro Auto Custom Interiors..the Car
was built by The Roadster Shop...very cool car...ck it out
132320 / 1969 Chevy Camaro ZL1
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It's hard to know where to start with a car of this caliber, so perhaps
it's best to get the big stuff out of the way first: this nearly flawless
1969 Camaro carries a
correct, authentic, original ZL1 aluminum 427 engine: #62 out of 69 built,
to be exact.
With only three of the 69 original ZL1 Camaros built still carrying
their matching-numbers powertrains, they are exceedingly rare today and are
perhaps the Holy Grail of muscle cars. This one is a mirror image of ZL1
#62, the only red-on-red ZL1 produced, and has been restored to
exceptional, highly-accurate standards and is already a national prize
So you may be thinking that it's just a tribute with a correct ZL1 engine,
but I think that does a disservice to this car. The engine installed in
this car is a real 1969 Camaro ZL1 that has been
authenticated by Jerry MacNeish as the real deal. What defines a "real"
ZL1, the engine or the body? No, this one isn't a 100% matching numbers
ZL1, but it's not simply a clone, either.
When this ZL1 Camaro
engine was discovered, it was a no-brainer to build an exact replica of the
car around it. And with that, we're at the crux of this car's existence:
does the body or the engine make it a real ZL1? Would a real ZL1 body shell
with a replacement iron 427 still be a ZL1 Camaro?
As a duplicate of #62, it is correct Garnet Red, and the finish is
gorgeous. It's obvious that no corners were cut and that someone spent the
long dollar to make this car show-quality in every way. Panel gaps are
exact, alignment is near perfect, and the finish has been color sanded and
buffed beyond any factory efforts in 1969. All COPOs received the cowl
induction hood and most got the ducktail spoiler as well, since they all
started off as SS396 cars. Chrome and trim is concours quality, the glass
is all new and date code correct, and all the stainless has been polished.
The COPOs, ZL1s included, received no special badges beyond the simple Camaro on the fenders,
making them perhaps the ultimate factory-built sleepers.
The engine under the hood is unquestionably a correct all-aluminum ZL1 V8,
thanks to a verification by noted Camaro expert Jerry MacNeish. The
ZL1 was similar to the mighty L88, which featured aluminum heads and an
iron block, and both engines shared the same 430 horsepower rating from the
factory. However, the aluminum block, which was developed for Can-Am
racing, was a first for a Chevy production engine, and a fully assembled
ZL1 weighed around 500 pounds—about as much as a small block 327. The
truth of the matter is that the ZL1 actually made more than 500 horsepower in street trim,
and with littler more than a pair of slicks, these were legitimate
11-second cars. Best of all, they were street legal with a warranty!
The engine bay is beautifully detailed and correct in every way. At first
glance, it looks just like any L88 COPO, but then you notice the block
isn't Chevy Orange. Detailing is exemplary, with correct stamps, markings,
and decals throughout. And, of course, the easy stuff like the hoses,
clamps, and wiring harness are accurate reproduction pieces. You'll also
find that this car still carries a fully functional AIR injection smog
pump—good luck finding one of those today.
Although you could get a ZL1 with an automatic, a majority, including #62,
were equipped with a rugged Muncie 4-speed manual and the strongest rear
end GM made—the legendary 12-bolt, which was stuffed with 4.10 gears and
a Posi. Chambered Exhaust was
standard, and while it was aggressive, it was also light. Front disc brakes
and a heavy-duty F41 suspension were standard equipment with the ZL1. It
rides on COPO-spec 14-inch steel wheels with dog dish hubcaps and a set of
G70-14 Goodyear Polyglas tires.
The bright red interior is also correct and is in outstanding condition. As
I mentioned, there are a few extra options, including a console with
auxiliary gauges, which looks appropriate between the restored red buckets.
A standard steering wheel was what you got when you ordered a COPO, and
this one is in fine condition. Every component in the dash, including the
gauges, ventilation controls, and AM radio has been rebuilt and remains
fully functional. The trunk features a new mat and matching spare on a
I leave it to you to decide what this car really is. It has already won
awards at the highest levels, including a gold award from Super Chevy and
an AACA National First Prize, so there's no question that it's accurately
restored. The foremost expert in the field has verified the engine, and it
exactly duplicates an original ZL1 Camaro's specifications in every
way. So you can choose to look at it as a nicely done tribute car with a
$100,000 engine, or as a rebuilt ZL1 with a $500,000 discount. Either way,
this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a ZL1 you can actually
drive and enjoy. Call now!
Rare Double COPO 1969 Camaro 427 V8 425 HP Muscle Car from Berger Chevrolet
427c.i. 4BBL L-72 425 H.P. (#s Matching) V8, 4 Speed Muncie Manual
Transmission, 12 Bolt Service Package Rear w/ 4.10 Posi-Trac (#s Only for
Copo), Order# 9561 High Performance Package-- ZL-2 Cowl Induction Hood,
H.D. F-62 Front Spring, H.D. G32 5 Leaf Rear Springs, Special Curved Neck
H.D. Radiator, P. Disc Brakes, Order# 9737-- Sports Car Conversion
Package-- 15x7 Rally Wheels, 140 MPH Speedo, 7000 RPM Tach, Endura Bumper,
AM Radio, 1in Front Sway Bar, Black Halo Vinyl Top, D-80 Spoiler Group,
Correct Garnet Red Exterior (Paint Code-52B), X11 Coded Cowl, Correct Black
Vinyl Interior (Trim Code-711), Last Owner Owned Since 1998, Owners Manual
with Original Berger- Chevrolet Envelope, Entire Rotisserie Restoration
Process Documented by Photos, Emphasis on Accuracy, The Car has been Signed
by Dale Berger on the Upper Radiator Support, Copo Connection Certificate
Signed by Edward J. Cunneen that Certifies this Car as a Genuine "Double
Copo" Ordered from Berger Chevrolet! One of Only 12 Four Speed Berger Copo
Camaros, Immaculate &
Tasteful Restoration! Less than a Handful of Original "Double Copos" are
Left in Existence Today!! Thanks for watching and commenting, we appreciate
Please visit www.FastLaneCars.com for more info.
Muscle Car rare vintage classic collector automobile high performance hot
rod big block double COPO Camaro Chevrolet Chevy 427 Berger
Chevrolet RamblinAround Fast Lane Classic Cars St Charles Missouri.
1969 COPO CAMARO ZL-1!!! THE REAL DEAL!!! FOR SALE TODAY!!! #48/69
This very rare and desirable ZL1 Camaro has had the same owner for
the last 31 years. It is 1 of only 69 produced COPO ZL1 aluminum block 427
delivered to Fred Gibb Chevrolet of LaHarpe, Illinois.
The previous owner purchased the Camaro as a shell in 1982 at an
auction in Georgia.
The Camaro then sat
among his many other cars including 18 other 1969 Camaros for years before they
discovered about 7 or 8 years ago via the VIN that it was a ZL1 Gibbs Camaro.
Many collectors and experts searched for this "missing" Gibbs car and
couldn't find it because due to a typo back then the 9 was typed in as a 1
so all title searches failed to turn up the car.
Thousands if not tens of thousands of titles were typed in wrong upon
ownership changes by state/provincial employees who didn't care (it's just
a job) or double checked everything they typed in and with no computers it
just went into a file. This error has now been corrected at the Ministry of
Transportation and has a clear Ontario ownership with the corrected VIN.
Photos were taken of the hidden VIN's on the cowl and a bare metal one
behind the heater box along with the dash VIN.
Finished in its correct Lemans Blue with a black interior this ZL1 is now
an outstanding rotisserie restored example with an aluminum 3946053 GM
issue 427 ZL1 engine, M21 4 speed transmission, chambered Exhaust and a reproduction trim tag.
In 1969, Fred Gibb Chevrolet ordered 50 ZL1 Camaros. The first two ZL1 Camaros arrived at Gibb's
dealership on a snowy evening in the last days of December 1968. The window
sticker price was over $7,200. Needless to say, not many Camaro enthusiasts were eager to
step up and pay a price that was almost twice the cost of the COPO 9561
cast iron 427. Due to this "sticker shock", negotiations transpired between
Fred Gibb and the Chevrolet factory managers. It was agreed that Gibb could
return most of the cars. It was the first time in history that the factory
took back cars from a dealership. The unsold cars were re-invoiced at the
factory and redistributed to other high-performance Chevrolet dealerships.
In addition to the original 50 ZL1 Camaros shipped to Gibb
Chevrolet, an additional 19 ZL1's were ordered through the 1969 production
year by various other high-performance Chevrolet dealerships. This ended
the 1969 ZL1 Camaro
production run at a total of 69 cars. Fred Gibb Chevrolet did manage to
sell 13 of the original 50 that he ordered. This is the last of the "13"
cars Gibb ordered being car #48.
The rest of the cars went to other dealers in an attempt to sell them.
About 20 cars were prepped for NHRA Super Stock class, and others were sold
to private owners. Many dealers who ordered a ZL1 Camaro wound up removing the ZL1
engine and replacing it with a cast iron 396 or 427 in an effort to sell
the car. Interestingly, it took until 1972 for Fred Gibb to sell the last
1969 ZL1 Camaro sitting
on his lot. It sold with a $1,000 rebate from Chevrolet. Several cars are
still unaccounted for, but enthusiasts around the world are still searching
for this rare factory race car. Today, it is known that 50 cars still
exist. Many have been accounted for, and a few are back on the racing
circuit, showing today's generation what 1960s drag racing was all about.
Having ordered 50 of the 69 total ZL1 cars, Fred Gibb had few options for
colour and transmission. 4-speed and Automatic Transmissions were paired
with one of eight colours.
The engine and colour production is as follows:
Fathom Green: 13/69 -- 9 4-speed and 4 Automatic
Dusk Blue: 10/69-- 6 4-speed and 4 Automatic
Hugger Orange: 15/69-- 11 4-speed and 4 Automatic
Le Mans Blue: 12/69-- 7 4-speed and 5 Automatic (2 convertibles)
Cortez Silver: 12/69-- 8 4-speed and 4 Automatic
Dover White: 3/69 -- 3 4-speed
Daytona Yellow: 2/69 -- 2 4-speed
Garnet Red: 2/69 -- 2 4-speed
Only 12 Le Mans Blue Camaro ZL1's rolled off the
assembly line with just 7 containing the 427 4-speed motor.
For more information please call Jeffrey direct at 416-587-1198 or email
American Muscle Car - S03E03 - The Copo Cars
THE AMERICAN MUSCLECAR series brings you the third season, profiling some
of the most influential cars in automotive history:
Chevrolet El Camino & Ford Ranchero
The CoPo Cars
1968-2001 Chevrolet Corvette
Boss 302 & 429 Mustangs
The Saleen Mustangs
The Hurst Cars
The SLP Cars
Dodge Dart GTS
1969 Camaro ZL1 on Dyno
~~~Please Read Description~~~
I UPLOADED THIS FOR MY DAD, I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE CAR. SORRY.
Engine ZL1 427 all aluminum, pro top line head, comp cam, 1000 cfm holley,
5 speed tremec, 411 gear.
TWO PULLS: 1st pull inconclusive. Tires spun on rollers. 2nd pull,
tightened ties some more. Pull was better, but tires still spun (that's
the blue smoke)
I guess stock poly glass doesn't work with all this power. Will try again
with slicks on.
134233 / 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO
For more information on this vehicle visit http://tinyurl.com/kl3k7fa
Regardless if you're into blue chip investments or brutal street machines,
the first whisper of "COPO" should get your attention. The subject of a
frame up restoration, this 1969 Camaro COPE tribute not only
nails the plain wrapper/huge motor aesthetic - it does so with a barrage of
period correct parts that will leave most enthusiasts scratching their
heads at whether or not the car is the real deal.
While GM didn't offer "High Impact" colors in the Mopar sense, few colors
have a higher impact than code 76 Daytona Yellow. According to the trim
tag, the car wore this color when it left the Norwood, Ohio assembly line
in November of 1968 and continues to display it proudly today. The angular
'69 body lines look crisp, each panel is straight and overall fitment is
significantly above average.
Lift the hood of this Chevrolet to find a 427ci V8 dressed in full factory
décor. The centerpiece is a cast iron GM block which wears fresh orange
paint and a 3963512 casting number. Topped with factory heads, a Winters
intake, a Holley four-barrel, and cast iron Exhaust manifolds, the engine looks and feels
showroom new. From the GM hoses to the reproduction R59 battery, every
detail is equally nice.
Underneath the car, a Muncie four-speed offers full control of the big
block. Power meets the pavement through a GM 12-bolt rear packed with 4.10
gears and a limited slip. From the tagged "HW" coil springs up front to the
freshly painted leaf springs out back, the suspension remains in stock
form, aided by manual steering and power assisted brakes with discs up
front and drums in the rear. The chassis meets the road through Goodyear
Polyglas tires wrapped around body-matched steel wheels.
Most COPO buyers weren't interested in interior gadgetry so nearly all of
the original cars left the factory with a standard code 711 black interior.
This COPO tribute stays true that idea. Additions like a correct AC 140 mph
speedometer and floor-mounted Stewart Warner tach add to the cars
performance theme while rebuilt seats and all new soft pieces give the car
a fresh new look.
With a factory-dressed 427, a Muncie four-speed, and a color that makes no
bones about what the car was built for, this Camaro is a great example of COPO
tribute. From the paint daubs on the chassis to the Yenko-branded spoiler,
no detail was too small to overlook, resulting in a show-ready Camaro ready to inspire grins and
knowing nods everywhere it goes. Are you ready to rumble with one of the
most brutal factory Camaros ever built? Here's your
chance to do so guilt free!
Tim Allen's 1968 Camaro 427 COPO - Jay Leno's Garage
Tim Allen's 1968 Camaro
427 COPO. Did you know Tim Allen is a car guy? Check out the muscly Camaro of his teenaged dreams,
exquisitely upgraded with a 505 hp 427 and lots of other great stuff by
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Tim Allen's 1968 Camaro
427 COPO - Jay Leno's Garage
Jay Leno's Garage
Lot S109 1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 #57 427/430 HP, 4-Speed
Dana Mecum's Original Spring Classic Auction - 21st Year
May 15 - 18, 2008
Model Camaro ZL1 #57
Exterior Color Daytona Yellow
Interior Color Black
Engine Size 427
Trans. Speeds 4
Options COPO 9560 ZL1 427/430hp 4speed


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Talk shows are bypassing having live studio audiences in attendance. The View, Live! With Kelly and Ryan, along with The Tamron Hall Show and The Wendy Williams Show, are taping without studio audiences due to the coronavirus. In a released statement for The Wendy Williams Show, a rep said,
Wendy values her co-hosts and their daily participation but in light of the current health climate, The Wendy Williams Show will not have a live studio audience until further notice. We will continue to produce a daily live talk show and look forward to welcoming the studio audience back when the time is right.
The New York Post is reporting ABC juggernaut Good Morning America will keep audience members out of the studio during the second hour of the show and has forbidden their hosts, including Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan, from posing for selfies with the crowd as a precaution. Meanwhile, the studio has been fully stocked with hand-sanitizer stations.
Given the current developing situation in New York City, we have made the decision to suspend live audiences from attending our news broadcasts and talk shows.

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Take a look at the beta version of dw.com. We're not done yet! Your opinion can help us make it better.
Some 470,000 German students suffer from a mental disorder and this number is likely to grow, according to German health insurance company Barmer. Depression cases among young people are increasingly common.
Every sixth student in Germany is living with some sort of mental disorder, Germany's health insurance company Barmer said in their 2018 report published on Thursday. The organization put the total number of mentally ill students at around 470,000, based on the 2015 data.
The company, which insures around 8 million customers in Germany, warned that young people in general face an even greater risk of mental illness. Among young adults, defined as between 18 and 25 years of age, more than one quarter had suffered from some kind of psychiatric disorder, which could also include anxiety and panic attacks.
Barmer also said the instances of mental illness have risen by 38 percent between 2005 and 2016. Specifically, depression cases have increased by 76 percent in the same time frame.
Longer studies mean more depression
The report points to the differences between younger and older students when it comes to depression rates. According to the company, 18-year-old students have about 1.4 percent chance of struggling with depression. However, those who still study ten years later are facing a much larger risk – 3.8 percent.
"There are many facts to suggest that there will be even more mentally ill people in the future," said Barmer CEO Christoph Straub. "Especially when it comes to future academics, time pressure and pressure to perform are constantly rising, there are financial worries and fears for the future."
Barmer recommends developing more accessible services to be offered in addition to therapy, such as online programs that help potential patients fight depression.
"Often, the patients are ashamed to go to the doctor," he said. "That is why we see great potential in online services, especially when they are anonymous and match the habits of the smartphone generation."
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Book Review: The Finkler Question
I haven’t read J, so herewith a review of Jacobson’s The Finkler Question, winner of the 2010 Man Booker.
The novel is a mordantly funny third-person narrative centering on the self-doubting Julian Tredlove and his complicated relationship with Samuel Finkler, a successful philosopher and media personality.
The inciting incident is a mugging that sets Tredlove on a quest to find out not only who mugged him, but also who he is. The novel uses this story of a feckless man in mid-life crisis to examine how European culture views Jews.
It’s tricky to pull off a feckless man in mid-life crisis (and God knows it’s been tried repeatedly), but Jacobson’s humor brings the reader through what might otherwise be a difficult read.
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I've mentioned before how one of the things I love about the internet is how easy it is to stumble onto gems you wouldn't otherwise hear about in daily conversation. One of the places I frequent is Aint-It-Cool-News and despite the regular idiocy on display, their star contributor puts out a DVD blog every so often and it's always chock full of great finds. One of those happened to be a documentary called Wordplay that just so happens to deal with crosswords.
I'll confess that the infamous New York Times crossword is a mark of intelligence I fail to surpass. The people who do that one in pen are far better versed in the art of crossword negotiation than I but Wordplay brings that world to the ordinary person in terrific fashion. To the film's credit, it never dumbs things down either but it makes the world of the daunting puzzles far more familiar than I would have thought possible.
It helps that the focus of the film is so engaging and personable that you can't help but like the guy right from the start. His name is Will Short and he's the section editor of The New York Times. His job is to oversee all the crosswords that make it into the paper and he also hosts a show on National Public Radio devoted to crosswords. He also emcees an annual national crossword puzzle challenge up in Stamford, Connecticut, every March and the documentary builds up to the event.
Along the way we also meet Merle Reagle who actually designs crosswords. Did you know that with the way crosswords are designed, if you turn it around so the top is the bottom and the bottom is at the top it looks identical? Me neither. But watching Merle crank out a puzzle is truly amazing, but what really blew me away was what came next.
Up to this point the documentary interviewed a number of famous people who love doing crosswords including Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, the pitcher for the Yankees, and the Indigo Girls. After we see Reagle make his puzzle and submit it to Short for publication, we watch as all of these people work on the puzzle at the same time. It cuts between each one's efforts to finish it and watching how everyone approaches crosswords provides a unique insight into the people involved.
Features Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, the pitcher for the Yankees, and the Indigo Girls all working to solve the same puzzle at the same time. As we watch the history of the crosswords and how people came to love these little diversions, including an interesting sub-note on the first editor at the Times directly responsible for crosswords, we meet several people who compete every year in Stamford.
This all leads up to the actual competition in March where it boils down to three people: Al, who's placed third the last four years in a row, previous champion Trip who lives in Ft. Lauderdale, and Tyler who is a 20-year-old college student jockeying to be the youngest champion ever. Remember how I said I couldn't do the Times puzzles at all? Well, these are people who burn through them in less than five minutes. Heck, Al complains at one point that he can never get under that two minute mark.
Wordplay is an exceptionally enlightening and fun documentary on a subject so prevalent in our world that we merely accept it as easy as we do the sun. I love how this documentary fills in the blanks, so to speak, on the subject of something so prevalent in our society that no one up to now has thought to ask, "How did that come to be?" This is a gem that you should definitely check out.


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Nanoleaf is the application associated with the design light panels of the same brand. It is essential if you want to take advantage of all the possibilities that this technology offers.
Created by three engineers, this application allows you to manage the multiple options of the connected light panels. Compatible with Apple, Google and Amazon voice assistants, a simple voice command will suffice to set all the panel's functionalities. Thanks to its programming function, the panels can be turned on and off automatically. Their brightness and colors can be modified from your phone, so you can easily decide what atmosphere to create in a room thanks to the infinite shades and tints available.
If you have multiple panel kits, each area of the house can be given a different visual identity. Creating colorful scenes of all shapes and intensities will reveal your creative side. Moreover, by connecting your panels to music, you will be able to enjoy a dynamic and fun atmosphere, or zen and peaceful, according to your desires. If you are in need of ideas, you will have the possibility to exchange and share your creations with the community or to be inspired by suggestions generated for you. It is a real dashboard for those who own Nanoleaf connected panels. You can download the application on iOS and Android but it is not available on the Windows store of your PC.
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UNIV is pleased to announce a snowboard collaboration with Signal Snowboards. Manufactured in partnership at Signal’s “The Lodge” Factory in California, USA. The graphic was created by UNIV and depicts a classic ski mountain scene, taking it back to a time snowboarding was more innocent than today.
The board is 155 cm long with a waist of 24.6 cm and effective edge of 118 cm. The board has a soft flex, poplar/aspen blend Hyper-core, biaxle glass weave, carbon stringer, twin shape, centered stance, Duel-Independent sidecut, and sintered base. The UNIV and Signal snowboard is built as a more medium flex park board made to handle large jumps and high speed landings.
UNIV has been a longtime friend of Signal founder and legendary pro snowboarder Dave Lee and were honored to work with him on this project. The The UNIV and Signal board is available now exclusively at The UNIV Concept Shop in Encinitas, California and online at robustflavor.com.
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Alexis Jennings Sentenced To Prison For Visine Poisoning Case
A Casper woman will spend time in prison for poisoning her stepmother with eye-drops.
Eighteen-year-old Alexis Jennings was sentenced to serve two-to-four years at the Wyoming Women's Center in Lusk, after pleading no contest to one charge of aggravated assault.
Prosecutors say from July through November of 2012, Jennings tried to poison her stepmother, by lacing her coffee and tea with Visine.
Prosecutors say Jennings used as much as a quarter of a bottle per drink, and went through as many as 20 bottles during that time.
A law enforcement official said that Jennings was upset that her stepmother, was unable to keep a secret, and that she got the poisoning idea from an unrelated story she saw on the internet.


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Keywords: Charles Grassley, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Louisa, Small Business Administration, Small Business Disaster Loans, Washington
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Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, just south of Birmingham, Shelby County combines a temperate climate with dramatic landscape to make it one of the best recreational sites in Alabama. Residents and guests alike enjoy unique attractions such as Oak Mountain State Park, Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, the American Village Civic Education Center, and the Cahaba River.
With the assistance of the Shelby County Hospitality Association, Shelby County has become a leading tourist destination in the State of Alabama. Visitors have discovered what natives have always known: there is so much to do and discover; it keeps you coming back. Shelby County boasts a vibrant city life with a flair of hometown hospitality. It is a place where the past, present, and future happen every day.
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On-line gambling has been the most up to date fad in the gambling sector for many years currently, and online casinos are still expanding in numbers. Online betting can additionally be a lucrative endeavor, but you require to ensure that you’re careful about how much of your cash you bet online. In this short article, we’ll discuss the advantages and risks of both on-line gambling enterprises as well as on-line wagering.
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Every wager you put on an on the internet casino site is evaluated by a established collection of specifications, including the chances as well as amount. These 2 points are referred to as the payment odds as well as return. The payment odds and also return are both essential, but they must not be confused with each other.
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The biggest distinction between on the internet casino sites and also land-based casinos is that the video game cards include a much bigger number of games for an on the internet gambling enterprise, whereas for a land-based casino the variety of games noted on the video game cards could be limited. On-line online casinos additionally differ in regards to their design and also just how they’re accessed. In some cases, a player would make use of software program to access an on-line casino remotely through the web or on a pc, while various other on-line gambling enterprises are accessed by utilizing applications on wise devices.
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Online wagering is just one of the fastest methods to make a quick buck. It likewise has a great deal to provide players with a few cautions. For one, online betting needs consumers to be independent – you have to know what your limits are as well as walk away when it’s time. You should also have a approach in place prior to you begin bettting online – this will certainly assist you stay clear of losing even more cash than you can afford to lose.
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The primary skill that you’ll require to be an professional player is to understand the odds of various bets. For example, a roulette game has 38 numbers as well as the only wager is number 17. The possibilities of hitting a winning number are 1 in 38, or just .03%. Knowing this will make you much less most likely to obtain dissuaded when you shed. You must also acquaint yourself with the wagering decorum on online casinos to make sure that you do not ruin your own chances for success.
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If you’re wagering online, it’s constantly vital to understand the rules or restrictions of the game. This is true in any type of casino site video game you play, yet it is specifically essential for money players as these are the ones who have a much bigger possibility of getting captured by the casino sites. Your best choice for not getting captured is to utilize a VPN solution when you register for an account so that your activity can not be traced back to you.
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Beginning your studies at university or an institution of higher education involves much preparation. Although one can still file the application for student aid up to nine-months from the first day of the academic year, it is best to turn the application as soon as possible. This will help ensure there is no delay in receiving the aid to which you are entitled.
Most people are eligible for student loans from the government; however, there are grants available as well for those students demonstrating financial need. In addition, students are encouraged to apply for bursaries and scholarship from their place of study. To apply for student finance, there is one application that encompasses the government loan and grant applications.
There are online applications available, as well as paper applications, for full-time students, part-time students, and students pursuing education and training in teaching, social work, or healthcare. It is important to note that you must fill out the proper application for your situation, and that you will have to fill out a new application each new academic year. The application forms for both new students and continuing students can be found on the Student Finance Direct website: http://www.studentfinancedirect.co.uk. Student Finance Direct is a service delivery partnership between the Student Loans Company, local authorities and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. At Directgov, you can also download the paper applications for student loans and grants: http://www.direct.gov.uk.
Documentation will be required to complete your application including proof of identity, household income, and tax information. The application will also have a place to indicate whether you would like to apply for extra help– for example, for students who are disabled, or students with dependent children. Also, on the main application for student aid, Student Finance Direct asks whether they have the permission of the student to share application details with the university or college. This may be necessary for the university to assess the financial need of the student with respect to bursaries and scholarships. The consent is required so the student does not have to resubmit information directly to the university and is simply a time saving step for the student.
The application process for part-time students is a little different. Part-time students will fill out the Fee and Course Grant application, and then bring the application to the University at the beginning of their course-work. After two weeks, the administration office will complete this application form, stating that they are indeed a student, the intensity level of their course, and what the fees for their course of study are. It is then the responsibility of the student to return this form to the local authority for student loans.
In terms of applying for bursaries and scholarships, the forms may be specific to your university. Most bursaries and scholarships are available only for full-time students, but it is an important to research whether they may be available if you are a part-time student. The application forms for bursaries and scholarships can either be found at Student Finance Direct or through the office of administration/financial aid at your university. Students should check with their university to be certain of where to apply for bursaries and scholarships.
Higher education is so important to ensuring a successful, bright and interesting future for the individual. Applying for student financial aid can help you get the assistance you need to make your dreams and aspirations a reality. Be sure to apply so that you can get all the help you are entitled to.


In a world first, a small robot was deployed to plant thousands of baby coral in a mass repopulation project for the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
The LarvalBot is a briefcase-sized underwater drone that recently dispersed over 100,000 microscopic heat-resistant coral larvae across damaged segments of reef.
In a bid to protect the marine life from climate change, the coral larvae was derived from species that have been shown to be especially tolerant of warmer waters. Scientists will monitor the reefs during the coming months to ensure that the larvae grows properly – and if it proves to be successful, researchers plan on developing the LarvalBot so that it can deploy millions more coral larvae in the future.
Furthermore, they hope to deploy a small army of LarvalBots that will be able to repopulate coral reefs around the world.
“This year represents a big step up for our larval restoration research and the first time we’ve been able to capture coral spawn on a bigger scale using large floating spawn catchers then rearing them into tiny coral larvae in our specially constructed larval pools and settling them on damaged reef areas,” said Professor Peter Harrison from Southern Cross University, one of the colleges that helped to develop the project.
“With further research and refinement, this technique has enormous potential to operate across large areas of reef and multiple sites in a way that hasn’t previously been possible,” he added. “We’ll be closely monitoring the progress of settled baby corals over coming months and working to refine both the technology and the technique to scale up further in 2019.”
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Fifteen councils without a local plan have been threatened with intervention by the communities secretary and could have the plans written for them by Whitehall.
Speaking in Bristol today, Sajid Javid also warned other local authorities “lagging behind” with getting their documents adopted: “Don’t think for one minute you have got away with it.”
Meanwhile, Mr Javid also confirmed he is willing to lift councils’ borrowing cap for housing in some areas as part of housing deals.
During a speech in which Mr Javid confirmed the reclassification of housing associations as private entities, the communities secretary pointed to 15 out of more than 70 councils without an adopted local plan as causing “particular cause for concern”. This is due to “deadlines being missed, promises being broken” and “unacceptably slow” progress on getting local plans adopted.
“Today is the day my patience has run out,” said Mr Javid. “Those 15 authorities have left me with no choice but to start the formal process of intervention we set out in the white paper.
“By failing to plan they have failed the people they are meant to serve.”
In his speech Mr Javid singled out City of York Council, which he said had not had a local plan or equivalent in place since the 1950s.
The other 14 councils are Liverpool City Council, Calderdale and Wirral MBCs, Northumberland CC, Basildon, Brentwood, Castle Point, Eastleigh and Runnymede BCs and Bolsover, Mansfield, North East Derbyshire, St Albans & City and Thanet DCs. Those councils have until 31 January to put forward any exceptional circumstances as to why they have not got adopted local plans before the communities secretary takes a final decision on whether to intervene or not.
Earlier in this speech, Mr Javid had said local government is “the most important cog in the housing and planning machine”.
He said most councils were performing well and added: “Where councils are showing drive and ambition the government will back them every step of the way, including with a kind of housing deal we are negotiating here in the West of England.
“In areas where the supply and demand are most badly mismatched, where most homes are most unaffordable to most people, I want to give local authorities the tools that they need to build more and that includes financial headroom. I want to help local authorities because most of them deserve it.”
A source close to Mr Javid told LGC the communities secretary is only interested in lifting the borrowing cap for ‘ambitious’ areas, and not the whole of local government.
LGC has previously reported how areas including Leeds, Newcastle, Stoke-on-Trent, and Newark & Sherwood in Nottinghamshire have been in talks with the government about bespoke housing deals.
Last month Mr Javid made a pitch for the government to borrow more for housing. At the time that was rebuffed by chancellor Philip Hammond but when pressed on whether today’s announcement regarding the reclassification of housing associations freed up funds, Mr Javid said: “I’m not going to get into the Budget today but when you see and hear the Budget you’ll see the whole government machine is working together on [housing].”


text: Ongoing production of neurons in adult brain is restricted to specialized neurogenic niches. Deregulated expression of genes controlling homeostasis of neural progenitor cell division and/or their microenvironment underpins a spectrum of brain pathologies. Using conditional gene deletion, we show that the proto-oncogene c-myb regulates neural progenitor cell proliferation and maintains ependymal cell integrity in mice. These two cellular compartments constitute the neurogenic niche in the adult brain. Brains devoid of c-Myb showed enlarged ventricular spaces, ependymal cell abnormalities, and reduced neurogenesis. Neural progenitor cells lacking c-Myb showed a reduced intrinsic proliferative capacity and reduction of Sox-2 and Pax-6 expression. These data point to an important role for c-Myb in the neurogenic niche of the adult brain.

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