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Q. La Trobe University welcomes the Government’s recent support for the higher education sector with a $350mil commitment to encourage innovation between Victorian companies and research institutions. La Trobe has a strong regional footprint and a focus (amongst other areas) in agriculture, food and environment, can you talk about how you see the Government supporting local companies to innovative with institutions especially in food and agriculture?
A. The Victorian Government is supporting research and innovation through its established key Agriculture Victoria research centres in regional Victoria that engage with industry, agribusiness and academia to deliver economic prosperity, regional investment and employment growth.
A key feature of our regional research centres are our SmartFarms, which allow for multi-disciplinary research and innovation for Victoria’s key agriculture industries – dairy, grains, horticulture and livestock and high rainfall cropping. These state-of-the-art SmartFarms allow our researchers to create, test and demonstrate innovative technology solutions for agriculture in partnership with industry.
Our Government is also working to support further digital agriculture initiatives.
The exciting $12 million On-Farm Internet of Things (IoT) Trial is supporting hundreds of farmers to become IoT-enabled across four industry types and regions: horticulture (Tatura), dairy (Maffra), sheep (Serpentine) and grains (Birchip). This program is helping to directly link farmers with the latest innovative apps and devices in the market, providing not just benefits on-farm, but for the broader industry.
We are also providing $2.546 million in funding to Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water to support the Demonstration of Agricultural Technology Applications (DATA) Farm project - a digitally-enabled, 1000 hectare farm at Longerenong Agricultural College that will showcase cutting-edge digital technology and support digital technology adoption in the grains sector.
On the regulatory side, we are supporting Dairy Food Safety Victoria to deliver Dairy RegTech 2022 - its flagship project to modernise food safety regulation in direct partnership with industry.
The Industrial Hemp Taskforce is another great industry/research collaboration. The Taskforce has facilitated an MoU between SuniTAFE and Australian Primary Hemp to conduct industrial hemp trials at Mildura’s SuniTafe’s SMART Farm for the purpose of producing food, fibre and building material products over the next two to three years. Hemp has huge potential in so many applications and the Government is keen to find out how it can support the industry to grow, creating jobs for regional Victorians.
These programs are just a few examples of how our Government is working closely with industry to ensure the latest research and innovation is at the forefront of what we do, to maintain the fantastic reputation of Victoria’s agriculture and food sectors

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I almost forgot to post a picture of this week's mini ...but here it is (better late than never right?).
I believe that this miniature is long OOP and is from Grim Reaper Castsing's 'Nasteez' line, and despite it's pose being a bit two dimensional, I don't think it's too bad a miniature (and is definitely one of the better ones from the old 'Nasteez' range).
And if you've seen my recent post about making some of my own grass tufts, here's a pic of a little treasure token I've made ...with several of the home made tufts attached:
To make the treasure itself I've used a tiny bead on top of a slightly larger bead for the bottle, and a couple of craft 'microbeads' glued in a circle for the necklace. For the golden coins I've simply rolled a bit of excess greenstuff into a long line, and then (once it's hardened) cut it into thin slices.
Plus I've also been experimenting with some more scatter terrain (to add to my existing cave/underdark pieces*)...
...which has turned out well enough for me to be considering making a bunch more :)

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A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. The last eight have been 2+ hour long location puzzles, scavenger hunts, role playing, team work with with the intention of exploring cross-media, story and game play. The last four have incorporated the virtual world of Second Life as a parallel story environment to embed clues and story. We finally managed to capture one of these last month for posterity – 24 New Zealand and Australian media industry professionals immersed in this mixed (or cross) reality experience.
The video shows the mirror build in SL of the old house where we had the workshop, has clues within puzzles that point you to real world locations and real world locations pointing back to Second Life as part of a quest to uncover the truth. Based on a fictional story about early settlers, an ancient spell book, witches, the war and evacuated school children, the quest moves into the grounds, secret parts of the building, a nearby sculpture garden and ends in a chanting fire ceremony. Other media involved included live mobile phone role playing, walkie talkies, photographs, websites, placed props/objects. Many seen in the video.
An 89MB medium rez MP4 version is available here
- Produced, devised & original story: Gary Hayes
- Writing: Matt Costello & Gary Hayes
- Print design: Catherine Gleeson
- Second Life creation: Gary Hayes
- Tech support: Brett Robertson
- Live action camera: Peter Giles
- Editing: Gary Hayes
- Music composed: Gary Hayes
Special thanks to:
- Bruno’s Sculpture Garden
- Marylands Conferences
- Brett Robertson, Cassandra Joslyn, Peter Giles & Rachael Hainsworth for support
- AFTRS (Australian Film TV and Radio School)
- and especially all the participants and mentors on the 8th LAMP residential
More details about this and other ‘mARGs’ on the LAMP wiki here:

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This photo shows my dog, Maggie, who happens to be a pit bull. I didn’t decide to get a pit bull, but with a few family issues of people not being able to take care of her, she landed in my ownership. \
My brother originally got the dog from a kill shelter, where she was about to die. When she first came home, she was very timid and shy, being scared of mostly everything. But with a few years of loving care, she got her friendly personality back. And while she is still very timid around other dogs, she loves every person she meets, never barking at anyone. Luckily, my mom lives in Westpark, the corner house across the highway, so I can legally have Maggie. But my father lives within the borders of Lakewood, so when I’m at my dad’s house, my dog can’t come with me.
With the recent controversy around the “I’m with Charlie” campaign, many people ask themselves why pit bulls can’t be in Lakewood. The supporters of the ban say that pit bulls are dangerous dogs, breed to kill, and to have them in Lakewood would be dangerous. They do have a point in this argument-pit bulls were bred in the past to be fighting dogs, to be the most muscular they can be. But these people forget one key thing-hate is taught, not bred. No matter how strong, Maggie won’t hurt a fly, she wasn’t taught to hate.
But I can still understand the concern about pit bulls. If they do attack, it can be pretty deadly. We all have heard cases where kids and children were attacked by pits. But is this not true about all larger dogs? Is it impossible for you to be attacked by a German shepherd? How about a Rottweiler? I know I have experienced more pain from my mom’s Chihuahuas than Maggie.
But even still, I understand not all pit bulls are safe. Some are bred in an abusive home, where they learn to be violent creatures. But why should this stop all pit bulls from entering our town? I pose a case by case solution, where people can bring their dogs to a city-run organization (City council, animal control) and can get a permit to own their furry little friends.
While a pit bull ban is logical, it is unfair to the sweeter pit bulls, like Maggie.
To rule them out completely is just an injustice.


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“We choose, and in doing so, we design our lives.” “Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.” from The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion & Purpose by Matthew Kelly
Good morning! Don’t you think the Nike(R) slogan is catchy? “Just Do It!” I wonder how successful it would have been if they would have tried… “Just think about it,” or “Just wallow in indecision.” It doesn’t have a real ring to it, does it? But that is what many of us do. Instead of “deciding” we “debate.” Instead of moving forward, we tread water. Instead of making “it happen,” we weigh what might happen. In these moments of indecision, life continues on without us.
These quotes by Matthew really bring us back to that fundamental point: “Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.” Uncommon, because so few people actually decide anything. Instead we dabble and debate and discuss. Where are you in your 2010 goals? Are you dabbling and debating? Or did you make a decision and move forward. If you have, you have seen change. If you haven’t, you’re likely looking at the same old scenery. But each day brings many decisions and each decision you make creates power and momentum.
As a business owner, I make many decisions both large and small each day. They aren’t always right. But I would rather make a wrong decision than no decision at all. I would rather gain information and learn what doesn’t work so I can pursue what does work versus sit and wallow in indecision. For each time we make a decision, even if it is the wrong one, we are getting closer to making the right decision.
Today, don’t put any decisions on the back burner or in the “debate and dabble” column. Trust yourself and make a decision while the situation is in front of you. Feel the action and empowerment that comes with decision-making.
I make decisions with confidence and optimism.

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Fundamentally, all mathematical models employed in analysis of water-flooding performance implied assumptions to exclude one or more forces to cope with the reservoir heterogeneity. In the beginning of the survey, a series of sensitivity investigations were undertaken to examine the parameters that affect the water-flooding performance in stratified reservoirs. The factors were designed to measure the impact of each force that contributed in water-flooding process. The forces are: viscous force, the force of gravity and capillary forces. Additionally, the cross flow phenomena which result from the viscosity and gravity segregation are investigated. The parameters that affected performance to a high degree were sampled randomly to create a knowledge domain with specific inputs and target outputs.
In this case, it was the final oil recovery factor by reservoir simulator tool. This domain is used as input (supplied solved problems) to the proxy model (artificial neural network) for adjusting the magnitude of the connections between the neurons during training process to generate a model that can predict the performance of the water-flooding in such reservoirs within a limited range with very minor percentage of error. This model can anticipate the performance of the water-flooding process in heterogeneous reservoir when supplied with 12 key parameters (mobility ratio, density of fluids, dipping angle, permeability ordering, heterogeneity degree, injection rate, reservoir thickness, porosity, and permeability in 3D and reservoir depth). The average absolute percentage of error is about 4.6% particularly and error standard deviation about 8.7% with correlation coefficient between result collected from simulation and ANN is about 99.1%, when the system parameters are within the range of data that was used during the training.
Key words: Secondary recovery techniques, water flooding, Neural Network, Stratified reservoirs


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St. Louis, MO: April 10, 2018 –Air Choice One’s first twin engine turbine powered Beechcraft 1900 aircraft began its first flight as a part of Air Choice One’s scheduled passenger service on April 3rd, 2018 in St. Louis, MO.
As of March 14, the Beechcraft 1900 received approval to begin scheduled passenger service. Air Choice One is now approved to operate the aircraft throughout their current route system. The Beechcraft 1900 joined the Air Choice One’s existing fleet last year, and brings their number of aircraft to thirteen.
“We are excited about the opportunity for growth this provides,” said Shane Storz, Air Choice One CEO. “The Beechcraft 1900 fits our needs wonderfully, and we look forward to scheduling it into our route system so we can better serve our markets.”
The Beechcraft 1900 aircraft took its first flight on Monday, April 3rd 2018, and will be used as a staple of Air Choice One’s fleet to serve their six markets and four international hubs.
About Air Choice One
Based in St. Louis, MO, Air Choice One was launched as a scheduled airline serving to hard-to-reach communities, and supports their economic development by increasing business productivity while enhancing the travel experience for business and leisure travelers alike. Air Choice One markets enjoy the benefits of efficient, scheduled airline service into larger cities, like St. Louis, Chicago and Minneapolis packaged in a “First-Class” service and seating format. Air Choice One’s goal is to deliver the highest quality and reliability in scheduled commercial air service.

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LIRR East Side Access Terminal to Open December 2022
The highly anticipated East Side Access project, re-named Grand Central Madison, is nearing construction completion according to the recent press release by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The new 700,000-square-foot terminal which runs along Madison Avenue from 43rd Street to 48th Street is expected to open in December 2022, bringing Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service to the east side. This transformative project represents the first expansion of LIRR service in more than a century. Approximately 45% of LIRR passengers are expected to use the new service to Grand Central, existing through multiple new access points including four street-level means of egress to Madison Avenue, as well as existing spaces of Grand Central and the passageways between 45th and 47th Streets. As a result of the project and system-wide changes, overall LIRR service will increase by more than 40% while alleviating crowding in Penn Station.


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- Onze Lieve Vrouwecollege Tienen, Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
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We like travelling, getting to know new cultures and discovering a country also through food. We are foodies after all! Authentic experiences count so much more than a massa tourism.


TurboAnt X7 Pro: A Scooter That’s as Light and also as Powerful as It’s Name
The TurboAnt X7 Pro electric scooter is a solid contender in the budget traveler classification, with a solid stem, extremely smooth acceleration, as well as lightweight rate. With a checked full throttle of 25.4 kmh, the X7 Pro isn’t the fastest entry-level scooter but it rides smooth and also steady.
Pretty mobile and easy to use
It’s a fantastic design for newbie riders as it packs together most of the portability and user-friendly features that we appreciate most, including a small folded impact, lightweight develop, quick folding that locks into setting for easy carrying, an ergonomic thumb throttle, and also a high-mounted front lights.
It isn’t ultraportable due to the fact that the handlebars do not fold, however the stem securing device really feels specifically solid as well as the locking hold is very simple to clip to the fender when folded up.
The TurboAnt X7 Pro has folded up dimensions of 109 cm long by 43 cm wide by 46 cm high. The handlebars are 42 cm broad and the deck to handlebar elevation is 99.1 centimeters tall, which is a comfortable configuration for many riders.
What I Actually Like
Entering this with a vital mind, there are truthfully a great deal of points to such as regarding the Turboant X7 Pro electric scooter. I had quite large expectations as I was extremely impressed with the first model and also I can currently state with confidence that I had not been let down.
My favored features of this electrical scooter is:
The removable battery – It makes billing the scooter much less of a trouble as I don’t have to bring a filthy scooter up a number of trips of stairs just to bill it. I leave the electrical scooter body in the cellar as well as bring the battery pack up for a charge rather.
The improved variety – The range is a gamechanger. The majority of entry-level scooters experience inadequate range and unreliable battery performance yet the X7 Pro is a substantial step in the appropriate instructions with its 360Wh battery. 15.2 miles per charge in a real-life riding examination is outstanding for an electric scooter this economical.
The larger 10-inch air tires – The trip quality and also level of smoothness promptly got better with the tire size upgrade. They soak up extra road vibrations as well as manage curbs and also holes far better thanks to the boosted ground clearance. You additionally feel a lot much safer when transforming or leaning thanks to the bigger portable surface area with the ground.
The incredible worth – I locate it absolutely extraordinary that Turboant is able to bring so much value to the consumer at such a cost effective cost. Considering the rate, the Turboant X7 Pro is most definitely among the very best electrical scooters today.
For a budget electric scooter, the X7 Pro stands apart among its peers. Few various other scooters in the exact same category can match its performance. Maxing out at 20 mph, the Turboant X7 Pro is fast and benefits from the high torque provided by the 350 W power electric motor. The scooter can take on hill qualities of up to 20%. Cyclists will certainly be thrilled by the smooth velocity controlled by the rubber throttle.
To assist the cyclist preserve control of the scooter– even at broadband– Turboant mounted a triple stopping system, consisting of an Electronic Braking System (EBS), rear disk brake, and rear foot brake. This system can bring the scooter to a halt in secs, with a braking distance as short as 16.4 ft.
Outstanding value for cash
Comfortable to ride
Cruise ship control
Large, luxurious tires
It’s worth stating service warranty because when you’re spending this much money, you expect that any type of issues will certainly be fixed by the firm you’re buying from.
Turboant offers a six-month warranty, as well as includes an added six months on for scooters got through its internet site. You can request the guarantee extension if you purchase from Amazon, yet at the time of review the X7 Pro wasn’t readily available from Amazon UK or US.
If you required to make a warranty insurance claim, the process depends upon when the problem has occurred. In the first week you have the option of a fixing, substitute or a refund. After that and also until 30 days you can select a repair work or substitute and afterwards, the scooter would need to be sent to your nearest repair work centre (they remain in the UK as well as Germany for European purchasers) at Turboant’s expenditure.
If you’re competent with a screwdriver and also Allen key, components for repair work can be sent to you so you can fit them on your own.
Should You Get the TurboAnt X7 Pro Electric Scooter?
Why the heck not? If you remain in the market for one, then the TurboAnt X7 Pro makes an outstanding beginning point. Easy procedure combined with efficiency makes this a superb bargain, as well as absolutely something to take into consideration as an alternative to taking the bus or vehicle.
It could be a little light on functions, however so what? You do not always intend to mess around with applications, or multiple operations, just to actually start moving the scooter as well as, as a result, yourself. It is the simplicity of the X7 Pro that makes it a prime contender for your cash money if you’re seeking to buy a PEV similar to this.


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Purdue pest research receives unique patent gift
Photo by Tom Campbell
Pest scientists Abdul
Ameen (right) and Gary Bennett examine cockroaches in a laboratory
structure designed to mimic conditions in an American kitchen.
By Steve Tally
It's a gift of potential, which could turn out to be
one of the largest gifts in Purdue's history.
DuPont has donated more than 30 U.S. and foreign patents
for two agricultural insecticides to the Purdue Research Foundation.
Gary Bennett, professor of entomology and director of
Purdue's Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management, and entomology
research associate Abdul Ameen, will investigate these compounds to
determine if they are effective against pests such as ticks, fleas,
ants, cockroaches, mosquitoes, or other household or garden pests.
"Although these insecticides were developed for
agricultural pests, because of the way they function, they show great
promise to control more familiar household pests," Bennett said.
"I'm confident that we will discover new uses for this technology."
Purdue President Martin C. Jischke added: "The Purdue
Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management is a national leader
in the ability to screen promising insecticides for new markets. Dr.
Bennett excels in this type of research."
The full value for the patent portfolios cannot yet be
accurately assessed because future uses of the products have yet to
be determined. However, Bennett said DuPont has made significant investments
in these two products during their initial development, in tests of
their safety and effectiveness, and in preparing the U.S. and international
The donation marks the first time Purdue has received
such a gift. In addition to the patent rights, Purdue also is receiving
toxicology and field data.
Although this is the first patent gift to Purdue, DuPont
and its subsidiary companies, such as Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Inc., have funded many Purdue research projects.
The two compounds one of which was designed to
control beetles and the other to control mites were found to
be safe and effective against agricultural pests. But DuPont determined
that the compounds were no longer a part of its strategic business direction,
said Thomas Woods, the company's director of intellectual assets management.
Rather than entomb the research in a file cabinet, DuPont
decided to make the technology available so that it could benefit Purdue
and the public.
Since DuPont first began giving technology donations
in 1998, it has contributed more than two dozen gifts to more than 20
research institutions, Woods said.
"In every case where DuPont makes technology donations,
we look for world-class research programs where our technology would
be a natural fit," Woods said. "Professor Bennett is a renowned
technical champion in urban pest control, so Purdue immediately came
"The gift not only recognizes the exceptional quality
of Professor Bennett's research, but also provides an opportunity to
build upon and strengthen the already strong technical relationship
between Purdue and DuPont."
The Purdue Research Foundation plans to license the compounds
to companies that can serve both agricultural and household markets.
Contact Bennett at: email@example.com

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FOLAWN ALTERMAN & RICHARDSON LLP - LAW OFFICES
Completed in 2015, this 10,800 sq ft office space for prominent Portland attorneys, Folawn, Alterman & Richardson, LLP, was part of an overall relocation and rebranding effort for the firm. Locating to a new high-rise tower in the central business district, the office was reimagined with a sleek modern aesthetic of stone, glass and minimalistic design, overlaid with warm highlights of natural wood and accent colors. The design includes a reception lobby, conference rooms, ‘war room’, library, individual meeting rooms, open cubicles, lunchroom, storage areas and print room. The design and furnishings were all selected with careful consideration of the image of the firm and aesthetic goals of the partners.


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How a Hip Hop Blogger and Publicist dealt with Bi-Polar, Anxiety and OCD
I’m Amanda aka Awesomenezz, The Founder of Hip Hop Headquarters and Music Industry Hip Hop Publicist.
I suffer from Bi-Polar Type 2 (Depression), Anxiety, and OCD and I have been suffering from them all since I was around 10 years old.
I saw way too many things as a child that no person in their whole life should see or go through
It all started before I was adopted at the age of six. My biological mother was an alcoholic and my step father was a woman beater and a child sexual abuser. Let’s just say I saw way too many things as a child that no person in their whole life should see or go through. By the age of 5, my mother just decided she was going to take me and my brother and drop us off at a daycare and just not come back. I remember to this day sitting there staring at the door and…nothing. The daycare called Social Services and a social worker picked us up and put us in the system. Nothing worse of a feeling than having a parent abandon you.
The first foster family we went to was an old white couple who hated black people. See, my mom was white and my biological father was black (no idea who he is..but looking at my skin Im sure he was..lol). My HALF-Brother, who is 5 years older than me..we had different fathers so his dad was white..he was 100% cute little red headed white boy with green eyes. Get this, they had a 4 bedroom house with one room that had three twin beds in as they took in several foster kids yearly. My room? The hallway closet. Every day I got out of school (mind you they made me walk to and from at the age of 5) as soon as I got to the house the lady would chase me with a belt and lock me in the closet. They only fed me bread and butter and powdered milk. Finally they went back to the social worker stating I was a menace so they kicked me out of their house and kept my brother..now separating us. My brother was all I had at the time…first my mother abandons me and now you take the only other person I felt safe with.
They then moved me in with a middle age single black woman. But at the time I missed my brother so much that all I could do was cry because I was so scared. I guess the lady told social services that they need to find me a family with maybe a sibling that I could attach to. So they moved me again.
They took me to a house with a mother and a father and an older brother who was 5 years older than me. Well it worked! They adopted me a year later, and even though I would get on my brothers last damn nerves, I hope he knows now how much I needed him back then.
Finally, mom decided to take me to a therapist, where they told me to start writing.
Over my young teenage years I started to fall apart. Having flashbacks, becoming so angry at times. I was petrified and angry with my dad all of the time because he was a father figure and before him all I knew was my stepfather beating my mother up and sexually abusing me, so I avoided him as much as possible and even when we did speak it was ALWAYS a fight. Finally, mom decided to take me to a therapist, where they told me to start writing.
Mind you, music has always been my escape plan..as a child I would go in our extra room over the garage and put music up loud and just DANCE for hours pretending to be anywhere and anyone. The first time I wrote in my journal…I wrote a 2 page poem and didn’t even realize it. My mother bought me a binder and told me to keep writing..created a whole damn book of poems lol! I was a huge 90’s alternative kid..mostly Nirvana, Guns N Roses, etc. Because my biological mother was white, that’s all I knew. My brother put me on to hip hop starting with LL Cool and then the infamous Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets. I fell all the way in love with rhyming. Hearing artists tell their stories through music was amazing to me and I wanted more!
Outside of my music getaway world, I was insecure, promiscuous, depressed, angry, but somehow tried to keep a smile on my face. Nobody except my family knows what was really going on with me until now.
I told my daughter right there: “I will never leave you, you’re safe.”
Speeding up, I gave birth to my daughter in 2007 and it was a hurricane of emotions and HELL for me. I wasn’t postpartum, it was more of I have to give this child the world and protect her everyday so she never sees anything that I ever went through. I remember right after I had her they said she had to go to the NICU because her heart was beating a little off. Let’s just say, I don’t think I ever cried so hysterically in my life. When they finally brought her back to me, I remember her staring at me trying to fall asleep with one eye open, not taking her eyes off of me and I told her right there “I will never leave you, you’re safe.” And she fell asleep.
Few months later I started gaining weight, I was depressed and full of anxiety. I ended up going to the doctor who then sent me to a psychiatrist and a psychologist who both diagnosed me with Bi-Polar depression and OCD. (See in the 80s these names weren’t really diagnosed often..you were just crazy or bad as hell..lol)
I still to this day suffer from both but have learned to take it one day at a time. Family has learned to deal with the fact that I have good days and bad days. If I don’t answer my phone, just let me be until I come out of my dark place. Even my daughter who is now 9, understands and pretty much knows my dark day schedule better than anyone else lol. I did a lot of research on both illnesses and read forums of others suffering, which helped me to not feel alone.
You’re not alone!
To people who are also suffering from a mental or physical illness, I would definitely say, you’re not alone. Many of your favorite influences probably suffer from depression, they just don’t put it out there for the world to see. Definitely go see a doctor and get diagnosed properly. I don’t recommend pills because they just make you feel like a damn zombie. But still do what works for you. Don’t get me wrong, there are days where all I want is vodka..but there are so many other days where still putting on music and taking a good run in the park calms me down as well. If you can’t get to a doctor at first, find someone that loves you unconditionally that you trust and can talk to about your feelings openly and not be judged. If you don’t have that person, you can always find online forums with people going through the same thing.
If you have a story of overcoming or living with mental or physical illness you would like to share, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.org .

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No Ruling in Campus Carry Court Challenge
A federal judge wants more briefing before he decides whether to grant a request by three UT-Austin professors to halt the new law that allows license holders to carry concealed weapons in university buildings.
A federal judge took no action Thursday on a request by three University of Texas at Austin professors to temporarily block Texas' campus carry law, saying he won't give his initial ruling until at least next week.
But the case against gained a new wrinkle at a hearing Thursday, with the professors' lawyers now adding a claim that UT-Austin's gun policies are too vague to be enforced.
It remains to be seen whether the challenge will go anywhere. Lawyers on the professors' side admitted in court that their claims wade into uncharted legal waters.
"It goes without saying that this is an interesting case," said U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel. "Both sides, I thought, did an exceptional job."
The professors' original argument was that the campus carry law, which allows concealed handgun license holders to take their weapons into classrooms and other public university buildings across the state, violates their First Amendment right to academic freedom. The law went into effect on Monday.
If professors are worried that a student has a gun, the professor might not feel safe teaching controversial issues, they claimed.
But lawyers for the state rejected that idea, saying it isn't based on any empirical evidence. The professors haven't proven that their fear is reasonable, the state's attorney's said.
The law "doesn't prohibit the professors from discussing their views in class," said Anne Marie Mackin, an attorney for UT-Austin.
But during that debate lawyers became confused on what the exact UT-Austin guns policy is. The state law, which went into effect Monday, orders public universities to allow guns. But it doesn't specifically mention professors' role. And lawyers on both sides couldn't point to written UT-Austin policies that describe what would happen to a professor if he or she chooses to ban guns anyway.
Still, the state's lawyers stressed that public university professors are required to uphold state law and that the law prohibits schools from banning guns in classrooms.
The judge said he wanted to hear more about that argument and asked attorneys on both sides to submit filings detailing their positions. Those are due Monday, and rebuttals can be filed until Wednesday.
Right now, the judge is only considering a preliminary injunction. His decision would only be temporary until a full trial could be held. He will likely rule soon after the filings are submitted.
The lawyers for the professors urged the judge to block the law before classes start for the fall semester on Aug. 24.
"What we are asking for is a time out so that we can take enough time for a full-blown trial in these issues," said attorney R. James George Sr. "Don't risk something tragic happening because we don't want to wait 60 days to have a trial."
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Theorizing an Anti-Oppressive Framework for Ethical Processes of Artistic Creation
Abstract: This paper responds to the emergence of creative arts-based research in the university by offering a pragmatic approach to integrate ethics into creative processes. Aimed at creators of art committed to anti-oppressive work, I offer a set of guidelines which, through an intersectional framework, combines methods from theatre of the oppressed, performance ethnography, and anti-oppressive practice. By relocating the work of Augusto Boal in a contemporary Canadian context and enhancing it with recent writings in related disciplines, I am able to better address ethical problems facing creators of art here and now. Throughout the paper, each of the guidelines is related to a piece of verbatim theatre I created which explored drag culture in Montreal (A Happy Kind of Therapy, 2013). The guidelines suggest four opportunities for ethical consideration by creators of art committed to anti-oppressive work: (1) locating yourself—identifying your privileges; (2) locating the Other—identifying and deconstructing embedded patterns of oppression; (3) locating your methodology—ethics in production and distribution; and, (4) critical consciousness—the importance of reflexivity.
Dane Stewart is a student in Concordia University’s Individualized Master’s program. He is interested in research-creation, queer theory, and performance ethnography. His thesis is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research-creation project focused on the queer body as a site of identity formation. Dane has worked professionally in Montreal as an actor, musician, and playwright, and is also the co-creator and curator of Free Press Libre, a group producing monthly anti-oppressive performance art nights.


FRIENDS, YOU CAN'T make this stuff up.
Just when you think your opinion of Pennsylvania politics has hit rock bottom, our "leaders" drill down to find new levels of ineptitude and wastefulness.
I'm talking about the Legislature that ended its annual budget season by doing nothing, nothing and nothing, then left until late September, now returning to Harrisburg to finish the budget we were told was done.
Oh, you missed it over the holiday break?
You were distracted by lawmakers and top-of-the-pyramid (or, to critics, bottom-of-the-barrel) state pol Tom Corbett failing to provide real rescue for Philly schools or pension reform or liquor reform or transportation funding?
Then allow me: It's because our Legislature lives by an ethos of gutless guile, and our governor apparently can't do anything.
The most recent example (of many) centers on last-minute villainy over pieces of the budget required for implementing certain spending and policy.
Without them, the budget is technically incomplete, and some funding - including some new money for Philly schools - is in limbo.
You'll love this.
The Republican-controlled Senate, by a 40-10 vote, sends the House a Welfare Code expanding Medicaid to provide health insurance for more than 500,000 Pennsylvanians who are now without it.
The Republican-controlled House, before leaving for summer, strips that out of the code but sends back a Fiscal Code with language promoting "payday lending."
Let's see: Help poor people get health coverage or help put poor people further in debt? So many choices.
You know about expanding Medicaid, right?
The feds pay. People get help. Not exactly rocket science. Supported by GOP guvs including N.J.'s Chris Christie, Ohio's John Kasich, Arizona's Jan Brewer, Florida's Rick Scott, but so far not T.C.
And you know about "payday lending," yes?
Sky-high interest rates, as in triple-digits when annualized, for short-term loans for people with bad credit; loans called "predatory" for a reason.
Pennsylvania caps rates, making sleazoid-lending less profitable; and in 2010 our Supreme Court extended the cap to online activity. One lender, Cash America Net, made $10 million a year through online payday lending here, the court said.
But language to revisit payday lending - promising a vote on the issue by the end of October - gets slipped into the Fiscal Code; on Page 55 of a 57-page bill.
Really? When you have power to use the process to get stuff done, this is what you do? Of all the things the state needs? Predatory lending?
GOP House spokesman Steve Miskin could not (or would not) say who inserted the language.
And talk about coincidence: The Inquirer reported that payday-lender lobbyists helped organize a Pebble Beach golf trip/GOP fundraiser during February budget hearings. Attendees included House Speaker Sam Smith and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman.
You don't think there could be a connection, do you?
The Senate voted a payday bill out of committee last month, but last week killed language in the Fiscal Code calling for a vote by the end of October.
(A cynic might suggest that they want to keep the issue alive as a fundraiser during 2014, a legislative-election year.)
This means that the House almost certainly is forced to return to Harrisburg this month, with taxpayers footing per-diem expenses, to vote on the newly amended Fiscal Code.
In other words, you pay more for ongoing antics.
Such is life the Capital City.
Meanwhile, "Gov. 0-fer," all full of self-congratulatory smiles signing a balanced (as required by law) and on-time (although it really wasn't) budget on the night of June 30, says stuff such as, "We are making progress, we are moving forward," and "How can I be disappointed?"
You can't make this stuff up.


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She’s the dancing Queen! Queen Maxima of the Netherlands showed off her dance moves in Bonaire on Jan. 28 while at the Cultural Park Mangazina di Rei. The Dutch Royal House shared a video from King Willem-Alexander, Maxima and their eldest daughter Princess Catharina-Amalia’s visit showing the three royals dancing.
“Maxima knows how to dance so much fun. A person just gets happy to look at her. #rhythm,” one social media user commented (translated to English). Another wrote, “Our queen can really dance.. Latina😍👏👏.”
Maxima, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has spoken about her love for dancing in the past. According to HOLA! USA’s sister brand HELLO!, the royal has previously said, “I am Latin and I will continue being Latin in respect to some aspects of my culture. I dance, I sing and I will keep on dancing and singing.” At the time, she also joked that Willem-Alexander’s “hips are a little rigid.”
Discussing what type of music she likes listening to during a 2021 episode of LookLab with NikkieTutorials, the Queen said, “Everything. According to the mood.” “If I need to be uplifted, then I have salsa or tango or something like that,” Maxima added. “Sometimes I just want to remember the old times and I have all these, you know, wonderful music, rock and pop from the 80s.”
The Queen, King Willem-Alexander and Princess of Orange, 19, kicked off their visit to the Caribbean on Jan. 27. Per the Royal House, “The visit is intended to introduce the Princess of Orange to the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.” The royal visit will conclude on Feb. 9 in Saba.

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Manual Toothbrush vs. Electric Toothbrush
In a world where every little thing is being automated, why must the activity of brushing your teeth be left behind? Well unless scientists come up with a technique that entirely renders brushing your teeth unnecessary, the only thing we can rely on as of today is easing the activity. And that has been done by bringing in the electronic toothbrushes in the market.
The manual toothbrush was invented in the 1930s. Several upgrades and updates were added to the toothbrush, and in the 1990s, the electronic toothbrush was introduced. Is it better than the manual toothbrush, or is the vintage route more beneficial, let's take a look:
- Cost: Electronic toothbrushes cost significantly more than manual toothbrushes. A manual toothbrush could cost on an average Rs. 30-Rs.40, whereas an electronic toothbrush costs close to Rs.400-Rs.500.
- Features: Unless you have a set timer in front of you, the time you take to brush your teeth manually solely depends on you. Electronic toothbrushes come with a built in timer which you can set at 2 minutes or more (2 minutes being the appropriate time considered for effective cleaning of teeth). This built-in timer saves you from relying on your guesswork and effectively helps you clean your teeth according to the recommended timings.
- Convenience: Manual toothbrushes are convenient to carry while traveling. They have negligible weight and can fit into any travel pouch easily. Electronic toothbrushes, on the other hand, are heavy in weight and need a battery charger to be carried along, which makes them a pain to carry around.
- Effort: Electronic toothbrushes significantly reduce your effort put into the activity. All you need to do is tilt your toothbrush to a 45-degree angle, and let the toothbrush do all the work. Whereas, manual toothbrushes, require you to carefully use proper brushing techniques to get the best results and thus require more effort.
- Options: Manual toothbrushes come with a huge variety of bristles, heads, colors etc. For sensitive gums, one can pick a toothbrush with soft bristles; for kids, one can pick a toothbrush with a smaller head to fit into their mouths. Electronic toothbrushes, as of today do not come in a variety of sizes or bristle types. Thus, the choice and utility are restricted.
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Though electronic toothbrushes give better results with lesser effort, manual toothbrushes have their own conveniences, too.
Hello, My mother is having thyroid and blood anemia due to which her HB remains low. She is taking daily one dilzem tablet for heart beat function control and one thyroxine early morning as advice by doctor . Now recently she got some severe teeth pain and dentist advice her for root canal treatment of that teeth. As per HB test conducted today her hemoglobin is only 4.5. Request your advice whether we can go ahead with root canal treatment for teeth or should wait for HB to be little normal. Is there any risk to undergo root canal treatment at present position. Dentist told to consult physician and take advice to go ahead. Hence request your advice. My mother is 52 years old. Thanks!
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Mild to severe tooth pain can turn out to be debilitating and damaging condition if it is persistent. Also, the pain can spread to the rest of the head and give you an uncomfortable ache and tingling sensation all day long. So what are the causes behind tooth pain? Here's our list!
- Tooth Decay: The presence of food debris that has not been cleaned out can stay on and cause cavities and persistent tooth pain. This condition can also make the teeth extra sensitive and pain then emanates as a natural response to signify that all is not well in the area. This can also lead to sharp pain when bite an apple or munch on nuts. One must see a dentist for this kind of pain so that scaling and plaque removal can take place.
- Injury: If there is persistent, throbbing pain after eating something that is too hot or too cold, then it might be more than mere tooth sensitivity. This condition could also point at chipped, broken or cracked teeth due to excessive teeth grinding or a fall or accident. It could also be caused due to sports injury. The dentist will usually take a dental X ray to find the cause of the pain and to unravel the extent of the damage as well.
- Inflammation: Constant pain may also point at inflammation of the pulp. This may be caused due to damaged roots. If this kind of inflammation comes with bleeding and fever, then you must see a dentist immediately. It can also mean that the pulp or root of the tooth is dying, in which case a root canal may be required.
- Sinus: A dull ache in the sinus area of the upper teeth usually point at sinusitis, which is a condition that emanates due to pain in the nerves of that area. This pain can also happen due to cold and cough as well as an allergic attack that affect the facial muscles due to excessive sneezing and watering of the eyes. Also, a flu and fever can lead to this kind of pain.
- Infection: Inflammation along with fever and bleeding can also point at infection. This can render the complete pulp tissue damaged. Also, the growth of abscess in such cases can cause acute tooth pain. The dentist will usually diagnose the issue with a tooth X ray before prescribing antibiotics and carrying out a root canal for severe cases.
Persistent toothache with other symptoms should always be checked by a dentist so as to rule out long term damage that can result in tooth loss.

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When Take Two episode 4 entitled “Ex’s and Oh’s” airs on ABC come July 12, there are a few different things that you can be excited to see. For starters, how about getting a chance to learn more about Sam Swift’s former fiance? This is a guy who dumped her in front of the entire nation, and that is one of the things that led to her very-public meltdown — which in turn led to her going to rehab. In some ways, Dylan is one of the reasons why she’s in the spot that she is, both for better and for worse. Even if she is enjoying her new job that doesn’t mean that she wants to help him.
For a little bit more news in terms of what to expect, all you have to do is check out the Take Two episode 4 synopsis that we have for you below:
Sam’s ex-fiancé, Dylan, who dumped her live on national television, unexpectedly shows up asking for help after his laptop is stolen. Sam is reluctant to have anything to do with her old flame until she discovers something even more embarrassing may go public if it gets into the wrong hands. Faced with potential public humiliation, Sam, Eddie and Dylan race to find the laptop before the pair’s most intimate moments become a viral sensation.
This episode definitely feels like it’s got the potential to be very entertaining, especially since you have both a blast from Sam’s past but also high stakes for her and Dylan. It’s a chance to learn a little bit more about both Sam as a character and how she reacts to adversity now. She hasn’t really been tested in this way just yet and we’re interested to see what happens with that.
What do you want to see when it comes to Take Two episode 4? Share right now in the attached comments below!
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Predators able to stay positive
Despite ouster, Nashville on rise
Nashville coach Barry Trotz doesn’t want his Predators to forget the pain of losing in the playoffs. Just consider it the necessary pains of growing up in the NHL.
The Predators used an agonizing loss to the eventual Stanley Cup champs in the first round a year ago as motivation throughout this season, and they rode that to the franchise’s first opening-series victory. Nashville’s run finally came to an end Monday night with a 2-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks in six games in their first Western Conference semifinals.
Trotz said he told his players they will grow from the battle of playing in a semifinal series where only one game was won by more than one goal.
“We made a couple steps forward. Everything that people said we couldn’t do, we did this year,’’ Trotz said.
The franchise that was counted out of the playoffs last preseason finished fifth in the West to reach the postseason for the sixth time in seven seasons. Nashville joined only Detroit, San Jose, and Calgary in winning at least 40 games for a sixth straight season.
“Not a lot of people give us credit at the start of the year,’’ captain Shea Weber said. “A lot of people don’t think we’re going to make the playoffs, let alone get into the second round. We’re still not satisfied. The group here wants to win the Stanley Cup, so it’s not easy to be going home this early. But I think we grew, and there’s a lot of firsts that happened this year.’’
The biggest was winning their first elimination game after losing the previous five. That 4-3 win Saturday night in Vancouver extended this series one more game, even though the Predators ran out of offense against Vancouver.
Nashville just ran into the NHL’s best team during the regular season in the Canucks, a team that was both the league’s top scoring offense and featured the stingiest defense.
“It was real close,’’ Trotz said. “If you get a break here or there or if you get another secondary hero for us we could be going to Game 7, or we could be on the positive side.’’
Nashville also survived injuries to Matthew Lombardi, the forward acquired last offseason to replace Jason Arnott. He missed almost the entire season. The Predators also lost Marcel Goc, Francis Bouillon, and Cal O’Reilly to season-ending injuries.
“It’s been a long year for us,’’ forward Joel Ward said. “We dealt with adversity. A lot of guys injured and on IR. As a group, we had different guys up and down making big plays at certain times.’’
The team’s success is helping turn Music City into even more of a hockey tonk kind of town. With two new top officials on the business side, Nashville sold out more games (16) in the regular season since its second season. All six playoff games sold out as fans tailgated before faceoff.
The Predators are going to need every penny from those six playoff games as they face their biggest offseason challenges in trying to keep Weber, a restricted free agent defenseman who will be in heavy demand, and Ward, who scored seven goals in the postseason in nearly topping the 10 he had in the regular season.


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- TripBuzz found 4 things to do with kids in or near Elliot Lake, Ontario.
- From Miners Memorial Park to Mississagi Provincial Park, the Elliot Lake area offers 4 different types of family activities, including: History Museums, Camping Site, Nature & Wildlife Areas and Monuments.
- The city of Elliot Lake is located in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Just north of Lake Huron, the city also welcomes several lakes and bodies of water, as well as forests and bedrock hills. Wildlife and nature run free in the vast outdoors, a sight to be seen for any visitor. The city also welcomes a variety of art and culture festivals year round.
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Welcome to Broadway! Your tour guide: homicide detective Danny Clover (Larry Thor). He holds his exhaustion in check, knowing full well that his dangerous dealings with the underbelly of the Great White Way will begin again come the dawn. Supported by his colleagues - the paternal, precinct-based Sergeant Gino Tartaglia (Charles Calvert) and field investigator Detective Muggavan (Jack Kruschen) - Clover's work takes him to the Bronx, Spanish Harlem, Central Park, the Chelsea docks, Greenwich Village, Coney Island, and all over New York City. The cases presented here were produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and performed by Betty Lou Gerson, Howard McNear, Frances Robinson, Paula Winslowe, Richard Crenna, William Conrad, and more. Episodes include: "The Joe Quito Murder Case", 03-03-50; "The Tommy Stafford Murder Case", 04-14-50; "The Elaine Hill Murder Case", 04-21-50; "The Max Wendell Murder Case", 04-28-50; "The Frank Conroy Murder Case", 07-03-50; "The Emilio Ramirez Murder Case", 07-17-50; "The Mary Demming Murder Case", 08-14-50; "The Ben Justin Murder Case", 12-08-50; "The Harry Foster Murder Case", 05-05-51; "The David Blaine Murder Case", 07-22-51; "The Howard Crawford Murder Case", 08-05-51; "The Ed Koster Murder Case", 10-13-51; "The Ricardo Miguel Murder Case", 10-27-51; "The Joe Blair Murder Case", 11-03-51; "The Mary Smith Murder Case", 12-08-51; "The Lucille Baker Murder Case", 12-15-51.
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- Earlier this month, paleontologists announced the discovery of the largest soft-shelled egg ever found.
- The researchers think the football-sized specimen, which was discovered in Antarctica, came from a giant, swimming reptile.
- But other scientists think the giant egg could have been laid by an early dinosaur.
- Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
After a mysterious, 66-million-year-old fossil was found in Antarctica, it sat unstudied for nearly a decade.
Researchers weren't sure what the object was or where it came from, so they referred to it as "The Thing."
A study published this month, however, solved part of the mystery: A group of paleontologists announced that "The Thing" is a giant, soft-shelled egg — the largest such egg ever discovered.
"This is the biggest one by a long shot," Lucas Legendre, lead author of the study, told Business Insider, adding, "it's massive — about the size of an American football — and looks exactly like a lizard or snake egg."
The fossil's size and geographic origin raised an obvious question, though: "We were curious what animal could've laid that egg," Legendre said.
His group thinks it came from to a massive marine reptile — such as a mosasaur or plesiosaur — that preyed on fish, sharks, and other underwater creatures. But that's a controversial conclusion.
An egg that's hard to beat
Legendre's colleagues discovered "The Thing" in 2011, off the coast of Antarctica on Seymour Island, then brought it to Chile's National Museum of Natural History.
The researchers identified the fossil as an undiscovered type of egg, which they named Antarcticoolithus bradyi. They did not find any fossil remains of the creature that laid it.
The egg has a deflated quality, Legendre said, which suggests the animal inside hatched before the egg was fossilized.
Based on the egg's dimensions (11 inches by 7 inches), he added, the animal that laid it would have been more than 20 feet in length without counting its tail. That's about twice the length of a great white shark.
The size aligns what paleontologists know about swimming reptiles like plesiosaurs: Some of the largest plesiosaurs ever found come from Antarctica and reached lengths of 32 feet or more.
The rock formation where the egg was found also contained skeletons from baby mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, along with adult specimens. Together, that evidence suggests this area of Antarctica could have been "a sort of a nursery site with shallow protected water — a cove environment where the young ones would have had a quiet setting to grow up," Legendre said in a press release.
But the conclusion that a plesiosaur or mosasaur laid this egg challenges a prevailing idea: Many scientists don't think such creatures laid eggs at all.
"Laying an enormous shelled egg underwater would have created all sorts of problems for hatching infant reptile, which would have needed to surface almost immediately to breathe air," Ben Kear, a paleontologist from Uppsala University in Sweden, told Business Insider.
Some experts think the Antarctic egg came from a dinosaur
If a marine reptile didn't lay this egg, what did?
The egg's age and size suggest it could have been laid by giant Sauropods that roamed the Earth during that time, Legendre said. Sauropods were herbivorous, long-necked dinosaurs like Brontosaurus or Diplodocus.
But the egg's elongated shape doesn't match that of other dinosaur eggs, which were more spherical. Plus, Legendre added, the only dinosaurs that lived in Antarctica 66 million years ago are known to have laid hard-shelled eggs.
Another revelation from the prehistoric world could help solve this mystery. A recent study of fossilized eggs from the Gobi Desert revealed that two dinosaur species — Protoceratops and Mussaurus — had left behind clutches of leathery eggs with soft shells.
Until now, every dino egg ever found had a hard shell, like those of birds. But the new finding showed that some of the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs like turtles do.
"I've been excavating in Mongolia for 20 years now, and we find a lot of dinosaur eggs. But these clutches tell us something very different from what we knew before," Mark Norell, the lead author of that study and a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, previously told Business Insider.
Kear thinks the discovery that some dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs could be the answer to the Antarctic egg enigma.
"It is now very plausible that Antarctoolithus might have been laid by some form of dinosaur," Kear said, adding, "after hatching on land, the discarded eggshell could have been washed out to sea, where it remained buoyant for some time because of trapped air before sinking to the seafloor and becoming buried in mud."


While charging my 1966 mustang, I went to start the car and all electrical went dead. No power at all.
The battery is new. The car just sat through winter and I did not disconnect battery.
Now there is no electrical power at all. The car has a 289
Should be an easy fix. Not much electrical there. If you left the battery in all winter it could have froze and is just bad now. Check your fuses under the dash. Do you have head lights or dome lights?
No lights at all
All power is off
Have you checked all of your fuses? If none are blown I would try a different battery. You should have headlights and dome light power. The battery has to be spent.....
Yes, battery was problem however after I put new battery in, as I was connecting the battery the car attempted to start. No key in ignition, no
Now I can't get the battery connected without the car trying to start. Confused now. Plenty of battery power
Sounds like the starter is stuck "ON". Try rapping on it with a hammer and see if it will retract. Then hook up the battery again. If it keeps trying to start, replace the starter. I doubt that your ignition switch is stuck in the "ON" position.


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High winds knocked out power to at least 60,000 Michigan homes and businesses as the effects of the Eastern Seaboard's severe weather moved through the state.
DTE Energy Co. says roughly 51,000 of its 2.1 million customers were without power early Tuesday. CMS Energy Corp.'s Consumers Energy unit reported about 9,000 of its 1.8 million Michigan customers were out Tuesday morning.
The weather prompted warnings for the Great Lakes. The National Weather Service says wave heights of up to 23 feet were reported on southern Lake Huron, with waves from 24 feet to 35 feet forecast. High wind warnings were in effect along parts of Michigan's eastern Lower Peninsula.
The S.S. Badger has canceled a day of service amid high winds and large waves on Lake Michigan. The car ferry that runs between Manitowoc, Wis., and Ludington, Michigan won't sail today. Wind gusts of more than 40 mph have been reported on the lake.
High wind warnings were in effect in West Michigan.


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The Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany was the most potent symbol of Communist oppression in Europe during the Cold War. The documentary "The Wall: A World Divided" profiles how a source of violence, hostility and pain was torn down by ordinary journalists and citizens who risked their life to bring down an oppressive regime and achieve what politicians and world leaders could not. "The Wall: A World Divided" looks deep inside the revolution that swept across Europe two decades ago — with the November 1989 opening of the Berlin Wall — to understand how this remarkable event helped end the Cold War without a shot being fired. The film explores the lives of ordinary people caught up in Cold War politics: a young father forced to tunnel beneath the wall to reunite his family; a teenager whose love of pop culture got him in deep trouble with the state; a student activist helping make a peaceful revolution while facing down tanks; and a young man broken by the ruthless interrogation methods of the secret police. With insights from political leaders like George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, James Baker and Condoleezza Rice, explore the origins and demise of the notorious Berlin Wall, the structure's affect on ordinary German lives and the peaceful end to the Cold War. Full of detailed information, this historical PBS documentary explains the stark differences between East and West Germany and their process of reunification.
In Benito Mussolini, Hitler finds an ally to whom he remains faithful until his downfall. The trips to Italy are the only foreign ones he undertakes. Hitler takes control of the army. The threat alone of an invasion is enough: the Austrian Chancellor allows Hitler to take over, 75% of the Austrian people want to be part of the German Reich. Planning to disintegrate Czechoslovakia, Hitler signs the Munich Agreement in September 1938, in which Czechoslovakia has to abdicate the territories of the so-called Sudeten Germans
7/13 • The Hitler Chronicles • 2018 • History
When Homo sapiens turned up in prehistoric Europe, they ran into the Neanderthals. The two types of human were similar enough to interbreed — and both created artifacts of similar complexity. But as more and more Homo sapiens moved into Europe, the balance of power shifted. Neanderthals were overwhelmed. Ever since, we’ve had Europe and the rest of the world to ourselves.
Part 5 • First Peoples • 2015 • History
Mike Loades has spent his life exploring history. He is a historian who believes that when you get your hands on the past, you discover what a surprising place it was - a place with familiar challenges but very different solutions. Now historian and weapons expert Mike Loades presents this program on the Middle Ages, from the 5th to the 15th centuries. It is a distinct period in time that conjures up images of knights on horseback, castles, combat and chainmail, and which has played host to countless fictional adventures, from tales of King Arthur and Merlin to Robin Hood and many more.
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Rageh Omaar explains how the collapse of this Islamic super-power following the first World War left problems that still exist in Europe and the Middle East today. From its capital in Istanbul the Ottoman Empire matched the glories of Ancient Rome. Yet its achievements have been largely lost in the trauma of its last few years. Brutality, massacres and the carve-up of former Ottoman lands created a legacy of tension and conflict that continue to this day. The heartland of the former empire - modern day Turkey - turned its back on its Islamic, Ottoman past. It underwent a social revolution led by military commander and secular visionary Mustafa Kemal-Ataturk. So why is Ottomanism back on the political agenda? And why are many politicians in the West hoping that Turkey can provide a role model as a modern, Islamic democracy?
3/3 • The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors • 2013 • History
The shape of Japan's internal politics and the country's response to external influences for centuries can be traced back to the choices of two warlords and a decisive battle. What was the Edo Period and how did it mold Japanese society?
S1E8 • Butterfly Effect • 2016 • History
Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. This super-sized tomb has fascinated historians and archaeologists for centuries, but exactly how the ancient Egyptians finished the monument and fitted its two and a half million blocks in a quarter of a century has long remained an enigma. Today the secrets of the pyramid are finally being revealed thanks to a series of new findings. At the foot of the monument, archaeologists are uncovering the last surviving relic of the pharaoh Khufu, whose tomb it is: a huge ceremonial boat buried in flat-pack form for more than 4500 years. It's a clue that points to the important role that ships and water could have played in the pyramids' construction. This documentary follows investigations that reveal how strong the link between pyramids and boats is. It's a story of more than how Egypt built a pyramid: it's about how the pyramid helped build the modern world.
2017 • History

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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) finally released their 2012 statistics last week! Despite a still-recovering economy, they found, 14.6 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in the United States in 2012—5 percent more than were performed in 2011.
Zeroing in on the specifics of the study, it becomes clear that minimally invasive, nonsurgical procedures are virtually single-handedly responsible for the growth in numbers last year. Surgical procedures didn’t decrease, but they didn’t increase either; and ASPS President Gregory Evans says that this is actually “the third consecutive year” that this has been the case. Procedures like Botox, chemical peels, and laser hair removal keep getting more and more popular, but most surgical procedures are hovering in the same place they’ve been in for a few years now.
Evans speculates (and I agree with him) that the fact that more people are getting smaller procedures lately is reflective of the financial difficulties Americans have faced in recent years. People have less money to spend on what many would consider “luxury” procedures these days, and since cosmetic surgery is generally not covered by health insurance, more patients are opting for procedures that—while still effective—put less strain on their pocketbooks.
That’s not to say that no one is undergoing cosmetic surgical procedures these days; almost 1.6 million were performed last year, in fact. And as the economy continues to improve, I have a hunch that the numbers will continue to rise.


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The University of Washington Libraries cordially invites you to celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Research Commons.
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Time: Remarks at 3:00 p.m.
* Interim President Phyllis Wise
* Dean of University Libraries Betsy Wilson
* Research Commons Librarian Lauren Ray
* Professor Albert Folch, Department of Bioengineering
Open House and Reception to follow until 5:00 p.m.
Place: Research Commons, Allen Library South ground floor, University of Washington
The UW Libraries Research Commons is intended to meet a new set of student and faculty needs that are emerging with the growth of data-driven research, digital scholarship and interdisciplinary studies. Learn more about the development of the space here: http://uwresearchcommons.wordpress.com
The BringingArtIntoTechnology exhibit, created by Albert Folch and his students at the UW Bioengineering Department, will be unveiled during the Grand Opening.
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CLA-2: OT: RR: CTF: TCM H251034 ERB
Port Director, Port of Memphis
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
3150 Tchulahoma Road, Suite 1
Memphis, TN 38118
Attn: La Don Tucker, Import Specialist
RE: Application for Further Review of Protest Number 2006-13-102409; Tariff classification of motor spindles
Dear Port Director:
The following is our decision regarding the Application for Further Review (AFR) of Protest Number 2006-13-102409, timely filed on November 19, 2013, by counsel on behalf of DMG Mori Seiki USA, Inc. (DMG). The AFR concerns the classification of motor spindles designed for use in milling machine tools under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Our decision takes into consideration additional information provided to this office by DMG via email dated, August 31, 2015, as well as follow up information emailed to this office on September 10, 2015.
The instant AFR regards 13 entries of the subject merchandise. The 13 subject entries are not identical to one another, and many contain goods that are not the subject of this AFR. This AFR regards only the goods described as spindles or motor spindles.
CBP liquidated the subject spindles as entered, on May 24, 2013, classified under subheading 8466.93.95, HTSUS, which provides for, “Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machine tools; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand: Other: For machines of headings 8456 to 8461: Other: Other.”
DMG argues here that the goods are properly classified under subheadings 8501.52.40, HTSUS and 8501.52.80, HTSUS, which provides for electric motors, depending on the underlying spindle’s specific output level, which distinguishes these products at the 8-digit level.
A spindle is the rotating axis of a machine. This is sometimes referred to as a spindle shaft. A rotor is a moving component in an electromagnetic system of an electric motor. The stator is the stationary part of a rotary system. The stator provides the power source which causes the rotor to rotate, which turns the spindle shaft. The spindle shaft transmits this rotary motion from the stator to the tool or work holder. The instant merchandise, however, combines the spindle and the motor into one unit. Combining the spindle and motor in this way allows the machine to move faster, enhances accuracy, torque and reliability, insofar as it reduces the number of moving objects within the device. The more objects that move, the more vibration occurs, which compromises accuracy. A motorized spindle or motor spindle is routinely used in manufacturing that requires a high level of precision and speed, such as milling, drilling, turning and boring, grinding as well as robotic functions. When installed, the subject motor spindle turns a cutting tool which removes material from a work piece holder. However the relevant cutting tool head is not imported with the subject motor spindles. The merchandise is completely assembled in its condition as imported. Its output is measured in terms of kilowatts (kW).
Whether the subject motorized spindle, in its condition assembled, are classified upon importation as parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading 8456 to 8465, including work or tool holders, in heading 8466, HTSUS, or whether they are classified as electric motors of heading 8501, HTSUS.
LAW AND ANALYSIS:
Initially, we note that this matter is protestable under 19 U.S.C. § 1514(a) (2) as a decision on classification. The protest was timely filed, within 180 days of liquidation. See Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004, Pub. L. 108-429, § 2103(2) (B) (ii), (iii)(codified as amended at 19 U.S.C. § 1514(c)(3)(2006)).
Further Review of Protest Number 2006-13-102409 is properly accorded to DMG pursuant to 19 C.F.R. § 174.24(b) because DMG alleges that its submission involves questions of law or fact which have not been ruled upon by the Commissioner of Customs or his designee or by the Customs Courts. Specifically, whether the subject rotor and stator, imported assembled with a spindle, are considered electric motors of heading 8501, HTSUS.
Classification under the HTSUS is made in accordance with the General Rules of Interpretation (GRI). GRI 1 provides that the classification of goods shall be determined according to the terms of the headings of the tariff schedule and any relative Section or Chapter Notes. In the event that the goods cannot be classified solely on the basis of GRI 1, and if the headings and legal notes do not otherwise require, the remaining GRIs may then be applied.
The HTSUS headings under consideration are the following:
8466 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of headings 8456 to 8464, including work or tool holders, self-opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special attachments for machine tools; tool holders for any type of tool for working in the hand:
8466.93 For machines of headings 8456 to 8461:
8501 Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets):
Other AC motors, multi-phase:
8501.52 Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kW:
8501.52.40 Exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 14.92 kW:
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System Explanatory Notes (ENs) constitute the official interpretation of the Harmonized System at the international level. While not legally binding, the ENs provide a commentary on the scope of each heading of the HS and are thus useful in ascertaining the proper classification of the merchandise. See T.D. 89-80, 54 Fed. Reg. 35127, 35128 (August 12, 1989).
The EN 85.01 states the following, in relevant part:
Electric motors are machines for transforming electrical energy into mechanical power. This group includes rotary motors and linear motors.
Rotary Motors produce mechanical power in the form of a rotary motion. They are of many types and sizes according to whether they operate on DC or AC, and according to the use or purpose for which they are designed. The motor housing may be adapted to the circumstances in which the motor will operate (e.g. dust proof, drip proof or flame proof motors; non-rigid mountings for belt driven motors, or for motors which will be subject to much vibration.)
Motors remain classified here even when they are equipped with pulleys, with gears or gear boxes, or with a flexible shaft for operating hand tools.
The heading includes “outboard motors”, for the propulsion of boats, in the form of a unit comprising an electric motor, shaft, propeller and a rudder.
Customs has consistently classified motors imported with certain additional components under heading 8501, HTSUS, as electric motors. In Headquarters Ruling Letter (HQ) H044560, dated September 18, 2009, CBP stated, “The question of whether an electric motor consisting of additional components remains classifiable as a motor under heading 8501, HTSUS, is well settled.” Id. In HQ 086832, dated May 21, 1990, Customs also stated, “a motor remains a motor for tariff purposes despite having other articles attached to it,” and further, “[t]hese other articles can be quite substantial.” See also PD A83602, dated June 1, 1996. Likewise, in HQ 955037, dated February 14, 1994, concerning the classification of electric actuators/motors, Customs explained that an electric motor is classifiable under heading 8501, HTSUS, even when imported with additional components (other than those listed in Explanatory Notes 85.01) if:
Those additional components complement the function of a motor. See HQ 083955, dated July 10, 1989 (classifying electric sewing machine motors in heading 8501, HTSUS)
Those additional components are devices which motors are commonly equipped. See HQ 087909, dated December 26, 1990, (classifying DC motor assemblies in heading 8501, HTSUS)
Those additional component serve merely to transmit the power the motors product. See HQ 950557, dated December 26, 1991 (classifying windshield wiper motors in heading 8501, HTSUS)
The instant merchandise consist of a rotor and a stator, albeit a motorized stator combined with the spindle. This motor spindle rotates the shaft as a single unit. It is imported in a fully assembled condition, ready to be installed into a milling machine requiring a replacement. Ordinarily, a spindle is an additional component which complements the function of a motor, and which is often imported with a motor, as was noted in HQ 083955, above. That the spindle and the motor are combined here does not change the circumstances that it is a complementary component. Also, it does not enhance the subject motor beyond the scope of heading 8501, HTSUS. For example, in HQ 086832, supra, CBP classified a motor used with automatic data processing machines (ADP), whereby a spindle motor served as the platform for mounting memory discs which stored data in hard drives. We noted in that ruling that although those spindle motors are designed for use with ADPs, they are specifically provided for in heading 8501, HTSUS, as electric motors.
Similarly, in Nidec Corporation v. United States, 861 F. Supp. 136, (Ct. Int’l Trade 1994), aff'd. 68 F. 3d 1333 (Fed. Cir. 1995), the Court of International Trade (CIT) classified an actuator electric motor used in an ADP as an electric motor, denying arguments that the presence of additional components made the goods something more than an electric motor. There the Court found that "the essence of the goods was still that of a motor, not of a spindle," thus precluding classification as something more than an electric motor. Nidec at 143.
This position was reinforced in Belimo Automation A.G. v. United States, 774 F. 3d 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2014), where the Federal Circuit affirmed the CIT’s underlying decision where the CIT stated, “[h]eading 8501 is an eo nomine provision, meaning that it includes “all forms” of ‘electric motors’, even those equipped with additional components, absent limiting language or contrary legislative intent.” Belimo Automation A.G. v. United States, 35 Int’l Trade Rep. (BNA) 2319, Slip Op 13-144 * 14 (Ct. Int’l Trade Nov. 26, 2014). The CIT noted that certainly, the additional components contributed to expanded functionalities beyond those of a basic electric motor. “However, these functions are complementary to the functions of the electric motor such that even with the [additional components] the subject imports serve the same principal function;” that of an electric motor. Id at *27.
This analysis is directly applicable to the instant merchandise, which contains a motorized spindle that turns a cutting tool (not included) to remove material from a work piece holder. That the combined motorized spindle enhances the functionalities of the subject merchandise, because minimizing the number of moving parts allows this device to move faster, with more precision, with less vibration, as compared to a separate rotor, stator, spindle and shaft, does not remove the motor spindle from classification as an electric motor of heading 8501, HTSUS.
Counsel suggests in its submission that New York Ruling Letter (NY) N130195, dated November 23, 2010, should be considered for revocation. However, the merchandise which was the subject of that ruling incorporated a motor magnet, as well as a chiller. These extra features distinguish this good from the instant motor spindles, which do not have a motor magnet or chiller, and further, transformed that object beyond the scope of electric motors of heading 8501, HTSUS.
DMG stated in a supplemental submission to this office dated September 10, 2015, that all of the motor spindles covered under this AFR are alternating current (AC) motors, and none are direct current (DC) motors. Electric motors which are AC motors are provided for in subheading 8501.52, HTSUS. At the 8-digit subheading level, products classified herein are done so depending on the underlying motor’s specific kilowatt output level. Therefore, the subject motor spindles are classified in this manner, pursuant to the motor output level, which is specified in the product’s invoices.
Under the authority of GRI 1, the subject motor spindles are provided for in heading 8501, HTSUS. Specifically, the subject merchandise which is marked as exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 14.92 kW are provided for in subheading 8501.52.4000, HTSUSA (Annotated), which provides for, “Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets): Other AC motors, multiphase: Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kW: Exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 14.92 kW.” The column one rate of duty is 3.7% ad valorem.
The subject merchandise which does not satisfy the output noted above is classified in subheading 8501.52.8040, HTSUSA, which provides for, “Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets): Other AC motors, multi-phase: Of an output exceeding 750 W but not exceeding 75 kW: Other: Other.” The column one rate of duty here is free.
The protest should be GRANTED.
You are to mail this decision, together with the CBP Form 19, to the Protestant no later than 60 days from the date of this letter. Any reliquidation of the entry in accordance with the decision must be accomplished prior to mailing of the decision. Sixty days from the date of the decision Regulations and Rulings of the Office of International Trade will make the decision available to CBP personnel, and to the public on the CBP Home Page on the World Wide Web at www.cbp.gov, by means of the Freedom of Information Act, and other methods of public distribution.
Myles B. Harmon, Director
Commercial and Trade Facilitation Division


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|Institutional Source||Beutler Lab|
|Gene Name||glycogen synthase 2|
|Synonyms||glycogen synthase, liver, LGS|
|Is this an essential gene?||Possibly non essential (E-score: 0.439)|
|Stock #||R7757 (G1)|
|Chromosomal Location||142422613-142473109 bp(-) (GRCm38)|
|Type of Mutation||missense|
|DNA Base Change (assembly)||A to T at 142454451 bp (GRCm38)|
|Amino Acid Change||Serine to Threonine at position 345 (S345T)|
|Ref Sequence||ENSEMBL: ENSMUSP00000032371 (fasta)|
|Gene Model||predicted gene model for transcript(s): [ENSMUST00000032371]|
AA Change: S345T
PolyPhen 2 Score 0.100 (Sensitivity: 0.93; Specificity: 0.86)
AA Change: S345T
|Coding Region Coverage||
|Validation Efficiency||96% (70/73)|
FUNCTION: [Summary is not available for the mouse gene. This summary is for the human ortholog.] The protein encoded by this gene, liver glycogen synthase, catalyzes the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of glycogen - the transfer of a glucose molecule from UDP-glucose to a terminal branch of the glycogen molecule. Mutations in this gene cause glycogen storage disease type 0 (GSD-0) - a rare type of early childhood fasting hypoglycemia with decreased liver glycogen content. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2009]
PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a conditional allele knocked out in the liver results in abnormal glycogen homeostasis, altered glucose homeostasis, decreased exercise endurance, and a phenotype similar to patients with glycogen storage disease 0. [provided by MGI curators]
|Allele List at MGI|
|Other mutations in this stock||
|Other mutations in Gys2||
(F):5'- AGCACAGCTCAGATATCTGC -3'
(R):5'- AGCATTATCACAGATGTCTCTTGC -3'
(F):5'- CGGTTCTTGCCATGGAAATCAGAC -3'
(R):5'- ATCACAGATGTCTCTTGCTCCTG -3'