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Reconsidering the Queer Cosplay of t.A.T.u.
At the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, the scene-stealing performance came from Russian singers Lena Katina and Julia Volkova, a duo better known as t.A.T.u. On massive screens behind them, they projected press clippings pointing up the controversy around their apparent homosexuality—"t.A.T.u. are corrupting our youth!"; "Russian duo do it with each other!"—while Katina and Volkova, braless and brazen, warbled through their hit, "Not Gonna Get Us." In case this was all too subtle, the performance also included scores of women who flanked the duo and locked lips with each other in a telegenic display of Sapphic empowerment.
Fifteen years ago this month, in August of 2002, the duo broke through with "All the Things She Said," the lead single from t.A.T.u.'s debut album in English, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane. (Previously, the twosome had recorded mainly in Russian.) The song's lyrics are remarkably clear about the muddied emotions that accompany same-sex desire in a world that tends to malign those feelings. "When they stop and stare, don't worry me / 'Cause I'm feeling for her, what she's feeling for me," the two women confide, before erupting when the verse hits: "I can try to pretend, I can try to forget / But it's driving me mad, going out of my head!"
One point of contention was the song's music video. In it, Katina and Volkova, clad in school uniforms, are in the rain and seem to be stuck behind a fence, with people staring at them on the other side. For almost four minutes, the two women ricochet between kissing each other and looking, frantically, for a way out. But then, a twist: It's really the gawking onlookers who are trapped—not only behind the fence, but also, the clip implies, by their bigoted ways.
For all of that, though, loving t.A.T.u.'s music is hard—not because Katina and Volkova are lesbians, but, rather, because they're not. This love-hate wrangling is even more complicated given how much time has passed, and how audiences have begun to change: What might have seemed, in 2002, like queer-friendly appropriation would likely feel more like exploitative gesturing in 2017.
On the one hand, it's no small thing to speak up for queer acceptance, especially if, like the members of t.A.T.u., you're from Russia, where the law is harsh on queer people in a way that American law isn't. Indeed, it matters a lot. I remember the first time I saw the music video for "All the Things She Said." I was 12 years old, and it was, I'm sure, well past my bedtime. But how could I stop looking? I mean, two people of the same sex were singing about being downright obsessed with each other—on MTV. For me, that video offered hope that it's OK—more than OK—to be queer. And I imagine it must have been similar for other closeted preteens my age.
But there was also the issue of t.A.T.u.'s fundamental lack of "realness." In lieu of authenticity, there was, essentially, opportunistic lesbian posturing. One British reviewer, writing in 2003 about the media attention swirling around t.A.T.u., commented that the group "packs enough cheap controversy to make Eminem's shenanigans seem like high art," nodding to what many began to consider was a deeply sleazy and sexist marketing gag that primped two young women for popular consumption. (The pair was assembled by producer Ivan Shapovalov in 1999, when the girls were only 14 years old.) And years later, in 2014, t.A.T.u. once again caused a kick-up when Volkova said that she wouldn't "accept a gay son" because "a man has no right to be a fag." (She added that it's different for lesbians because, oof, they "look aesthetically much nicer than two men holding their hands or kissing.") Worse than being trespassers, it seemed, the group had come to shun parts of the very community from whom it had earlier profited.
Could an act like t.A.T.u. become such a smash in 2017? Given that there's a greater degree of queer representation today—androgynous twin sisters Tegan and Sara, one half of the Veronicas—as well as growing acceptance in the mainstream, I have my doubts that a group could do what t.A.T.u. did, at least with the same level of impunity; "All the Things She Said" topped charts all across the planet. But then, the song is an absolute jam, even today—the hook, bolstered by surging guitars, is addictive as hell, and its message of total confusion can make a listener ruminate on similarly heady feelings in a way that feels deeply genuine.
Of course, the controversy hardly stopped t.A.T.u.'s music from becoming a global sensation. That's part of the point. In a 2003 essay (marvelously titled "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You"), queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick examines people's emotional attachments to texts and works of art, writing that "what we can best learn from such practices are, perhaps, the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture—even of a culture whose avowed desire has often been not to sustain them." The bittersweet attraction to t.A.T.u.'s music maybe lies in that contradiction: Two cosplay queers were all some of us, particularly lesbians, had in pop culture at the time. And while eking out attachment was enough then, I don't think it'd be enough now, when more musicians are more openly able to bring their own lived experiences to their work—experiences they don't put on, or take off, for an awards show.


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Q&A: Peer support is essential to recovery… but what if I don't like AA?
Q: What advice can you give someone who recognizes that peer support is essential to recovery but has such a strong aversion to AA (and where SMART and RR aren't readily available)?
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Today Microsoft launched its Azure cloud platform, so it is time for another spreadsheet. To properly compare Microsoft, Google & Amazon, I am using the gross profit (instead of revenue) and net profit numbers. Gross profit is in some sense the real revenue of a company after paying its outside suppliers; gross profit is what is available to pay its employees, pay the rent and so on. For a software company, the cost of goods sold is close to zero, so most of the revenue is gross profit. But for a retailer, as much as 70-80% of revenue goes to its suppliers, so gross profit is the better measure of the economic productivity the company achieves. The numbers below use rough annualized estimates based on the most recent quarter.
Do you notice the dramatic difference? Google and Microsoft are in another planet altogether compared to Amazon. Google has practically the same headcount as Amazon, yet drives three times the gross profit. The numbers really illustrate Amazon's competitive strategy in cloud computing; to quote Nick Carr:
Bezos goes on to note that Amazon's retailing operation is "a low gross margin business" compared to software and technology businesses, which "tend to have very high margins." The relatively low profitability of the retailing business gave Amazon the incentive to create a highly efficient, highly automated computing system, which in turn could become the foundation for a set of cloud computing services that could be sold at low enough prices to attract a large clientele. It also made a low-margin utility business attractive to the firm in a way that it isn't for a lot of large tech companies who are averse to making big capital investments in new, low-margin businesses.
"On the surface, superficially, [cloud computing] appears to be very different [from our retailing business]," Bezos sums up. "But the fact is we've been running a web-scale application for a long time, and we needed to build this set of infrastructure web services just to be able to manage our own internal house."
Microsoft's announcement is interesting from a technology point of view, but it is hard to see how the economics would work for them against Amazon. It is very hard for companies to go down the value chain for growth, so I am skeptical Microsoft would easily accept Amazon-like margins. On the other hand, for Amazon, cloud services have to deliver only a little higher margin than retail to be well worth the investment. That is not a tough hurdle, because retail is one of the toughest businesses out there.


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Capital markets regulator Sebi on Thursday levied a total fine of Rs 12 lakh on ICICI Bank Ltd and its compliance officer Sandeep Batra for disclosure lapses, including delayed disclosure of binding agreement signed with Bank of Rajasthan.
The regulator during an investigation found that a "binding implementation agreement" was signed between ICICI Bank and Bank of Rajasthan on May 18, 2010, in order to procure cooperation and support of dominant shareholders of Bank of Rajasthan to effect the proposal of its amalgamation with the private lender.
The probe revealed that ICICI Bank failed to disclose the information regarding the signing of the binding agreement to the stock exchanges in a timely manner.
It was noted that the agreement was signed between the banks on May 18, 2010, at approximately 04:30 am but ICICI Bank made the disclosure to the exchanges at 08:10 pm, despite the fact that the agreement was entered into before opening of the stock markets.
Therefore, the lender delayed the disclosure by one trading day, Sebi said in an order.
The binding agreement was a proper formalised legal agreement and a crucial step to effect the amalgamation of Bank of Rajasthan with ICICI Bank. It also contained clauses regarding the swap ratio of shares and the draft scheme of amalgamation among other information, Sebi added.
Further, Sebi said that "any information related to the amalgamation, mergers or takeovers of a listed company are deemed to be price-sensitive information. Therefore, in the instant matter, the signing of the binding agreement is a piece of price-sensitive information."
Such information was supposed to be disclosed to the stock exchanges "on an immediate basis."
"However, by withholding such disclosure for one full trading day, ICICI created a situation of information asymmetry wherein the general public was not aware of any such agreement," Sebi said.
By doing so, the lender has violated listing agreement norms as well as provisions of Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations.
Regarding Sandeep Batra, the regulator said that "being the compliance officer of ICICI Bank and also being aware of the developments regarding the signing of the binding agreement, failed to ensure that ICICI Bank complies with the requirements of making immediate and continuous disclosures regarding a binding agreement to the stock exchanges."
Consequently, a total fine of Rs 10 lakh has been imposed on ICICI Bank while Sandeep Batra has been fined Rs 2 lakh.
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NCHE Session IV – Read Kansas cards and lessons
I started the day picking on the NCHE "history nerds" a bit and how they love cranking up their conference way too early. I'm not making fun anymore. This is becoming a long day. Two more sessions and a quick run through the vendor area before things wrap up.
But it's a good kind of tired.
And two of my favorite people are hosting a session so I'm off to Ballroom Pershing South and Kansas Read cards with Mary Madden and Marcia Fox. Mary and Marcia are from the Kansas State Historical Society. They have been instrumental in creating and distributing 76 different lessons for K-12 students.
The cards are designed to deeply engage kids in primary and secondary sources, historical thinking skills, and cooperative learning. And they are awesome.
Just so you know – Read Kansas cards are written to help Kansas teachers teach Kansas history. But . . . because there are so many historical periods, events, and people that are really national events (John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Indian Removal Act, Brown v. Board) the Read Kansas cards can be used by just about everyone.
You can purchase the cards and get sweet, full color laminated sets. Or download PDF black and white versions for free. Either way you get great lessons aligned with state standards and the Common Core.


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Channel 4 - The Mill Series Two
It is not commonly known that Masson Mills has supplied many of the props for the widely acclaimed Series of The Mill (Channel 4). Series Two is about to hit our screens this summer, so it's a good time to look out again for all those authentic historic mill relics.
Channel 4 discovered the treasure trove of mill artefacts in the basement of Masson Mills last year and were able to make their choice of props from the hundreds of unique items, some being the last surviving examples. The end result was an evocative and realistic backdrop against which Series One of this powerful drama was set.
The Mill is based on the lives of real people, Series One telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time. Much of the filming for Series One took place at Quarry Bank Mill.
Series Two of The Mill will cover the period between 1838 to 1842 and focus on a time of significant political change following the Poor Act Amendment of 1834 which made a distinction between "deserving" and "undeserving" poor. This is the time of the great chartist rallies and the birth of modern democracy with the movement for the right for working class people to vote sweeping across the country. Series Two of The Mill will build on the success of Series One, starting as the effects of the new poor law amendment bite and ending with the famous Plug Riots.
The show will once again be spearheaded by BAFTA award winning writer, John Fay.
Masson Mills' owner, who was recently invited to watch the filming for Series Two, commented, "Prop hire for film and television has given an exciting new life to parts of the Masson Mills' collection that the public don't otherwise see. It was a very emotional experience seeing all the Masson items come to life in the filming of The Mill. I am delighted that all the bits and bobs I have collected over five decades have in some small way helped to create this truly evocative atmosphere. I for one can't wait to see it on the television".
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The SO's brother got married in Nashville this past weekend. We'd never been there before, somehow, and were therefore more than willing to trek down to Tennessee. However, this also meant that our sightseeing time was incredibly limited because of family events. I drafted a top-down list of must-sees/must-do's so that if circumstances dictated we had to cut some things, we'd still have gotten the most important things out of the way.
When I say "most important" I mean "most important personally." This is where you have to do enough research to be able to know what that is. If you just ask people or rely on lists (even the helpful list supplied by the bride in the welcome bag) you will see someone else's concept of what is important. Luckily, for Nashville, this was not difficult.
A couple of logistical notes: We didn't rent a car, because it would have been more expensive / more hassle to have it then to rely on a combination of Lyft / taxis. (So this is why we did not go to Loveless or Pancake Pantry, before you even start.) Also, we stayed in the West End because one of the wedding hotels was there so we could hop the shuttle to and from the wedding, which was out at a plantation about 10 miles away.
After ditching the bags at the hotel, our first order of business was lunch. We walked, because the restaurant was less than a mile away, and we are New Yorkers who just get frustrated at having to drive everywhere, and we also had to pick up passes generously arranged by a friend at the CMA building. A couple of blocks from the hotel, we turned right on Roy Acuff Place and there was Studio B, a very unassuming building just sitting there on the corner that pretty much defined a certain Nashville sound. You can only see the inside if you take a tour as an add-on to the Country Music Hall of Fame. That would have been nice, but required way more time than we had. So we had to make do with a walk-by and a few photos, as well as resting my hand up against the bricks to try to feel some of the vibe.
We then walked over to Arnold's for lunch. Arnold's is a "meat-and-three" place, which means you get one meat serving and three sides. Literally, I found this place by poking around on Chowhound, because I was totally overwhelmed by looking at Eater, and in asking around, I got way too much information about places that were too involved to deal with given the limited amount of time we had. It wasn't until we were standing on line that I saw the TWO James Beard awards on the wall and realized I had inadvertently picked a real gem. The people in front of us said they drove 9 hours to get there and had been doing that for 10 years. It was the best meal we had the entire weekend, hands down; we both had the roast beef, which absolutely was to die for, and fried green tomatoes and mac and cheese and green beans. I wouldn't have had the green beans, but the people in front of us raved about them nonstop so I felt like I kind of had to try it. We had one piece of chess pie between us because the place was so crowded that the staff got backed up and couldn't cut up the pies to keep up with demand.
I skipped Third Man Records, which is just a couple of blocks away from Arnold's, because our entire weekend got rearranged once I arrived and saw the wedding schedule. I will leave out the painful details, but it involved family photos and needing to be at the wedding facility hours earlier than originally expected. To be honest, I don't even LIKE Jack White, and was going because I kind of admire his enterprise and because I was in Nashville. But family obligations scuttled all but 90 minutes of Saturday for sightseeing so we had to get the essentials in on Friday. Again, this is why the priority list is important.
From Arnold's, we grabbed a cab to the Ryman. It was a walkable distance, but it was warm, and we were trying to save time. We took a cab and didn't use Lyft because someone got out of a cab in front of the restaurant just as we were walking out. (The rest of the time we used Lyft. It was great, but I can't see myself ever doing this in NYC.)
At the Ryman, we opted for the self-guided tour. The big difference is that with a guided tour, you get to see the dressing rooms, so you decide if that's something you need. Me, I just needed to walk into the place and I instantly teared up and got goosebumps. There's an intro film that's worth seeing, but after that, you're on your own. You can take photos and walk around as long as you want; there are a couple of glass cases and vitrines with artifacts and costumes, and upstairs in one of the hallways is a selection of Hatch Show Prints posters signed by artists who have performed there.
The building is lovely and breathtaking and definitely one of those venues that lives up to all of the hype and then some. I could just imagine the resonance with all that ancient, ancient wood. Once we were done sightseeing, we literally took another 20 minutes to assess seating options for the day we come back here for an actual show we care about. I got a shot glass from the gift shop; there are generic Ryman Hatch posters but I passed those up for the day I get to come back here etc. If you want to get your photo taken onstage at the Ryman, there are various packages you can buy, starting at $18, which I felt was kind of a bargain. But that's the only way you can make that happen. It was kind of fun to sit up in the balcony and watch various groups–many of whom arrived very dressed up indeed–get their photos taken.
Next, we walked down Broadway to get a sense of the spectacle. It is literally lined with bars that on this gorgeous, sunny, 70-degree day had all of their windows open and every single one had live music going on. I wondered what the most over-performed song would be, and in the time I was there, it was "Jackson," which I heard three times in less than 40 minutes.
Hatch Show Print was next. It's now located in the same building as the Country Music Hall of Fame, but you don't need to have a ticket for the HOF to visit Hatch. It's now located in what's essentially the lobby of the HOF, and that big ugly AT&T building looming over downtown displaced its original location. There's a gallery on the outer edge but the print shop and larger store is located on the other side of the lobby (we originally walked into the gallery and thought "this is it??" before I asked someone). You can take a tour, which allows you the opportunity to print your own poster, or you can stand there watching the print shop operate and listen to the tour before you decide that you do not need to take the tour. There are lots of lovely things available for purchase; I got a mug and some postcards, but there are all sorts of reprints and fun posters and t-shirts and hats and books on letterpress. This was less monumental to me because although they are trying to make it feel authentic, and you can see all that ancient original typeface on the wall, it's in the corner of a brand new shiny building. But, still, it was well worth the visit.
I then tried to go boot shopping on Broadway. It only took me 10 minutes and 2 stores before I realized that this was like someone shopping for electronics on Fifth Avenue back home. I am sure there is a great place in Nashville to shop for boots, but it is not on Broadway, and I would not have time to figure out where I should go and be able to go there on this trip.
Friday night was the rehearsal dinner, which I only mention because it was at Union Station, which is now a hotel — but they've retained all the original features of the old, statuesque train station. It was absolutely gorgeous.
Saturday we were up very, very early so we could get to the HOF when the doors opened. (This will also explain why we didn't go out to hear any music on Friday night.) As soon as we got off the elevator on the first exhibit floor, we opened up the maps and made very brutal decisions about what we were and weren't going to see, e.g. we skipped right by the Kenny Rogers and Miranda Lambert exhibits. We still had more than enough time, I thought, for people who are not huge country fans; we went through at a brisk pace, with stops for things like Hank Williams' suit, Carl Perkins' shoes (yes, those shoes) and Maybelle Carter's guitar. On the third floor, we wandered through an exhibit about Bakersfield and its connection to Route 66 and the Dust Bowl, which ended up being more interesting than I would have envisioned (and very relevant due to our travel earlier this year) before turning a corner and seeing a thing in a case that drew me to it like a tractor beam.
My god, Gram Parsons' Nudie suit! Be still my beating heart.
I did not know this suit was there. I would have paid full admission just to see this one thing alone. I had no idea it even still existed and wasn't lost with the rest of the Parsons estate in its tangled mess. Every photo I took is out of focus because my hands were shaking with excitement.
This is why these places are important, because everyone who visits it can have a moment like this.
At the end, you walk into a rotunda with the actual Hall of Fame nominees, and here it resembles Cooperstown more than it does Cleveland because it is a room with the plaques which is ringed by 'WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN' and if you know even the tiniest bit about the history of this music you will feel reverent and respectful.
As much as I enjoyed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when I visited it, the truth is that you do not get that feeling in Cleveland. I think that is largely a function of how disjointed that building is, and the crazy escalator setup, and the odd spaces in the building. I really loved that you can see the library and archive in the CMHOF, it's got clear walls facing the main exhibit area, and it gives you a sense of the weight of the collection behind the building, if that makes sense.
We then made a trip back through again, at a slightly slower pace, to revisit some of the exhibits we wanted to spend a little bit more time with. And, yes, I went to visit Gram's suit one more time.
At 10:30, we grabbed a cab back, I got my hair done, and then met the SO up the street at Hattie B's Hot Chicken, which had a location 5 minutes' walk from the hotel. Hot Chicken is one of those 'unique to Nashville' things and although we couldn't go to any of the original places, Hattie B's is highly rated enough that I felt like we had an authentic Nashville experience. I could drink sweet tea all day, and the mac and cheese with pimiento was awesome. FWIW, I went for medium, and I could have definitely done hot and still enjoyed it.
This left us enough time to get dressed and head out to the wedding. Not nearly enough time for Nashville, but at least I saw the things I had to see, and saw enough to know we'd genuinely like to come back. But I am glad for the intense planning that I did, so that we got to make the best use of every minute we had, and were fearless in cutting things out when we had to.


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National Ballet of Canada: Giselle
(out of 4) Choreography by Peter Wright after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
Until Dec. 9; Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen Street W; 416 (toll free 1-866) 345-9595 or www.national.ballet.ca
When the Romantic Era classic Giselle was first performed in Paris, Canada was still a British colony and George Monro occupied the exalted civic office its incumbent, Rob Ford, is struggling to retain.
As for the Giselle production the National Ballet revived on Wednesday night, none of the company's current crop of Wilis — female spirits who inhabit its ghostly second act — was born when British choreographer Peter Wright first staged his version here in 1970.
Whether your perspective is long and global or shorter and strictly parochial, Giselle is historic; which is just the way a sizeable if perhaps greying segment of the National Ballet's loyal audience loves it. No intellectual pretensions. No bodies twisting and contorting like pretzels in a surfeit of modernism. Everything familiar and dependable.
In Wright's staging, based on Giselle's 1841 original and its late 19th-century Russian derivative, everything unfolds with commendable narrative clarity and a minimum of fuss and bother, from its disarmingly cheery beginning to its tearful finale two hours later.
Giselle, an innocent medieval village lass, falls prey to the advances of a philandering young nobleman, Albrecht, disguised as a peasant by the name of Loys. Predictably, this impossible romance does not end well. Having, on exposure of the deceit, stabbed herself in despair and died, Giselle, pour soul, winds up in Act II amidst a sorority of manhunting Wilis.
In the circumstances, it's hardly a spoiler to mention that Albrecht, the unthinking and suddenly-repentant lover, is spared the fate of Giselle's more virtuous suitor, Hilarion, by the girl's own intercession. She finally returns to her woodland grave. He survives to live, one assumes, a morally upright life.
In our current cynical age, much depends on the occupants of the ballet's leading roles to lift Giselle above mere sentimental quaintness. Overall, the National Ballet's opening-night cast achieved this.
Greta Hodgkinson, even in her mature ballerina years, can still evoke the innocence of headstrong, youthful infatuation and the artistry that comes with experience equally allows here to transform herself wonderfully into the almost serene spirit who inhabits Act II.
Guillaume Côté plays Albrecht as a man blinded by passion. He does not want to hurt Giselle but is incapable of seeing that it's bound to happen. In consequence, his contrition is genuine. Making Albrecht an ultimately sympathetic character.
As for Hilarion, Piotr Stanczyk plays him with a robust and sincere ardour that makes his death at the Wilis' hands seem rather harsh.
The female corps, meanwhile, under the command of Heather Ogden's Queen of the Wilis, danced up an emotional storm. They earned their big burst of applause.
Giselle is blessed with a lovely Adolphe Adam score that supports the drama every step of the way. Apart from some awkwardness among the brass, the National Ballet Orchestra did it full justice, with particularly eloquent playing from the strings.


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Brad Keselowski is no exception with his Checkered Flag Foundation, which was formed in 2010 with a mission to "honor and assist those who have sacrificed greatly for our country."
In 2017 the Checkered Flag Foundation raised approximately $450,000 and was able to honor or provide assistance to over "250 individuals and organizations in order to help veterans and first responders during their road to recovery."
One of the most prominent ways assistance has been provided is through the Fisher House Foundation which serves families who have lost a loved one while serving our country through any branch of the military. In 2017, the Foundation donated $150,000 toward the construction of a Fisher House in Keselowski's home state of Michigan.
Another way the Foundation served military members in 2017 was through the LTi Printing 200 Camping World Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway. At this race, two active-duty military members were hosted by the Foundation and were able to serve as Grand Marshall and Honorary Starter for the race. They also had the opportunity to participate in a meet and greet session with Keselowski and a behind-the-scenes experience for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race.
NASCAR Salutes is a program initiated by NASCAR to honor fallen and former military members at three different races from Memorial Day through July 4th. Through this series of races in 2017, Keselowski carried the name of a fallen soldier on the windshield of his race car, as well as presented the family with a replica of the windshield. He also hosted two veterans and their caregivers at a CWTS race and partnered with Daytona International Speedway to offer 200 tickets to active-duty military members, veterans, and caregivers, as well as host meet and greet sessions at these events.
National Military Family Association and their Operation Purple Healing Adventure focuses on injured military personnel who are preparing to return, or have recently returned, home, helping these family members reconnect, and providing training on how families can best care for their loved ones. The Checkered Flag Foundation partnered with Operation Purple Healing and Charlotte Motor Speedway to provide a camping experience for injured military members and their families, as well as a meet and greet session at the track with Keselowski and his wife, Paige.
Finally, in 2017, each time Keselowski won a MENCS race, Charlotte-based orthodontists, Drs. Matt and Megan Lineberger with Lineberger Orthodontics, provided orthodontic care to a veteran in need. Through this partnership, three veterans were able to receive orthodontic care thanks to Keselowski's talent behind the wheel that season. This partnership has carried over to the 2018 NASCAR race season.
According to Suzanne Boyd, Executive Director of the Checkered Flag Foundation, Keselowski has a goal to raise $1 million in 2018 to continue even more of the amazing work he has been doing over the past 7 years.
In response to the incredible ways the Checkered Flag Foundation has been able to serve military members and their families, Keselowski was a 2017 finalist for the Comcast Community Champion of the Year award. He revealed that he had 'considered joining the armed forces' if racing didn't work out for him. He also shared that he feels part of his responsibility is to give back, to show he cares, and to instill hope in others. You can watch his entire interview for NASCAR America here.
In addition to direct donations, Keselowski partners with a number of businesses that assist in raising funds and awareness for his foundation.
In the Spring of 2018, Keselowski will launch a personally designed line of eyewear through Epoch Eyewear, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the mission of the Checkered Flag Foundation.
Keselowski also partners with Pure Michigan Talent Connect to help find employment for veterans in the state of Michigan.
Another key partnership has been with Hope for the Warriors. Hope for the Warriors serves as a resource to identify qualified candidates for the benefit or assistance that is available. Hope for the Warriors connected the Checkered Flag Foundation with the recipients for the Daytona Ticket initiative, the LTi Printing 200 dignitaries, and the name of the soldier carried on Keselowski's car for the Coca-Cola 600. Boyd noted, "As the work that Keselowski and the Foundation are doing becomes more publicized, we receive an increased number of requests from individuals who need assistance. Because we are not set up to offer individual support, we often connect them with Hope for the Warriors as they have resources available to meet the specific needs. Hope for the Warriors plays a key role in helping us to meet our mission."
Boyd went on to inform me that in addition to the donations and assistance from the aforementioned organizations, the Checkered Flag Foundation holds different fundraisers throughout the year - targeting both corporate sponsors and the general public. She said, "Our two main fundraisers in 2017 were The Huntsman Shootout, which was an invitation-only, private event to benefit the Fisher House Foundation, and the Tribute 2 Veterans program, where fans donated to the Foundation in exchange for placing the name of a veteran on Keselowski's car for the Phoenix MENCS race."
In February of 2018, an online store was launched on the Foundation's website featuring a Checkered Flag Foundation t-shirt and an autographed Race 2 Recovery diecast for fans to purchase. In March, an autographed diecast of Keselowski's 2017 Martinsville win was added.
Boyd mentioned there are plans to use the store to feature "limited availability" items that fans aren't able to find anywhere else. When Keselowski was a guest analyst for a February Xfinity race on FS1, he mentioned they had recently "cleaned out the basement" at Brad Keselowski, Inc. and put together mystery bags for fans to purchase. These grab bags were listed at $50 each and sold out in only 15 minutes. A Keselowski fan, Laura M., posted in the Team Penske Nation Facebook group that she was able to purchase a bag and shared the following picture, stating, "I scored!"
Due to the popularity of the mystery bags, email subscribers will now receive access to a private pre-sale whenever limited availability items are posted.
All proceeds from items sold in the online store, whether a regular item or limited availability, benefit the mission of supporting and honoring those that have served our country.
I asked Boyd if Keselowski makes plans to meet military members and their families at every race or if it just spontaneously happens as he is around the track on race weekends. Boyd responded, "It's a combination. Sometimes we have specific programs that bring military members to the track. An example of this was last year when we sponsored the National Military Family Association and their Operation Purple Healing Adventure. We worked with Charlotte Motor Speedway to offer those families tickets and pre-race access (to the Bank of America 500), where they had a chance to meet and personally thank Brad and Paige. This meant so much to Brad, Paige, and our entire team. He really is impacted by those that he meets and by the sacrifices they have made. Then there are other times when the meetings are unplanned. I find that people seek out Brad because he is such a strong supporter of our military and first responders. And he's always interested to meet them, hear their stories, and to show his gratitude."
Fans on Twitter were all too happy to share how they have supported and donated to, as well as received support from, Keselowski and the Checkered Flag Foundation.
Sharon K. stated that she made a donation to the Checkered Flag Foundation in honor of her father who served in the Air Force for 29 years, in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, retiring in 1985 as a Senior Master Sergeant. Through a donation, she was able to have his name on Keselowski's car at the November 2017 race at the now ISM Raceway. Keselowski decided to take this one step further to also include the names of the honorees on his CWTS truck #29 driven by Chase Briscoe and, after the race, he sent pieces of the sheet metal with the honorees names to the family members that donated. She shared these two pictures - one of her, her brother, and her father, serving our country alongside each other, and one of the sheet metal from Keselowski's car that she had framed. She said, "I love that".
Tammy B. was kind enough to relate the story of how her uncle, Sgt. Maurice Seghetti, a Vietnam war hero, carried a picture of her and her sisters with him throughout the war. She is the middle child in the picture below, with her sisters Holly Seghetti Colvin to her left, and Marti Seghetti Kennedy to her right. She and her sisters donated to the Checkered Flag Foundation to have their uncle's name listed on Keselowski's car for the November race in 2017 at Phoenix.
It is truly incredible to hear how many lives have been touched through Keselowski and his Foundation. Those seeking to help Keselowski in his efforts can donate directly to the Checkered Flag Foundation through his website.
You can find more updates on the Checkered Flag Foundation through social media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also keep up with current Foundation news by signing up for their email newsletter.
Article Courtesy of Terra Jones with LadiesOfSpeed.com.
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This story puts a whole new twist on dognapping and ransom. There are some very disturbed individuals out there. I'm posting this as a warning to all parents, of the two-legged variety.
It all started when a 17-year-old girl's dog went missing. A man called telling her he had found her dog but he wanted money for his safe return.
The girl was at work Friday evening when her family notified her that her dog, Pineapple, a 2-year-old cocker spaniel-toy poodle mix, had disappeared.
Dempkey, calling himself "Anthony," called the girl – apparently getting the number off the dog's collar – and told her he had found the dog and wanted $70 for its return.
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okay so tomorrow i try and get into economics
then i try and get into psychology for two days
then i have to go math class =(
Posted by renesis at 16:15 | permalink | 0 comments
okay so tomorrow i try and get into economics
then i try and get into psychology for two days
then i have to go math class =(
Posted by renesis at 16:15 | permalink | 0 comments
i gotta go to bed i gotta do laundry in the morning
then i gotta figure out this stupid nite class bullshit
oh look they offer custom software as a system service
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and you cant like download all your saved waveforms
in storage
like i have to us the virtual panel and export them after loading them to the lcd, i guess
yeh like you can get a display of the individual samples
looks like 2400 samples
that dumps to xls
but yeh i dunno how to make it autosave
Posted by renesis at 15:45 | permalink | 0 comments
timecop: i can get it to refresh on a timer
which is hella slow, and i dont see a way to automatically export the data
maybe they have more software
oh hmm
yeh waveforms window doesnt have any menu just buttons and dropdowns
Posted by renesis at 15:40 | permalink | 0 comments
if i does logging i dont see how
i need a signal generator
i just need audio cra[, i should just do another dds and put it in a little box
Posted by renesis at 15:34 | permalink | 0 comments
fuckin school
like i have to decide which of these classes i dont want to take to try and break into
timecop: yes very nice
it kinda bleeds funny at low brightness
like you can kinda see the grid on the white borders
but yeh you turn it up a bit its fine
i want to figure out that pass/fail shit
very neat but i wish it did like logging or scripted control and stuff
hmm, maybe
Posted by renesis at 15:29 | permalink | 0 comments
most RF shit youre beyond shit a scope will help you with
well, standard scope
$1500 for a spectrum, analyzer is cheap
who cares its 50GHz
and 8ch
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man this sucks
i should have taken off work earlier to get the list of classes i can take
now i have to pick classes and try and break in
yeh rly
DSO is like $400+
pfft i got timecops scope for work i havent even done yet
you can get analog 100MHz+ scopes for under $300 all day
yeh like $400 gets you those 80s tek 4ch
with the clear buttons that are backlit green
you can get a tek 2230 100MHz analog w/ DSO for like $350
and my shit was awesome
until it died
itll come back to life
but it eventually dies again
$50 for a scope that works is a deal
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this sucks all the late classes are closed
you can but its hard on the tool
theyre not made for side loading
BlackMoon: its hard on the bit because the machines arent very stable with side loads
because theyre not made for it =(
that thing was weird
we had this convo years ago
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to learn it and evaluate its usefulness
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i can take understanding latin america thru film
maybe it includes el santo movies
damn wtf @ no classes to display
Posted by renesis at 14:41 | permalink | 0 comments
i can take sociology of women for my final credit
no wait psychology of women
i can take stress management!
it even starts after work and is one day a week
meh all these classes are during the day
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omg dx came back
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mine didnt come with the er16 spindle
other ones totally sucks
so getting the whole headstock was only like $20 more than the insert
yeh the fixed diamater collets
totally useless
well not totally
but pretty fuckin useless
but the insert is like the spindle shaft and the top and bottom bearings
either way you have to pull the pulley off, which is a bitch
if you want to do direct, id couple to the existing spindle shaft
belt drive has advantages
you could do like a 3:1,1:3 dual pulley
or 3:1,1:1,1:3
get like up 10k, have a power gearing up to 1k
yeah you could do that
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mine will do 1 to 1.5 revs after i let go
no those are sealed bearings
metal shields even
you have to get them pressed it
or i think maybe pressed onto the spindle shaft
then they drop into the headstock
i have another headstock with the other spindle
and yeh thats typically why machining wood or machining with super fine chips is avoided on metal machines
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iunno itd prob have alot of runout issues, that setup
unless the motor bearings are awesome and your coupler is toolmakers precision
hmm, not sure
did you try it warm?
the grease inside will slow up the motor cool
you mean the motor it comes with?
the spindle?
yeh mine spun pretty free
okay its not totally free spinning but its not so bad
like i can get it to spin a couple times with my thumb and forefinger
Posted by renesis at 13:29 | permalink | 0 comments
Twingy: nice
that motor mount is such bullshit
Z weight can help too
just more mass to keep shit stable
but at least all your weight will be centered over the load
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if you do .01uF do 1uF too
you can be extra decoupled
i dont have welder shit =(
no i dont qualify for that
Posted by renesis at 11:05 | permalink | 0 comments
wtf @ electric pencil eraser
Posted by renesis at 10:19 | permalink | 0 comments
can you buy online or this is direct chinabuy stuff or what
we have a aoyue hot air station
Posted by renesis at 10:08 | permalink | 0 comments
timecop: how much was you china oven?
and how do you rework the bga?
Posted by renesis at 10:03 | permalink | 0 comments
upnp always seemed to defeat the purpose of a NAT firewall to me
you sent teh wrong doc
Posted by renesis at 09:53 | permalink | 0 comments
avr is stupid easy if you know about core programming
anything about cpu level programming
Posted by renesis at 09:33 | permalink | 0 comments
on every digital or analog ic you ever layout ever
it should have caps
discrete arrays maybe not
haha yeh really
you should finish your schematic
kinda place all your parts, before routing much
dds blowjob synthesis
avrs are awesome tho
tho yeh avr + arduino would get old quick
well with an arduino its like, heres some avr with your avr
its all about leds + encoders
Posted by renesis at 09:28 | permalink | 0 comments
slacker_: thats still synthesis
ttmustang: yes
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for hex sockets?
i bought one for the spindle bolts
and another for the ones that mount the steppers
BlackMoon: screwdriver with a T handle?
yeh you can get sets pretty cheap
kevtris: heh
how much was a speak and spell?
Posted by renesis at 09:12 | permalink | 0 comments
6.5mA max sink/source
hahah HV in the non audio section are like hundreds of dollars
thats a cheap one
omg its discrete on a module
Posted by renesis at 09:07 | permalink | 0 comments
maybe they just thought it was ugly
haha daamn
output section not included
Posted by renesis at 09:02 | permalink | 0 comments
like a notched chisel?
<3 natsemi datasheets, they have graphs for everything
Posted by renesis at 08:47 | permalink | 0 comments
you should have caps right on those IC
the dc decoupling caps
as close to the pins they connect to as possible
hmm its stopped being raining i should do laundry
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i know its just weird that they would tell me the absolute max in that section
when the supply voltage is 14.4v the max supply voltage is 18v
damn output offset voltage = 150mV
typical .1% distortion, max .5%
dunno prob torturing himself with books or something
yes more like that
i would move the IC up like .1"
if the footprint for those connectors are sane it shouldnt be an issue
Posted by renesis at 08:19 | permalink | 0 comments
i love bridged output single supply biased chipamps
its $8 =(
neat, $4
electrical characteristics, conditions say 14.4v
first parameter is Vs(max) 18V
but they already told me this in the absolute max section
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oh no shit?
want to sell some?
is home far, i dont get it
heheh, i dont like sishi but making it is fun
avacado rolls ftw
i dont think they got married yet so you possibly still have a chance
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okay i have this 18V a bunch of amps wallwart
i can totally make an smps for 5v for shiftbrites for that
oh shit
i totally need to do C/W tests on altoid cans
BlackMoon: yeh but its alot of surface area
yeh you find the temp rise over ambient for every watt you put into it
mount transistor or resistor, put a watt thru it, verify results, etc
but yeh the metal is thin enough that the heat transfers to the whole case pretty quick
maybe its enough surface area to cool kinda decent
i wanna deadbug chipamps in an altoids tin
but yeh 10W into an altoids can is pretty nuts, but i want to test
Posted by renesis at 07:54 | permalink | 0 comments
because it became chinacrap
well no it used to be a local company
production was in simi valley, like 20mi from here
and like, cerwin vega shit was sold in music gear stores and home electronics stores
but now hardly at all
now everything is built in china factories, and design is subcontracted to like everywhere in the world
Posted by renesis at 07:47 | permalink | 0 comments
does it have pedal generator input yet?
i think what happens at work is like, sales guys make an engineering spec
then hand it over and stuff
so it gets worked on
so what do the sales guys have to do now until its done?
so what do they do? they sell it, so people make suggestions, so they change the product spec
so engineering has to start all over, so now its gonna take longer
so what do the sales guys have to do?
im like, wouldnt it be more awesome to have a finished product?
like, HEY GUYS WANNA BUY THIS SHIT? YEAH ITS AVAILABLE LIKE, RIGHT NOW
like i wonder if the company burned guitar center and sam ash and shit
and thats why they dont sell it
or maybe just no one wanted our stuff anymore
Posted by renesis at 07:42 | permalink | 0 comments
1MHz aint shit tho
also alot of this shit is supported by dsp and arm controllers
so youre prob getting decent amount of 100MHz+ noise
most of those tiny class-d headphone amps are for some -p-ortable or embedded system
dude they wanna put touch screen on a new plastic monitor speaker dealie
im like, what
im like, why dont you make one, totally analog control/class-d low end amp/chipamp high end
and then, like, add shit to that
and have a range
wtf @ class-d/dsp/usb/touchscreen portable powered speaker
are they going to try and make this pass certification lab testing?
sounds expensive
thank god
Posted by renesis at 07:36 | permalink | 0 comments
its like 550W bridged into 8R
for 2 sec then its 250W
class-d, psu drops out
but i guess the controller knows
because it doesnt distort
well, yesy but no
like, for sine testing it sucks
but for most music, that maybe works
but its a trip to see
well yeh
in that case, it would act like this
but that kinda makes sense in this app
it didnt clip
a feedback amp would have clipped
and yeh its got mad 200KHz on the output
it looks AM modulated
yeh but thats like, half a watt
the speakers wont drive it
they might radiate it as emi but its not like the coil is doing anything at 1MHz
well mechanically, theyre just not capable
oh yeah totally
EMI might cook you slowly over time
but it wont fuckup your ears!
Posted by renesis at 07:31 | permalink | 0 comments
none of them are spec'd below 600R, and the 600R is usually for one or two graphs
Rab: nice
heh yeah i was going to use my headphones and some of the china samples we have
there was some asian sight where people were doing thd+n tests on cmoy type amps
i think with some soundcard loopback setup
anyway, all the awesome ones had transistor AB output sections
BlackMoon: its all relative anyway, heh
but yeh, i have no issue with putting an AB section on a signal amp
because thats like, sane
hahah @ hearing mice
on laptops i can usually hear the switchers changing tones with diff loads
some of the cmoy style amps did horribly
its there it just doesnt matter anymore
we have this amp at work were testing
Posted by renesis at 07:26 | permalink | 0 comments
audio manufacturing gives fuckall about cables
inside its usually hookup wire, sometimes ribbon cable
and pro audio installers and touring people are usually pretty good about cables
shielding on one side, balanced signal, all devices earthed
im going to do some comparison testing with the audio test shit at work
my little headphone chipamp w/ tone control preamp vs cmoy style signal amp headphone
im genuinely curious how diff opamps do directly driving headphone loads
Posted by renesis at 07:21 | permalink | 0 comments
yeh, stuff like that
because you never get them to saturation
they need to start making more ninja HV opamps
natsemi has one i dunno if they obsoleted it
but it only sinks/sources 4ma
i have one somewhere
theyre not super common
theyll prob get more common
chipamps are popular
its basically same tech
yeh but im saying its basically the same type of research
audio is easier because bandwidth is low
and common mode shit isnt usually an issue so much
Posted by renesis at 07:16 | permalink | 0 comments
its like 1.33V, 50A, 125C
actually thats almost the same for Vbe @ 125C
as 25C
iunno, habit
they matter for lots of shit!
current sinks/srcs, they matter
doing switcher maths
depends on app, like for an an output section thats prob gonna be your limit, before the Vce
unless you have a seperate supply just for the driving section
how else you gonna drive them
besides some ninja opamp
Posted by renesis at 07:11 | permalink | 0 comments
Vbe=2V @ 10A saturated
but its like 400V
this one is $82 and comes with screw terminals and chassis mount tabs
Vbe 2v @ 50A
so its obviously mounted to a dumptruck or something
Posted by renesis at 07:06 | permalink | 0 comments
haha, Hfe is 300
300 @ 5A, neat
dc soa = 40V @ 5A
thats why i laughed
prob 25C
who can be assed to do their testing in a freezer
it doesnt say temp on the graph
Hfe is like around 100 above 10A and below 2A
Posted by renesis at 07:00 | permalink | 0 comments
heh @ base wattage
why not!?
okay 400v darlington is kinda nuts
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that sucks
20khz thru what
you prob dont need a triple darlington
anyway wtf is your load
arent those like a few ohms?
Posted by renesis at 06:43 | permalink | 0 comments
BlackMoon: its not that hard with lightly loaded machines
usually theres a spring or something to tension the nut against the screw
i have to do laundry
i have zero motivation
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i was assuming he was using it to generate a more sine type wave
or else yeh
why not use the mcu to generate a timing pulse
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Israeli Ministers Back Tax Breaks for Gay Parents, Reversing Last Week's 'No' Vote
Bill submitted after Tax Authority refused requests of male couples for credits granted to heterosexual parents.
The government plans to support a bill that would grant the same income tax credits to homosexual parents as those given to heterosexual ones.
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation voted on Sunday in favor of the proposal, just a week after voting down the same measure. Sunday's vote was in response to an appeal by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Finance Minister Yair Lapid and paves the way for official coalition support for the bill, which will grant same-sex couples with children the same tax credits enjoyed by heterosexual parents. Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat (Likud) also lodged a similar appeal.
MK Adi Kol (Yesh Atid) had submitted the bill to change Israel's tax code after the Tax Authority refused the requests of a number of male couples for tax credits granted to parents.given to the children of their heterosexual counterparts.
The Tax Code grants different child credits to men and women; thus couples comprising two male parents do not receive the same benefits as heterosexual or lesbian couples.
The Tax Authority said in its rejection that the wording of the law is quite clear: the exemptions are provided only to women.
Ministers from Yisrael Beiteinu and two ministers from Habayit Hayehudi, Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel and Pensioner Affairs Minister Uri Orbach, opposed the proposal when it was first brought before the legislative committee.
A senior figure in Habayit Hayehudi said: "This is a change in the status quo that we will not agree to. But the action we'll be taking on the matter remains to be seen."
Ariel claimed Kol's goal was simply to protest and challenge current understandings on such issues, while Orbach called it an attempt to recognize single-sex marriages through the back door.
The present coalition agreements give Habayit Hayehudi the right to veto any legislation that changes the status quo on matters of religion and state, but it is not clear whether the issue of tax credits for same-sex couples under the Tax Code falls within this category allowing the use of this veto.
"The proposed law is a clear and strong message that the State of Israel views same-sex couples as parents in every way and manner, as a legitimate family unit," said Kol. The time has come to cancel the serious economic discrimination facing same-sex couples, she added.
Lapid praised the legislative committee's approval of the bill: "[The bill] has nothing to do with religion and state; it is human rights legislation that should be passed into law."
Health Minister Yael German, also of Yesh Atid, called the bill "an attempt to do justice for a sector that is discriminated against."
The value of a single exemption for one child is up to NIS 2,616 a year depending on a number of factors, including income, though this sum can even be higher under certain circumstances. All told, for a family with a number of children, these sums can in some cases even add up to hundreds of thousands of shekels by the time the children reach 18 and the benefit expires.


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The Erasmus program enables to improve and enhance students and trainers' mobility. It also allows transparency and qualifications compatiblity in higher education and a higher professional training in Europe. The main benefits are the host university tuition fees exemption and the recognition of the studies made abroad. Scholarships, loans and social security are preserved too.
The Erasmus program provides two means of international mobility
Students mobility allows higher school registered students having passed their first year successfully to do a 3-to-12-months training in another participating country. Students mobility is made with previously concluded interinsitutional agreements between the departure structure (here, IRFSS Le Mans) and the host structure. Both structures have to be signatories of the Erasmus program. Mobility is recognized and taken into account by the establishment of origin for graduation. Especially thanks to the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) and to the study contract signed by the Erasmus student with both establishments before leaving.
Students mobility allows higher school registered students having passed their first year successfully to do a 3-to-12-months work placement in another company or country adhering to the expanded Erasmus charter. A training agreement signed by the student, his or her school and the host school covers the mobility period. A training contract which determines the work placement program has to be signed by the original higher school and the host school. Finally, an Erasmus students' charter defines their rights and duties during their training abroad. At the end of this mobility period, the time spent abroad has to be recognized by the host school, preferably in the form of ECTS. Recognition is based on the contract approved by all the parts before the beginning of the training.
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As far back as 500 BC, in a Greek city called Sybaris, there have been patents. Their stated purpose is to encourage innovation through rewarding the creation of novel objects and ideas, though their actual purpose is debated. Some are of the opinion that copyrights and patents are methods of control imposed by governments and corporations. Regardless, our current patent system does offer some protection to inventors — about 20 years of exclusive distribution rights. Though a few states had their own earlier, the US Patent Act was signed in 1790. This means that about 75% of the 8 million US patents are now in public domain, meaning anyone can make and sell them.
To bring attention to that fact, Martin Galese is dusting the dust off old patents by making them 3D printable. Galese is a software patent lawyer and he runs the Patent-Able Tumblr. As a patent lawyer he sees the less pleasant side of patents, so his Tumblr is his outlet. Galese creates 3D models of objects in public doman, taking them from "the original Thingiverse" and uploading them to the current Thingiverse.
Galese feels "They're really works of art. You're holding the 19th century by way of something that was produced in the 21st century." It really is quite romantic, holding something created with the click of a button that was originally patented because it was novel. Go print some of his uploads; maybe you'll find some inspiration.
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text: January 30, 2014 - 11:49 GMT hellomagazine.com As Prince Felipe of Spain celebrates his 46th birthday, HELLO! Online has compiled a list of ten facts about the royal Prince Felipe of Spain celebrates his 46th birthday on 30 January. The Spanish royal, who is married to Princess Letizia, has become one of the most popular royals in Europe and is expected to mark his birthday with family and friends. To honour Felipe's birthday HELLO! Online has compiled a list of ten facts about Spain's future king. CLICK ON PHOTOS FOR FULL GALLERY 1. Born in Madrid on 30 January 1968, Felipe was the youngest child of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, who already had daughters Infantas Elena and Cristina. At the time of his birth, Felipe was not yet heir-apparent as his father had not become king yet.2. The Prince has explained he has a strong desire to be able to recognise what is important to the people of Spain. "Some people think I'm too serious, but I believe I've got a sense of humour," he once told HELLO! "I like to think of myself as being no different from anybody else, with my failures, qualities, frustrations, joys, worries, everything... A king should not lose his perception of what it is like to be somebody normal."3. Like many royals, Prince Felipe has competed in the Olympics. The athletic royal was a member of the Spanish sailing team in 1992 at the Barcelona Games, in the same way his father King Juan Carlos was two decades before.4. As Spain's future monarch, Felipe currently bears the official titles of Prince of Asturias, Prince of Gerona, Prince of Viana, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera and Lord of Balaguer. 5. In November 2003 it was announced that Felipe was engaged to the then Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, a well respected and award-winning CNN journalist. Six months later on 22 May 2004, the couple married in the Cathedral Santa Maria la Real de la Almudena in Madrid.6. Felipe and Letizia's wedding was watched by 25 million people in Spain alone, and upon marriage Letizia was made a Princess.7. The prince is godfather to Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary's third child, Prince Vincent of Denmark and Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, who is the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Crown Princess Mette-Marit. 8. As he turns 46, Felipe will eventually be the oldest king to ascend theSpanish throne. Currently, however, that record belongs to his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Carlos III (1716-1788) who was 43 at the time of his ascension.9. Felipe, Letizia and their two daughters, Infanta Leonor of Spain, eight, and Infanta Sofía of Spain, six, have been applauded for representing a modern monarchy and the next generation of Spanish royals are popular amongst the people.10. Prince Felipe also holds a Master's degree in international relations and a Bachelor's degree in Law. Along with Spanish, the prince also speaks fluent French and English.


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EU countries agree boat-sinking operation
EU countries have agreed to launch a military operation to sink migrant smugglers' boats.
The mission, EU Navfor Med, is to have an HQ in Rome under the command of an Italian admiral, Enrico Credendino, and might start work by the end of June, the EU's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said on Monday (18 May).
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She noted it'll begin with intelligence gathering and sharing by participant EU states, who are to start pledging manpower and equipment from Tuesday.
In its second phase, EU countries' assets will carry out "detection and inspection" of smuggler boats.
Warships will later take up positions, possibly in Libyan waters, to deter smuggling, and, in the final phase, begin to "neutralise" the traffickers' boats, fuel dumps, and other facilities.
Mogherini noted the latter steps will require a UN Security Council resolution, which is currently being drafted by the UK, as well as permission from Libya.
The country has split into several parts since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Mogherini said its "legitimate" government is the one in Tobruk. But with no national unity deal in sight, she said the EU will also work with rival authorities in Tripoli, in Misrata, and in "municipalities".
"We'll need to work together to dismantle these networks, the municipalities will have an important role to play in identifying them", she noted.
She downplayed concerns that Islamic State is trying to infiltrate the EU by hiding operatives on migrant boats, as voiced earlier on Monday by Nato head Jens Stoltenberg.
She said EU research "cannot confirm any link known to us" of this type. But she warned that income from people smuggling "may be being used for financing terrorist activities".
The anti-smuggler operation was ordered by EU leaders at an emergency summit last month when almost 1,000 people drowned in a single incident.
Mogherini said it's "a record" for the EU to move so quickly.
EU leaders at the time also asked the European Commission to come up with a broader migration plan.
But the commission's central idea, to impose national quotas on migrant relocation, isn't going down well.
Mogherini defended the commission proposal on Monday, saying there's political will to act on "sharing of the burden" and that the quotas do not amount to an "open door policy" on immigration.
"They [the EU leaders] did invite the commission to come forward with a proposal", she said.
"There's an awareness on the part of member states that … we have to do something with the human beings we save".


text: Objective Through the aging practice in guys testosterone (T) amounts progressively fall and inflammatory biomarkers enhance. years. Testosterone alternative therapy for 36 months did not induce a significant decrease in inflammatory markers. A pattern toward a significant increase was observed in the placebo group for TNF-alpha (p=0.03) and sgp130 (p=0.01). Significant variations, in estimated means of TNFR1 (but not of additional inflammatory markers), with lower levels in T group, were observed at 36 month-time point. In T-treated subjects we found an almost significant treatment-time interaction term TNFR1 (p=0.02) independent of total body fat content material assessed by DXA. No serious adverse effect was observed. Conclusions Transdermal T treatment of older men for 36 months is not associated with significant changes in inflammatory markers. checks. The association between treatment and switch in inflammatory markers over time was examined using random-effect regression analyses, modeling an unstructured covariance matrix with intercept Fustel kinase activity assay and slope as random effects. Random-effects models were useful in this context permitting the detection of variation between subjects and autocorrelation between repeated measurements of the same participants over time, giving greater flexibility to model time effects, and handling missing data. The different inflammatory marker steps were entered as dependent variables in independent analyses. The effect of the interaction between treatment and time offers been evaluated by introducing a treatment time interaction term in the combined models (already including the main terms of treatment and time) in order to test the change over time in inflammatory markers relating to treatment. Finally, in order to adjust the results for multiple screening, the significance of the treatment*time interaction terms was additionally evaluated using False Discovery Rate (FDR) q (24). All analyses were performed using SAS (v. 9.1; SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Significance level was arranged at p 0.05. RESULTS The characteristics of the subjects relating to KNTC2 antibody treatment group are outlined in Table 1. The two groups were comparable when it comes to age, body fat mass and lean muscle mass. Body mass index (BMI) was higher in the T treatment group, but the difference between the two groups did not reach statistical significance. Both groupings were also extremely comparable at baseline regarding all measured inflammatory markers (Table 1 and Table 3). Table 1 Features of study individuals (N=70) at baseline regarding to treatment group. thead th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ Treatment (N=42) /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ Placebo (N=28) /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ P# /th /thead Age group (years)a71.9 4.771.5 5.30.75BMI (Kg/m2)a27.0 3.225.7 2.30.07Testosterone (ng/dL)b402.2 (245.6)372.1 (79.1)0.06Body Body fat Mass (Kg)a220.127.116.11.20.23Lean Body Mass (Kg)a188.8.131.52.40.74IL-6 (pg/mL)b2.6 (1.9)2.6 (1.9)0.85CRP (g/mL)b1.5 (3.0)1.58 (3.3)0.40sIL6r (pg/mL)b40359 (13934)43464 (12447)0.48TNF (pg/mL)b5.3 (3.1)5.5 (2.9)0.68TNF-R1 (pg/mL)b2088 (687)2148 (823)0.33sgp130 (ng/mL)b376 (62)364 (74)0.54 Open up in another window aMeans SD. bMedians Interquartile range. #Structured on t-test. Desk 3 Concentrations of inflammatory markers (indicate SD) and differ from baseline (delta) by treatment group. thead th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ /th th align="still left" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ Baseline /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ thirty six months /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ Delta /th th align="middle" valign="middle" rowspan="1″ colspan="1″ Pc /th /thead CRP (g/mL) a T2.8 3.52.8 4.1?0.06 2.90.40Placebo4.2 8.09.2 25.25.5 20.10.95Pb0.400.23 hr / IL-6 (pg/mL) a T3.1 1.83.5 2.40.6 Fustel kinase activity assay 2.80.71Placebo3.2 1.93.3 1.90.1 2.90.41Pb0.850.69 hr / sIL6r (pg/mL) a T40280114324368610178976 800160.30Placebo44436115304697113099249880090.12Pb0.480.27 hr / sgp_130 (ng/mL) a T377493803023 390.66Placebo371493954923 440.01Pb0.540.20 hr / TNF- (pg/mL) a T5.3 2.36.2 3.60.4 2.20.84Placebo6.3 3.55.9 2.6?0.4 2.60.84Pb0.680.99 hr / TNF_R1 (pg/mL) a T20944272191 44888 2400.07Placebo22435892487780222 5440.03Pb0.330.10 Open up in another window NOTE: To be able to get SD, delta was calculated limited to participants with offered measures at both time factors aMeans SD. bThe p ideals evaluate the mean differ from 0C36 several weeks between your two treatment groupings. cThe p ideals compare the indicate differ from 0C36 months within both treatment groups Needlessly to say, thirty six months of T treatment was connected with a rise in T amounts from Fustel kinase activity assay 490 .


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Spark Networks(R) Executives to Present at Upcoming Analyst & Investor Day
BERLIN, GERMANY / ACCESSWIRE / November 13, 2017 / Spark Networks SE (NYSE American: LOV) today announced that the Company's CEO, Jeronimo Folgueira, along with other executives, will participate in an upcoming Analyst & Investor Day in New York City.
The event will be held at the Harvard Club of New York City on Thursday, December 7, 2017, and will begin at approximately noon ET / 9:00am PT. To attend in person or via an online meeting, pre-registration is required by RSVP'ing to [email protected]. Attendance is open to all interested persons. Once registered, event details will be forwarded via email to confirmed attendees.
A recording of the online meeting and a copy of the presentation will be available following the conclusion of the event in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://investor.spark.net.
About Spark Networks SE:
Spark Networks SE is a leading global dating company with a portfolio of premium brands designed for singles seeking serious relationships. These brands include EliteSingles, JDate, Christian Mingle, eDarling, JSwipe and Attractive World. Formed in 2017 through the merger of Affinitas GmbH and Spark Networks, Inc., the company has a presence in 29 countries worldwide and is publicly listed on the NYSE American LLC exchange under the ticker symbol "LOV."
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The Senate Banking Committee, led by Chairman Richard Shelby (R) of Alabama, held a hearing yesterday on the JPMorgan Chase's admittedly "stupid" trading bets that lost the company at least $2 billion in a very short amount of time. Was the hearing intended to further embarrass the banking giant? Demand answers for what happened? Hardly.
Shelby, generally known as the banking industry's best and most well-funded buddy, held the hearing to berate federal regulators.
As Dana Milbank explained, Shelby pestered Gary Gensler, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on when, exactly, his agency learned about JPMorgan's mismanagement. When Gensler explained he learned of the bets through media reports, just like everyone else, Shelby pounced.
"Press reports!" Shelby echoed, with mock surprise. He smiled. "Were you in the dark?"
Gensler tried to explain that his agency does not yet have authority to regulate the bank, but Shelby interrupted. "So you really didn't know what was going on ... until you read the press reports like the rest of us?" he asked again.
"That's what I've said," Gensler repeated.
But Shelby wanted him to keep saying it. "You didn't know there was a problem there until you read the press reports?"
JPMorgan Chase has given Shelby tens of thousands of dollars in recent years, and it got its money's worth yesterday. As Milbank added, "The trading scandal at JPMorgan highlighted the urgent need for tougher regulation of Wall Street, but Shelby's harangue was part of a larger effort to use the scandal as justification to repeal regulations."
Exactly. Shelby shrieked in glee during his show-trial hearing yesterday, arguing that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission struggled in its oversight role during JPMorgan's mismanagement, which in Shelby's mind, means the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should have a weaker oversight role.
I've been trying to come up with a metaphor Shelby might understand. Let's try this: imagine there's a fire department that's having trouble learning about and putting out fires.
In our hypothetical, this fire department has employed capable people, but they lack the tools and resources to quickly identify where fires break out, and get to the scene in a hurry.
If we follow the logic Shelby relied on yesterday, the appropriate response to this hypothetical is to give the fire department less power and fewer resources. After all, they're struggling to complete their assigned tasks, so the department is clearly not to be trusted.
The notion of improving the fire department's tools and resources, allowing its capable staff to do its job well, never enters the picture.
We're seeing this dynamic play out with Wall Street. Milbank went on to say:
It's true that Dodd-Frank, the legislation responding to the 2008 economic collapse, hasn't worked -- because it hasn't been put in place. At the heart of the proposed reforms is the "Volcker rule," named for a former Federal Reserve chairman, which attempts to separate banks' gambling from their government-backed deposits. This mimics the situation before the Depression-era Glass-Steagall law was repealed in 1999.
Banking lobbyists managed to weaken the Volcker rule in 2010 by securing exemptions. Even the watered-down version has been slowed by a barrage of objections from executives -- none louder than Dimon. And regulators ¬haven't had the funds to keep up with the workload. The result is that key parts of the law haven't been implemented.
Now industry-friendly lawmakers are using the scandal to discredit never-implemented regulations.
Milbank assumed JPMorgan will win the argument on Capitol Hill, not because it's right, but because it's invested $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years.


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WASHINGTON, Feb 4: Muhammad Ali is so ill he could die within days, his brother has warned. Rahman Ali said the former world heavyweight champion cannot speak and no longer recognises him.
He told the Sun: "My brother can't speak, he doesn't recognise me. He's in a bad way. He's very sick. It could be months, it could be days. I don't know if he'll last the summer. He's in God's hands. We hope he gently passes away.
"He told me before he got really bad that he's in no pain. He grabbed my arm and whispered 'Rah, I've achieved everything I've ever wanted to accomplish. Don't cry for me, I'm in no pain.' It's best he goes now. The longer he goes on, so does his suffering and misery."
Ali won gold at the 1960 Olympics and after turning professional went on to become a three-times world heavyweight champion.
The 71-year-old had several famous fights during his career, including 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle' with George Foreman and the 'Thrilla in Manila' against Joe Frazier the following year.
Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1984 but remained active for many years. He memorably lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996.
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By many measures, today OUI is the world's best innovation conference. It offers some lessons about the current state of user innovation research, its overlap with open innovation research and also for how future open innovation conferences (such as WOIC 2014) should be run.
|Karim Lakhani summarizing OUI 2014 submission topics on Day One of the conference.
The format, participants and topics have made the OUI conference the most relevant in the world for the study of innovation outside the firm. That's why I've attended 7 conferences in a row — out of 12 total since the beginning. Academy is optional, UOI is mandatory.
First, the size (200 participants) and length (2.5 days) is ideal for meeting and getting to know innovation scholars. Yes, there are a thousand or so innovation scholars at AOM, but try finding them among the 10,000 people here. I know if someone is at UOI, I will have time to talk to them and hear their work.
This year was the first with a new format — a few plenaries by leaders of the tribe, followed by two parallel tracks for the rest of the day. I think the format worked well because there were few (but some) conflicts between sessions while still providing a venue for 122 papers.
The one format change I'd make is with posters. When posters work well, they can make a difference in the career of a junior scholar, and also more senior scholars developing a new research interest.
We had great luck with posters at the 2012 London conference. On Saturday, the OCIS division of the Academy had a great poster session with properly aligned incentives: if you want a drink, you had to talk to a doctoral student presenting his/her poster. I am hoping that posters will be a highlight of the WOIC 2014 if we can figure out how to fit them into the format.
Right now, at OUI the "posters" are just a 2 minute oral ad for work that is otherwise not presented at OUI. It tells you what someone is doing but doesn't give a chance to discuss it with them. In some ways, these seems like the least democratic aspect of a relatively democraticconference. I'd try to see if there's some way for people to present their posters (e.g. at lunch or over drinks): if the experiment doesn't work, it can be dropped.
Venue and Business Model
At my first OUI (then UOI, before that UI) conference in 2008, I was surprised to hear German conversations along the banks of the Charles River as we took a break from the MIT sessions. Even today, German is the main language for 40-60% of the attendees — less in the US (which tend to draw more Americans) and (natürlich) more in Europe.
The venues have reflected this German-focused aspect of the conference and UI research (and now OI research) more broadly. Of the first 10 conferences, four were at MIT or Harvard, three were in Germany (Munich, Munich, Hamburg), two in Austria (at WU Wien) and one in Copenhagen.
Since 2008, the conference has formally alternated between Harvard Business School and Europe. While registration is now $200, I estimate that it costs $300-500 per person to run the conference, even with donated meeting space. The money mostly goes to food, but also can go (as in Brighton and Vienna) to renting outside venues, local transportation or pay for staff.
It is no exaggeration to say that OUI is kept alive through the wealth of Harvard Business School and its generous subsidies of the conference in even numbered years. European organizers (such as Lisbon in 2015) have to find a grant or sponsor one time every 10 years or so, while the HBS endowment pays out $20k? $40k? (I don't have the numbers) every two years to help catalyze a discussion of the work of von Hippel, Baldwin, Lakhani and others.
Innovation Communities and Crowds
OUI has historically been a good place for work on innovation communities. In my work on innovation communities with Jonathan Sims, we've seen that a large proportion of the work on external innovation communities is by user innovation scholars, people like Franke, Hienerth, Lettl and of course von Hippel. Open source was very prominent early on, although more recently it's been reduced to one (relatively small) session.
This OUI was taken over by a particular form of community, the crowd. Four of the 16 sessions were about crowdsourcing (a fifth on crowdfunding), making this the major theme of the conference — by far the most popular in terms of submissions. (The next closest was firm interactions with users, with 2 sessions).
In his Monday plenary, Karim Lakhani bifurcated the crowdsourcing world into contests (competitive) and communities (collaborative). I look forward to seeing Karim (or someone else) explain the nuances in more detail. I agree that a contest is not a community, but (like all such classifications) the distinction will be one of degree and perhaps multidimensional.
Users vs. Firms
As I've noted many times before — in this blog and in my published research — there is a lot of overlap between open innovation and user innovation. Perhaps 75% of the studies at OUI would fit at WOIC, if the author explained how they built upon and contributed to the OI literature. But often the two tribes don't talk to each other.
As representatives of these respective tribes, Frank Piller and I have been trying to bridge these gaps. We have a chapter in the next OI book, and Frank used his Tuesday keynote to talk about the similarities and differences.
At dinner I talked to a veteran UI scholar and we compared our respective thoughts. We agreed there is an overlap of subject matter, and so the main difference is on outcomes: UI cares about user success and OI cares about firm success. This impacts what we study, what we measure and of course the normative implications that we draw. (It also correlates to the sort of people and motivations that do the research).
Studies of patent licensing are never going to be popular at OUI, while (I suspect) they will be common at WOIC. But open source, innovation communities, co-creation and — most of all, crowdsourcing — really belong at both. If crowdsourcing is about firms solving problems using the crowd, then at its core it's an open innovation question — and so most of the 26 crowdsourcing papers and posters would feel right at home at WOIC.
As such, I hope that we will continue to see an overlap of the audiences and authors between these two streams, and that the tribe intermingle (and beget shared papers) to cements the ties between us.
Meanwhile, our venue size means that the first WOIC will be smaller than today's OUI. Where we'll be in 10 years is anybody's guess, but I hope we can emulate the intimate and interactive format that OUI has maintained throughout its lifespan.


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ONSLOW COUNTY Republican Women's Club offers a $500 essay scholarship award to Onslow County graduating seniors. Application deadline May 10. Call 301-775-9532.
SEASIDE MASONIC Lodge No. 429, A.F.&A.M., will be dark April 22.
JACKSONVILLE High School Class of 1973 celebrates its 40th class reunion July 5-6. Visit Facebook at Jacksonville Senior High School 1973 for more information.
AMERICAN Sewing Guild's Wilmington Neighborhood Group meets at 2 p.m. April 22 at Fran's Sewing Circle, 5751 Oleander Drive. Visit asg.org.
ONSLOW COUNTY Animal Services offers reduced fees for dogs and cats during the month of April. Call 910-455-0182 or visit petharbor.com.
GUARDIAN ad Litem program seeks volunteers to train as court appointed advocates for abused/neglected children. Classes begin April 25. Call 910-340-8970 or visit gal4kids.org.
JACKSONVILLE Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 10 a.m. Mondays and at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Jacksonville Commons Senior Center. Call 910-346-6000.
MISSION Cataract Day offers free cataract surgeries to those who qualify on May 18 at Office Park Eye Center. Call 910-355-3937.
RICHLANDS High School Class of 1954 celebrates its 59th class reunion at noon May 4 at 691 Huffmantown Road in Richlands. Call 910-324-4156.
JACKSONVILLE New River Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. April 22 at Logan's, Western Boulevard. Call 910-330-6958.
SCRABBLE Party fundraiser to benefit Carteret Literacy Council from noon to 4 p.m. April 27 at the Train Depot, Morehead City. Cost $20; deadline to register is April 22. Call 252-808-2020.
ONSLOW CHAPTER 795 AARP meets at 11 a.m. April 23 at Jacksonville Commons Senior Center. Bring covered dish and items for silent auction. Call 910-353-5935.
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