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Group Admins help drive effective learning engagement across an organization. We believe the best learning happens when team managers or those closest to the learning goals of your employees can help drive learning forward. Group Admin enables team leads and managers to connect learners with the right course for their professional development. Group Admins can also see reporting and insights for their groups, assign courses within their groups, manage the users in their groups and invite new users.
Please note that Group Admin functionality is only available in the Enterprise plan.
How do you make someone a Group Admin?
- Go to Manage › Manage Users
- Select the User you'd like to make a Group Admin
- Click the ellipses and then Edit Role
- Select Group Admin and select the Groups the user will be a Group Admin for
- An email will automatically be sent notifying the user of their new role
If you need to edit or remove a user's group admin privileges, you can do so by following the same steps outlined above. All actions involving adding and removing members from a group will be logged in a "Group Membership Log', which is accessible and downloadable by Group Admins and Admins (see below for more details).
- Groups can have multiple Group Admins.
- Only Admins can designate users as Group Admins.
- Admins can create Group Admins in bulk via CSV upload.
- Admins can also invite users directly as Group Admins
- Admins can change a role when that status of an invitation is still pending
Group Admin Permissions:
|Invite new users to join Udemy for Business
|Approve, reject, publish custom courses
|Make custom course categories
|Designate other Group Admins
|Import courses
|Assign courses to users
|Assign courses to groups
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Create new groups
|Remove groups
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Remove users
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Resend or Cancel Pending Invitations
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Edit Group Membership for Pending Invitations
|Add and remove users from groups
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Adding users via the CSV Import feature
|See what courses members of their group are taking
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|View and download the Group Membership Log* see below for more information
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|View and run user adoption, user activity and course consumption reports
|Yes: only for groups they manage
|Edit account settings
|Approve email domains
Can Group Admins change their role from Group Admin back to just user?
No, you can not edit your own role. A Group Admin will need to reach out to an Admin to edit their role.
Who can access the Group Membership Log?
Admins can access the Group Membership log for all groups. Group Admins can only access the Group Membership Log for the groups that they are Group Admins for.
The Group Membership Log can be accessed by doing the following:
- From the Manage dropdown menu at the top, select Manage Users
- On the left hand side of the page, click on the group you wish to review
- Click on the ellipses that appears to the left of Invite New Users, and select Group Membership Log
What information does the Group Membership Log report on?
The log reports on:
- Date: Date action was completed
- Name: Name of employee that was added or removed
- Email: Email of employee that was added or removed
- Action: Action performed
- Group: Group that log is reporting on
By: The method in which the user was added/removed from the group - i.e. SSO data, CSV upload, name of Admin/Group Admin, etc.
Note: The Group Membership log includes data from March 23rd, 2018 onwards.


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Alison Scott is a television personality on E! Entertainment, whose new promotion becomes endangered when she has a one-night stand with slacker Ben Stone that results in her being pregnant with his baby. Ben lives off of a settlement he got from an injury, smokes a lot of pot, and is working on a website with his friends. Alison lives in her sister Debbie's pool house and has just been put on-air as an interviewer at her job. It is when she and Debbie are celebrating the promotion that she meets Ben, takes him home, and due to a misunderstanding, they don't use protection. When she figures out that she is pregnant, she tells Ben, who says he will support her and the baby, and she decides to have it. Although they try to make their relationship work because of the circumstances, they are at such different places in their lives that their relationship quickly becomes tense and difficult. Alison is concerned about Ben's lack of financial stability, hiding her pregnancy from her boss, and the fear that she and Ben will end up like her sister Debbie and her husband Pete, who have had problems in their marriage. In the midst of doctor's visits and fights, Alison decides they are too different and ends their relationship. Debbie and Pete have also split up after she finds out about his fantasy baseball draft, when she suspected him of actually going out to have an affair. Pete and Ben both realize that to continue to be part of a family they will have to change things about their mentalities and lifestyles, and ask themselves if they are willing to make those changes.moreless
Seth Rogen
Ben Stone
Katherine Heigl
Alison Scott
Paul Rudd
Leslie Mann
Jason Segel
Production Budget - $30,000,000
Domestic Gross - $148,768,917 (14th)
Worldwide Gross - $219,076,518 (25th)
Domestic Adjusted for 2013 - $176,446,855
Worldwide Adjusted for 2013 - $259,834,940
1. Save the due date.
2. Expected in cinemas soon.
3. What if this guy got you pregnant?
4. A one night stand that turned into something more.
An unrated version of the movie runs 4 minutes longer.
Filming locations:
Del's Saloon, Santa Monica, California
E! Network Studios, Los Angeles, California
Geisha House, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California
Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
Las Vegas, Nevada
Original Pantry Cafe, Downtown, Los Angeles, California
Paseo Colorado Mall, Pasadena, California
Swingers Diner, Santa Monica, California
All Night
Written by Stephen Marley, Damian Marley,m Clement Dodd, Jackie Mittoo
Performed by Damian Marley featuring Stephen Marley
Written by Lily Allen, Iyiola Babatunde Babalola, Darren Emilio Lewis, Clement Dodd,
Jackie Mittoo
Performed by Lily Allen
Written by Peter Blegvad
Performed by Loudon Wainwright III
Shimmy Shimmy Ya
Written by RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard
Performed by Ol' Dirty Bastard
We Are Nowhere and It's Now
Written by Conor Oberst
Performed by 'Bright Eyes'
King without a Crown
Written by Matisyahu, Josh Werner
Performed by Matisyahu
Rock Lobster
Written by Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson
Performed by The B-52's
Written by Floyd Gaugh, Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson
Performed by Sublime
Written by Nathan Holmes, Aaron Fabian Ngawhika, Demetrius Christian Savelio
Performed by Savage
Written by Tommy Lee, Kai Huppunen
Performed by Tommy Lee
Police and Thieves
Written by Junior Murvin, Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Performed by Junior Murvin
Grey in L.A.
Written by Loudon Wainwright III
Performed by Loudon Wainwright III
Written by Evan Mast, Mike Stroud
Performed by Ratatat
Double Vision
Written by Melissa Elias, Jered Gummere, Brian Case, Nathan Jerde
Performed by The Ponys
Written by Stacy Ferguson, Will i Am, Bobby Troup
Performed by Stacy Ferguson
Up Loud
Written by Mike Fratantuno, Terence Yoshiaki Graves, Brian Lapin
Performed by Transcenders
Written by Richard Jones, Craig Lawson, Lil Scrappy
Performed by Trina featuring Lil Scrappy
Biggest Part of Me
Written by David Pack
Performed by Ambrosia
Written by Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy
Performed by Uncle Tupelo
Running the Bath
Written by Mark Everett
Performed by Mark Everett
Police on My Back
Written by Eddy Grant
Performed by The Clash
All Along the Watchtower
Written by Bob Dylan
Performed by Darryl McDaniels
Sunday Evening
Written by Mike Fratantuno, Terence Yoshiaki Graves, Brian Lapin
Performed by Transcenders
Keep on Dubbing
Written by Augustus Pablo
Performed by Augustus Pablo
Consider Her Ways
Written by Reggie Moore
Performed by Reggie Moore
Written by Robert Ellen
Performed by Coree Carter
Love Me
Written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Performed by The Little Willies
Written by Loudon Wainwright III
Performed by Loudon Wainwright III
Love Plus One
Written by Nick Heyward
Performed by Haircut 100
Written by Beck, John King, Michael Simpson
Performed by Beck
Danger (Been So Long)
Written by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Mystikal
Performed by Mystikal
Sign Your Name
Written by Terence Trent D'Arby
Performed by Sananda Maitreya fka Terence Trent D'Arby
Wishing Well
Written by Terence Trent D'Arby, Sean Oliver
Performed by Sananda Maitreya fka Terence Trent D'Arby
If You Let Me Stay
Written by Terence Trent D'Arby
Performed by Sananda Maitreya fka Terence Trent D'Arby
Put It On
Written by Bob Marley
Performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Manuel's Got a Train to Catch
Written by Mark Everett
Performed by Mark Everett
Written by Cathy Dennis, Henry Jonback, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg
Performed by Britney Spears
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Written by Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Herman Rarebell
Performed by Scorpions
Fruit Salad
Written by Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page
Performed by The Wiggles
Hot Potato
Written by Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page and John Field
Performed by The Wiggles
Here Come the Wiggles
Written by Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page,
Dominic Lindsay
Performed by The Wiggles
Happy Birthday to You
Written by Mildred J. Hill, Patty S. Hill
Written by John Powell
Performed by John Powell
Que Paso
Written by Joe Cain
Performed by Joe Cain
Lighters Up
Written by Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones, Scott Storch, Roger Greene Jr., Victor Carraway, Voletta Wallace
Performed by Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones
Y'All Know Me
Written by Mike Fratantuno, Brian Lapin, Terence Yoshiaki Graves, Josef Lord
Performed by Transcenders featuring J7 D'Star
from "Cirque du Soleil - Mystere"
Written by René Dupéré
Written by Graham Goble
Performed by The Little River Band
Once You Had Gold
Written by Enya, Nicky Ryan, Roma Ryan
Performed by Enya
Coming of Age, Romantic Comedy, Love & Romance

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Gone are the days when hair loss was the problem suffered only by elders! Hair loss is spreading like a disease and hitting people of all age groups! Yes, it is unfair and frustrating too! There are multiple reasons contributing to it- lifestyle, eating habits, stress, lack of nutrition etc…! You don't only lose hair, you lose your confidence too and this is the reason that both men and women are ready to go to great lengths to avoid losing their hair. For some, going bald is equivalent to ageing which affects their personality. Fortunately, we are in 21st century and some of the intelligent minds have worked on therapy known as Platelet rich plasma abbreviated as PRP.
What is PRP and how does it help in hair fall?
PRP is a therapy wherein blood of person is drawn from his body, processed and then injected into the scalp. The blood can be drawn from any part of your body (could be arm or legs) and is then centrifuged to allow separation of fluids of different densities. This happens because blood has different components. It is segregated into three prime components i.e., plasma rich in platelets, plasma poor in platelets and red blood cells.
A person undergoing this therapy is made bald and then platelets rich plasma is injected into the scalp which initiate repair and gradually stimulates natural hair growth.
What are the risks involved?
The most common risk in any of the surgeries is to get injected with infected blood. In PRP, you are injected with your own blood components and this is the reason that you are not at risk of getting any communicable disease. If you little uneasiness, you should convey the same to therapist. Also, if you have smoking or alcohol or drug habits then that should be conveyed to your therapist at the earliest. Further, if you are on any medication for thyroid, blood pressure/ blood thinners, don't forget to mention those to achieve best results.
Simple, cost-effective and feasible treatment
Over the years, your hairs get damaged from roots and all they need is rejuvenation and scalp nutrition which is provided by PRP. It is simple, cost effective and absolutely safe treatment which notably offers patient satisfaction. The amount that you spend towards various premium hair products to grow your hair collectively will be more than the cost of PRP. Hair loss can happen to anyone at any age and this is suitable and recommended treatment to grow your hair naturally!
Don't let hair loss distress you in any manner. At VIP we have a team of dedicated individuals who know best techniques for PRP. The success rate of PRP is very high as it uses your own blood to activate the cells around your scalp. It provides natural results and improvement in hair volume and coverage and is thus adopted worldwide. PRP is absolutely safe and tested modes for stimulating hair growth and it might require combination of treatments if the damage is little more than normal.


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Hi, I'm Mairead and I'm 16, and I've had severe eczema for six years now. However, it seems that it has improved in the last year or so, because I cut dairy from my diet. I still get the usual flare up, but not as often or as severly as I used to get. But the last six years of severe flare ups and scratching has resulted in scars spread out across my body. They are almost everywhere apart from my face and neck; on my arms, hands, chest, legs and ankles. I still sometimes get new spots, which means I'm increasingly getting new scars, which as many of you may know, can be embarresing. I'm too self concious to wear short sleeved tops, and you'll rarely see me wearing anything that reveals too much of my skin. I never wear shorts, as my legs are even worst than my arms for scars, and they get really red which causes the scars to stand out even more. As you can probably figure, these scars are not fun to live with at all, and so I figured that it was about time that I did something about them.
And so, I searched online for DIY natural remedies to clear or fade scars. I came across a remedy with honey and sugar, and decided to give it a shot. I mixed it up a little, however, and added olive oil to the recipie. Here's what I did:
1. Gather a small container, honey, olive oil (virgin or just original, it doesn't matter) and sugar (also just any sugar).
2. Add the honey into the container followed by sugar and stir.
3. Add about half a tea spoon of olive oil into the container and stir once again.
4. You now have your honey and olive oil mix! After moisturising your body at night, wait until the moisturiser has fully absorbed into your skin, and then get out your container of honey and olive oil. Spread this out on your scars and leave it on for around twenty moments. Then go and wash this off with a towel soaked in warm or cold water (I find warm water easier to take the sticky solution off, but cold water can also work).
There you have it! I have been using this solution for around two months now, and I have found that it not only fades your scars, but also gives the skin more moisture and I have not had as many flare ups since I started using this solution. So give it a try, and let me know how it goes!
Hope I helped some of you.


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SEC Approves New "Reg A+" Rules for Crowdfunding
Last week the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules that implement Title IV of the JOBS Act. The crowdfunding community has been waiting with anticipation for these rules because of the potential to raise capital from non-accredited investors (as well as accredited investors) more efficiently and more easily across state lines.
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Depot Makes it Easy to Download CSULB Site Licensed SoftwarePublished: May 1, 2009
The Office of Academic Technology (OAT) is making university site licensed software available for faculty, staff, and students to download from the CSULB Web site.
A complete list of software available for download, as well as product and installation information can be found on the new CSULB Software Depot. Only current students, faculty and staff can download software. Some software may only be downloaded by authorized campus technology staff or is only available for university-owned computers. View the Site Licensed Software List for complete download information.
Faculty and staff can download:
• Elluminate Plan – helps to organize and package content and activities into your Elluminate Live! real-time online classroom/meeting environment session
• LecShare Pro – makes accessible PowerPoint programs while adding audio to your presentations; creating QuickTime, MPEG-4 or other files.
• Minitab – statistical software
• Respondus – creates and manages exams and surveys that can be printed to paper or published directly on BeachBoard
• SAS – statistical software
• SPSS – statistical software
Students can download:
• Minitab – statistical software
• SAS – statistical software
Log on to the CSULB Software Depot using your campus ID and MyCSULB password. Before logging in to the CSULB Software Depot, you must have a preferred e-mail address on your MyCSULB account.
E-mail questions or comments about the new Software Depot to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 562/985-4959.


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I thought I'd posted more of the enchanting observations on a few of the paintings that were in the Bronzino exhibition that just closed in Firenze. You may recall that Italian author Roberto Piumini wrote doggeral verses in the style popular with the painter and his friends at the Academia and Konrad Eisenbichler used them as his inspiration for English verses. They thought of them as "ways to look at Bronzino".
I think this is perhaps one of the loveliest paintings I have ever seen of a sleeping child – you almost feel John's kiss awakening his little cousin.
*"Dear Mary," Joseph says, "if in a while,
Our little Jesus should awake
And want to eat, I'll light this little pile
of sticks so you might cook a meal or bake,
But note," then Joseph adds, "his cousin John
has come to play with him, and when they're done
Pursuing one another on the lawn
They'll both be very hungry, for a bun."
"I'll bake some sweets for them," she says and smiles,
"Some buns, some pastries, and a healthy snack.
I'll make some cookies, too, in various styles.
But where is my flour? Where is that sack?"
|Holy Family with Saint John (Panciatichi Maddona) – 1538-40 – was one of five paintings commissioned by the wealthy and influential Bartolomeo Panciatichi.
dice Giuseppe, «se fra poco,
Gesù si sveglierà, a vorrà mangiare,
io accenderò con la legna un bel fuoco,
ma tu, che cos'avrai da cucinare?"
«E poi,»
Giuseppe dice, «è arrivato
anche Giovanni, suo cugino, e sai
che è un bambino molto affamato…
Maria, Maria, cos cusinerai?»
Lei sorride e risponde: «Farò
frittelle di farina, dolci e bionde.»
Vedi un sacco di farina? Io no.
Tu guarda melgio:" dove si nasconde?
As with many painters of the period Bronzino found himself suddenly constrained by the decrees on art that came out of the Council of Trento – decrees that effected not only the spiritual but the physical content of what took place in Catholic churches. Subjects that had once been considered part of the normal Christian iconography were banned and strict use of symbols and groupings were carefully watched by the unsettled church authorities. This simple and beautiful Christ Crucified straddles the two worlds with a severity that is almost Protestant but with all the required iconography demanded by the Council. It was painted for Bartolemeo and Lucrezia Panciatichi, who at the time were suspected of having "Reformationist" leanings and were investigate by the Church until a gentle word from Cosimo caused the authorities to back away.
|Christ Crucified – circa 1540 – Bronzino for the Panciatichi chapel.
Around the time that Bronzino became part of a group exploring the virtues of one form of art over the other – painting over sculpture being the most heatedly debated. Certainly this study could have been achieved in wood and polychrome but Bronzino's technique and artistry has turned it into a "real dead-body".
*Bel gioco l'altalena, in verità
si v agiù e poi su, alternamente.
Ma vedi? C'è qualcosa che non va
in questa altalena risplendente …
Un angelo la regge con la mano,
e il piccolo di destra porta su:
chi e quello che in basso, scuro e strano,
l'altro, a sinistra, tiene a tire giu?
Forse questa non è un'altalena…
E se un angelo salva l'innocente,
chi sarà quello che, con brutta lena,
trascina l'altro giù, dannatamente?
|Saint Michael the Archangel – circa 1525-28 – the fact that it is on canvas, unusual for a time when most paintings were done on wood suggests this may have been a banner made for a confraternity.
A seesaw, wow! That's lots of fun!
You're up and down, you laugh and scream.
But look! This seesaw has begun
To go off-balance. See the beam?
An angel holds it in his hand,
And on the right that boy is up,
But on the left a grasping hand
has seized the boy that's in that cup.
What kind of seesaw could this be?
If that's an angel helping out
Then who's that figure that I see
Grabbing the boy who seems to shout?
31 gennaio – Sant'Armentario


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Gold Luster SilkScreen Decals Help
PotteryLodge posted a topic in Studio Operations and Making WorkHello everyone! I've been doing a lot of research on silkscreen printing for underglaze decals but I'm not finding much of anything for how to make gold luster decals. I understand that with underglaze screen printing you pour the oil+underglaze onto of the silkscreen to color the decal, but how on earth is this achieved for gold luster decals? If anyone has some advice, books, sites, etc that I can read on how to make this, I would be so grateful! Casi
Burnish Gold Luster Mug
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From the album: John Baymore's Clay WorkThis cup is in the invitational exhibition "I'll Drink To That" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams, MA until August 27th, 2017. Handbuilt, woodfired, American Shino, overglaze enamel, gold luster.
© 2017 - John Baymore - all rights reserved
Selectively Removing Duncan Gold Luster
moh posted a topic in Clay and Glaze ChemistryHi all, I've recently started experimenting with Duncan's Bright Gold and have two questions. On spots where the application was very light (as in, unintended residue) there's purple streaks. How can this be removed? Some of the luster ran and I'd like to clean that up. How can this be done? Would love to hear from the experienced luster users of this fabulous forum. Thank you!
"Ode to Jurakudai"
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From the album: John Baymore's Clay WorkIdo-style Chawan. Wood fired and electric fired. Granite bearing stoneware body. American Shino glaze on exterior (with finger wipes), semi-matte feldspathic glaze on interior. Gold luster on interior. Exhibited In "Chawan for Chanoyu" solo exhibition held in conjunction with the 2015 Providence NCECA conference.
© 2015 John Baymore -all rights reserved


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I quite like Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Her album, Trip the Light Fantastic, is unavoidable if you go to a New York City bar or club, but she's still a cult figure stateside. With her pale skin and frosty voice, she's unusually remote for a pop star. But don't mistake her for some pretentious Madonna clone with her head up her own perfectly toned arse. She clearly understands pop music, and she provides a very smart definition of it to The Daily Telegraph:
"It is music that should be immediately accessible. The job is to convey, in the shortest time possible, an emotion of what it is to be alive. It can be heartache, happiness, good times, bad times, but it needs that sort of drive. It's no use being wishy-washy or fey. It's like the pivotal scenes in a film, not the bits in between; it's straight to the big monologue and the action."
I think that's pretty insightful – and instructive. BTW: here are some cuts released from SE-B's new album, "Me and My Imagination" and "Catch You".
Unlike Ellis-Bextor, Joss Stone is huge in America. Not so much in the UK at moment, however. Stone, in an interview with The Times, discusses the moment when her British career went to shite – her much-maligned shout-out to Robbie Williams at this year's BRIT awards. She singles out Russell Brand for hypocrisy: "Lots of people there that night knew Robbie and would boast in other circumstances of being his mate, yet not one of them stood up for him. Well, where I come from, if someone attacks your friends or your family you do something about it. So I said what I said and even if it wasn't very clever, at least it was sincere. And that it was Russell of all people only made it worse to me. He's been there himself and knows what it takes to admit you need help."
Rihanna has made herself at home on top of the UK pop charts. This week, she also boasts a No. 1 album. Enrique Iglesias had a new entry this week with "Do You Know?" Also, Reverend & the Makers, another band from Sheffield, jumped in at No. 8 with their dance rock smash, "Heavyweight Champion of the World." It's a fetching little tune.
2. Mutya Buena – Real Girl
Watch the video
4. Gym Class Heroes – Cupid's Chokehold
Watch the video
5. Beyoncé and Shakira – Beautiful Liar
6. Hellogoodbye – Here In My Arms
Watch the video
7. Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
Watch the video
8. Reverend & The Makers -Heavyweight Champion Of The World
Watch the video
9. Enrique Iglesias – Do You Know(The Ping Pong Song)
Watch the video
10. Timbaland Ft Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake – Give It To Me
Watch the video
In other news:
- The Times' Lisa Verrico was soft on George Michael's big Wembley comeback. "His enthusiasm was apparent in his attempts at hip-shaking dance steps, his lively interaction with the audience and the sweat that soaked the back of his burgundy jacket before the interval. Yet he is hardly an artist who oozes charisma and his decision to hide his band on tiers of scaffolding and sweep his six backing vocalists to the sides left him with too much ground to cover."
- Jane Martin, the personal chef who sued Sting and Trudie Styler for unfair dismissal and discrimination, says the stress of the work made her fear for her unborn child's life.(BBC)
- The Rolling Stones played the Isle of Wight festival, their first UK festival gig since 1976. Amy Winehouse joined them on stage.(BBC)
- "Paulo Nutini" [sic] (yikes, Telegraph, do a spell check) also joined the Stones for a "deep blues" rendering of "Station to Station."
- A frustrated Channel 4 interviewer pulled the plug on a chat with a "boozy" Winehouse after one minute.(Mirror)
- No matter: Winehouse has Jay-Z on her side.(Page Six)
- In the backstage area of the festival, Kate Moss called Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, a "f**king queer" and had him thrown out after he made a drunken grab at her. (The Sun)
- Pete Doherty reportedly jumped into a photographer's car after screaming "The demons are coming to get me." From Monsters and Critics, of all places.
- The Towers of London plan a collaboration with their mates, The Prodigy.(NME)
- Morrissey will meet you at the cemetery gates, not in Manchester, but in L.A.'s Hollywood Forever.(NME)
- Radiohead, The Ballet?(Gigwise)
- The Enemy make no apologies: they think Oasis is the greatest band ever.(The Independent)
- Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberley, in her undies.(The Sun)
- Jennifer Aniston's new beau is an old friend of Victoria Beckham.(Mirror)
- A while back, Tom Chaplin of Keane said he could drink any of the Kasabian boys under the table. Kasabian's Tom Meighan responded: "Well, he's got a big advantage in that he has twice the body mass of any of us. He's 6ft 5in, 5ft wide and he lives on a diet of pies and Quavers!"(Mirror)
- Northern Irish band Ash hinted at a split during their festival set.
(Contact Music)
- Elton John came out to celebrate Liz Hurley's 42nd.
(Daily Mail)
- Kate Middleton will join her ex Prince William on-stage at the Diana concert.(Daily Mail)
- While in Canada on a training exercise, Prince Harry was seen out at bars, "photographed in drunken clinches with provocatively dressed barmaids."(Daily Mail)


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4-room apartment "Chalet Zeus", for 6 people, 180 m2, on the top floor, luxurious and cosy furnishings.
Living/dining room with local TV, cable TV, DVD, video, radio, hi-fi system, CD player, open fireplace and dining-table. Smoking not allowed. Internet (Wireless LAN [WLAN]).
Sleeping room with 2 single beds. Sleeping room with 2 single beds. Sleeping room with 2 single beds.
Open kitchen with 4 hot plates, micro wave, oven, grill, dining table, dishwasher, fridge and deep freezer. Food service: bread roll service (extra).
Shower/WC and bath/shower/WC.
Balcony 8 m2, terrace furniture, 2 deck chairs.
Other equipment: children's high chair, hair dryer, iron, washing machine, dryer.
Accommodation Details:
New, beautiful, comfortable apartment house "Haus Jaspis", built in 2009, surrounded by meadows.
House Equipment: lift, central heating system, storage room for skis, washing machine (private use), tumble dryer (private use).
Access & Parking: no parking possible. Footpath, suitable for wheelchairs. Situation: in the district of Spiss, central, quiet, sunny position. View from the apartment of the mountains, the resort, the countryside, the river and the ski-run.
Surroundings of the house: grounds (shared use).
Facilities and distances: grocers 50 m, supermarket 100 m, restaurant 50 m, tennis 200 m, tennis club 250 m, ski lift 450 m, ski school 200 m, ice rink 200 m, children's playground 200 m, m mountain lift 250 m, bus stop 50 m.
Local Services near this Chalet:
- 50 m to public transport
- 450 m to the nearest ski lift
- 6 km to the nearest golf course


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The Underdark is an underground area in the world of Exandria on Critical Role, similar to the Underdark featured in many other RPG campaigns. A dark and hostile place, the Underdark is almost a world unto itself, with civilizations, monsters, politics, economies, and threats that are mostly separate from the surface world.[citation needed]
Environment Edit
As a subterranean environment, the terrain of the Underdark is composed primarily of earth, stone, water (both still and running), and magma. Passages navigable by humanoids range from narrow tunnels to expansive caverns. Without sunlight, the Underdark exists in a perpetual night with the exception of the light from such sources as bioluminescence, enchanted hotstones, fire, and magma.[citation needed]
Moisture in many locations will condense on the walls and ceiling, and when it drips from the ceiling, the water droplets carry minerals and earth, which deposit on the dripping points from the ceiling and the landing points of the floor. Over time, these deposits form what are known as stalactites (hanging deposits, often shaped like downward-pointing spikes) and stalagmites (resting deposits, often shaped like spikes or conical mounds). From a combat perspective, stalactites may be broken free and allowed to fall as spikes, while stalagmites may offer cover or hiding spots if large enough. Both mineral formations may also hide dangerous denizens of the Underdark, ready to ambush unsuspecting creatures.[citation needed]
The Underdark may feature a wide variety of fungal growths and even mushroom forests.[citation needed]
Creatures Edit
Most Underdark creatures either are blind (with no eyes or with vestigial eyes) or have excellent darkvision and/or infravision. Many creatures have other highly developed senses to compensate for the lack of sight, such as tremorsense or a keen sense of smell and/or hearing. During Vox Machina's travels in the Underdark, a series of rumbling noises kept occurring, and an illithid named Clarota advised them to keep still so as to avoid attracting unwanted attention through tremorsense.[citation needed]
Many different—usually hostile—creatures live in the Underdark:[citation needed]
- Aboleths
- Basilisks
- Bulettes
- Cloakers[1]
- Duergar (gray dwarves)
- See also: Category:Duergar.
- Fomorians
- Goblins
- See also: Category:Goblins.
- Gricks[2]
- Kobolds[3]
- Illithid
- Intellect devourers
- Ogres
- Ropers[4]
- Svirfneblin (deep gnomes)
- Trolls
- Umber hulks
References Edit
- ↑ See "K'Varn Revealed" (1x10) at 46:39.
- ↑ See "K'Varn Revealed" (1x10) at 1:40:39.
- ↑ See "The Endless Burrows" (2x50).[citation needed]
- ↑ See "The Endless Burrows" (2x50) at 50:20.


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Executed circa 1965, printed 2000; number two from an edition of two (each)
Acquired from the artist's family, circa early 2000
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Much like her jottings and diary entries, Nasreen Mohamedi's photographic practice, which spanned most of her career from the early 1960s onwards, was a largely private pursuit. As Susette Min notes, these photographic prints, which were not exhibited during the artist's lifetime, can perhaps be read as "personal notebooks that one can turn to for insight into her motivations and cite as evidence of the sustained way in which she looked at the world through an abstract system or structural order of lines, shapes, light, shade, textures and patterns." (S. Min, 'Fugitive Time: Nasreen Mohamedi's Drawings and Photographs', Nasreen Mohamedi, Lines Among Lines, London, 2005, p. 22)
Several of her early photographs like this pair, posthumously printed by her family after her untimely death in 1990, were shot in barren desert locations in Bahrain, Kuwait and India. This particular pair is likely associated with the trip Mohamedi took to Rajasthan in the mid-1960s, to assist fellow artist Maqbool Fida Husain as the still photographer on his film project, Through the Eyes of a Painter. Together, these closely-cropped images reveal the way in which the artist manipulated framing and lighting in her photographic work to tease out the nuances of each image. Rather than serving a documentary purpose, these works extended Mohamedi's close examination of the natural and the man-made and her distillation and documentation of their basic essence. "The photographs, neither representational nor abstract, are sited in simple encounters of the tangible, pared down to light and dark, seeming to reveal universal truths beyond the logical. Intensely personal, and as controlled as the gaze of the artist, they reach outside the self, to perceive and connect." (Nasreen Mohamedi, Becoming One, Talwar Gallery website, accessed April 2016)
Currently, a comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work is on view at The Metropolitan Museum in New York. This exhibition, which inaugurated the venerable institution's newest outpost, the Met Breuer, is Mohamedi's first museum retrospective in the United States, having travelled from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi. Speaking about the international significance of Mohamedi's oeuvre, Sheena Wagstaff, chairman of the museum's Department of Modern and Contemporary Art noted, "The poignant story of Mohamedi, a relatively little-known but significant artist, reveals a highly individual artistic quest, drawing on historic sources from across the world, alongside her evocative photography as an unexpected form of visual note-taking." (S. Wagstaff, 'Nasreen Mohamedi', Metropolitan Museum website, accessed April 2016)
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Lost Pilot Zombie is the fifth zombie encountered in Lost City in Plants vs. Zombies 2. He drops in on a parachute and hangs above the ground for a while. After a few seconds or after using Blover or Hurrikale, he will drop down and walk forward. He will not drop down if he is eating a plant. He only appears in groups during the "Parachute Rain!" ambush.
|Lost Pilot Zombie groans.
|Lost Pilot Zombie falling from the sky.
|Rope snapping.
|Lost Pilot Zombie landing.
Almanac entry
Lost Pilot Zombie
Lost Pilot Zombie
TOUGHNESS: Protected
SPEED: Basic
Drops in past defenses.
He faked his pilot's license and figured nobody would notice. But they did.
Lost Pilot Zombie absorbs 350 damage per shot and degrades upon absorbing 175 damage per shot before dying at 350 damage per shot.
Plants vs. Zombies 2
- Arena: Caulipower's Escalating Tournament
This zombie is Lost City's ambush zombie, and will only appear on the lawn during the ambush "Parachute Rain!" He has a little bit more health than a Basic Zombie, but only by 130 damage per shot. They are immune to Blover and Hurrikale's instant kill ability, despite appearing to be airborne (attempting to use one will simply cause the Lost Pilot Zombie to fall from his parachute instantly). They are annoying alone, but when they drop in large numbers, they can easily crowd your defenses, drawing fire away from more dangerous zombies. The best way to defeat them is to simply have a strong offense. Plants that can attack through multiple zombies, such as Bloomerang, Laser Bean, Fume-shroom, and A.K.E.E. are useful for quickly clearing the lawn of Lost Pilot Zombies, as well as defending against other Lost City zombies. This zombie can eat plants even when still in the air, so planting Wall-nuts or [Endurians underneath them can stall them and give your other plants a chance to attack them. Don't continuously plant plants underneath him as they will get eaten, resulting in a waste of sun.
Using Chard Guard is a bad idea against him due to strange hitbox issues as Lost Pilot Zombie will keep eating him even on ground without Chard Guard pushing unless another type of zombie comes.
Lost City - Day 32/Modern Day - Day 34
Lost Pilot Zombies will always appear when Dr. Zomboss calls a plane to attack. They appear between 3, 4 or 5 column and can be a problem if you do not have a well-prepared defense. Lost Pilot Zombies are the closest zombies to activate a Boulder Trap Tile (they even can get above the trap tile) and eliminate your defenses with ease. The number of Lost Pilot Zombies who can appear for the plane is varied and depends on the life of Zombot Aerostatic Gondola at that time.
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) (China only)
When level 1, do the same strategies as listed above. However, if this is leveled up, he can cause extreme dents in your defense. Because of this, using leveled up plants is the only option.
- The Travel Log quest for defeating Lost Pilot Zombies says "They never should have been issued a license to fly!". This is ironic, as his Almanac entry literally states that he faked his pilot's license.
- He has tree branches stuck in his clothes, suggesting that he crashed through trees on his way down.
- Blover will drop him down instead of blowing him away. On the other hand, Hurrikale will also drop him down but immediately blow him back afterwards.
- However, during his dying animation when he is in air, Blover and Hurrikale can still blow him away.
- Pilots stuck hanging above the ground can eat any plants below them except for Hypno-shroom, Chili Bean, Shadow-shroom and low plants.
- If he meets with a plant which is planted after Lost Pilot Zombie spawns, he will stay in the air longer, eating that plant.
- He comes from above, resembling Bungee Zombie's attack.
- However, Bungee Zombie steals plants, while Lost Pilot Zombies have to eat the plants.
- In Lost City - Day 32, after he falls, a plane will appear flying above the lawn.
- Since the 3.9.1 update, he falls after the plane flies above the lawn.
- He, Basic Zombie, Dr. Zomboss, Shield Zombie, Knight Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Snorkel Zombie, Octo Zombie, Troglobite, Relic Hunter Zombie, Boombox Zombie, and Jurassic Zombie are the only zombies that have represented the game icon.
- He uses Zombie's groan sound in Plants vs. Zombies.
- So far, he is the second zombie that could be summoned in his own special way (in this case being an ambush), with the first being the Disco Jetpack Zombie and the third being Imp Pear Imp.
- If timed correctly, the player can use Blover to make this zombie invulnerable to any kinds of knockback. This is a glitch.
- The only way to fix this is to use a Spring Bean.


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This disease is caused by a soil-borne pathogen. Soil saturated with water provides favorable conditions for disease development. Symptoms often develop first where water remained on the soil surface for several hours following rain. The pathogen moves in splashing water and water that runs across a field when it rains. Other plants susceptible to this pathogen include eggplant, tomato, beans (snap and lima), and all types of cucurbits. Pepper and cucurbits are most susceptible.
Management practices for Phytophthora blight include avoiding introducing the pathogen into a field, selecting resistant varieties, avoiding favorable conditions (soil saturated with water), applying fungicides starting before disease onset (preventive schedule), and promptly destroying affected plants at the start of an outbreak to limit spread. Orondis Gold, Orondis Opti, Orondis Ultra, Presidio, Revus, Forum, Tanos and phosphorous acid fungicides are labeled for use on pepper in commercial production fields. Later are recommended used at low rate tank-mixed with the others. There are several biofungicides that can be applied to soil. They have a microbial organism (bacterium or fungus) as the active ingredient. They are recommended applied at low rate frequently rather than high rate once. They are also suggested used in combination based on the organism: Bacillus (Double Nickel, Serenade, Taegro), Gliocladium (SoilGard), Streptomyces (Actinovate), and Trichoderma (Bio-Tam, RootShield Plus). They are all approved for organic production.
For more information about this disease and its management see Phytophthora Blight and Its Management in Cucurbit Crops and Other Vegetables at the Cornell Vegetables website.
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Crown rot phase. Affected stems are dark brown to black on the outside of the crown tissue of the main stem, starting at the soil line. They are also discolored inside. With young plants affected tissue may look water-soaked and be soft.
Root rot is another symptom of Phytophthora blight.
Raised beds are a recommended management practice because water drains faster through the soil in these beds than in flat culture. With this plant, not enough soil was put around the stem during planting, resulting in a hole in the soil forming around the stem, which enabled water to pool around the stem creating ideal conditions for development of Phytophthora blight.
Stem lesions also develop on upper stems. Affected tissue is dark brown and typically encompasses a large section of a stem in contrast with the normal purplish-brown coloration that occurs at leaf nodes in many varieties. See the 2 images that follow. The plant in the second image has a stem lesion on the low branch near the soil and several affected leaves.
Leaf spots develop when water splashes the pathogen (Phytophthora capsici) up on leaves. The spots typically are large, dark brown, and sometimes have a wilted border; thus they resemble those caused by a related pathogen (Phytophthora infestans) which causes late blight.
Fruit rot occurs when fruit are in contact with soil containing the pathogen or the pathogen is splashed by water on to the fruit. The white, yeast-like growth is thousand of spores that will be dispersed by splashing water during rain or irrigation. The pathogen readily produces a lot of spores on fruit, few spores develop on other plant parts.


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This morning I thought, "Wow! Things seem to be going really smoothly lately! How nice!"
That is a very stupid thing for airforcewife to do. Very stupid.
You see, after the latest move we had to switch from a base chapel to a regular Catholic parish. I'm still having a hard time with the switch - there aren't any uniforms in the pews on Sundays, for one. Also, there isn't an understanding of some of the issues. I kind of feel like an outsider. Also, our new church is HUGE. And I like that at the chapel they knew us, and we knew everyone.
Well, as if that wasn't issue enough - today my second daughter was altar serving Good Friday mass.
She puked.
She was holding the bible and she puked.
Not ON the bible - she handed (threw?) that to the priest during his prayer and ran out of the church puking all the way.
The poor kid.
And I'm seriously not helping much because I can't stop laughing.
I hope she doesn't get a complex about this...


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If the title of this post makes no sense, don't worry. Keep reading and it will. Promise! We have neglected our blogging responsibilities as of lately, so we are here to catch up on everything. Hopefully. We have had three races in the past three weeks, so hold on and here we go!
|Mrs. Marathon battling the raging river!
|Mr. Marathon showing off his fishy trophy
|The rural landscape... we'll spare you the cow poop smell though
|Running through the finishing chute full of vines
|1st place medal!
The third race in the past three weeks occurred today! This was Mr. Marathon's time to shine, I decided, because I didn't want to run faster than him.... psych! I was too "chicken" to run the Rooster Walk Tuff Strutter 5K this morning.
|catch-up... ketchup...
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Whew, that was a lot of catch-up! We have a few races coming up in June that we are looking forward to, so keep on the lookout! Hopefully we won't be running too WILD.....
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The case of plainclothes police officer Nouman Raja, who killed church musician Corey Jones, will go to a grand jury.
WEST PALM BEACH – Prosecutors announced Wednesday that the police shooting of Corey Jones beside his disabled SUV along Interstate 95 last October will go to a grand jury.
Jones, 31, a Delray Beach housing inspector and drummer who lived in Boynton Beach, was shot and killed by plainclothes Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja.
The shooting was among the cases of young Black men killed by officers that have sparked a public outcry, helping thrust the incident into the national spotlight.
No details
Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg on Wednesday did not offer many details about his office's decision to send the case to the grand jury, except to say that he was following a protocol for the handling of police shootings.
A close-out memorandum would have been written and released if a decision had been made not to prosecute, Aronberg said. But unresolved issues remain that need to be decided by the grand jury, which will determine whether to hand up an indictment for Raja.
Family disappointed
Some members of Jones' family, including his grandfather and uncle, said Wednesday they are disappointed Aronberg opted to send the case to a grand jury instead of pushing an indictment forward himself. Jones' relatives spoke to the news media Wednesday outside Palm Beach Gardens City Hall.
"People know what's right. People know what's wrong," said Jones' grandfather, Sylvester Banks.
"You know what happened to my grandson. It doesn't take six months to figure out what's wrong or right."
Other relatives of Jones issued a statement through family attorney Benjamin Crump shortly after Aronberg's announcement.
"While we are pleased to learn that the officer who senselessly killed our Corey will face a grand jury for his reckless act, we understand that nothing can bring back our son, brother and friend," the statement read. "Our goal now as a family is to ensure that this never happens to another innocent citizen."
Waiting for a tow
Jones, who was driving home from a performance when his car broke down, was waiting for a tow truck just after 3 a.m. Oct. 18 when Raja approached, according to police.
Raja, 38, was not wearing a police uniform and was driving an unmarked police van when he stopped to investigate a potentially abandoned car, officials said.
Police say that as Raja approached, Jones pulled out a gun that he was licensed to carry and then Raja fired six shots, hitting Jones three times. Jones' gun had not been fired, according to the State Attorney's Office.
Attorneys for Jones' family have maintained that Jones likely didn't know that Raja was a police officer.
"Shouldn't have happened"
Also present at the Jones' family news conference were community leaders and members of the Banks' Boynton Beach church. Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief Stephen Stepp also spoke at the news conference, saying that while the department has not been involved in any of the investigations into Jones' death, they support his family.
"The death of Corey Jones shouldn't have happened that night," he said. "While we await the facts of the investigation, we are not sitting idle."
He pointed to new policies put in place late last year banning all undercover officers from engaging in traffic stops without a backup marked car. The department also started using body cameras as a result of Jones' death.
"We cannot bring Corey back," Stepp said. "But we can use his death as a catalyst for positive change."
Officer fired
Raja, who had been working for the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department for less than a year, was fired in November while he was still in his probationary period for a new hire.
The State Attorney's Office, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and FBI have all been involved in the investigation into Jones' death.
More than 230 potential witnesses from 30 states and three countries were interviewed during the inquiry, Aronberg said.


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I.m not sure if the title is true, but it is a rule i follow usually..... But onto the card, this is a pyramage topper. i bought a box set from cheshire oaks last year and over christmas i made them all up, to save time when making cards. This one seemed perfect for my brother. i have layered the image on a die cut scalloped circle, the dp is from papermania's capsule collection, the ribbon is, as usual, from poundland and a Daisy and dandelion greeting. oh and then i added 3 gems, because i had to!
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FRANKFURT — An investigation into Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal expanded significantly on Thursday after German authorities arrested a former high-ranking executive of the carmaker, two people with knowledge of the arrest said.
The executive, identified by German news outlets as Wolfgang Hatz, is a former chief of engine development at Volkswagen. He worked closely with Matthias Müller, now the company's chief executive, when both were members of the management board of the carmaker's Porsche unit. Mr. Hatz was being held in Munich without bail.
Mr. Hatz, well known in automotive circles because of his previous role as chief of research and development at Porsche, is the second person to be arrested in Germany in connection with the Volkswagen case and the first German citizen. His prominence signals that the investigation — which has proceeded slowly since the wrongdoing came to light two years ago — may be entering a more intense phase.
Being incarcerated puts Mr. Hatz under enormous pressure to testify against others because his chances of winning release are greater if he cooperates. The information he provides could lead to new revelations and seriously impede Volkswagen's attempts to put the scandal, in which it admitted to manipulating diesel cars so they artificially reduced their emissions in lab tests, behind it.
German prosecutors did not disclose Mr. Hatz's identity because of the country's privacy rules, saying only that a suspect in the case was arraigned Thursday morning in Munich in connection with a related investigation of Volkswagen's Audi luxury car unit.
But two people with firsthand knowledge of the arrest, who requested anonymity because they did not want to be seen as violating German protocols, confirmed that the person detained was Mr. Hatz.
Engineering a Deception: What Led to Volkswagen's Diesel Scandal
In September 2015, Volkswagen was accused of evading emissions standards in the U.S. The scandal has hit the company hard.
German news media outlets, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the broadcasters NDR and WDR, reported earlier that Mr. Hatz was the person arrested.
Mr. Hatz was chief of motor development at Audi from 2001-7 before moving to the same position at Volkswagen, where he reported directly to the management board. In 2011, he moved to Porsche while retaining influence at the parent company. He was among the select group of executives who presented new models at the extravaganzas that Volkswagen staged before major motor shows in Frankfurt and elsewhere.
Volkswagen declined to comment.
Including two people in custody in the United States, Mr. Hatz is the fourth former or current Volkswagen employee to be behind bars. More arrests are likely, however.
Prosecutors in Braunschweig, Germany, near Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, are investigating nearly 50 people in connection with the case, according to Klaus Ziehe, a spokesman for the state attorney's office. They include three past or current members of top management: Hans Dieter Pötsch, the chairman of the Volkswagen supervisory board; Herbert Diess, the head of the unit that makes Volkswagen brand cars; and Martin Winterkorn, a former chief executive.
The three men are suspected of market manipulation for failing to inform shareholders soon enough that Volkswagen faced enormous fines for emissions cheating in the United States. All three have denied wrongdoing.
Mr. Ziehe said Thursday that investigators were close to allowing defense lawyers to examine the evidence gathered against their clients. That would be a sign that the investigation is largely complete, though formal charges would probably not be filed until next year.
Until Mr. Hatz's arrest, the only person detained in Germany was Zaccheo Giovanni Pamio, former chief of thermodynamics in Audi's engine development department. Mr. Pamio, a citizen of Italy, has been jailed since July and has implicated top managers of the division, according to his defense lawyer, Walter Lechner.
How Volkswagen's 'Defeat Devices' Worked
Volkswagen admitted that 11 million of its vehicles were equipped with software that was used to cheat on emissions tests. This is how the technology works and what it now means for vehicle owners.
Mr. Pamio is trying to win release on bail. In Germany, suspects can be held if a judge finds that there is a strong case against them and there is a risk that they might flee or obstruct the investigation.
Both Mr. Hatz and Mr. Pamio were arrested at the behest of Munich prosecutors, who have a reputation for aggressiveness. The Munich state attorney's office is taking the lead in investigating reported wrongdoing at Audi, while Braunschweig prosecutors are investigating the parent company.
Volkswagen has pleaded guilty to charges in the United States, admitting that it programmed 600,000 Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles to deliver permissible emissions only when the car's engine software detected that a test was underway. At other times they emitted more harmful nitrogen oxides than a modern long-haul truck.
But Volkswagen has continued to insist that members of its management board, including Mr. Müller, had no knowledge of the illegal software until shortly before the scandal came to light in September 2015.
Prosecutors have searched Mr. Müller's office in conjunction with the investigation, as well as the office of Rupert Stadler, the head of Audi. Neither has been identified as a suspect in the emissions case.
Mr. Hatz was chief of research and development at Porsche while Mr. Müller was chief executive of Porsche. Mr. Hatz also worked closely with Mr. Winterkorn, who resigned in 2015 days after the scandal came to light. Mr. Müller was named Mr. Winterkorn's successor.
Mr. Hatz was suspended from his position at Porsche soon after Mr. Winterkorn resigned, and he formally left the company in May 2016. Little had been heard about him since then, and he was not among six people indicted by U.S. prosecutors in January.


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MONTEVIDEO may be overshadowed by its flashier neighbors, Punta del Este and Buenos Aires, but Uruguay's capital does not suffer from an inferiority complex. As the country's commercial and political hub, Montevideo follows its own, nonchalant pace. Its 1.3 million residents are eager to show off their city's time-warp-like pleasures, like the leather cases slung over their shoulders that hold thermoses and gourds to make mate tea. And although Montevideo's skyline is punctuated by few skyscrapers, it is home to charming small museums, a lively old city and only a handful of tourists. It is a city that Uruguayans are happy to keep under wraps.
4 p.m.
Dive right into downtown life by stopping off at Montevideo's triple threat Plaza Fabini (18 de Julio and Rio Negro). Nicknamed Plaza del Entrevero by the locals for the statue in its center, the manicured, fountain-filled square is perfect for soaking in late afternoon rays and for people watching. The outdoor cafe, La Pasiva, is famous for its "panchos," hot dogs served with a secret-recipe spicy mustard (18 Uruguayan pesos, about 85 cents at 21.57 pesos to the dollar), and best washed down with a bottle of Paso de los Toros, Uruguay's contribution to the great grapefruit sodas of the world. And hiding underneath is the Subte (598-2-908-7643; www.subtemvd.blogspot.com), a free exhibition space that often features Uruguayan contemporary artists.
6 p.m.
The apostrophe may be unnecessary, but everything else is just where it belongs at Cake's (José Ellauri 1067; 598-2-707-6207; www.cakes.com.uy) in the upscale Pocitos neighborhood. It's a wonderful place to have tea and sample the gargantuan desserts (108 pesos) that will easily keep hunger at bay until Montevideo's late dinner hour. Try the Uruguayan-style mille-feuille, with loads of dulce de leche; or the Ramón Novarro, a chocolate cake with loads of dulce de leche; or the alfajores, cookies filled with loads of dulce de leche. (They do have some items without dulce de leche, but why bother?)
9 p.m.
Casual restaurants in Montevideo have strikingly similar menus based around chopp (draft beer), muzzarelas (tasty Sicilian pizza slices), fainá (flatbread made with chickpea flour) and chivitos (steak sandwiches). For an old-school spot that's a cut above the rest, try Pizzería Trouville (21 de Septiembre 3104; 598-2-711-2598), a popular place in Pocitos that's somewhere between a diner and a bar. Its muzzarelas are dripping with cheese (unless you just order "pizza," which comes cheeseless) and taste especially good if you can snag an outdoor table.
11 p.m.
Montevideo is not on the radar of many celebrities (or not yet) but Baar Fun Fun (Ciudadela 1229, Mercado Central; 598-2-915-8005; www.barfunfun.com), a bar founded in 1895 and now a hot spot for tango and local candombé music, has attracted a few odd ones, as evidenced by the photographs on the wall. Among the wall-worthy: the Canadian rocker Bryan Adams; the actor Danny Glover; and Michelle Bachelet, the president of Chile. Meanwhile, Uruguayans of all ages pack into the place to drink uvita, a super-sweet wine-based concoction, listen to live performances and, to the extent the cramped bar allows, dance.
11 p.m.
Though taxis are cheap, Montevideo's center is manageable on foot, and a good place to start is Mercado de los Artesanos (Plaza Cagancha 1365; 598-2-901-0887), a crafts market where artists do shifts selling each other's candles, leatherwork, ceramic lamps and finger dolls. Afterward, walk down 18 de Julio to gawk at the Palacio Salvo, the tallest building in South America when it was built in the 1920s. Then wander into the old city, seeing how pleasant a historic district can be when you remove the tourists and install residents going about their daily business.
1 p.m.
Saturday afternoons take on a virtual party atmosphere at the Mercado del Puerto (Piedras and Yacaré; 598-2-915-4178; www.mercadodelpuerto.com), a grand 19th-century port market that is a carnivore's delight. The traditional routine: start at the bar of Roldós with a bottle of Medio y Medio, a mix of sparkling and dry wine that serves as the mercado's official beverage and, at 120 pesos a bottle, is a rapid revelry inducer. Then switch to a Uruguayan red when you sit down for a meal at one of the parrillada restaurants like La Maestranza, while skilled grill masters roast hunks of meat and, probably just for show, the occasional green pepper. Lunch for two, with wine, is about 750 pesos.
4 p.m.
From the seven deadly sins portrayed by barnyard animals, to paintings that resemble a Where's Waldo montage, José Gurvich is one of Uruguay's best-known 20th-century artists. Celebrate his work and life at the Gurvich Museum (Ituzaingó 1377, Plaza Matriz; 598-2-915-7826; www.museogurvich.org), a smartly laid-out museum that is a biography-in-a-building. Make your way through three floors of his paintings and sculptures and collages and murals the man did everything but create videos for YouTube, and that's probably only because he died in 1974.
7 p.m.
Remember when weekend evenings meant hanging out on the waterfront with your thermos of hot water, drinking yerba mate through a shared metal straw? You don't? Then you're clearly not from Pocitos, where a stretch of the Rambla fills up with couples and groups of friends. The crowd skews young but by no means exclusively so. The owner of the mate, or gourd, pours in the water, and passes it to one friend after another. It's a bring-your-own affair, so if you want to join, be sure to pick up a mate and thermos earlier in the day; they're easy to find.
10 p.m.
Try as they might, Montevideanos cannot live on meat alone, and one place they take a break from the beef culture is at Café Misterio (Costa Rica 1700, Carrasco; 598-2-601-8765; www.cafemisterio.com.uy), a sushi bar that has for years been one of the hippest spots in town. Retro meets modern in the ever-changing décor, 30-somethings meet 60-somethings at the bar, and octopus sashimi (190 pesos for four pieces) meets mojitos (100 pesos) on the menu.
2 a.m.
At 2 a.m. it is almost too early to arrive at Lotus (World Trade Center; 598-2-628-1379; www.lotus.com.uy), Montevideo's club-of-the-moment, but there are plenty of jam-packed bars in the area like El Pony Pisador (José Iturriaga 3497; 598-2-622-1885; www.elponypisador.com.uy) for a previa, or warm-up. Lotus itself is almost disturbingly round, like a disco on a 1970s Martian spaceship, but it creates a flowing transition between wallflowers on the outside, flirters one ring in and dancers sweating to house music on the inside. The crowd ranges from the ultraslick to those just looking to get down and have a good time with friends. Try to leave at 4:30 a.m., and you'll be swimming against the tide of all the late arrivals.
11 a.m.
Looking for fresh onions, candy-coated peanuts, comfy sweaters, used books, flowers, a used remote control and a puppy? You'll find those and lots of other things at the Tristán Narvaja street fair, which takes over blocks and blocks around the thoroughfare of the same name on Sundays. Even if you're not in the market for anything besides a stroll through an interesting market, you are guaranteed satisfaction.
1 p.m.
If you've made it this far without having a chivito, the Uruguayan steak sandwich that even in its plainest form comes loaded with lettuce, tomato, egg and cheese, you may have set a Montevidean record. Papoñita (18 de Julio 1649; 598-2-408-4840), an old-school diner filled with cute old couples will end your streak. The Canadian chivito, which comes with ham, lettuce, tomato and tons of other stuff, is 160 pesos; the copa melba (175 pesos) is another specialty, a sky-high ice cream concoction that is nearly as much of an architectural accomplishment as some of the surrounding buildings.
Flights between New York City and Montevideo require a connection, usually in Panama City, Buenos Aires, Santiago or São Paulo. A recent Web search for mid-November found a LAN Airlines flight from Kennedy Airport, connecting in Santiago, for $855. From Buenos Aires, the Uruguayan airline Pluna flies to Montevideo for $65 one-way.
Think twice before choosing a hotel downtown. Charming by day, the old city can be loud and unpleasant, or quiet and dangerous, at night. Since the city is so easily navigable by cheap taxis, it's best to stay in an upscale neighborhood like Pocitos, which is right on the water. Most hotels accept U.S. dollars.
The 1950s Ermitage Hotel (Juan Benito Blanco 783; 598-2-710-4021; www.ermitagemontevideo.com) is an excellent value, with water-view rooms starting at $80.
A more modern option is the Punta Trouville Apart & Suites (Francisco Vidal 726 and Juan Maria Pérez 2957; 598-2-712-0903; www.puntatrouville.com.uy). Rooms, which are equipped with kitchenettes, start at $85.
For upscale accommodations, the Belmont House in the Carrasco neighborhood (Riviera 6512; 598-2-600-0430; www.belmonthouse.com.uy) has doubles starting at $240.


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This dress combines the bodice, skirt, and sleeves of the Lady Skater dress with the neckline and collar of Simplicity 1699.
But then I swapped in an exposed zip for the lapped zip.
And added a sweet patch pocket.
Main dress fabric is an organic cotton interlock. Collar and pocket are a woven cotton I bought ages ago (pretty sure from fabric.com, but a quick search isn't yielding the name).
This dress is a bit shorter than I usually like (poor cutting layout on my part), but I plan to wear it layered over a midi-length skirt anyway. I also accidentally shortened the bodice too much–long story short, I failed to take into account the fact that the Simplicity pattern's seam allowance was much bigger than the Lady Skater's. Oh, well. I just need a wide belt to cover that up, haha.
One more item down!
Spring/Summer Capsule Wardrobe Sewing Queue
- MAKE: Knee-length Hollyburn in black cotton poplin; white lining with white eyelet ruffle (longer than overskirt); contour waistband; elastic in back of waistband
DONE: Maxi petticoat skirt in black voile, gathered at waist with back elastic DONE: Brown midi petticoat skirt
- IN PROCESS: Blue denim Hollyburn–need to take in waistband
- IN PROCESS: Black floral circle skirt with attached black eyelet petticoat–need to replace waistband
DONE: White midi petticoat
- IN PROCESS: Brown maxi petticoat skirt–needs a new waistband and closure
DONE: Sweetheart t-shirt in white interlock (from Gertie Sews Vintage Casual)
- MAKE: Sweetheart t-shirt in black jersey
DONE: Peplum top from Lady Skater in cream jersey HAVE: Black & white polka dot Bronte top HAVE: Gray & black horses print Bronte top DONE: Black tunic top from Weekender Dress pattern
- IN PROCESS: Black gauze top–need to add shirring to waist
HAVE: Gray floral Lady Skater HAVE: Black and gray Weekender Dress HAVE: Green and pink floral Lady Skater HAVE: Green knee-length dress with neck ties (purchased) MAKE: Green Lady Skater w/ collar and back zip
- MAKE: Dress in black interlock with Nevermore collar (Simplicity 1699 view B, however, may use the Lady Skater for this, too)
- MAKE: Long-sleeve bolero in gray (or black?) linen or laceweight sweater knit or lightweight sweatshirt fleece (Butterick 5232) (currently, I'm jonesing for a ballet cardigan instead, so may change this)
- HAVE: Olive military jacket (purchased, but need to fix closures)
HAVE: Gray jersey elbow-length cardigan w/ ruffles (purchased) HAVE: Black and cream lightweight sweater knit cardigan (purchased) HAVE: Jean jacket (purchased)


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The boy was obviously frightened, not only because he was surrounded by sober-faced grownups, but because the strange equipment fastened to his arm and chest was, he knew, a "lie detector." The examiner asked him a few routine questions, then abruptly:
"Did you steal a car?"
The detector's graph showed, at this point, marked disturbance of breathing, pulse, blood pressurepresumptive evidence of a lie. Yet the lad was telling the truth. Patient questioning brought out that he had indeed not stolen a car, but that mention of "stealing" and "car" reminded him of...
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Blog Archives
Rethinking How Students Learn: Richard & Rebecca DuFour
Professional Learning Communities…did your stomach churn when you read that phrase?
Like "21st Century Learning" (see my last post), PLC is one of those buzz words that has been used ad nauseum. And it implies that teachers sharing ideas with one another is a new thing…in fact, it is not a novel modern-day concept at all. Teachers have always depended on each other for support and new ideas. It's how sharing occurs that is changing.
In Rethinking How Students Learn, Richard and Rebecca DuFour explore the role of PLCs in the evolution to a 21st century learning environment. One of the early charges the PLC gurus and the Partnership for 21st Century make is for educators to share knowledge in three ways:
- Via face-to-face interaction.
- Through "virtual" communications.
- By "blended" communications.
In this blog post, I would like to discuss the second method, virtual communications, because I know teachers here on our campus and all over the world already collaborate via face-to-face interaction.
As referenced by the DuFours, Ken Blanchard (2007) writes:
There is no reason that time and distance should keep people from interacting as a team. With proper management and the help of technology, virtual teams can be every bit as productive and rewarding as face-to-face teams.
So, what would a virtual team look like? It could be done locally, but through technology; the Charger Ning is a great example of local virtual sharing. Or your team could be a global group; are you part of the virtual team of educators using the "Twitterverse" to share resources, news, and ideas?
I also love this passage written by the DuFours, which references the ideas of Malcolm Gladwell:
The tipping point is reached when a few key people in the organization who are highly regarded by and connected to others (the Law of the Few) present a compelling argument in a memorable way (the Stickiness Factor) that leads to subtle changes in the conditions of the organizations (the Power of Context).
This has me excited about the possibilities that lie ahead for this team of pioneers and our colleagues. And, I can't wait to witness the resulting explosion of educational transformation on our campus when crest the "tipping point".
In fact, I think that's the tipping point I see now on the virtual horizon…
Wi-Fi Graffiti!
Have you ever been to a concert or sports event where you were invited to text or Tweet messages to a public screen?
Wiffiti is a company out of Boston whose technology allows anyone, from corporate sponsors to teachers to the average Joe Internet User, to create a public wall for the purpose of gathering text and Tweet "graffiti".
How is this useful in a classroom setting?
My level 1 Spanish students have been reading a book in which the main character has to make a choice between following his parents' rules or doing what he wants while they are away. I wanted the kids to discuss the pros and cons and take a side, in Spanish.
Without technology, this is just a discussion and some kids might tune it out, but when I instructed kids to take out their phones (which most of them had and were thrilled to be asked to use them in class) and had them text their advice to the character, they were on board immediately. And on the board – literally – immediately! In seconds, their messages started popping up on the SmartBoard for all to see.
It was fun to see what they wrote, and to see the auto-namer assign them all such funny names, like CinnamonToucan, and SteelSeahorse.
Most of them stuck to the assignment but a few did get carried away with the excitement of being able to communicate something and have everyone see it… without teacher clearance.
Which is EXACTLY why I welcome this type of activity, because it provides an opportunity for teachers to get involved with how students represent themselves online. Their digital expression of themselves is often private, but when they do this in the classroom, the teacher can moderate the discussion. Which I did.
"Perdón, who is MintParrot8?" A boy grins smugly from the back of the room. I use his post as a negative example, and he quickly sends a new message which follows the assignment.
We'll continue to build on that success with other projects. I'll send an update next time we use it. Check it out!


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Street Sweeping
Our Street Sweeping Program is designed to effectively manage the tidying of tree-lined streets in a coordinated manner.
The eleven main components of the Street Sweeping Program aim to target the areas of highest need and respond to the seasonal activity of street trees, whilst maintaining the quality of our environment.
Program at a glance
Program component
|Year round
|52 weeks
|6 weekly
|Main roads
|Year round
|52 weeks
|4 weekly
|High pedestrian use roads
|September - April
|32 weeks
|4 weekly
|Autumn leaf
|May – July
|8 weeks
|High density parking (Summer)
|November – February
|9 weeks
|3 weekly
|High density parking (Autumn)
|April – July
|16 weeks
|Summer sweep
|November – February
|18 weeks
|6 weekly
|White cedar berries
|September – November
|8 weeks
|February – March
|8 weeks
|Car parks
|Year round
|52 weeks
|Traffic management devices
|*The Street Sweeping Program is undertaken by an external contractor and whilst the broad parameters of the program are set by the Council, specific information such as the exact day and time street sweeping may occur, is not known.
Program components
The majority of local roads are swept once every six weeks. This cycle maintains the ideal balance between the removal of accumulated leaf and road litter, aesthetics and cost of delivery.
Residential sweeping happens all year round and results in a total of 546 kilometres of kerbing swept.
Main roads
Due to the high traffic volume along main arterial roads within the Council area, the following roads are swept all year round on a four weekly cycle, covering a total of 104 kilometres:
|Payneham Road
|Lower Portrush Road
|Glynburn Road
|The Parade
|OG Road
|Portrush Road
|Magill Road
|Kensington Road
|Fullarton Road
|Hackney Road
|North Terrace
High pedestrian use roads
Roads which have high foot traffic are swept during periods of high leaf drop, typically between September and April.
Garden blowers are used to move leaf material away from property boundaries, footpaths, verges and from underneath parked vehicles to the middle of the road, where it can be collected by the street sweeper.
Autumn leaf
The Autumn Leaf component targets streets lined with Plane and Oak trees, with a focus on the western suburbs of the City.
Debris on roads and footpaths are blown and swept on a fortnightly basis for an eight week period, typically between the months of May to June.
A total of 128 kilometres of kerbing is swept during each cycle.
High density parking
Streets which experience heavy leaf fall at certain times of the year, coupled with high density parking, are targeted twice during the year, in summer and autumn. These areas are typically in Norwood and Kensington.
Summer sweeping
Concentrated in the suburbs of Payneham, St Morris and Felixstow, the focus is on clearing the bark and seed pods which drop from Eucalyptus and Queensland Box trees during the summer months.
White cedar berries
The White Cedar Berries component is a vital part of the program given the slippery nature of white cedar berry pods and the nuisance the berries can cause.
Depending on the season, streets affected by white cedar berries can be swept weekly over an eight week period.
This is a small targeted component which aims to address issues associated with the drop from acorn trees during February and March each year. Identified streets are attended to fortnightly throughout the eight week program.
Car parks
Council-owned car parks are swept every three months, to remove any build-up of leaf litter and other materials.
Traffic management devices
Traffic management devices, such as roundabouts and traffic islands, are swept once a year at the end of autumn, to ensure any build-up of material is removed from this important infrastructure.
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The degradation of an institution will give rise to another. In this context, the degraded institution is the coverage and public discourse on the TV media. The rising institution is the blogoshpere (includes blogs and other social networks). Personally, current affairs and policy matters interest me a lot. I used to talk to myself, having imaginary discussions with who I thought were like-minded folks while reading newspapers and watching TV back in the early 2000s. As the debates on TV began to grow, so did my imaginary discussions. At the most, I used to write out some thoughts or discuss with roomies and bore a group of very close friends who were kind enough not to ask me to stop :D .
And that's when blogosphere happened. First, I got to read a few blogs in the 2007-2008 timeframe. I wanted to write out too, but was scared for a while. 2009 elections spurred me to start sharing my thoughts. I did not know who offstumped was or who ran the reality check India site, but was intrigued to read all the posts there. Never knew about www.cbcnn.blogspot.com and was thrilled to see that few folks have taken out their time from their normal work to write about stuff that interests me too. Likewise, many such blogs (too many to name) captured my attention.
And then twitter happened. I have come across so many interesting profiles that sometimes I feel so good about all those imaginary discussions I had. I felt good because those discussions don't feel imaginary anymore :). It's as if I knew these people from a long time. And the best part - almost all of them had full time jobs; as in their time and effort that went into detailing stuff outside their work was outstanding. I have been fortunate enough to get to interact with a wide range of folks - from students to grand parents :D.
More importantly, I learnt a lot. A lot of my thinking process underwent changes. I could refine the thoughts better. Some blogs made me rethink some of my adamant and strong positions (and that includes eating veg food outside :P). The web always threw up a host of differing viewpoints on a single issue (in detail, not in vaccum!) And that's been the biggest takeaway in these 3-4 years of exposure on the web. Learning.
What spurred me to write this? The portal, Centre Right India released their promising roadmap here. Folks that run this portal have a full time job. They run this out of sheer love for creating an alternative and (more importantly) meaningful discourse. Many folks who contribute extremely well researched blogs on this forum have a full time job. It fascinates me that there are so many well meaning folks who wish to contribute their thoughts for a purposeful discourse. And that two full time job holders have taken it upon them to create this institution is truly commendable.
TV media as we have seen is becoming a bane. An institution that is degrading. CRI is providing a platform for you to stop having those imaginary discussions walking around in your room :). Come and pour your thoughts in here. Contributing to them doesn't just mean merely writing blogs. Read them, discuss them, tear our blogs apart (but only based on facts, not like the Rahul Gandhi act :D), and appreciate them :) - that's contributing too. Enhance your knowledge on the web.
Wishing CRI and all other fellow bloggers on the web a very good luck. Here's to a better public discourse on policy. Cheers!


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Pagan metallers Pereplut hail from Russia, where some of the finest European pagan and folk metal around is hailing from these days. Their new record, 'At the Ancient TRimes', is a beautifully constructed collection of songs that yearn for simpler times, that ache of a certain traditionalist je ne sais quoi that is both heart pumping and heartrending in equal measure. It is out now through Stygian Crypt.
After the melancholic and folky intro track, we begin to delve into ancient Slavic forests, hunting for spirits and places where the touch of modernity has not reached. Pereplut have more than a little Korpiklaani about them, but without the drunken piss taking. Imagine the windswept majesty of Metsatoll but with a little more forest magic. 'At the Ancient Times' isn't all whimsy, flutes and 'plastic pagan' moments though; there is a defiant metal heart beating in here that mixes some almost Bay Area thrash moments ('Тропою волколака') and some melodeath crunch.
By the time the pastoral shades of the last track fades out, you've experienced a journey through lost cultures and folk magic. Pereplut may never become the most famous of this genre, but to miss out on an album of this quality would be a crime. Pereplut deserve your attention, so go support them!


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Back in the 90's I was a big fan of rap music. I particularly liked the artists from Cash Money Records. One of the rappers was named B.G. and he had an album called "It's All on U".
It is one of my favorite album names.
When I was an AFC I got by with the help of my friends. I had one particularly amazing wingman in my life who went out on a limb to get me laid. I can recall one night where he occupied four fat ugly friends by himself just so I could fuck the hot friend. While I was making out with the hot friend I can remember glancing over at him as one of the fat girls was wrapping her purple feather boa around his neck while another one was humping his leg like a dog in heat. I would try to do the same for him the next night.
We had a "mutualism" relationship. We both were willing to go the extra mile to get the other laid. We both benefited from each other.
Eventually he got married and moved away. I was left absolutely shattered. My success with women solely relied on him and now he was gone.
I started looking for replacement wings. The problem is that most wings and friends in your life just plain suck. Most do not want to see you succeed. They are selfish. They want to mooch off you and borrow money from you. They want to have "parasitic" relationships and are not interested in helping you out.
To be honest I was looking for a "parasitic" relationship myself. I was looking for a quick fix to my problem. I was looking for someone to get me out of my rut and I had little to offer them with the mental state that I was in at that time.
No one is going to come save you from your AFC ways and turn you into a pickup artist without you contributing to their success in return. You need to get your shit straight on your own first.
Go out by yourself for once. Become comfortable going out by yourself. Become confident going out by yourself. Have fun going out by yourself. Become successful going out by yourself.
Once you have accomplished this you will then be able to make new friends and meet new wings. If you lose a wing you will not be left in shambles like I was. You will still be able to go out by yourself and be successful.
It's all on u…
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i was fortunate to catch four-fifths of last week's Electric Spring festival, Huddersfield University's annual exploration and celebration of things electronically musical. As usual, attention was focused on a daily evening concert, featuring a substantial programme preceded by one or more relatively brief opening acts. The festival's emphasis on electronic music felt conspicuously different this year; the connection seemed pretty tenuous in Thursday's concert showcasing three films (admittedly all including electronically-created or -processed music to some extent, and the event was a tie-in for the university's Sound and Music in Documentary Film symposium, which was taking place at the same time), as well as drummer Dave Smith's Saturday gig, which employed little in the way of electronics beyond a few loops, some reverb and a modicum of pitch-shifting. i mention this more as an observation than a complaint: the concerts were no less enjoyable for their relatively minor use of electronics, but it's fair to say that these two events, in retrospect, seemed more like vanity projects for the particular members of staff who organised them than deeply meaningful contributions to Electric Spring's general ethos. Or maybe Electric Spring is going somewhere else in future; i guess we'll see. Read more
Studies vol. 3/Electric Spring
A couple of electronic music announcements. First, if you'll forgive the self-pluggery, i'm pleased to announce that the third volume of my ongoing series of Studies is now available. (Many thanks to all of you who have purchased volumes 1 and 2.) The Studies explore my interest in structuring sound materials from an initially visual perspective, an approach i describe as 'Op music', a sonic equivalent of Op art. The three studies on Vol. 3 are highly diverse. No. 12 is an exploration of near parallel pitch movement, resulting in shepard tone-like sequences and a shifting, paradoxical sense of stasis and movement. No. 13 examines the juxtaposition of freely-evolving sounds within an imposed metric system, positioning quasi-random clouds of pitch within an grid-like arrangement. Vol. 3 ends with my longest study to date, No. 10. Its 14-minute duration begins with a vast number of tightly packed pitch bands, moving as one; over time, these gradually drift out of alignment, resulting in complex waves and patterns of harmonic distribution and introducing elements of implied melody. The work is complicated further by a central episode, the noise of which permeates this process and threatens to disrupt it from within.
Studies vol. 3 is a digital-only EP, available via Bandcamp. The accompanying artwork has again been created by the marvellous Polish generative artist Tomasz Sulej (folds2d.tumblr.com). All three pieces can be streamed below.
Second, more importantly, Huddersfield University's annual Electric Spring festival kicks off this Wednesday, running until Sunday. Once again it features a typically diverse collection of composers, many of whom are happily new to me. Alex McLean and Dave Smith will be performing improvisations, Mark Lyken & Emma Dove are presenting their film Mirror Lands, Argentine composer Beatriz Ferreyra (well-known particularly for her work composed as part of Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales) is represented in three electronic works including her brand new 16-channel work Los senderos de luz y sombras, premièred last month in Paris, and Richard Scott will bring the festival to an end with a suite of analogue synth pieces. These concerts are supplemented with opening acts from Tadej Droljc, Demelza Kooij & Lars Koens, Geoff Cox & Keith Marley, Frédéric Dufeu, Solomiya Moroz & Marko Ivic and Elías Merino. Each concert
All are preceded by pre-concert talks, and there's a keynote talk from filmmaker Andrew Kötting. There are two additional late night concerts on Friday and Saturday nights, and throughout the festival there's an interactive installation by Stewart Worthy called Speaker Grid situated in the Creative Arts Building's large atrium. Everything is free – everything – so it's a fabulous opportunity for some really new sonic experiences. i'll be there for the duration, and will be reviewing as much as i can. Full details are available on the Electric Spring website, where you can also download the festival programme.