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Music Review: Wheels of Soul 2018 — An Impassioned Trio of Bands
This edition of Wheels of Soul works just fine as a display of post-Allman Brothers Band/post-Lynyrd Skynyrd/ post-Tom Petty musical sensibilities shaped in the South.
Wheels of Soul 2018, featuring Tedeschi Trucks Band, Drive-By Truckers and Marcus King Band at the Xfinity Center Mansfield, July 8.
The Wheels of Soul tour band. Photo: Stuart Levine.
By Scott McLennan
Like the band that founded it, the Wheels of Soul tour has been and remains an elastic and electrifying exploration of music rooted in various traditions but expertly crafted to connect with contemporary times and listeners.
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is the driving force behind Wheels of Soul, having uncorked the idea in 2015 as a three-band road show that proffered plenty of opportunities for collaboration among the participating acts. The tour's lineup this year is perhaps its most daring with the inclusion of Drive-By Truckers, a band that previously had no real connection to the TTB lineage as have previous artists that were tapped for the show.
Yet, with the Drive-By Truckers and the Marcus King Band in the opening slots, this edition of Wheels of Soul works just fine as a display of post-Allman Brothers Band/post-Lynyrd Skynyrd/ post-Tom Petty musical sensibilities shaped in the South.
King, who at 21 is building a mighty buzz with his fierce guitar work and soulful vocals, opened the concert with a brisk 30-minute set. King's songs brought together muscular guitar riffs and simmering, horn-driven grooves. Live, the King band easily pulls off a stunning set; the challenge now is for the young artist is to create tunes with a more lingering impact.
Sturdy songs are exactly what Drive-By Truckers offer, and it is most likely what earned them a spot on the tour. Head Truckers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley have been consistently sending out smart, provocative, and swampy countrified rock 'n' roll missives since the mid-'90s. The DBT's latest album, American Band, is ostensibly a protest record, but its political targets and messages are neither cleanly nor clearly discernible. The band's restlessness grew through its set, reaching a boiling point on "Surrender Under Protest."
The headlining Tedeschi Trucks Band amplified the exhilarating qualities of the opening acts. The 12-member band, which serves up an impressive array of musical chops, has expanded on a following that originally combined fans of singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi's solo blues band and Derek Trucks' virtuoso guitar work in his solo band and with the Allman Brothers Band. Since the married couple joined musical forces in 2010, the TTB has produced an impressive body of original songs to play alongside the numerous cover songs that were originally made famous by its musical heroes.
"Shame," a new tune destined for the group's next studio album, turned into one of the night's musical peaks. Tedeschi's impassioned vocal delivery was galvanizing, and Trucks worked up a guitar solo that soared into a brief run of "Afro Blue" that was evocative of John Coltrane's version — before returning the tune to Tedeschi, who brought home the song's message of looking for hope in unsettled times. In that one moment, the TTB brilliantly stitched together the musical fluidity on display in King's band with the poignancy offered up by the Drive-By Truckers.
With a new TTB album in the offing, the band feels like digging into its catalog and performing a few older gems that have not been in steady rotation lately. On Sunday, "Part of Me," a buoyant Motown-influenced number, made a welcome return, especially with its punched up vocal and horn arrangements.
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi in action. Photo: Greg Logan.
And Tedeschi reached back into her days of performing in blues clubs around Massachusetts, pulling out a searing version of "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean." Tedeschi's steely guitar solo posited a six-string slant against the more fluid solos of Trucks, but it was no less powerful.
While the TTB bears the name of its two guitarists, every member of the group – comprising three singers, three horn players, bass player, two drummers, and a keyboardist who doubles on flute — is integral to the sound. Each member is given an opportunity to step up and shine. Trucks, however, is the undisputed leader of the project; he earns the role by pushing the ensemble ever toward the spiritual in its playing, even when the band is wrapping its talents around a rollicking barn burner, such as "Get What You Deserve."
While a soul-rock band at heart, the TTB is also inspired by the classic jazz big bands, groups that put their distinctive stamp on material from the Great American Songbook. In the same way, the TTB is drafting its own book of sacred texts, with passages offered up Sunday from Derek and the Dominos ("Anyday"), Bob Dylan ("Going, Going, Gone"), and Billy Taylor by way of Nina Simone ("I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free").
And the night's transcendent finale was built on the pairing of Sly Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" and "I Want to Take You Higher." King and his bandmates keyboard player Deshawn Alexander, sax player Dean Mitchell, and trumpet/trombone player Justin Johnson joined in, swelling the ensemble on stage to 16 musicians who played with a precision and passion that was far more spectacular than the fireworks display set off at the end of the show.
Scott McLennan covered music for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette from 1993 to 2008. He then contributed music reviews and features to The Boston Globe, The Providence Journal, The Portland Press Herald and WGBH, as well as to the Arts Fuse. He also operated the NE Metal blog to provide in-depth coverage of the region's heavy metal scene
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Q: "The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded" error message Let me start out by stating that I have already searched many sources for information or a resolution, but I have been unable to find a permanent solution.
Problem:
Randomly, for what appears to be no reason, the windows server starts to respond with the error message when it tries to access any network resource.  It does not matter if it is a networked drive, a UNC path or a symbolic link. Also, clients cannot reach the server either once this error starts to occur.  Remote Desktop states that the machine cannot be found when I try to connect.  PING will return the IP assigned, but it states request timed out. There is no information in the windows event log for this error.
The server is a VM running Windows Server 2016. There is only one virtual network card assigned and there are no segmented VLAN's.
Starting with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319504 - I realize that this is for an older version of windows, but I do in fact get "system error 68 has occurred" when I execute the command "net use *\server\folder" at the time that the server is producing the error. However, none of the ways to fix the problem work.
I have a hard time believing that all ephemeral ports have been utilized. Executing the command "netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp" currently displays that there are 16384 ports available for use.
Executing "netstat -ano" at the time the server is producing the error displays very few network resources in use (less than 50). The states are either listening or established.  There are no sessions or ports stuck in time_wait or close_wait.
Next, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929851/the-default-dynamic-port-range-for-tcp-ip-has-changed-in-windows-vista.  This article confirms what I am seeing for the dynamic range of ports, that it starts with 49152 instead of between 1024 and 5000. It also showed me the netsh command used above.
Most of the Google searches just point me back to support.microsoft.com/kb/319504, which is the first article that I went to or they are for an unrelated product (such as BizTalk or Exchange).
The VM has a light load.  There are not many clients connected. The only software that is currently installed is SQL Server 2016.
If I reboot the VM, the error goes away for a few days.  Then it comes back.  And the really weird thing is, I have 2 VM's that are acting this way.
The VM host machine is working without error.  And all of the other VM's on that host are working without error. The underlying network has no reported issues either. All machines are on the same domain.
I am at a loss on what is producing the error. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

A: I started having this same exact issue on a Windows Server 2016 Hypervisor. My netstat results show me about the same as the original post as far as established/listening connections - nothing out of the ordinary.
Here's where things get interesting:
I had set this hypervisor up as a Watchguard logging repository for the firewall and noticed that when the problematic connectivity issue kicks in, an element of this logging service has also failed. Not sure whether this failure is the chicken or the egg but the logging service uses PostgreSQL-8.2 and runs it as a service set to start 'Automatic'. The service is found to not be running and when I try to manually start it in this state it starts then stops. I noticed a few hung instances of postgres.exe process still running even though the service is stopped. If I end those processes, I can start the PostgreSQL-8.2 service and the server's network connectivity suddenly becomes normal again.
I'm not sure yet how to keep this from happening, though, or whether the PostgreSQL service is causing this or just a domino in a cascade of failures.
This might not be exactly what to look for in most cases but could be a clue to others to look for a service or process that has hung up network connectivity.

A: The network configuration of your VM is relevant here.  Please share it?
Though I'm more familiar with Linux than Windows, if you are using a simple bridge network, I could imagine this happening either due to resource exhaustion caused by one or more other nodes (two VMs and a host sharing an IP, and between them they use up all the ephems), or simply because the ephemeral port the system wishes to use is already in use by another VM or the host itself and Windows naively assumes that it has exclusive rights to all ports, meaning that a failure to bind on min(in_use_port + 1, max_port) unambiguously indicates an exhaustion of ports.  The one aspect of this that doesn't fit this hypothesis is that ping isn't responding.  Ping is ICMP, and has nothing to do with availability of ephemeral ports, or lack thereof.

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Resignation, Impeachment or Repentance: The One Thing that Could Save Governor Bentley (opinion)
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (Photo: (Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (Photo: (Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)
By Chris Reid
Last year, rumors began circulating concerning Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and his adviser, Rebekah Mason. Following the release of an illicit audio recording of the two, serious allegations came to light of a affair between Governor Bentley and Mrs. Mason. Alabama's House Judiciary Committee is currently overseeing an impeachment investigation concerning a separate but related allegation of misuse of state funds by the governor. It's been over a year since complaints against the governor were filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission. Governor Bentley adamantly denies any such claims, though he and his wife have since divorced.
Governor Bentley returned to the spotlight this month when hospitalized at Baptist Medical Center South overnight for an irregular heartbeat. News of the trip left many wondering how long Bentley's tenure in office would continue. Republican Representative Ed Henry, lead proponent of the governor's impeachment, spoke with reporters last week. According to Rep. Henry, the House will act on the Articles on Impeachment in the very near future, "pending the outcome of a senate trial." Henry continued that, in order to avoid impeachment, the governor would have to resign by mid-April.
There hasn't been much public polling, but what little polling is out there puts Governor Bentley's approval ratings in the teens. In fact, a poll done by a BSC professor last June showed governor Bentley with a 17% approval rating, and the current news cycle is likely going to drop the number even further. If the 17% number is accurate, then it would be one of the lowest approval ratings of a sitting governor since the invention of polling. Governor Bentley has completely lost the trust of the people of this state and is therefore unable to lead. The state legislature does not take him seriously and although he carries the formal power of Governor, he has lost all moral authority.
The scandal with Rebekah Mason has cost the Governor more than he could have ever imagined. He lost his wife of 50 years, his relationship with his children is strained, and he is facing potential criminal charges if he used state funds to cover up this affair. Regardless of the legal outcome of the case, there is nothing left for the governor after his term is over because his term was so marred by public scandal, it is unlikely that he would have many people willing to associate themselves with him. Yet, I believe that many people in Alabama would be willing to forgive the governor and potentially give him another chance if he would simply be willing to repent for what he has done. The governor needs to first seek forgiveness from God and his family, and then the people of this state deserve an honest account of what happened. Right now the polls are so low that there is no way the legislature is going to be able to find a way not to remove him from office, and if they failed to follow through with impeachment, then the people of this state could throw out many of them in the next cycle. Governor Bentley started his administration talking about loving his brothers and sisters in Christ, and by taking a stand on faith issues, he has held himself out to be someone who trusts in the Lord. Regardless of any voter's particular faith, all of us understand what sincere repentance looks like. Bentley's apologies to this point have in no way dealt with the real issues of breaking trust with his family and the people of this state. He has done some good things as governor, and I would hope that when the history books are written, they don't just discuss the sex scandal. The only person who can make this choice is the governor, and I believe that sincere and contrite repentance could restore his governorship and hopefully restore his relationship to his family. The point of writing this isn't to attack the governor but to encourage him to do the right thing and see how gracious both God and the people of this state would be to him because like I said he has done many positive things for this state and is a very bright governor.
The scriptures teach in Proverbs 16:18-19 that, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud." This verse cautions all those who seek power. It takes courage to ask for forgiveness and to acknowledge one's own shortcomings. It is my hope that Bentley will recognize the error of his ways. After all, "what shall it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul?" (Mark 8:36). It is far more important to have family than power. What good is having a seat in the Governor's mansion if you have no one to come home to? Bentley is in control of his own actions moving forward. If he asks for forgiveness and truly gives himself to God, only then will he find peace and reconciliation. Bentley has already lost so much, and if he is unable to find humility with God, he stands to lose even more. He has already lost his wife and the support of constituents. He must be careful to not lose sight of God as well, for without God, undoubtedly we have nothing.
No matter Bentley's actions, we are likely to see some form of a conclusion to this matter in the next few weeks. The Ethics Commission is meeting April 5, and they are expected to release a report on their findings. Whether it is by means of an impeachment or resignation, Bentley's tenure as Governor will soon come to an end if he doesn't act soon. For his own good, I hope Governor Bentley is able to own up to the mistakes he has made and accept the consequences humbly that are to come.
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Are Europeans Giving Up on Europe?
Countries like Italy and Spain are turning away from the world, with grave consequences for the European project.
By Moisés Naím
A protester participates in a demonstration against government austerity measures in Oviedo, Spain, on November 29. (Reuters)
The collective mood of a nation mired in a prolonged economic recession shows many of the symptoms of clinical depression: despair, fatalism, an inability to make decisions, lack of motivation, and irritability. This is one of the impressions I got from a recent trip to Spain and Italy, two nations I know well and visit often. While both countries have recently made small strides on the path to recovery, I nevertheless came away with the strong sense that their economies are in recession and their societies are in depression. In the course of my travels, I also felt more than ever before that Europeans have fallen out of love with Europe—or, more precisely, with the idea of building a Europe-wide union.
Hopelessness and irascibility are present in spades in statements by politicians, activists, and opinion leaders, and in media reports on the mood of the "people in the street." Pessimism is the default attitude, and there is a notable paucity of the kinds of exciting ideas and proposals that energize society. All of this is understandable. When a family suffers a major trauma, it is natural for its members to react by becoming more self-absorbed and withdrawing from the world. The same is true for countries.
In both Italy and Spain—two of the hardest-hit economies in Europe—I found a tendency to turn inward and focus on events at home rather than developments abroad. My visit to Spain, for example, coincided with an incident in the Catalan Parliament in which a lawmaker took off his sandal and threatened Rodrigo Rato, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, who was testifying at a hearing about the large, bailed-out Spanish bank he had led, Bankia.
Pessimism is the default attitude, and there is a notable paucity of exciting ideas and proposals.
Naturally, the incident attracted a lot of media attention; almost everyone with whom I spoke in Spain mentioned it. What received significantly less press was the news that on that same day, in Beijing, Chinese officials had unveiled major economic reforms at the Communist Party's Third Plenum. I noticed the same inward-looking attitude in Italy. For the past two decades, any visit to the country has been bound to coincide with some attention-grabbing news about Silvio Berlusconi and his relationship with power and, inevitably, women. This time was no different, with the buzz centering on the lead-up to the Italian Senate's expulsion of the former Italian prime minister. And yet, if the decisions made at the Third Plenum help China avoid an abrupt economic slowdown that would harm the global economy—and prolong Italy and Spain's economic troubles—then what happened in Beijing will have a far greater impact on the lives of Italians and Spaniards than the theatrics of Catalonia's sandal-toting legislator or the travails of Italy's former prime minister. Despite these realities, I found that even well-informed elites in these countries are paying little attention to what is going on in China—or in the rest of the world, for that matter.
In fact, the "the rest of the world" increasingly seems to be a mere blip on the radar of many Spaniards and Italians. And, sadly, "the rest" now even includes Europe. Growing indifference to a European project that promised much and has fallen short of high initial expectations has been noticeable for some time now. And the region's economic crisis, with its uncertain future and legacy of massive unemployment, has deepened disappointment and disinterest in the European Union. Granted, there is support for some of the more tangible features of the EU, like free trade and more open borders that facilitate the movement of people. But there is little backing for a more united Europe, and I could not find anyone during my trip who felt that deeper integration could spur the economic growth that crisis-stricken countries desperately need. On this subject, the opinions of Italians and Spaniards are consistent with those of their fellow Europeans. According to the Eurobarometer, a survey of 27 EU member countries, half of all citizens are pessimistic about the future of the European Union as an institution, and 69 percent express no confidence in it at all. Two-thirds feel as if their voice is meaningless in the decisions taken by the EU.
These responses are as serious as they are easy to understand. Many factors feed the gloom and doom about the EU. The continent's five-year-old economic crisis has been deeply damaging, and the EU is widely perceived as being complicit in imposing the austerity policies that have created a strong social and political backlash. Moreover, European leaders are perceived as remote, bureaucratic, and opaque, not to mention lacking in charisma. To many, the European project now feels like a dull and irrelevant initiative at best—and a dangerous, intrusive, and expensive one at worst.
This can and must change. Europe needs to once again seduce the millions of Europeans who no longer believe that the project of building a more united continent will directly benefit them and their families. The problems that are undermining the European project are numerous and well-known. But perhaps the greatest threat to the union is that Europe has lost its luster among its own people. Just think how remote the "welcome parties" that greeted the euro's introduction in 2002 in cities like Athens and Berlin feel today. The European project needs leaders who are able to persuade voters that a grand and vigorous Europe is possible. The best antidote to the region's depression may very well be a strong dose of integration.


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Two Arrested In New Britain Shooting Investigation
By KATHLEEN MCWILLIAMS and KRISTIN STOLLER
NEW BRITAIN — Two men have been arrested in connection with an early Sunday morning shooting in New Brite Plaza, police said.
Milton Figueroa, 26, of South Whiting Street, and Roberto Alicea, 24, of Atwood Street, were arrested and charged with criminal possession of a firearm and assault, police said. The shooting was connected to the meeting of a local car club, police said.
Three people suffered gunshot wounds during the shooting, which occurred around 4 a.m. at 220 E. Main St., police said. Alicea and Figueroa each sustained gunshot wounds during the disturbance.
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Alicea was already in police custody on a related weapon violation at the time of his arrest, police said. He is being held on $125,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court in New Britain on Monday.
Figueroa was additionally charged with criminal use of a firearm and is currently on a police hold at an area hospital, police said. Upon his release from the hospital, he will be held on a $350,000 bond.
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A new white paper by Upstart Co-Lab published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco proposes greater alignment between capital under the Community Reinvestment Act and the creative economy.
Creative places and businesses have been an integral part of comprehensive community development for decades. Research and experience have shown how nonprofit and for-profit cultural institutions and creative enterprises stabilize threatened communities by improving public safety, reducing obesity and raising academic attainment, and that the presence of creatives benefit regions looking to attract and develop quality jobs.
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Home Books UK Still Breathing: The True Adventures Of The Donnelly Brothers – book review
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Still Breathing: The True Adventures Of The Donnelly Brothers – book review
Carl Stanley
Still Breathing: The True Adventures of the Donnelly Brothers (Black and White Publishing)
Authors: Anthony Donnelly and Christopher Donnelly with Simon Spence
Due out 7th Nov
For Louder Than War Carl Stanley reviews a brilliant new book, Still Breathing, which tells the story of the guys behind fashion labels Gio Goi and Your Own. Says Carl "It's a classic "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" memoir locked within the world of fashion – compulsive reading for any fan of music, acid house, fashion, youth culture, football culture, Manchester's underworld and of course the city itself. And it's the best book I've read this year, simples.
Manchester is a city full of energy, street smarts and artistic verve, stuff that has been pumping through the city for over forty years now. However, contrary to popular belief it hasn't been generated by the clubs, the music or the drugs, but rather by the people themselves. And probably nowhere is it better epitomised than in the larger than life Donnelly brothers and their own very unique life stories.
Two unlikely working class heros born in and around Manchester's underworld, they made their own moves by seizing the hedonistic times of acid house and the rave-era and went on to build the multi-million pound Manchester fashion label Gio Goi and then to turn it into an empire.
But it's as much about how they did it as what they did.
From the books opening pages it's made quite clear who you're dealing with. An honest and rather moving opening foreword from Oliver Wilson is followed by ten pages of comments, memories and thoughts on the boys from a range of artists, music and fashion industry names and well-known friends who include Howard Marks, actor Max Beesley, Plan B, Noel Gallagher and even Curtis Warren.
It's obvious there's much admiration and fondness for The Donnelly's, on many levels.
Damien Hirst:
"I met the Donnelly's at Glastonbury years ago when they were always hanging out with uncompromising madmen like Bez and Kieth Allen. Their story is fucking insane, but it just goes to show what you can do if you aim high and don't compromise – with a heart of gold and balls of steel, coming from nothing doesn't mean you can't become something mega!."
Plugged into Still Breathing is, from the off, an easy story to get into, and that's coming from someone who's been known to miss out the first few chapters here and there from the occasional biography. Those pages are normally devoted to intimate growing pains and school memoirs and most of the time they aren't that much different than our own early years. But by page six, and with no sign of my lazy-arse reading antics kicking in, I found myself firmly hooked into the story of the Donnellys up-bringing, one which makes Shameless seem like Little House on the Prairie; rum lads indeed, but extremely funny and clever with it.
It's a page to page, chapter to chapter adventure and without getting too lost in detail it kinda mirrors that of the fast-paced and edgy lives the brothers both led themselves – and there's no need for any hype either. The book showcases a wicked sense of humor fused within a straight talking, honest narrative courtesy of writer Simon Spence, and it has you willing them on as they go on to build their clothing empire. It just keeps moving, from one scenario to the next.
So, born into the world of Manchester's underworld via their father Arthur's scrapyard and his links to the infamous Quality Street Gang, it provides the pair with a much valued and insightful apprenticeship for the moves they go on to make. Going on to form part of the cities burgeoning casual look, a look which they describe as 'Terrace', the boys would quickly find themselves with one foot in club culture another in football violence and a third in making money, which naturally leads to staging their own parties. Their first party, 'Sweat it Out' in October '88 was attended by such people as New Order and a pre-Oasis Noel Gallagher also serves as Manchester's very first illegal warehouse party – the brothers entrepreneur career was starting to kick in. Their first foray into the fashion world comes via flogging bootleg T-shirts on the European circuit as well as grafting on football away trips while relieving foreign boutiques of their finest lactose, it's from these activities that the Donnelly Brothers fashion empire spawn. Soon they'd be producing their own group T-shirts which their friends would travel Europe selling at gig.
Anthony Donnelly:
"We would always challenge other people. We've always had a 'fuck-you' attitude. It was our friends who were selling the T-shirts for other people so I knew I already had the workforce, all we needed was the product."
Christoper Donnelly:
"Anthony had the foresight, he said 'why are we buying T-shirts to sell off to other people? Lets make our own. He ended up in this warehouse on Oldham Rd with all these Littlewood's seconds he'd got off fellas our dad put him in touch with. Our pal, a designer, got this U2 T-shirt made and all the other concerts sellers paid to use his artwork. It was shit hot, just as good as the official T-shirt."
Many moves, deals and much hard graft later and they came up with their very own fashion label, Gio-Goi, going on to become a celebrated label of British streetwear and casual clothing. Everything was paying off with some of the biggest names in music, sport and TV all donning Gio-Goi (including the late great Amy Winehouse, Calvin Harris, Plan B, Pete Doherty, Kate Moss, Arctic Monkeys, Robbie Williams, Rihanna + many more). The Donnelly Brothers had built a multi-million label and had lived life to the fullest, a life we can all only dream of. But it all changed the day police moved in on them both for alleged conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to supply drugs.
"Eight addresses and the Gio Goi warehouse done. There were eighty police raiding the warehouse with the Armed Response. One hundred and twenty officers it took, all told. They were on me, Chris and Dad, John Faulkner and anyone who was around us at the time. The front page in the paper said 'Fashion Brothers Arrested in Drugs Raid'. Allegedly we were key players."
Even though Chris's charges were in the end dropped Anthony went on to be charged with supplying Diazepam which he received a nine month stretch in Strangeways for, and so Gio-Goi was put on the back burner. Eventually though the brothers re-united to take Gio-Goi to the next level, but it wasn't exactly what they were expecting. An investment by the corporate Melville Capital saw the label moving towards a more commercial market which proved to be a real turn of for the Donnellys.
Christopher Donnelly:
"Gio-Goi was now totally commercial. We were getting slagged off in the press, called a 'chav' brand. I read one thing that talked about 'tribes of youths' at Global gathering, Ibiza and Marbella all Gio-Goi'd up to their eyeballs. When the youths of Great Britain went on the rampage in the summer of 2011 there was a noticeable amount of Gio-Goi being worn – and not just in the Manchester riots. People were beginning to sneer at the label. It had become a load of corporate people trying to recreate what we did and doing it badly. They were putting shit like 'Party hard' on t-shirts, we wanted to die with embarrassment."
Both Chris and Anthony are still involved in Gio-Goi, but for them it's more about their new label Y.O. (Your own). Working on the ideal of 'Your Own' being more than just another clothing label, but a way of life, they're back to what they seemingly do best with a plan to eventually make the label into a £1 billion company … and who's to doubt them?
"Its been fun doing 'Your Own'. I actually feel more alive working on the new projects because it has been such a chore with Gio-Goi for the past two years. Working with people you have no respect for is not cool. With YO we can do what we want and it is working – Yo is getting more and more attention. It's being stocked in credible independent stores, cool stores such as Presidents in Shoreditch that's run by our pals. It's about the vibe, a lot of brands are faceless."
I've reviewed some fantastic books this year for Louder Than War, like Simon Mason's 'Too High, Too Far, Too Soon' and 'Personal Situations with Oasis 92/96' – and they've been some of my favorite reads of the year – but Still Breathing takes the biscuit. It's a story as good as any biography on your favorite Manchester band (who are all more or less featured in the book at some point) and is a classic "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" memoir locked within the world of fashion – compulsive reading for any fan of music, acid house, fashion, youth culture, football culture, Manchester's underworld and of course the city itself – best book I've read this year, simples.
Get a copy of 'Still Breathing; The True Adventure Of The Donnelly Brothers' HERE.
Your Own Clothing website is here.
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Thursday formally declared his intention to run against President Muhammadu Buhari in next year's presidential poll.
Buhari is seeking a second term on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Speaking at a meeting with youth and young political aspirants in Abuja, Saraki promised to deliver if elected, and that under his presidency it would no longer be business as usual.
Youths at the event tagged 'Public dialogue on Youth candidacy in Nigeria', hailed the Senate President as he announced his bid for the highest office in the land.
2.From my interactions with many of you, and with your contemporaries across the country, I can see that we are blessed with a determined generation that stands ready to join with us to power a Nigerian renaissance. The quality of people I see here today affirms my belief that, indeed, you are Not Too Young To Run.
3.I deeply appreciate this opportunity to share some of my ideas about where we are as a nation, as well as the challenges before us as we approach the great decider that is the 2019 General Elections.
4.It is widely acknowledged that ours is a relatively 'young' country bursting with tremendous energy, ability and potential. More than 70 per cent of our population is under the age of 40. You are indeed the future of this country. Ordinarily, such a young population would be the envy of many Western countries that are faced with ageing populations, but the dire state of our affairs tarnishes the youthful advantage that we have.
5.Up and down our country today, Nigerians are crying out for succour. Many of our children are hungry. Many people are dying of avoidable or otherwise treatable diseases. Many have fallen below basic living standards, and are now among the 87 million that sealed Nigeria's position as the country with the highest number of people in extreme poverty. Our young people lack opportunities. The necessary education facilities and system to equip them for the future simply do not exist. We are not creating the jobs needed to usefully engage them in order to grow our economy. And too often, the youth feel shut out, prevented from having any say in the direction of this nation.
6.The harsh conditions of extreme poverty faced by the people, fuels the state of insecurity all over the country. Hunger, lack of education and lack of opportunities push many Nigerians into criminal activities including terrorism. Many of our communities are paralysed with fear – due to incessant communal crises, kidnappings and other social ills, as well as the threat of terrorism. We are failing abysmally to tackle the problems of today and to prepare for the future.
20.I offer leadership driven by empathy. Where leaders are responsive to the citizens. Where they know that government cares. We will not be indifferent or turn a blind eye to the real concerns of our people. Every single Nigerian life matters.
22.As a former two-term Governor and currently President of the Senate by the grace of God, I believe I possess a unique blend of executive and legislative experience to push for and implement reforms that will deliver real improvements in the daily lives of our people. I know what it takes to create jobs and grow the economy. I can make the tough decisions when it matters. I will spearhead a new agenda that can transform the lives of ordinary Nigerians in real terms.
I therefore ask you and all well-meaning Nigerians to join hands with me in this noble cause.


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Watergate office building where famous 1972 break-in occurred sells for $101.5M
The purchaser plans to add a museum dedicated to the Nixon-era event
By Andrew Giambrone Sep 27, 2019, 3:17pm EDT
The Watergate office building as seen from the former Howard Johnson Premier Hotel across the street (2005)
The Watergate office building at the heart of the famous 1970s scandal that took down former President Richard Nixon has a new owner after a $101.5 million deal announced Friday. Situated at 2600 Virginia Avenue NW, the building was purchased by developer Brian Friedman, who plans to add "a sports book, restaurants, an urban athletic club, a co-working office, and a Nixon museum celebrating the break-in that occurred at this building," according to a release. Part of the iconic Luigi Moretti-designed complex, the building went through a multimillion-dollar renovation over the past three years under Rockwood Capital.
Those updates, including a new lobby, fitness center, and bike storage, helped the building reach 90 percent occupancy by the time it went on the market earlier this year, Bisnow and WTOP reported. "We are very excited about what we have planned at The Watergate Office Building and what it will bring to the neighborhood," Friedman said in a statement. His firm, Friedman Capital, formerly has invested in Adam's Morgan's Line Hotel and other bulidings.
At 11 stories and roughly 230,000 square feet, the Watergate office was constructed in 1967. Rockwood acquired it for $75 million at the end of 2016, property records show. In 1972, the building was the site of the Democratic National Committee headquarters break-in that led to Nixon's 1974 resignation. It is connected to the 336-room Watergate Hotel, the subject of a $125 million overhaul completed in 2016. The total 10-acre complex also features residences.
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Jack Plotnick Talks "Space Station 76," Gay & Straight Actors and "Disaster!"
by Jim Halterman 12/30/2014
At SXSW in March for Space Station 76: (l-r) Jack Plotnick, Marisa Coughlin,
Matt Bomer, Kali Rocha & Patrick Wilson (Getty)
For me, one of the best surprises of 2014 was the film Space Station 76. Written and directed by Jack Plotnick, the comedy follows the depressed and emotionally desperate residents of a remote space station. The film parodies sci fi films produced in the seventies, with costumes and sets inspired by 70's design and laughably cheesy special effects. But the plot is all suburban melodrama– cheating wives, closeted co-workers and catty neighbors. The best I can describe it is Spaceballs meets The Ice Storm. Also, Matt Bomer, Matthew Morrison and Patrick Wilson together in the same movie? Sign me up.
Eye candy aside, the film just pulls you into its comedic mayhem and holds you in its grasp. Wilson plays the space station's captain, and he's a mess because he hasn't been able to accept his homosexuality. (Morrison plays his former lover). Meanwhile, Bomer plays the ship's mechanic who is stuck in an unhappy marriage. And, yes, we get to see him looking as fine as ever with some very sexy facial scruff.
For fans of the work of Jack Plotnick, none of what is in Space Station 76 probably comes as a surprise. He's appeared in roles on shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Mentalist, in the online series Paragon School For Girls and as his drag persona Evie Harris in the film, Girls Will Be Girls.
The Backlot talked to Plotnick recently about Space Station 76, Paragon and his upcoming take on all those fabulous disaster movies from the 1970s.
The BackLot: How did you bring Space Station 76 together? I know after the screening in LA you said it was a long time coming to fruition.
Jack Plotnick: You know, it's like climbing your own personal Mount Everest. It's like having a dream come true. This has been my passion project for years and having it turn out better than I even dreamed it would is a wonderful thing. Seeing it in lights, what's on the screen is exactly what I had envisioned and feeling like everybody from the actors to the designers to the crew, everybody got it. They brought it to life in a way that exceeded my expectations, so that's a real high.
I still see the argument on occasion about gay actors playing gay roles and straight actors playing straight roles, I'm curious what was your thinking was in how you cast Matt and Patrick in their roles?
JP: I was just focused totally on my incredible respect and admiration for Patrick Wilson and Matt Bomer as actors. I think they're both flawless and both so perfect for the roles they played. I never thought, 'well, that character's gay so it better be played by a gay guy' but at the same time I have no issues whatsoever with casting a gay man in a straight role, I mean, that would be ludicrous.
It's a surprising role for Patrick in that he doesn't usually play that type, meaning the character is just less likable than Patrick usually plays. On top of that, it's such a comedic role for him and I'm so excited for people to see how funny Patrick Wilson is because he is hysterical as a person, as a performer and in this role. But what I love, too, is when I watch his performance, the incredible truth he brings to the role. He finds a way to find show this guy's heartbreak that is so funny.
So tell me where the idea for the film came from?
JP: What I did was I invited some of my favorite actors to my apartment and I had this idea which was that I wanted to explore what it was like to be a child growing up in the summer of the 70s, which was my experience, but I wanted to tell it in sort of an artistic way by setting it in the future as we had imagined it would be in the 70s. I had a very specific tone in my mind and the actors all immediately got it and were so game and they created these incredible characters.
Were you a big sci-fi fan growing up?
JP: Oh, my God. It was such a part of my childhood, I mean, I was obsessed with the future as we had imagined it then with sci-fi films like 2001 and Logan's Run and Star Wars and even Empire Strikes Back a little later. So, that was just part of my childhood and that's probably part of why I decided to do it that way.
But on top of that just setting it in this perfect future we dreamed of but that never came to be seemed to me to be the perfect allegory for what my parents experienced. And setting it on this solitary spaceship in the middle of nowhere to me really spoke to what it would be like to be in the suburbs, be that sort of isolation and at the same time claustrophobia and feeling like you're missing out some. It is to me, in an artistic sense it made sense in my gut and so it's kind of like this dramedy or dark comedy but that's also an homage to all those great films that I loved so much.
Bomer goes for the scruff in playing an unhappily married mechanic in SS76.
I also saw you in Paragon School For Girls, which I fell in love with. How did that come into your life?
JP: I will be involved in anything Jim Hanson does. I think he is a genius and I think that Paragon School for Girls is a masterpiece. He created an entire world and you've never seen anything like this before but at the same time he really understands all the rules of what makes a great adventure, fantasy show and at the same you can really get involved in the story and this thrilling fantastical adventure. It's hysterical to not only just what happens but just the heightened reality of it and it just kills me, these little girls played by young men and the fact that it's all in a dollhouse.
It's a Herculean task he pulled off and I was lucky enough to get to watch him do it and process and it was fascinating how he did it. The whole show was in his head but we all just saw our own little part. A lot of the actors never acted across from another actor. It was all by themselves on a green screen. I just totally trusted him because I knew was going to be great. It should be a TV show.
This is my favorite kind of thing and why I work with the people I work with like Richard Day and Bobcat Goldthwait and Jim Hansen. Why I'm so attracted to these filmmakers is they make things work on more than one level and that's what I was going for with Space Station 76, like it's more than one thing. It asks you to care about the people but also be willing to laugh at their pain. I love dramedy and when you mix comedy and drama it's my favorite thing because that's real life and that's what Jim did.
Tell me about your next project.
I have my musical, which I co-wrote and directed on off-Broadway earlier this year. It got rave reviews. It's called Disaster! It's a 1970s disaster movie musical [co-written with Seth Rudetsky], all hit songs from the '70s, and it's like everything that could go wrong goes wrong. There are people on a floating casino on the Hudson River in Manhattan in 1978 and everything that could happen, I mean, earthquakes, tidal waves, fire, bees, sharks, rats, everything. But it is a new story, not a parody. You don't have to have seen the movies to get it and the way the songs are used is always surprising and funny but it's also got a lot of heart. [A reading and Actors Fund raiser for Disaster will be held at The Los Angeles Theater Center on January 25th. For more information on attending, visit the website.]
To watch Space Station 76, check out the website and your On-Demand service. For more on Paragon School For Girls, visit the website. You can also follow Plotnick on Twitter and his website.
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Experience the deeper spirit of this beautiful place
From the first "Aloha" heard upon arrival in Hawaii, followed by a lei and a kiss that brings the sweet breath of flower-scented air, many visitors describe a sense of joy and peace [laule'a] washing over them. Hawaii draws people from all walks of life to relax and play amidst its majestic volcanoes, mountains, white sand beaches and impossibly blue ocean. You can feel the healing begin with soft breezes, pure air, crystal skies, brilliant stars and heavenly music. Hawaii boasts amongst the healthiest and longest-lived people in the US, and the reasons include all the above. But there is much more to this story – the peoples of Hawaii maintain health through a deep sense of meaning and connection in their lives that goes well beyond reverence for the natural environment. Music, sustainable food, being in nature, love of family, appreciation for the wisdom of elders, sharing of resources, practicing rituals of the heart and spirit; they all mean that Aloha is more than a word, it is a way of life. We invite you into this local lifestyle to share precious healing experiences that tap the wisdom and Aloha of Hawaii's Kumu's (masters), Kahuna (wise elders) and local healers.
Me, My Selves and "I" – Kumu Ramsay introduces us to the spiritual practice of healing mentally, physically and spiritually known as the sacred ritual of Ho'oponopono.
The Secret Art & Science of Lua [the Hawaiian martial art of self defense] – Kumu Ramsay introduces us to the way of the Hawaiian Warrior and the martial art of Lua. Banned in the 1840s when missionaries arrived in Hawaii, the teaching of lua became a lost art. Reborn in 1991, only a few people know and practice Lua today.
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Experience a personal renewal and reawakening of your spirit and senses on this exclusive adventure guided by Kumu Ramsay Taum. Normally reserved as a tour for dignitaries, Kumu Ramsay leads you through this awakening, becoming one with the water as it flows to the sea [wai to kai].
Join him as he guides you into a 1500 ft sacred tunnel under the Ko'olau Mountains to drink and bathe in water purified through the volcanic rock. This experience can only be described as bathing in the purest waters of life. It literally rains on you from the source, and leaving the tunnel is like a rebirth from the womb of Papa [Hawaiian earth mother]. We follow the path of water as it makes its way to the ocean, bringing life and nutrients to rich lo'i kalo [taro fields] and loko 'i'a [fishponds]. This is life as the ancient Hawaiians knew and lived, reintroduced to us by Kumu and the community that cares for these Hawaiian treasures of taro and fish.
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SCHOLAR, HIP-HOP ARTIST AHMAD ALI LEWIS TO DELIVER LBCC COMMENCEMENT KEYNOTE
Ahmad Ali Lewis, a hip-hop artist, scholar, social worker, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and Long Beach City College valedictorian from the Class of 2008, will return to the campus June 8 to deliver the keynote address at the 2017 LBCC Commencement. The ceremony will take place at Veterans Memorial Stadium at 4 p.m.
"The LBCC community is thrilled to welcome back Ahmad Lewis as our commencement speaker," said LBCC President Dr. Reagan Romali. "His amazing journey exemplifies the best of what LBCC has to offer and how far our Viking graduates can go in life."
At 17, Lewis rose to fame as the rap artist Ahmad, best known for writing and performing the classic hip-hop song "Back in the Day." He co-founded the Los Angeles-based hip-hop fusion band 4th Avenue Jones, which released several albums and toured internationally with legendary acts including Stevie Wonder, The Black Eyed Peas and Sheryl Crow.
More than a decade later, Lewis enrolled at Long Beach City College where he graduated at the top of his class with an associate degree in liberal arts. Following graduation, he transferred to Stanford University with a scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which offers the nation's largest private scholarships for two-year and community college students transferring to selective four-year colleges and universities.
Lewis graduated from Stanford in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. This year, he is completing a master's degree in social work at the University of Southern California where he was both a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation graduate scholar and a Dean's Leadership Scholar.
Today, Lewis works with children, youth and families as a clinical social worker in addition to recording new songs and writing a self-help book chronicling his experiences in the music industry and academia. He also has launched We Celebrate Life + People, or WeCLAP, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering communities through partnerships that support social entrepreneurship, education and advocacy.
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CNG can be bad for health
Mind Body By Himanshu Sharma , Onlymyhealth editorial team / Aug 14, 2015
CNG is not dangerous when it's sealed up tight inside pipes and used in the right way. However, it cannot be called environment friendly until it really keeps the environment clean and cuts health risks.
Compressed natural gas, mostly referred to as CNG, is touted to be an environment friendly fuel alternative. But is it truly so?
CNG is aggressively being promoted and has become the preferred fuel for operating vehicles in Indian metros. Sad to say, recent studies have raised the concern over particle size and distribution of the exhaust from an IC (internal combustion) engine of CNG-driven vehicles.
Carcinogenic nano carbon particles
According to a study conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), vehicles running on CNG emit dangerous carcinogenic nano carbon particles.
Researchers from the Alberta University in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, developed a machine that measures particle size and distribution of the exhaust from an engine of CNG-driven vehicles. The device was put on the exhaust tail pipe of a natural gas-powered DTC bus in Delhi which rode around the city thereafter. They found nano carbon particles coming out of the exhaust of the CNG bus.
How do nano carbon particles affect health?
Nano carbon particles floating in the atmosphere can enter your lungs straight through your nose. Thereafter, these particles can penetrate into the membranes and into your blood. The particles are rich in polynuclear aromatics, which is carcinogenic.
Carcinogenics or agents that cause cancer, are known to affect several organ systems and their development. These include the heart, blood vessels, digestive system, liver, immune system, nervous system, eyes, urinary system and lungs.
Other risk factors
Natural gas also emits lower levels of pollutants such as nitrogen and sulfur oxides, mercury and particulate matter. Also, natural gas is composed largely of methane, which if leaked unburned becomes a powerful greenhouse gas.
CNG is not dangerous when it's sealed up tight inside pipes and used in the right way. However, it cannot be called environment friendly until it really keeps the environment clean and cuts health risks. Strict measures are needed to protect quality of air. Besides, there is also a risk of contamination of nearby aquifers if a gas well is poorly built.
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Francis Bacon was born in Strand, London as the second of two sons to Sir Nicholas Bacon and his second wife, Anne. He spent most of his early life with his older brother near St. Albans in a location his father had purchased. A large part of Bacon's education started at home, where he received both Christian and classic education from tutors such as John Walsall, a graduate of Christ Church. Bacon would later attend Trinity College, Cambridge from April 1573 until December 1575, where he would study under Dr. John Whitgift, the future archbishop of Canterbury; Whitgift would provide such classical texts as the Iliad, Plato and Aristotle, and some works by Cicero, among others. Because of the shift into Renaissance humanism, Bacon's texts focused on philosophy, rhetoric, and history.
Bacon would travel abroad at the age of 15; one of these instances opened an opportunity for Bacon to stay with a civil lawyer, which would later influence his approach to legal thinking and reform. Bacon's stay in France ended, however, upon his father's death in February 1579. As the youngest son, Bacon received no money or title.
While studying law, Bacon was employed December 1580 as a translator. By his twentieth birthday, Bacon became one of the new members in parliament. Bacon also displayed increased sympathy to the Puritan plight in England and criticized his former tutor John Whitgift for his oppressive treatment of Puritans in a tract that became one of Bacon's earliest extant longer writing. Another writing, "An advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England" functioned as a keynote to Bacon's political career, satirically tackling the conflict between the Church of England and nonconformists.
In the 1590s, Bacon developed an interest in natural philosophy, later producing works in the field. His first published philosophical work, The Two Bookes of Francis Bacon: of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, was his only philosophical work published in English. It was divided into two books: the first defending learning's importance, while the other focused on the current state of human knowledge. The latter also suggested some methods for improvement. He focused on combining natural and experimental history in order to truly understand and uncover natural philosophy. He used his second book to suggest a reformed school to better align with these new ideas, invite potential patrons like Prince Henry to participate in the school's development.
In 1609, Bacon published De sapientia veterum. It contained thirty-one myths and interpretations of those myths. He also wrote a tract in 1611 called "De principiis atque originibus," which was meant to interpret myths and define principles and origins, but was unfinished. Another unfinished work, the "Descriptio globi intellectualis" surveyed the state of knowledge and learning.
Following an impeachment from Parliament, which resulted in Bacon going to the Tower, Bacon was forced to forfeit his lease to York House to Buckingham in order to regain control of his financial situation. In order to aid the appeal of his impeachment, Bacon wrote The History of the Reign of the King Henry VII, dedicated to Prince Charles and published in 1622. Bacon would go on to undertake many other works until his death in 1626 from inhaled nitre or opiates used to alleviate symptoms of illness.
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Today I attended the FNB South Africa launch of the FNB Nav Cars application. This application allows FNB customers to renew their car licenses online which I think is super cool. I myself bank with FNB and can appreciate this functionality. One of the cars that I owned is registered in North West, and it is a huge hassle to get the license renewed. I cannot (or in the past) could not get the license disc renewed in Gauteng, and had to travel to the North West Province to get the licensed renew.
With the new app on the FNB app you (or I) can simply log into the FNB application, navigate to the NAV Cars application and renew the license from there. FNB also delivers the license to your door without any additional costs at the moment! – I cannot even begin to tell you how awesome I think this is. This is a true example of how FNB is making their clients lives much easier with integrations like this!
As part of the FNB application they launched today, you can also get your cars resale value online instantly and get important documents about your car through the FNB and Wesbank integration. Again, this is simply awesome and I think FNB deserves a award for their out of the box thinking!
Any case, at the event they had a BMW I3 and BMW I8 at the event, showcasing these awesome cars. As part of their exhibition they also had some Virtual Reality applications and 360° video at the event. As you know (or could have guessed from the site you are on https://virtual-reality.co.za) we are also into virtual reality and it was pretty cool to see a solution by another South African company doing virtual reality. We kinda dominate the Virtual Reality market in South Africa, and this was one of the first actual activation that I have seen in South Africa in which we were not directly involved. Although the guy demonstrating the VR to me told me that we provided them with a quote on Google Cardboard devices not so long ago.
I went and tried out the Virtual Reality experience of the BMW i8 and must say that I was impressed by the experience. The part that impressed me most was sitting in the actual BMW i8 and seeing the car in virtual reality in Google Cardboard while I was sitting in the actual car. I must congratulate BMW and FNB with their forward thinking, innovation and execution of this particular Virtual Reality experience. Sitting in an actual car (BMW i8) and seeing the car in VR with all the animations, the voice over and explanations were just brilliant and impressive!


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Looking for Love, round 1
Fifty shades of cray, bridal gowns & Houston back flips steal the show on TheBachelor premiere
Jennifer Chininis
Jan 8, 2013 | 9:04 am
Tierra gets a rose before she even make it in the house. This does not sit wellwith her competitors.
Photo courtesy of ABC
Lindsay, a substitute teacher, barrels out of the limo in a wedding dress.Shockingly, this does not get her booted from the house.
Sean grins wildly at every girl coming out of the limo. No judgment here. Thesegirls are pretty hot.
Drama, drama, drama. Isn't that why we love The Bachelor? The cat fights. The meltdowns. The catty comments. The tears. Predictably, this is how this Bachelor starts — with a montage of girls-behaving-badly moments.
Some of our favorite sound bites from the highlight reel:
"These girls are crazy."
"There are some dark horses in this house."
"I didn't come here to make best friends."
"I'm above everyone else, and I'm done with this conversation."
"All right, bitch. Game on."
It's quite a hornet's nest for Sean Lowe, the ultimate good guy, a man who loves his parents and his niece and nephew and God. Another montage shows the 6-foot-3 KSU football star at home in Dallas, talking about finding the kind of relationship his parents have.
To which we say, good luck with that.
We are clearly more cynical than this bachelor, who's been down this road, fell in love and lost. But he's the eternal optimist, his pearly white smile almost as pretty as his six-pack.
Before Sean meets his bachelorettes, he's visited by his former rival, Arie, who also vied for Emily's affection on The Bachelorette. Arie gives Sean a pep talk and a few pointers — including how to kiss properly. In a nutshell:
"The most important thing is eye contact."
"You've got to come in with the hands, slowly, not too fast. Dominant right hand, to play with the hair."
"One hand on hair, one hand on face."
"Pull them close. You're not just kissing. You're kissing with your whole body. ("That's good," Sean says. "I'm gonna write that down.")
"Very little tongue. It's almost like a teaser."
At the end of the Arie's visit, Sean is reflective. "He had a lot of good advice for me," he says. "I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to use any of it."
Too bad Arie didn't give him advice about what to do when a girl pulls a tie out from between her breasts and threatens to go all Fifty Shades of Grey on his ass.
Yes, the women reach into their bags of tricks to make an impression on this living Ken doll. Like Robyn from Houston, who botches a second back flip upon exiting the limo. (She gets a rose anyway.)
"She is a lot to take in," Sean says of Ashley P. "Fifty Shades of Grey may have become Fifty Shades of Drunk tonight."
Kelly, a cruise ship entertainer from Nashville, sings a little ditty she wrote herself. In the end, Sean doesn't appreciate her kind of music and withholds a rose, even though he initially declares, "I'm buying that single!"
Substitute teacher Lindsay goes big and arrives wearing a wedding gown. "Did I miss the memo?" Sean asks.
"You may now kiss the bride," she announces — then lays one on him.
"I'm such a prankster," she says. "I've got balls."
"I hope not," he replies.
Unlike previous iterations of the Bachelor, Sean takes liberties with the rose-giving, pausing the introduction parade to run inside after he first meets Tierra so he can hand her a rose before she ever steps foot in the house.
This does not sit well with the other girls. To make matters more complicated, Sean starts handing out roses during cocktail hour, in his one-on-ones. The bachelorettes are baffled. Will there be any roses left for the damn ceremony? They must take action.
Fifty Shades of Grey, a.k.a. hair stylist Ashley P., interrupts a conversation between Sean and one of the other ladies and proceeds to dance sexily in the background until her competitor gives up and walks off.
"I'm so scared for him right now," says one of the girls in the house.
"Someone needs to save him," whispers another.
No worries, girls! Sean's got a rape whistle! "In case I'm in trouble," he says.
"When you got dumped by Emily," Ashley P. tells Sean, "I called my mom and said, 'Mom, that is the guy I'm going to marry.'"
"That girl's a trip," Sean says later. "I don't even know where to start with her. She is a lot to take in. Fifty Shades of Grey may have become Fifty Shades of Drunk tonight."
And then Ashley P. falls down the stairs.
But she's not the only who has too much to drink. Prankster Lindsay is still looking for that first dance with her future husband. And then she asks him to sing. And wants another kiss.
"I swear I'm not contagious."
Mr. Nice Guy is trying to be polite. "You are too much," he says.
"Are you Mr. Traditional?" she asks.
"Probably a little bit more than you are."
Pay attention, ladies. These shenanigans work. Lindsay gets a rose.
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Students adjust to professors' sabbaticals
February 20th, 2013 Katia Duszenko Academics, Campus comments
Every few years, professors at the University of South Dakota take sabbatical leaves, where they are paid full or half salary by the university to research, travel or study.
This semester, six USD professors are on sabbatical leave, with some doing their research near Vermillion and others traveling overseas to conduct their work in a specialized environment.
USD Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Chuck Staben said sabbaticals are traditionally offered at universities every seventh year, as referenced in the name "sabbatical," a word which originates from "sabbath," meaning "the seventh."
USD is in keeping with this tradition; according to Staben, faculty members can be granted sabbatical leave after six or more consecutive years of full-time employment.
"Faculty members may be granted improvement or career-redirection leave after three consecutive years," Staben said. "Approval is contingent among a number of things. Sabbatical leave for nine months is for no more than two semesters at half-salary or not more than one semester full-salary."
Staben said there is a common misconception that sabbatical leaves are simply paid vacation for faculty members. He said in order for a professor's request for sabbatical to be honored, they must prove they can use their leave to contribute to the university.
"It's contingent upon a faculty member presenting plans for study, research or other experiences that are designed to improve the quality of service of the faculty member to the institution," he said. "So in essence, the faculty member's sabbatical leave must have a benefit to the institution by improving that faculty member's abilities, in some sense."
Staben said most sabbatical work centers on research.
"The most common sabbatical leaves have to do with conducting a research project, proving that faculty members do research," he said. "Sometimes we see ones that are based more on teaching, like learning a new means of teaching. Much more occasionally, you see something where the faculty member is doing something more related to service."
The classes vacated by professors on sabbatical leave are filled by the university in various ways. In some instances, temporary faculty are hired. Such an example can be found in Dorothea Merrill, a former high school teacher who has taken over Istvan Gombocz's German language courses while he is on sabbatical.
"I'm teaching German 102 and 202," Merrill said. "I retired in 2007, so I'm just here for the duration of Professor Gombocz's sabbatical as an adjunct professor."
Other times, current USD professors take on an extra class or two while their colleagues are on sabbatical. Timothy Schorn, head of the International Studies department, has been teaching several of Eric Jepsen's political science courses while Jepsen does research at a university in India.
"I taught Jepsen's section of World Politics in the fall and then I'm teaching his section of Governments of the World this spring semester," Schorn said. "We wanted to make sure these classes were still offered, because they're necessary for the International Studies major and the Political Science major, and if we didn't offer them the sections would have been too big. Since I taught them both, it was not too difficult, but it certainly has offered some work to my workload."
Students in the vacated classes, such as Mark White, are noticing a change in the curriculum now that they have been assigned new professors. White is taking German 202 with Professor Merrill this semester, which he says is "vastly different" than taking German courses with Professor Gombocz.
"I had Professor Gombocz for my first three semesters," White said. "His teaching methods and how he interacts with the students in relation to our period of study is different. And he always depended on technology, which is an absence from Professor Merrill's classroom."
White said much of the change comes from knowing what to expect from your professor.
"It has been difficult deciphering what expectations are wanted from Merrill," White said. "Since I had Gombocz for so long, one kind of develops a 'niche' to what he expects from someone."
Mitchell Wagner, who is taking German 102, said he had expected the change to be difficult, but that it has not been particularly challenging.
"The transition was easy because it was just like any other time switching classes at semester," he said. "You usually cannot expect to have the same professor. At first I thought it was going to be hard, especially after getting to know Dr. Gombocz so well. A language learning class is often very personal because you spend most class days talking to the professor. Professor Merrill did not know exactly how much German we spoke or how far along we were. After all that was figured out, however, things started moving along much faster."
Vonda Cotton, a non-traditional also taking German 102, notices a difference between Gombocz and Merrill.
"It's very different having Professor Merrill," Cotton said. "We speak the language out loud a lot more with Professor Merrill, and she reads the vocabulary to us so that we can get the correct pronunciation. She also utilizes the chalkboard by writing things so that it's easier for us to understand."
Despite this, Cotton said much of the material is the same.
"The learning materials are the same," she said. "I am still learning German, and I'm still using the same textbook. Had Professor Gombocz not taken sabbatical, I would still have learned the same material."
Katia Duszenko


The work is part of October salon collection of Cultural Center Belgrade.
Collaborative video performance that is drawing to attention the postwar situation in the frame of speaking about the past war. From our personal experiences we discover that it is impossible not to talk about the war in every day life.
In this performance we are trying to expose all the possible emotions we have about the fact that we speak about war constantly, but also to point on different aspects of talking about the war like for example, how nationalistic parties use constant reminders of the war in the media to hold on to power and foment nationalism among the people of the former Yugoslavia. Is it possible not to talk about the war? Why do we do it and when will it stop? Will we stop? Should we stop?
The position of inability to talk about the war outside the given frameworks of nationalistic narratives and simultaneous rejection of the positions of power perhaps open up the space for the discussions with the aim to diagnose the present – the discussions that have occasionally been held in the past on certain margins of society. It also, however, overlooks the affective turn in which this state of abjection becomes pervasive and indicative of a need to politically articulate the demand to "banish" the war and its consequences from our everyday lives, in the most basic existential meaning of social relations and economic state of society on the whole (even if that may merely be a social utopia).
Film Mutations: Festival Of Invisible Cinema 08 Parallel Film, Selected by Marina Gržinić, Kino Tuškanac, Zagreb (HR), screening, 2014.
Voyage to Europe – I Want To Speak About The War, Curated by Zorana Đaković and Mia David, The gallery Klović's Courts, Zagreb (HR), exhibition, 2014.
A Time for Dreams, IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, artistic director David Elliott, Museum of Moscow (RU), exhibition, 2014.
Video in Progress 5: Reflections of the Past, curated by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič, CUK Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (SI), screening, 2014.
I Will Never Talk About The War Again, curated by Vladan Jeremić, MMC KIBELA, Maribor (SI), exhibition, 2012.
I Will Never Talk About The War Again, psychosis, part I, curated by Vladan Jeremić, Färgfabriken – Centre for contemporary Art, Architecture, Society, Stockholm (SE), exhibition, 2011.
The Perspectives, Part 1 – The scope of the political practices of moving images today, TULCA – Festival of Visual Art, Curated by Vladan Jeremić, Galway (IE), sreening, 2011.