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Leicester City 2:0 Coventry City
Leicester managed back to back league victories for the first time this season with a comfortable 2-0 win over neighbours Coventry at the King Power Stadium on Saturday…
An unchanged City line-up dominated a poor Coventry side right from the start of the game and should have taken a 7th minute lead. Dyer slotted a ball between to defenders for Wellens to run on to but he was crudely tripped by Cranie for a blatant penalty. With regular spot-kick taker Gallagher not on the field Danns stepped up but his weak effort was saved just inside the right hand post by Murphy.
City soon made amends however, taking an 11th minute lead after more good work by Dyer. Double-marked out on the left, the winger showed a burst of pace to outstrip the Sky Blues defence. His cross was neatly gathered by Beckford whose shot on the turn was blocked by Murphy but only as far as Nugent who prodded home his 12th goal of the season, picking up a heavy knock which required a long spell of treatment in the process.
With Coventry looking shaky at the back good chances to extend City's lead were missed by St Ledger and Marshall.
The Sky Blues had their best spell of the game after the break, but Morgan marshalled his defence well and City were never really stretched.
It was City who got the decisive goal on the hour when a slick passing move involving Wellens and Nugent set Beckford up for a simple tap in at the near post.
Coventry hopes were briefly revived when they were awarded a ridiculous penalty after Morgan had completed a back pass to Schmeichel before Nimely ran into to him, but justice was served when the City keeper pulled off a fantastic save to deny Clingan.
City ended the game with ten men when Konchesky's waist high challenge on Nimely saw him receive a straight red, but there was never any doubt as to the destination of the three points.
City's slim hopes of a play-off place remain alive, while Coventry are looking down the barrel of the third division.
Nigel Pearson was retaining his belief: "Although we are eight points off the play-offs, the players are very confident, so there is still a chance. There's a long way to go yet, but the margin of error is getting tighter. If we show the same application we have in the last month or two, there is still a chance we can achieve something this season."
Leicester: Schmeichel, Peltier, Morgan, St Ledger, Konchesky, Marshall (Drinkwater 72), Danns, Wellens, Dyer, Beckford (Howard 80), Nugent (Schlupp 74). Unused Subs: Bamba, Kennedy.
Coventry: Murphy, Christie, Keogh, Cranie, Clarke,Bell (Baker 68),Norwood, Deegan (Clingan 71), McSheffrey (McDonald 79), Platt, Nimely. Unused Subs: Dunn, Cameron.
Referee: L Probert (Wiltshire). Attendance: 25,487.

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Play the Game Bear
Bad Taste Bears are highly collectable figurines normally with an adult theme. To date there are over 400 different Bad Taste Bear characters that form the ever increasing collection. If you are curious as to where the inspiration comes from or how a Bad Taste Bear is drawn check out the video below:
The above video is of the creator of the Bad Taste Bears characters Mr Pete Underhill drawing the latest bear in the collection – Play the Game Bear.
A crowdfunding campaign has recently been launched on Kickstarter by Clubit New Media to develop a mobile video game based around the Bad Taste Bears.
Play the Game bear is exclusively available for Kickstarter backers of the @BTBGame campaign. Click here to see how you can get yours.


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Why Do We Fall?
Why do we fall? is a series of portraits of hurt skaters after a fall. The first idea was to reuse skateboards given by the curator of the show. I chose to cut the boards to paint on it and to use the scraps to make shelves for the paintings and frames for the drawings. Concerning the paintings, I used oil-paint on the wood of the boards, which was a first for me. I tried to show off the blood and the bruises without being too gory and to find a way to summon colors who were not there on the reference images.
I hope to paint and draw more of these in order to make the installation grow for the next shows.
Speaking of the show, it's ending today as I write this. The exhibition is at its third edition, it debuted from Singapore, then extended to Malaysia, reaching Paris this spring. With each iteration adding approximately 10 artists from the hosting country, we were a total of 34 artists to display our work.


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It's never too soon to start considering children summer activities for your young athlete or health enthusiast. The YMCA offers a wide variety of seasonal and year-round programs that our young members can get excited about. As Tampa's most inclusive fitness club, we work with fitness fans of all ages and skill sets to provide athletic instruction in a fun and social manner.
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I just had a new PEG feeding tube installed in my tummy last Thursday at Assunta Hospital. All in all, the procedure and hospitalization cost MYR 7025.10. The surgery was performed by a gastrointestinologist, Dr Jeeta who was trained in India which seems to have made him a special solution centric, I mean, he doesn't talk anything needlessly but say what is important and what can move things forward. The surgery was assisted by Anatesialogist Dr Lam whom I heard resembles Kentucky Fried Chicken's, Colonel Sanders.
I have difficulty eating after two brain surgeries at NIH last year, it was because I had a very large tumour in the brain that engulfed my swallowing nerves among others. After the tumour was removed, the swallowing nerves remained irritated and needed time to return to normal. It has been taking more time than expected. I also have a paralyzed left vocal cord, immobile left palette and my throat muscles are weak. All these make eating pretty dangerous for me. I was given my first PEG tube after surgery last year. I used it for 9 months and had it taken out when my swallowing improved.
However, in the last few months, I seemed to have more difficulty to eat again.
In view of my upcoming surgery in Los Angeles, I decided it was time to put in a PEG tube again. This PEG tube is a cooler version, it is just a button in my abdomen. Whenever I am hungry, I would open the button and attached a small silicone tube to feed myself. After feeding, I would remove the tube and close back the button. Just like inspector gadget.
My first tube given by the NIH last year was an old-fashioned tube. It was bigger, made of rubber and the tube was not detachable. So I had it dangling out of my stomach 24 hours a day, like an extra limb. The one made of rubber, got dirty easily as food could get stuck to it. That does not happen with this new silicone tube.
But just like the first PEG tube surgery, this surgery last week was also very painful. Perhaps just a notch less painful than the first. The new hole is made on the left side of my abdomen, the first hole was made on the right side of my abdomen. Perhaps it is the fact that, the incision being adjusted to abdominal muscles makes PEG tube insertion surgery one of the most painful surgeries I have had. Furthermore, it also involved adding inorganic objects to my stomach. The insides hurt me intermittently for a week after surgery. So, I have to grit it out until this phase passes. Once it is over, my PEG tube will be so natural, it is just like having an extra body part.
On the morning of surgery, my mother took me to admission and accompanied me till I was fully sedated in the operating theatre. The surgical nurses and Dr Lam were amusing which made the process pleasant. The procedure took only 30 minutes or so I was told, but I had to be intubated nevertheless. Prior to surgery, I made it a point to inform Dr Lam about my weak throat structures as I described above so he will be careful with the breathing tube, in case I needed to use it.
When I woke up next, I was already in my regular ward with four people sharing a room. I stayed in this first room for only one night before ward nurses decided to move me to another room nearer to the nursing station. This second room is habituated by old folks. The nurses spend more time here so they decided to put me here as well for closer observation. It was fine with me due to my damaged vision and total deafness. It does not matter whether I stayed with old or young folks. I can not see anyone else besides the person right in front of me.
All of the nurses who take care of me in the ward were diploma students at the next door Tun Tan Cheng Lock nursing school. One of them was only a second-year diploma student. Although a little clueless sometimes, I appreciated their innocence and a big heart. They were new in the field, fresh face, hopeful and cared for me freely. It reminds me of my own lost innocence. It was good enough for non-acute cares but if I was in the hospital for something more serious, I would prefer more experienced nurses to look after me and nurses who can make accurate judgement promptly.
I also appreciated that Assunta assigned their staff nurse to insert an IV outlet into my arm and poke another needle into the other arm for taking blood samples prior the surgery. It was a painless procedure. I was glad that they did not let the students do it on me.
Now with my new PEG tube in, it is time to feed myself better to strengthen my physical body for surgery once again.


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At a time when discussions in public health and epidemiology in general increasingly grapple with 'complexity', as well as focusing tightly on specific areas of interest (such of transport and health), it is likewise useful to step back to more abstract considerations. A general shift from the dominance of statistical-based models, which are arguably not well suited to represent change, towards dynamic modelling (Agent Based Modelling and System Dynamic Modelling have become prominent in the literature), and the possibility of including clearly specified local contextual details represent a major advance; however, such attention to technical and contextual issues may potentially move questions about modelling itself into the background. In any case, as someone who doesn't specialise in work on transport and health, this is where my attention is drawn…
Many years ago (decades in fact), biologist Richard Levins considered the trade-offs involved when developing a modelling strategy. Unless you're doing exceptionally badly to begin with, trade-offs are almost inevitable. As 'new' modelling methods come into our view, including methods which may appear to offer only benefits, I think Levins' principles potentially offer useful guidance.
Models can be thought of in terms of three axes: reality, generality, and precision (this typology is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to capture some critical aspects). In general, gains in any one area are accompanied by losses elsewhere. Briefly, the three situations described by Levins are:
i. Sacrifice realism for generality and precision
This strategy is very familiar to me as it's typically used in global scale climate and health impact assessments. The aim to quantify impacts as precisely as possible using general relationships that are applicable to all world regions necessitates a loss of realism; in this case, what is happening nationally or below this level is lost. An analogous case may be modelling the general impacts of transport policies at UK-level rather than specific impacts in a particular place.
But despite the apparent limitations of this approach compared to adopting a tighter, local focus, it is not without benefits. For instance, the system dynamics operating at a 'high' level are likely to play a role in shaping local conditions and possibilities; viewing the system only at the local level may well miss these dynamics. From this perspective, a loss of realism in terms of the local is an advantage.
ii. Sacrifice generality for realism and precision
'New' modelling methods may naturally lead to this strategy as they potentially allow the inclusion of detailed local dynamics. But the degree of detail means generality is lost; the model is only useful for the very specific circumstances being considered. Viewed temporally, the lack of generality may limit the useful lifespan of such a model: as local conditions change, or as conditions at a higher level (e.g. national) change and potentially alter local dynamics, the model may no longer represent reality well.
Another limitation is the amount of data and knowledge required to construct and parameterise such a model: to make precise estimates of the outcome of interest, precise representation of relations and variables is necessary. Often the data or knowledge, particularly for a specific local setting, are not available. In the absence of the required inputs, the model, despite looking 'fancy', may tell us little of use about the situation of interest. This leads on to the third strategy…
iii. "Sacrifice precision for generality and realism"
At least in my experience, the goal of producing precise quantitative estimates is beyond discussion: of course precise quantification is the (or at least, a major) goal!
But is this sensible? In any case, it comes at a cost. If no data or quantification of a relation is available, it is either left out or crudely represented. In many cases, so much is left out or represented by 'best guesses' (maybe named as 'expert opinion') that the resulting quantifications are accompanied by the qualification that they should only be interpreted in terms of magnitude; that is, in a sense, qualitatively. The very sacrifices made to achieve 'precision' undermine the value of that precision.
Why not then – in some models, but of course not all – relax the relentless drive for precision and instead aim simply to understand system behaviour generally? Instead of asking, 'How much will this increase if we do that', you can ask, for example, 'If we do this, will this increase of decrease?'. At the very least this type of strategy can be used to get a general understanding of the system of interest, and guide attention to specific aspects that appear to be critical to behaviour.
Because of the inevitable trade-offs, a mixture of strategies seems appropriate, with which is used at any moment being guided by what we know and want to know.
The final strategy is of particular interest to me. We'll be discussing and developing its potential for transport and health during the second event of the seminar series. It will no doubt require some imaginative input from those who come along…


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Home Study Course
Course Approved for Contact Hours by:
CA Board of Registered Nurses CE Provider #13505
Check with your certification or licensure board on whether they accept CA Nursing CE units.
Home Study Course
This course involves reading Welcoming Consciousness and responding to essay and test questions designed to help you further understand and integrate the material presented in this textbook.
HS103 Welcoming Consciousness 15 contact hours $95
Please Note: Course purchase includes price of printed 2012 edition of Welcoming Consciousness and mailing via priority mail within United States. (To purchase course without book, $85.)
You will receive the book by mail and a set of 50 test questions and essay questions by email to submit electronically for credit.
1) Purchase course by paypal or check: Email Dr. McCarty with request for HS103 Welcoming Consciousness Packet. Include your name, postal address, and phone number. Submit paypal payment to paypal account wmccarty@wondrousbeginning. Or tell Dr. McCarty you will mail a check. She will send you an email confirmation and mail your book and email your test to you.
2) Read publications and complete provided test questions and essay assignment and that help you further work with and integrate the material.
3) Follow the instructions included in the course file. You will email your course assignment and test to WB for scoring.
4) Participant receives email confirmation of test results and personal feedback from Dr. McCarty on essay portion.
5) Participants must complete test and assignments and successfully score 80% on test questions to receive CE credit. If test does not pass, test will be returned for further reading and resubmission.
6) Participants receive email certificate within 2 weeks of WB's receipt of completed test.(Often sooner.) Keep certificate for verification of course completion. You're done!
This gives you the opportunity to study directly with Dr. McCarty and learn vital new information from the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology while earning contact hours!


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Research published by Spectrem in 2011 and repeated often shows that 70% of widows fire their advisor within a year of their husband's death. However, a new report from Russell Investments came to the opposite conclusion.
Russell Investments released a study in mid-February that found majorities of women would stay with their advisor even if their spouse or partner died. The report is based on two surveys conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates in March 2013; one among more than 900 female investors and a smaller survey of 340 advisors.
Russell found 93% of silent generation women, those born between 1925 and 1942, would stay with their advisor, while 78% of Gen X women would do the same. Furthermore, 64% of silent generation women and 54% of Gen X women said they have recommended their advisor to someone else.
"We felt that there has been a lot of information put out on the boomer generation, but less so on Gen X and the silent generation," Jaylene Howard, consulting director for Russell Investment's U.S. private client consulting group, told ThinkAdvisor on Monday.
Advisors' perception of their female clients is that they are more likely to think long term than men, the report found. More than half said their female clients were more likely to focus on long-term planning issues, compared to just 5% who said the same of male clients.
"Women think a lot about long-term issues and worry about issues like how to plan for retirement and health care expenses, and yet the action that they take in relation to their worry isn't quite as high," Howard said. "If there is concern and if there is, I think even more important, interest in focusing on longer term issues, than the plan can be a step-by-step way to get there."
Both Gen X and silent generation women share financial responsibilities with their spouses for the most part. More than half of Gen X women said they split responsibilities, although nearly 30% said they have more responsibility than their spouse. Among silent generation women, 63% share responsibilities and 24% have more financial responsibility than their spouse.
However, while more than half of Gen X women said they have little to no knowledge about investing, just 35% of silent generation women agreed.
Confidence is a big factor in women's low levels of understanding, Howard said.
"Women in general tend to look at ourselves as not as knowledgeable as someone else," Howard said. Over 60% of Gen X women said their spouse was at least moderately knowledgeable about investing, she said.
She suggested ways advisors can help improve their female clients' level of understanding. "It's the small things," she said. "Constantly bringing in education to the meetings, sending them articles — especially the younger generation is very apt to read things on social media — advisors can establish that personal connection, and all these things go a long way."
Advisors could also require that both partners be at client meetings, Howard suggested, although even if they don't, she encourages women to go to every meeting with the couple's advisor. "For women, it's about owning their perspective and bringing it to each and every meeting. That will help the education part naturally, just because you're exposed to it more often."
Because they're so likely to be the one making day-to-day financial decisions in their household, women are frequently called the "CFO" of their family. However, Howard said a more useful handle would be "CIO."
"Women make a lot of budget decisions, day-to-day planning and saving decisions and tend to pass off the investing decisions. I think that's an area where advisors can jump in and help them build confidence that women can be the CIO of their household. That's a soft way to help empower a lot of women; to say, 'You already make decisions here and you're really good at making budget decisions. Let's talk about how that translates into investing. We can identify the goals and help you make a plan to get there. You can do exactly what you've been doing [with budgeting] over here in the investing world.'"
Russell asked what factors were most important in an advisor and found similar percentages of Gen X and silent generation women agreed active listening was the most important skill an advisor could have. Eighty-six percent of Gen X women and 87% from the silent generation said active listening skills were necessary to build a lasting relationship.
Effective recommendations that meet their concerns, providing explanations that meet their level of understanding and explaining how decisions may play out in the future were the biggest drivers of satisfaction among Gen X women. Silent generation women were more interested in personal service and a connection that extends beyond the business.
Interestingly, only 27% of Gen X women and 36% of silent generation women said their advisors knew everything about their financial goals and concerns.
"There has been a change since the global financial crisis from the advisor's perspective. Clients required a lot of attention and interaction and in turn advisors responded," Howard said. Part of the reason so many women said they would stay with their advisor is simply that their relationship has gotten stronger over the last five years, she added.
Russell asked female investors to describe how much support an advisor could provide in certain situations. Both generations agreed that an advisor's support was more valuable if their partner died than when either part of the couple retired. Interestingly, half of silent generation women said an advisor would be no help at all in preparing to send children to school. Just 9% of Gen X women were so dismissive of an advisor's help in the area.


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Associations Urge House to Protect Access to Physicians for Older Americans and Military Families
Groups tell House to stop drastic pay cut to physicians in Medicare
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Leslie Champlin
Senior Public Relations Strategist
American Academy of Family Physicians
(800) 274-2237 Ext. 6252
WASHINGTON—Today, AARP along with the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association and Military Officers Association of America, call on the U.S. House of Representatives to support the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act (H.R. 4213). This legislation will help preserve access to physicians for millions of Americans in Medicare until 2014, giving seniors the peace of mind of knowing they can find a doctor when they need one.
"After their grandchildren, the second most important person in the lives of older Americans is their physician," said AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond. "We urge the House to protect patients' ability to have access to their doctor and pass this legislation."
"For many patients, passage of this bill will help forestall the possibility that, on June 1, they may lose their physician because of the drastic 20-plus percent reduction in physicians' Medicare payments," said AAFP President Lori Heim, M.D. "Primary care physicians will increasingly be called on to care for Americans with improved access to health insurance. This bill helps restore the trust needed to build a health care system based on primary care."
"If being a doctor is difficult, being a doctor while trying to keep a small business from running in the red is even more difficult. That is what those of us in private practice face every day," said Yul D. Ejnes, M.D., FACP, chair-elect of the Board of Regents of ACP and a practicing general internist in Cranston, R.I. "It is hard to think about hiring staff to help me do a better job of providing patient-centered care, upgrading my electronic health records to improve the quality of the care I provide, or recruiting new doctors to meet the medical needs of my community when the threat of a 21 percent cut in Medicare and TRICARE payments looms. "
"We are confident that policies, such as those contained in H.R. 4213, will result in physicians continuing their participation in the Medicare program preserving access to care for our nation's seniors and military families," said Larry A. Wickless, D.O., President of AOA. "We urge both the House and Senate to approve this important legislation."
"The Military Officers of America strongly supports this initiative to address the #1 health care concern among military beneficiaries—ensuring access to quality health care," said MOAA President VADM Norb Ryan, Jr. (USN-Ret). "H.R. 4213 would take a great step in the right direction by eliminating the immediate threat of large payment cuts that would cause many doctors to stop seeing military TRICARE patients. The last thing troops in a combat zone should have to worry about is whether their sick spouse or child will be able to find a doctor."
These organizations will also hold a media event at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 26 in the U.S. Capitol, Room SC-6. The event will feature physicians talking about how cuts to Medicare payments affect them, their patients and their practices; older consumers talking about how these cuts affect their access to quality health care; and representatives of military families talking about how cuts to doctors in Medicare affect them. For more information on the Wednesday, May 26 media event, please contact AARP media relations at (202) 434-2560 or email@example.com.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for 50+ Americans and the world's largest-circulation magazine with over 35.7 million readers; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for AARP's millions of members and Americans 50+; AARP VIVA, the only bilingual U.S. publication dedicated exclusively to the 50+ Hispanic community; and our website, AARP.org(www.AARP.org). AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 100,300 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care. To learn more about the AAFP and about the specialty of family medicine, please visit aafp.org. For more information about the AAFP's positions on issues and clinical care and downloadable multi-media on family medicine and health care, visit the AAFP Media Center. For more information about health care, health conditions, and wellness, please visit familydoctor.org(www.familydoctor.org).
The American Osteopathic Association proudly represents more than 67,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) practicing in 31 specialties and subspecialties, promotes public health, encourages scientific research, serves as the primary certifying body for DOs and is the accrediting agency for all osteopathic medical schools and health care facilities. More information on DOs/osteopathic medicine can be found at www.osteopathic.org(www.osteopathic.org).
The American College of Physicians(www.acponline.org) is the largest medical specialty organization and the second-largest physician group in the United States. ACP members include 129,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illness in adults. Follow ACP on Twitter (twitter.com)and Facebook(www.facebook.com).
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12 Tips for Making the Most of Lincoln Park Zoo's Annual ZooLights Festival
Bundle up and head over to Lincoln Park Zoo, where more than two million twinkling lights and all of your animal friends are waiting to celebrate winter with you and your family at the annual ZooLights festival. There is nothing quite like walking around the zoo on a crisp winter night, serenaded by the pretty holiday lights – especially if there is a carpet of just-fallen snow. ZooLights flips on the switches Friday-Sunday night through Dec. 12, then nightly (excluding


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Digimind Intelligence allows you to validate or store information into projects either manually or by automatic categorization rules. For more details on storage rules, please read this article.
One-click validation allows you to store information directly into the correct folder in a project simply by clicking on the save button directly visible from the dashboard. This will greatly speed up the validation process.
Set Up One-Click Validation
In order to set up one-click validation you need to have
- At least one active agent collecting information.
- A project or folder into which you would like to store or validate information.
The next step is to create a link between the agent and the destination folder for validated information. This is done by an assisted validation rule.
There are two ways to set up an assisted validation rule.
- Click to edit / create an agent and then inside the advanced options of an agent you will be able to manage the validation method.
- Directly from the dashboard, hover over the alert, click on "save" and then on "manage your folder association".
In both cases, the new rule will apply only to fresh alerts found after the changes were made.
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Los Angeles, CA. - "Soul To Soul," a passionate new song cycle from vocalist, songwriter, producer and musician Carmen Lundy, is set for release September 23rd, 2014 via Afrasia Productions. "Soul To Soul", Lundy's 14th album, is the next chapter in her critically-acclaimed career as both a musical artist and a visual artist; a return to her roots but also an exploration of these roots — and the journey that those roots can take you on. The release of "Soul To Soul" will be accompanied by tour dates both in the U.S. and overseas.
Carmen Lundy began working on "Soul To Soul" well over a year ago in a very hands-on manner – literally composing, co-composing and arranging eleven of the thirteen tracks and then playing and recording all the instruments - including bass, drums, piano, guitar and percussion - in her home studio to get a working "feel" for how the music might sound. She then "sweetened" the songs by adding string sounds and other software instruments to elaborate and experiment with the aural mood of each track, interpreting and identifying with each track's sound individually as well as part of the overall song sequence. On the final CD, Lundy plays guitar on all tracks, piano and Rhodes on many tracks, and drums on two.
"I wrote the music with specific players in mind for each respective instrument," says Lundy. "My producer and label co-owner Elisabeth Oei encouraged me to reach out to those musicians whose music I have loved and have been inspired by; some of whom I had worked with but never recorded with. I consider these artists specialists on their instruments. These are players who bring a distinctive sound to everything they play and add another layer of individuality to my original music."
Patrice Rushen, for example, is featured on nearly every track on "Soul To Soul" because of the deep musical connection Carmen felt with her. "I could hear her sound in my music," says Lundy, "Patrice creates these beautiful sonic palettes from which I could soar freely through the music. This project would not be as special to me if it were not for her incredible contribution."
Featuring the stellar talents of guest artists Patrice Rushen, Geri Allen, Randy Brecker, Mayra Casales, Simphiwe Dana, Bennie Maupin, Carol Robbins, Ada Rovatti, and Warren Wolf along with Carmen's core rhythm section members Darryl Hall and Jamison Ross, "Soul To Soul" invites the listener on an intriguing journey. Whether the source of inspiration comes from time spent in Sardinia, Italy ("Soul To Soul" and "Sardegna") or from her hometown of Miami in the songs "Kindred Spirits" and "Grateful" – "It's important to acknowledge and remember where you come from and all those who provide unwavering moral support" says Lundy; from the beauty of Mary Lou Williams' "What's Your Story, Morning Glory" - "Geri Allen and I have spent many years performing the works of this great pianist," Lundy remarks, "I could not miss the chance to have yet another of the great pianists/composers of our time be a part of this musical journey"; to the sexy bossa nova beat of "Everything I Need", the moods and moments of "Soul To Soul" are genre-bending and traverse many borders, both literally and figuratively.
Of special note is the story of the track "Grace," the result of a meeting with South African vocalist Simphiwe Dana. At the time of the meeting – which coincided with tour dates Lundy and Dana had in Johannesburg and Los Angeles – Lundy was in the process of writing the song on guitar and had been haunted by it for months. She then played the track for Dana who immediately began to sing the melody in her native tongue, and whose contribution to the track on the CD adds yet another dimension to the journey of "Soul To Soul."
Added Lundy, "It is an honor to have these players joining in this majestic musical adventure. I hope listeners – both new and established - enjoy the voyage." Carmen Lundy is also a celebrated mixed media artist and painter, and her works have been exhibited in New York at The Jazz Gallery in Soho, at The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, and at a month-long exhibition at the Madrid Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. A complete track listing with credits is as follows:
- Kindred Spirits (Carmen Lundy)
- Life Is A Song In Me (Carmen Lundy, Julie Raynor)
- Soul To Soul (Carmen Lundy)
- When Will They Learn (Carmen Lundy, Julie Raynor)
- Daybreak (Carmen Lundy)
- Between Darkness and Dawn (Carmen Lundy, Julie Raynor)
- Grace (Carmen Lundy, Simphiwe Dana)
- Grateful Pt. 1 (Carmen Lundy)
- Grateful Pt. 2 (Carmen Lundy)
- Everything I Need (Carmen Lundy)
- Don't You Know How I Feel (Marilyn Castilaw)
- Sardegna (Carmen Lundy, Deborah Ash)
- What's Your Story, Morning Glory (Mary Lou Williams)
This story appears courtesy of Miles High Productions.
Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.


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In 1991, Public Enemy released a song called "By the Time I Get To Arizona," an angry, incendiary track in which Chuck D described a fictional assassination of then real-life governor of AZ, Fife Symington, III. The anger originated from AZ's failure to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as an official state holiday. In 1990, a referendum supporting the recognition of MLK Day failed, due in no small part to the governor and other legislators' staunch opposition to the citizen's ballot initiative.
Almost twenty years later, AZ is in the news again for similar reasons: a hot-button political issue has again raised the ire of hip hop artists. This time, governor Jan Brewer has signed an immigration law that allows police officers to detain people they suspect to be undocumented immigrants, and demand to see official documents. Many have called this law "legalized racial profiling" against the Latino/a community, an ethnic group that makes up a large percentage of AZ's population, as well as a growing percentage of America's population as a whole.
And like in 1991, hip hop has responded. Artists Queen YoNasDa, DJ John Blaze, Tajji Sharp, Yung Face, Mr. Miranda, OCean, Da'aron Anthony, Atllas, Chino D, Nyhtee, Pennywise, Rich Rico and Da Beast have remade Public Enemy's historic song in a show of opposition to the law, reigniting the anger and political atmosphere that Public Enemy's song helped create almost two decades ago.
It's easy to forget that hip hop used to be one of the more convincing and necessary hydraulic levers in our culture's socio-political system. Hip hop often addressed a lower economic strata, and with that context came a demographic that statistically had less formal education, less political activism and overall less general awareness of personally relevant domestic issues. For the '80s and early '90s, hip hop admirably filled this gap, and spoke in a way that made that demographic not only want to listen, but also act on the things they were being educated about.
And so, when crack/cocaine was on the rise in the '80s, Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow released "White Lines" as an anti-drug dance anthem. When AIDS became an epidemic, KRS-One released "Jimmy," informing kids to use condoms. And when police brutality was on a rampant run, Ice-T released "Cop Killer," bringing the issue not only to the attention of an already angry population, but also straight to the doorstep of Washignton, D.C. Artists like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul helped spread a positive message to an angry youth, while the X-Clan and Public Enemy helped spark the Afrocentric movement that put a generation in touch with its heritage for the first time. Politics have always been present in hip hop, and the convergence of the two things often produced important and meaningful results, even if those results were often bathed in controversy and contention.
As Chris Richards of The Washington Post succinctly put it:
But isn't that the beauty of both hip-hop and American politics? Opinions run hot. Mud gets slung. In a crumbling music industry where survival often depends on playing nice, hip-hop is not afraid to push envelopes.
In an era where popular music is so utterly devoid of importance and meaning (including currently popular hip hop), never before has there been such a staggering gap between the upper ends of meaningless pop drivel and the lower dregs of obscure, socially conscious music. Music and message used to be one and the same, whether you were Woody Guthrie in the '40s or Neil Young in the '80s. It was possible to be successful while contributing a substantive message to those who only wanted to turn on their radios to ignore. The message was there, ready for acceptance when you chose to notice.
Hip hop is no different. There was a time when Public Enemy was both one of the most popular groups around as well as one of the most respected because they were a group that had something important to say. Today, it's almost impossible to even conceive of an artist succeeding solely on the fact that he or she has a message to say. The AZ law is just one of a multitude of reasons why it's more important than ever that we get our medicine with our spoonful of sugar on the radio.
In a genre of music that actually forces you to say something before you can say anything, it's heartening to see some hip hop artists using their talents and clout to speak out on an issue that is completely worthy of a debate from all people, most notably those who it affects the most. Music doesn't always have to be important; I appreciate a good party track, I like to have mindless power pop to sing along to in the shower. But one look at the Billboard, one scan of the radio, you'd go hungry looking for anything substantial to chew on, other than a choir of country artists singing about how great 'Merica is. We deserve more than that; and music deserves more from us.
And as for the law itself, you know how I feel.
Eugene records & performs hip hop under the alias Adam WarRock.


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C-Fylm Community Cinema
Film clubs are a brilliant way to involve a wide cross-section of the community in film by making it very accessible. C-Fylm helps community groups to run film clubs in various parts of Cornwall. Filmgoers must become members of the overall C-Fylm club and this enables them to see a wide variety of programming on a subsidised basis.
If you want to learn about the scheme, see how it's set up and run, come to Gwithian Church Hall, Churchtown Road, Gwithian on Thursday 19th November at 18.30 for a special screening of:
The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu)
Dir Luc Besson | 1988 | France, USA, Italy | Action/ Adventure/Drama
Magic and mystery infuse the narrative of this wonderful yet tragic tale of love and friendship, of hope and despair, of life and death. It is an unforgettable journey in the estranged mind of an unusual human being, Jacques, whose obsessive fascination with the sea and strong connection with dolphins prevent him from leading a 'normal' life on earth. The interruption in his secluded aquatic life of an old childhood nemesis and of a passionate woman subjects him to strong emotional conflicts as he feels unable to belong in the human world.
Director Luc Besson is famous for his imaginative visual technique and breathtaking action sequences and this a stunningly beautiful film, featuring gorgeous underwater photography and spectacular location shooting in the French Antibes, the Greek islands, Peru, and Taormina in Sicily. Organised with Gwithian Residents Association.


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