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Daniel Lanois: a Sonic genius
As I exit the elevator into the fourth-floor studio/loft, I spy 10-time Grammy-Award winning producer and singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois playing the piano, singing a song from his first feature film Here is What Is, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September. Several assistants are busy answering phones and prepping for a TV interview later that afternoon; Lanois is lost, trancelike in his music. Lyric sheets and phone messages are scattered in the middle of the hardwood floor and instruments are everywhere — from a pedal steel he's had since he was a teen to a wall featuring a dozen electric and acoustic guitars. There's no questioning I'm in the presence of a mastermind.
The passion from this Canadian genius is genuine as we spend an hour chatting like old friends on the black leather couch in his Toronto studio. Surrounded by instruments, Lanois is like a child discovering music for the very first time, with each new sound he creates – whether it's on pedal steel, acoustic guitar, or an antique player piano.
Sensing a fellow music lover, Lanois lets me play his Martin D-28 acoustic, crafted from the finest Brazilian rosewood. I strum a few chords and then return the guitar to the guru. Another vintage instrument — a Gibson SJ-200 (circa 1940), which he says was given to him by Emmylou Harris, is also on display; he tells me nonchalantly it's worth about $20,000.
"I try to keep as many instruments around as possible," he explains. "My old formula is still with me. When I was a kid, I wanted to work in a recording studio and I couldn't get a job in one, so I started my own. I looked around at other studios where I was working as a session guitar player and noticed the Toronto engineers would let the band set up and then they would accommodate that setup by pulling the necessary microphones out of the closet and building the technology around the band, which makes sense.
"But, then I discovered a more Jamaican way of working," Lanois continues. "The Jamaican folks had their sounds all ready in the studio before the musicians came in. They didn't wait to be dictated to by the combo. As Chris Blackwell told me once, reggae music was not invented on the street … it's not a thing that was happening in the parking lots, the roadsides and the hills as you might think, but it came out of the recording studio. The studio people like Lee Scratch Perry were highly inventive. They built up their own sounds with their own echo machines and with the limited equipment they had, they developed a sound. Then the singers and players would come in and they would cater to that feeling that was already set up."
From early on, Lanois followed this Jamaican model in the studio: building his own sounds to set himself apart from his contemporaries.
"I started plugging stuff in when I was a kid and discovered sounds I liked," he says. "Then, when people came into the studio, I would show them my sounds … people were always excited … having my own sound meant I stood out in the crowd a little bit … I wasn't like every other record maker, which is a good piece of advice for anyone who wants to do this kind of work."
He likens this approach to a door-to-door salesperson.
"When I show up at Sinead O'Connor's house or U2's studio, I don't just turn up with a toothbrush," Lanois says. "I'll present The Edge with a new pedal perhaps that he doesn't know about or I'll present a riff that I'm excited about … I let them hear it and see if it rocks the house."
Over the years, the über producer has been lucky to rock the house and share riffs with everyone from Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris to Aaron Neville and U2. While Lanois' learned a lot from all these musicians, it's fellow producer/musician Brian Eno with whom he shares a special relationship.
"We share an interest in soul music of the past and the future," Lanois explains. "We grew up with similar influences. Eno grew up near a U.S. military base and there was a lot of rock 'n' roll and do-wop music at the base, so that always resonated with him. Eno is an incredible innovator and loves to challenge every situation with his sonics, which is fantastic.
"Eno and I are full of surprises," he adds. "We are good in a workplace because we can conjure something up right on the spot. That's what's fun about having us in the room and I believe that's our most valuable commodity to U2."
Currently, Lanois and Eno are working together on the new U2 record. He says he's keeping his mouth shut about the sessions, which have taken place in Fez, Morocco and France to date, but he does say that "we've got some gems already."
Speaking of gems, when it comes to musical influences, Lanois is partial to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, which is a touchstone he always returns to – artists like Jimi Hendrix are innovators he always admired.
"I liked the fact I was living at a merging point," he explains. "I was hearing Buffalo and Detroit radio stations, which had a really good serving of rhythm and blues and soul music. Then, when the psychedelic era came, it was just an extension of this merging … people who were singing folk music were now rock singers … they were not loud sounds, but they had rock in their souls. That always stayed with me … I'm still fascinated with mixtures and think there is plenty to still invent through crossing musical styles and riffs."
Lanois' secret
Lanois reveals his secret to success is due to "feel."
"Feel is a place you hope to get to when people congregate," he says. "You hope spontaneity will be your friend and there will be some kind of combustion that relates to that moment, which funny enough usually operates outside of the confinement of preconception. Unlike architects, we of the music world can make something up on the spot and improvise … that's the luxury of our position. It's really an area of strength for me to look around the room and say, 'I see what we have access to here,' whether there is a certain kind of mood to that morning. It's almost the responsibility of that team to accommodate that mood rather than tell it it needs to be something different."
As I exit the elevator from the musician's studio, I slip on my iPod. As the first notes begin to take me away, I can't help but wonder if I'll ever come close to appreciating music in the same way as the master I just left behind.
K'Naan: poetry and passion
By David McPherson
Look at the headlines and the portrait you get of Somalia is a poverty-stricken, backward country, home to warlords and pirates. That's only one-side of the story; this African nation, which Forbes magazine recently named its most dangerous destination, is also a nation famous for its pastoral verse. The 19th-century British explorer Richard Burton wrote in First Footsteps in East Africa, "[Somalia] teems with poets …" And, the late president of Somalia, Abdi-rashid Ali Shermarked, spoke of the country's pastoral verse as "one of the two national assets of inestimable value" ranking it just behind the Muslim faith.
K'Naan — the Toronto-based, Somalia-born, hip-hop artist — is one of these poets. Through his music, which mixes world beats, rap and reggae, and the oral tradition of his forefathers, he penetrates the stereotypes of his nation, trying to give people a glimpse of this other side of Somalia and explain the reasons for the piracy. Reaching the musician in Music City, we speak of his new record Troubadour and how his music documents his struggles to find meaning within the madness and hope amidst the hopelessness.
"There is a purpose art has always served whether it is a painting or any kind of art," he says. "It's to take tragedy and mold it into something beautiful … that's the prescription I subscribe to."
K'Naan certainly knows tragedy. In 1991, his family narrowly escaped death and managed to get on the last commercial flight out of war-torn Somalia. His first record, The Dusty Foot Philosopher (2006), which won a Juno for best rap recording, documented these experiences. "What's Hardcore," from this disc, directly spoke of the gunmen who terrorized his countrymen. After leaving Somalia, K'Naan arrived in New York and survived the ghettoes and gangs of Harlem before settling in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood.
Troubadour, released this past February, continues this journey. Troubadour means traveller and K'Naan's birth name (Keinan) also means traveller in Somalian, so the title is apropos. Since fleeing Somalia, the 31-year-old has done his share of travelling. And, like the bards of old, K'Naan documents this journey, bringing his message to the masses. While many of the songs are political, K'Naan does not preach. Through rhymes, he tells these tales of experience and lets the listener find the meaning in his wordplay.
In the liner notes, K'Naan thanks, among many, warlords and drive-by shooters. He gives these people props for "forcing [him] to create," "making him fight harder," and for "giving him convictions."
K'Naan's grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a famed Somalian poet and his aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers; the rapper learned at a young age to rhyme and write in verse. But, instead of traditional poetry, the emcee adopted his generations' medium — hip-hop — to tell his story.
It's hard for wired North Americans, addicted to their Crackberrys and "Twittering" to fathom life without technology, much less, imagine a life without a stable government, where every day could be your last.
"That's what life was made up of for me at a young age and for Somalians," he explains. "The tradition of oral poetry was the method or informer of your day to day and your dreams and ambitions."
K'Naan's voice became his weapon and the means to fulfil his dreams; his songs were his shield — steering him on a righteous path of verse as opposed to the corrupt path of violence. In his three decades, the musician has seen more violence than most. At 14, the rapper and his three best friends were attacked by warlords; while K'Naan survived, his chums were gunned down. Like the woman he sings about in "Somalia" – "she got a gun/but she could have been a model or a physician" – K'Naan could easily have turned to crime; instead, he turned to rhymes.
"Somalia" is one of the songs on the new disc that best sums up K'Naan's journey; he describes this composition as an ode. Through lyrics like these from the song's chorus, "So what you know about the pirates terrorize the ocean?/ To never know a single day without a big commotion?," K'Naan criticizes the media and the one-sided view they paint of Somalians as modern day pirates.
"What I'm doing in this song is trying to explain a bit of Somalia to people," he says. "I'm still shocked by how much people don't know about Somalia. I still find it surprising – even now that it's on TV and print every day with pirates. It's not contributing to knowing about Somalia, it's just contributing to how the West knows Somalia. I always want to do things in my music to try to explain a little bit about my life, my past and my country."
On Troubadour, the rapper wastes no time letting listeners know of these experiences. In the opener, "T.I.A. (This is Africa)," K'Naan says: "I take rappers on a field trip any day/ They never been opposite real clips anyway."
K'Naan is referring in this song to his brushes with bullets (clips) and how you can't compare the ghettoes and gangs of North America to what he experienced in Somalia.
Thanks to an invite from friends Stephen and Damian Marley, K'Naan recorded much of Troubadour at famed Tuff Gong studios in Jamaica and he wrote the bulk of the songs during a sojourn at Bob Marley's house. He says the experience was surreal; he used everything from the folk guitar to the actual Hammond B3 used in Marley's Exodus; K'Nann is still trying to put into words the meaning of these magical months.
"I'm fascinated and also inarticulate about that whole experience," he says. "How do you sum up the feeling of being in that environment … having that privilege, just being creative in one of the greatest spirits of our time, in his world and with his friends and family and using his house and his instruments? The entire experience was a beautiful daze."
– published in Penguin Eggs magazine
For Corin Raymond, there will always be a small time
Corin Raymond believes in the Small Time
By David McPherson
Corin Raymond believes in the small time. And, as he sings in the fine-pickin' song "Stealin' My Heart Away," on his latest disc There Will Always Be a Small Time, he "likes his music deep." Despite his affinity for the small time, the Toronto-based songwriter plays big-time music. And, he writes even bigger-sounding songs.
Raymond sports his trademark felt fedora and tired eyes from a life of insomnia. Over dinner on the patio at the Rivoli in Toronto, we chat about the small time, a shared passion for music, the lack of a music industry, and his fine new record, There Will Always Be a Small Time.
The Toronto roots artist describes his concept of the small time in more detail.
"It doesn't mean amateur," he explains. "There is nothing unworthy about the small time. The small time is my way of describing the life we are living today in the current conditions with a lack of a music industry. I've said this before; I don't know what the music business is … I've never seen it. I make a full-time living as a songwriter and I don't know what the music business is.
"The small time is a rich world and it's a world that requires digging," he adds. "The small time is not going to be piped in over the speakers at my convenience store. You have to connect the dots. The people who love it are going to connect the dots."
Raymond captures this with some fine wordplay in the title cut when he croons: "There will always be a good time/ when the nine-to-fivers go to bed/ there will always be a grapevine/ where everybody brings a friend/ there will always be a small time/ just come and see us now and then."
Raymond grew up in Northern Ontario, learning to appreciate the small time from his dad, who raised him after his mother died. His father was a librarian, high-school teacher and book seller. The pair lived in northern Ontario, north of Ear Falls, near Red Lake.
"He exposed me to a lot of culture when I was growing up," Raymond recalls. "He taught me to love books, theatre and film."
With There Will Always Be a Small Time, Raymond offers a dozen songs that fit into what he dubs the "classic folk idiom."
"My songs are all … maybe four chords," he concludes. "Most of the songs are three-chord songs. Anybody who plays guitar on their porch can learn these songs and that's what they are designed for. They are designed to be played, enjoyed, make people laugh and feel good. They are designed to make people sing. They are joyful things, these songs. I don't think there is anything pretentious about any of them.
"I believe they are folk music in that sense. For me, the small time is about real communities. It's about places where people get together and experience music and where music brings them and binds them together. It's not the music that is going to change the world, but it changes our world, my world and your world. The only advantage of the big time for me is that I could reach more small-timers. If I could get enough small times happening, maybe we could all be a big-time together."
– published in Penguin Eggs magazine
Ray LaMontagne
By David McPherson
On the title track from his major label debut Trouble, Ray LaMontagne sings that he's been "saved by a woman."
Resting at home in Freeport, Maine with his wife and two sons – before heading back on the road to promote Trouble – the humble 31-year-old songwriter talks about his musical journey. There's no doubt that a woman helped save LaMontagne from his troubled past, but initially this worried man's soul was saved by music.
It was a day like any other six years ago when LaMontagne's alarm clock radio went off at 4 a.m. and he had an epiphany. The sound that came from this early morning wake-up call was unlike anything he had heard before. The song was "Tree Top Flyer", the artist was Stephen Stills, and something in the music moved LaMontagne, awakening his spirit. He didn't go to his job that day, which at the time was a stint at a shoe factory in Lewiston, Maine. Instead, LaMontagne spent the day browsing the local record stores, finding the Stills' album Stills Alone, and starting to dig all sorts of music.
"I just got really psyched about music all of a sudden," he says. "I hadn't really before. I've always liked music. My father was a musician … I don't really know my father and I don't really want to at this point … that's a whole other story.
"There was music in the house when I was really young," he continues. "I dabbled with instruments as I grew up: saxophone, drums, but I never stuck with anything for various reasons. Then as I got into my teen years I totally pushed music out because it was like my dad and I didn't want to be like my dad at all, so it became totally out of the picture."
Listening to Trouble, one gets a clear picture of the pain and suffering of his past through his emotive voice and personal lyrics. LaMontagne is candid about his life before he had this reawakening.
"In my early twenties I went through a really hard time," he reveals. "I had bouts with serious depression and suicide. Then I discovered Stephen Stills and I got really excited about music and I just started listening to records all the time."
These records — from Bob Dylan to the Band — became LaMontagne's refuge and his education. "I had no friends, but I had records," he says. "Man, I just lived in those records. I would listen to one side, flip it over, and then flip it back to side one again … I consider it like my schooling."
LaMontagne has been busy making records independently since 1999. He made three on his own and then signed with a publisher (Chrysalis) before he had a record deal. This came about through a chance encounter with a fan that had a friend in the music business. Six months after Chrysalis signed him, he made Trouble with Ethan Johns (the Jayhawks, Ryan Adams) with the hope that maybe an independent label would pick it up. What ensued was a bidding war, which RCA Records won.
When LaMontagne initially signed the publishing deal, which he stresses was "really modest," he hoped that other songwriters might cover his songs. "That was my first thought," he says. "I remember coming home and being excited and talking to Sarah [his wife] and saying 'maybe someone will sing a song or maybe we will get a song recorded by someone else and make a little money.' That's a pretty exciting thought from where we were. I was just working carpentry, playing gigs here or there and hawking my own records at 10 bucks a pop whenever I could."
Making the transition from carpentry to composition, it's no surprise that it took the songwriter a long time to discover his approach to penning words and music.
"In the beginning I tried the disciplined approach and tried to write every day, which just led to so much frustration that I wanted to blow my brains out," he says. "I eventually have come to figure out that for me the melodies come and they come often and I just put them on tape.
"Then there comes a point … it's like the train in the distance thing … you know that they're coming," he continues. "What happens is that I know that I'm having a creative spurt coming. It usually lasts about three weeks, sometimes a month. For some reason the stars are aligned, who knows, but for that month I can take things from beginning to completion."
From working in a shoe factory to singing songs for a living, Ray LaMontagne's musical journey is far from complete. With a voice that combines the soul of the late Ray Charles, with the grit of Otis Redding and Van Morrison, LaMontagne is poised to make a career in the music business.
"I just hope that I can earn a fan base that will stick with me for another record and another and another," he concludes. "If that happens I'll be a happy man."
– published in American Songwriter magazine, January/February 2005
Ziggy Marley
By David McPherson
Ziggy Marley was just a young lad when his father Robert Nesta Marley – in most reggae circles known simply as Bob – passed on in 1981. Twenty-five years on, the songwriter is continuing to advance his own music career, while never forgetting his father's legacy. He feels he knows his dad more now than ever and he communicates with the reggae legend through his dreams. With Bob's good vibes confirming to him that he's on the right spiritual path, Marley is taking the inherent message of his new disc Love is My Religion around the world. Released August 29 in Canada, Love is My Religion veers more towards the spiritual side of the human condition; yet, several songs still champion equal rights and justice, and lament the struggles of the oppressed. He talked with Chartattack recently about the power of dreams, his newfound spirituality, and the need to hang on to our freedoms.
Chartattack: On Love is My Religion you embrace spirituality in your writing and stray a bit from the emancipation anthems you wrote early in your career. Why is that?
In my early days I did a lot of social commentary, which is where my father left off, but he was heading into where I am now with songs like "Redemption Song." Imagine my father's career coming from "Get Up Stand Up" and "Slave Driver," songs like those, to the later days where he was becoming more into that spiritual side too … "Redemption Song," mental slavery, not physical slavery anymore … it's that evolution that I kind of went through too and evolved.
Now, especially with this record, I find myself writing more songs about spirituality more than physical or social things. For many years I've found myself drifting away [from writing social commentary songs] because how much time can I spend singing about the poor, suffering and injustice … I still do it, but I do it less and less. I'm singing more about the spiritual condition of mankind and the spiritual thoughts and concepts like "Love is My Religion" and "Lifetime" where I speak about reincarnation. I'm going deeper right now in my songwriting.
I could go on blaming the system everyday. I could say the system causes so many problems and I could sing about that and about what the system has done to us. But over the years I have looked more within myself and realized that we as human beings need to change something inside of us more than change something outside of us like the system. It is okay to change the system, that is a struggle and that is something we should look on, but you should never ever forget yourself and the inside of you that needs to change also because in a way the system exists inside of ourselves … it is not just governments, politicians and extremists.
Chartattack: The song "Keep on Dreamin'" on your new record talks about how you communicate with your father and connect with him through your dreams. Tell me about that?
I know there is a connection. Many years ago after he passed I began having dreams. The dreams are strong. It's not a joke. They have meaning. I feel camaraderie with him. That's how we are in dreams. He supports what I'm doing and he shows me that support in the dreams and he wants me to keep on going and keep evolving. He's into what I'm doing that's all I can tell you.
It's like, for me, the more I grow the more I understand him. I don't know if it is as an artist or as a man. I think a lot of what I feel and know is what he knew, but people didn't see. People saw the image of Bob Marley … the militancy of Bob Marley. What I feel now is that there was another side to him that I'm realizing that didn't come out at the time … the spiritual side and the gentle way of putting things. I feel much closer to him now. I feel like I know him and I know he knows me.
Chartattack: While spirituality is now at the root of your songwriting, the struggle of the oppressed is still present in your songs. This is especially prevalent in the powerful song "Still the Storms" that shows how the wounds of slavery in North America still have not healed. Tell us about this song?
I studied history and slavery in school and I know the triangle of trade. I'm not singing that song from any kind of pulpit. I'm personally upset … it's a feeling of no justice. I feel like the family of Africans has not been vindicated by that injustice that was done to their humanity. I don't know if there was even an apology. I don't feel like the world was sorry. It's like people want us to forget it. I can't forget it. It affects us today. No matter how many years go by I still can't forget and people would want us to forget that it ever happened.
Justice is a thing that until there has been some sort of redemption or coming to terms with that injustice there will always be a force in the universe that is seeking that. The universe has a way of finding justice for itself, so that is what that song is about. I used the hurricanes and storms as an analogy because of the routes that the ships took from the West Coast of Africa up through the Caribbean coming up the south of the United States, New Orleans, Florida, even Jamaica … all those areas that get hit by the hurricanes where slaves were taken. I use that as a way to express my frustration.
Chartattack: "Be Free" is another song that expresses your frustrations at the erosion of our freedoms. Tell us about the message you are trying to get across in this song?
"Be Free" is another song that I think is important because now with the politics of fear playing such a great role in what's happening in the world we are losing are freedoms little by little. It is happening and people are going to let it happen because of the fear and it's sad. Just as terrorism is an oppression, that is another oppression. It's like we are getting double oppressed: one from terrorism and one from the world of government that has taken away our freedoms and our rights. There is going to be a little group of us that are not going to want to let it go and we are going to have to be the new freedom fighters.
I just want to remind people to be free and don't take it lightly. We don't have to give up our freedoms. It's bullshit. It's just a trick to gain more control of innocent people. Our freedoms are not the freedoms that should be taken away … it's the freedoms of the people that are killing people.


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Later today somebody called me, left voicemail for me to call back. I totally thought it was about business, but all he wanted was to call, to see how I'm doing. That just threw me.
My dreams scare me.
I go through the usual words with people: It's hard. I find myself crying at nothing. I have a headache. I'm cold. I have a stomach ache. (Somaticizing isn't hard, but it is an art).
And it's very different, not what I would have thought it would be.
You get a break and it comes back. You're surprised every time.
Heck, I had four months to get used to the idea that my father was living on borrowed time, and we had some very intimate moments. Dying is very intimate if you share it, and it occurs to me that maybe some people have an extended dying just so they can be intimate.
Probably we can never be prepared, can never predict what it will be like, no matter the type of relationship we have had with a parent. If you take a hit, you shouldn't be surprised, and if you don't, it's okay. The books on death and dying recommend that if possible, grieve as a family. Discuss your different trajectories, mark important days, discuss memories. Let the emotions roll. And spread it out, talk to all kinds of people if you feel like it.
Meanwhile, here I am at work as if nothing has happened and it really feels this way at the moment. Gotta' love the brain.
A follow-up on eulogies:
I started out mine about my father admitting that before writing the eulogy I looked up the rules of eulogies in one of the rule books. There, in black and white and a little Hebrew, it said:
You can exaggerate. Not that much, but if there's a question, you can. You can err on the side of the positive.Now this is incredibly important information. I don't know anyone who can't stand to be idealized a little bit in life or death, do you?
A story:
A man was dying. He had lived a full life but was clearly, undoubtedly, beleaguered with not one personality disorder, but with features of several. He hoarded, he was narcissistic, he stole on occasion, and his jealousy was completely, totally irrational, bordered on psychotic at times.
His son, let's call him Eugene, went to the funeral of a friend's father. His friend spoke glowingly of the deceased, tearfully, and as Eugene listened, he panicked.
"I'm ____ed," he moaned. "What in the world am I going to say about my father? My father was such a nothing compared to this guy. So selfish! And he's not going to make it through the year! He could die any day now!"
Eugene went home and quickly wrote a eulogy emphasizing whatever good he could find in his father's life. The focus was entirely on his father's good qualities, and he made some of the bad sound comical, not dysfunctional.
When the time came, when his father died, Eugene stood up in front of the crowd at the chapel and delivered a wonderful eulogy, had people in tears of laughter and love, and everyone said what a wonderful man his father must have been.
Eugene didn't know what to do, didn't want to correct anyone who said, Your father sounds like he was such a wonderful man. You were so lucky to have had him; what a wonderful family it must have been to grow up in. So he would disclose just a little now and then.
"My father was difficult," he might say. Or, "You couldn't correct my father, if you did he would call you stupid."
But this bothered him, made him feel guilty, besmirching the name of the dead, his father, the man who gave him life, for better or for worse. So he stopped it and let the positives of his dad's life eclipse the negatives. He could talk about the truth with his wife and his mother, for they knew this man. They grieved who he hadn't been, too, and their emotions were plenty rich. With others, however, he took one for the team.
He found that he was really angry and his anger wouldn't quit. Unable to shake it, he went to therapy. Here he learned that this is normal, being angry at someone who didn't treat you well, who could be irresponsible, difficult. Eventually he would be able to let it go, who his father really was, even forgive.
Perhaps it's not much of a story. But let me tell you how some of us would work a therapy like this, thanks, in part, to what we know about mental illness.
For sure we'd aim for acceptance while working through the full range of grieving, the sadness, the anger, the guilt, the denial, the shame-- the Kubler-Ross stages of grief. And some of us might even bring in other family members.
Family therapists will sketch out at an emotional family tree, inquire about the suicides, the mental illness, the infamous experiences in the extended family, reaching back in time. We want to know who left town and never came back, what became of the black sheep, what the norms are in the family about differentiation, and why. We inquire about how anger is expressed, and sadness, and who set these rules, and why. We want to know the meaning of success to those who are no longer living, and the meaning of failure.
To investigate, to get more of the story, patients are encouraged to interview living elderly relatives, to find photographs, letters. The job is to uncover, if possible, the good in the family, but also the mental or behavioral disorders, too, and the quirky, if not always so pleasant, personalities.
Based upon this, some of us will proffer a tentative individual diagnosis or three, defining, psychologically, members of the family who may have long since passed away, at least labeling the features. This may or may not make people feel better, but it is what it is and it's something to consider, something important to talk about, something to grieve.
"Is it genetic?" patients ask about a particular diagnosis.
We'll say yes, if we think so, or admit we don't know. Maybe, maybe not, depending upon who is fertilizing whose egg. But it's a good thing to know, isn't it, that if an ancestor has features of a disorder, that descendants might have these features as well?
For whether or not things are genetic, everything behavioral can be learned and passed down. All of us struggle with our nature, and we fight how we've been nurtured, too. Both are likely to be transgenerational, even dysfunctional in some way.
I like to think that we can fight both, that much of personality can be shaped and confronted in a nice way, and that most mental illness can be treated. We may have to change how we define success and failure.
The kicker, the part that is most difficult for many patients to buy in this psycho-educational family therapy, is that it's good to "out" our mentally ill, personality disordered, addicted relatives. Out them to the children, mainly, expose those who, dead or alive, have or had issues, or were perhaps differently-abled.
Certainly when it comes to mental illness, rather than attempt to erase a person from the family tree, own the mishigas, (rhymes with wish-ih-moss, Yiddish for craziness) and vaccinate the kids, empower them.
It's so funny. When you tell your kids about the colorful people in the family, they get it right away. And no, they don't want to be just like them. The research on self-fulfilling prophesies has always been a little light.
All that said, you don't have to roast anyone at a funeral, not unless you know your crowd.

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What?: Making Your Organizational Progress and Agile Transition Visible
In a multi-team, complex environment it can be difficult for management to see enough relevant data to make strategic decisions. In this session you will see a real-world example of how a medium-sized organization transitioned to Agile and how data was made visible from Agile transformation actives through to team progress, release status, support and engineering initiatives. Jason will talk about how these dashboards were used to gather data about what was really going on across the engineering group as well as the types of conversations and other initiatives that were derived from the data made visible.
When? Tuesday April 26th, 2011 from 4:30p.m. to 6:00p.m. EST
Where?: Accelerator Centre, 295 Hagey Blvd Room 2 (Gowlings), Waterloo, ON
Who?: Jason Little
Speaker Professional Biography
Jason Little is an independent Agile Coach and Trainer based in Toronto Canada. Prior to becoming an independent coach in June 2009, Jason has been working with software development teams since the mid-90's as a web developer and began a career in project management in 2002. In addition to being a CSP and CSPO, Jason is actively involved with and facilitates meetings for Silicon Halton (a local technology group) and is also involved in local Agile user groups as well as Agile coaching circles.
Jason is currently working on an eBook about Agile transformation.
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Holy fortuitous product shots Batman! When I first saw images of Drinking Queston their website, I imagined a much larger product than what was gently tucked into my mailbox when I received it. What I found was a box about the size of twoiPhones stacked on top of one another. Opening it I found it contained three green six sided dice, a small notepad of character sheets, a deck of cards and a single sheet of rules (printed on both sides). Quite a lot packed into a tiny package.
The cards are printed with the Drinking Quest logo on one side in color and black and white illustrations on the other. They have great titles at the top of each card like "Big Dumb Ogre", "Headbutt to Groin" and "Cool Quest Bro". The illustrations are simple but humorous. It's not every day you see a picture of an Orc fist fighting with a shark. The deck contains cards for heroes and special abilities, a card that serves as a weapon and armor list for shopping, a "cheat sheet" card, quest summary cards and then quest cards which serve as encounters on the quest. All the cards have the same basic white background with their card type printed on them. I assume you are meant to sort them out before drinking, because it could get difficult later on in the night. Maybe future iterations will color code the back of the different card types to make them easier to differentiate between one another.
The concept for your questing in Drinking Quest is four heroes come from a town renown for it's ale and an annual tradition of a drinking quest, a religious holiday blessed by the three Drinking Gods. There isn't much lore you need to know besides that. Everything else is explained on the cards as you quest. There are four quests included in the set which can be played in a single session if you are a binge drinker or spaced out over several sessions, campaign like, if you are a total alcoholic. Game play is simple. You can shop at the shop on your turn if you choose, then you draw a card and deal with the encounter it provides. The other players act as the enemies if you get into a fight and combat is exceedingly simple. It's good that combat is simple, as one of them ways you can save your hero from death is chugging your drink. If the character ends up in a situation calling for a saving throw, you roll all three dice and compare it to your saving throw score. If it's equal or less you pass. Simple as that.
If I have any complaints about drinking quest, it's the aforementioned similar looking cards that can make sorting inconvenient and that there are only four quests. I can see some replay value in the game but after a while it could get stale. I hope that the game sells so we can see some expansions for additional quests. These minor complaints aside, there is a lot of value in this tiny box for the price they are asking.
This game appeals to my love of tabletop games, nerd culture, and my rampant alcoholism. I've played drinking games with more complex rules that had no substance to them whatsoever. So that's where we are at here kids. You can sit through another boring night playing Asshole (or whatever variant of the name you call it) with your friends, trying not to be the last person to put their thumb on the table and getting told to chug, or you can call upon the power of the Drinking Gods by slamming back a pint of "Bellow Ale" in hopes you can defeat that Big Dumb Ogre on your next turn. You can dent up your dining room table trying to bounce currency into a highball glass, or you can take on a Bro-Goblin at Frisbee and hope you don't literally die of embarrassment (which hits for 3HP). You can drink all night and just earn yourself a hangover, or you can earn some XP.
I think the choice is obvious. The game is $25 from drinkingquest.com. Booze not included.


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Treasury Committee calls for end to City's alpha male culture
A report from the Treasury Committee has spoken of an "alpha male culture" in banking, which is dissuading women from seeking careers in the industry.
The Committee found a large disparity in pay between men and women, particularly in the area of bonuses.
The report stated: "The alpha-male culture in some organisations is evident in bonus negotiations, where it's perceived that men argue more forcefully for bonuses than women.
"This can result in higher rewards for men, and acts as a deterrent for women. Performance bonuses should be assessed against clearly objective and formulaic criteria."
The report is part of an investigation into barriers facing women in finance, launched after controversy over gender pay gaps in the UK.
Numbers showed a difference of 52% between men and women in bonus pay from banks and building societies, and a 35% gap overall. The average for all sectors nationwide is 18.4%, while for hourly pay in finance it is 28%.
Banks were the worst offenders of all. Recently published figures showed Barclays to have a gap of 48% (79% in terms of bonuses). Lloyds posted 33% overall and 65% for bonuses, and Royal Bank of Scotland 37% and 64%.
On the report, Treasury Committee chair Nicky Morgan said: "The benefits of gender diversity are highlighted in the report, including better financial performance, reduced groupthink and more open discussions.
"The next step must be for firms to set out how they will abolish their gender pay gap and support the progression of women. Firms should focus on changing the culture in financial services firms, which remains a deterrent for women, especially the bonus culture."
Morgan outlined the need for clearly defined bonus criteria, to level the playing field regardless of negotiation skill.
She added: "Firms should also encourage flexible working, promote returner schemes for women on maternity leave, and re-examine their recruitment and promotion policies to eliminate unconscious bias."


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Sunday 17 March 2019
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
One of Nigeria's best-known performance artists and poets, Efe Paul Azino,visits Skye on a mini tour of the Highlands supported by Scotland's creative writing centre, Moniack Mhor.
In 2015, he co-founded West Africa's first international poetry festival, the Lagos International Poetry Festival, which he currently directs. He is also the director of poetry at the annual Lagos Book and Art Festival.
In 2017 he was named as one of the most powerful people in the Nigerian art and culture space by Ynaija.
Efe Paul published his first collection of poetry in 2015 titled For Broken Men Who Cross Often, under Farafina Books. He has appeared at the Berlin Poetry Festival, Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival, Spier International Poetry Festival Cape Town, Taipei Poetry Festival and the Ake Book and Arts Festival amongst others. His poems have been translated into Afrikaans, French, German and Mandarin. He is an Osiwa Poetry Residency Fellow, 2019 Moniack Mhor Poet in Residence, and his second poetry collection, The Tragedy of Falling with Laughter Stuck in Your Throat, is due out this year.
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text: Chris Anne and Jason are a featured couple in How Love Lasts – The Play. See their story live in Los Angeles this fall! Jason and Chris Anne met in 2000 while in their early 20's. Chris Anne says she knew right away that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Jason: "Like, 'you're the one. You. Are. It. And I love you,' and my claws went in, and that was it." Though Jason… Read More


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Year of selection 2015
Institution Finnish Meteorological Institute
Country Finland
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Air quality forecasts, designed to warn you of hazardous pollution in the air, may be underestimating the risk when it comes to major fires. During a fire, a plethora of tiny particles and trace gases are released in the smoke. Tiny and trace though they may be, they add up, interact and change with time. Today's models that predict air quality in the region near a fire tend to underestimate the number of particles, a discrepancy that researchers have to correct for. Dr. Ville Vakkari is taking an innovative approach to improving these local predictions and to understanding what it means for the global climate when these substances enter the atmosphere.
He is producing entirely new information by combining ground-based measurements of airborne particles in the smoke with satellite data capable of identifying the very fire they came from. The latter will allow him to correlate particle characteristics with the age of the fire, the type of environment it was consuming, whether it was burning with flame or quietly smoldering… All of these are clues to the type and number of particles that found their way into the air and what happened to them next.
The protagonists in this story are the aerosol particles generated by a fire. As small as a nanometer (one billionth of a meter), there are thousands of them suspended in every cubic centimeter of air. Other players are in gas form and interactions among them or with sunlight can trigger chemical reactions, potentially growing the tiny particles to climatically relevant sizes or producing a secondary set of particles. Identifying the particles present, and the balance among them, is important for Dr. Vakkari, because of their sometimes opposite effects on the climate. Soot, for example, absorbs solar radiation, leading to heating; others, including secondary particles, reflect it, causing cooling, instead. More particles in the atmosphere will also make clouds last longer and make them brighter—two factors that can lead to cooling. "For both cases, the question is how particle properties change during smoke plume transport," he explains. Dr. Vakkari adds that "burning crop residues is a common agricultural practice around the world, but this is not necessarily a good thing." Add that to the increased risk of natural fires due to extreme droughts linked to climate change, and we all have an interest in understanding what these tiny particles, born of fire, get up to in our air.
Scientific title : Atmospheric Evolution Of Biomass Burning Emissions
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East India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar,[1] Jharkhand,[2] West Bengal,[3] Odisha[4] and also the union territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands.[5] West Bengal's capital Kolkata is the largest city of this region. The Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the country's third largest. Among these states, Bihar is considered to be a part of North India as well.[6][7][8] The state of West Bengal share many cultural and linguistic characteristics with Bangladesh. Together with Bangladesh, West Bengal formed the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal before partition in 1947.
The modern state of Odisha was known as Kalinga, Odra desha and Utkala in ancient times. It was ruled by indigenous rulers of the Mahameghavahana dynasty, Eastern Ganga dynasty and Gajapati Dynasty. Odia language is one of Classical Language of India. Odishaa classical dance Odissi and a classical music Odissi music are also well known in India.


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Chosing a good WP theme is not as easy as it seems to be. There are still doubts if love-at-first-sight exists in real life, but it definitely exists in the world of internet. The design is the first thing with which your visitors meet, and this is the first thing they can get engaged with. Therefore, there are a plenty of things to consider before you chose the main theme for your content. Here isa basic guide for you to help.
1. Be content conscious
Before you set up your site, take some time on deciding what your content is going to be. Will your page be a kind of a portfolio, with mostly static content? Is it going to be a blog with extended textual posts? Is it a colorful album for videos, posts, quotes, etc? How often would you like to post fresh content? And which will be the most important content type on your site? Let's have some quick tips for the beginning only.
- If you have a blog, and want to post extended textual contents, choose a simple, clear layout. It is nice when the background of the body does not contain any unnecessary graphic elements – and the whole page is easy to follow and functional. Inspirin Magazine Theme is a very good example.
- If you post various types of content, or arrange a portfolio with mixed textual or visual content, a mosaic design can emphasize how colorful your content is. Check Amzola Blog Theme, for instance.
- If you post news or actualities regularly, then a news-portal style might be ideal for you – like the Laverde Theme.
2. Be original
Originality is very important, when it comes to webpage design. Most WP hosts offer you various themes, even for free, for your free blog, and some of them look even very charming. However, these themes cannot guarantee originality for you, so at the end your visitors will find similar sites with similar content – which is very harmful for you on the long run. Additionaly, free themes are not really free in most of the times: they almost always include backlinks to somewhere which you will not be aware of.
3. Know you visitors
If you have an existing site, take some time on looking at the statistics, if not yet, then try to guess what is going to happen. Take a look at the devices from which your traffic comes, and check how your website looks on a tablet or a smartphone.
Then try to guess the source of your traffic: and chose a design which fits to the surface. For example, if your visitors come from Facebook, it is nice to have a design, the subpages of which can function as a landing page as well – so visitors can easily navigate on further content and spent more time on your site. However, when most visitors find you via google search, it is nice if your side is built around a theme, and the visitors can find the related content easily.
If it is possible, choose a responsive theme - this will provide a nive preview on mobile devices automatically.
4. Customize
Before you chose the theme, make sure it is customizable enough. In a quality theme you can change at least the simpler graphic elements easily – so take some time to find your own header and logo. This will give your site a more personalized, more recognizable look, and make is easier to apply minor changes in the look is they are necessary (e. g. when a new album of your band is released, you might want to actualize the design of your page to get it fit for the cover).
5. Have a backup site
A clone site is a smaller version of your original site under a different domain name. This might seem to be a waste of money, but it can have many useful functions, so it will be worth on the long run. Firstly, you can use it as an archive for your quality content which you would not like to have on your current site anymore (like your old photos, which were once very popular, but you do not want to include them in your actual portfolio). Secondly, this can function as a safety copy of your page, to which you can redirect your visitors if something happens to your original site (like the server is blocked for some reasons). At last but not least, this can be your design laboratory, where you can test new layouts and themes.
If your site has different functions, links, videos, it is a very good idea to test anything new before you publish the changes. If you do it on a separate site, you can avoid accidental function losses, and other troubles on your original site.
Of course look and feel is not the only one metrics that should be considered when make the final decision about a theme. Check out our previous post about what else to consider to find the best theme.


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Picture the perfect summer al fresco meal. What do you see? A pretty location for a start, a sunny day and tasty food that's also easy to eat – all of these ingredients add up to make a great outdoors spread.
From picnics and barbecues to a packed lunch on the beach or lunch in the park before you head back to the office, eating in the fresh air is one of the great benefits of summer.
But why does food taste better when we eat it outdoors? It might be that when we're taken out of our usual environment, we focus more on the food itself rather than the other things that distract us when we eat indoors, whether that's watching TV or reading online.
When we're outdoors we tend to simplify the food we eat too – there's no need for fancy sauces and complicated recipes when all you need are the staples of life, such as fresh bread, colourful veg and fruit and top quality meat or fish.
There's also something about feeling a soft summer breeze on your skin that makes it the perfect appetiser, as you scoop a spoon into a tub of ice cream or bite into a simple but tasty sandwich.
The best summer food to have is the stuff you can easily eat with your hands, which is why Prosciutto di San Daniele is the perfect picnic item. You don't need fiddly forks or added ingredients – just take a slice and eat it just like that, savouring the perfect combination of salty and sweet with no accompaniments. Or you can wrap it around a plump strawberry, pair it with slice of juicy melon or a whole fresh fig or place it between two slices of your favourite bread or atop a slice of ciabatta.
The key to summer eating outdoors is to keep everything light – stodgy food is a big no-no, so think portable and 'finger food' instead. Also try to prepare as much as possible at home, before you head for the great outdoors, so that when you get to your destination all you have to do is enjoy the weather and the view.
Eating al fresco, rather than yet another rushed 'al desko' lunch in the office, also gives you important time out from office and your day-to-day work – a screen break is also important when it comes to keeping your eyes healthy and your mind alert.
To help make your next al fresco dining experience one to remember, we've compiled some of our favourite picnic, beach and barbecue suggestions below.
• Say 'salute' with a Hugo cocktail – pronounced 'Ugo', this summer cocktail will add some sparkle to your summer. Pour prosecco into a large wine glass, add a dash of elderflower syrup and top with soda or sparkling water, add a slice of lime and ice cubes.
• Cool down with a grape stick – for a delicious alternative to an icy lolly or popsicle, thread large seedless red grapes onto a wooden barbecue skewer – you should be able to add around 7-8, leaving space at the bottom so you can hold it. Place skewers on a plate and place in a freezer until you're ready to eat.
• Asparagus spears wrapped with prosciutto are a deliciously light summer side dish and a light accompaniment to heavy barbecue meats. Drizzle fresh asparagus stalks with olive oil and season with pepper, then roast in the oven. After cooking, wrap in Prosciutto di San Daniele.
• Avoid soggy salads and sandwiches by keeping dressings and ingredients with a high-water content (such as tomatoes) in a separate container until you are ready to eat.
• For a twist on a white wine spritzer, try a refreshing pre-mixed limoncello spritzer. Add a bottle of sparkling water or soda water to a jug containing the contents of one bottle of prosecco, pour in shots of limoncello to taste and lemon slices for garnish.
• Avoid the need for ice by freezing water bottles in advance – by the time you need a cool drink, the ice will have mostly frozen and the water will be ready to drink.


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FSU AAA Alumna named to Forbes 30-under-30
We are extremely proud of our Executive member, Anisha Singh (FSU c/o 2009), who was named to Forbes 30-under-30 in Law & Policy. A true Seminole that bleeds garnet and gold, Anisha is a great ambassador for FSU and the Asian American community.
She was recognized for winning a historic case against the US Army requiring accommodation for a 19-year-old Sikh. You can listen to the podcast at FoxNews.com and read more about the case at ACLU.org.
She has also been featured in Buzzfeed's list of the 45 Indian women who were named to Forbes 30-under-30 in their respective industries.
Read more about her story at the FSU College of Communication & Information (CCI)


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LETTER: Questions for George Ross about Paul Begala
Dear President Ross:
Why do you allow the College of Humanities and Social And Behavioral Sciences to spend probably several thousands of dollars bringing a liberal Democratic Party strategist pro Obama super PAC adviser Paul Begala to campus prior to a close election and rev up the students to vote for Obama but not give equal time and the same funding dollars bringing a conservative Republican Party strategist to campus to campaign for Romney?
Is it fair for a taxpayer-supported tax-exempt Michigan public school to bring in the Democrats but not the Republicans?
Why can't you bring in Karl Rove or Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Rielly, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Mike Huckabee, Ari Fleischer, Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Mike Gallagher, Monica Crowley, Dick Morris, Mark Steyn, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved or Rich Lowry – a conservative to counter Begala?
Top universities such as Harvard's Kennedy School of Government bring in a diversity of speakers - liberal, moderate and conservative. Notre Dame on October 12 is featuring liberal Ted Koppel and conservative George Will. Great universities believe in diversity of opinion. Maybe that's why CMU ranks in the bottom tier these days. Checkout the US News and World Report on Western Michigan's homepage which lists MSU, UM, Michigan Tech and Western in the top 75 percent of national universities. WMU points out how we're in the unranked lower tier these days. Pretty sad!
It's time CMU plays fair. You should quickly find a speaker (I supplied you with names_ for a comparable price tag and deduct it from the Political Science Department's budget. Or, you could easily get a Michigan congressman, John Engler, Pete Hoekstra, a Romney family member or Governor Snyder for equal time. If you want to fill McGuirk Arena, then call Republicans Kid Rock or Ted Nugent.
I've got enough confidence in CMU students that they can make an intelligent decision when hearing all sides of any issue. You and your departments apparently don't.
Incidentally, if anyone wants to know which CMU employees and how many dollars they have contributed to Obama, Stabenow, Gary Peters or the DNC since 2008, then visit opensecrets.org.
If CMU isn't fair to both parties for this important election, then the Legislature should consider slashing CMU's appropriations and CMU Republican Alumni should quit donating until we get fair treatment prior to elections. Michigan taxpayers deserve better. Our American democracy deserves better at CMU.
Corey Ruzicka
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Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchisecreated by George Lucas. The character, portrayed by Mark Hamill, is an important figure in the Rebel Alliance's struggle against the Galactic Empire. He is the twin brother of Rebellion leader Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, a friend and brother-in-law of smuggler Han Solo, an apprentice to Jedi Masters Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi and Yoda, the son of fallen Jedi Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) and Queen of Naboo/Republic Senator Padmé Amidala and maternal uncle of Ben Solo / Kylo Ren. The now non-canon and discarded Star Wars Legends depicts him as a powerful Jedi Master, husband of Mara Jade, the father of Ben Skywalker and maternal uncle of Jaina, Jacen and Anakin Solo.
In 2015, the character was selected by Empire magazine as the 50th greatest movie character of all time. On their list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters, Fandomania.com ranked the character at number 14. Luke Skywalker Action Figure Return of the Jedi
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text: This randomized controlled study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02007616)investigated the maintenance of training effects of 20 1-hr non-action video gametraining sessions with selected games from a commercial package on several agedecliningcognitive functions and subjective wellbeing after a 3-month no-contactperiod. Two groups of cognitively normal older adults participated in both the posttraining(posttest) and the present follow-up study, the experimental group who receivedtraining and the control group who attended several meetings with the research teamduring the study but did not receive training. Groups were similar at baseline ondemographics, vocabulary, global cognition, and depression status. Significant improvements in the trained group, and no variation in the control group had been previously found at posttest, in processing speed, attention and visual recognition memory, as well as in two dimensions of subjective wellbeing. In the current study, improvement from baseline to 3 months follow-up was found only in wellbeing (Affection and Assertivity dimensions) in the trained group whereas there was no change in the control group. Previous significant improvements in processing speed, attentionand spatial memory become nonsignificant after the 3-month interval. Training olderadults with non-action video games enhanced aspects of cognition just after training butthis effect disappeared after a 3-month no-contact follow-up period. Cognitive plasticitycan be induced in older adults by training, but to maintain the benefits periodic boosting sessions would be necessary.


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I've always been a student of performance—in my athletic days and now. Whether it's nutritional intake, training strategies, or supplement choices, this is where science comes to life for me. Over the years, I made this interest work for my fitness performance and now for my optimal health. It's not about "hacking" the body's functioning but understanding it from the ground floor up. This knowledge helps me live and age through life more on my own terms, which is exactly the way I like it.
Every bit of research, every connection, every choice has done its part to fill in the picture for me—the daily practices and overall philosophy behind the Primal Blueprint.
In the last few years, collagen [1] has been one of the tools that has made the biggest difference in my life. It was instrumental to recovering from an injury that (I was told) would put me on the sidelines indefinitely, and now it supports continuing joint health and mobility as I push myself physically long after many people give up on their bodies period.
Recently, Brad Kearns and I recorded a conversation about my interest in collagen [2]—how I started applying it to my health, what it offers for fitness performance, and how anyone—athlete or not—can benefit. Take a look.
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After a three year break from music, Adele returned last week with her latest single 'Hello' from forthcoming album 25.
The single sold 333,000 units in its first week, making it the biggest no.1 record in three years, since James Arthur's X Factor winner's single 'Impossible', which sold 490,000 units in December 2012. Adele's previous album 21 is recognised as the best-selling album of the millenium, and with figures like this, 25 is set to sell even better. In case you haven't already, watch the dramatic video below and see what the world's been talking about:
Hands up who thought the beginning reminded them of Lionel Richie's 'Hello'? Us too! But does Lionel's version stand up against Adele's record-breaking statistics?
At the time of release in 1984, Lionel Richie's 'Hello' reached no.1 on three Billboard charts and topped the UK Singles Chart for six consecutive weeks. It appears on the album Can't Slow Down, which has sold more than 20 million copies. Adele's 21 has sold over 30 million copies since its release in 2011, and spent 23 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart.
Whether you prefer Lionel's classic record or are head-over-heels for Adele, it seems the world loves a good 'Hello'. Scroll through our list of the songs that give the best greeting…
Lionel Richie – Hello
There's no denying the similarities between Adele's opening line and Lionel Richie's famous chorus!
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
'Hello darkness, my old friend' – this classic was also a chart-topper after its release in 1964.
Beyoncé – Hello
Queen Bey says that 'Hello' from her third studio album I Am…Sasha Fierce is one of her favourites.
U2 – Vertigo
Who could forget Bono's iconic 'Hello, hello / I'm at a place called Vertigo'?
The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye
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The Beatles' 1967 record divided the critics but still topped charts around the world.
Louis Armstrong – Hello, Dolly!
Louis Armstrong's title track to the popular 1964 musical of the same name became the best-selling single of his career and knocked The Beatles off the no.1 spot.


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Maiike Octopus - Blue
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This gorgeous octopus with eight squishy legs and cute round body is hand made in Melbourne by Maiike, and makes the perfect special gift or first soft toy. Maiike woollen toys and quilts are born from woollen knits carefully sourced from secondhand shops.
Dimensions: Approx. H 47cm W 18cm
Weight: Approx. 400gm
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For any motorcycle enthusiast, performance is key. Buying a bike off the line can give you incredible power and performance, but it doesn't have to stop there.
Many riders choose to equip their bikes with aftermarket motorcycle parts to get even more out of their machines. While some parts might be more expensive than others (BMW versus Victory aftermarket motorcycle parts, for instance), there are inexpensive ways to use aftermarket parts to your advantage.
Air Filter
The best way to increase performance without breaking the bank is to upgrade your air filter. Granted, you should be monitoring your air filter and replacing it as needed anyway, but there are added benefits to replacing your old one. First and foremost, you increase air flow efficiency, which means more oxygen can enter the engine, thus improving engine performance. Secondly, you can improve filtration and ensure that stuff that shouldn't be in your engine doesn't get in there in the first place. The better air filter you buy, the more performance you'll get out of your bike as per the tips shared by this kawasaki dealer.
Even though most people think of performance as power, it actually refers to every aspect of the bike, including the brakes. Motorcycle brakes function like other braking systems, and so with few upgrades, you can enhance your stopping power. Primarily, you can replace your pads with a set that complements your brake discs. Even if your pads aren't worn out just yet, you can always upgrade to higher performance ones. Brakes on a heavily ridden streetbike can get up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, while pads and discs on racebikes could exceed 600 degrees, so you'll want to get high-quality parts. You can also swap out your factory brake lines with braided stainless steel lines, which will give you more control over the system.
Depending on the style of your bike and what you're looking to get out of it, there are a few benefits to installing an aftermarket exhaust system. Besides performance, a new exhaust can improve the look of your bike (or make it more to your liking), as well as change the sound, whether you like a throaty roar or a high-tuned zip. They can also increase your bike's performance by lowering the weight and increasing exhaust flow, both of which will add some extra horsepower and performance.
Even with these modifications, you should always ensure your parts are a right fit for your bike. If you have a Victory Gunner, then you should look at Victory aftermarket motorcycle parts. A Harley Davidson Street Rod should use Harley aftermarket parts. Bad fitting parts will only decrease your bike's performance.
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The 'Stranger Things' Season 3 trailer is action-packed
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
(CNN) — There's a lot going on in the new season of "Stranger Things."
Season 3 of the popular Netflix series will begin soon, and the latest trailer just dropped.
The three-minute-long, action-packed clip shows that Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Max and the rest of the gang are growing up and taking on more responsibility to protect their world from the Upside Down monsters.
"No matter what happens, we have to stop him together," Mike says in the trailer.
Related: 'Stranger Things' season 3 reveals episode titles
But are they successful?
According to Netflix, "It's 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer's heating up."
"School's out, there's a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Romance blossoms and complicates the group's dynamic, and they'll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart," a blurb from the streaming giant says. "Meanwhile, danger looms. When the town's threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. Now they'll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear."
Viewers have been anxiously awaiting the return of the award-winning series and Netflix has kept the flames stoked for months.
The first trailer, which was released back in March, was filled with all types of 1980s pop culture references.
"Stranger Things" starts streaming July 4.
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Prevention of ureteral injury in difficult laparoscopic dissection via infrared ureteral stents
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This video demonstrates the usefulness of infrared ureteric stents during rectal or colonic resection when there is unusual dense adhesions or mass involving the lateral pelvic wall. In this case, the patient is having a rectal resection due to severe endometriosis and there were dense adhesions between the rectum, uterus and the pelvic wall. The presence of the infrared stents visible by the 3-chip camera allowed the surgeon to mobilize the rectum off the pelvic wall and the uterus without fear of damage to the ureter, which was close by but well outlined.


text: The Glee alum was arrested for domestic battery in West Virginia on November 25, 2017, after an altercation with her husband, Ryan Dorsey, at their home. The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office told Us Weekly that the actress and her husband had been arguing over their 2-year-old son, Josey, and that alcohol may have played a role in the incident. Dorsey claimed that Rivera struck him in the head and bottom lip as they were talking their son for a walk.


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Systems for the automated 3D assembly of micro-tissue and bio-printing of tissue engineered constructs (2012)
Type of ContentTheses / Dissertations
UC Permalinkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/7237
Thesis DisciplineMechanical Engineering
Degree NameMaster of Engineering
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering
AuthorsLang, Michaelshow all
Tissue engineering is a field devoted to the design and creation of replacement tissues with the ultimate goal of one day providing replacement organs. Traditional strategies to accomplish this through the bulk seeding of cells onto a single monolithic porous bio-scaffold are unable to realise a precise architecture, thus the inability to mimic the cells natural micro-environment found within the body. Bio-printing approaches are the current state of the art with the ability to accurately mimic the complex 3D hierarchical structure of tissue. However, a functional construct also requires high strength to provide adequate support in load bearing applications such as bone and cartilage tissue engineering, and to maintain the open geometry of a large intricate channel network, which is crucial for the transport of nutrients and wastes. Typical approaches utilise materials which have processing parameters more amendable for cell incorporation, thus they can be simultaneously deposited with scaffolding material. However, the resulting construct is typically of low strength. This thesis explores the automation of a printing and "tissue assembly" process with the ability to incorporate delicate cell aggregates or spheroids within a high strength bio-scaffold requiring harsh processing parameters, at precise locations. The 3D printed bio-scaffold has a lattice architecture which enables a frictional fit to be formed between the particle and scaffold, thus preventing egress. To achieve this the pore must be expanded before the delivery of a single 1mm particle. Novel subsystems were developed to automate this process and provide the ability to achieve scalable, flexible, complex constructs with accurate architecture. A system architecture employing the benefits of modularity was devised. The main subsystems developed were the singulation device, to ensure the separation of a single particle; the injection device, to deliver and seed particles into the scaffold, and the control system, to facilitate the operation of the devices. Three generations of singulation devices have been developed ranging from mechanical to fluid manipulation methods alone. The first prototype utilised mechanical methods, with simple control methods. However the inability to correctly position the lead particle within the singulation chamber, resulted in damage to the test alginate particles. In the second prototype a fully fluidics based device utilised two trapping sites to capture the leading particles. Singulation success rates of up to 88% was achieved. Higher rates were limited by the trapped particle's interaction with the lagging particles during capture. In a similar concept to the second prototype, the third prototype utilised only a single trapped particle, and achieved much higher throughput, and 100% singulation accuracy. The injection device, utilised a conical expanding rod within a thin outer sheath. It was able to expand the pore, with minimal damage to the scaffold, providing an unobstructed path for the delivery of the particle into the pore. A decentralised control system was devised to integrate the process operation for the electro-mechanical devices. Separate microcontrollers were able to sense, interact and communicate with one another, and the master control PC, to execute specific tasks to automate the process. The development of systems to automate the process has addressed the ability to accurately incorporate delicate cells with a high strength bio-scaffold, and will enable the realisation and investigation of intricate complex constructs, unachievable with current manual processes. Thus features found within the body may be more closely mimicked and functionalised, which may provide the necessary signals, micro-environment and infrastructure to correctly regulate the formation of complex functional tissue, supported by the adequate mass transport of nutrients and wastes. This may one day lead to 3D printing or assembly of viable replacement tissue, accurate in vitro model systems for laboratory testing, or even whole organs.


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My name is Chris Tymchuck and I love what I do. As a Minneapolis Estate Planning and Probate attorney I help build and protect families through the adoption, estate planning, and probate processes. I also have experience working with families on issues related to their small business. Many families have a small business that is vital to their personal and financial well being and I want to ensure that the business is protected and can run smoothly.
I have the experience to help you both as an attorney and as someone who has navigated the legal system as I have participated in that system both as an advocate for families and as a client going through the second-parent adoption process in adopting both my kids and as someone who handled the probate process for my family after the death of my father.
I am an attorney …
As an attorney I have represented clients in a variety of matters from small civil disputes to multi-million dollar litigation and from estate planning for families to assisting surviving heirs with the probate process. In my estate planning practice, I custom draft plans based on the unique needs of each client using a transparent, flat fee, system so my clients know the cost up front with no surprises.
I have worked with numerous families to help them work through the difficult process of collecting and distributing assets after the death of a loved one. I have also helped guide families through the process of obtaining a guardianship and conservatorship over an incapacitated loved one.
I have assisted clients in closing real estate deals and helping small business get up and running.
As a qualified neutral in both civil and family matters, I am uniquely qualified to provide my services as a mediator for estate and trust disputes. For this, I draw upon my extensive legal history working on both civil and estate matters. My diverse background helps me offer understanding and unique solutions to those attempting to resolve an estate dispute.
I am uniquely qualified to handle the complex legal issues facing today's modern family. Whether protecting your assets from a break-up, incapacity or death, I can assist you in making sure that you have the final say in who gets your property. If you are interested in my legal services, please contact me to set up an initial consultation.
I am more than just an attorney
I understand how stressful it can be to carefully plan a family and then worry about how to protect them if the unspeakable happens. I have been the nervous new parent testifying under oath during the hearing to adopt my kids. Even though the day is a blur of emotions now, I do recall the Judge asking me to promise to provide for her "health, welfare and education." Education? Who knew that was part of the deal? And how far do I need to take that? College? Medical School?
I am called "Mor" – pronounced more – by my kids. My family is Danish and I grew up calling my grandmother Bedstemoder so it seemed a natural progression. Though it does cause some confusion when others call me Mom and my daughter says "I call her Mor." Insert "more what" joke here. This may backfire when she's a teenager.
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On July 4, 2014, I finished the Red, White and Boom Half Marathon. I can now say that I am a "Half Marathoner." And I am the owner of a shiny new "13.1" bumper sticker. Hey - I earned it!
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I know how difficult it is to find time to plan for the future and I am here to help walk you through it. I understand the stress of relying on another to handle your most important matters, which is why I promise to respond to communications from clients within 1 business day. Not sure what estate planning is or what it's like to work with an estate planning law firm? If you are interested in my estate planning services, please read through the page entitled "The Planning Process" on this website to get a step-by-step explanation of what it's like to work with Unique Estate Law. You can also visit the "Testimonials" page to hear what clients have to say about working with me.
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Check Out Matt Applin and The Midnite Band at Calistoga Hotels
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There is no other feeling than listening to live entertainment while enjoying a bite to eat. At Twin Pine Casino & Hotel's Grapevine Bar & Lounge, you can experience a variety of genres playing right in front of you while you enjoy a meal or drink. Upcoming on Saturday November 28th the Grapevine Lounge is having Matt Applin and The Midnite Band play an exciting arrangement of fun tunes.
Decades of experience
At this casino in the Bay Area, Matt Applin and The Midnite Band have had over 25 years of experience performing everything from R&B and Motown to Jazz and Blues. Applin is widely known in the Bay Area for being such an enthusiastic performer and excellent singer. The Midnite Band has been performing with Applin for many years and have built up an incredible chemistry with him. Together they have performed at weddings, festivals, county fairs, private parties, and more.
Voices are like fingerprints
Applin is a confident man and watching him performing is a real treat. He once said to the Daily Republic, "Voices are unique, like your fingerprints. If you don't believe what you have is good, you can't put your heart into it." This definitely is not the case for Applin – him and his band are fully dedicated and know that they've got what it takes woo a crowd.
Must see while staying at hotels in bay area
If you happen to be staying the night at the Twin Pines Hotel or one of the Calistoga hotels nearby, you must drop in for a night with Matt Applin and the Midnite Band. But if you miss him this time it won't be the last you see of him. On continuing his career Applin mentioned, "For me it's like breathing. It enlivens me," He said. "It's what I do."
The live music starts at 9:00 PM and ends at 1:30 AM. There is no cover charge but be prepared for the two drink minimum. For more information about Matt Applin & The Midnite Band, be sure to check out their website for upcoming events and more.


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Gu, Zhengwei (2002) Confsys : the Cindi Conference Support System. Other thesis, Concordia University.
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This project describes the design and the implementation of a conference support system. By using this system, an author can submit her paper; the program committee members can download and to review these papers; and finally the program chair can make a decision for their papers, all on-line. This project is a Java based application. Most of functions of this project are developed by using Java servlet technology. Through the Java servlet, a client can communicate with MySQL, an easily available Open Source database server. This application also uses Linux as the operating system, Apache as web server and Tomcat as servlet engine. Additional third party components are also used in this application. Finally, the major important interfaces and codes for key algorithms are presented.
|Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
|Item Type:
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|Gu, Zhengwei
|vi, 48, [7] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
|Concordia University
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|Major reports (M.Comp.Sc.)
|Computer Science and Software Engineering
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McGraw Wallet – Tan Chromexcel
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We drew inspiration from the minimal design ethos of Japan and combined artful design with utility to create our signature McGraw Wallet. Made from a single piece of Horween Chromexcel leather and hand-stitched with extremely strong artificial sinew, this minimal leather wallet is designed to carry the essentials and hold them in a unique way. It holds up to three cards in each card slot and bills of multiple sizes in the main pocket. The rich leather will develop a beautiful patina and last a lifetime.
- One-piece minimal leather billfold
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Four international posters for director Rupert Sanders' Snow White and the Huntsman have been revealed and can be viewed below. The Universal Pictures action adventure, starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham, Ray Winstone, Lily Cole, Sam Spruell, Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley, opens in theaters on June 1.
In the film, Kristen Stewart ("The Twilight Saga") plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Hemsworth) who was dispatched to kill her.