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It’s been 18 years now since Beaudin first moved here from his native Quebec to be a regular member of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band, a gig that took him on international tours as cultural ambassadors for Canada’s Armed Forces while he built up a solo career in his off hours.
Following his leave from the RCAB five years back, visits to Cuba and Spain allowed him to absorb Latin music first-hand. The band La Cueva got its name from the caves he toured in Spain.
Today he’s a frequent figure in varied projects around the city from his 12-year-old Retrofitz funk band to sitting in on bass or guitar, or writing compositions and charts for other artists.
Apart from this weekend you can usually find him playing guitar at Sabor Restaurant downtown Friday and Saturday nights. If you can’t make it out to a show Beaudin has four self-produced albums available through his website or CD Baby, including a recent instrumental tribute to Eric Clapton.
It took Harrison Kennedy half a lifetime to establish himself as one of Canada’s finest acoustic blues players, but the man had music in his soul from way back.
Just short of his 76th birthday next week, he’s back here Friday performing at Blue Chair Cafe. But Kennedy is a man who’s with the times.
Today he plays mostly original songs, in an early country blues style, but often with a contemporary lyrical spin. For an example, check his tune Doctors In Hard Hats, which could have come from the 1940s for its rural blues sound but for the storyline. It’s part of his latest Electro-Fi release Who U Tellin’?, a super...
Kennedy’s Hamilton, Ont., birthright came with family ties to Tennessee, and in Hamilton to his late, great uncle Jackie Washington, a blues singer and Canada’s first black disc jockey.
Thanks to Washington’s connections, family friends like Duke Ellington or Billie Holiday stopped by the house when they were in town on tour. Kennedy grew up in this musical milieu, taking harmonica lessons from the likes of Brownie McGhee, befriending many famous blues and jazz artists over the years, leading his own ...
Kennedy hit Detroit in 1970 to join The Chairmen of the Board, under the Holland-Dozier-Holland umbrella. He actually played in the band for Marvin Gaye’s landmark song What’s Goin’ On, and later for Parliament on The Skin I’m In. Over the years he has mined every corner of the African-American music continuum, shades ...
It wasn’t until the early 2000s that Kennedy returned to music, specifically to early rural acoustic blues sounds. After recording Sweet Taste in 2003, the man started an association with Toronto’s Electro-Fi blues label that brought him a Juno nomination and other honours. He also got to first runner-up in the Interna...
Along with hundreds of original songs he still throws in the occasional Ray Charles cover but it’s all Kennedy. He’s a musical storyteller and communicator.
Harrison Kennedy plays Blue Chair Cafe at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $25. For reservations call 780-989-2861 or go online to bluechair.ca.
Hard to believe it’s been 20 years already since a group of local roots musicians got together for a one-off concert dubbed Come On In My Kitchen. Founded by Peter North, the project continues today as Front Porch Roots Revue, a gradually evolving mix of roots styles that now revolves around Ron Rault, Crawdad Cantera,...
Two fine recordings (one live, one studio date) came from the group as their performances have expanded beyond Alberta with festival appearances and popular theme shows tapping the repertoire of Ian Tyson, The Band and more.
For their 20th anniversary celebration at Sherwood Park’s Festival Place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, guests will include Karla Anderson, Bobby Cameron, J.R. Shore, Ian Oscar and Garth Kennedy.
Tickets are $36 to $40 from festivalplace.ab.ca or call 780-449-3378.
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Published: Feb. 3, 2016 at 12:41 p.m.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2016 at 05:57 p.m.
Brandon Marshall is standing by his quarterback amid conflicting reports that Colin Kaepernick wants to leave the San Francisco 49ers for the New York Jets.
"I don't want Kaepernick," Marshall told ESPN's First Take on Wednesday morning. "I think he's good. My guy's Fitz. It's nothing against Kaepernick, but what I'm saying is that I have my quarterbacks and I'm good."
Although the New York Daily News reported that the Jets are aware of Kaepernick's interest and are in the early stages of offseason planning, Marshall emphasized his preference for the team to re-sign Fitzpatrick before the onset of free agency in March.
"The second half of Ryan Fitzpatrick's career is going to be amazing," Marshall said, "because he's with his guy Chan Gailey and he really owns this offense. And that's what you want out of the quarterback position."
The presence of Fitzpatrick is just one of several reasons why Kaepernick won't end up with Gang Green.
Coach Todd Bowles has already made it clear that the Jets want Fitzpatrick back as the starter on a long-term contract. The journeyman quarterback has reciprocated that interest.
The most likely scenario for Kaepernick is returning to San Francisco to star in an offense being hailed as a godsend for his slumping career.
SHERMAN, TX - KTEN-TV and its parent, Lockwood Broadcasting Group of Hampton, Virginia, announced the signing of one of the best Texoma newscasters Lisanne Anderson.
A multi-year agreement was reached on February 1st where Lisanne Anderson will fill the main anchor role for KTEN's Evening Newscasts. "It's exciting to have Texoma's best newscaster now join Texoma's best newscast," stated Asa Jessee, KTEN General Manager. In a signing ceremony at 10 o'clock on February 1st, the agree...
"Viewers in the Texoma area have enjoyed Lisanne's talents for over a decade, we are pleased to add her leadership and experience to our team," remarked Jessee. "She will be a great addition to our established talent," Jessee added.
Anderson assumed the Main Anchor role for KTEN on February 1st where she will join veteran meteorologist, Alan Mitchell, also coming to KTEN in 1995 from top market (Oklahoma City) in the area.
"Lisanne brings over a decade of newsroom leadership to KTEN's main anchor desk," said KTEN's news director, Steve Korioth. "Texoma viewers have depended on Lisanne Anderson for their news for nearly 10 years."
"Texoma is my home, and I'm excited to bring viewers the news that actually impacts their lives," says Anderson. "It's great to work alongside veteran meteorologist Alan Mitchell, who has made Texoma his home, too... And has earned the trust of KTEN viewers."
Mitchell became Chief Meteorologist at KTEN in 1995. He holds the American Meteorological Society's "Seal of Approval," which was awarded in 1988. Mitchell has also received numerous awards, including being voted "Best in the Air Force," as part of a five-man forecasting team. Alan has forecasted weather and provided P...
Anderson joins Mitchell on KTEN's anchor desk at 5, 6, and 10pm. KTEN Sports Director Brian Goldman also joins Anderson on the desk for KTEN News at 6 and KTEN News at 10.
"It doesn't take long after speaking with Lisanne to realize that she genuinely cares about the viewers of this area and considers it an honor to be a part of their lives," comments Asa Jessee.
KTEN news anchor Jocelyn Lockwood will continue on with KTEN-TV. After Lockwood recently announced plans to marry later this year, she expressed her intent to pursue broadcast opportunities in larger TV markets.
Lisanne Anderson may be new to KTEN's news team, but she has been a trusted and dedicated newscaster serving north Texas and southeastern Oklahoma for well over a decade. The award-winning journalist joined KTEN News on February 1, 2009, just in time for the NBC affiliate's broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII.
A proud wife and mother of three, Lisanne loves calling Texoma home. She and her family live in Marshall County, right in the heart of KTEN's viewing area and the heart of Texoma. When she's not at work, Lisanne loves being on the lake with family and friends.
Lisanne also donates her time as a proud board member for the Child and Family Guidance Center of Texoma. You can find her every October with the center's annual Harley Party and Give-A-Way.
Lisanne grew up in Texoma, a graduate of Plainview High School in Ardmore; she earned her broadcasting degree at the University of Central Oklahoma.
She began her broadcasting career at KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City in March of 1995. By the fall of 1996, she moved from assistant producer to Sunday Morning News Anchor.
In December of 1997, she brought her considerable TV talents to Texoma, earning honors from her peers ranging from Best Newscast to Best Anchor Team by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, The Society of Professional Journalists, and the Texas Associated Press. Lisanne also earned an Emmy Nomination in 2007.
KTEN (also referred to as K-TEN or KTEN News) is the NBC affiliate located in Sherman, Ada, Ardmore market. The station also serves Ardmore, Ada, Durant Oklahoma and Sherman, Denison, Grayson, Fannin, Lamar and Cooke Counties in Texas. KTEN has newsrooms in both Oklahoma and Texas, located respectively at Ardmore and D...
KTEN, which signed on the air in 1954, is a rarity among small-market TV stations. Although they had an NBC affiliation since its sign-on, it has also served as a primary ABC affiliate for most of its 40-plus years and also had a Fox affiliation during the 1980s, and 1990s. Both ABC and Fox would be dropped by 1998 as ...
Jasmine Jean Welsh was welcomed into the world on January 7, 2019. She is the first child of Kristy Taylor, formally of Gloucester, and Russell Welsh of Gillieston Heights. Born weighting seven pounds, four ounces and measuring 20 inches long, she was delivered at Maitland hospital. She is the fifth granddaughter of Te...
Jasmine Jean Welsh was welcomed into the world on January 7, 2019.
She is the first child of Kristy Taylor, formally of Gloucester, and Russell Welsh of Gillieston Heights.
Born weighting seven pounds, four ounces and measuring 20 inches long, she was delivered at Maitland hospital.
She is the fifth granddaughter of Terry and Debbie Taylor of Gloucester, the 21st great grandchild of Dawn Taylor of Gloucester and the granddaughter of Pam and Danny Cahill of Harrington.
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You’re on an elevator. An earthquake hits. It’s scary. The power goes out, and now you’re stuck. And you gotta go, bad. Luckily, Japan is putting emergency toilets on elevators to prevent such nightmares.
Japan’s infrastructure ministry and toilet companies now want to put portable loos on all lifts—as well as drinking water supplies, too. These toilets could apparently be as simple as a cardboard box with a waterproof bag inside.
Why the sudden interest in elevator emergency protocols? Well, last Saturday an 8.1 magnitude quake stopped 19,000 Japanese elevators in their tracks. One rescue mission took over an hour, freeing people who were trapped in 14 elevators. For a country synonymous with “earthquakes,” it’s a problem of national proportion...
The Japan Elevator Association says there are over 150,000 elevators in Tokyo alone. (For context, there are 58,000 in NYC, as of 2008.) Scientists say when (not if) the next Big One hits Japan in the coming decades, over 17,000 people could be trapped.
The new toilet initiative isn’t a huge surprise—after all, Japan’s high-tech thrones are of global renown. Plus, when one of your capital’s main attractions is a 2,000-foot tower—the second tallest structure in the world—well, you gotta be prepared.
When Staff Sgt. Jarod Behee was asked to select a paint color for the customized wheelchair that was going to be his future, his young wife seethed. The government, Marissa Behee believed, was giving up on her husband just five months after he took a sniper’s bullet to the head during his second tour of duty in Iraq.
Ms. Behee, a sunny Californian who was just completing a degree in interior design, possessed a keen faith in her husband’s potential to be rehabilitated from a severe brain injury. She refused to accept what she perceived to be the more limited expectations of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
Because Ms. Behee had successfully resisted the Army’s efforts to retire her husband into the V.A. health care system, his military insurance policy, it turned out, covered private care. So she moved him to a community rehabilitation center, Casa Colina, near her parents’ home in Southern California in late 2005.
Three months later, Sergeant Behee was walking unassisted and abandoned his government-provided wheelchair. Now 28, he works as a volunteer in the center’s outpatient gym, wiping down equipment and handing out towels. It is not the police job that he aspired to; his cognitive impairments are serious. But it is not a nu...
Like the spouses of many other soldiers with severe brain injury, Ms. Behee, also 28, transformed herself into a kind of warrior wife to get her husband the care she thought he deserved. By now, there is a veritable battery of brain-injured-soldiers’ relatives who have quit their jobs and, for some extended time, moved...
In the eyes of five such relatives interviewed, the military health care system, which is so advanced in its treatment of lost limbs, has been scrambling to deal with an unanticipated volume of traumatic brain-injury cases that it was ill equipped to handle. Largely because of the improvised explosive devices used by i...
In general, these caregivers said that their grievously wounded soldiers had either been written off prematurely or not given aggressive rehabilitation or options for care. From the beginning, they said, the government should have joined forces with civilian rehabilitation centers instead of trying to ramp up its limit...
In fact, many soldiers do have that access. But unlike Ms. Behee, many caregivers only belatedly come to understand how to negotiate the daunting military health care system.
Generally, after severely brain-injured soldiers are medically evacuated to the United States, they are treated first at Walter Reed Army Hospital or Bethesda Naval Hospital. Relatively quickly, the military, depending on the branch, initiates a medical retirement process that turns the soldiers’ health care over to th...
Still, the military hospitals tend to discharge seriously brain-injured soldiers to V.A. hospitals, regardless of their active or retired status. It is how the system works, and challenging it requires constant haggling, which often leaves the families of the severely wounded soldiers feeling abused, resentful and anxi...
“We have been let down by a system that is so bungling and bureaucratic that it doesn’t know what it can and cannot do and just says ‘No’ as a matter of course,” said Debra Schulz of Friendswood, Tex., whose son, Lance Cpl. Steven Schulz of the Marines, 22, suffered a severe brain injury during his second tour in Iraq.
Early on, at least two top-ranked nonprofit civilian centers, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, made overtures to the government. Since the Vietnam War, their leaders said, while the V.A. has focused primarily on the chronic care of aging veterans, the c...
Last week, Dr. Joanne C. Smith, chief executive officer of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, met in Washington with senior Pentagon officials and found far keener receptivity to the idea of extending civilian sector treatment to more soldiers, she said. After revelations by The Washington Post of problems with o...
“There was a high degree of acceptance that there is a gap in the military system’s current ability to take care of particularly the profoundly injured,” she said.
V.A. officials, however, do not believe there is a problem or any need for rescue by the private sector.
The V.A. has centralized the care for severe traumatic brain injury at four hospitals that specialized in brain injury before the war. Those four, converted into “polytrauma centers” by Congress in 2005, have been gradually beefed up and the level of care has improved since Sergeant Behee arrived at Palo Alto in the su...
Some 425 soldiers have been treated for moderate and severe traumatic brain injury at the polytrauma centers in the past four years, according to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.
Harriet Zeiner, the lead clinical neuropsychologist at the V.A.’s polytrauma center in Palo Alto, said care at the polytrauma centers was “tremendous.” She and Dr. Sigford said the great majority of soldiers and their families had been satisfied. A few disgruntled families, they said, grew frustrated with the slow reco...
But Dr. Smith of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago disagreed in the strongest terms.
The severely brain-injured are among the most catastrophically wounded soldiers, and recovery can be painfully slow or, in some cases, entirely elusive. “There is no prosthetic for the brain,” said Jeremy Chwat, vice president for program services at the Wounded Warrior Project, an advocacy organization.
That is a lesson Edgar Edmundson, 52, of New Bern, N. C., has been learning and relearning since his son, Sgt. Eric Edmundson, sustained serious blast injuries in northern Iraq in the fall of 2005.
Mr. Edmundson was aggressive, abandoning his job and home to care for his son, calling on his representatives in Washington for help, “saying no a lot.” But even he did not come to understand his son’s health care options quickly enough to ensure that his son was not “shortchanged” in the critical first year after his ...
While awaiting transport to Germany after initial surgery, Sergeant Edmundson suffered a heart attack. As doctors worked to revive him, he lost oxygen to his brain for half an hour, with devastating consequences.
A couple of weeks later, at Walter Reed in Washington, on the very day that Sergeant Edmundson was stabilized medically and transferred into the brain injury unit, military officials initiated the process of retiring him.
Mr. Edmundson fought the retirement on principle, winning a temporary reprieve. Still, he did not understand that his son’s military insurance policy covered private care. When Walter Reed transferred Sergeant Edmundson to the polytrauma center in Richmond, Mr. Edmundson believed that he was, more or less, following or...
Mr. Edmundson was disappointed by what he considered an unfocused, inconsistent rehabilitation regimen at what he saw as an understaffed, overburdened V.A. hospital filled with geriatric patients. His son’s morale plummeted and he refused to participate in therapy. “Eric gave up his will,” he said. In March 2006, the V...
Mr. Edmundson chose instead to care for his son himself, quitting his job at a ConAgra plant. For almost eight months, Sergeant Edmundson, who was awake but unable to walk, talk or control his body, received nothing but a few hours of maintenance therapy weekly at a local hospital.
One day, by chance, Mr. Edmundson encountered a military case manager who asked him why his son was not at a civilian rehabilitation hospital. That is when Mr. Edmundson learned that his son had options. He did some research and set his sights on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Sergeant Edmundson is now the only Iraq combat veteran being treated there.
For example, she said, Sergeant Edmundson’s hips, knees and ankles are frozen “in the position of someone sitting in a hallway in a chair.” They are working to straighten out his joints so that he can eventually stand, she said. They have taught him to express his basic needs using a communication board, and they hope ...
In early 2006, Denise Mettie of Selah, Wash., signed away her son Evan’s health care options without realizing it. She agreed to a medical retirement for her 23-year-old son only weeks after he was initially declared “killed in action” only to be saved. That left him dependent on the veterans’ health care system, where...
Mr. Chwat of the Wounded Warrior Project said severely brain-injured soldiers should be offered a one-year moratorium on medical retirement so they can remain on active duty status with the insurance-covered privileges to seek private care if they want it. Dr. Smith and other civilian rehabilitation doctors suggest tha...
On the other hand, Dr. Alan H. Weintraub, medical director of the brain injury program at the private Craig Hospital in Denver, said wounded soldiers were probably better off in the military health care system, which he said offered open-ended care tailored to combat soldiers. Dr. Weintraub, a retired major in the Army...
“Jarod Behee was headed for a nursing home,” said Felice L. Loverso, the chief executive of Casa Colina in Pomona, Calif.
When Sergeant Behee arrived from the V.A. in Palo Alto, he was in severe condition, essentially nonresponsive, said Dr. Loverso, a speech pathologist. Casa Colina, which now has two other soldier patients and also provides their families housing, first worked to “wake him up,” weaning him from medications he no longer ...
Because of his impairment, Ms. Behee said, her husband, who still has his old Superman tattoo on his calf, does not agonize over his situation. “He wakes up every morning with a smile on his face,” she said.
Lance Cpl. Steven Schulz, on the other hand, is just cognitively rehabilitated enough to experience anguish, his mother, Debra Schulz, said. Occasionally, Lance Corporal Schulz gets angry at his situation or feels guilty toward his mother, who describes herself as an “Old South yellow dog Democrat” who was not pleased ...
CNN’s Don Lemon kicked off the week by bashing the Donald Trump, and his defenders who are drawing parallels between the president’s legal troubles and those Barack Obama had to clean up in 2008.
On Monday morning, Fox & Friends made the connection between the two presidents while discussing how federal prosecutors implicated Trump for campaign finance lawbreaking in connection with Michael Cohen. As Mediaite‘s Colby Hall noted earlier, the Fox News morning show crew did not explain that Trump’s use of a shell ...
Lemon reacted to all of this by saying, “I just want to scream at the television” when Trump’s allies make this sound normal or promote this “flat-out lie” in his defense.
Lemon continued by laying out the differences in the two situations — but he eventually moved on to have a laugh over Trump claiming that Robert Mueller has exonerated him.
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