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Oral history of Kevin E. Taylor
No full textKevin E. Taylor is working on his greatness while he inspires you to walk in yours! He's a noted author (JADED, UNCLUTTER, BECAUSE HE LIVES, IT'S TIME FOR SOME ACTION, ENVY: the darkest shade of green, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING and MEET THE HENDERSONS). He's a pastor (Senior Pastor of Unity Fellowship Church NewArk now and Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick for 12 years). He's a writer and producer for television (22 years in television and more than 20 years running TaylorMadeMultiMedia (TM3), his own video production company. He is a lecturer/empowerment speaker, who has spoken at colleges, universities and community groups for the last 20 years, and he has also been conducting a series of workshops on everything from pitching a TV show idea to uncluttering your life. "It seems like I'm a multi-tasker who's got too much on his hands, but I'm successful at it because I don't try to do it all at one time. I know how to focus on each task at hand. It's about balance."
Brought up in and raised well by his mother in the projects of Washington, DC, but directly across the street from condos housing powerful lawmakers and business owners, the juxtaposition made him a dreamer. From an early age, Kevin E. Taylor knew that better was available for him. "I remember finding a pocket dictionary in the trash. I would learn a new word everyday. People thought it was crazy, but I knew I would need those words. I knew that there was a power in those words. Those words came in handy when Taylor applied for college and his English essay is what got in him into several schools."
Those words helped the English student, who also studied primarily in Accounting and Spanish. Those words helped when he transitioned from a safe municipal position as a Budget Analyst to Black Entertainment Television (BET) and soon became a producer, where he interviewed such icons as Tina Turner, Maxwell, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Sade, Diana Ross, Lenny Kravitz, Patti Labelle and later her reunited group Labelle and his personal favorite Natalie Cole, with whom Taylor developed a personal relationship and later did research for and wrote the discography to her 2000 "Angel On My Shoulder" autobiography, which later became an award-winning NBC made-for-TV movie. During his tenure at BET, Kevin created such shows as ACCESS GRANTED, TESTIMONY, LYRICALLY SPEAKING and NOTARIZED, which gave the network its highest day-ratings in its history in 1999 and where he won a Gold World Medal for International Programming for a special (24 HOURS WITH DRU HILL) and a pair of NAACP Image Award nominations, competing against himself in 2001 for his Aaliyah episode of ACCESS GRANTED and his interviews with Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige for TESTIMONY. Taylor also wrote biographies for projects or featured articles on Anita Baker ("Rhythm of Love" and "My Everything" cd releases), Shai, Jon B., Jennifer Holliday (cover story for REAL magazine), Rachelle Ferrell (The Black Guide) and Tina Turner for the 1996 cover feature of Sister2Sister magazine. Taylor has also done EPKs (electronic/video press kits) for various record labels and recording artists.
Now, Taylor is hosting his own show/webseries (with the help of Kickstarter and a strong following) called NOW WHAT?! WITH KEVIN E TAYLOR. The crowdfunded online series has featured the likes of singers Rachelle Ferrell, B.Slade, Kenny Bobien, Jessica Betts and Kelly Price, actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, RHOA stars Cynthia Bailey and Peter Thomas, renowned choreographer Desmond Richardson, model/actor/fitness expert Garrain (Steph) Jones, author Victoria Schmidt, wellness icon Queen Afua and many more. The new season of the show will take Taylor on a cross-country tour and will be a series of speaking engagements with featured live interviews and community engagement. Taylor recently released his own autobiography, titled NEVER TOO MUCH: this is my story of big words, big dreams and an audacious big life
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
Compounds from Deep-Sea Bubblegum Corals, Paragorgia arborea, Elicit Anti-Predation Behavior in Fish
No full textDecreased photosynthetic efficiency in response to site translocation and elevated temperature is mitigated with LPS exposure in Porites astreoides symbionts
No full text© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Harman, T. E., Hauff-Salas, B., Haslun, J. A., Cervino, J. M., & Strychar, K. B. Decreased photosynthetic efficiency in response to site translocation and elevated temperature is mitigated with LPS exposure in Porites astreoides symbionts. Water, 14(3), (2022): 366, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030366.Coral reefs have been detrimentally impacted causing health issues due to elevated ocean temperatures as a result of increased greenhouse gases. Extreme temperatures have also exacerbated coral diseases in tropical reef environments. Numerous studies have outlined the impacts of thermal stress and disease on coral organisms, as well as understanding the influence of site-based characteristics on coral physiology. However, few have discussed the interaction of all three. Laboratory out-planting restoration projects have been of importance throughout impacted areas such as the Caribbean and southern Florida in order to increase coral cover in these areas. This study analyzes photosynthetic efficiency of Porites astreoides from the lower Florida Keys after a two-year reciprocal transplant study at inshore (Birthday reef) and offshore (Acer24 reef) sites to understand acclimation capacity of this species. Laboratory experiments subjected these colonies to one of three treatments: control conditions, increases in temperature, and increases in temperature plus exposure to an immune stimulant (lipopolysaccharide (LPS)) to determine their influence on photosynthetic efficiency and how stress events impact these measurements. In addition, this study is a continuation of previous studies from this group. Here, we aim to understand if these results are static or if an acclimation capacity could be found. Overall, we observed site-specific influences from the Acer24 reef site, which had significant decreases in photosynthetic efficiencies in 32 °C treatments compared to Birthday reef colonies. We suggest that high irradiance and lack of an annual recovery period from the Acer24 site exposes these colonies to significant photoinhibition. In addition, we observed significant increases in photosynthetic efficiencies from LPS exposure. We suggest host-derived antioxidants can mitigate the negative impacts of increased thermal stress. Further research is required to understand the full complexity of host immunity and symbiont photosynthetic interactions.We thank the Annis Water Resources Institute for both a graduate fellowship and research funding associated with this project, and Grand Valley State University for a Presidential Research Grant. We also thank Michigan State University RTSF and the Integrative Biology Department at Michigan State University (Graduate Fellowship), and the Coastal Preservation Network (Award 250542) for additional funding opportunities
A letter from Kevin Brownlow on Triangle
No full textThe film historian Kevin Brownlow (whose initials, K B, echo the name of Ince's studio Kay Bee) was kind enough to react to a conference given in Stirling on the mode of production at Triangle (see below "The Ince 'method'...") and to send the author the following letter we publish here with his consent. I thank him for all this, and also for pointing to two mistakes I made in my Stirling presentation. Oct 20 09 Dear Marc Vernet; I was fascinated by your paper on Triangle, and wish I could s..
Environmental and Parental Influences on Offspring Health and Growth in Great Tits (Parus major)
No full textPMCID: PMC3728352This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Bleaching in soft and scleractinian corals: Comparison of the physiology, genetics, and biochemistry of Symbiodinium
No full textThe symbiotic association of scleractinian corals with Symbiodinium has been well studied. Until now, very little attention has been given to the symbiotic associations of soft corals with Symbiodinium. Further, soft coral resistance to heat stress (one type of bleaching) has not been well described despite soft coral abundance exceeding that of scleractinian corals within some coral reefs. The aims of this thesis were to compare and contrast soft corals Sarcophyton ehrenbergi, Sinularia sp. and Xenia sp. to scleractinian corals Acropora hyacinthus, Favites complanata and Porites solida. The specific aims for each chapter were to: (1) establish the susceptibility of the different coral types to bleaching at elevated temperatures; (2) determine if resistance is related to different temperature tolerant Symbiodinium phytopigments; (3) ascertain Symbiodinium genotypes within each coral type (soft and scleractinian) and to determine if Symbiodinium genotypes are correlated with the tendency of hosts to bleach at higher temperatures; and (4) determine if Symbiodinium cell death arising from elevated temperatures is by apoptosis and/or necrosis.</p
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
Effects of seawater temperature on percent apoptotic endosymbiotic <i>Symbiodinium</i> and host coral <i>Sinularia lochmodes</i> cells.
No full text<p><b><i>In-hospite</i></b>, collected over a 12 h period. Corals exposed to 28 to 36°C treatments. • = 28°C; ○ = 30°C;▾ = 32°C; Δ = 34°C; ▪ = 36°C. Data transformed by arcsine for normalization purposes. <b>Zooxanthellae:</b> Significant negative linear regression at 28°C (p<0.05; Y = −0.682X +27.571). Linear trends shown for 30, 32, 34, and 36°C to facilitate comparison (Y = −0.640X +23.105; Y = −0.796X +22.659; Y = −0.427X +23.837; and Y = 1.077X +32.816, respectively). Significant non-linear responses at 30–34°C (p<0.05–0.001). Significant non-linear trend at 36°C as well (p<0.001). <b>Host Cells:</b> No significant linear or non-linear regression at 28–34°C (p>0.05); linear trends shown to facilitate comparison. Significant negative non-linear response at 36°C (p<0.001; Y = 4.630+38.271*[1−e<sup>(−0.634X)</sup>]).</p
Effects of increasing seawater temperature on percent viable endosymbiotic <i>Symbiodinium</i> and host coral <i>Sarcophyton ehrenbergi</i> cells.
No full text<p><b><i>In-hospite</i></b>, collected over a12 h period. Data shown here relate to corals exposed to 28 to 36°C. • = 28°C; ○ = 30°C;▾ = 32°C; Δ = 34°C; ▪ = 36°C. Data transformed by arcsine for normalization purposes. Each point represents the percentage (%) of different cell types analyzed via TEM. Tissues sampled at 3-hr intervals. (a) <b>Zooxanthellae:</b> Significant linear regression in zooxanthellar cells at 28°C and 34°C (p<0.05); Y = 0.843X +49.184, and Y = −2.072+49.688, respectively. Linear trends shown for 30 and 32°C to facilitate comparison (Y = 1.020X +48.679, and Y = −2.243X +59.107, respectively); significant non-linear components at these temperature responses (p<0.05–0.001). Significant non-linear response at 36°C (p<0.001; Y = 13.285+ −46.506*(1−e<sup>[0.838X]</sup>). <b>Host Cells:</b> No significant linear or non-linear response at 28°C or 32°C; (slope not significantly different from ‘0′). Significant negative linear response at 34°C (p<0.01; Y = −1.532X +79.187). Significant non-linear components at 30°C and 36°C (p<0.01–0.001); negative linear trends shown into facilitate comparison (Y = −0.762X +84.783, and Y = −3.578X +79.336, respectively).</p
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