How can that be for a beautiful, outgoing, young woman in her early 30s? Excess weight is how. At 5 feet 5 inches and 215 pounds, Victoria just couldn’t perform like she used to. And perform she had! Victoria had been a dancer through her college years, and was now suddenly struggling with her weight. The weight left her breathless, unable to perform simple, routine activities like stairs without difficulty. Complex modern dance routines were definitely not on her playbill any longer.
The same day she became aware of the decline in her fitness level, she was also confronted by a rude stranger in a parking lot. His words should not be repeated here, but Victoria says, “It was harsh! But it made me think; it opened my eyes!”
Victoria’s eyes were opened to the fact that she had to do something about her weight. She bought books and talked with friends and was trying to decide on a course of action when her sister called her and said she should check out eDiets.com. Victoria followed her sister’s advice and went to the Web site.
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While Victoria started losing weight right away, she still struggled with making the time to plan and prepare ahead. A must for any dieter, it requires developing discipline and willpower. Luck for her, she found the support and accountability she needed to develop those strengths right within the eDiets Support Groups. Victoria says of her Support Group family: “They always helped ease my worries about staying on track. They helped me to stay focused!”
Victoria has found her focus — she took off and kept off 65 pounds! She looked fit and fabulous. But life threw her a little twist, and a little less than a year ago, Victoria had to have some surgery and was not able to be as active as she normally enjoyed. Victoria gained back about 25 of those 65 pounds she lost, and decided then and there that it was time to put a stop to it before things got out of hand!
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Mark Twain Quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism.
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Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
gaming
Create Video Game For The Sony PlayStation 3 Move
Create! That is what the new video game for the Sony PlayStation 3 Move compels us to do. Create for the PS3 Move is one of the first truly original games to challenge the player to use critical thinking, imagination, and artistic ability. It was developed by EA Bright Light Studios. It is headed for the market on November 19, 2010.
Create is perfect for any age. It aids in enhancing and developing the ability to think quick. As the player is making new things on the game, the game is ‘learning’ the player. The game alters and changes what is happening as the player progresses through the game.
The Create game for PS3 Move actually metamorphosizes with the moves and choices of the player. The more the player makes and moves in the game scenarios, the more the game will reward the player. There are a number of rewards available in the game mode. There also challenges for the player. These challenges can be earned in the same manner as the rewards. The game actually adapts to the player.
The PS Move eye and controller aid the game in remembering and working with each player. It will grow as the players creativity grows. The challenges will get harder, the more the player demonstrates their ability to make quick decisions, and change scenery and objects.
The player will essentially have the ability to ‘make’ their own game. They will animate objects, and textures, and designs. They will be able to dictate how they move, how they act, and what they do. The player will be able to alter and change colors, sizes, and shapes of objects. The more creative the player gets with the game, the more rewards they will earn.
The Create game for the PlayStation Move has over 100 challenges to keep the player involved and active with the game. The Create also has a number of different textures, colors, settings, and art styles for the player to use in the game. As the player progresses through these challenges they will be unlocking even more and new hidden areas, and rewards.
The whole idea of this game is for the player to create a whole world of their own. The player is given lists of things at their disposal, and they are to come up with a whole structure for their own world from these choices. The idea is to get the player to use their mind, and their imagination at the same time.
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Create! That is what the new video game for the Sony PlayStation 3 Move compels us to do. Create for the PS3 Move is one of the first truly original games to challenge the player to use critical thinking, imagination, and artistic ability. It was developed by EA Bright Light Studios. It is headed for the market on November 19, 2010.
Create is perfect for any age. It aids in enhancing and developing the ability to think quick. As the player is making new things on the game, the game is ‘learning’ the player. The game alters and changes what is happening as the player progresses through the game.
The Create game for PS3 Move actually metamorphosizes with the moves and choices of the player. The more the player makes and moves in the game scenarios, the more the game will reward the player. There are a number of rewards available in the game mode. There also challenges for the player. These challenges can be earned in the same manner as the rewards. The game actually adapts to the player.
The PS Move eye and controller aid the game in remembering and working with each player. It will grow as the players creativity grows. The challenges will get harder, the more the player demonstrates their ability to make quick decisions, and change scenery and objects.
The player will essentially have the ability to ‘make’ their own game. They will animate objects, and textures, and designs. They will be able to dictate how they move, how they act, and what they do. The player will be able to alter and change colors, sizes, and shapes of objects. The more creative the player gets with the game, the more rewards they will earn.
The Create game for the PlayStation Move has over 100 challenges to keep the player involved and active with the game. The Create also has a number of different textures, colors, settings, and art styles for the player to use in the game. As the player progresses through these challenges they will be unlocking even more and new hidden areas, and rewards.
The whole idea of this game is for the player to create a whole world of their own. The player is given lists of things at their disposal, and they are to come up with a whole structure for their own world from these choices. The idea is to get the player to use their mind, and their imagination at the same time.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Bob MarleyAKA Robert Nesta Marley
Born: 6-Feb-1945
Birthplace: Nine Miles, Jamaica
Died: 11-May-1981
Location of death: Miami, FL
Cause of death: Cancer - Brain
Remains: Buried, Bob Marley Mausoleum, Nine Mile, Jamaica
Gender: Male
Religion: Rastafarian
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Nationality: Jamaica
Executive summary: No Woman No Cry
The first reggae performer to achieve a world-wide audience -- as well as being a significant cultural figure -- Robert Nesta Marley was born in Nine Miles, a small village located in the north Jamaican parish of St. Ann. His father Norval Marley was Jamaican-born but of British decent, having returned to the island following several decades of service in the British Army and married Cedella Booker, an 18-year old native Jamaican woman. Bob's father provided financial support for his family, but had a minimal presence in his son's life as a result of his frequent traveling; this support ended in 1955, however, when Norval died of a heart attack, forcing Bob and his mother to relocate from rural Nine Miles to the dangerous Trench Town slums of Kingston. It was here that he became active in music, inspired both by American R&B and the unique styles developing in Kingston.
At the age of 14 Marley left school to work as a welder's apprentice, while also pursuing his musical interests with friend Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later to be known as Bunny Wailer) and an older Rastafarian singer named Joe Higgs. Sessions with Higgs provided an introduction to fellow aspiring singer Winston "Peter" McIntosh (who subsequently shortened his name to just Peter Tosh), who would complete the collaborative trio within which Marley and Livingston would operate until the mid-1970s. In 1962 Marley recorded his first two singles Judge Not and One Cup of Coffee with producer/Beverly's Records founder Leslie Kong, and although neither song (the latter released under the Kong-invented pseudonym "Bobby Martell") received much attention, Marley remained fully committed to establishing himself as a performer. Marley, Livingston and McIntosh then assembled a six-piece ska group they first named The Teenagers and then The Wailing Rudeboys before settling on The Wailing Wailers in mid-1963.
Kong's questionable accounting practices ultimately brought an end to his association with the group, and so in the summer of 1963 the Wailing Wailers auditioned for Studio One owner Clement Dodd, who produced the two tracks I'm Still Waiting and It Hurts to Be Alone. Manufactured in an edition of 300, the single had a significant impact on the streetside "sound system" circuit, prompting Dodd to arrange another session soon afterward. The group member who had provided lead vocals for It Hurts To Be Alone, Junior Braithwaite, had just moved to the States with his family, and so for the next single Simmer Down the role of principal singer fell to Marley. Released on Dodd's Coxsone label just prior to Christmas, in February 1964 Simmer Down reached the top of the Jamaican charts, attracting national attention to Marley and his bandmates.
In spite of a run of successful singles throughout the next two years (Rude Boy, Rudie, Jailhouse, One Love, Put It On) by the end of 1965 financial difficulties had whittled the Wailing Wailers line-up down to the core trio of Bob, Bunny and Peter. The following year Marley briefly relocated to the U.S., where his mother had recently established a home with her second husband in Delaware; after working for eight months to finance his music career, the singer moved back to Kingston to resume activity with the group -- now simply known as The Wailers. Their recordings had already been gradually evolving from "rude boy" street anthems to more socially-conscious material, but by 1967 the influence of the Rastafarian movement on Marley and his bandmates had become the central concern behind their music.
The shift in Jamaican popular music from ska to rock-steady during the mid-1960s resulted in a significant drop in sales for Dodd, who had not instigated a corresponding shift in his label's output. This -- aggravated by the lack of financial compensation that had plagued the group from the beginning -- prompted the Wailers to leave Coxsone and establish their own Wail'N'Soul'M label and shop based at Marley's home in Trench Town. For each new release, the band (which now also included Marley's wife Rita) would personally bring the records around to Kingston shops; unfortunately, this approach proved much too difficult to maintain, and towards the end of 1967 a lack of resources forced the singer to dissolve the label. The single Bend Down Low b/w Mellow Mood did find it's way into the world prior to this outcome, however, and the latter track would become one of Marley's most frequently covered songs.
For a short while the Wailers continued primarily as songwriters for other artists, but in 1970 the group began working with Lee "Scratch" Perry, an innovate producer who had established his own Upsetter label in 1968. Perry helped to transform their sound -- taking them farther away from the conventional vocal harmonies of their early years and bringing a more contemporary edge to the material -- and in subsequent years, their collaborations with him would come to be widely regarded as the high point of The Wailers' (and Marley's) career. Brothers Aston "Family Man" Barrett and Carlton Barrett from Perry's studio band The Upsetters were brought in to provide the rhythm section for the sessions, utilizing a style developed in the studio with Perry that had helped to define the emerging reggae genre. A large number of single tracks (My Cup, Duppy Conqueror, 400 Years, Small Axe, Soul Rebel amongst them) were recorded during this period, as well as other tracks collected on the full-length albums Soul Rebels (1970) and Soul Revolution (1971). In 1971 Bob Marley traveled to Europe with American vocalist Johnny Nash, where he successfully secured a recording contract with CBS. The next Wailer's single Reggae on Broadway (1972) had little international impact, but while promoting the single in the UK Marley was able to arrange a more lucrative deal with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell; the full-length album Catch a Fire was issued in April of 1973, at last giving the group access to a world-wide audience. Media attention to the record was considerable, and a tour of Britain and the United States (a rare occurrence for a reggae act) was quickly arranged. Bunny Wailer refused to participate in the American leg of the tour, but the remaining band -- with old mentor Joe Higgs serving as Bunny's replacement -- made an enormous impact on U.S. audiences both as headliners and as an opening act for American performers such as Bruce Springsteen and Sly and the Family Stone.
The Wailer's second album for Island, Burnin', was released in October of '73 and featured what would become one of Marley's best-known tracks Get Up, Stand Up. The album also included the song I Shot the Sheriff, which was turned into an international hit via an Eric Clapton cover version the following year. Burnin' also marked the end of the original Wailer's collaboration, as the stress resulting from the band's fame would induce both Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh to leave by the end of 1974. Marley spent most of the following year in the studio putting together his next album Natty Dread, utilizing a backing band that now included the female vocal trio The I-Threes (comprised of his wife Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt), guitarist Al Anderson, keyboardist Bernard Touter Harvey and percussionist Alvin Patterson in addition to the Barrett brothers rhythm section. Released in early 1975 and credited to "Bob Marley and the Wailers", Natty Dread helped to extend the singer's international reputation, eventually placing in both the US and UK top 100.
With his next release -- a live collection documenting a performance at London's Lyceum Ballroom during the Natty Dread tour -- Marley once again positioned himself in the charts, the single release of the album's version of No Woman, No Cry even reaching the UK top 40. His popularity made another leap forward after his second post-Wailer's studio effort Rastaman Vibration broke the US top 10 in 1976, confirming the singer as the most visible practitioner of reggae and Rastafarian beliefs in the world. This status carried negative consequences as well, however, and in early December, on the evening before a politically-charged free concert event in Kingston, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Marley; the attack left the singer and his wife Rita with minor gunshot wounds, while manager Don Taylor and friend Lewis Griffith were seriously injured. Marley still participated in the concert the following day, but left the country for the UK immediately afterward.
During his 18-month exile in London, Marley recorded the albums Exodus (1977) and Kaya (1978), both of which were given enthusiastic receptions in the UK. Three singles from the first release (Exodus Waiting in Vain and Jammin) and two from the second (Satisfy My Soul and Is This Love) maintained the singer's presence in the charts throughout the final years of the 1970s, while Jammin provided him with his first British top 10 hit. Response in the States was not quite as strong due to the reluctance of commercial radio stations to include reggae as part of their programming, but the singles still managed to find their way into the U.S. R&B charts. In April of 1978 Marley returned to his home in Jamaica and participated in the "One Love Peace Concert", organized to encourage the end of violence between the country's two principal political parties. Later in the year he would be invited to New York to receive the Medal of Peace in recognition of his efforts.
At the end of 1978 Marley made his first trip to the African continent, culminating in a visit to Ethiopia, a focus point of Rastafarian belief. Babylon By Bus -- a live collection recorded during his band's European tour earlier in the year -- was issued in November, once again doing far better in Britain than in the States; this continued to be the case for the next studio album Survival (1979), which entered the UK top 20 but only reached #70 on the US mainstream charts. By this time Marley's following in Europe had grown to enormous proportions, his performances frequently having attendances numbering in the tens of thousands. In early 1980 he was invited to perform at the official ceremony celebrating the transformation of the former British colony Rhodesia into the independent state of Zimbabwe (Marley having already included a tribute to the new country on the Survival album).
The summer of 1980 saw the release of Uprising, the final studio effort by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Both the album and its featured single Could You Be Loved were an immediate hit in the UK and throughout most of Europe, as well as having more of an impact in the States than his previous few efforts. An extensive European tour was launched in the second half of the year, following which a US tour was organized; after completing the first two performances at New York's Madison Square Garden, however, Marley collapsed while jogging and needed to be rushed to the hospital. It was discovered that a cancerous growth identified in his toe in 1977 had been slowly spreading through his vital organs and was now infecting his brain (Marley had refused treatment after the initial diagnosis, since the amputation necessary to remove the growth was in conflict with his Rastafarian beliefs). A final performance was undertaken in Pittsburgh, but the advanced state of his illness forced the singer to cancel the rest of the tour; he was subsequently transported to Bavarian clinic to undergo an experimental, non-toxic treatment. A brief remission was achieved, but in May of 1981 the disease claimed the singer's life in Miami while he was traveling back to his home in Kingston.
Father: Norval Sinclair Marley (British military officer, b. circa 1894, d. 1955)
Mother: Cedella Booker (b. circa 1926, m. 1944, d. 8-Apr-2008)
Girlfriend: Cheryl Murray
Daughter: Imani Carole (b. 1963)
Wife: Rita Marley (Alpharita Constantia Anderson or Ganette Mander, m. 10-Feb-1966)
Daughter: Sharon Marley Prendergast (step-daughter, musician, b. 1964, adopted)
Daughter: Cedella Marley (musician, b. 1967)
Son: Ziggy Marley ("David Nesta Marley", musician, b. 1968)
Son: Stephen Robert Nesta Marley ("Ragga", musician, b. 1972)
Daughter: Stephanie Marley
Girlfriend: Pat Williams
Son: Robert Marley (b. 1972)
Girlfriend: Janet Hunt (or Dunn)
Son: Rohan Anthony Marley (football player, b. 1972)
Girlfriend: Janet Bowen
Daughter: Karen (b. 1973)
Girlfriend: Lucy Pounder
Son: Julian Ricardo Marley (musician, b. 1975)
Girlfriend: Anita Belnavis (tennis player)
Son: Ky-Mani Marley (musician, b. 1976)
Girlfriend: Cindy Breakspear (Miss World 1976, one son)
Son: Damian Marley (reggae musician, b. 1978)
Girlfriend: Yvette Crichton
Daughter: Makeda (b. 1981)
Girlfriend: Esther Anderson
Bob Marley quotes
Bob MarleyAKA Robert Nesta Marley
Born: 6-Feb-1945
Birthplace: Nine Miles, Jamaica
Died: 11-May-1981
Location of death: Miami, FL
Cause of death: Cancer - Brain
Remains: Buried, Bob Marley Mausoleum, Nine Mile, Jamaica
Gender: Male
Religion: Rastafarian
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Nationality: Jamaica
Executive summary: No Woman No Cry
The first reggae performer to achieve a world-wide audience -- as well as being a significant cultural figure -- Robert Nesta Marley was born in Nine Miles, a small village located in the north Jamaican parish of St. Ann. His father Norval Marley was Jamaican-born but of British decent, having returned to the island following several decades of service in the British Army and married Cedella Booker, an 18-year old native Jamaican woman. Bob's father provided financial support for his family, but had a minimal presence in his son's life as a result of his frequent traveling; this support ended in 1955, however, when Norval died of a heart attack, forcing Bob and his mother to relocate from rural Nine Miles to the dangerous Trench Town slums of Kingston. It was here that he became active in music, inspired both by American R&B and the unique styles developing in Kingston.
At the age of 14 Marley left school to work as a welder's apprentice, while also pursuing his musical interests with friend Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later to be known as Bunny Wailer) and an older Rastafarian singer named Joe Higgs. Sessions with Higgs provided an introduction to fellow aspiring singer Winston "Peter" McIntosh (who subsequently shortened his name to just Peter Tosh), who would complete the collaborative trio within which Marley and Livingston would operate until the mid-1970s. In 1962 Marley recorded his first two singles Judge Not and One Cup of Coffee with producer/Beverly's Records founder Leslie Kong, and although neither song (the latter released under the Kong-invented pseudonym "Bobby Martell") received much attention, Marley remained fully committed to establishing himself as a performer. Marley, Livingston and McIntosh then assembled a six-piece ska group they first named The Teenagers and then The Wailing Rudeboys before settling on The Wailing Wailers in mid-1963.
Kong's questionable accounting practices ultimately brought an end to his association with the group, and so in the summer of 1963 the Wailing Wailers auditioned for Studio One owner Clement Dodd, who produced the two tracks I'm Still Waiting and It Hurts to Be Alone. Manufactured in an edition of 300, the single had a significant impact on the streetside "sound system" circuit, prompting Dodd to arrange another session soon afterward. The group member who had provided lead vocals for It Hurts To Be Alone, Junior Braithwaite, had just moved to the States with his family, and so for the next single Simmer Down the role of principal singer fell to Marley. Released on Dodd's Coxsone label just prior to Christmas, in February 1964 Simmer Down reached the top of the Jamaican charts, attracting national attention to Marley and his bandmates.
In spite of a run of successful singles throughout the next two years (Rude Boy, Rudie, Jailhouse, One Love, Put It On) by the end of 1965 financial difficulties had whittled the Wailing Wailers line-up down to the core trio of Bob, Bunny and Peter. The following year Marley briefly relocated to the U.S., where his mother had recently established a home with her second husband in Delaware; after working for eight months to finance his music career, the singer moved back to Kingston to resume activity with the group -- now simply known as The Wailers. Their recordings had already been gradually evolving from "rude boy" street anthems to more socially-conscious material, but by 1967 the influence of the Rastafarian movement on Marley and his bandmates had become the central concern behind their music.
The shift in Jamaican popular music from ska to rock-steady during the mid-1960s resulted in a significant drop in sales for Dodd, who had not instigated a corresponding shift in his label's output. This -- aggravated by the lack of financial compensation that had plagued the group from the beginning -- prompted the Wailers to leave Coxsone and establish their own Wail'N'Soul'M label and shop based at Marley's home in Trench Town. For each new release, the band (which now also included Marley's wife Rita) would personally bring the records around to Kingston shops; unfortunately, this approach proved much too difficult to maintain, and towards the end of 1967 a lack of resources forced the singer to dissolve the label. The single Bend Down Low b/w Mellow Mood did find it's way into the world prior to this outcome, however, and the latter track would become one of Marley's most frequently covered songs.
For a short while the Wailers continued primarily as songwriters for other artists, but in 1970 the group began working with Lee "Scratch" Perry, an innovate producer who had established his own Upsetter label in 1968. Perry helped to transform their sound -- taking them farther away from the conventional vocal harmonies of their early years and bringing a more contemporary edge to the material -- and in subsequent years, their collaborations with him would come to be widely regarded as the high point of The Wailers' (and Marley's) career. Brothers Aston "Family Man" Barrett and Carlton Barrett from Perry's studio band The Upsetters were brought in to provide the rhythm section for the sessions, utilizing a style developed in the studio with Perry that had helped to define the emerging reggae genre. A large number of single tracks (My Cup, Duppy Conqueror, 400 Years, Small Axe, Soul Rebel amongst them) were recorded during this period, as well as other tracks collected on the full-length albums Soul Rebels (1970) and Soul Revolution (1971). In 1971 Bob Marley traveled to Europe with American vocalist Johnny Nash, where he successfully secured a recording contract with CBS. The next Wailer's single Reggae on Broadway (1972) had little international impact, but while promoting the single in the UK Marley was able to arrange a more lucrative deal with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell; the full-length album Catch a Fire was issued in April of 1973, at last giving the group access to a world-wide audience. Media attention to the record was considerable, and a tour of Britain and the United States (a rare occurrence for a reggae act) was quickly arranged. Bunny Wailer refused to participate in the American leg of the tour, but the remaining band -- with old mentor Joe Higgs serving as Bunny's replacement -- made an enormous impact on U.S. audiences both as headliners and as an opening act for American performers such as Bruce Springsteen and Sly and the Family Stone.
The Wailer's second album for Island, Burnin', was released in October of '73 and featured what would become one of Marley's best-known tracks Get Up, Stand Up. The album also included the song I Shot the Sheriff, which was turned into an international hit via an Eric Clapton cover version the following year. Burnin' also marked the end of the original Wailer's collaboration, as the stress resulting from the band's fame would induce both Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh to leave by the end of 1974. Marley spent most of the following year in the studio putting together his next album Natty Dread, utilizing a backing band that now included the female vocal trio The I-Threes (comprised of his wife Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt), guitarist Al Anderson, keyboardist Bernard Touter Harvey and percussionist Alvin Patterson in addition to the Barrett brothers rhythm section. Released in early 1975 and credited to "Bob Marley and the Wailers", Natty Dread helped to extend the singer's international reputation, eventually placing in both the US and UK top 100.
With his next release -- a live collection documenting a performance at London's Lyceum Ballroom during the Natty Dread tour -- Marley once again positioned himself in the charts, the single release of the album's version of No Woman, No Cry even reaching the UK top 40. His popularity made another leap forward after his second post-Wailer's studio effort Rastaman Vibration broke the US top 10 in 1976, confirming the singer as the most visible practitioner of reggae and Rastafarian beliefs in the world. This status carried negative consequences as well, however, and in early December, on the evening before a politically-charged free concert event in Kingston, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Marley; the attack left the singer and his wife Rita with minor gunshot wounds, while manager Don Taylor and friend Lewis Griffith were seriously injured. Marley still participated in the concert the following day, but left the country for the UK immediately afterward.
During his 18-month exile in London, Marley recorded the albums Exodus (1977) and Kaya (1978), both of which were given enthusiastic receptions in the UK. Three singles from the first release (Exodus Waiting in Vain and Jammin) and two from the second (Satisfy My Soul and Is This Love) maintained the singer's presence in the charts throughout the final years of the 1970s, while Jammin provided him with his first British top 10 hit. Response in the States was not quite as strong due to the reluctance of commercial radio stations to include reggae as part of their programming, but the singles still managed to find their way into the U.S. R&B charts. In April of 1978 Marley returned to his home in Jamaica and participated in the "One Love Peace Concert", organized to encourage the end of violence between the country's two principal political parties. Later in the year he would be invited to New York to receive the Medal of Peace in recognition of his efforts.
At the end of 1978 Marley made his first trip to the African continent, culminating in a visit to Ethiopia, a focus point of Rastafarian belief. Babylon By Bus -- a live collection recorded during his band's European tour earlier in the year -- was issued in November, once again doing far better in Britain than in the States; this continued to be the case for the next studio album Survival (1979), which entered the UK top 20 but only reached #70 on the US mainstream charts. By this time Marley's following in Europe had grown to enormous proportions, his performances frequently having attendances numbering in the tens of thousands. In early 1980 he was invited to perform at the official ceremony celebrating the transformation of the former British colony Rhodesia into the independent state of Zimbabwe (Marley having already included a tribute to the new country on the Survival album).
The summer of 1980 saw the release of Uprising, the final studio effort by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Both the album and its featured single Could You Be Loved were an immediate hit in the UK and throughout most of Europe, as well as having more of an impact in the States than his previous few efforts. An extensive European tour was launched in the second half of the year, following which a US tour was organized; after completing the first two performances at New York's Madison Square Garden, however, Marley collapsed while jogging and needed to be rushed to the hospital. It was discovered that a cancerous growth identified in his toe in 1977 had been slowly spreading through his vital organs and was now infecting his brain (Marley had refused treatment after the initial diagnosis, since the amputation necessary to remove the growth was in conflict with his Rastafarian beliefs). A final performance was undertaken in Pittsburgh, but the advanced state of his illness forced the singer to cancel the rest of the tour; he was subsequently transported to Bavarian clinic to undergo an experimental, non-toxic treatment. A brief remission was achieved, but in May of 1981 the disease claimed the singer's life in Miami while he was traveling back to his home in Kingston.
Father: Norval Sinclair Marley (British military officer, b. circa 1894, d. 1955)
Mother: Cedella Booker (b. circa 1926, m. 1944, d. 8-Apr-2008)
Girlfriend: Cheryl Murray
Daughter: Imani Carole (b. 1963)
Wife: Rita Marley (Alpharita Constantia Anderson or Ganette Mander, m. 10-Feb-1966)
Daughter: Sharon Marley Prendergast (step-daughter, musician, b. 1964, adopted)
Daughter: Cedella Marley (musician, b. 1967)
Son: Ziggy Marley ("David Nesta Marley", musician, b. 1968)
Son: Stephen Robert Nesta Marley ("Ragga", musician, b. 1972)
Daughter: Stephanie Marley
Girlfriend: Pat Williams
Son: Robert Marley (b. 1972)
Girlfriend: Janet Hunt (or Dunn)
Son: Rohan Anthony Marley (football player, b. 1972)
Girlfriend: Janet Bowen
Daughter: Karen (b. 1973)
Girlfriend: Lucy Pounder
Son: Julian Ricardo Marley (musician, b. 1975)
Girlfriend: Anita Belnavis (tennis player)
Son: Ky-Mani Marley (musician, b. 1976)
Girlfriend: Cindy Breakspear (Miss World 1976, one son)
Son: Damian Marley (reggae musician, b. 1978)
Girlfriend: Yvette Crichton
Daughter: Makeda (b. 1981)
Girlfriend: Esther Anderson
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Entertainment
AFRICAN DEVOTED ARTISTS
African Devoted Artists started out in 1989 as a drama group, incorporating dance and music into their performances. In 1995 the group changed its focus to become a nine-piece marimba band. They infuse their performances with traditional Zulu dance and collaborate with gumboot dancers, pantsula dancers and youth, incorporating drama and dance into the act.
The band plays marimba, djembe drums, African drums and western drums. There are seven backing and two lead vocalists. They performed in Israel in 1995, in Germany in 1998, at a Festival in Sydney Australia in 1999, for a cultural exchange in Indonesia in 2001 and in the Seychelles for an Africa Festival the same year.
Amongst the numerous venues they have performed at the Sun City Super Bowl, The Market Theatre, Mabula Lodge, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Caesars Casino, The Parktonian and Sandton Sun. They have performed at corporate functions for Walter Sisulu's Child Care Centre Anniversary, Ma-Africa Competition, the opening of the African Craft Market in Rosebank, Gauteng Provincial Legislature Youth Project, Old Mutual Marathon, Michael Mount Organic Market Launch, IDCS, and SATOUR.
In 2001 African Devoted Artists released their first album Buyela Khaya through Sheer Sound. In 2002 they won a South African Music Award for Best Instrumental Band.
The band is based at the Diepkloof Centre where they perform, rehearse and teach local youth acting, marimba, dance, poetry and story telling.
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African Devoted Artists started out in 1989 as a drama group, incorporating dance and music into their performances. In 1995 the group changed its focus to become a nine-piece marimba band. They infuse their performances with traditional Zulu dance and collaborate with gumboot dancers, pantsula dancers and youth, incorporating drama and dance into the act.
The band plays marimba, djembe drums, African drums and western drums. There are seven backing and two lead vocalists. They performed in Israel in 1995, in Germany in 1998, at a Festival in Sydney Australia in 1999, for a cultural exchange in Indonesia in 2001 and in the Seychelles for an Africa Festival the same year.
Amongst the numerous venues they have performed at the Sun City Super Bowl, The Market Theatre, Mabula Lodge, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Caesars Casino, The Parktonian and Sandton Sun. They have performed at corporate functions for Walter Sisulu's Child Care Centre Anniversary, Ma-Africa Competition, the opening of the African Craft Market in Rosebank, Gauteng Provincial Legislature Youth Project, Old Mutual Marathon, Michael Mount Organic Market Launch, IDCS, and SATOUR.
In 2001 African Devoted Artists released their first album Buyela Khaya through Sheer Sound. In 2002 they won a South African Music Award for Best Instrumental Band.
The band is based at the Diepkloof Centre where they perform, rehearse and teach local youth acting, marimba, dance, poetry and story telling.
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Fountains
About Fountains
There has always been a tradition for having water features in the garden, but these days it is becoming more and more common for indoor fountains to be incorporated into the interior of the home. These fantastic and very attractive items come in the shape of wall fountains, floor standing fountains and even those that are designed for table top use, and are very much a welcome addition to the decor.
The popularity of fountains is something that is enduring, for the sight of beautifully soaring or falling water and the sound as it splashes and trickles away is something that makes for a very attractive feature. What makes them more attractive these days is that many are solar fountains; these need no mains power and rely on a solar panel that draws power from the rays of the sun. The only outlay is the purchase of the fountain, there is no wiring involved bar that from the panel to the fountain itself (and some use underwater solar panels) and the effect is stunning.
Solar fountains tend to be for outdoor use, and many pond fountains that you can buy these days are solar powered. Pond fountains take the form of the traditional simple hidden pump that sends a tower of water into the air, or a more stylish bird bath style fountain, and sometimes they are in the form of rock fountains, with water cascading down a series of decorative rocks to give a very tranquil and quite delightful effect.
It is the versatility of outdoor fountains that has inspired the current growing trend for indoor fountains, and these come in many shapes and forms. Perhaps the most impressive indoor fountains are wall fountains, these being very innovative and quite beautiful designs that are mounted on a wall and provide what is, in effect, a living picture that features water rolling down a textured surface. Popular in natural stone such as slate and granite, and often lit for effect – as are many pond fountains – they are fabulous focal points for a room and make a great feature in a modern or traditional setting.
This style of wall fountain is also available as a free standing indoor floor fountain, equally beautiful and available in many different styles, and for those with less space the superb range of table fountains – sometimes miniature versions of modern or antique designs that are intended for table top use – are very impressive indeed, and make a great centrepiece for a dinner party or gathering.
There is no doubt that solar fountains are the item of choice for outdoor use and that most pond fountains these days are solar powered, and the effect of a fully lit fountain in an evening setting is one that cannot be surpassed, yet it may be that it is the innovation in indoor fountains, in particular the splendid and very beautiful wall fountains, that attract you. Whatever it is you are looking for there is so much available that the choice is yours – all you have to do is decide.
wall fountains
There has always been a tradition for having water features in the garden, but these days it is becoming more and more common for indoor fountains to be incorporated into the interior of the home. These fantastic and very attractive items come in the shape of wall fountains, floor standing fountains and even those that are designed for table top use, and are very much a welcome addition to the decor.
The popularity of fountains is something that is enduring, for the sight of beautifully soaring or falling water and the sound as it splashes and trickles away is something that makes for a very attractive feature. What makes them more attractive these days is that many are solar fountains; these need no mains power and rely on a solar panel that draws power from the rays of the sun. The only outlay is the purchase of the fountain, there is no wiring involved bar that from the panel to the fountain itself (and some use underwater solar panels) and the effect is stunning.
Solar fountains tend to be for outdoor use, and many pond fountains that you can buy these days are solar powered. Pond fountains take the form of the traditional simple hidden pump that sends a tower of water into the air, or a more stylish bird bath style fountain, and sometimes they are in the form of rock fountains, with water cascading down a series of decorative rocks to give a very tranquil and quite delightful effect.
It is the versatility of outdoor fountains that has inspired the current growing trend for indoor fountains, and these come in many shapes and forms. Perhaps the most impressive indoor fountains are wall fountains, these being very innovative and quite beautiful designs that are mounted on a wall and provide what is, in effect, a living picture that features water rolling down a textured surface. Popular in natural stone such as slate and granite, and often lit for effect – as are many pond fountains – they are fabulous focal points for a room and make a great feature in a modern or traditional setting.
This style of wall fountain is also available as a free standing indoor floor fountain, equally beautiful and available in many different styles, and for those with less space the superb range of table fountains – sometimes miniature versions of modern or antique designs that are intended for table top use – are very impressive indeed, and make a great centrepiece for a dinner party or gathering.
There is no doubt that solar fountains are the item of choice for outdoor use and that most pond fountains these days are solar powered, and the effect of a fully lit fountain in an evening setting is one that cannot be surpassed, yet it may be that it is the innovation in indoor fountains, in particular the splendid and very beautiful wall fountains, that attract you. Whatever it is you are looking for there is so much available that the choice is yours – all you have to do is decide.
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