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Relationships, love at heart of singer's new creation | The Hand

Posted by The Hand on February 17, 2012 in Relationships |

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Leah Tysse didn?t have any formal musical training.

Whitney Houston was her ?teacher.?

?Whitney is the reason I wanted to sing,? said Tysse, a dynamic, Berkeley-based soul-pop vocalist. ?I was a huge fan. Her voice was just impeccable.?

When: Tonight, following the Stockton Thunder game

Where: King?s Room, Stockton Arena

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Tysse was weaned on Houston?s self-titled 1985 debut album ? and its three No. 1 singles ? while growing up in Maine and New Jersey.

?That really is what made me wanna sing,? said Tysse, who, like Houston, developed her powerful voice in church choirs. ?I never had any vocal training. Just Whitney.?

Tysse, a member of San Francisco?s Glide Memorial Church Choir, will perform in more secular surroundings tonight ? the King?s Room at Stockton Arena following the Thunder?s ice-hockey game.

Stockton bassist AJ Joyce plays part-time in Tysse?s band, but he?ll be there tonight.

Tysse, 36, introduces songs from ?Love Again,? her less-bluesy second album released on Nov. 29. Houston, who died on Feb. 11 at age 48, will be on her mind.

?Well, I have mixed emotions,? Tysse said of Houston, whose funeral is being held Saturday in Newark, N.J. ?Given what we know, nobody was that surprised. But it was so tragic the way her life went. Her talent was unparalleled. She could have continued so much further.?

Tysse?s taking a sightly different angle with her music, edging away from straight-up blues into a more pop-oriented mode.

She?s been working on the 13-track ?Love Again? since 2009, using lyrics written ?years and years ago.?

Tysse ?really belts out? some songs. Others are more subdued ballads: ?Some of them had been written five, six, 10 years ago and shelved. I just pulled ?em out. When we started, I didn?t expect it to come out like it has. The songwriting hadn?t fully developed.?

Those songs are mostly about ?one particularly bad time,? she said. ?A bad ending to a relationship. I got a lot of songs out of it. The whole album really kind of focuses on that. It?s about love and the heart, though. It?s not all ?woe is me.?

?My first album (?Real Good Fire,? 2007) was a little more blues-focused. This one?s a little less genre-specific. More funky. RB. Really, no blues.

?I?ve created something new that?s my own. Maybe not what the blues world expected it to be. What I created is something altogether new.?

Mike Blankenship, her band?s keyboard player, helped with that. A lot.

?We have a good working relationship,? she said of the Concord-based Blankenship. ?There are elements of RB. Also elements of, I?d call it pop, for lack of a better genre.?

While it?s not quite at the level of Adele?s Grammy Award-winning ?Someone Like You,? Tysse?s ?I Do,? a ballad, ?seems to get the most reaction,? she said. ?It was the most challenging to write, but it came out best. Everyone sort of has a song they like best. Like when they come up to me and start singing my songs to me.

?I?m not engaged or married. People ask, ?Who is it about?? It happens to not be about anyone. I didn?t really force the lyrics. It just came at one time. I don?t know why.?

She grew up singing in the United Methodist Church and has increased her vocal power and flexibility at Glide Memorial for 14 years.

?I love all types of music,? she said. ?From Joni Mitchell to Tupac. I just love good songs. I don?t wanna be stuck in any box. Ever. I?ll always love the blues.?

Born into a ?modest background? in Madison, Wis., she took piano lessons and taught herself to play trumpet at 7. An only child, she added vocals after she and her mom, Dorothy Breen, moved to Orono, Maine, following her parents? divorce.

Tysse also was a competitive swimmer, 100- and 300-meter hurdler and soccer player.

Her father, Paul, a grant writer at the University of Wisconsin, accompanied her on acoustic guitar ? folk and jazz tunes ? and further developed her skills with her grandmother in Ocean Grove, N.J.

She spent a year in Grenoble, France, where she sang in clubs. She attended the University of Vermont and lived in Boston for nine months before arriving in San Francisco.

?Love Again? is more than an album title. It?s also a form of ?giving back.?

Through the Love Again Project, Tysse donates income from some shows to charitable organizations ? ranging from the Humane Society of the Sierra Foothills to Glide Memorial Church, which benefits when Tysse formally releases ?Love Again? on Feb. 26 at Yoshi?s in San Francisco.

?I always wanted to somehow connect with giving back,? said Tysse, whose mother, a psychologist at the University of Maine, has been a do-good inspiration. ?I?m not able to contribute that much. I?m not Bonnie Raitt.

?I just hope by connecting I can at least give some exposure to these causes. It helps give meaning personally to what I?m doing. It?s so fulfilling. It?s such a blessing. Sometimes I just feel spoiled. Not that it?s easy, but it?s not like other people making a bazillion dollars will do something.?

Houston?s contribution was inspiration: ?She was the one.?

Contact Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or tsauro@recordnet.com.

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In the mouth, smoking zaps healthy bacteria

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2012) ? According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease.

Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. New research shows that the mouth of a smoker is a much more chaotic, diverse ecosystem -- and is much more susceptible to invasion by harmful bacteria.

As a group, smokers suffer from higher rates of oral diseases -- especially gum disease -- than do nonsmokers, which is a challenge for dentists, according to Purnima Kumar, assistant professor of periodontology at Ohio State University. She and her colleagues are involved in a multi-study investigation of the role the body's microbial communities play in preventing oral disease.

"The smoker's mouth kicks out the good bacteria, and the pathogens are called in," said Kumar. "So they're allowed to proliferate much more quickly than they would in a non-smoking environment."

The results suggest that dentists may have to offer more aggressive treatment for smokers and would have good reason to suggest quitting smoking, Kumar said.

"A few hours after you're born, bacteria start forming communities called biofilms in your mouth," said Kumar. "Your body learns to live with them, because for most people, healthy biofilms keep the bad bacteria away."

She likens a healthy biofilm to a lush, green lawn of grass. "When you change the dynamics of what goes into the lawn, like too much water or too little fertilizer," she said, "you get some of the grass dying, and weeds moving in." For smokers, the "weeds" are problem bacteria known to cause disease.

In a new study, Kumar's team looked at how these bacterial ecosystems regrow after being wiped away. For 15 healthy nonsmokers and 15 healthy smokers, the researchers took samples of oral biofilms one, two, four and seven days after professional cleaning.

The researchers were looking for two things when they swabbed subjects' gums. First, they wanted to see which bacteria were present by analyzing DNA signatures found in dental plaque. They also monitored whether the subjects' bodies were treating the bacteria as a threat. If so, the swab would show higher levels of cytokines, compounds the body produces to fight infection.

The results of the study were published in the journal Infection and Immunity.

"When you compare a smoker and nonsmoker, there's a distinct difference," said Kumar. "The first thing you notice is that the basic 'lawn,' which would normally contain thriving populations made of a just few types of helpful bacteria, is absent in smokers."

The team found that for nonsmokers, bacterial communities regain a similar balance of species to the communities that were scraped away during cleaning. Disease-associated bacteria are largely absent, and low levels of cytokines show that the body is not treating the helpful biofilms as a threat.

"By contrast," said Kumar, "smokers start getting colonized by pathogens -- bacteria that we know are harmful -- within 24 hours. It takes longer for smokers to form a stable microbial community, and when they do, it's a pathogen-rich community."

Smokers also have higher levels of cytokines, indicating that the body is mounting defenses against infection. Clinically, this immune response takes the form of red, swollen gums -- called gingivitis -- that can lead to the irreversible bone loss of periodontitis.

In smokers, however, the body is not just trying to fight off harmful bacteria. The types of cytokines in smokers' gum swabs showed the researchers that smokers' bodies were treating even healthy bacteria as threatening.

Although they do not yet understand the mechanisms behind these results, Kumar and her team suspect that smoking is confusing the normal communication that goes on between healthy bacterial communities and their human hosts.

Practically speaking, these findings have clear implications for patient care, according to Kumar.

"It has to drive how we treat the smoking population," she said. "They need a more aggressive form of treatment, because even after a professional cleaning, they're still at a very high risk for getting these pathogens back in their mouths right away.

"Dentists don't often talk to their patients about smoking cessation," she continued. "These results show that dentists should take a really active role in helping patients to get the support they need to quit."

For Kumar, who is a practicing periodontist as well as a teaching professor, doing research has changed how she treats her patients. "I tell them about our studies, about the bacteria and the host response, and I say, 'Hey -- I'm really scared for you.' Patients have been more willing to listen, and two actually quit."

Kumar's collaborators include Chad Matthews and Vinayak Joshi of Ohio State's College of Dentistry as well as Marko de Jager and Marcelo Aspiras of Philips Oral Healthcare. The research was sponsored by a grant from Philips Oral Healthcare.

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Iraqi-born Islamist cleric in Norway terror trial (AP)

OSLO, Norway ? An Iraqi-born Islamist cleric goes on trial Wednesday for allegedly making death threats against politicians and encouraging suicide bombings in Iraq, and some see the case as a test of Norway's terror laws and its freedom of speech.

Prosecutor Geir Evanger described the charges against Mullah Krekar, 55, as serious and said Tuesday the defendant could receive up to 20 years in prison if he's convicted in Oslo District Court.

Krekar arrived in Norway from Iraq in 1991 and was given refugee status. He made several visits to Iraq and during them founded the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaida-linked group listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations. It is suspected of organizing suicide bombings against U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq.

A local court declared Krekar a national security threat and ordered him deported in 2005, but later postponed the move because of concerns he could face execution or torture in Iraq.

Two years ago, Krekar told foreign reporters in Oslo that if he were deported to Iraq and killed, Norwegian officials would "pay with their lives," according to a transcript included in the indictment.

Prosecutors say the defendant violated Norwegian terror laws because the threats were meant to cause fear in society and force officials to halt the deportation order.

Charges also include comments Krekar made on NBC's news program "The Wanted" in 2009. He said the American people deserved the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and encouraged suicide bombings against Americans in Iraq. He also is charged with making death threats against others on various websites.

Krekar's lawyer, Brynjar Meling, said Krekar rejects the charges and stands by what he said, but that he did not break the law.

"It should not be looked upon as threats," Meling said, adding that the trial will be "a test case" for drawing the line between Norwegian terror laws and freedom of speech.

Evanger, the prosecutor, disagreed.

"Krekar gave his interviews in Norway, so he can be charged for such threats under Norwegian law," Evanger said. "Under no circumstances can plain death threats be protected by freedom of speech."

Krekar has denied links to al-Qaida and has said he no longer leads Ansar al-Islam.

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Smart Energy Management Using Integrated Control Systems

Created by Christian Crisostomo on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?

Energy management is an issue that we almost always address manually. A simple decision to buy a more energy efficient air conditioner, the diligence to check for turned on but unused appliances, and a plan to consume less overall power are some of the things that are typically included in an energy management plan.

While the resolve to come up with an energy consumption strategy is quite commendable, our current methods do make it look a bit too tedious. Wouldn?t it be wonderful if we can hire an assistant whose sole purpose is to manage all of these things?

That is what a smart energy management system could provide for your home, and the manager would be an integrated control system.

How Control Systems Could Turn an Energy System ?Smart?

Remember how we have demonstrated with green computers that the more watts you can save, the more a device could be considered as environment-friendly? The concept is more or less the same for a smart energy management system, although this time, we don?t simply pull the consumption rate as low as we can. Instead we get the assistance of a computer (or another control system) to calculate all the variables needed to make the most out of the energy that we have saved.

For example, a software program could control the flow of energy around your home according to the energy consumption needs of your electrical devices and appliances at a given point in time. Another example could be a simple integrated charge controller that would be used to automatically switch between multiple energy sources as necessary.

Other Possible Types of Smart Energy Management Systems

Though the term ?energy management? is mostly used for household energy consumption, smart energy management systems could actually be scaled up or down depending on where it is applied. A few other examples of smart energy management systems are:

• Smart Grid ? this is a grid power system that has an added function of being able to gather behavioral data on all of the bulk loads connected to it. The smart energy management system of this type of grid is capable of improving the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the distributed energy using the information gathered.
• Smart Energy Devices ? Small devices could also be installed with an automated energy management system. For example, Western Digital?s Caviar Green magnetic hard drives uses a smart energy management system that allows it control the flow of current depending on whether the computer is active or idle.

The actual positive environmental impact of a smart energy management system may not look that impressive (especially if your home ends up using dirty coal-based grid power anyway). But in the long run these systems could help us learn and accept the importance of economizing all the available energy sources around us. Remember, improving green energy efficiency does not only mean increasing the overall energy output, but it could also simply mean an increase in ?meaningful? energy consumption.

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