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Ryan Devlin Quartet: Thoughts on the Matter Ryan Devlin is an ambitious young musician from Central Florida. A second-generation professional saxophonist, Devlin has won many awards and competitions. The quartet will perform high-energy standards and original compositions from Devlin’s first record, "Thoughts on the Matter," recorded in December 2020.
Scene Around First, a somber memory ... Jan. 27 was "Holocaust Remembrance Day." That brings to mind the late former Congressman from California, Tom Lantos, who passed some years ago from cancer. For those of you who aren't familiar with him, I will try to fill you in: Tamas (Thomas) Peter Lantos was born in Bupapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family that was very educated with teachers, professors, etc. Of course, during World War II, they were sent to concentration camps. When Tom was 16 years old he was beaten by Nazis and doing hard labor in a forced labor camp. Thank goodness he survived and...
Editorâs letter A month before the first American died of the coronavirus, scientists already had designed the vaccine. In a Massachusetts lab last Jan. 13, Moderna researchers used the genetic sequence of the virus, made public by China, to design an mRNA molecule that teaches the immune system to recognize and neutralize it. By February, their vaccine had actually been made and shipped to the National Institutes of Health to start clinical trials. This largely unknown time line shows that while development of coronavirus vaccines was astonishingly rapid, approval of them was painstakin...
Missio mission. >> it's in your face. >> this los angeles-based snack food company is anything but subtle about their mission statement. >> the name, first of all, is, i think our biggest calling card. >> they don't mince word. the name of the company says exactly what they're trying to do. this bar savves lives. >> we want to end childhood malnutrition worldwide. it's an insanely huge goal, but that's really what's at the heart of the company. >> it all started with a humanitarian trip. actors ryan devlin and todd grinnell went to liberia in 2008. >> we toured a refugee camp, where we saw doz...
Sell. when they first started, these actors knew exactly what their mission would be, but they had zero idea about how to begin. so they started to make calls to people they knew, including fellow performer, robby patel from "master of none" fame. >> so ryan devlin is one of my closest friends and he calls me up one night and says, listen, i know you've done some busy stuff before. todd and i have this idea, i want to talk to you about it. and about two hours later, i had not only given him whatever advice i could think of, but also decided to join the movement. >> their next call was to anoth...