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Q&A // MARTIN SEXTON > Because we have questions. Celebrities have answers.
Martin Sexton is a musician whose been recording his blend of soul and rock music since 1996. His latest album, *Sugarcoating* came out April 6. Sexton is currently on tour in support of the album, and will be performing at 8 p.m. tonight at The Bottleneck.
Javolay:
How did you become a recording artist?
In the 1990s I was busking. I was a kid fresh from off the Amtrak to Boston. I got a job at a café, but I ended up getting canned. I saw an artist in the square busking and making some money. I thought "that's pretty cool, I want to do that!" Necessity became the mother of invention. I needed rent, so I got myself an amp and a Stratocaster. I ended up making more money busking than I had at my job. After a while, I started recording, and things just grew from there.
JP What kind of music made you decide you wanted to be a musician?
MS I think it might have happened as a kid. I was listening to my brother's records in the attic, and I found "Frampton Comes Alive!" I heard hisICKs.I heard the crowd,
and he just wailed! That's when the spark was lit. I actually got the chance to play with Frampton once. I know he must hear stories like that all the time, but I still had to tell him just how important his music was to me.
JP What it's like to work with people, like Peter Formanen, whose work draws on
MS: Initially I get nervous, but eventually you just reach this level of mutual respect with the artist you're working with. I just view it like a dream come true. I have this childlike sense of wonder, this sense of "holy shit" when I get to do things like that. I'm kind of pinching myself.
You do all of your own backing vocals on your album. What led to making that decision?
I guess because I can, I remember when we were recording The American, we hired some backup singers. They did just what I thought they'd do, and they were good. But on playback, the music didn't feel done. I went in, and put down some vocals in my "soul sisters" voice, and that just had more personality. It was different. I started doing that, again out of necessity. If I go in and sing four parts on a song, it just sounds deeper and more rich.
The song "Livin' The Life," from your new album is all about evaluating your life and realizing the kind of life you really want to live. Is that story based off of anything that happened to you?
I was on top of the Tetons and a park ranger came up to me. He was like, "Hey, man, you're Martin Sexton!" It turned out he was a big fan. A few years ago, he took a road trip across the U.S. listening to my records the whole way. He said that, along with some other experiences he had on the trip, inspired him to quit his job as an executive on Wall Street, and go into forestry, which he'd always wanted to do. He told me that he was making less money now, but he knew he was on the right path. That was just mind-blowing! To know that my music could make that kind of impact, that's another dream come true. That's the story of "Livin' the Life."
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From the streets to the stage: Martin Sexton's dreams of becoming a musician started as kid listening to Peter Frampton. He sold 20,000 copies of a self-recorded cd by playing on the streets. Catch him live at The Bottleneck tonight.
out to be controlling.
Kristen Tebow, a woman from Manhattan, just wanted to make friends her freshman year at Kansas State University. On a typical weekend night, she made plans with a new friend from marching band. She and her newly found friend visited a typical bar on the outskirts of Manhattan. Tebow's friend got her a drink; a few moments later she felt like the "world went crazy" and passed out in the bar's bathroom.
The next morning she woke up naked in a hotel room just outside Manhattan, covered in bruises and scratches. Seven naked men slept on the floor around her. The men paid Tebow's friend to drug and bring her to the hotel. Her friend set her up for a night she would never forget. She turned into a victim of sex trafficking that night. All she wanted to do was have a
Other Signs:
3. Putting you down - The controller doesn't only want to be in control of your actions, but also your emotions.
- Isolating you from friends and family
- Discouraging you from pursuing outside interests
- Perpetually blaming you for his or her own actions (anger, cheating, yelling, etc.)
- Embarrassing you in public
- Constantly discounting your feelings
- Cycling through moods
Adapted from The Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety
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Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven
"I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad."
Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape,
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The Clothesline Project was a visible contribution to Take Back the Night Thursday evening, Victim and supporters created shirts to hang on the clothesline to tell their stories or to send a message about domestic violence.
HEALTH
Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment
University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model
BY MEG LOWRY
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For every 1,000 children in the United States, three to five will develop scoliosis severe enough to require surgery. However, there are zero model pediatric spines to guide the course of treatment.
"The spine is a series of connected joints," Friis said. "If you do something to one level, it will affect all levels up and down. If we can create models and find how treatment influences functions on adjacent levels, we will be able to design implants better."
don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now"
The lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine.
Erin Lewis, a graduate student in bioengineering from Fort Scott, said medical device companies rely on a scaled-down model of an adult spine, which can lead to error and confusion.
"Babies are much more flexible, for example, and in some places have cartilage instead of bone," Lewis said. "Those kinds of properties just don't change overnight, so we are trying to find out how surgeries can work with that."
Lisa Fris, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of.
Lewis leads a group of graduate students and undergraduate students who help with the research. The group works closely with a pediatric surgeon from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
"The spinal industry is about 15 to 25 years behind other areas of orthopedics," Friis said. "Some spinal surgery procedures still
male's spine does not really represent a 12-year-old girl's, but this is what they are using to test spinal implants on," Friis said.
A federal grant of more than $1 million was awarded to the engineering department to fund spinal replica research. Friis, who has worked as a research scientist in orthopedics since 2001, said the grant was well-founded.
These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis.
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"It's extremely difficult to create a model of a spine when we don't know the target values and also incorporate somehow the physiological changes that occur in kids," Lewis said.
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