� Would you like to contribute to breast cancer research?
You can help oneself by donating a tissue paper sample to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Ology Spa at the Clarian North Medical Center, 11700 North Meridian St., Carmel.
A tissue sample will be taken from one breast with a needle and local anesthesia. The total of tissue paper taken is about unitary gram (or the size of two peas).
To participate, women must:
- be age 18 or older
- have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign an informed consent
- be willing to cave in one hour of their time to complete a questionnaire and a breast biopsy
- not be allergic to local anesthetics (numbing medicine)
- not be receiving a therapeutical blood diluent (this does not include aspirin)
- not feature breast implants or cause had a breast decrease
To show, visit http://www.komentissuebank.iu.edu.
By collecting samples from women with and without knocker cancer, researchers will be able to determine the differences between these populations, which could lead to a better understanding of the disease. Samples taken from women without the disease ar especially helpful because in that respect are few collections of so-called "normal" specimens. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center will at long last give researchers valuable and unprecedented research data.
IU School of Medicine
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Mp3 music: Lauryn Hill
 Artist: Lauryn Hill: mp3 download Genre(s): Rap: Hip-Hop Lauryn Hill's discography:  The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Year: 1999 Tracks: 16 Call Lauryn Hill the mother of rap music innovation; with her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the Fugees' close vocal penis non only if effected herself as originative force-out on her possess, simply besides bust new ground by successfully consolidation knock, soul, reggae, and R&B into her possess profound. Embossed in South Orange, NJ, Hill fagged her youth hearing her parents' multi-genre, multi-generational record collecting. She began telling at an early geezerhood, and was before long snagging modest roles on television system (As the World Turns) and in film (Babe Act II: Back in the Habit). Her on-again, off-again stint in the Fugees began at the old age of 13, just was a great deal interrupted by both the playing gigs and her enrollment at Columbia University. After development a following in the tri-state area, the group's first-class honours degree tone ending -- the much-hyped simply uneven Dulled on Reality -- bombed, near causation a breakup. But with the multi-platinum The Score, the Fugees (and specially the camera-friendly Hill) achieved outside winner, though some pundits took shots at their penchant for wrap up songs. That literary criticism made Miseducation even more than of a surprise. Hill wrote, arranged, or produced exactly well-nigh every track on the album, which is steeped in her old school background signal, both musically (the Motown-esque singalong of "Doo Wop (That Thing)") and lyrically (the nostalgic "Every Ghetto, Every City"). As Miseducation began a long reign on the charts through and through most of the fall and wintertime of 1998 -- ab initio thanks to heavy seethe and overwhelming radio sustenance for "Doo Wop (That Thing)" -- Hill became a national media image, as magazines ranging from Time to Esquire to Teen People vied to frame her on the enshroud. By the goal of the year, as the record album topped nigh every major medicine critic's best-of number, she was existence credited for helping full assimilate hip-hop into mainstream music. (Such an analysis, yet, is jackanapes at best: Hip-hop had been a huge personnel on the gross revenue and receiving set fronts for nigh of the 10, and rappers Jay-Z, DMX, and Outkast had dropped likewise lauded LPs prior to or just after Miseducation's dismission, adding to the genre's dominant gross sales for the year). The impulse finally culminated at the February 1999 Grammy awards, during which Hill took home five trophies from her 11 nominations, including Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Album; the to the highest degree ever so for a womanhood. Shortly afterward, she launched a highly praised national spell with Atlanta rappers Outkast. Hill besides faced a case from two musicians world Health Organization claim they were denied broad deferred payment for their act on the album. In an interesting twist, Hill's record album proven to be such a commercial and vital success that it exuviate incertitude on the Fugees' future. Their in-fighting became mutual cognition, and matters were complicated when many fans interpreted Miseducation's various anti-stardom rants as a world dissing of co-Fugee Wyclef Jean. She did continue shaping her solo career. The double-disc MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 appeared in springtime 2002, showcasing a deep personal operation from Hill. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Small Rocks, Carbondating
It's an old saying that "There's a fine line between genius and insanity" and after diving deep within the audio output of one Matt Wand aka Small Rocks, I cogitate we lavatory safely suppose that Mr. Wand's passport is stamped and that he's been safely traveling between the two for quite some time now.
An ex-member of the cult band Stock, Hausen and Walkman, Wand has re-surfaced with another project on his Hot Air tag. While his website URL may be simplesampling.com, there's mothing simple on this CD. Instead Wand offers us a accumulation of experimental techno which sounds more like it was dissected and set back together again by Dr. Frankenstein rather than some Ibizian trance DJ.
Carbon Dating is a dark work, filled with granulose loops which morph and sputter out in a million unlike directions, all overlaid with industrial noises, glitches, 4 bit synth chords and other random noises all cut and pasted together to shape a complex series of loops and sequences. Mere mortals can make electronic music quite easily, yet to make something this complex and disturbing, you'd have to be from another place altogether.
"Rule Of Thumb" sounds almost aboriginal, as if a metallic jungle of metal trees came to life; it's stone elephants trumpeting their mating calls in the distance. "Some Minerals Have No Cleavage" takes on an old cheesy Hammond B3 iteration and then promptly mixes in a building situation. Einsturzende Neubauten would have been proud. "Carbon Dated", my favorite track here, begins with a puree of glitch and timestretched samples ahead rolling rashly down a hill, it's off-kilter jazz backbeat trying desperately to keep up. Don't even ask me about what's going on on "Martian Housing Crisis". This is the kind of music you would probably hear if the inmates took over the lunatic mental home disco.
While Wand was an integral theatrical role of Stock, Hausen and Walkman, this solo crusade shows off not only his control of studio trickery in ways that were never really explored before. His approach is often like that of John Oswald yet instead of victimisation other songs to word form the foundation of his plunderphonics, Wand uses the detiritus of machines.
"Carbon Dating" is without question one of the most interesting releases we've heard here in quite some time. It's worrying, it's weird, it's ludicrously catchy and it's completely insane. Keep out of reach of children, simply for the rest of you - go and find this at once.
Don't forget the straightjacket. You're going to need it.
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Sunday, 10 August 2008
Suggs
Artist: Suggs
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
The Lone Ranger
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Camden Town
Year: 1995
Tracks: 1
Sony to buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG stake for $900M
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Kanye, Radiohead, RATM, Nine Inch Nails top Lollapalooza lineup
This year's Lollapalooza lineup is official: Radiohead , Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails and Kanye West will top the bill of the Aug. 1-3 festival at Chicago's Grant Park.
About 90 acts were announced this morning (4/7), including Wilco , The Raconteurs , Love and Rockets, Gnarls Barkley , G. Love & Special Sauce, Dierks Bentley, Blues Traveler, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Flogging Molly and Lupe Fiasco. The full lineup is listed below and the schedule is expected to be announced in June.
Early-bird tickets are already sold out, according to Lollapalooza's website. Advance three-day passes are currently on sale for $190 and, when those run out, regular three-day passes will go for $205. VIP packages are also available.
In addition to hosting a wide-variety of music on multiple stages, the festival will once again provide entertainment for the next generation of Lolla fans with Kidzapalooza, which includes family-oriented musicians, a hip-hop workshop, "a rock and roll petting zoo," hair and makeup styling, and a dance floor.
Lollapalooza, formerly a traveling festival, successfully reinvented itself in 2005 as a multi-day event anchored in the Windy City. Organizers later struck a deal to remain at Grant Park through 2011.
Lollapalooza 2007 sold out with an attendance of more than 167,000, and tickets for the 2008 edition are outpacing last year's, according to Billboard.
Lollapalooza lineup:
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley
Bloc Party
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Flogging Molly
Mark Ronson
Cat Power
Lupe Fiasco
The National
G. Love & Special Sauce
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Explosions in the Sky
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Dierks Bentley
Okkervil River
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk
CSS
Battles
Jamie Lidell
Butch Walker
Mates of State
Spank Rock
Brazilian Girls
Chromeo
Duffy
The Kills
Rogue Wave
The Go! Team
Mason Jennings
The Gutter Twins
Yeasayer
Grizzly Bear
MGMT
The Weakerthans
Booka Shade
Santogold
Black Kids
Black Lips
Louis XIV
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Does it Offend You, Yeah?
The Whigs
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
Uffie
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So�s
K�NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner
Your Vegas
Eli "Paperboy"
Reed & the True Loves
Steel Train
Bang Camaro
The Blakes
Tally Hall
White Lies
Magic Wands
Electric Touch
Innerpartysystem
The Postelles
The Parlor Mob
Bald Eagle
Krista
Ha Ha Tonka
Witchcraft
We Go to 11
Sofia Talvik
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Gala
Artist: Gala
Genre(s):
New Age
Pop: Latin
Discography:
Come Into My Life
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Gregorian Dance
Year:
Tracks: 12
At Last David Hasselhoff Gets His Own Social-Networking Website
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Sure, it may be a slow news week, but please don't think for one second that that's why we're reporting on what will surely be remembered as the year's most world-changing technology story: David Hasselhoff has debuted his very own social network at DavidHasselhoff.com. Affectionately dubbed "Hoffspace" by the Hoff himself on his Hoffblog, the site will finally offer Hoff heads a place to congregate, share music, and ponder such pressing questions as, "If the Hoff were a god, what would he do first?" ("I reckon the Hoff would grant everyone a Trans Am," speculates one Hoffspace user). Sign up, then send us a Hoff request!
DavidHasselhoff.com [via G4TV]
Sure, it may be a slow news week, but please don't think for one second that that's why we're reporting on what will surely be remembered as the year's most world-changing technology story: David Hasselhoff has debuted his very own social network at DavidHasselhoff.com. Affectionately dubbed "Hoffspace" by the Hoff himself on his Hoffblog, the site will finally offer Hoff heads a place to congregate, share music, and ponder such pressing questions as, "If the Hoff were a god, what would he do first?" ("I reckon the Hoff would grant everyone a Trans Am," speculates one Hoffspace user). Sign up, then send us a Hoff request!
DavidHasselhoff.com [via G4TV]
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