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Originally published on Fri September 27, 2013 4:20 pm
When Venezuelan producer Andres Ponce met Honduran singer Sofy Encanto in Miami, musical sparks flew. What began as a recording project became a full-fledged band that draws from a range of influences, including tropical, funk, electronic and hip-hop.
Real, the group's first album, has it all, with songs in both English and Spanish. After playing around Miami for a couple of years, Elastic Bond signed with the influential Nacional label, which put out the band's debut earlier this summer.
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This week's World Cafe: Next artist is the Kansas band Moreland & Arbuckle, whose members play blues-drenched roots-rock. On their fifth album, 7 Cities, they've adopted the loose theme of the explorer Coronado's search for the seven cities of gold — which, not so coincidentally, took the conquistador right into their home territory.
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Heartbreak has long resided at the center of Tracyanne Campbell's songs for Camera Obscura. Remember, she's the one who wrote a song responding to Lloyd Cole's "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?" — naturally, it's titled "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken."
Originally published on Fri September 27, 2013 4:23 pm
Mikal Cronin's second solo album, MCII, contains more of his delightful, frequently dazzling, guitar-drenched pop-rock. Originally from Southern California, Cronin wrote his first record in response to making the post-college move to San Francisco. The new album is more about what happened when he got there and started playing in Ty Segall's band.
On this episode of World Cafe, Cronin sits down to chat with host David Dye and play a few songs with his band live in the studio.
Originally published on Fri September 27, 2013 4:24 pm
Daughn Gibson is the alter ego of Pennsylvania singer-songwriter Josh Martin. The former stoner-rock drummer took on his nom de plume as an homage to country legend Don Gibson, which makes sense: Martin's life thus far sounds like a country song. He's worked behind the counter in an adult book store, poured tall ones as a bartender and worked as a long-haul trucker.
Originally published on Wed October 2, 2013 4:30 pm
On this episode, Martha Wainwright joins us to talk about her late mother, Kate McGarrigle, and to sing us some of McGarrigle's songs.
McGarrigle, who died after a battle with cancer in January 2011, made a series of wonderful albums with her sister Anna during a career that spanned decades, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1975. The duo is probably best known for its cover of Linda Ronstadt's "Heart Like a Wheel."
British soul singer Alice Russell has one of those voices that fills up a room. Over the course of five studio albums, she's been compared to Chaka Khan and the late Amy Winehouse, and performed with the likes of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.
Her latest album is titled To Dust, which she celebrated in April by performing a sold-out show at World Cafe Live, the concert venue next door to the World Cafe studios. In this episode, we spotlight the best recordings from that concert and speak with Russell about what it's like to let loose on stage.
Originally published on Fri October 3, 2014 1:59 pm
Out of the Toronto music community comes New Country Rehab, an alt-country band that just released its second album, Ghost Of Your Charms.
The foursome, led by singer and fiddle player John Showman, combine a bluegrass aesthetic with some really strong songwriting chops. We love their song "Luxury Hotel," which may make you think differently about your summer vacation spot.
Originally published on Wed October 2, 2013 4:33 pm
In this edition of Latin Roots, Catalina Maria Johnson, from the Chicago-based program Beat Latino, plays music from Colombia's coastal areas where most of the country's Afro-Colombia population lives. The Pacific coastline is dominated by the sound of marimba. Johnson plays a traditional example from Grupo Naidy, and then we get to hear how Herencia De Tabiqui puts a younger, more contemporary spin on that tradition.
Originally published on Wed October 2, 2013 4:32 pm
After working together for more than a decade, the members of Stockholm's Shout Out Louds continue to make lush, highly melodic pop music. The product of a year and a half of tinkering, their recent Optica is significantly lighter-sounding than its predecessors.
On this installment of World Cafe, hear the group discuss how it navigated new musical experiments on the album, and how all of its members finally came to agree on how Optica should sound.


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Spring has sprung and now is a great time to start cleaning out the clutter in our financial lives and help save both time and money. I interviewed personal finance expert, Vera Gibbons to learn how to "spring clean our finances"
Q: Where should we start decluttering our finances?
Vera: I would go right at the paper work. Attack it head on. This is where a lot of the clutter is, you don't need to have all this paperwork sitting around. If you're still paying your bills by check, for example, paper check, why not take it into the digital age and do it right from your online bank account. It's easy, it's simple, it's an easy way to manage your payments if you're paying your bills this way. Beyond that, Manilla, Mint, PageOnce – great tools to help track your finances, manage your finances, set up a budget. And then I would say take advantage of all the different products, services the banks are offering. I mean, you can manage your account right from your tablet. You can deposit checks from your mobile phone. So there's an awful lot going on in the digital space. So you can do away with the clutter that paper brings with it.
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I am sharing some personal "Inspirational Thoughts" which I have compiled using selected pictures of sceneries which have given me very "special feelings" and "inspirations" about LIFE. These pictures were taken during a winter trip to New Zealand some years ago.
The first one I am sharing is aptly applicable to our "Health".
"Sufferings" and "Ups and Downs" are inevitable in our LIFE, but we must never succumb to them or give up too easily. GOUT being one of them, it is painful and debilitating but not life threatening. GoutPal Interactive leads us to the path of Brightness.
All of us responsible for ourselves & our words, deeds and decisions. Therefore, we need to be very careful that we do so responsibly in order not to hurt others our ourselves. More so at crucial moments or a crisis when we make decisions that might affect our Life or others'.
There are many ways to achieve our goals or reach a destination. The easiest and fastest might not be the safest. Think carefully and choose wisely!
Misfortunes, sufferings and setbacks can befall anyone and anytime in LIFE.
If we are resilient and determined enough not to give up in abandonment too easily, we could end up even stronger and more able to cope with more difficult times ahead.
It could also be an AWAKENING to LIFE.
Please feel free to share whatever thoughts, remarks or comments you might have.
GoutPal Interactive is a very good example. When we are suffering from GOUT, the pain and swelling make us feel so miserable that we often ask "why me?". Here at GoutPal Interactive we realize that we are "not alone" and there are many other people who could even be worse off then ourselves and who share their joy and woes so willingly and unreservedly.
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As anyone who has read his books or watched his TV talk show can tell you, Phil McGraw has a way with words -- and his are blunt, direct, and designed to provide, as he puts it, "a wake-up call." So when it comes to weight loss, Dr. Phil isn't about to pull any punches. Though he has outlined several steps to help people shed pounds for good, he also wants people to tackle the reasons why they've failed in the past.
"There are three obstacles that people have to overcome if they want to stop being immobilized," McGraw says. "The first is to get over the idea that emotion alone can get you through this. I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program -- that emotion will fade. If you feel like you're not seeing a big payoff right away, it's so easy to want to give up. I guarantee that your initial enthusiasm is going to burn out, and you're going to eventually cycle out of that rah-rah mode."
Once your inner cheerleader has gone on strike, McGraw says, real progress can begin. "You have an infinitely greater chance of succeeding if you can reprogram your life to sustain you when your emotions fade. You have to set up your environment so that once your emotional commitment wavers, your physical surroundings will reinforce you. Build exercise into your schedule. Throw away fattening foods. You can't eat what's not there. Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower."
The second obstacle most people face, according to McGraw, goes beyond diet and exercise. "Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear," he says. "Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe." When it comes to losing weight, fear keeps many people from addressing the emotional reasons why they eat and from looking for a better way to handle those emotions. "People don't get overweight just because of what they eat," McGraw explains. "They get overweight because of how, where, when, and why they eat. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. So you have to replace your destructive patterns with constructive ones that don't center on food."
The third and final obstacle, warns McGraw, is choosing the path of least resistance. "Believe me, I understand it's not easy to change," he says. "The number one need we all have is to be accepted, to belong. And the world isn't pulling for us to act differently, think differently, choose differently. If you decide to be an agent for change, you have to be prepared for others to feel threatened and resist what you're trying to do. But stay committed to getting what you want, and eventually you'll find your supporters and overcome what stood in your way."
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lately ive been on alot of dates with these bicurious preppy girls and i just cant stand how i can never carry on a conversation with them.(i dont mean all bicurious preps are like that). but recently ive been tlaking to this amazing, stunning, brilliant, funny, and beautiful girl named michelle. she is the first girl ive known here that doesnt have an i.Q OF a chair. promblem: im not exactly sure of her sexuality. Usually i would go up to someone and ask them out because thats just the kinda person i am, but with here, i cant bring my self to try. its killing me. im scared if i do ill lose someone that thrills me with everything she does. its horriable being that close to her and not being able to tell her how i feel, but it would be the end of the world if i could never talk to her again. it would kill me. im so lost. help me
The idea here is that you want to retain this amazing connection that you have with her by continuing to deny your actual self? Where is the difficult battle?
If you tell her your feelings, and she is into them, great.
If you tell her your feelings, and she is not into them, then she decides how things go. But, if she has nothing to do with you as a result, are you really losing an important person in your life? She would be telling you that your connection cannot survive you being your authentic self.
If you tell her your feelings, and she is also not into them, she can also be cool with it, and then it becomes your additional job to accept that the way things are are the way they will continue to be.
But, there is really no downside to any of this, when it comes down to lying to maintain your "happiness," or telling the truth to have an authentic relationship, as I would imagine that you are getting more out of things than she is now, because you are constantly having to hide your truth.
I know who you are talking about...she is really nice, and if you tell her she wont think any less of you and she wont break away from you. Sarah pretty much hates me now so...i need to find someone...Brandons cute but? Eh? to clingy? So ARG, why is this so hard of a time in everyones life?
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what jeff said about having to pretend to stay happy is true, but i get what you mean about not wanting to ruin something so great. but my question for u is, what feeelings do u get from her? do you get certain vibes from her that make you think shes into you? maybe you could bring up the topic somehow and see how she reacts. thats what i did when i came out to the first person, my best friend. i was really scared for a while bcause i didnt want to lose her friendship. but one night we were talking about alex, the gay girl from the o.c., and i just came out with it. so you may not even plan when you tell her, it may just comeout when its right. but in the meantime, if shes as great as you say she is, i think it would be helpful if you told her, it sounds like she wouldnt overreact to bad. so you don't have to rush it, but tell her when you think its right.


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I have not encountered any mechanical malfunctioning in my spirit. It works every single time I need it to.
there was a guy - i can't remember if it was here or at a xian forum - who said something about god knowing exactly how many heart beats were left in my corpse. I thought that was weird. He saw people as corpses walking around by the power of god. I think there was something wrong with him.
Seriously though... What would happen if the Great Green Arkleseizure didn't fram up the rammastam before the hermite curve achieved maximum nurdfurdle velocity? Now THAT would be something. AmIrite?
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Delectable Musings: Mozzarella: Urban Farm Handbook Challenge, March. Oh man am I glad I did!
Mozzarella is pretty straight forward as long as you read the recipe through in advance and have all your ingredients and tools ready to go before you start. Ricki Carroll is the Cheese Queen and her Home Cheesemaking: Recipes for 75 Homemade Cheeses is the cookbook source that I used. I really like her website version of 30 Minute Mozzarella with all the great photos and very clear step by step instructions as well. I was worried about doing this so I will confess I consulted both sources, more than once. Foraging, Fishing, and Hunting in the Six Rivers Region. Humboldt County has a wide variety of native foods which can be gathered, caught or hunted.
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It gave our taco's great flavor that you don't get from a packet! So easy to make. Recipe from Back to Her Roots. 45 Homemade Foods You Can Make Yourself (But Never Thought You Could) - Planet Green. The Odd Food Dude. Water chestnut, a popular local specialty in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Water chestnut is a popular local specialty in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Ancient people of South Lake discovered this kind of special water chestnut more than 5,000 years ago, and they began to use and develop its productivity from then on.
The extremely sweet water chestnut of South Lake has distinctive appearance, abundant juice, thin peel, and fresh smell, which make it different from other kinds of water chestnut and become one of the most popular local specialties in Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang. People harvest water caltrop in wooden tubs in Jiaxing, Recipes — Cooking Ideas — Cherry Cola Bbq Sauce— SFGate Food & Wine. Spanikopita Recipe - How to make spinach and feta cheese spanikopita. The following recipe is for a great pie with Greek Origins called Spanakopita.
It is made of layered sheets of filo pastry (with plenty of melted butter or ghee) with a filling in the centre made of spinach and feta cheese. You can change the filling as you like, for example using mince meat, or other vegetables. The sheets of filo pastry are drenched with a mixture of eggs and milk which soak up into the pastry giving it a soft dough texture which is very easy to bite through and melts in the mouth. This pie is dangerous in that you can eat quite a number of pieces without realising how much you just ate. Native American Culture - Food and Recipes. December New Taste Market. Just the thought of holiday shopping makes me feel exhausted.
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WoW Armory for the iPhone released
- Character information, including gear, achievements, and specs
- PvP leader boards
- Talent calculators
- Official Blizzard news
- An integrated item browser
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Some first impressions of the app after the break!
These are some of the first impressions I've had of the app. We'll have more in-depth analysis at a later time.
- You can buy the app via this link if it's not showing up in the app store for you.
- The exact name of the application is "World of Warcraft Mobile Armory". On my iPhone I went and searched "WoW Armory" via the app store and it showed up as the last item in the search results.
- When you open the app for the first time, you are asked to log in. I have a Battle.net enabled account, with an authenticator attached. I entered my Battle.net login information and was then taken to the main screen. I was not asked for my authenticator info. The app also allows you to save your login info for faster access in the future.
- The app requires version 2.2 or later of the iPhone OS. (Note there was some incorrect information here originally that we've since corrected.)
- There are some good animations with the app. When you move to a new page, the current page flips away, like a book page.
- You have a button to immediately return to one of your characters.
- You can easily bookmark other characters for quick viewing.
- Gear viewing and calendar viewing is very very slick.
- Talent calculators are a little sluggish.
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text: The Rocky Horror Show EXPIRED:Mon 28 January 2013 - Fri 01 February 20138.00pm, Fri 5.30pm New Alexandra Theatre Station St Birmingham, West Midlands www.alexandratheatre.org.uk £10.00 - 35.00 Related News Tracey Beaker star in StokeHanley's Regent Theatre has announced that Dani Harmer is to take the role of Janet in Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show when it… Fortieth anniversary production of Richard O'Brien's cult musical extravaganzaHook up your fishnets, tighten your corsets and prepare to Do The Time Warp Again - The Rocky Horror Show's returning to the Midlands! Originally opened in 1973 at the Royal Court, Richard O Brien's cult production tells the tale of the straight-laced Brad and the deliciously corruptible Janet, who arrive at the castle of the alien transvestite Frank 'N Furter and witness the birth of the monster, Rocky. In the meantime they take the audience through a selection of love-them-or-loathe-them musical numbers, such as Sweet Transvestite, Damn It Janet and The Time Warp. Great fun's a guarantee - particularly if you get in the spirit of things and attend the show dressed in your very best stockings and suspenders (as many patrons do!)! Nearby


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Sensors 2012, 12(7), 9530-9550; doi:10.3390/s120709530
Synthetic Biomimetic Membranes and Their Sensor Applications
Received: 9 May 2012 / Revised: 5 June 2012 / Accepted: 16 June 2012 / Published: 11 July 2012
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Abstract: Synthetic biomimetic membranes provide biological environments to membrane proteins. By exploiting the central roles of biological membranes, it is possible to devise biosensors, drug delivery systems, and nanocontainers using a biomimetic membrane system integrated with functional proteins. Biomimetic membranes can be created with synthetic lipids or block copolymers. These amphiphilic lipids and polymers self-assemble in an aqueous solution either into planar membranes or into vesicles. Using various techniques developed to date, both planar membranes and vesicles can provide versatile and robust platforms for a number of applications. In particular, biomimetic membranes with modified lipids or functional proteins are promising platforms for biosensors. We review recent technologies used to create synthetic biomimetic membranes and their engineered sensors applications.
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Not so long ago there was a popular song titled "September Song." It went something like "and the days dwindle down to a precious few, September, November." It, of course, referred to seasons of the year. It could as well have referred to seasons of life.
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If you've spent much time on this site you know I don't endorse many products but I found one that I really like and was pleased when it exceeded my expectations. I think this is a great affordable product that every coach would want to use as part of their practices.
You can think of the Quick Hitter as a replacement for your soft-toss stations. It's a light weight pole with tongs on the one end to pick up a baseball and a handle at the other that controls the tongs which allows you to deliver the baseball with a short accurate toss directly into the hitting zone.
Simply put, I've found the Quick Hitter to provide a better way to practice soft-toss. The big advantage is the ball is delivered out in front of the hitter, instead of being tossed in from a distance and at an angle as with traditional soft-toss.
This new approach for soft-toss teaches a hitter to develop a more compact and level swing, while at the same time helps prevent a big wind up or over striding. Also, with traditional soft-toss, the angle of the toss may often result in a hitter looping their swing to get the bat head around to the ball that comes from the outside in. The Quick Hitter helps solve this problem by keeping the ball directly out in front of the batter.
The Quick Hitter also allows a player to work on hitting different pitch locations because it's able to provide an accurate delivery of the ball more consistently. If you have ever tried working on an inside pitch location with soft-toss, the ball has to come all the way across from the other side of the plate. It's just not that easy to place the ball in the desired location of the strike zone, not to mention repeating that same inside pitch location over and over.
Unless you have an screen setup for your soft-toss station, the Quick Hitter is much safer for the person running the drill. They can deliver the ball out in front of the hitter while staying safely on the side. Also, the Quick Hitter eliminates all the bending and kneeling that's associated with traditional soft-toss.
Learn more at the Quick Hitter Web Site.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- As they walked away from the bustling Friday evening traffic of Ga. Highway 124, several dozen parishioners sought reflection and contemplation among a quiet calm only interrupted by crunching leaves and gravel.
Members of First United Methodist Church of Lawrenceville hosted a Good Friday service called "Walk to the Cross" on a peaceful campground where about 65 people participated in a prayer service and re-enactment of the crucifixion.
The church has put on the event for about 10 years, although not consecutively, said Lisa Johnson, the church's director of spiritual formation.
"The campground itself is inviting for a place of peace, a place of quiet, especially if you've been in traffic all day," Johnson said. "The minute you turn down, something in your soul just loosens."
Ann Osteen, a member of the drama group at the church, acted as Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross and spoke emotionally of the pain and suffering that Jesus endured during the crucifixion. Osteen said Jesus' voice was almost silenced, and his eyes that once saw the best in people, now saw the worst in them.
"The man who once turned water into wine cannot quench his own thirst," Osteen said during the re-enactment.
Alongside Jesus, who was acted by Will Goodwin, were Marvin Willis and Ethan Goodwin, who depicted the thieves at the crucifixion.
"Everyone knows he was God in human form," Will Goodwin said. "I tried to present him in a broken and exhausted, near-death state. To make it clear the sacrifice he made to make to reach out to his people. To remind us all that he made the sacrifice, and this is a reminder of that sacrifice, and the thankfulness that we should all have in our lives."
Barry Blakley, a seminary student and missions intern at the church, read from Mark 15:21-47 after Johnson opened the service.
"From a Biblical sense, the time from Friday to the resurrection, a lot of people, if they do the introspection on the trial, pain, humiliation, all that Jesus endured on Friday, it gives them a greater appreciation for his sacrifice," Blakley said. "His resurrection then becomes more of a joyous event. The contrast from grief in the morning, to joy, I think that's sometimes one of the best ways to appreciate what Jesus did for us."
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eagle9857 1 year, 11 months ago
Did you really just try to correlate the crucifixion of Jesus to the fact that our Hispanic brothers and sisters are having a difficult time getting state benefits and/or driver's licenses? The mumbo-jumbo you typed is politically-centered and has nothing to do with the crucifixion.
The crucifixion was Jesus dying for the sins of all people on Earth. In no way, shape or form has anyone seeking a driver's license or state benefits received that type of punishment. You're trying to make a correlation between two things that are nowhere near each other.
As far as your statements, you're only giving a piece of the story. It's not aimed at all immigrants, it's only illegal immigrants. Tell the entire story, not just part of the story.
Haughton 1 year, 11 months ago
eagle9857 was replying to comments that were removed after the fact. The first poster's comments were off topic and highly inappropriate.


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ROCHESTER — Organizers of Start-Up 2014 are giving new businesses an extra week, as well as extra incentive to enter the second annual regional competition. Entries will be accepted through the end of the business day on Tuesday, April 15. The prize package now totals $31,000.
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My favorite of our free crochet angel patterns, this crochet angel comes complete with glitter halo and button face. The crochet wings are quick and easy to make. Make an ornament, pin or fridge magnet with this angel crochet pattern. This pattern comes to from M.E.H. Designs.
- Yarn: Scraps of white and gold
- Crochet hook: size 5 mm (US H)
- 1 2-hole button
- 1 fancy button or beads
- 10 inch length of ribbon
- 1 gold glitter stem
- White glue, or a hot glue gun
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- Chain 7, single crochet in the 2nd stitch from the hook, and in each stitch across the row. Chain 1 and turn.
- Single crochet in each stitch across the row, chain 1 and turn.
- Repeat row 2 for 8 more rows. Fasten off. Fold in half to find the center, and tie a short piece of yarn tightly to gather and form the shape of wings.
Make the body
- Chain 3, 12 double crochet in the 2nd stitch from the hook.
- Slip stitch to join and fasten off. (Circle made which is the body).
- Cut a 2 inch length of the ribbon, tie a scrap of yarn in the center.
- Twist a 4 inch length of glitter stem to form a halo.
- Overlap the body at the bottom of the wings slightly and glue.
- Glue a ribbon hanger on the back if using as an ornament.
- Glue a magnet to the back or a pinback.
- Position the button, using the two holes as eyes, and glue.
- Glue a button or beads on the belly.
- Glue the 2 inch ribbon bow at the chin.
- Tuck the glitter stem behind the button, and glue.
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This is absolutely the cutest angel. I loved making them. I gave for an ornament on gifts and packages. It turns out adorable and so easy. I make several at one time. So I would make 5 wings, 5 bodies etc.... works perfect. Thanks for sharing this pattern. I loved it !!
I know I'm a year too late but I love this pattern. It was so easy to make. I used gold cord for the wings instead of yarn and they were beautiful.
I made this angel last year for several people I work with. It was a big hit and so easy and fun to make. I am going to make some more this year for packages. Love it!
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"I wouldn't underestimate [Obama's] ability to get re-elected," the former Republican Governor tells the site. "People forget that in an off-election year, you have great volatility in turnout, and we had much higher turnout numbers than Democrats."
In fact, Bush even has some election strategy advice for Obama.
"We should trust people interacting amongst themselves, investing in their own dreams, to far more prosperity than all of this command-and-control environment that exists in Washington," Bush told NewsMax. "If the president would just embrace that idea, which is a very American idea, he could get re-elected probably."
While Bush is clearly advising Obama to take some Republican ideas on the economy, it's refreshing to see a GOP elder talk rationally about 2012 without any soundbites about how Obama is doomed to be a one-term failure.
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Remission induction in acute myeloid leukemia
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Inducing a complete remission (CR) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia is a prerequisite to long-term disease control with subsequent post-remission consolidation chemotherapy or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The use of 7 days of infusional cytarabine and 3 days of daunorubicin or idarubicin (7 + 3) has become the standard of care to induce CR, based on clinical trials conducted in the 1980s. Efforts to improve on the CR rate seen with the 7 + 3 regimen that translates into better overall patient survival have been disappointing. Here we review recent phase III studies of novel induction strategies that show promise in increasing the rate of CR and improving disease outcome.
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- Title
- Remission induction in acute myeloid leukemia
- Journal
International Journal of Hematology
Volume 96, Issue 2 , pp 164-170
- Cover Date
- 2012-08-01
- 10.1007/s12185-012-1121-y
- Print ISSN
- 0925-5710
- Online ISSN
- 1865-3774
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Remission
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Eytan M. Stein (1)
- Martin S. Tallman (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Leukemia Service, 1275 York Avenue, Box 380, New York, NY, 10065, USA


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A key figure in achieving Apple's ground-breaking retail store concept is now consulting with Microsoft on that company's retail stores, the first of which are expected to open this fall. George W. Blankenship, 56, joined Apple in 2000, and his 20 years of experience as Gap Inc.'s vice president of real estate strategy helped fulfill the original concept developed by Apple Sr. V-P Retail Ron Johnson–position the stores at upscale, high-traffic locations to attract customers. As first reported by TechFlash, Microsoft has hired Blankenship to provide consulting services for its retail team, although the company refuses to say exactly what work he is performing. The consulting arrangement is probably meant to work around the non-competitive agreement (NCA) that Apple executives routinely sign when leaving the company. Much of the data that Blankenship might use to pick Microsoft store locations is held by third parties, so he won't be handicapped by any NCA. As well, Blankenship's assistance to Microsoft won't create any peril for Apple, since after eight years of developing new Apple stores, the formula is hardly proprietary.
Blankenship was among the earliest of Apple's retail store employees, arriving shortly after Johnson. He was there when Johnson began to clarify his vision of how the stores would operate and what they would look like, and where they should be located.
Johnson's decision on locations flew in the face of the best computer retailer at the time, Gateway. At its peak in 1999, Gateway had over 240 retail stores. But to save money, the company located them in inexpensive, stand-alone spaces that were usually far from shopping malls and other busy locations. The locations meant that each location average just 250 visitors a week, according to Johnson. He rejected the notion that inexpensive leases were necessary to help a company's financials, deciding instead that the high-traffic of upscale malls would generate more sales, fully justifying the additional expense.
In a 2006 speech to an investment group, Johnson recalled the early planning: "If you want to enrich their lives, you can't be in a parking lot, off a highway. You gotta be where they live their life. You gotta be right where they work, where they play, where they live, where they shop. The only way to enrich their life is to be part of their life. They've got to walk 10 feet to your store, not drive the car 10 miles. That's what enriching lives would take."
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"Hmmmmm…..why might I have been carrying my gun? Well, when you have someone around who is putting your life in danger, and making you be around shady drug deals, you might think having a gun around is a smart thing. At the station, they just said, 'We are going to keep the gun and we can't give it back.' At least they did not charge me with anything in regards to the gun. But they had enough already. I was being charged with obstruction of official business — because of their coming out for the 'kidnapping'. Then I had an empty pill bottle that the boyfriend had asked me to carry one of his prescriptions in, so they threw a drug charge on me. That one had me a little outraged since I don't even touch drugs and out of the two of us, I end up with the drug charge!
"Then comes the big problem. When they went in my purse looking for my I.D., which is the first thing you see when you open my wallet, they found some of my money and also someone else's. (That was why it was separated!) Because when someone – God, I wonder who? – would go on their drug binges, this person had me hold their money. Well, the money in question was not real! Yes, indeed: counterfeit!
"Now just what I need: another all night interrogation! So, naturally, that meant the Secret Service got called in. Now, I must say those guys were about the only people that acted professionally in this whole ordeal. But, of course without a lawyer there was really nothing I could say to them to straighten things out either. So there was another charge. Since I had my lap top in the hotel room they took it to examine it. This, of course, stressed me a bit since the boyfriend had been on my computer and I know he was curious about this type money since he had been paid in or somehow obtained this bad money. So I just had to hope he had not done anything stupid on there. I guess he did not since they ended up giving the computer back months later.
"Well, then it was off to jail for the night—by now about 5am—until my family could make the drive up from the Atlanta, Ga, area to bond me out. Hmmm….I got strip searched while the boyfriend did not. Then came the inappropriate comments, again, while waiting for a female officer to come—the guys saying 'If I was female, I'd do it'. While kind of amusing it was still not right, saying, 'She's going to be full service.' Well, I quickly reminded them of my latex allergy. That, you might say, saved my ass! I really do have a latex allergy so that would have been a disaster. When the lady proceeded to do my search all she did was question me about my breast implants.
"Then, after the rest of the processing, I was taken to a glass room for awhile with two women who appeared to be sleeping off a drunk. They lead another group of women by, each one lunging at the glass toward me. There were two other glass rooms full of women they made no notice of. So I can only assume someone put them up to this.
"A little later, I was taken to a room by myself, if I had not asked for food I would not have gotten any. In my room there, of course, was a sink and toilet. I really needed to wash my face because I still had on make-up from the night before. They were nice enough to enclose me in a room with only a working toilet — no running water from the sink. I can honestly say it is the only time I have ever had to wash my face with toilet water! I thought that even in places like this you are supposed to be afforded running water—this is not some Middle East prison!
"There were some really nifty sounds being piped into the intercom in my room (I have no way of knowing if it was just to my room or not), but it sounded like either a rape or at the very least a very demanding sexual act. Several times I may add. Late afternoon, I got out. I went to the hotel and was never so glad to see my bunny as I was then. I was really worried about her because they had threatened to take her to the pound. Once I was out I had so wanted to go straight to a news station to tell them of the mistreatment, but fear stopped me. That night I had to stay around and appear in court the following day. When I tried to go get something to eat that evening I was crying so hard that when the waiter tried to take my order that someone else with me had to place it for me. I could not believe I was going though all this and having to endure all this just because of a misunderstanding between two men in my life. I have learned to keep corruption from both sides of the law out of my life.
"The ordeal lasted months. The state tried to have a grand jury to indict us for extortion. But once they realized the client would not be a willing witness they dropped it. I don't know why I was being railroaded. It was like they were on a witch hunt. The client and I have stayed in touch and he told me all the things the prosecutor was saying about me to him. Some of these people are so career-driven they will screw over anyone to get a conviction.
"I don't do drugs or make bad money. For months, I was tormented with a court date hanging over my head. I told my lawyer the whole story and he did not try to get them to drop the charges, he just let it go. I have never, ever, wanted to kill myself but thought seriously of it in those months. If I had to spend any amount of time in that place they refer to as the "justice center", I'm certain I may have taken my life. I could not have endured the things they were implying would be done to me if they had me there.
"From December to May I was not able to do much because of all the stress and worry. It ended up with the drug charge getting dropped and me getting fined. It could have ended a lot worse and I'm pretty certain they wanted it to. All this stuff made me look guilty of things I was not truly guilty of. I really could not have written a better movie plot. It's like one of those movies when the viewer knows the reasons for things and knows the person is not guilty even though it appears they are."
Get the rest of the interview in part four of THE LONG LAST YEAR OF LILITH STABS>>>
Posted on December 21, 2004 in Interviews by Mike Watt
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