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Our Neile Jones met up with people from all over and she asked them where they were from.
Click on the video to hear where about their travels and who they are rooting for!
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS— Its getting to be crunch time for fans stocking up for the big game. Chips, drinks, and pretty much any salty snack is expected to be gobbled up tomorrow.
Arkansas' newest Senator speaks about his first vote, the Keystone XL pipeline, imposing new sanctions on Iran, and the threat posed by the terror group ISIS.
BENTONVILLE-- Nearly 95% of the time a child is abused they know the offender, often making it difficult to recognize something bad has happened.
Rogers, AR - Dozens of economists gathered for the 21st Business Forecast Luncheon.
Animals across America are making their Super Bowl predictions ahead of Sunday's big game.
FAYETTEVILLE -- The hospital is expanding its services and building a new addition.
BENTON COUNTY -- Next week, a section of Interstate 49 in Benton County will be reduced to one lane as crews work on the Highway 264 overpass
KNWA -- Meet today's Super Weather Kid!
FAYETTEVILLE -- Bo's Blessings volunteers are helping recycle 8,000 wreaths that were placed on graves of fallen military service men and women over the holidays.
FORT SMITH -- US Marshals have arrested Terry Smith, a level four sex offender in Fort Smith.
BENTONVILLE -- The Bentonville Public School District has released a statement on the Ali Matar verdict Friday afternoon.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Happy Hollow Elementary School in Fayetteville will soon have a new teaching tool.
SPRINGDALE -- An update on a story you saw first here on KNWA news. All of the puppies rescued in a massive pitbull rescue from Springdale have been adopted.
FAYETTEVILLE -- A note sent to all University of Arkansas instructors and teaching assistants warns of increased flu activity on campus.
BENTONVILLE -- After deliberating for a little less than a day, a jury found Ali Matar, Jr. guilty on one count of rape and not guilty on two counts of sexual assault.
BLUE RIDGE, GA -- A Walmart greeter can once again tell customers to have a "blessed day." The company originally told him he couldn't do that. But a crowd of supporters changed the company's mind.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Multiple Romney aides confirmed that text of his planned remarks during an 11 a.m. call with supporters posted online by radio host Hugh Hewitt are accurate.
FAYETTEVILLE, AR -- Heart disease is the leading cause of death, globally, accounting for more than 17-million deaths per year, that's according to the American Heart Association.
MAGNOLIA, AR -- It's been four months since real estate agent Beverly Carter's murder. As the investigation played out, many Arkansans recognized the similarities between Carter's case and a decades old case in Magnolia.
LITTLE ROCK, AR - Interim Superintendent Dexter Suggs met with the director of the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) one day after a state takeover.
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Dressed in all black and holding candles, dozens of Little Rock students and teachers took to the steps of the Capitol Thursday evening.
CONWAY, AR -- The University of Central Arkansas is looking into establishing an optometry school in Arkansas.
It's time to meet our Pets of the Week!
Fayetteville, AR - It was a special day for baseball fans in Northwest Arkansas as a handful of royals dropped by the area.
FAYETTEVILLE, AR--Volunteers and advocates are hoping to bring homelessness in Northwest Arkansas, out of the shadows, by canvassing shelters and soup kitchens for the next 24 hours.
BENTONVILLE -- Police arrested Bentonville School employee Matar in May of 2014, in connection with raping a 5-year-old student at R.E. Baker Elementary.
ROGERS -- Two nonprofits teamed up to host the summit at the Embassy Suites in Rogers.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Craig Goettsch, 53, of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for Possession of Child Pornography.
(KNWA via NBCNews) -- Cuban President Raul Castro has demanded that the United States hand back its Guantanamo Bay military base - an apparent bargaining tool in the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the countries.
The year is 1565 and in the first New World, Spanish Florida is taking shape. It's really only been very recently that the general public has been made aware that St. Augustine precedes Plymouth Rock and Jamestown.
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- The largest school district in Arkansas is now under control of the state and the entire elected school board was fired.
(KNWA via NBCNews) -- After years of political wrangling, the Republican controlled Senate on Thursday passed its first priority of the new Congress: the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
PHOENIX - With the big game getting closer, more and more fans are coming to Arizona to hang out and have fun. One place a lot of people are checking out is the Gridiron Glory exhibit at the Arizona Science Center.
PHOENIX - The Vince Lombardi Trophy is the symbol for greatness in the NFL, but for the players, winning the Super Bowl means much more than just a trophy.
LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas Department of Health reports another person has died of flu-related illness, bringing the total to 31 since September 2014.
PEA RIDGE, AR -- A new partnership between the National Park Service, Arkansas Fish & Game Commission and the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative will establish the first ever bobwhite quail restoration area to be located on National Park Service land.
LITTLE ROCK -- A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) BioVentures startup company, InterveXion Therapeutics LLC, has received two federal grants totaling $14.5 million for development of drug therapies that can help methamphetamine drug abusers break their addiction.
KNWA via TODAY -- Pinterest has spoken: DIY cleaners are one of the biggest home trends the visual bookmarking site expects for 2015.
BENTONVILLE -- Earlier this month, Academy Award winning actor Geena Davis announced the launch of the Bentonville Film Festival (BFF).
KNWA -- Following the launch of NBCUniversal's launch of the TV Everywhere, the company has created "Super Stream Sunday" - allowing viewers 11 continuous hours of NBC streaming content on February 1, without having to log-in.
GREENBELT, MD -- NASA will launch a new Earth observing satellite Thursday morning, that will take stock of the water hidden just beneath your feet.
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- One bill dealing with Arkansas' Private Option medicaid expansion has been approved by a senate committee.
KNWA TODAY via NBC -- According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a child dies every two weeks when a TV, piece of furniture, or an appliance falls on them.
FAYETTEVILLE, AR -- Members of the the American League Champion, Kansas City Royals will be making a stop in Northwest Arkansas on Thursday.
(CNN) Advertisers aren't the only ones spending big bucks for Super Bowl Sunday. Americans will spend more than $14 billion on their big game festivities.
JACKSONVILLE, AR -- While many of you begin to prepare taxes, scammers are brainstorming on new ways to profit off of your responsibility.
National Mentoring Month highlights value of BBBS of NWA.
An Arkansas legislative panel failed to advance legislation that would have ended the dual recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and former Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Three people were sentenced to a total of 32 years on drug trafficking charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work
The Social Work Doctoral program, established in 1986, extends the tradition of educating students skilled in clinical research, scholarship, and teaching with the Jesuit ideals of service to others and commitment to social justice as its foundation. The PhD program prepares students for leadership roles in diverse practice and academic arenas.
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Visitation was from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, December 26, 2012, at Ray Funeral Home.
Celebration of Life Services were at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 27, 2012, at Ray Funeral Home. Interment followed in Delta Heights Memorial Gardens in Cleveland.
Mrs. Hart was born June 27, 1967, to R.G. Leopard and Louise Vanderford. On June 18, 1988, she married Bobby Joe Hart. She loved to play pool and computer games, could work on cars, and enjoyed her animals. Everyone loved her pecan pies and pineapple upside down cakes. She was always willing to help those in need. All you had to do was ask.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Joe Hart Sr.
She is survived by her parents, R.G. and Louise Leopard of Boyle; sons, Bobby Joe Hart Jr., of Boyle, Bradley James Hart of Boyle; sisters, Pamela Martinez of Memphis, Tenn., Mary Garcia of Doddsville, Ella Gilbert of Eupora and Nora Bullard of Boyle; brother, R.G. Leopard Jr. (Bully) of Boyle; two grandchildren, Stormy Ann Marie Green and Taylor Lane Stone.
Pallbearers will be R.G. Leopard Jr., Mark McNatt, Daniel McNatt, Orlando Taylor, Jesus Garcia, John Luke Garcia, Mario Lopez and B.J. Irby.
Honorary Pallbearers Bobby Joe Hart Jr., Bradley James Hart and Jerry Irby.
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Material: Leather
Brand: Rebecca Minkoff
Origin: Imported
Rebecca Minkoff launched her handbag line with one great idea: the Morning After Bag (or M.A.B., as she's nicknamed it). From that first roomy day-to-night style in 2004, her line has exploded to include shoes, clothes, clutches and more, all with Rebecca Minkoff's signature quirky-yet-practical sensibility. The bags' cheeky names (like "Flirty" and "Love Spell") and of-the-minute materials have made the handbag line a hit with stars, from Jenna Elfman (for whom the M.A.B. was designed!) to Agyness Deyn and Leighton Meester – and her newer ready-to-wear and shoes lines are inspiring the same level of devotion among her fans.


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Wireless (Wi-Fi) Internet
We offer free wireless internet to our shoppers at this Simon mall. Any shopper with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet or smartphone can easily log onto the Wi-Fi network. All shoppers have to do is open their web browser or select "Simon WiFi" (the SSID name) from their available list of wireless networks to get to the Simon Malls Wi-Fi landing page. All shoppers that choose to use the Wi-Fi network at this mall must agree to Simon Wi-Fi Terms & Conditions of Use prior to using this free service. If there are any issues or questions, shoppers and tenants should contact the Wi-Fi network technical support hotline at (888) 726-5930 for assistance.
Foreign Currency Online Ordering with Travelex
Order your travel money online for convenient home delivery. Did you know that some Simon mall locations also include retail Travelex stores for your convenience. Travelex is the world's largest retail foreign currency exchange specialist, with over 1000 stores around the world. We can provide you with over 75 foreign currencies as well as a Cash Passport that can be pre-loaded with either Pounds or Euros and includes chip & PIN technology, a must when traveling in Europe. To get started, visit Travelex now.
Indoor Device Charging Stations
You can charge your phone while you are shopping. Conveniently located Device Charging Stations allow visitors to charge their phones, tablets, and other communication devices while enjoying the mall. The Charging Station features comfortable seating - and is the perfect spot to rest and recharge!
Simon Giftcard®
Give the gift of shopping with a Simon Giftcard, available at Simon Guest Services® in denominations ranging from $20 to $500. There are no fees after purchase and the funds do not expire. The Simon Giftcard can be used anywhere Visa or American Express are accepted. See cardholder agreement for complete terms and conditions.
A Travelex ATM is located in the Food Court/main entrance.
Children's Play Area
Take a shopping break with the kids in the Cleveland Clinic Children's Play Area, which is located in Center Court across from Starbuck's. The perfect place to rest and relax while the children climb on one-of-a-kind soft sculptures. Please...food and drink are not allowed in the play area. The Simon Kidgits Club and play area are locally sponsored by Cleveland Clinic Children's.
iPhone® & Android™ App
The Simon Malls Mobile App can help you find your favorite stores, dining and entertainment options at the Simon Mall nearest you. You'll also be able to check out the latest deals and events available at your favorite mall right from your phone. And there are many more features designed to enhance your shopping experience including mall maps & gift card balance check. Download the free app from the App Store℠ for iOS powered devices or from Google Play™ for Android powered devices today. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google Inc.
Lost and Found

Lost something? Found something? Visit Simon Guest Services near Center Court for lost and found items, or contact Security at 330-867-7310 or Simon Guest Services at 330-867-1556.

Mall Walking

 Summit Mall is a great place to get some exercise. For your convenience, the mall doors open at 7:30am Monday-Saturday, and Sundays at 8:30am. Holiday hours may vary.

We are always looking for ways to better serve the community and we are excited that our partnership with Medina Hospital will help us to continue fulfilling that mission. The partnership will include additions in the mall such as new mile marker signs throughout the concourses to help walkers track their distance and healthy walking tips to reinforce fitness goals. Medina Hospital will also offer a registered mall walker a one-time promotional gift and contribute to a monthly mall walking program newsletter. You may register at Simon Guest Services during regular mall hours. In addition, Medina Hospital will host events for walkers focused on health and education. These events will include activities such as free health screenings and other educational opportunities. These new features will simply be an added benefit to the existing mall walking program. Partnerships like this allow us to provide an even better experience for the many walkers that rely on the mall to provide them a safe and temperature controlled place to exercise!

Mall parking is convenient and free. Handicapped parking is available at all mall entrances.

Public Transportation
Metro bus service is located outside of the Firestone Entrance. Schedules are available at Simon Guest Services located in Center Court.

Soft Seating
Summit Mall now has several soft seating areas throughout the mall.
SmartCarte strollers are located in the Macy*s and Dillard's South Concourses. The rental fee is $5 with a $1 refund given upon return of the stroller.

Wheelchairs (Complimentary)

Free wheelchairs are available at Simon Guest Services. All that is needed is a valid drivers license or picture ID. They are borrowed on a first come first serve basis.


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Alexx: welcome! Tara can help you with the side effects and what to expect on clomid. She is familiar with it. PCOS does make TTC very difficult, my sister has it.
Alix: I did the chinese chart (parents.com has the test) for Layla, I got girl 3 times. Lol. it was right Do you take your prenatals at night or morning? during the day they can make you sick, but at night they dont.
afm- nothing new. my neighbors got the boot and the apartment is already subleased. a girl with a 14 month old baby, her and layla were playing yesterday..so HOPEFULLY.. i'll have some peace and quiet!
Hey ladies! It's been busy busy... we had a three day holiday (New Year + Shabbat) last week, this week's Shabbat (Saturday) is the Day of Atonement, and then we have Sukkot. Whew!
School started, we moved...basically not much time to do anything!
How are you all doing? I guess to know that I will have to read the end of August through till now, huh?
I think I have a flu..
Ah, and we are filling out adoption papers. We spoke about adopting (we were hoping 3-4 kids in addition to our 10 biological kids) while we were dating and with the big age gap we were saying it's a shame we don't have an adoptive kid to fill it (I was for adopting no matter what age, DH was always saying we should fill gaps so each kid will have their own place). So I printed the forms, we are filling them out, and we will see what happens. It can take a long time + babies under 2 usually go to childless couples, so we would probably get an older kid when it happens. No problem except I want Shimon to stay the eldest - it's his right and it would also look funny for a couple married 4 years to have a 5 year old. Again, we will see. I am really excited, though.
Did I tell you that I went to a fertility doctor who specializes in high FSH? So he gave me progesterone+E2+FSH+LH and also AMH - apparently AMH has to be done privately so I have to go back and get another referral for it. I did it on CD4 - FSH was 11.17 (down from 2 months ago - CD3 11.88), everything else was up - progesterone slightly, E2 almost doubled, LH don't remember.. dunno, I figure the doctor will and maybe it makes sense because it was CD4 and not CD3. At any rate, I haven't O'd since those tests (CD19 now) so what-ever. I have another appointment on the 8th of October. Hopefully I'll be pregnant by then. Wondering if I O'd this cycle (my temp was so high today that DH and I were going to just discard it, but I figure we'll see what happens tomorrow - could be because I'm sick and could be because we moved and my "high" temps are now my pre-O temps, only time will tell I guess) and if I'm going to O. Kind of hoping for twins but starting a new job + possible bedrest = bad, so I'll just pray for one healthy baby and another surprise a year or so later.
Alexx- Welcome to the group! Sorry to hear you've had such difficulties TTC. My DH and I have been TTC for 4 years in January although we have no diagnosis unless maybe some sort of ovulatoty disorder. I've taken clomid many many many times. Everyone is a little different with how it effects them. For me I get hotflashes which are uncomfortable, but manageable. Have they talked about maybe trying you on Metformin for your PCOS? That is a pretty common medication to treat with as well as clomid. A friend of mine has PCOS and got pregnant doing that. Hope that helps.
Brie- Finally, I'm glad they did something about those neighbors that were causing such issues! How great that Layla will have a new buddy close by.
Alix- Glad your new job is going well! The doctor won't be able to do anything for you is you have a head cold which is viral unless the symptoms go on for too long. Drink lots of water and try t get some rest! Hope you feel better soon!
Isra- HI! Seems like it's been forever. You've been busy! Your temp didn't dip too far. I wonder what it'll look like a few days from now. I'm glad that your doctor is taking your struggles seriously and checking different levels. How exciting at the prospects of adopting. Hopefully everything will work out smoothly for you guys. Boy, that's a lot of kiddos! Very courageous.
AFM- Been having vivid dreams again and the hotflashes are letting up some, so I think that I might be getting close to Oing. Temp was way way down today although I woke really early and had gotten up to the bathroom when I took it.
Thanks for all the warm welcomes. So how many kids does everyone have?
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Like new. Only about 2 hours on them, not nearly broken in. Im located right near Vietnam in Milford,MA. Asking $75 ConUS.
The Comp's pro-inspired fit, Body Geometry ergonomics, and affordability make it the best performing shoe in its category.
- Lightweight injection composite sole with sturdy co-molded lugs for hike-a-bike traction: 5.0 stiffness index
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- Low-profile and lightweight M-Lock SL buckle for secure closure
- Welded protection in high-wear areas
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- Forming committees to help take up some of the slack following the demise of the California Tree Fruit Agreement;
- Helping persuade the governor to veto a heat-standards bill that the industry believes would be unfair to agriculture;
- Arranging educational farm tours for legislators; and
- Contributing $40,000 to successfully target two state races in the November election.
Besides Zaninovich and Pandol, officers for the 2013-14 fiscal year are David Jackson of Family Tree Farms, Reedley, first vice chair; and Harold McClarty, owner of HMC Farms, Kingsburg, second vice chair.
New members of the board of directors are:
- Bo Brett, Mountain View Fruit Sales, Reedley;
- Mike Jackson, Kingsburg Orchards, Kingsburg;
- Blair Richardson, Rivermaid Trading Co./WesPak Inc., Dinuba;
- Matt Surber, M. Caratan Inc., Delano; and
- Russ Tavlan, Moonlight Cos., Reedley.
The league honored Herbert Kaprielian, owner of Reedley-based CRJ Farming Co. LP, with a lifetime achievement award. The award only has been presented once before — to Sarkis Sarabian of Sarabian Farms, Sanger, Calif.


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Show everyone that you are a die-hard race fan with this Ford Racing one-sided 3' x 5' flag from B.S.I. Products. It is made of durable polyester and includes two heavy-duty metal grommets for easy hanging. The banner is boldly adorned with colorful graphics.
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I have to admit I was very lucky growing up to have a little sister who was pretty bearable (at least most of the time). However I definitely could have used a personal assistant.
I wish that THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: JUNIOR EDITION had been around when I was a teen!
Check out this fabulous You Tube Video and you too will know why.
What teenage woe do you wish would be included in the next THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: JUNIOR EDITION?
Ben Watts, the photographer behind LICKSHOT: A PHOTO SCRAPBOOK (one of the hidden hipster gems of the fall 2009 season in my opinion!), interviewed by the New York Times fashion blog The Moment:
Before we were celebrities—or before we are anything—we are people. We have character or we develop character—we are a character. Each and everyone of us is and I like to think that comes off in photographs regardless of whether that person is a celebrity or not. Everybody's on equal footing in this journal. To me, I put them in my book because I found the image striking. And it's because of their personality and who they are rather than sort of what they've achieved as far as their celebrity pecking order.
And if you like the sound of LICKSHOT, you might also want to check out Ben's previous (equally awesome) book BIG UP.
OK, so I've closed our classic typeface poll and we have ties for the first place typefaces: Caslon and Garamond are your top choices for serif typefaces; Gill Sans and Helvetica are your top choices for san serifs.
Thanks to everyone who voted - good choices!
The bumper TYPEFACE: CLASSIC TYPOGRAPHY FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN by Tamye Riggs (published by PAPress) which provided the lists of typefaces for the polls is available now.
We also have some other really interesting new typography and graphic design books:
LETTERING AND TYPE: CREATING LETTERS AND DESIGNING TYPEFACES by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals is a useful how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, and exercises.
1000 FONTS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FINDING THE RIGHT TYPEFACE by Graham Davis, Robin Dodd and Keith Martin is a handy little book displaying the entire alphabet and numerals for 1000 unique typefaces, making it easy to find the perfect one for your project.
GRAPHIC DESIGN A USER'S MANUAL by Adrian Shaughnessy (with a foreword by Michael Bierut, author of the awesome 79 SHORT ESSAYS ON DESIGN) is an insider's guide to the complexities of current graphic design practice and thinking.
And if you're not a graphic designer, but you need to do some design, this might just be the book for you:
GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR NONDESIGNERS by Tony Seddon and Jane Waterhouse, illustrated by Rick Landers, has 20 step-by-step projects for designing everything from websites to business cards to T-shirts, each accompanied by a clear and concise explanation of the basic principles of graphic design—including the effective use of space, color, and type.
Finally! Annie Barrows' sixth Ivy + Bean, IVY AND BEAN: DOOMED DANCE, has been released!
After begging their parents for ballet lessons, Ivy and Bean finally get what they want ... well, not exactly.
Much to their surprise, it turns out ballet doesn't include karate chops and roundhouse kicks! The girls have no interest in learning how to dance gracefully, but they promised their parents they would finish the entire ballet course! So when it comes time for Ivy and Bean to participate in the ocean-themed class recital, the girls must figure out a way to get out of it without breaking their promises…
And it's not just us that loves Ivy + Bean: Teachers and students do to!
Also Available:
IVY AND BEAN BOUND TO BAD (new in paperback)
Click here for Chronicle Books' Ivy + Bean mini-site
Need something for the kids to do while you're busy cooking turkey this weekend?
Chronicle Books have posted a free craft project on their blog, excerpted from ARTFUL JEWELRY by Jo Packham.
The book offers 11 jewelry projects inspired by famous works of art: earrings that capture the soft Spring colors of Botticelli's La Primavera, a necklace celebrating the swirly sky of Van Gogh's The Starry Night, and teardrop pearl earrings straight out of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. The kit even includes materials - beads, embroidery floss, earring posts, and more - to make 6 of the projects straight away.
Visit the Chronicle Books blog to download instructions and print-ready templates to make Bewitching Beaded Necklace, was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, which he painted around 1490 when "long, ropy strands of pearls, stones, or beads were very much in vogue."
In support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, John Anderson author of STAND BY HER: A BREAST CANCER GUIDE FOR MEN and his beautiful wife, breast cancer survivor, Sharon Rapoport were interviewed on The Today Show by Meredith Vieira.
John's mother, wife, sister and a close family friend all had breast cancer. Unable to find a good source for men on how to help the women in his life battle this horrible disease, John decided to write the book himself.
A few of his tips he discussed in the interview are:
-Follow don't lead: Men like to take charge of things in their lives. This is her journey. You need to follow her lead.
-Show your love: During this difficult battle more than ever she needs to feel and see your devotion.
-Set up a good support system: Not just for her but also for yourself. You will need people that you can talk to about your fears.
-Take a cancer leave: Cancer overtakes people's lives. Sometimes you just need to take a step back and have a minute, an hour or even a day that is cancer free.
Here is the full interview:
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Are you looking for fun and inspiring Thanksgiving dinner ideas? Then take a wander down to your local bookstore and pick up a copy of Diane Morgan's newest book THE NEW THANKSGIVING TABLE.
Here's one of the many yummy recipes found in her book. This one is for Spiced Pumpkin Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Try it out. You won't be disappointed!
Softened butter for greasing cake pans
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the pan
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3 large eggs, beaten
1 cup canola or vegetable oil
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups canned unsweetened pumpkin pur�e
1 cup lightly packed sweetened flaked coconut
3/4 cup canned crushed pineapple (do not drain)
1/3 cup dried currantsCream Cheese Frosting
2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, at room temperature
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 tablespoons canned unsweetened pumpkin pur�e
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extractPosition a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350�F. Butter two 9-inch diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch sides. Line the bottom of each pan with a circle of parchment paper. Butter the parchment paper. Sprinkle the pans with flour, tap the pans to evenly distribute the flour, and then shake off the excess flour. Set aside.
To make the cake, in a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves. In a medium bowl, combine the eggs, oil, and vanilla. In another medium bowl, combine the pumpkin pur�e, coconut, crushed pineapple, and currants.
Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Add the pumpkin mixture and stir just until combined. Divide the batter between the prepared pans, spreading it evenly. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer to wire racks and let cool in the pans for 15 minutes. Run a table knife around the edge of the pans to loosen the cakes. Invert the cakes onto the racks and peel off the parchment paper. Let cool completely before frosting the cakes.
To make the frosting, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese on medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add the butter and beat until combined, about 2 minutes. Add the pumpkin pur�e and beat until incorporated, about 1 minute. Add the confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Place 1 cake layer on a cake plate or platter. Using an offset spatula, spread half of the frosting over the top of the first cake layer. Spread the frosting right to the edge of the top without frosting the sides of the cake. Carefully place the second cake on top, lining up the edges. Spread the remaining frosting over the top of the cake without frosting the sides. Swirl the frosting to decorate the top. Refrigerate the cake to set the frosting. Remove from the refrigerator 30 to 40 minutes before serving.
Serves 12
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I am a huge fan of Andrew Zuckerman. I think his photography is breathtaking, cutting edge and unlike anything else out there. I have shared the beautiful animal photos in CREATURE ABC with my 13 month old daughter and I can't wait until she is old enough to play with the CREATURE FLOOR PUZZLES . I had never considered sharing his coffee table books with her. Well Strollerderby did!
Strollerderby (The Mother Of All Parenting Blogs) recently named BIRD by Andrew Zuckerman as their Book Of The Week.
She said:
First I should point out that this ain't no board book. For that matter, you shouldn't let your kids grimy hands anywhere near it. But they can look with just their eyes, just make sure not to let them get their marks on the pristine white pages of this magnificent tome to birds in the aptly named book Bird.
I loved how she described her daughter's reaction to the book:
My 3 � (FYI - that � is very important) and I looked at each and every page and she was completely entranced by the images of her new feathered friends. She blurted out comments about the birds such as "He's fancy!", "His beak looks like a spoon", "She's doing ballet class", and "He's conducting". Interesting observations from a child's perspective. Then she proceeded to act out what the birds were doing in each photo, complete with sound effects. Her Southern Ground Hornbill impression was impassioned and just a little scary.
For the full review please visit the Strollerderby Blog. Strollerderby's review made me reconsider the materials that I will share with my daughter in the future and I thank her for that. There is a whole world of books that we can share with our children in addition to what is in the children's department.
One series that my daughter loves (that would go very nicely with BIRD) are the BIRD SONG BOOKS. My daughter loves to push the buttons on the BIRD SONGS WALL CALENDARS and hear the calls that each bird makes. The 2010 BIRD SONG WALL CALENDAR would make a great addition to any toddler's (or grownup's) wall.
What grownup books do your little ones love?
Lastly, in case you missed it here are the videos of the making of BIRD.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS author Ben Winters recently had a brief chat about the new Quirk Classic on NPR's Morning Edition:
This morning on my way to work, I walked by about a dozen people, scattered along the sidewalk, who were holding handwritten cardboard signs. They said things like "I have a home", "I was warm and dry last night" and "I have a people who support me". It's all part of Gratitude Week, an effort to end homelessness in Vancouver.
The campaign is well-timed, with Thanksgiving coming up this weekend. Just this morning, in fact, I was thinking about what Thanksgiving books I might blog about this week—and the first one that came to mind (yes, even before the mouthwatering Thanksgiving cookbooks!) was Chronicle Books' Gratitude Journal. It's a place to keep a daily record of life's little blessings; the small things that are so easy to take for granted—but really are so very important and meaningful. Here's an explanation on eHow.com about how to keep a gratitude journal. It seems like a great way to take the time to really appreciate what you have—and also to reflect on what others may not.
In that spirit, please visit the Gratitude Week website to learn more or to get involved.
"Porcellino is a master at miniature poignance." —Entertainment Weekly
If you're in Montreal or Toronto over the next couple of days, stop in to see John Porcellino!
John Porcellino is the creator of the King Cat Comics, which he started self-publishing back in 1989. His new book, MAP OF MY HEART, is a celebration of King Cat's 20th anniversary.
Tues. Oct. 6, 2009 at 7pm - Montreal, Quebec
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
211 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC H2T 2K5, (514) 279-2221Weds. Oct. 7, 2009 at 7pm - Toronto, Ontario
The Beguiling
601 Markham Street, Toronto, ON, M6G 2L7, (416) 533-9168
John Porcellino continues his tour in the US: for full listings see the Drawn & Quarterly events page.
Here's a short preview of MAP OF MY HEART (PDF).
Also check out the King Cat Comics website and become a fan on Facebook.
"Marc Bell is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum further wrapped in salty bacon."
(LA Weekly)
Drawn & Quarterly invites you to come out to say hello to Canada's most beloved hoser artist!
Mark Bell will be on tour to launch his new book, HOT POTATOE: Fine Ahtwerks: 2001-2008.
10/15, 6-8pm > Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
10/17-18 > APE, San Francisco, CA
10/19, 7-10pm > Lucky's, Vancouver, BC
10/21, 8-10pm > Family, Los Angeles, CA
10/25, 5-7pm > Desert Island, Brooklyn, NY
11/20, 7-9pm > Magic Pony, Toronto, ON
11/27, 7-9pm > Librairie D+Q Bookstore, Montreal, QC
Get all the details on Drawn & Quarterly's blog.
You can check out some interior spreads from the book over on My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses and keep up with Marc Bell on his blog.
Are you excited for the new episode of Top Chef tonight? I am. I just started watching this season - and now I'm hooked.
Of course I am a few season behind, so have a little catching up to do… I also have a lot of catching up to do in the kitchen, too.
Following up on their TOP CHEF COOKBOOK, Chronicle Books will be publishing a new Top Chef cookbook this Fall, TOP CHEF: THE QUICKFIRE COOKBOOK.
Compiled by the creators of the show, TOP CHEF: THE QUICKFIRE COOKBOOK draws from the first five seasons of the show to feature 75 of the best recipes—from Spike's Pizza alla Greek to Stephanie's Bittersweet Chocolate Cake—culled from the Top Chef Quickfire Challenges. The book's also packed with mouth-watering photos, plus interviews with contestants and fun trivia related to the chefs and their dishes.
And when things get too heated in the kitchen, you can unwind by playing the TOP CHEF QUICKFIRE CHALLENGE GAME, coming in December. Answer questions such as "What part of the pig does ham come from—the belly, the hind leg, or the back?", and "Which Top Chef judge earned three Michelin stars by the age of 26?"
Oprah.com posted a few recipes from the new book, TOP CHEF: THE QUICKFIRE COOKBOOK:
Oprah also posted recipes from TOP CHEF: THE COOKBOOK:
Still hungry?
There are a couple more recipes over on the Chronicle blog:
Tune in to watch Top Chef on Food Network Canada and Bravo TV.
UPDATE: Also check out Publishers Weekly's Recipe Report for a splash of Carla's Cranberry-Ginger Spritzer.
I was just reading the latest Chronicle Books Art & Design e-Newsletter (sign up here) and had to share this part about how the PICTORIAL WEBSTER'S book came to be:
"In the summer of 1995, while poking around my grandmother's stone farmhouse, I found a tattered 1898 Webster's International Dictionary under my grandfather's favorite reading chair. The disintegrating sheepskin covers were detached and a number of browned and brittle sections were falling out from the back of the book. The loose pages revealed an eighty-page section devoted entirely to the illustrations of the dictionary: a stunning array of odd and wonderful animals and machines printed by categories. The fantastic variety of subjects was matched only by the detail and variety of engraving techniques."
So begins the story of John Carrera's quest to bring these nineteenth-century illustrations back to life. The fine-press bookmaker combed and catalogued Merriam-Webster's archive of more than 10,000 engravings housed at Yale University and over a decade later created Pictorial Webster's, a visual compendium of 4,000 images reproduced in stunning detail.
In 2007 Carrera published a hand-bound, letterpress limited edition of the book through Quercus Press, documented in this incredible making-of video.
That video is a must-see for bibliophiles and letterpress enthusiasts. It's such an amazing story… I can't believe how much work went into carving and casting all the images and type, printing the pages on a letterpress, and binding the original books. The results are certainly worth all the time and effort - the finished book is a thing of beauty and obviously a labour of much love.
I guess that's why Apartment Therapy freaked out when they first saw it.
You can become a fan of PICTORIAL WEBSTER'S on Facebook.
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The phone has been ringing off the hook with press inquiries about the the new book MANAGING by Henry Mintzberg. It's no wonder with the global economic crisis that is weighing so heavily on everyone's mind.
From the Toronto Star:
The outspoken professor reckons the country has been brought to its knees by decades of short-term management on Wall Street and the likes of Nortel and GM, which inflated the importance of CEOs and reduced others to a replaceable commodity.
"The banks and other U.S. corporations were managed by egocentrics who ran companies into the ground. Human resources are downsized at the drop of a share price. What a monumental failure of management."
From Canadian Business Magazine:
Mintzberg's latest book, Managing, published this month, just a day before his 70th birthday, promises to be as divisive as ever. It argues that companies are over-led and under-managed; it calls for the elimination of leadership as a separate discipline since good leadership is part of good management; and it says middle managers should help hire top execs. It was a failure to grasp some of these fundamentals that helped trigger the global banking crisis. "How could anyone buy those mortgages? That stuff was obviously junk," he says. As such, the path to economic recovery won't be achieved through top-down or bottom-up management strategies, but by middle managers—the very level that has long been gutted by companies struggling to cut costs.
Why are good managers so hard to find? Anyone learning to be a manager should start with this book. From the Globe and Mail:
Managing is sprawling, complicated, contradictory stuff, and Prof. Mintzberg, to his credit, approaches it in that manner. If you're looking for quick, easy answers, don't look here. He has spent a decade ruminating over those 29 days he spent following managers, and delights in sharing his thoughts with those who like him admire managers and want some clues - but understand they will never get certainty - on how to do it better. This will be an important textbook in classrooms bringing together not only his own research and thoughts but also weaving in a century of writings by others. It will also reassure individual managers that what they do is important and not easy, and no doubt provoke some changes in their thinking.
So what does it take to be a good manager?
Should we do away with all email?
Has management changed at all in the last 100 years?
What variety of manager are you?
Watch this interview from Karl Moore at The Globe and Mail online where these questions are posed.
MANAGING is just that… managing—pure if not simple. It is the essence of managing. This book is a must read for anyone taking on a management role in life.
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Thanks to those of you who ventured a guess in last week's trivia question, "Does anyone know what plane Lindbergh learned to fly on?"
The answer is: the Lincoln Standard "Tourabout."
Many of you answered the "Curtiss Jenny." This was the first airplane Lindbergh owned, and he made his first solo flight in this plane, but he did not learn to fly in this aircraft.
On April, 1, 1922, Lindbergh arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he enrolled as flying student with the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. There, Lindbergh received not only his first flight as a passenger in an airplane, but also his first instruction in flying in the company's training plane — a Lincoln Standard, "Tourabout" bi-plane. Otto Timm was the pilot of Lindbergh's first flight on April 9, 1922. Harlan "Bud" Gurney, also receiving his first flight that day, joined Lindbergh on the flight. A few days later, under the instruction of Ira O. Biffle, Lindbergh received his first instruction in the same plane.
At right: Lindbergh poses with friend Harlan "Bud" Gurney.
Let's make this the trivia question for this week:
Can anyone guess how many hours of flight time Lindbergh had in the "Tourabout" before going solo?
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Hyundai Elantra Lease Questions
cptwlkr Posts: 4Any thoughts on this 2013 Hundai Elantra Limited lease deal? Money factor is a bit high, residual seems ok for 48 months, paying MSRP but no fees other than delivery and acquisition.
Sell $ 22795
Term 48 months/12K miles per year
Residual 56%
Acq Fee 595
Money .00190 (4.56%)
Taxes $1001
Monthly $298
0 down, 0 money on deliver, lic fees, doc fees are all being 'shorted' by dealer
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Yes there is phredd44. Hyundai Finance's April buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Elantra Limited with 12,000 miles per year are .00204 and 59%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi cptwlkr. While the money factor that you were quoted is not great, it's right in line with Hyundai Finance's buy rate for this model.
Having said that, you definitely should try to negotiate some sort of dealer discount from MSRP.
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cptwlkr Posts: 4Thanks Car_man .. was able to get several items shorted or discounted by the dealership - acquisition fee (and disposition end of lease fee) along with doc fee were deducted or 0'd out in the deal...your suggestions/advise much appreciated.
Also got mud guards, wind deflector, iPod cable, floor mats for 0 additional. We're happy and love our new Elantra.
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pathfinder813 Posts: 1I leased an Elantra GLS with the Preferred package in VA for 36 months at 15k miles a year... sticker was 19470 or so and we negotiated a price down to 18050.
I ended up leasing for 0 down, $275 a month (paid the first month payment). I believe MF was 0.00208 or so and RV was 62%. This also includes all VA sales tax and all fees.
They said this included $1000 lease incentive.
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mgs586 Posts: 1I am looking to lease a 2013 Elantra GLS with auto transmission (MSRP $18,470)
Any updates to 36 month lease details? I have not decided 12,000 miles or 15,000 miles yet but would be interested in discounted purchase price, money factor and residual.
I am co-signing this lease for my college aged daughter. Since she has no credit rating, they mentioned this may push me from the top credit tier to a tier 2 credit. Does that sound right? I am also planning to put $2500 down +/- to keep her payment around the $200/mo range.
What the dealer has given me is a $179/mo lease rate that will increase to $189/mo when you include tax, title and license, and may bump up to $199/mo due to the lower credit tier.
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lovethelancer Posts: 66Hey everyone,
So this is what our delaership has agreed to with us:
36 month, 12,000 mile/yr lease
They agreed to $23,100 after discounts and rebates (However, sales person said the residual and monthly payment is calculated based on original MSRP....is this true?)
Risidual value $15990 (This is 65%, should this be lower or higher?)
Money factor: .00244
Down Payment: $2500
Acquisition Fee: $595
Doc fee: $150
Title/Licensing: $182.75
Taxes: $1204
Payments are $300/mo for 36 months
Good deal, ok deal, bad deal???
Thoughts and feedback appreciated. We are supposed to take delivery on Tuesday.
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buffkg Posts: 1Currently went to dealer with 23 yr old daughter intending to purchase used. Dealer swayed us to a lease of a 2013 Elantra GLS Limited. $3,000 down + trade-in of 1995 Camaro Z28 (104k miles) inclusive of tax, fees, etc. for 36mo/12k miles/yr @ $199/mo. "Buy out" of approx $12k @ end of lease.
We have never leased a car before and I am completely unsure of what is fair or how to negotiate a better deal. I will need to co-sign this for her since she is a recent college grad with limited credit.
Help pls!
Don't believe this is a great deal based on what I've read here. What should we be negotiating and what should we stay away from? We are located in Central NJ. -
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi buffkg. Since you are new to leasing, you definitely should check out the following informative articles on the subject that are available here at Edmunds.com: 10 Steps to Leasing a New Car and Calculate Your Own Lease Payment.
In short, the easiest way to get a good deal on a leased vehicle is to shop around for the lowest possible selling price and then have the dealer that you decide to go with calculate your vehicle's monthly payment using its buy rate lease money factor.
In order to evaluate this deal, we would need to know this car's MSRP and selling price as well as how much you are being given for the Camaro.
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williemc1 Posts: 1Hi:
I just leased a 2013 Elantra GLS w/Preferred Package from Keith Hawthorne Hyundai in Charlotte, NC. Did all the work via email and phone. Spent less than one hour in dealership for test drive and paperwork. Here's the deal.
36 month, 12000 mile lease.
No Money Down, they made the first payment.
ADJ. CAP cost 20558.50 19890+69(tags)+599.50(Doc Fee)
Residual Value 13071.70 (64%)
Money factor .00178
Payments 267.83+8.03(3% Tax)= $275.86
Also, they made my last payment on my Camry Lease. ($355)
Any thoughts?
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totolin123 Posts: 1Hi all. I want to ask about my experience with leasing a car today.
The MSRP of the elantra 18650. They agreed to no down payment, but 200$ per month for 39 month.
After we agree to this price, they took me to another room for signing papers. At this time they brought out some "wear&tear protection waiver (100 dectible, 500 single event limint)", some maintenance plan, and adding an alarm. For those three items, they asked for 45$/month extra. I felt like they ambushed me with this price and I said, maybe 30$/month? they agreed immediately. They made me feel a little uneasy. They also mentioned a 400 disposition fee at the end of lease.
So in the end I get 230/month x 39 month + 400 disposition fee. Do you think I got a good deal? Is the 30$/month fee addition is some kind of gimmick? Thanks. -
CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Hi steevo. Hyundai Finance's September buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Elantra Coupe GS with 12,000 miles per year are .00180 and 68%, respectively for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
The numbers for an otherwise identical lease of a '13 Elantra Coupe SE are .00194 and 66%.
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steevo Posts: 345http://www.edmunds.com/car-leasing/
Negotiate best selling price for car. Use a lease calculator to determine payments.
Knowledge is power when negotiating. All the information you are asking for is already in great detail in articles found here on edmunds, and you can also read through the leasing forums. The most active forums have the most information. I use the calculator on the following website, which also has some good leasing info.
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Welcome bravely. Since you are new to leasing, you definitely should check out the following informative articles on the subject that are available here at Edmunds.com: 10 Steps to Leasing a New Car and Calculate Your Own Lease Payment.
In short, the easiest way to get a good deal on a leased vehicle is to shop around for the lowest possible selling price and then have the dealer that you decide to go with calculate your vehicle's monthly payment using its buy rate lease money factor.
Good luck in your negotiations and make sure to let us know if you have any questions.
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taher3 Posts: 1I was shocked to learn yesterday that Hyundai Finance Co. will charge me $400+tax for not buying or leasing a new car from them after returning the old leased car. This was never disclosed to us by the selling and returning agents of the hyundai company but was cleverly placed in the contract. The leased car was already returned 2 months ago in excellent condition after inspection by their company. The car was returned with low mileage (26,000 miles instead of 30,000 mile per contract) and fully paid, one month before the end of the contract. We were told repeatedly by the Hyundai agents and Bank that there are no more charges and the case is closed.
We ended up leasing Ford Fusion, 2 months back, after returning hyundai elantra and now we are being penalized by this deceitful company by sending us to collection if we dont pay the $424 "disposition fee", immediately. BUYERS BE AWARE before leasing any car from HYUnDAI LEASE COMPANY. Plz let this be known to all. Thanks. -
sandman_6472 Coral Springs, FLPosts: 2,919"but was cleverly placed in the contract"...Did you not read the whole contract before you signed it? Excuse me but isn't it the buyers responsibility to read the "whole" contract before signing on the dotted line? Cleverly placed in the contract...? Now you want to blame Hyundai because you agreed to a part of the contract, written in plain English, and some how it's their fault? Excuse me while I stop laughing here for a minute!
Personal responsibility folks, that's the name of the game. Why do so many Americans not want to take personal responsibility for their actions...I don't get it? Time to suck it up here...really folks...a life's learning lesson...READ EVERY LINE OF A CONTRACT! Especially when it's one of the most expensive purchases people make...read it!
The Sandman :confuse: :sick: :shades:2015 Audi A3 (wife) / 2015 Golf TSI (me) / 2009 Nissan Versa SL Hatch (daughter #1) / 2008 Hyundai Accent GLS (daughter #2)
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CarMan@Edmunds Posts: 38,515Ha Hi pinksnyper :shades: . Here you go. Hyundai Finance's November buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Elantra GLS Sedan with an automatic transmission and 15,000 miles per year are .00132 and 66% for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
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About me and my passion for cars
My passion fired up by getting into durango and expecially when I got into the camaro and ever since then its pretty much the only thing I cared for. Before that I had no intrest period but now thats an totaly different story. I like an car that will 100% stand out of the crowd with positive attention and that has the lovely, muscle car rumble.
My first car
77 datsun 280z, such a sweet car and wish I could have her back. Ohhh the possibility's!
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Thanks for the coment on my blog =) yes i have my camaro iroc z.And that car is amasing to me to.And i drive to many carshows in swedan with my camaro =)
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The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs that are located in the back of the abdomen, and that have many important functions essential for life. Among the most important are filtrating the blood, removing waste products from the blood and ensuring that the electrolytes within the blood are correctly balanced. In addition, the kidneys produce erythropoietin, a hormone responsible for the production of (the oxygen carrying) red blood cells. Each of the kidneys can be divided into two main functional parts. The outer region of the kidney is called the cortex The cortex consists of a series of tubes (called collecting tubules) and is responsible for the filtration of blood.. The inner region of the kidney is called the renal pelvis. The renal pelvis contains medullary pyramids that collect the filtrate (urine) from collecting tubules in the cortex and send it through the ureters to the urinary bladder. Different types of cancers develop from the two different regions of the kidneys.
The kidneys are located in the posterior aspect of the abdomen, directly in front of where the lowest ribs can be felt on a person's back. A physician can palpate them in the abdomen at times, though often only if the kidney is enlarged or has a mass on it.
The definition of a tumor is a mass of abnormally growing cells. Tumors can be either benign or malignant. Benign tumors have uncontrolled cell growth, but without any invasion into normal tissues and without any ability to spread to distant parts of the body. A tumor is called malignant, or cancer, if tumor cells gain the propensity to invade tissues and spread locally as well as to distant parts of the body. In this sense, kidney cancer occurs when cells in either the cortex of the kidney or cells in the renal pelvis grow uncontrollably and form tumors that can invade normal tissues and spread to other parts of the body.
Cancers are described by the types of cells from which they arise. Again, when discussing kidney cancer, the cortex and the renal pelvis must be discussed separately. In the kidney cortex, the vast majority of cancers arise from the cells that line the collecting tubules, more specifically, the proximal tubules. Cancers that develop from lining such as this are called carcinomas. In this case, they are called renal cell carcinomas. Over 75% of renal cell carcinomas are called clear cell carcinomas, named after the characteristics they display when looking at them under the microscope. Other classifications, in decreasing order of prevalence, include chromophilic, chromophobic, oncocytic, and collecting duct cancers. However, it does not appear that these various types of renal cell carcinoma differ in presentation or prognosis.
Cancers of the renal pelvis, or medulla, are uncommon. Over 90% of cancers that develop in the renal pelvis are called transitional cell carcinomas. They are so named because they develop from cells that line the renal pelvis and upper ureters.
Kidney cancer occurs in approximately 31,000 Americans per year and cancers of the renal pelvis will occur in approximately 3,000 Americans per year. Most patients are diagnosed between the ages of 50 and 70. Kidney cancer is more common in men than women, with an equal preponderance in whites and blacks. A number of risk factors are associated with an increased probability of renal cell cancer: The most prominent risk is cigarette smoking. Persons who smoke have twice the risk of developing kidney cancer as people who don't smoke, and smoking is directly responsible for up to one out of every three cancers. The risk for kidney cancer also increases fourfold in persons with a first-degree relative who had kidney cancer. Other, less-proven risk factors include obesity (especially in women), analgesic abuse, high blood pressure, and several uncommon hereditary diseases, including von Hippel-Lindau disease and polycystic kidney disease.
As cigarette smoking doubles the risk of kidney cancer, the best way to decrease your risk of developing kidney cancer is to discontinue smoking. Other than smoking, the only substantial risk factors for the development of kidney cancer are related to family history. Obviously, no one can change the family they are born into, so the risk factor of having someone in the family with a history of kidney cancer, or rare genetic diseases such as von Hippel Lindau and polycystic disease cannot be prevented.
There are no screening tests for kidney cancer that are akin to mammography for breast cancer or colonoscopy for colorectal cancer. However, the use of CT scans and ultrasounds have enhanced the early detection of kidney cancer once signs or symptoms have developed (see below). Intravenous pyelograms (IVP) are used to assess kidney function. IVPs are done by injecting dye into a patient's arm and then taking x-rays of the abdomen to see that dye subsequently excreted by the kidneys as urine. Cytology is simply looking at urine under a microscope and looking for cancerous cells within the urine. Because they may cause early symptoms that lead to testing, kidney cancers that develop in the area of the collecting system may be detected earlier than those in other regions.
With the advent of CT scans and ultrasounds, 25-40% of kidney cancers are now detected incidentally during the work up of a different problem. These tumors are more likely to be smaller (hence causing no symptoms), and hence more likely to result in a cure.
Kidney cancer presents as signs and symptoms of either the local tumor in the kidney or as signs and symptoms resulting from spread of disease to other locations in the body (metastatic disease). Symptoms resulting from local tumor extension include hematuria (blood in the urine), abdominal pain, and a flank mass. Hematuria is the most common symptom and present as either gross hematuria, where the blood is visible in the urine, or as microscopic hematuria, where the blood is only detected by laboratory testing. Therefore, any presence of blood in the urine that is detected in a urine sample should be investigated. In medical textbooks, patients present with the "classic triad" of all three symptoms, though only about 10% of patients actually have all three symptoms at diagnosis.
Symptoms caused by metastatic disease include fever, weight loss, and night sweats (drenching sweats that require changing of clothes or bedsheets). Other symptoms include hypertension, increased calcium in the blood, and liver problems. These more unique symptoms are thought to be caused by chemical signals released by the tumor cells into the bloodstream and the body's reaction to them.
Work up of a kidney cancer usually starts after the patient develops symptoms, with the exception of those cancers that are found incidentally. The point of all of the tests done prior to treatment of kidney cancer is to determine the extent of disease that is present so that treatment can be adjusted accordingly. This includes documenting the extent of disease both locally, in the tissues and lymph nodes surrounding the kidney, as well as ensuring there is no spread distantly, outside the area of the kidney (called metastases). The most sensitive test to document local disease is the CT scan, which has been shown to predict the tumor extent 90% of patients. MRI scans have been used to ensure the tumor has not involved any of the large blood vessels that are in the vicinity of the kidney. Other tests, including basic laboratory blood tests and analysis of the urinemay be used to evaluate general health and the extend of the cancer. In addition, chest x-ray and bone scan are usually done, to ensure that metastatic spread to the lungs and bones, respectively, has not occurred. To obtain a diagnosis of any cancer, tissue or cells must be examined by a pathologist. Therefore, to obtain a diagnosis of kidney cancer, a biopsy is often obtained by inserting a needle into the presumed tumor mass during a CT scan. However, there are also times that the CT scan and/or MRI is so convincing that the mass is a tumor, that the initial biopsy is done during an open surgical procedure, which is done to ultimately remove the kidney as treatment for the kidney cancer. The most appropriate surgical approach must be determined on an individual basis.
After all of these tests are performed, the stage of the cancer is known. The staging of a cancer basically describes how much it has grown before the diagnosis has been made, documenting the extent of disease. This is often extremely important in terms of what treatment is offered to each individual patient. Before the staging systems are introduced, we will first describe some of the ways that cancers may grow and spread.
Cancers cause problems because they spread and can disrupt the functioning of normal organs. One way kidney cancer can spread is by local extension to invade through the normal structures. This initially includes the kidney, hence causing hematuria, a mass, and abdominal pain. If more growth occurs, cancer can grow to involve the main vein that leaves the kidney (the renal vein), the large vein that returns blood from the bottom half of the body to the heart (the inferior vena cava), or into other organs-most commonly the adrenal glands which sit atop the kidneys.
Kidney cancer can also spread by accessing the lymphatic system. The lymphatic circulation is a complete circulation system in the body (somewhat like the blood circulatory system) that drains into various lymph nodes. When cancer cells access this lymphatic circulation, they can travel to lymph nodes and start new sites of cancer. This is called lymphatic spread. Kidney cancer can spread, at times, into the lymph nodes surrounding the kidney, called the perirenal lymph nodes.
Kidney cancers can also spread through the bloodstream. Cancer cells gain access to distant organs via the bloodstream and cause distant metastases. Cancers of the kidney generally spread locally into the fat surrounding the kidney, the adrenal glands, or the veins prior to spreading via the lymphatic system or the bloodstream. However, tumors, especially larger tumors, can access the bloodstream and spread to the lungs and bones, most commonly. Kidney tumors have also been known to spread to the testis and ovaries through the testicular or ovarian veins that are in close proximity to the kidney.
The staging system used today in kidney cancer is designed to describe the extent of disease within the area of the kidney, in the surrounding lymph nodes, and distantly. The staging system most commonly used today to describe kidney tumors is the "TNM system", as described by the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The TNM systems are used to describe many types of cancers. They have three components: T-describing the extent of the "primary" tumor (the tumor in the kidney itself); N-describing the spread to the lymph nodes; M-describing the spread to other organs (i.e.-metastases).
The "T" stage is as follows:
For kidney (cortex) tumors:
For medullary tumors:
The "N" stage is as follows for any subsite:
The "M" stage is as follows:
The overall stage is based on a combination of these T, N, and M parameters:
For kidney cortex tumors
For collecting system tumors
Though complicated, these staging systems help physicians determine the extent of the cancer, and therefore make treatment decisions regarding a patient's cancer.
Surgical resection (removal) is the only known curative treatment for kidney cancer. The procedure that is most often done in the case of kidney cancer is called a nephrectomy. This procedure includes the removal of the entire kidney that is involved with tumor The surgical procedure also usually includes removing at least some of the lymph nodes surrounding the kidney, which has shown to increase survival in patients with kidney cancer. So-called partial nephrectomies (where only a part of the kidney is removed) may be utilized in some patients with small tumors. This should only be attempted in patients with tumors <4cm. If the tumor can be completely removed, the risk of the tumor coming back in the remaining part of the kidney is about 5%. Therefore, this treatment is very effective.
For larger tumors that require total nephrectomy, the adrenal gland and the fat surrounding the kidney and adrenal gland may need to be removed in order for the entire tumor to be removed.
Even if the kidney cancer has spread to a single different part of the body, a nephrectomy may be recommended, as it has been shown to improve survival. If there are many sites of disease, however, nephrectomy has not been shown to be useful.
Radiation therapy makes the use of high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. It does this by damaging the DNA in tumor cells. Normal cells in our bodies can repair radiation damage much more quickly than tumor cells can, so while tumor cells are killed by radiation, many normal cells are not. This is the basis for the use of radiation therapy in cancer treatment. Radiation is delivered using large machines that produce the high energy x-rays. Radiation therapy, however, is not routinely used in the initial treatment of kidney cancer.. Radiation may be considered for patients whose tumors are too large to be completely removed; after as much surgical removal as possible is performed, radiation may be useful in treating tumor that remains. This treatment is experimental and should be done only as part of a clinical trial.
Radiation may also be used as a method for pain relief in patients who have pain from kidney cancer that has spread to other regions of the body.
Chemotherapies are drugs that are used to kill tumor cells. Up to this point, there is no chemotherapy regimen that has been consistently shown to be efficacious in the treatment of curative or metastatic kidney cancer. New modalities are constantly being investigated, including interferon, anti-angiogenesis agents (which inhibit the tumor from growing more blood vessels), and molecular agents that target specific genes that may be essential for the tumor cells' survivals.
Jun 17, 2014 - For patients with renal cell carcinoma, preoperative serum cholesterol is an independent prognostic factor, according to a study published online June 12 in BJU International.


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September 17, 2012, 12:40 AM
By Chris Jones
Peter Yang
Published in the October 2012 issue
On or about March 15 of this year, Teller the smaller, quieter half of the magicians Penn & Teller says he received an e-mail from a friend in New York. In that e-mail, the friend included a link to a video on YouTube called the Rose & Her Shadow. Teller, sitting at his computer in his Las Vegas home, within eyeshot of a large black escape cross once owned by Houdini, clicked on the link. The video lasted one minute and fifty-one seconds. "I had what I can only describe as a visceral reaction to it," Teller says today.
The video was posted by a magician who works under the stage name Gerard Bakardy; his real name is apparently Gerard Dogge. (Bakardy, a fifty-five-year-old Dutch national born in Belgium, is more than a magician; he prefers the title entertainer, because he's a musician, too. Along with his blond partner, Nadia, he was, until recently, part of a lounge act called Los Dos de Amberes, the Two from Antwerp, booked mostly in the resort of Fuerteventura on the Canary Islands off Spain. "A lovely way to spend an evening," they said in online advertisements that have since disappeared.) Leaning into his computer screen, Teller watched Bakardy perform some kind of trick.
Against a crimson curtain, Bakardy had erected an easel with what looked like a large pad of white paper on it. Perhaps six feet in front of the easel sat a small wood table bearing a glass Coke bottle filled with water. That bottle also contained a single rose. A spotlight, outside of the camera's view, cast the rose's shadow on the paper on the easel. Dressed in a dark suit, Bakardy appeared in the frame carrying a large knife in his right hand. He sliced it deep into the rose's shadow. And when he cut into its shadow, something impossible happened: The corresponding part of the rose fell off the stem and onto the table. Petal by petal, Bakardy cut at the rose's shadow until that Coke bottle somehow held only a decapitated stem, which he removed as though to demonstrate the absence of wires. He then lifted up the bottle itself still no strings attached and poured out the water. Ta-da.
The video ended with Bakardy's e-mail address and an offer to sell the props necessary for the Rose & Her Shadow for what turned out to be 2,450 euros, or about $3,050 at the time. In bold white type across the bottom of the screen, Bakardy left a final message for his fellow magicians, including a dumbstruck Teller: EASY TO PERFORM.
Teller is sixty-four years old; he has been a full-time magician since 1975, but he first began performing magic tricks when he was five and had nearly died. The only child of Philadelphia artists Joe and Irene Teller, he had contracted a viral infection that blossomed into a heart ailment called myocarditis. After a long stay in the hospital, he had to spend more time recuperating at home. Luckily there was a relatively new marvel called TV to occupy him, and he watched Howdy Doody, from which he ordered the Howdy Doody Magic Kit. It included a trick with a box and two lids. When Teller opened the box on one side and showed its contents to his indulgent parents, there were six tiny Mars bars; after he'd theatrically rattled it and spun it so that he could open the opposite lid, there were only three. "This is an absolute miracle I can do with my own hands," he says today in the present tense, as though no time has passed.
Because Teller performs almost entirely without speaking, his voice, strong and certain, comes as a surprise. He speaks in prose, in long, languid paragraphs peppered with literary and historical references. (He once taught high school Latin; dissatisfied with the prescribed textbook, he wrote his own.) But his round face, particularly his eyes and mouth, continue to do much of the talking for him. He is capable of great expression with just a turn of his lips, and his eyes are big and shining. They are also quick to brim with tears. "I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad," he says.
Attempting to explain magic's hold on him, Teller invokes the psychiatrist in Equus, Martin Dysart, who tries to understand why the boy at the play's center has a blinding love of horses. A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave, Dysart says. It sniffs it sucks it strokes its eyes over the whole uncountable range. Suddenly one strikes. Why? Moments snap together like magnets, forging a chain of shackles. Why? I can trace them. I can even, with time, pull them apart again. But why at the start they were ever magnetized at all just those particular moments of experience and no others I don't know.
Now Teller's voice isn't strong. He's gasping, choking on it. "I don't know," he says. "I don't know."
But for him, magic was what struck bedrock. He has dedicated his life to the distortion of reality, to trickery and benign deceit. His startling, angular house, built against a hillside in the red Nevada desert "a poorly camouflaged military installation" is how he describes it; it's the one with the giant skull painted on the roof is a monument to his love. Every room has a secret. His library is filled with ancient magic books, including what's considered one of the art's seminal texts, Discoverie of Witchcraft, from 1584. (It's extremely rare, because, as the story has it, King James ordered every copy burned.) One of the hallways is built in forced perspective, so it seems longer than it really is. The window that appears to be at its end is actually in the adjoining wall; a full-length 45 degree mirror explains the illusion. In the garden, there's a large bronze bear that somehow greets guests by name. The bear also does card tricks. Inside the house, Teller might hand a bewildered visitor a deck of cards and ask him to pick one before they head outside. The bear will then growl, "Was it the five of clu no. It was the five of spades," and the bear will be right. "That one fools magicians," Teller says.
Other parts of his house reveal rather than hide. In some ways it feels like a museum in which all the exhibits have another exhibit behind them. Houdini's black escape cross? There's a small pedal tucked into its base. When Houdini pressed his bootheel against it, three sets of blades hidden in the cross's arms sliced through the ropes that bound him. Those blades still work today. Teller has a supply of rope to prove it, because he likes people to believe him.
There is a lecture about belief that Teller has given exactly four times. He has never allowed the lecture to be recorded in any way. Unless you were in the audience, it has never happened. It is called the Red Ball, after a trick he added relatively recently to Penn & Teller's Las Vegas show. Before Teller performs the trick, Penn announces to the hushed theater: "The next trick is done with a piece of thread." Teller then takes the stage, on which there is a simple bench, with a red ball and a wooden hoop in his hands. He bounces the ball. He gives it to a member of the audience to bounce. And then he drops the ball before he somehow makes it roll around the stage and back and forth along the bench, as though on command. Sometimes the ball is stuck to one of his fingers or to the small of his back; sometimes it is several feet out of his reach. He even has it jump through the hoop. All of which makes it impossible for him to be performing the Red Ball with a piece of thread. Penn must be lying. There must be something more to the trick.
In his lectures, Teller explained that the trick did not originate with him. It is based on techniques developed by a largely forgotten man named David P. Abbott, a loan shark who lived in Omaha and did magic in front of invitation-only audiences in his specially built parlor. Houdini, Kellar, Ching Ling Foo, Thurston all the great magicians of the era made the pilgrimage to Omaha and left baffled. One of Abbott's tricks involved a golden ball that floated in the air around him. But rather than use a thread suspended from the ceiling, Abbott revealed posthumously in his Book of Mysteries, he ran the thread horizontally from his ear to the wall. By manipulating that thread with his careful hands, he could make that golden ball seem as though it were defying reality. Best of all, he could pass a hoop over it what magicians call a prover and eliminate a piece of thread from his audience's range of possibility, because a horizontal thread had never entered their imagination. They were looking only for the vertical.
The real point of magic, Teller said during those lectures, is "telling a beautiful lie. It lets you see what the world would be like if cause and effect weren't bound by physics." It's the collision between what you know and what you see that provides magic's greatest spark.
So Teller rigged a thread in his home library, and he put Abbott's ancient instructions on a music stand pages that had been miraculously saved from a trash fire years before and he went to work on making the impossible seem real. Eventually, he decided that the ball shouldn't float but roll. That would look simpler, but it would be harder. He practiced some more at a mirrored dance studio in Toronto, and at a cabin deep in the woods, and on the empty stage in Penn & Teller's theater. After every show for eighteen months, he would spend at least an hour, by himself, trying to make the Red Ball obey. ("Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect," Teller says.)
"I have to screw around," he told those four audiences, "to sniff the scent of an idea and track it down like a wild boar in the forest.
"It's still the hardest-to-execute piece of magic I've ever tried. In six months or a year, it will start to settle into my bones. In ten years, it'll be perfect.
"And so, what turns out to be the idea in the woods?
"I think: I'm depicting a magic trick done with a thread by using a ball that's actually alive. And I'm doing that depiction by using a piece of thread. Just one. Just a piece of thread.
"So now you know everything."
In the dusty rumble strips just outside Las Vegas, there is a man named Bill Smith who owns a company called Bill Smith's Magic Ventures. He doesn't invent tricks, but he builds them. He has built them for David Copperfield and Lance Burton and even Penn & Teller. He knows nearly all of the secrets. And one day earlier this year, while sitting behind his desk in his strange magic factory, Smith talked about the Red Ball and how much he would love to know how Teller does it. "That one has me fooled," Smith said. "There's no way he does that with a piece of thread."
But here's the truth about the Red Ball: Penn isn't lying to the audience, and neither was Teller in those four lost lectures. There is no such thing as magic. He really is doing that trick with a single piece of thread.
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