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This may seem like a silly question to address, but it is important when talking about head and neck cancers that you understand exactly which areas the cancer includes. The pharynx is a tube about 5 inches long, extending from the back of the nose to the area where the esophagus (tube to the stomach) and the trachea (tube to the lungs) both begin. In terms of head and neck cancers, the pharynx and the surrounding structures are divided into several areas:
This graphic is looking at a head that is cut down the center.
In the United States, there will be an estimated 47,500 new cases of head and neck cancer (HNCA) in 2008, with 11,200 people dying from the disease. Globally, there are an estimated 533,100 new cases a year, and it is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. In contrast, HNCA does not rank in the top 10 in the US, accounting for only 3% of all cancers. The variations in rates around the world are a result of differences in dietary and tobacco habits, alcohol use, and viral and environmental exposures.
You can see that this category encompasses quite a few different cancers. All cancers begin when abnormal cells in a part of the body begin to grow in an out-of-control manner. That is about where the similarities end, as different cancer types are treated in different ways, and head and neck cancers are no exception. This is an introductory article, so you may need to use the links on the left to get more detailed information on specific types of head and neck cancer.
It is estimated that 80-90% of all head and neck are caused by tobacco and alcohol use. Tobacco includes cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco (chew, dip, snuff, and betel quid). Tobacco users are between 20-40 times more likely to develop head and neck cancer than non-smokers, depending on the amount of use, as well as the age, sex and race of the user. Smoking more than 4 cigarettes a day increases the risk to 20 times that of a non-smoker. The composition of smokeless tobacco varies around the world, making it hard to generalize, but the risk of developing head and neck cancer is thought to be 1-10 times more for smokeless users than non-users. Quitting smoking leads to a reduction of risk that increases with time, but will never reach that of a never-smoker.
Drinking alcohol is known to increase the risk of developing head and neck cancer about 2-10 times that of non-drinkers, depending on the amount consumed. Alcohol use alone increases risk, but when combined with tobacco, the risk increases dramatically. Some researchers believe alcohol may make the tissues more susceptible to damage from the toxins in tobacco.
Men develop head and neck cancer twice as often as women in the United States, and make up 68% of all cases and 71% of the deaths from this disease. For example, in cancer of the tongue specifically, roughly 1,200 men will be diagnosed this year, versus only about 670 women. As people age, their risk increases, and most cases are diagnosed in people over age 65. African-American and Asian individuals are at higher risk for all types of head and neck cancers. Although oral and pharyngeal cancers have decreased over the last 20 years among white males and females under age 65 and in black women of all ages, it has increased in black males.
Infection with certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that invades human epithelial tissue (a type of skin cell), is known to increase risk of oropharyngeal cancers. It is estimated that 5.5 million people worldwide are infected with this virus annually. Sexually active individuals have an 80 to 85% chance of being infected at some time in their life. Researchers estimate that 50% of oropharyngeal cancers are attributable to HPV, with a much higher rate in young non-smokers diagnosed with the disease. This is thought to be related to changes in sexual practices, including an increase in oral sex among adolescents and young adults. Despite the decrease in smoking-related cancers in the U.S., this HPV-related increase has the potential to become a serious public health burden.
Rates of nasopharyngeal cancers in Asian countries are high and thought to be a result of a diet high in salt-cured foods. Chronic sun exposure is linked to cancer of the lip. Exposure to asbestos is thought to increase the risk of laryngeal cancers. Inactive infection with the Epstein Barr virus (EBV), environmental or second-hand smoke, and the chronic inhalation of wood dust have all also been associated with increased risk of head and neck cancers.
The signs and symptoms can vary greatly depending on the location of the tumor. Some common symptoms are weight loss (due to difficulty swallowing and/or malnutrition), a new lump or sore that does not resolve, a sore throat or change in voice that doesn't get better, or pain (sometimes felt in the ear). More specific signs include the following:
If a head and neck cancer is suspected, a physician will perform a thorough examination of the head and neck, both inside and out. This requires the use of an endoscope, a thin tube with a camera on the end that is inserted in the nose or down the throat after numbing the patient's nose, throat and gag reflex. This is necessary to either evaluate the lesion or lump in question, or to look for any additional lumps. A sample of the tissue in question and/or other suspicious areas will be taken (biopsy). Depending on the location, this may be done in the office, or if it is not accessible, may need to be done in an operating room. A pathologist, a doctor who looks at the sample under a microscope and determines the type of cell and whether or not it is cancerous, evaluates the biopsy.
About 95% of head and neck tumors are squamous cell carcinomas (named for the type of cells that the cancer involves). Some other types include: adenocarcinoma, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, acinic cell carcinoma or other malignant salivary tumors, lymphoma, sarcoma and melanoma.
Computerized tomography (CAT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) scans are an important step to further evaluate the tumor and to determine the stage and options for treatment.
Staging is done by evaluating tumor size (T), lymph node involvement (N), and metastases (M), or spread to other areas of the body. Although you may sometimes hear the cancer described as stage I, II, etc.; the TNM system is more precise in this group of very diverse tumors. The following gives you an understanding of TNM definitions and the corresponding stage. Keep in mind, the staging system is even more complex for each particular site, but these general TNM descriptions can be applied to all head and neck tumors.
TX: Primary tumor cannot be assessed
T0: No evidence of primary tumor
Tis: "insitu" – cancer contained
T1: Tumor 2 cm or less in size
T2: Tumor > 2 cm but < 4 cm in size
T3: Tumor > 4 cm in size
T4a: Tumor invades structures next to it
T4b: Tumor invades to areas beyond the structures next to it
NX: Regional nodes cannot be assessed or unknown
N0: No regional lymph node metastasis
N1: Metastasis in 1 lymph node on the same side as the tumor, < 3 cm in size
N2: Metastases in 1 or more nodes on same, opposite, or both sides, between 3-6 cm in size
N3: Metastases in 1 or more nodes, > 6 cm in size
MX: Distant metastasis cannot be assessed
M0: No distant metastasis
M1: Distant metastasis
Stage | T | N | M |
Stage 0 | Tis | N0 | M0 |
Stage I | T1 | N0 | M0 |
Stage II | T2 | N0 | M0 |
Stage III | T3 | N0 | M0 |
Stage IVa | T4a | N0 or N1 | M0 |
T1-4a | N2 | M0 | |
Stage IVb | T4b | Any N | M0 |
Any T | N3 | M0 | |
Stage IVc | Any T | Any N | M1 |
Head and neck cancers are best treated by multidisciplinary cancer care teams. This team of specialists may include oral surgeons, otorhinolaryngologists (ENT), pathologists, medical and radiation oncologists, dentists, plastic surgeons, dietitians, social workers, nurses, physical and speech therapists. This team approach is very important to successful treatment and to helping maintain good patient quality of life. The actual treatment plan varies depending on the tumor location, stage, and patient's baseline medical health (i.e. how much treatment can they handle?).
In general, stage I and II cancers are treated with surgery and/or radiation therapy, whereas stages III and IV require multi-modality treatment (surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy). The following are the basic therapies used in the treatment of head and neck cancer.
In determining whether or not a patient should have surgery, it is extremely important to look at his or her physical health. For example, a patient with very poor nutrition will have difficulty healing from surgery. Heart disease or pulmonary (lung) problems may make him or her unable to tolerate the operation. We do not want to put the patient in further danger in these cases. The second issue is, can the tumor be safely removed by the surgeon? This depends on where it is located, what other structures it invades, and the size of the tumor. It is also important to consider how well the plastic surgeon will be able to perform reconstruction. You can see how this complicated decision is best made by a team of specialists.
If surgery is an option, the surgeon's goal is usually to remove the entire tumor and some healthy tissue around it (this is referred to as achieving clean or negative margins). In some cases, lymph nodes may be removed for further evaluation by the pathologist.
Depending on where the tumor is located and its size, the surgery can be very complex. The plastic surgeon may use skin flaps or prosthetic (man-made) bones to replace those affected by the tumor. The surgery may affect the patient's ability to chew, swallow, speak, hear, or smell, and it may drastically change their facial appearance, either temporarily or permanently. All patients and their families should talk extensively with the healthcare team before surgery and have a complete understanding of what to expect. This can be a very complicated discussion, so no question should be considered too dumb to ask!
Radiation is the use of high-energy x-rays to kill the tumor. This treatment is very complex and should be performed by a radiation team trained in this specialty. Radiation can be given by two different ways: external beam (from a machine outside the body) or brachytherapy (also called internal radiation, from an internally implanted radioactive source).
External beam radiation is administered by a machine called a linear accelerator. The machine points beams of radiation from many angles towards the tumor. The treatment only takes about 15-20 minutes, but is given 5 days a week for 6-8 weeks. It is critical to be certain that you are treating the same spot each day, so a customized mask device is made and employed to maintain the head in the same position each day. Unfortunately, in attempting to target all of the cancer, the radiation also hits nearby healthy cells, leading to side effects including: sore mouth/throat (mucositis), skin burns, painful swallowing, and dry mouth or nose. External beam radiation is the most commonly used form of radiation for head and neck cancers.
Brachytherapy involves implanting a radioactive material (the source) in the tumor and/or around the tumor site. This source slowly releases the radiation over time, delivering it to a small area of tissue. By treating only a small area, side effects are decreased, but this can also increase the likelihood that the cancer may return. For this reason, the treatment is not good for patients with a high risk of recurrence. Unlike external radiation, these patients are "radioactive" while the source is in place, and patients' friends and family can only spend a few minutes a day close to them (within about 5 feet). This can be a problem if the patient cannot care for himself or herself, so proper patient selection is necessary for everyone's safety. Internal radiation is most often used in treating cancers of the lip, oral cavity, and oropharynx.
Chemotherapies are medications used to kill cancer cells and are used in more advanced tumors of the head and neck. Chemotherapy can be given before surgery to shrink a tumor and thus make it easier to remove. This is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy that is given after surgery is called adjuvant chemotherapy. Some of the commonly used chemotherapies include: cisplatin, fluorouracil, etoposide, carboplatin and gemcitabine.
Chemotherapy is commonly given in conjunction with radiation therapy. This is referred to as chemoradiation therapy. In this case, the chemotherapy serves two purposes: to treat the cancer cells and to make the radiation work better. This latter effect is called radiosensitization, which means that the cells are made more sensitive to radiation damage in the presence of relatively low doses of the chemotherapy. The problem is that healthy cells are also sensitized, making the side effects more severe than with radiation alone. Chemoradiotherapy has been shown to improve the likelihood that the surgeon will be able to preserve the voice box in laryngeal cancers. It has also been shown to improve survival over chemotherapy alone, but this therapy comes with more toxicity. The most common toxicities experienced by patients receiving chemoradiation are: low blood counts (white and red blood cells), mucositis, mouth sores and difficulty swallowing. This therapy is not the best choice for all patients, particularly those who are not able to tolerate the side effects; but in those that can be supported through the treatment, this is the standard of care. Researchers have not determined which is the best chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy regimen, but future clinical trials will attempt to determine this.
Researchers have found that 80-90% of squamous cell head and neck cancers have an "overexpression" of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). This means they produce too many of these receptors, which could be a key factor in their growth. In turn, medications were developed that can block these receptors, hopefully slowing the tumor's growth. The two EGFR inhibitors most commonly used in head and neck cancers are cetuximab and gefitinib. In clinical trials, cetuximab resulted in a 10% improvement in survival 3 years after diagnosis.
Clinical trials have played and continue to play an important role in the treatment of head and neck cancers. The treatments we have today were refined through clinical trials, and many new avenues continue to be explored. Talk with your physician about current clinical trials for head and neck cancers in your area or visit our clinical trials matching service.
The treatment of head and neck cancers can have a significant impact on the patient. Nutritional status is often affected by therapy, and patients often need to be fed through a tube placed in their stomachs (called a PEG or 'G' tube). In most cases, this is only temporary. For other patients, difficulty swallowing, mucositis (sore mouth and throat), loss of taste, or a lack of saliva production may make eating difficult or impossible. It is important that patients be followed closely by a dietitian to support them in food and supplement choices and to maintain good nutritional status. If necessary, a speech and swallowing specialist can evaluate a person's ability to swallow safely, without choking or inhaling food.
Social workers can help with the financial burden, handling family responsibilities and accessing resources. Psychologists may be needed to help in dealing with the changes in body image and the patient's role in the family. When speech is affected, speech therapists can help regain function or find alternative ways of communicating. Nurses and physicians can offer help in dealing with side effects and pain management.
Follow-up visits with the oncologist(s) will generally be done every four to six weeks for the first year, every two months for the second year, every three months for the third year, every six months for the fourth and fifth years, and annually after that. A chest x-ray may be performed once a year. In some cases, CAT scans or PET scans are used to evaluate for recurrence of the cancer. For patients whose thyroid gland was in the radiation field, thyroid levels should be checked periodically as they may develop a deficiency (hypothyroidism) and require medication to treat this condition.
If a person is still smoking after treatment, he or she should be encouraged and supported to quit. Patients who continue to smoke are at a significantly increased risk of developing a recurrence or a second cancer, either in the head and neck or elsewhere.
If a patient develops a recurrence, treatment is dependent on the extent of the cancer, what treatments were previously used, and the health status of the patient. The same therapies are typically used (surgery, chemotherapy and radiation), although the drug, dosage, or site of radiation may be different.
This article is meant to give you a better understanding of head and neck tumors. Use this knowledge when meeting with your physician, making treatment decisions, and continuing your search for information. You can learn more about head and neck cancers on OncoLink through the related links on the left.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Great information about laryngeal and oral cancers and speech and swallowing specialists.
Abeloff, M., Armitage, J., Niederhuber, J., Kastan, M. & McKenna, G. (Eds.): Clinical Oncology (2004). Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA.
The American Cancer Society. Facts and Figures. www.cancer.org
Cady, J. (2007) Nutritional support during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: the role of prophylactic feeding tube placement. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 11(6):875-80.
Chan ATC (2005) Head and neck cancer: treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer. Annals of Oncology 16(supplement 2):265-268.
Greene, FL et al. (2002) AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 6 th edition. (American Joint Committee on Cancer) Springer-Verlag, New York.
Licitra, L, Locati, LD & Bossi, P (2004) Head and neck cancer. Annals of Oncology 15 (supplement 4):267-273.
Posner M. Evolving strategies for combined-modality therapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer. Oncologist. 12(8):967-74, 2
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Sturgis, EM & PM Cinciripini (2007) Trends in head and neck cancer incidence in relation to smoking prevalence: an emerging epidemic of human papillomavirus-associated cancers? Cancer. 110(7):1429-35.


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That logic doesn't hold up. If the box doesn't respond, reboot. If it does respond though, then it's highly probable that a reboot isn't needed right that instant, and it can be delayed.
You know for a fact that it would not respond to whether it was recording or not? One of my boxes was unresponsive this morning but I could watch programming from it via MRV in another room. They were not totally unresponsive. They kept doing stuff like recording or showing video.
There are too many variables and this was an emergency situation. Force the damned reboot. Do it at a marginally acceptable time. Since late at night is too far away, do it during the typical commercial break.
Edit to add: Maybe you thought I meant it wouldn't respond. I meant that the answer was not dependable. It may have been recording because it was supposed to or it may have been recording because it got stuck. Doubt they could ask it that.


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Since we are looking at beverages this week - so far with some success and some duds - I decided to turn my attention to sports drinks. These are most often enhanced with electrolytes and vitamins. As I was looking through a local grocery store, I saw OWater Sport Strawberry Pomegranate flavor, and decided to try it next.
Since I wouldn't be "riding (cycling) 50-60 miles of the beautiful Berkshires" as the bottle describes, I decided to do the next best thing ans use this as fuel after my 10 mile run. And it really hit the spot. The taste is slightly sweet and very refreshing. There really is no pomegranate or strawberry flavor though - just slightly sweet with a little tartness.
Each 8 ounce serving of this "natural electrolyte drink" provides 35 calories from 9 grams of sugars. There is also 25 mg sodium (1% of the daily value), 90 mg of potassiumm (3% of the DV), 60 mg calcium (4% of the DV), 102 mg magnesium (6% of the DV) and 10% of the DV for zinc.
The ingredients are purified/ distilled water, pure cane sugar, natural strawberry and pmegranate flavors, electrolytes (magnesium chloride, calcium lactate, sodium citrate, dipotassium phosphate, potassium chloride), citric acid, vitamin E acetate, vitamin A palmitate, folic acid, zinc aspartate and rosemary extract.
I purchased a 20 ounce bottle for $1.49 - but I saw other similar sports drinks for $0.99. Still, I would buy this over G2 Grape Electrolyte Beverage for example, as that has artificial dyes and is sweetened with aspartame, and at just 15 calories less per serving.
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WAIT...don't stop reading; you at the right website and yes, I am reviewing Gerber Graduates For Toddlers Cinnamon Graham Animal Crackers. I have had (and reviewed) many a graham and animal cracker in my lifetime Health Valley Graham Crackers and my favorite, Annie's All Natural Honey Bunny Grahams, however, there is always room for a new member in the animal cracker family. I was looking around and spotted Gerber Graduates For Toddlers Cinnamon Graham Animal Crackers for $1.30 ... Score!
I would have never thought to have these, and I would definitely have been missing out. These crunchy critters are thicker, more flavorful and have more texture than any other animal or graham cracker I have ever tasted. They are thick and dense with a nice snap and soften perfectly within your mouth. The cinnamon graham flavor is prevalent and spot on.
The nutrition information is formulated for children, so 2 cookies have 30 calories and 1 gram of fat. There are 24 "kiddie" servings or about 7 adult servings. Whip out some snack sized plastic baggies and make your own "105-calorie packs". That's right, for 7 crispy, munchy, tasty cookies you will consume about 105 calories and 3.5 grams of total fat (1gram more than Uncle Wally's Smart Portion Oatmeal Raisin Cookies), 7 grams of sugar and no cholesterol or, sadly fiber. The ingredients, while consisting of whole wheat flour and added vitamins and minerals, also contain high fructose corn syrup, enriched flour, sugar and molasses. I guess you could say it is an updated version of a cookie.
While the taste is phenomenal along with decent nutrition and a low price, there is no fiber, 24 grams of fat per bag (the bag seems small but does hold 7 adult servings). I would definitely buy these again, but I will be making my own portion-controlled baggies.


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It was conduct unbecoming to America, unbecoming to Congress — and unbecoming to the office of the presidency — as the nation lurched toward a tax and spending deal on Monday. In the end, it was left mostly undone as America officially went "over the fiscal cliff."
Going over the cliff hasn't started to hurt — yet. One day isn't significant in a financial sense, because the markets are closed, and because corporate payroll departments can delay reprogramming their computers for tax withholding over the New Year's day holiday.
Congress bought itself another day to deal. And the deal-making started for real late Monday night.
Yes, taxes have officially gone up now that we're over the cliff. Ironically, now any vote taken by Congress to make a deal on taxes will be officially recognized as a tax cut. The optics make it easier to vote for cuts, rather than less of a tax increase.
Very little has been said about the mandated spending cuts, known as sequester. Wisely, many in Congress would prefer targeted cuts, which would spare essential services like defense. But that takes us right back to the beginning — which was the other half of the debate: Cutting spending. The biggest spending challenges — Medicare and Social Security — have not been mentioned in terms of this deal.
It looks like Congress may push that decision down the road — but only for another two months, when we will again bump up against our debt ceiling. That is the moment the world will be watching. Will we once again avoid the discipline of cutting spending? That will be a critical moment, not only for America but for the global financial system.
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† Payroll taxes: For sure, and for everyone, the payroll tax will return to 6.2 percent from 4.2 percent where it has been since 2010 — costing the average worker about $1,000 a year.
† Income taxes: If you earn over the likely $400,000 level, or $450,000 on a joint return, be prepared to pay a rate of 39.6 percent, up from the current 35 percent, leaving less in your paycheck as withholding taxes are increased.
† Capital gains taxes and taxes on dividend income would increase to 20 percent from 15 percent for those with income exceeding the $400,000 ($450,000 joint) level.
† Alternative Minimum Tax would be permanently indexed to inflation, so it will not hit most middle-income families.
† Child tax credit, earned income tax credit and $2,500 tuition tax credit would be extended for five years.
† Estate taxes: The latest version of the deal exempts $5 million of assets but raises the estate tax rate to 40 percent above that amount.
The deal will extend unemployment benefits for one year. And payments to doctors who serve Medicare patients would continue at current levels for a year.
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i hope they tear each others shirts off....and pull hair!!
i hope they tear each others shirts off....and pull hair!!
FPNYAnnoying JUBBERS since 2003
What a bunch of High School mentality nonsense.
Why does anyone give a fuck what rubbish these transient nano-celebrities say when they make fools of themselves on Twitter?
You know I hate to say this, and lord only knows I do,since I am not a rap fan,but that Banks girl got a point.And it's valid, and it's major. The gay community,especially little young white boys, have no qualms using the word bitch,hoe,cunt,and nigga, but let someone that is not Gay drop the word that rhymes with maggot all hell breaks loose. I do not understand, and let me also point out that gay men can be real sexist towards women.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
I'm as offended as I was when Nicki Minaj let Eminem say the word on Roman's Revenge: not at all.
SO- Faggot stands for any male who acts female....the n- word was first used for anyone who was lazy or stingy- it came to be applied by slave owners to their slaves....so technically- following her logic, the n- word isn't racist- anyone can be just like faggot doesn't aply to only gays....I'm sure she's be offended if anyone tried to make sense out of that lame argument!
ugh why did my thread get merged with this thread? Faggot Gate 2013 deserves its own thread.
thank you mods for completely missing the point of my thread.
I like Azealia. Not saying she has an excuse to use it...but then again...it's Perez Hilton lol. She gets a pass.
@average joe: i like your style, bro
Well..the shoe...it..kinda..sorta..fits..
I'm one of those people who get overly sensitive when people use derogatory terms, but this didn't bug me and I was surprised to see the backlash she got for it. I mean, maybe it's just me, but I kind of consider her "one of us," if that makes sense. It's easy to see that her connotation for the word wasn't to insult gay people, just Perez.
Not a justification, it's still a disgusting word. But I could care less and I'll still continue to listen to her music.
Azealia: Ima ruin you CUNT
Gays: omg she is so coool lololol and so fresh and shes bi and shes betta than nicki
Azealia: calls Perez a messy faggot
*all hell breaks loose"
I'm in love with her music. Could care less about this drama, although she needs media training.
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Iggy Azaela comes harder, imo.
Azealia Banks - No Problems (Angel Haze Diss)
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Azealia Banks Posts Sales Gains Following Twitter Feuds
The ongoing feud between Azealia Banks and Angel Haze (which then morphed into a*larger spat*between Banks and Perez Hilton over the weekend) has sparked sales gains for Banks over the past week.***
The New York rapper's "1991" EP re-enters Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart at No. 32, posting an 18% sales gain and selling just under 1,000 copies in the week ending Jan. 6, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Meanwhile, Banks' breakout single "212" moved 3,000 downloads last week -- up by 3%.
In total, "1991" has sold 24,000 since its May 2012 release, while "212" has moved 118,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Angel Haze also posted an overall gain for her available songs and "New York" EP; however, the combined sales for all her titles was below 1,000 units for the week.*
Last week, Banks and Haze exchanged insults on Twitter before lobbing hastily prepared diss tracks at one another. On Friday night, Banks then called the openly gay celebrity blogger Hilton a "f---ot," a comment which has since received heavy criticism. Banks' debut album, "Broke with Expensive Taste," is due out in early 2013.
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she ahs used Faggot agian agianst her former producer....i really like her music but the way she going on with useing faggot all the time is making it really hard to do so...
#teambanks for now...
New song coming soon.
Scary cover for the new Azealia Banks single Yung Rapunxel
The cover for the new single inspired by Madonna's Bedtime Story, no?
love the cover hate the song
The beat is cute. It reminds me of those songs that you hear on the runway at a vogueing competition.
Azealia Banks has released a new cover song. Her version of The Strokes' 'Barely Legal'
Just so you guys know, the Official Itunes version of "Yung Repunxel" is being fine tuned and will probably be more commercial.
It will be out next week.
(Love that cover, btw)
Gay people who like (and even worse) defend Azalea Banks are the type of idiots the community doesn't need.
She's not family. A fame whore who claims to be bisexual? Where have I heard that before?
A black person who has no good justification for calling someone a faggot? Tired as fuck and quite outstanding given that someone who hasn't hit retirement age yet may have had to use a separate bathroom just because they were black. Oh and her line about saying "You enjoy me saying nigga" is rich. Essentially copping to being uneducated. Make a fool of yourself all you like, you dumb bitch.
It's amazing that we have our first black president and yet our black youth seem to be dumber. Rosa Parks didn't risk her well being so you could act like a dumb ho on Twitter. Nor did King get shot so you could stand outside in the cold and neglect your children to buy sneakers.
Black homophobia is some shit that needs another 100 years to work out but gay people accepting it? Oh Lord. We don't even have the right to marry yet or to fight workplace discrimination and y'all want to make us look dumb already?
Azealia Banks on why she doesn't care about dropping words like c*nt and f*ggot, how she feels about being labelled a "Twitter personality," and what really matters to her.
...did she just call herself an icon...?
My God, it's like this bitch has a clinical disorder
Azealia Banks finally makes a video for No Problems
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Can't wait for next week! Here's a teaser in the meantime.*
Almost 1 Million views in two days!
Azealia Banks*- Yung Rapunxel*official video
Single #2 is called "ATM JAM" and it's featuring @Pharrell ! !
I know it's a shitty award but too some people even these "count".
Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Azealia Banks
Nicki Minaj
Rye Rye
Best New Artist
Azealia Banks
Joey Bada$$
Kendrick Lamar
Trinidad Jame$
The Weeknd
just saw her perform on sunday...she was amazing and played alot of new stuff from her upcoming album
OMG CockWhore, I'm so jealous! Tell me more, please.
I'm not really feeling this Paul Oakenfold ft Azealia Banks - Venus
Harlem rapper Azealia Banks pulled off from her scheduled appearance at last week's Lollapalooza in Chicago and at Osheaga Festival in Montreal due to 'severe throat infection'.
Get well soon homegirl.
From a new mixtape called Fantasea II: The Second Wave, coming next year . Now where is that album Broke With Expensive Taste???
Azealia Banks has confirmed that her debut album has been delayed by a few more months. Recently scheduled for a release in January, after initially being set for a fall 2012 release, Broke With Expensive Taste will debut in March. Why? Among other reasons, "the label changed their mind," she says.
Azealia Banks hit the scene like a fire cracker – bursting with noise and hype. The nature of the music business is to be moving constantly with no time for rest. But after some time away, the rapper is rejoining the industry with a new album and a new outlook on the things that formed her work.
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Azealia Banks Is Finally Ready To Release The Lead Single From Her Debut LP, Like For Real This Time
Try not to roll your eyes but Azealia Banks is finally ready to release the lead single from never-arriving debut LP Broke With Expensive Taste. The track is called Wallace and its about, in her own words, a man with a Rottweilers head. Sounds great. Theres no official release date yet but the rap diva has already filmed the video. So thats promising.
Its great that the 23-year-old appears to have pulled herself together but is it too little too late? The hype around Azealia has all but died and shes now better-known for her seemingly endless Twitter beefs. Theres no denying the femcees talent but she has a lot of ground to make up. Particularly when you consider that Iggy Azalea now has a number one hit under her belt. See a behind-the-scenes look at the enfant terribles new video in the link...
Controversy-courting NYC rapper Azealia Banks has split from Universal Music Group, according to her Twitter. In one of the extended tweet-tirades that have become her trademark since her 2011 single "212″ elevated her to underground stardom, she declared, "IM ABOUT TO GET OUT OF MY DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS THE BIG SURPRISE!!!!!," fantasized about becoming "the cool indie chick I imagined I would be when I was 14," and repeatedly compared herself to Celie, the protagonist in The Color Purple.


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Awesome catch. You all look like you're 8miles out too, boat looks hardcore!
Nice fish
Great catch! Can't wait till late spring when they start pushing in with greater numbers.
I'm glad you mentioned luck cause we all know you're lacking in the skill department!!! Nice catch Brandon...try not to run over my plastic vessel after this comment
ah you mean that little speck on my radar is not a channel marker, ill try not to send my wake at you!! lol@ Joel caught one sailfish and now he thinks he is so cool, lol hope you can balance on your yak with your head being that big and all!! ill throw a beer at ya next time!!
Ouch, some daggers comin outta that mouth buddy...least make em count...was 4 sailfish! You can have your shot Saturday...Kayak tourney in Pompano...place is going to be peppered with kayaks!
fortunately i will be out further that you could ever paddle(OFFshore) good luck sat im sure we will get an update
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TELANDER: Michael Jordan changed my life
BY RICK TELANDER firstname.lastname@example.com February 16, 2013 12:38AM
Michael Jordan was always the center of attention during his playing days. | Eric Gay~AP
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Updated: March 18, 2013 7:02AM
So what has Michael Jordan meant to your life?
I'll tell you what he has meant to mine. Quite simply, he's where I am. Let's do some dates:
1983. Jordan, 20, playing for North Carolina against Duke, tracks down a breakaway layup by Johnny Dawkins and rises so high that he hits his head on the backboard.
He doesn't just nick the glass; he hits the cushioning and the backboard so hard with the side of his head that it nearly knocks him out. The slender young man sits for a while on the floor until a trainer helps him to the bench and gets a bag of ice for Jordan to put on his head.
I have calculated that the 6-6 Jordan covered about 16 feet on his jump; that seven feet into it his head was almost 10 feet in the air; and that the effect of the backboard might have taken another two feet off his leap, which, of course, he wasn't performing as a long jump.
All told, he easily could have traveled over a small car lengthwise. I was hooked.
1986. Jordan is starting his third season with the Bulls, back from his broken foot the season before, and he is on fire. I am writing a cover story for Sports Illustrated about Jordan, who has averaged 39.4 points to lead the upstart Bulls to a 4-1 record. Some of his dunks have been jaw-dropping wonders.
''I always spread my legs when I jump high,'' he tells me, ''and it seems like I've opened a parachute that slowly brings me back to the floor.''
I started the piece: ''Why do we love Michael Jordan? For the same reason we love Peter Pan. Because he can fly. Because he is a kid and always will be.''
OK, I was more than hooked.
1990. Around the country, punks are shooting kids for their basketball shoes. Spike Lee, in his Mars Blackmon persona, has been hollering: ''Is it the shoes? . . . Money, it's gotta be the shoes!''
I'm writing another cover story for SI, this one a little less giddy. Across the front of the magazine, over the painting of a black male reaching toward shoes strung over an athlete's shoulder, a revolver in the player's back, are the words: ''YOUR SNEAKERS OR YOUR LIFE.''
A lot of the shoes being hijacked are Air Jordans, which can retail for $100 or more. Certain Reeboks go for $170, but Air Jordans are starting to become the gold standard in cool. I talk with Jordan about this. He seems genuinely concerned, certainly not happy.
''I'd rather eliminate the product than know drug dealers are providing funds for me,'' he said.
But practice is starting at the old Multiplex in Deerfield. He's gotta go.
His wealth is only beginning.
1994. Mid-March. SI prints a cover showing Jordan swinging a bat while wearing a White Sox uniform in spring training, missing the pitch by a mile, with the headline: ''BAG IT, MICHAEL! Jordan and the White Sox Embarrass Baseball.'' Inside, the headline was: ''Err Jordan.''
Noooo! Not that! None of it! You don't ridicule this guy! Do you editors in New York know that Jordan is not like other athletes, not a forgiving, run-of-the-mill, shrug-the-shoulders superstar? The dude is a madman, a killer, a looming force of nature.
I was a senior writer for SI then, in my 13th year, and I was stunned at what I had read. Of course, Jordan never forgot. I don't think he has spoken one-on-one or sat for a private photo op with SI again.
He had been SI's Sportsman of the Year in 1991, sitting for a session that turned into a smiling hologram for the cover of the magazine. At the awards dinner, a private event for advertisers and other bigwigs held at the Hotel Nikko in Chicago, Jordan, clad in a glorious business suit from Bigsby & Kruthers, worked the room like the greatest greeter alive.
I couldn't live with this as a journalist residing in Chicago. Jordan hadn't even made his comeback to basketball yet. He hadn't won three more NBA titles, earned a million more honors, made a billion kids' dreams.
Early in 1995, I left SI to become a columnist for the Sun-Times. There were many factors involved, and my love for the magazine and the sports people at the Time & Life Building in New York hasn't faded (that headline notwithstanding). But I couldn't enter my prime as a man and a journalist and have no access to the greatest athlete of the 20th century. Who lived just a few miles away!
It didn't matter if I liked Jordan. (Which I did — do still — though I have been critical and even snide toward him at times.) It was about freedom. It was about making my own mistakes, not being punished for others'.
The world found out about the vicious, cold-blooded competitor Jordan was when he made that taunting, almost cruel speech at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 31/2 years ago. You get it now, SI? Everybody?
So I guess you could say I do what I do because of MJ. And it doesn't look like he ever is going away.


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I used to go to Miami for kicks. The beach, the restaurants, the nightlife-they were all unique in the world; and I must admit, I took a little taste of each. I was like St. Thomas Aquinas-giving in to temptation in order to understand it better, then getting a book deal.
But something happened. All these young people started appearing. They took over the place, what with their tans and taut bodies and tattoos. I was perfectly willing to make an accommodation with them but they weren't interested in me; and today's Miami belongs to them. Now, when I visit the city, I have sunk so low on the "cool scale" as to actually go to museums.
That's how I stumbled across the Wolfsonian. I'd heard about it for years. It was the private collection of some rich guy, and it sounded strange. It wasn't really art, it wasn't really design, it was all sorts of objects-paintings, furniture, posters, appliances-arranged in such a way that they gave insight into the culture they came from. This struck a chord, for, you see, I have my own collection-things I've accumulated over the years, from garage sales, thrift stores, Guatemalan marketplaces, dead relatives, etc. Some representative items: a lamp in the shape of Woody Woodpecker, with original shade (American, circa 1945); a small porcelain bathtub, approximately six inches long, advertising a plumbing supply company in Buffalo, N.Y.; and a meat cleaver that once belonged to Justice Felix Frankfurter. How, I wondered, could this Wolfsonian guy top this?
The Wolfsonian is located right the middle of the trendiest part of South Beach, at Washington Avenue and 10th Street. It's housed in a big, vaguely Art Deco warehouse and storage building. Unfortunately, only a small portion of the space is devoted to exhibits; you are warned by the ticket seller to take the elevator to the fifth floor and the fifth floor only. But once you get there and step out into the foyer and catch a glimpse of all the stuff, you know you're going to enjoy this.
The Wolfsonian operates on a principle different from most museums. I call it Art Plus. In most museums you just get art. Yes, it's very pretty, but what can your mind do with it other than think, how pretty? At the Wolfsonian a whole other layer is added. It's full of beautiful paintings and pieces of sculpture, but they are arranged and explained in such a way that you understand, as a sign on the wall put it, "how the events in the past resonate in our lives today." It's like it's been curated by Paul Harvey-you get "the rest of the story."
An example: On display is a gorgeous stained glass window by Harry Clarke, circa 1923. As the labels explain, it was commissioned by the Irish Free State for presentation to the League of Nations. The style is Celtic Revival and each of its 12 panels celebrates a famous Irish writer. Several of the panels celebrate a little too enthusiastically, though, depicting wenching and boozing, so there was a big uproar and the presentation was called off. Just look at everything you get-global politics, Irish literature, morals, sexy people drinking beer-all in a great stained glass window. What other museum can offer this value?
You learn many lessons at the Wolfsonian, and here are a few that I learned:
Dutch furniture is real ugly. No matter what period it's from, it just looks awful. There were some big Art Nouveau oak cupboards that were so depressing I wouldn't give them houseroom. When it comes to wood, the Venetians had the right idea-keep it painted.
In art that glorifies The Worker, he and his humble family always look fat. Why is this? Is it supposed to show he's well-fed? And that his wife is fecund? There's a statue of a worker's family from the 1939 World's Fair, and they look like they've been pumped up with a bicycle pump.
When imagining the future, they never got it right. Technology always intervened in a way that no one foresaw. At the telephone display, we learn that Alexander Graham Bell was astonished when people started talking on the telephone. He thought they'd use it to broadcast music from city to city. And there's a wonderful painting of a giant "floating island" from the 1930s, when it was thought that transatlantic flights would stop at such places to refuel and the passengers would get out, stretch their legs, do a little shopping, shower, etc.
The genius behind the Wolfsonian is named Mitchell Wolfson Jr., and he's the heir to a family fortune. I met him once at a party and I was very impressed. Even his clothes looked like collectors' items: a sports jacket in the Tyrolean style, over a silk vest that looked Tibetan in origin. Mickey, as he is known to everyone, is the sort of person who travels with an entourage. I was dying to be invited to join, but this was not to be. He did, however, tell me in confidential tones that he had just bought a piece of carpet from the Titanic. "Gee," I said, "Wasn't it awfully soggy?" But it turns out that the rug wasn't actually on the Titanic. It was a remnant. He got it for $9,000, which he felt was a very good price.
The Wolfsonian is a gold mine of fascinating objects, but it has a strange problem as a tourist attraction-it's not big enough. The permanent exhibit takes less than an hour to examine; there are also special shows from time to time (currently on display are propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War), but the bulk of Mickey Wolfson's collection is in storage somewhere. It breaks your heart. You're just getting warmed up, then suddenly it's over. If you're a rich person with, say, $50 million you're not quite sure what to do with, I would highly recommend donating it to the Wolfsonian so they can expand.
The gift shop could stand some enlarging, too. There are some good, hard-to-find books on design and some excellent, very hip items-key chains, glasses, pens, a wonderful doll house ($340)-but again, it just whets your appetite for more, more, more.
I had to wait in front of the museum for my ride, and while doing so I was amazed at how my perspective had already changed by the viewing experience I had just been through. The cars driving by were no longer just cars, they were moving art, heavy with symbolic references. The Betsy Johnson boutique in the next block took on a whole new meaning, as did Sinergy, which sells lingerie for the S&M crowd.
Even the people. The Venezuelan girls in their skintight pants and crucifixes and platform sandals-living examples of the cross-cultural influence of Catholic imagery colliding with permissive sexual mores. And the body builders, the young men who parade these streets with their spectacular tanned and pneumatic torsos-a true design breakthrough. The visual in our society has become so important that young men now design their own bodies. They use as references classical Greek sculpture and comic book action heroes. Yes, those taut young men and women are loaded with artistic and cultural symbolism. And still they won't pay any attention to me.