Celebs and Gossip: October 2010

The Cancer Sleeper Cell

I continue to read about cancer; my type of cancer and cancers in general. I have four primary sources: 1) The daily Wall Street Journal, 2) The Sunday New York Times, 3) friends/family who send me articles, and 4) Google alerts. For those not familiar with Google alerts, it is a Google feature which allows one to set up specific searches to run continuously, daily, or weekly for subjects in which one has an interest. This is where I find most of my cancer-related reading materials. For more information on Google Alerts, just google it.

Today's Sunday New York Times Magazine section had a fascinating research-oriented articles on cancer stem cells, "The Cancer Sleeper Cell." It's a long article, but provided added insight into my understanding of how important it would be to fighting relapses if one could identify, isolate, and destroy the cancer stem cell. What the article highlighted for me was that researchers believe that only one bad cell in a million bad cancer leukemia (a blood cancer) cells is a stem cell which can cause a relapse. The hypothesis being that if they can kill that one cell in a million, they can stop the cancer from relapsing. They were able to take this finding and apply it to various solid tumors. It also raised other important questions about what defines a cure and how to measure a treatment's success.

I was able to Google the article and the link is...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31Cancer-t.html

For those that are interested, enjoy this somewhat intellectually challenging reading. Take care everyone.

Ed

tea time

I love caffine, but I'm a self confessed coffee snob, latte, full fat cows milk and one real sugar has to be had before 12pm, made by a barrister on a CLEAN machine and I don't want to wait longer than 5min for it! However, having said that, my favourite hot beverage is tea made by me. I'd give up my one (high maintenance) coffee in a second if I had to choose between the two. So today I thought I'd share a few little treasures we have in store for fellow lovers of the leaf!

And for the more understated tea drinker we have these...

lovely sea creatures

I recently met a friend who told me to check these out. I did and now I want one right right now! Not sure if they are in Australia yet, but I'm on the case. At prices starting from 400 Euro, I might be saving for a while. What a talented little knitter Christien Meindertsma is. They are made from New Zealand wool and hand knitted. Her needles are as big as broomsticks!

Hunter Valley Vintage

We were lucky enough to spend this weekend in the Hunter Valley. We're not huge wine buffs, but we always manage to leave with something in a bottle. However last time we were there we discovered this great shed full of antiques and restored furniture Hermitage Road Antiques, right across the road from Piggs Peake Winery, if you are a wine buff. It was top of the list of places to go and people to see and instead of leaving with a case of wine, we left will a boot full of wood in the form of two chairs and a carved out tree stump used for feeding cattle warm rice during the winter in South Korea 200 years ago... true story!

house doctor

House Doctor is a Danish based interior company, who's style is created by "mixing rather than matching the elements". No item is too formal and each have a subtle organic twist to them. I love this lamp, it's a little bit vintage, a little bit Danish. The beautiful items featured here are due in store late October.

The gorgeous ceramic vases above are only quiet small if memory serves me right. But a cluster of them together just works so well you really need to have three or more. The lovely muted tones are enhanced even more by the distressed glazed finish.

Below are a few items I'm pretty sure I didn't order, however I think I'll add them right now. The world has gone owl mad recently so I'm sure these sweet little candle holders will do well. And everyone needs a thermos to keep their fresh homemade limeade cool on a hot summers day.

Not too sure about these lamps? Let me know what you think.

better days

Marilyn Monroe recovering from appendectomy (1952)

After having an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday night I can assure you I don't feel or look as hot as Marilyn, hopefully my scar will look a little better! Thankfully I have a freezer full of organic chicken soup, my MacBook and a divine husband to look after me.

Celebrity Kristen Stewart PIctures and Wallpapers

Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an Hollywood actress. She has acted in films like Panic Room, Zathura, In the Land of Women, Adventureland, The Messengers, The Runaways and is best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga.

Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer and Jules Mann-Stewart, a script supervisor. Kristen Stewart has an older brother, Cameron Stewart. Stewart currently lives in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Stewart has expressed a desire to live and work in Australia. Apart from acting, she is also interested in attending college in the near future and wants to be a writer. In Vanity Fair, Stewart admitted that she dated Michael Angarano, her co-star from Speak.

Birth Name : Kristen Jaymes Stewart
Popular Name : Kristen Stewart
Birth Date : April 9, 1990
Birth Place : Los Angeles
Profession : Actress
Years active : 1999–present