Free Business Book Is Web SensationSaturday February 16, 3:20 pm ET By Hillel Italie, AP National Writer
Oprah Plug Makes Free Internet Download of Business Book, 'Women & Money' Web Sensation
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Oprah touch doesn't just work for traditional books. More than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" were downloaded after the announcement last week on Winfrey's television show that the e-book edition would be available for free on her Web site, http://www.oprah.com/, for a period of 33 hours.
"I believe `Women & Money' is the most important book I've ever written," Orman said in a statement released Saturday by Winfrey. "So this was not about getting people to buy the book, but getting them to read it, and that was the intention behind this offer."
The download offer "has built excitement for Suze's book across all formats," Julie Grau, the book's publisher, said in a statement.
According to Saturday's statement from Winfrey, more than 1.1 million copies of Orman's financial advice book were downloaded in English, and another 19,000 in Spanish. The demand compares to such free online sensations as "The 9-11 Commission Report," which the federal government made available for downloads, and Stephen King's e-novella, "Riding the Bullet."
The publishing community has endlessly debated the effects of making text available online, with some saying that free downloading is a valuable promotional tool and others worrying that sales for paper editions would be harmed. The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers each have sued Google for its plans to scan and index books for the Internet.
The offer for "Women & Money," originally released a year ago by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House, Inc., has not kept people from buying the traditional version. As of Saturday, the book ranked No. 6 on Amazon.com. The paper edition of "The 9-11 Commission Report," published in 2004 by W.W. Norton and Co., was a best seller for months.
"I can tell you that with respect to the `9-11 Report,' the free download did not seem to hurt sales at all," Norton publisher Drake McFeely told The Associated Press on Saturday. "There were people who wanted it quickly, in a less convenient form, and that was clearly a different market from the people who wanted the traditional book."
He said free downloading of books does concern publishers, but "if Norton had been given the opportunity for an Oprah Winfrey plug, and part of the deal was making the book free online, we would have gladly taken it."
Friday, February 22, 2008
Breast Feeding Benificial
Breastfeeding Benefits Women with Late Age at First Birth
According to the results of a study presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), breastfeeding may lessen the increased risk of breast cancer that comes from having a late age at first birth.
Breast cancer is diagnosed in over 200,000 women annually in the United States alone. Due to its prevalence, researchers have focused on evaluating environmental factors with potential links to the risk of breast cancer. Factors such as diet, exercise, age at menarche (first menstrual period), age at first childbirth, and breastfeeding appear to influence the likelihood of breast cancer. The effects of these factors on breast cancer risk, however, may be different for estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) and estrogen receptor-negative (ER-negative) breast cancers.
To evaluate the relationships among several reproductive factors and ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer, researchers conducted a study among 995 women with breast cancer and 1,498 women without breast cancer. All women were age 55 or older.
An early age at first birth (first birth before the age of 25) reduced the risk of ER-positive breast cancer but did not reduce the risk of ER-negative breast cancer.
Breastfeeding reduced the risk of both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer. Importantly, breastfeeding appeared to reduce the increased risk of breast cancer experienced by women who had a later age at first birth (first birth after the age of 25).
In a prepared statement, Dr. Giske Ursin, one of the study authors, noted, “We suspect that women can reduce the increased risk that comes with later childbearing by choosing to breastfeed.”
Reference: Lord SJ, Bernstein L, Johnson K et al. Parity, breastfeeding and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor status in women with late age at first birth—a case-control study. Presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Los Angeles, CA, April 14-18, 2007. Abstract 2610.
Related News: Early Age at First Birth Does Not Reduce Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Carriers (2/9/2007)
Copyright Breast Cancer Information Center on CancerConsultants.com© 1998-2005 CancerConsultants.com All Rights Reserved.These materials may discuss uses and dosages for therapeutic products that have not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. All readers should verify all information and data before administering any drug, therapy or treatment discussed herein. Neither the editors nor the publisher accepts any responsibility for the accuracy of the information or consequences from the use or misuse of the information contained herein.
Copyright ©2008 University of Florida Shands Cancer Center. All Rights Reserved.Site Created By CancerConsultants.com
According to the results of a study presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), breastfeeding may lessen the increased risk of breast cancer that comes from having a late age at first birth.
Breast cancer is diagnosed in over 200,000 women annually in the United States alone. Due to its prevalence, researchers have focused on evaluating environmental factors with potential links to the risk of breast cancer. Factors such as diet, exercise, age at menarche (first menstrual period), age at first childbirth, and breastfeeding appear to influence the likelihood of breast cancer. The effects of these factors on breast cancer risk, however, may be different for estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) and estrogen receptor-negative (ER-negative) breast cancers.
To evaluate the relationships among several reproductive factors and ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer, researchers conducted a study among 995 women with breast cancer and 1,498 women without breast cancer. All women were age 55 or older.
An early age at first birth (first birth before the age of 25) reduced the risk of ER-positive breast cancer but did not reduce the risk of ER-negative breast cancer.
Breastfeeding reduced the risk of both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer. Importantly, breastfeeding appeared to reduce the increased risk of breast cancer experienced by women who had a later age at first birth (first birth after the age of 25).
In a prepared statement, Dr. Giske Ursin, one of the study authors, noted, “We suspect that women can reduce the increased risk that comes with later childbearing by choosing to breastfeed.”
Reference: Lord SJ, Bernstein L, Johnson K et al. Parity, breastfeeding and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor status in women with late age at first birth—a case-control study. Presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Los Angeles, CA, April 14-18, 2007. Abstract 2610.
Related News: Early Age at First Birth Does Not Reduce Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Carriers (2/9/2007)
Copyright Breast Cancer Information Center on CancerConsultants.com© 1998-2005 CancerConsultants.com All Rights Reserved.These materials may discuss uses and dosages for therapeutic products that have not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. All readers should verify all information and data before administering any drug, therapy or treatment discussed herein. Neither the editors nor the publisher accepts any responsibility for the accuracy of the information or consequences from the use or misuse of the information contained herein.
Copyright ©2008 University of Florida Shands Cancer Center. All Rights Reserved.Site Created By CancerConsultants.com
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Round Ripple Update
Here is a better picture of My Beast that I did for my Pastor. 
Here is a pictue of the one I did for a baby that was born in our church way back in July. His grandmother loved it. Not sure about his parents though.
Just finished this one for a baby girl due in March. This is another lady that is pregnant at our church. The mom loved it. She said it was very pretty. Big sister loved it as well and mom said that big sister would probaly end up "running off with it" until baby comes. I have plenty of leftover yarn in the solid colors so I will be making one of these for my own little girl. The pattern won't be the same and I need to get more of the ocean color. I will post a picture when I get done with it. I also have to do 2 spider man ones, one for a baby boy who was born in December and his mom was able to adopt him. Then there is another lady who is due in April with a boy as well. Yes we have had a "baby boom" at our church. When I told my pastor I was expecting too she said "she was getting all of her new members through babies". By the time mine is born there will be 5 in one year so I guess she is right.
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