thanks for all the love today on the phones wishing me a happy birthday! I certainly appreciate the phone calls...even the ones giving me grief...LOL ;) Hey, if I'm gonna dish it out, I better be able to take it, right? Good times indeed!! Enjoy your long Memorial Day weekend and we'll talk to you next week!! To all of our veterans and men and women currently in the middle east serving our country, we salute you and APPRECIATE YOU!!! God bless!!!
-Austin
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Local girl doing some big things!
A Sparks girl who collects new toys for children who have lost their home will be on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today.
Ashlee Smith, 10, appears on an episode of Winfrey's show that deals with heroes in hard times.
The show airs on KOLO TV Channel 8 at 4 p.m.
Ashlee started "Ashlee's Toy Closet" and has appeared in national publications. She also appeared on "The Bonnie Hunt Show" on Dec. 18.
For the past two years, the Toy Closet program has provided new toys to hundreds of children who have lost their homes to devastating fires and floods in Nevada and California. Ashlee delivered toys to children after the May 16 apartment fire in Reno and is currently raising money and toys for children in the Santa Barbara fires.
Ashlee's goodwill was spurred by her own experience with fire. When she was 6 years old, the family's home burned and she lost most of her belongings.
Great job and Congratulations Ashlee!
Ashlee Smith, 10, appears on an episode of Winfrey's show that deals with heroes in hard times.
The show airs on KOLO TV Channel 8 at 4 p.m.
Ashlee started "Ashlee's Toy Closet" and has appeared in national publications. She also appeared on "The Bonnie Hunt Show" on Dec. 18.
For the past two years, the Toy Closet program has provided new toys to hundreds of children who have lost their homes to devastating fires and floods in Nevada and California. Ashlee delivered toys to children after the May 16 apartment fire in Reno and is currently raising money and toys for children in the Santa Barbara fires.
Ashlee's goodwill was spurred by her own experience with fire. When she was 6 years old, the family's home burned and she lost most of her belongings.
Great job and Congratulations Ashlee!
Fleetwood Mac CANCELLED!
Our sincere apologies going out to all of our listeners who won tickets for the Fleetwood Mac concert in Sacramento last night. The show was cancelled last minute due to an undisclosed illness in the band. Hold on to your tickets, they will be honored at the rescheduled date which we don't have yet, but we will let you know when we get the info! Thank you for your understanding and thanks for listening!!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
This is just ridiculous!
Ladies if you've ever had a problem with your man missing the pot and making a mess, here's a new invention! LOL!!
The Angels Knee Pillow kneeling bench comes in two different models to suit your bathroom budget. The deluxe DX style costing 5,800 yen (about $60) is a two-piece ensemble that oddly resembles a pair of prayer benches, scrolled trim and all. I know one is expected to kneel before the throne, but then unzip and let fly? The cheaper "Eco" toilet bench costs just 4,800 yen (about $50) and is a one-piece design that from above resembles a peanut. Or pee-nut, as it were. The toilet benches are rated at up to 120 kg (265 lbs) of bearable weight so beefy types have an excuse that will allow them to retain their dignity. Both kneelers can be tucked away at the side of the toilet to prevent them from being spattered by those who refuse to use them - just wait 'til the wife sees that!
The Mac in Sac!
Two more chances to score tix to see rock and roll hall of famers Fleetwood Mac in Sacramento this morning. Next chance to win at 7:20(ish)! ;)
-Austin
Friday, May 8, 2009
Pick up lines for Nick's B-day...
If these don't help him get a woman...NOTHING will!
You must be in a wrong place - the Miss Universe contest is over there.
Was that an earthquake or did u just rock my world?
I may not be a genie but I can make your dreams come true.
Are you a magnet cuz im attracted to you Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
I wish you were DSL so I could get high-speed access.
I know its not Christmas, but Santa's lap is always ready.
Baby your like a student and I am like a math book, you solve all my problems.
"Why does it feel like the most beautiful girl in the world is in this room?"
Can I take a picture of you, so I can show Santa just what I want for Christmas.
Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?
I was blinded by your beauty so I'm going to need your name and number for insurance reasons.
If you were the new burger at McDonalds you would be the Mcgorgeous!
Is your last name Gillete cause your the best a man can get.
I'm like chocolate pudding, I look like crap but im as sweet as can be.
If you were a booger, I'd pick you first.
AND Austin's favorite... Did you fart? Cuz you blew me away!!
You must be in a wrong place - the Miss Universe contest is over there.
Was that an earthquake or did u just rock my world?
I may not be a genie but I can make your dreams come true.
Are you a magnet cuz im attracted to you Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
I wish you were DSL so I could get high-speed access.
I know its not Christmas, but Santa's lap is always ready.
Baby your like a student and I am like a math book, you solve all my problems.
"Why does it feel like the most beautiful girl in the world is in this room?"
Can I take a picture of you, so I can show Santa just what I want for Christmas.
Do you have any raisins? No? How about a date?
I was blinded by your beauty so I'm going to need your name and number for insurance reasons.
If you were the new burger at McDonalds you would be the Mcgorgeous!
Is your last name Gillete cause your the best a man can get.
I'm like chocolate pudding, I look like crap but im as sweet as can be.
If you were a booger, I'd pick you first.
AND Austin's favorite... Did you fart? Cuz you blew me away!!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
First ever face transplant!
CLEVELAND - When Connie Culp heard a little kid call her a monster because of the shotgun blast that left her face horribly disfigured, she pulled out her driver’s license to show the child what she used to look like. Years later, as the nation’s first face transplant recipient, she’s stepped forward to show the rest of the world what she looks like now.
Her expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand. Her face is bloated and squarish. Her skin droops in big folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles.
But Culp had nothing but praise for those who made her new face possible.“I guess I’m the one you came to see today,” the 46-year-old Ohio woman said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the groundbreaking operation was performed. But “I think it’s more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person’s face.”
Until Tuesday, Culp’s identity and how she came to be disfigured were a secret.
Culp’s husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.
A plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Risal Djohan, got a look at her injuries two months later. “He told me he didn’t think, he wasn’t sure, if he could fix me, but he’d try,” Culp recalled.
She endured 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took parts of her ribs to make cheekbones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own, or smell.
Then, on Dec. 10, in a 22-hour operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors who replaced 80 percent of Culp’s face with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another woman who had just died. It was the fourth face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive.
May 5: Dr. Maria Siemionow from the Cleveland Clinic and face transplant patient Connie Culp discuss the complex process which involved replacing the entire nose, eyelids, palate and some bones.
MSNBC“Here I am, five years later. He did what he said — I got me my nose,” Culp said of Djohan, laughing.
In January, she was able to eat pizza, chicken and hamburgers for the first time in years. She loves to have cookies with a cup of coffee, Siemionow said.
No information has been released about the donor or how she died, but her family members were moved when they saw before-and-after pictures of Culp, Siemionow said.
Culp said she wants to help foster acceptance of those who have suffered burns and other disfiguring injuries.
“When somebody has a disfigurement and don’t look as pretty as you do, don’t judge them, because you never know what happened to them,” she said. “Don’t judge people who don’t look the same as you do. Because you never know. One day it might be all taken away.”
It’s a role she has already practiced, said clinic psychiatrist Dr. Kathy Coffman.
Once while shopping, she heard a little kid say, ‘You said there were no real monsters, Mommy, and there’s one right there,”’ Coffman said. Culp stopped and said, “I’m not a monster. I’m a person who was shot,” and pulled out her driver’s license to show the child what she used to look like, the psychiatrist said.
Culp, who is from the small town of Unionport, near the Pennsylvania line, told her doctors she just wants to blend back into society. She has a son and a daughter who live near her, and two preschooler grandsons. Before she was shot, she and her husband ran a painting and contracting business, and she did everything from hanging drywall to a little plumbing, Coffman said.
AP
This undated photo shows Connie Culp before her injury.
Culp left the hospital Feb. 5 and has returned for periodic follow-up care. She has suffered only one mild rejection episode that was controlled with a single dose of steroid medicines, her doctors said. She must take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her life, but her dosage has been greatly reduced and she needs only a few pills a day.
The clinic expects to absorb the cost of the transplant because it was experimental, doctors said. Siemionow estimated it at $250,000 to $300,000. That is less than the $1 million that other surgeons estimate it costs them to treat other severely disfigured people through dozens of separate operations, she said.
Also at the Cleveland Clinic is Charla Nash of Stamford, Conn., who was attacked by a friend’s chimpanzee in February. She lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids, and will be blind, doctors said. Clinic officials said it is premature to discuss the possibility of a face transplant for her.
In April, doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston performed the nation’s second face transplant, on a man disfigured in a freak accident. It was the world’s seventh such operation. The first, in 2005, was performed in France on Isabelle Dinoire, a woman who had been mauled by her dog.
Her expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand. Her face is bloated and squarish. Her skin droops in big folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles.
But Culp had nothing but praise for those who made her new face possible.“I guess I’m the one you came to see today,” the 46-year-old Ohio woman said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the groundbreaking operation was performed. But “I think it’s more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person’s face.”
Until Tuesday, Culp’s identity and how she came to be disfigured were a secret.
Culp’s husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.
A plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Risal Djohan, got a look at her injuries two months later. “He told me he didn’t think, he wasn’t sure, if he could fix me, but he’d try,” Culp recalled.
She endured 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took parts of her ribs to make cheekbones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was left unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own, or smell.
Then, on Dec. 10, in a 22-hour operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led a team of doctors who replaced 80 percent of Culp’s face with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from another woman who had just died. It was the fourth face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive.
May 5: Dr. Maria Siemionow from the Cleveland Clinic and face transplant patient Connie Culp discuss the complex process which involved replacing the entire nose, eyelids, palate and some bones.
MSNBC“Here I am, five years later. He did what he said — I got me my nose,” Culp said of Djohan, laughing.
In January, she was able to eat pizza, chicken and hamburgers for the first time in years. She loves to have cookies with a cup of coffee, Siemionow said.
No information has been released about the donor or how she died, but her family members were moved when they saw before-and-after pictures of Culp, Siemionow said.
Culp said she wants to help foster acceptance of those who have suffered burns and other disfiguring injuries.
“When somebody has a disfigurement and don’t look as pretty as you do, don’t judge them, because you never know what happened to them,” she said. “Don’t judge people who don’t look the same as you do. Because you never know. One day it might be all taken away.”
It’s a role she has already practiced, said clinic psychiatrist Dr. Kathy Coffman.
Once while shopping, she heard a little kid say, ‘You said there were no real monsters, Mommy, and there’s one right there,”’ Coffman said. Culp stopped and said, “I’m not a monster. I’m a person who was shot,” and pulled out her driver’s license to show the child what she used to look like, the psychiatrist said.
Culp, who is from the small town of Unionport, near the Pennsylvania line, told her doctors she just wants to blend back into society. She has a son and a daughter who live near her, and two preschooler grandsons. Before she was shot, she and her husband ran a painting and contracting business, and she did everything from hanging drywall to a little plumbing, Coffman said.
AP
This undated photo shows Connie Culp before her injury.
Culp left the hospital Feb. 5 and has returned for periodic follow-up care. She has suffered only one mild rejection episode that was controlled with a single dose of steroid medicines, her doctors said. She must take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her life, but her dosage has been greatly reduced and she needs only a few pills a day.
The clinic expects to absorb the cost of the transplant because it was experimental, doctors said. Siemionow estimated it at $250,000 to $300,000. That is less than the $1 million that other surgeons estimate it costs them to treat other severely disfigured people through dozens of separate operations, she said.
Also at the Cleveland Clinic is Charla Nash of Stamford, Conn., who was attacked by a friend’s chimpanzee in February. She lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids, and will be blind, doctors said. Clinic officials said it is premature to discuss the possibility of a face transplant for her.
In April, doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston performed the nation’s second face transplant, on a man disfigured in a freak accident. It was the world’s seventh such operation. The first, in 2005, was performed in France on Isabelle Dinoire, a woman who had been mauled by her dog.
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