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Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 1992
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "This wine slipped through the a blind tasting with everyone mistaking it for a sumptuous first-growth Bordeaux. When told the identity of the wine, one of the Belgian tasters quickly announced he was going to "order 100 cases." I was quick to point out that (1) the wine is already sold out, and (2) less than 1,000 cases were produced. I have always thought this was a terrific wine, but it was outrageously delicious in this blind tasting. The wine boasts an opaque purple color, followed by a gorgeously sweet nose of blueberries and blackberries intertwined with smoky, toasty oak. The enormously opulent texture, viscous richness, and huge quantities of sweet, pure fruit were deftly balanced by just enough acidity and ripe tannin. This full-bodied, awesomely-endowed wine has never shown better than it did in this blind tasting against some of the greatest wines produced in Bordeaux. Although soft enough to be drunk, it promises to evolve for at least 20 years."
Wine Spectator - "Dark, intense and compact, the focused black cherry and currant flavors giving a rich feel on the palate. A spicy anise finish brings out the supple tannins. An impressive debut, but this wine will only be available directly from the winery, or in restaurants."
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About Napa Valley
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just grated an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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Alcohol By Volume GuideMost wine ranges from 10-16% alcohol by volume. Some varietals tend to have higher (for example Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon) or lower alcohol levels (Pinot Noir and many white varietals), but there is always some variation from producer to producer. Some wine falls outside of this range, for instance Port weighs in closer to 20%, while Muscat and Riesling are usually a bit below 10%.
Wine Style Guide
Light & Fruity
- Red wines that are more fruit-forward and lighter in tannin and body.
Smooth & Supple
- Medium bodied reds that go down easy, with smooth tannins and supple fruit.
Earthy & Spicy
- Wines where earthy and/or spicy dominate the flavors – typically medium to full body.
Big & Bold
- Full bodied wines that have concentrated fruit and are higher in alcohol and/or tannins. Some need age.


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Cattle and beef markets have strengthened in October despite the uncertainty of the past couple of weeks. Feeder and fed cattle prices, along with boxed beef have all advanced compared to pre-shutdown reports with fed cattle showing the strongest relative increase. By the end of this week many of the data holes may be filled in with a clearer picture of slaughter, carcass weights and beef production.
Feeder markets continue to offer high value of gain for stocker production. Though the high absolute price levels for stocker calves is scary for buyers and their lenders, the combination of high price levels and relatively little price rollback means that the value of putting weight on feeder cattle remains very high, in fact, well above what I would expect to see longer term.
Last week, based on reported feeder prices at the Joplin Regional Stockyards, a 476 pound, medium/large frame steer could be purchased for $181.38.cwt. or $863.37/head. Or, a 567 pound steer was priced at $172.68/cwt. or $979.10/head. Notice that the additional 91 pounds of beginning weight only cost $1.27/lb., an important consideration as producers decide what weight to begin the stocker enterprise.
For dual-purpose wheat, winter stocker will be marketed in late February or early March which allows for roughly 120 days of grazing and roughly 250 pounds of gain. That takes the 476 pound steer to 726 pounds, currently at $164.95/cwt. or $1197.54/head. The difference in value per head is a $334.17 gross margin or a value of gain of $1.34/lb. By comparison, the reported price for an 823 pound steer, which is 256 pounds of gain on the 567 pound beginning weight, is $159.75/cwt. or $1314.74/head. This results in a gross margin of $334.64/head or $1.31/lb. There are many combinations of beginning weight and total gain for either dual-purpose winter stockers or graze-out steers marketed in May. In all cases the current value of gain is in the range of $.25-$1.35/lb. of gain. Perhaps most important, current feeder cattle futures prices for March and May would allow hedging with expected selling prices that are at or a bit higher than these current cash prices. Regarding the purchase prices, we would typically expect to see seasonally low calf and stocker prices in the next month; however, I don't expect to see much seasonal weakness given the current market situation. In fact, strong feedlot and stocker demand may result in limited counter-seasonal strength in feeder cattle prices into November.

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Angelina's Diary of a SurgeryPosted: March 24, 2015 Filed under: breast cancer | Tags: Angelina Jolie, Angelina Jolie PItt, BRCA, BRCA1, celebrities with cancer, losing a parent to cancer, prophylactic mastectomy 12 Comments
I just read Angelina Jolie Pitt's op-ed in The New York Times about her second preventative surgery: to remove her fallopian tubes and ovaries. Just as she did with her prophylactic bilateral mastectomy two years ago, Jolie Pitt writes articulately and openly about her laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, using imagery and opinions that those of us who have walked in her shoes immediately understand.
She writes, "The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful."
So much clarity. Amidst untold chaos and unimaginable confusion, there is clarity.
She recounts her consultation with the GYN surgeon, who had also treated her mother: "I last saw her [the surgeon] the day my mother passed away, and she teared up when she saw me: 'You look just like her.' I broke down. But we smiled at each other and agreed we were there to deal with any problem, so 'let's get on with it.'"
I had a similar encounter with someone who cared for my own sweet mama during her cancer treatment. The woman who was my mom's radiation tech is now a nurse in my orthopedist's office. I knew as soon as I saw her face that she was the kind practitioner who blasted pointed radiation into my mom's beleaguered body five days a week for weeks on end. When I encountered her in the orthopedist's office, I was thrown for a moment because she was out of context. But before long we realized who each other was, and she said the same thing to me that Jolie Pitt's mom's surgeon said to her: "You look just like her."
Stupid fucking cancer.
When Jolie Pitt wrote about her mastectomy in May 2013 she cast the spotlight on the issue of femininity being defined by body parts. After her mastectomy she wrote: "I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity." With her latest surgery, Jolie Pitt casts the spotlight on another jarring and difficult result: forced menopause.
Becoming menopausal decades before its natural occurrence is unpleasant, to say the least. The physical and emotional ramifications of forced menopause suck. Really suck. There is no easing into the myriad effects, which can include hot flashes, night sweats, increased sweating, sleep disturbances, mood swings, urinary tract infections, sexual disfunction, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, back pain, joint stiffness, and fatigue. As if that's not enough, throw in the accelerated aging: loss of elasticity in skin, lack of collagen, hair loss, brittle nails, diminished muscle tone, slower metabolism, and weight gain. Suck. At a time when many women are claiming the best version of themselves ("40 is the new 20!" "I've finally come into my own!" et al), early menopause creates instant grannies. Suck. If anyone can shed light on the ugly truths of forced menopause, my money is on Angelina. Yes, she has unlimited financial means and resources unavailable to the average cancerchick, but she also has a platform for educating the masses and she's gonna use it. Hooray!
At the time of this publishing, there were 321 comments on her story; by the end of the day that number will have climbed. The handful of comments that I scanned were positive, but there are some who chastise her for her choices. I'm always amazed at how ugly people can be with the anonymity that our online world provides. How nice it would be if those cowardly, overly opinionated haters could really digest Jolie Pitt's reasoning and respect her choice. How nice it would be if they would re-read the last sentence in this segment of her latest essay:
"I did not do this solely because I carry the BRCA1 gene mutation, and I want other women to hear this. A positive BRCA test does not mean a leap to surgery. I have spoken to many doctors, surgeons and naturopaths. There are other options. There is more than one way to deal with any health issue. The most important thing is to learn about the options and choose what is right for you personally."
Choose what is right for you personally.
What works for you may not be the same thing that works for me, or for your neighbor or your cousin or the woman who works at your favorite Hallmark store. Cancer, like any disease, is an immensely personal issue, and any and all decisions resulting from a diagnosis should be personal.
A solution on paper onlyPosted: March 5, 2015 Filed under: drugs | Tags: chronic pain, hydrocodone, pain management 10 Comments
This is a real-life tale of the fall-out from the FDA restricting the use of hydrocodone, better known by the brand names Vicodin, Lortab and Norco. Notices like this hang from cabinets in every doctor's office I have visited.
I am not a junkie. I am not an abuser of painkillers. prescription or otherwise. I have no desire to self-medicate with painkillers. That's what wine is for. Duh.
Millions of people do self-medicate with Vicodin, though, and last Fall the U.S. government stepped in to try to dethrone Vicodin from its perch as most prescribed medication in the entire country. Vicodin is the Miss America of painkillers. In 2010, doctors in the United States wrote 131 million prescriptions for Vicodin. First runner-up in the Miss America of Prescription drugs was Zocor, a statin that trailed Vicodin by 36 million sripts.
So, too many people asked for Vicodin, too many doctors complied, and an epidemic of misuse occurred in which drug-overdose deaths claimed more lives than car crashes. In drug-overdose deaths, an estimated three-fourths involve painkillers, according to federal statistics. So the government stepped in and reclassified hydrocodone as a Schedule II drug, alongside the most powerful drugs, like morphine and oxycodone. With that reclassification, it became damn near impossible to get a prescription for Vicodin. No longer could a doctor call in a prescription for Vicodin. No longer can a physician's assistant prescribe Vicodin. No longer can Vicodin just sit on the shelf next to all the other drugs; now it must be locked up in a vault.
The sticky wicket with drugs like hydrocodone is that it is one of the most effective drugs against pain, but it is also has the potential to be the most addictive of the prescription drugs. No doubt the misuse of painkillers like Vicodin is a problem and can ruin lives. However, pain has that same potential. Whether chronic or situational after a surgery, pain can ruin your life.
I know, because I live it.
I have chronic pain, from a misaligned and thrice-operated-upon knee as well as from carpal tunnel syndrome. Every single day I have pain. Not just a little bit, either. And not the kind that is alleviated by OTC meds or Tylenol 3. But the kind that not only affects my everyday life but has also changed who I am. Studies show distinct links between pain and anxiety, and that chronic pain destroys our physiological ability to experience joy. This I know to be true. I am at war with my body, and I am losing.
When the pain from my carpal tunnel became so bad that I could hardly use my hands and fingers, especially first thing in the morning, and when the pain awakened me more than one time every night, I knew I had to schedule surgery. I've been putting off the CTS surgery for a while because, quite frankly, I am so done with surgeries. I am so over surgeries. I can't even. Yet I must.
I got several recommendations for hand surgeons and chose Dr P, who did CTS surgery on one of my fellow gym-rat friends. She was back in the gym, albeit at a reduced pace, less than a week after surgery. That reassured me and got me into the exam room for my consultation with Dr P.
Along with my consult, I got a nasty surprise: not only do I have carpal tunnel syndrome, I also have cubital tunnel syndrome, and it too requires surgery.
Yeah, I'm an overachiever that way.
I'd never even heard of this ghastly cubital tunnel syndrome before, and am guessing you haven't either (it is the second-most common nerve entrapment in the entire human body, but is very often misdiagnosed). It's basically nerve entrapment of the ulnar nerve, which runs from the side of the neck to the fingertips. The ulnar nerve passes through the cubital tunnel behind the inside of the elbow and runs all the way down the forearm and into the hand. This nerve provides feeling to the pinky and ring fingers as well as working the muscle that allows us to pull our thumb into the palm of our hand.
There are two ways to fix cubital tunnel syndrome, and they both suck. In medial epicondyltetomy, the bony bump of the inner elbow is removed to allow the ulnar nerve to slide through the cubital tunnel (translation: the surgeon shaves part of your elbow off in order to re-route the ulnar nerve). That seemed pretty horrifying to me, yet the other method is even worse. In ulnar nerve transposition, the surgeon creates a brand-new tunnel for the ulnar nerve by carving a trench in the flexor muscles of the forearm and relocating the ulnar nerve from the cubital tunnel into the newly carved tunnel.
In my case, Dr P won't know which procedure he will need to do until he gets in there. His plan is to make a 6-inch incision along the inner part of my arm between my shoulder and elbow. Then he'll have a little look-see and decide which form of torture best suits my jacked-up body.
So, just to recap: I'll be having not one but two surgical procedures: one to correct the carpal tunnel syndrome, and the other to reroute my errant ulnar nerve. Both surgeries involve the usual cutting, splaying, digging in, and stitching up flesh (and perhaps bone, too). Both surgeries involve jacking with nerves (ouch). The cubital tunnel surgery involves cutting through muscle when the ulnar nerve transposition is called upon to solve the problem. Both methods of correcting the cubital tunnel issue involve physical therapy (in the case of ulnar nerve transposition, PT can last upwards of four months).
My experience with surgeries that involve nerves, bones, and muscle is that the result is pain. Lots of pain. Which brings us back to the government reclassifying hydrocodone.
In the course of discussing the two surgical procedures with Dr P, I asked about pain management. I was reeling from the cubital tunnel diagnosis and the nasty surgery it entails, as well as the hard recovery involved and was totally unprepared to hear him say that his standard of care for pain control — after cutting nerves and potentially shaving off bone and carving through muscles — is Tylenol 3.
Let me repeat: cutting nerves, shaving bone, carving through muscle. A 6-inch incision. Tylenol 3.
Oh, hell no.
I gave him a brief synopsis of all my previous surgeries, which have involved cutting nerves, shaving bone, and carving through muscle, and informed him that Tylenol 3 doesn't do shit for that kind of pain. He countered with an offer of a nerve block during surgery, to provide short-term pain relief. I shook my head in disbelief at the idea of a nerve block making more sense than a prescription for a small number of pills to be used at my discretion. We had reached an impasse.
He suggested I consult a pain-management doctor to discuss a stronger form of pain-killer. Again, I shook my head at the idea that involving another doctor — and adding another layer of expense, to me and my insurance company — made more sense than writing a prescription for a handful of pills.
Guess what? I happen to have a pain-management doctor, because that's how we roll when we have chronic pain. You might think that a pain-management doctor could help a patient manage pain. But when I called my pain-management doctor's office to request a stronger form of post-surgery pain-killer, his receptionist's response was, and I quote, "I can tell you that's not going to happen."
I suspect what she meant was that because I has not seen him recently I needed a referral in order to make an appointment. I have learned the hard way how to read between such lines. So I called Dr P's assistant and reported back. She called the pain-management doc with a referral and was told that I could come see the pain-management doc on March 16 — which is 10 days after my surgery.
I'm still wondering how that would help me.
Going in for surgery is stressful, on many levels. Worrying about pain control afterward should not be a part of that mix.
Here's the bottom line about the lock-down on hydrocodone: there is no longer any difference between a patient who seeks a prescription for a short-term course after surgery/injury and those looking for a fix to get high. The new policy is reductive and buys into the punishing adage of a few bad apples spoiling the bunch. For patients like me, who want the peace of mind that comes with knowing adequate pain relief is available, the lock-down creates shame.
Having to beg for effective, short-term pain relief after a legitimately painful surgery creates shame.
As if that's not bad enough, many pharmacy groups, pain consultants, palliative care specialists, and oncology specialists believe that the lock-down on hydrocodone won't work. These guys realize that the lock-down will likely lead to different, possibly more devastating, problems. Those who seek hydrocodone for recreational use or escapism are going to find it, regardless of the reclassification. But those who need it situationally are shit out of luck. And that's really shameful.
Mary Claire KingPosted: February 12, 2015 Filed under: breast cancer | Tags: BRCA, BRCA1, genetic marker testing, Mary Claire King, Myriad Genetics, podcasts, the breast cancer gene, The Moth 8 Comments
Two new habits in my life brought a crazy-good, goosebump-inducing moment into my life last night, which illustrates the lovely possibility of finding something awesome in an otherwise everyday moment.
My two new habits: walking Pedey in the pre-sunset hour while listening to podcasts. Credit for the first habit goes to Pedey himself, who in his previous life in our former house was the laziest creature on Earth but who has developed a new leash on life (heh heh) since residing in our new abode. Credit for the second habit goes to my medical sherpa and dear friend Amy, who turned me on to the wonderful world of podcasts.
So last night, I was walking Pedey
listening to a podcast, and taking in the beauty of the evening. While much of the country is covered in snow, here in the Great State of Texas, it was a balmy 70-something-degree evening. This is what it looked like when Pedey and I headed out for our walk,
and this is what it looked like when we were nearing home.
Along our walk I tried to ignore the ever-present pain in my bum knee and the increasing discomfort in my hands from this wretched carpal tunnel syndrome. Instead, I forced myself to be present and to notice things like the shapes of the clouds in the darkening sky and the colors on display.
I smiled to myself because I didn't have to rush home to make dinner (I'd cooked a double batch of chicken noodle soup for a friend whose entire family was felled by the flu). Instead, Pedey and I could linger while taking in the view.
The podcast was from The Moth, which for the uninitiated, features real people telling real stories from their lives, live in front of an audience without notes. These are regular people telling personal stories; you can hear the nervousness and emotion in their voices. Each Moth podcast typically contains several stories with a common theme. The one I listened to last night had four stories: a doctor faced with her own father's memory loss; a man recounting his attempts to plan his Bar Mitzvah as a teenager; an archeologist who had a very personal run-in with the effects of climate change; and a doctor whose life is upended as she is on the cusp of a breakthrough in cancer research.
I had listened to the first three stories earlier in the day, while making the soup, and so had the last story to savor as I wrapped up my day with the twilight walk with Pedey. The narrator of the last story, Mary Claire King, told a compelling story that began on April Fool's Day in 1981 when her husband dropped the bomb that he was leaving her to run away with one of his graduate students. The Kings had a 5-year-old daughter at the time, and the very next day Mary Claire was awarded tenure at Berkeley. Reeling from the announcement from her husband and processing the tenure award, she arrived home to find that their home had been burglarized. Her father had recently died, and her mother had just been diagnosed with epilepsy. Add to that chaos that she was due to travel from California to Washington, D.C., to present a grant proposal to the NIH for her research. Yowza. That's what's known as a class-A cluster.
A snafu in Mary Claire's childcare for that trip to D.C. nearly brought her pursuit of the NIH grant to a halt, but thanks to some over-and-beyond help from her mentor and intervention by a kind — and über famous — stranger at the airport, she was able to make the trip, present the proposal and win the grant. I was still agog at her recounting of the airport encounter when she finished her story by saying "that was the beginning of the the grant that has become the story of inherited breast cancer and the beginning of the project that led to BRCA1."
Mary Claire King is the person who discovered "the breast-cancer gene." She pioneered the genetic research that has completely changed the way breast cancer is diagnosed and treated. She has changed the lives of countless women, including the one walking her dog on a beautiful February night in the Great State of Texas. Crazy. And crazier still is the fact that she very nearly did not get on that plane to present that grant that would lead to one of the biggest medical discoveries of this lifetime.
I'm soooooooo glad she did get on that plane.
I have personally benefitted from Mary Claire King's work, and there she was, in my earbuds, telling an incredibly compelling story, the majority of which has little to do with her groundbreaking research and her far-reaching progress in our frustratingly slow war on cancer. I don't carry the gene that predisposes me to breast and ovarian cancer. Being free of the genetic predisposition doesn't really change anything about my cancer "journey." Despite not having the genetic predisposition, I nonetheless have had a bilateral mastectomy and a complete hysterectomy. I find some peace in knowing that my cancer wasn't caused by funky goings-on in the 17th chromosome, and that I'm not passing that funky gene on to my daughter (and son). I don't know what caused my cancer, but I'm fortunate to have had the resources to take the BRCA1 test to find out whether my 17th chromosome had funky goings-on that would indicate causality. I like knowing, even if it didn't change the outcome or my choices in treatment.
Decades before breast cancer entered my world, King was hard at work to figure out how it worked and how to stop it. I love her. From 1974 to 1990, King worked to find a connection between genes and breast cancer. When she began this quest, the prevailing scientific explanation for cancer was a virus; no one thought it could be genetic. But King thought otherwise. She used her previous theory from her Ph.D. , which showed that humans and chimpanzees are 99 percent identical genetically, to pursue a genetic component to cancer. She believed that examiningt the DNA of women whose relatives had breast cancer could lead to a genetic link, and in the pre-internet era, she gathered information by hand and by word-of-mouth. She overcame obstacles from lack of funding to primitive research tools to derision as a female scientist. She prevailed. She rocks.
Those of us unfortunate souls whose lives have collided with a diagnosis of breast cancer or ovarian cancer know about the BRCA component. While a low percentage of breast cancer is genetic, the discovery of the BRCA component affects all of us in the Pink Ribbon Club. My cancer was not inherited, but I'm certainly glad I had the opportunity to learn that. Furthermore, the possibility of future breakthroughs in cancer research are promising. The solution to the cancer epidemic lies in people like Mary Claire King, long may they prevail.
Listen to Mary Claire King's story on The Moth. It's a good one.
World Cancer Day & Stuart ScottPosted: February 4, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Every Day I Fight by Stuart Scott, Jimmy V, Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, mycobacterium fortuitum, nosocomial infection, post-mastectomy infection, Stuart Scott, World Cancer Day 2 Comments
Today is World Cancer Day, and rather than rehashing my own cancer "journey" I'm thinking about Stuart Scott.
A longtime ESPN anchor, Scott was a familiar presence in my house. His wordsmithing appealed to me, as did his irreverancy. In a world populated by former jocks and professional windbags, Scott contributed a cool combination of intellectual breadth and liveliness. Scott's colleague Dan Patrick once said about Scott that "he didn't just push the envelope, he bulldozed the envelope." I'm a fan of bulldozers.
Scott was diagnosed with appendix cancer in 2007. Yes, you read that right: appendix cancer. Weird and rare, there are an estimated 1,000 cases of appendix cancer in the United States annually, compared to nearly 300,000 cases of breast cancer every year in this country. Perhaps this is another reason I relate to Stuart Scott: between his appendix cancer and my post-mastectomy mycobacterium infection, we both faced the question of "who in the world contracts that??"
Stuart Scott wrote a book about his cancer "journey," which explains his gladiator approach to confronting his disease. The cancer community is divided on the "battle" aspect of the cancer fight — some people love the idea of a cancer warrior while others are uncomfortable with the war metaphors — but one thing I know for sure: the cancer experience is a fiercely personal one, and no one has the right to tell another how to do it or which analogies to use.
I read an excerpt of Scott's book and am hungry for more. He was a gym rat, like me, and he leaned heavily upon his workouts during treatment, both for physical strength and for mental health:
"I can't tell you how important it felt to go from the chemo infusion center to the gym. There were patients at the infusion center who were gaunt and too weak to walk. I wanted to hug them. I wanted to work out for them. It took about fifteen minutes to get to the gym from the infusion center, but I felt like I was traveling a great distance: from the land of the sick to the land of the recovering. I'd work out three or four times a week, but the most important workout was the one right after chemo. It was like I was proving a point: While you kick my butt, cancer, I'm gonna kick yours."
In thinking about the name of one of the drugs in his chemo cocktail, Scott realized "The medical name of the medicine is fluorouracil, but they call it 5-FU. That's what it said, right there: 5-FU. All right, I thought. A sign. FU, cancer."
FU cancer. Indeed.
Scott continues: "My return to the gym felt kind of spiritual. I wasn't really supposed to run since I was still connected to the port that was giving me my medicine. I looked down, and my eye caught the logo of the manufacturer of the machine I was on: LifeStyle. That word jumped out at me: Life. I thought back to the first thought I had when [diagnosed]: I'm going to die. But I was still here. And here I was, not forty-five minutes out of chemo, and I was in the gym, doing what I do. I started to run. What could be the harm? The disease wasn't in control. I was."
That sense of control is of epic importance in the cancer "journey."
Scott explains it like this: "Mentally, I needed to be in that gym. I'd talk smack to cancer like Ali talked to his opponents. A third set of push-ups? Take that, cancer. Twenty full-out sprint pass patterns? Cancer, you ever run up against this? Some kicks and punches into the middle of the heavy bag after the elliptical? I got yer cancer right here! I needed to do that, not just to show my girls I was fighting for them, but also to show myself I had some control over the situation. 'Cause cancer wants to take control from you. You've got to very purposefully stand your ground. That's what going to the gym is to me. I decide, cancer."
A few weeks ago I came across the late ESPN sportscaster's speech about his cancer "journey" at the ESPY awards last summer. That speech is powerful. Here's the link so you can check it out.
Scott was awarded the Jimmy V Award at last year's ESPYs and joins an acclaimed list of courageous and inspirational people from various corners of the sports world. Perhaps his career as an on-camera personality gave him the extra flair that made him such an engaging speaker. Maybe that was just his personality. Either way, his speech is compelling.
The take-away message, for me, lie in these words from that speech:
"When you die, that does not mean that you lost to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live."
Stuart Scott taught me a huge and valuable lesson. He did die, but he did not lose. How he lived proves that. Today, on World Cancer Day, I honor Stuart Scott. While at the gym, I will think of his no-mercy approach. I will remember all the days in which I was that patient too weak to walk, and I will silently thank him for all the times he worked out in my stead. For all the times he went straight from chemo to the gym and said FU, cancer.
New year, new gamePosted: January 19, 2015 Filed under: cancer fatigue, Surgery, Uncategorized | Tags: carpal tunnel syndrome, CTS and hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, lateral release for dislocated kneecap, Maque knee surgery, osteotomy, Supartz, Synthetic synovial fluid, thyroid biopsy, thyroid nodules 12 Comments
Two weeks into this new year, I am wrapping my head around a whole 'nother challenge. This new game has nothing to do with cancer (for the moment, anyway — knock wood) but concerns the myriad ways my body challenges me. I refrain from classifying those challenges as failures, i.e., the many ways in which my body is failing me, because that is the new game: the mental side of physical illness.
I'm a fierce player in all aspects of the game that is confronting health issues. All aspects except the mental game. I suck at that part. Give me the worst-case scenario (mycobacterium fortuitum, I'm talking to you) and I will slay it. Give me a long, difficult road on which to travel, and I will keep on truckin'. But tell me that the only weapon I have in which to fight is my mind, and I'm hosed. Tell me to stay positive and look on the bright side, and I struggle. Offer me platitudes and I will want to punch someone. Outlook: not great.
Some of the news ways in which my body challenges (fails) me are minor: graduating to the bifocal club, or needing to hit the hay well before midnight. To those challenges I say let's call a truce. But the bigger challenges are well, bigger. And more challenging. There are three bad guys vying for attention these days: the bad knee, the wonky thyroid, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Awesome.
The bad knee is acting up and acting out. Again. Three surgeries and countless rehab exercises mean nothing to that old hag. The misaligned kneecap is screaming for attention, and the missing cartilage is hunkering for its piece of the pie. Two very squeaky wheels in an already crowded field. The second round of synthetic synovial fluid injections did little to appease the missing cartilage. Despite the giant needle being jabbed straight into the innocent flesh adjacent to the bone-on-bone area, relief evaded me. Upon reviewing my day-after-Christmas x-ray, my orthopedist shifted gears from a previous recommendation of partial knee replacement to osteotomy, which requires cutting the bone at the top of the tibia and using plates and screws to relocate it in its proper place. The one word that comes up when researching the recovery for this surgery: brutal. Standard care is crutches for two weeks and a cane for a month alongside endless physical therapy. Thanks but no thanks.
The thyroid is being an asshole, as well. Long story short: underactive thyroid, two daily meds, and two nodules that may or may not be problematic, and dissenting opinions by my crack medical team as to whether another thyroid biopsy is needed. Being the fierce player that I am, had my crack team concurred, I would have promptly had that biopsy. As much as I detest the idea of another needle being stuck IN MY NECK, I will do it if it's necessary. But if there is dissent on the matter, I'll defer. That said, that asshole thyroid has some wily ways of mucking up my life. Symptoms and side-effects of a wonky thyroid are far-reaching, and just when I think I have them under control (or am at least resigned to them), another one makes its grand entrance.
Which brings us to the third challenge: carpal tunnel syndrome. For a couple of years I've had what I thought was neuropathy: tingling, numbness, swelling, and radiating pain in both hands especially first thing in the morning. It came to a head shortly after we moved into our new house last year, and my GP chalked it up to overuse of my hands and forearms from packing and unpacking endless boxes. A round of steroids and some anti-inflammatories should have done the trick, but instead there is a fresh new hell to endure.
If I employ the "coulda/woulda/shoulda" tactic for dealing with the three most-pressing physical challenges, I find myself regretting my decision to put off treatment even though I had met that $6,000 deductible last year. As I face the blank slate of a reset deductible, I wish I'd sucked it up and had the surgeries and procedures I need. Perhaps I would not be typing this very post with pins & needles fingers. Perhaps I would not be thinking about how stiff and sore my knee will be after sitting at my desk to compose a blog post. Perhaps I would not be chiding myself for having been tapped out by the end of 2014.
Cue the mental side of dealing with a physical issue. Because I did not have these problems surgically repaired, I must figure out how to change my thinking. For instance, I give myself a pep talk on the way to the gym. It goes something like this:
"Don't think about what you used to be able to do, but focus on what you can still do."
"You're here."
"Lots of people more able-bodied than you aren't even trying."
"Don't look at what the other gym-rats are accomplishing; comparison is the thief of joy."
"Even a shitty workout is better than no workout at all."
I'm not very good at this part. I recall the words of my favorite yoga teacher: where my mind goes, so too goes my energy. I envision my faulty parts bathed in a warm glow of healing energy. But it's work. A lot of work. I'm not a fan of listening to my body and accepting limitations; I much prefer to push through the pain. It's a struggle to avoid falling into the "haven't I suffered enough??" mentality, and it's certainly not a great way to start a new year. But, instead of deciding that this old dog can't learn a new trick, I will become a player (albeit not a starter) in this mental game. As the great Yogi Berra once said, "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
#nofilterPosted: November 6, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: carpal tunnel syndrome, Dog from Up, funny bone, micobacterium fortuitum, nerve conduction velocity test, neurological testing for ADD, post-mastectomy infection, PTSD, PTSD from cancer, Squirrel! 10 Comments
What kind of moron schedules an appointment with a new specialist while recovering from yet another revision to breast reconstruction? Probably the same moron who thinks yet another revision is no big whoop and expects recovery to be swift. Will I never learn??? And the post-surgery antibiotics are wreaking their usual havoc and using black magic to cause me — a non-meat-eater and pet-pig owner — to crave ham. Ham. Of all things.
Dr E, the neurologist I saw yesterday for the mystery neuropathy I've been having in my hands, offices in the medical plaza adjoining the hospital to which I was admitted in early June 2010 for the nefarious post-mastectomy infection. A small PTSD episode may or may not have occurred inside that plaza at 8:30 a.m. yesterday, in which I stepped on to the wrong elevator en route to Dr E's office and found myself not in the plaza but on the 9th floor of the hospital. I was transfixed and rooted in place, knowing I was not in the right spot but temporarily unable to grind the right gears and get out of there. I stood there, sweating profusely and shivering alarmingly near a giant window overlooking the freeway that leads from the hospital back to my home, in the Land of Sugar. The dregs of a rainy-day morning rush hour in Houston creeped along that freeway as I watched it, momentarily paralyzed with the searing memory of looking out that window on day 6 or 7 of that hellish hospitalization. My kids had just finished their second- and fifth-grade years of school; I had turned 41 just a week before that hellish hospitalization. Summer glistened ahead of us as I began a protracted and ugly battle against a rare and nasty infection following a cruel and unexpected cancer diagnosis. If someone had predicted that nearly 5 years later I would be paralyzed simply by being in that same hospital, I would have rolled my eyes and scoffed at that lame-0 idea. Suffice to say, no eye-rolling or scoffing occurred.
But instead, I was like this (pardon the profanity; it's fitting and again, another example of me having no filter):
A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad dayPosted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: cancer fatigue, drugs | Tags: Alexander and the Terrible, Aromasin, aromatase inhibitors, Horrible, Judith Viorst, No Good, O magazine, Very Bad Day 10 Comments
To quote from Alexander, the hero of Judith Viorst's timeless children's book, today was a "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day."
Actually, truth be told, it's been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad month. It's been a death-by-a-million-paper-cuts month.
I didn't wake up with gum in my hair or miss out on dessert at lunch like poor Alexander did. But it's still been a THNGVB day.
This is dangerous territory. As a cancer "survivor" I should be grateful. I should be happy. I should be thankful to be alive and (more or less) in one piece.
To which I say, screw the "shoulds."
Of course I'm grateful to have "survived" cancer (and of course I recognize that the "surviving" only hold true until the day in any given month in any given year that the cancer comes back. Which it does for some 40 percent of women diagnosed with early-stage, favorable breast cancer). I am happy that I'm not currently metastatic. I am thankful to be alive. None of this, however, cancels out the rest of the yucky stuff involved, and sometimes a girl's gotta vent.
Today was the tipping point of my THNGVB month. A punctured tire this morning turned today's to-do list into a scrap in the recycle bin. A cut on my leg from two weeks ago has become red, hot, painful, and pussed instead of healed. My attempts to slather it in Neosporin and cover it with a band-aid didn't cut it (heh heh) so I'm now back in antibiotic hell. Cue the nausea, thrush, and terrible taste in my mouth, which join the dizziness, joint pain, neuropathy, fatigue, mental fog, muscle weakness, hot flashes, and sweating. Sheesh. I mean, sheesh.
I've been blaming this fresh hell on Aromasin, the latest aromatase inhibitor I've been taking to stave off a recurrence of my cancer and (theoretically) live a longer life. However, I've had the luxury of being off the dreaded Aromasin for a two-week period in advance of and following surgery. Yes, another surgery. Don't be jealous. Perhaps it takes more than a two-week window to rid oneself of the nastiness Aromasin brings. Perhaps I'm just a whiner. Either way, I don't feel good and I firmly believe that in some cases, the cure is worse than the disease.
Attempts to ameliorate any one of these symptoms are for naught. Taking a probiotic. Counting my blessings. Backing off of the intensity of my workouts. Viewing photos of baby donkeys and Golden Retriever puppies. Lighting a yummy-smelling candle. Drinking more water. Making an appointment with a neurologist. Doing a good deed for a friend in need. Nothing is helping. Nada. Nuttin.
In my most recent attempt to carve out a moment of not-hell, I read this quote in the current edition of Oprah's magazine:
In our day-to-day lives, it's easy to become overwhelmed with responsibilities and challenges. Having enough time to give to everybody who needs you and have any left for yourself is a constant struggle. But in the long run, designing space for you is the only way you can survive without burnout and resentment. There is no life without a spiritual life, and spirituality is like a muscle. It must be fueled. Fuel yourself with beauty, inspiration, music, laughter, nature, a hot soaking bath, silence. Whatever form it takes for you. Know this for sure: You have more to give when your own tank is full.
Dammit, Oprah! I'm trying. I'm trying to design space for me and to fuel myself. But what does one do when nothing is working?
I suppose I'll have to take a page from Alexander's book and move to Australia.


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I'm Naomi and my passion is sharing my aspirations and inspirations on how to live a FIT and BALANCED life. I'm a former couch-potato, four-time marathoner recovering from Adrenal Fatigue, and student at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
I can often be found exploring the dog-friendly San Francisco Bay Area with my miniature poodle Coco Pop.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Begin Where I Am
In the Spring I had grand visions of lots of long summer runs where I ran watch-free and didn't care about mileage or pace or distance. I wanted to have a couple of months of carefree running, the way I did before I ever ran a race. Kimra calls it "Running Stupid", and that's exactly what it is. Suffice to say that my summer hasn't gone exactly as planned, yet I kind of feel like it did because in a way, I'm back to where I began. And by that I mean I feel like I'm starting over with a clean slate.
Injury forced me to take more rest over the past 9 weeks than I ever would have without the injury. And for the past 7 weeks (and counting) I've been going to physical therapy and working on building a mind-body connection. My physical therapist promised that if I kept up with my exercises, I'd start to see muscle changes in 8-10 weeks. That promise has motivated me to do my PT exercises every single day – and sometimes twice daily. So now we are approaching 8 weeks and I am feeling much better, stronger even.
Now is the time to see where I am at and if my hard work has paid off. This is where my Summer begins.
This Sunday I'm running my "home town" SFM 2nd Half Marathon and I am so excited for it! However, I know that I am in no shape to "race" this race and have no illusions of a PR, or anything close to it. That being said, I know I am strong enough to run it and it is an opportunity to have a long, supported run. It's also the perfect opportunity to gauge where I am at as I start to train for Fall races.
Looking to the Fall…
Having trained for 5 marathons, started 4 and finished 3, I've decided that I need to be more selective with my races this year. I'm tired of working hard through a training cycle and not being able to get to the Finish Line, let alone the Start Line. With that in mind, I have just 2 races on my Fall schedule.
The first one is the San Jose Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon on October 7th. It's 10 weeks after SFM, which gives me time to get back into shape. It's also 4 weeks before the second race on my calendar, and the one I am more focused on – the New York Marathon.
I have a cousin running NYCM, family flying out for it and comp'd hotel rooms for a few nights so it only made sense for this to be my "one and done" year to run it. To be able to do so, I joined the National Stroke Association's Challenge Team and am raising funds to help stroke victims and build programs for stroke education. Having had so many family members suffer strokes, it's something that I strongly support.
Running for a cause greater than my own has given me a different perspective on preparing for this race.
People are generously making donations to support my cause with the faith that I'll be able to complete this challenge. I don't take this lightly. This time I am running for a greater purpose and feel a greater sense of responsibility. With this in mind it is important for me to listen to my physical therapist, coach, trainer and most importantly my body.
So as I go into this weekend and beyond, I'm erasing from my mind everything that's happened in the past. I'm beginning where I am now and hope to train smart so I can make to the Start Line and happily make it to the Finish.
I plan to document this training cycle more closely than previous ones so that those who have donated to my fund can follow my training progress. So if you should feel so incline, join us on this latest journey of mine!
Week End Recall – Cautiously Optimistic
After last weekend's DSE Run, I took Monday as a Rest Day, and then resumed running on Tuesday.
Tues, 7/17
5-mile Run:
I worked from home that day and ran during my lunch hour. It wasn't as hot as I anticipated. Even better, my knee felt a slightly better. I only felt it mildly once or twice – nothing like at the DSE Run. I also didn't feel my Piriformis pain! However, the foot numbness lingered – in the very beginning, at 3.5 miles, and again at the very end. It's a little frustrating (okay a lot) because when my foot gets numb it's not painful, but I have been adamantly instructed not to run through it. So I'm forced to take walk breaks until it subsides, which is thankfully, was just a few seconds.
I started doing a couple of new things with this run:
1. I did ALL of my assigned PT exercises immediately before running.
2. I used an old pair of shoes to see if it would make any difference with the foot numbness.
3. I tied my shoelaces differently.
I'm don't think #2 and #3 made any difference, but I think #1 did. I also had a massage on Monday evening and had my IT Band at the hip worked on. It was extremely painful, but I think loosened up the fascia quite a bit.
Wed, 7/18
45-min Bike Trainer
1-hr TRX Strength Training
Thurs, 7/19
5-mile Run:
I worked from home and ran during lunch again. I also did all of my PT exercises just before heading out. I zero knee pain and very minimal foot numbness at the very start of the run. It went away within the first half mile and never came back. This run left me feeling cautiously optimistic.
Fri, 7/20
RunFit Visit #6:
My Physical Therapist decided to try a new treatment called "Negative Pressure Myofascial Decompression" therapy on my IT Band and Piriformis. I had never heard of it and didn't know what to expect. Basically, it's suction cups that are put on the affected area. There's a tube thingy that can adjust the pressure. You can read more about it here. So yeah, I had it done on my IT Band and
butt Piriformis. It's more intense than ART and Graston and leaves uglier bruising.
She also introduced more strengthening exercises. These new exercises are done on weight machines at the gym and mimic running motion. I have to do them slowly so that I pay attention to form. Eventually it should translate into better running form.
We ended the visit with a little chat on managing expectations. She reassured me that she is seeing huge improvements in my strength and form but I need to remember to:
• Practice Body Awareness – if something hurts or feels off STOP – don't push through it.
• Be liberal rest with days.
• Keep doing what I'm doing and don't sacrifice all the work and effort I've done so far by falling back into bad habits and bad form.
• Be realistic about next week's race (San Francisco Marathon – 2nd Half). It's not a goal race so I shouldn't treat it as such. It's just a long training run.
45-min Swim:
Since I've lost almost all endurance over the past 2 months, I spent some time in the pool swimming laps to work on building it back up again.
Sat, 7/21
6-mile Run:
I wasn't aware that hot summer temperatures were arriving in the Bay Area this weekend. By the time I started running it was well after 9 am and already hot. I didn't bring any water with me and suffered. It was tough but I managed to finish without incident…AND WITHOUT PAIN! It was my second consecutive run without any Knee or Pirifomis pain and very little numbness in my foot.
Later that day my cousins and I had lunch at a new (to me) gluten-free restaurant in Palo Alto called "Asian Box." I like to call it the "Vietnamese version of Chipotle." And it's just as yummy. In fact it was so good we went back that evening to pick up takeout for dinner and lunch today (not kidding!).
Sun, 7/22
4-mile Run:
I finished the week out with a 4-mile run. I woke up much earlier than Saturday so I could have time to do all of my PT exercises and run before it got blazing hot again. I'm happy to say it was my 3rd consecutive run with no pain and minimal foot numbing. Besides everything that I listed above, I think another key has been icing my leg as soon as I'm done running. I think icing and stretching within 20-30 minutes of finishing my runs have been a tremendous help.
I hope that I've turned the corner on this thing and can put more effort into building up my endurance again.
5 Blog Posts I Loved This Week
Who doesn't love Friday's? It's been a pretty good week for me all around so I thought I'd end it by sharing some of my favorite readings from the past week:
1. Is Running Actually Healthy? And why do we care?
Jojo wrote this post in response to an article that appeared on SFGate.com (the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle) and I couldn't agree with her more.
"We run to discover more about the world we inhabit, to connect with ourselves and others, to find out who we are and what we're capable of, to seek solace in sorrow and to celebrate life's blessings. We run from our primal instinct to move and transform. Sometimes we're driven to run by forces unknown."
"Running may be my vice or my virtue, but in any case, it brings me joy."
2. DIY Yoga Mat Cleaning Spray
This blog post is from the folks at Free People – yep the clothing brand that I always see in tbd at Nordstrom. I started reading their blog just a few weeks ago for creative inspiration and was pleasantly surprised to read that they blog on a variety of topics. This one piqued my interest. I haven't actually tried it yet, because I haven't been to yoga in a few weeks, but I will definitely try it after my next Bikram Yoga class…which will hopefully be soon…
3. Need to spice up your site? Try this unlikely resource for cheap and cheerful graphics!
Not only does the Girls Guide to Web Design Team provide an amazing E-Learning course, but also they also routinely write posts on tips and tricks for Web design. Being someone who is still trying to unleash the "Creative Me", I am a sponge absorbing all the knowledge they share. This was a great post on resources to find graphics for blog.
4. Mediterranean Chicken and Artichoke Salad
A simple salad recipe from one of my favorite food bloggers! I made this salad mid-week and have been having it for lunch for the past couple of days. Not only is it filling, but simple to make. I am not really a fan of sauces, dressings and condiments. I prefer to add flavorful ingredients to salads like feta, sun-dried tomatoes and caramelized shallots instead. But the made-from-scratch dressing in this recipe was light and really added to it's flavor. It's a perfect summer dish!
My overall favorite post of the week was this very personal and honest one written by Andie (same blogger at Item #4). As I commented, this post felt all too familiar to me. I could empathize with her because despite being blessed with a pretty great life, I also have dark moments filled with overwhelming sadness. This is a difficult topic to open up about but reading posts like this makes me feel like I'm not alone in my similar struggles. I find it therapeutic and uplifting.
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Dan Markingson and his mother, Mary Weiss, in 2004
A University of Minnesota bioethics professor is criticizing the university's review into its drug research program, detailing many conflicts of interest and questioning the backgrounds of the appointed investigators, including one involved in an alarming medical malpractice case.
In a July 16 blog post on his website, U of M associate professor Leigh Turner criticized the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research (AAHRPP), an organization that the university hired last month to review its clinical trials on human subjects. In the post, Turner points to a number of questionable aspects of the organization's review, most notably that the group will only look into current research practices, despite the university's troubled past.
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"What appears to be underway is a carefully managed 'review' that is designed to ignore the elephant-in-the-room," Turner writes. "...Once again, senior university officials have eliminated the possibility of a meaningful independent inquiry."
That "elephant-in-the-room" that Turner's referring to is the case of Dan Markingson, a schizophrenic man who committed suicide while part of an anti-psychotic drug study at the university in 2004. Markingson's family sued the university, saying that while they repeatedly tried to pull Markingson out of the study, the researchers refused to listen.
While the study has since been investigated, there are questions about those reviews, with fellow U of M bioethics professor Carl Elliott calling one of the investigations, "misleading, remarkably uncritical, and often simply baffling."
Turner says the Markingson study is important to the new review in two ways. First, because this new inquiry will only look at current research practices, it will avoid having to review the Markingson case and other ethically controversial cases. In addition, Turner says, one of the reviewers that the AAHRPP appointed for the case, Melissa Frumin, was a defendant in a lawsuit that was alarmingly similar to the Markingson case.
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In that case, Frumin served as the chair of an Institutional Review Board overseeing a Massachusetts study on gene transfer in which a patient, Robert Zeman, allegedly received a "double dose" of the medication on one side of his body. However, Zeman alleges, he only saw a consent form letting him know of that of dosage after he had received the treatment. From there, Zeman saw his condition deteriorate, prompting him to sue his doctor and the Institutional Review Board overseeing the study, saying that the board didn't properly review the study or its consent forms.
Frumin was ultimately removed as a defendant in the case, but Turner says that doesn't matter -- for the university reviewers to choose someone involved with a lawsuit so close to the Markingson case is just irresponsible.
"Out of all the people you could go out and find, there are thousands of [Institutional Review Board] chairs," Turner tells us. "Why would you pick her? That just seems bizarre to me."
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On Twitter, someone posed this question: Who put Costas on in the middle of a football game so he could spew his one sided beliefs? Another tweeter sharply recommended Costas stick to football ... the more you talk, the dumber you sound. And on and on it went. The message resounded: Bob Costas, just shut up.
All from this: If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, Costas told a TV audience of more than 20 million, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
The reasons for the pushback were familiar when a celebrity — be it musician, sportscaster, even news anchor — bypasses what the public believes is that star's area and expounds on issues in the larger world. But as our world grows into a place where anyone with a smartphone and an Internet connection can rant far and wide, celebrities, it seems, are still held to a higher standard — or a different one — than the rest of us.
Reaction to Costas' remarks was swift, with much of it harsh, ranging from the scolding hosts of Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends the next morning to agitated sports fans typing tweets as they watched him on NBC's broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles-Dallas Cowboys game.
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Technology has leveled the playing field (so to speak) for distributing opinions and ideas to the world. Granted, most people don't have 20 million listeners at their command, as Costas did Sunday. But everyone can post a comment on any topic that, via social media, can reach a global audience.
Consumer feedback is solicited by media outlets and other organizations around the clock. A public forum for opinions that can span the world is guaranteed anyone in reach of a Wi-Fi connection.
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Lionsgate's TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family — or so they thought.
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Israelis have been barred from entering Egypt's Sinai Peninsula via the Taba crossing due to serious and credible terror threats.
Other foreign nationals were allowed to enter the area, according to reports
Over the weekend the Israel Defense Forces said it had increased its preparedness and raised the level of alert "following concrete information regarding the Hamas', as well as other terror organizations, intentions to execute another terrorist attack along the Egyptian border in the very near future."
By Saturday morning, Israelis were banned from using the crossing, the first time that the border with the Sinai has been shot down since it was first opened in 1982, according to Haaretz. The following day the border was reopened, but Israelis were prevented from entering the hotel and casino near the crossing.
In mid-August, eight Israelis and at least five Egyptian soldiers and police were killed in a coordinated terrorist attack on Israeli civilian vehicles near Eilat in southern Israel. The terrorists reportedly entered Israel through the Sinai.
Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces said Sunday that they discovered and confiscated anti-aircraft missiles and shoulder rocket launchers in the Sinai Peninsula, according to the AFP. The weapons were likely destined for Gaza, according to the report.
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Baroness give listeners a final taste of what's to come on their eagerly anticipated new album Yellow & Green (July 17, Relapse Records) with the premiere of a third song, "Eula," today via Spin.com.
Also included in Spin's summer album preview, the magazine describes "Eula" as "dripping with chantable harmonies and immersive riffs."
The East Coast-based band is featured on the August cover of Hails & Horns Magazine, where the quartet discuss the writing and recording of Yellow & Green and playing the new songs on the road. Baroness is also the July cover story for Decibel Magazine.
Baroness have previously released two songs from Yellow & Green: "Take My Bones Away"; streaming here and "March to the Sea"; streaming here; in-studio clip here.
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I use Kodo JDO for my persistence layer of a multi-tenant application and a big factor in memory usage is the schema information loaded per database. Every organization who uses my application has their own database. The application does not support clustering or session serialization. Retrofitting it to support those is out of scope for this project.
Each instance of Tomcat is limited to 4GB of heap to keep the garbage collector from choking. No single instance of Tomcat has enough memory to load the schema of all the databases needed for all organizations.
Tomcat's load balancing is typically done by session. Doing balancing by session can lead to one instance loading more schemas than its memory can hold and it will die a slow and painful death ending in a GC Overhead Limit.
My current workaround is to use multiple explicitly separate instances with separate host names. Each organization is given access to one of these host names.
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