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A Pint With: Sean Wilson, Founder of the Fullsteam Brewery in North Carolina
Chatting about beer with the folks who make it.
"The West Coast has hoppy IPAs, the Midwest has a strong tradition of pilsners and lagers, but the South has no real (craft) beer tradition."
Sean Wilson has a vision for the beer scene in the American South. Using heirloom grains and other ingredients from North Carolina farms, he and his collaborator, Chris Davis, hope to create a distinctly Southern style of beer.
They will open Fullsteam Brewery in Durham late this winter or early next spring. I chatted with Sean about the challenges he's faced and his plans for the brewery.
Name: Sean Wilson
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Occupation: President of Fullsteam Brewery
Tell us a little about Fullsteam and what you envision for your beers and your brewery. Fullsteam's mission is to be known as a distinctly Southern brewery. We accomplish this by brewing delicious beer using locally farmed ingredients, heirloom grains, and seasonal botanicals.
I'll admit it: upon first glance, we seem sort of out there—particularly for the American South. But our early test batches are producing some truly unique, well-balanced beers that go well with Southern food: Scuppernong Sparkling Ale, Sweet Potato, and a smoked brown porter called Hogwash! that's perfect with barbecue. We don't consider our beers "extreme." Quite the opposite. I often say that we make "beer for people who think they don't like beer."
As for why we went this "Southern Ag" route: when I first decided to start up a brewery, I quickly realized that I didn't want to mimic any existing trends. The West Coast has hoppy IPAs, the Midwest has a strong tradition of pilsners and lagers, but the South has no real (craft) beer tradition. That doesn't mean there's a shortage of great breweries. In fact, there are so many breweries making traditional styles that it'd be foolish to be yet another pale ale-IPA-porter-stout brewery. We'll offer those styles for sure, but I think we'll be known for our more experimental, "plow-to-pint" offerings.
Where are your ingredients from? What sorts of special ingredients and botanicals are you looking to include in your beer? We haven't committed to any particular farms yet, but we've worked with Four Leaf Farm (rhubarb in Liborius Gollhardt), Kudzu Kow Farm, the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, Full of Life nursery for local paw paws, and the Durham Farmers' Market for a bunch of ingredients.
We've used some things from our own gardening efforts: figs from two trees on our property and home-grown basil. Just today I asked Chris if he had any ideas for the bushels of lemon verbena and pineapple sage I have in our garden—the first frost is imminent. I'm currently reading Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons, a sort of bible for foragers written in the early 1960s. Acorns, wild ginger, daylilies, dandelion—it was (almost) all fair game to Gibbons. It may seem far out there, but we humans have a rich history of fermenting what we forage.
How does Fullsteam fit into the American craft brewing movement? You've mentioned elsewhere that in the battle between East and West coast beer styles, the South gets lost in the mix. Right now we're just two guys with a dream and a lot of funds tied up in build-out. Eventually we hope to grow into a thriving brewery that serves the entire South.
Interestingly, we've had a fair amount of interest from restaurants in Seattle, Chicago, and New York. That's a huge honor and a curious development. But I'm even more excited to connect with locals who haven't yet discovered craft beer. Brewing with Southern farmed ingredients allows us to speak a common language: a love for local food.
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What is your day-to-day looking like right now? Your to-do list? I spend about half of my time at the warehouse and half at home. It's one of those typical "no day is ever the same." I could be scheming up seasonal recipe concepts with Chris, working with our architect or general contractor, updating our fans on our progress, securing funding, or planning an event. One thing remains constant: I'm always excited to start the day and get to work. I love what I'm gearing up to do.
What challenges have you been facing? I'm a typical entrepreneur that wants to do everything all at once. Focusing is key, especially when working with limited resources. I'm getting better at that, but I still battle "shiny object syndrome." Right now my working mantra is "if it doesn't help us brew beer, put it on hold."
That's actually a lot easier said than done. For example, just today I signed off on a survey for a sidewalk easement. Does this survey help us brew beer? No, but it's required in order for us to have any on-premises business—a must-have for our fledgling business.
You also co-founded and led the Pop the Cap campaign in 2002, which aimed to eliminate North Carolina's six-percent alcohol-by-volume limit on beer. I got into it as a craft beer lover. I had no preconceived notions that I'd be starting up a brewery. This Prohibition-era restriction meant that around a third of the world's beer styles were illegal to brew or sell [in North Carolina]. At the time, North Carolina was one of five states with this restriction. After some amazing battles and bizarre arguments, we successfully lifted the cap to 15% on August 13, 2005. The world did not go to hell in a handbasket the next day.
More recently, I helped lead another lobbying effort to allow beer the same promotional and sales rights as wine. Now brewers can sell directly to consumers at farmer's markets and special events, as well as provide samples at retail stores. Previously, only wineries had this right.
We're fighting for change and equality here in North Carolina, and the results speak for themselves. I love the beer scene here, and I'm really proud of the new businesses are rising as we've opened up markets and overturned blue laws.
Maybe this is wacky, but would you consider using a CSA model to get locals involved/contributing/tasting your beers? It's not wacky at all. I have thought about it, even modeled out the costs of such a project. However, the capitalist in me came to the conclusion that it was a lot of work for not much reward—particularly if the beers sell on their own (without needing a program).
It's tempting to get caught up on the novel and innovative business models out there, mimicking the success of the local farm movement. But every initiative needs to be carefully managed, or you set yourself up for disappointed customers and unintended consequences.
So I'm hesitant to set up clubs, other than an on-premises tavern club that has some fun benefits. But reserving beer for a certain group who can afford it week in and week out? I don't know.
The egalitarian in me shirks at that. Just a little. It's way cool for food and pies and fish, but there's something about beer that should be accessible to all. Maybe it's because that 6% alcohol limit had its origin from mill workers who decided it was too risky to allow their workers access to strong ale, for fear that they would show up to work drunk on Mondays. Those clubby bourbon-drinking mill executives who set the rules for the masses.
Maybe it's more simple: right now, I couldn't afford to be in such a club. Fullsteam will most certainly produce some high-end expensive beers, but I want it to be available to anyone, whether it's a one-time indulgence or a pittance to the weekly budget.
We plan to check in with Sean again when Fullsteam opens its doors.
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The legislation we authored, with the assistance and expertise of Congressman Bill Delahunt, will allow Massachusetts to blaze yet another trail that other states are sure to follow. This bill will require a minimum amount of biodiesel as part of diesel fuel and heating fuel sold in Massachusetts. In 2010, it will require 2 percent biofuels, and 5 percent by 2013. The bill also exempts cellulosic ethanol used in transportation fuel from the gas tax for 10 years.
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ON THE FEYNMAN PATH INTO THE SUN by Yung-Ching Liang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHYSICS) August 2013 Copyright 2013 Yung-Ching Liang
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Obama And Chris Christie Tour Rebuilding On Jersey Shore
Obama And Chris Christie Tour Rebuilding On Jersey Shore
Seven months ago, President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surveyed the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. On Tuesday, the two reunited for a tour of the Jersey Shore to see how it has recovered.
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Today, President Obama toured the Jersey shore, surveying the recovery work that's been done since Superstorm Sandy devastated the area seven months ago. The visit was also a reunion for the president and an unlikely political ally, the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. NPR's Mara Liasson reports on their bipartisan relationship and the political benefits for both men.
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: On the surface, it's clear what Governor Christie gets out of the president's visit: lots of national attention to the resurrection of the Jersey shore. Here's Christie as the two men stopped in Asbury Park.
GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: The enthusiasm, the spirit of all the people of this town, you could just feel it. And everybody is ready to welcome America back to the Jersey shore this summer, and so am I.
LIASSON: For President Obama, it was a chance to take a break from the partisan gridlock in Washington and to change the channel from the focus on the IRS to another federal agency - FEMA - that, in contrast, is seen as helpful and efficient.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: FEMA was here before Sandy made landfall. They're still here today. They're working with the governor's team and with the task force I set up to support families and communities that still need help. Since the storm hit, we've provided billions of dollars to families and state and local governments across the region, and more is on the way.
LIASSON: The president and the governor are different in every way, shape and form: One is a blunt, in-your-face Republican, the other a cerebral Democrat, but both men were eager to showcase their unlikely bipartisan rapport. They tossed a football. They high-fived. Christie even won a stuffed teddy bear in an arcade game on the boardwalk.
OBAMA: We played some Touchdown Fever. I got to say, Christie got it in the tire the first try, although I did pay for his throws.
LIASSON: Despite criticism from fellow Republicans, Christie has not been deterred from making common cause with Mr. Obama, says political analyst Stu Rothenberg.
STUART ROTHENBERG: Some of this is Chris Christie's stubbornness, and he likes to do some things, I think, that don't always play well with his Republican colleagues, and he enjoys that. But you also have to remember that he does have a governor's race coming up, and playing nice with the president when the president is concerned about how New Jersey communities are being rebuilt, that's a good thing for the governor.
LIASSON: So, short term, the bromance with the president is a good thing. Long term, maybe not.
ROTHENBERG: The more he associates himself with the president, the more conservative critics are going to paint Chris Christie as Barack Obama's favorite Republican governor, and that's not a good thing. Down the road, I think if he runs for president, this will be thrown back in his face.
LIASSON: And it already has. Last fall, after Hurricane Sandy hit, President Obama traveled to New Jersey to meet with Christie. It was a week before Election Day, and the president's numbers got a small boost. Christie's fellow Republicans were furious, and Christie was pointedly not invited to speak at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
That kind of backlash might happen again if Christie decides to seek his party's nomination. But for now, he seems content to showcase his bipartisan chops and try for a big re-election victory in the blue state of New Jersey. Mara Liasson, NPR News, the White House.
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Our old thread got way past its expiration date, so since Ayslhyn isn't here to start the new one up, I am doing it for him.
Here is the place to talk about all things food related. Recipe exchanges. Or simply what ya had for supper.
Take it away!!
I will be having beef stew for supper.
I was thinking on going back through the old thread and pulling all the recipes out of there and gathering them here, do we think that would be something helpful?????
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In recent years, there has been an increased focus on learning about the provenance of works of art that were or might have been looted during the Nazi era, 1933-45. Since the 1990s, the AMAM has undertaken significant research on European paintings in its collection that have gaps in provenance during those years, and has additionally begun expanding research to sculptures, decorative arts, and works on paper. Even more recently, there has been attention paid to another category of artworks: archaeological material and ancient art, be it Near Eastern, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Asian or from the Americas. The AMAM is committed to researching the provenance of these works in its collection, and to making the findings available here.
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Filner blasts $40M SANDAG PR tab
In response to
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who now sits on the 25-member regional board called SANDAG, bushwhacked the agency's usually staid meeting on Friday demanding to know how it could be preparing to spend $40 million on outside PR.
He called it a disgrace and an embarrassment for the San Diego Association of Governments, which does transportation planning and distributes federal and state dollars for road and other projects.
Filner was reacting to U-T Watchdog's report in that morning's newspaper about the plan to line up dozens of public-relations companies with the capacity to do that amount of communications work over the next five years.
The contracts are being approved by the agency's staff, not the board, which Filner objected to.
"This is too important a decision. It's already on the front page of the paper," Filner said. "I would like this board to be involved in this decision."
How much should SANDAG spend on outside PR for the next five years?
$60 million 4% (38)
$40 million 7% (58)
$20 million 7% (64)
$5 million 22% (194)
$0 60% (537)
891 total votes.
The Watchdog was not present at Friday's meeting, but obtained a recording of it over the weekend.
"This is an awful lot of 'capacity' and I want to know who is getting those contracts, why they are getting them, what value they are, and I think this board ought to approve it before we go further — and you don't get articles like this," Filner said.
The outside PR firms would supplement the agency's 10-in house communications staffers, who work on an annual communications and marketing budget of $1.6 million.
"I open up a paper and it's pretty embarrassing to be a member of the board that's doing this," Filner said.
SANDAG has a roughly $1.3 billion annual budget that largely comes from state and federal allocations and a voter-approved county sales tax for transportation projects.
"People think that our community involvement money is really just spent on propaganda to get people and it's not community involvement," Filner added. "This is very important. And it goes to the credibility of this organization and the kind of projects that are approved and whether the public supports them or not."
Colleen Windsor, a spokeswoman for SANDAG, on Friday echoed her comments in the U-T report, telling the board, "as sure as I am sitting here breathing we will not be spending $40 million in the next five years on public outreach and public involvement."
Windsor likened the contracts for on-call marketing and communications work to empty cups.
"They all have some kind of capacity and you as a board provide us with the budget — a pitcher of water if you will — to fill up those cups as needed," she told the board. "And it's only as needed."
Filner pressed for answers to why the outside public-outreach firms were needed in addition to the agency's staff.
Windsor said SANDAG's in-house communicators are currently working on about 60 projects stretching through the planning, design and construction phases.
"We don't wait until we get 100 complaints when we are doing pile-driving on the 805 to let people know, 'Oh, I am sorry, we're in your backyard putting in express lanes on the 805,'" Windsor said. "We take a proactive stance and we start getting the community involved."
Filner said staff's comments only added "fuel to the fire."
"To say, 'I can tell you as sure as I am breathing we're not going to spend $40 million,'" Filner said. "Well, what is going to be spent, $39 million?"
Windsor told Filner there was no guarantee even $1 would be spent.
"It's no guarantee that it's not $40 million either, right?" Filner replied.
Filner suggested other board members were being evasive and ignoring his requests.
Santee Councilman Jack Dale, the board chairman, interjected several times to provide an opening for staff to answer Filner's questions. The board took no action on Filner's request for board intervention on the PR contracts — prompting Filner to say he was being ignored.
"What happens to my request?" he repeated several times. "Can I put this on an agenda?"
Lemon Grove Mayor Mary Sessom, noting her board service dating back to 1996, accused Filner of getting bogged down in minutia and referred him to the organization's bylaws.
"It will help you a lot," Sessom said.
SANDAG solicitation for PR companies for an estimated $40 million in contracts
Filner said he appreciated the advice, but added, "These are not minutia. These are important policy issues. I don't need to be patronized by someone who's been here since 1996. I can tell you I've been in politics since 1979. I won't patronize you that way. So do not call my issues minutia. Do not patronize me that I don't know anything that's going on here."
Escondido Mayor Sam Abed recommended the agency respond to the U-T report in an opinion piece of its own "reflecting our achievements, explaining the outreach — it's just to make sure our assets are fully utilized and also the public is aware of our construction projects."
Abed did not specify whether he believed the op-ed should be written by in-house staff or one of its outside firms.
"We need to control our message and not let the media define what SANDAG is," he said.
This story has been amended from its original, which incorrectly said that Abed suggested an expansion of SANDAG's public outreach. He only suggested an opinion piece.
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It's not 'fake news', Answers in Genesis reality deniers.
The feathery tail of a tiny Cretaceous dinosaur (probable juvenile coelurosaur) has been found preserved in amber in Myanmar. Young earth creationist apologists at Answers in Genesis are agitated about this. As indeed are some others (one or two of them sound less panicked). See also responses by the Institute for Creation Research, David Coppedge at CREV (who used to be a scientist working for NASA), another prolific and hardline daily propagandist - and also another young earth creationist blogger at the Creation Club.
Cue more attacks upon the scientific community from higher profile young earth creationist vigilantes - who have decided in advance that certain facts simply 'cannot be' because they might support the theory of evolution in some way. Such as a dinosaur that possessed feathers on its tail (how utterly 'unbiblical').
Here's one news report:
"Dr McKellar said examination of the tail's anatomy showed it definitely belonged to a feathered dinosaur and not an ancient bird.
"We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives," he explained."
"The feathers lack the well-developed central shaft - a rachis - known from modern birds."
However the Abstract of the paper in Current Biology does state "Many feathers exhibit a short, slender rachis with alternating barbs and a uniform series of contiguous barbules ...".
That said, AiG's most detailed response (12 December) informs readers that "the rachis (central shaft) of the feathers is somewhat thinner than that of most modern feathers".
http://www.inquisitr.com/3787683/ken-ha ... bird-link/
https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/ ... ther-tail/
"Evolutionists have a blind faith religion with a fictional story they impose on whatever fossil evidence they find. So, 1.5 inches of vertebrae with feathers and suddenly it's a dinosaur? Why? Because evolutionists clutch at straws!
Evolutionists have to justify their fictional belief that dinosaurs evolved into birds so they have a spin about a tail. Yes, evolutionists are desperate to brainwash people with a false belief, so they make up fanciful stories about a tail."
(Ken Ham - who prefers his own dogma to facts - with yet more hysterical false accusations against scientists, posted on 11 December.)
https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/ ... -in-amber/ (the brand new article by David Menton of 12 December)
I find the reasoning in Menton's Conclusion (which wrongly flags reference 3 instead of 4) highly contrived. Viz:
"We conclude that DIP-V-15103 is a bird, and not a 99-million-year-old theropod dinosaur. This is supported by the discovery of 99-million-year-old bird wings including bones and feathers found by Lida Xing et al. in the same type of Burmese amber as DIP-V-15103. I reject the age assigned to these fossils, but it shows that small birds, perhaps juveniles, left evidence of their unquestionably bird-like anatomy in Burmese amber. So where is the evolution?"
He doth protest. And rush to get a 'rebuttal' out.
http://www.icr.org/article/9759 (Sherwin makes statements such as "why didn't the authors explain the very close resemblance of these feathers to those of birds living today?" - ignoring the rachis point quoted in the BBC News article, though see my above comment regarding the Abstract of the Current Biology paper.)
http://crev.info/2016/12/proof-of-dinosaur-feathers/ (this article is more even-handed than his usual efforts and mentions two YECs who apparently ARE open to the probable facts of this creature's identity and morphology)
http://www.piltdownsuperman.com/2016/12 ... amber.html
So. If you are a YEC and you have decreed that dinosaurs NEVER had feathers because that is 'unbiblical', then you must either deny the existence of the feathers or deny that they were possessed by any sort of dinosaur. After all, why shouldn't YECs respond thus? Because they believe the Bible (or their dogma that is loosely inspired by the Bible) they know better than all those scientists. And they are declaring that those horrible scientists are making up stories. And the horrible media are spreading those stories to the public!
And that this feathered tail belonged to a bird, maybe an extinct one. Which bird that might be is not speculated upon by AiG or any other YEC. But no dinosaur - certainly NOT one of those. Problem solved. For now.
Because the AiG and ICR responses are knee-jerk reactions based upon dogma rather than a dispassionate assessment of evidence and the wider context of what scientists believe they already know from other evidence previously examined.
PS It is the case that one of the subgroups of the coelurosaurian clade does includes modern birds. Evolution does not of course require that this fossil in amber must have belonged to a dinosaur not some sort of bird.


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Rosemont, Illinois – April 2, 2014 – President of Baby The Stars Shine Bright Akinori Isobe and designer Masumi Kano will be coming to Chicago in July for Anime Midwest. Anime Midwest is a Chicago anime and Japanese culture convention happening July 4-6, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare.
Established in 1988, Baby, the Stars Shine Bright is a lolita fashion clothing brand founded by Akinori and Fumiyo Isobe in Tokyo, Japan. The sister brand, Alice and the Pirates, was created in 2004. Currently, BABY, the Stars Shine Bright boasts 28 shops across Japan, with flagship stores in both Paris and San Francisco. Akinori Isobe is current President of Baby The Stars Shine Bright.
Masumi Kano graduated from Bunka Women's University and after graduation she started working for Baby The Stars Shine Bright as a designer.
Anime Midwest and BABY are hosting a Lolita Tea Party, with tickets scheduled to go on sale on April 5th.
The convention will also feature a BABY The Stars Shine Bright fashion show. Model applications, etc, will be available online soon at http://animemidwest.com/baby
More about the anime convention's guests at http://animemidwest.com/guests
Almost 10,000 anime fans will come to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare from July 4-6, 2014 to take part in cosplay, concerts, gaming tournaments, formal dances, and more. Anime fans can make new friends, meet voice actors, and have a lot of fun. The convention also provides a ConSweet full of free soda and ramen. Pre-registration is encouraged, and can be found at animemidwest.com


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Jan 26, 2013 - 8:14 pm
Hi ladies
Jan 26, 2013 - 8:49 pm
I did four AC and then 4 taxol, every other week this past spring/summer.
I did not work because I am in education, and last year I worked with little loveey, huggy, germy kids. My oncologist did not think it a good idea to be around the munchkins because of my compromised immune system. Could I have worked otherwise? You already know how it was with A/C. With taxol, I think there may have been two days I could not have done it -- maybe more. My challenges with taxol was that it affected my breathing. I could not take deep breaths. If I exerted myself too much, I would get to coughing which would lead to more coughing which would lead to more coughing. I learned not to push myself. I had a pesky cough through the weeks of taxol and then about 2-3 weeks after I finished; but my worst time occurred twice, the Friday/Saturday before my next infusion. It was debilitating. What helped get me relief were these things my oncologist suggested I do -- take an allergy pill (might have been Clariton) and musinex. It was amazing how quickly I felt better -- WAY better.
You will know if you are having a reaction to the taxol -- lower backache, hot face that someone will tell you is getting very red very quickly. If this happens, it is usually within a few minutes after the infusion of the taxol begins. I did not have a reaction until the final two. If you sense you are having a reaction, let the nurse know ASAP.
Side effects vary, some lasting even months after you finish taxol. My neuropathy is not as bad as it is for some (just my two little toes on my right foot). I had a little bit of a problem with peeling skin on my feet, but I used lotion on them and kept an eye on my feet because I did not want them to become cracked. My bones/joints around my hips and legs ached the weekends after an infusion and Neulasta shot. My oncologist thought that was more due to the shot than the taxol. After my last infusion of taxol, I did not have to get that shot and I had no aches that weekend. So, maybe it was the neulasta.
My hair had fallen out, but not my eyebrows or eye lashes. They fell out when I started the taxol.
I think that's about it. I do know that some have more difficulty with this than what I did. All any of us can do is give you some idea of what to expect; but you may find yourself reacting differently to the drug.
Yes, it can be rough; but it IS manageable. Whenever I got weary of it all I would tell myself, "Just deal with it. There aren't any real alternatives that can help you out here." I knew that the time would come when all of the chemo and rads would be behind me and I could begin to resume a more normal life.
Hang in there. You WILL make it.
Jan 26, 2013 - 8:58 pm
Thank you. That gives me some insight. I am a hotel manager and love my job. I know I can't be super woman and have learned to listen to my body.
Jan 26, 2013 - 9:20 pm
I had a rash on my face with taxol / I had neuropathy as well, try to avoid putting your hands and feet in warm or hot water. I too lost my eyebrows and lashes with taxol, they came back quickly. For me it was easier than AC. I had 12 once a week doses.
Jan 26, 2013 - 9:37 pm
I just started Taxol. I have had 3 now and I get them weekly on Friday's. That first one seemed to go well and then Sunday YIKES I couldn't move. That whole week was hard. BUT DON"T PANIC! it got better! Each week has been easier.
I had a little numbness start in my feet after just the second round and that was dissappointing since I was supposed to have MANY rounds! But some of the people on here recommended MetaNX. It is a prescrtiption only 'vitamin' really. At first my dr hadn't heard of it so I gave him the website MetaNX.com. He looked it up and prescribed it and it has really helped!
I am fortunate not to have to work and there is now way I could have the first week - but the most important thing I want you to know is DONT PANIC! Even if your first round is yukky doesn't mean they all will be!
We're rooting for ya!!
Feb 06, 2013 - 9:49 am
2013-02-06 hello all!! I'm new here and readingthese posts seems to e helping me as well. Ive had four weeks of chemo which I tolerated pretty well. started the taxotere and about three days later, I felt terrible, coldlike symptoms, aches and pains. my nurse said it was ok to take Tylenol, otc, it helps, but wears off. any suggestions??
Jan 26, 2013 - 10:36 pm
Welcome Andy. I can't answer your question because I did TAC all together, so I can't seperate the effects of the 3 drugs. Regardless, I hope you find this site as helpful as I have. The people here are supportive and knowledgeable. I also hope your treatments are easy on you.
Jan 26, 2013 - 10:47 pm
I just wanted to say hi and welcome. I am sorry you have to be here but glad you found us. You will get a lot of info and support here. We are also good listeners if you need to vent. Sorry I can't help with your question but as you can see there are others who can.
Jan 27, 2013 - 1:32 pm
Thanks for the welcome and info. I lost all my hair with A/C and was wondering when my eyebrows and eyelashes would go. I think that bothers me more than the hair loss. I don't mind the GI Jane look.
Jan 27, 2013 - 5:33 pm
I am surprised the med people did not have you have a port implanted before you began chemo.
Jan 27, 2013 - 6:40 pm
They said that I had really good veins and did not need it.
Jan 27, 2013 - 7:23 pm
you will need a lot of sticking, for blood work and chemo. Also if chemotherpeutic agents leak outside the vein, it can cause diasterous effects. I will strongly recommend a port. Ask for ultrasound guidance while getting a port. It eliminates severe complications like punturing your lung.
also new type of ports available that goes to your arm instead of chest
Jan 27, 2013 - 10:43 pm
Whether or not I had good veins was not the reason my oncologist wanted me to have a port. The med people said that having a port saved on the veins because of the number of pokes chemo would entail, from infusions to blood draws. I have one arm off limits to pokes.
Jan 27, 2013 - 11:33 pm
Yes - ports are put in before starting chemo with good/great veins to protect them. The drugs used in chemo are quite caustic and if there is ANY leakage into the surrounding tissue wiill cause extesive damage.
Feb 05, 2013 - 2:41 pm
Wishing you good luck with your first taxol! How did it go?
Feb 21, 2013 - 2:58 pm
Did you decide on getting a port Andy? Even with good veins, it can really help you to have a port and save your veins.
How are you doing on taxol?
Hugs, Debby
Jan 27, 2013 - 6:51 pm
There is no way of knowing how you will react based on how others have.
I did 4 A/C neo-adjuvant. It was not bad at all. I lost 'head' hair and about 1/2 of brows and lashes but the rest of hairs remained. No pain - no nausea. (I've been told that women who had little to no morning sickness usually have little to no chemo nausea.) Adjuvant Taxol (12 weekly) was very different though. Still no pain or nausea and the rest of ALL hair left but I existed those 12 weeks either in bad or on couch in front of TV - complete and UTTER exhaustion. At least it started getting better the week after last infusion even though I started rads that day. Thankfully Hubby took over all house and dog chores and Son took over all horse and barn chores so all I had to worry about was getting through each day.
Some find it the other way around with A/C beinb worse.
Winyan - T he Power Within
Feb 20, 2013 - 6:06 pm
Just wondering how you are after your chemo. I keep looking for an update and am hoping that you have no side effects.
Hugs, Rose
Jan 27, 2013 - 7:19 pm
I found Taxol easier to tolerate than adriamycin/cyclophosphamate combination. It still causes fatigue, bone and muscle pains.
I heard most annoying side effect could be neuropathy which maylast a long time after the treatment is over or could be permanent. Neuropathy causes burning tingling or numbness at fingers and toes, more severe cases which are rare may cause weakness at feet or hands.
I was adviced to take metaNX 1 tablet twice a day ( starting one week before taxol and continuing 1 month after) . I did not have any neuropathy at all.
I would recommend MetNX which is a strengthenned vitamin combination. at first my insurance did not pay for it as it is vitamins. second month they decided to pay for it and I got it covered. It is slightly expensive but worth the money
Feb 21, 2013 - 10:40 pm
You've been given great advice and tips. So, I am adding lots of cyber hugs and support!
Jan 27, 2013 - 7:19 pm
I found Taxol easier to tolerate than adriamycin/cyclophosphamate combination. It still causes fatigue, bone and muscle pains.
I heard most annoying side effect could be neuropathy which maylast a long time after the treatment is over or could be permanent. Neuropathy causes burning tingling or numbness at fingers and toes, more severe cases which are rare may cause weakness at feet or hands.
I was adviced to take metaNX 1 tablet twice a day ( starting one week before taxol and continuing 1 month after) . I did not have any neuropathy at all.
I would recommend MetNX which is a strengthenned vitamin combination. at first my insurance did not pay for it as it is vitamins. second month they decided to pay for it and I got it covered. It is slightly expensive but worth the money
Feb 22, 2013 - 10:58 am
I didn't have Taxol, but, want to wish you good luck with your treatment. I know it isn't easy, but, you can do it. Focus on the finish line and know you are killing those cancer cells.
Hugs, Jan
Jan 30, 2013 - 3:27 pm
The actual infusion of A/C and Taxol went very different.
The Center I went to had 2 different types of cubicles. The type I did A/C in has a recliner and is 3 sided with a curtain you can pull across to close it in from the walkway between the other cubicles With Taxol I had to have one of the glass fronted ones with a bed in it and it's own thermostat for heat/A/C. I'm always cold anyway but on Taxol my temp dropped drastically so had to have warmed bankies and my own thermostat. Also in the pre-Taxol drugs I was given, as soon as the IV Benydril was started I would go to 'nighty-night' and wake up about 20 minutes before the end of Taxol. So I had one of the temp controled bed rooms for it.
Winyan The Power Within
Feb 25, 2013 - 11:18 am
We are worrying and wondering how your chemo session went. How are you doing?
Mar 04, 2013 - 3:37 pm
Sending warm thoughts and hope that all is well with you.
Sue :)


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AUSTIN — One of Texas' most legendary football players said he thinks the Longhorns need to make a coaching change.
Earl Campbell, the former UT Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Famer, told Houston television station KRIV that the Longhorns need to replace coach Mack Brown.
"Nobody likes to get fired or leave a job, but things happen," Campbell, 58, told KRIV. "I'll go on the record and say, 'Yes, I think it's time.'"
Brown, 62, won more games during his first 12 seasons at UT than the Longhorns had in any dozen-year stretch in their history. He also led UT to a national championship, four Bowl Championship Series games and seven Top-10 finishes during that time. But he's only 24-19 in his last four seasons, and two blowout losses this year have increased speculation about his job security.
Campbell, who played at UT from 1974-'77 and has a statue in his honor at Royal-Memorial Stadium, has spent significant time in recent years working out at the Longhorns' training facility. He said it wasn't easy for him to say Brown needs to go.
"(It's) very hard because coach Brown is a good man," Campbell told KRIV. "I just hope he doesn't stay."
Campbell suggested to the TV station that former UT defensive back Jerry Gray, who's now the defensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans, would be a good replacement for Brown. He also said USC did the right thing by dismissing coach Lane Kiffin this weekend after its season started to slip away.
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"Despicable Me" stars the vocal stylings of Steve Carell and Jason Segel in a story about a super villain's aspirations for greatness run aground by three adorable orphans left on his doorstep. Unfortunately, the story that unspools lacks the heart, brains or humor you would expect from such talented men.
Carell gives voice to Gru, who with his pointed nose, the dark circles around his eyes and ridiculous pan-Eastern European accent is the bastard son of Charles Addams and Boris Badenov. The product of an absent father and a never-satisfied mother, Gru just wants to be the best at what he does: evil. The voice works, and Carell holds it throughout, as silly as it is, but there's just not enough surrounding it.
Gru is aided in his evildoing by a seemingly endless band of "Minions." Shaped like little yellow pills, sporting overalls and speaking in an indecipherable squeak, they're everywhere. Some lucky toy manufacturer will no doubt sell a ka-jillion of these things, but one can't help wondering, "Why do they keep hitting each other?" Having watched our share of "The Three Stooges," we get that gratuitous violence can be funny. But it helps to know why Moe is grabbing Curly's nose with a pair of pliers.
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Segel is tragically wasted. What little of him we get is amusing, but after promoting a film about two villains vying for supremacy, what we get is a story about Gru's cold heart being melted by sweet little kids, while Segel's vector spends most of his time sucking on a Slurpie and playing Wii by himself.
The humor is pretty lowbrow (even the 9-year-old we brought along thought so), with lots of slapstick, pratfalls, a fart joke or two... Yes, there are a couple of amusing sight gag's -- including a shot at the newly vilified Lehman Brothers -- but not nearly enough to keep a grown-up engaged.
The animation is just OK, it lacks the richness that Pixar has shown to be possible time and again. As for the 3D, it comes off feeling like a stunt, from the stomach-churning roller-coaster ride to the interminable shenanigans of the Minions during the closing credits, it doesn't feel organic. It's as though the film were waving its arm yelling, "Hey, look at me!"
"Despicable Me" isn't bad, far from it. It's just nowhere near what it could've been or should've been. Like a fast-food burger, it'll get you through the afternoon, but you're unlikely to remember it fondly.
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Gingerboard Houses by Billie Lopez (on Make: Projects)
Grocery Bag Placemats by Diane Gilleland
Accordion Paper Clock by Patricia Zapata
Make a New Journal from an Old Book by Brookelynn Morris
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Katy Perry rocks out on stage at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at Staples Center on Sunday (February 12) in Los Angeles.
The 27-year-old singer, who wore a costume made by Abigail Greydanus and rocked the AllSaints "Damisi" boot, performed her hit "E.T." and new song "Part of Me" from the special edition of her double-platinum certified album, Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. The song will be released on iTunes tomorrow (February 13)!
"Now look at me, I'm sparking/A firework, a dancing flame/You won't ever put me out again," Katy sang. "So you can keep the diamond ring." Singing about ex-husband Russell Brand, perhaps?
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Self Contained luxury Bed and Breakfast apartment(Breakfast Pack Provided) This fabulous property is part of the Fishing Boat Inn, a seaside pub/restaurant, with magnificent panoramic sea views and a location virtually on the beach. The pub has an excellant restaurant serving lunch and dinner, guests can sit out and admire the wonderful panoramic coastal views on the grass by the sandy beach just outside. There are outstanding walks leading north to Craster/Bamburgh and south to Alnmouth, the property has just been completed to very high standards with contemporary and coordinated furnishings.
Highly recommended for couples wishing to abandon the car and take walks from the doorstep. This is a self catered apartment with all breakfast facilities provided. Mike and Margaret have been in the pub restaurant business for 22 years. They have been the proud owners of two pubs, both in Northumberland and also Yorkshire, before occupying The Fishing Boat Inn. Boulmer was the Gin smuggling capital of England around 200 years ago. In fact, The Fishing Boat Inn was originally a "smuggler's haunt" which is another way of saying "hideout". Pirates used to use the pub as a place to meet up and plan their next jobs, who they were going to steal from next and any number of unethical things that pirates did in those days. The coastline of the Alnwick region consists of over 20 spectacular miles of golden sands, rocky outcrops and sand dunes which provide fun days out for all the family and peaceful beach strolls along the sweeping sands of Druridge Bay and Cresswell. Coastal villages include the lively harbour town of Amble, beautiful Warkworth with its magnificent castle, picturesque Alnmouth, home of the oldest golf course in Britain, the hidden coves at Boulmer and you can enjoy internationally famous smoked kippers and salmon at the fishing village of Craster after walking to the haunting Dunstanburgh Castle. Alnwick District - The Best of Northumberland
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A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians -- if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.The classical answer is that all blue-eyed islanders leave on the 100th night. The proof proceeds inductively - here's a nice explanation by a commenter on Terry Tao's blog. Note that this explanation uses slightly different formulation of the puzzle in which islanders must commit suicide (!!) if they learn their eye color (rather than simply leave the island).
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
"I can see someone who has blue eyes."
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
The induction certainly "works" in the sense that if start with your base case (k=1) and reason inductively, you are led to the theorem that after k days, all k blue-eyed people leave the island. But note what you must do to start off this inductive process - you must consider what would happen if k were 1. But in reality, no matter your eye color, you are certain it is impossible for k to be 1. I claim that considering the k=1 case is an arbitrary thing to do. Maybe it is natural that you happen to consider the k=1 case in light of the guru's announcement, but you are not logically compelled to do so. It is only if we assume the announcement will cause everyone to consider k=1, and further, that everyone knows the announcement will have this effect, that the proof goes through. As given, the problem is unclear.
Let's use the letter k to represent the number of blue-eyed islanders, of which you will be one of. In the argument "I" is used so that you may read this aloud to yourself as if it were your own dilema.
If k is 1, then I cannot see any blue-eyed people on the island. This was fine until the visitor told us that they exist. But now, knowing that they do exist and not being able to see any, I can only conclude that it must be me! Thus, I must die one day from now.
If k is 2, then I can see only one other blue-eyed person, Joe. I know that Joe is as logical as I am so by the reasoning when k is 1, he's going to have to kill himself. I check on him tomorrow and see that he hasn't, but how can that be? The only logical conclusion is that the above reasoning did not apply for Joe because when he looked around he must have seen someone else with blue eyes. But I don't see such a person so it means that it must be me! Thus the following day (two days after the information)I must die. But since Joe is as logical as I am and has been faced with the same situation, he must also have discovered, exactly as I did, that he has blue eyes. Thus he will kill himself at the same time as I do.
If k is 3, then I can see see two blue-eyed people, Joe and Ted. Now, here is where you see the argument continue to depend on the earlier cases (this is what is meant by induction). If Joe and Mike are truly the only two people on the island, then based on the exact same reasoning when k is 2, they will both be dead after two days exactly. However, after two days I see that both are still living. Again, the only logical conlusion is that when Joe and Ted looked around they must have seen someone other than each other with blue eyes. Since I can't see such a person it means that it must be me! Thus I must kill myself the next day (now three days after the information). But, since Joe and Ted are equally logical, also have blue eyes, and have been part of the same situation, they must have learned exactly as I did that they too have blue eyes. They will join me at the suicide ritual on the same day.
At this point you can see the repetitive nature of the argument. For each higher value of k the argument is quickly formed in terms of our previous argument for k-1. The induction proof is merely a concise formation of this which (correctly) reasons in terms of a general value of k. The visitor's information is essential because it sets up the "base case" where k is 1.
Note that we could do the exact same proof to argue that all j brown-eyed islanders would leave after j days, provided we assume that everyone will consider the j=1 case, and that everyone knows everyone else will consider this case. The only effect of the announcement (since it reveals no new information) is simply to act as a coordination device to determine which chain of reasoning is to be considered. In the absense of some way of coordinating which chain of reasoning to use, no one can be convinced that others will follow through with the reasoning, and the induction cannot proceed.


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Meet.fm Tries to Make Online Meetings Modern and Accessible
Every couple months we hear of another startup wanting to take down WebEx and GoToMeeting. And, given my gig, I'm a total sucker for that particular pitch. The latest is Meet.fm, from a company called YouDazzle, backed by former Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya and NetSuite co-founder Evan Goldberg.
Meet.fm is an audio- and videoconferencing web app that's built to work across platforms including iOS and Android without any software downloads, both for hosting and attending meetings.
It's not a dramatically different approach to conference calls, but it's built to be more accessible and mobile.
Meet.fm said it allows for co-browsing the Web by multiple participants in a meeting, and is integrated with many cloud file services, like Box and Dropbox. Each host gets a standing URL where they can slap on their own brand art.
The service is free for up to three participants and 500 meeting minutes, and costs as much as $199 per month for more than 500 participants and unlimited meeting minutes.


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