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New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation is pleased to announce the hosting of the 7th International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue, from October 23-24, 2015, in Abuja, Nigeria. The theme of this year's conference is: "The Role of Religions to Build Peace & Security and Transcend Violent Extremism in Africa",
The conference will engage participants in a dynamic experience of faith development as well as challenge them to positively respond to the universal call to holiness. Our world today more than ever before is faced with the challenge of overcoming the "faith divide" and the global citizenship divide in order to build the bridge of all bridges, the interreligious and international bridge that connects all humanity to God. The conference will create and promote interfaith collaboration and build bridges of trust, friendship and partnership among religiously diverse youth and provide a platform for local, national, regional and international collaboration. Conference participants will include Community leaders and activists, NGO representatives, Political leaders, Religious/Spiritual leaders, Peace activists, Government representatives, Students, Cultural/Ethnic and Spiritual Community representatives, Human Service providers, Academics, Social Science researchers, Key participants from current or recent regions of turmoil in Nigeria, Visionaries and front-line thinkers in social-political principles, psycho-social-spiritual dynamics, and human consciousness and members of the interested public from Nigeria and around the world.
Conference objectives include to:
Ø Raise the level, depth, and breadth of public dialogue and awareness on core issues. The conference examines dimensions and dynamics of "The OTHER" on individual and group levels, and considers how enemy identity is formed, perpetuated, and manipulated.
Ø Identify and compile fundamental questions, dilemmas, and implications for further deep inquiry and examination in an expanding public dialogue, and to challenge embedded negative belief systems that promote adversarial perceptions of the "The Other."
Ø Formulate findings and products to make available to all - through publications, media, the Internet, educational curriculum, networks, community based dialogue groups, etc.
Ø Create Networking Opportunities to promote collaboration, action planning, and next steps following the conference.
Ø Tap our shared wisdom, compassion, and responsibility as a community - from the local to the global - in developing practical applications. Participants are encouraged to develop and share practical recommendations and strategies for applying results to the current state of local and world relationships to promote increased understanding, sensitivity, and compassion as a means of countering and neutralizing hostility, particularly inter-group hostility.
Through this Conference, we will continue and sustain our modest efforts to promote an inclusive, compassionate community dialogue process that honours different personal experiences, perspectives, and narratives, while allowing for better expressing and listening to each other as we work together toward understanding and harmony.
On Saturday, November 29, 2014, New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation and Universal Peace Federation- Nigeria, in partnership with United Religions Initiative (URI-AFRICA) and the Bege Foundation, Jos, successfully hosted the 6th International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue and the Religious Youth Assembly, at the National Merit House, Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria.
The Conference was attended by 120 religious youth leaders and adult mentors from Islam, Pentecostals, Eckankar, Rosicrucian Order, Catholics, Brotherhood of Cross and Star, the Unification Movement, Deeper Life and other faith based and interfaith civil society organizations, political and community leaders, etc.
The Theme of the 6th International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue was: "The Role of Religions to Build Peace, Security and Counter Violent Extremism in Africa". The conference engaged the participants in a dynamic experience of faith development, challenged them to positively respond to the universal call to holiness as well as created and promoted interfaith collaboration, built bridges of trust, friendship and partnership among religiously diverse youth and provided a platform for local, national, regional and international collaboration. The 6th Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue and the Religious Youth Assembly (RYA) ended with the resolution by religious youth leaders making a determination and commitment to work together beyond their religious denominations for the sake of national peace and unification.
After thorough deliberations on the presentations at the 6th International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue and the Religious Youth Assembly in Abuja, participants offered the following proposals:
At the Conference, three (3) individuals were recognized and honored with the PEACE HEROES AWARDS, for their outstanding efforts, work and commitment to peacebuilding, social justice and positive change in Nigeria. The Individuals were:
Dear Friends,Greetings, peace and blessings to you. I hope this update finds you well. Thank you most sincerely. I am very pleased to report to you that from August 13-23, 2014, I was in New York, at the invitation of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), as Resource Person/co-facilitator at the 2014 UNAOC-EF Summer School. Participants were hosted at the Education First (EF) historic 25-acre American campus in Tarrytown, New York, which boasts on site residences, student lounges, a fitness center and swimming pool.
The UNAOC-EF Summer School is based on the conviction that youth are a driving force for positive social change. The week-long Summer School brought together Seventy (75) young intercultural leaders, selected from 73 countries, to address pressing global challenges, within the context of cultural and religious diversity. Lasting global change comes from collaboration across borders. By attracting youth from a multitude of backgrounds, the UNAOC – EF Summer School advances the search for shared solutions to the next level. The highly interactive program immersed participants in the essentials of global citizenship. Seminars, workshops, and roundtable discussions challenged participants and increased their impact as leaders in their fields.
I joined other Resource Persons from the UNAOC Intercultural Leaders Network, facilitated the daily Discussion Sessions and also led the "Building Alliances Session". During this Session, facilitators, working as a team, gave participants an overview of their own experience of "Building Alliances" in their communities/countries. Resource Persons facilitated group-work exercises that gave participants the opportunity to:
1. Integrate the notions and practice the skills discussed; and2. Reflect on how they can apply them or not to their own contextsPresentations exposed best practices and lessons learned in the following areas: 1. Peacebuilding; negotiation; mediation; reconciliation and forgiveness; promoting social justice and opportunities for minorities, migrants, or other marginalized groups; and2. Examples of building trust and mutual respect between different groups.
Among the major highlight of the Summer School included a guided tour of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Participants toured the General Assembly Hall, the ECOSOC and explored a variety of exhibits detailing the history of the UN and learnt about how the UN addresses issues such as disarmament, peace and security. Participants also had the priviledge of an audience with the United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Jan Kenneth Eliasson. Participants also had a picnic at the Central Park in New York and a Boat Ride to the Statue of Liberty.
Dear Friends,
We are very pleased to report to you that from June 1-6, 2014, Executive Director of New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation, Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, was in New York City at the invitation of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) to participate in a workshop aimed at developing operational guidance and guidelines on young peoples' participation in peacebuilding. The workshop, organized by the Sub-Working Group on Youth Participation in Peacebuilding of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) which is composed of United Nations (UN) entities such as the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), non-governmental Organizations, academics and young adults, was conducted at the Girls Scouts Office, 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City, USA.
This guidance is intended to be concrete and evidence-based, as well support the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of successful youth programs on the ground, and to turn the recently launched Guiding Principles on Young People's Participation in Peacebuilding into concrete measureable actions. Key objectives of the workshop included:
United Nations Agencies, Donors Organizations, International and local youth-based, youth focused Organizations represented at the workshop included: Office of the Secretary-General Envoy on Youth, Office of SRSG CAAC, UN Alliance of Civilizations, UN DESA Youth, UNDP, UNFPA, UN-HABITAT, UNICEF, UNIDO, UN PBSO, UN WOMEN, Search for Common Ground, Baha'i International Community, Communities Without Boundaries, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scout, World Vision International, Center for Youth Work (Serbia), Open Society Foundation, USAID, Association Nigérienne pour La Promotion des Jeunes, Chanan Development Association (Pakistan), Youth in Action for development (Sierra Leone), New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation (Nigeria), Peace Spiral Project – Culture of Peace, Interculturality and Human Rights, N, ational Council of Educational Promotion – CONAFE (Mexico), New England Conservatory, etc. The workshop also provided an opportunity for New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation's Executive Director to make presentation on the peacebuilding and programs with young people to the UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD).
The UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) is co-chaired by Cecile Mazzacurati, Policy Officer, Youth and Gender at the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)/UNFPA and Lakshitha Saji Prelis, Director, Children and Youth Programmes at the Search for Common Ground.
New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation also attended a preparatory meeting with Isabelle Legare, United Alliance of Civilization's Programming Coordinator at the UNAOC Office located at 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, USA.
On behalf of the Board and Staff at New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation, I am very pleased to report to you that your generous support and goodwill, which have made it possible for us to do the work we do, has been recognized internationally and honored by no other individual but His Holiness the Dalai Lama. From February 21-23, 2014, we were invited to San Francisco to receive the Unsung Heroes Award for service to humanity.
The event, called Unsung Heroes of Compassion 2014, was held at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco before a jam-packed ballroom with 700 guests, and broadcast through a live webcast to more than 900 screens around the world. Nominees were gathered by Dick and Ann Grace of Grace Family Vineyards and the Grace Foundation, and organized by a new nonprofit called Wisdom in Action. It was the fourth Unsung Heroes of Compassion celebration; previous ceremonies were held in 2001, 2005 and 2009. The Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award is not about celebrity but about humanity and the compassion. It is about service to our fellow human beings and the millions of people in the world without resources that struggle day-in and day-out just to survive. The event was co-hosted by Dick Grace, actor Peter Coyote, Father Greg Boyle, American Indian Elder Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim and Zen priest Furyu Schroeder. "The joy in the room was iridescent," Grace said.
The Dalai Lama spoke for approximately 20 minutes before greeting each honouree. He spoke about the progress and the challenges that he sees in the world, and praised Grace for creating an organization that brings such dedicated individuals to wider attention. "The reality is," he said, "that we are social animals and each of us depends on the community within which we live. It's as if we are all part of one body, so what happens to others affects us, too. We have to take care of each other."
We dedicate this Award to each one of you. We appreciate and honour you for trusting us with your resources to help make a positive difference in our country. You are the real Heroes.
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D-backs' Derrick Hall: Corbin leads in tight fifth starter race
The competition for the fifth starter spot in the Arizona Diamondbacks rotation appears to be heating up.
The D-backs entered camp this spring with three legitimate young hurlers in Patrick Corbin, Randall Delgado and Tyler Skaggs, who all certainly have the talent and upside to win the job.
Corbin has appeared to be the frontrunner all spring long, showing he has command of his pitches, and is locating the ball well.
The 23-year-old is 2-0 with a 4.50 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 10 innings of work this spring. He has allowed five earned runs, with most of the damage coming in one poor relief outing in which he surrendered four runs.
But, D-backs president and CEO Derrick Hall told Arizona Sports 620's Doug & Wolf Thursday, while Corbin may have set the bar in the fifth starter competition, the other pitchers are starting to rise to the occasion.
"It's hard to say because [Patrick] Corbin has pitched so well and then you look at [Randall] Delgado [Wednesday] night," Hall said. "He threw four scoreless innings and he was filthy. I mean his change-up, his fastball. He was 95, 96 [mph]. That's the guy we knew we were getting in the trade for Justin Upton along with Prado and others, but he looked great."
While it appears to be a two-horse race between Corbin and Delgado, Hall isn't discounting Skaggs' chances of making a run for the spot.
"[Tyler] Skaggs is so talented he's going to show flashes throughout the spring that he belongs there," Hall stated.
Skaggs could have the highest ceiling of the three pitchers, and is rated as the top left-handed pitching prospect in major league baseball. But, so far this spring, he has allowed nine earned runs over 6.1 innings pitched and has often struggled with his command.
But Delgado is an interesting prospect, coming over with a lot of hype and fanfare from the Atlanta Braves organization, which has bred many top-tier pitchers over the years. Before Wednesday night's strong outing, Delgado had scuffled. The 23-year-old right-hander has now allowed six runs -- five earned -- in seven innings of work.
But if Wednesday's performance is any indication of what's to come for Delgado, the D-backs could be in for a spirited fight to the finish, after all.
"I think if you're an odds maker you'd probably put Corbin in the lead right now, but Delgado certainly opened eyes again [Wednesday] night and said �wait a minute, this isn't Corbin's yet,'" Hall said.
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In case anyone was wondering.
In case anyone was wondering.
Have extended stays in a hospital.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Spend no money at all to see if I can do it. There are details to this plan that I cannot get into here, but it's a plan.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
There are a lot of pregnancies but no one's been brought into the world.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Gabrielle Bouliane. I don't think I will ever get over it.
5. What countries did you visit?
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Gainful employment and better health.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 29th, the day Gabrielle died. The next day I was diagnosed with Colon Cancer.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Living past June.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not writing enough. Not letter people know how much I love them while they're alive.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Stage IV Colon Cancer, but I'm doing really well in spite of it.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
6 Qt. Lodge Dutch Oven.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My wife Carole. She's been a rock through all this madness. I'd not be alive without her.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
David Cohen. I gave him a place to live when he and his wife were evicted from their home in the desert and he did nothing but complain. He finally moved out in January of this year, but we're still pissed at him for beaming out such negative energy and pretty much bumming everyone out. I stopped hanging around the guy because I can't afford his energy around me and he doesn't pay rent for occupation in my head.
14. Where did most of your money go?
My kids.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting a letter on Christmas Eve from my oncologist that began with the line, "I have good news for you..."
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
"Radiation Vibe" by Fountains of Wayne
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder? Happier
b. thinner or fatter? Thinner
c. richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Spent less time in bed.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Fretted less over things that I have no control over.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With my family, as usual.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Just the usual suspects. Carole, Medbh, Nick, Nezzie, Claire...
23. How many one-night stands?
None. That's in the past.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Deadliest Catch
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I try not to hate. It's a nasty word.
26. What was the best book you read?
Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos by Bucky Sinister
Even if you don't think you need it, read it. It'll hip you to some concepts that will change the way you think about the 12-Step world.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Ida Maria
28. What did you want and get?
Better health.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I didn't get a chance to see any movies this year. I really enjoyed HBO's Brothers In Arms, though. Highly recommended.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 46 and had a huge birthday party I called "Beatin' the Odds," in recognition that I'm winning my battle with cancer.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not getting sick.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Paisley print colostomy bags. I refer to it as my fashion accessory. Not everyone gets the joke.
34. What kept you sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Barack Obama
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The passing of the Healthcare law.
37. Who did you miss?
Gabrielle Bouliane, more these days than ever.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Tom Bouliane, Gabrielle's father.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Never underestimate the power of friendship.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"The way out is the way in... The way out is the way in..."
41. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Daisy from Cigna/GreatWest Healthcare
42. What LJ users did you meet for the first time?
No one, this year.
I've been getting a few emails about my illness and all that.
I will add more to my cancer chronicles soon--it's really the hardest part to write about--but for now please know that I'm doing really well and don't even look sick.
Thanks for asking, though.
Much love to everyone.
Carole put me on her insurance in January, just prior to me receiving my diagnosis. Lucky for me, not so lucky for the insurance company who initially threw up the "pre-existing condition clause" at all my claims, but they've come around after I proved prior coverage from my insurance at Zones. I thought that the pre-existing clause was out the door with the passing of Obama's Healthcare law, but it doesn't actually kick in until 2014. The net result is that the insurance companies are all going to be throwing the pre-existing condition clause and many of the claims until it's outlawed, or so the administrators at the hospital tell me.
When we last spoke of our man (as the late, great Harvey Pekar would put it) I was scared shitless and told I had between 6 months and 2 years to live, on the outside. Well, around 5:45AM on March 24th, I woke up with blinding pain in my abdomen. The pain was so bad that I was literally cross-eyed. Carole had to tell me that, because I was unable to see out my left eye--I was told later that this occurs under certain pain-conditions when the body shuts down extra sensory methods to re-direct resources to fight the offending issue. Weird somatic stuff.
We called 911, the ambulance arriving exactly 3 minutes later. They walked me out to the rig and plugged me full of morphine and after
getting lost trying to find Providence Hospital, dropped me off there where I sat around for a few hours while they poked at me, stuck me in the talking donut (read: CAT scan) and drew massive amounts of blood.
Finally the on-call surgeon came in and told me what was up: The good news was that the chemo was working alright. The bad news was that one of the colonic masses it was shrinking pulled back on the colonic tissue it was attached to causing what's called a perforation; A hole the size of a penny. Bad news, indeed.
This hole was leaking all sorts of shit and digestive fluid into my abdomen and started eating away at my peritoneum, the layer of tissue
that holds all your guts in place. This gave rise to something they call peritonitis, a terrible, life-threatening infection, which is exactly what Gabrielle had just a few weeks prior to her death. The surgeon, a good, stoic cat named Dr. O'Brien said that he'd have to operate. He ended with the words I do not like to hear: "Expect to spend the night."
Gacked to my eyeballs on morphine, I don't remember anything of the four hours or so I waited before the surgery, although Carole tells me that I was lucid and talking to her about everything and that she was there with me to whole time. Carole tells me that I felt worried about making it out alive and what would happen to the kids and Claire and so on...
This was the eve of a very very dark period in this whole experience.
The next thing I remember was coming out of sedation in the recovery room. The dude there told me that I was heading to my hospital room that had a flat panel TV. (So what, I thought, I'm in fucking pain). I can't knock the guy, he was just trying to be positive.
Dr. O'Brien came through and checked a few things on me, I don't know what. I said that I had to go pee, and he said, "You ARE peeing." (These aren't the droids you're looking for...)
The drugs made his voice sound as through it were coming through a long tube.
"No, seriously, I have to use the bathroom," I told him.
"You don't need the bathroom for a while, you have a catheter."
The orderly rolled me through the maze of corridors in the hospital and into a hospital room where Carole and my friend from Seattle, Tommi, were eating burritos. They looked up, squealing in a way to see me alive. Carole tells me that my complexion was gray. The orderly rolled the stretcher up next to the hospital bed and told me that I had to move myself over.
I got on all fours on the stretcher and noticed the gash in my stomach and my new fashion accessory; a colostomy bag. Good God, just what I hoped to not ever get...
Noting all this, I said to Carole, "Check me out, I'm hot," trying to make light of the fact that my whole body image had just been put
through the shredder. I felt dizzy and sick and pathetic; helpless, a basket case.
I also noticed that pretty much every orifice, except my asshole, had a tube of some sort coming out of it. A tube went up my nose, through to my stomach and out to a graduated container that had a load of green stuff in it--bile, I imagine. I sported the catheter out my swantz into a bag attached to the side of the bed, while both arms had all sorts of IVs going into them.
I spent a good while just laying in bed in this stupor of agony, not realizing until a nurse pointed out that I could get a dose of dilaudid every ten minutes by pressing this strange clown nose attached to one of the IV towers, of which there were three.
So, surgery was followed with a long sleep-about 18 hours, until a couple of nurses came in and told me that I had to sit up, with my legs dangling off the bed. I sat up after great pain and effort and then it was back on my back again.
While sitting there alone in the hospital room--Carole had long gone home to deal with Claire and work--I pulled up my gown to survey the
I was shaved from just below my nipples down to about a half-inch above my schwantz. Festooned with staples and gooey with puss and dried blood was a gash that went about three inches above my belly-button all the way down to my pubis. On my left side was the dreaded colostomy bag, which was empty. It seems that when they do a lot of knocking around with your GI Track, it stops working for a while. There wasn't anything in the GI Track, anyhow, since I was unable to eat with all the chemo cycles I'd already experienced. Chemo does a number on your appetite, I gotta tell you. I felt a strange squeezing sensation on my calves. I pulled the sheets back to expose these white sleeves with air tubes breathing in and out, squeezing and releasing, squeezing and releasing. The nurse explained that they were call "scuds" and put in place to keep my legs from developing blood clots, which could travel up to my lungs or my heart and kill me, sure as shootin.'
Just laying there, getting all my nutrition through IVs, I started losing weight. Not just a pound or two, but 10, 20, 30 pounds. I topped off on the weight-loss at about 60 pounds; weight that I could afford to lose, anyway--I was a real fat-ass. So, while in the hospital, a little more than three weeks, in total, I lost about 60 pounds. I look great and my blood pressure is in better control now, too. The Cancer Diet, I call it, when people compliment me on my shape.
There are further details I can get in to here but it goes on and on and I don't really want to crowd you with all this grim reportage.
I knew there would a great deal of speculation (we're all such terrific gossips) among the poetry community and other friends and this sort of sets the record somewhat straight. Indeed, a goodly many of my friends didn't even know I was sick. Some folks, I've heard, had already written my off as a dead man walking or dead in fact.
Luckily, this is not the case.
Due to the dilaudid and the oxycodone I was prescribed, there is a lot that I simply do not remember. For examplpe, a murder of poets actually came down from Seattle to throw a party in my hospital room that I hardly remember. I was plowed to the nines on dilaudid at the time. But there are plenty of incriminating photos around to prove I was there.
I do remember taking a hit of the clown-nose dilaudid and Karen Finneyfrock watched as my eyes rolled up into my noggin. "You OK, Marty?" One is mostly OK, when given access to industrial doses of dilaudid.
The details about the party are this: Tommi spoke to her sister of all the shitty things that were happening this year, with me getting sick and everybody losing Darling Gabrielle. Tommie told her sister that she wanted a "do-over" for 2010. Who can blame her. 2010 Version 2.0. So Tommi threw a party and brought the party to my room. Along with the poets. I knew I had a good time. There were lots of folks in my room and the nurse even came in at midnight so that I could call the party she threw at her house at midnight.
After blowing a party horn into the phone, I went RIGHT back to sleep. Completely knocked out.
It was a good night, all things considered, although I missed Claire, Nickel and Nezzie. I was very lonely going back to sleep that night.
When I got back from Austin around the middle of January, Gabrielle was about two weeks away from dying. She died on Friday the 29th. Shitty day and I spent the night in mourning and feeling just shitty about everything. You may not know her but she was a hugely important person in my life. In the end, I got the call from my friend Daemond early in the day and spent the rest of Friday in a daze, wondering how I'd get through life without her.
Already, there were gastric issues with me, not passing shit the way I should, growling guts and lots of what I thought were either gas pains, irritable bowels, ulcers or diverticulitis. I knew something was up. There was a blockage somewhere. Just what was it?
I had an appointment set for February 2nd and thought I could wait it all out until then. Well, January 30th was particularly painful. Calling the on-call nurse for GreatWest (the insurance company), I explained my symptoms and was instructed to go to Providence emergency department (I suppose they don't call it the ER anymore) to get a CAT Scan. Saturday being the day Carole gets some time to fuck off downtown before coming home, she likes to buy a bottle of wine or some bread. I called her at work and asked her to come directly home after work, because I was in such pain and needed to get to the Emergency Room. She came directly home after the call and I spent about four hours at Providence, drinking barium, waiting for it to go through my digestive system, watching Food Network and reading about Portland Food Carts, etc.
Finally, the doctor came through and shut off the TV. He sat down across from me and started crying. Very bad sign. "Do you have any kids," he asked me. I told him I have four. He said, "Well, you are right, there is a blockage in your lower intestine and it's being caused by colon cancer. You're in deep shit.
"It's advanced and spreading. We found it attached to the peritonin, your liver and dipping down into your scrotum. We describe it as stage four, the final stage before it consumes everything. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this." He started weeping again.
It took a couple minutes for it to sink in. The doctor told me that he needed to make some calls to get me into treatment immediately and said he hoped that the treatment might extend my life. While he wouldn't make any prognoses, he told me that typically a person with the disease as advanced as mine, I was probably looking at about six months. Deep shit.
So the doctor left me in the room to stew for a while; I was confused and freaked out. I reflected on the terrible coincidence of Gabs dying the day before and me getting diagnosed with what in my mind amounted to a death sentence, with so much left undone. I thought, "I got kids to raise and books to write and money to make! I'm not supposed to get checked out for colon cancer for another five years. How could this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this? Too much red meat? I was a vegetarian for 12 years! Maybe it's been the smoking? Or the drinking?"
Carole and Claire were out there in the hospital somewhere and I wanted immediately to find them. I wanted them around. I needed them. I wandered around the emergency department in my smock with my ass hanging out, feeling perfectly at ease with it—I've been given my two-minute warning and didn't give a fuck about much else than finding Carole and Claire. A nurse or orderly or someone found me and ran me back to my little room in the back with the TV, the bed, the sink and the instruments. Carole and Claire came through, finally with the doctor right behind them.
I told Carole, "We sorted out what's up with me." She nodded. "It's really bad news, Carole. I have colon cancer. And it's advanced. I'm in deep shit." Carole started crying harder than I'd ever seen her cry. Then I started crying, too, realizing the horror of it all. Carole's dad had just died not even a year before of Leukemia, while Gabrielle had died the day before. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that I could almost smell the death in the room. It was like some terrible twilight had descended upon me. I felt like everything was being viewed from the bottom of a well.
The doctor told me that he'd made some appointments for me with a surgeon, and oncologist and that I should keep my appointment with my new General Practitioner, a very quirky/cool doctor out here on the peninsula.
The first week of February was Cancer Week: I saw the GP, saw the Oncologist, saw a gastrointerologist, a CAT Scan specialist and a radiation technician. No one had any good news. Living in a sort of DEATH FOG, I pulled away from everyone except for Carole and Claire. I didn't want to be around anyone else.
On the Second I saw the GP. He was nice, but offered no good news. On the Third, I saw the Oncologist, who I learned was widely known in his field and that I was quite lucky to have him as my doctor—he's done some radically unorthodox things in the treatment of cancer. He even heads up the Oregon Clinic, which is reportedly the best place to go in Oregon if you are found to have the disease.
Thursday had me laying on my side with a bull-dyke squeezing two plastic bottles of barium up my ass for an enema. She told me to let it percolate for a little while before I shat it out. It didn't last long, I gotta tell you. Maybe a minute, if even that. So, having jet-sprayed the toilet in there, I called out that I was ready. Some dude in scrubs came through and rolled me through several halls on a gurney. I got rolled over on my side and a nice lady with a hypo walked up and said, "Sweet Dreams."
Next thing I know, Carole, Karen, Denis are all standing over me, talking about making meatloaf for dinner. "I'd like meatloaf for dinner." Then the surgeon came through and told me to that it was going to be a while before I could eat meatloaf, or anything else for that matter. "Expect to spend the night," he told me. Of course, I thought "spend the night" meant spend the night. I was in the hospital for about 10 days at this point.
The surgery was a combination of colonoscopy, biopsy, stent-placement (to open up the blockage), the placement of a "power-port" so I could start receiving chemo. There was also a clearing out of detritus that was sort of stuck because of the blockage the cancer created in my sigmoid colon—the descending part that leads to the rectum. I didn't understand at the time, but that was a lot to do in a single surgery, but they did it and it was done.
We were all still wondering exactly what it was I had. We knew it was cancer but there are myriad kinds and they all behave differently. The professionals upon whom we rely are astonishingly unhip, because there are so many kinds of cancer and so many kinds of people and so many kinds of behaviors that are simply impossible to predict. Couple the above with the fact that doctors are big targets for malpractice suits, they go to great lengths to ensure their analyses and prognoses are as correct as they can make them; even if they know fuckall about what exactly is going on.
In my hospital room, there were long hours of just sitting, riding the pain-killers, walking around the halls and reflecting. I determined that I would not go down without either a fight or a good laugh. There had to be something to learn from all this, not to mention some really good jokes. I could write off this experience to denial and maintaining this Panglossian optimism, but in the back of my mind is the idea that I can kick this motherfucker, still unsure of what it is I really have.
My oncologist eventually came through and we talked about what he found in the biopsy.
Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma.
An old man's disease.
This kind of cancer ordinarily attacks old men, say 70 to 80 years old. It's highly irregular that someone my age might contract this particular version of colon cancer, of which there are about 600, that they know of. So, I asked him, "What did I do to get this?" His head tilted a little and he smirked. He told me, "Nothing."
I told him, "OK, diggit, I smoke, I drink copiously, I played around with drugs, I've enjoyed sex of all sorts; fucked myself limp! Regardless my vegetarian period, afterward I ate tons of red meat, duck, fish, deer, every critter that won't eat me first. There's got to be something in there that brought this on!"
He looked at me with a little amusement at my openness and said, "It's just shitty luck. More than likely, I would say it's cosmic rays, mutation. Neutrinos."
He explained to me that cancer is a really antisocial disease and most of the time it gets expressed through the body (lymph nodes, urine, shit, skin boils, pimples) and mostly people ordinarily enjoy a life free of the disease. Sometimes, among the profoundly unlucky, it sets in. That's my situation. I'm just unlucky. In this case, anyway.
Why so long?
I think in part that it has to do with the "little old me" syndrome--who wants to hear from me? Nothing much had been going on or so I thought. Actually there's been a great deal going on and I'm at a loss for words about how to talk about it.
Another way for me to look at my lack of updates boils down to simple laziness. At the end of the day, I get a bad case of the "fuck-its" when I'm having to chase my 2 year old daughter around the house, cook dinner, and then--while I was working--get back into bed to wake up at 4:30AM again for another stress-filled, soul-crushing humiliation called sales. (Actually, I like sales, but that's another post).
So, over the next few days, I will bullet point and comment on some of the things that have been going on with me and fill you guys in.
If you have any outstanding questions, comment here. I could stand to hear from people.
At night I pray for Gabrielle.
Performed a wedding as Reverend Martin Kruse
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I'm really not one for resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Karen and Denis brought the handsome and smartly dressed Julian Raphael into the world.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope. Although I heard this summer that an old buddy from LA killed himself.
5. What countries did you visit?
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked
in 2008?
A better president.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your
memory, and why? November 2nd.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Made a little more money this year than last.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Getting Nickel to his homework.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I made out pretty well, this year.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
New fawcett for the kitchen.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
President Obama
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
George W Bush
14. Where did most of your money go?
My kids.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited
Nothing immediately leaps to mind.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder? Happier
b. thinner or fatter? A little Thinner
c. richer or poorer? A little richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Saved money.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Fretted less over things that I have no control over.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent Christmas packed under layers upon layers of snow.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Just the usual suspects. Carole, Medbh, Nick, Nezzie, Claire...
23. How many one-night stands?
24. What was your favorite TV program?
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this
time last year?
I try not to hate. It's a nasty word.
26. What was the best book you read?
Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos by Bucky Sinister
Even if you don't think you need it, read it. It'll hip you to some concepts that will change the way you think about the 12-Step world.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The record I bought this year was Kings of Leon's Only by Night, which sounds a lot like the Pixies... Interesting.
28. What did you want and get?
Better sales at work.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
The summer block buster Iron Man.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were
I turned 44 and hung out with Carole and Jesse on one of the last nights of Encanto.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
George W Bush meeting an untimely demise.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
34. What kept you sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Barack Obama
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The Election.
37. Who did you miss?
Gabrielle Bouliane
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Denis Theriault, my brother in law.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Never underestimate the power of friendship.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I get up
I get down..."
Yes, Close to the Edge
41. Who did you spend the most time on the phone
Melissa from work.
42. What LJ users did you meet for the first time?
No one, this year.
The Life Experience Test
| Overall, you have partaken in 127 out of 169 possible life experiences.
Your average life experience score is therefore 75%.
The average score is 51%, making your experiences more than 98% of the people who have taken this test.
The average for your age group (36-55) is 56%.
Broken down by category:
Art: 11/17 (65%)
Career & Work: 11/13 (85%)
Civics & Technology: 7/7 (100%)
Crime & Disarray: 7/11 (64%)
Education: 13/18 (72%)
Fashion: 7/10 (70%)
Fitness, Health and Sports: 3/7 (43%)
Life in General: 10/14 (71%)
Relationships: 12/14 (86%)
Religion & Politics: 2/4 (50%)
Social: 19/22 (86%)
Travel: 13/20 (65%)
Vices: 12/12 (100%)
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Article: Ligands involved in Pb immobilization and transport in lettuce, radish, tomato and Italian ryegrass[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Lead (Pb) and other heavy metals represent a great source of concern in agriculture, because they may disperse from polluted sources and accumulate in crop organs. This research study was performed with three edible crops and one pasture species (lettuce: Lactuca sativa L. cv. Romana; radish: Raphanus sativus L. var. radicicola; tomato: Lycopersicon lycopersicum L. Karst.; Italian ryegrass: Lolium multiflorum Lam). It was aimed at (1) assessing how species affect Pb distribution among plant organs, (2) determining the extent to which Pb is localized in edible organs, and (3) ascertaining whether it could be possible to distinguish which compounds are responsible for the transport of Pb from one plant organ to another and which compounds are responsible for the accumulation of this metal inside each plant organ. The experiment was conducted in the greenhouse. Plants were grown in plastic pots using a Pb-spiked sandy soil as substrate. Total Pb concentrations in different plant organs and in soil were determined. Within plants, the maximum accumulation of Pb was found in roots while the remaining part of Pb was mainly located in leaves. Pb LIII edge XANES (X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy) was applied to identify the principal Pb carrier molecules in the different plant organs. The data suggest that in roots Pb immobilization is mainly due to the complexing ability of histidine, which binds the metal and, to a lesser extent, to precipitation of Pb as carbonate. The transport to the upper plant organs is mainly attributed to Pb complexes with organic acids. In stems and leaves, Pb bonding is mainly carboxylic and amino acid-like, thus confirming the role of these substances in promoting Pb mobility. Thio amino acidic (glutathione and cysteine-like) Pb complexes, which in this study were only found in stems, can also be held responsible for Pb long-distance transport from roots to shoots.Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 10/2014; DOI:10.1002/jpln.201200581 · 1.66 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The Pb absorption processes on a heavy textured calcareous soil, typical of central Italy, were studied using synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in order to probe, at molecular scale, the structure and chemical nature of Pb in contaminated soils and achieve precise description of Pb ions localization into these contaminated soils. In order to distinguish the role of the different components of soils in Pb retention, samples were prepared from the original soils removing the carbonate fractions, the organic matter, the metal oxides, or selecting the clay fractions. Then these samples were fortified with Pb simulating the natural interactions processes of heavy metal solutions with soils. The quantitative analysis of near edge (XANES) as well extended (EXAFS) regions of Pb L(III) edge absorption spectra, in comparison with Pb XAS data of selected reference compounds, allowed the precise determination of local structure and chemical environment of Pb ions in these soil samples. Four components were individuated as the major responsible of Pb retention in calcareous soils: the carbonates, the metal oxide surfaces, the organic matter, and the colloidal inorganic surfaces containing clay components. The structural analysis suggests that, within these experimental conditions, the Pb adsorbed on the soil is generally present as Pb hydroxide with poor crystallization degree. However, the presence of carbonates (CaCO3) induces the co-precipitation of PbCO3-like phases with some degree of crystallinity.Environmental Science and Pollution Research 11/2011; 2011(18(4)):669-76. DOI:10.1007/s11356-010-0412-1 · 2.76 Impact Factor
Article: Computational prediction of L3 EXAFS spectra of gold nanoparticles from classical molecular dynamics simulations[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We present a computational approach for the simulation of extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra of nanoparticles directly from molecular dynamics simulations without fitting any of the structural parameters of the nanoparticle to experimental data. The calculation consists of two stages. First, a molecular dynamics simulation of the nanoparticle is performed and then the EXAFS spectrum is computed from ``snapshots'' of structures extracted from the simulation. A probability distribution function approach calculated directly from the molecular dynamics simulations is used to ensure a balanced sampling of photoabsorbing atoms and their surrounding scattering atoms while keeping the number of EXAFS calculations that need to be performed to a manageable level. The average spectrum from all configurations and photoabsorbing atoms is computed as an Au L3-edge EXAFS spectrum with the FEFF 8.4 package, which includes the self-consistent calculation of atomic potentials. We validate and apply this approach in simulations of EXAFS spectra of gold nanoparticles with sizes between 20 and 60 Å. We investigate the effect of size, structural anisotropy, and thermal motion on the gold nanoparticle EXAFS spectra and we find that our simulations closely reproduce the experimentally determined spectra.Physical review. B, Condensed matter 03/2011; 83(11). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115409 · 3.66 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Materials showing negative thermal expansion (NTE) coefficient over large temperature ranges are nowadays of great interest for their possible applications. Small nanoparticles show changes in their properties with respect to the corresponding bulk, mainly due to the high surface to volume ratio and to the confinement of electrons in a small volume. In the present paper we report a x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) study on the thermal expansion coefficient of an Au foil and of Au nanoparticles of very small dimensions ranging from 2.4 nm and 5.0 nm. Their L3 edge has been investigated in the temperature range 20K – 300K and a very accurate data analysis has been performed taking into account the presence of asymmetry effects. All clusters showed a thermal trend of the first shell distance significantly different from that of the bulk. The larger clusters were characterized by a reduction of the thermal expansion coefficient with respect to bulk; in the smallest samples the crossover from a thermal expansion to a NTE effect was observed. A simple model, based on the contribution of localized states induced by the finite size of the clusters, qualitatively accounts for the observed behaviour.Journal of Physics Conference Series 11/2009; 190(1):012122. DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/190/1/012122
Article: Thermal dependent anharmonicity effects on gold bulk studied by extended x-ray-absorption fine structure.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The structural parameters of the first five coordination shells of an Au bulk obtained from high accuracy L(3)-edge extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra in the temperature range 20-300 K are reported. Good agreement with previously reported studies is found. The effective second and third order force constants evaluated using EXAFS data are compatible with those calculated from phonon dispersion curves. A careful comparison of the variations of the EXAFS first shell distance with x-ray diffraction data provided the mean squared relative displacement of the atomic vibrations perpendicular to the first interatomic bond. An alternative new approach that is useful in achieving this parameter when x-ray diffraction data are not available is proposed.Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 08/2009; 21(32):325404. DOI:10.1088/0953-8984/21/32/325404 · 2.22 Impact Factor
Article: Temperature dependence of the structural parameters of gold nanoparticles investigated with EXAFS[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The L3 edge of Au nanoparticles, having sizes ranging from 2.4 to 5.0 nm, have been investigated by x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in the temperature range of 20–300 K. Data were recorded at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility with a very good signal to noise ratio. To achieve a very high accuracy in the determination of the first shell distance, a very careful data analysis was performed also taking into account the presence of asymmetry effects. In all samples, the temperature dependence of the first neighbor distance results is different from that of the macrocrystalline counterpart. In the largest size samples, a reduction of the thermal expansion was found, whereas in the smallest ones, the presence of a crossover from an initial thermal expansion to a thermal contraction was observed. Calculations based on a simple model show that localization effects that increase as the nanoparticle size decreases can explain the reported thermal effects.Physical review. B, Condensed matter 02/2008; 77(7). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075432 · 3.66 Impact Factor
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Additional major stars in the Pisces constellation include Epsilon Piscium, Theta Piscium, Delta Piscium, Nu Piscium, Beta Piscium, Van Maanen's star, 19 Piscium, 107 Piscium, 96 G. Piscium, 54 Piscium and 6 G. Piscium. Often, scientists use Greek alphabet symbols when writing the names of these stars rather than spelling out the entire word. The word "Piscium" in star names is derived from the star's location in the Pisces constellation. Scientists may divide Pisces into smaller components, known as asterisms. Asterisms in Pisces include the North Fish, the South Fish, the North Cord, the South Cord, the Circlet and the Turtle, each composed of different stars found within Pisces.
While the main components of a constellation are its stars, other light-reflecting deep space objects may be considered identifying characteristics of a constellation. In Pisces, notable deep space objects include the spiral galaxy Messier 74, the M74 Group combination of galaxies, the CL 0024+1654 cluster of galaxies, the spiral galaxy NGC 7537, the double radio galaxy 3C 31 and the dwarf galaxy Pisces Dwarf.Learn more about Constellations
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" wins the Emmy Award for best supporting actor in a drama series.
Paul plays Jesse Pinkham, sidekick to Bryan Cranston's character in the AMC series. It is his second Emmy win.
Other nominees included Giancarlo Esposito of "Breaking Bad," Jared Harris of AMC's "Mad Men," Peter Dinklage of HBO's "Game of Thrones," Brendan Coyle of PBS' "Downton Abbey" and Jim Carter of "Downton Abbey."
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Jane Alexander and David Gerroll Set for PBS's Marvel-Led AMERICAN MASTERS; Airs 12/28
Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming PBS special AMERICAN MASTERS starring Elizabeth Marvel as Louisa May Alcott. The cast will include Daniel Gerroll as Bronson Alcott and Jane Alexander as Ednah Cheney. The special is entitled "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women" and will air on PBS on December 28th at 9:00pm.
Starring as Louisa is the acclaimed Elizabeth Marvel whose New York theatre credits including Top Girls, Fifty Words, the Public Theater Productions of Troilus and Cressida and King Lear, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V, and more. Elizabeth, who has also appeared in Burn After Reading, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, and more will next be seen on the New York stage in March in Suzan-Lori Parks' "The Book of Grace."
In Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, Marvel brings Alcott's complex story to vivid life. Louisa's life was no children's book: she worked as a servant, a seamstress, and a Civil War nurse before becoming a millionaire celebrity writing "moral pap for the young," as she called it. Under pen names and anonymously, she also wrote stories with enough drugs, sex and crime to prove the author was no "little" woman. When she died, Alcott took her secret identity as a pulp fiction writer with her, and kept it for nearly a half-century.
Jane Alexander received a Tony Award for Broadway's "The Great White Hope," and Tony Award nominations for "Honour," "The Sisters Rosensweig," "The Visit," "First Monday in October," "Find Your Way Home" and "6 Rms Riv Vu." She also received a Drama Desk and Theatre World Award for "The Great White Hope" and an Obie for "The Sisters Rosensweig." She is a four-time Oscar nominee for the films "Testament," "Kramer vs. Kramer," "All the President's Men" and "The Great White Hope." On television, she won an Emmy Award for the movie "Playing for Time" and a Television Critic's Circle Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years." She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Showtime's "Carry Me Home," directed by her son Jace Alexander. She received the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie" for her portrayal of "Sara Roosevelt" in HBO's "Warm Springs." Ms. Alexander is the author of "Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics," documenting her tenure as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993-1997.
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