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\section{Introduction}
\label{intro}
In this talk we will advocate a radically different approach to
the theory of induced fission.  To put this into context, we
show in Fig. \ref{fig0} a schematic view of the fission landscape
with the different energy regions indicated by color.
In the tunneling region, shown in green, the dynamics is driven
by the pairing interaction.  High above the barrier, shown in pink,
we expect the dynamics to be highly overdamped and amenable to
treatment by a diffusion equation.  In between is the barrier-top
region, shown in blue.  This  commonly described
by the Bohr-Wheeler theory and its generalization to multiple
barriers.

We seek an alternate treatment that does not require
well-behaved channels to cross the barrier.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=11cm]{figs/fig1a.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig0} Schematic view of the fission landscape
with a simple barrier.  The colored regions show the areas
of different dynamics: diffusive in pink, tunneling in green,
and barrier-top in blue.
}
\end{figure}
The concept of a channel demands that the wave function can
be written as a product of an internal part and a one-dimensional
function of some collective coordinates.  This is leads to the
Born-Oppenheimer approximation
in molecular dynamics, which is well justified by the large
separation of electron and nucleus mass scales.  But this
not at all the case in nuclear physics, where both single-particle
and collective structures are on the same 1 MeV energy scale.
The tools for microscopic
calculations in that framework are just not up to the task.

The present state of the art for modeling induced fission may be
seen in the recent calculations of the Los Alamos group \cite{bo13,bo14}.
The basic calculational framework was laid out by Bj\o rnholm
and Lynn \cite{bj80}, who generalized the Bohr-Wheeler
theory to deal with a fission landscape having two barriers.  The degrees of
freedom are depicted in Fig. \ref{fig1a}.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=13cm]{figs/u236_pes_channels.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig1a}
Fission potential energy surface (PES) for $^{236}$U, taken from Fig. 7 of Ref. \cite{ro14}.  Dashed
line shows energy of separated fission fragments at the same quadrupole
deformation coordinate.  Superimposed on the PES are the elements needed
for the generalized Bohr-Wheeler description of the dynamics.
Type I and II state are indicated by dots;
channels bridging the barriers are indicated by horizontal lines.
In practice, the channels are only needed at the barrier tops.
}
\end{figure}
They are the state densities
in wells I and II, indicated by dots in the Figure, and the
channels at barriers A and B, indicated by the horizontal lines.
The final formula for the fission decay rate is a generalization
of the Bohr-Wheeler decay rate formula
\begin{equation}
W = { 1\over 2 \pi \hbar \rho} \sum_c T_c
\end{equation}
which only has only one compound nucleus density $\rho$ and only
transmission coefficients $T_c$ for a single barrier.

To connect this to a microscopic theory based on a nucleonic
Hamiltonian, we need to know how to calculate the transmission coefficients
$T_c$
between states and channels,
and also
how calculate mixing between channels.  The microscopic
framework used up to now is the Generator
Coordinate Method (GCM).  Unfortunately, it does not have a natural place
for the ordinary states and the needed connection to channels
seems difficult to incorporate.  For the mixing
of channels, there is a heroic
attempt by Gogny's group to set up a GCM framework for this
purpose \cite{be11},
but it appears to us to be very complicated to carry out in practice.

In our view, the problem is the channel picture itself.  Channels are
useful if there is clear separation between collective and intrinsic
degrees of freedom.  That is O.K. for the Born-Oppenheimer
framework for molecular physics, but the separation of collective and
intrinsic energy scales is simply not present in nuclear
physics.  Another problem is the non-orthogonality of the channel
wave functions in the GCM.
In particular, the over-completeness of the basis often
gives rise numerical stabilities that can only be suppressed by ad
hoc truncations.

From the phenomenological side, the dynamics of induced fission
may be much closer to a diffusive limit than an inertial
limit.  One sees from many studies including one presented
in this Workshop \cite{le15} and a recent one on mass distributions
\cite{ra11} that  statistical and diffusive models can
describe many features of the fission final state.  Furthermore,
we also heard  in the Workshop a report on a microscopic
dynamical model that produced a fission time so large that inertial
motion would be highly over-damped \cite{bu15}.

\section{Dynamics in a discrete basis}
\label{sec-1}

There is an alternative.  That is to construct a discrete basis for
the Hamiltonian, avoiding completely the introduction of
continuous collective degrees of freedom.  In this section we
show how various limits of the dynamics can emerge, deferring to
the next section how we envisage constructing the basis.  The basis
will be composed of
mean-field configurations, allowing one to calculate with
well-known methods the matrix elements of Hamiltonians of the
usual microscopic form,
\begin{equation}
\label{H}
H = \sum \varepsilon_i a^\dagger_i a_i +\frac{1}{4}\sum
v_{ij,kl} a^\dagger_i a^\dagger_j a_l a_k.
\end{equation}
Besides the close connection to
configuration-interaction (CI) computational methods that have been
so successful with the nuclear shell model, the discrete-basis
framework provides a conceptual bridge to quantum transport in condensed
matter physics.

The states need to be characterized by energy and some measure
of the shape; these may be
determined by the expectation values of the Hamiltonian and some
single-particle operator such as the quadrupole moment.  It is
then easy to set up conditions on Hamiltonian to realize different
possibilities for the dynamics.

The first limit is that of a compound nucleus decaying into a
single channel.  The basis states are set up as shown in
Fig.~\ref{single-channel} on the left.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/colrow_config_illustrate.pdf}%
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{figs/wire_T.pdf}
\caption{\label{single-channel}  Discrete-state modeling of the compound nucleus
coupling to a neutron decay channel. On the left are shown the
states as circles and their couplings as lines.  On the right is
shown the calculated transmission coefficient $T$ compared to the
weak-absorption limit $T = 4 \pi^2 v_c^2 \rho^2$.
}
\end{figure}
The compound nucleus states are shown as the tower of states
indicated as red points.  The channel states are the regularly
spaced blue point on the left.  The interactions between the
compound states and the first channel state are shown as the
dashed red lines.  They would be taken as Porter-Thomas
distributed about some rms average value $\langle v^2_c \rangle$.
The interactions between channel states are
shown as the solid blue lines.   They would all be equal.
Then the entire physics of scattering theory and compound
nucleus resonances can be displayed by using standard methods.
There has been recent interest in couplings to the continuum
that violate Porter-Thomas statistics \cite{mi15}; perhaps this model would
be useful to explore such possibilities.

Another limit is one that approximates diffusive dynamics.  By
this we mean that wave packets decay according to
the diffusion equation with some diffusion coefficient $D(q)$ according
to the equation
\begin{equation}
{\partial P \over \partial t} = {\partial \over \partial q}D(q)
{\partial P\over \partial q}
\end{equation}
where $q$ is a shape index. To realize this limit in a discrete
basis, we distribute the states in layers according to the
shape parameter $q$ and in energy according to
Gaussian random matrix ensemble.
The layout of states in the $(E,q)$ plane is shown in
Fig. \ref{diffusion} on the left.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/diffusion_simulation.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/diffuseCompareNice.pdf}
\caption{\label{diffusion}  Discrete basis modeling of shape diffusion
in a region of high level density.  The states are grouped in vertical
layers by
their deformation, and it is assumed that only nearby layers
are coupled by the interaction.  The right hand side shown
the probability distribution after some time interval, starting
from an initial wave function localized on the first layer.
}
\end{figure}
We also assume a Porter-Thomas distribution of interaction matrix
elements, limited to states on next-neighbor layers.
Evolving the dynamics by the time-dependent Schr\"odinger, we find
probability distributions on the different layers at later times.
The results are shown on the right-hand panel of the Figure at
some fixed time.  The points
are an average of different Hamiltonians in the ensemble, with the
error bars showing the r.m.s. fluctuations.
The connection to macroscopic theory comes if we can relate
the statistical properties of the Hamiltonian ensemble to
a diffusion coefficent.
This is
given by the formula \cite{bu92}
\begin{equation}
\label{D}
D = 2 \pi\rho(E) \overline{ (q_\alpha - q_\beta)^2\langle \alpha | v|
\beta\rangle^2}
\end{equation}
where $\rho$ is the level density in a single layer and the bar
indicates an average over interactions between states in different
layers.
The red curve is the corresponding distribution predicted by the
diffusion equation, the $D$ from  Eq. (\ref{D}).
One sees that the classical physics is quite accurate except
for the some trapping in first layer.

Another interesting limit is what may be called resonance-mediated
conductance.  It is inspired as a very simplified model for
fission dynamics at the barrier top as well as for the conduction
of electrons from one conductor to another through a quantum
dot.  The layout of states is shown in Fig. \ref{quantum-dot}.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{figs/resonance_mediated_conductance.pdf}%
\includegraphics[width=8cm, trim =15 0 10 0, clip]{figs/rt4c.pdf}%
\caption{\label{quantum-dot}  Discrete state representation of
resonance-mediated conductances.  The states of the compound nucleus
are on the left, and the post-barrier states are on the right.
}
\end{figure}
The transport
takes place through the single state in the middle.  There
is a lot of physics that can be explored with this model \cite{be14}.
For this talk, we just mention one limit.  With suitable restrictions
on level densities and interaction strengths,
the rate at
which the system goes from one side to the other can be
calculated by Eq. (1) with the transmission coefficient given
by the formula \cite{al00}
\begin{equation}
\label{Tr}
T_r  =  {\Gamma_{R} \Gamma_{L} \over E_b^2 + (\Gamma_{R}+\Gamma_{L})^2/4}.
\end{equation}
Here the decay widths of the resonance to the left and to the right
($\Gamma_L$ and $\Gamma_R$) are calculated by Fermi's
Golden Rule.  Again, we examine an ensemble of Hamiltonians using
random matrix energy spacings, but now with fixed couplings to the
resonance to satisfy Eq. (\ref{Tr}) with $T_r=1$.  The resulting time-dependent probability for staying
on the left is shown in the panel on the right, with error bars
showing the fluctuations in the ensemble.  The solid line is
an exponential decay with the decay rate determined by Eq. (1) with
the calculated transmission factor.  We see that the average decay
rate is well reproduced, but there is considerable fluctuation due
to the level-density fluctuations in the random-matrix ensemble.

\section{An implementation: the axial basis}
\label{sec-2}
A discrete basis should be composed of orthogonal states, and it
should be extendible in principle to a complete basis.
A good candidate to satisfy these requirements is what we shall call the
axial basis.  As in traditional theory, the underlying framework is
self-consistent mean-field theory.  But
instead of adding a generator-coordinate field to distinguish states,
we use the partition of the particle numbers to orbitals of different
K quantum numbers to make a first landscape of the PES.  To make this
clear, let us consider a very simple example, the shell-model ground
state of $^{16}$O.  The filled shells are $s_{1/2},p_{3/2},p_{1/2}$.
The $K$ quantum number can be taken as the azimuthal angular momenta
$j_z$ of the shells.  This produce the fillings shown in Table I,
amounting to a partition of the 16 nucleus into 6 $K^{\pi}$ sets.
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Orbital filling for $^{16}$O in the spherical shell model.
The columns separate the $K$ quantum number, and the rows separate
nucleon type and parity.
}
\label{tab-1}
\begin{tabular}{|c|ccc|}
\hline
$K$  & $1/2$& $3/2$& $5/2$\\
\hline
p$^+$& 2 &0&0\\
p$^-$& 4 & 2 &0\\
n$^+$& 2 &0&0\\
n$^-$& 4 &2 &0\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

To see how the scheme might work, we examine the partitions for a toy model,
the fission of $^{32}$S into two $^{16}$O nuclei with a Hamiltonian tuned to
allow the decay.  This model was proposed
in Ref.~\cite{negele}.  Tables of
the partitions are shown in Fig. \ref{s32}.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{figs/fig6.pdf}
\caption{\label{s32}  Fission of $^{32}S$ in a toy model.
See text for explanation.
}
\end{figure}
The leftmost table gives the $K^\pi$ partition
for $^{32}$S as a spherical shell-model configuration.  The filled
shells are $0s_{1/2},p_{3/2},p_{1/2},d_{5/2},1s_{1/2}$.  Notice that
the nonzero $K^\pi$ orbitals go up to the $5/2^+$ associated with
the $d_{5/2}$ shell.  The partition table for $^{16}$O+$^{16}$O can be
constructed by a very simple argument.  The orbitals of the combined
system have the same $K$ quantum numbers as the individual nuclei if
the fission is along the $z$-axis.  Each orbital has an extra two-fold
degeneracy because of its presence in both O nuclei. The plus and
minus linear combinations will have good parity.  Thus, each orbital
in the individual O gives rise to two orbitals with the same $K$
but opposite parities in the combined system.  The resulting partitions
are shown on the right hand side of the Figure.  Comparing the
initial and final partitions, one sees that the decay requires
four particles to be moved from $K^\pi = 5/2^+$ orbitals to
$K^\pi= 1/2^-$ orbitals.  The various configurations involved
in the decay are depicted in the energy-versus-shape graph in the
bottom panel of the figure.  On the left is the $^{32}$S ground state.
The residual interaction connects it (dotted line) with several 2-particle
2-hole states as depicted in the middle.  Finally, a second application
of the residual interaction connects the intermediate configurations
to the final partition.  We have indicated the last configuration with a dashed
line because it is not clear whether it would have a stable minimum
in the Hartree-Fock minimization.  It might be that the energy decreases
continuously as the distance between centers increases.  At that
point we cannot avoid dealing with the problem of coupling to the
continuum.

The next example exhibits the first steps to building a basis
for treating the dynamics in the configuration-interaction
framework.  We start with a specific Hamiltonian of the usual
shell-model form Eq. (\ref{H}).
The goal is to examine all possible partitions and determine the
self-consistent minimum of each one.  These states will
span the range of deformations permitted by the shell-model
space.  Additional excited states in the same partitions
may be constructed as particle-hole excitations with the
same mean field as the ground state in that partitions.
We have written a code to carry out the fixed-partition
ground state minimization, given $H$ of the form Eq. (\ref{H}).
The example we show is the nucleus $^{162}$Dy, see
Fig. \ref{dy162}.
Here we took a Hamiltonian
constructed for use in the Shell Model Monte Carlo
treatment of level densities~\cite{al08}.  The filled circle shows the
ground state of the axial Hartree-Fock approximation.
This state is moderately deformed, as is expected
for midrange lanthanide nuclei.  The open circles show the
lowest excited states that
arise by changing the partition by a single pair jump. One
see a significant gap in the spectrum, and also that the
quadrupole deformations are not very different from that
of the ground state.  The partial localization in deformation
is important to obtain eventually a collective dynamics for
a deformation coordinate.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=11cm]{figs/QE2.pdf}
\caption{\label{dy162}  Ground state configuration of $^{162}$Dy
(filled circle) and excitded state configurations reachable by a single
pair jump (open circles).
}
\end{figure}

Now we come to the actinide nuclei and realistic fission paths.  We
start with the two ground states I and II in the PES minima.
Fig. 8 shows the difference in the partitions of the two states,
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=11cm]{figs/u236.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig8}  Difference of partitions in $^{236}$U for the
class I and class II ground states in the FRLD model \cite{mo14}.
}
\end{figure}
as calculated by M\"oller in the FRLD model
\cite{mo95,mo14}.  One sees that particles in higher-$K$ orbitals are
moved to lower $K$ in going from the first minimum to the second.
The number of pairs to be moved totals 6.  To explore the partition
space between the two minima, we should have a self-consistent
mean field code that allows one to specify the partition, with
no other constraints.  Lacking that, we can
begin to map
the distance between configurations with existing codes,
using the jump number as the distance measure.
We did this for $^{236}$U using the HFBaxial
code written by Luis Robledo \cite{robledo_code}.  The configurations
we examined are the I and II ground states, the A and B barriers,
and a number of configurations beyond the second barrier up to
$Q = 140$ bn.  At the largest deformation, the separated fragments have
the same energy as the elongated fissioning nucleus.  The results
are shown in Fig. \ref{pes-ab}.  First note that the shortest path from
the I ground state to II is not over the saddle. Past the second
saddle, the configurations are labeled by their quadrupole moment.
In this region, the system is asymmetric and parity is not a
good quantum quantum number.   However, for the figure we
have reported jump numbers corresponding to
symmetric fission.  It will be interesting to see the effect
on the jump numbers when the parity constraint is released.
If they remain substantial, it shows that the saddle-to-scission
path requires dynamics beyond that contained in the time-dependent
Hartree-Fock approximation.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=13cm]{figs/u236_pes_ab.pdf}
\caption{\label{pes-ab}
Schematic view of the fission barrier as in Fig. \ref{fig1a}.  The states I,II,A
and B are unconstrained while the states by a quadrupole moment
$Q = 80,100,120,140$ are constrained by that operator.  The distance
between states is shown by the number of pair jumps to get from one to
another.
}
\end{figure}

\section{The Hamiltonian}
\label{sec-3}
  While there are many energy density functionals available for
self-consistent mean-field theory, there does not yet exist a
fully self-consistent effective Hamiltonian for nuclear structure.
Still, it should be useful to explore the dynamics that follow
from simplified residual interactions.

\subsection{Interaction between configurations}
\label{sub-1}
The two-particle interaction between configurations can be
written schematically as
\begin{equation}
\label{v-ab}
\langle \alpha | v |\beta\rangle = \sum \langle pp |v | pp \rangle
\det | \langle \phi^\alpha_i | \phi^\beta_j\rangle|
\end{equation}
where $\langle pp |v | pp \rangle$ is a two-body matrix element and
$\det | \langle \phi^\alpha_i | \phi^\beta_j\rangle|$
is the overlap of spectator orbitals.

From the study of the dynamics as seen for example in Fig. \ref{diffusion},
it is clear that an important
parameter to approach the diffusion limit
is the ratio of the mean-square average
of the interaction between configurations $\overline{ \langle i| v | j
\rangle^2} $ to the local level density $\rho(q)$.  If this ratio
is large, each state decays exponentially into nearby states and
the dynamics will be diffusive.  It has been
shown in a simple model that this ratio increases with excitation
energy \cite{bu92}, so the diffusion limit will be appropriate at
high enough excitation energy.  In that model, the average interaction
strength scaled with excitation energy $E$ as
\begin{equation}
\overline{ \langle \alpha| v | \beta \rangle^2} \sim
E^{3/2}/\rho(E).
\end{equation}
We also have analyzed this with
a somewhat more sophisticated model, with results shown in Fig. \ref{fig11}.
\begin{figure}[tb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=11cm]{figs/M1.pdf}
\caption{\label{fig11}  Relative interaction strengths to mix
configurations at the same energy, as a function of excitation
energy.  See text for explanation.
}
\end{figure}
The vertical scale is proportional
to the product $\overline{ \langle \alpha| v | \beta \rangle^2}
\rho(E)$.  It is plotted with
respect to excitation energy, measured in units of the single-particle
energy spacing.  The dotted line is a power-law fit to the
ratios; it comes out very close to the predicted 3/2-power dependence.
Details will be given elsewhere.

The matrix elements of the two-body interaction are also affected
by the changes in the spectator orbitals due to the different mean
fields of the partitions.  This cuts down the interactions by
the determinant of spectator orbital overlaps indicated in
Eq. \ref{v-ab}.
This is a good occasion to mention the early paper by Arima
and Yoshida giving analytic expressions for this determinant in
the harmonic oscillator basis \cite{ar59}.

So where do we hope to go from here?  It seems feasible
in the near term to go beyond simple models
to sample the CI interactions arising from realistic effective
Hamiltonians.  We can then use the derived statistical properties to
determine where the diffusive limit can be applied.

\section{Acknowledgments}
\label{ack}
We wish to thank A. Bulgac for discussions, L. Robledo for the use of the
HFBaxial code to calculate partitions of $^{236}$U, and P. M\"oller for
providing us with the orbital fillings for $^{236}$U in
the FRLD model.  We also acknowledge financial support from
the Institute for Nuclear Theory (GFB) and from the DOE under Grant
FG02-00ER41132 (JMM).

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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, end Hong Kong's special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government.
The new measures come as the rift between the U.S. and China continues to grow during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump has been expressing anger at the World Health Organization for weeks over what he has portrayed as an inadequate response to the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in China's Wuhan province late last year.
The president said in a brief White House announcement that Chinese officials "ignored" their reporting obligations to the WHO and pressured the organization to mislead the public about an outbreak that has now killed more than 100,000 people in the United States.
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Sara Reisman is the Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. In her role, she oversees the Foundation's initiative Art and Social Justice, which aims at broadening artistic and cultural access in New York City. In addition, she curates exhibitions and events for The 8th Floor, an interdisciplinary space established in 2010 by Shelley and Donald Rubin dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, culture and philanthropy through public engagement. Prior to joining the Foundation, Reisman was the Director of New York City's Percent for Art program at the Department of Cultural Affairs, from 2008 to 2014, where she managed more than 100 public and civic commissions across the five boroughs. From 2008 to 2009, Sara was Curatorial Consultant for Public Art in support of the Queens Museum of Art's community development initiative in Corona, Queens. She has curated exhibitions for the Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Cooper Union School of Art, the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Momenta Art, Smack Mellon and LaMaMa Galleria, among other venues. Reisman served as Associate Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, from 2008-2009 and from 2006-2008 was Program Director of the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
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Families experiencing disability are gathering. Please pray for spiritual eyes to see!
Today The Elisha Foundation welcomes families to the Cannon Beach Christian Conference Center for their winter retreat. Greg Lucas, author of Wrestling with an Angel, is leading participants through Ephesians 1 and 2 over the four days.
15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
In Ephesians 1:18 Paul prays this way. He says, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling . . ." In other words, "I've taught you these things and you have received them with your external senses, but unless you perceive the glory of them with your spiritual sense ("the eyes of your heart") you will not be changed. (See also Ephesians 3:14-19; Colossians 1:9 with 3:16). Now these are Christians he is writing to, which shows that we need to go on praying until we get to heaven for spiritual eyes to see.
This was in 1998, when we didn't know about the autism and multiple other things going on in our son's body. All we knew for sure was that he was blind.
But God gripped me when I heard that statement from Pastor John: Paul's physical blindness was absolutely no obstacle to God's good work in his life! He did not need eyes in his head to see Jesus, because the eyes that clearly see who Jesus is see through a new heart that only God can provide.
It was another gift from God in building my understanding of who God is, and increasing my affections for him.
The families attending this retreat, if I understand Justin Reimer correctly, are coming with all kinds of issues, and many different understandings of who God is in relation to their family's situation with disability. Please pray that we would all have enlightened heart-eyes and would cling to our Jesus!


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I love to ponder life, love, the universe, all its mysteries and the lessons to be learned. I have always hung out in that learning and development space providing training and coaching, predominantly to the corporate sector. My strength is adding my 'take' on standard learning around leadership, people and communication. I always said my mission in life was to make the world a better place – one person at a time!
I had never really bothered with politics. I grew up in a Liberal voting household, which got shook up a bit when my sister took a turn to the left and preferred the Labor party approach. We all thought she was nuts. Then one day I heard Tony Abbott sledging then Prime Minister Julia Gillard and something awoke in me; the beginning of my focus on the people and parties within our political system. Tony Abbott infuriated me then, and infuriates me today. He is so wrong on so many levels with plenty of evidence when linked to sound leadership, learning and development theory and practice.
Why am I writing about a failed Prime Minister?
To highlight that if we pay attention, life lessons and learning are all around us and we can all become a better version of our self.
I was reminded of the damage Abbott created through intolerance and ideology as I went about attending to the integration of my dogs and chooks. My dogs are the territorial owners and my chooks require safe refuge, and a place to call home. The dogs don't 'get' the chooks, t hey don't like the way they look or the way they fossick around their yard. They are a little fearful of these strangers and are therefore on constant high alert and ready to put the chooks in their place. I am not sure if either dog would carry through their aggression but it is stressful and unpleasant for the chooks and not a risk I was willing to take.
I have had to create an integration strategy. The first point of order was to demonstrate leadership with my dogs in order to modify their behaviour and attitude towards the chooks. This is time consuming and requires effort along with authentic desire for a successful outcome. The simpler path would have been to send the chooks back to where they came from. But I love the fruits of their labour, the fresh eggs and the richer soil through their waste and scratching.
Communication is vital to any strategy and certainly underpins strong leadership. Clearly dogs and chooks don't speak human but communication occurs not just with the spoken word but with actions also.
So my communication strategy was to allow the dogs into the chicken coop while the chooks were out roaming, to sniff around, mark their turf and potentially reduce the mystery of these things behind a wire fence. We did this on many occasions until the coop simply became another object in the yard.
Then, with the dogs on lead, we stood at the coop gate and allowed the chooks to wander past on their exit into the garden. I would gently tap the dogs to change their state from high alert to relaxed if required. The dogs and I would walk by the chooks, again with me correcting any charge or high alert type behaviour. I would sit on the grass with the dogs and let the chooks come close, all the while demonstrating leadership through a calm, yet strong approach to the dogs if their behaviour was inappropriate.
I demonstrated leadership, I led by example.
The communication strategy was certainly embedded into the training with the added ingredient of empathy. Empathy is a particularly highly regarded attribute for a leader in an ever-changing world. Empathy is the ability to identify and understand the other's situation, feelings and motives; to recognise concerns others may have. It is being able to park judgements and see things through the eyes of others.
I took the time to understand that my dogs had been the sole animals with me for many years and the intrusion of these chooks was a shock to them. They saw them as interlopers; shady characters that would diminish their worth; take their food and the love of their owner. I had to demonstrate that there was plenty for everyone and that the experience would enrich their lives, not in any way diminish it.
So as I would take the food scraps to the chooks I always had treats for the dogs also. As the chooks would scratch for the scraps, the dogs too would seek out their treats in the same way.
The final piece of the integration strategy was the stakeholder engagement; ensuring all animals could co-exist with each other safely and in harmony. This piece required analysis of the stakeholders, constant communication and training to plug any identified 'gaps'. It was absolutely necessary to engage with all stakeholders as each party had different needs and expectations, which resulted initially in inappropriate attitudes and behaviours.
It is here that tolerance becomes the key. What started as simple tolerance then grew into relationship and dare I say love or at least mutual respect. Leadership created and grew the tolerance, along with the communication, training and engagement pieces.
So I guess the lesson for me is how different might our world be if more politicians demonstrated leadership that provided tolerance for relationships to grow, and differences and fears to diminish?


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Songs like 'dhali raat roozedaaro, waqt ho gaya suhana. Hui rehmato ki baarish, luta noor ka khazaana' and 'jaago azaan ho na jaye, ye suhaana sama kho na jaye', still linger fresh in the minds of the city's senior citizens, who grew up witnessing the scene.
Qudsia naqvi, 60 says, "That is an era gone by. At that time people had limited access to technology and had to rely on these troupes for waking up late in the night. As children, my sister and I would run to the door to catch a glimpse of the passing Qafilah".
The shrill of alarm clocks and sirens fitted in mosques have silenced the voices of the 'human wake up calls' that no longer bang doors and entertains people with their singing until dawn.
"These are the times when a quick beep on the cell phone flashes a friend's message that urges to shun sleep and bite into the delicacies of sehri. Apart from setting alarms, the regular announcement through the loudspeaker of the mosque helps us to wake up", says MA Naqvi, a retired government official.
The experience of the troupe members themselves is no less extraordinary. Gathering some 70 odd numbers of boys at a rendezvous and walking the streets to wake up people for sehri was not an easy task.
Septuagenarian, Abrar Ahmed Idreesi, did the work for more than 50 years until he left it three years back. His troupe 'Anjuman Taara' had more than 70 people.
"Nothing could dampen our spirits, be it rain or shivering cold. We would sing nazms and naats all the way along and our singing did not stop until morning. People requested us for some particular songs. They not only gave us money as tips but would also offer us tea and lacche (fine sticks made of flour and soaked in milk. People at times used to shower money from their terraces. Not only did we cover a large area in the home town but we were also called upon by people from Kanpur, Malihabad, Barabanki and others. We rehearsed for two months before the month of Ramzan", says a nostalgic Idreesi.
These kafilahs used to belt out songs and nazms that were tactfully incorporated on the tunes of bollywood numbers. "I can still remember their songs, which were skillfully set on the tunes of popular hindi movie songs. It was fun guessing the original song on the tune of which a nazm had been set", says Qudsia.
Tunes of Ramanand Sagar's film 'Geet', and that of 'Ganga ki Saugandh' starring Amitabh Bachchan were requested for. The naat 'ab aaya hai maahe ramzan, ab chayi ghata noorani' that was a remixed version of the song 'deen dharam ke jhagre, insaan ki badi nadaani' was the most popular.
Well known poets such as Ibrat lucknowi and Basheer Farooqui also wrote the lyrics for the songs, the tunes of which were set by us, says idreesi.
Competitions were held at Machli Mohal, where various troupes tried to out do each other for cups and shields.
'People gathered to listen to our naats. The best team walked with cups and shields and at times money. We always had a tough competition with 'Abre Rehmat', a troupe from Daliganj, says Raes Ahmad, a member.


The food chain is often described as a pyramid – or, more precisely, a "biotic pyramid".
Soil forms the base of the pyramid, plants are on the lower level, then plant-eating animals (herbivores), with animal-eating animals (carnivores) on the top level. If humans are included, they are placed at the very top.
The pyramid design shows very clearly that there are many species and individuals at the lower levels, and fewer at the higher levels of the food chain. The reason is that from one level to the next (when one organism eats or is fed by another), there is a certain amount of energy loss or wastage (food is stored energy). When we move from the plant realm to the animal realm, we are moving to the top of biotic pyramid.
So, what affects animal (and human) health and nutrition? Are animals really that much different from plants? If you raise animals, or your family just wants to be healthy, you need to know something about animal and human nutrition.
We need to remember that sickness is not normal, either in humans or animals. Robust health is the normal condition or human and animal bodies. Certainly, some people are ill so much of the time they've probably forgotten what it feels like to be well. And farmers generally expect to have a certain number of sick and young animals that die.
Nor does it pay to be sick, whether you're human or animal. Doctors and veterinarians, drugs and medicines do not come cheap. Just think how much money and time could be saved if you or your animals were never sick.
Unfortunately, medical and veterinary training institutes do not spend a lot of time teaching prospective doctors and vets how to keep their patients healthy by preventing disease. Rather it's ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-the-cliff logic – diagnose a disease, give it a complicated name, and prescribe a drug or poison to fight it, often by attacking the symptoms rather than the cause.
We often hear the phrase, "you are what you eat", and we know that animals get their food, which later becomes their body substances, from eating plants, or animals that eat plants. And, where do plants grow? In the soil, of course.
Remember that plants take simple chemical substances (carbon dioxide, water and minerals) and combine them into more complex substances (carbohydrates, fats and proteins), trapping and storing the sun's energy in the form of chemical energy.
Animals, however, do the reverse. Their body and cell functions break down the complex food molecules, releasing some of the stored energy; but then, as plants do, animals combine the simpler "building blocks" obtained from food substances into more complex substances that make up the cells and tissues of an animals' body.
Remember, too, that plants can also break down complex food molecules into building blocks and energy. Many of the basic molecules (amino acids, ATP and vitamins) involved in animals are the same or very similar to those found in plants. But many are different, because plants do not have muscles, nerves, bloods etc.
Just as the wrong nutrients from the soil can disturb plant metabolism and cause ill health, so animals can become sick from not getting the right nutrients in the food they eat, and the consequent lack of vitamins and minerals.
Other factors can contribute to animal health problems, but essentially sickness comes down to the body succumbing to one or more stresses – such as poor ventilation, contaminated water, bad weather, infectious diseases, parasites, improper handling and injury, noise and other frightening conditions, lack of exercise, poor nutrition.
Most of these stresses can be reduced by good farming practices and animal management, with the payoff coming in higher production and healthy offspring.
It all starts in the soil. The healthier the soil, the better the food for animals; and well nourished animals are better equipped to resist or tolerate stresses such as diseases, parasites and bad weather.


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Il Centennial Olympic Stadium è stato un impianto sportivo di circa 85.000 posti, inaugurato il 19 luglio 1996, in occasione dei Giochi della XXVI Olimpiade, ospitati ad Atlanta, Georgia, e chiuso il 27 agosto dello stesso anno.

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Il progetto originale prevedeva la costruzione del Centennial Olympic Stadium che avrebbe ospitato tutte le gare di atletica e la cerimonia d'apertura e di chiusura della XXVI Olimpiade quella del centenario dell'istituzione dei giochi olimpici. Poiché, da qualche anno, la città e la squadra degli Atlanta Braves avevano espresso la volontà di costruire un nuovo stadio che avrebbe sostituito il vecchio Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, rimasto in funzione dal 1966 al 1996 e demolito il 2 agosto 1997, si è pensato di disegnare l'impianto per poi essere utilizzato come stadio di baseball permanente, con il particolare slargo dell'angolo sudovest dello stadio, destinato poi a ospitare il diamante.

I lavori di costruzione ebbero inizio il 10 luglio 1993. Il costo totale era di 209 milioni di dollari, 170 finanziati da entità private quali NBC e vari sponsor olimpici e i rimanenti stanziati dal comitato olimpico di Atlanta, che, favorevole alla conversione olimpiade-baseball, ha pagato anche gli ulteriori costi per la trasformazione.

Nel corso dei Giochi Olimpici in questo stadio Michael Johnson vinse la medaglia d'oro nei 200 e nei 400 m, primo umano di sesso maschile della storia storia a riuscire in tale doppietta. Nel mezzo giro batté con un tempo di 19.32 secondi il record del mondo, che già gli apparteneva da pochi mesi ottenuto ai Trials americani, e che per 19 anni era appartenuto all'italiano Pietro Mennea. Venne stabilito inoltre anche il record dei 100 m piani dal canadese Donovan Bailey con un tempo di 9,84 s, un centesimo in meno del precedente primato.

Dopo aver ospitato anche i X Giochi Paralimpici estivi, dal 15 al 26 agosto 1996, l'impianto venne chiuso e profondamente ristrutturato, con l'eliminazione della pista di atletica, donata in seguito all'università di Clark Atlanta, e la demolizione delle gradinate nella parte nord, riducendo la capienza a circa 49.000 posti.

I lavori vennero ultimati prima dell'inizio della stagione 1997 della Major League Baseball e il nuovo impianto, chiamato Turner Field, in onore di Ted Turner, proprietario della squadra degli Atlanta Braves, venne inaugurato il 29 marzo 1997.

La stagione 2016 sarà l'ultima ad ospitare gli Atlanta Braves perché dall'anno successivo si trasferiranno nel nuovo SunTrust Park e giocheranno qui l'ultima partita il 2 ottobre 2016 contro i Detroit Tigers.

Il 21 dicembre 2015 la Georgia State University ha vinto l'asta per aggiudicarsi la proprietà dello stadio e a partire dal 2017 diventerà l'unica proprietaria.

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Altri progetti

Impianti dei Giochi della XXVI Olimpiade
Impianti sportivi di Atlanta
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The work by local artists on display in the lobby
The unbeatable location—everything from energetic nightlife to NY's best bagels is around the corner
The light-strung roof deck with its romantic city views
Ask for an inner room to cut down on street noise
Rooms are petite, even for New York
The fitness center is small but has several good machines
Chic spot for bon vivants in the midst of Chelsea's galleries and boutiques, with a hip bar that has a four-hour-long happy hour
The combination of stellar location and reasonable rates make this Chelsea hotel one of the best deals in the city. Whether you're an art nerd, a party-until-dawn type or a food snob, the neighborhood has a surfeit of cooler-than-cool options. Explore until you're ready to drop, then head back to a compact and modern room, with white subway tile in the bathrooms and framed black-and-white silhouettes on the walls. The lobby is more colorfully chic, with patterned floor tiles and elongated yellow sofas that make a good place to relax with an espresso or a cocktail from the bar, which has a temptingly long daily happy hour from 4 to 8 pm. With its backlit shelves softly glowing, and blond wood stools lined up at the marble bar, this makes a great spot to pre-game before heading out on the town—or just heading back upstairs for a nap. No judgement.
Staying in Chelsea is really spoiling yourself, since you can stuff yourself with delicious treats all day, then dance off the calories all night long. With the occasional cultural highlight in between, of course. The fabulous elevated gardens of the High Line are just an eight-minute walk away; you can snack at the vendors and cafes up here or grab one of the best bagels in New York from Murray's Bagels, just across the street from the hotel. David Chang's glorious fusion restaurant, Momofuku Nishi, is right on the other side of 8th Avenue; make time for dinner here. The world-class Whitney Museum of American Art is less than a mile southwest. If you want to go further afield, there's a subway stop just a block from the hotel, and you can walk to Penn Station when you're headed out of town.
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Reviewed 22 hours ago
My fiancé and I were in NY this past weekend. We are from Florida. We were having a great time and out of no where, the blackout happened on Saturday. We were staying in midtown. We had no idea what was happening and quickly left the area to Chelsea. After about an hour, there was no information on why it happened, and when or if the power would come back to our area (Marriott Marquis). We were panicked and searched online for a hotel, incase power never came back. We found this place (The Gem Hotel) and booked a room. After about another hour, the mayor of NY said power would be restored by midnight. We quickly tried to cancel our reservation and we were advised by booking.com that it would be up to the hotel on whether or not we would be charged.
We phoned the hotel and ultimately were told to email the general managers email address with our reason for canceling (booking.com sent them an email as well). After explaining what had happened, they still went ahead and charged us for the room and didn't care about the extreme circumstances, which caused us to book this room, just two hours before. The management at this hotel was not empathetic to our situation at all. We were tourists in a city with a history of terrible situations involving mass disturbances and casualties, by outside influences. We were very uneasy and thought we were doing the right thing at the moment, by booking this room.
We were very disappointed with their decision to stick the payment to us, even after what happened and only after booking and canceling within a few hours, during the timeline of the blackout.
Reviewed 5 days ago
I stayed in Gem Hotel Chelsea for 4 nights during Jan 2019 to attend a business meeting. It is central but overall terrible. I arrived midnight, the room was very small, no water to drink, no breakfast/restaurant, nothing at all. The toilet was even not flushed and it was dirty. I haven't stayed in this type of a hotel before, I was really shocked as it was not cheap as well.
Great place, great location
I stayed here for 5 nights in June and had the most wonderful holiday.
Upon arrival, I was given the choice between view or quiet. I thought, well I'm in NYC which isn't known for it's peace and quiet, so I'll go for the view.
Monday to Friday it was okay, but the weekend nights I had horns from cars and ambulance sirens at 02:00. No regrets though, it was a good room (420).
The windows didn't really open, or at least didn't stay open and felt precarious, which was a bit rubbish because it was 28 degrees outside. When I turned the aircon on it sounded like a helicopter was taking off.
On the whole though, the shower was reasonable and room clean. Breakfast was no good for ceoliacs, so I ended up going out for that. It's just pastries and fruit, and coffee or fruit juice.
The hotel is excellently located for 23rd Street subway and I walked up to Central Park a few times, and down to Greenwich Village. Getting over to Brooklyn was easy (subway) as was getting up to the American Museum of Natural History, becauses they're direct lines.
I was out all day, every day but the hotel was fine in the evening. Other guests were noisy though, I don't understand why people need to shout in corridors or slam doors, it's just basic manners not to.
The wifi wasn't brilliant so I tethered from my phone. That worked well! For the coffee sachets, just request milk from reception and they drop it up within 3 minutes. Excellent service!
On the whole, I'd stay there again largely due to the excellent location and friendly staff.
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I'd call it good enough but I would not recommend staying more than a night or two tops. I easily would have bumped this up to 4 stars if I wasn't hit by the overpowering marijuana stench upon entering my non-smoking room. And while the front desk clerk expressed empathy, there were no other rooms available and the best he could offer was opening a window and spraying air freshener. All that being said, our stay was not terrible. Amazing location, yes it's a tiny room but perfectly adequate and clean. And you get what you pay for, I snagged an under $300/night via Hotwire.
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Arriving at 12:30 AM, after a torturous taxi ride from Laguardia, all I wanted was a room. What I got was much more. I was greeted in a friendly, welcoming manner and elated to hear that I was upgraded to the penthouse. My day ended very well, but with an early meeting, I drew the curtains and closed the blinds so I could quickly hit the sack. The morning revealed a rather small room, but this was more than OK since it came with a great price of slightly more than $100 in New York! I got ready for the day, went downstairs to pick up pastries and coffee for breakfast, and returned to my penthouse. Opening the blinds and curtains of my room revealed a wonderful surprise, a large furnished patio with pleasant views of New York. The sunny, cool weather made breakfast on the patio a thoroughly satisfying experience. The pastries and coffee, by the way, were very good. Check-out later that morning was quick, and the very friendly service continued the very pleasant experience. The Gem is not the most comfortable hotel I've enjoyed, but it left such a pleasant impression that I would gladly return. It would certainly be very difficult to beat the price in New York, and the hotel was very close to my meeting place on Astor.
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In the Valley of the Shadow – Carl Sagan
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Berikut adalah artikel dari Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996) yang berjudul In The Valley of The Shadow. Dimuat di Paradise pada 10 Maret 1996. Tulisan ini saya ambil dari web http://www.bauleros.org/saganenfermedad.html.
Four times now I have looked Death in the face. And four times Death has averted his gaze and let me pass. Eventually, of course, Death will claim me–as he does each of us. It's only a question of when. And how.
I've learned much from our confrontations—especially about the beauty and sweet poignancy of life, about the preciousness of friends and family, about the transforming power of love. In fact, almost dying is such a positive, character-building experience that I'd recommend it to everybody—except, of course, for the irreducible and essential element of risk.
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert and afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
I want to grow really old with my wife, Annie, whom I dearly love. I want to see my younger children grow up and play a role in their character and intellectual development. I want to meet still unconceived grandchildren. There are scientific problems whose outcomes I long to witness—such as the exploration of many of the worlds in our solar system and the search for life elsewhere. I want to learn how major trends in human history, both hopeful and worrisome, work themselves out: the dangers and promise of our technology, say; the emancipation of women; the growing political, economic and technological ascendancy of China; interstellar flight.
If there were life after death, I might, no matter when I die, satisfy most of these deep curiosities and longings. But if death is nothing more than an endless, dreamless sleep, this is a forlorn hope. Maybe this perspective has given me a little extra motivation to stay alive.
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
Near my shaving mirror, so I see it every morning, is a framed postcard. On the back is a penciled message to a Mr. James Day in Swansea Valley, Wales. It reads:
Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking and going grand. It's a treat.
WJR
It's signed with the almost-indecipherable initials of one William John Rogers. On the front is a color photo of a sleek, four-funneled steamer captioned "White Star Liner Titanic." The postmark was imprinted the day before the great ship went down, losing more than 1500 lives, including Mr. Rogers'. Annie and I display the postcard for a reason. We know that "going grand" can be the most temporary and illusory state. So it was with us.
We were in apparently good heath, our children thriving. We were writing books, embarking on ambitious new television and motion-picture projects, lecturing, and I continued to be engaged in the most exciting scientific research.
Standing by the framed postcard one morning late in 1994, Annie noticed an ugly black-and-blue mark on my arm that had been there for many weeks. "Why hasn't it gone away?" she asked. At her insistence, I somewhat reluctantly (black-and-blue marks can't be serious, can they?) went to the doctor to have some routine blood tests.
We heard from him a few days later when we were in Austin, Tex. He was troubled. There clearly was some lab mix-up. The analysis showed the blood of a very sick person. "Please," he urged, "get retested right away." I did. There had been no mistake.
My red cells, which carry oxygen all over the body, and my white cells, which fight disease, were both severely depleted. The most likely explanation: that there was a problem with the stem cells, the common ancestors of both white and red blood cells, which are generated in the bone marrow. The diagnosis was confirmed by experts in the field. I had a disease I had never heard of before: myelodysplasia. Its origin is unknown. If I did nothing, I was astonished to learn, my chances were zero. I'd be dead in six months. I was still feeling fine—perhaps a little lightheaded from time to time. I was active and productive. The notion that I was on death's doorstep seemed a grotesque joke.
There was only one known means of treatment that might generate a cure: a bone-marrow transplant. But that would only work if I could find a compatible donor. Even then, my immune system would have to be entirely suppressed so the donor's bone marrow wouldn't be rejected by my body. However, a severely suppressed immune system might kill me in several other ways—for example,. By so limiting my resistance to disease that I might fall prey to any passing microbe. Briefly I thought about doing nothing and waiting for advanced in medical research to find a new cure. But that was the slimmest of hopes.
All our lines of research as to where to go converged on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, one of the premier institutions for bone-marrow transplants in the world. It is where many experts in the field hang their hats—among them E. Donnall Thomas, the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for perfecting the present techniques of bone-marrow transplantation. The high competence of the doctors and nurses, the excellence of their care, fully justified the advice we were given to be treated at "the Hutch."
The first step was to see if a compatible donor could be found. Some people never find one. Annie and I called my only sibling—my younger sister, Cari. I found myself allusive and indirect. Cari didn't even know I was ill. Before I could get to the point, she said, "You got it. Whatever it is…liver…lung…It's yours." I still get a lump in my throat every time I think of Cari's generosity.
But there was of course no guarantee that her bone marrow would be compatible with mine. She underwent a series of tests, and one after another, all six compatibility factors matched mine. She was a perfect match. I was incredibly lucky.
But "lucky" is a comparative term. Even with the perfect compatibility, my over all chances of a cure were something like 30 percent. That's like playing Russian Roulette with four cartridges instead of one in the cylinder. But it was by far the best chance that I had, and I had faced longer odds in the past.
Our whole family moved to Seattle, including Annie's parents. We enjoyed a constant flow of visitors—grown-up children, my grandson, other relatives and friends—both when I was in the hospital and when I was an outpatient. I'm sure that the support and love I received, especially from Annie, tilted the odds in my favor.
There were, as you might guess, many scary aspects. I remember one night, on medical instructions, getting up at 2 a.m. and opening the first of 12 plastic containers of busulfan tablets, a potent chemotherapeutic agent. The bag read:
CHEMOTHERAPY DRUG
BIOHAZARD BIOHAZARD
Dispose of as BIOHAZARD
One after another, I popped 72 of these pills. It was a lethal amount. If I was not to have a bone-marrow transplant soon after, this immune-suppression therapy by itself would have killed me. It was like taking a fatal dose of arsenic or cyanide, hoping that the right antidote would be supplied in time.
The drugs to suppress my immune system had a few direct effects. I was in a continuous state of moderate nausea, but it was controlled by other drugs and not so bad that I couldn't get some work done. I lost almost all of my hair—which, along with a later weight loss, gave me a somewhat cadaverous appearance. But I was much buoyed when our 4-year-old son, Sam, looked me over and said, "Nice haircut, Dad." And then, "I don't know anything about you being sick. All I know is, you're gonna get better."
I had expected the transplant itself to be enormously painful. It was nothing of the sort. It was just like a blood transfusion, with my sister's bone marrow cells on their own finding their way to my own bone marrow. Some aspects of the treatment were extremely painful, but there's a kind of traumatic amnesia that happens, so that when it's all over you've almost forgotten the pain. The Hutch has an enlightened policy of self-administered anti-pain drugs, including morphine derivatives, so that I could immediately deal with severe pain. It made the whole experience much more bearable.
At the end of the treatment, my red and white cells were mainly Cari's. Their sex chromosomes were XX, instead of the rest of my body's XY. I had female red and white blood cells and platelets circulating through my body. I kept waiting for some of Cari's interests to assert themselves—a passion for riding horses, say, or for seeing half a dozen Broadway plays at one clip—but it never happened.
Annie and Cari saved my life. I'll always be grateful to them for their love and compassion. After being released from the hospital, I needed all sorts of medical attention, including drugs administered several times a day through a porthole in my vena cava. Annie was my "designated caregiver"—administrating medication day and night, changing dressings, checking my vital signs and providing essential support. People who arrives at the hospital alone are said, understandably, to have much poorer chances.
I was, for the moment, spared because of medical research. Some of it was applied research, designed to help cure or mitigate killer diseases directly. Some of it was basic research, designed only to understand how living things work—but with ultimately unpredictable practical benefits, serendipitious results.
I was spared also by the medical insurance provided by Cornell University and (As a spousal benefit via Annie) by the Writers Guild of America—the organization of writers for movies, television, etc. There are tens of missions in America without such medical insurance. What would we have done in their shoes?
In my writings, I have tired to show how closely related we are to other animals, how cruel it is to gratuitously inflict pain on them, and how morally bankrupt it is to slaughter them, say, to manufacture lipstick. But still, as Dr. Thomas put it in his Nobel Prize lecture, "The marrow grafting could not have reached clinical application without animal research, first in in-bred rodents and then in out-bred species, particularly the dog." I remain very conflicted in this issue. I would not be alive today if not for the research on animals.
So life returned to normal. Annie and our family returned to Ithaca, N.Y., where we live. I completed several research projects and did the final proofing of my book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. We met with Bob Zemeckis, the new director of the Warner Brothers movie Contact, based on my novel, which we are co-producing. We began negotiating on some new television and movie projects. I participated in the early stages of the encounter with Jupiter of the Galileo spacecraft.
But if there was one lesson I keenly learned, it is that the future is unpredictable. As William John Rogers, cheerfully penciling his postcard in the brisk air of the North Atlantic, ruefully discovered, there is no telling what even the immediate future holds. And so, after being home for months—my hair growing back, my weight back to normal, my white and red cells counts in the normal range and me feeling absolutely splendid—another routine blood test took the wind out of my sails.
"I'm afraid I have some bad news for you," the physician said. My bone marrow had revealed the presence of a new population of dangerous rapidly reproducing cells. In two days, the whole family was back in Seattle. I'm writing this article from my hospital bed at the Hutch. Through a new experimental procedure, it was determined that these anomalous cells lack an enzyme that would protect them from two standard chemotherapeutic agents—chemicals I hadn't been given before. After one round with these agents, no anomalous cells—not one—could be found in my marrow. To mop up and stragglers (they can be a few but very fast growing), I'm in the midst of two more rounds of chemotherapy—probably to be topped off with some more cells from my sister. Once more, I have a real shot at a complete cure.
We all have a tendency to succumb to a state of despair about the destructiveness and shortsightiveness of the human species. I've certainly done my share (and on grounds I still consider well-based). But one of my discoveries during my illness is the extraordinary community of goodness to which people in my situation own their lives.
There are more than 2 million Americans in the National Marrow Donor Program's volunteer registry, all willing to submit to a somewhat uncomfortable marrow extraction to benefit some unrelated perfect stranger. Millions more contribute blood to the American Red Cross for no financial reward, not even a $5 bill, to save an anonymous life.
Scientists and technicians work for years—against long odds, often for low salaries and never with a guarantee of success. They have many motivations, but one of them is the hope of helping others, of curing diseases, of staving off death. When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.
Five thousand people prayed for me at an Easter service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the largest church in Christendom. A Hindu priest described a large prayer vigil for me held on banks of the Ganges. The Imam of North America told be about his prayers for my recovery. Many Christians and Jews wrote me to tell about theirs. While I do not think that, if there is a god, his plan for me will be altered by prayer, I'm more grateful than I can say to those—including so many whom I've never met—who have pulled for me during my illness.
Many of them have asked me how it is possible to face death without the certainty of an afterlife. I can only say that it hasn't been a problem. With reservations about "feeble souls," I hare the view of a hero of mine, Albert Einstein: "I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I—nor would I want to—conceive of an individual that survives his physical death. Let feeble souls, from fear for absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoting striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
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Tuesday I ran my 7 miles through the neighborhood.
Back up to Michigan on Thursday for some more fun and relaxation. Blueberry season has started so we went to our favorite blueberry farm to see what we could find. Good thing they don't weigh us before and after - as usual, I think we ate more than we collected in our buckets!
Friday morning I ran another 4 miles along the lake. My two older kiddos, Tazer and Gaigai are training for a triathlon in August, so I waited until they woke up and took them with for the first 1.5 miles - chilly and breezy, it was perfect weather for a run. After some breakfast we went kayaking on the nearby Galien River.
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Full week, as always, way to keep the training so consistent!
Great training! Love that you're getting to do some running with your kids.
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R Kelly found guilty in sex-trafficking trial
By Johanna Garner on September 28, 2021 at 7:00 AM
Singer R Kelly has been found guilty on all counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.
After decades of using his status to abuse women and children, R Kelly may finally be bought to justice. After a six-week trial, the jury has confirmed they found R Kelly guilty on eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering.
R Kelly could face life in prison
The trial exposed R Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, as a ringleader of a violent scheme that lured and kidnapped women and children for his own sadistic pleasure.
Prosecutors detailed that Kelly would use his fame and status to pick women out of concert crowds with the help of his entourage. Some victims even came to Kelly hoping that he would help drive their careers, only to find themselves subjected to 'Rob's rules' and would be severely punished if they failed to do as he asked.
The trial saw nine women and two men take to the stands to shed light on the I Believe I Can Fly singer's abusive acts, with one woman revealing she was imprisoned and raped after trying to interview him for a radio show.
Legal documents also noted that Kelly would subject his victims to mental abuse, not allowing them to eat or use the bathroom without his permission and forcing them to call him 'Daddy', acts that initially came to light in the documentary Surviving R Kelly.
The singer was also found to have kidnapped victims, trafficked women across US state lines, and engaged in creating child pornography.
After getting away with the acts for decades, Kelly will finally be sentenced on the 4th of May and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years behind bars, but the 54-year-old could also spend the rest of his life in prison.
On top of the recent conviction, R Kelly also still faces federal charges in Chicago for child pornography and obstruction, as well as state charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
'Of all the predators that I have pursued, Mr Kelly is the worst.'
A lawyer representing some of Kelly's victims, Gloria Allred, revealed to reporters: 'I've been practising law for 47 years. During this time, I've pursued many sexual predators who have committed crimes against women and children.'
Of all the predators that I have pursued, Mr Kelly is the worst.
At a news conference outside the courts, prosecutor Jacquelyn Kasulis thanked the jury of seven men and five women who banded together to make a swift decision against Kelly, taking just nine hours over two days to deliberate.
No one deserves what they experienced at his hands or the threats and harassment they faced in telling the truth about what happened to them. We hope that today's verdict brings some measure of comfort and closure.
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