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September 6th, 2010
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Author: My life was changed this month and I hope that by sharing my experience, it may save yours. I turned 50 in June and decided with the producers of “The Dr. Oz Show” to get a colonoscopy to demonstrate to the audience what is recommended and what they could expect. To be perfectly candid, if I didn’t have a show to do, I probably would have put it off months, perhaps years. I had no risk factors – no obesity, a nearly perfect diet, no tobacco or alcohol consumption and no family history. I knew the odds as they related to my circumstances and worried about colon cancer about as much as being struck by lightning on a sunny day. But I had signed up for the role of teacher in hosting my show and, out of deference to demonstration, found myself at home drinking a solution to clear my bowels in front of a field production crew the evening before the colonoscopy.
Thinking back now, those were some of my most arrogant moments. I didn’t see myself as a patient. I saw the whole process as a twisted form of cinema verite while delivering the ultimate lecture. In fact, part of me just wanted to get it over with and move on to “more important things” like my daughter Daphne’s upcoming wedding at that time, just two weeks away. I had a routine to keep. A 24-hour bowel cleansing and sedation was disruptive. There can be no greater oblivion in a person’s life than when self importance clouds your sense of mortality.
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My life was changed this month and I hope that by sharing my experience, it may save yours. I turned 50 in June and decided with the producers of “The Dr. Oz Show” to get a colonoscopy to demonstrate to the audience what is recommended and what they could expect. To be perfectly candid, if I didn’t have a show to do, I probably would have put it off months, perhaps years. I had no risk factors – no obesity, a nearly perfect diet, no tobacco or alcohol consumption and no family history. I knew the odds as they related to my circumstances and worried about colon cancer about as much as being struck by lightning on a sunny day. But I had signed up for the role of teacher in hosting my show and, out of deference to demonstration, found myself at home drinking a solution to clear my bowels in front of a field production crew the evening before the colonoscopy.
Thinking back now, those were some of my most arrogant moments. I didn’t see myself as a patient. I saw the whole process as a twisted form of cinema verite while delivering the ultimate lecture. In fact, part of me just wanted to get it over with and move on to “more important things” like my daughter Daphne’s upcoming wedding at that time, just two weeks away. I had a routine to keep. A 24-hour bowel cleansing and sedation was disruptive. There can be no greater oblivion in a person’s life than when self importance clouds your sense of mortality.
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A 9-year-old boy once visited his local library in Rochester to hear a mystery writer read from her book. But what particularly thrilled him was to learn that the author had a day job as an editor sitting in a Manhattan skyscraper reading manuscripts.
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CHICAGO, IL.- This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museumʼs own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil. Public Notice 3, a site-specific installation, brings together two key historical moments: the first Parliament of the World’s Religions, opening on September 11, 1893, in what is now the museum’s Fullerton Hall, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 108 years later, on that very date.
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One of the best art blogs around, ArtObserved caught up with graffiti artists TWIST and AMAZE to about their latest project on NYC’s famed “Deitch Wall” this weekend — the work is a celebration of graffiti artists new and old. Check out their video below.
Art Observed was on site for Barry McGee’s (aka “TWIST”) new work on the “Deitch Wall” on East Houston and Bowery. With longtime collaborator Josh Lazcano (aka “AMAZE”), Mcgee spray painted simple red tags of the names and crews of graffiti writers from both past and present generations.
To read the full article on ArtObserved, click here.
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The former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who retired last week after 40 years at the central bank, says that the economy is in “a slow slog out of a very deep hole,” and that the Fed should consider additional stimulus unless the recovery shows signs of “decent progress.”
The departure of the official, Donald L. Kohn, who as the Fed’s No. 2 official played a pivotal role in its handling of the financial crisis, is something of an end of an era. A staff economist who worked his way up through the ranks, Mr. Kohn was one of the last direct links to Paul A. Volcker and Alan Greenspan, the chairmen who defined the modern Fed.
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The former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who retired last week after 40 years at the central bank, says that the economy is in “a slow slog out of a very deep hole,” and that the Fed should consider additional stimulus unless the recovery shows signs of “decent progress.”
The departure of the official, Donald L. Kohn, who as the Fed’s No. 2 official played a pivotal role in its handling of the financial crisis, is something of an end of an era. A staff economist who worked his way up through the ranks, Mr. Kohn was one of the last direct links to Paul A. Volcker and Alan Greenspan, the chairmen who defined the modern Fed.
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Nadia McCaffrey, who lives in Tracy, CA, knows the pain that most parents can only think of in fleeting terms. The magnitude of the loss is too great to even contemplate.
Six years ago, Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, Nadia’s only child, was killed in Iraq. Tracy also possesses the highest per capita number of Iraq and Afghanistan war deaths in California.
It was reported this week that McCaffrey welcomed President Obama’s address formally announcing combat troop drawdown in Iraq. She has started a non-profit in her son’s name taking in vets suffering from posttraumatic stress and other injuries.
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Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat?
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This Labor Day, America seems to be holding its breath, trying to decide what kind of society it wants to be. Many Americans are wondering whether the country has lost its ability – or our political will – to sustain a middle class society for works for everyone. The current recession has deepened the anxiety and pain, but in many ways it has simply exacerbated trends that were underway for over a decade. These include widening economic disparities, a proliferation of low-wage and part-time jobs, and deteriorating social conditions. A growing number of Americans doubt that their children will be better off than they are.
Faced with an even graver situation in the Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt worked with Congress to give the federal government the tools it needed to revitalize the economy, put Americans back to work, and make business act responsibly. At the time, critics called him a socialist. But in retrospect, it is clear that what FDR did was to rescue capitalism.
We hear echoes of that same debate today. No matter what President Obama proposes – health care reform, a stimulus plan of large-scale public works, extending unemployment benefits, protecting consumers from credit card abuse, increasing financial aid for college students, raising fuel standards on cars, and more — Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the right-wing mainstream of the Republican Party call it “socialism.”
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