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Groupware solutions include shared calendars, group email servers, groups address lists, group projects, and internal messaging. They require (one or more) servers with LAMP or similar server stacks.
Groupware Servers
Groupware servers are meant to operate on a server platform. You should install the server version of Ubuntu (in the interest of speed) for a dedicated groupware server. Read Servers.
Kolab is the most comprehensive open-source groupware solution available and is distributed as a multi-platform solution. (It integrates easily with both Ubuntu (including Evolution) and KDE/Kubuntu (including Kontact).) It is free and open source with a GPL license (unlike other groupware solutions), yet enterprise support is also available. It is scalable to large organizations and is Outlook (MS-Exchange) and Mozilla compatible. This is a German package, however, and documentation in English can occasionally be limited. The Kolab website provides its own instructions for installation from source (currently v. 2.2). Version 2.2 includes the Horde web interface. The current beta Debian package instructions are here or the OpenPkg installation instructions are here.
- Note: Kolab uses its own server components, and it is best to run Kolab on a dedicated server. However, it is possible to run other servers on the same machine, as long as you choose alternate ports if the server modules conflict.
- Install the compiler and other necessary stuff:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Kolab Ubuntu package
- There is an Ubuntu/Kubuntu package for the new version of Kolab (v. 2.2), but no documentation support for it yet exists. Install:
sudo apt-get install kolabd
Manual Kolab installation
- Make a directory for the Kolab installation and make it universally accessible:
sudo cd / sudo mkdir /kolab sudo chmod 777 /kolab
- Optional: If you wish to mount kolab in its own partition, then create a new partition (using Gparted, for example). Figure out the device name of your extra partition:
sudo fdisk -l
- It should be something like /dev/sda3.
- Mount /dev/sda3 (or whatever your partition is) as /kolab by editing /etc/fstab:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
- and adding the line:
/dev/sda3 /kolab ext3 defaults,rw 0 0
- then reboot and make sure there are no errors.
- Make a directory into which to download kolab:
cd /tmp mkdir /kolabtmp
- Download all the current Kolab files:
cd /tmp/kolabtmp wget -r -l1 -nd --no-parent http://files.kolab.org/server/release/kolab-server-2.2.2/sources/
- Install Kolab (as root using sudo -s):
sudo -s sh install-kolab.sh 2>&1 | tee kolab-install.log
- Reboot your system.
- Stop Kolab services and run the configuration utility:
sudo /kolab/bin/openpkg rc all stop sudo /kolab/sbin/kolab_bootstrap -b
- Obviously, you should know all your details, such as your fully qualified host name (which you can determine from hostname -f), domain details, etc., before doing this step. If you are not familiar with OpenLDAPand LDAP basics, you should learn about it, as Kolab uses the slapd OpenLDAP server daemon.
- Restart all Kolab services:
sudo /kolab/bin/openpkg rc all start
- Login to the web administrator interface using "manager" and the password you set at bootstrap configuration:
Citadel is a turn-key fully open source groupware solution (that is both KDE and Kolab-1 compliant). Based on a bulletin-board framework spanning over 20 years, it is user friendly and interfaces with both KDE and Gnome apps and also has a web-based client. It is also WebDAV compliant and can be used with Thunderbird.
- Install the Citadel server:
sudo apt-get install citadel-server
- Install the Citadel client:
sudo apt-get install citadel-client
- Install both:
sudo apt-get install citadel-suite
eGroupware is a robust and stable free open source groupware solution (with GPL license) based on the LAMP stack (the default server stack included with Ubuntu Server) and the Postfix mail server (both of which should be installed first). There is a new version recently available, with a new corporate sponsor in Germany and a commercial enterprise version. Compatibility with many clients has been improved. Egroupware provides the easiest installation and quickest setup time of all groupware solutions. Much of the documentation for the current version, unfortunately, is not in English.
sudo apt-get install egroupware
Open-Xchange is a proprietary groupware solution (meant as an MS-Exchange replacement) that has released a "community edition" based on commercial versions. The latest .deb package is for Hardy Heron 8.04. It is compliant with many different types of clients, including Kontact, Outlook, and Palm PDAs. Installation instructions are at the website and are not trivial.
OpenGroupware is a groupware solution based on the postgreSQL database. There is an enterprise version and a limited open source version, and development appears to have been stagnant in 2008. Installation must be from source, as packages are very outdated. See the website for details.
Zarafa is the leading European MS-Exchange replacement/groupware solution. It is proprietary, but a GPL-licensed (except for trademarks) free open-source community edition was released in 2008. Download instructions are available from the website.
Zimbra is a proprietary groupware solution (now owned by VMWare) that offers an open source "community edition". Although currently free, the community edition is limited in features and does not have a GPL license. All submitted modifications and contributions become the property of VMWare. See the Zimbra wiki.
A Beta version for Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS is available for 64-bit users, or the older Hardy 8.04 version can be used.
SchoolTool is a free open source groupware solution for use in primary and secondary schools which includes calendaring, gradebooks, attendance records, and student information databases. It was created with the help of the Shuttleworth Foundation (which also sponsors Ubuntu). See these installation instructions.
SugarCRM Community Edition
SugarCRM is a customer-relationship management system that is used to co-ordinate a sales force (sales, marketing, support, project management, calendaring). SugarCRM has a community edition that is one of the most widely used. A LAMP server stack should be installed first ( sudo tasksel install lamp-server ). Extract SugarCRM to /var/www and then logon to http://localhost/SUGAR-FOLDER. Alternatively, for a new server SugarCRM provides a (binary) integrated installation of the LAMP stack with the SugarCRM Community Edition.
Groupware Clients
Many groupware solutions have connectors to interface with clients such as Kontact/KMail and Mozilla Thunderbird (or SeaMonkey).
Evolution Exchange
The Evolution Exchange connector adds connectivity (using Outlook Web Access) to the Evolution suite for MS Exchange 2000 and 2003. Install:
sudo apt-get install evolution-exchange
Kontact Personal Information Manager
The Kontact Personal Information Manager, included in Kubuntu by default, interfaces with many groupware servers.
KDE Groupware Wizard
Kubuntu provides a wizard (script) to help clients (such as Kontact/Kmail) connect to a groupware server. Currently supported groupware servers are Kolab, eGroupware, SUSE Linux Openexchange, and Novell Groupwise.
Zimbra Desktop
Zimbra Desktop is a desktop that collaborates with Zimbra servers. See the Zimbra Desktop FAQ. For more info also see this Ubuntu Forums Zimbra Desktop Installation thread.
Oracle Calendar Desktop Client
The Oracle Calendar Desktop Client is proprietary calendaring software for use with Oracle groupware/database systems.
Download Oracle Calendar Desktop Client:
wget http://www.k-state.edu/infotech/calendar/oracle-10-clients/DesktopClients/Linux/cal_linux_1011.tar.gz
tar -xvf cal_linux_1011.tar.gz
Change into the extracted files directory:
cd OracleCalendar_inst/
Prepare the files:
mv cal_linux cal_linux.bak; cat cal_linux.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > cal_linux; rm cal_linux.bak
Change permissions:
chmod +x gui_install.sh cal_linux
Start the GUI installer:
sudo sh gui_install.sh
Group Calendars
DAViCal Calendar Server
DAViCal is a CalDAV, postgreSQL, Apache and php-based shared Calendar server that works with Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning/Sunbird, Evolution, and other calendar clients. Install:
sudo apt-get install davical
Then see these detailed installation instructions.
Darwin Calendar Server
Darwin Calendar Server is an open-source port of Apple's CalDAV-based calendar server that works with Mozilla Thunderbird/Lightning/Sunbird, Evolution, and other calendar clients. Install version 1.2 from the repositories (then see the website for usage instructions):
sudo apt-get install calendarserver
WebCalendar is an ICS-based server for group calendars that can use many different databases as the backend, is written in PHP, and is compatible with clients such as Sunbird/Thunderbird (Lightning), Apple iCal, and Evolution. The newest version can also be viewed using RSS clients. See the website and the wiki for installing the newest (1.2) version. Install the older (1.05) version from the repositories:
sudo apt-get install webcalendar
Mail servers
Postfix / Dovecot (Mail Server)
Postfix is a free open source mail server. It interfaces directly to Dovecot, the free open source IMAP and POP3 server. For more information see the official Ubuntu documentation. The dovecot-postfix metapackage installs the components and customizes the configuration files to use the Maildir (mail spooling) folder system by default. Imap and Pop3 modules, SMTP, and SASL/TLS (with self-signed certificates) are installed by default.
sudo apt-get install dovecot-postfix
For tips on setting up a personal mail server, see here.
Squirrelmail (webmail)
SquirrelMail is an open source (GPL-licensed) webmail package (written in PHP) for use with an IMAP (or other type of) mail server. It is efficient and effective. See the Ubuntu Community documentation.
sudo apt-get install squirrelmail
Roundcube (webmail)
Roundcube is an open source (GPL-licensed) webmail package (written in AJAX) for use with an IMAP (or other type of) mail server. It requires a LAMP (or similar) server stack. See the Ubuntu Community documentation.
sudo apt-get install roundcube
iRedMail is an integrated package that includes Dovecot, Postfix, a choice of OpenLDAP (with phpLDAPAdmin) or MySQL for the database, Roundcubemail or Squirrelmail for web-based mail access, phpAdmin, PostfixAdmin, and AWStats. It is optimized for Lucid 10.04 LTS and is best installed on a fresh server (since it resets many email configuration files). There is a community edition with many of the features of the commercial edition.


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Roger Stone's New Book 'Solves' JFK Assassination: Johnson Did It!
Roger Stone has had a long and colorful career in the darker undersides of Republican politics, from working on Richard Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President, to helping bring down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, to, more recently, laying the groundwork for Donald Trump's aborted run for president.
Now Stone, who sports a tattoo of Nixon on his back and serves as the fashion editor for the conservative website The Daily Caller—among his must-haves for men: a seersucker three-piece suit and a velvet blazer—is working on his latest takedown, a new examination of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
In The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, Stone lays the half-century-old murder at the feet of Kennedy's vice president, who Stone claims "had John F. Kennedy murdered and then as president used those powers to cover up the murder."
Among the facts Stone says he is giving a full airing for the first time are Lyndon B. Johnson's alleged complicity in at least six other murders, including that of a Department of Agriculture official who had been investigating a close Johnson associate and that of his own sister, Josefa Johnson, who Stone says "was a fairly high-profile bisexual at the time."
More articles from the Daily Beast:
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LISTEN: Hardwell & MAKJ reveal their collaboration 'Countdown'
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, ARE YOU READY?! Hardwell and MAKJ have revealed a teaser video for their new collaboration, "Countdown." If you've been to a Hardwell show lately, or have seem him at a festival recently, you've definitely heard this track.
The teaser video shows footage of his recent Go Hardwell Or Go Home show in Los Angeles, along with MAKJ.
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Hardwell is known for some of dance music's most favorite dance floor anthems, and combined with MAKJ, who is responsible for many massive tracks himself, it's no surprise that the result is a track as anticipated as "Countdown."
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Report: Naya Rivera to be written off 'Glee' finale?
New reports suggest Naya Rivera's time on "Glee" may come to close sooner than the rest of the cast this season.
Following reports of her clashing with the show's star Lea Michele on the set in recent weeks, "E! News" says Rivera's character Santana has been written out of the season finale entirely.
A source tells the site, however, that the writers' decision to leave Rivera out of the finale had nothing to do with the supposed tension between her and Lea.
Fox has yet to reveal which castmates will stay or which will go for its upcoming sixth and final season but sources say Naya has not been fired from the show.
"Glee" airs Tuesday nights. The season finale is set to air May 13th.
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KISS continues Rock Hall debate in first 'Rolling Stone' cover story
The war of words between the current and former members of KISS continues as their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction approaches.
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have said they would only perform at the ceremony if all band members -- past and present -- were included. But original drummer Peter Criss calls that disrespectful. He tells Rolling Stone it's "an injustice" to be inducted and then told to "go sit over there in the corner while another guy" puts on his makeup and performs.
Simmons -- in a separate interview -- says "the makeup is earned." He explains that "just being there at the beginning is not enough," and neither Criss nor former guitarist Ace Frehley "deserve to wear the paint" anymore.
Meanwhile, Frehley -- in his own conversation with Rolling Stone -- suggests there's actually another reason Simmons and Stanley don't want to perform with him and Peter. He says when the original band performs "the fans go crazy," and Gene and Paul "don't want to open up a can of worms." Ace recalls that the last time the four of them played together Simmons and Stanley "had to do a reunion tour."
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It looks as if what you need to do is learn how to conduct thorough and effective searches for yourself. That's what research is, and I'm sure that's what your teacher expects you to do -- conduct research. You are searching for information that is so specific that you have to be prepared for the possibility that none of it may be online. Or some may be, and some may not. In addition to searching on the Internet, you also need to make best friends with the reference librarian(s) in your local or college library.
At this webpage, you can go immediately to the search sites (first three columns across the top) -- or even better you can scroll down until you see the section called HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET. Those are the links to start with. You'll not only learn how to come up with good search terms, but also how to evaluate the webpages you get as results. Some will be good and others will be garbage. You need to know how to tell the difference.
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Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott welcomed her daughter Eisele Kaye into the world over the summer, and now she's sharing a few photos of the adorable baby girl!
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WATCH: Guy loses out on $1 million on 'Wheel of Fortune' over technicality
Paul Atkinson was on the way to living the dream: the "Wheel of Fortune" contestant had landed on the million-dollar wedge, which would have put him one spin closer to the coveted prize.
All he had to do was solve the clue, and there was only one letter missing from the three-word phrase, "Corner Curio Cabinet." Easy, right?
There was just one problem. Atkinson had never before seen the word "Curio," and he mispronounced it. When he read the phrase, it came out sounding more like "Corno Curro Cabinet," and the answer was not accepted.


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WATCH: Pro-abortion supporters chant 'Hail Satan' while pro-life supporters sing Amazing Grace
(Jason Howerton) The abortion battle in Texas was still raging Tuesday as both abortion supporters and pro-life activists flooded the State Capitol to make their voices heard. The Texas House and Senate reconvened briefly for a special session called by Gov. Rick Perry.
One of the more bizarre tactics used by pro-abortion activists involved chanting "Hail Satan!" to harass a pro-life crowd as they sang "Amazing Grace."
Texas blogger Adam Cahm was able to capture the "Hail Satan" chant on video. Watch it here:
"It's been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol. Cahnman's Musings hasn't been following the hearing. Instead, we've been participating in the surrounding events," he writes. "LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of 'hail Satan.' It's taken us all day to get a video recording…"
Obviously, it is much more likely that the abortion supporters were chanting "Hail Satan!" to mock pro-lifers rather than actually hailing Lucifer, but anything is possible.
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Amanda Bynes resurfaces, shares picture with sister on Twitter
Amanda Bynes has surfaced once again on Twitter.
On Thursday, after six weeks of silence, the actress and fashion student posted a photo with her older sibling Jillian (see below).
"Me and my beautiful sister @Jilly_Joyce," wrote Bynes, looking happy and healthy.
In the midst of her psychological downward spiral last June, the star tweeted, "My Sister Jillian Has An Ugly Face Don't Worry Drake."
Fortunately, things seem to be better between the girls now.
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Flight 370 investigation turns into criminal probe
(Kuala Lumpur) -- Nearly a month after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished from radar, authorities are launching a criminal investigation into its mysterious disappearance. The "Wall Street Journal" reports investigators have already taken more than 170 statements with more interviews to come. One Malaysian police chief says the investigation still may not reveal what happened to the doomed jet. After more than three weeks, search crews are still coming up empty-handed. The airliner is believed to have gone down somewhere in the Indian Ocean last month, but there's still no sign of wreckage.
Officials believe all 239 people on board were lost. The focus of the massive search has shifted since the plane first disappeared from radar. More than a dozen countries are devoting manpower and equipment in hopes of finding any sign of the missing Boeing 777.


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Wendy Williams wants Khloe Kardashian Odom to DIVORCE Lamar!
When news of Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian's marital problems broke, Wendy Williams came out in support of the athlete's struggle.
She recounted her long battle with drug addiction and sent well wishes to the couple.
"I met @RealLamarOdom one time, when my husband and I were shopping in LA. He was in the store too," Williams tweeted at the time. "After he left, he called in his credit card to pay for our stuff. I only know his kindness and share his struggle w/substance abuse. My thoughts r with u both Lamar & @KhloeKardashian. xo ww."
Now, the talk show queen is changing her tune and telling Khloe she should ditch her man.
"Drugs are not laughable, but I feel bad for Lamar [Odom]; I feel bad for Khloe," she said on the Season 5 premiere of The Wendy Williams Show.
"I still say divorce him in the name of love. Khloe doesn't deserve that kind of craziness," she said. "But I can tell you one thing right now… cautionary tale."
She must be referring to the couple's whirlwind romance.
"That's why you don't marry people you've only known for one damn month."
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Is Metallica performing at Yankee Stadium at the end of the season?
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Metallica's "Enter Sandman" has long been connected to New York Yankee great Mariano Rivera.
The legendary closer has been taking the field to the metal classic for most of his lengthy career. And now that Rivera is set to retire at the end of this season, there are rumors that Metallica will perform his theme song live at Yankee Stadium.
The band is scheduled to play the nearby Apollo Theater on September 21st, the night before the Yankees are set to celebrate Rivera with a pre-game event at the ballpark.
But even though they'll be in town, Metallica and the Yankees are staying quiet on any possible appearance.
According to the "New York Daily News," a rep for the Yankees said only that he cannot comment on "any events" surrounding Mariano's ceremony.
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WATCH: Elias Phoenix, 7-year-old piano prodigy, returns to 'Ellen' for more fun
Elias Phoenix, the memorable piano prodigy who stunned Ellen DeGeneres last month, has returned to her show for another mesmerizing appearance.
They discussed his dream of attending Harvard, their Twitter friendship, and how Phoenix can have a "Boston accent" even though he's from Florida.
The pint-sized pianist also wowed the crowd with some Bach.
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State of New Jersey threatens to take teen from his family for… um… TWIRLING A PENCIL IN CLASS
It's no longer enough to suspend kids from school for behaving like kids have always behaved in school. Now it has escalated.
If you don't agree to submit your child to a psych eval for twirling a damn pencil, that's child abuse. Say goodbye to him.
This is Big Government in a nutshell: People you've never met making huge decisions about your life for reasons you can't comprehend. And nobody is accountable.


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Alleged Taylor Swift stalker gets extended restraining order
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A Los Angeles judge is putting more separation between Taylor Swift and a man who claims to be the singer's husband.
Timothy Sweet must stay at least 100 yards away from Swift and members of her family for the next three years. He has also been barred from contacting the singer through any electronic means.
The 33-year-old man allegedly claimed to be married to Swift and threatened to kill anyone who stood between them.
Court papers say Sweet first began stalking the singer in 2011. Swift obtained a temporary restraining order in March. The extension granted Tuesday is effective through 2017.
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Depression is often a "check engine" light that there are things we love and enjoy doing, are good at, our passions and interests – but we aren't doing them or making time for them. It leaves a hole in our life..often filled by unhealthy, downer stuff. We aren't powerless; we are empowered to identify those needs and wants and joys, and make them happen. Overcoming depression takes feeling I'm behind the steering wheel of my life. Often, we just need a start, a push, a move in a good direction, and get the ball rolling – the depression fades, or becomes far easier to handle.
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Sheila Kaminski, MSW,LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
99 Kinderkamack Rd Suite 308, Westwood, New Jersey
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Sheila Berard, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
99 Kinderkamack Road, Suite 300 , Westwood, New Jersey
Depression can very easily become part of your everyday life whether you are experiencing clinical depression or life experiences have caused depression. With the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, play therapy (for children) and solution-focused techniques we will work together to reduce your symptoms so you can experience life without the weight of depression.
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Lance Stern, LCSW
345 Rt. 17 South Suite 4, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Depression comes in differant forms, sometimes people become depressed because of situations in thier lives, be that losses or traumatic life events. Situational depression is real and can be treated very effectively through psychotherapy. Chronic depression is a more organic condition that can be a long term condition, however, good psychodynamic psychotherapy can be extremely helpful. With either situational or chronic depression, psychotherapy is an important part of part of the path to recovery.
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Mars & Venus Counseling Center , LCSWs, DCSW, LPCs, MFTs, LCADC, CTP
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Some of our staff here at the Mars & Venus Counseling Center are experts in the treatment of depression. These experienced counselors, through the techniques and philosophies of leaders in the field of counseling, will provide compassionate, comprehensive treatment of depression for adults, adolescents, and children. Counseling is provided on an individual basis for adults. Family involvement is necessary for the treatment of children and adolescents. Some of the typical symptoms of depression are low energy, low self-esteem, insomnia, over-eating or poor appetite, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, and feelings of hopelessness. These symptoms can be from mild to severe with different periods of time. The counselor will help the client...(view profile to read more)
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White Plains, New York
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G&G Counseling Services , LCSW, LMHC
LCSW and LMHC
280 Dobbs Ferry Road, Suite 200, White Plains, New York
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Mitchell Milch, LCSW
Psychotherapist/Couples Counselor
216 Dayton Street, 2nd Floor, Buzzer #1, Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Konstantin Lukin, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
20 Wilsey Square, Ridgewood, New Jersey
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Abby Mullen, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
475 White Plains Road Suite 23, Eastchester, New York
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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Rich Esposito, M.S. CAMS
Professor Rich Esposito, M.S., CAMS
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The Imago Way , Psy.D. & L.C.S.W.
Licensed Psychologist & Licensed Social Worker
550 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 305, Harrison, New York
I provide clients with a safe place to explore the root causes of their depression. Within the therapeutic relationship, we will also examine how the individual's thoughts, actions and feelings are connected to and feeding into their depression. We will work on breaking these negative cycles and start positive more adaptive ways of thinking, and acting to improve their mood.
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What do they pump through the cabins of commercial airplanes? Within 15 minutes of leaving the ground your mouth drops open and you sleep like a stoned koala. It happened to me recently. I dreamed I was landscape. I didn't have to work. I didn't want anything. I didn't have to write about myself. I felt, but didn't need. I was like a cliff or a mountain.
Then I woke up.
From 30,000 feet the hills of the Sierra Madre were striated, pumped with green muscles, boned by the Huastaeca canyons of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Twenty years ago, Alex Catlin, an 18-year-old student at Trinity College in San Antonio, Texas, followed a troop of Mexican Boy Scouts from the Huasteca to El Potrero Chico, a ring of mountains 40 minutes west of Monterrey, and found what some people have called the best winter rock-climbing destination in the world. Other people have called El Potrero hot, chossy and slabby, but to a kid who'd learned to climb by biking 30 miles from his prep school, Choate, to Sleeping Giant State Park in Connecticut, these 3,000-foot limestone walls looked pretty damn good.
Days after he found the cliffs, Alex and I met on the concrete slab at the base of the Jungle Wall, and huddled into a windy concrete curb to get some sleep. The cliffs hunched over us, blotting out big chunks of starry sky. We guessed the walls were 300 feet tall, off by a factor of 10. Unknown to us at the time, we'd picked a prime local party spot as a campsite and soon enough a Suburban pulled up. The headlights fell directly across us. The revelers seemed oblivious to the people sleeping on one corner of the slab. They probably thought we were dead drunk and lucky to have the fancy bags we'd crawled into. They cranked some Selena and started pitching tamale husks out the window. The wind picked up the greasy wrappers and piled them over Alex and me.
The next morning we woke up early. I offered the skinny kid some of my egg-and-bacon tacos but Alex just shook his head. He'd been training with Todd Skinner at Hueco and was only eating shredded wheat and protein powder. He looked at my taco like it was a plug of septic sludge.
"How did you sleep?" I asked.
"Great," he said. "I don't think I turned over once."
It was true. The fine blond hair was plastered to one side of his skull. His eyes were like navy blue blazers, and they froze me. He was only 18 years old, but his eyes somehow suggested that I would never know as much as this kid already knew. I felt like this was the type of guy who gets something in his head, like curing cancer or inventing a machine to manufacture chicken breasts, and he'd be at it till he got it right. Someone who had the smarts and wherewithal to do something major, to make a big difference, and I was right, except instead of medicine or business or law, Alex was into climbing.
As we loaded up our gear after breakfast, Alex quoted Nietzsche: "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego," and I thought, "Who is this arrogant Yankee egghead?"
I'm That Guy // When Boone Speed, 42, smiles he flashes both sets of teeth, tops and bottoms. The smile is in the eyes, too. Boone's eyes are like green rocks. His thinning hair stands up on his freckled pate. He seems professorial, artistic and self-possessed: dressed in fine fabrics, slightly Euro, and built like a 6-foot string of jerky and gristle.
The girl at the airline counter was really trying to help. She had stayed calm the first time Boone appeared in front of her, just an hour before his flight to Mexico and realized that he had forgotten his passport. He cursed and hopped around like a carpenter who'd dropped his hammer on his foot.
"Look," he'd said, lifting his leg awkwardly and pointing to a hole cut in one side of his green Croc. "I've got a Staph infection in my toe." She looked closer, and yes, there it was, an angry red canker on the joint of his big toe.
"I can't run," Boone said.
"You'll have to try," she said.
Now Boone was back. She saw him hobble to the front of the line and push his way in. People grumbled, but he turned and spoke to them.
"I'm that guy," he said.
And then he was standing in front of her again, frantically searching his pockets. Apparently he had raced home and grabbed his passport, but in the interim, somehow misplaced it. Word was communicated down the line and people searched the floor.
Anxious minutes passed until the loudspeaker crackled. "Boone Speed, please come to the Northwest Terminal to get your passport."
"I'm a photographer," Boone told the girl. "I'm supposed to be in Mexico to shoot a story. My flight leaves in 30 minutes. I have a Staph infection." He pointed to his toe. "I can't run."
He smiled, and the girl really wanted to help him. It was that kind of smile.
When we picked him up at the Monterrey airport, Alex asked Boone, "How was the flight?"
"Dodgeball," Boone said. "I had the middle seat."
Editorial Trip // Westafari and Minnesota Dave were two interns slaving at Rock and Ice World Headquarters. When they got wind of the "editorial trip" to Mexico—basically a chance to report on Alex's new cache of modern sport climbs—they made a strong case for joining it, offering to tote gear and camera equipment.
"It would be invaluable," Minnesota said, the signal Midwest accent somewhere between nasal resonance and speaking around a mouth full of marbles, "to observe the making of a magazine article from start to finish."
Minnesota is 20 years old, 6'3", and carries 175 pounds of cow's milk on his lean frame. He has a gay Rasta trenza woven into his blond hair. He wears a lot of tie dye and he burns in the sun like filo dough under a hot lamp. He's the nicest person I've ever met. Calls beautiful girls "comely" and says "fiddlesticks" when his piece-of-shit car overheats.
Westafari, 23, from Florida, is short and lean as fried bacon. He looks like a tin-type photo of a Civil War general taken toward the end of the conflict, when the officers were half-starved, sun-baked, black-bearded wild men with silver eyes. He looks exactly like one of those old generals except that Wes has a Rasta trenza, too. He favors polypro, bathes periodically and therefore smells like goat spray. Boone describes Wes as "slightly feral." A graduate of the Citadel, Wes always wears his helmet, even on the approach.
"Safety takes no holiday," Wes says.
"How are you planning to get to Mexico?" I asked the interns.
They were broke. I could tell that by looking at Minnesota's car, a rust-pocked Saturn stuffed with all of his shit: tent, bag, gear, stinky layers, bongos, a guitar, a banjo, a washboard, a frisbee.
"We're taking my car," Minnesota said.
The University of Buoux // After our separate, if equally epic travels, me, Boone, Minnesota and Westafari converged in Monterrey at roughly the same time and arrived more or less harried and exhausted at Alex Catlin and his wife Connie's house in the center of the Potrero. I felt nostalgic when we drove through the gun-sight entrance to the canyon and into the basin. There was still no electricity and the stars glimmered across space like spit on a blackboard. The Catlins' house was near the end of the road. A whitewashed wall enclosed three buildings—a master bedroom and bath, a hexagonal studio with Saltillo tile floors and ironwork windows and a kitchen with a bedroom. Landscaped gardens, a pool, storage rooms that housed climbing gear—the place was deluxe. Alex kicked on the solar power and lights blazed up.
"We're having a big party tomorrow," Connie said. She opened the refrigerator and revealed at least 20 pounds of steak and cases of Indio beer.
Connie Rochelle Rochon Catlin is Alex's third wife. She's petite, gracious and capable, taking charge of the interns, settling us all in comfortable quarters that are clearly her domain. She's from Monterrey, studied folk dancing, and moves with the authority of someone who knows her body. Large almond eyes look out at the world and seem to enjoy what they see. Over the course of the evening I'd learn that Connie grew up fast, dated older men and broke their hearts. She's independent, and wasn't sure she'd ever marry—until she met Alex. Then there was an intense physical attraction. "I felt it in my belly," she said. "We both felt it." She looked at Alex. "Remember that day? Five times."
Alex nodded, but his East Coast cool side wasn't about to discuss multiple orgasms this early in the evening. On first glance, you might mistake Alex for an uptight preppy, but since graduating from high school, he has surrounded himself with the exotic. His first wife was Chinese, his second wife, French.
"Where do you guys want to climb?" Alex asked. "I can show you granite, limestone, volcanic tuff, big walls, sport climbs, trad or boulders? We've got it all."
It was the same pitch he'd given me for the last three years—promoting Northern Mexico as the future of North American rock climbing, a veritable paradise of stone. Well, I reasoned, if anyone would know what it takes to make a good crag, it would be Alex. He'd been around the world—China, India, Nepal, Japan—a few times since discovering Potrero Chico in 1988, but his first trip had been to Aix en Provence in 1990, ostensibly to study French. By his own admission he'd spent far more time at what he calls the University of Buoux, the early 1990s sport climbing axis mundi. In 1995 he did his first 5.14, Le Spectre at Buoux. In 1996 and '97 he climbed six more 5.14s culminating in a first ascent of Greed, a route he graded 5.14b (later consensus pegged the line 5.14c), still the hardest climb in Thailand, and one of the hardest climbs in the world at the time.
In 1997, fueled by emotion following the divorce from his first wife, Elaine, he fled to Europe, climbed 50 8a's (5.13b) in 50 days and completely blew out his elbows. He didn't climb again until 2000, but by 2002 he was back in form and excelling at a different game—climbing big walls in Mexico ground up, onsight, without hooks. Belayed by his second wife, a French artist named Natalie, Alex put up two routes on the Chihuahuan big wall El Gigante, Man on Fire (5.11, 21 pitches) and Sueño de Gigante (5.13a, 22 pitches). At El Potrero they established Devotion (5.12c, 15 pitches).
In 2004, the tendonitis came back and grounded Alex. His second marriage dissolved. He was stalling on his thesis, translating Sanskrit poetry, and things looked grim. Then he met Connie who was more than willing to accompany him on long walks through the hills of Northern Mexico. They camped and discovered new crags and boulders. According to Connie, they also boffed like bunnies.
Alex had surgery on his elbow in 2005 and continued combing the high country, looking for rock with Connie. At the end of the year they were married and Alex was ready to start climbing again. With an appointment to teach philosophy at the University of Monterrey and a willing, adventurous companion, he became Mexico's Johnny Appleseed of climbing. Since 2005 he has equipped around 300 pitches, with his all-time list of first ascents teetering towards 1,000.
"Tell you what," I said in answer to Alex's question. "Let's debunk some myths. People say that Mexico is slabby and hot. Take us to steep and cool crags—nothing under 30 degrees overhanging or over 60 degrees Fahrenheit. And throw in some bouldering for the kids. Make it all within three hours of Potrero Chico. Can you do that?"
Alex smiled. His blond hair stuck up like dry grass and with his lopsided grin and overriding enthusiasm he looked little changed in the decades since we'd met. Now a full-fledged philosophy professor and fluent in five foreign languages (Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, French, Spanish), he can turn on the big brain but the kid is never far below the surface. He popped the first of the 24 beers we'd down that night while reminiscing about shared adventures and wondering how 20 years could have passed so quickly and in some ways so brutally. Two divorces, two suicide attempts. Somehow always climbing.
I took the beaded green bottle. We clinked the glass necks.
"Salud," he said.
Morning Breath // Boone's toe looked like a runny egg on an English muffin, but 10,000 acres of Nuevo Leon were burning. An arsonist had set the fire and the roads into the mountains were closed, so despite a raging case of antibiotic-resistant Staph, Boone would have to make one of the steepest and longest hikes in the Potrero in modified Crocs.
"Are you OK with that?" I asked.
"Honestly, this is what I live for," he said. He was serious.
Westafari's hair was wild and his eyes were puffy. He'd spent the night outside cuddled up with Alex and Connie's puppy, Leta, a golden retriever. Earlier that morning I'd watched the dog try to wake Wes by licking his mouth. Wes didn't even flinch so she lay down beside him and passed the time by licking her ass, then licking Wes' mouth until he stirred an hour later and walked into the kitchen where Alex, Connie, Boone and I were discussing plans for the day.
"Sorry about the morning breath, y'all," he said, smacking his lips.
Alex sat at his kitchen table dressed in red plaid boxers and a button-down Oxford. The south-facing cliffs of the Potrero—2,000-plus-foot walls like the Outrage and the Sense of Religion, all of them named by Alex—loomed behind a six-foot picture window. This world-class arena was his backyard.
The son of a Harvard-educated investment banker, Loring, and a real-estate agent, Susy, Alexander Havemeyer Catlin, 39, had come a long way from Greenwich, Connecticut. I couldn't help wondering what his parents thought of his life now, so I asked him.
"It's funny," he said. "From what I can remember of my youth, my father spent his time working, giving time to charities, playing sports and gardening. Putting up first ascents is a balanced combination of the four. Too bad it doesn't pay.
"I've lost track of what my family really thinks of me. I hoped they would better understand my life, but I realize what a tall order that is, given how strange it has been—rocks, books and living outside New England—and how incommunicative I have been. I think my parents are happy that I'm finally settling down. I know they would like me closer to them, but I guess most parents feel that way."
Wes spread some peanut butter on a corn tortilla and showered it with white sugar. As he munched he watched with a pained expression as Boone dressed his toe. "What happened to your foot?" he asked.
"I was being a jackass, dude," Boone said. "Leave it at that."
"Go wake up Minnesota," Alex said. "We have work to do."
The Whirlwind // It takes a certain kind of mind to drill 10,000 bolts. Analytical, focused, driven and slightly insane. It also helps to have a lot of spare time and a little extra money. Alex had those things while working on his thesis at the University of Texas, so he stretched out his education with its fellowships and teaching money for as long as he could.
"As far as I know, only one person has taken more time to get a PhD," he told me with satisfaction. "Eleven years."
Alex spent big chunks of that time in the University of Texas map room, poring over topos depicting the terrain of northeast Mexico. One treasure he uncovered was called El Remolino (the Whirlwind) on the maps. It was located on the southern rim of the Potrero, off the Mesa de las Mulas, the ancient route from Potrero Chico through the Huasteca to Monterrey. When Alex plotted the coordinates and actually walked to the feature, he found a north-facing, 200-foot wall, roped with blue and black tufas and overhanging a perfect 30 to 40 degrees. It was raining when Alex found the cave and the rain collected in a chute and funneled off the lip in a hose. The updraft spun the spout of water into a miniature tornado and swirled it back up to the lip.
"The climatic conditions actually create a whirlwind. Crazy," Alex said, "and it could be the best tufa climbing in the park, way more extensive than the Surf Bowl, but it needs routes."
It was tempting to load the two drills, bolts, hangers, 10 liters of water, extra batteries, food, warm clothes and camera gear into the interns' packs, but there was no room. Wes, in particular, was carrying way too much crap, superfluous stuff like a full rack of trad gear, two quarts of Carta Blanca and a guidebook. I told him to trim his pack, a massive, brand-new Black Diamond haul bag, but he wanted "to test it out," so I just let him go. If you're going to be dumb, you have to be tough.
Boone carefully hobbled around the nopale, Spanish daggers, horse crippler cactus and sharp limestone blocks without complaint. Wes dropped out of sight and we had to send Minnesota back to find him. Two hours later we arrived at a cave that Boone compared to the tufa grottos in Rodellar. Over a couple of days, we established the first lines—the Tabasco Donkey (5.12c) and P Trance (5.13a).
El Remolino could become a world-class gymnastic sport-climbing area. It has the angle, the weather and the holds—but the hike's a bitch. Old guys like Alex, Boone and me like to walk, but pure sport climbers would rather eat a plate of steaming pig shit than tromp uphill for two hours in the sun to go climbing, so as soon as the smoke cleared we plotted our course for the more palatable climes of El Puente de Dios, The Bridge of God, a 300-foot arch at 5,000 feet that is located close to the road. In fact, El Puente is the underside of the road. The approach takes five minutes (Alex actually counted the steps, 287), and it's all downhill.
Get A Dog // It occurred to me while watching Minnesota awkwardly trying to converse with a group of young Monterrey fresas that I was looking at a facsimile of Alex and myself 20 years previous. The Yankee and the Southerner: one was a few years older but the younger was more mature; both were silly with the romance of climbing. Wes and Dave were skilled, smart and willing. Get rid of the metrosexual hair weaves and they could do anything, be anything. But just like us, all those years previous, these kids had a monomaniacal love of climbing. Would their lives be built around this quixotic sport, drilling bolts and puzzling out sequences across spans of rock? When you turn 40 you tend to look back critically, but there are worse ways to spend two decades. Are there better ways?
The real benefit of age is resilience. Anyone who makes it to 40 probably won't need the emotional walls that youth builds for protection. By 40 you will have endured enough heartbreak and loss to confront pain head on and absorb it until it dissolves like an Altoid under your tongue. That might be why old guys don't mind walking uphill. The corollary, of course, is that you can't party like you used to.
At least 60 people milled about the fire in Alex and Connie's yard—Germans, Austrians, Mexicans, Canadians, Texans, scruffy Wyoming beard-holes and beautiful girls. I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Alex and Minnesota Dave. We pulled T-bones off the grill with our bare hands and gave them to people who ate the meat, also with their bare hands. My friends from Austin were there and they fed me margs made with Tito's vodka. The hours passed. At one point Minnesota turned to a Belgian and asked, "My God, how do you people get up and go climbing in the morning?"
The Belgian, blond, short, built like a bulldog, smiled and said, "If you ever live in a van, and your van has all your shit in it, man"—he slapped Dave on the back—"get a dog."
It sounded like nonsense, but later I realized that the Belgian had not only answered Minnesota's question, he'd answered every question. Like the Zen master who, when asked to explicate the dharma, simply answered, "Sweep the floor." In other words, address what needs to be done right now and the morning will take care of itself. The best we can hope for is a life of attention.
I jammed for a long time in the six-sided room with my guitar-playing partner Patrick O'Donnell, who'd flown in from Seattle. Ya, a buddy from Colorado, blew on his flute, Wes strummed the mandolin and Minnesota alternated between the banjo and the washboard. I thought we sounded pretty good, and, as if verifying my assessment, the band broke up one by one, each musician heading off with a good-looking woman until it was just me, standing in front of a sink of dirty dishes, listening to Willie Nelson and thinking about my 1-year-old son, Kai, and his mama back home.
Time Will Tell // In a stroke of brilliance, Connie had ordered a box of 50 burritos, and like an angelic vision, she passed them out the next morning to the horde of climbers who lay about the place in various states of indispose.
My head felt like it had been stepped on by a Clydesdale, but we were stoked to check out the Puente, so we packed quickly and steamed up into the mountains, through the aspens and pines, past a Mexican ski resort, to the high-country town of Galeana, a friendly puebla crowded with cowboys and kids running through the shady zocolo. El Puente de Dios was just a couple of miles outside the town and it proved to have everything a young tweaker could desire—25 ridiculously steep routes that climb out an arch the size of the Astrodome, a constant cool breeze, no sun, shelter from the rain, great bouldering and zero approach.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Boone asked. "This is it, right? This is paradise. I just wish Chris (Sharma) and Dave (Graham) could see this. Why are they in Spain, when they could be here?"
I sampled the rock over the next couple of days and found it to vary between perfect and sub-par. The lines that flank the cave couldn't be better—5.10s, 11s and 12s that monkey out jugs on bullet stone. The steepest lines, however, like Church of Satan (5.12d), need traffic to become ultra-classic. The potential is staggering. Picture the steepest sector of the Arsenal in Rifle, but three times as long, with better overall rock quality. The rock is karstic, riddled with pockets and huecos, and the climbing is gymnastic—big pulls, drop-knees and dynos. The streambed bouldering is even better than the climbing, and despite the relentless hangovers and thin skin, we bouldered every evening until well after dark.
Remolino wasn't fated to become a destination area, but given enough love and a few hundred bolts, El Puente de Dios would be a stop on the international circuit. Its 300-foot roof could hold the kind of friendly, endurance-dependent big numbers that today's elite climbers are looking for. But it would take motivated individuals willing to spend hours scrubbing dust out of the pockets and sinking metal into the rock. If that happens, the Puente will be epic. Only time will tell.
The wind picked up the next morning and blew pulverized cow shit into our coffee. The powdery manure dusted Boone's Staph infection as he was changing the dressing. We were camped in a cow pasture and had been subsisting on meat tacos, coffee, beer and Connie's burritos for three days. Connie had business in Monterrey with a deadbeat, and we were all ready to re-supply so we drove into the posh colonia San Pedro Garza Garcia and hit up that stanchion of civilization, Starbucks.
Starbucks // After only one traffic ticket, which Alex promptly paid with a 50-peso bribe, he maneuvered his Tundra into a spot between two Mercedes and parked in front of a Lacoste store. The posters in the window depicted pale gringos dressed in preppy outfits, jumping.
Starbucks was jammed with dark faces in suits and buzzing with chatter. Alex explained that the guy meeting Connie owed her about $300 for gear she'd fronted him on credit. She was the sole dealer of Marmot in Mexico and it was sometimes hard to get customers to pay their bills.
"So I told her about the time you went after that guy with the hockey stick," Alex said.
"That little shitsack, Kitzmiller?" I asked.
"He lost your drill."
"I should've broke it off in him," I said.
"If the punk doesn't pay up, we want you to intimidate him. Can you do that?"
"Like an enforcer?" I asked.
"Wes just ordered a double chocolate frappacino," Boone reported. We all turned to watch as the interns waited for their change. The well-heeled patrons were giving Wes the stinkeye. We were going on three days without a shower and the kid was as ripe as roadkill.
Over the past few days Wes had almost bitten dust half a dozen times—by slipping at the edge of canyons, walking in front of cars, going for it when he should have been backing off, taking giant whippers with the rope under his leg, and so on.
"The kid is careless," Boone said. "I'm worried about him."
Boone's a father. His son, Nicolas, is 7 years old. Now Boone couldn't stop watching Wes with the vigilance of a parent.
"Check this out," Boone said. "See the little hole in the lid of Wes' frappacino? He's going to stick his tongue through that hole and lick the whipped cream."
Wes looked at the cup. He stood impatiently for a moment, then brought the cup to his mouth. Boone whispered, "Yes!" as Wes poked his tongue into the tight hole, mashed the plastic dome down flat with his beard and licked the whipped cream. The people frowned, but Wes was oblivious.
Luckily, Connie's client paid up and I didn't have to kill anybody.
Why Climb? // There's an undeniable frivolity in all this traipsing about looking for rocks since the underpinnings of "the road" are made of money, and the trip ends in decrepitude and death. What is it, then, that makes us give up so much—time, relationships, income, muscle and sweat—just to climb? Alex is the smartest guy I know, so on the way to the last crag, I asked him a few questions.
"Why climb? That is a complicated question," he said. "We are such tricky creatures and any activity that reaches all the way into your center is bound to reflect all of your complexities. Climbing has meant so many different things to me over the years and its meaning continues to shift with my life. The layers add up yearly and none of them has ever fully disappeared. What does climbing mean to me? You might as well ask, 'Who are you, who have you been and who do you want to become?' Sport, philosophy, religion, love and friendship: climbing is connected to all five, and all five go right to the center.
"I started climbing as a lonely 14-year-old. I loved it because I didn't suck. In retrospect, I can see that climbing allowed me to form a more solid sense of self. Sport climbing is such a perfect activity for people with narcissistic needs: Everyone gets their turn to shine. For a few minutes, it really is all about you. I would guess that the numbers game served much the same purpose for me. The downside of using a sport to fill in this type of childhood gap is the arrogance that almost always springs up."
"You should have been a psychologist instead of a philosopher," I said.
"Philosophy is a perfect place for overly intellectual people with emotional problems," Alex said. "It gives you the illusion that you are going to discover the way out by pure mental force."
"What about Buddhism?"
"A teacher at Choate introduced me to Zen at about the same time I started climbing. There was a meditation room at school and a little library of Buddhist classics. It gave me a dream to cling to at that time—ironic, huh? I mean, I thought if all else failed, I could go to Japan and become a monk. It was like having an ace in your sleeve. Only, of course, it was nothing but a pipe dream. I have always been too uncomfortable with myself to sit much. Not that I haven't tried."
"A lot of climbers would say that climbing is meditation," I said. "What does the future look like for you?"
"None of my desires have ever really died. I would love to climb 5.14 again, I would love to put up more long routes, and I would love to travel around looking for new crags. However, other desires are stronger. I want to be a better husband. I want to continue my intellectual pursuits, develop a home in Monterrey and raise a family."
"What's the best climbing area in the world?"
"Nothing can beat the northeast of Mexico for me, but I am not like everyone else. I love perfect new cliffs, no crowds, warm weather, adventure, and exploration. I would love to see Nuevo Leon become a center of North American climbing, as it obviously deserves to be, but I know I need to work together with hundreds of other motivated climbers, hopefully more Mexicans, and I realize now how much of the responsibility lies with us foreigners."
We drove through the burned-out zone torched by the arsonist, the charred pines and ground cover a study in black and white, up toward El Salto, way above the Monterrey hubbub and spent the evening bouldering out a classic line that traversed a prominent, marble-perfect, streambed block. The hourglass-shaped pockets staggered across the 10-degree overhang and the long sticks felt hard, but we'd been climbing for eight of 10 days, so who knows? Maybe V7?
The new crag was located up the Boca, at a wall Alex had found and equipped with his friend Ralph Vega just two weeks before. He called the crag Sabrosa, which means "delicious," and it served up the best climbing yet. The established climbs follow seams and drips and we tried La Venenosa, a 100-foot 5.13b that Alex had sent a couple of days prior to our arrival. It starts on coral-textured, hand-thick tufas to a pair of jugs at 30 feet where you can shake. The crux is a big toss to a sill and another rest. The last 60 feet are pumpy 5.12b climbing on a 30-degree overhang.
Boone's foot was finally healed enough for him to pull on his climbing shoes and tie into the toprope Alex had hung on Hijos de P (5.12b) in the Boca earlier that day. Westafari and Minnesota had been working the line for hours. Now it was cool and shaded, and Boone, one of the first Americans to establish 5.14, floated through the moves like a grass snake slipping through a bullet hole.
Dave had persevered through the hottest part of the day and his back looked like somebody had been using it for a snare drum. "Sweet sassafras!" he said. "How did you hold onto that crummy little crimp when your leg was all kitty wampus?"
Boone smiled with both sets of teeth. "Dude!" he said. "That was like a 10-minute orgasm. I couldn't be happier, man. Camping in the dirt, climbing on the best stone. Honestly, this is what I live for."
He looked around at all of us, still flashing that 50-dollar grin but suddenly sincere. "You know what I mean?"
I recognized the longing, the years of searching behind the question, the routes etched across the rock like one of William Blake's poems cut into a metal plate, a Song of Experience.
"It just doesn't get better than this," he said. "Does it?"
Jeff Jackson is the editor of Rock and Ice. Check out rockandice.com under exclusive online content for an extended photo feature by Dave Costello and Wes Walker about their trip to Mexico, and an online guide to Pueñte De Dios.


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The country star released the Greg Bates composition as a special download for Crown Royal's "Your Hero's Name Here" program, which honors hometown heroes and raises money for the Armed Forces Foundation. Justin says it wasn't tough to say yes to taking part in the initiative.
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"American Idol" is set to go live tonight, kicking off this week's run with an extra episode.
The show is introducing a new segment this season called "Rush Week." On Tuesday, the top 15 girls will take the stage, where they'll learn who among them will get the chance to sing live for the first time. On Wednesday, the top 15 guys will go through the same process. Thursday will be a results episode, as America casts its first round of votes for the latest batch of singers.
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Tuesday will also see the return of former judge Randy Jackson. He'll be on the show in the role of in-house mentor, bringing along with him former contestants Adam Lambert and Chris Daughtry to coach the top 30 for the challenge of the live shows.
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As of Sunday night, you could still order the easy-to-mix ingredients for a weapon of mass destruction on Amazon.com.
Then Amazon apparently got word of the January 24 arrest of 19-year-old Vladislav Miftakhov in Pennsylvania under Title 18, Section 2716 subsection A of the state penal code. That is the provision regarding "unlawful possession of manufacture of Weapons of Mass Destruction."
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And the criminal complaint reported that when asked how he obtained the components, Miftakhov told police he had "purchased all the items on Amazon approximately three weeks ago and constructed them in his room."
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Friday's show marked Campbell's first concert since undergoing treatment for cancer. When he announced that he was battling the disease, he'd mentioned that the chemotherapy had forced him to take on a "new aerodynamic hairstyle."
Campbell has been taking his chemo-induced hair loss with a sense of humor. In a recent interview on Eddie Trunk's Q104.3 radio show "Friday Night Rocks," the guitarist said since he was now looking more like the hairless Joe Satriani, he hoped it meant he's "going to play even more notes like Joe" as well.
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