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The real crisis facing the USA are the ongoing nationwide obesity and AIDS epidemics. The average US man is now officially obese. And the avg. US woman is visibly overly obese. Obesity and AIDS are taxing our healthcare system. Not health insurance corporations as the official story says. Health insurance companies only turn a 4% gross profit margin. Not enough to make a big difference. Meanwhile, AIDS and obesity combine to account for well over half of all American health care expenses.
The real crisis is in medicated crazy people that have guns....................stay far away from small children..........
UNmedicated fruit loops.........
Stop freaking eating and wasting so much food, and stop sleeping around is the only hope. Got it?
Stop freaking breathing oxygen normal people need. ^^
But seriously Philip eats caca.
Meant butt head seriously not Cuchumber.
The world according to Philip is ..
Eat caca and run.
The more caca people eat, the more they think like Philip.
Philip is caca for brains
The number one problem facing America today is people like caca face, Philip.
Philip's brain:
1% brain cells
99% caca
Yes. Most states allow drug addicts to legally purchase guns and all of America's mass murderers for over the past 20 years have been men or boys addicted to mind altering prescription drugs.
In Colorado now, if you have a history of mental health issues and used mind altering Rx drugs to deal with them, you aren't allowed to legally purchase a gun ever again. And legislation is pending that would allow law enforcement to take guns away from all who use mind altering Rx drugs.
Got pills? No guns for you then.
If you have a history of mental health issues, period. Whether treated or not, people who cannot discern between reality and imagination should not be allowed to legally own firearms.
I agree with cutie banny.
Little wonder, then. That God never once appointed a woman as judge over Israel. And that there has never been one woman ever elected as US president. And that librarian's helpers are mostly girls.
@ banasy, you are limiting the disqualifying mental illness to psychosis.
I think that such a clarification would be a reasonable standard.
Some of the most famous performers in my industry has been hospitalized for depression. I would not deny them a gun.
The second most famous piano concerto in the literature, the second Rachmaninoff, is dedicated to the composer's hypnotist, who treated Rachmaninoff for depression.
Most USA citizens who know the second Rachmaninoff piano concerto, at all, think that it is a pop song, "Full Moon and Empty Arms."
Now, there's a reason for classical pianists to become depressed.
Israel and judges have nothing to do with this, Philip; please focus on what I have written, and not of what you think of me personally.
That being said, who is the "library's helper", Philip? Because you are not describing me, at all; as I have indicated before, you are not qualified to do my job. Just as I'm not qualified to do yours. Just as neither if us are qualified to do JIF's.
In any case, I would have thought you would have agreed with my assertion that anyone who cannot distinguish reality from a very fertile imagination shouldn't be allowed to obtain a weapon legally that they would use to shoot Harvey with.
@JIF, if they are being treated with SSRI's, Philip wants them denied. I do not agree with Philip.
I don't consider depression to be mentally ill, per se; for the most part it is a temporary condition, depending on the type of depression Dx.
However, your friends are precisely the people Philip wants to deny gun ownership to. Because he thinks anyone that takes an SSRI, under a doctor's supervision, taken as directed, is wrong; he considers them to be less than US citizens with all due rights afforded to them.
Ok. I guess that leaves Philip out. No guns for you.
Philip for republican vice president 2016!
..Freedom Fighters eat caca!
We all know about hindus
Raiping in India
Wearing the bindia
Along Lord Hanuman came
And wanted to join the game
And Ganesh with trunk did same
And shoved up Hanuman's a zz a sugar cane
And u eat caca.
Hello folks.
All Freedom Fighters in Kashmir eat caca.
Freedom Fighters eat caca.
Freedom Fighters eat caca
Freedom Fighters eat caca
Freedom Fighters eat caca
A plebiscite in Kashmir is caca
Blue Saffron is full of caca.
Blue Saffron eats caca.
Freedom Fighters:
Blue Saffron
They all eat caca.
Folks they can't all be wrong.
On the Regulation of Gun Ownership
I am less concerned about guns owned by mentally ill persons than I am about the unrestricted ownership of guns by robbers and drug dealers who ignore all laws on principle.
Should all citizens be armed? I have been taking an informal poll to find out what people think.
So, I'm asking you, JIF.
Many residents of my city are not mentally ill: they are just so angry at members of other races that they cannot think rationally about the necessity of firing guns.
Cities with populations in the millions always experience exponentially more crime. Thankfully, violent crime has been on the decline for years now; the methods of how we find out about them has changed, so we get that information faster than ever.
This makes it seem like there's more crime, when it's actually the opposite. People with video capabilities on their phones make information sharing lightning quick.
There's good and bad aspects of this.
33K American street gangs will no longer rob u. Happy?
Yup. Excuses to build forced labor camps for lazy Americans, Donna. Good thought my dear. Well said am sure.
What are you talking about, PED?
Ya know the NSA is only looking for informed citizens besides lazy fat focks . Right?
What is your definition of "informed citizens"?
I could be a librarians helper. You could not be a drilling engineer.Donna. u r too stupid.
I am not a "library helper", whatever that is. I am also far from stupid; but if it comforts you to think so, have at it.
I do like the new name you have given yourself for roughneck. You aren't and never were a drilling engineer. You simply lack the education. Not that there is anything wrong with being a roughneck; there isn't. I simply do not care.
You are nothing if not inventive at self-aggrandizing.
No woman can drill a hole 5 miles into the ground. Nor has ever done. Only by men. My men. Men like me. Not bull dikes such as Donna Banas.
A hole five miles to do caca by Freedom Fighters from India.
No man can ever get pregnant and give birth to a baby, either.
You're kind of talking nonsense here, Philip. Your "traditional" gender roles have changed. Keep up.
Please educate the world on what you think a "bull dike" is, and why you think I am one.
Start using Google, like I did, to see why your statement is false.
There is not one woman on earth who can engineer the drilling of a 5 mile hole in the ground to this very day. Because women are stupid compared to men is why.
Oh they teach women how to. But they are women. And so can't because of their bring weaker vessels as clearly described in your Bibles.
*their being
Vessels in the ocean to do caca in by Freedom Fighters from India.
"There is not one woman on earth who can engineer the drilling of a 5 mile hole in the ground to this very day. Because women are stupid compared to men is why.
Oh they teach women how to. But they are women. And so can't because of their bring weaker vessels as clearly described in your Bibles."
So you admit there are women drilling engineers?
Of course there are.
Your Bible has nothing to do with education, after all, it seems.
...and there are. Many Drilling Engineers and roughnecks are, indeed, women.
It appears you need to expand your own horizons a bit.
Your Bible describes you as a weaker vessel than men , Donna. And you can't stand it. You think women are equal to men. A lie according to Scripture. You stand in the face of God. Dumb chick.
The Bible also describes men having sex with their daughters, bears mauling children for making fun of a bald guy, and gives a listif commandments that you ignore; what of it?
I am far from a "dumb chick", and if you do not like dealing with women, refrain from doing so. You have "manly" pursuits you can follow, such as indiscriminate female bashing on the net.
Hmmm. Seems like the argument here is the role of men over women. Seems like a little scripture may lend a new perspective.
God created the woman as a "helper" for the man:
The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." (NIV, Genesis 2:18)
However, being a "helper" does not imply that the woman was inferior or subservient to the man; the same Hebrew word, `ezer, translated as "helper," is used to describe God, Himself, in Psalms 33:20, 70:5, 115:9-11. In fact, God created both men and women in His own image and made them equal custodians of all His creation:
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (NRSV, Genesis 2:27-28)
So it seems the God, in his wisdom, put man AND woman on equal footing in the custodial sense. It must me true since God created BOTH in HIS image.


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Guru – a film not to my liking – a review
The movie Guru left me with an uneasy feeling. I was not even sure whether I wanted to write a review on it…one of the reasons why I am so late.
A story of Dhirubhai's life
The movie, directed by one our best directors, Mani Ratnam, is supposedly the story of one of India's industrialists – Dhirubhai Ambani and this role is played by Abhishek Bachhan, a rising Bollywood star today.
Certainly, there are parallels with Dhirubhai. Guru's meteroic rise from a worker in Turkey (Dhirubhai was in the middle east) to a successful industrialist, his circumventing the system to get there, the newspaper hate campaign against him…to his stroke which left his right arm paralysed. But whether this movie is flattering to Dhirubhai or not, I am not sure.
Poor message from the director
In a court case filed against him by the government for his breaking the law in numerous instances, Guru comes out the winner. I found the unabashed way the director washed Guru's sins by proclaiming that his misdeeds were the only way to get around the corrupt and beaurocratic system a little hard to swallow. It was a way of saying that this is the only way to succeed in India. Instead of saying, this is how Guru suceeded, he said, Guru had no choice but to do this.
Everyone knows that there are industrialists in this country like the Tatas who did not find it necessary to avoid paying customs duties, taxes and excise to do business. And come on, importing machinery under the guise of spare parts and putting up a factory! I cannot respect anyone like that. And if you don't like the main character it is difficult to stay with the movie.
Worse, the director makes full use of his poetic license as a director to tell us that Guru made millions for his shareholders and that is why his wrongdoings should be excused! A classic tale of means justifying the end. Another silly bit of spiel the director wanted us to believe – a ruthless businessman obsessed with making money doing it for his shareholders? Mani Ratnam, you are insulting our intelligence.
The sets were amazingly good. Whether the spice market of Turkey or the textile markets of Bombay, it was all brought alive by Ratnam.
Abhishek is a believable Dhirubhai and this is one of his best performances to date. Aishwarya is alright too, very natural and comfortable in her interactions with Abhishek. Mithun Charkraborty plays the newspaper publisher who tries to expose the murky dealings of Guru with a persistent newspaper campaign quite well. As for Vidya Balan (she is a sufferer of multiple sclerosis) who plays the daughter (grand-daughter?) of the newspaper mogul and someone who Guru looks upon as his sister, I wondered why she needed to be in the film. True, she did a great job of bringing pathos into the film and made an impact…but the film could have done without her. It was clear that the director was trying to show us Guru's soft side, but we already know he has a soft side. He is desperately in love with his wife.
Another actor who did good was Rajendra Gupta – he plays Guru's harsh and very strict father.
Entertainment value?
So did the movie have any value at all? Well, it was slow in parts and I get bored quickly. But I liked the love part. It was a love story…and even though Guru takes a dowry to marry, he does fall in love. He and his beautiful Sujata (Aishwarya Rai) are shown to be deeply in love and their love story is moving and sweet.
Everyone is saying that this movie is not as good as the rest of Mani Ratnam's movies…but I have not seen any of his movies except for Roja. Well, Roja was better than Guru.
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tony permalinkJanuary 24, 2007 3:36 am
The movie is probably not a good one. That is because it is made primarily for indian viewers. But you are giving reasons why the movie SHOULD BE WORSE. A message is NOT warrented; it there is a message then it would probably be worse than it probably is. Similarly, whether Mani was true to ambani's life story does not bear on the artistic quality of the movie. Some of his or other great directors have been 'fictions'. Further, the morals of the main charactor does not bear on the quality or artististry of the movie. ex. GodFather, Nayakan, ect. Some of the better movies have dealt with not just curruption by outright depravity of some charactors. This is one of the reasons the quality of Indian movies is so low. Even mexican movie make movies that are highly acclaimed all over the world. I think if you see "City of God" from Brazil, you will vomit, convulse and get sick, or worse.
The movie is probably not as bad as it seems. I am forming this opinion because you don't like it and the reasons you have given.
Jemsheed permalinkJanuary 24, 2007 3:52 pm
Go and watch mani's kannathil Muthamittal.Its a good work of Mani ratnam.Its My favourite of maniratnam.Guru has great Music and Cinematography.I feel guru is far far better then ugly Kabi alvidana kehna,Senseless Dhoom2,Cheap Don..

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Also on her mind is a breast lump detected about a year ago. Her doctor recommended a digital mammogram, but she has not been able to afford the more involved test.
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People on the low end of the income scale get more help, as will older people, whose premiums are higher.
With an annual income of about $23,000, Fontenot makes too much to qualify for Medicaid. And her state decided not to expand the program, an option the Supreme Court granted last year as it upheld the rest of Obama's law.
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She'd have up to four levels of coverage to choose from: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. All cover the same benefits, but platinum has the highest premiums and lowest out-of-pocket costs, while bronze has the lowest premiums and highest out-of-pocket costs.
Fontenot's share of premiums would be capped at 6.3 percent of her income, or $1,450 a year for a benchmark silver plan. She'd have to squeeze about $120 a month out of her budget, and that doesn't include her annual deductible and copayments.
'If I want to stay alive, I'm going to have to budget that in,' said Fontenot.
With insurance, she'd switch to a brand-name diabetes drug that does a better job of controlling her blood sugars — and get that mammogram.
'I am not asking for free stuff,' she added. 'I am willing to do my part.'
Like Fontenot, many of the people who'll access the markets Oct 1 will have health problems. It's where the greatest need is.
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Healthy individuals are needed to help pay for the sick.
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Premiums so far are averaging lower than what government experts estimated when Congress was debating the law. That's important for policy types, but it may not mean much to consumers. Current low-cost individual market policies are difficult to compare with the new plans, which offer better financial protection and broader benefits.
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SEATTLE — The family of an American missionary held more than a year in North Korea was heartbroken and encouraged by a brief news conference in which Kenneth Bae, wearing a gray cap and inmate's uniform with the number 103 on his chest, apologized and said he committed anti-government acts.
"My brother is not a number to me, or to the rest of his family," his sister Terri Chung of Edmunds said in a statement Monday. "He is a kind and loving husband, father, son and brother — and needs to be home immediately."
Chung also apologized to North Korea and pleaded for its mercy to release Bae, saying the family is concerned for his health and she could "see that he was distressed."
"Our end goal is to see Kenneth reunited so he can recover emotionally and physically. He has chronic health problems," family friend Derek Sciba told The Associated Press. Sciba is a friend of Chung's and part of a group pushing for Bae's release.
"On the one hand it's heartbreaking to see him in a prison uniform at the mercy of folks in North Korea, but on the other hand it's encouraging to see him and that he's able to speak," Sciba said.
Bae made the comments at what he called a press conference held at his own request. He was under guard during the appearance. It is not unusual for prisoners in North Korea to say after their release that they spoke in similar situations under duress.
Bae spoke in Korean during the brief appearance, which was attended by The Associated Press and several other members of the foreign media in Pyongyang.
Bae, the longest-serving American detainee in North Korea in recent years, expressed hope that the U.S. government will do its best to win his release. He said he had not been treated badly in confinement.
"I believe that my problem can be solved by close cooperation and agreement between the American government and the government of this country," he said.
Bae was arrested in November 2012 while leading a tour group and accused of crimes against the state before being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. He was moved to a hospital last summer in poor health.
He made an apology Monday and said he had committed anti-government acts.
Bae said a comment last month by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had made his situation more difficult.
"The vice president of United States said that I was detained here without any reason," Bae said. "And even my younger sister recently told the press that I had not committed any crime and I know that the media reported it.
"I think these comments infuriated the people here enormously. And for this reason, I am in a difficult situation now. As a result, although I was in medical treatment in the hospital for five months until now, it seems I should return to prison. And moreover there is greater difficulty in discussions about my amnesty."
Bae's appearance came weeks after North Korea freed an elderly American veteran of the Korean War who had been held for weeks for alleged crimes during the 1950-53 conflict.
State media said 85-year-old Merrill Newman was released because he apologized for his wrongdoing and that authorities also considered his age and medical condition. Newman said after his release that a videotaped confession was made under duress.
Chung thanked the U.S. government for its efforts so far, but called for an increased push to secure Bae's release.
"We implore Secretary Kerry and President Obama to take immediate action to bring Kenneth home," she said.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. government was continuing to work with the Swedish Embassy to secure Bae's release.
"As we have said before, we remain very concerned about Kenneth Bae's health," Psaki said. "We continue to urge the DPRK authorities to grant Bae amnesty and immediate release."
North Korea has detained at least seven Americans since 2009. They were eventually deported or released without serving out their terms, some after prominent Americans such as former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter traveled to Pyongyang.
A senior U.S. envoy had planned to visit North Korea in late August to discuss Bae's release, but Pyongyang withdrew its invitation at the last minute, accusing the United States of hostility. Analysts said North Korea was apparently trying to gain leverage in a long-running international standoff over its nuclear weapons program.
"We shouldn't take Kenneth Bae's comments merely as his own," said Kim Jin Moo, a North Korea expert at the South Korean state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. "The reason why North Korea had Kenneth Bae make this statement … is that they want Washington to reach out to them."
Other foreign analysts say North Korea wants better ties with Seoul and Washington as a way to win foreign aid and investment to boost its economy.
Bae's detention was in the news earlier this month after former basketball star Dennis Rodman traveled to Pyongyang with other retired NBA players for an exhibition game marking the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an interview with CNN while in Pyongyang, Rodman made comments implying Bae was at fault.
Rodman, who has been criticized for not using his ties with Kim to help secure Bae's freedom, later apologized.
Bae was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States in 1985 with his parents and sister. He was allowed to call home on Dec. 29 because of the holidays, according to his sister. That was the first time his three children from an earlier marriage had spoken to him, she said. He has two children in Arizona and another in Hawaii, ages 17, 22 and 23, Chung said.
Sciba, who works with the Seattle-based Christian relief and development agency World Concern, said "Ken is a good man. He has only the best of intentions for others. … We're asking for mercy from North Korean officials."
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John Long: What I've Learned
John Long, original Stonemaster and climbing's most popular writer, spills his guts.
This article appeared in Rock and Ice issue 193 (April 2011).
On Writing
How do you write lightning and a nocturne onto the same page? That's all a matter of style, which is all that matters. I can't tell you
how to do it—nobody can—but I've learned a few things in my 35-year career.
Structure, voicing, characterization and so forth take ages to master, but these are important only if you get some clarity on style.
A person gives off a certain sense of being, a visceral feel. In prose writing that aura is called style. It's slippery, largely intuitive and includes
tone, attitude, temper and half-remembered feelings that stick in your throat. And that's what you have to somehow hack out onto the page.
A writer working strictly from the mind might have polished form, but might never have style. You know when style works or is lacking,
but it's damn hard to define. Music criticism gets us close.
Consider vibrato, pulsating the pitch above and below a given note, a lot or a little, fast or slow. The aim is to add expression (style)
to vocal or instrumental music. Vibrato is so common and seemingly so natural that many consider it the mark of a relaxed and mature style. Yet trumpeter
Miles Davis, arguably the greatest stylist in the history of bop and post-bop (Cool) jazz, used to play with little to no vibrato.
Another trumpet prodigy, and a former mountain-biking partner, told me that "Taps," the solemn U.S. Military melody used for flag ceremonies,
funerals and "lights out," is almost impossible to play because you're obliged to play it straight. No vibrato.
Why does losing the vibrato make "Taps" so difficult and Miles Davis' playing so iconic? Simple, said my friend. Vibrato covers the inability
or guts to play each note straight up, without the mustard and hot sauce typically used to mask one's lack of emotional commitment to the music. Vibrato
is melodic sap, a method of goosing surface passions. To play without vibrato, you must have perfect pitch. And every writer is a torch singer working
an audience of ghosts.
About those torch singers. Most critics feel the truest gauge of a singer's voice is to stick her with a stripped-down ensemble, just
a piano, bass and drums. This lack of accompaniment accentuates vocal gifts and devotion, or exposes a frightened poser.
In literature, vibrato might be a showy word choice, info dumping, brainy references, noodling, commentary or wisecracks. For years I
used all of these devices, and it took no commitment at all. But to ever embody the resonance of "Taps," or Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess, you have to
present with that stripped-down ensemble. You have to step up to the mic naked and let rip a riff, played plainly, sans bellowing and doodads and self-absorption.
Whatever style you have, that is how you find it. And once you find it, just as they do in poker, you have to write "all-in." Not easy.
On Climbing
When I first headed for Yosemite, I was 17 years old and had no idea who I was. Then I met Jim Bridwell, de facto lord of Camp 4. From
our first route together, I saw how measured "The Bird" was per the whole climbing process. It took a while, but slowly I stopped muscling through
things and started noticing life, in all of its dark and dazzling facets. So ran the process of learning to take myself seriously, of appreciating
what the hell I was doing, even as the pitches flew past.
Wall climbing helped shake me awake. I'd tie off taut on a tapering ledge. The sun would set as conversations fizzled, both my feet dangling
in the silent night. Finally I'd run out of smokes and would find myself forcibly present, marooned half a mile up a rock face. I couldn't change channels
or even change my mind. When I finally surrendered to the granite bench, the parched throat and the whole shimmering clusterfuck, I'd synch up with
my life and for the moment experience freedom while being literally tied to a stake. Later, I'd go way out of my way to make the first and second one-day
ascents of El Capitan.
But what I most took away from climbing was not velocity, but the capacity to decelerate into my skin and into my life.
On Women
My life is paradoxical, full of discord and not-knowing. But there are also moments on the bed in the lamplight, and you want to show
up for these because that's where the paradoxes resolve themselves, where for the time it takes a tear to dry, we taste the open-hearted freedom. And
it's often just a look, two palms flushed together, all the simplest things.
I'm thinking about one time in the Valley, at the tent cabins over in Curry Village. I must have been a sophomore or junior in college.
For going on four years, I spent all 90 days of summer break climbing and carousing in Yosemite. I no longer swallowed life whole, just wolfed it down
unconsciously, tasting little. But my relations with girls were still Neanderthal—either wham-bam, or erotic wrestling matches lasting so long
the poor, beleaguered wahine begged for mercy, getting none. That night in Curry Village everything finally and mercifully changed.
I pushed away to the edge of the bed and admired my then girlfriend, "Roxanne." Just this once I wanted to savor the whole shebang. Looking
at her—21, tanned, fit, spectacularly naked, perfect in the lamplight— I wondered how much more I could expect from life, and I said so.
What a line, said Roxy, and I asked, To get what? I already had the girl. And what might better even look like, if it wasn't Roxanne all over again,
tomorrow night? If she knew, she wasn't telling. We just hung there in midair. Roxanne was eerily silent.
It likely was her first experience of being totally seen—a relief, she finally said, but terrifying. For the moment, we didn't want
anything else at all. But to answer her question, no, I didn't know who I was seeing, what was happening on that bed, in that tent cabin, in Yosemite
Valley. So I said, You better show me.
She placed both palms flat on my chest—there was strong medicine in her hands. Then she leaned her face over mine. Have you ever
tasted a tear? She kissed me and said she could only love for a few hours at a time. But what a few hours. Then she laid her head on my chest and we
traveled. That might sound mawkish, but the encounter itself was stripped down, like torch singers in that empty bar, singing a melody so fragile it
was barely there. These are the moments that make a life. That much I know for sure.
On Family
I grew up with a vastly screwy experience of family. Adopted at two days old from a podunk community clinic in Indio, California—then
the low desert asshole of Southern California—I was thrown into a cauldron full of people who looked, acted, thought and felt nothing like me
whatsoever. Dad was a doctor, Mom was a scholar. Both sisters were brainiacs. I threw rocks at cars and loved to fight Mexicans, who gave me my nickname,
Largo, which is my adopted name, Long, in Español. My family was an amalgam, custom-made in America, combining German-Jewish and dustbowl Okie. Years
later, when my adoption papers were unsealed, I discovered I was seven-eighths Irish and one-eighth Comanche (easy on firewater, Tonto). Anyhow, I
couldn't have felt more different and disconnected had I washed ashore on a palm frond.
The first true relative I ever saw was my older daughter, Marianne del Valle, 10 minutes after she was born in the Clínica Maternidad
Santa Rosa in Maracay, Venezuela. From the moment Marianne squinted out at me, life was never the same. Finally, I belonged. I had sought and found
kinship in the climbing community, but blood is different, preverbal and radically robust.
Like the time I was returning to Venezuela and got waylaid in customs over some document, and from the other side Marianne, then 5, dashed
under the rope and past customs, through the special thresholds, tripping various alarms and flashing lights, ran up and death locked my legs. The
soldiers just laughed. Marianne (nicknamed Grillo, or cricket, for her boundless energy) refused to go to sleep unless I lay down in the bed beside
her. Every night I'd tell her to shut her damn trap and get to sawing that firewood and every night we'd spend an hour talking the most extravagant
shit in Spanglish and laughing and arguing about everything.
One time Marianne was pissing me off, can't remember why, and I let my energy get big and I growled out a few words. Bearing down (I outweighed
her by 175 pounds), I watched her recoil and her eyes fill with tears. I felt like dying. I grew up around physical violence and I saw all the accrued
fear of those years in a face where I usually saw God. That's when I understood that aggression, if not channeled constructively, will destroy the
greatest things. And aggression is always a fallback position against stepping up to the mic naked and open-hearted and telling the unvarnished truth.
Marianne is almost finished with med school now. She was a foreign-exchange student in Germany and is fluent in Spanish, English and German.
Best of all, she's not afraid of life.
On Death
I recall the early days in Yosemite and doing body recoveries, and how we never could talk to death. Words bounced off the prettiest corpse
and the bag of bones as well. We saw plenty of both. Death has its own itinerary, listens to nobody and leaves no one behind.
I was on Half Dome with two girls, bivying on Big Sandy Ledge, when I first realized the absurdity of worrying about death. I spent the
first hour worrying about how to get the girls out of their knickers. I apologize to the universe for having such thoughts, but I did. They just popped
into my mind like grouse flushed from the hedgerow. The girls didn't suffer these thoughts, at all, so my mind shifted to the next subject over, death,
and all those eons before I was born, and how I never gave a shit about missing them all. So if I didn't care about existing before I was born, why
fret the afterwards?
All In
My life seamlessly blends flux with permanence and the unborn. I feel boundless every time I get outdoors and into the wilderness, or
jump up onto a rock monolith, which is time in mineral form. I sense the immeasurable every time I pause and note the person on the bed beside me,
and on the other end of our rope. I see something surpassing in the faces of daughters and strangers in need, and in the open eyes peering back from
the mirror. My brain is only an evolved, evaluating mechanism and filing cabinet, but my soul can step up to the mic or the cliffside and experience
the jumbo love that makes life shimmering and doable. Mysteriously, I can strike "a balanced concord with other voices," which is the reason for the
10,000 forms as opposed to just the One.
But to achieve that balanced concord, I have to play it all-in, because I am, and sans vibrato, because I can.


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April 18th, 2012
Are mean people born that way?
Let's face it - everyone isn't nice. In fact, being nice is more difficult for some people than others. But is it possible that "niceness" is predetermined by our genes?
A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests this: If you think the world is full of threatening people, you're not going feel compelled to be generous by doing things like volunteering and donating to charity. But if you have certain gene variants, you're more likely to be nice anyway.
Now hold on a minute - this doesn't give your mean neighbor an excuse to blame his DNA for not letting kids on the block play on his lawn.
It's a little more complicated than that.
Researchers offered an online survey to participants asking questions like:
–do people have a duty to pay taxes?
–are people basically good or bad?
–do you engage in charitable activities?
Then some participants sent in samples of their saliva so researchers could check out their DNA. A total of 348 U.S. residents were included in the final analysis.
Researchers analyzed the spit samples. They looked at the particular variants of receptor genes these people had for the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin.
In case you're wondering, oxytocin and vasopressin are very similar structurally, and seem to have some similar social effects. For example, they're both associated with pair bonding - aka bringing closer together two spouses or a mom and her child.
In fact, that's why oxytocin has been called "the cuddle hormone."
But while the hormones have similar effects on the brain, they differ in the rest of the body. Oxytocin can induce labor. Vasopressin increases when you're thirsty and prevents the formation of urine.
As the authors of the new study expected, people who see the world as a threatening place tended to not engage in charitable activities - except if they had particular variants of the receptor genes that the researchers were looking for.
It turns out that if the receptors are especially sensitive to oxytocin and vasopressin, even people who fear others in society will do nice things, said Michael Poulin, assistant professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo and study co-author.
"We've found that these genes also predict people's willingness to be nice on behalf of other people or aggressive on behalf of other people," Poulin said. In other words, such biological factors may influence your willingness to defend someone else.
That is consistent with other research, which found that rat mothers are more willing to be aggressive on behalf of pups when they received oxytocin.
Previous research has also shown that these hormones make people more socially active.
Blame the DNA?
Keep in mind that this study only shows associations between genes, hormones and behavior, and doesn't prove direct causal links.
It's not a "blame your DNA" situation, Poulin said.
"While we found some interesting interactions with genes and perceptions of the world, I would resist saying that we found genes that control behavior," he cautioned.
The next step for this area of study is to look at how sensitive people are to different kinds of threats.
A few questions that might be posed by future researchers:
–Is it important for people to believe they're helping good people?
–Is there something in a person's background or upbringing that influences how threatening they believe the world is?
Poulin and colleagues will also look at what other behaviors these genes might influence.
So it's probably a little too early for mean people to start using their DNA as a convenient excuse for their bad behavior. But maybe someday...
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Back in December, I suggested as a holiday gift the Josh Bach men's ties with a book design available for $38 from the online catalog for the shop at the Los Angeles Public Library. These subtle and attractive silk ties avoid the cuteness of many club ties. So if you're looking for a Father's Day gift for a serious reader, you may want to visit the catalog at the Library Store at the Los Angeles Public Library www.lfla.org/cgi-bin/store/0943.htm. When you give one of these to Dad, you're giving a double gift — the tie and the knowledge that he's helping to support a great library system. The Josh Bach Book Tie could also make a good end-of-the-year thank-you gift for teachers and tutors. The library will gift-wrap the tie for $2.
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In 2015, more than 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed and close to 600,000 people will die from the disease. Thankfully, major breakthroughs are changing how we prevent, treat, and cure cancer. Treatments are becoming increasingly personalized and advances in immuno-oncology, a field that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer, are causing a paradigm shift in cancer treatment. Use the navigation below and the search feature to view the data and to narrow down your search.
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Approximately 85.6 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and close to 1 in 3 deaths result from CVD. These are not only deadly but costly diseases with CVD and stroke costing around $320 billion each year.
Atrial Fibrillation
Every year around 75,000 Americans learn that they have atrial fibrillation (AFib)—the most common type of arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm. Having AFib puts people at an increased risk for stroke, which can be both deadly and costly. Medicare alone is estimated to pay .7 billion per year to treat newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation patients.
Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in the U.S. and kills more than 129,000 people each year. Someone in the U.S. has a stroke about once every 40 seconds. People do survive stroke--around 795,000 strokes occur each year and there are an estimated 7 million stroke survivors in the U.S.--but they are often left with significant disabilities.
Each year around 75,000 Americans are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib), 900,000 experience a venous thromboembolism event (VTE), and 800,000 have a stroke. The burden for those who survive is enormous and the cost of care a major expense for individuals and the nation. Fortunately research advances are offering significant hope. A number of investigative anticoagulants have the potential to reduce strokes in AFib patients while also reducing the risk of bleeds; clot-dissolving agents are proving to lessen the effects of strokes; and the same drugs in the pipeline for AFib could prevent VTE after major orthopedic surgery.
Valve Disease
As many as 11.6 million Americans in the U.S. have heart valve disease (HVD), and more than 1 in 10 adults ages 75 and older have HVD. Thankfully, the HVD field has experienced tremendous advances in improving survival, recovery, and quality of life for patients.
Aortic Stenosis
Aortic stenosis is one of the most common and serious types of heart valve disease. Aortic stenosis can be debilitating, costly, and deadly. Survival rates without treatment for severe symptomatic aortic stenosis are low at 50% at 2 years after symptom onset, and 20% at 5 years. Fortunately, innovative treatments are saving lives and aortic stenosis can be successfully treated with valve replacement in patients of all ages.
Mitral Valve Disease
Chronic Disease
While medical innovations and public health gains in the past century have been measurable in leaps and bounds, significant progress against acute disease has revealed an equally enormous challenge—chronic disease on an unprecedented scale. Close to half of Americans have chronic conditions and 1 in 4 have more than one. They cause 7 out of every 10 deaths and cost our country 75 cents of every health care dollar. With chronic disease prevalence growing at a faster rate than the population as a whole, the forecast is daunting.
Despite recent advances, diabetes continues to be a major health threat for at least 29 million Americans who have it and the 86 million Americans with prediabetes. The biggest concerns for individuals with the disease are its many complications and co-morbidities; which can cause vision loss, heart disease, stroke, and other debilitating medical conditions. With the aging of the population and the rise in risk factors like obesity, these problems are going to skyrocket, making medical innovation more critical than ever.
Every year, between 50,000 and 90,000 adults in the U.S. die from vaccine-preventable infectious diseases or their complications. Many serious infectious diseases are acquired in the healthcare setting and those healthcare-associated infections cost U.S. hospitals between $28.4 and $45 billion each year.
Healthcare-Associated Infections
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are acquired while receiving medical or surgical care for other conditions in hospitals, physician offices, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare settings. They are largely preventable, yet often costly and deadly, and rapidly becoming a national crisis as they increasingly develop resistance to drugs.
Infectious Diseases
Vaccine preventable illnesses and diseases continue to cause significant sickness, hospitalization, pain, disability, and death in the United States. Pneumonia causes somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 hospitalizations in older adults each year, and more than 50% of flu-related hospitalizations are in people age 65 and older. Around 50% of the more than 1 million cases of shingles each year are in people age 60 and older.
Between 5 and 10 million Americans acquire pneumonia, 35 to 50 million are afflicted with influenza, and 1 million get herpes zoster (shingles)--each year. Older Americans are much more likely to get these infections and to suffer from complications and death. In fact, the death rate from pneumonia and influenza combined is close to 130 times higher in people age 85 and older, compared to people ages 45 to 54. Thankfully, vaccinations are available for many of the most common and deadly infectious disease in older Americans, and can save countless lives and healthcare dollars.
Neurological Disease
The prevalence of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are skyrocketing as our population ages and they threaten to bankrupt our economy if better treatments and cures aren't found. 5.4 million Americans are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This number will triple to 16 million by the year 2050. Parkinson's disease affects 1 million Americans, with at least 60,000 new cases occurring each year.
Alzheimer's Disease
As many as 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease--the sixth-leading cause of death. This disease threatens to bankrupt our economy as our nation ages. In 2012, the cost of providing care for Alzheimer's disease patients was 0 billion. If current trends continue, this cost is projected to grow to .1 trillion per year by 2050, resulting in an overwhelming economic burden.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurological disorder that impacts close to one million Americans. It leads to debilitating symptoms, comorbidities, expensive medical care, and caregiving needs. Existing therapies help manage symptoms and exciting research advances hold promise for even better management and potential cures.
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More than 54 million Americans face the threat of osteoporosis; which causes more than 2 million fractures each year. These fractures can have a profound impact on quality of life—often leading to pain, disability, loss of independence, and even death—and cost the U.S. an estimated billion each year. Fortunately, scientists are continuing to make exciting breakthroughs that are helping to keep bones healthy and prevent debilitating fractures. The Alliance for Aging Research partnered with the National Osteoporosis Foundation to produce this volume.
Persistent Pain
Around 100 million Americans live with persistent pain--more Americans than are affected by diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. Persistent pain is a significant public health problem, costing the American economy around $560 to $635 billion annually. This amount is equal to a cost of $2,000 for every US citizen due to cost of health care and lost productivity.
Vision Loss
More than 38 million Americans age 40 and older are blind, visually impaired, or have an age-related eye disease, and adult vision loss costs our economy more than billion a year. With major advances in vision research bringing new prevention and treatments, it is critical that support for research and incentives for innovation remain a priority. The Alliance for Aging Research has teamed up with the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) during their Decade of Vision, to release Volume II of The Silver Book®:Vision Loss. Volume II brings updated data on vision loss in older Americans, as well as the exciting changes and discoveries in vision research and treatment.
Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetes is becoming increasingly common in industrialized and even developing countries. A serious and irreversible complication of diabetes--diabetic retinopathy (DR)--could impact as many as 191 million people around the globe by 2030. Despite the fact that DR is a leading cause of vision loss around the world, as many as 50% of people with diabetes are not getting regular eye exams, or are diagnosed too late for treatment to be effective.
The diabetic retinopathy fact sheet was released on May 19th during a webcast. Click
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The Silver Book® is an almanac of thousands of facts, statistics, graphs, and data from hundreds of agencies, organizations, and experts. It is a searchable database, produced and updated by the Alliance for Aging Research, that provides free and easy access to the latest information on the burden of chronic diseases that disproportionately impact older Americans, and the value of investing in medical research.
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NEW YORK – On the edge of the SoHo neighborhood downtown, The Henley Vaporium is an intimate hipster hangout with overstuffed chairs, exposed brick, friendly counter help – but no booze.
Instead, the proprietors are peddling e-cigarettes, along with bottles of liquid nicotine ready to be plucked from behind a wooden bar and turned into flavorful vapor for a lung hit with a kick that is intended to simulate traditional smoking. A hint of banana nut bread e-juice lingered in the air one recent afternoon as patrons gathered around a low table to chat and vape, or sidled up to the inviting bar for help from a knowledgeable 'vapologist.'
Places like The Henley are a rarity, even in New York. But 'vaping,' itself, has had astonishing growth – in just eight years or so, the number of enthusiasts around the world has grown from a few thousand to millions. Believed by some to be the invention of a Chinese pharmacist, vaping now has its own YouTube gurus, trade associations, lobbyists, online forums and vapefests for meet-ups centered on what enthusiasts consider a safer alternative to the 'analog,' their name for tobacco cigarettes.
Vaping may be safer – there are differing opinions – but it isn't necessarily cheap.
Will Hopkins, a 21-year-old dog walker in black leather jacket and skull ring, visits Henley four or five times a week. He smoked a pack of full-strength Marlboros a day for eight years, until he took up vaping. The same goes for his buddy, 20-year-old photographer Will Gallagher, who has been vaping for two years and is fond of his brass mod, a cylindrical device that's larger than a cigarette and decorated with a tiger and Chinese lettering.
'I think both of us have poured in probably a little over a thousand' dollars, Gallagher said of their equipment. 'I like the exclusivity of vaping. I like to keep changing up my stuff.'
The Wills are into rebuilding tanks and rewiring coils, scouting new e-liquid flavors and adjusting their devices, which can cost up to $300 at Henley, to allow for more vapor, more flavor. But the co-owners of Henley count older smokers among their clientele as well.
E-cigarettes are usually made of metal parts combined with plastic or glass and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They heat the liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that quickly dissipates when exhaled. The vapor looks like tobacco smoke and can feel like tobacco smoke when taken into the lungs at varying strengths, from no nicotine up to 24 milligrams or more.
In 2006, sellers of all things vape worked primarily online or via kiosks in shopping malls. Now there are more than 250 brands and devices that can cost mere dollars for a case of 'cigalikes,' which resemble the real thing, to a gold-and-diamond unit the size of a fountain pen that was reportedly made for a Russian oil tycoon and cost about $900,000.
Whether vaping is cheaper than a cigarette habit is up to how much is spent on equipment and liquids and how often one vapes. A 15-milliliter bottle of liquid at Henley can go for $12 and may be roughly the equivalent of four packs of cigarettes, depending on the strength of both liquid and leaf cigarette, among other factors like how many puffs a smoker takes in. Rechargeable devices require batteries – another expense – and a starter kit for reuse that comes with a device can run around $66.
By comparison, the cost of a 20-cigarette pack of regular cigarettes can range from about $5 to about $15, depending on state tax and the type of location where they're purchased.
The Food and Drug Administration has not yet stepped in to regulate e-cigs – and their amped-up marketing – but that's likely to happen as some cities and states have already moved to ban public use the way they do tobacco.
Critics believe e-cigs may serve as a tobacco gateway for uninitiated young people. 'It may be smoking e-cigarettes, but it's still smoking,' said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who was one of four senators to fire off a scathing letter to NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association after a spoof on e-cigs aired during the Golden Globes in January.
Proponents argue that vaping isn't only safe but is helping people quit smoking. The Henley has a white 'wall of doom,' where it lists in big black letters the numerous tars and chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes, but absent in e-cig use if one is careful about the liquids purchased.
'What's so beautiful about this product is we can take people from a high level of nicotine down to zero, down to nothing, so they're just vaping basically water and flavoring,' said Henley co-owner Talia Eisenberg.
She scoffs at the notion that child-friendly flavors of e-liquids – Watermelon Wave and Frozen Lime Drop, for instance – were created to lure teens. And she rejects the idea that e-cig companies should be banned from advertising on TV, as tobacco companies were more than 40 years ago.
While e-liquids and vaping supplies lack oversight and long-term research, they are readily available to all ages online, and at gas stations, bodegas and many drug stores. But Henley doesn't serve those under 18. Would it make more sense to help people give up nicotine – an addictive substance – altogether?
'Sure, but how's that workin' for the country so far? How are they doin' with that? We're talking in terms of serious harm reduction,' said Eisenberg's business partner, Peter Denholtz. His mother died of lung cancer two years ago; he himself smoked cigarettes for 36 years, but has been vaping for four years.
Some vapers, like Hopkins and Gallagher, find fun in tinkering with the paraphernalia. Denholtz likens them to older DIY enthusiasts who once whiled away their time on Heathkits, those all-inclusive boxes of parts that could be turned into TV receivers, amateur radios or stereo speakers.
'There's a whole subculture coming up. They're very into all of the different devices. They rewire and rebuild and use different materials for drawing up the juice. It's unbelievable what they've turned it into,' he said.
Denholtz and others said vaping, to many, is merely a less harmful activity than tobacco smoking that duplicates the most pleasurable aspects and offers a communal feel like hookah use and cigar bars.
Xavier Armand, 25, has been vaping for a little more than three years and owns an advertising and marketing firm that is helping Henley put together a 'liquid of the month club,' along the lines of mail-order fruit of the month.
'I always kind of knew smoking was bad for me. My mom was a smoker, but I was never going to look into the patch or the gum or anything,' Armand said. 'At the end of the day, the best part about smoking is the smoke part. And that oral fixation is kind of a big thing as well. I consider my agency the 2014 version of 'Mad Men.' We all sit around there and instead of smoking cigarettes everyone is smoking e-cigs.'
Much as movie stars made tobacco smoking seem glamorous in the 1930s and '40s, celebrities have helped fuel interest in vaping.
At the Golden Globes, Leonardo DiCaprio was shown vaping away in the audience. The actor told The Associated Press recently he vapes to 'relieve the stress of life.'
Other celebrities have signed on as paid e-cig endorsers, including co-host of 'The View,' Jenny McCarthy, and actor Stephen Dorff, both of whom push Blu, a big player in e-cigs that was recently bought by Big Tobacco's Lorillard.
Dorff, who took up smoking 20 years ago, stuck to Blu's talking points in a recent interview. He described how vaping offers him the freedom to smoke where regular cigarettes are frowned upon.
But wouldn't his loved ones like to see him quit nicotine for good?
'Ah, probably yeah,' laughed Dorff, 'but there's a lot of bad things in the world, you know. The one thing that I've always enjoyed is smoking. I consider myself a smoker.'