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(CNN) -- Public executions, death by starvation and torture are common in North Korean political prisoner camps, according to testimony given to human rights group Amnesty International.
Fifteen former inmates and prison guards told Amnesty about their daily experiences in the camps, describing the lack of food, hard labor and cramped conditions.
The camps -- which hold an estimated 200,000 people according to Amnesty -- also appear to be growing in size according to new satellite images obtained by the group.
A satellite image taken of a camp in April was analyzed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) against a satellite image taken in 2001, says Amnesty.
Analysis shows an expansion of the number of buildings in the camp, according to the report.
Amnesty says the facilities occupy vast wilderness sites in the provinces of South Pyongan, South Hamkyung and North Hamkyung and house prisoners accused of criticizing the leadership, those believed to be part of anti-government groups and even those caught listening to South Korean broadcasts.
"North Korea can no longer deny the undeniable. For decades the authorities have refused to admit to the existence of mass political prison camps," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International Asia Pacific Director.
"As North Korea seems to be moving towards a new leader in Kim Jong-un and a period of political instability, the big worry is that the prison camps appear to be growing in size."
The report says tens of thousands are believed to be held at one camp simply because one of their relatives has been sent to a camp.
According to testimony, every former inmate at one camp had witnessed a public execution, one child was held for eight months in a cube-like cell so small he couldn't move his body and an estimated 40% of inmates die from malnutrition.
Tortures included placing a plastic bag over the head of a victim and submerging them in water, sleep deprivation, bamboo slivers under the fingernails, and suspending prisoners whose feet and hands have been bound behind them, witnesses said.
One former inmate told Amnesty how he and his father were forced to witness the public execution of his mother and brother, while a former prison guard detailed how inmates would eat snakes, rats and pig feed. One former inmate told how she had picked, cleaned and eaten corn kernels from cow dung.
Other testimony outlined how children at the camps were given minimal education and were often forced into heavy labor, sometimes working until they collapsed.
"If you fell sick, there were no meals because you did not produce any output," the report quoted one witness as saying.
Aidan Foster-Carter, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England, said: "It is difficult to get hard data (on North Korea) for obvious reasons, and it could be that the numbers of people in the camps are growing. What may be happening is that as part of the changing political situation the government has conducted a purge of people opposed to the succession (of leader Kim Jong ll by his son Kim Jong-un).
"Entire families have ended up in these concentration camps for political offences. A young boy ended up in one of these camps because his grandfather had expressed political dissent. They are endemic, they are part of the system."
The North Korean government -- which has denied the existence of mass political prison camps -- has not publicly commented on the report's findings.
In its most recent human rights report on North Korea, the U.S. State Department describes the country's human rights record as "deplorable."
The report cites testimony from NGOs and refugees that claimed camps covered areas as large as 200 square miles and contained mass graves, barracks, worksites and other prison facilities.
"An NGO reported that one reeducation center was so crowded that prisoners were forced to sleep on top of each other or sitting up," the report, updated in March, 2010, said. "The same NGO reported that guards at a labor camp stole food brought for inmates by their family members."
Journalists Peter Shadbolt and Thair Shaikh contributed to this story.


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Tiffany Rose Goodyear was 24 when she started getting Botox injections. She wanted to smooth the forehead wrinkles that she blamed on the habit of frequently raising her eyebrows.
The forehead lines did not make her look old, Goodyear said, and after the treatment few people besides herself noticed a difference. But at 29 she says she still uses injections, seeking to erase her existing lines and prevent future wrinkling.
"If I start at a younger age, when I'm older I'll continue to have that youthful appearance that our society so values," said Goodyear, who lives in Denver and owns a cupcake company. Getting wrinkle treatments now will spare her from more-drastic measures such as plastic surgery later, she reasoned.
Over the last few years, there's been a tremendous increase in the number of 20-something patients using as a way to ward off future wrinkles, experts say. Many don't even have lines when they plop themselves into a chair to get injections.
There is no definitive evidence that Botox can prevent wrinkles from forming, and many plastic surgeons say using Botox before lines show up doesn't make sense.
A patient who starts in their 20s may receive decades of injections before they are actually needed, said Arthur Perry, a plastic surgeon who is the author of "Straight Talk About Cosmetic Surgery" (Yale University Press, 2007).
"The concept of trying to prevent future wrinkles is nutty," said Perry, who has a private practice in central New Jersey. "You don't want to use a drug unless you need the drug, and Botox is a drug."
Can Botox stop wrinkles before they start?
Doctors have observed the trend of using Botox and a similar product, Dysport, for wrinkle prevention, and data show that injection use by the young is on the rise. In 2010, close to 78,500 people in their 20s received Botox in the United States, up 11 percent from the previous year, according to the American Society for Plastic Surgeons.
, a protein produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. The drug is thought to work by blocking nerve signals to the muscles, thus relaxing them.
It's possible that Botox could prevent future wrinkling. Regular use of Botox seems to make the muscle-relaxing effect last longer so patients don't need to come in as often for treatments, said Brian Glatt, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Morristown, N.J. This may occur because the , after prolonged periods of not being used, Glatt said, which could mean that wrinkles wouldn't form as readily on a young person who's had treatments for years.
In addition, if Botox is used regularly, the wrinkles that return when the drug wears off may not be as severe, Glatt said.
But even if injections were proven to prevent future wrinkles, they should not be used for that purpose, Perry said. "It makes no sense whatsoever to do that," he said.
"If you don't have wrinkles, why do you need to treat it?" said Steven Pearlman, a plastic surgeon in New York City.
Although wrinkles appear on some people in their mid-20s, Perry said, they most commonly show up in the 40s or 50s.
A person who starts injections for wrinkle prevention in his 20s can spend about $30,000 on Botox treatments before real wrinkles show up in his 40s, Perry noted.
Furthermore, the products at any age. Botox can cause problems swallowing, speaking or breathing, plus symptoms of botulism, including muscle weakness, according to the company website.
The trend may result from a changing view of aging in our society. "We look at aging and any sign of aging as a disease," said Debbie Then, a California-based psychologist who specializes in women and appearance. "And therefore, people want to try to prevent that earlier and earlier and earlier."
"People don't even want to be over 30 these days, and nobody wants to look 30," she said.
While youthful looks have perhaps always been prized, the these days may be even greater, Then said.
With the rise of social media, the first thing someone might learn about you is what you look like in a photo, Then said. A young woman might be mortified when she sees someone else's looks ridiculed by social media commenters, and not want the same thing to happen to her.
And if your friends start doing Botox, there's more pressure on you to do Botox. "If you get one little line, you might look less attractive in comparison," Then said.
Pearlman said that if you want Botox, you should wait until lines show up. And the wrinkles must be there when your face is at rest, not contorted through smiling or grimacing, he added.
"If you look at a 4-year-old when they smile, they're going to have lines next to their eyes" or on their forehead, Pearlman said. "Unless someone has lines at rest, they're not a candidate for Botox."
Until then, experts encourage other preventative measures to counter wrinkle development. Young people should wear sunscreen, practice good eating habits and avoid smoking to , Pearlman said.
Perry said, "If you're going to spend money, spend it on sunscreen, not Botox."

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Over a month ago, I ordered online a MacBook Pro. I was all excited because all you ever hear is apple fans yelling how much they love their Mac, and what a great company Apple is.
Well, I've concluded that's all a load of crap. After sitting on the phone 4 separate times for a combined AT LEAST 6 hours, being forced to walk through a full reinstall not once but 3 TIMES, I was then told to bring the laptop into the store.
After bringing the laptop into a store, they forced me to sit through them doing ANOTHER REINSTALL. That made 4 reinstallations. Each previous one has failed. Why are they doing it again?
So a week passes, and I call back the store. The girl on the phone is at a complete loss as to why it hasn't been fixed yet. She says "Yeah, usually we get repair components in every day, so I don't know what's taking so long". Great. Well, it's good to know that "usually" it takes a day. That doesn't help me.
So I've paid my $2000+ well over a month ago, and I still do not have a working laptop. Even worse, I don't even have a paper weight because they still have the thing.


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C-reactive protein response in open fractures of the tibia
HO AyoI; CN McharoII
IMBChB, MMed, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, St Mary's Hospital Lacor, Uganda
IIMD, MMed, MSc, FCS, Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase protein secreted by hepatocytes during various types of tissue injury. We tried to determine whether the severity of an open fracture of the tibial diaphysis as classified according to the Gustilo-Anderson system corresponds to the degree and pattern of CRP response after trauma and infection.
METHODS: This was a prospective study done over a six-month period on 48 patients with open tibial-diaphyseal fracture. Serial blood samples for CRP testing were taken seven times over a two-week period. The fractures were graded according to the Gustilo-Anderson classification and after surgery wounds were examined regularly for signs of surgical-site infection (SSI).
RESULTS: Twenty-nine patients (60.4%) did not develop postoperative SSI and mean CRP levels peaked on different days for the different fracture grades with grade II, IIIa, and IIIb fractures all having mean peak levels of 52.2 mg/l. There was no association between the mean peak CRP levels and the fracture grades (p = 0.5). Those patients who developed postoperative SSI (19; 39.6%) still showed no clear association between mean peak levels and fracture grades (p = 0.48) and CRP levels also peaked on different days with grade IIIc fractures having the highest level at 67.7 mg/l. When fracture grading was excluded from data analysis, mean CRP levels for both groups of patients peaked on the third postoperative day with a higher value of 52.2 mg/l for patients with postoperative SSI compared with 47.7 mg/l for those without postoperative SSI, and the difference was significant (p = 0.015). CRP remained elevated up to the fourteenth postoperative day in patients with postoperative SSI while it showed a decline until it approached the pre-operative level in patients without postoperative SSI.
CONCLUSIONS: This study has shown that the severity of an open fracture of the tibial diaphysis as classified according to the Gustilo-Anderson system does not correspond to the degree and pattern of CRP response after trauma and SSI. This is demonstrated by the erratic CRP response in both infected and uninfected open fractures of the tibia when fracture grade was compared with the kinetics of CRP response. The elevated CRP level on the third postoperative day and continued persistence thereafter in patients with SSI is, however, a potential early screening tool for infection before clinical signs of infection appear on the fifth postoperative day.
The classification system for open tibial fractures most widely used in clinical practice is that of Gustilo and Anderson.1-3 Fracture grades range from I to IIIa, b, and c with progressive bone and soft-tissue injury as well as the degree of contamination and presence or absence of vascular injury requiring repair for limb survival.
Tissue injury causes the release of cytokines that stimulate the acute-phase protein synthesis by hepatocytes.4 C-reactive protein (CRP) is one such protein whose kinetics during the acute-phase response can be used to predict the natural outcome of traumatic tissue injury and operative treatment and to monitor for complications such as postoperative surgical-site infection (SSI) in orthopaedics.5-7 Studies have been done that evaluated the use of CRP in various orthopaedic operations,8,9 including the use of CRP as a marker of natural response to injury and operative treatment in fractures of the tibia,10 but none has so far evaluated the use of CRP as an indicator of the severity of long-bone injury or as an early marker of postoperative SSI in open fractures of tibial diaphysis.
The purpose of this study was therefore to determine whether the severity of open fractures of tibial diaphysis as classified according to the Gustilo and Anderson1-3 system corresponds to the degree and pattern of CRP response after trauma and SSI.
Materials and methods
This was a prospective study done on 48 patients with isolated open tibial-diaphyseal fractures who presented at the emergency department from July to December 2007. All patients were treated by means of immediate surgical debridement using the standard hospital protocol for the management of open fractures, and fracture stabilisation was done using external fixation (Dispofix, Switzerland). Tetanus immunisation was administered and intravenous gentamycin and cloxacillin were given for grade I and grade II fractures for three days with the addition of intravenous metronidazole for grades IIIa, b, and c for five days postoperatively. Criteria for exclusion from the study were the following:
multiple injuries, including bilateral open tibial fractures
injuries sustained more than six hours before time of presentation
intra-articular fractures involving knee and ankle joints
patients with rheumatoid arthritis
patients with tuberculous arthritis
patients younger than 18 years
All the fractures were graded during surgery using the Gustilo-Anderson classification system. To ensure interobserver agreement, a second opinion from a consultant orthopaedic surgeon on duty was always sought at the time of fracture grading in theatre.
Blood samples were taken immediately upon arrival at the emergency department (day 0) and on postoperative days 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 and 14.
One ml of blood was drawn into a plain vacutainer tube without anticoagulant (BD Vacutainer Systems, UK), allowed to settle for 20 minutes and the supernatant extracted and centrifuged (Beckman's TJ-6 centrifuge, USA) at 3 000 rpm for 5 minutes. The serum was extracted and stored frozen at -18ºC until CRP was tested.
The frozen sera were thawed at room temperature and 3 µl of each sample was mixed with 110 µl of the CRP reagent that contained latex particles coated with anti-human CRP antibody (BioSystems SA, Spain). CRP concentration in mg/l was determined using the Cobas Mira CRP machine (Roche, Switzerland) based on the turbidimetry principle.
Assessment of wounds during the postoperative period for SSI was done using the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) criteria.11 Infection was confirmed using symptoms and signs of infection, usually on the fifth postoperative day. No gram staining was done and culture and sensitivity were not part of the diagnostic criteria. Patients were discharged on the fifth postoperative day and followed up in the out-patient clinic for two weeks, during which time blood samples were taken for CRP-level determination, and wounds examined for signs of persistent infection.
Written informed consent was obtained from all patients and ethical clearance received from the Research Ethics Committee.
Statistical methods
Variables were defined as means with 95% confidence intervals and statistical significance was accepted for p<0.05. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to test for significance between outcome groups (infected versus noninfected) and the t-test for significance within the groups.
Initially, 62 patients consented to participate in the study, but 14 (22.6%) were lost to follow-up at various times before the two-week follow-up period and so results were analysed for 48. There were 45 (93.8%) males and three (6.2%) females. Most injuries (n=37) were caused by motor vehicle accidents (MVA) where those involved as passengers accounted for 41.7% and 35.4% as pedestrians (Table I).
The mean age was 34.5 years, range 19-61 years, and modal age group was 38-43 years (n=13) as is shown in Figure 1.
The mean duration from time of injury to first blood sampling (day 0) was 4.15 hours with a range of 0.5-6.0 hours and mode of 4.5 hours (Figure 2). Mean levels of CRP at the various times of first blood sampling (day 0) did not show any marked variations (p=0.671) as is shown in Figure 3. All the patients could only estimate injury time to the nearest half hour.
Two patients (4.2%) had a Gustilo and Anderson grade I fracture and neither developed postoperative wound infection, while seven (14.6%) had a grade II fracture and none of them developed wound infection. The majority of patients (23; 47.9%), had a grade IIIa fracture and seven (14.6%) got wound infection. Fourteen patients (29.1%) had a grade IIIb fracture of whom ten (20.8%) developed wound infection. Both patients with a grade IIIc fracture (4.2%) got wound infection (Table II). All infections were superficial and became clinically detectable from the fifth postoperative day.
Mean CRP levels in all fracture grades in patients without postoperative SSI showed a steady rise from day 0, peaking between the first and third postoperative days, and gradually declining until day 14, when they approached the pre-operative level (Figure 4). Mean peak CRP levels did not show any association with the fracture grades (p=0.5) despite peaking on different days.
Mean levels of CRP rose steadily in patients who eventually developed postoperative SSI with grade IIIa and b fractures peaking on the third and second postoperative days respectively, and grade IIIc fractures on the fifth postoperative day; then all declined slightly but remained elevated about seven-fold above the baseline pre-operative level by the fourteenth postoperative day. Grade IIIb fractures showed the lowest mean peak level but when compared with grade IIIc fractures, the difference was not significant (p=0.241). The pattern of a slight decline in mean levels (grade IIIb) followed by persistence did, however, remain essentially the same thereafter when compared with grade IIIa and c fractures (Figure 5). There was also no association between mean peak CRP levels and fracture grade (p=0.48). The kinetics of CRP on subsequent postoperative days for the different fracture grades in both groups of patients with and without postoperative SSI was not reflected in the severity of the open tibial fracture as graded by the Gustilo-Anderson fracture classification (Figures 4 and 5).
When fracture grading was, however, excluded from the data analysis (Figure 6), the mean peak CRP levels of 47.7 mg/l for patients without postoperative SSI and 52.2 mg/l for patients with postoperative SSI were both observed on the third postoperative day, and the difference between them was significant (p=0.015). There was a steep decline in mean CRP levels in patients without postoperative SSI between the fifth and tenth postoperative days, followed by a slower decline up to the fourteenth day when it approached the post-injury pre-operative mean level on admission (3.6 mg/l). CRP remained elevated up to the fourteenth postoperative day in all the patients with postoperative SSI (39.4 mg/l).
The results of this study show that the Gustilo-Anderson classification system does not correspond to the extent of both bone and soft-tissue injury due to trauma and infection as shown by the erratic CRP response in both infected and uninfected isolated open fractures of the tibial diaphysis. When the individual fracture grades were taken into account, there was no gradation in mean peak levels where one would expect a lower fracture grade to have a lower mean CRP level and a higher fracture grade, a higher level. Mean peak CRP levels for uninfected grade II, IIIa and IIIb fractures varied only slightly despite peaking on different days (Figure 4), and for the infected fractures (Figure 5) there was a wider range between grade IIIa and grade IIIb but the former was paradoxically higher than the latter.
The significance of these findings is that clinical grading of open fractures with the aim of predicting severity of injury and treatment outcome should also include a measure of the body's acute-phase response. It also demonstrated that all patients who developed postoperative SSI had a consistent rise in mean CRP levels that peaked on the third postoperative day when the Gustilo-Anderson fracture classification was excluded from the data analysis and remained persistently elevated; a fact that can be used as an important screening tool in the detection of early postoperative SSI in open fractures of the tibial diaphysis before the appearance of clinical signs of infection on the fifth day. Serial CRP level measurements can further be used as a follow-up tool after institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy after SSI.
In the literature, CRP is shown to be widely recognised as an early indicator of postoperative infection.12 It is, however, important to know the natural course of CRP in traumatic tissue injury and uncomplicated surgery to be able to appreciate any deviation from normal in the event of an infection. This study demonstrated a natural CRP response (in the absence of infection) similar to other studies,10,13 with the exception that here it showed that in the Gustilo-Anderson classification for open fractures of the tibia, the severity of injury (fracture grade) does not correspond with a concomitant higher CRP response. This is probably so because this classification system does not accurately reflect the severity of tissue injury due to its subjective nature during fracture grading14 and its reliance on mainly immeasurable attributes (with the exception of wound size) during physical examination in the operating room.15 Besides the unreliability of the Gustilo-Anderson classification in predicting the severity of tissue injury, deviations could also be due to unrecognised, closed soft-tissue injury sustained elsewhere during the traumatic event that led to the open fracture of the tibia. The unrecognised injury would contribute to the release of an excess of the acute-phase response-stimulating cytokines IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-α16 over and above those released as a result of the open tibial injury, thus accounting for the unusual CRP pattern for lowergrade fractures in comparison with higher fracture grades. Kallio et al10 found that the natural CRP response in the absence of infection was independent of the site or type of tibial fracture but depended on the method of treatment. Mean peak levels were observed on the second postoperative day, contrasting with our study, which showed mean peak levels on the third postoperative day. These researchers did not use any open-fracture classification system in their study.
There are regional variations in the natural CRP response with regard to the type of bone involved and the type of surgery performed17 but no particular grading or scoring system for long-bone injuries seems to correlate with the kinetics of CRP response. One study did, however, show a positive correlation between Injury Severity Score (ISS) in war casualties with changes in the concentration of CRP over a 14-day period.18
This result is plausible because the parameters used to determine the ISS are easily measurable and not as subjective as those used in determining the fracture grade according to the Gustilo-Anderson classification. Serial CRP measurements are employed in the diagnosis of early postoperative wound infection where peak levels are observed on the second or third postoperative day and subsequent persistence would be highly indicative of an early infection,19 a finding that is consistent with our study.
Gustilo et al showed that higher fracture grades (severe injuries), are associated with higher rates of wound infection.2,3 Higher fracture grades would mean a greater extent of tissue injury and a higher CRP response in patients with postoperative SSI. When fracture grade was taken into account during data analysis, the results of this study did, however, show a much more erratic CRP response in the group of patients with postoperative SSI in comparison to those without SSI. Grade IIIb fractures showed a lower peak compared to grade IIIa and IIIc fractures. This could have also been due to varied host responses to the acute-phase stimulus during injury and infection,20 a factor that this study was unable to determine.
This study had limitations in that in both groups of patients (those with and without postoperative SSI), the number of patients in each fracture-grade group was not equally represented and so generalisation of the results may not reflect the true extent of the CRP response. Though there was no significant difference in time duration at first blood sampling and time of injury, the problem of memory recall of time of injury could have also played a part as the injury times given were all estimations to the nearest 30 minutes. Finally, there were very few women (n=3) in the sample, giving rise to the results of this study being male-gender biased.
In conclusion, this study has shown that the severity of open fracture of the tibial diaphysis as classified according to the Gustilo-Anderson system does not correspond to the degree and pattern of CRP response after trauma and SSI. This is demonstrated by the erratic CRP response in both infected and uninfected open fractures of the tibia when fracture grade was compared with the kinetics of CRP response. However the elevated CRP levels on the third postoperative day in patients with SSI can be used an early screening tool for infection. A new but simple classification that incorporates a measure of host response to trauma and infection is recommended. This will, however, require a larger series of patients that will also include open fractures of other long bones other than the tibia only.
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Written informed consent was obtained from all patients and ethical clearance received from the Research Ethics Committee.


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Occupation: Host, American Public Media's Marketplace
Age: 45
Residence: Los Angeles
How much do you run?
I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning. I get up at 4:30 and I'm out the door at 4:45. Once I get home from work, it's all, "Daddy, can we throw the ball?" and all that stuff. The only time I can get out the door is 4:45.
What kind of pace do you keep up?
Not as fast as I'd like—about 8:30, 8:45 a mile.
Have you been a lifelong runner?
Since college, really.
Do you enter races?
I've done a bunch of different 10Ks, I tried to get to a marathon once but I got the flu right before the marathon. So it didn't work out. I was so upset too, because I was up to like 18 miles.
How old are your kids?
10, 7, 4, and 1.
What time is your workday over?
About 4, 4:30. But we start pretty early. We're here by 7. About 4:30 I'm back to the dad thing. Before I got onto Marketplace, I spent four years working on our overnight program. We have a morning show. So I used to get up at midnight and go to work. I was on the air from 2 in the morning until 6 in the morning. And I would leave here and go for a run then and that was always the best part of the day.
What does running do for you?
It does two things. One is, it gets me my Kai time. It lets me have a little bit of time in the morning to sort of get organized. And it really starts my day and gets my energy level up. The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working—I miss them if I don't have them.
You're not tempted to do more than five miles or three days a week?
I am, but I run out of time, you know? By the time I'm done with five miles, it's 5:30 in the morning, I need to get in and have a cup of coffee and read the papers and get in the shower and go to work. On the weekends, it gets hairier with kids' soccer games, all that stuff. It's funny, I had my medial meniscus fixed two and a half years ago and ever since then I've been leery about doing too much.
On the days you're not running, do you sleep in until 5:30?
Until 5. Then I get up and read the paper. I'm a morning guy. It's funny, 4:30 sounds painful, but for me it's really not.
Is it safe running at that hour?
For my birthday a couple years ago my wife bought me one of those little lamps that you can strap onto your head, one of those halogen lamps. Which is really nice to have, because before I was like, oh man, is that a pothole? Is that a crack in the road? And now I have this light so it works out really well.
Do you think about work while you're running?
Sometimes. Although, it's funny, my best runs are the runs are where I'm just going and my mind goes blank for awhile and I snap back to reality a mile and half later. I'm like, "Oh, yeah, I'm running, this is great" and I don't know what I've been thinking about, which is nice.
What you do think about is sort of the day ahead, right?
I remember the day that the House finally passed the bailout package, we had an interview lined up with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House. I'm out there chugging along at 4:30 in the morning, thinking obviously what you're going to say, because you don't get a whole lot of time on the phone with the Speaker of the House. You really want to line up your questions. And the thing that stuck in my mind while I was running that day was, the House had rejected it the week before and sent the markets down 750 points. So I really wanted to ask her, "Did you bring it to the floor too soon?" And I did. And the question made it into the interview. She said, "Well, we thought we had the votes." And I said, "Um, no, you really didn't because it failed." And she was pretty straightforward. So that was one of the instances where you clear your mind but it doesn't go blank, you know what I mean? I think that's a better description of what happened. She said, "Well, we had the votes." I interrupted, which you rarely do in an interview, especially when it's the Speaker of the House. "But you really didn't, because it failed." We went on from there. So how has it been lately?
Yeah, that's actually interesting. So what's been happening lately, you can see how the real world is impinging on my recreational time. I get up in the morning and usually what I do is stretch on the living room rug, and then I go running. But now I'm opening up my computer and while I'm stretching I'm reading the headlines, just so I can sort of have some sense of the financial news of the day.
When it's bad economic times, do you feel it? Do you take it to heart?
You know, it's funny, I think what it is, I'm so involved in it, I can't really think about it that way. First of all, my wife handles all our money. I'm happy to let her do that. It's easier for me if I don't get all subjective about it. And if I just try to be in the news.
Any other intersection between business and running? We heard another correspondent ask you on the air if you're a runner.
Scott and I were chatting about the credit squeeze and manufacturing problems are hitting China and he was down in south China where so many running shoes are made. And we got onto a conversation about that.
But Americans aren't going to give up running in tough economic times?
Anything you hate about running?
The worst part obviously is when that alarm goes off at 4:30 in the morning. If you gave me a nickel, I would scrub the whole thing, I'd say, "Fine, I won't go." But once my feet hit the ground, I think I'm pretty much OK. I think that's the rule, once I'm out of bed I'm fine. I can literally count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in the last four or five years that I've turned off my alarm and said I can't do it today. Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
Do you lay out your clothes the night before?
I sort of have to, otherwise I'm poking around in the closet and I'm waking everyone up. The clothes go out in the living room. And I get dressed quietly out there, and I stretch and I kind of tiptoe out the door. And I have the baby monitor on while I'm stretching, so if the baby wakes up, I go in and grab her.
Are your kids into it at all?
No. They're hyperactive little kids, playing soccer and baseball and all. I took my 10-year-old running with me once. We went a mile and a half and he was not enjoying it at all.
Do you have a baby jogger?
No, actually. My wife runs as well. We were out of running for a couple years after our second child and I think the baby jogger got lost in a move. I should probably get a new one. Here's the other thing, I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
So you don't run with the dog either?
No. My wife always says, "Oh, you ought to take the dog. I do, it's great." I'm like, "No, I can't do it. I don't want to trip on the leash, I don't want to do any of that."
Do you have a preferred brand of shoes?
I wear Nikes. I never thought that running shoes made that much of difference until four or five years ago when on a lark I tried something else. It didn't work out for me at all?
How did you tear your meniscus?
Back when I was doing the overnights. I was up to 8 or 10 miles a day, five days a week. It was just use, because I was running in downtown Los Angeles on city streets, running on pavement. My orthopedist said, "you've got to find some trails or something."
Do you do trails now?
I try once a week to go on trails up in the Angeles forest near my house. I've got that little light now. The rattlesnakes aren't out until the sun comes up. Coyotes get scared and kind of run away. I see coyotes every day. Even down on the streets where I live.
And that doesn't freak you out?
First time it did. First time it absolutely freaked me out and I wasn't sure what to do. But it turns out they're really skittish and if you pretty much just keep on running and wave your arms a little bit, they'll trot away. First time it absolutely freaked me out.
You were in the Navy? Did you have to do a lot of running.
Oh yeah. In fact, I first started running right before I went to boot camp. I figured I really needed to get in good shape. So I started running junior year in college.
There was a lot of running in the Navy?
Yeah, there was. I was on an aircraft carrier for three years. I did four years of undergrad at Emory, then went to Officer Candidates School right after graduation, then flight school. While we were at sea, you either did exercise bikes, or treadmills, or ran around the flight deck.
I've heard those flight decks are a rough surface.
They are rough. Imagine the roughest sandpaper you can imagine, multiply that by 1,000. There is no give at all. It's steel. I really hate treadmills. I will if I'm traveling and it's the only place I can run, on a hotel treadmill. But I really don't like to. I was in Dubai for Marketplace for two and a half weeks. First couple days I was intimidated by the weather and the desert-ness of it all. And so I ran inside on the treadmill. One day, it was late afternoon and it must have been 100 degrees and I was like, Screw it, I just have to get outside. So I went and it was completely doable. So I ran outside for the last 10, 12 days I was there.
If Henry Paulson and Ben Bernake were runners, would we be in a better spot?
I don't know. One would hope so. But you look at Paulson and he has lost a lot of weight, so you gotta figure he's doing something. Maybe he's just not eating right.
If Kai the runner was a stock, what kind of stock would you be?
As a runner I'm definitely a growth stock, man. I'm not high-flying, I'm not Internet, I'm not dot-com. I'm slow and steady wins the race. Stick with me and I'll eventually get to five or eight miles, but I'm never going to be doing marathons every week or something.
Do you ever run with a iPod?
I don't. I'm a big unencumbered runner. I don't take jogging strollers, I don't take the dog, I don't take an iPod. It's just me and my brain. If the world can't get by without me for 45 minutes, then, you know. I stick an old dogtag in my shoe, so if I get hit by a bus, somebody knows who I am.
But I hear podcasts of Marketplace are becoming incredibly popular, because people want to do it on their terms. One of those times is working out in the gym or running. Frankly, as long as they're listening, we're happy. I don't know that I would necessarily run to a business and economics program, but that's neither here nor there.
Have you ever run on Wall Street?
I have never run on Wall Street. When we did the broadcasts from Shanghai, I went running on the Bund in Shanghai. If you've ever been to Shanghai, it's this amazing riverfront area of old colonial era buildings, which is incredible, and it's right near the financial center of Shanghai. When we were in Dubai, running anyplace in Dubai is running in 120 degree weather, so that was an experience. Sand is everywhere. It is everywhere. The city is in the desert. It is everywhere.
Ryssdal, a father of four children (ages 1 to 10), has hosted "Marketplace" since 2005. The program airs on 353 NPR stations.
Sarah Lorge Butler is a writer and editor living in Eugene, Oregon, and her stories about the sport, its trends, and fascinating individuals have appeared in Runner's World since 2005. She is the author of two popular fitness books, Run Your Butt Off! and Walk Your Butt Off!


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US goalkeeper Tim Howard deals with age, injury
Tim Howard always stayed optimistic he'd be healthy for US
JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. — As his U.S. teammates trained under cloudy skies on a brisk Bay Area morning, Tim Howard sat on the sidelines and stretched out his shoulders. He balanced on his left leg and warmed up his hips.
This is the new normal for Howard, fresh off his 38th birthday and a November surgery on his right thigh to repair the adductor muscle.
"I'm old," chuckled Howard, the Americans' top goalkeeper the past two World Cups. "That's every day for me now, between now and the next three years that's what every day looks like. It's a process, but hopefully it'll pay off."
Howard is expected to start for coach Bruce Arena in Friday's World Cup qualifier against Honduras at Avaya Stadium, home of the MLS San Jose Earthquakes, before the Americans play at Panama four days later.
"It's good to have him back," said defender DaMarcus Beasley. "He's been a big part of this team for a long time now. Big games, World Cups, qualifiers. To have him back with the team and the group is a big plus for us and for everybody to see him back, especially after the injury he had at the end of last season."
Brad Guzan, who was in net for two losses in World Cup qualifying last November, was replaced last week and he and his wife welcomed a baby girl Sunday night — "9 pounds, I'm told, and 22 inches long," Arena announced, though he didn't know the baby's name except that she arrived a little early.
"In these situations, I think family comes first, despite what we'd all like to think otherwise around the sporting side," Arena said. "He needs to be with his family this week, so the decision for him to stay makes sense."
Howard is confident kicking with his right foot again but he notes, "Thankfully I have half a decent left foot" when he needs to use it.
The U.S. is 0-2 in the final round of World Cup qualifying for the first time, and Arena returned to coach the team 10 years after his firing when he was hired in November to replace Jurgen Klinsmann. That month, the Americans lost to Mexico 2-1 at home and 4-0 at Costa Rica.
Arena will be cautious with Howard as well as Clint Dempsey, who is back playing after dealing with an irregular heartbeat.
Leading into his first MLS season with Colorado, Howard had hoped his body would allow him to return to the Americans' roster for qualifying, but didn't want to put anything in stone without knowing for sure he would be healthy. Now, he never expects to be fully 100 percent.
"I kind of felt that I'd be ready but I didn't want to get ahead of myself. It was a long rehab," he said. "A lot could happen between whenever that was, January, and now. We have setbacks all the time. I was on the right path, I was always going to be March 11 or there about, but I didn't want to put a timeframe on it and have a setback, so for me it was just personal. I'm 38, I don't think I'll ever be 100 percent again. But I've played through everything in my career, so it's not an issue for me."
While Howard said the "unknown" concerned him in regards to his comeback and trying to simulate game action, he considers himself fortunate his timing and instincts are still intact at this stage of his career.
"I'm thankful that my reflexes and my reactions haven't slowed," he said. "So that's been a good thing. I probably take less risks and I think that's helpful."


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Sophie Brunner Pac-12 freshman of the week for Arizona State
Sophie Brunner continues to make a case for herself as the greatest girls basketball player to ever come out of this area, challenging former Freeport center Jenny Crouse and Belvidere guard Amanda Levens (now an assistant coach at Arizona State, who helped recruit Brunner).
Brunner led Aqun to back-to-back Class 1A state titles the last two years. Now the 6-foot-1 forward has been named Pac-12 freshman of the week .
Brunner averaged 9.0 points and 6.3 rebounds and shot 82 percent from the field in Arizona State's three wins in the Cancun Classic.
In the last two games of the tournament, Brunner averaged 11.5 points and nine rebounds and shot 7-for-9 from the floor and 9-fior-12 on free throws in wins over No. 11-ranked North Carolina and Arkansas State. Arizona State beat Illinois in its first game in the tournament.
And Brunner did this coming off a sprained ankle she suffered against Texas Tech the middle of last month.
Brunner now leads Arizona State in field goal percentage (65.4 percent) and is third in rebounds (5.3).
Levens also played at Arizona State, where she was a two-time All-Pac-10 guard. Crouse played for the University of North Dakota (my alma mater) and led UND to three consecutive Division II national titles (the only three the Sioux have ever won) and was twice named Division II player of the year. Crouse and Levens were both named to the Rockford Register Star's 5-person All-Century girls basketball team. Crouse has also been named to the UND Hall of Fame and to the NCAA Division II's 25th-year Anniversary Team.


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Suicide rates among middle-age U.S. adults are on the rise, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Over the last decade, the rate of suicide among adults ages 35 to 64 increased 28 percent, from 13.7 suicides per 100,000 people in 1999, to 17.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2010.
The greatest increases in suicide rates were among people ages 55 to 59 (a 49 percent increase) and ages 50 to 54 (a 48 percent increase).
While suicide prevention efforts have traditionally targeted the young and the old, the new findings suggest that it's important for prevention strategies "to address the types of stressors that middle-aged Americans might be facing," Linda Degutis, director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said in a statement.
Overall, firearms were the most common way people committed suicide (8.3 suicides per 100,000 people), followed by hanging/suffocation (4.1 suicides per 100,000 people), and poisoning (3.8 suicides per 100,000 people). During the study period, the rate of suicide from hanging/ suffocation increased 81 percent.
The reason for the rise in suicide rates is not known. Previous research has suggested that the recent economic downturn, as well as a rise in access to prescription painkillers may be contributing factors, the report said.
"Suicide is a tragedy that is far too common," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a statement. "This report highlights the need to expand our knowledge of risk factors so we can build on prevention programs that prevent suicide."
Suicide prevention strategies include enhancing social support and access to mental health services, and reducing the stigma associated with seeking such care, the report said. Strategies that help people overcome job loss, partner violence and the stress of caring for loved ones are also critical, the report said.
Since 2009, suicide deaths have been more common than deaths from car accidents. In 2010, there were 33,687 deaths from motor vehicle crashes and 38,364 suicides, the CDC said.
Pass it on: Suicide rates among adults ages 35 to 64 are on the rise.
This story was provided by MyHealthNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow Rachael Rettner @RachaelRettner. Follow MyHealthNewsDaily @MyHealth_MHND, Facebook & Google+. Originally published on MyHealthNewsDaily.


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Jay-Z wears a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Satanic slogan 'Do What Though Wilt' It's no secret Jay-Z is a longtime follower of the English occultist founder of the Satanic religion Thelema, Aleister Crowley. The religion is based on the idea that the beginning of the Aeon of Horus was marked by the start of the 20th century, in which a new ethical code would be adhered to: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." This statement indicates that followers, known as Thelemites, should seek out their true path in life, and follow their "True Will." Jay-Z's Satanic preaching is just the latest in a long line of public glimpses into the dark side that the rapper has shared. He recreated his image as a dark lord, after starting his career as an aspirational rapper, flashing Illuminati hand gestures and promoting Satanic symbolism as he rose to the top of the music industry. Jay-Z has since attempted to tone down his dark image since establishing himself in the global consciousness as a Devil-worshipping entertainer. However, this latest disturbing rant in New Orleans suggests he has openly embraced the darkest forces in our society, far deeper than ever before. The incident has also sparked fears around the world that the Illuminati has moved onto the next phase of the master plan, and has begun openly promoting sinister spirituality as a viable religious choice for those seeking guidance. Perhaps those most influenced by Jay-Z's Satanic promotions are his legions of disenfranchised youths, who aspire to one day lead a lifestyle like their hero.
Original Article: http://www.nnettle.com/news/3160-jay-z-satan-is-our-true-lord-only-idiots-believe-in-jesus-


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PDX Pop Now: Photos and Album
Since its inaugural release in 2004 brought the likes of the Thermals and the Decemberists into the limelight, PDX Pop Now 's annual compilation album has consistently served as a scrupulously curated resource for new Portland music—a compass that, if used correctly, can point you toward an iPod's worth of new tunes and guide your next year of live show-going.
But at 41 songs, the two-disc set is a 2 1/2-hour undertaking that can, in rare cases, induce a condition known as "multi-genre mind-melt." Call it a kill-joy or a time-saver, we've broken down the PDX Pop Now 2012 Compilation 's bands out into broad categories, so you can speculate about whom you might like. By all means, still buy the whole thing —but if you skip a track or two, we won't tell on you.
Folk Idealists: Future Historians, Brooke Parrot, Pancake Breakfast, Linnae Griffin, Typhoon
There's always room for a few creaky, worn-in voices raised in acoustically-driven, clap-along song.
Folk Cynic: M. Ward
Formerly a staunch member of the above club, M. Ward's latest single carries new undertones of dark, cynical profundity, speckled with white noise and a hint of Pink Floyd.
World Ambassadors: Dusu Mali, Y La Bamba
Music sung in other tongues than English has always been welcomed by PPN, ever since folk act Loch Lomond submitted a French number in year one. This time, Spanish and African vocals don't distract from the fact that music is a universal language.
Hardcore: White Orange, White Fang, Sons of Huns, Big Black Cloud
Party bands: Youthbitch, Palmas, The CRY!, Hollywood Tans
While the subgenres these groups conjure vary from surf-punk to new-wave, they all share the common coconut whiff of young weekenders.
Punk Rock: Archers
Pretty much holding down the pirate-flagged, paint-peeling fort for classic punk rock this season. You'll know it when you hear it: hella fast-paced four:four that sounds like it's mad at Dad.
Psychedelic Fringe: Radiation City, AU, Boyscout Discovery, Sun Angle, Charts, Grandparents
Nothing like this recent psych-rock swell to remind us that Portland is still the land of the Dandies and a favored crashpad for Brian Jonestown Massacre members.
"Chillwave": Wild Ones, Pure Bathing Culture, Tu Fawning
Seemingly the biggest genre buzzword of the season, the bands who take on this term evoke wafty 90's alt bands like The Innocence Mission and The Sundays.
Experiments at Your Expense: Pardee Shorts, Smegma, Blood Beach
This kind of music is not intended to be enjoyed by listeneers, but rather heroically withstood, like G-forces or tattooing. Those who brave the relentless crash-bash will win a Crackerjack prize.
Masterminds: The Ocean Floor, Like a Villain, Onuinu, Neal Morgan
A songcrafter's mind unfurls into a sprawling sonic labyrinth for each of these acts.
Young Emcees: Luk One & Dekk, Rose, Cloudy October
Reflecting our city's musicmaking ratios (indie bands/rap acts are probably 30 to 1), PDX Pop only shouts out a couple of rappers each annum. Referencing hipster esoterica like a pet turtle, an "emaciated frame," and Tony Hawk's skating style, these guys fit in with the indie canon just fine.
80's Infused Dance Bands: Federer, My Body, Glass Candy, Sex Life, Jeffrey Jerusalem
This seems to be a trending type. With compressed post-disco percussion and reverby vox, these acts evoke the early Mtv years, when everything cool was lit by glowing slashes of neon and adrift in wisps of dry ice. There's a sense, however silly, that somewhere Debbie Harry and Bananarama might still be sporting spandex leotards and gyrating to these jams.
Jazz Combo: Trio Subtonic
In a continuing (and fruitful) effort to keep jazz hip with young cats, PPN tends to throw in one or so a season. This time, Trio Subtonic's "in-the-pocket."
The PDX Pop Now Compilation can be purchased at CDBaby, or at record stores around Portland such as Everyday Music, Jackpot Records, Music Millenium, Tender Loving Empire, and many more!
For more about Portland arts, visit PoMo's Arts & Entertainment Calendar, stream content with an RSS feed, sign up for our weekly On The Town Newsletter, or follow us on Twitter @PoMoArt! Blog content reflects the views of the individual author and not necessarily SagaCity Media, Inc.


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Justin Bieber Got His Pet Monkey Quarantined in Germany + His Mansion Squattered By His Other Bad Lil' Friends [PHOTO]
In literal news that actually sounds like a lot of euphemisms, Justin Bieber's been sharing his pad with a bunch of pals ... and leaving his monkey in customs.
TMZ reports that Bieber has been letting his arguably bad influence and opportunist friend Lil Twist live in his Calabasas, Calif. mansion full time, as well as his friend Kevin "King Kevi" Pederson and a third anonymous comrade.
The three freeload off Bieber, quite literally: They live rent free, have their own security guard even when Bieber isn't home, and have free rein of his cars, most of which cost more than the average home -- and which they have no issues crashing.
Pederson is said to be the biggest partier of the unholy trinity, having thrown roughly 30 shindigs at the mansion since moving in about a month ago.
Sources told TMZ that the parties have varying guest lists, but that there is always an exorbitant amount of females compared to males -- and that sizzurp is usually present as well, though they've cut back on the codeine cocktails following Lil Wayne's health scare.
While his buds are partying at his place, Bieber's been on tour, and his somewhat disastrous European jaunt took yet another bizarre turn when his pet monkey was confiscated by German customs.
The Huffington Post reports that Bieber didn't have the proper documentation for the white-faced capuchin, pictured above, resulting in the critter being quarantined by German authorities when he flew in for his concerts in Munich.
And, uh, in related news, Justin Bieber has a monkey. No word on whether or not it's named "Jerry."


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I know that everything brought forth to this website is supposed to be original material, but I have stumbled upon something so great, that it needs to be shared with as many people as physically possible.
As a result, here is the virtual book tour with Toni Bernhard – regarding her AMAZING book – How To Be Sick.
I am oh so pleased to bring Toni Bernhard's virtual book tour to my blog!! Toni has been a friend to myself and this blog for a long time now, and she is just as wise as she is wonderful. I am working my way through the book right now, and even though it pains me to hear how she got sick, it comforts me to know that I am not alone in my fight with this crippling illness. By merging the beautiful teachings of Buddhism and the issues of the chronically ill and their caregivers, Toni has managed to produce a book that is going to be a great comfort to the all of those dealing with sickness (directly or indirectly). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Q: How did you get sick?
Toni: I fell ill on a trip to Paris in 2001 with what the doctors initially thought was an acute viral infection, but I never recovered. After six months, I was given the diagnosis of ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephomyalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), although since that time, several other acronyms have been used to describe my illness, such as VICD (Viral Induced Central Nervous System Dysfunction) – a working theory of an Infectious Disease doctor from Stanford.
Q: How did you come to write the book?
Toni: I was completely unprepared for such a drastic change in my life. I was a law professor. I liked to travel to see my family. I liked to go on meditation retreats. I was active in the life of a young boy as his CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate). Suddenly, I couldn't do any of those things. Despite years of Buddhist practice before I got sick, I fell into alternating states of denial, anger, self-blame, and even despair. We live in a culture that worships at the altar of wellness. It's okay to get sick, but then you're supposed to get better. Everyone expected that of me and I expected that of myself. Every night I went to bed expecting to wake up feeling like my old self even though for months and then years it had not been the case. So, in addition to my physical suffering I was suffering a lot in the mind. It took 5-6 years to find my way back to the Buddha's teachings on suffering and to the many practices that can help alleviate these painful thoughts and emotions. Once I began to change my relationship to chronic illness, I wanted to share it with others, so I wrote the book. The book is not about my particular illness. It's intended for anyone suffering from a chronic illness or condition.
Q: How has Buddhism helped you cope with chronic illness?
Toni: First, it's helped me understand my suffering. Second, it's helped me to work with the stressful thoughts and painful emotions that accompany chronic illness and chronic pain. I think of the Buddha the way the Dalai Lama does – as a great psychologist. He had a keen understanding of how the mind works. Everyone's life has its unique mixture of joy and suffering. The Buddha focused on suffering because it's a truth about life that we tend to ignore or turn away from. It comes from the Pali word, dukkha which really means dissatisfaction with the circumstances of our life. In the first noble truth, the Buddha simply stated that, despite our best efforts to avoid it, everyone has their share of dukkha – both physical and mental – meaning we're all dissatisfied in some way with our life. For one thing, we're in bodies and bodies get injured and sick and old. Dukkha for me has included this illness. For others it could be frustration on the job, tension in a relationship, a bad living situation, even frustration over not being able to find your car keys!
It may sound counterintuitive, but when I started to really take in this first noble truth, I felt a great sense of relief. Finally, someone was describing life in a way that fit a good portion of my experience. What a relief to know it wasn't just me or just my life!
So, we're all dissatisfied with some of the circumstances of our life – unless we're enlightened, of course! In fact, that's my own personal definition of enlightenment: not being dissatisfied with the circumstances of my life. Just imagine for a moment not being dissatisfied in any way with how your life is going – opening your heart and mind to the unpleasant stuff too; just giving up all longing for your life to be other than it is. Just for a moment, drop all that craving, all that desire. It's a relief, isn't it? Those "wants/don't wants" (as I like to refer to longing or craving) will almost immediately pop back into your mind, but it's a taste of freedom, a taste that lingers.
The bottom line is: We have the life we've got – with its unique configuration of joy and suffering. We can't always get rid of bodily suffering – the Buddha experienced great bodily pain at times. But we need not add mental suffering to that bodily suffering. We can do something about painful emotions, such as worry, fear, anger, resentment. We can do something about this constant craving for things to be other than they are in our lives. We can do something about stressful thoughts that, when left unquestioned, can lead us to spin elaborate stories we tell ourselves about our life and our future – stories that have little basis in reality.
Q: How does the book address this mental suffering?
Toni: That's the heart of the book – specific practices that help loosen the tight-fisted grip that painful mental states have on us. One way to do this is to bring them to awareness (sometimes called mindfulness), to expose them to the light where we can see them for what they really are – impermanent for one thing (thank goodness), and also not inherently a fixed part of our identity. We are not just our pain. We are not just our illness.
The book contains several practices, some Buddhist some not, that help us question the validity of our stressful thoughts – those stories we spin about our lives – that have little basis in fact ("I've ruined my partner's life," "My friends don't care about me."). I've been helped tremendously here by Byron Katie's technique for questioning the validity of our thoughts (there's a chapter in the book devoted to her work) and also by a couple of Zen practices that keep me questioning my assumptions. "Am I Sure?" I'm always asking (thanks to Thich Naht Hanh). Am I sure the doctor I saw doesn't care about me? Maybe he's terribly overbooked today. Am I sure my friend has lost interest in me? Maybe she has problems of her own.
And the book contains many practices to help loosen the grip of painful emotions. Since emotions manifest in the body, this can even help alleviate our physical symptoms. One way to loosen their grip is to consciously cultivate calm and gentle mind states such as loving-kindness, compassion (both of these for ourselves first), and equanimity.
Some Buddhist scholars even equate equanimity with enlightenment, saying that if we can be calmly present with both our pleasant and unpleasant experiences, riding the waves of life's ups and downs without the constant craving for things to be other than they are, we'll know complete peace. And then, as the Thai forest monk, Ajahn Chah liked to say: "Our troubles with the world will have come to an end." (On this score, I'm a work in progress!)
Q: What challenges do you specifically address in the book?
Toni: Whether chronically ill or otherwise disabled, we face so many sudden and unexpected
challenges. Here are some I talk about in the book: coping with the relentlessness of symptoms and with the disappointment of failed treatments; learning not to blame ourselves for being sick; overcoming fear about the future; coming to terms with a life of relative isolation; handling being misunderstood or ignored by family or friends; dealing with cursory or dismissive treatment from doctors or other medical people; and, for a spouse, partner, or other caregiver, adapting to so many unexpected life changes.
Q: Do you have to be a Buddhist to benefit from the book?
Toni: No. The book is non-parochial. Many people, and I'm one of them, don't consider Buddhism to be a religion in the traditional sense. It's a practical path; it's about how to live life day-to-day. The practices in the book will work for anyone, even for (as some reviewers have pointed out) people who are in good health!
If you have questions for me, just leave them on this blog. I'll check it frequently and respond.
For more about the book and about me, here's the link to my website (designed by my daughter!):
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(See Part 1 for the beginning of this discussion in progress …)
We can compare the sizes of two sets of numbers by finding a one-to-one correspondence between them, but in the case of infinitely large sets, strange things can happen. For example, compare the set of positive integers I = {1, 2, 3, 4, …} with the set of squares S = {1, 4, 9, 16, …}. Every element n in I has a corresponding n2 in S, and every n2 in S has a corresponding n in I. Here we find that a subset of the set of integers (a subset which has omitted an infinite number of integers) has the same size as the set of all integers.
Playing with the same paradox, Hilbert's Hotel imagines a hotel that can hold an infinite number of guests. Suppose you ask for a room but the hotel is full. No problem—every guest moves one room higher (room n moves to room n + 1), and room 1 is now free.
But now suppose the hotel is full, and you've brought an infinite number of friends. Again, no problem—every guest moves to the room number twice the old room number (room n moves to room 2n), and the infinitely many odd-numbered rooms become free.
Infinity is best seen as a concept, not a number. To understand this, we should realize that zero can also be seen as a concept and not a number. Consider a situation in which I have three liters of water. I give you a third so that I have two liters and you have one. I now have twice what you have. I will always have twice what you have, regardless of the number of liters of water except for zero. If I start with zero liters, I can't really give you anything, and if I "gave" you a third of my zero liters, I would no longer have twice as much as you.
Not all infinities are the same. Let's move from integers to real numbers (real numbers are all numbers that we're familiar with: the integers as well as 3.7, 1/7, π, √2, and so on).
The number of numbers between 0 and 1 is obviously the same as that between 1 and 2. But it gets interesting when we realize that there are the same number of numbers in the range 0–1 as 1–∞.
The proof is quite simple: for every number x in the range 0–1, the value 1/x is in the range 1–∞. (If x = 0.1, 1/x = 10; if x = 0.25, 1/x = 4; and so on) And now we go in the other direction: for every number y in the range 1–∞, 1/y is in the range 0–1. There's a one-to-one correspondence, so the sets must be of equal sizes. QED.
(Note that this isn't a trick or fallacy. You might have seen the proof that 1 = 2, but that "proof" only works because it contains an error. Not so in this case.)
The resolution of this paradox is fairly straightforward, but resolving the paradox isn't the point here. The point is that this isn't intuitive. Use caution when using infinity-based apologetic arguments.
Let's conclude by revisiting William Lane Craig's example from last time.
Suppose we meet a man who claims to have been counting from eternity and is now finishing: . . ., –3, –2, –1, 0. We could ask, why did he not finish counting yesterday or the day before or the year before? By then an infinite time had already elapsed, so that he should already have finished by then.… In fact, no matter how far back into the past we go, we can never find the man counting at all, for at any point we reach he will have already finished.
The problem is that he confuses counting infinitely many negative integers with counting all the negative integers. As we've seen, there are the same number of negative integers as just the number of negative squares –12, –22, –32, …. Our mysterious Counting Man could have counted an infinite number of negative integers but still have infinitely many yet to count.
For a more thorough analysis, read the critique from Prof. Wes Morriston.
And isn't the apologist who casts infinity-based arguments living in a glass house? The atheist might raise the infinite regress problem—Who created God, and who created God's creator, and who created that creator, and so on? The apologist will sidestep the problem by saying (without evidence) that God has always existed. Okay, if God can have existed forever, why not the universe? And if the forever universe succumbs to the problem that we wouldn't be able to get to now, how does the forever God avoid it?
This post is not meant as proof that all of Craig's infinity based arguments are invalid or even that any of them are. I simply want to ask apologists who aren't mathematicians to appreciate their limits and tread lightly in topics infinite.
Of course, if the apologist's goal is simply to baffle people and win points by intimidation, then this may be just the approach.
Related posts:
- Part 1 of this topic: Infinity—Nothing to Trifle With
- Word of the Day: Hoare's Dictum
Related articles:
- "Aleph number," Wikipedia.
- Wes Morriston, "Must the Past Have a Beginning?" Philo, 1999.
- William Lane Craig, "The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe," Truth Journal.


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January 19, 2011
The last post on this blog may have puzzled some readers.
It was written by a cockroach named arnold who has taken up residence in my computer keyboard at work.
Normally, for computer bugs, I just run a Norton or Symantec scan, but I have decided to coexist peacefully with arnold.
I kind of like the little guy. Being a cockroach, he forces me to look at life from a different perspective, and sometimes that can be a good thing. He takes things a little more seriously than I do, and has little patience for my usual buffoonery.
Things around O Dock have gotten more hectic lately and I've had less time for blogging than I used to. Allowing arnold to guest blog has taken some of the pressure off me. arnold and I have never actually met, face to antennae. But I have enough confidence in him that I've sent him an e-mail asking if any of his friends might also be interested in guest blogging here. I'm not sure where that might lead.
I've been writing this blog for about a year and a half, now - long enough to take stock of just what the heck it is I'm doing. When I started, I had no idea what I would blog about. It's not like I go sailing every few days and could write about that. And I'm an expert on practically nothing in the world of sailing. Any sailing subject you can think of already has six bloggers writing about it who are better informed than I am.
Nevertheless (how often do you get to start a sentence with 'nevertheless' anymore?), I seem to have found a precarious niche in the sail blogging world, judging from the response to most posts. I will still try to fill that niche if I ever figure out exactly what it is.
But I will also keep trying new things, too. And considering my unstable mental state, those new things could turn out to be downright shocking.
Consider yourself warned.
Arnold took on quite a task for a cockroach in his last post, writing about a serious and potentially delicate subject.
Maybe some people were offended by a cockroach discussing such a subject. I guess you could see that as trivializing or demeaning the memory of a man who is respected more than most of this country's political leaders, and who managed to accomplish more than most of our presidents have. For me, arnold's unique perspective helped me to see a few things I might not have realized about a great man, so I let his post stand. I'm still responsible for everything that gets posted here.
At any rate, arnold has asked me to apologize to you if he stepped on some toes.
With six legs, it's a lot easier for him to step on toes.
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I respect the insect's perspective and suspect that if you inspect your keyboard you will detect the expected specks of food about which he talks.ReplyDelete
In our modern Wonderland where everything is on it's head, a thoughtful and introspective man feels he needs to apologize for sharing wisdom while many less thoughtful, inconsiderate people are free to harangue and insult with impunity.ReplyDelete
Michael, something I worry about a lot in writing for public consumption is that one man's attempt at wisdom can be another man's nonsense, or worse, another man's call to arms.ReplyDelete
I know that I sometimes regret writing words I thought were perhaps a bit cheeky but harmless, only to discover that they can be read in a spirit I never intended.
It's easy to blame 'that butthead' who failed to appreciate my genius, but the fault is usually mine for failing to be clear enough.
This writing business can be harder than it looks.
Baydog, my keyboard has been neglected and infected (by me) and detected, inspected, and selected (by arnold).ReplyDelete
It's a regular Alice's Restaurant down there.
A good man can speak from his heart. Damn the consequences. There is precious little wisdom shared today, no matter the medium.ReplyDelete
I agree with Michael, O Docker.ReplyDelete
Don't second guess yourself.
O Dock is a wonderful pilgrimage, and we readers are delighted to travel in your company...
- Geoffrey C.1/19/11, 8:16 PM
Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,ReplyDelete
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quyk, and ful of hy sentence;
Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the kind words, Geoffrey, Michael, and Mojo, but Geoffrey, we've got to get you a better spell checker.ReplyDelete
Arnold has a good head on his shou....um.. thorax. He reminds a bit of another typing cockroach of long ago - Archy. A descendant perhaps. (Cockroaches are so prolific, I would hate to try and construct a family tree for one.) Anyway, looking forward to more insect wisdom. Please keep him well fed.ReplyDelete
- Geoffrey C.1/20/11, 4:01 AM
Can't afford to hire one. They want to charge by the word (plus benefits).ReplyDelete
Royalties dried up after the Enlightenment (Google)
Who'e Arnold? Does he know Oprah? I'm confused. My wife told me to take my medicine.ReplyDelete
The thing about blogging about any form of sailing is that you're learning all the time, being humiliated frequently, and having your ass kicked now and again. If you can make peace with ego death (again and again and again) there's tons to yak about (and that's before bringing bugs into the mix!)ReplyDelete
Buff and I are huge fans of Arnold and his works and look forward to more of his unique perspective of life, sailing and the news industry!ReplyDelete
Puffin, I think I took up blogging because there wasn't enough humiliation in the rest of my life. And it has paid off handsomely.ReplyDelete
Thanks, JP. Maybe I should take off from work more just to give arnold some keyboard time.
And Panda, arnold was indeed inspired to start typing by his great uncle, Archy. He does come from quite an extended family. There are his sisters and his cousins (whom he reckons by the dozens). His sisters and his cousins and his ants.
Maybe I need an imaginary friend as guest blogger on my blog too.ReplyDelete


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