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Obama and Clinton ads both claim all Americans would be covered by their health plans. Clinton's would come close.
In television ads, Clinton's campaign says her health care plan is the only one that will provide universal coverage, while Obama says his plan will cover all Americans, too. We find:
- Obama is being misleading when he says his proposal would "cover everyone." It would make coverage available to all, but experts we consulted estimate that 15 million to 26 million wouldn't take it up unless required to do so.
- Clinton stretches things a bit, too. Even her plan – which, unlike Obama's, includes a mandate for individuals to get insurance – would leave out a million people or perhaps more, depending on how severe the penalties would be for those who don't comply. She won't say how her mandate would be enforced, but has said that she was open to the possibility of garnishing wages.
- Update, Feb. 15: A new Obama ad in Wisconsin misrepresents the words of former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, falsely claiming he said the Obama plan produced greater savings than the Clinton plan.
- Experts also are skeptical of both candidates' claims that their plans will reduce the cost of insurance for the typical family by $2,000 or more. " I know zero credible evidence to support that conclusion," says M.I.T's Jonathan Gruber.
Behind the dueling ads there is a legitimate disagreement. Obama is reluctant to force people to buy health insurance they don't want even if the government makes it available at a subsidized price. And Clinton says that any proposal that doesn't aim to cover 100 percent of the uninsured would be "nibbled to death" by opponents.
Experts say the health care plans put forth by Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are very similar – and Obama himself has said his proposal has 95 percent in common with hers. But that other 5 percent is a source of contention.
Narrator: She fought for universal health care long before it was popular. Got health insurance for six million kids, and expanded access to health care to the National Guard. Now she's the only candidate for president with a plan to provide health care for every American. A top economist calls Hillary's plan the difference between achieving universal health coverage – and falling far short.Graphic: "…the difference between achieving universal health coverage…and falling far short." -Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 2/4/08
Narrator: If you believe health care is America's moral obligation, join her, Tuesday. Hillary Clinton.
Clinton: I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.
In recent ads and appearances, Clinton has said that her plan would provide "universal" health care coverage and Obama's would not. Obama has countered that his plan is "universal" too. The disagreement has played out in dueling television ads. A Clinton ad airing in Wisconsin and Texas says, "She's the only candidate for president with a plan to provide health care for every American." An Obama ad that has run in those same states, as well as in Ohio, features the candidate saying he has a plan to "cover everyone," with the words "universal coverage for all Americans" in a full-screen graphic.
The debate between the candidates hinges on the major difference in their proposals: Clinton's includes an individual mandate that would require everyone to obtain health insurance; Obama's plan only mandates that children have it.Which one would cover everyone? Studies and experts say an individual mandate would lead to universal or near universal coverage and a plan without such a mandate would cover substantially less of the currently uninsured.
"I hear Obama saying he's got universal coverage, he's just wrong," says John Sheils, senior vice president of The Lewin Group, a politically neutral health care research organization. "I don't know of anyone who studies this issue that would consider his plan to be universal coverage. You might call it universal access to coverage … but the distinction Clinton is drawing here is correct."Not even Clinton's mandate is certain to lead to 100 percent coverage, however. Estimates say a mandate would lead to coverage for more than 90 percent of the now-uninsured, or even close to 100 percent. But experts say some inevitably would be missed, or even evade the mandate. The most recent report on this issue, by Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says a plan with an individual mandate would cover 97 percent of the uninsured; a plan without one would cover 49 percent. But Gruber, who talked to the campaigns of Clinton, Obama and John Edwards about health care, stresses that the precise numbers are difficult to know for certain. "There is a legitimate debate about whether a plan with a mandate will get you to universal coverage," he says. "But what is beyond dispute is that a plan without a mandate will not get you universal coverage."
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Obama Ad: "Mother"
Obama: My mother died of cancer at 53 and those last painful months, she was more worried about paying her medical bills than getting well. I hear stories like hers every day. For 20 years, Washington's talked about health care reform and reformed nothing. I've got a plan to cut costs and cover everyone.Graphic: The Obama Plan
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Back in the fall, Clinton took to citing a statistic that Obama's plan would leave out 15 million of the uninsured, a number that Obama has questioned. In a Feb. 2 debate on CNN, Obama said: "I dispute that there are 15 million people out there who don't want [insurance]. I believe that there are people who can't afford it, and if we provide them enough subsidies, they will purchase it."
Frankly, we also found the number to be "dubious" last November when Clinton used it in a debate. Her campaign said at the time she based her claim on a column by The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn.However, Gruber says the 15 million figure is reasonable and perhaps even too low. He told us that he estimates roughly that Obama's plan would cover about two-thirds of the currently uninsured, which would imply that just over 15 million people would not gain coverage. Gruber's published study didn't specifically address either the Clinton or Obama plans. Rather, it examined a Clinton-like plan that included subsidies and an individual mandate – which he found would cover 45 million of the uninsured – and a plan with just the subsides but not Obama's mandate for children. Gruber found that type of proposal would cover 23 million of the uninsured. There are an estimated 47 million nonelderly Americans without health insurance.In the study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Gruber says that "
if penalties are strong … the mandate is likely to be close to universal." Clinton has not stated what the enforcement mechanism would be under her plan, and she has been evasive when responding to questions on this point. However, she recently said, after much prodding, that garnishing wages was a possibility, along with automatic enrollments or some measure through the tax system. Sheils at The Lewin Group says evaluations his organization has done, including one recently in Colorado and a national analysis for The Commonwealth Fund, have yielded similar results. He says a plan with subsidies and an individual mandate could cover 90 percent-plus of the currently uninsured, while one without the mandate could reach about 40 percent. Sheils bumps that estimate up to about 45 percent for Obama's plan when considering the candidate's mandate for covering children. (Nine million of the uninsured are kids, and a requirement that they be covered could lead to some adults picking up coverage, too.)Both of these experts give similar reasons for why a plan without a mandate would not lead to universal coverage. Affordability is not the only barrier to health care. Even when very generous subsidies are offered, people don't always take advantage of them. Sheils and Gruber immediately point to the number of people eligible, but not signed up, for Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which are free in almost all cases. Sheils estimates about 25 percent to 30 percent of those eligible for such government programs don't enroll. More concrete numbers are available for children: Among the 9 million uninsured children, 74 percent are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser cites a lack of awareness and difficulty applying for these programs as reasons parents don't enroll their kids.
Also, about 7 percent of those who have access to employer-sponsored (and subsidized) health insurance don't take it, according to Gruber's research. (It's possible some may still find the employee contribution for premiums to be too expensive.)
Obama Ad: "Debate"
Narrator: After 18 debates, with two more coming, Hillary says Barack Obama's ducking debates?
It's the same old politics of phony charges and false attacks.On health care, even Bill Clinton's own labor secretary says Obama covers more people than Hillary, and does more to cut costs, saving twenty-five hundred dollars for the typical family.
Obama's housing plan? It stems foreclosures and cracks down on crooked lenders. That's change we can believe in.
Obama: I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message.
Obama's Misleading Ad
Update, Feb. 15: This section was added after our original item was posted.The Obama campaign released a new ad Feb. 14 in Wisconsin called "Debate," quoting Bill Clinton's first secretary of labor, Robert Reich, as saying Obama's plan covers "more people" than Clinton's. We find the ad misleading and, in one respect, false.
It's true that Reich expressed the opinion on his blog back on Dec. 3 that Obama's plan covers "more people" than Clinton's. That was in an item criticizing Clinton for "stooping … low" to attack Obama for wanting to bolster Social Security's finances and for not including a mandate in his health care plan:
Reich, Dec. 3, 2007: I've compared the two plans in detail. Both of them are big advances over what we have now. But in my view Obama's would insure more people, not fewer, than HRC's. That's because Obama's puts more money up front and contains sufficient subsidies to insure everyone who's likely to need help – including all children and young adults up to 25 years old.
More recently, however, Reich has not been so emphatic. In a Jan. 13 item he found the plans of Obama and Clinton to be "the same" in almost every important respect. While on Dec. 3 he said he thought Obama's plan would cover more people because it "puts more money up front," by Jan. 13 he said that all Democratic plans "spend nearly an identical amount of money." On the question of whether Clinton or Obama's position on mandates is best, he said, "Who's correct? It's hard to know." He urged the Democratic candidates to "stop squabbling over healthcare mandates."Reich did not, however, state in any of his blog items that the Obama plan "does more to cut costs" or that it saves $2,500 for the typical family. Those are claims made by the Obama campaign, not by Reich as the ad falsely claims. And we're skeptical of the claims that both Clinton and Obama make about the lavish savings their plans would produce, for reasons we get to later in this article.
Reich is a professor of public policy and has been in a running feud with another liberal professor, Paul Krugman, a Princeton economist who writes a column for The New York Times and who has been attacking Obama and his health care plan in that space and on his own blog. Reich's most recent word on the subject, in fact, is headlined "Krugman Still Has it Wrong on Obama's and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Plans," which simply refers readers back to his Jan. 13 posting that says it's "hard to know" which is best.
We note here that both Reich and Krugman are best known for their liberal commentary and neither is a specialist in health care economics. Also, Reich states in his Jan. 13 article that "only around 3% of the population" would be left without health insurance in the absence of mandated coverage for adults. He doesn't say where he got this figure. We find that hard to reconcile with the hard fact that millions of Americans are currently eligible for cheap health insurance and still don't sign up for it. As mentioned earlier, for example, about three-quarters of the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. are eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid, and Gruber estimates that about 7 percent of adults who could get health insurance through an employer don't take advantage of it. We therefore give more weight to the estimates of Sheils and Gruber than to Reich's.
Savings and Costs
Aside from the mandate, the candidates' plans are similar. They differ in details, but both propose to lower health care spending and individual costs through increased efficiency and reduced administrative costs, and both will offer an array of insurance options, including a public plan. Both will expand or revise Medicaid and SCHIP, and both will require insurance companies to provide guaranteed coverage to all. Here's our comparison of key points:Clinton says that her plan would save $2,200 for the average family. Obama's campaign requested an analysis from three Harvard professors, who estimated an average savings of $2,500. Both intend to achieve these savings primarily through increased efficiency – electronic medical records and a focus on preventive care are paramount – and curbing incidental administrative expenditures like underwriting and prescription costs.
But economics experts aren't buying it. Sheils calls these estimates "nonsense." "Your average family's spending," he tells FactCheck, "should be around $4,500 out of pocket on their premiums and expenditures; $2,500 would be over 50 percent of that. … It's just outrageous that you could claim you'd knock 50 percent right off the top." Sheils points out that preventive care and electronic medical records, two sources of such savings, are already major projects: "All you could do is accelerate it, and you can't credit the presidential candidate for all of the savings that come from something that would've happened anyway." He acknowledges that other proposed efficiency innovations, like improved clinical effectiveness research – determining the relative usefulness of various treatments – could have an impact on costs, but warns that new guidelines would encounter resistance from doctors and require serious policy overhauls.
Gruber is also skeptical of the claimed "savings." He praised both candidates for their intentions but believes that "at the end of the day, the only way to control health care costs in America is to deny Americans health care they want. … I think the notion that we're going to save $2,000 per person in America for most things, I know zero credible evidence to support that conclusion," he says. "Basically, we just don't know. We just have no clue what it's going to do."
To be sure, not all are so skeptical. Kenneth E. Thorpe, professor of health policy at Emory University, says that both candidates' overall savings estimates are "reasonable." In addition to the savings for individual premiums, both campaigns estimate that their plans will save $110 billion to $200 billion per year in health care spending. "It sounds like a big number, but they're really not that big," Thorpe told us, pointing out that total health care spending in the U.S. is $2.2 trillion a year. Obama's and Clinton's estimates are about 5 percent to 10 percent of that.
As for the price tag: Clinton estimates that her plan will cost $110 billion per year, and Obama's Harvard analysts put the cost for his plan at $50 billion to $65 billion annually. Both candidates propose to defray these costs primarily by rolling back the tax cuts for those in the top income brackets. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that such a rollback, in conjunction with other measures like revising the estate tax, could save roughly $140 billion per year – meaning that if the cost estimates are realistic, the method of paying for them may be realistic as well. But since both plans are lacking details – for instance, neither candidate has said how big the tax credits or subsidies would be, or how many people would qualify – it's tough to gauge just how feasible the dollar projections are.
– by Lori Robertson and Jess HenigCorrection, Feb. 18: We twice say in this article that Gruber estimates 7 percent of those with access to employer-sponsored health insurance don't take it. Originally, our second reference to this statistic said the figure was 7 million, instead of 7 percent. We have corrected the error.
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David and David Cutler and Jeffrey Liebman. "Final Costs Memo," 29 May 2007.Robert Reich, "Why is HRC stooping So Low?" Robert Reich's Blog 3 Dec 2007.
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Passion fruit tea is an herbal tea infusion that is typically made with a black tea base and pieces of passionfruit or the essence of that fruit, along with other spices of berries. Scientifically known as Passiflora edulis, the passion fruit grows on a vine, and is packed with phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants. When this tea is brewed, it has a bright and floral flavor and is very popular in parts of North, South, and Central America, where this vine species can commonly be found. Depending on where you are in the world, you may be able to find passion fruit tea in pre-packaged bags, or you can simply make your own with the fruit.
Passion Fruit Tea Benefits
The most important benefits of passion fruit tea include the following:
- Boosted immunity
- Reduced inflammation
- Lowered stress hormones
- Lowered anxiety
- Improved digestion
- Skin care
- Weight loss
With a high level of vitamin A, vitamin C, and other antioxidants, this tea can lower the strain on the immune system and reduce the negative impact of free radicals in the body.
Furthermore, drinking this tea has been linked to lowering inflammation and stress hormone levels, which can, in turn, lower anxiety and improve digestive function.
Finally, some people seek out this tea for its rejuvenating effects on the skin and complexion. The amino acids provided by this tea are also valuable, as the building blocks of all proteins in the body.
Since this tea is often made with a caffeinated base of black or green tea, there are also the energizing effects of this tea to consider, which can aid in weight loss efforts.
How to Make Passion Fruit Tea?
Making your own passion fruit tea is quite simple, regardless of how you choose to brew it.
- Step 1: Bring a pot of water to boil.
- Step 2: Add 2-3 tea bags to the water
- Step 3: Allow the tea to simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- Step 4: Add 3-4 sliced pieces of passion fruit to the teapot.
- Step 5: Strain the tea and serve, either warm or over ice.
Word of Caution: There are very few known side effects of this tea, but it is not recommended for pregnant or nursing women, due to some of the active chemical compounds in this fruit.


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We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree (or overseas equivalent) in a related subject area for entry to a PhD programme. A Lower Second class Honours degree may be considered if applicants also hold a Master's degree with a Merit classification.
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Our PhD/MPhil Basic Dental Sciences programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Basic Dental Sciences.
Basic dental sciences is a large area covering craniofacial genetics, stem cell biology and craniofacial development.
Craniofacial genetics
We aim to understand the normal developmental mechanisms underlying craniofacial morphogenesis and how these are disturbed in a variety of birth defects.
Group research has identified genetic mutations underlying craniofacial malformations, including Treacher Collins syndrome, Van der Woude syndrome, amelogenesis imperfecta, and dentine dysplasia.
These findings have contributed to quality-of-life improvements as they have impacted directly on clinical management of affected families by providing the basis for genetic counselling internationally.
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We use human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cancer-derived stem cells (CSCs) to study the function of adhesion molecules in development, tumorigenesis and cancer cell metastasis.
The group has demonstrated that ESC differentiation is associated with an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) event that exhibits striking similarities to tumour cell metastasis.
The Ward group is based in state-of-the-art laboratories that include a dedicated facility for the derivation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).
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We study the regulation of gene expression in cranial neural crest development and differentiation. Changes in gene expression instruct the formation of organs and body parts during development and are mainly regulated at the transcriptional level.
The group has made important contributions to the understanding of the gene regulatory networks that control the formation of diverse cranial neural crest derivatives, including the middle and outer ear and the heart circulation.
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When I was 9 I got introduced to the concept of having pen friends.
My primary school had two shifts – a morning shift and an afternoon shift. We wrote to and received letters from the person who shared the same roll number as us and who belonged to the other shift. All of us would hand over our letters to our class teacher who would then exchange them with the other shift's class teacher. It was a fun activity, one that I certainly enjoyed!
The exchange of letters would take place on a weekly (or possibly monthly) basis. I remember feeling deeply thrilled the first time I saw my name written on an envelope. A letter addressed to me, solely to me; it made me feel so important! I remember coming home, finding a quiet corner and eagerly scanning those words an unknown hand had written for me.
As I read I started making inferences about my correspondent. Her handwriting was neat, so I assumed she must be a tidy person. The cursive script and the fact that she'd mentioned she liked drawing proved she was the arty type. And she was fond of sports. So I imagined she was someone tall and slender and had long fingers (because someone had told me all artists have long fingers). She'd also mentioned she liked to read (Bravo!) and was fond of dance (me too!). So now I added thick, long hair to my mental image of her. I imagined her running gracefully towards a chair and eagerly reading an Enid Blyton.
Over the days we got to know more and more about each other. It was as though there was a window through which we got a glimpse into each other's lives. It was a bit like reading a story in installments, waiting expectantly for the next chapter, all the while wondering what the contents would be. There would be that feeling of satisfaction when I read about things having turned out well and pangs of disappointment when they didn't. I got so used to the routine of writing and reading letters that I was completely brokenhearted when the activity came to a conclusion.
I met my pen friend in person at our Annual Sports Day. She turned out to be shorter than I'd imagined, had medium length hair tied in ponytails and was way, way prettier than I'd thought. And she was slender and did have long fingers after all! Judging by the way she was eyeing me, she too was checking how much I matched her mental picture of me. We beamed at each other and she promptly told me she thought I would be a bespectacled nerd, and she couldn't believe just how way off course she was. Being a complete introvert, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily I was talking with this girl, despite us never having actually met before. How beautifully our words had weaved a bond between us!
We drifted apart a few years later but the memory of this experience is still fresh in my mind. It made me hope that someday I'd have a proper pen friend.
When I was doing my B. Sc., I saw an old movie titled "84, Charing Cross Road". Starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, it's based on a book of the same name written by Helene Hanff, an American writer. It features two things close to my heart – a love for books, and pen friendship. The book is actually a collection of letters exchanged between Ms. Hanff and a British gentleman named Frank Doel who worked in a bookshop in London. What started off as an order for books slowly turned into lovely discussions on literature, and gradually into beautiful expressions of their views and their lives in general. The two became really good friends, the friendship lasting well over twelve years. Ms. Hanff also became friends with other employees of the bookstore and with Mrs. Doel; all through exchanged letters.
I love this movie! I've watched it quite a few times and I can still never get enough of it! The acting is top class. Moreover, I can identify with Ms. Hanff in so many ways – her love for books, her long, detailed, witty descriptions; her overall demeanor. She seems like a person I would have loved to be friends with. And, needless to say, I begin to daydream about having a pen friend every time I finish watching the movie!
I used to begin to daydream I should say, for in these subsequent years I finally have pen friends of my own! Both of them are seniors of mine. I initiated the friendship in one case, and my senior initiated the friendship in the other. In both cases we knew each other by face and name, but had never really talked much in person. In both cases the friendship has developed after they graduated.
The friendship I initiated began with a request for guidance. He was quite nice about it, and helped me a lot. We hardly realized when all the technical discussions, casual college banters and exchange of text-message forwards slowly turned into expressions of our dreams and hopes, of our triumphs and failures, of our joys and sorrows! We hardly realized when we became close friends, confidantes! We turn to each other anytime and every time we need support and we can always count on each other to be there for each other. He belongs to a culture different to my own, but not once has that stood between us. If anything, it has helped us to develop more respect for the varying ways of the world. It has made us more secular! And all of this is only through written words!
He was in the city a year ago for some important work. That was the first and only time we met. It didn't feel so, though. Just as with the pen friend from school, we conversed with such ease, with such familiarity, that one would think we met regularly over a cup of tea! We resumed the conversation from the last messages we'd exchanged, actually hearing those oh-so-familiar words and phrases of each other's we'd got so used to reading on the screen! When we said "goodbye" we both knew it was just "Au revoir! See you again through your letters!"
The other friendship is a recently developed one. My senior complimented me over my blog posts and we got talking. Both of us have a love for writing long, elaborate messages. So it is hardly a surprise that after a few conversations we began to feel as though we've known each other for ages! Without actually planning to, we've slipped into the routine of writing to each other on a regular basis, and to wait for the latest episode about each other's lives; discovering new aspects of each other, revealing new aspects of ourselves, our words threading together a friendship we've begun to cherish deeply!
Pen friendships are special. They bridge the gap between people separated by thousands of miles, so much so that one doesn't even feel the distance. There's familiarity but also a sense of mystery. And most importantly there's a deeper level of commitment. What could be easier than breaking a pen friendship, after all? All you have to do is stop responding. You are less likely to feel guilty about bringing tears to someone's eyes because you're never going to actually see them, are you? Which is why every new letter is a reminder that someone out there really cares about us, really wants to see us happy and is really, truly willing to find time for us.
Could anything be more amazing?!


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Two weeks ago health reform looked to be completely on track. Today the only impediment to it passing is that House Democrats who already voted in favor of health reform need to vote in favor of health reform a second time. Had Martha Coakley won the election in Massachusetts, House Democrats who already voted in favor of health reform would need to vote in favor of it a second time. What's more, given that House Democrats have already voted in favor of health reform it's already inevitable that they will be attacked for having voted in favor of health reform. It makes no sense substantively and no sense politically for anyone who was prepared to vote for health reform two weeks ago to not vote for it now.
Explaining the October Revolution, Trotsky said "power was lying in the streets — we picked it up." Now I'm not one of those guys who gets sentimental about Trotsky; notwithstanding his falling out with Stalin they were both bad guys. But you're talking about someone who had an understanding of political action.
Ever since November of 2008, power has been lying not in the street but in the halls of Congress. And it seems to me that many members of Congress have been simply unwilling to accept that fact. They want to evade responsibility. They want to talk about Chuck Grassley or Olympia Snowe or now Scott Brown. They want to talk about polls. They want to talk about tea parties. They want to talk about cable news. They want to talk about process. But they have to recognize what's happening. The power is there. Anthony Weiner and Barney Frank and Evan Bayh are all autonomous human beings. If they choose not to pass health care, then they have the right to do so. But it's up to them and they just need to decide. The way things happen in politics is that people put themselves in a position to do certain things, and then they do them. House Democrats are in a position to enact a sweeping reform of America's health care system. Will they do it, or are there two parties that support the status quo?


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"Was it worth it?" There in the gloom, this is what he asked. It was also not the first time he'd asked the question since waking me. Fumbling for a response, the flood gates opened, and this was when I came to know exactly with whom I was dealing; that there would be no coming back, not the same way I came, anyway. And situations like those, I knew they tended to hurry.
I couldn't blame him though, not really, and once you hear how everything went down you will understand why. Why he did what he did and why I choose to live with it. I mean, the dude had every right in the book to end me, and if the shoe had been on the other foot, well, I can't say for sure that I would've been able to show the same amount of restraint that Bobby did. No, not for sure. I'd like to, but can't with any degree of certainty. I'm not saying I'm a coward; no, but I am also saying that I've never truly been tested. There is a difference. Of this at least I know.
He was angry. Livid actually, and it seemed to permeate off of him in waves. It was not quite dawn, but the night was leaving just the same. He sat in the chair opposite my bed, the one I used for day old clothes. His legs were crossed and his arms ran the length of each arm of said chair. I could see he took care of himself, that he went to a gym. In the past I have done this myself, enjoying the release I found in lifting the weights. Lately, though? Not so much. Now there is an extra layer to my mid-section. It matches the one above my neck.
His eyes are what captured me. Sunken and blue, they were rimmed by dark circles. There was a redness there, too, a rawness. I assume this comes from the kind of crying one finds themselves unable to stop. I do not think I am very far off in this assessment. The man looked broken is what I am trying to convey, but he was coiled as well---like I said, I could feel his anger. Looking back, I now realize he was only ever these two things with me---sorrow and rage---and I could complain about that until I was blue in the face, but I don't think I will, as I deserve everything this man has done to me. However, I will say this: I am sure he is not the first person to eat of those two emotions. I am also sure he will not be the last.
"I said: Was it worth it?" The man was all business, straight and to the point from beneath the visor of his ball cap. I looked at him; silent, unable to do anything but go over everything I had read about him during my stay in the hospital: Bobby Charles, father of one, husband of almost ten years. Age: forty five; nineteen years my senior. He enjoyed fishing and golf and owned a restaurant which he ran up on Brock. The Pita Pit is what I think it's called. He was a widower now, of course, and the only reason for that was because of me, yours truly. I'd cost him his son as well. The boy…his name had been Patrick.
I did not kill these people on purpose, no, but do not doubt that it is my fault just the same.
I tried to answer him but found myself unable. Pausing, I remember thinking: What did he want from me, anyway? Would his lawyers not be taking me for everything I owned soon enough? Was the cost of me breaking both my legs in the accident not payment enough? Even as I thought it, I regretted it---whole-hearted and immediate. If anything, I have learned a lot about myself because of that day. Chief amongst them being this: I was more selfish than I could have ever imagined. And that denial is very much a form of addiction. Not the big denial, the type which can get you through serious trauma, but the everyday denials we incorporate into life. The ones which let us believe we are good people, if only we choose to believe.
I cleared my throat, swallowed, and then adjusted the pillow between my back and the headboard as best I could. As they'd been doing for a while, my legs protested this. Bobby and me? We continued to look at each other, to blink and breathe. We listened as well, as the clock above the door frame went tick, tick, tick. Finally, I asked: "Will you kill me?"
He only shook his head, repeated, "Was it worth it?" And then I realized that his head nod was not an answer to whether or not he was here to kill me. He wanted his question answered is all---didn't want the jerk in front of him answering it with one of his own. Why would he? This wasn't about me (well, okay, it was; how could it not be?) but this is not the point I am trying to make. What I am attempting to show you is how narcissistic I was, how self-absorbed and shallow. This is what I want you to know---that it wasn't until he did what he did that I truly understood what it all was ever supposed to be about. Funny, isn't it? What it takes to open one's eyes? No, not funny---sad; pathetic, really.
Still, the question remained: Was it worth it? Was what worth it? That is what I wanted to say, as I had no idea to what his question referred. I was at least smart enough (and scared enough) to realize that I had to get on with it and finally just ask him what the fuck he meant. The whole thing here, he in the chair, me waking up to him in the chair, it had taken no more than six minutes---seven on the out. I can tell you it did not feel like minutes. No, it felt more like hours.
"Mr. Charles," I said. "I am not trying to upset you, but man, I don't really understand what it is you're asking me. Clearly I am in no position to assume…" and we were back to regarding each other, he and his eyes simmering, me in my bed wondering if he was asking me if it was killing his son and wife that was worth it? Was this the question he was asking?
He said: "I was behind you, Randy---on the road when it happened. Did you know that?"
And all of a sudden I knew; could not not know; envisioned myself driving that day, driving as I always drove, like I was the only one who mattered.
It happened on Main, a four lane black-top which is one of the busiest in the city. It is also a street where between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., between the first and fifteenth of any given month, cars are allowed to park. The day it all went down? March 8th; a Tuesday. And you can rest assured that it happened well within the aforementioned eight hour window.
"No." I said, finally answering his question. I was really answering both his questions, but I am still not sure if he was aware of this or not. Either way, my response had been something just short of a whisper. For the first time since he arrived I found myself unable to hold his gaze as well. Guilt has a way of doing this, I'm finding.
"If you had made it, you would've just carried on. I know this. This is what people like you do; it's how you're wired; out for no one but yourself." The anger remained, but he had control of it, seemed to be almost chewing on the words as he said them to me. In hindsight, he was doing the best that he could. I see that now. Actually, I see a lot of things now. One such gem is this: if I hadn't killed his wife and child, I would have scoffed at the accusation he presented, if not outright denied it. That was how far gone I was in believing myself a good person. And if that is not as fucked as it gets, I do not know what is.
But I did kill his wife and I did kill his child.
I wasn't going to wait; my time more precious than anyone's---that is what it came down to.
I had been passing and speeding. I had been dodging and weaving. Many of us do this, unable to obey the posted limit; always on our way. The morning that it happened, nothing was different. If anything I was probably a little slow to speed up as I went to change lanes that final time. This is what it hinged on, that I tried to cut over when I should have slowed. But if I had slowed, I would then have to wait for an opening and signal my way through. This would not do. I would not wait. After all, it was my world we were living in.
I cut over, clipped her mini-van, sending them and the van headlong into the teeth of an eighteen wheeler. The big machine ate. The grill, I'm told, coming to hold bone. Myself? I over-corrected the clip and hit a patch of black ice. As you can imagine, coming out of the slide at the speed I was going---let's just say that the flips I did were far from few.
"You're a liar as well as a murderer. You know that?"
I re-found his gaze, looked up and slowly nodded my response. I was caught, and had been since he got there---denial or no denials.
"First sensible thing you've done since I got here."
"If you saw me…," I said, now curious. "Why haven't you told the police?"
"Does it matter?" He spat, and then leaned forward in the chair. "Whatever. You want to know, I'll tell you: I was waiting for you. Not at first. At first I was in shock. But as the investigation went on, I came to realize what you were up to. Or rather, what you were omitting in your statement. This is when I knew you for a liar. You are a coward, too, Randy."
Suddenly his anger abated. There in the chair, his shoulders sank and he began to cry. His eyes looked weary now, and his voice---it lost the grate it bore, the fury. "I never once heard you mention how you were darting in and out of traffic that day. Not once that your speed…that it was well above what it was supposed to be. Sure you said you were going a little over the posted, but nothing like what I saw. You know what I saw? I saw a man who could care less about those around him; a man who at best is a child. You were an accident waiting to happen. And you know what the funny thing is, out of all of this: I thought that very thing as I watched you pass me that morning, not thirty seconds before…"
His voice had become quiet and, as I said, anger free. He was a different Bobby Charles than the one I had been dealing with. This was the shell of that man, his husk. I was sure the other one still lurked there somewhere, but for the time being he was nowhere to be seen.
"No," I said again. "No, Mr. Charles, it wasn't worth it. I know that now. Actually, it should have been something I knew before what happened, happened; which would have prevented it from happening, now that I think about it. But in regards to the statement I gave to the police…
"Don't! Don't go there." And like that, his fury was back. Restrained but oh so on fire. "You said what you said: that it wasn't worth it. Good, it's what I needed to hear. It makes what comes next much easier. In the meantime, don't go digging yourself holes you can't climb out of."
"Bobby, please, let me at least explain why---"
"Do not call me Bobby!"
"Sorry. I'm sorry. I just…" but my words, they failed me. And I believe it was right about then that everything started to clear for me; this moment when I began to look at life from a whole new angle. I believe this is called a paradigm shift. Is this correct? Whatever you called it---this was when my "rampant" apathy and "masked" sociopathic tendencies found themselves beneath the boot heel of the human condition, quashed forevermore.
It was the beginning of my change for the better.
"It doesn't matter," he said, his anger dissipating once more. He sighed. "We are where we are; are what we are. The road less travelled. Whatever." And then he laughed, but there was no humor in it. No, none. "Sometimes I think it was as much my fault as it is yours. I used to have a mantra….a saying I'd whisper to myself whenever I would get to thinking about things, when things like losing my wife and child to inexplicable random events crept into my head. It started when Val and I were dating, from there snowballing to include our son. They never knew I did this, even when the need arose and I found myself in the same room with either of them. I would turn my head, quietly repeat my phrase three times, and that would be it. But I had to mean it---that was the thing, the promise I set for myself. I could never just go through the motions. If I did, it wouldn't work, and whatever I had tricked myself into believing would fail, ensuring the inexplicable random events which scared the shit out of me could do nothing more than come true; stupid; all of it. But it kept me going, believing. And then you came. Randy McAlister---my Mr. Inexplicable."
I didn't know what to say, didn't know what to do. Should I comment ran through my head. So did begging for my life. Instead I watched him stand up and take off his ball cap. He looked to the window, ran a hand through what remained of his hair. At this I realized how empty the man was, how much I had emptied him. Turning from the window, he said: "Earlier you asked me if I'd kill you. Honestly, that was what I came here to do. In my head I was going to give you one chance, one question: was it worth it. You answered the question, Randy, but you didn't answer it correctly. To tell you the truth, I don't believe you fully comprehend the query. But as we sat here, as we talked, something occurred to me: I'm here for a reason, to give you more time, not take it. You need to know. You need to see."
He left the room then, his big work boots heavy on the floor. He wasn't gone a long time like before, it only felt that way---the minutes like hours. I don't know for sure, but he might have even done this on purpose---making me wait like he did. Maybe so, maybe no. Either way, the man was certainly entitled. Anyway, it was only a feeling.
The screen door slammed shut as he came back in. It had been old, that door, and loud, in need of repair since before I inherited the place from my parents. It was as the axe hit the floor with a thud that my balls hardened and my penis shrank. At this time I didn't know it was the axe from the woodpile out back he had brought back inside with him, remember, only that an object of considerable weight had been grounded to my kitchen floor. He dragged it too, the whole way back. Picture him doing this: the handle, his hand. Now picture red paint, but faded from years of use. The noise it made? It became the stuff of nightmares to me, of can't believe and this is not happening! It put mice in my chest and ice down my back. And again it seemed as though he was taking his time---making sure I had everything I needed to completely take in the sound which approached me. He probably was doing this, but I'll never know, not for sure. The old me? The person I used to be? He would say this was exactly what Bobby Charles was doing---the old dog getting himself a bit of an hors d'oeuvre before the main course to come; his big 'ole slice of retribution pie. Oh yes, my old self could see this very well.
Curious: I didn't scream. And, looking back, I cannot for the life of me find a reason why this wouldn't happen. Is it possible to become too scared to scream? I don't know, but I would probably prove a very good case study.
So I didn't scream. Instead, I watched the doorway until he came back into view. As he did, I saw the axe, it trailing behind him like a long and rigid pet. It wasn't until seeing this image that I realized why the terror inside me had been building. It was the sound, you see, the dragging, scraping sound which accompanied the man's return. I think deep down I might have known what it was all along. Right here, at this realization, was when my bladder let go.
"Don't worry," he said and came towards me, forward, to the edge of my bed. The axe was up in one hand now, held onto by the neck. He pointed it at me as he talked, little jabbing motions which seemed to punctuate every third word or so. "This is not what I had in mind. No, I brought a gun. One I was going to put in your mouth and make you eat. This will not be happening now."
His anger? The stuff he had brought with him? Gone; not an ounce of it in him now. It wasn't lurking either, as before, when his display of emotions were back and forth, both fast and furious. No, something had happened. He was calm now. Dejected, but calm. Soon I would come to know why, to find that the man had found an escape route---me, of course, the in-house facilitator.
We looked at the axe, both from different perspectives. His most likely reverence, mine most definitely fear. He hefted the weight in front of me, changed hands then grabbed it by the neck once more. Back to punctuating, he said, "I won't lie: this won't be easy on you. Going to hurt like nothing you have ever felt, I'm sure. However, when it's over, I will leave you a choice. Might not seem fair to you, but you are a murderer, Randy. I don't want you to ever forget that. This is why it has to be this way; this your daily reminder. Ready?"
Ready for what?---this is what I wanted to say, what I needed to say. A mewling sound came out of me instead, the back of my skull suddenly trying its very best to push through the headboard it was up against.
As he raised the axe I raised my arms.
Down it came, down, and fire erupted in my mind as big black spots popped into my field of vision. This time I did scream, but it sounded far away and high---like a girl's. He took off his belt next, creating a tourniquet half way down my thigh. Vaguely I remember him asking where I kept my own, or if I even used one. I couldn't answer, or if I did, I have blocked it out. He must have found one though, as I didn't bleed out once he went around the bed to finish what he started. What I do remember him saying is this: "You took two from me, now I have taken the same from you." Then I felt metal in my hand: the gun he placed there. Down in my ear now, he spoke as I writhed in pain and screamed in curses. "I will give you one chance. I will stand and swing one last time. I will aim for your head. Do me this one thing right, Randy: send me home. I miss them. More than I could have ever known. If I do it myself, I chance them again. That is something I cannot do---"
I shot him right about there, before he stood up, before his final swing. And I emptied the gun, but you already know this part of the story. Do you want to know how his body jerked backward as well? That his arms flew out but his ball cap stayed on, that he was dead before he hit the floor and gone before you opened the door? Isn't that how the song goes? Doesn't matter. What does is what he did, what Bobby chose to do---how he opened my eyes. I see this now, as I have been saying---all of it, what life is really all about, this great and secret show. I think I'm going to try and find God now. I think I need to. Not that I have been backtracking, but these last few months, well…they have been stressful. With the facility change as well as the new medication you have me on.
All I want to do is help. That's all I need. I have to make up for everything that was before, everything I was before---this is what Bobby gave me, what he cut from me in pounds; that to sacrifice is selfless, and more than holding doors. We are here for a reason. It has been glimpsed, now it must be shown. Bobby, he put me on the path---you must let me ride.
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It may be, as St Teresa of Avila once said, that Martha and Mary must combine to give our Lord perfect hospitality, but those wise words come with a lot of baggage attached - and they don't necessarily help us make sense of what is happening. What is this "better part" of which the Lord speaks? And why, precisely, is it better?
For Teresa, as for many commentators down the ages, Mary has stood for the contemplative life: stressed and over-busy Martha has represented the active life. Both are, indeed, needed for balanced spiritual growth into Christ. But there may perhaps be more to it than that.
What really gets up Martha's nose, I suspect, is that Mary (unlike Martha) is not fulfilling the role assigned to her gender in a patriarchal society. Rabbis did not take on female pupils, so in sitting at the feet of this visiting rabbi and listening to his teaching, Mary is behaving like a man, while Martha is doing the womanly thing: making him at home.
This, I think, is where the Lord's reply is more important than traditional comment on this passage usually allows. It takes Martha's complaint far beyond gender stereotypes and opens up a new reality. The better part is not the contemplative life set in opposition to the active life. The "better part" is being a disciple of Jesus – a status open to all, irrespective of gender.
As we come to terms with Thursday's tragic events in Nice (and the spike in racist incidents in this country around the end of June), we recognise the wisdom of St Teresa: that offering hospitality to the Lord is about more than unceasing activism, and more than holy thoughts. Mary and Martha must indeed combine in contemplation and commitment if we are to provide hospitality to the Lord who comes to his disciples in the voiceless and the victims of this world. To him…


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I've been thinking. Thinking a lot. I always do when I'm left on my own, which is pretty much all of the time. And times, people say I think too much. I choose to leave it as imagination. Things that matter, and ones that don't, taking them all in. Mmm. I digress.
Close to a year its been since I started a new journey, and yet I'm still left just as unfulfilled as before. As I've mentioned before, I've been blessed throughout my work life journey to meet some of the best people. No regrets there. But while I stay consumed in the heartwarming feel of comfort, there still lays the dissatisfaction of what's been achieved thyself thus far. You and I know the high expectations in life, and working towards it will not be as easy as spoken. My point is, there comes again the time to make changes. One helluva agonizing trip, but nonetheless vital. I need more. I need change.
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I found myself wanting to shout at her "If you elect your Presidential candidate, we'll have at least four years of horrible decisions and turmoil. You aren't even going to LIVE that long – so don't leave us with that legacy."
I hate sounding like a self-centered whiner. But my friend's vote and the votes of those like her are going to harm our country and the entire world. Yes, the elders have the right to vote. But they don't have the right to bury the following generations in political crap generated in the hopes that things will be like the "old days." Those old days are gone.
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It's been a bit busy here. But we're going to play a little game of catch up to bring you all up to speed.
In September my Aunt and Uncle came to visit us.
So we went on a few excursions to Taos and Santa Fe and around our town. Very fun!
(Even if we happened to take the long route home once...)
Anyway, here's a recap of their visit!
We went to Taos to go to the Taos Drum Factory Outlet. I thought I'd seen drums...I was so wrong. This place had so many it was hard, even knowing what you were looking for, to choose one. Which was exactly why we spent a little while there. But it was great.
My relatives got to meet the drum maker and artist and say hello. The same artist who painted the buffaloes on their older lampshade was there and recognized his work and said he had changed it up just a little since the last time. But that he'd paint it again for their lamp.
How awesome!
And I'm thrilled. We don't have a fireplace, so if I can get that wonderful woodsy smell this way, you bet your booties I'll do it.
After our purchases, we hung outside taking some photos. It really was a lovely day, a bit bright for photos, but in everything else, gorgeous.
|My Aunt K and me. Photo taken by my uncle
|Love this shot. Especially with the mountains behind.
|These teepees were huge.
Now, there are a couple ways to write it. Tipi or Teepee. I have yet to decide which is the right way. But I do know that these abodes are not typical to the Southwest. Here, the most typical dwelling is a Pueblo adobe house. The ones in the picture are more of the Plains and Canadian tribe dwellings.
We went to a wonderful New Mexican restaurant called: Ranchos Plaza Grill.
|My Aunt and Uncle
The food was great with generous portions and delicious to boot!
But my favorite part was the interior.
|Hand painted walls to resemble a village. Adorable!
And just a heartbeat away, visible from the patio was the backside of the San Francisco De Asis Mission Church. After lunch we had to go see it. And even though it was only the exterior, it was beautiful. It has been the subject of art for many artists: Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams to name only a couple.
The weather started turning a bit wet...but a piece of bright blue caught our eyes.
And there, hanging in the doorway of a beautiful adobe building was a lovely wreath of red chiles.
Now, I have seen these chiles hanging on houses all over New Mexico. We even had a chile ristra here when we moved into our rental until it fell in a bad snow storm. I thought nothing of these chiles, just thinking them a beautiful accent of Southwestern culture.
I was wrong.
It's apparently a tradition and a great one at that. Hanging chile ristras in the doorway symbolize welcome, an invitation to visitors. And apparently also a belief that they will provide an abundant harvest for the coming year. You can read more about them here.
|Aren't these two just so cute? Awww.
Well, after our lunch and the briefest visit to a church, we were back in the warm car and on our way up to Taos. That town is wonderful. Lots to see and do. All sorts of Mom and Pop shops as well as antique stores, but what it's known for is it's art...and skiing.
I told Mr. K that we'd have to go back in winter sometime and go sledding (neither of us downhill ski) or cross country skiing.
On our way back home, we decided on taking the scenic drive. And let me tell you, it was very scenic.
But with the sun setting, we thought it best to head home.
Little did we know we'd miss the turn off (which isn't very well marked and if you see it, you'll see the hairpin turn that it is). So...we missed it.
And then realized an hour past the turn that we'd missed it...
So, we had a two hour drive back instead of an hour. We were a little hungry by the time we made it home. But the stories we have from the drive made it all better.
On another day we went to Santa Fe and walked around. It was a feast day and we visited the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
In the courtyard going in was a statue of the Native American saint, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.
And the cathedral is stunning. If you ever visit Santa Fe, please go visit it.
We wandered and went into the Santa Fe Art Museum.
They had a lovely exhibit on Georgia O'Keefe while we were there.
|I love the horses.
So what else has been going on?
Well, there was a small thing called a Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse. (Kind of sounds like a YA novel, in my opinion.)
And with Mr. K being a computational nuclear astrophysicist...we kind of wanted to see it.
Besides, we got to break out the telescope.
|At the beginning. Spooky, huh?
We had fun posing for it. Luckily it was a warm night and pretty cloudless.
Mr. K set up the scope in our backyard and we sat down to enjoy watching it happen.
A few hundred shots later, a four legged nuisance sticking her wet nose on my lens, and a couple of phantom spider scares (hey, we have black widows and brown recluses here), I managed to get a good shot.
|You can even see a few stars if you look closely.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention this guy.
|We had another visitor: Mr. Praying Mantis on our screen.
I'd like to say that it went well, but what I can really say is it went...well, rather small. Maybe I should have replaced that chile ristra.
|Potato harvest- made exquisite rosemary mashed potatoes
And then we had these.
|Looks big until you realize the tomato is the size of a golf ball. *sigh*
|Our cucumber. The one and only.
And then we had these guys.
I think I'll have to rethink my placement of my pots for next year. Either that or start growing them in February in our garage...
Although, I'm thrilled we had kale and rainbow swiss chard. I was worried since the first shoots were eaten completely to the ground by green worms and aphids.
But I wouldn't change where we live in the world. It's perfect.


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