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Inbox: How does club assist with language issues?
White Sox beat reporter Scott Merkin fields questions from readers
I have arrived in Arizona, where the temperature was immediately about 65 degrees warmer than Chicago.
Of course, for most of this glorious winter in the aptly named Windy City, temperatures were significantly warmer elsewhere.
White Sox pitchers and catchers report on Saturday, so check out whitesox.com and MLB.com for extensive, daily Spring Training coverage. And if you make the trip to Arizona for baseball action, stop and introduce yourself. It's good to put a face with the tweet or email. Now, on to the questions.
Do the White Sox assist their Latin ballplayers, particularly the Cuban players, in learning the English language? Whenever I see a quote from one of these players, it is usually translated by a front-office person. This seems odd to me, especially from those players who have been in the organization for a number of years such as Alexei Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo.
-- Robert, Chicago
Opportunities and programs to learn English are offered by the White Sox to players with English as a second language. Many of these players have conversations in English, such as Ramirez, Jose Quintana and Viciedo, but choose to do interviews in Spanish with the help of an interpreter, such as coach Lino Diaz or director of public relations Lou Hernandez.
Communicating through the media and having those words accurately portrayed is important to both the White Sox and their players. So, it makes sense that players want to make their point in a language where they feel most comfortable. I took five years of Spanish in high school and college and still couldn't translate an interview fluently, so I can imagine how tough it is for these players adjusting to life in a new country while learning a new language.
Could the White Sox trade Ramirez and/or Alejandro De Aza either before Opening Day or the Trade Deadline?
-- Demetri, Arlington Heights, Ill.
There aren't a great deal of major trades that take place during Spring Training, and that's certainly not meant to diminish the acquisition of either Matt Thornton, Conor Gillaspie or Timo Perez. But those deals are more about finding that extra player or two to balance the roster. So, I don't expect anything to happen with Ramirez, but I could see De Aza getting moved because of the roster issues to be addressed that I detailed on Tuesday.
As far as the July 31 Trade Deadline goes, Chris Sale, Avisail Garcia, Jose Abreu and most likely Quintana stand as the only untouchables on this roster -- it's a song you've all heard before. The status of the White Sox in late May and June will dictate whether they are looking to build on the core or help find pieces for a contender.
Do you think Garcia is closer to the player who batted below .250 with Detroit last season or the guy who tore it up with the White Sox last year?
-- Brennan, Orlando, Fla.
Garcia could end up becoming the biggest acquisition of the Rick Hahn era, even if Hahn does this job for the next 20 years. OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, as who knows what future moves Hahn has in store. But Garcia's short time of everyday work with the White Sox last year showed off his five-tool potential and gave them an elite young player on offense that they sorely needed.
There's still work to be done for Garcia -- he's certainly not a finished product at 22. But this is a cornerstone-type player who the White Sox reshaping can be built around.
I'm hoping for a comeback year for Gordon Beckham but if he struggles, do you see Marcus Semien becoming the everyday second baseman?
-- Steve, Chicago
Beckham is the White Sox second baseman, unless he's not with the team anymore or injured. A healthy Beckham appears primed for a solid offensive campaign, but it is an important year for him as the White Sox do have viable infield options in their system with Semien, Micah Johnson and Carlos Sanchez.
Any word on if the White Sox will wear throwback uniforms on Sundays like past years? If yes, which ones?
-- Jaime, Chicago
I've heard an announcement will come soon in regard to this topic but have not been told any specifics. If they did a throwback jersey again, does anyone have a preference? The 1983 jerseys appeared to be very popular.
Suppose Paul Konerko has just an awful spring. Can you see that he calls it quits so he does not take a roster spot for one of young stars that would make the team?
-- Brian, Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Nobody has ever reached the Hall of Fame based on hitting .400 in Arizona or been denied overall success because of an awful Cactus League stint. It's all about the process for an accomplished veteran such as Konerko, just trying to get that feel for the regular season. He'll be with the White Sox in '14, playing an important part-time role on the field and closer to a full-time mentoring role.
Although it's old news, I join the chorus in praising the White Sox for bringing Konerko back! I would love to see Konerko, Viciedo, and De Aza in a three-way platoon, with Viciedo spelling Konerko at DH and De Aza filling out LF on Konerko's rest days.
Obviously, this would mean moving Adam Dunn. I think Dunn is a great person and teammate, but he really doesn't fit the White Sox makeup at this point. I know this has been asked before, but given the three-way platoon option, is there any chance the White Sox eat his salary and move him before or early in the season?
-- Michael, Adelphi, Md.
I agree that bringing back Konerko for this 16th and final season with the White Sox is a strong move. Dunn will begin the 2014 campaign as the White Sox designated hitter, but I think Hahn has some roster tweaks to make before the team breaks camp not necessarily involving the slugger.


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In either case, you're due for a refresher. Couples should give special time together a high priority, because it not only helps you stay connected, the latest research reports, but it also makes both partners happier. "Date night is one of the best ways couples have to pull back from the fray and remember there's an 'us' hidden in the swirl of their daily lives — and really focus on maintaining and celebrating their connection to each other," says Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., a sociology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and relationship expert from perfectmatch.com.
To help keep your marriage strong, date night should be fun — of course — but you should also make it novel in some way, or you'll grow bored with your time together and, possibly, with each other, says Arthur Aron, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who researches couples' interactions. That doesn't mean that you have to give up your beloved French film nights or ballroom dancing sessions and start bungee jumping just for the sake of novelty. Rather, you should simply make the effort to think creatively about how to spend your time together. "My wife and I love the ballet," says Aron, "and my sister gave us a backstage tour at the local dance company, so we got a different perspective on something we already enjoy."
To discover how to spice up date nights, we found three couples who faced challenges and asked them to road-test expert fix-it advice. Read on to see what worked — and why.
The Kitchen Cure
Names: Nina and Jayme Deibler
Hometown: Pittsburgh
Married: 4 years; she's 37, he's 38
Kids: A daughter, 2
Their challenge: Making date night happen at all
"My husband and I used to have great dates," Nina says. "We both love good food, and we'd often spend five or six hours cooking and experimenting with different wines."
But since their daughter was born, finding couple time has gotten harder. "I travel frequently for my job, and Jayme often works evenings and weekends," she says. "So when we do have a few hours, we usually want to spend them with our daughter."
"Working parents worry that time spent as a couple subtracts from time spent with their kids," explains Schwartz. "But when couples feel guilty leaving a child with a sitter, I tell them, 'This isn't selfish, it's protecting both your marriage and your family.'"
Expert Makeover
"It's great that these two have such a strong common interest," says James M. Graham, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Western Washington University in Bellingham. "I'd like them to indulge their passions in a project they can finish in a few hours — one with a unique twist. Experimenting together makes a date more satisfying, just as team-building exercises draw people closer."
When a couple has to overcome a new challenge, their sense of accomplishment after they succeed is magnified. "Dates that allow that kind of growth let you surprise yourself and your partner," he says, "and see each other in a new light." Just keep changes and challenges moderate. "This should be fun, not traumatic."
The Deiblers decided to try making sushi — a dish they love in restaurants but had never prepared themselves. They bought the basic equipment (including a book of instructions) at a favorite cooking store and arranged for Nina's mom to take care of their toddler for a few hours.
The verdict: A huge hit
Her take: "The expert really nailed it when he suggested a project for us — this was great. And it was a challenge: The rice had to be just the right temperature, and some of the chopping and rolling was tricky. We did need the time without our daughter, but several of my neighbors want to trade babysitting so we can all have date nights. I found this experience very inspiring — it made me feel like we were dating again. Next time, I want to try cooking Indian food."
His take: "The food turned out really well, and we had the kind of fun we haven't for ages. It reminded me how good we are at working together and how we complement each other: Nina did the organizing and the shopping, and got the rice going. Then we took turns chopping and wrapping, tasting as we went along. And because we did it all between 5 and 7:30, we are confident now that we can make something like this happen at least every other week."
5-Minute Fixes
Names: Cate and Dan Adams
Hometown: Salt Lake City
Married: 18 years; both are 49
Kids: Twin girls, 16
Their challenge: Making limited time together feel meaningful
"We've always tried to do date nights, even before we had kids," says Cate. "Then, after the girls were born, we didn't go out often. Now that they're older, we both work full-time and still don't go out much.
"After our last anniversary, we decided that we'd try to spend five minutes each day just talking and connecting. And it's helped. But we'd like to find a way to make that time more special."
Expert Makeover
The experts loved the five-minute ritual, which eases the scheduling pressure that prevents many date nights from happening at all. But Schwartz advised the Adamses to expand beyond their "How was your day?" conversations and get creative. She suggested that they develop ways to mix it up by brainstorming together and surprising each other. She emphasizes that no one, including the Adamses, should feel pressured to come up with something novel for every single date. There's nothing wrong with what the two do now: chat in the kitchen while Dan does the dishes. But sharing a glass of wine, going for a short walk, or just sitting on the deck once a week can make those few moments feel more special.
The overachieving couple decided that they would come up with something different to do every single day for an entire week. One night, they traded foot massages. The next, Cate asked Dan to show her how to fix a flat tire on her bicycle. Another evening, each drew a picture of the best thing that happened to them that day. And one night, after Dan noticed someone selling weird-looking rocks on eBay, they raced down to the creek that runs through their backyard to see who could find the most eBay-worthy stones.
The verdict: Sure, it was nice, but enough already!
Her take: "The night we brainstormed was funny, and we laughed a lot throughout the week. But the best part, honestly, was all the talking we did while we were doing these things. In almost every case, we wound up spending much longer than five minutes, and it was good to realize we could make that much time for each other."
His take: "We had some fun with this, but I missed the quietness — and the spontaneity — of just being able to sit down and talk with Cate and decompress. And having to think of something new to do every night just wouldn't be sustainable in the long run, obviously. But I can see doing something special more often than we do now."
The Active Answer
Names: Camille and Kent Boskovich
Hometown: La Grange, IL
Married: 22 years; both are 47
Kids: A son, 19, and a daughter, 17
Their challenge: Spicing up their tried-and-true routine
These two spend plenty of time together — and enjoy it. They work out at the same gym, they have dinner out once a week, and they often spend weekends driving to their daughter's hockey tournaments in other cities.
Still, "our dates are pretty boring," Camille says. And while they enjoy elaborate events — from opera to White Sox games — they're looking for date ideas that don't take much advance scheduling.
Expert Makeover
Dating can be complex for couples like this, as they anticipate an empty house — and a kid-less social calendar. Even people with common interests, like these two, need to expand their dating repertoire, says Aron. He advised them to explore more in the fitness realm. They already enjoy it, and his research shows that couples typically find shared physical activity one of the best ways to bond. Aron actually persuaded spouses to Velcro themselves together and crawl across gym mats — and found that it made them feel more in love than they had before this unusual exercise.
"It's really important that they pick something they're both new to," he says — maybe a swing-dance class or snowshoeing. But they shouldn't worry that every activity has to be a perfect fit, says Schwartz. "Think of yourself as an anthropologist doing research, and remember, if you don't like it, you don't have to try it again," she says. Plus, even a bad date can be a good bonding experience and provide a couple with a shared memory to laugh about later.
After looking at their options, Camille and Kent tried a fitness yoga class at their health club: She had taken a few classes in the past but was still a novice, and he had always been interested in giving it a go.
The verdict: Mixed reviews but headed in the right direction
Her take: "I was surprised Kent was game to try this, but it was really great. The instructor asked us to do some tough poses, and Kent kept shooting me a look like, 'Are you kidding me?' On the one hand, I worried that he wasn't enjoying it that much. On the other, it was funny — and it really felt good to do something besides going out to dinner, especially something physical and healthy. So this inspired us: We're going to do a few sessions with a trainer next."
His take: "Honestly, is this a better date than going out for dinner and sharing a bottle of wine? No way. But that said, it was OK, and I would try it again. I'm looking forward to the training sessions. I'm a treadmill guy, so it'll be good to add weights — and fun to do it with my wife."

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Special feature:
|Art by Vickers Gringo
Writers, multi-media poets and artists have had much to say about the American election that occurred this November 8, 2016. We bring you these national reports--live from New York.
-- LH, editor
From "Telescope Highway"By Toni Simon
By inducing euphoria the circle evolved into a wheel until there was no more reason to return. Harping on the same moments became a past time, occurring in a past when there was no record of emotions. The wheel gets knocked around and can no longer spin. The free world survives on such allusions. Only the thoughts are crumbling and disintegrating without glue to cohere them. Silence invades the crevices of sanity and holds its own--to resist means death. Do not remove underwear from our monuments or step over the yellow line of delusion. Dark powers are invading newspapers who merge with crimes well spent as a day on the beach. Up ahead a carrot waves in the breeze, an airy promise.
Clouds of misgiving settle on the populace. The air raid shelters are full up. Some wag a finger at authority and question the foundations. Others seek progression in a waterfall of clay idols before succumbing to the mass directives. Fomenting anger cannot distinguish the inhabitants from one another. In a litany of monologues the head swells and reveals an assortment of shells. Mollusks fly out of ears and leap towards the horizon, fulfilling the ancient prophesy.
Untitled (poetry video with vocals & ukulele)By Nada Gordon
"Silenced"By Nick Piombino
Without the employment of intensified focus, alternated with
a fully accepted loss of focus, nothing.
a fully accepted loss of focus, nothing.
The "willing suspension of disbelief."
An equivalence, an attainment of balance between
the willingness to listen and the willingness
to speak; part and parcel of the greatest
|Art by Toni Simon
Silenced by being unresponded to;
silenced by being echoed in a
resounding voice.
The meaninglessness of'
Silenced by sarcasm.
Silenced by silence.
Silenced by indifference,
ridicule, deliberate
exclusion, prejudice,
gossip, group
formation, elitism,
Big Brotherism,
poverty, intimidation,
Silenced by
Silenced by
Martial law {click here}
Martial law {click here}
Silenced by Critical indifference {click here}
Silenced by political manipulation
Silenced by the deafening roar of the
noise of bombing, war, shooting,
news reports, misinformation, disinformation,
fighting, arguing, moral indictment,
advertising, celebrity mongering,
hectoring, violent physical intrusion.
Silenced by political manipulation
Silenced by the deafening roar of the
noise of bombing, war, shooting,
news reports, misinformation, disinformation,
fighting, arguing, moral indictment,
advertising, celebrity mongering,
hectoring, violent physical intrusion.
Silenced by exhaustion, physical
and psychological illness,
fear of death and death.
Silenced by lack of response,
silenced by being ranked
and sidelined.
Silenced by the economics,
the driving insistence,
the gender conflicts
of sexuality.
Silenced by discrimination.
Silenced by one-upsmanship,
exclusion by means of
critical categorization,
moral sanctions
Silenced by starvation,
physical or
Silenced by confusion,
inarticulateness, lack
of vocabulary, language
skills, numbness,
Silenced by lack of
social skills, sense of
irony and humor.
Silenced by address unknown,
nonlisted number, code 404
blog not found.
Silenced by "lack of
sufficient funds", "we
are sending this bill
to our credit department",
"account closed."
Silenced by, "please
leave a message,"
"your call is valuable
to us please stay
on the line."
Silenced by "line
forms here", by
"sold out", by "bus out
of service"
"last stop."
Silenced by
"how are you?",
"happy birthday"
"what's new?"
"what's happening"
""I'm so jealous!"
""Guess what?"
Silenced by
you can do I can
do better,
Silenced by
Silenced by
the short list
Silenced by
"no refunds"
Silenced by
"toilet only
for customers"
Silenced by
By Rebecca Teich
"Sonnets from the New Dark Ages"
By Karen Brennan
A US Secret Service agent
Assigned to checking doors opened a
Door one night & found Hillary
Clinton in a compromising sexual
Position w/Ms Mahoney, a known
LESBIAN since highschool
Hillary was furious & whacked him
In the head with a metal
The Clintons are so EVIL
But God and his People in Heaven have
Recorded every second THE MEDIA IS STILL LIEING
Guys Guys Wake up
If you have not read Donald's books then
You are confused right now I can ASSURE you
You have no idea what you're talking about
There is nothing to worry about
Trump will tear out her heart that psychocunt
Will either rot in prison or be executed
The AG can immediately press charges against
That satanic cvnt personally I would like
To see her beheaded in public with her head
In a glass case flanked by Obamas head
On the left and Bills head with his
2" dick stuffed in his mouth that would be
pretty cool in fact
Heres exactly what Trump
Is going to do He's going to wait 2
More months
Until he's president
Whatever gets said in the
Meantime is hype WOW
Thanks for explaining
That to me you must be
Rilly smart
If all else fails we are VERY
Armed and VERY dangerous
& there is absolutely NOTHING WRONG
with watering the Tree of Liberty
from time to time
[unadulterated material collected from comment streams on Infowars.com, November 2016]
"Portrait and a Dream, 12"
By Marina Adams
|Gouache, Flashe and India Ink on Paper 16 x 24.5 in., 41 x 62 cm.
"Election Day"
By Kit Robinson
Air seeks its own level
The cat is out of the bag
A house divided cannot stand
One step forward two steps back
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The country mourns in celebration
Turnip, onion, parsnip
Anchored in blood and soil
How much of which is in the head
Turns over with the planet
"The Fountains, Red"
By Abigail Welhouse
We were there because we wanted to be with friends when history was made.
I couldn't watch the whole night. The certainty from people who were uncertain.
Flashes of blue, then red. I took a walk on Bedford Avenue to buy candy,
but really to take a walk. I saw a dog. I found a Dr. Pepper for Adam.
I couldn't watch the whole night. At 11 PM I said to Gregory, let's go home.
I knew that we would know. If anything was announced when we were on the train,
we would know. It felt like we were taking the subway to a funeral. When we got home --
our new, hopeful home -- I couldn't stop refreshing election results.
At 1 AM Gregory said to me, let's go to bed. I refreshed the New York Times again.
Like A Clockwork Orange. My eyes, pried open as the dial ticked toward 100% probability.
I took a sleeping pill. I woke up for work. I refreshed the websites. I didn't drink enough
to feel hungover, and yet my head ached and light felt too bright. I didn't know
what to do except get on the train. People were crying and I was crying
and I didn't feel like a person. It got worse. People started fighting about safety pins
and white supremacists were placed in positions of power and snake people started
picking up their phones and leaving voicemails. I remembered my first trip to Spain,
when the teachers told us that if anyone asked where we were from, we should lie
and say Canada. Our trip was almost cancelled because of 9/11. I was on Wisconsin
local television reading a letter that said that we should still go, that learning about other cultures was important for peace. I don't know if I'm remembering that right. But I do
remember that the US invaded Iraq and Madrid turned the fountains red. I remember
that I didn't lie. I said I was American. Before the trip, the teachers taught us to memorize
the names of the Spanish rivers, but we never learned about Franco. The UN covered up
Picasso's Guernica painting and the fountains were red. And I think of all those decades
of lost minds and lost bodies and lost art. And I miss Jane Marcus, a professor at CCNY
who taught me about the Spanish Civil War, and how our class fought about the Auden
poem "Spain" because some people said that war was not linear like that, that you can't
have "to-day the struggle" divided into to-day and tomorrow. But I thought it was honest,
how Auden placed the mundane next to the grotesque, the exchanging of tips on the
breeding of terriers alongside the poets exploding like bombs. I made a typo at first and
said poets exploding like poems. Like poems. Like bombs. The library has books by Martha
Gellhorn but The Face of War is non-circulating and I feel like I'm going to die before I get
to the end of writing this poem. I don't write poems like this. I never thought I'd live
in a country that's putting fascists in charge. I don't write poems like this. I got a web browser that doesn't track you and sell your information to advertisers and I got an email
address that doesn't give your emails to the government. I paid cash to tell my computer
that it lives in Sweden instead of New York. I don't write poems like this
but I'm feeling like I need to be more, like I need to do more,
like I'm taking more from the world than I'm giving it.
I'm calling and I'm writing and I'm giving but it's so close to nothing.
Lord if you can't make me an instrument of your peace, don't make me an instrument
of distraction. The Sunday after, I went to mass and the priest said we need to find unity
but fuck unity with fascists. I said the last part, not the priest. I drink blood
because I can't stop tasting it. Give me my body back, said Jesus. I agreed.
"Trembling Ghosts"
By Pamela L. Laskin
It didn't matter
that women were silly putty
shaped in your hands,
nor did it matter
that this Muslim had a name-Assad,
who whispered American dreams.
The only America you know
was your brand-
big, blustering, bombastic words:
"Make America great again"
worn on your silly baseball hat,
forgetting America
is the Mexican
standing by the wall,
(built by whom?)
and who to keep out:
my Holocaust ancestors
the Irish and the poverty of potatoes
the Sudanese lost boy who has walked
miles in the blazing hot desert,
the Syrian doctor
whose children were doused to death
with chemicals,
the African Americans, who once were slaves,
and if some have their way
in this topsy-turvy law and order world,
will be slaves once again.
The ghosts and skeletons
burned and buried
tremor in disbelief:
This is not America.
America is not free.
"America never was
America to me." *
* Langston Hughes
"The Enantiodromia"
By Sharon Mesmer
(Ancient Greek: ἐνάντιος, enantios [opposite] + δρόμος, dromos [running course] —
a course of action that inevitably produces its opposite)
welcome wet red leaves
welcome sidewalk shiny as a sink
welcome footfalls of a daughter who cracks the world open
welcome abyss finally divulging its form
welcome eyes keeping vigil with the moon
welcome cold stars — the rain the day after
welcome the subsiding of light
welcome silver / crack / intrude
welcome upsetting conclusion
welcome surface tension
welcome via negativa
welcome Teresa's heart pierced by an arrow
welcome Neptune stationing direct:
making peace with all we have lost
welcome 39 dead over the weekend
welcome the luxury of buying cups
welcome hatred felt by that which stays
toward that which escapes and disappears
welcome fist of light punching through my throat
welcome fifth chakra problem
welcome the story not being told:
all of us condemned to put on skin for this world
welcome beauty which is ugly
welcome my cat's ashes
welcome anthracite on clamflats
welcome small insect I do not kill
welcome shoe lost long ago that still breaks my heart
welcome the dust that was my grandmother
welcome my abusive ex-fiance marrying my nephew's stepmother
welcome putting books back in order before the last lecture
welcome climbing the ladder of my spine
welcome dead rising on the wings of our breath
welcome darkness that is another sun
welcome Old Woman who counts my scars:
she is uninterested in anything akin to sin
welcome the moment I start thinking I'm special, but then it turns out
I'm no different than anyone else
welcome the worlds we have refused
welcome carefully choosing words so as to not tell everything:
certain things lose fragrance in air
* * *
welcome dying to be born to eternal life
welcome void and compensation
welcome litany and invocation
welcome recalling with fondness the days of rough magic
welcome being enveloped by darkness
welcome all-consuming weariness —
grace is sure to fail
welcome familiar joys tinged with bitterness
welcome stars blotted out
welcome age of chaos
welcome subtle tidal pulse
welcome reversal
welcome seventh year of my sister's death
welcome event horizon where familiar things disappear
welcome moment when something new appears
welcome searching through ruins
welcome unknown frontier that forces us to become
more than we were before
welcome divesting the abyss of its vertigo
welcome all that is difficult
welcome poem that some will dismiss
welcome poem written quickly wherein I say
"Welcome, new future of which I am not afraid for I have
looked long into the abyss and am well prepared to fight."
"via negativa" / St. John of the Cross: "To come to the knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not." From "Second Ascent of Mount Carmel," written between 1578 and 1579 in Granada, Spain. Referenced by T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ("East Coker").
" . . . hatred felt by that which stays where it is toward that which escapes and disappears" / paraphrase of Magdalena Tulli, Dreams and Stones
|"Red State."
|"Blue State."
Photos by Laura Hinton
"Luxor, 2016"
By Devi S. Laskar
The hotel is shaped like a pharoah's tomb:
a sphinx with a plaster of Paris nose
and American blue eyes guards the black
pyramid's entrance. We stare at flashing
neon signs for the perfect meal, perfect
date, the perfect prize if we can muster
ourselves, place our bets: blue or red,
the roulette wheels sigh with every
revolution. Hieroglyphics on
geometric walls, warning us about
something but no one understands. The pharaoh's
likeness looms several stories tall by the bell
hop and escalators that lead to the food
court -- and unenviable lines
for a museum hosting the Titanic's
recovered artifacts. What part of us
will have to die for others to care
long enough to want to see? On the jumbo
screens, a woman in white sings Hallelujah
and the people fall silent for a moment,
to listen. The slot machines parrot
TV jingles in the distance while
the escalators continue their climb
to the mezzanine. No one is riding.
A calm, fleeting, fleeing, while the woman
plays a baby grand and sings. And then
some people resume their lives, turn away
their heads; others laugh, others still enter
"Dear Natasha"
By Cynthia Hogue
Don't avoid thinking
about what has happened in this country, is happening.
about what has happened in this country, is happening.
|Art by Terry Zacuto
No escape but in understanding. To a feminist
this was the patriarchy—turning
the election by hook or crook and mostly crook.
Imagine it the last gasp, the ab-
reaction. Yeats wrote of cycles:
this is a cycle. The damage re-
versible. Some miracle
stop them.
A friend writes that angels
watch over us, Guadalupe
(she also writes fairytales).
Expect a woman in the White House.
It is not naïve but time. Her time (ours).
Women know it (I mean feminists).
Anyway, I fought whatever's
Anyway, I fought whatever's
going around, too.
Zinc and C and more
sleep if possible.
sleep if possible.
"The Loud Dream"
It felt solemn. I sang in a baseball stadium at the top of my lungs and what came out to my shock was a song not a screech. The crowd come to see me. I think it was me not a game. I got stage fright from being crabby and tired not offkey. I sang-yang so loud I woke up feeling so free I hopped like a frog. All day I was a Frog. Singing in a Bog. I'm nobody who are you? Because Somebody (I said I'd said) held me while I metamorphosed in a fishbowl like a tadpole, in their cupped palms where I skipped along the heart line, in their arms gingerly, as if I were bone china, and when kissed become a Princess sitting on a Pea wondering who'd want to be a princess, sleeping might bruise her, dreaming could split her like a peapod, whereas I woke up whole and safe. But solemn, for in truth I'm skipping breakfast listening, hunched over the breakfast bar staring at the stove, to the radio which is saying there's been another election, or the same election but the wrong outcome, repeating lies that have been given instead of reasons, and the lies called reasons (for no one uses that word and everyone denies using that word) are denied to be false. But no one denies that at this moment the populace protests, but everyone argues about what the facts are, which doesn't change the truth, or the fact that I can't really sing, and am not dreaming but silenced.
"Every Word"
By Laynie Browne
In the beginning all words were one word. And every word was love. Or every word, once written, was in need of love, shelter or crumpled theories. Every word was well kept for so long. Even if disproven, incorrect or misshapen. Until every word, finally, in order to survive became defensive, a border, its own edging.
She stopped halfway down the stairs clutching the laundry. Pausing, remembering the amulet. Then she made her way down the rest of the stairs, put down the laundry basket, put the boots back away in the closet, glanced at the full afternoon ahead, fitted and folded the sheets against her body, put on more layers wakefulness and tried hard to forget the clogged drain. The amulet of power she knew would never be hers and yet she knew she also contained or wore or misled or grasped its resonance. The color of blood held inside the body. There was no mistaking it she was now about to be one of the bearers of color. The season chanced that instant like a clasp or a catch in her throat, a bleat or admission of becoming a synonym to seasons, regardless of who she was or how she appeared. Her sentence had learned, if nothing else, to contrive itself. To be alive in leaves. But just as she said this to herself every one of her words became images. And in the middle of each image, a scroll containing barely legible instructions. She can continue for a few stricken sentences but for how long can she continue to tend to everything? She tried to ignore the rabbit eating hay out of the bucket too close to her pen but she could not ignore the deer kneeling to inscribe itself in her fence, nor any frog for long. Every living thing in fact was inside. Resided in the red amulet of power she wore around her neck. It was hers and she had chosen it with all of creation still inside. And that meant caring for the immediacy of beings, the caulked sinks, the peeling permissions, the schedules and papers. The forms of all promises and the promise of all form. Now arriving at the landing still clutching laundry not wishing to forget her written self. She would not finally put all of these concerns down— not the rude comment from one to another at breakfast. Not elections or refugees, not pipelines or weapons emblazoned on illuminated maps. She tied the mast to her forehead, waded out into morning and plodded on. Her arms were full with sheaves of tongues. She did not forget the invoices, medicines or fixatives. She did not stop to listen to the informing pancakes. She put the stove on pause and resurrected an occasion for calmative speech. She watered the children and gave words to the willows. She would not be done until she was finished with this world. At which point she would say to her non-existent daughter: I want to be thrown at the foot of that tree.
|"Red State."
|"Blue State."
Photos by Laura Hinton
Dream and Darker
By Laura Hinton
You want it darker?
We kill the flame.
—Leonard Cohen
Momma's legs crouched in a half lotus
in the dream she's still
pointing and pontificating
still "herself" (something) —unrecorded
not yet changed content, illuminated or hair-dyed orange
[blank] no content [no image] yet
Damn sheets—WAKE UP! [!! ] This is not
a real dream, darker
but a false comforter of sleep
Fake new venture, let me sing your song:
"Amerika, Amerika…"—Land of Cheetos and Poptarts, you were so
sweet asleep, we are all in a sleep—wrapped up in [blank] sheets
we cannot breathe. Like the colleague who
(in the dream)
to a wilderness called "Ireland"—
(now a U-shaped island in the South Pacific)
to escape the country where dreams allow upside-down logic
She can abandon hearth and home
(she promises to send Celtic music tapes)
I'm left alone
I cannot FALL asleep—so I will RESPOND
I wake to hear the screaming.
In this dream of darkness Momma's still
pointing and pontificating, not yet
She gesticulates towards the Evils of Aberration
I exist in a shadow of this unrolling dream
—reeling backwards
To locate the source I plow through search engines, social media fabrics, icons of
dialectal transformation. I punch and click
looking for textbook answers:
Narcissism, Fetishism, Authoritarianism, Fascist Tendencies, Borderline Disorder Maps
the brain is insane, a division of
Red States / Blue States / Red States / Blue
How I love you!—my desert patchworks
My barren mountain emptinesses!
Roll over, dark dream, you are on the dark side of that hidden channel
and I am told via email:
"You are going to hell."
Navigating with Charon's proud pole
I break new skin on the river bottom
in this eternal flow
crystalizes the Biggest Hardest Dream
Rock solid
I mimic the good company.
Post-Dark-Dream Havoc: What is there to do? A white man
Twitters on his golden throne and spits
darkness from his multi-storied Tower of Delusion
The illustrious collect
other made-up dreamers
for a ride or two. Kissing in the dark.
Pulling the covers up
—the dream
backs up. It swamps, it
changes convection or misdirection. Pilot error—
twists and rolls—writhes
[And now Black Friday is HERE, says pop-up window.]
Darkest before the flame.
Like any bad dream. Turn on that damn light.
The bully pulpit of pontiffs
hosts many singing souls.
We are their witnesses.
They have a song to sing, too.
|"Red State."
|"Blue State."
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"TWO STATES OF A4, with no longer understanding"
By Steve Benson
quiescent striations
mentioned chastened clashes
used bent
wounds meant stirring
turn biked mysteries into
shin splints gored tie timely
sticks of turgid rabid
closure engendering my laugh
behind torpid stunted sheen of
blinds a creation in
states of stunted scrimping
bips of fended
away arrogance
crescent ended civilizations
grist for the trusts scaled down to strange
rules, a glance happens to stab the wall
you're cured
before you've shattered the mirror
you chase butterflies from their clothes
silver minarets or something fishy
a sluice opened up in the reverent dirt
fluttering bystander shunted backward by
all 6 packed into a dumpster crushed
into immateriality
splintered bones no one bothered to clear
off the fifties linoleum ultimately
stricken with surly ravings
"Oh . . . sure . . . you go . . ." I let go of my leg and my ass
dips away in the dark horror of the sea
the shore line buzzing with mosquitos through which
my pale rear reads like a peony slumming homeward
a favorite salon or you say shelter
eyes symmetrical in my face front
lazily dreaming
daytime as I can drown here
slovenly crick in my neck necktie listlessly standing out
stale texture unlimited texture
scraps heaped up
stripped from
frenzy's broken cloaca
faded flailing decadence
"Add Lump Torn"
By A.L. Nielsen
Excerpt from play, "The Sapphics, or, Hysterical Studies on the Dream of Transsexuals"
By Elise Y. Chou
PROLOGUE, which introduces our heroines
ANTI AND PHIGE: "I am a young girl; an empty girl, an emptied girl and unrefused. Hear me that I might sing. Hear me that I might be— Devoured. Wind touches my hair and I shudder, empty. Begin me in a season of dying. Bless me."
ANTI AND PHIGE [to say of the light what say what say of that depraved and slickgrayed light emptying inward from the casement unto the corridor and past the jamb. to speak and say; who, who; who, who; the shaft]: "Takes me midway through a brambled adolescence; by a flies beating, and an eye; affixed onto his sucking teeth, wading; through the hot miasmic regions of stifled breath, takes—
A haunt I frequent some days of this month. Find me in an age of famine, and take up my breath—
A haunt I frequent some days of this month. Find me in an age of famine, and take up my breath—
"Candle snuffed, and raises a bulb into the iris; wide and everlasting burning, lifted by an evil wind. She trembles in the madding whirl. Body made a bubble, carrying a dead air out and bestilling inwardness, white light searing through taut, whining nerves. Hysteria, an inner region wanders. Under an eye's light, my flesh takes a sickening redux of gamboge.
"I want to die. It hurts. No longer empty in the house of death, the torn door leaves a frame that hangs with tender hinges. Dullard's head, who? Sick window. A noise everywhere. Gray buzz of uncountably many flies. Disgusting, wormy reticulations. Fingers in the carpet. Mattress corpse, horrible. Faces seamed for eye and maw. Slimy, invisible stain. Comparing thumbs which leer. Lamp with a black and snaking cord. Nausea.
"Empty— Empty— Makes an inscrutable chattering. Hand delirious on the jamb, faces the shadowed passage—"
"November 8th, 2016"
By Grant O. Palmer
So tonight Donald Trump won the election to be President of these United States.
In a long line of Abraham Lincolns and Barack Obamas, Trump is sure to go the way
of the Andrew Jacksons.
After the social progress that we have made as a country,
after the fight to overcome racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, marginalization
of all kind—a fight which is far from being over, even in our most progressive moments—
the people have spoken, and, in speaking, have laid bare the ugly truth about America:
the racists, the bigots, the sexists, these strive to be the life blood of the contemporary
But they won't/can't/mustn't defeat us.
publicly criticize the KKK when behind closed doors you actually agree with them.
tell me about your concerns with transgender bathrooms because of the safety of your
daughters: you don't give a shit about them when you elect a man who not only
degrades women but boasts about sexually assaulting them.
claim to be a Christian when you support hate. The America that is always slammed for being ignorant, violent, racist, sexist is the America that claimed a victory tonight.
In the immortal words of Ginsberg: go fuck yourself.
Marina Adams is a painter based in both New York City and Parma, Italy. Adams' work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions, most recently with the gallery and publishing house, Karma at the Independent in NY concurrent with their publication of her newest book, titled Portrait and a Dream.
|Steve Benson
|Karen Brennan
Karen Brennan is a poet/fiction writer, whose seventh book is entitled Monsters. She is Professor Emerita at The University of Utah and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. At present, though generally appalled, she is thankful for her family, friends and country, such as it is.
|Laynie Browne
|Elise Y. Chou
Elise Y. Chou is an undergraduate at Columbia University. She is infatuated with Marx and in love with Freud. She is a woman.
|Nada Gordon
|Cynthia Hogue
Devi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C. She holds an MFA from Columbia Universit
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York. She is an alumna of both TheOpEdProject and VONA/Voices, and
recently won first prize in poetry at the 27th Mendocino Coast
Writers Conference contest. In 2017, her chapbook, Gas & Food, No
Lodging, will be published by Finishing Line Press. She now lives in
Pamela L. Laskin is the author of five books of poetry and several children's books. Harper Collins will be publishing Ronit and Jamil, a Palestinian/Israeli Romeo and Juliet in verse for teens in February, 2017. She teaches as a Lecturer in English at The City College, where she directs The Poetry Outreach Center.
|Devi S. Laskar
Sharon Mesmer's most recent poetry collection is Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books 2015). She teaches in the creative writing programs of NYU and the New School.
A.L. Nielsen, poet/critic, is the Kelly Professor of American literature at Penn State University. His poetry collections include Heat Strings, Evacuation Routes, VEXT, Mixage, Mantic Semantic, Stepping Razor, A Brand New Beggar and Tray. His critical works include Reading Race, Black Chant and Integral Music. He is the editor of Lorenzo Thomas's award winning posthumous work, Don't Deny My Name: Words, Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition.
|A.L. Nielsen
|Grant O. Palmer
|Kit Robinson
|Nick Piombino
|Toni Simon
Toni Simon is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn. Her illustrated book of prose poetry Earth After Earth was published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2012. She is currently collaborating on a literary/visual project entitled Dear Air with poet Joanna Fuhrman.
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As landmark dates approach in the health care overhaul, readers are trying to figure out how the new insurance exchanges will work. Some recent questions:
After the exchanges go live in 2014, will consumers still be able to buy individual health insurance directly from carriers, without going through those state-based marketplaces? I fear the rules of the plans operating within the exchange will make the premiums unnecessarily high for younger, healthy people.
Consumers will be able to buy individual health insurance next year either through the state insurance exchanges or on the private market. Regardless of where they buy a plan, however, all new individual policies will have to meet certain standards related to coverage and cost.
Under the law, premiums for older people cannot be more than three times higher than those for younger ones. Currently, the gap between how much younger, typically healthier people pay for coverage and how much older people pay is larger than that, leading some experts to predict that younger people's rates will skyrocket next year.
An analysis published recently by the Urban Institute suggests that will not happen. Although premiums will be higher for many young people under the new rules, this increase will have very little impact on their out-of-pocket costs, the study found. The reason: The vast majority of young people will be eligible for subsidized coverage – through the exchanges, Medicaid or their parents' health plans. On the health insurance exchanges, premium subsidies will be available to people with incomes up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or $45,960 for an individual in 2013.
"If you're young, you do want to go on the exchanges because you'll qualify for subsidies," says Jen Mishory of Young Invincibles, an advocacy group.
In addition to enrolling in regular plans, people up to age 30 will have the option of using the exchanges to buy less expensive, high-deductible policies that protect primarily against catastrophic events. Although these policies might require large out-of-pocket payments by members – the deductible probably will be more than $6,000, for starters – they will be required to cover preventive care without any co-pay or cost sharing, and three primary care visits will be covered even if the deductible has not been met.
If employers stop providing coverage and employees have to purchase individual policies on or off the exchanges, do the employees lose the option to make pretax contributions to their health savings accounts?
You'll be able to make pretax contributions as long as you buy a policy that meets federal standards for plans that can be linked to health savings accounts.
This means a high-deductible policy. In 2013, HSA-qualified plans must have a deductible of at least $1,250 for individual coverage and $2,500 for a family plan, among other requirements.
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What's to stop people from just paying the individual mandate penalty and buying coverage when they need it, since insurers won't be able to turn them down because of a pre-existing condition?
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Perez lands on DL with injured right ankle
LOS ANGELES -- After losing long reliever Paul Maholm for the season on Friday, the Dodgers placed another bullpen arm, right-hander Chris Perez, on the 15-day disabled list Monday with bone spurs in his right ankle.
Perez said the ankle has bothered him off and on throughout his career but that it's "flared up in the last week or so."
"I went in last night and said it was tender and got an MRI and talked it over, what our options were," Perez said Monday. "And [the disabled list] was the best forward action, trying to knock it out before it gets to be something that's detrimental."
Perez pitched on Sunday and allowed a home run, single and two walks in 1 1/3 innings. He has a 5.03 ERA in 42 relief appearances. He said he doesn't think his ankle has had any effect on his performance.
"I don't think so, no," he said.
Perez said he's hopeful he'll only need the 15-day period to recover.
In the meantime, the Dodgers called up 24-year-old right-hander Carlos Frias from Triple-A Albuquerque, making room on the 40-man roster by moving Maholm to the 60-day disabled list. Maholm is expected to undergo surgery for a torn ACL in his right knee.


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US life expectancy falls for second straight year as more people die from drug overdoses
How deceptive!
Technically the headline is true.
But the drug overdoses are not the cause of the fall.
US life expectancy falls for second straight year as more people die from drug overdoses
How deceptive!
Technically the headline is true.
But the drug overdoses are not the cause of the fall.
"I foresee little future in 'the price of silver', I see a huge future for 'the price in silver'." - heartbone
"The truth is called hate by those who hate the truth." - K
Food Contact Materials and the Depopulation Program 30:08
"Food contact materials are among the most effective weapons of depopulation in the arsenal of our governments and the military-industrial ..."
If you revisit the Deagel.com (government globalist defense contractor) link that I posted earlier in this thread,
then you can see how much they've increased their population cut forecast.
"I foresee little future in 'the price of silver', I see a huge future for 'the price in silver'." - heartbone
"The truth is called hate by those who hate the truth." - K
Why would anyone want to depopulate the western countries when most of them are depopulating on their own.
It doesn't take a scientist to see where the population problems are on this planet.
If there needs to be some super secret global extermination program, do you really think micro managing it on a worldwide basis is going to work.
There will be nothing left but Asians and those from Eurasia a couple hundred years from now.
Lets see, the estimated life span of a Cave Man was 32 years and after a few generation going forward in time it had increased all the way up to 52 years about 100 years ago.
Now in "one" century our life span has increased by an additional 25 years and your thinking a loss of a couple tenths of a percentage is some grand conspiracy to thin the heard.
The only conspiracies are a bunch of couch potato's setting back and dreaming up this fantasy crap just to drive nitwits crazy that will suck this crap up and they are laughing all night long at the results.
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Vale, the information at the following link is NOT intended for you.
In my opinion, your asinine denials of reality are juvenile
and are very far BENEATH the adult intellectual level needed to seem rational.
With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again
By MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The U.S. death rate rose last year, and 2017 likely will mark the third straight year of decline in American life expectancy, according to preliminary data.
Death rates rose for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and three other leading causes of death, according to numbers posted online Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Full-year data is not yet available for drug overdoses, suicides or firearm deaths. But"..
(more at the link)
This particular report is factually inaccurate where it asserts the leading cause of death in the US.
The leading cause of mortality is now CANCER.
Even children are succumbing.
"I foresee little future in 'the price of silver', I see a huge future for 'the price in silver'." - heartbone
"The truth is called hate by those who hate the truth." - K
As someone who lives life and learns from reality and not from You Tube cartoons, I find it far more factually correct.
So children are actually succumbing to cancer now, oh my that is horrible news, I can't believe that has started.
Oh wait, children have been succumbing to cancer for as long as I can remember and those numbers are declining not increasing.
And Yes more and more people are living longer and running into those dreaded things like Alzheimer and cancer. We are all going to die from something sooner or later.
And as an educator, that is a pretty dumb move to put forth an article that states the death rates for cancer is down by 2% while the death rate for heart related causes in only down by .3%.
Meanwhile the death rate for Heart related causes was at 31% of all deaths in 2016 and Cancer was at 22% of all causes, while idiots slip in an additional 2% or 63 thousand that died from drug overdosing.
Now 63 thousand may not seem like much compared to 596 thousand that died from cancer, but it's seven thousand more than all the deaths combined it all the years in the Viet Nam war and the idiot body count is rising faster than ever.
So as one might imagine, there is no evidence that cancer related deaths in the US has come anywhere near taking over the top spot from heart related deaths and with children getting no physical activity, heart related deaths are more than likely going to be on the rise at ever youger ages along with many of the other causes of death which happens to come along with obesity.
Now I know these tiny fragments of reality go against your You Tube conspiracy crap, but it is what it is.
It's going to take one hell of a medical crisis to setback the longevity of the human race, especially in the first world countries.
That's not to say the herd can't be thinned out by any number of ways and in a relatively short period of time. But that would only distort the life expectancy numbers with bad numbers diluting reality with those who died young because of some tragedy. That would not mean those of us that didn't meet the same fate would die any younger than we were expected to and probably live beyond that.
What your conspiracy friends have not been privy to or chose to ignore is the fact that our nursing homes are continuing to house an ever aging society and the numbers over 90 and 100+ are staggering, as they continue to rise decade after decade and that fact does not come from a You Tube cartoon but right from the corporate facts and figures that one said corporate controller wife was privy to for 25 years..
Man's life expectancy is actually rising as we keep marching along day after day. The average may not be rising as fast as the average is, but the number of people living to their maximum numbers is becoming far more frequent than ever in the past. That is what counts for us as a civilization if we ever truly hope for a much longer life span.
People living to exceed 100 years in nothing new, but in the numbers that are doing it today, that is progress more than anything.
Now they just have to figure out how to keep us healthy with gene therapy or whatever so we can live a lot longer and without scrambled brains.
Obviously it's too late for you as the signs are in when you think children are just starting to face death from cancer now...
This is just one typical example as to why people across the country have been pulling their kids out of the public school system to keep them away from Looney Tune characters (educators) like you.
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in my opinion demonstrates very evil intent.
Just pointing out the obvious for the mentally challenged who may still identify with Vale's positions.
Depopulation --- yes or no?
"I foresee little future in 'the price of silver', I see a huge future for 'the price in silver'." - heartbone
"The truth is called hate by those who hate the truth." - K
Childhood Cancer Statistics Important Facts
Each year, the parents of approximately 15,700 kids will hear the words your child has cancer. Across all ages, ethnic groups and socio-economics, this disease remains the number one cause of death by disease in children. Despite major advances from an overall survival rate of 10 percent just fifty years ago to nearly 90 percent today, for many rare cancers, the survival rate is much lower. Furthermore, the number of diagnosed cases annually has not declined in nearly 20 years.
Every day, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer.
12% of children diagnosed with cancer do not survive.
Childrens cancer affects all ethnic, gender and socio-economic groups.
The average age of children diagnosed is six.
More than 40,000 children undergo treatment for cancer each year.
60% of children who survive cancer suffer late-effects, such as infertility, heart failure and secondary cancers.
There are approximately 375,000 adult survivors of childrens cancer in the United States.
◦That equates to 1 in 530 adults ages 20-39.
It doesn't matter what is causing their cancer, the facts are the survival rate is down dramatically. The fact these same survivors that would have been eliminated in the past have now grown up and had children of their own with a better than average chance of passing on the defective gene that gave them cancer as a child. Just one of the side effects of modern day miracles of medicine. Thinning of the herd isn't the same anymore and it will not be in the future. So we will all have to live with the fact more and more people will be born with defective genes than in the past. Hopefully gene therapy and manipulation will advance sooner than later to address these problem for all of us. Childhood cancer isn't the only defective gene we carry around with us. Some people will never get cancer or have a heart problems no matter what they do in their lives. While others can't avoid it no matter how many heath books they write on these subjects.
As far the life expectancy declining, anything that causes a large number of people to die prematurely will have an impact on that number, but not the actual life expectancy of those that continue to survive. Throw in an extra 63K drug overdose deaths and it will cause a decline in the number. Lower the number of deaths on our highways and our life expectancy will rise. It's more of a game of statistics as to what your chances are of making it to any number not how long you might actually live. Living to 100+ is not something new in the world, only the number of people that can actually get to that number or even close. Take away our safety devices and modern medicine and watch out stats drop like a rock. That doesn't mean some people will not make it to 100, it just means that it will be far fewer because of the odds of making it there. If you don't die in an accident, your chances of the flu or a bad cold might end up doing you in let alone any number of more serious illnesses.
We are not machines where you throw a wrench in the gears and it's dead in the water. Man has learned to adapt to all kinds of crap thrown at us in our diets, water, toothpaste, you name it and something has changed over the years and yet we keep right on living. You think things are going to kill all of us and yet we are probably more protected from harm than the vast majority of the worlds population living under conditions that would make any of us sick within a days time and yet their bodies have adjusted to whatever bugs and garbage that's in their water and food they have to put up with, god bless them!!!
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There's Vale's posts, then there's the truth.
My agenda is spreading the truth, what is his?
"The rate of new childhood cancer cases, including leukemia, has steadily increased over the last 40 years."
"I foresee little future in 'the price of silver', I see a huge future for 'the price in silver'." - heartbone
"The truth is called hate by those who hate the truth." - K
Lets expand that chart out to 2017 from 1967 showing maybe 13 per 100,00 back in 1967 and maybe 19 in 2017.
With a death rate of 90% back in 1967, more than 11 out of 13 children per 100,000 would die from cancer and just 2.1 out of 19 children per 100,000 die from cancer today.
Now you mentioned a rise in Leukemia patients and it's one of those that has been the most beneficial to cancer therapies which changed it from being the leading cause of childhood cancer deaths to be replace by brain cancer many years ago.
As I said before those surviving kids are growing up and popping out their own rug rats with a good chance of passing on their good fortune to one or more of their own, which would be at a much higher rate than the general population. So it is expected to see an ever increasing number of children coming down with cancer, but it's still a very small number as a whole and with a very good survival rate percentage today.
As for cancer increasing in adults, you would have to be an idiot not to know why that is and apparently you are one!!!
Bone did you ever hear of the Baby Boom? That would be when your daddy and half breed mommy made you and maybe a few more like you, but millions more like me and your black brothers.
Then if you had paid any attention at all to the news instead of creepy stuff on the You Tube channel you'd know that the government knew in advance that the baby boomers would create a huge surge in the population and the needed to increase the S.S. taxations to create a slush fund to cover us when we reached this point in time. That's the Two plus Trillion empty lock box.
Well as you might have guessed, many of us grew up and got married and had a bunch of babies all of our own and increased the population all that much more.
It's just the most recent batch of young adults that have decided that marriage and having kids when they are still kids themselves isn't the smartest thing in the world, when they can live at home for free when we couldn't wait to get out.
I can see the benefit to waiting, but I can't see living at home no matter how much money I can save. But then I started out life a little different doing odd jobs as a little kid to make money so I would never be broke.
Which brings me to the point of just how the increase in cancer is justified without some hocus pocus to blame it on everyone's favorite ills!!!
We have this massive rush of people living longer than ever before and we are all running into the range of cancer or heart disease if something else doesn't get us first.
Statistics naturally say the vast majority of us are doomed to die from one or the other driving up the stats.
Now that doesn't necessarily mean we will drive the deaths per 100,000 any higher, but it might if we are able to live long enough to die from cancer or heart problems and they can keep us from dying from other things first.
Now with more people dying each year than the year before, especially in our age group, statistically each of these causes of death will rise until our surge in population cycles through and then it will start to reverse as the death rate declines as there are fewer of us dying each year. Such is the cycle of the Baby Boomer generation. It doesn't have to have any impact on the death rate per 100,000, that's to be determined by other factors in the future unrelated to total statistics.
Are you even capable of thinking on your own or do you always live by the You Tube gospel?
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It was Ash Wednesday 2007 when I got my HIV test results from my primary doctor. He said to me, "I am sorry, but your HIV test came back positive, this does not mean you are really positive, so I am sending you to a specialist."
My life was destroyed, I felt like if I just got a death sentence and I was thinking about how many more days or months I had left in this world.
I went to visit the specialist and she sent me for some more detailed tests and asked me to come back in two weeks for the results, weeks that were torture. It was living hell, all the things going on in my head, the worrrying, the nervousness -- it was the worst two weeks of my entire life.
I went back for the results and my doctor tells me that I am actually an AIDS patient because my CD4 count was only 140 and my viral load was 165,000. I didn't know what those numbers meant, but she clearly explained everything to me and told me how advanced the condition was on me. I was devastated, I couldn't hold it and my tears came down my cheeks. She looked at me and said "Cry all you want, and vent your pain, but you are not in a death sentence like everybody thinks, there are new medications and none of my patients has ever died." Her words did not change the way I was feeling. She left me alone for a few minutes and when she came back I was more relaxed, then she told me she needed to give me another test to see which medication was more effective for my particular HIV strain, but that she was going to put me on a pill called Atripla because she was completely sure it would work well on me. She also gave me Bactrim to prevent pneumonia.
I got the prescription and ran to a CVS pharmacy to get it and they didn't have it. Then I just stopped by my neighborhood pharmacy and got it there. I couldn't wait to take the first pill right away, I remember I took my first Atripla at 8:30 p.m. and I took Bactrim at 10:30 p.m. I started to feel a bit lightheaded and went to sleep. I had some nightmares that night, but I am not sure if it was because of the Atripla or just because I was so scared. The next day nothing happened to me and since then Atripla does not give me any side effects at all, except once in a while I have some vivid dreams (not nightmares).
Atripla has been my main medicine since then and I have not planned on changing it because I get basically no side effects. I forgot to mention that three months after taking Atripla I was undetectable and my CD4 count had increased to 350. Currently, my CD4 count is 875 and I am still undetectable, even though through the years my viral load has sparked up a few times to 150 or 200 then back to undetectable. But, my doctor said that happens sometimes and that I should not worry about it. I looked for second and third opinion and both told me that my doctor was doing a great job, so I am happy and I live like a normal person. I do not even think about being HIV positive, I totally forget about it and try to live my life as normal as any other person. I exercise, I go to parties and clubs. My life is normal, HIV is not in my mind stressing me and making me worse. If you are positive, be positive about your life, take your medication on time and forget about HIV.
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THE fact that Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale had talked about the possibility of promoting himself to open the batting in this match suggested that Alex Lees's place was less than secure.
Despite scoring 86 in the Champion County game against MCC in Abu Dhabi, Lees had started the Championship season with scores of seven and one against Hampshire and 19 and 20 against Warwickshire.
The consensus was that it was a toss-up between Lees and Jack Leaning as to who would get the chop for this fixture.
After much soul-searching by the Yorkshire hierarchy, the axe fell on Leaning, despite the fact that he scored a half-century against Warwickshire last week and hundreds in both Championship matches against Notts last year.
The decision to keep faith with Lees, therefore, whose opening stand with Adam Lyth was so crucial to Yorkshire's title triumph in 2014, was both a leap of faith and a vote of confidence.
Lees's last hundred in any form of cricket came in this fixture just over a year ago, and he struggled for much of 2015 to replicate the form he showed the previous year. But that faith was rewarded when Lees led the way on a rain-affected second day.
After Yorkshire slipped to 24-3 in reply to Notts's first innings 261, his unbeaten 91 helped them to the much happier state of 170-4 on a day when 53.3 overs were lost to the elements.
If the weather frustrated the Bank Holiday crowd, who waited over four hours for a restart after rain prevented play straight after lunch, there remains every prospect of a positive result.
Good conditions are forecast for the second half of a game that is perfectly poised, with Yorkshire perhaps marginally the happier at this stage.
If Notts' opening day score was below-par, particularly after they had been 77-0 after a wayward first hour by the Yorkshire bowlers, they did not allow the visitors' star-studded batting line-up to get away from them.
That was due to a combination of splendid bowling by Jake Ball, a 25-year-old pace bowler now firmly on England's radar, and some questionable umpiring decisions, with doubts over at least two of the Yorkshire wickets.
The first was when Michael Gough adjudged Adam Lyth lbw to the first delivery of the day from Ball. Lyth appeared to be struck outside the line of off stump, and it was a blow to the left-hander's hopes of replacing Notts' Alex Hales in the Test team.
Ball struck twice in two deliveries when he had Gary Ballance caught behind and Joe Root held at grass height at first slip by Riki Wessels for a golden duck, the sort of catch that invariably looks inconclusive when shown on television replay.
But there seemed nothing inconclusive about the dismissal of Jonny Bairstow, whom Richard Kettleborough adjudged lbw to Harry Gurney, despite the fact that the ball appeared to be drifting down leg-side. Bairstow had been playing well, and his stand of 83 in 17 overs with Lees helped Yorkshire recover from their troublesome start.
Bairstow hit one particularly handsome cover drive to the boundary off Jackson Bird, the Australian overseas player, and his departure left Yorkshire 107-4 in the run-up to lunch.
Lees, who also hit a particularly handsome cover-drive to the boundary off Bird, appeared relaxed and nimble in conditions that offered just enough help to the bowling team.
Ball worried him and indeed all of the Yorkshire batsmen, but he would have worried anyone in an opening spell of 7-2-20-3 from the Radcliffe Road end.
Ball even out-bowled Stuart Broad, making a rare Championship appearance, and he has more than a touch of Broad about him in terms of style and stature.
On this evidence, it would be no surprise if Ball came into contention for the three-Test series against Sri Lanka that starts at Headingley on May 19.
His wickets yesterday took him to 22 in first-class cricket already this summer.
After the long rain interruption after lunch, which scattered the stands as surely as a bomb scare, 14.3 overs were bowled when play resumed at 5.45pm before a further shower prevented the last nine balls.
Gale, who has a splendid record against Notts, kept Lees company in a gritty unbroken stand of 63 in 20 overs.
Another for whom this type of match situation seems tailored, Gale fought hard to ensure that Yorkshire did not suffer further dents in the wickets column.
However, the visitors should have fallen to 165-5 only for one of the most unexpected developments of this or any other cricket season – a dropped catch by Chris Read.
Lees, on 88, cut Gurney away to the wicketkeeper's left, but Read spilled a straightforward chance by his standards.


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Classic Album Track: Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
Daniel Eriksson
Bruce Springsteen really had his work cut out for him when he started working on what was to become his breakthrough, the album Born to Run. His two previous albums Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, although critically well-received, had failed to sell as well as the record company had hoped. Born to Run took about 18 months to record.
In the Born To Run documentary Wings For Wheels that was included with the 30th Anniversary Edition of the album, Springsteen says about the song: "This particular single took us a long time. I recollect us spending almost 6 months at intervals making it." Basically a third of the entire recording time was spent working on the title track. Bruce's vision with the whole album was to achieve a sound similar to that of Phil Spector's famous "Wall of Sound." "If this record didn't make it, it seemed obvious that it was going to be the end of the recording career," said E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt in the same documentary. The pressure was definitely on.
"Born to Run" was recorded before drummer Max Weinberg, and pianist Roy Bittan joined the band. David Sancious handles the piano part, and the drums were recorded by Ernest "Boom" Carter. Sancious and Carter left the E Street Band shortly after recording the song, to join a jazz band. Because of Carter's jazz influences, the drum sound on "Born to Run" is very different from the rest of the tracks on the album. Most noticeable is the syncopated drum fill in the song. In Wings For Wheels, Weinberg explains that he struggled to capture the feel of Ernie's fill: "This one little lick that he played in the middle, that's on the record. I tried to play it. A very syncopated kind of jazz-fusion part. Finally, it just never came off right, so I eliminated it, and I've never played it." Weinberg's playing works great though, since his straight up rock groove is more in line with Springsteen's material.
"Born to Run" also has the distinction of being the only song on the album to be partially written on guitar. Springsteen wrote the main riff on guitar, before finishing the song on piano. The song was written in a little house in Long Branch, New Jersey, as was the rest of the album, according to Springsteen. Whenever the house has come up for sale over the years, it has gained quite a bit of attention, even on an international level, because of its importance in the early career of Bruce Springsteen.
The driving force in "Born to Run" is the main guitar riff, which is played in the song's intro and the chorus. While not technically advanced, the melodic nature of it makes fans "sing along" to the riff at concerts. To the casual listener Bruce Springsteen might not seem like more than an average guitarist, but anyone who has seen him live would beg to differ. During concert performances of "Born to Run," The Boss directs the entire band with the help of his guitar. Bruce has explained in interviews that he once held the ambition to be the fastest guitar player in Asbury Park, and while that style of playing doesn't exactly lend itself to the type of music he plays, he still busts out blazing solos when playing live, like for example from the Darkness on the Edge of Town album, "Prove it All Night."
"Born to Run" was written long before the album came out. Springsteen started playing it live as early as May 1974, which resulted in Allan Clarke of The Hollies' cover of the song almost being released before Bruce's own version.
Lyrics are very important to Bruce Springsteen, and at the time of making Born to Run, he would obsess just as much over the lyrics as he would the music. "The music was composed very, very meticulously. So where the words. The amount of time spent honing the lyrics was enormous. The notebook that I wrote 'Born to Run' in, you would take the first page and you would see a line or two. Fifty pages later you'd get something close to the finished song," said Bruce in Wings For Wheels. In its essence, "Born to Run" is really a love song. Bruce, or whoever he imagines the song's protagonist to be, wants to pick up his girlfriend and get out of New Jersey. The song also feature cars, and street racing, a favorite subject of Bruce's at the time. Racing and muscle cars are at the heart of songs like "Jungleland," and "Racing in the Street."
"I worked very very long on the lyrics to 'Born To Run' because I was very aware that I was messing with classic rock n' roll. The images that easily turns into clichés. I worked really hard on getting the soul of the song, the spiritual side of the song right," said Springsteen. The hard work paid off. "Born to Run" is still a staple in Bruce's live show, and will continue to be so for the rest of his career.
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