http://www.davehitt.com/facts/
To the left a map of the world color for how long people live.
In the green you live into your 80s. The Japanese smoke the most and live the longest.
Most of the USSR is yellow ~binge drinking is killing the men ~20 years before the women.
Afghanistan is ~44 DUST TO DUST.
Exercise and increases in activity have been shown to be beneficial in off setting sarcopenia; exercise even in the very old can increase strength and muscle function.
Lack of exercise is currently thought to be a significant risk factor, increasing the likelihood of sarcopenia.[3]
Not only muscle but the entire musculoskeletal system of muscle, neuromuscular responsiveness, endocrine function, vasocapillary access, tendon, joint, ligament, and bone, depends on regular and lifelong exercise to maintain integrity. The slow attenuation, atrophy, or loss of muscle tissue that medical professionals sometimes describe as sarcopenia (literally, "flesh loss’) is currently thought to be the result of cumulative loss of musculoskeletal strength and mass associated with chronic absence of exercise of sufficient intensity or volume. However, even highly trained athletes experience the effects of sarcopenia.
It is interesting to note that athletic speed and strength records are generally set by individuals no older than 30 years of age, although some powerlifters and other strength athletes continue to set records into their 50s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_of_Kurtdere
We all know the story. I have pix in my memory of men (THEY WERE ALL SWEDES, FARMERS, MY RELATIVES WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN ALBERTA 70 YEARS AGO) who looked like this gent. Still strong and straight and over 6’ into their 80s. We know why. There are no secrets only denials.
Mr. Obama acknowledged a war fatigue among Americans who have called into question his focus on the Afghanistan war, now approaching its 10th year. He said that American forces in Afghanistan “will be in place for a limited time” to give Afghans the chance to build their government and armed forces.
“But, as was the case in Iraq, we cannot do for Afghans what they must ultimately do for themselves,” the president said. He reiterated that next July he would begin transferring responsibility for security to Afghans, at a pace to be determined by conditions.
Close to 1 million children in the United States have potentially been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — simply because they are the youngest, and therefore the most immature, in their kindergarten class.
These younger children are significantly more likely to be prescribed behavior-modifying drugs such as Ritalin. Such inappropriate treatment is particularly troubling because of the unknown impacts of long-term stimulant use on children’s health.
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/258861005cp.shtml
The Church of the SubGenius is coming to New York City on Saturday, October 9, 2010.
Members of the controversial cult will be gathering for a religious Devival designed to promote the cause of Slack, Abnormality, and the Word of Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. SubGenius Devivals are spiritual events unlike any other, and audience attendance is expected to reach capacity crowds.
http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Physics.html
“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered; the attitude that all is uncertain; to summarize it — the humility of the intellect. The other great heritage is Christian ethics — the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual — the humility of the spirit.”
Richard Feynman, Sub-Genius
Socrates was certain of his calling but unlike the prophets (Moses, John, Jesus, Allah et al) he had nothing to proclaim…His mission was to search and to question unrelentingly.
Socrates requires no faith in anything including himself, he demands thought, questioning, testing, and don’t cook the books! Data is king. He may not have been the first scientist but his example HIS PRACTISE his way of thinking fits the scientific method.
In summary: Socrates is ‘for the world’ and he’s committed to understanding the world of human community (the polis) by the use of rational thought. His is the love of wisdom, of giving oneself to the never-ending search for the truth. Within the “Socratic Method” there was no room for dogmatic beliefs based on custom, culture and opinion.
Jesus by contrast was a champion of ‘devotional ethics’.
DEVOTIONAL ETHICS
· The experiential (the ‘heart’)
· Poetic-passionate
· Concerned with individuals (personal)
· Salvation through faith in an Almighty God
· Liberation from sin and guilt
· ‘Ethical being’
· ‘Right attitude/predisposition’
· Obedience to the will of God
Jesus’ way of communicating that goes directly to the ‘hearts’ and ‘souls’ of individual men and women. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’, ‘fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom…The ‘Jesus’ mood is one of dread and jubilation.
This mix of ‘fear, anxiety and good news’, is apparent in the subjectivist approaches of the Protestant Reformers (Luther, Calvin et al). They all fall, with Jesus, within the same, subjectivist paradigm of understanding in which reason and metaphysical thought have no real place.
In contrast to the type IV approach of a Confucius: Jesus goes to the ‘core of being’, not ‘outward action’. JESUS constantly focuses his listeners’ attention on the great choice that they have to make: " What is this one important thing? Each man is faced with the terrible alternative: to be accepted in the kingdom of heaven or rejected….’No man can serve two masters…Ye cannot serve God and mammon’. In contrast to the concern with rational thought in types I and II: Jesus speaks in concrete terms, expresses intelligible ideas, utters definite commandments…But all his direct statements are vehicles of a meaning which ultimately evades rational interpretation. Jesus shows little concern for logical consistency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Trumbo won two Academy Awards; one originally given to a front writer, and one awarded to Robert Rich, Trumbo’s pseudonym.[1][2][3]
Americans are talking less on their cellphones.
When they do talk, the conversations are shorter, according to industry data.
Partly, this reflects the shift in use of cellphones more as mobile computers that communicate via written messages. But this also reflects a subtle shift in etiquette, experts say. People increasingly use text messages and e-mail to arrange telephone calls, which are reserved for more important, complicated dialogues. An unscheduled call from people other than family members, they say, is often regarded as a rude intrusion.
College freshman don’t wear watches — cellphones are their timepieces — and seldom use e-mail, notes the Beloit College Mindset List, which was released last week.
