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Don't Kill Yourself, Kill a Jerk
Deaths from despair — suicide, alcohol and drug abuse — have doubled since the year 2000. Experts argue about why this is the case but there is no doubt that America has a culture completely devoid of empathy for people who are going through hard times.
This entry was posted in and tagged alcohol abuse, alcoholism, alienated, Alienation, death from despair, Drug Abuse, empathy, financial problems, freaking out, mental health, poverty, pressure, Suicide, sympathy, wimps on September 20, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Jeffrey Epstein Shows That Conspiracies Just Aren't What They Used To Be
Whether you believe them in or not, government conspiracy theories involving fiendishly diabolical plots by brilliant evildoers just aren't what they used to be. Consider, for example, the convenient death of Jeffrey Epstein. It was almost like they weren't even trying.
This entry was posted in and tagged 9/11 attacks, Budget Cuts, cabal, conspiracy, Counterpoint, covert, derpy millennials, Fidel Castro, Jeffrey Epstein, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Layoffs, moonlanding, Osama bin Laden, Salvador Allende, secret, Sex Scandal, Suicide, trilateral commission, world on August 19, 2019 by Ted Rall.
Suicide Is a Rude Way to Interfere With Society Murdering You
Society drives you to suicide but when you go pull the trigger, they tell you your life is worthwhile and that we need you. Maybe society needs to stop sending so many mixed messages.
This entry was posted in and tagged depression, emotions, Healthcare, Hopelessness, Jobs, mental health parity, mental illness, Police, poverty, quota, stresss, Suicide, Unemployment on April 15, 2019 by Ted Rall.
For Journalists, Self-Censorship is Credibility Suicide
What is the job of the news media? To report the news. Everyone agrees about that. But some well-intentioned self-imposed ethical guidelines that members of the news media take for granted are getting in the way of the industry's fundamental mission: telling everything they know to a public whose right to know is sacred.
You know journalists have lost their way when they cheer the arrest and potential extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange. Any of us could be next; we should be circling the wagons. Yet they insist on focusing on such inanities as Assange's personality, his "arrogance," even his cat. Some even approve.
The other day NPR's "Morning Edition" covered the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Everyone over age 40 remembers what happened: suffering from depression, chronic pain and opiate addiction, the singer put a shotgun in his mouth and blew his head off.
It's one of the most famous suicides ever. NPR chose to be coy about it, mostly referring to Cobain's "death" rather than his "suicide."
Airbrushing well-known reality is silly. But, like most American media outlets, NPR was merely following the World Health Organization's published guidelines on covering suicide. According to experts news accounts of suicide can feed a phenomenon called "suicide contagion" wherein people in emotional crisis are inspired by stories to see taking their own lives as a solution to their problems. As Time magazine wrote recently, "the more vivid the depiction of a death… the more it may contribute to suicide contagion." Editors and producers are encouraged to avoid detailed descriptions of how victims of suicide did it, what their last note said, etc.
Reducing the suicide rate is a laudable goal. But journalists' job is to report and analyze the news, not to reduce mortality. What's next, refusing to mention hamburgers in the news because they contribute to arteriosclerosis? Cars because they kill people (and in vast numbers)? While we're at it let's censor war correspondence on the grounds that battle stories glorify militarism and thus prompt more wars!
Lying to readers is the worst sin a newspaper can commit. That includes lies of omission: readers pay for and have every right to expect the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from a product that promises exactly that. Playing cute by omitting important, relevant facts from the news, as in the Cobain story, seriously undermines the media's credibility. That goes double when listeners and viewers know what really happened and realize they're being treated like children by self-appointed nannies.
Moreover, self-censorship can destroy a story. Cobain's death by suicide was a shocking where-were-you moment and a defining cultural experience for Generation X. I don't see how Millennials could understand that from the NPR account. It wasn't merely the fact that the lead singer of Nirvana had died. The way he died was central.
Another way the media loses credibility while trying to do the right thing is adhering to the widely accepted belief among corporate news outlets that they are somehow responsible for protecting national security. When the press receives classified government materials from a leaker or whistleblower they often contact the relevant agency to authenticate the documents and/or to allow them to suggest redactions. If you watched "The Post" you saw the Washington Post contact the Nixon Administration to give the White House a chance to argue why they shouldn't publish the Pentagon Papers.
Media outlets like The Guardian and the New York Times shared the Edward Snowden files with the NSA and CIA so they could expunge information like the names of undercover intelligence operatives and suggest redactions. Even The Intercept (formerly a left-leaning media group) did this, to grievous effect: they foolishly shared leaked CIA documents with the feds, who used their analysis to track a whistleblower named Reality Winner. She is in prison.
During the Gulf War Geraldo Rivera got in trouble for drawing a map showing troop movements in the sand. The Pentagon threw him out of Iraq and many reporters agreed.
They were wrong. Journalists are not government employees. They're solely responsible to news consumers, not the military or intelligence agencies who failed to safeguard their own secrets. Why shouldn't a reporter report what they know, whatever they find out, whatever it is, if it's news—no matter how sensitive? If the New York Times had gotten the D-Day plans a week ahead of time, they didn't owe the War Department a phone call. They should have published, consequences be damned.
As the D-day example shows, respecting the public's right to know is hard. Good people can die as a result. Wars may be lost. But for someone dedicated to journalism it's an easy call. Either you're a journalist or you're nothing more than a low-rent liar and propagandist for the government.
Self-censorship often takes the form of policing newsworthy content for tastefulness. After Vice President Dick Cheney told a senator—on the floor of the senate!—to go have sex with himself, respectable media organizations dashed out the f— or otherwise danced around the nefarious fricative (as I am doing here because this column is syndicated). So dumb.
Everyone knows what Cheney said. No one could deny it was news. So print it.
Then there are the "tasteless" photos that are routinely withheld from printed pages and TV screens in the United States: sexual images like Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and gruesome pictures of crime victims. America's namby-pambyness is an outlier. In Latin America, photos of 9/11 jumpers ran on the front pages of major newspapers. But in the U.S., seventeen years later, the images are still scrubbed from public view. Even a sculpture based on those photos was removed from public viewing as too controversial.
It's not like we don't know these images exist. We saw them in live coverage on 9/11. Those who didn't watch them then have heard about it. The media has decided that we're too sensitive to see our own history. Even if you agree with their editorial decision, doesn't it make you wonder what else they're keeping from us?
Images of 9/11 jumpers underscored the horror of the day. Censorship doesn't respect the dead. It whitewashes their agony.
The counterfactual argument, like airing ISIS snuff videos that might encourage the creation of more such imagery, is powerful. Even with such disgusting material, though, we should err on the side of the news and the public's right to know. The alternative, the nanny media we have now, cannot be trusted and feeds into the demagogic framing of "fake news."
(Ted Rall, the cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, is the author of "Francis: The People's Pope." You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged 9/11, journalism, julian assange, jumper photos, Kurt Cobain, media, News, Nirvana, Suicide, WHO, World Health Organization on April 13, 2019 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Suicide? No. Society Is Murdering Us. But There Is a Way Out.
They say that 10 million Americans seriously consider committing suicide every year. In 1984, when I was 20, I was one of them.
Most people who kill themselves feel hopeless. They are miserable and distraught and can't imagine how or if their lives will ever improve. That's how I felt. Within a few months I got expelled from college, dumped by a girlfriend I foolishly believed I would marry, fired from my job and evicted from my apartment. I was homeless, bereft, broke. I didn't have enough money for more than a day of cheap food. And I had no prospects.
I tried in vain to summon up the guts to jump off the roof of my dorm. I went down to the subway but couldn't make myself jump in front of a train. I wanted to. But I couldn't.
Obviously things got better. I'm writing this.
Things got better because my luck changed. But — why did it have to? Isn't there something wrong with a society in which life or death turns on luck?
I wish I could tell my 20-year-old self that suicide isn't necessary, that there is another way, that there will be plenty of time to be dead in the end. I've seen those other ways when I've traveled overseas.
In Thailand and Central Asia and the Caribbean and all over the world you will find Americans whose American lives ran hard against the shoals of bankruptcy, lost love, addiction or social shame. Rather than off themselves, they gathered their last dollars and headed to the airport and went somewhere else to start over. They showed up at some dusty ex-pat bar in the middle of nowhere with few skills other than speaking English and asked if they could crash in the back room in between washing dishes. Eventually they scraped together enough money to conduct tours for Western tourists, maybe working as a divemaster or taking rich vacationers deep-sea fishing. They weren't rich themselves; they were OK and that was more than enough.
You really can start over. But maybe not in this uptight, stuck-up, class-stratified country.
I remembered that in 2015 when I suffered another setback. Unbeknownst to me, the Los Angeles Times — where I had worked as a cartoonist since 2009 – had gotten itself into a corrupt business deal with the LAPD, which I routinely criticized in my cartoons. A piece-of-work police chief leveraged his department's financial influence on the newspaper by demanding that the idiot ingénue publisher, his political ally, fire me as a favor. But mere firing wasn't enough for these two goons. They published not one, but two articles, lying about me in an outrageous attempt to destroy my journalistic credibility. I'm suing but the court system is slower than molasses in the pre-climate change Arctic.
Suicide crossed my mind many times during those dark weeks and months. Although I had done nothing wrong the Times' smears made me feel ashamed. I was angry: at the Times editors who should have quit rather than carry out such shameful orders, at the media outlets who refused to cover my story, at the friends and colleagues who didn't support me. Though many people stood by me, I felt alone. I couldn't imagine salvaging my reputation — as a journalist, your reputation for truthtelling and integrity are your most valuable asset and essential to do your job and to get new ones.
As my LA Times nightmare unfolded, however, I remembered the Texas-born bartender who had reinvented himself in Belize after his wife left him and a family court judge ordered him to pay 90% of his salary in alimony. I thought about the divemaster in Cozumel running away from legal trouble back in the States that he refused to describe. If my career were to crumble away, I could split.
You can opt out of BS without having to opt out of life.
Up 30% since 1999, suicide has become an accelerating national epidemic — 1.4 million Americans tried to kill themselves in a single year, 2015 — but the only times the media focuses on suicide is when it claims the lives of celebrities like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. While the media has made inroads by trying to cover high-profile suicides discreetly so as to minimize suicidal ideation and inspiring others to follow their example, it's frustrating that no one seems to want to identify societal and political factors so that this trend might be reversed.
Experts believe that roughly half of men who commit suicide suffer from undiagnosed mental illness such as a severe personality disorder or clinical depression. Men commit suicide in substantially higher numbers than women. The healthcare insurance business isn't much help. One in five Americans is mentally ill but 60% get no treatment at all.
Then there's stress. Journalistic outlets and politicians don't target the issue of stress in any meaningful way other than to foolishly, insipidly advise people to avoid it. If you subject millions of people to inordinate stress, some of them, the fragile ones, will take their own lives. We should be working to create a society that minimizes rather than increases stress.
It doesn't require a lot of heavy lifting to come up with major sources of stress in American society. People are working longer hours but earning lower pay. Even people with jobs are terrified of getting laid off without a second's notice. The American healthcare system, designed to fatten for-profit healthcare corporations, is a sick joke. When you lose your job or get sick, that shouldn't be your problem alone. We're social creatures. We must help each other personally, locally and through strong safety-net social programs.
Loneliness and isolation are likely leading causes of suicide; technology is alienating us from one another even from those who live in our own homes. This is a national emergency. We have to discuss it, then act.
Life in the United States has become vicious and brutal, too much to take even for this nation founded upon the individualistic principles of rugged libertarian pioneers. Children are pressured to exhibit fake joy and success on social media. Young adults are burdened with gigantic student loans they strongly suspect they will never be able to repay. The middle-aged are divorced, outsourced, downsized and repeatedly told they are no longer relevant. And the elderly are thrown away or warehoused, discarded and forgotten by the children they raised.
We don't have to live this way. It's a choice. Like the American ex-pats I run into overseas, American society can opt out of crazy-making capitalism without having to opt out.
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged Anthony Bourdain, Capitalism, journalism, Kate Spade, killing, media, mental illness, stress, Suicide, therapy, Unemployment on June 14, 2018 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Germanwings Mass Murder-Suicide Caused by Punitive Rules, Coldhearted Capitalism
Investigators are still putting together the pieces, but from what we know so far, it's likely that 27-year-old German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz committed mass murder-suicide when he flew a Germanwings passenger jet carrying 149 passengers and fellow crewmen into the French Alps.
Authorities say they haven't found a suicide note, but it's a safe bet that Lubitz's final act was prompted by depression (they found the meds), diminished vision, a deteriorating romantic relationship and his worry that the Lufthansa subsidiary would ground him if they found out about his problems, crashing a career he loved and blowing up his livelihood.
Though rare, pilot suicide isn't unheard of. As long as the current system remains in place, it will happen again.
By "system," I'm referring both to specific rules issued by the FAA and other countries' aviation authorities to regulate pilots, and to that most coldhearted of socioeconomic systems, you're-on-your-own capitalism.
"Before they are licensed, pilots must undergo a medical exam, conducted by a doctor trained and certified by the aviation agency," explains The New York Times. Some airlines impose additional screening procedures, but they vary from company to company. Active pilots are required to have a medical screening once a year until they turn 40 and then twice a year after. Only when pilots are found to have mental health problems are they sent to a psychiatrist or psychologist for evaluation or treatment."
At first glance, an incident like the Germanwings disaster seems to call for increased physical and mental monitoring. But leaning harder on pilots would only fix half the problem.
The current system is punitive – thus it encourages lying.
"But the system, Dr. [Warren] Silberman [a former manager of aerospace medical certification for the FAA] and others said, leaves pilots on an honor system, albeit one reinforced by penalties to discourage them from concealing any health issues that could affect their fitness to fly, including mental illness. Pilots who falsify information or lie about their health face fines that can reach $250,000, according to the FAA."
Imagine yourself in that position. Knowing that public safety is at risk, you might do the right thing and step forward after your psychiatrist tells you that you shouldn't be working, as happened to Lubitz. Then again, you might not.
First of all, you might doubt the diagnosis. That's the thing about mental illness – victims' judgment can be impaired. For example, there is evidence that Ronald Reagan suffered from early signs of dementia while serving as president. If true, that's scary – but was the Gipper aware he was fading?
Second, you might think you could handle it, that with the help of psychiatric treatment and antidepressant medications, you could push through what might turn out to be a temporary crisis. Why risk everything over a passing phase?
Third, and this is likely, you might keep your problems to yourself because to do otherwise would ruin your life – or at least feel like it. At bare minimum, it would end your career, forcing you to start from zero. For many people, that seems too horrible to bear. In our society, social status is determined by our careers.
"The stigma [of having a mental illness] is enormous," Dr. William Hurt Sledge, professor of psychiatry at Yale who has consulted for the FAA, the Air Line Pilots Association and major airlines, told the Times. "And of course, none of them wants that to be known, nor do they want to confess it or believe that they have it."
And for those who decide to ignore the stigma, what comes next? Where's the safety net, professional, social and economic, for people who run into trouble, whether of their own making or not?
At the root of Lubitz's decision to kill himself – whether he gave much thought to the 149 people on the other side of the reinforced cockpit door cannot be known – is that he lived, as we all do in the Western world, in a disposable society. Lose what you do and you lose what you are. The bills keep coming long after the paychecks stop; soon you have nothing left.
I could throw a dart at any daily newspaper to illustrate this point; today it would probably land on the results of an AARP survey that found – unsurprisingly to anyone over age 50 – that a single layoff after that age has devastating, long-term consequences. People over 50 are overwhelmingly more likely to wind up classified among the long-term unemployed and typically wind up earning less if and when they find a new job, often starting again from scratch in a new industry because their experience was in a line of work that no longer has openings.
I imagine a system in which people like Andreas Lubitz don't need to see a psychological or other setback as the end of their world.
What if he could have confided in his bosses without fear? What if Lufthansa policy was to stand by him through his treatment, guaranteeing him a respectable job at equivalent salary – for as long as it took for him to get better? And if he couldn't recover, what if he knew that his country's government would provide for him financially and otherwise? Finally, what if no one cared what he did for a living, and it was just as prestigious and remunerative to work as a file clerk as to fly a plane?
I'm not sure, but I bet 150 people would be alive today.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and the cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of the new critically-acclaimed book "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan." Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged airplane crash, Andreas Lubitz, Aviation, Capitalism, depression, FAA, Germanwings, Healthcare, mass murder, mental illness, rules, Safety Net, Suicide, Warren Silberman on March 31, 2015 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Still No National Healthcare For Mental Illness? That's Crazy
STILL NO NATIONAL HEALTHCARE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS? THAT'S CRAZY
BY TED RALL
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2014
The sister of the 28-year-old man who shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore the same morning he killed two New York police officers as they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn said her brother had long suffered from mental illness, but hadn't received treatment.
"He was an emotionally troubled young man, and he was suicidal," said Jalaa'i Brinsley. "Clearly something's wrong. He should have been offered help in the system, right? But he wasn't."
Indeed. Something is very wrong.
In the United States, psychiatric care is a luxury that, at $150 an hour and up for counseling that can last for months or even years, only the very wealthiest citizens can afford.
This latest sorry episode serves as yet another reminder that ours remains a country in its infancy when it comes to health care, despite the undeniable turning point marked by last year's enactment of the Affordable Care Act. As many as one out of four Americans suffer mental health issues in any given year, yet even upper-middle-class "white-collar" workers with relatively high-end health insurance plans receive little coverage for mental illness. The same goes for dental and vision care.
You know the narrative by now: after a particularly heinous shooting or mass shooting, typically ending with the suicide or death-by-cop of the suspect, relatives of the murderer emerge to express their sorrow and anger that they had repeatedly sought help but had been consistently rejected, usually due to their inability to afford expensive treatment and medications for mental illness. For the most part, however, news coverage and political debate emphasizes helplessness – who can predict who will go crazy? – and America's easy access to high-powered weapons. Sure, there is a flutter of discussion of the fact that few Americans have access to care for mental illness, but those stories are inevitably overshadowed by the gun control and the "culture of violence" chatter.
Talk about crazy!
As the bodies of the victims – which, if you are fair-minded, must include the killers along with the killed – go cold in their graves, the media and thus the population at large move on, the system putters on the same as always, denying countless millions access to the mental health professionals this country can easily afford to pay on their behalf, and setting the stage for some tiny fraction of them to go haywire and commit the headline-grabbing mass murders of the future.
Two years ago, after Adam Lanza slaughtered 20 children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed his mother and himself, some public officials declared that it was time to get serious about mental illness. According to a report by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate, Lanza had never received treatment for years of mental illness, including anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But, as USA Today reports, "the drive for change has [since] slowed at the state level and ground almost to a halt in Washington…Only 29 states increased funding this year, however. Seven states reduced mental health spending. In some states, mental health funding is still less than it was before the [2008-10] recession."
"We're seeing less attention to mental health, and that's concerning to us, because we're still seeing so many tragedies every day," Mary Giliberti of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) told the paper. Although individual tragedies may not make the news, she said, "the suffering is tremendous when people don't get the services they need. People end up in emergency rooms. People end up in jails and prisons, which is absolutely the wrong place for someone with mental illness."
Mental illness is one of America's biggest hidden scourges.
According to NAMI, 1 in 17 adults − about 13.6 million Americans – suffer from a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder.
46% of homeless Americans in shelters suffer from serious mental illness and/or substance abuse.
20% of prisoners in state and local prisons have a recent history of mental health problems.
70% of children in juvenile prisons have a mental health condition.
People need help, but they're not getting it. 60% of adults with mental illness received no treatment within the last year.
Mental health treatment is expensive — but so is ignoring the problem. "Serious mental illness cost the economy $193.2 billion in lost earnings each year," according to NAMI. Think of all the wars we could fight with the taxes from those lost salaries! Or don't: 22 veterans commit suicide daily.
This year is a perfect example of the system's inability and/or unwillingness to respond to the mental health crisis. Even after actor-comedian Robin Williams succumbed to suicide after years of alcoholism and depression, and a severely depressed 22-year-old man killed six people and then himself at the University of California at Santa Barbara, you couldn't even find a single liberal Democrat in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to propose a bill that would expand the ACA to include comprehensive coverage for mental illness.
Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger's "parents repeatedly attempted to get psychiatric help for their son. By his own account, he was prescribed antipsychotic medication but refused to take it," CBS News reported at the time.
There is a strong argument to be made in favor of restricting access to the highest powered automatic weapons, as well as philosophical interest in debating the nature of good and evil, but if we as a country truly want to reduce the frequency and severity of shootings in our public spaces, we should start by throwing some serious money at psychologists and psychiatrists.
"About half of these mass killings are being done by people with severe mental illness, mostly schizophrenia," Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a leading expert on severe mental illness told "60 Minutes" in 2013. "And if they were being treated, they would've been preventable."
So it wasn't just "evil," or random criminality, that killed those two NYPD officers last weekend.
It was us.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and cartoonist, is the author of the new critically-acclaimed book "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan." Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged ACA, Adam Lanza, Affordable Care Act, Crazy, E. Fuller Torrey, Elliot Rodgers, Gun Control, insanity, mental illness, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Newtown, NYPD shootings, ObamaCare, Police, Robin Williams, Santa Barbara, schizophrenia, School Shootings, Suicide on December 24, 2014 by Ted Rall.
Nanny Journalism
Social media erupted with outrage after some journalists repeated details from the coroner's report on Robin Williams' suicide. It seems that many people didn't want to hear the unpleasant details…er; reality.
This entry was posted in and tagged censorship, coroner, dog, editors, journalism, media, Missiles, nanny journalism, Palestine, Patch Adams, Photographs, Robin Williams, self-censorship, Suicide on August 18, 2014 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Suicide Kills More Americans Than Gun Violence
As I waited for the body of a man who jumped in front of my train to be cleared from the tracks — less than a week before another train I was riding struck a suicide victim — it occurred to me that (a) I should check whether suicide rates are increasing due to the bad economy (they are, especially among men in their 50s), and that (b) talking about suicide is long overdue.
With modernity comes depression; depression sometimes leads to suicide. And it's a global phenomenon. "The World Health Organization reports that suicide rates have increased 60 percent over the past 50 years, most strikingly in the developing world, and that by 2020 depression will be the second most prevalent medical condition in the world," T.M. Luhrmann wrote in The New York Times recently.
Why are so many people opting out?
Can we eliminate or reduce the number of our brothers and sisters who kill themselves?
Disclosure: my best friend committed suicide when we were 15. Bill's death, and his inability/unwillingness to find a reason to keep living among his friends and family, left me angry and confused, unable to process an unsolvable equation. No day passes without me thinking about Bill hanging himself. His death makes me question my own daily decisions to go on living. I am not in touch with anyone else who knew him, but I imagine their trauma was not wildly dissimilar from mine.
So, yeah, it's a personal issue for me. Given that 30,000 Americans commit suicide and 800,000 attempt it every year, it's personal for 5,000,000 survivors of close friends and relatives too.
Nobody talks about it, but suicide is a national epidemic. Suicide by gun kills more Americans — a lot more Americans — than gun violence committed against others. (Though research shows that having a gun in your house greatly increases the chance that you'll shoot yourself.) More American soldiers have killed themselves than have died in the war against Afghanistan.
Perhaps public discussion is inhibited by the cultural myth of the rugged individual, personal responsibility, etc. — hey, it's your choice to live or die — but we're all in this together. We need to save as many people as we can.
One way to reduce the suicide rate would be to get rid of capitalism. Though not a truly communist state, citizens of the Soviet Union were far less likely to kill themselves before the collapse of socialism in 1991.
There is a relentless tendency toward monopoly, consolidation of wealth and rising inequality under capitalism. Inequality — specifically, awareness of inequality — kills.
Studies show that relative poverty — how much poorer you are than your societal peers — is strongly correlated to mental illness, including depression. Of course, you can find a study to support just about anything; there's even a theory that country music prompts people to kill themselves. Still, as Lurhmann says: "We know that social position affects both when you die and how sick you get: The higher your social position, the healthier you are. It turns out that your sense of relative social rank — literally, where you draw a line on an abstract ladder to show where you are with respect to others — predicts many health outcomes, including depression, sometimes even more powerfully than your objective socioeconomic status alone."
Being poor doesn't bum people out. Being poorer than other people — people whose relative wealth you personally witness — does. Mali, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are poor countries. Yet their rates of inequality are low, similar to those of Germany and the Scandinavian countries. And so are their suicide rates.
"Overall life expectancy also tracks with inequality, with a bigger wage gap meaning shorter lives and worse health — for both rich and poor, though the poor are hit much harder," Maia Szalavitz wrote in a much-cited 2011 Time magazine article. "Researchers suspect that this gradient is linked to stress caused by our place in the social hierarchy: Stanford's Robert Sapolsky, for example, has found that even in baboons, lower ranked animals have higher levels of stress hormones and worse health. But when status conflicts are reduced, producing a more egalitarian situation, these differences are also reduced."
In a famous 2003 experiment with monkeys, the animals refused to accept small food allotments than those offered to neighboring monkeys. They became angry at the researchers, throwing objects at them — apparently because they blamed them for unequal distribution of the treats.
Those monkeys were on to something. Better to turn our rage against those responsible for inequality than against ourselves.
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This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged afghanistan, Bangladesh, Capitalism, country music, depression, Economy, game theory, Inequality, LIRR, Long Island Railroad, Maia Szalavitz, Mali, modernity, monkeys, psychology, Socialism, Soldiers, Soviet Union, Suicide, T.M. Luhrmann, train, USSR on March 25, 2014 by Ted Rall.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Dems Luv Cali
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
According to a new poll, "Californians' perceptions about living in the Golden State are fractured along political, geographic and generational boundaries."
Is California one of the best places to live? 53% of Democrats say yes. Only 26% of Republicans do.
Even if you're liberal, the knowledge that conservatives are bummed out about living in the same state that you consider paradise has to give you pause. After all, you're liberal. You're supposed to care about other people — especially other people who tell you that they don't care about you.
Also, you might ask yourself: what if I'm wrong and they're right? What if California really is hell on earth? Does that make me…crazy?
What I want to know, and the poll does not and cannot reveal, is why members of the two major parties view the state's quality of life so differently. Is it political — are Republifornians chafing under Governor Jerry and a Sacramento dominated by his Dems? Or does it reflect different worldviews? When Republicans look at the sky, do they see a different hue? When they hear the words "Miley Cyrus," do their hearts quiver at an alternate frequency?
What about third parties? How do Greens and Libertarians enjoy/hate living here?
Anyway, this cartoon falls into the "illustrative" category of the political toon genre — a piece that doesn't take an editorial stance, but rather shows what's going on for its own sake. I have often been critical of this type of cartooning, but I make exceptions (hey, to be human is to be a hypocrite) for cartoons that highlight minor blink-and-you'll-miss-it stories that have, or may have, broad implications.
Which this one is.
Now that you know that right-wingers dislike living in California, maybe you should consider being nicer to the dude in the monster truck-sized SUV who cuts you off if it has a Tea Party bumper sticker. Chances are, he's depressed enough us as it is without you honking at him.
Also, he's more likely to be armed.
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged Democrats, Golden Gate Bridge, happiness, Local Cartoon, los angeles times, Police, Political Parties, poll, quality of life, Republicans, San Francisco, Suicide, voter registration on December 19, 2013 by Ted Rall.


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Official: Nissan Has A Striking New Logo
by Sebastian Cenizo Video / Comments
A new brand identity has arrived after 19 years.
Like every other corporate entity in the world, automakers need to appear relevant to continue attracting customers. While this can mean new products, it can also mean a new corporate identity, and with it, a new logo. Recently, BMW updated its logo with a simplified design, and before that, Volkswagen unveiled a logo intended to highlight its commitment to electric cars - a good idea considering the brand's questionable approach to emissions in the past. Now Nissan has revealed a new logo too. We first saw the new logo a few months back when the global trademarking process was still underway, but now it's officially what we'll see on new models going forward, the first of which is the Ariya electric crossover.
In case you missed it, the Ariya has just been unveiled, and it seems to be the Tesla-fighter it was expected to be. But the real news here is that there is a new logo for Nissan - not which car it debuts on. In the video above, it seems that Nissan is also using its new logo to call nature to mind, and put a greater emphasis on sustainability and eco-friendly vehicles. Various iterations of the logo are shown, each with a tie to nature. Feathers, grass, water, ice, and Japan's famous cherry blossoms are all used to depict the new logo. Nissan calls this "awakening the elements."
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How exactly this logo will appear on future models is yet to be ascertained. On the abovementioned Ariya, it lights up but is placed on a shadow of the old logo. We expect that future cars that aren't electric will feature the logo in some sort of metallic badge with eight individual pieces. Let's hope that getting the car washed won't see you driving home in a Nissa or an Issan. Regardless of how it's used, we think it looks simplistic, sleek, elegant, and just plain cool. The simplistic design ought to look pretty impressive on the spate of new cars coming from Nissan, particularly the upcoming Nissan 400Z.
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In the Trenches in the Time of Covid
Five stories of alumni bringing their best work forward in the hour of our greatest need.
Mister History
No one knows more about Beloit's long and fascinating history than Fred Burwell'86, keeper of the College Archives since 1986.
Data That Tells a Seriously Good Story About Beloit
The Quiet Moments In-Between: My Brief But Spectacular Time In Ireland
On March 16, 2020—the day before St. Patrick's Day—Meg Kulikowski'21 watched Ireland disappear from the window of an almost empty Aer Lingus plane. It seemed like an abrupt end to her study abroad experience, but was it?
Find out what Beloiters have been doing over the last few months.
We Are No. 5 in the Nation
Beloit rises to the top on a coveted list of innovative national liberal arts schools.
Farewell to Poetry Garden Artist
Siah Armajani created some of Beloit's most notable–and useful–works of art.
Masks, Circus Tents, and a New Campus Normal
An attitude of "we're all in this together" is keeping the campus community healthy.
At a Critical Moment, Students Rewrite Their Statement of Culture
Revisions include a formal anti-racist position and a focus on student behavior that mitigates the spread of Covid-19.
Beloit in the News, Noted as a 'Bright Spot'
The college's swift action in the face of uncertainty earned notice by NBC, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
A future story is brewing about what happened during some of Beloit's aptly timed power outages.
Anti-Racist Work Accelerates, Framed by Student Demands
Beloit's aspirations to become an anti-racist institution were already underway, but the racial reckoning of the spring and summer of 2020 has galvanized this work.
High GPAs and Athletic Feats Place Students on All-Academic Team
Track and field athletes excel in the classroom and in their sports.
Banners That Matter
When the the city of Beloit withdrew its permission to hang Black Lives Matter banners on the Powerhouse bridge, students quickly made a replacement.
Alumni generosity, an education for the public good, and more news in brief
Teaching Hard Truths About Race in American Political Science Courses
"Be All In" Campaign Rocks (Pandemic) Year One
In these turbulent times, we invite you to step back for a moment and recall the serenity of Beloit's campus in fall. Howard Korn'87 captured this shot in October 2019 from the Sanger Center for the Sciences rooftop.
Howard Korn'87


The Silk Road Mountain Race Screening and Panel | Look mum no hands!
Last night, LOADS of people joined us for an amazing event showcasing the Silk Road Mountain Race, a new fixed route, unsupported, single-stage cycling race through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
We started the night with a screening of PEdAL ED's short documentary showcasing the first edition of the race held this year, followed by a panel of riders that experienced it: Pete McNeil Peta McSharry Levente Bagoly. Hosted by Laura Scott.
Watch the panel back via our facebook live video below.
Audio will be up soon!
Thanks to everyone that squeezed into 49 Old St. for this it was an amazing night.


The School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) is pleased to announce Dr. Andrew Scott and Sarah-Jane Greenway, respectively, as acting dean and acting associate dean for the fall 2018 academic term. Andrew and Sarah-Jane will provide ongoing leadership and support for teaching and learning as Humber looks to fill the dean position on a permanent basis.
A respected jazz guitarist and musicologist, Andrew takes on the acting dean role after spending three years as SCAPA's associate dean. Andrew first joined Humber's music faculty in 2005, simultaneously serving as the Bachelor of Music program's head academic advisor from 2010 to 2015. As both a faculty member and academic administrator, Andrew has engaged in and advocated for interdisciplinary studies and arts-sector leadership and entrepreneurial skills to empower students during their transition into professional industry.
Sarah-Jane is equally committed to student success and engagement. She joins SCAPA after working in a management capacity in the Office of the Registrar, and as a program review consultant in Program Planning, Development and Renewal (PPDR). Sarah-Jane combines an understanding of College and Ministry quality assurance processes and best practices with knowledge of SCAPA curriculum and an appreciation for the unique needs of its programs.
The new appointments come after Steve Bellamy stepped down as dean to assume the role of chief executive officer of the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, P.E.I. His last day at Humber was August 31, 2018.


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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Tinashe
Published March 7, 2015 by Rick
On March 6th 2015 , Tinashe was in Amsterdam to give a show at Paradiso Noord as part of her 'Aquarius' world tour. In the afternoon before the show, we from Fresh: Hip-Hop & R&B were able to interview the R&B superstar, while she was enjoying a fresh pizza backstage.
Is this your first time in Amsterdam? Do you like the city?
No, it's my second time here. I was here already in August last year and I loved it. The city is awesome. It's colder this time. It's almost freezing right now! We went to 'The Red Light District' and to some coffee shops. We had to. It was fun, I guess, haha.
Could you tell us something about your story? Have you always wanted to be a singer?
As long as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a singer and I've always wanted to make and release music. No one ever really told me that I couldn't or that it was a waste of time. My parents always encouraged me. So for as long as I can remember, I've been working on my dream.
Before you went solo, you were part of the girl group The Stunners. Do you prefer to work as a solo artist or to be part of a group? Why?
When you are a part of a group, there is definitely a lot more partnership. Otherwise, there's less work you have to do. Other people are answering questions and all that stuff. However, it's a lot more fulfilling to be a solo artist. Because it's coming from you, it's your music and it's your point of view. You can make the creative decisions. When I was in a group, I couldn't even decide what I clothes I wore.
How did your life change after the success of the single "2 On" and the release of your debut album Aquarius?
A lot. Just like day to day things changed. I used to go to places without getting bothered, but now people recognize me and want to take pictures. That's different. I'm also traveling and performing a lot more. I have 5 to 6 shows a week right now, which used to be 5 to 6 shows a year. People also start to treat you different. They start to bring you pizza and stuff, haha.
You have already collaborated with some big names like A$AP Rocky, Future, Kid Ink and Ty Dolla $ign. What is your favourite collaboration so far?
My collaboration with Schoolboy Q is my favorite. Honestly, he's just really nice and down to earth off the record. He's a celebrity and a really big star.
With which artists would you like to collaborate in the future?
I would love to work with André 3000, that would be crazy. Collaborating with Emily Haines and Little Dragon would also be awesome. They are different and have an own style. They are on top of my list right now.
Recently, you premiered the amazing self-directed video for "Bated Breath". How did you come with the concept of the video?
This song already felt to me like you're kind of alone. It gives you that feeling of wanting to be with someone, waiting for something to happen, waiting for someone to save you. That's what 'Bated Breath' means to me. That's also the feeling the video is based on. I wanted to represent that kind of feeling of being lonely and waiting for someone to save you.
Are you already working on your second album? What is it going to sound like: like Aquarius, or way different?
Yes, but I have no idea yet. The style will not dramatically change or anything. I'm still in the early stages of the project. So who knows where it goes. You never know.
We've also asked our followers to come up with some questions for you…
What's your ultimate goal in life, aside from music? (Instagram: @music_n_munchys)
Music is pretty much number one. Also my goal is to get married and have kids in the future. But for now, the music is obviously number one.
You have often been compared to Aaliyah. What are your thoughts about that? (Instagram: @fasaztic)
It's a huge compliment to be compared to anyone who people respect musically. I think she's an incredible artist. But I want to be known as myself. Anyway, I understand why people compare me to her.
What advice do you have for people who also want to become successful in the music industry? (Instagram: @king_isaac2000)
Make good music, that's obvious, but I mean like a lot of people want to be successful in music, but don't know how to make their own music. But it's possible, especially with the technology these days. You can figure out how to record music and make it sound pretty good. Go to YouTube, watch some tutorials, mess around, download some programs and figure it out. Go out there and make the music you want, in your own style. This is how I do it.
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Q: create an array using index and dateCreated value (getting only last value in array) I have two variables

console.log({index: message.index,dateCreated: message.dateCreated});

printed in the console as below image (line by line).
I want to create a condition as if the index has a date similar to index - 1 date then it will print false else print true but I am not able to get all values in one array only getting the last value in the array.

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require 'brew_notify/logger'

module BrewNotify
  class Notifier
    SUPPORTED_NOTIFIERS = ['gntp', 'terminal_notifier', 'growl']
    def self.detect_notifiers
      SUPPORTED_NOTIFIERS.each do |n|
        begin
          return BrewNotify::Notifier.new(notifier: n.to_sym)
        rescue Exception => e
          Logger.error "Initialization failed for #{n}: #{e.message}"
          Logger.debug e.backtrace.join("\n")
          next
        end
      end
    end

    def initialize(options = {})
      if options[:notifier]
        set_preferred_notifier(options)
      else
        BrewNotify::Notifier.detect_notifiers
      end
    end

    private
    def set_preferred_notifier(options = {})
      case options[:notifier]
      when :gntp
        require "brew_notify/notifiers/gntp"
        extend BrewNotify::GNTP
      when :growl
        require "brew_notify/notifiers/growl"
        extend BrewNotify::Growl
      when :terminal_notifier
        require "brew_notify/notifiers/terminal_notifier"
        extend BrewNotify::TerminalNotifier
      else raise ArgumentError, 'Notifier not recognized'
      end
    end

  end
end

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Nurses Emerge as Front Line "Climate Workers"
As the Ebola outbreak continues to dominate headlines, so too do the stories of health care workers fighting to contain the disease. The climate crisis is morphing into a public health crisis, forcing nurses to join the ranks of other workers on the front lines of climate change: firefighters battling ever more destructive fires, farmers struggling to coax crops from drought-ravaged fields, fishermen hauling empty nets from warming waters. The nature of work is changing and we're not prepared.
For nurses, the risks became strikingly clear when news leaked out that Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, two nurses at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, had contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national infected with the disease. While both nurses thankfully recovered, their situation highlights nurses as a new generation of "climate workers" exposed to expanding dangers on the job.
Stunningly, instead of celebrating the bravery of a profession the nation regards as its most trusted and respected, politicians and media reacted to the Ebola outbreak by blaming nurses for their carelessness. In fact, it's the policy makers and hospital administration, not nurses, who are being "careless" by failing to take the measures necessary to protect healthcare workers and patients.
[N]ot one more patient, nurse, or healthcare worker should be put at risk due to a lack of healthcare facility preparedness. The United States should be setting the example on how to contain and eradicate the Ebola virus.
The World Health Organization has called Ebola "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times." But can the outbreak be directly linked to the climate crisis? While a relation between Ebola and global warming is already hotly being debated, study after study shows that infectious diseases are becoming more virulent, and spreading faster, as a result of conditions directly related to a changing climate. The Ebola outbreak is a harbinger of the future.
Many of the most deadly diseases on earth – malaria, dengue and yellow fever, encephalitis and cholera – are highly climate sensitive, and are thriving as patterns of temperature, precipitation, and sea levels shift in their favor. They are spreading to new parts of the globe, including the US.
Dengue fever, which was wiped out in the US in the World War II era, has now made a dramatic reappearance in the Florida Keys. Commonly called "breakbone fever" because it causes pain so severe it feels like one's bones are breaking, dengue is expected to spread over the next 60 years, exposing an additional two billion people.
Rodents, insects and other disease host populations are also exploding. Parasites and microbes are marching steadily northward, with infections such as Lyme disease increasing tenfold in the past 10 years.
As climate diseases escalate so does the need for global first responders. Nurses organizations, like the NNU, have stepped up to play this role. In the wake of Typhoon Yolanda, for example, over 500 RNs traveled to the Philippines to volunteer their skills. When Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake, 12,000 RNs from across the nation responded in a matter of days.
The climate crisis has changed the world of health care. Nurses have been at the forefront, and their role will only continue to expand. It is critical that we as a society figure out how to protect our health care workers as they step into the breach.
Brendan Smith is an oysterman and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Tamanna Rahman is a registered nurse and former labor organizer. She is currently a graduate student in advanced practice nursing at Yale University.


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Q: R Coding - Adding a vector I am fairly new to R coding and am trying to create a function that will add a vector to the existing data frame.
I have a data frame with 5,049 rows and two vectors as shown below:
Name <- Jane Tom Harry ...  Anna

Counter <- 1 2 3 4 ... 5049

I would like to create another vector, say SET, that slits the data frame by 100 rows. For example SET = 1 for Counter = 1 to 100, SET = 2 for Counter = 101 to 200, etc... So, here SET will have values 1,2,3, ... 50.
Thanks!

A: Use integer division:
counter <- 1:5049
SET <- ((counter - 1L) %/% 100L) + 1


2.1 Add a server of newer generation in a cluster with older server.
This topic is already well documented.
Add a server of newer generation in a cluster with older server.
There was no argument to justify the cost of replacing all V1 servers by V2 servers.
Therefore it was necessary to have, for a transition period, a cluster with mixed generation CPU.
At the beginning only one new server was added to the cluster.
If it is necessary to do maintenance on the host, it will be necessary to shutdown all VMs using the V2 features.
Enable EVC "Intel Sandy-Bridge" in the cluster before adding the new host.
All VMs started on the V2 host will only see the "Intel Sandy-Bridge" features.
It will then be possible to migrate them accross the host without any issues.
This is the challenge at the origin of this post.
The goal is to prevent others VMware users to face similar issues.
The vCenter VM runs in a cluster without EVC.
The destination cluster is configured with the highest EVC level available (Intel Haswell).
The servers in the two clusters are from different vendors but all with E5-2690 v4 CPUs.
Attempting a vMotion from the source to the destination cluster doesn't work.
3DNow! PREFETCH and PREFETCHW are unsupported.
It doesn't seem logical it is the highest EVC mode available, and the processors are identical.
I have tried to identify the difference between the two servers.
In the server in the EVC cluster, the following "Feature Name" have a value of 0 instead of 1, which align with the vMotion error message.
The VM has 41 Feature requirement…including the 6 mentioned earlier.
Next step, what EVC is exactly doing?
The 6 "Feature name" mentioned early are not at all defined in the mask.
So if they are not in the EVC mask, it means that they are linked to unknown future generation CPU features.
By default EVC will "block" everything above the EVC level.
E5-2690 v4 is from "Broadwell" generation as mentioned in the HCL.
The maximum EVC level with vCenter 6.0 is "Intel Haswell".
However for vCenter 6.5 the maximum is "Intel Broadwell".
It explains why picking the highest EVC level available was still not enough for vMotion.
If the cluster was configured from the beginning with EVC "intel-haswell" this problem will not be present.
I do not like this option, it guarantees future problem.
2 – Migrate vCenter to the new cluster with a downtime.
I am planning to follow the KB "How to enable EVC in vCenter Server" but with a twist that will make the migration easier.
It will be covered in a future post.
It will actually help to migrate others VMs in the same situation.
However, it is not possible to perform this kind of operation without a good justification and planning.
The two previous scenario demonstrates that enabling EVC has a real positive effect for availability and manageability.
However, on the negative side, EVC "may" impact performance.
The concept in this post are still valid today, even if there are now higher EVC modes.
The key point is "Corner case". Some applications may benefit from latest CPU features but it is more the exception than the rule.
When using EVC, use the highest level possible based on requirements and constraints, to reduce the performance impact of the features "hidden".
If you have for example only one host of old generation in the cluster, it may be good to consider removing it to increase the EVC level for all others hosts.
I personally recommend as a best practice to enable EVC for all hosts connected to vCenter.
If one host is not part of a cluster, create a cluster of one host just to get the possibility to enable EVC for this host.
For each cluster aim for the highest EVC based on constraint and future changes.
It means that the "technical highest possible" is not necessary the best for the design.
However there are some scenarios where it will be necessary to consider disabling it.
If the design requirements privilege performance above all, then it will be necessary to carefully review the applications and ideally do performance testing with and without EVC.
If it has been identified application that will benefit from highest CPU features not available with highest EVC mode.
If the performance are not "good enough". On top of a performance troubleshooting consider increasing or disabling EVC in the testing.
Finally it is easier to move from EVC to higher EVC or no EVC than in the other way.
So it is better to start with EVC, and if needed later update the EVC level or remove EVC.
However keep in mind that a power cycle will be needed for a VM to access latest CPU features.
On top of all standard considerations to select a vCenter version consider the EVC mode available.
The "EVC Broadwell" give an advantage for vCenter 6.5 against vCenter 6.0.
I forgot to enable EVC for any clusters when we moved hosts to another vCenter server. EVC was previously set before the move. I can enable with out issue right is my first question (no impact to VMs) but the issue I see is that I will need to power cycle VMs on the higher spec hosts (50/50% ration of Gen8 and Gen9!). Failing this they can migrate to equal and higher spec but not lower so things like DRS will fail. Can I move the hosts to another cluster with EVC enabled? I do not want to disconnect because we use vDS for the VM port group and when we moved hosts we moved all Vms to vStandard to follow Vmware best practice.
Any ideas? There is no way we can power cycle so many VMs.


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The Acts
Adam's Family History
1This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in God's likeness. 2He created them male and female. And on that day he blessed them and named them human beings.
3When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son. He was in the likeness and image of Adam. Adam named him Seth. 4After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 5So Adam lived a total of 930 years. Then he died.
6When Seth was 105 years old, he had a son named Enosh. 7After Enosh was born, Seth lived 807 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 8So Seth lived a total of 912 years. Then he died.
9When Enosh was 90 years old, he had a son named Kenan. 10After Kenan was born, Enosh lived 815 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 11So Enosh lived a total of 905 years. Then he died.
12When Kenan was 70 years old, he had a son named Mahalalel. 13After Mahalalel was born, Kenan lived 840 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 14So Kenan lived a total of 910 years. Then he died.
15When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he had a son named Jared. 16After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived 830 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 17So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years. Then he died.
18When Jared was 162 years old, he had a son named Enoch. 19After Enoch was born, Jared lived 800 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 20So Jared lived a total of 962 years. Then he died.
21When Enoch was 65 years old, he had a son named Methuselah. 22After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 23So Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24Enoch walked with God. One day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.
25When Methuselah was 187 years old, he had a son named Lamech. 26After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived 782 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 27So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years. Then he died.
28When Lamech was 182, he had a son. 29Lamech named his son Noah.# This name sounds like the Hebrew word for "rest." Lamech said, "Noah will comfort us from the pain of our work. The pain is because God has cursed the ground." 30After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters. 31So Lamech lived a total of 777 years. Then he died.
32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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1 # Gen 1.27. This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years; and he had other sons and daughters. 5Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
6When Seth had lived a hundred and five years, he became the father of Enosh. 7Seth lived after the birth of Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters. 8Thus all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
9When Enosh had lived ninety years, he became the father of Kenan. 10Enosh lived after the birth of Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and had other sons and daughters. 11Thus all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.
12When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Ma-halalel. 13Kenan lived after the birth of Ma-halalel eight hundred and forty years, and had other sons and daughters. 14Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
15When Ma-halalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared. 16Ma-halalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters. 17Thus all the days of Ma-halalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years; and he died.
18When Jared had lived a hundred and sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch. 19Jared lived after the birth of Enoch eight hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. 20Thus all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and he died.
21When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. 23Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24#Heb 11.5. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
25When Methuselah had lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech. 26Methuselah lived after the birth of Lamech seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had other sons and daughters. 27Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
28When Lamech had lived a hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son, 29and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground which the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands." 30Lamech lived after the birth of Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and had other sons and daughters. 31Thus all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died.
32After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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