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Anyone with a semblence of basic economic training could poke a million holes in that ridiculous article, but why bother when everyone knows it's bullshit... What's more interesting is people who say being a stay at home mom is harder than working for a living. That baffles me. My wife stays at home with a 4 year old and a 1 year old, and she says it's the easiest thing she's ever had to do; even easier than being a teenager because there's no homework. It ain't 24-7: the kids sleep like 12 hours a day, I play with them for four hours each night. If she wants a vacation, she takes one and I watch the kids. You could also hire a nanny for a week. The way she describes her job is: "I get to play with my kids all day."

Actually, what has been established through repeated experimentation is the principle of "diffusion of responsibility". Basically, if you are by yourself and you hear a woman screaming, there is almost a 100% chance that you will investigate. If there are five people around, odds are that one of you will check it out. If there are twenty people around, maybe someone will look. But, if there are one hundred witnesses, no one will do anything, because at that point you are only 1% responsible for acting...

Who wants to run while carrying weights? Besides that, I don't really believe your example. Professional athletes use segmented training, and it sure seems to pay off for them...

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Even if he had a sign that said "World Famous Musician", no one would have stopped and listened, because people don't give a crap about classical music. It's not that they couldn't recognize quality, it's that the definition of quality here is dubious. If Jimmy Paige set up shop in that train station, you'd have had a riot on your hands, even if he wore a mask and only played music by other artists...

1. Cirque of Towers - Wind River Range 2. Bugaboos 3. Sawtooths 4. Palisades - High Sierra 5. Grand Teton NP 6. Banff & Lake Louise 7. Little Switzerland If you're going to take off for a week, go someplace new and special, don't waste it climbing local... Of course, this is coming from someone who once climbed Mt. Shasta in 24 hours, door-to-door from Seattle.

Surgery is no longer generally prescribed for lower back pain; it hasn't been shown to have any statistically valid efficecy. The unfortunate reality is that most people will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and the root cause will most often be unclear. Even if you have a bulging disc which is clear as day on the MRI (like me) that may not actually be the source of your pain - the percentage of people with and without disc problems who experience pain are nearly identical. Personally, I've had recurring sever lower back pain and sciatica for about 20 years. I've been to tons of doctors and chiropractors and physical therapists. I've read all the books and articles and I look for magical cures in medical journals all the time. There is no cure. All you can do is manage the pain through disciplined daily stretching, phystical therapy sessions, ice and heat applications.

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This seems like an odd choice for a survey - why not just go to the Census Bureau and find out the actual number of Americans living abroad and/or retiring overseas? In general, asking people what they are going to do in a survey is not particularly accurate. It's a lot better to look at their actual behavior.

This sounds like the perfect recipe for a miserable life. I've found that the nicer you treat people, the nicer they treat you back. If you want to be loved, love first. If you want people to treat you with kindness, be kind and they will return it in kind. ALL of the truly happy people I know are incredibly nice. All the miserable people I know are cynics. Why choose misery?

Also, the "fact" posted earlier is backwards. Parrots live longer in captivity than they do in the wild, just like pretty much every animal. In captivity, an animal does not face predation, starvation, weather, etc. They also have access to veterinary care and nutritional supplements.

Its complete nonsense that women don't really like "nice" guys. I grew up in middle-class town with a good mix of kids, from nerds, to jocks, to hoods, to outright criminals. The nicer the guy, the more likely he was to have a girlfriend, so long as he wasn't completely shy. Now, fifteen years later, the "nice" guys are all happily married, the hoods and criminals are either in jail or living alone in a trailer somewhere... Girls want a nice guy with a steady job, a little ambition and some common decency.

My first summer out here, I climbed Rainier with Dave "Spike" Mahre (he's related to my wife). While relaxing at Camp Schurman some random climber asked him if he'd climbed the mountain before. Spike calmly stated "oh, a couple hundred times, or so". He spent most of the trip complaining about how he had hauled Camp Schurman up the mountain on his back and the damn government has stolen it from him...

The contention that climber chicks are less attractive than the general population is laughable, and indicative of our collective inability to generalize from our own experiences. What percentage of women are old? Obese? Unwashed? The actual average female (just like the average male) is a fat, old, ugly, slob. This isn't to say they are bad people, it is just a statement of fact. It's similar to some of the girls I knew in college who had 120+ IQs, but who thought they were dumb because everyone they knew had a 130 IQ. They couldn't get their heads around the fact that 1/2 the people in the country have an IQ under 100.

Actually, we all starting climbing in the Southeast, places like T-Wall and the big faces in North Carolina (Whitesides, Looking Glass). The chopped bolts from Sandrock, AL to the New in West Virginia. The guy who build the HPSC web site eventually moved out to Colorado, and now lives in his truck in Utah at Indian Creek.

Back in the day (10+ years ago), I fell in with a group of climbers who were much stronger than me. While they did most of the leading, I still ended up going from a weak 5.10 climber to a solid 5.12 climber pretty quickly. Then, these guys all became obsessed with chopping bolts and being hard-core trad climbers (they called themselves the "hard pipe-swingers coalition"). I stopped climbing with them because it stopped being fun. Now, I climb mostly with my wife or a couple friends who are not very experienced. I do all the leading and rarely climb anything harder than 5.8 and I've found that I actually prefer easier climbs. If you're not making money from your climbing, it's just a hobby and the point of hobbies is to have fun, it's not to impress anybody...

Dogs' eyes can be affected by reflected sun off the snow," said Dr. Jennifer Fontanelle, a veterinary ophthalmology resident at CSU. "But I'm not sure we clinically recognize 'snow blindness' in dogs." Dogs prone to inflammatory eye disorders, such as pannus, are particularly sensitive to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight, she said. Some breeds predisposed to pannus are the German shepherd, greyhound, Belgian Tervuren and Belgian Malinois.

A lot of dogs have natural "sunglasses" - their masks work in much the same way as black tape under the eyes work for football players. A black dog like a lab should not have any problems with snow blindness, nor should a dog like a husky which has a pronounced mask. Additionally, dogs don't have very good eyesite to begin with and can generally get along fine even if they're "blind". From my experience, I'd say thousands of dogs climb volcanoes around here each summer, and if snow blindness was really a problem we'd all know it by now. I've personally taken four different breeds of dog to the summit of a volcano on bright clear days, and none of them had any problems.

My sister-in-law is looking for a local women's climbing group, where she can meet some new people, make some friends, get in some climbing, etc. I've taken her climbing before and I'd say she can climb 5.7 or 5.8, but she doesn't know how to lead or even tie a knot, for that matter. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

A long time ago I took a mountaineering course up in Alaska from AAI. Our guide said that in his experience flukes were named as such because if they work, it's a fluke. He advised always using pickets... Take that for whatever it's worth.

I'll be down in California with my family in March, and we'll be heading to Joshua Tree for a couple days and I'd like to take my son on some really easy boulders. Is there someplace within a mile or two of the road with easy boulders and soft landings? Alternatively, is there a really easy top-rope area? He's about to turn four, but he's got shoes and a harness.

Since my son was born almost four years ago (and I have a one year old, too), weekend climbing has fallen way off my radar. My wife used to be my climbing partner, but she used the birth of our son as an excuse to never have to climb again... So, I'm partner-less, plus I work 80+ hours a week and I'd rather play with my kids on the weekends than go climbing by myself. The balance I've found is that whenever I start to get really pent-up with wanderlust, my wife buys me a climbing trip somewhere - so two or three times a year I head out for a long weekend or maybe even a week up in Alaska, down in Utah, or Red Rocks, or someplace cool I've always wanted to go... The other thing I've found to keep myself sane is have an escape date. I'm retiring in four years on my 39th birthday. Once I don't have to work, there'll be plenty of time to play with my kids and climb and bike and kayak, etc. I'm serious - save up, retire when your kids are young, and then go back to work when they head off to college.

I second the recommendation to look at Mammut. I'm not that tall (6'), but I'm really skinny (155lbs), and I've never found a pair of medium or large pants that fit me (the medium is too short, the large is too fat). With Mammut, you can get any combination of waist and inseem you'd like.

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Is this the article to which you refer?