The Election That Was

I had a visit with friends yesterday, and Lynn asked why I hadn't written something about the Canadian Election yet ... knowing that I'm passionate about politics and have never been shy about sharing my opinion.

It's been five days now, so it's time to rant a little bit.

Like almost every Canadian I know, we're fiscally conservative and socially liberal. The "Conservative Values" that were talked about during the campaign are real - and I don't have a problem with them. What I take exception to is when those values trump everything else. Name a social program in this country that hasn't been affected by budget cuts - you can't.

Balanced budgets at all cost were the demise of the Conservatives (and the NDP). I think most people understand that there is intelligent use of debt. Investment in infrastructure is good debt. Seems to me the Conservatives did just this after the financial disaster of 2008. Most examples worldwide prove that austerity doesn't work.

This election wasn't an overwhelming vote of confidence for the Liberals. It was a spanking of the Conservatives. Mostly their leader, although I took great pleasure in seeing people like Joe Oliver (former Minister of Finance), Pierre Poilevre (former Minister of Employment), and Chris Alexander (former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), lose their seats.

Even where they won their seat, knuckle draggers like Rona Ambrose (former Minister of Health) cannot continue the damage they've done.

But the Liberals won with the same majority the Conservatives did in 2011. 39.5% of us wanted a Trudeau government, or voted strategically to get one (they didn't vote Green or NDP because they wanted Harper gone at all costs - this describes me).

In the final analysis I'm very pleased with the outcome - the Conservatives are decimated (sorry, Lynn) and are re-examining where they failed.

Trudeau has some big issues to tackle, but this whole "inexperience" thing - proffered by the Conservatives - is a red herring. I could run the country if surrounded by bright people.

The ability to be driven by fact, not by dogma, is all you need. This is where Harper failed.

Migrating to the Cloud - The Chromebook Experience

After mulling it about for months and months, I took the leap about a year ago and bought a Chromebook (an Acer C720 - 2GB RAM and16GB SSD - $269).

I rely less and less on native Windows applications, and found I spent most of my time in the Chrome browser anyway.

If you use your Smartphone a lot, and have migrated to online banking and online bill payment, I'd encourage you to measure the actual time you spend using PC or Mac applications versus just existing on the web.

What I Use Most

There are a handful of applications I use inside the Chrome browser (and consequently the Chromebook) most of the time. Other than normal web apps (email, calendar, banking, Twitter, Facebook) there are a few "quasi-browser" programs I use on the Chromebook:

• Dropbox - is now a Chromebook application from the Google Play store.
• Microsoft Office Online - works just fine and I use it with Dropbox to edit Microsoft Word documents (I could use Google Sheets as well).
• Google Docs/Sheets - works offline as well.
• Bittorrent Client - I'm playing with Bitford right now, but searching for another client - install from the Google Play store. 
• Flipboard - I use this for all my newsfeeds - I don't trust Facebook to filter news for me.
• Hootsuite - this manages multiple Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin feeds.
• Netflix - works just fine from a Chromebook. Change your virtual country (see PrivateInternetAccess below) and stream different Netflix streams - the UK and USA are very different from Canada.
• PrivateInternetAccess - give me a virtual presence in several countries. Highly recommended and works fine in a Chrombook.
• Chromecast - this is a hardware/software dongle you attach to the USB port on your TV. Indispensable for anyone operating a Chromebook, as it allows you to do a number of things with your TV (like display your desktop, stream movies, project YouTube and Netflix, etc). 

I Still Can't Replace These

There are still a handful of applications I need a Windows computer for, and if you rely on a Mac, you'll have a short list as well. The Windows PC sits in the bedroom mostly unused, and I'm always searching for a "cloud" way to do things. Over the last year, as the popularity of the Chromebook increases, the list of "PC only" apps has shortened considerably.

• HP Scanner Utility for the Envy 4500 wireless printer/scanner. Only the scanning part won't work with the Chromebook. Printing works fine, and cloud printing is pretty painless.
• Calibre is an ebook management programs for managing my Kindle. Most people wouldn't need this, as Amazon handles all their ebooks on their site.
• Videostream is used for streaming movies to my Chromecast/TV. I only need this when I'm really lazy - I can either cast (using Chromecast) video to the TV or use the included HDMI connector on the Chromebook. But since there's limited storage on the Chromebook (16GB), I normally store all my movies on the PC.
• Scrivener is an ebook editing/publishing application for creating ebooks. I haven't used this program in a few years, but it's there if I ever feel the need to write another book.
• Prezi is presentation software I sometimes use or some contract work I do. Again, I haven't used this in over a year.

Overall, I use the Chromebook about 90% of the time. I use the desktop/laptop PC about 5% of the time for "PC only" apps, and the other 5% is for times I'm too lazy to use the Chromebook.

Other Benefits

The biggest benefits (to me) with the Chromebook platform are:

• Cost - if I break or lose this computer, it's trivial and inexpensive to replace. The one I'm using right now cost $269.
• Battery Life - I can get a full day of use out of my Chromebook, and often forget to charge it overnight. It will recharge in a couple of hours, so I can plug it in when I go for a walk, and it's ready to go again.
• Size and Weight - this thing is small. Not Macbook Air small, but small - 2.76 lbs.
• Speed - as long as you're aware that the number of browser tabs you have open effects the speed, it's very fast. If anything becomes an issue, close a tab or two. I often have 5-6 tabs open at one time, and see no performance hit.
• Ultra Portability - as long as you have an Internet connection, this thing is fantastic. If you need to do something without net access, you have to think twice (make sure your Docs and Sheets are synced, any movies you want to watch are on the internal drive, etc.).

I'm pleased with the switch. I have a friend in Victoria (Rick) who is very Microsoft-centric and wanted me to move to the Microsoft Surface platform. It looks pretty good, and the ability to run anything and everything is a bonus, but cost is a factor. If I break or lose my Chromebook, no biggie. And since everything exists in the cloud, I lose nothing.

My next computer will be another Chromebook.

The Rest of the World Comes Here...

Laura and I, like you I suppose, talk a fair bit about where we'll travel to next.

Some of this is tied to just getting out of the winter (that means rain here in Vancouver), and the remainder is to visit places we haven't been before. Often, though, we return to places we have been.

We go out of our way to support local businesses where we can, so why is it that we don't support our own tourist industry?

I think it's time to change that.

The rest of the world comes to British Columbia to see all the grandeur we have to offer, but we go to Phoenix or Asia or Europe or Mexico or ....

Granted, there are six months of every year where the weather doesn't cooperate with a local vacation, but from May through October things can be spectacular.

So this year, Laura and I are taking Clark (the motor home) for three weeks and doing a circle tour in our own province.

Vancouver - Bella Coola - Port Hardy - Victoria - Vancouver.

Although I've been looking forward to this for some time, Laura is now getting more than a little curious and excited about this different (for us) holiday.

I don't know what the highlight of the trip will be, but I am looking forward to seeing:

• Alexander Mackenzie's rock (he beat Louis and Clark to the Pacific by twelve years)
• Grizzly Bears fishing for salmon on the Atnarko and Bella Coola rivers
• The Museum at Bella Coola
• The day long ferry from Bella Coola to Bella Bella
• Ocean Falls
• Northern Vancouver Island - Port Alice, Coal Harbour

I plan to post a gallery of photos once the trip is done... stay tuned.

Grateful

As I have no belief in a higher power, I struggle with the word "grateful". I am pleased with the way my life has turned out, but not sure I can thank anyone except the universe. As David says "we won the sperm lottery".

The other day I started to count all the things that are good in my life (our lives), and they stack up well against the challenges. All our difficulties can be classified under "first world problems".

Health

You'd think I would be the last person to wax on about good health - but I really feel as though we've negotiated the tough times pretty well. They've been navigated because I have always tried to do the pragmatic, healthy thing - and am convinced that's paid off. Fortunately for us, Laura, Kathryn and David don't appear to share any of my health challenges. The benefits of my circumstance is that both Kath and Dave are hyper-aware of their own habits, and make good health choices.

Social

Laura and I are fortunate to be surrounded by good friends. Not only are these people we've known for decades, but have new friends we've known for only a short time. The whole stroke recovery process for me has turned into one big social event. These are people I never would have met, and most of them are fascinating in very different ways. Laura and I have a few friends we see on our own, but for the most part we share the same network. The older I get, the more important our social lives has come to be. After spending time with other stroke survivors, some with major impairments, it's probably more important than health.

Kath and Dave

Maybe because of my situation(s), or maybe because of exposure through their friends, both kids aren't afraid to travel the world and try new things. I think they live more "in the present" than we ever did, and worry less about what tomorrow brings. It's unfair to compare where they are in their lives (as they both approach thirty) compared to where Laura and I were at the same age. The world is a very different place, and their ability to change and accommodate is light years ahead of ours. Their priorities seem more realistic as well.

Housing

Somehow we lucked out in the housing market. Even though we've moved around a fair bit, our first tiny home in Saskatoon has been leveraged into the condo we live in now. I think we've ended up exactly where we intended. I think for Kath and Dave, owning a home is not realistic in Vancouver. Maybe owning a home anywhere isn't practical.

Rewarding Jobs

Both Laura and I have part time jobs that we enjoy. Laura is doing what she loves, and I do what I'm good at. My volunteering is starting to gain traction, and it's really rewarding. I don't think either of us would ever go back to full time employment - too restrictive!

Money Stress

We're certainly not rich. But we're not poor either. There will always be a little stress when we talk finances, and we've had to downsize our plans, but for the most part we've been able to do what we want and not freak out about the costs. Just being aware of costs is a big step forward!

Downsizing

One fortunate side effect of all the moving is we've gone through everything we own. Much of it has been given or thrown away. Life just feels more manageable when there's a lot less stuff. Everyone we know is still in a large house, and we don't envy the process they will (eventually) have to go through.

Flipboard has become my GoTo app

I was on Facebook. I'm on Twitter. I'm trying Instagram. I use Readability. I work on LinkedIn.

But the application I tend to go to most for news, reviews, articles of interest, and general useless knowledge is Flipboard.

Flipboard lives on my computer - a capability they rolled out in the last few weeks, as well as on my Smartphone (the implementation is spectacular. Flipboard would also live on my tablet - if I hadn't dropped it onto the floor and crushed a corner of it.

I would invite you to have a look - you could see the stuff I like as well.

Yes... and we're important

"The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, The Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. And there are lots of stars in this sweeping view -- over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk." ...  from NASA.

This fly-through video was created by daveachuk.  Stick around till the end. It explains just how insignificant we really are...

Faith versus Evidence

I was at a brunch over the Christmas break, and commented to a group of friends that "I don't believe any of you are religious".

Without exception, they all said they were atheist or agnostic, and so I asked a follow-up question.

"So who believes that there is some entity somewhere that has direct influence over your day to day life"?

I got a completely confounding reply - universally. They all said "yes".

Having been what I am for a long time now, I knew to end the questioning right there and to get back to drinking champagne.

I've come to refine my "atheism" over time to have a broader definition (for me) than it once did. I don't even like the term any more - it seems so incendiary.

I now like to think is that I'm a "evidence based" person. If whatever you think has no evidence to back it up, no testable theory as to how it works, and no ability to predict future outcomes,  then it's simply a belief. And I'll dismiss it outright.

A belief in a God is no different than a belief in the tooth fairy. Or Santa Claus. Or Bigfoot.

On the other hand, a prediction that the sun will rise tomorrow, that Vancouver will get rain, and that vaccinations prevent horrible disease, is based on science - evidence, testable theory, prediction.

I don't have "faith" that a chair will hold me up while sitting. I have "evidence" that it will - based on repeated, tested, predictable, experience.

Our entire lives are based on the evidence model. It enables us to do what we do. Fly in airplanes. Drive cars.  Make cellular phone calls. Have an MRI. Cook food.

Everything we do is based on science, but most of us set all this reason aside in the belief in the supernatural.

What's up with that?

PS: I use the term "evidence" in place of the word "science" mostly because I get the same "rolling of the eyes" whenever I say I believe in science. Quite sad, actually.

PPS: There is a fantastic letter that Richard Dawkins wrote to his ten year old daughter here. It's a very short, very well thought out, essay. Read it regardless of what you believe.

2015 - A Year of Living Optionally

New Year Resolutions are generally broken within a few days. When I'd go biking or running on the dike near our house, I'd see lots of people out in their brand new gear - lycra this, spandex that, and dual suspension ultra light whatevers. Santa was good.

I'd see them for a few days, and then never again.

I hope I can be different.

At first, I thought about a year of living without buying anything (except, of course, consumables like food and gas). I think that would be pretty hard.

But what about every time you asked yourself the question "do I really need this?", you answered "no".

So that's the basis of my resolution for 2015.

I'm not going to buy anything optional.

That means no computers. No smartphones. No subscriptions or downloads. No shoes. No clothes. No nothing. (I'll try not to cheat and have Laura buy whatever I want.)

I hope I'll still be married in 2016.

Addendum: January 4, 2015

Well that didn't go so well. We were at another dinner party last night and I was lambasted, ridiculed, ostracised, and generally made fun of for my outrageous resolution. It appears my intent wasn't clear, and all kinds of "purchases" came up that I should disqualify myself from - movies, wine, chocolate, coffee, you name it. Bruce said it would be his mission in 2015 to make me buy something I don't need at Walmart (hence doubling my failure).

Since the first rule when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging ... I choose to stop digging. Consider my resolution null and void, and I'll go along and do what I intended anyway - doubters be damned.

I'm glad I could add something to the conversation for the first few days of 2015.

The Sony Hack Was An Inside Job

The tech community is pretty unanimous in its informed conclusion: the recent Sony hack and release of confidential information was likely an "inside job", and has nothing to do with North Korea.

Instead of ranting about this, it's better to point you to an expert on the topic, Marc Rogers, who does a good job explaining this conclusion.

Have a quick glance at Marcs Security Ramblings to see what he thinks.

My concern is the rhetoric from the USA - blaming North Korea for the subterfuge.

An outright escalation of an already tense relationship.

12/22/2014: Addendum
Why I Still Don't Think It's Likely That North Korea Hacked Sony
A Lot Of Smart People Think North Korea Didn't Hack Sony

Fauxtribution

The Sony Hack: Attribution Problems, and the Connection to Domestic Surveillance

12/30/2014: Addendum

Sony hack: sacked employees could be to blame, researchers claim
Is Kim Jong Un Innocent?

Oh Canada

Laura was born in San Francisco. Her mom (Cathy) was born in Edmonton, but lived in the USA for many years. The two of them moved back to Vancouver in 1972, and Cathy married Walter. Laura's been here ever since.

When we married in 1982, my career trajectory was either working for a Canadian multinational (Northern Telecom) or a US-based one (Hewlett-Packard). Our thinking over the majority of our life together was that it would be good for Laura to hang on to her US Citizenship. We've had several opportunities over the years to move to the USA, and Laura being American would simplify everything.

All that changed in the last five years. I left Agilent (which was a spin-off from HP) and I had a stroke - both in 2009. US health insurance costs alone would make it impossible to consider a move south.

All this came to a head when we learned that the USA is now aggressively pursuing citizens worldwide to tax any income they may have. Normally, this wouldn't mean much more than Laura filing a US tax return, but we now have things like TFSAs which have no corollary in the States. Our joint savings and home could be taxable as well.

Eighteen months ago, Laura started the arduous process to get her Canadian Citizenship (she would decide on giving up her US passport once everything was said and done). We just learned that December 12, 2014 will be the day she officially becomes a Canadian.

This leads me to think of all the bounty we have that we tend to take for granted, and the things that differentiate us from our neighbours to the south:

• We have a peaceful society. We worry about crime, but we don't live in fear of it (or fear the police either).
• We are a wealthy country. There is a safety net for everyone. If I had my stroke in the USA, we'd be broke.
• Things work. We complain about the small stuff, but most of the big stuff works.
• Talking about the big stuff: Inasmuch as we may not like our Government, it works. So does our power grid. So do our roads. Our water is clean and plentiful.
• Everyone around the world loves us. All you have to do is go abroad to appreciate this.

I know there are hundreds of reasons to love Canada, and these are only a few of them. There may be one reason that surpasses all the rest.

It's home. 

Reacting (versus Thinking)

Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press

It's really hard to reserve judgement after the mayhem in Ottawa yesterday.

A deranged gunman murdered Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a reservist for the Canadian Armed Forces, as he stood on guard at the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", just outside the Parliament Buildings.

On Monday, another criminal mowed down Warrent Officer Patrice Vincent in a parking lot in Quebec.

Although the incident on Monday has been tied to Muslim Radicalization, yesterdays has not - so far.

It's easy to make the seemingly logical leap to link these two incidents, and to see a grander plot at play. But the prudent thing to do is to examine the evidence.

Let the truth, whatever it might be, channel the decisions we make going forward.

I Had A Stroke

I went to Outback Australia in 2013

I suffered a stroke on October 5th 2009.

My last day of work, at the job I had for twenty-five years, was on September 9th that same year. In effect, I had twenty-five days of early retirement.

Laura and I planned on taking a year off to travel, and then see where life led us. Where life led us was nowhere we had planned.

Fortunately all the heavy lifting of raising two kids and seeing them through university was done. Our daughter Kathryn was teaching in Turkey, and our son David was to leave for a pilgrimage to India on October 6th.

What Happened

I went to get my hair cut that morning, a Monday, but didn't feel all that well - almost like the flu coming on. When I got home, I bugged Laura and David to take the dog out for a long walk, and then lay down on the couch for a bit. I was sitting up on the couch when I felt a warm sensation as my entire right side - arms, legs - went numb. I knew what this was, and fortunately the telephone had been left on the coffee table, instead of in it's stand across the room. I called 911 with my left hand as I slowly started to slide down into the couch - I could no longer prop myself up.

The ambulance took me away, leaving the couch moved and the living room floor littered with the jetsam of a paramedic. Laura and Dave weren't even home from walking the dog. Fortunately one of our neighbors saw me being wheeled out, and she let them know where we were heading.

Diagnosis

I was at Royal Columbian Hospital inside a half hour from the phone call. At this point I could talk and was quite rational about the whole thing. They ran me through a quick battery of tests, and then asked for my approval for TPA - the clot-busting drug. It's supposed to reverse the effects of a stroke - with me it just slowed things down.

At RCH before things went sideways

The next few days are a bit of a blur. A couple were spent in a bed in Emergency, and then I was moved up to Neurology. Other than the right side paralysis, everything else worked just fine.

The final diagnosis was an ischemic stoke (blood clot) in the cerebellum (at the base of the spine). The clot was in an artery the diameter of a hair.

I was transferred to Eagle Ridge Hospital after ten days or so - it was very close to home, and had a stroke rehab facility. I started their program of relearning to walk, and was even able to get day passes on the weekend so I could get out with the family.

Relapse

Somewhere along that path to recovery, near the end of the month, things went sideways. I was having lunch with a good friend of mine (Andrew), and suddenly could not chew. I asked him to wheel me back to the rehab wing, and they ran a bunch more tests. The CAT scan revealed that there was a bruising in the area of the stoke in my brain, and that it would subside with time. It probably did, but the whole adventure cost me to lose my voice and the ability to swallow.

Ruth (the physiotherapist) and me learning stairs

I remained up in a critical care and step-down ward of Eagle Ridge for a couple of weeks. Eventually things stabilized enough for me to get back down to the rehab wing where I picked up where I left off - with the new addition of Speech Therapy.

93 Days

In all, I was in the hospital for 93 days. Near the end, I could get weekend passes so Laura and Dave could pick me up on Friday afternoon and drop me back on Sunday night (Dave cancelled his trip to India to help out).

When I was released I could speak a few words at one time - fortunately for me there was no problem with knowing what to say, how to say it, or being understood when the words finally came out. I could also walk about 1km - but then would have to relax the rest of the day.

Over the entire stay at Eagle Ridge, I had visitors every single day. I'm grateful to all of them! The boost you get from knowing others care is huge. (It's sad to report that one of the young men on the rehab ward with me had no visitors the entire time I was there. He was depressed, and people wondered why.)

After months of tests, the cause of the stroke was undetermined - bad luck.

Long Term

All things heal with time.

When I first had the stroke, we understood that most of the recovery takes place in the first few months. After living through this, I can say that the most noticeable recovery takes place then, but it continues subtlety for years.

Even tried catamaran sailing with Dave and Sherri

I can now speak almost normally - although I could never read a book out loud. I can sustain a conversation, although the voice gets very tired after a couple of hours if it's intense. For some strange reason (the neurologists scratch their heads) I cannot swim and cannot run. I think it has to do with the actual timing of my gait on the right side - fractions of a second slower than the left. I also seem to have this uncontrollable urge to breathe when my head is under water!

Overall, my deficiencies are minor compared to the other stroke survivors I've come to know. The fact I can walk, drive, talk, and ride a bike are things most of them envy.

The Future

I celebrated my two year stroke anniversary on Bora-Bora

I never went back to work - there's no way I could do the job I used to, and certainly don't really want a full time job that ties us down anyway. I've been fortunate enough to have another friend (Dave) who's given me some part-time, home-based work to do.

Laura went back to school in 2010 to become a Early Childhood Educator, and has been working part time over the last three years. She loves it, and is very good at it. Likely what she should have been doing all along.

After stints in Turkey and Australia, Kathryn is back in Vancouver and teaching at a private High School in Richmond.

David has worked for a couple of years in South Korea, and is now getting ready for another adventure in China - teaching Adult Business English this time.

Everything and everyone turned out OK.

I'm a Buddhist ... And I Didn't Even Know It

"Daibatsu-2"

My daughter Kathryn has been right more than once on the big issues in my life. The first was when she explained that I ate too many carbs - I was vegetarian at the time - and that can't be good for you. I've written lots about that realization.

The other day the family was having a philosophical conversation about free will, cause and effect, natural universal laws and the like, and Kathryn said "Dad, you're a Buddhist and you don't even know it".

I didn't think much about that comment, but then she started saying it more and more often to me .. so I started to investigate.





The basic tenets of Buddism (There are several lists - but the basic ones are here) are:

1. Not killing
2. Not stealing
3. Not misusing sex
4. Not lying
5. Not abusing intoxicants
6. Not talking about others' errors and faults
7. Not elevating oneself and blaming others
8. Not being stingy
9. Not being angry

Notice how they say nothing of religion, belief in a higher power or spirituality? Buddhism at it's core is about the examination and introspection of ones own mind. This is often through meditation.

There are some precepts that go further and believe in some supernatural or metaphysical phenomenon. The great thing about Buddhism is that you can choose to ignore these.

I'll not call myself a Buddhist, but it's nice to know that people have been thinking like me for thousands of years.

BTW, if you're interested, Sam Harris (one of those vocal atheists) has an excellent article on all of this titled "Killing the Buddha".

Charity Fatigue

I have nothing but admiration for what the ALS Organization has done with the "Ice Bucket Challenge" meme it has created. It's been fantastically successful, and has raised millions of dollars for ALS research. A home run.

I'm convinced, however, that many people are doing it more to see themselves on video than to donate to a charity. It's now the charity of the day, and I'm sure it's had an impact on other worthy causes.

"I've just given to ALS research so I can't give to your cause" ("Your cause isn't cool because nobody can see me on YouTube.")

The end justifies the means, so the ALS people have a hit on their hands. I have no idea how they could ever hope to raise this much notoriety or money. But we need some perspective now. I think we've entered the realm of "Charity Fatigue".

ALS affects 2 out of 100,000 people. Here's a list of other diseases which might be worthy of your money (Wikipedia). Time to give them some attention again.

Mortality Rates (death rate per year, from data for 2002^[2])

Group[3]	Cause	Percent of deaths	All Deaths per 100,000	Male Deaths per 100,000	Female Deaths per 100,000
–	All Causes	100.0	916.1	954.7	877.1
A	Cardiovascular diseases	29.34	268.8	259.3	278.4
B	Infectious and parasitic diseases	23.04	211.3	221.7	200.4
A.1	Ischemic heart disease	12.64	115.8	121.4	110.1
C	Malignant neoplasms (cancers)	12.49	114.4	126.9	101.7
A.2	Cerebrovascular disease (Stroke)	9.66	88.5	85.4	95.6
B.1	Respiratory infections	6.95	63.7	63.5	63.8
B.1.1	Lower respiratory tract infections	6.81	62.4	62.2	62.6
D	Respiratory diseases	6.49	59.5	61.1	57.9
E	Unintentional injuries	6.23	57.0	73.7	40.2
B.2	HIV/AIDS	4.87	44.6	46.2	43.0
D.1	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4.82	44.1	45.1	43.1
–	Perinatal conditions	4.32	39.6	43.7	35.4
F	Digestive diseases	3.45	31.6	34.9	28.2
B.3	Diarrhea diseases	3.15	28.9	30.0	27.8
G	Intentional injuries (Suicide, Violence, War, etc.)	2.84	26.0	37.0	14.9
B.4	Tuberculosis	2.75	25.2	32.9	17.3
B.5	Malaria	2.23	20.4	19.4	21.5
C.1	Lung cancer	2.18	20.0	28.4	11.4
E.1	Road traffic accidents	2.09	19.1	40.8	10.4
B.6	Childhood diseases	1.97	18.1	18.0	18.2
H	Neuropsychiatric disorders	1.95	17.9	18.4	17.3
–	Diabetes mellitus	1.73	15.9	14.1	17.7
A.3	Hypertensive heart disease	1.60	14.6	13.4	15.9
G.1	Suicide	1.53	14.0	17.4	10.6
C.2	Stomach cancer	1.49	13.7	16.7	10.5
I	Diseases of the genitourinary system	1.49	13.6	14.1	13.1
F.1	Cirrhosis of the liver	1.38	12.6	16.1	9.1
I.1	Nephritis/nephropathy	1.19	10.9	11.0	10.7
C.3	Colorectal cancer	1.09	10.0	10.3	9.7
C.4	Liver cancer	1.08	9.9	13.6	6.2
B.6.1	Measles	1.07	9.8	9.8	9.9
G.2	Violence	0.98	9.0	14.2	3.7
–	Maternal conditions	0.89	8.2	0.0	16.5
–	Congenital abnormalities	0.86	7.9	8.1	7.7
J	Nutritional deficiencies	0.85	7.8	6.9	8.7
C.5	Breast cancer	0.84	7.7	0.1	15.3
C.6	Esophageal cancer	0.78	7.2	9.1	5.2
A.4	Inflammatory heart disease	0.71	6.5	6.7	6.2
H.1	Alzheimer's disease and other dementias	0.70	6.4	4.7	8.1
E.2	Falls	0.69	6.3	7.5	5.0
E.3	Drowning	0.67	6.1	8.4	3.9
E.4	Poisoning	0.61	5.6	7.2	4.0
C.7	Lymphomas, multiple myeloma	0.59	5.4	5.4	5.4
A.5	Rheumatic heart disease	0.57	5.3	4.4	6.1
C.8	Oral and oropharynx cancers	0.56	5.1	7.1	3.1
E.5	Fires	0.55	5.0	3.8	6.2
B.6.2	Pertussis	0.52	4.7	4.7	4.8
C.9	Prostate cancer	0.47	4.3	8.6	0.0
C.10	Leukemia	0.46	4.2	4.7	3.8
F.2	Peptic ulcer disease	0.46	4.2	5.0	3.5
J.1	Protein-energy malnutrition	0.46	4.2	4.2	4.2
D.2	Asthma	0.42	3.9	3.9	3.8
–	Endocrine/nutritional disorders	0.43	3.9	3.4	4.4
C.11	Cervical cancer	0.42	3.8	0.0	7.7
C.12	Pancreatic cancer	0.41	3.7	3.9	3.5
B.6.3	Tetanus	0.38	3.4	3.4	3.5
C.13	Bladder cancer	0.31	2.9	4.0	1.7
B.7	Sexually transmitted diseases excluding HIV/AIDS	0.32	2.9	2.9	2.9
B.8	Meningitis	0.30	2.8	2.9	2.7
G.3	War	0.30	2.8	5.0	0.5
B.7.1	Syphilis	0.28	2.5	2.7	2.3
–	Neoplasms other than malignant	0.26	2.4	2.4	2.4
J.2	Iron deficiency anemia	0.24	2.2	1.5	2.9
C.14	Ovarian cancer	0.24	2.2	0.0	4.4
B.9	Tropical diseases excluding malaria	0.23	2.1	2.5	1.6
H.2	Epilepsy	0.22	2.0	2.2	1.8
B.10	Hepatitis B	0.18	1.7	2.3	1.0
–	Musculoskeletal diseases	0.19	1.7	1.2	2.2
H.3	Parkinson's disease	0.17	1.6	1.6	1.6
H.4	Alcohol use disorders	0.16	1.5	2.5	0.4
H.5	Drug use disorders	0.15	1.4	2.2	0.5
B.1.2	Upper respiratory infections	0.13	1.2	1.2	1.2
C.16	Melanoma and other skin cancers	0.12	1.1	1.1	1.0
–	Skin diseases	0.12	1.1	0.8	1.4
C.15	Uterine cancer	0.12	1.1	0.0	2.3
B.11	Hepatitis C	0.09	0.9	1.1	0.6
B.9.1	Leishmaniasis	0.09	0.8	1.0	0.7
B.9.2	Trypanosomiasis	0.08	0.8	1.0	0.5
I.2	Benign prostatic hyperplasia	0.06	0.5	1.0	0.0