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Book Review: Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting
There's a bit of a formula to writing a book review, and here, I'm planning to break from that formula. I recently had the pleasure of reading Louis Breger's new book, Psychotherapy Lives Intersecting and I'd like to tell you how I felt, and what things I thought about, while I was reading it. The book is about psychoanalysis, so instead of reviewing, I'll be free associating. You'll bear with me on this? I did have a positive transference to Dr. Breger
Okay, so Louis Breger is a psychologist in California. He's not just a psychologist, he's also a psychoanalyst, at Caltech, no less. Caltech has psychoanalysts? I thought Caltech had math geniuses and computer geeks. I thought this because my brother went to Caltech, and one of my good friends from high school also went there. My brother has written such books as Computer-Aided Financial Analysis, and my friend is a physicist in a linear accelerator (SLAC, to be precise). Neither has ever mentioned a word about Oedipal complexes, ids, egos, pleasure principles, or psychoanalytic anything. Okay, so apparently there is a psychoanalyst at Caltech.
In the introduction, Dr. Breger starts by talking about how Marsha Angell says anti-depressants don't work. My feelings? Annoyed. Then he mentions that they've helped some of his patients, he's neither for or against them. I kept reading.
The premise of the book is that after decades as a psychotherapist, Dr. Breger contacted his former patients and asked them to fill out a questionnaire. He wanted to get their feedback on their psychotherapy. If you know me at all, you know this is an exercise I'd find very cool. Who writes to their patients 30 years after the end of psychotherapy and asks What did this mean to you? What a great idea, it inspired my admiration, and the positive transference began.
It seems that most of Dr. Breger's patients are in multiple times a week therapy for years. Okay, that's what analysis is, but who can afford that? My feeling: a little jealous. Maybe it's something I would have wanted to check out, but with my medical school debts, then childcare/tuition/etc, it wasn't an option back then. And now-- still too expensive, terribly time consuming, and hard to rationalize putting this degree of resources into something for the sake of intellectual curiosity. It's a mixed kind of envy, however-- one psychiatrist I know spent 11 years in analysis conducted at 6:15 every morning, and as someone who is not a 'morning person' such an endeavor would be unthinkable.
Many, if not most, of Breger's patients are psychotherapists themselves (or in training), and many had been in therapy before and had experienced unsatisfying, if not traumatizing, relationships with therapists who sounded to be rigidly engaged in a therapeutic stance that lacked empathy, warmth, and any degree of kindness or humanity. Dr. Breger broke that mold and his patients seemed to all comment on his kindness, attention, non-judgmental stance, and that he cared about them. These were the qualities they found healing, and few seemed to mention great insights or spectacular interpretations. He brought one patient cookies. My thoughts: What a nice guy. I think I'd like talking to him. And if not, I do love cookies. It presents therapy as a corrective healing response, often good for those who've had critical and damaging childhood relationships.
After a bit, it felt repetitive: the patients said the same things--- they all thanked him, they all appreciated him, they all contrasted him to the prior therapists who were personally related to the devil. He has no patients that didn't like him? That weren't full of gratitude? Even wonderful psychotherapists aren't wonderful for everyone, there's some chemistry there, and there are some very particular patients out there who manage to find fault with everyone. I went through a brief phase of feeling annoyed with Dr. Breger. Is he a narcissist? Why write about all the kudos? Ah, but he redeemed himself later in the book-- he tells us he only wrote to his long-term patients where psychotherapy seemed helpful, that he didn't want to trouble people who would be distressed by the request or communication, and he mentions that some people left therapy early on, and one even got better with medications and didn't want psychotherapy. So it's not a research study in the double-blind, placebo-controlled, all results are fair game for publication, type of project. Knowing that such patients existed and were acknowledged as such, in reasonably respectful terms, left it more realistic and honest. I liked the book again.
There were some intensely personal moments. The author talks about his own childhood, including his insecurities, his mother's mental illness which included hospitalizations and repeated suicide attempts, and his father's fatal heart attack. His grandmother also suffered from depression and had a lost a child, one his mother was born to replace. I enjoyed getting to know him and his family.
At one point, Breger talks about allowing patients to call him while he was sick in the Intensive Care Unit. While I might like to feed my patients cookies, and I certainly try to be responsive and available, this was a degree of availability and patient-first mind set that made me uncomfortable. For my own sense of sanity and boundaries, I'd like to think that if I'm ever so unfortunate as to be in an ICU, that I could simply be sick, fight for my life, and be 100% patient, without having to remain as anyone's doctor, at least until I was healed enough to be released from the hospital. While it's nice to be able to reassure patients, it seems that having a colleague cover should be enough, and I never want to be this indispensable.
Dr. Breger is a psychoanalyst-- a training analyst at that-- and this shows in the way he looks at problems as the result of childhood (or at least long-ago) events. There's little room in his paradigm that allows for genetics or biology, or illness. He's not shy, however, about discussing his disdain for psychoanalytic practice-- for it's abstinence, rigidity, coldness, and adherence to a theory that leaves little room for individual differences. The theory, he asserts, can be practiced in such a way that it is thrust upon patients, and if they don't buy the interpretation, they are "resistant." He seems to have found a way to draw out positive and helpful aspects of psychoanalysis while abandoning the parts that make it impersonal, rigid, and even mean.
After the therapy is completed, the doctor-patient relationship is left to the patient. In some cases, Breger becomes friends with his patients, they continue in various forms of contact, ranging from a holiday card to visits to each others' homes for meals. In this sense, this is a different world from my professional life where it's hard to imagine purposeful on-going social relationships (including spouses) with my former patients. Perhaps it's the difference between being a psychiatrist, a non-analyst, practicing in a different decade, and in a different state (California has it's own rules, right?).
In thinking about this book as a teaching tool for young therapists-- or psychiatry residents in training-- I'm not sure that it's value lies in contrasting a warmer, more responsive therapy to traditional psychoanalysis. I'm not aware of any young psychiatrists who are entering training in traditional psychoanalysis, but perhaps that's a function of where I practice, Still, this book provides a historical perspective that is difficult to capture as psychoanalysis fades as a primary treatment of mental disorders.
The biggest strength of this little book, however, is Breger's easy writing and warm, inviting, and caring style. At just over 120 pages, it's a quick, compelling, and enjoyable read, written by a man whose masterful skill as a psychotherapist weaves through every page.


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I'm sorry, I can't give any BTDT advice, but it sounds like reflux could be part of the problem. Maybe you could try having him nap on an inclined surface, even in his car seat, maybe (I know sleeping in car seats isn't great, but for something like this...)? Sometimes that is much more comfortable for a baby with reflux. Good luck!
Have you tried a vibrating seat or swing? You can strap baby in so they can't squirm out and get hurt, and the vibration and swinging can help soothe a lot. Often this is the only way DD will nap. We have a vibrating seat that is also a swing, so she gets both. Sometimes the positioning is enough (so we won't turn it on, she just doesn't want to sleep flat), but usually we need vibration and when she's crankier we'll also set it to swing. It's been a huge help over here.
ETA: forgot to mention, but this could help with reflux too, as it keeps the baby more upright. Good luck!
Can you wear him in a baby carrier for naps? This would allow you to remain active and baby would have the comfort and security of being on you and soothed by the motion. If he does have reflux he would already be upright in the carrier or sling.
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All good suggestions from previous posters...hopefully they may work for you...none ever worked for me.
Totally BTDT!! My guy was the exact same way. I finally just gave in to holding him for naps. After he was well asleep i could transition into the rocker and hold him for an hour or so. He was always a cat napper, always needed bouncing, not a fan of any carrier unless we were outside and walking. I know how tough it is. Well, I don't really, because i didn't have a 2.5 yo as well!
All i can say is that it passed. We go through so many phases around here with him and sleep. I would say month 4 and 5 were the toughest, then we started seeing some signs of hope. He started taking maybe one decent nap a day...nursed, swaddled, then bounced to sleep. Super stealth moves to lay him down without waking...then a 40 minute nap...which eventually stretched to sometimes 1.5 hours. Often we'd have to go in after 40 minutes and bounce him back to sleep. We co sleep as well...and kept the ball right by the bed. Sometimes I'd be up and bouncing him 3 or 4 times a night. (particularly during that phase where he woke every hour or so screaming). Other times nursing him back to sleep was enough. We still have setbacks for a week or so...but i have more faith now that they will pass.
I don't know if this is helping at all. I just want to say there is most likely a light at the end of the tunnel. And certainly 4, 5 months was the toughest. It's by no means a easy road now..but it is so much easier than it was. I think 4 and 5 months are particularly tough for certain babes. Good luck. Oh...and it took me a while to learn this...but just because something didn't work one week, doesn't mean it won't work the next. I had a tendency to say "i've tried that...it doesn't work" only to have it work weeks later. So always cycle through all the suggestions you'll get from mamas, at whatever rate you have the energy to do so. And just hang in there. Hugs!!
Big, big hugs! This was my life with my son. By all means, be sure to rule out food sensitivities and reflux, but this was not the answer for us. Reading the Dr. Sears article on "high needs" babies helped me mentally even though nothing actually changed. The most helpful thing for us was our Ergo and the yoga ball. Our son was bounced for every nap and bedtime for at least the first year. I couldn't usually get away with getting up and doing other things while he napped because the motion didn't work for him. I used those nap times as my computer time or for reading. Is there activities you can set up for your older child at a table and you can bounce next to the table and then still participate once the little one drops off? For us we had to do strong bounces on the ball to get him asleep but then could get away with gentle bounces to maintain sleep. And no advice about the co-sleeping...same boat here and I just matched my schedule with his. I didn't have another child to care for though. Everyone's experience is different so don't let this scare you...my son is almost 3 and it can still be tough to sneak out of bed. IF I can pull it off, I might get an hour before he wakes. I firmly believe though that this is just what my child needs at this time and I have been impressed again and again with seeing how his independence grows. It has been tough at times to not get regular time to myself, although it helped me a lot to redefine was that even means. What I miss most about the bouncing stage is that Daddy can't get him to sleep any more. We went from bouncing to sleep to nursing to sleep. One night last week he fell asleep snuggling Daddy, oh how I hope that will start to become more the norm! Back in the bouncing days, anyone willing to bounce could get him to sleep. You may want to read about sensory integration issues as well. That has come into play for us and we work on it ourselves. Hang in there! Some day, before you know it, you'll be looking back on this time. I still remember how consuming and overwhelming it was and so many people in our life didn't *get it*. We have much better support now.
ETA: Just wanted to be clear that for us the Ergo only worked for our son if we were bouncing on the ball or if we were outside and walking. Wearing him around the house never worked and boy was that tough! I could get away with wearing him to go down to the cellar to do laundry but I would get away with only about 5 minutes if I was lucky. And he hated the swing, would occasionally tolerate the vibrating bouncy seat for about five minutes IF he could see me. lol, oh OP, I'm still sane somehow! Looking back on it, it was nuts, I just remember being grateful to have the few tools I did have to keep him happy...but now I see how nuts it was. I wouldn't change a thing though, it was best for him.
DS1 was a totally healthy, happy baby - but he was high needs when it came to sleep. He was the same - needed to be walked, bounced, etc.
DS2 is much more easygoing, but had lots of tummy trouble, and he also what our doc called "silent reflux" (he has outgrown that though).
DS1 needed all the tricks from Happiest Baby on the Block. He needed a tight swaddle (we used the SwaddleMe blankets from BabiesRUs), a pacifier (since he had a huge sucking urge and wanted to suck on something 24/7), white noise (CD of ocean waves), and a swing. As he got older, he needed less and less help getting to sleep. But boy - it was a hard slog for a while.
DS2 is a great sleeper, but when he was super tiny he hated being prone. He would sleep peacefully in the swing though, which has a deep recline but it's still slightly upright. That position made the gas and reflux less painful. With both boys, we use the Lovin Hug swing, and the one I linked to plugs into the wall (awesome!).
Also, routine is really important. All the baby sleep books mention it, because it's true. Even little DS2 has a specific night routine that cannot be messed with, or he will fight sleep. Jammies, food, daddy cuddles, swing.
Hang in there - you will find what works, and it will get easier.
I too did not have another child. I'm wondering if you can take advantage of living with family and have them take your youngest for an hour or so a day so that you can have quality time with your oldest son?
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Global IT business gets up to speed with Google Search Appliance
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Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Sharon Levin, Knowledge Base Manager at Radware, an international application delivery and security applications provider for virtual and cloud data centers, headquartered in Israel. The company has 10,000 customers across the world. See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say.
At Radware, we help over 10,000 companies around the world assess and manage everything from Business Intelligence to Customer Relationship Management to Enterprise Resource Planning. Our customers use our tools as a core part of their strategy for adapting to market challenges, maintaining business continuity and keeping costs down. But navigating these complex products requires our help and support. So we offer a database of over 2,000 Q&As, known as Knowledge Base, to assist in solving different problems, along with telephone and online support.
Until recently, it was a slow process for customers to find what they were looking for in this vast pool of data. If they didn't type the exact phrase that was listed in the Knowledge Base database, the necessary results would not always appear. We also struggled internally to navigate the search options. Even in my role as Knowledge Base Manager, I sometimes found it quicker to use Google's regular web search than our own database.
When looking at alternatives, we were blown away by the accuracy and speed of Google's enterprise search technology, the Google Search Appliance. DoIT International helped us to set up the GSA and now the results of all searches are 400% to 800% faster than before. All results appear in less than a second, compared to the response time of at least 4 seconds with our previous technology. In 70% of the searches, no further queries are performed and there are no 'next page' clicks, so we know people are finding what they need at the top of the page.
We're confident that our customers are getting the help and support they need in the timeframe they expect. What's more, we're using GSA's analytics to build out our database. If we spot lots of customers searching for the same thing, we add a new result or 'how to' guide or use the feedback to identify and address an issue before it has even been officially logged. All thanks to the speed, accuracy and ease of use of the GSA.


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Narrow Streets: Los Angeles began one especially quiet holiday weekend as I walked along a completely empty Montana Avenue. I'd just gotten back from a vacation wandering the tiny streets of Paris and now found myself idly counting lanes: one, two, three, four...five? Five lanes — almost half the width of the 405! The difference was enough to make me wonder: could the entire mood of a neighborhood depend on something as simple as street width?
I decided to test it out. I took a series of carefully framed photos, fired up the computer at home, and voliá: a bizarre illusion appeared before me, simultaneously mundane + outrageous in its simple depiction of a fantastical, parallel-universe Los Angeles that no longer catered exclusively to cars. I narrowed street after street, each time giggling with excitement; the effect, far from diminishing with exposure, seemed only to grow — among my friends, my co-workers, and online, where readers began requesting that I narrow down their neighborhoods. "I'd love to see some narrowing in Eagle Rock," wrote one. Another commented, "Somehow you've tapped into this primordial aesthetic." "Please do something about Van Nuys Boulevard," wrote another reader. "I have fantasized for years about its narrowing."
Me + the wife on an early morning, scooter-powered narrowing run.
As a writer, street-narrowing to me represents an act of fictionalization, with fiction itself being an attempt to make sense of the randomness life flings our way. The grander absurdities of Los Angeles have already been well documented — its optimistically-named enclaves, phantom star maps — but its smaller, more micro-level oddities go mostly unnoticed: sunning at an outdoor cafe just steps from the edge of a six-lane, 50mph road; eyeing the 30-second countdown when crossing an intersection; bidding farewell to friends after dinner in dreary parking lots.
There's a yearning for a more human scale out there, and a growing realization that hey, this world wasn't created by some petulant, eight-armed Deus Urbanus but by people — ordinary people, struggling to make the best design decisions they could. Los Angeles, located at Manifest Destiny's terminus and born from a mad Levittown landgrab amid giddy postwar prosperity, was not designed badly per se; it was never really
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I'm a writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek living in Los Angeles, where I work as an art director at an ad agency by day and otherwise spend my time writing fiction and (what else?) screenplays, the latest of which is a near-future, post-suburban corporate satire that people seem to enjoy, judging from recent contest results. I grew up in Orange County and have lived in Berkeley, Yokohama, and Boston before winding up back here in Southern California.
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Jaakko <email@example.com> wrote: > Let us suppose that all ranges are equal in size. In this case G's > range is A-G. If X boots in G's DC, it should take a token in the > middle of this range, which would be somewhere around D. If X boots > behind D Ah, I see, you are saying, "G has replicas from A-G, so really it should take a pare of E's range instead of G's." That seems reasonable, although it feels a little weird for X to as G for a token and be given one that G isn't the primary for. > Yes, alternating the nodes is certainly the best. However, two DCs > don't always have the same number of nodes. Also, currently > loadbalance is unusable in such environment. You're always going to have situations where a simple algorithm does the "wrong" thing though, which is why we leave the raw move command exposed. -Jonathan
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While I'm not overly familiar with the first two revisions of this watch, Serket just released version 3.0 of their Reef Diver.
At $599 for the stainless models (which come on stainless bracelets), or $699 for the PVD model, these look to be offering interesting styling for the money – though, I do wish they were automatics (it's using a Ronda 515 Quartz). I'm a fan of the saw-tooth bezel and offset crown position, for sure. I also like how the dial indices remind me (somehow) of the Orange Monster, while still being their own thing. Definitely an interesting model, and I'm looking into getting a review sample in.
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What do I mean by "Democrats need to better with white voters"? And what do I mean by "part 4"? The latter is easy to answer. It turned into a multi-post subject, where the entirety of part 1 was devoted just to answering the question of why. That's why I'm going to give just the brief version of why Democrats need to win more white votes, despite all the attention given to generational differences among voters and the Republican attempts at reaching out to young people, non-whites, generally what the recent elections revealed as Democratic-leaning demographic groups (DLDGs). The gist is this:
- President Obama won the popular vote by a narrow enough margin, that Republicans can overcome it if they have any success reaching out to DLDGs. Yes, I'm aware of how they've been tripping over their own tongues, but let's give ourselves a margin of error by assuming they do better enough at outreach to give themselves a chance at the electoral college.
- Republicans won a healthy majority of the US House with a large minority of the overall vote, and a similar dynamic holds true in many state legislatures. We have to win more white voters if we hope to win majorities of seats.
I'm aware the demographic trends have been in our favor, but I don't see why we should concede elections while we wait for elections to be handed to us. I also don't like just assuming current trends continue. I prefer giving ourselves a margin of error, just in case GOP outreach works, or demographic trends change.
So that's the brief version of why Democrats have to win more white voters. There are a lot of variables involved, like age, religion, income, a bunch more, and identifying those was done in part 2 (please check there before asking why I didn't consider something, because probably I did). I devoted part 3 to one variable, population density, which has a remarkable correlation to the presidential vote. It got its own post partly because it's rather complicated, but also because this seems like the single most important variable. At a minimum, it seems population density will suggest some overlooked targets for future elections and possible future strategies.
So in this final part, we get down to the application of all this analysis. How do we win more white votes? If it was resolvable in a single blog post I suppose it would be more obvious and already done, so I can't pretend to have the whole solution. I do have ideas though, after the jump, but first one point to make about the feasibility of winning a bigger share of the white vote. Could we increase Obama's 39% a few points to, say, 43%? Obama's share in 2008 was, oh look, 43%. That would seem definitive proof we can do this. So let's do this:
The first idea is let's have a Texas project. Yes, let's make an effort to turn Texas blue, and no, this isn't because of Texas' demographic trends. The reason for trying to win in Texas is the importance of Texas in national Republican politics. Essentially, without Texas, the Republicans are barely a major party. Texas is important for Republicans because of the combination of sheer size and sure redishness. Demographic trends merely make winning more feasible, and I would advocate trying to win there even if Texas looked as red as Utah. Consider that:
- Without Texas' electoral college votes, Republicans have no route to 270 outside a landslide win. That's not a 2012 development. 1988 was the last time the Republican candidate could have lost Texas and won. Without Texas, all the cheating in Ohio and Florida would have been insufficient for Bush Jr. to "win". Democrats could afford the loss of California more easily than Republicans can afford to lose Texas. So let's win it from them.
- Texas' numerous US House seats are gerrymandered. If Democrats could hold enough of the state government during the next redistricting to force a non-partisan map, Democrats get much closer to winning back the House. If in a happy scenario Democrats could gerrymander for their own benefit, maybe that's the end of the GOP majority; narrowly, but narrowly is good enough
- Not a small thing, the state legislature is just as gerrymandered. I imagine the same holds true for many local governments.
- Though Texas is underrepresented in the US Senate like other big states, those two safe seats are important to Republican hopes of winning a Senate majority.
- Like other large state governors, the governor of Texas is automatically a major national political figure. Can only help to have that person be a Democrat, provided we don't elect someone as embarrassing as Rick Perry. Let's restrict ourselves to smart people.
- Follow the money. Texas is the GOP piggybank. If Texas were competitive, merely competitive, even with Republicans continuing to win, Republicans would have to keep the big money in Texas, which could have an effect in other states. Democrats get money from Texas too, and would have to find money to put into Texas if it was competitive, but considering whom oil billionaires donate to, I'm pretty sure Republicans get a lot more from Texas, even when we can't know about the dark money. Democrats depend more on small donors, and I suspect, don't know but suspect, that a lot more Texas Democrats would become donors when they know the money is going to candidates on their own ballot. So forcing Republicans to keep the Texas money in Texas might be the second most important effect (after securing the electoral college) of a successful Texas project.
Yes, at some point, winning Texas might be just a matter of improving non-white turnout, but not yet. I see no benefit in waiting for demographic trends that don't guarantee the outcome we want. What if DLDGs, especially Hispanics, turn out more Republican than the national average? What if demographics are indeed destiny and victory is coming, but we could speed it up by an election or two? Above all, what if by going after Republicans at their source of strength, we could weaken them severely? It's what Republicans are trying to do to us by attacking organized labor and restricting voting rights.
Ideally we want all state parties to be strong enough to compete with their Republican counterparts, but no disrespect to the other 49 states (including mine) intended, Texas is simply more important in the strategic sense of nobbling the national Republicans. Moreover, the Texas electoral map is similar to most other states' maps, in the sense of looking something like blue dots in a red sea. Winning without waiting for demographic trends is going to require solving this problem of winning more suburban and rural whites.
The Vermont project: Vermont? Isn't it one of the bluest states already? Yes, but why? It's heavily white and rural, which means it should be safely Republican, right? Except it's not. So it shows definitively that winning where the large majority is white and population density is low can be done. Is there something unique about Vermont? Have Vermont Democrats figured out something that can be replicated elsewhere? I don't know. Sure seems worth finding out though. Seems worth looking for other exceptions too, in case they have something to teach us, and one of those exceptions leads me to the next idea.
Increase union membership: Presumably few who frequent liberal blogs need to be persuaded that increasing union membership would be a good idea, just as a matter of economic justice and protecting the right to organize. Republicans presumably aren't trying to destroy unions because they consciously want economic injustice, but they sure do see a partisan gain to destroying organized labor, and they're right. Unions are an integral part of the Democratic Party. They're still a major source of funds, and they're a huge source of campaign volunteers. Union members vote about 2/3 Democratic, which clearly is a lot higher proportion than those who aren't members, which gets to the exception to rural whites voting Republican that I mentioned in the prior paragraph. As a Minnesotan looking at my own state's map, I notice that the blue dots in a red sea, outside the Twin Cities metro area, are mostly towns with high union membership. The Northeastern part of the state is a big blue area. The minority population is low and the population density is sparse, yet it's one of the Democratic strongholds — and it's strongly union. It's less agricultural than other rural parts of Minnesota, and more people are in heavily organized industries and professions.
I don't know if union members are more likely to vote Democratic, or if Democrats are more likely to join unions. Maybe it's a feedback. I also haven't seen voting preferences of union members broken down by other demographics, but with admittedly limited information, it seems likely that if we get more people to join unions, they will be more likely to vote Democratic, regardless of other demographics, even among whites. It would seem impractical to target certain districts for organizing drives because unions have to look for new members wherever the opportunity presents itself. It does behoove Democrats though to put labor issues higher up the agenda to create an environment where labor can grow. We have to roll back right-to-freeload, as right-to-work should be called. Prohibit the use of replacement workers during lock outs. Increase penalties for illegalities like firing union supporters and interfering in representation elections. I realize these sound like an agenda where winning big is a prerequisite, but the point is whatever we can get done from wherever we are improves our odds of winning more often.
Help ourselves with issues: We may split off some of the GOP vote by going on offense on the right issues. Forgive me again picking an example from my own state, but it's familiar. Last election we had a shocking upset win against a constitutional amendment to impose photo ID for voting. The differences in support among different age groups were small. The "coalition of the ascendant" explanation just didn't hold true this time. Seniors were as likely to oppose it as students. Going admittedly by anecdotes (though do we really want photo ID in place long enough to gather hard data on this?), elderly voters were the most likely to get screwed over by photo ID. Not surprising since they're least likely to drive, most likely to have mobility problems impede a trip to a licensing office, least likely to have a birth certificate or an easy time getting one, and an extra problem for many women, their birth certificates are often rejected because they changed their names when they married. Photo ID opponents talked up the problems of senior citizens during the campaign, and results suggest that even some elderly Republicans must have voted "no". Since Republicans are trying to impose photo ID everywhere, there should be few places where Democrats can't use it as an issue to pick up some elderly voters, at least for state legislative and gubernatorial elections. Long term of course, we're going to need for elderly voters to turn against photo ID if we're going to win on the issue and not just win one or two elections.
I probably would have chosen as an example the GOP threat to Medicare and Social Security, had the president not offered chained-CPI. Maybe it truly is just a negotiating ploy, but I'm in the camp that thinks offering it has undermined the belief that Democrats are rock-solid on protecting entitlements. Well, maybe if a specific Republican goes full-bore privatization and voucherization, local Democrats can still use the issue to split off some votes. By the way, even before the 90%-debt-cliff research was discredited, it turned out all age groups, including young voters, want to fix Social Security not by cutting benefits, but by improving benefits and raising the tax. Yes, young people too, so it might be a way to appeal to all age groups if the president can get this "Grand Bargain" nonsense out of his head. At the least, it suggests we can campaign on this issue when appealing to seniors without hurting ourselves among younger age groups.
Target young voters: Even if young white voters went mostly Republican last year, they weren't as Republican as older whites. Much as we might help ourselves in one election by focusing on issues where young whites have different attitudes than older whites, like marriage equality, there's a longer term strategy here. Voters who vote for the same party in each of their first few elections tend to make that party their default position for life. It becomes necessary for the other party to try to sell them on splitting their ticket or switching for one election. That's why Republicans are freaking out, or why they should be freaking out, over losing newer voters consistently for roughly a decade now. Those oldest young voters are just hitting the age where they vote regularly. Cutting into the young white vote now could mean cutting into it for decades. Of course, there is always a new group of first-time voters, and Republicans are bound to wake up to the problem and try to do better, which means this is something we should never stop working on ourselves. We should recognize one weakness in this strategy however: the current trend is for young adults to prefer to live in areas of greater population density. Such areas tend to already be Democratic, so there's a good chance we're adding votes where we're already self-packed, not in districts where we're losing. Still, make voting Democratic a habit, and those who move might retain the habit and make some red and purple areas more competitive.
Adopt a district: Democrats have generally developed a better ground game, but packing of both the self-packing and gerrymandering types means that sometimes we're merely moving our candidates from 68% of the vote to 72%. Whoopee. You still get merely the one seat. An alternative is for Democrats in safe districts to go help in swing districts. I'm a local party chair in a safe district, and our district party helped several legislative candidates in winnable races. All won, not a guaranteed result of course, but a couple were close enough that our help might account for the difference. These other districts are heavily white. Democrats scratched out just enough wins to flip both houses. Maybe this is a tactic rather than a strategy, but whatever. File it under "things you can do". As the phrase "go help" implies, the help was mostly in the form of somebody going to the district and knocking doors. Mostly: pardon me if I don't put internal stuff where the opposition might see it. The main point is the problem with winning in some places might be not a poor message or a weak candidate, but the concentration of our resources in the wrong places, and by resources I mean both money and people willing to hike with a clipboard.
The 50-state strategy: I recognize that this clashes with the Texas project idea, which is a bit awkward as I've loved the 50-state strategy since Howard Dean first explained it. Damn liberal nuance, but the truth is there is a reasonable counter-argument. By failing to at least run a "some guy" candidate everywhere, we concede those shocking wins down ballot where there isn't any polling to let us know the race is winnable. We give up the chance to have a candidate get practice running a campaign and maybe win something else later. We don't have anyone to expose the flaws of a Republican who might be beatable in the future while seeking a different office or running in new district lines. We need to build up local parties to provide support for candidates and form the bench for future races. Texas isn't the only state where we hold no statewide offices, and I wonder how much such state parties can support local parties. So maybe there's a hybrid idea, where we focus instead of trying to do everything everywhere, with the focus being where we're weakest.
I'm reluctant however to support the idea of focusing where there's a current opportunity, at least not until we're in the last months before the election. I'm a believer in creating opportunity instead of just waiting for it, which I suppose explains this whole "let's win more white votes" thing. We're never going to make the red states/districts competitive until we're willing to try, and sustain the effort over multiple elections. I still support a Texas project because of the national implications of doing better there, but I see a case for a Tennessee project or South Carolina project. The lure of opportunity does make some other states more tempting targets than Texas. They just aren't nearly as big and don't offer the same chance to weaken Republicans nationally.
Yes, ignoring opportunity is a bad idea. I'm saying it's also a bad idea to look only at which districts are swing districts right at the moment and ignore everything else. Republicans seem to do it that way, but let them have their mistakes. We don't need to copy.
UPDATE: There is an organization called Battleground Texas which seems to be led by former Obama staffers. From looking at their web site, they seem to be trying the same sort of data-driven ground-level organizing that worked for the Obama campaign. It looks like they're operating as an independent group rather than as a branch of the national or state parties. If I may be permitted a moment of optimism, other than being independent rather than a party project, this looks like exactly what I was advocating. I need to do some more research, but probably I'll be digging into my own pockets to help them.
For reference, the series on "Democrats need to do better with white voters":
Part 1 on why we need to do better with white voters
Part 2 on the variables of the problem
The Part 5 I never intended to write
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Erik Olson is the East Coast's Candide Thovex, without the mittens. Beautifully angled form, hands forward, knees bent. His body always matches the power of the turn—all the time—a style only a handful have been able to achieve. Olson's humble start, on 200-foot rope tows in Western New York farm country, bred the quiet honesty with which he has skied for years. He's earned money to ski working in a can factory and lived in his car for 135 consecutive days at Mount Hood. He pointedly avoids promoting himself, but also landed the first switch 1080 in pipe skiing history in 2006, and has more footage in the Meathead Films archive than any other athlete. Similar to Candide, his dedication to skiing is earnest, deeply personal, and full of integrity.
Two summers ago I re-roofed my parents' house. My dad gave me a hammer from the 1800s. It was my great-great-grandfather's. I didn't use it because it was so worn down, but I re-roofed the whole house with a hammer. That's how Olsons do it—the hardest way possible.
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When we started filming with the Meatheads, it wasn't like, "Oh, you should cover us!" What I really gained by skiing with them was more of an appreciation for skiers who ski anywhere. It's like Radio Ron; that dude has been doing exactly what he's been doing for how many years? Just skiing bumps at Holiday Valley and loving it.
You can look at a silhouette of Candide and you know it's him because of his body position when he's grabbing his tail. Double grabs put people in this uniform style where you can't tell who the skier is. The more traditional grabs, you can get your own thing going with them.
Kids who were super privileged, they are typically the most delusional about who they are. There's all this phony bullshit—all this rasta. It's so bizarre; it was almost like at first I didn't fit in the ski industry being a normal kid from New York. That's partly why we started the Yoke Collection, to have a brand for kids that don't want to put on some crazy persona and who have a mellow vibe about what skiing actually is. If you can't laugh at skiing, I don't know what to do for you. It's not something that should be taken that seriously.
Occasionally kids come up to me and say, "You're Erik Olson? You're my hero!" I don't wake up feeling like some kind of hero. It's like in that Traveling Circus episode, Andy Parry says, "I'm not Simon Dumont or Will Wesson. I'm just a normal person, and I smell like pizza."
The gaper is the best thing ever. They are totally oblivious to any fashion trends, they don't know the difference between anything, and they are the ones probably having the most fun. I love gapers. I wish I were one.
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You look at Duncan Adams and you can tell he skis with integrity. He's doing tricks, like a switch down-the-hill air [in the pipe], that when you just say it, sounds simple. But who took the time to actually learn that? People just skip shit. A switch down-the-hill air 15 feet out? That's probably five times harder than a cork 900.
At the Vermont Open in 2006, pretty much everybody who wasn't Dumont or Jon Olsson was there. There was this elitism bullshit—the pros were cutting all the kids and I was just like, "Fuck that." On my first run I missed the setup trick for my switch 9, and I got even angrier. On my second run, after landing my 7, I was going faster than I'd ever gone switch before. I set for a 9, but being that high, you just keep spinning in order to land on the right axis and dip your tips in, and I landed the switch 1080. It was totally spontaneous.
I like skiing powder now because it's just as spontaneous. You're never going to be able to make the same turn again. I like that more than standing at the top of something and being like, "I gotta do this." I just want to go.
The Olympics could change park skiing. People are going to see each kid as a membership fee. It will make kids join USSA and have a coach and be on a team. It would turn skiing into baseball practice. Then you're 19 and you're too old for the program, so you drop the sport like you would baseball.
I cut a picture of an absurdly obese cat out of a newspaper. [Yoke Collection Co-Founder] Shane [McFalls] and I both like finding ridiculous things. It's cool finding things that have no meaning or value to one person, but mean something to another person in a different context.
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Washington, D.C. International Stakes
|Grade I race
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|Laurel Park Racecourse,
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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|1½ miles (12 furlongs)
|Grass, left-handed
|3-Year-Olds and Up
The Washington, D.C. International was an American Grade I invitational horse race. Inaugurated in 1952, it was raced on turf in Laurel, Maryland at a distance of 1½ miles (12 furlongs), and drew the best horses from North America and Europe. It was held annually until 1994, when it was replaced by the Breeders' Cup Turf.
When it was founded by John D. Schapiro, owner of the Laurel Park Racecourse, it was the only international horse race in the United States. The International burst onto the racing scene and immediately became a world-wide news event. Until then, the idea of bringing horses from Europe and around the world to the United States for a specific race was, unprecedented. J. Samuel Pearlman, Editor of the "Daily Racing Form" and John D. Schapiro, owner of Laurel discussed the idea after the 1950 racing season ended. Less than a year and half later, the concept became a reality.[1]
Usually just called the "International," the race drew the best Thoroughbreds from the U.S. and Europe and was of such importance that in the 1960s, during the Cold War era, horses came from the Soviet Union.[1] In the 1980s the Washington, D.C. International was part of a million dollar bonus given to any horse who won it plus the Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto and the Turf Classic at Belmont Park in New York.
Few American horses excelled on the turf but some were specialists, while others built their great records on the dirt and then specifically switched over to the turf for the "International." U.S. Hall of Famer Kelso repeatedly won Horse-of-the-Year honors in the early 1960s and intrigued racegoers world wide with three successive second place finishes in the International. Then in 1964, the mighty gelding won the race in an American record time of 2:23.80. He had given the event international status in Europe by losing it, but then took it to another level (especially national) when he won it at age seven.[2]
The Washington, D.C. International Stakes was raced at a distance of 1½ miles from its inception in 1952 until 1986 when it was modified to 1¼ miles. With the exception of 1993 when it was raced at one mile, the International remained at 1¼ miles until its final running in 1994.
Run the Gantlet won the International in 1971 and his son, Providential, won it in 1979. Providential was owned by Bertram R. Firestone whose wife Diana won the race the following year with her filly, April Run.
During its illustrious career the D.C. International Stakes was won by horses from the United States 22 times, while the race was won by foreign representatives 21 times.
Most wins:
- 2 - Bald Eagle (1959, 1960), Fort Marcy (1967, 1970)
Most wins by an owner:
- 3 - Nelson Bunker Hunt (1973, 1975, 1976)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 3 - Manuel Ycaza (1959, 1960, 1967, Lester Piggott (1968, 1969, 1980)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 4 - Maurice Zilber (1973, 1975, 1976, 1980)
Winners of the Washington, D.C. International
See also
- Washington, D.C. International Stakes top three finishers
- October 27, 1952 TIME magazine article on the inaugural running of the Washington, D.C. International Stakes
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The 64th annual Bonneville Speed Week in Utah is a gearhead's dream. There are Streamliners here with multiple engines trying to reach 500-plus miles per hour. There are two-wheeled racers reaching for speeds well over 260 mph. There are hot rods and custom cars cruising all over, plus some rat rods and a few rat trucks. This creation is a
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**I found time to post some of my review threads over here... see below**
This is a Review of the COBB AccessPort Stage 1 map on my 2011 STI Limited.
Its amazing that Subaru came out with a Stock Tune that is as bad as the one on the 2011 STI. I have read thread after thread from normal enthusiasts to performance tuner shops saying how bad this is.
I ordered an AccessPORT from COBBtuning.com to correct this situation and it arrived with fast shipping via UPS. The AccessPORT came a nice blue colored box surrounded in foam. Installing this to your car is as easy as charging your cell phone every night. The quality of the AP is great! The screen is very bright and clear. It is very easy to navigate, basically very user friendly. I plugged it in, and installed it the same night I received it. Here's what I thought before and after install.....
When I first got in my STI I was amazed at the car. It was fast and sounded great. One thing I noticed was between 3500 and 4000 rpm's the car seems to trip on a stick or fall over on its face for a second. It caught me off guard the first time I went WOT that I thought A) I had slipped off the pedal, B) Something was wrong with my brand new STI, or C) This cant be normal for all STI's.... Well the answer was C!! After researching on IWSTI I saw a number of dyno's that showed the HP and TQ drop. There was nothing smooth at all with the stock curve.
COBB AccessPORT for my 2011 Sedan ordered here @ http://cobbtuning.com/products/?id=5240
My last Access Port I had was for my G37 and I immediately noticed the added features from a year and a half ago. Not to mention the added features that COBB just released in a new update last week.
I plugged in the AP to my OBD plug and went inside for a minute to get a drink, came back out a few minutes later and it was ready to roll. I looked over all the menus the AP had, watched it monitor the many different things it monitors then I went for a brief drive.
My First Impression:
In first gear it accelerates faster and I am ready to shift to 2nd faster than stock. It actually shocked me so much I bounced it off the limiter once. After I went through first gear I felt like I was in a different car. I have never felt such a difference in the same car when doing some type of performance mod. I drove for about 3 minutes and parked and went to bed.
The next morning on the way to work I got to test it out more extensively. I wasn't dreaming last night, it is truly a different car. The power band is extremely smooth. Say goodbye to the hiccup between 3500 and 4000k because now its butter all the way to the top. The power that COBB's Stage 1 gives is great. I am through the gears a lot faster, the engine sounds smoother, and of course the exhaust sound is smooth as well.
A good buddy of mine who was present for a Stock WOT run previously, got in the car and his first words were "damn what did you do" and this comes from a guy who is into looks and not speed. He felt the difference even with his rarely used "butt dyno"
Another great thing about the AP is you can log your runs and see exactly what your engine is doing. This is something that can help you tremendously when adding other mods to your car or even just to check up on the way your STI is running.
I feel a lot better knowing that my STI is running safer now than it was when it came from the factory. IMO every 2011 STI owner should invest in a Cobb AP just to protect their engine and be that much more safe when running there car at WOT. This is the type of modification that anyone can do, even if you have trouble pumping your own gas, you can get an AP, flash your car and even monitor it.
Another thing that I love is my dealer sells COBB products and they actually encourage the AccessPORT as the first thing you do.
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Bollocks and Bugs, Motley Crue's tour starts sloppy, ends in ecstasy.
The show stopped three times early in the opening night of their "All Bad Things Must Come To An End Tour." Broken Drum head, more drums, and then Mick's guitar acted up. After that it was off to the races! 20 songs, set list below. Highlights, Nikki has a flame-throwing bass, Tommy's roller coaster drum kit has gotten much bigger, with lots more track. See the video below:
Motley Crue Setlist, 7/2/2014: Grand Rapids Michigan
'Motherf—er of the Year'
'Wild Side'
'Primal Scream'
'Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)'
'Looks That Kill'
'On With the Show'
'Too Fast for Love'
'All Bad Things'
(Guitar Solo)
'Smokin' in the Boys' Room'
'Without You'
'Saints of Los Angeles'
'Anarchy in the U.K.'
'Too Young to Fall in Love'
(Drum Solo)
'Shout at the Devil'
'Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)'
'Live Wire'
'Dr. Feelgood'
'Girls, Girls, Girls'
'Kickstart My Heart'
'Home Sweet Home'
During "Home Sweet Home" the stage ascended.
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I wish I'd have had my Grandfathers for that long, but your going to miss them no matter when they go.
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I wish I'd have had my Grandfathers for that long, but your going to miss them no matter when they go.
Sorry for your loss. You learned why he was the man he was. Pass it on to your children.
I'm sorry. Try to remember all the good times, the things he taught you. May the Lord give you and your family comfort.
May The Lord bless you with his Grace and Peace and comfort you in your sorrow. Lean not on your own understanding, yet rejoice in the knowledge that you will meet him on God's Golden Shore.
It is scary as our older and wiser mentors pass the torch to us and we become the elders. We must reflect on the great wisdom they imparted upon us, live accordingly, and pass it on to the next generation. I sometimes wonder as we lose these pillars of strength and wisdom "who will we go to for wise advice and counsel?" That's when faith, prayer, and reflection are our compass for direction.
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Kevin over at Tom's have taken a stroll down memory lane. At least to be, it brought on quite a few smiles and plenty of fond memories
Thought I could share two of those with you. I'm sure you guys have tons of similar stories, but nevertheless...
At the University during a CAD lesson (this was during the 286-era), one of my classmates came to my desk and asked me if I could come over to the computer where he sat. He was quite distressed since he couldn't get his model to load and was afraid he had lost all his previous work. Of course I said yes and we got to his desk where he sat down, took his folded up 5 1/4 inch floppy out of the back pocket of his jeans, promptly pushed it into the diskdrive and said "OK... now, see here..."
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Video Premiere: Lady Antebellum's 'Just a Kiss'
Lady Antebellum have just debuted a music video for their new single "Just a Kiss". Directed by Shaun Silva, the video was filmed in several locations across the globe. It follows two strangers Joy and Braden who take a tour to various beautiful cities together. They share laugh, joy and kiss along the way.
Despite the strong chemistry between them, this young couple takes things slow. "Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight/ Just a touch of the fire burning so bright," Lady A narrate the romantic story with their lyrics. "I don't want to mess this thing up/ I don't want to push too far."
The song is the first single from Lady Antebellum's upcoming studio album "Own the Night". Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott wrote the song themselves and have showcased it on national television for the very first time during a May episode of "American Idol".
Talking about the track, Scott said, "We love writing songs from personal experience, and this is definitely one of those songs." She elaborated her statement, "There is so much excitement at the beginning of a new relationship ... all the butterflies and that optimistic feeling that this person could be 'the one'."
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