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The above images show Micheline Bernardini, the former Casino de Paris nude dancer who debuted the garment known as a bikini at a 1946 Paris beauty contest. Technically, hers was not the first. Similar garments appear on figures adorning classical Greek urns—but hey, that stuff is ancient history. The modern bikini is credited to Bernardini and designer Louis Réard. Beauty contests are an interesting phenomenon, don't you think? They're ultimately about sex, but nobody is supposed to say they're about sex—just like the foot massages in Pulp Fiction. But as weird and anachronistic as beauty contests are, we find the photos fascinating, so today we've dug up some vintage beauty contest pix. Among the participants below you'll see Miss Italy winner 1951 Isabella Valdettaro (second photo). The dates on these range from mid-1940s to mid-1950s, except for the final shot which is from around 1935.
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Published this month in 1966, this issue of the French pin-up magazine Folies de Paris et de Hollywood features the usual assortment of burlesque queens from Parisian cabarets, except with their private parts airbrushed away even more drastically than usual. But it was flirting with an obscenity charge to show pubic hair in French magazines in 1966, so the editors had little choice, though we suspect pubes may have been accepted in art circles. Not sure about that.
It's a bit amazing to us that the editors can find so much to say about each of these dancers, literally paragraphs of info about Gladys, Lisette, Penny, Ursula, et. al., their habits, their ambitions, their likes and dislikes. We wonder if one of those dislikes was encountering men at their shows who were armed with all this biographical information: "Ursula, I tell you, we are truly peas in a pod, because I love being kissed on the backs of my knees too! Quelle coïncidence!" Fifteen scans below.
Vintage Pulp | Jul 18 2013 |
Folies de Paris et de Hollywood often published themed issues, and this one—Vedettes du Strip-Tease 1966—is reserved entirely for dancers from Paris cabarets such as Clair de Lune (Moonlight), La Boule Noire (The Black Ball), Moulin a Poivre (The Pepper Mill), La Tomate, and Alain Bernardin's famed Crazy-Horse Saloon. We love some of the dancers' stage names (aspiring strippers take note)—there's Franca Germanicus, Kitty Tam-Tam, Salammbo, Dailly Holliday, cover star Bijoux, from club Sexy, and Bella Remington, who occupies the coveted centerfold position and two more pages later in the issue. We researched all of them, and the only dancer mentioned online more than in passing was Dailly Holliday. She had already appeared on a Folies de Paris et de Hollywood cover from 1962, and was written of in a New Yorker article in October 1966, having apparently moved on from Moulin a Poivre to dance at a club in Montparnasse called Dolce Vita. Kitty Tam-Tam was briefly mentioned in François des Aulnoyes' book Histoire et philosophie du strip-tease, and Bella Remington's name appeared in an online list of former Crazy Horse dancers, but those instances hardly count because no actual information was attached. With the exception of Holliday there were no photos out there at all. We've remedied that today, and we were happy to do our part for history. We didn't scan the entire issue, because the dimensions of the magazine meant scanning the pages in two pieces and joining them in Photoshop. But we did manage nineteen of the thirty-two pages before we gave up. All below.
Vintage Pulp | Apr 30 2013 |
Today on Britain's respected Guardian webpage, writer Mariella Frostrup muses about the prevalence of pornography in modern society and asks whether it's harmful. At Pulp Intl., with few exceptions, our nude images are merely quaint, which raises the questions of whether they were ever considered harmful, and if so, why and when they came to be seen as artful. We are well aware that the airbrushing away of womens' genitalia—something that was general practice at the time these images appeared—was seen by many rights advocates as a type of violence against women. After all, what was so dirty about female genitalia? Didn't their erasure peel back the mask from a male-dominated society's desperate efforts to control female sexuality?
Then along came Playboy, which challenged archaic laws designed to prevent mass production and mass mailing of pornography. Compared to what you see here today, Playboy represented a quantum leap. Its women looked less like Renaissance paintings and more like real human beings. By increments it beat back legal challenges, and eventually Penthouse, Playboy, and other newsstand magazines began to show pubichair, and then actual sex organs. Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner was hailed as a First Amendment hero as well as a defender of womens' right to control their own sexuality. But pretty soon it was clear that women had won only the right to sell their sexuality—the control remained exclusively male.
Mariella Frostrup's Guardian piece is like others written before. It suggests, like all those articles from earlier decades, that there's a bright white line in erotica that has been crossed and that society is suffering for it. We can't comment on the harm aspect, but we do see a line. Basically, old porn, because of its paper format, depended upon the labor of dozens of outside people—printers, film developers, pre-press personnel, postal workers, newsstand owners—and required such an investment of capital that 95% of its producers served the middle ground of taste and depicted acts that, with perhaps the added twist of one or two extra participants, were taking place in private anyway.
The internet changed all that. So if there's a bright line, it lies where the internet atomized porn and turned much of it into a performance art, a sideshow that somehow has taken over center stage with acts that are most certainly not already occurring in private. Call us crazy, but even though these images were produced before we were born weprefer them to the new stuff. They don't depict merely bodies or an act, but an entire lifestyle of beaches and gardens and all the warm thoughts and simple desires such places entail. This issue of Folies de Paris et de Hollywood appeared today in 1966. If it was ever offensive or harmful it isn't anymore, so enjoy it as an artifact of an earlier age—not a better one by any means, but certainly a more artful one.
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"Love in France isn't what it used to be," says French singer, dancer, and actress Leslie Caron. At least if National Enquirer is to be believed. This cover featuring an enchanting photo of Caron in a pixieish mode she made famous appeared today in 1960 when she was finishing work near Paris on the Napoleonic drama Austerlitz. At the time, she was having difficulties with her husband, actor Peter Hall. Caron wrote about the period in her autobiography Thank Heaven: "Temptations to have affairs were sometimes avoided, sometimes not." In that context, this cover takes on added meaning. Would her husband have seen her words as reassuring or upsetting? In the end it didn't matter. Filming 1961's Fanny in Marseilles, Caron had an affair with cinematographer Jack Cardiff. So while love in France might not have been what it used to be, it was still good enough, seemingly. Caron's subsequent whirlwind affair with Warren Beatty triggered a separation, and by 1965 she and Peter Hall divorced.
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Though it doesn't fit strictly into the idea of pulp, we picked up this issue of Paris Match published this month in 1949 because we liked the colorful cover. Actually, that's not true. We picked it up because one of the Pulp girlfriends saw it and said, "Oooh, ballet!" This was in Bayonne, France back in September. When we knew we'd be in the vicinity one of the Pulp boys (BB) said "Oooh, duck hearts!" So there's your Mars/Venus moment for today: we popped by Bayonne craving sautéed duck hearts as only the French can make, and got Paris Match for two euros. The cover star is French ballerina Yvette Chauviré, who was born in 1917, rose to become the lead dancer of l'Opéra de Paris, and later ascended to its directorship. Inside you get more photos of her, plus shots of American boxer Robert Charron, and shots of his wife (referred to only as Mme. Charron) in a ringside seat watching her husband fight. Take note guys—this is what your girlfriend/wife looks like when you're getting the living shit kicked out of you. Also inside are photos of actress Cécile Aubry and conservative politician Paul Reynaud. All for you. Enjoy.
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Myanmar troops stand guard after an explosion in Traders Hotel, Yangon, on October 14, 2013
Authorities said the recent incidents could be aimed at derailing the country's pro-democratic reforms as it prepares to host a major regional sporting event and take the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The injured American was taken to hospital with wounds to her thigh and her hand after the blast ripped through a guest room at the Traders Hotel in central Yangon late on Monday, police said.
"We assume that it was a bomb blast but we are still trying to find out more information," a police official at the scene who did not want to be named told AFP.
Military officials and soldiers with sniffer dogs were seen at the hotel while shattered glass covered the road outside.
The hotel, part of the Shangri-La group, is located in the heart of Myanmar's commercial hub. It is popular with foreign tourists and visiting business people.
The incident followed a series of earlier bomb blasts but it is not clear who is behind them.
A man and a woman were killed and another person injured in an explosion Friday at a guesthouse in the town of Taunggu, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) from the capital Naypyidaw, police said.
Two other devices exploded in Yangon on Sunday -- one at a bus stop and another under a truck, which wounded two teenagers, according to authorities.
Two more makeshift devices were found in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay on Monday.
"We cannot say who is responsible for these acts," said Police Lieutenant General Min Aung of the Myanmar Police Force's intelligence and security department.
"We're still investigating. The system they used is the same in all the cases. We think an organisation or a person planted them all," he told AFP by telephone from Naypyidaw on Monday, speaking before the blast at the Traders Hotel.
Bomb blasts were relatively common under the former junta, which usually blamed the explosions on armed exile groups or ethnic rebels.
Three bombs rocked a park in Yangon in April 2010 as thousands of revellers celebrated an annual water festival, leaving 10 people dead and dozens wounded.
But such explosions had become rare under a new quasi-civilian government which took power in 2011 promising political reforms and efforts to end long-running ethnic insurgencies.
Presidential spokesman Ye Htut said the recent bombs were intended to spread fear.
"I think that someone or some organisation asked some people to explode the bombs," he told Radio Free Asia's Myanmar Service, saying they had done it "with the intention of making people worried and scared".
"I think that the explosions may have been timed to coincide with Myanmar becoming the chair of ASEAN and getting ready to host the Southeast Asian Games, to make the international community misunderstand the situation of stability and peace in Myanmar," said Ye Htut.
Myanmar last week officially assumed the chairmanship of the ASEAN regional bloc for 2014. In December it will welcome athletes and sports fans to Naypyidaw for the Southeast Asian Games.
In a message posted on its official Facebook page, the Yangon police appealed to people to be vigilant for any suspicious objects at railway stations, bus stops and other public places.
"We also urge people to cooperate to find those causing unrest and casualties with explosions," it said.
President Thein Sein's reformist government has reached tentative peace deals with the major ethnic minority rebel groups in the country, which has been wracked by civil wars since independence from Britain in 1948.
But the nation has been hit by several outbreaks of Buddhist-Muslim religious violence since June 2012 that have left about 250 people dead and more than 140,000 homeless, mostly Muslims.
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Net income attributable to Fossil rose to $76.8 million, or $1.26 per share, in the third quarter, from $69.6 million, or $1.09 per share, a year earlier.
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UE Berlin (Part One; "The Lakeside Hotel")
So yeah, my brother and I headed out on a UE trip to Berlin on a very early Thursday morning, full of anticipation on going to the epic spots we'd seen so many pictures of. We planned the five+ hour drive to stop at two places on the way; a big abandoned steel factory and a lakeside hotel. To our bad luck the first scheduled stop at the steel works was a swing and miss. Right when we drove around a corner in the big industrial area expecting to see the awesome sight of a massive derelict industrial building, all we saw was construction workers, cranes and whatnot busy building a new structure on top of the old (now torn down) steel factory site. Oh well, you win some you lose some. We'd already learned that your expectations can be ruthlessly shoot down in the art of urban exploration, but it was still an unwelcoming start to the big trip.
Stopping on a gas station in the middle of Germany I realized just how neglected my German actually was, but I saw that more as an opportunity then an obstacle to play the dumb Danish tourist, should we got stopped by security in one of the forthcoming locations. Anyway, we managed to get gas and coffee and headed to the second stop on the way to Berlin.
This time we were in luck. Driving through the little towns main road we saw the the big abandoned hotel through the trees on top of a hill looking out over the lake. Though it had clearly been the victim of vandals and graffiti, we decided to stop and go inside, being eager to visit our first UE spot in Germany.
We parked our car, got our gear and went down to the lake to find a way in the hotel, which was surround by a fence with some gnarly looking spikes on top. Upon getting closer we noticed a few construction workers working on a house on the hill right next to the hotel, so we decided to head through the surround forest and approach the hotel from the other side out of view from the workers.
When we finally got up the hill and through the pathless forest to the hotel, we found a big thick branch that was conveniently placed over the fence for us to climb up on and over the fence. From there on it was no problem getting in. All the windows were smashed and with no boards on them we just climbed in.
Inside the extensive derelict state of the hotel was definitely something to be aware of. The floor boards on the upper floors were in a bad shape to say the least, big holes and rusty nails meant we needed to be wary of each step we took while in there.
Though vandalized and neglected the old hotel still possessed a hint of the grandeur from its days of glory. From the big pillars, ornamented ceilings, patios and room terraces to the location on top of a hill overlooking the big lake you could begin to imagine how it looked when it was still active.
Built in 1909 the hotel soon became a profitable success. With the outbreak of WWI guests became fewer and in this period the hotel served as an artillery depot.
After WWI the hotel was taken over by a new owner, who ran the hotel until 1931 when he went bankrupt due to the global financial crisis of the time. Another owner took over, but the hotel hardly made a profit under his ownership. In 1944 it was seized my the German Luftwaffe and made into a hospital. After the war it was used as a retirement home for former KZ prisoners. From the fifties it had a lot of different owners and uses until it was taken over my the state in 2001 and since left abandoned and neglected. The current plans are to turn the hotel into apartments, but the progress is slow and it's future is uncertain.
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CLINTON — A tight budget has helped give students in the Clinton Public School District a longer summer break.
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The Moss Landing Global Kelp Systems class was fortunate enough to dive in a kelp farm designed to grow Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera on lines. The kelp farm had large kelp crabs which aggregated because the kelp is their preferred food, similar to insects eating on our crop fields on land. The cute baby kelp is shown below growing on lines, hopefully they will not be eaten and make it to adulthood. It was an interesting experience seeing an underwater farm, its easier to farm in the water with kelp as the nitrogen fertilizer is naturally in the water!
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Farming Underwater in Chile, South America
February 3, 2012Tags:diving, invertebrates, kelp, MLML, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, seaweed
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Trawling for Booty in the Briny Sea
November 23, 2011by Angela Szesciorka, Vertebrate Ecology Lab
Classes at Moss Landing Marine Labs involve a lot of field trips, and this semester is no exception. On November 7, 2011 the marine ecology students ventured seaward to explore the ocean benthos.
The students waited with anticipation, saying goodbye to the familiar Moss Landing Harbor as the 135-foot Point Sur pulled slowly out into the open ocean.
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Licking rocks?
October 18, 2011During the MS 141 Geologic Oceanography field trip on monday October the 10th, I learned something new about a place I have been visiting for years. Panther Beach is about 10 miles north of Santa Cruz and a diverse, dynamic beach to visit. With a huge sandstone arch and places to boulder and rock climb it has much to offer and changes with the seasons as the sand is removed during winter and deposited back during summer. Little did I know, but a rock outcrop I had walked by for years was composed of mud and many, many diatoms, tiny algae phytoplankton which are made of silica and leave behind their skeleton when they pass away. If you were to lick a fresh portion of this rock it seems like the rock is sticky, this is because of the many tubes of the diatom skeletons creating suction on your tongue!!! The study of rocks definitely rocks!
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300 million year old rock made of organism skeletons!
October 11, 2011The MS 141 Geological Oceanography class traveled to the Marin headlands to visit many rocky outcrops. The folded rock near rodeo beach San Francisco was most impressive. This rock was around 300 million years old. Composed of layer upon layer of radiolarian skeletons, tiny creatures with mineral bodies that get left behind, the outcrop has layers that span millions of years that have since been down-lifted, compressed and uplifted. This is some rock that rocks!
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Big Creek, Little Steelhead
August 22, 2011
Year old Steelhead (smolts) were seen during Moss Landing's Scientific Diving class, in August, at Big Creek Reserve. These fish are anadromous, meaning they are born in freshwater and then spend most of their lives at sea before returning to the freshwater to breed. They get to experience both fresh and saltwater worlds!
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Checkup on Mr./Mrs. Wolf Eel
July 21, 2011Checking in with Mr./Mrs. Eel, it appears the eel has been eating some delicious crab. This broken up crab carapace sits in front of the eel den, with some bat stars getting whatever is left over from the meal. The crab carapace is made of chitin, similar to keratin which makes up our nails and hair!
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Babies in the Bay!
July 13, 2011It appears to be a good year for rockfish as the young of the year (called YOYs) are swimming around. These fishes have survived the hardest part of their lives having been floating around as icthyo(fishy)-plankton and then recruiting to the kelp forest, however have much more to go. Some species are seen in the kelp canopy, you can barley make them out in the second photo.
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Stillwater Cove resident: Mr./Mrs. Eel
June 30, 2011Without a doubt this eel is always present. I think I can rely on this more than most things in my life. They will choose a den and will only move if displaced by a larger eel or octopus. Wolf eels, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, eat hard-shelled invertebrates and fishes. Be careful, my shelled friends, these jaws can get cracking!
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Stillwater Cove Thesis Work – algae bracelets
June 19, 2011Stillwater Cove is one of the best studied kelp beds in the world. Moss Landing Marine Lab's very own Mike Fox is studying giant kelp growth in Stillwater. The R/V John Martin took a group out to tag giant kelp in order to more easily locate them when they go reproductive. Large blades called sporophylls cover the holdfast and make it difficult to see the tags, so we attached white lines to a nearby winged kelp algae.
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Hydrothermal Vents: Earth's Natural CO2 Bubbles
June 8, 2011To continue the baja-palooza currently being celebrated on the blog, here are some Cortez Angelfish who were swimming together in southern Bahia Concepcion, Baja. This site was particularly interesting because of a hydrothermal vent bubbling up carbon dioxide through the sediment. It did not seem to affect the fish community as there were many others such as a scorpion fish and Pacific Porgys. It was a little strange to feel like you are diving inside a giant soda bottle.
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Mitt's Bumpy Ride In Michigan
Mitt Romney's literature and signs have been at every Republican event for years. He had quite an organization in 2008 with signs that said, "Michigan for Mitt," with the cute reference of the appearance of the lower peninsula being a mitten, and Mitt's name, well, it's just precious.
But here we are, 9 days from Michigan's Presidential Primary, which the GOP in Michigan moved up and lost half of it's delegates as a result, and now Mitt has to actually compete.
Mitt lost Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, South Carolina, and Minnesota, and may lose Maine. He has so far won New Hampshire, Nevada and Florida.
So as I read what is happening downstate and about how wonderful Mitt is, I noticed how the press says Romney has not defended the auto bailout, and that it will hurt him. Michigan Republicans defend the auto-bailout because Michigan is the auto industry and it's too big to fail, etc.
Even if he wins Michigan, Mr Romney will still be dogged by the auto rescue in the general election. Mr Patterson, a supporter, says: "That's something that Mitt is going to have to address."
Then I typed, "Mitt Romney supported auto bailouts," into my little google search thingy and I found out that he flip-flopped on that issue too. He was for it before he was against it. Gee, and the Michigan GOPers can't figure out why there isn't more loyalty to a guy who left Michigan 50 years ago, and is the son of the moderate Republican Governor who introduced the first sales tax in Michigan.
The Romney Campaign introduced an ad in which Romney is driving around his "hometown" of Detroit, with the classic boarded up Detroit homes and desolation, and he says with a straight face, "President Obama did all these things the liberals have wanted to do for years….and Detroit families are hurting." Meanwhile, everyone is thinking, um, Mitt, you signed Romneycare, universal healthcare for Massachusetts and gave Obama the blueprint for something the liberals have wanted to do for a hundred years. Which is worse, a liberal doing what liberals do, or a Republican enabler?
I have read that Tim Pawlenty is coming up north to Traverse City to speak on behalf of Mitt Romney, even though Pawlenty's Minnesota was won by Santorum. Oh well, I'm sure no one will bring that up. Mention cherries, Tim, that'll have 'em eating out of your hand.
Meanwhile, I read with great humor this article that I thought was a parody, but it's actually true. Mitt thinks Michigan is just so wonderful, and he loves the trees and the water and the sky, the clouds, the cars, the lets see, what else is Michigan about? Oh, and driving cars…
Bumpy rides are inevitable in Michigan because our roads suck. If Jennifer Granholm hadn't gone green and squandered piles of money on green initiatives, perhaps we would have some left for the roads, but our Republican Governor Snyder who endorsed Romney has the big fix. He wants to raise our gas taxes another 10 cents a gallon and raise our vehicle registrations $60 a year so he can get federal matching funds for more of their precious high speed rail projects downstate. Michigan got the federal funds that were rejected by Florida's Republican governor, which should show everyone what kind of Republican Snyder is.
He is, in fact, the perfect type of Republican to endorse Romney. Governor Snyder is a progressive liberal, and holds the distinguished honor of being one of two Republican Governors (the other is Chris Christy) who simultaneously support Governor Romney and refuse to join other Republican Governors in trying to fight Obamacare. In fact, Governor Snyder is fighting his Republican House of Representatives and his super-majority of Republicans in the Senate to try to make deals with Democrats to spend money we don't have on projects nobody wants like DRIC. Our Republican Governor has a bad reputation with Americans for Prosperity, but a great relationship with environmentalist radicals. I think you get the picture.
If I was Mitt Romney, and was trying to defend my actions in the Democrat-controlled liberal state of Massachusetts, I would distance myself from Snyder, who is presently ignoring the fact that Michigan is led by Republicans and is instead breaking his neck to reach across the aisle. I mean, if Romney's defense of Romneycare is that it was the most conservative thing he could have done in a veto-proof Dem majority, what's Snyder's excuse?
Right now, Michigan is at a crossroads. Republicans have to stop being sorry they breathe, and fight the Democrats instead of offering them a seat at the table. With this Governor, it won't happen, and he will completely demolish the Republican Party as a result.
It is the same for the country. I believe that if Mitt is our nominee, that he will not be able to distance himself from Obama's key legislation that got everyone fired up in 2010. Party Republicans have to realize that their voters are not happy with them when they reach across the aisle, especially now when America has two choices, tyranny or a long, tough, brutal slog toward liberty.
I think that it speaks volumes that Romney can't speed through Michigan with nary a hair out of place. If an unthinkable moment for the Romney campaign comes February 28th, Michigan voters will have the stopped the 'Romney electability' crapola once and for all, and Mitt's bumpy ride will have left him stranded.
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C. J. Williams says:
Wow, you hit it out of the ballpark – again – with this one!!!
Mark says:
We don't need another 4 years of Obama and we don't need another namby pamby Republican caretaker of the Socialist welfare state. Look to Canada to see how that works. We do need someone with the fortitude and intelligence to understand, verbalize, and execute a 180 degree u-turn required to take us on the long road back to unobtrusive non-totalitarian government. Romney is definitely not that man. I am not sure any of the candidates now running are capable of such a feat!
Brian N. Feeney says:
…..Mitt, Michigan ONCE meant Jobs, Mitt……You know, JOBS …… Mitt….Mitt …
texayn says:
The press has been trying to have the Romney coronation for 6 years. They want to nominate someone they know cannot beat their Fascist and Chief. The establishment Republicans want him because he's a jelly fish. No spine and easy to manipulate. Rove is looking to return to a cushy White House post.
The sooner conservatives get on the the hostile take over of the party…the better.
task says:
I personally believe a principled conservative President (leader) can expeditiously defang and then eventually destroy Obama Care and move this country in the direction of Constitutional government even if a republican majority is beset with moderates. The question is whether the republican nomine will do so and I just don't feel comfortable that Romney will. It is lonely at the top, bereft of media allies. Accepting the given certainty that enemies will seem to materialize from every direction, including among yesterday's sworn friends, the knowledge that you are taking a once in a lifetime oath to uphold a principled founding document designed from inception to renounce this current tyranny and reinstate federalism requires someone who is a true believer, willing to enter into a minefield of raucous contempt, savage media attacks, lackluster support and even frank insubordination by the once chosen and presumed faithful.
Winning the Presidency is one tiny but very necessary part of rescuing the Country via the arduous and long slough back to freedom that must be taken by a determined and unflinching leader. Santorum is the best shot and I see in him a Rocky Balboa, a do or die commitment that will install a solid Justice Department and a Cabinet of Constitutionalists. The economy will improve by virtue of positive energy policies and removal of constraining regulations as well as the threat of tax oppression. This battle will be fought on the job, in the schools, in the Congress, internationally and in the media. So far Conservatives have defied the pundits and nothing is going to stop us from continuing to do so including all the ads that money can buy designed to install a Karl Rove run of the mill moderate that mimics the language of Hayek and Burke but often performs akin to Ted Kennedy or John Kerry and who, in the interest of bipartisanism, conservatives worry might become the enabler-in-chief to do for liberals what they could never accomplish for themselves.
danr2960 says:
Just My Humble Opinion…..I really don't think there is any difference between the Democrats,The Lame Stream Media and the Republican Establishment…..The Democrats know romney can't beat obama……The Lame Stream Media knows that romney can't beat obama and The Republican Establishment also know that romney can not beat obama…..This is the "Biggest Hoax in USA History" "Pray That It Fails"
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Great shot Hank!!
Greetings Dann. I was down in DC recently for a renewable energy convention, and found myself waiting for a friend to bring him to the show. As the afternoon sun started palying against the buildings I reached for the camera which I've started to carry with me. You never know.
Well it's always best to be prepared, Hank. Good thing for us that you were. ;)
No one's ever accused me of always being prepared before; thanks.
It's very encouraging that your successes have prompted you to always carry a camera. You obviously have the eye to capture extraordinary images of ordinary things. Best Tom
Greetings Tom. I think Panoramio and Google Earth have combined to make this happen. I really enjoy the challenge of capturing something beautiful in a scene...especially the scene I would have walked past before.
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You would think . . . • that having had a heart attack would be enough to persuade a man to quit smoking, change his diet, exercise more, and take his medication • that hangovers, damaged relationships, an auto crash, and memory blackouts would be enough to convince a woman to stop drinking You would think . . . • that the very real threats of blindness, amputations and other complications from diabetes would be enough to motivate weight loss and glycemic control • that time spent in the dehumanizing privations of prison would dissuade people from re-offending And yet so often it is not enough Client Motivation is a Key to Change • Substance abuse treatment outcomes are predicted by: – Pretreatment motivation measures – Treatment attendance – Treatment adherence/compliance – Counselor ratings of motivation and prognosis • That is, more "motivated" clients do better And Client Motivation is Greatly Influenced by the Counselor: • Clients' motivation, retention and outcome vary with the particular counselor to whom they are assigned • Counselor style strongly drives client resistance (confrontation drives it up, empathic listening brings it down) • That is, the counselor is one of the biggest determinants of client motivation and change Denial: What is it? Denial • Historically, it was believed that people with substance use disorders (SUDs) had particularly pathological or immature personalities, with high levels of the defense mechanism of denial • Yet research has found no characteristic "addictive personality" – rather a wide variety of people succumb to addiction • Research specifically has not found overuse of denial, or any other typical patterns of defensive styles among people with SUDs If it's not personality, then what behaviors cause counselors to perceive clients as being "in denial"? • Disagreeing with the counselor • Resisting a diagnosis/label • Declining help • Showing little distress • Disavowing a need for counseling or change • Being non-compliant with treatment prescriptions and • Not changing In contrast, counselors tend to perceive clients as being "motivated" when they: • Agree with the counselor • Accept the counselor's diagnosis/label • Express a desire for help • Show distress • Voice a need for the counselor/counseling • Comply with the counselor's treatment plan and • Change In other words, client motivation is evident in: • Low resistance • Openness and collaboration • Expressing emotion • Adhering to a change plan and • Changing All of which are strongly influenced, for better or worse, by what the counselor does Exercise #1 • Work with one other person • General rule for all practice exercises: Don't be in the same group with your boss or supervisor Speaker: Role play a client presenting for alcohol treatment. You are ambivalent about your drinking, and somewhat resistant to change. Exercise #1 Counselor: Find out a little about the client's problem, and then: • Explain why the client should quit drinking • Give at least three specific benefits that would result from quitting drinking • Tell the client how to quit drinking • Emphasize how important it is for the client to quit drinking • Tell the client to do it. P.S. This is NOT motivational interviewing Go! 5 minutes, then switch roles How Did the Client Feel? Persuasion: What Goes Wrong? Ambivalence The Dilemma of Change Stages of Change Prochaska & DiClemente Stages of Change Prochaska & DiClemente 80% 20% The Righting Reflex When Worlds Collide The Righting Reflex Ambivalence Common Human Reactions to the Righting Reflex • Angry, agitated • Afraid • Oppositional • Helpless, overwhelmed • Discounting • Ashamed • Defensive • Trapped • Justifying • Disengaged • Not understood • Don't come back – avoid • Not heard • Uncomfortable • Procrastinate • Resistant A Continuum of Styles Directing <=> Guiding <=> Following A taste of MI Exercise #2 • Work in groups of 3 • One speaker and two counselors • Counselor #1 will go first • Counselor #2 – listen carefully but don't speak yet Exercise 2 Speaker's Topic • Something about yourself that you – want to change – need to change – should change – have been thinking about changing but you haven't changed yet i.e. – something you're ambivalent about Exercise 2 Counselor #1 • Listen carefully with a goal of understanding the dilemma • Give no advice • Ask these four open questions: – Why would you want to make this change? – How might you go about it, in order to succeed? – What are the three best reasons to do it? – On a scale from 0 to 10, how important would you say it is for you to make this change? • Follow-up: And why are you at __ and not zero? Go! 10 minutes Exercise 2 Counselor #2 • Give a short summary/reflection of the speaker's motivations for change – Desire for change – Ability to change – Reasons for change – Need for change • Then ask: "So what do you think you'll do?" – and just listen with interest Go! 5 minutes How Did the Speaker Feel? What Happened? Common Human Reactions to Being Listened to • Understood • Safe • Want to talk more • Empowered • Liking the counselor • Hopeful • Open • Comfortable • Accepted • Interested • Respected • Want to come back • Engaged • Cooperative • Able to change A Change of Role • You don't have to make change happen. You can't • You don't have to come up with all the answers You probably don't have the best ones • You're not wrestling You're dancing (MI helps with burnout) Motivational Interviewing A Definition Motivational interviewing is a person-centered, directive method of communication for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. Eight Stages in Learning MI • 1. The spirit of MI • 2. OARS – Client-centered counseling skills • 3. Recognizing and reinforcing change talk • 4. Eliciting and strengthening change talk • 5. Rolling with resistance • 6. Developing a change plan • 7. Consolidating client commitment • 8. Transition and blending Miller, W. R., & Moyers, T. B. (in press). Eight stages in learning motivational interviewing. Journal of Teaching in the Addictions. The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing • Collaboration • Evocation • Autonomy Break • (Ten Minutes) • Handout: Opening the conversation Two Phases of MI • Phase 1: Building Motivation for Change • Phase 2: Strengthening Commitment to Change Four General Principles • Express Empathy • Develop Discrepancy • Roll with Resistance • Support Self-Efficacy Video Demonstration What Does MI Look Like? MI Principle 1 Express Empathy Listen actively with the goal of understanding Critical Conditions of Change Carl Rogers • Accurate Understanding (Empathy) • Unconditional Positive Regard (Warmth) • Genuineness (Congruence) Good listening is more than being silent and paying attention So what do you say? What Good Listening Is Not (Roadblocks: Thomas Gordon) • Asking questions • Agreeing, approving, or praising • Advising, suggesting, providing solutions • Arguing, persuading with logic, lecturing • Analyzing or interpreting • Assuring, sympathizing, or consoling What Good Listening is Not (Roadblocks, from Thomas Gordon) • Ordering, directing, or commanding • Warning, cautioning, or threatening • Moralizing, telling what they "should" do • Disagreeing, judging, criticizing, or blaming • Shaming, ridiculing, or labeling • Withdrawing, distracting, humoring, or changing the subject Why are these "roadblocks"? • They get in the speaker's way. In order to keep moving, the speaker has to go around them • They have the effect of blocking, stopping, diverting, or changing direction • They insert the listener's "stuff" • They communicate: – One-up role: Listen to me! I'm the expert. – Put-down (subtle, or not-so-subtle) • Roadblocks are not wrong. There's a time and place for them, but they are not good listening. Therapeutic Empathy • Empathy is not: – Having had the same experience or problem – Identification with the client – Let me tell you my story • Empathy is: – The ability to accurately understand the client's meaning – The ability to reflect that accurate understanding back to the client Empathy in Addiction Counseling • Counselors who show high levels of empathic skill have clients who are: – Less resistant – More likely to stay in treatment – More likely to recover – Less likely to relapse • Empathy is the single best predictor of a higher success rate in addiction counseling • Counselors who are in recovery themselves are neither more nor less effective than others Three Places a Communication Can Go Wrong Speaker Listener Words Words 2 1 3 Meaning Meaning The Function of Reflection Speaker Listener Words Words 2 1 3 Reflection Meaning Meaning Exercise #3 • Work in groups of 3 • Each should be prepared to be a speaker by completing this sentence: "One thing I like about myself is that I am ______________" • (Choose an adjective that has some depth of meaning for you) Exercise 3 Listeners • Ask only closed questions, using these words: – Do you mean that you _________________? and the speaker may answer only Yes or No When to Rotate Roles • When the two listeners have asked at least 6-8 "do you mean" questions and heard "yes" or "no" answers – The speaker may say a sentence or two about what he/she really meant – Then the next person becomes the speaker and you repeat the exercise – You may go around twice if needed Go! 10 minutes Reflections • Are statements rather than questions • Make a guess about the client's meaning (rather than asking) • Yield more information and better understanding • Often a question can be turned into a reflection Forming Reflections • A reflection states an hypothesis, makes a guess about what the person means • Form a statement, not a question – Think of your question: Do you mean that you . . . ? – Cut the question words X you mean X You . . Do X X that – Inflect your voice down at the end • There's no penalty for missing • In general, a reflection should not be longer than the client's statement. Levels of Reflection Simple Reflection 1. Repetition 2. Rephrase Complex Reflection 3. Paraphrase 4. Reflection of feeling, metaphor, etc. Exercise #4 • Work in groups of three • All will get to be speaker and listener • Speaker's topic: How I hope things will be different in my life five years from now • Give one statement at a time, and wait for the listeners' response. Exercise 4 Listeners Respond only with reflective listening statements – You _________________ . and now the speaker answers Yes or No and then says more, elaborates Then the listeners reflect the new statement Exercise 4 Preparing to Rotate • When you think you have an understanding of the speaker's meaning (at least 6-8 reflections) • One listener gives a short summary of how and why the speaker hopes things will be different in his/her life five years from now • The speaker has a chance to respond • Then go on to a new speaker Go! 15 minutes Getting Moving: OARS OPEN Questions AFFIRM REFLECT SUMMARIZE Closed Questions • Have a short answer (like Yes/No) – Did you drink this week? • Ask for specific information – What is your address? • Might be multiple choice – What do you plan to do: Quit, cut down, or keep on smoking? • They limit the client's answer options Open Questions: • Open the door, encourage the client to talk • Do not invite a short answer • Leave broad latitude for how to respond Open or Closed Questions? • What would you like from treatment? • Was your family LDS? • Tell me about your drinking; what are the good things and the not-so-good things about it? • If you were to quit, how would you do it? • When is your court date? Open or Closed Questions? • What would you like from treatment? • Was your family LDS? • Tell me about your drinking; what are the good things and the not-so-good things about it? • If you were to quit, how would you do it? • When is your court date? Open or Closed Questions? • Don't you think it's time for a change? • What do you think would be better for you – Evergreen or a SGA Therapy group? • What do you like about cocaine? • What do you already know about pornography addiction? • Is this an open question? Open or Closed Questions? • Don't you think it's time for a change? • What do you think would be better for you – Evergreen or a SGA therapy group? • What do you like about cocaine? • What do you already know about pornography addiction? • Is this an open question? Some Guidelines with Questions • Ask fewer questions! • Don't ask three questions in a row • Ask more open than closed questions • Offer two reflections for each question asked Lunch • Ends @ 1:00 PM MST Getting Moving: OARS OPEN Questions AFFIRM REFLECT SUMMARIZE Affirmations • Emphasize a strength • Notice and appreciate a positive action • Should be genuine • Express positive regard and caring • Strengthen therapeutic relationship Affirmations Include: • Commenting positively on an attribute – You're a strong person, a real survivor. • A statement of appreciation – I appreciate your openness and honesty today. • Catch the person doing something right – Thanks for coming in today! • A compliment – I like the way you said that. • An expression of hope, caring, or support – I hope this weekend goes well for you! Getting Moving: OARS OPEN Questions AFFIRM REFLECT SUMMARIZE Summaries can: • Collect material that has been offered – So far you've expressed concern about your children, getting a job, and finding a safer place to live. • Link something just said with something discussed earlier. – That sounds a bit like what you told me about that lonely feeling you get • Draw together what has happened and transition to a new task – Before I ask you the questions I mentioned earlier, let me summarize what you've told me so far, and see if I've missed anything important. You came in because you were feeling really sick, and it scared you . . . . . . . . . Summaries • Have the client review the session, especially if you feel that you are not going to get it right. ( I've done this before-- whoops) Exercise #5 • Work in twos: – One speaker – One listener • Both will experience both roles (time permitting) Exercise 5 Speaker's Topic • Something about yourself that you – want to change – need to change – should change – have been thinking about changing but you haven't changed yet i.e. – something you're ambivalent about Exercise 5 Listener's Task: Only OARS OPEN Questions AFFIRM REFLECT SUMMARIZE Don't try to fix it or make change happen! Go! 15-20 minutes per speaker Phase 1 Motivational Interviewing departs from more general client-centered counseling in being consciously directive. The counselor listens for, evokes, and reinforces certain kinds of client statements. MI Principle 2 Develop Discrepancy The person rather than the counselor should make the arguments for change Change Talk • Change talk is client speech that favors movement in the direction of change • Previously called "self-motivational statements" Preparatory Change Talk Four Kinds DARN • DESIRE to change (want, like, wish . . ) • ABILITY to change (can, could . . ) • REASONS to change (if . . then) • NEED to change (need, have to, got to . .) Activating Change Talk reflects resolution of ambivalence • Commitment language (intention, decision, readiness) • Taking steps How to Elicit Change Talk: MI Becomes Directive • Asking Evocative Questions • Using The Importance Ruler • Exploring the Decisional Balance • Elaborating • Querying Extremes • Looking Back / Looking Forward • Exploring Goals and Values Responding to Change Talk • Reflecting • Elaborating • Summarizing • Affirming How Motivational Interviewing is Directive • Selective eliciting questions • Selective reflection • Selective elaboration • Selective summarizing • Selective affirming Find the Change Talk (about drug use) (Actual clinical transcript) • I used to go to church. I used to be real close to Christ. And then I started getting high and I didn't go to church no more. • What was church like for you? What was good about that? • I felt like a new person. I didn't get high for…for about four years. I would just go out and visit my family and visit new friends…you know, that went to church. • Um hmm • Then one day I was at church, and I got up and left and I went out and decided to get high, and I didn't know what to do about it. • You didn't think there was anyone you could talk to. • I didn't want nobody to know. • This has been a secret for you. Your kids don't know and you've kept it to yourself. • I'm trying to stop getting high because when I moved here, I got caught four times by the police and I went to jail. • That must have been a shock. • That was the first time I ever went to jail. • So that's kind of . . . • Dangerous. • Yeah, it's dangerous, and wakes you up. • Yeah. • You also said it felt important to be close to Christ and that you really felt that, but then that went away as you got into using, and you'd like to get back there again. • Yeah. 'Cuz I don't want my kids to grow up thinking that I don't care about them or anything like that. And I just don't want them to find out that I be getting high. • You'd like to have more of a positive influence on them. • Yeah. 'Cuz sometimes, like if I don't have the money to get high, I go out with men, you know, and find some money, and then I get high. Then after I get high, and I ain't got no more money, and ain't nothing left, I don't know what to do. • So you want a new start. • Yeah. 'Cuz I'm tired of this life. • And there're a lot of reasons for it. Your kids…you want to get them back…your connection to God, and your family. Sounds like they're all rooting for you, and are ready to help you out. • C: Yeah • So what stands in the way? • I need partnership. 'Cuz when I do drugs it's like a friend. • Yeah • But, see, I wanna get my life together and start a new beginning. Plus, I love my kids and my mother and my father and my sisters and my brothers, and my kids' father, that's my boyfriend. • I see • I just wanna get my life together 'cuz I got a little baby. She's two years old and I wanna raise her myself, but she over to my mother's house. My mother saying she want me to stop getting high, and she'll give her back to me. • This is a time when you really want to be with her, when she's two. • I wanna take her to school, raise her and put some pretty clothes on her. I wanna braid her hair and everything like that. • Be her Mama. • Yeah • It sounds like you really decided you want to do that. • Yeah Identify the type of change talk • Desire • Ability • Reason • Need • Commitment Change Talk • I think I could quit • I've got to do something about my drinking • I'm probably gonna quit • I want to get my kids back, and I can't do that unless I quit drinking • I'd like to have better control of my drinking Put it in reverse: Sustain Talk • I really like marijuana • I don't see how I could give up pot • I need to smoke to be creative • I intend to keep smoking and no one can stop me • I don't think I have to quit Case Example Listen for Change Talk Exercise #6: Jeopardy Eliciting Skill: Eliciting Change Talk • 1. Generate five change talk statements that you might hear in your setting. • 2. Read one statement to your two partners • 3. The partners agree on an open question that could have elicited that change talk statement • 4. They ask the open question, and you answer with your change talk statement Examples • Change talk: I think I would feel better in the morning. • Open Question: What might be some advantages of quitting? • Change talk: I suppose I could arrange with a friend to go with me to a meeting. • Open Question: What might make it easier for you to get to AA and try it out? The Evidence Base for Motivational Interviewing bibliography on www.motivationalinterview.org MI as Stand-Alone Intervention Two Examples Monti et al., 1999 Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67:989-994 • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Emergency room • Nation US (Providence, RI) • N 94 adolescents (18-19) • MI 1 session (35-40 min) • Comparison Standard care • Follow-up 6 months Monti et al., 1999 Outcomes Over 6 Months 90 85 80 70 62 60 50 Percent 50 MI 40 30 23 TAU 21 20 10 3 0 Drinking & Moving Violations Alcohol-Related Driving Injury p<.05 p<.05 p<.01 Bernstein et al., 2005 Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 77:49-59 • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Heroin/cocaine using medical patients (not treatment-seeking) • Nation USA (Boston) • N 1175 adults • MI 20-min individual MI, referral, and list of treatment resources • Comparison List of treatment resources • Follow-up 6 months Bernstein et al., 2005 % Abstinent (from Hair Samples) 50 40.2 40 Percent 30.6 30 22.3 20 16.9 10 0 Cocaine Opiates p=.045 p=.05 MI Control MI as a Prelude to Treatment Two Examples Brown & Miller, 1993 Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 7:211-218 • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Inpatient alcohol • Nation US (Albuquerque, NM) • N 28 adults • MI 1 session MET (+ TAU) • Comparison TAU • Follow-up 3 months post discharge Brown & Miller (1993) Standard Drinks / Week 100 95 85 80 60 61 No MI 40 With MI 20 19 0 Baseline 3 Months p<.001 Brown & Miller (1993) 3-Month Abstinence Rate 70 64 60 57 50 40 Percent No MI 29 29 With MI 30 20 10 0 Abstinent Abstinent or Asymptomatic Aubrey, 1998 Doctoral dissertation, University of New Mexico • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Adolescent drug abuse treatment • Nation US (Albuquerque, NM) • N 77 adolescents entering treatment • MI 1 individual session + TAU • Comparison TAU • Follow-up 3 months Outpatient Adolescent Treatment Number of Treatment Sessions Attended 25 20.4 20 15 No MI 10 With MI 8 5 0 Outpatient Adolescent Treatment % Days Drug Use 100 99 94 90 80 70 No MI 60 59 With MI 50 40 30 26 20 Intake 3 Months Comparing MI to More Extensive Treatments Three Multisite Trials MATCH Matching Alcohol Treatments to Client Heterogeneity sponsored by NIAAA Clinical Research Units Project MATCH Milwaukee Providence * Buffalo Seattle * * ** * WHaven Albuquerque * Farmington * * Charleston Houston Research Design Recruitment from Community Random Assignment Motivational Cognitive Twelve Enhancement Behavioral Step Therapy Training Facilitation Mean Percent Days Abstinent as a Function of Time (Outpatient) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 -2 -1 0 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 CBT MET TSF MATCH: 3 Year Follow-up 1 0.8 0.6 % Days Abstinent 0.4 CBT 0.2 MET TSF 0 BASELINE POST TX 3 MONTH 6 MONTH 9 MONTH 12 MONTH 36 MONTH Timeline Relative to Treatment Window Matching Hypothesis Clients high in state/trait anger will fare better in MET than in CBT or TSF Anger Match MET worked better with angry clients Drinks Per Drinking Day (DDD) 10 9 8 7 6 DDD 5 4 3 2 1 0 15 19.7 24.4 29.1 33.8 38.5 43.2 47.9 52.6 57.3 Anger Scores MET CBT/TSF Possible Contraindications for MI • Clients who are already ready for change • Clients who are low in anger/resistance • If a client appears to be at the action stage, ready for change, there is no need for MI UKATT Research Team, 2005 British Medical Journal, 331:541-545 • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Problem drinkers in community • Nation UK (7 sites) • N 742 clients with alcohol problems • MI 3 sessions (MET) • Comparison 8 sessions social behavior and network therapy • Follow-up 12 months UKATT, 2005 Percent Days Abstinent 50 45.4 46.6 45 42.3 43.2 40 35 29.5 29.5 30 MI 25 SBNT 20 15 10 5 0 Baseline 3 Months 12 Months Marijuana Treatment Project Research Group (2007) Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72:455-466 • Design Randomized clinical trial • Population Inpatient or outpatient treatment • Nation US (3 sites) • N 450 adult marijuana smokers • MI 2 session MET • Comparison 9-session MET + behavior therapy • Control 4-month waiting list control • Follow-up15 months Marijuana Treatment Project Research Group (2007) Percentage Abstinent from Marijuana 25 22.6 22.7 20 % Participants 15.6 MET 15 12.5 MET+CBT 8.6 9.5 Control 10 3.6 5 0 4 months 9 months 15 months p<.001 ns p<.001 Marijuana Treatment Project Research Group (2007) Marijuana Joints per Week 20.3 18.3 16.3 14.3 12.3 MET+CBT 10.3 MET 8.3 Control 6.3 4.3 2.3 0.3 Baseline 4 Months 9 Months p<.001 A Meta-Analysis of Research on Motivational Interviewing Treatment Effectiveness (MARMITE) Jennifer Hettema Julie Steele William R. Miller Annual Review of Clinical Psychology Vol 1, 2005 Effect sizes were computed: • For all reported outcome variables • At all reported follow-up points • For all between-group contrasts • With 95% confidence intervals • Correcting for small sample bias MARMITE 72 studies included: • Alcohol (31) One study each: • Drug Abuse (14) Gambling • Smoking (6) Eating Disorders • HIV Risk (5) Relationships • Treatment Compliance (5) • Water purification (4) • Diet and exercise (4) MARMITE Average Between-Group Effect Size (d) of MI Across All Reported Outcome Measures (N=72 trials) 0.9 0.8 0.77 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.31 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 End of Treatment 4-6 Months 7-12 Months Mean Combined Effect Size by Problem Area (N=72 Clinical Trials) 0.9 0.78 0.8 0.72 0.71 0.7 0.6 0.51 0.51 0.53 0.5 0.41 0.42 0.44 0.4 0.26 0.29 0.3 0.29 0.3 0.14 0.14 0.2 0.04 0.1 0 Gambling Smoking HIV Risk Health Alcohol Drug Abuse Adherence Diet/Exercise 1-3 Months 4-12 Months Public MARMIT Two Predictors of Effect Size: Use of a manual to guide MI: Studies using a manual d = .37 Studies not using a manual d = .65 Ethnicity of sample: Anglo/Caucasian samples d = .39 Minority samples d = .79 MARMITE After 30 years of research MI is a treatment method that is: • Evidence-based >100 clinical trials • Relatively brief • Specifiable (but be careful with manuals) • Grounded in testable theory • With specifiable mechanisms of action • Generalizable across problem areas • Complementary to other treatment methods • Learnable by a broad range of providers • Verifiable – Is it being delivered properly? Conclusions MI is more effective than no intervention When added to other treatment, an initial MI session increases retention and improves treatment outcomes When compared with more intensive treatments, MI often yields comparable outcomes The effects of MI are highly variable across sites and providers MARMITE MI Principle 3 Roll with Resistance • Avoid arguing for change • Resistance is not directly opposed • Resistance is a signal to respond differently Change Talk and Sustain Talk Opposite Sides of a Coin What is Resistance? • Behavior • Interpersonal (It takes two to resist) • A signal of dissonance • Predictive of (non)change • Highly responsive to counselor style What is Resistance? • "I have resistance towards the term 'resistance'" • A better term might be "Disagreeing" • Resistance it intrinsically tied to the will Sustain Talk • Desire for status quo • Inability to change • Reasons for sustaining status quo • Need for status quo • Commitment to status quo Resistance Behaviors • Negating – blaming, disagreeing, excusing, minimizing, claiming impunity • Arguing – challenging, discounting, hostility • Interrupting • Ignoring Video Presentation Resistance Break • (10 minutes) • Handout: "Working with Resistance" Responding to Sustain Talk and Resistance: Reflective Responses • Simple Reflection • Amplified Reflection • Double-Sided Reflection Responding to Sustain Talk and Resistance: Other Responses • Shifting Focus • Reframing • Agreeing with a Twist (reflect/reframe) • Emphasizing Personal Control • Coming Alongside Responding to Sustain Talk and Resistance Exercise #7 Batting Practice Exercise #7: Batting Practice Skill: Responding to Resistance • Work in groups of six • One person at a time is "at bat" • The others are pitchers, who throw out resistance statements typical of their setting • The batter replies with one response • Another pitcher throws out resistance, until there have been four pitches • Then the next person is at bat Responding to Resistance The Rounder Exercise #8 Team Consult Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) Source document in the public domain: W. R. Miller, A. Zweben, C. C. Diclemente & R. G. Rychtarik (1994). Motivational enhancement therapy manual: A clinical research guide for therapists treating individuals with alcohol abuse and dependence. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Project MATCH Monograph Series, Volume 2 NIH Publication No. 94-3723 How Does MET Differ From MI? • Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) – Was developed specifically for Project MATCH – As a 4-session structured treatment – Incorporating personal assessment feedback – Within the overall clinical style of MI • MET is MI combined with client feedback of their assessment results Assessment • MET is not limited to a particular set of assessment measures • MET can be done with any measure for which the client's individual score can be compared with norms or interpretive ranges • Some common assessment domains: – Substance use – Negative consequences (problem severity) – Level of substance dependence and tolerance – Risk factors – Motivation (e.g., for drug use, for change) Giving Feedback in an MI- Consistent Manner • Assessment findings are presented as information • Asks for the clients' responses to feedback (rather than telling clients what they should conclude or do) • Reflects the clients' responses • Rolls with resistance • It is the client's decision what, if anything, to make of and do with the information (Autonomy) MET vs. Confrontation The principal difference is in how the counselor responds to "resistance" Client (responding to feedback): I really don't think my drinking is that bad Confront: How can you sit there and tell me that it's not that bad. Look at the evidence! MI: This surprises you. It's not what you expected to hear. Phase 2 Strengthening Commitment Recognizing Readiness • Diminished resistance • Decreased discussion about the problem • Resolve • Change talk • Questions about change • Envisioning • Taking steps Initiating Phase 2 • Recapitulation • Key Questions • Giving Information and Advice • Negotiating a Change Plan Principle 4 Support Self-Efficacy • A person's belief in the possibility of change is an important motivator • The person, not the counselor, is responsible for choosing and carrying out change Eliciting and Strengthening Confidence • Evocative Questions • The Confidence Ruler • Reviewing Past Successes • Personal Strengths and Supports • Brainstorming • Giving Information and Advice • Reframing • Hypothetical Change Responding to Confidence Talk • Reflecting • Elaborating • Summarizing • Affirming • Raising possible problems and challenges Exercise #9: Eliciting Confidence Exercise #9 Speaker • Topic: Something that you: – would like to do – have reason to do and/or – is important for you to do • But also you are not sure whether: – you can do it – you have the ability to do it – You have the time/energy to do it, etc. Exercise #9 Listener • Listen carefully with a goal of understanding the dilemma, but give no advice • Ask these four open questions, and listen: – On a scale from 0 to 10, how important would you say it is for you to make this change? • Follow-up: And why are you at __ and not zero? – What is there about you (strengths, abilities, talents) that would help you do this? – How might you go about it, in order to succeed? – What have you done successfully in the past that was like this in some way? • Reflect and summarize confidence statements Go! 10 minutes Then reverse roles (time permitting) When, in MI, do you give information and advice? With permission Giving Information and Advice: 3 Kinds of Permission 1. The person asks for advice 2. You ask permission to give advice 3. You qualify your advice to emphasize autonomy Giving Information and Advice • Get permission • Qualify, honoring autonomy • Ask – Provide – Ask • For suggestions, offer several instead of one When, in MI, do you negotiate a specific change plan? When the person is ready Testing the Water Recapitulation and Key Question Negotiating a Change Plan • Setting Goals • Considering Change Options • Arriving at a Plan • Eliciting Commitment Which question would you ask to elicit commitment language? • Is that what you want to do? • Can you do it? • Is there reason enough to do it? • Is it important enough to do it? • Will you do it? Find the Commitment Language Issue: Weight Loss • I want to lose weight • I could probably lose 20 pounds • I'd have more energy • I'm going to lose 20 pounds • I've got to lose some weight Find the Commitment Language Issue: Weight Loss • I want to lose weight • Desire • I could probably lose 20# • Ability • I'd have more energy • Reason • I'm going to lose 20# • Commitment • • I've got to lose some weight Need Find the Commitment Language Issue: Post-MI Hypertension • I want to live to see my grandkids • It's important for me to get my blood pressure down • I want to be healthy again • I can get my BP down • I'll try the medication Find the Commitment Language Issue: Post-MI Hypertension • I want to see my grandkids • Reason • It's important for me to get • Need my blood pressure down • I want to be healthy again • Desire • I can get my BP down • Ability • I'll try the medication • Commitment Find the Commitment Language Issue: Smoking Cessation • I've got to quit smoking • I wish I could quit • I'll think about quitting • I'd be healthier if I quit • I think I can quit Find the Commitment Language Issue: Smoking Cessation • I've got to quit smoking • Need • I wish I could quit • Desire • I'll think about quitting • Commitment • I'd be healthier if I quit • Reason • I think I can quit • Ability Continuing to Learn MI • Let your clients teach you: Attend to change talk • Record your sessions and listen to them • Form a peer interest/supervision group to discuss, view training or practice tapes, etc. • Access materials from the MI website • Attend advanced training Transition to other therapies • Once a plan of change is in place, and the client is in the action phase of change • Research has found that MI is a good place to begin, and CBT and DBT is a good place to end (project MATCH, Seattle site) • Personally, I find MI working well with Existential approaches (e.g. logotherapy) Web Sites • www.motivationalinterview.org • http://casaa.unm.edu • www.motivatingaddicts.com • www. jademangus.com
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For Discussion: Do Latinos Face Worse Discrimination Than Blacks?
There's a new survey out about who faces the most discrimination in America. Which group do you think it is? Pop the hood for survey results.
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Now that it looks like your boy Barack is going to be our next President, McLAME and Palin are trying to cast Obama as an unpatriotic terrorist sympathizer. Palin rode on Obama yesterday:
"We see America
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