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Could Mr. Barkley go to Washington -- again?
Sixteen years ago, Dean Barkley put a dent in the Minnesota political scene, when he ran for the 6th District congressional seat and captured a surprising 16 percent of the vote as an independent.
After that, Barkley went on to become a founder of a nascent political movement that was known at the time as the Reform Party before morphing into today's Independence Party. Under whichever moniker, Barkley made two runs for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and '96, capturing 5 percent and 7 percent of the vote, respectively, ensuring that the IP would have major-party status in the next election cycle.
And that came in 1998, when Barkley was one of the strategists behind Jesse Ventura's shocking gubernatorial win. Barkley, who became director of planning in the Ventura administration, is widely believed to have been the sound policy wonk behind the governor. ("The best way to convince Jesse of an idea is to throw it out there and let him think he thought of it," Barkley says.)
Then, in 2002, during the waning days of the Ventura administration, Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane went down. Ventura appointed Barkley to fill the remaining two months of Wellstone's term. So, after some 30 years of political activism and agitating, Mr. Barkley suddenly went to Washington.
A man of many 'hats'
Since then, he's worn many hats: lobbyist, campaign manager for Kinky Friedman's ill-fated Texas gubernatorial bid, Metro Mobility bus driver and the namesake of an admittedly sleepy law practice.
When Ventura decided he wasn't going to run against Sen. Norm Coleman and Al Franken in the 2008 Senate race, Barkley decided he'd ante up — one more time, he says. Having survived the primary as the preferred IP candidate against a large field, Barkley suddenly finds himself in a three-way race again.
MinnPost caught up with Barkley recently at his Plymouth law office, where he displayed the self-deprecating sense of humor and no-nonsense policy beliefs that he's known for.
"I'll give you my patented sound-bite, nothing answers," he says by way of starting the interview. "How's that?"
The Barkley campaign is pretty simple — because money is always an issue — but it might hit a sweet spot right between Coleman and Franken on a range of key topics: deficit reduction, immediate withdrawal from Iraq, drilling for oil on land that's already available while exploring alternative fuels, the legalization and taxation of medical marijuana, health care that opens up the Medicare system for all Americans on a cost basis, lowering the drinking age to 18.
Debates give Barkley chance to make up for limited funds
This Sunday marks the first of five debates among Coleman, Franken and Barkley before Election Day — a major chance for the former senator to get his message out directly to voters. Recent polls have shown Barkley hovering near 14 percent, but Barkley's never had much use for polls anyway (see Ventura, Jesse).
Conventional wisdom would hold that Barkley would pull votes away from Franken, but the Independence candidate himself doesn't necessarily believe that — he thinks the fiscal conservatives that are normally diehard Republicans are his to grab and, indeed, he takes his hardest swings at Coleman.
With Democratic efforts to reach a veto-proof majority in the Senate, the issue of which party Barkley would caucus with is in play, too.
As of now, he is planning to do what he did during his two-month term, according to Christopher Truscott, communications director for Barkley's Senate campaign. Last time, "Dean didn't caucus with either party, though he worked with both," he said. "True story: In the Senate dining room, which is divided into Democratic and Republican sections, Dean sat right in the middle," Truscott said.
Here are excerpts of our interview with Barkley edited for length and clarity:
MinnPost: The first question I've got is: Do I call you Senator?
Dean Barkley: You can call me whatever you want. I respond to all kinds of different barks.
MP: But you are campaigning as Senator Barkley.
DB: Yes, Senator Dean Barkley. I have been there, I have a track record. So I know where the bathrooms are, so I have a head start on everybody else. I know where the tunnels lead and I know what trains to take.
MP: Do you know where you can get free rent and no utilities?
DB [laughs]: Well, I have to ask Norm; maybe I can take over his apartment.
MP: You have branded your campaign a little bit with Jesse Ventura, obviously. Do you want a tight affiliation with the governor in that regard? What sort of relationship are you trying to portray there?
DB: Well, just that Ventura supports my run. That he thinks that I'd make a great senator. That he saw what I did when I was there and I thought I was — did a very good job for the short period of time that I had. And that he'd like to see me go back and finish the job.
MP: Tick off some of the things that you did in those two months.
DB: Well, we were actually in session for eight days. I think the biggest accomplishment was that I was part of a group of a five or six centrist senators that basically banded together to make sure that the Homeland Security Bill got to the floor for a vote. And when we agreed that the form of the bill was satisfactory to us, we were the swing votes that actually made it pass.
MP: And you had some misgivings on this, as I recall.
DB: There were a few things I didn't particularly care for. But we had to make the decision: Do you give up the entire idea of reorganizing government to deal with our security interest in a more efficient way — which was the largest reorganization of the government in about 40 years — or do you make them start over again next year? Which means it would not have passed. So, we kind of held our nose a little bit with the few things that they threw into the bill and made sure it passed.
MP: When he was exiting office, [former U.S. Sen.] Mark Dayton said, "My view of Washington going in was that it is a cesspool, and my view going out is that it's a cesspool." You've had experience through looking at the sausage-making part of legislation, so what makes you want to go back there?
DB: I'm not willing to give up on my country, I'm just not. It doesn't have to be that way. The Senate used to be a collaborative body where you actually got to know the other senators, you got to develop friendships, you used to build correlations to actually agree on what issues we need to tackle and actually find compromise and answers to whether it's, you know, you name the issue: energy, debt, health care that we can't afford anymore, prescription drug cost.
Where do you want me to end the issues that they're not addressing right now?
MP: Right. And…
DB: And it's because they don't talk to each other anymore. But it does not have to be that way. We can return to some civility. The Senate race could — I tell you neither one of these guys are going to go there and make friends with anybody.
I mean, they're both going to take their side and continue to stick their tongue out at each other while nothing gets done in Congress.
MP: Some people would say the partisanship is good. Why do you think that a collaborative …?
DB: Is it? Good for what?
MP: Well, it's good governance to …
DB: It is? Well, do you like what governance is doing to you right now? Ninety — what is it? — 91 percent of Americans do not like what Congress is doing right now. I didn't know there were 9 percent of the public were lobbyists, you know, that still approve of Congress. [laughs] I mean, people have figured out that it's a broken system.
MP: Well, what can you bring to it then?
DB: Both parties have slowly but surely drifted further to the left and the right where they have less and less in common. The centrist-common-sense moderate who use to have a good say in Washington, it's fewer and fewer. The Tim Pennys, the John Kasiches the, you know, the Hubert Humphreys, Durenberger, they're not there anymore.
And they've been replaced with Norm or we don't know, depending on what year you're talking about, what Norm stands for. He changes but with the political winds. Which is fine, I guess, if you want someone that does that, you've got a great one there. But …
MP: Well, people are allowed to change their minds. I mean, part of the problem that people have with the Bush administration is that they've held steadfast …
DB: And I've said that's fine. Norm's good at it. I'm giving him credit that he's very good at changing his positions. For the reason he does that, you'll have to judge for yourself. He was Bush's best buddy for the first four years until his numbers dropped.
But I haven't changed my position since I started running in '92. The same issues I ran on then are even worse now. That's the one thing wrong with the Republicans --that they've lost their soul when it comes to not spending money.
MP: You know, a lot of people would say that the Republican losses in '06 had a lot less to do with the war and a lot more to do with them abandoning their principles as sort of fiscal agents.
DB: Right. Have you heard Coleman mention the debt once?
MP: Nobody wants to talk about it.
DB: I do. McCain at least mentions it once in a while. So there's some hope.
MP: Why run now?
DB: When I ran [at] first, I knew I was not going to win at that time. I was simply trying to get the party — major party status, which I accomplished.
MP: What brings you to it now? Are you trying to just maintain major party status?
DB: No, absolutely not. I think that the public is mad. They're upset with both Democrats and Republicans. And the only reason Democrats and Republicans get away with the same old thing is they never have any competition.
And I want to give the voters of Minnesota an option that they don't have to vote for the same old thing, that they do have a different way of approaching politics in this country.
Like Jefferson said, "We need a revolution every generation or so." It's been too many generations since we've had a revolution. And fortunately, we don't need guns this time. We can do it with the vote.
MP: Are you afraid of becoming in a sense, obviously, not the same party but maybe a statewide Independence Party version of Ralph Nader, this guy who's constantly running …
DB: No. No, this is my last time I'm running. I mean, this is it. I was hoping that Jesse was going to do it. He didn't tell me until an hour before the filing deadline that he was not going to run for sure.
And he left the opening there on purpose, because quite frankly, he had not made up his mind. Until about an hour before when he flipped the coin and it came up tails.
So, and I decided someone needed to do it. I thought that I had the best name recognition. I've got a track record, and I thought that I'd have the best chance of actually beating the $40 million that you have to run against, the $20 million each from Norm and Al.
Jesse was outspent heavily and still won. If I can get my message out, anything can happen in this election. Right now, it's still a tie.
MP: But what I'm getting at is, and this is not a slight against you, but you've run for three different races and have not won. But also, getting enough of the vote that some people would say, "Well, he's just a spoiler."
DB: That's saying that somehow the parties own votes. Parties aren't owed — you earn votes. And quite frankly, whether I take more Democratic votes or Republican votes, I could care less whether Al Franken or Norm Coleman wins, because neither one of them are going to do one thing to change the way Washington operates.
They're right out of central casting. They'll both fit in perfect, if you want more of the same. They're both nice guys, I have nothing personal against them, but they're participating in a political system that is destroying our country.
MP: What about money?
DB: What about it?
MP: What does it take for you, money-wise?
DB: I have no idea. I've been calling people, sent out a mailing. I'll raise all I can raise. I have no idea what I'm going to raise right now — it's still too early to tell. A lot would depend on how well I do in the debates. How much more negative the other two get with each other.
MP: But do you feel that you get slighted in some coverage and debates?
DB: Stuff like that doesn't bother us at all. For the past 16 years, they've been writing our obituary over the Independence Party and how we can't do anything.
We continue to throw out, I think, more superior candidates than the other parties do. For some reason, the voters — except for Ventura because of his unique abilities to motivate enough people to vote for him — haven't decided that they want to give us that option yet. I think that it's getting stronger and stronger.
Is this the year that they'll actually decide well, you know? Barkley hasn't raised $20 million, I haven't seen him in his bowling ads. But I like what he says, you know, he actually knows what he's doing. Maybe we ought to give him a shot. I don't know when that's going to happen.
But being maligned or ignored or discounted, that's been the whole 16 years, so that doesn't bother me one bit.
MP: It's easy to make fun of Norm's living arrangements in Washington, D.C., and it's probably also just as easy to make fun of Franken's tax history, and they seem to be going after each other on that. But what do you see really as the flaw in either candidate, or why are you better than those two?
DB: Like I said, I have nothing personal against either Norm or Al, and I'm not going to play the games that they're playing with each other. I'm running against the political system as it exists now, what it's doing to our country, its inability to deal with any of the issues that we need dealt with.
The bought-and-paid-for people they become by using this system. People don't give money to politicians because they love them, but because it's a great investment and they get a good return out of it.
MP: Where are you on drilling for oil?
DB: I think drilling is fine. I have no problem with expanding drilling. We have millions of acres of existing oil land that's already being leased that's not being used. The federal ban is stupid and should be lifted.
I don't think we have to go to ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] yet. I think that there are other oil reserves up in Alaska that can be gone after first. But that's just an easy sound bite for politicians to say that's how they're going to solve the energy crisis.
MP: Everybody's talking about gas and alternative energy and so on and so forth, but nobody talks about what you say is one of the main causes of this: debt, deficit and the value of the dollar.
DB: Right. That's the central — I talk about it all the time. You know the reason we have $4 gas? There are two reasons for it. One is the dollar tanked.
If [the dollar] was worth what it was 10 years ago, we'd have $2 dollar gas right now, but we don't. Why has the dollar tanked? One is our deficit spending, and the other is our trade imbalance, which is $750 billion a year going to the Middle East and Venezuela. The combination of those two factors has caused the dollar to free-fall. And that is the main cause of it.
I'm most concerned about how are we going to pay back this $10 trillion [the federal deficit]? How are we going to do that?
MP: Well, how are we?
DB: I didn't incur it, you know. But, you know …
MP: But you want to go to Washington.
DB: The first bill that I would introduce is a four-year spending freeze, cap on current levels of spending. I'm not going to spend any more money than we're currently spending. Then hopefully, we can save a lot of money in our military budget by getting our butt out of Iraq. Taking some troops home …
MP: You're calling for immediate withdrawal.
DB: Yes. Five years and 5000 lives and trillions of dollars are enough. We never should have got into that war. It's the wrong war. Afghanistan is where we should have been the whole time. We've done enough. Now it's up to the Iraqis. Leave it up to them. We want self-determination, here you go; I hope you do well and get out.
MP: Why don't more Republicans frame the war in that way? I mean, you can be called a "cut-and-runner" at this point with what you just said. Some would say pulling out of Iraq is a great way to help with the deficit.
DB: Sure it is. Absolutely.
MP: So why don't more Republicans frame it that way?
DB: Because Republicans don't talk about the deficit either. Nobody does. I mean, if you're guilty of doing it, you're not going to sit there and, you know — if you're going to rob a bank, you're not going to put spotlights on yourself while you're doing it.
MP: Do you have a preference in the presidential campaign?
DB: No.
MP: And what do you feel about the campaign?
DB: I think it costs too much, and it's way too long. I think no matter who wins, we're going to have a better president than we have now.
MP: Does it have an effect on your race at all?
DB: No.
MP: Why do you say that?
DB: I don't think there's any tie-in. I don't think there's any coattails. I think people are going to decide for themselves.
MP: You believe the war on drugs has been a failure. Are you in favor of marijuana legalization at all?
DB: Regulation and taxation, if that's legalization. If someone wants to buy marijuana for personal use, I think they should be able to get it, pay a hefty tax for it and they'd have to go somewhere and get the prescription for it or whatever. I wouldn't be opposed to that.
I think alcohol has killed far more people in this country than marijuana ever wanted to think about killing. We ought to tackle alcohol, but obviously that's our drug of choice so that one's OK. I don't know why that one is and others aren't. It doesn't make any logical sense.
The answer to our drug problem is education and treatment. If a person becomes addicted, get them the help they need not to be addicted. Don't begin to make them career criminals and throw them in jail just because they have a drug addiction.
I'm very familiar with addiction. I fought alcohol a couple of times in my life and sought some help with it when I had some things not go quite right, and I turned the wrong way and decided to drink more than I should have and I quit. What we're doing now is ludicrous. It doesn't work. It's not worked, it never has worked, and it never will work. And if you don't think I'd be a good senator because I believe that, well fine.
MP: What's the difference between now and 1992?
DB: I've got less hair. A little heavier. I don't have a wife. I don't have a house. What else has changed? I got a new car.
MP: Politically speaking, though, for you …
DB: It's gotten worst.
MP: But for you personally, have you had any changes of heart or position on issues? You're right where you were?
DB: I could use the literature I had in '92 and just change the date.
G.R. Anderson Jr. covers politics, the state Capitol and issues related to public safety.
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Anderson, what have you been drinking? This is another or you HIGHLY speculative stories that have nothing to support them. Show me one poll; one inkling that Barkley (the Short Bus Candidate) will be anything more than a spoiler for one of the two major party candidates. His personal life is a mess. The IP Party has ZERO presence. His campaign mostly consists of letters to the editor of the Star Tribune whenever they publish them. He did nothing in his couple of months in the Senate, which we Wellstone supporters took as a personal insult. He has no message other than the two major parties are responsible for what's wrong.
Thank you for providing coverage of Senator Barkley, the third major party candidate in the race. I hope that from now on MinnPost will refer to the Senate Race as the Barkley-Coleman-Franken or Franken-Coleman-Barkley race as an editorial policy (alphabetical listing or reverse alphabetical).
The Senate was in session for 8 days during Dean's brief tenure and he accomplished a great deal in those short 8 days. In fact, the Congressional living memorial to Senator Wellstone and his wife, Sheila was his ideal and happened due to his leadership, the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building.
I loved Paul and was fortunate to work with him. I'm one Wellstone supporter who is happy Senator Barkley went to Washington and is wanting him to get an encore performance. We need someone who will give us straight talk that Senator Wellstone did. Of these three candidates, only Senator Barkley opposed the Iraq War and is concerned about the burdens we are imposing on my children's generation through the astronomical rise in the federal debt under the Bush Administration.
In July 1998, Complaints were filed against Dean Barkley and Jesse Ventura for bribing Bill Dahn to abandon his registration for governor in the Reform Party and re-register as a Republican. Barkley said he paid Dahn's $600 re-registration fee because he felt sorry for him because he wanted to register as a Republican in the first place but was confused by the staff at the Secretary of state's office and he wound up in the Reform Party. And further, Dahn was broke due to having used his mortgage money to register initially.
This was all a bunch of lies. The real bribe was
a promise by Barkley and Ventura that they would fix Dahn's house because it was contaminated with formaldehyde by a Ramsey Action Weatherization Program. That's why Dahn ran for governor in the first place. He wanted to have a forum from which to complain about his house. Dahn thought that Barkley and Ventura came from heaven when they appeared at his house on July 19, 1998 to rescue him if he would do exactly what they wanted.
In the end Dahn last his house and went homeless.
The purpose of getting Dahn out of the Reform Party was because Ventura was concerned that a primary opponent might cause him to lose his KFAN radio show due to Federal Communications Commission equal time rules.
In an interview with Joe Soucheray at the time, Soucheray accused Ventura of buying off Dahn and Ventura responded, "so what if we did."
An investigation of the Complaints ensued and it was there that Barkley acheived his greatest coup. At a crucial time he had his brother-in-law Phil Villaume retain former U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger to get a false sworn affidavit from Dahn's lieutenant governor running mate that would support certain lies needed to clear Barkley and Ventura. It worked and on December 31, 1998, Anoka County prosecutor James Weber used the Heffelfinger informaiton to clear them and get himself a plum position on the judicial selection committee of Governor Ventura.
In summary: from the moment the bribery Complaints were filed against Barkley and Ventura by the Republican Party of Minnesota and Dick Franson, a conspiracy to fix the investigation took place that included Susan Gaertner, John Woedle, Charles Balck, James Weber, Robert Johnson, Phil Villaume, Thomas Heffelfinger, Charlie Weaver, Jesse Ventura, and others.
If the people of Minnesota want a clever briber, fixer, tobacco lobbyist, casino lobbyist, taser manufacturer lobbyist unemployed money hungry lawyer and supporter of the bailout, they can get it all with Dean Barkley who, if elected, I'm sure will welcome any lobbyist with a fat wallet.
The question that remains unanswered in this article (and elsewhere) seems to be "Who would Barkley caucus with in the Senate, if elected?" It seems to me that one can't be "unaligned" for an entire six year term.
It seems to me that one of the major activities of the new Senate in the new Congress is their "organizational activities" like voting for Majority Leader and Minority Leader (which side would he vote on?) and obtaining committee assignments, which are handed out to members of the Majority and Minority on a proportional basis by the Majority and Minority leaders.
So, it is one thing for him to have been "un-aligned" for 8 days of a dying session of an expiring congress in 2002 when there were no organizational votes, etc., but I don't thank he can do that for 6 years.
Therefore, the question remains, WHICH SIDE WOULD HE CAUCUS WITH IN THE SENATE? Would he be "democrat #60" or "republican #41, denying the Democrats their 60th vote for filibuster blocking?
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Elizabeth Taylor has been edited out of tonight's episode of EastEnders following the actress' death last Wednesday, aged 79.
Viewers of the BBC One soap will see barman Alfie Moon ( Shane Richie ) be urged to save his marriage to Kat ( Jessie Wallace ) by his cousin Michael when he says: 'You can't split up. You're like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton .'
It is a reference to Elizabeth's two-time husband, who passed away in 1984 aged 58.
However, Alfie's reply in the scene which was filmed earlier this year has been cut as it has been judged to be in poor taste following the actress' death from heart failure.
Referring to Richard – who died in 1984 – he originally said: 'Isn't one of them dead?'
Now the scene will cut directly to Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons) saying: 'You're like salt and vinegar.'
A soap spokeswoman called the mention of Elizabeth 'pure coincidence' and added 'a decision was taken to edit the scene as it's so soon after her death'.
Things are set to improve for Kat and Alfie – who believed their baby son Tommy had tragically died of cot death, when in reality disturbed Ronnie Branning (Samantha Womack) had swapped the body of her lifeless tot James with the infant – as Ronnie will soon confess to her crime allowing the couple to be reunited with their son.


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In Cancer Registration, we learned that the cancer registry is an information system established for the collection, storage management, and analysis of cancer data. Cancer registration refers to the process of continual, systematic collection of data on the occurrence and characteristics of reportable malignancies with the purpose of helping to assess and control the impact of cancer on the community. Behind the system are people, cancer registrars, who are responsible for collecting the cancer data and making sure they are timely, accurate, and complete.
A very brief history of cancer registration indicates that the recorded effort of collecting cancer-related data started in eighteenth century Europe, and the first hospital-based cancer registry came into being in New Haven, Connecticut.
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text: Will a whisper wake you? In the August 10 issue of Current Biology, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital linked fluctuations in the brain's electrical field—marked by brief buzzes of activity, called sleep spindles—to an individual's ability to sleep through noise. Jeffrey Ellenbogen, an HMS assistant professor of neurology, believes this finding can set the stage for developing techniques to help hospital patients sleep amid monitors with noisy alarms.


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The CUs were NIHFCU and Andrews FCU. I was already thinking the same way regarding the dealerships. Im interested in a '13 Dodge Charger, so hopefully Chrysler/Dodge financial is a little lenient. I only went the CU route after reading various posts on myfico, it seemed to be beneficial to so many who were in the process of rebuilding there credit.
Sure no problem! The collections have been reporting on my reports for some time now. One medical bill (1,313) payment arrangement already in place and an old charge off (2,027) from 2007. My cc utilization in at 16%. NIHFCU pulled Equifax, and Andrews FCU pulled Experian. I really thought I was good with Andrews this time! I originally applied with them 5/18/2013. At the time I had a total of 7 negative items, and my Ex. score was 625. I was denied for having too many collections, which I understood at the time. So I thought, I'd continue to work hard on my reports and the rewards would come! In less than two months time, I've paid/had deleted 5 of the 7 items and got my cc utilization down to 16% from 30%, which caused the 61 POINT increase in my Ex score (45 pt with Eq!). Re-applied today, DENIED!......
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Oh boy Andrews FCU is my cu to, did you applied online or in a branch? So they pull ex report?
You said you apply back in May and they denied you for to many negatives was that the only reason why they denied you? Did they sent a letter saying why they denied you?
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You're scores don't seem bad. What is the reasons for the denials?
The loan was for $25K, was told that with my Ex score of 686, I would qualify for 4.38% (72 mos) and 3.89% for 60 mos. The rep told me too many collections.
They told me I had too many collection accounts and that sometimes good scores dont translate to approvals!
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They told me I had too many collection accounts and that sometimes good scores dont translate to approvals!
This is the truth. You may want to visit the rebuilding section of these forums and see how to handle those collection accounts.
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The Transformative Power of Dreams
Working with Dreams in Therapy
It was nothing, really. Just people and things I see every day. — a frequent client statement.
At the start of therapy, I encourage clients to bring any dream material they remember. Discussion of dream contents stimulates the imaginations of therapist and client and evokes creative thinking about healing.
People often report unpleasant dreams early in therapy, which can discourage them from wanting to do dreamwork. They may have had similar or repetitive unpleasant dreams for years. Jung discovered that as people go progressively deeper in exploring unconscious contents, the layer they encounter on the surface is shadow material—those aspects of themselves they reject or ignore. For instance, a dreamer may be chased by a gang of threatening people in a dark street. When faced, the gang members may represent insights or attitudes that have been pressing for consciousness but have been resisted by the dreamer. Pushing such contents below awareness tends to add to their power and threatening nature.
You've probably seen books about dream interpretation or symbolism. These can be helpful, but if followed rigidly can miss the point entirely. For example, saying that a body of water in a dream represents the unconscious will be off base if you miss the dreamer's personal memories of a lake where she spent her teenage summers. Associations to that lake are more likely to be meaningful than the "cookbook" interpretation alone.
Dream details lead to associations that may bring emotions to the surface or stimulate important memories. If you see a familiar person in your dream, I may ask you about him. Is he someone you once knew? A current friend? What do you think of him? Are there things about him you find admirable, peculiar or irritating? You may dream about people you know because they portray an attitude you're bringing to your current life situation. In this sense, that person in your dream is a part of you being presented in dream language.
The skilled interpretation of dreams can assist therapeutic work by delving into the multiple layers of meaning found in a dream. Although some of that meaning may be inaccessible to conscious realization at this time, the meanings on the surface may be apparent enough to promote growth.
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The layers of meaning in dreams offer a sense of the richness of dream experience for self-realization. These layers begin on the surface with material that is closest to consciousness. Emotions or thoughts that haven't been given enough attention may be at this near-surface level. Even at this level, dreams offer us a chance to change a one-sided attitude.
At this layer one may already see transference material. Transference is the dreamer's attachment to the therapist and reflects both healthy and distorted attachments to other important figures who influenced formation of the dreamer's psychological self. When a therapist interprets transference material with tact and sensitivity, this can help the dreamer realize attachment conflicts in the here-and-now of the therapy experience and promote healing.
A phenomenon that is close to the surface and connected with a layer below it is what Freud described as wish fulfillment. Here, a person may dream of loving interaction with an estranged spouse, for instance.
The next deepest layer reveals aspects of the dreamer's personal unconscious. There are many technical terms to describe functioning at this layer. For simplicity's sake, consider interactions between your urges and your conscience. Or consider the difficulty of making an important decision about a relationship, where you're torn between two alternatives. Touching upon such situations may bring forgotten memories to the surface and offer opportunities for healing.
Consider a boy, for instance, who had a harsh, authoritarian father. The boy vowed never to be like his father, deciding instead to be the model of calm fairness when differing with others. In situations that closely resemble the drama with his father, the father complex is unconsciously triggered into action. Thus, confrontation with a submissive and ineffectual employee or a harsh, authoritarian boss can induce the boy, now man, to replay conflicts of dominance or submission. Each pole represents an extreme, and one identifies with either pole when the trigger is activated. When activation is intense, it is linked to age-old instincts.
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Time spent away from you brings to mind one of the many things that I miss,
There is nothing more scintillating than your kiss.
Your hair is soft and pretty and makes me want to touch,
but it is time without your kiss that grieves me so much.
I Love holding your precious hands, they are soft warm and so tender,
but it is the thought of your kiss that leads my heart to surrender.
Yes I long to massage and caress your pretty feet,
even so, your kiss is what lures me because it is so deliciously sweet.
I Love to playfully look for freckles on your neck,
but it's your kiss that knocks me flat on the deck.
Your eyes sparkle like diamonds, leading to your soul,
but it is thinking of your kiss that causes me to loose control.
Spending time with you brings me peace like a dove,
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I met the love of my life when I was 14 years old. At first I didn't know that he was the one I had been dreaming of.
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Kelly Shoppach blasted a pair of home runs on Friday night as the Cleveland Indians scored a 6-2 upset victory over the Chicago White Sox.
The Tribe got the win as +185 road underdogs in this contest, while the combined score fell UNDER the night's posted total (9).
Jeremy Sowers gave up just two runs over seven innings in his start for Cleveland. Jhonny Peralta had two hits and drove in a run in the win.
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GOP legislative leaders released part of their stadium proposal today. The plan, which was released by House GOP leadership, calls on the state to borrow $250 million to pay for the state's portion of the stadium to be built on the Metrodome site. The city of Minneapolis would still be obligated to pay $150 million. The Vikings share of the proposal is still yet to be determined. They plan also doesn't highlight how much a roof would cost which GOP leaders say is needed. A spokeswoman for House Republicans say the plan is being formulated and warns some of the details still need to be filled in.
Republican leadership floated the plan yesterday as a better alternative than a plan that the Vikings, Gov. Dayton and a bipartisan group of lawmakers had already agreed on. That plan relied on revenue created from allowing charities to operate electronic pull tab machines in the state's bars and restaurants. GOP leaders say that plan has been criticized over the past several weeks for being unreliable.
The plan also would give the city of Minneapolis "flexibility" in future use of the convention center tax. City officials say the use of that money is critical for the state's plans to redevelop the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis.
GOP leadership and the stadium bill authors met with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Vikings lobbyists to discuss the proposal. Rybak called the discussions productive.
"At least we're talking," Rybak said to reporters.
Vikings lobbyist Lester Bagley said they're looking seriously at the proposal now that GOP leaders are committed to putting a roof on the stadium. He said, however, the Vikings are sticking with their plan to spend $427 million on the stadium.
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Mathew, who owns his own law firm in Santa Fe, will take the Division I seat left vacant by Judge Barbara Vigil, who was elected in November to the state Supreme Court.
A graduate of Notre Dame who has experience in commercial and domestic relations law, Mathew hopes to start work in court on Feb. 4.
Reached by phone, he said he "definitely" plans to seek election to the bench in 2014. District court judges run in a partisan race in their first election, and for retention after that.
On Friday, Mathew said the news was still soaking in, but he felt "wonderful."
"I'm very grateful to the governor for her consideration and appointment," he said. "I'm also grateful to all the people who supported me and encouraged me to apply and who supported me through the process. I owe them a debt of gratitude."
Martinez, in a press statement, called Mathew "exceptionally qualified."
"His depth of legal knowledge is vast and I am confident that he will make an excellent judge for the people of Northern New Mexico," she said.
Fourteen people applied for the position and interviewed with the state Judicial Nominating Commission in December.
The commission nominated six people for the job. In addition to Mathew, they were: Bryan P. Biedscheid, 44, of the Sawtell, Wirth and Biedscheid law firm in Santa Fe; Sonya Carrasco-Trujillo, 37, deputy counsel for the state Department of Public Safety, staff judge advocate for the New Mexico Army National Guard and a judge pro-tem at Santa Fe Municipal Court; Paul William Grace, 59, of the Hemphill & Grace law firm in Santa Fe and a veteran of law firms in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington; B. Cullen Hallmark, 54, of Garber and Hallmark firm in Santa Fe; and Joseph Edward Manges, 56, a partner at the Santa Fe firm of Comeau, Maldegen, Templeman and Indall.
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At E3 2013, Microsoft announced that Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be receiving two free games per month like PS Plus subscribers. Now details has arrived that July 2013 free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers are not a blockbuster games (like Halo 3 and Assassin's Creed II).
Microsoft has revealed that July 2013's free game for Xbox Live Gold subscribers is Defense Grid: The Awakening (for those who are unaware, its an XBLA game).
Free titles will be available on 1st and 16th on each month, so details regarding second free game will be available after few weeks. Those who thought July 2013's free games will be Assassin's Creed II and Halo 3, here is a clarification from Major Nelson:
FAQ: Halo 3 and Assassins Creed II" were mentioned as part of the program - no date was given for their release http://t.co/vjnE1sBAYj Larry Hryb (@majornelson) June 30, 2013
I don't know what titles will be released when, but I'll let you know what they are when I find out. Larry Hryb (@majornelson) June 30, 2013


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Some people are ambivalent about doing a Ph.D. They have scholarly ambitions, but they want to enter the workforce after their undergraduate degree, or perhaps they are already making their mark in the workplace. They may also have practical interests and fear that a Ph.D. will have little relevance to the applied work they intend to do and won't help them much in their future job hunts.
Fortunately, an alternative is available in the United Kingdom. Professional doctorates work very well for people with on-the-job experience, and their vocational emphasis suits the practical-minded. In contrast to the Ph.D., which generally aims to expand academic knowledge, "professional doctorates increase the knowledge about the practice of a profession," says Stuart Powell of the University of Hertfordshire. "I thought about doing a Ph.D.," adds Eng.D. candidate Rob Cross, "but I liked the more hands-on aspect of the Eng.D., the industrial links, and the management courses in the taught element."
The most established professional doctorate in a science and engineering discipline is the Eng.D.: the professional doctorate in engineering. Like other professional doctorates, Eng.D.s combine an applied research project, usually in industry, with courses that are directly relevant to the candidate's profession. Career opportunities for Eng.D. graduates are good, and quite broad.
The Eng.D. isn't a perfect solution, however. Eng.D. candidates must learn to manage the expectations of two cultures, academic and industrial. Another problem is that, as a fairly new degree, the Eng.D. may not be recognized and honoured everywhere, especially outside the United Kingdom.
The Eng.D. in a nutshell
The Eng.D. was created in 1992 by the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in response to a 1991 report [1] on post-graduate education that called for more applied and commercially relevant doctoral research. The report found that many Ph.D. graduates lack the management and business skills that employers needed--another shortcoming of traditional post-graduate education that the Eng.D. was designed to address.
Eng.D. programmes last 4 years. Usually, candidates combine classes and research during the first two, spending about 70% of their time working with the industrial partner.
Candidates get an annual stipend of £13,800 from EPSRC, with a top-up from their industrial partner of at least £3000 a year, all tax-free. "The money is a very good benefit of the scheme," says Dave Penney, an Eng.D. candidate at Swansea University in Wales. "I wouldn't have been able to afford to do it otherwise." Candidates with children get extra help--around £1500 annually per child--according to Cross, a father of three.
Getting an Eng.D. Position
Universities offering Eng.D. positions usually advertise annually, on their centre Web sites, and candidates compete for a set number of EPSRC stipends. When recruiting, candidates usually face academic as well as company interviews; some companies, such as Rolls-Royce and the steel company Corus, put candidates through a similar interview process as applicants to their graduate scheme.
"Typically, less than 50% of applicants get through the process to our scheme," says Paul Bowen of the University of Birmingham Eng.D. centre, which collaborates with Rolls-Royce. "We look for self-starters, initiative, and good communicators," says Tony Jones, Eng.D. industry coordinator at Corus. "We look for maturity and independence," adds Chimay Anumba, director of Loughborough University's Eng.D. Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering. "In many cases, the candidate has to drive the project and manage the expectations of both industry and academia."
Candidates also have to meet the minimum academic requirements needed for a Ph.D.--an upper second class degree in a relevant discipline, such as engineering or materials science.
Currently, 23 Eng.D. programmes exist in the United Kingdom, all run by universities in collaboration with industrial partners. The programmes draw talent from among university students and industry employees, who take a secondment--a temporary break from regular work--while pursuing their degrees. Eng.D. students who were already employed typically keep their salary and benefits (such as pension payments); the EPSRC reimburses companies for the time employees spend taking classes.
A different research objective
The biggest difference between an Eng.D. and a traditional Ph.D is that the research is much more applied. Projects tackle industrial issues with the hope that the results can be implemented quickly so that they can benefit the company economically. "The project has to be important for [industry] to fund it, and the [Eng.D. student] is an important technical resource," says Paul Bowen, director of the Materials Eng.D. Centre at the University of Birmingham, which collaborates closely with Rolls-Royce. "While Ph.D.s are often focussed on next-generation projects, which can be more theoretical and have applications 5 to 10 years away, Eng.D.s are more often focussed on current research projects," says Neil Glover of Rolls-Royce. The Ph.D. and the Eng.D. degrees, he notes, have different but complementary goals.
Sarah Bowden, an Eng.D. graduate who works for the engineering and consultancy firm Arup is a case in point. Bowden's project focussed on using mobile computer technology to deliver and collect information from the workforce on construction sites. "It is very satisfying, as what you are doing is applied almost straightaway," she says.
Taught elements
Research is a key component of the Eng.D., as it is in Ph.D. programmes. But the second element--the taught component--isn't often found in Ph.D. programmes in the United Kingdom. Candidates at Swansea's Eng.D. centre, for example, take courses on steelmaking and processing taught by Swansea's academic faculty and by staff from the steel company Corus, an industrial partner. They also take courses in nontechnical subjects such as project management, financial planning, employee relations, and health and safety; such technical management courses are hallmarks of Eng.D. programmes across the United Kingdom.
Other Professional Doctorates
In the U.K., there are now 192 professional doctoral programmes, and the majority are offered in subject areas such as health, education, and psychology. Unlike a one-name-fits-all Ph.D., professional doctorates confer many titles. In the U.K., the five most common qualifications are Ed.D. (Doctor of Education), Eng.D. (Doctor of Engineering), D.Clin.Psy. (Doctor of Clinical Psychology--the only professional doctorate that is a licence to practice), M.D. (Doctor of Medicine), and the D.B.A (Doctor of Business Administration). Together, these degrees comprise about 62% of the professional doctoral awards made each year in the United Kingdom. Most professional doctorates require 2 to 3 years of on-the-job experience before entering the programme.
The range of doctoral programmes in the United Kingdom is wide and widening: 109 professional-doctorate programmes were registered in 1998; that number reached 192 by 2005, with much of the growth occurring in health, business, and education. A survey of U.K. professional doctorate programs conducted last year by Stuart Powell and Elizabeth Long of the University of Hertfordshire counted approximately 7000 students registered in professional doctoral programmes, which is just over 1% of the total number U.K. postgraduate students.
A mix of skills
This hybrid academic-professional mix can offer Eng.D. candidates the best of both worlds. Bowden, who worked as an engineer at Arup for several years before signing up for an Eng.D. in conjunction with Loughborough University, says her Eng.D. training taught her how to search the scientific literature for the best methods of professional practice. That skill, she says, combined with the planning and report-writing skills she honed at Loughborough, have proved very useful--"practically applying academic rigour," as she puts it, to solve real-world problems. Eng.D. candidates also learn to communicate with colleagues working in different aspects of the business, explaining the relevance of their research to workers on the frontline, says Dave Worsley, Swansea's Eng.D. coordinator: "You have to be able to talk to the guy turning the spanner [and] to the senior manager in control of the budget."
Career opportunities
After graduation, many Eng.D. graduates are offered positions at the companies where they trained. "Around 60% of Eng.D. candidates" who work for their degree at Corus "get their first job with us," says Tony Jones, Eng.D. industry coordinator at Corus. "The Eng.D. enables the student to gain a core technical [specialization] and a deeper understanding of a particular field through their own research," comments Glover of Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce's Eng.D. candidates enter the company at a level similar to someone "4 years down the graduate track," both in terms of salary and professional grade, Glover adds. Upon completion, Eng.D. graduates are likely to go down a career path as a technical specialist or technical manager, although the general management route is not closed to them.
Not a one-way ticket into industry
Statistics from Swansea University's Eng.D. programme show that over the last decade, 74% of Swansea's Eng.D. graduates have obtained jobs in industry. But what's surprising is that 22% have taken academic-research jobs, many working on research projects related to their Eng.D. research. Esther Obonyo, a graduate of Loughborough University's Eng.D. programme, is now working as an assistant professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville. After completing her Eng.D., Obonyo worked in the construction sector for 2 years before applying for her current job because she wanted to teach. The university was looking for a candidate with industrial experience, so her Eng.D. and work experience fit the bill. Obonyo is continuing her research into the use of information-technology systems in the construction industry. She is also teaching. "The Eng.D. gave me flexibility," she says.
Eng.D. challenges
One of the challenges faced by candidates--especially seconded employees--is juggling Eng.D. work with the short-term needs of a company. Seconded employees, for example, may be expected to continue work not related to their Eng.D. research. "You are in the middle, and you have to negotiate with your supervisors at work and your line manager," says Bowden, noting that such experiences have taught her to satisfy different people's sometimes conflicting objectives. Another challenge, says the University of Birmingham's Bowen, is that candidates sometimes get stuck in conflicts between the academic needs of the project and the day-to-day needs of industry. But, he adds, managing these conflicts is an important lesson for the candidates.
Eng.D. degrees are expected to have the same scientific depth as Ph.D.s, but they must have an industrial impact as well as an academic one. A potential downside, says Bowen, is that a candidate can end up pursuing many different projects so that the thesis can end up looking like a "patchwork quilt." Eng.D.s work best, he says, if the candidate is based in a fairly large company with plenty of research staff and a good support structure, and when all the projects have a central thread.
Just like their fellow Ph.D. students, Eng.D. candidates write papers for peer-reviewed journals, and work is typically written up in a thesis, which is subjected to the same kind of academic scrutiny as a Ph.D. thesis. If they don't make the grade, "they don't get an Eng.D.," says Swansea University's Worsley.
Recognition of the qualification can be an issue for some graduates, especially those employed outside the United Kingdom. "A disadvantage is that the Eng.D. is not as well known as the Ph.D.," says Penney. This problem extends to other professional doctorates too, adds the University of Hertfordshire's Powell. Employers and universities outside the United Kingdom often don't know about the degree, so they can be confused about what the qualifications mean, he says.
Because candidates are trained precisely to fit a company's needs, Eng.D. degrees guarantee that candidates' training will be marketable, at least locally and in the short term. And because so much of the training takes place on site, Eng.D. graduates are left with few illusions about the nature of industrial work. "By doing an Eng.D., you really get to learn about what a company is like from the inside before you decide to take the plunge and work for them," says Corus's Laura Baker. Eng.D. graduates, says Baker, are in a better position than many others to try their hands at a different aspect of the business, moving out of their "comfort zone," as she puts it. The flexibility of the Eng.D., combined with knowledge about a company, gives new employees opportunities to try new things, says Noel Hopkins of Rolls-Royce: "You can make of it what you want."
Check out the EPSRC's Web site for information on the Eng.D. scheme and for links to U.K. Eng.D. centres.
Check out the EPSRC's Web site for information on the Eng.D. scheme and for links to U.K. Eng.D. centres.
[1] Science and Engineering Research Council, The Engineering Doctorate, An SERC working party report (Swindon, SERC, 1991). [Not available online]
Laura Blackburn is an intern in Science's News department.
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Three of the East Bay's top four teams reside in the East Bay Athletic League, according to the rankings, and all three picked up victories on Friday night.
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In the night's most thrilling finish, California (5-0, 2-0 EBAL) got a two-point conversion pass from Kevin Farley to Blake Guardino with 13 seconds left to beat No. 10 Monte Vista 25-24, marking the first time in the 36-year history of the series that the Grizzlies have won back-to-back meetings.
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The No. 1 Spartans (4-1, 2-0 EBAL) used a 39-3 victory over Foothill to notch their 215th straight win over Northern California opponents, but it may have been a costly win.
Leading rusher Tiapepe Vitale, De La Salle's leading rusher, became the team's third running back to go down with an injury. He left in the second quarter with a leg injury. The Spartans are already without their other top two running backs as Joe Te'o and Dasmond Tautalatasi are both out with leg injuries and it's not known when or if they'll return.
David Riopelle became the de facto Spartans' lead back and ran for a game-high 115 yards before leaving with an injury himself.
"There's nothing we can do about it," Spartans coach Bob Ladouceur told Ben Enos of the Bay Area News Group. "Every week we've got guys getting hurt. I don't know what we're going to do. We're kind of out of runners right now."
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Columbus Police were searching for a missing woman in east Columbus.
Investigators said 26-year-old Shaniece Briggs was last seen at her home in east Columbus on June 19th.
Officials said she was wearing black sweat pants and a pink and grey shirt.
When police searched her residence, they found things in disarray.
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Edwin reported earlier this year that the family behind Capital Seafood was expanding their empire to include a noodle bar. Their location couldn't be more strategic, as they now share a parking lot with a number of well-received concepts in the last year like Creamistry, Urban Plates (that never-ending queue!) and DonerG. With existing restaurants in both Irvine Spectrum and Diamond Jamboree, they continue to bank on the ethnic mix that is Irvine.
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