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How You Gain Weight
Weight gain happens when you eat more calories than you burn. A daily calorie increase of 250 to 500 calories per day will help you put on weight. You can't decide where that weight goes, however. Just as when people lose weight, your body's weight-gain tendencies depend on your genetics. Your general shape will stay the same -- so if you've got a fuller midsection and thin legs and hips, your proportions will be consistent as your whole body gets larger.
Eating to Add Weight
To gain weight, aim to eat more calories than you burn daily. Figure out your daily calorie burn using an online calculator that takes into account your age, size and activity level. Add about 500 calories to it to encourage a pound gain per week. Alternatively, speak to a dietitian about a good goal calorie intake for you.
Don't just add calories in the form of more chips, ice cream and junk food. Increase your intake of healthy foods, such as fruits, starchy vegetables -- such as sweet potatoes and corn -- whole grains, unsaturated fats, dairy products and protein.
An extra snack consisting of two slices of whole-wheat bread topped with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter and a cup of sliced bananas supplies about 500 calories. Alternatively, add extra calories to each meal. For example, at breakfast sprinkle an ounce of walnuts on your cereal; at lunch have an 8-ounce container of plain yogurt for dessert; and finish dinner with an 8-ounce glass of low-fat milk to boost your day's intake by 500 calories. The extra calcium in the dairy foods supports your body's growth and bone development, too.
Protein Powers Weight Gain
When gaining weight, aim to develop more muscle rather than just adding fat. Building muscle requires an increase in your caloric intake along with targeted training at the gym. A protein intake of about 0.55 gram per pound of body weight per day helps you recover from exercise and encourages anabolism, or muscle cell growth.
When you add more calories, make some of them come from protein. Use nut butter instead of butter on your morning toast to add about 7 grams of protein per 2-tablespoon serving; cook hot cereal with a cup of milk instead of water to add 8 grams of protein; add 1/2 cup of roasted, light-meat chicken to a salad for almost 20 grams of protein; or include 4 ounces of cooked ground turkey in marinara sauce or vegetable soup to add 22 grams. Protein-rich snacks that also help add calories are hard-boiled eggs, low-fat cheese or Greek yogurt.
Train Your Hips and Thighs
Strength-training your legs and hips can help develop the muscles there so that they're more toned and strong. A focused program may also help you to gain muscle, which will increase your lower body size. Plan to train your legs and hips at least twice per week on nonconsecutive days. Three days per week can give you better results.
If you're new to strength training, begin with just one set of eight to 12 body-weight exercises such as step-ups, squats and lunges. After a week or two, add weight in the form of dumbbells or a barbell. Gradually add sets and more weight as you feel stronger. Exercises to add in as you progress include hip hinges, single-leg squats, bridges and quadruped hip extensions, also known as donkey kicks. Build up to lifting weights that feel heavy after about eight repetitions to maximize muscle growth. Increase the weight when it feels manageable to complete your sets and reps.
Don't skip training the upper body and doing cardiovascular exercise just because you're trying to build leg and hip muscle. Perform at least one exercise for the back, chest, arms and shoulders when you train, and do short bouts of cardio, such as brisk walking, jogging or cycling for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, to keep your cardiovascular and respiratory systems healthy.
Overcoming Muscle Gain Obstacles
Some body types are genetically less receptive to muscle-building tactics. Recognize that any exercise and healthy calories you add are making you a fitter person.
Consider adding a post-workout protein snack to your diet to augment your work at the gym. A whey-protein shake or half of a turkey sandwich may provide you with a nutritional boost to improve muscle gain.
Drink plenty of water and get adequate sleep to keep your body healthy and help develop lean muscle mass. Teen girls need between eight and 10 hours per night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. As you grow into adulthood, the range shrinks by an hour to seven to nine hours per night.


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The last time we checked in with The Decemberists, their album The King Is Dead reached number one on the Billboard album chart. On that January night nearly five years ago, we recorded their sold out show at Beacon Theatre and it seemed like there were no heights that the band would not reach. But in May of 2011 keyboardist Jen Conlee was diagnosed with cancer and at the end of the 2011 tour the band announced a hiatus. Skip ahead four years and with Conlee thankfully in remission, the band returned with several shows in 2014 and ultimately 2015 saw the return of the Decemberists to active recording and touring. The new album What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World was released in January and the band has been touring heavily ever since. Indeed, later this month the Decemberists will offer another 2015 release, the EP Florasongs. Our chance to catch the band this time around was a late-announce show at the wonderful Capital Theatre in Port Chester.
I'll admit to having cheated and checked out the Decemberists tour setlists at the band's fan forum. Its a bit surprising that the set does not include more than a few Beautiful World songs, and the absence of my favorite track from the album ("The Lake Song") was a bit of a letdown for me (and then they played it the following night at Radio City!). Overall though, this was an extremely fair representation of the band's career thus far. Colin Meloy has been starting each show solo, and on this night it was "Crane Wife 3", before the band joins mid-song. The first half of the show was a nice run through various tracks (including new-ish single "Make You Better" that we are streaming below) before the real fun began with the threesome of "July July!", "O Valencia!" and "Chimbley Sweep", the latter of which included the traditional instrument swap, fan interaction and general craziness. For the encore segment, any "missed" songs were forgotten as the Decemberists performed a monumental medley that featured a good chunk (almost 25 minutes worth) of 2009's The Hazards of Love (a tour we also recorded). This first encore was undoubtedly my own personal highlight of the evening, and we are streaming the mini-set's (and the album's) concluding song "The Hazards of Love 4". A second call for encores yielded a duet of numbers before the night closed with a nearly two hour show.
The Decemberists tour continues with a handful of Midwest dates before the US leg completes with an appearance at the ACL Fest in Austin, all dates here.
I recorded this set with the Schoeps cards mounted on a twelve-foot stand inside of the front right of the soundboard cage. The centered location and the superb sound in the venue yielded an excellent recording marred only slightly by some drunks in front of the board cage who were so bad that they were later removed by security. With that caveat, enjoy!
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01 [introduction]
02 The Crane Wife 3
03 Leslie Anne Levine
04 [banter – Motofix]
05 Down by the Water
06 [banter – mining]
07 Rox in the Box
08 Philomena
09 The Wrong Year
10 [banter – aristocracy]
11 On the Bus Mall
12 Why Would I Now
13 Make You Better
14 [banter – Phish shows]
15 Carolina Low
16 July July
17 [banter – new intro]
18 O Valencia
19 [banter – Grateful Dead teases]
20 The Chimbley Sweep
21 Fits and Starts
22 [encore break]
23 Prelude
24 The Hazards of Love 1
25 A Bower Scene
26 Won't Want for Love
27 The Rake's Song
28 The Hazards of Love 4
29 [second encore break]
30 Of Angels and Angles
31 [band introductions]
32 Dear Avery
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In a recent article published by U.S. News & World Report, Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) has been recognized as one of the top 10 colleges in the nation receiving the most applications from first-time freshmen out of 1,800 schools that reported application data in the publication's annual survey.
Using data from fall 2011 admission, CSULB ranked No. 5 in the nation with 49,767 first-time freshmen applications. Additionally, the Long Beach campus was the only regional university in the top 10. The other nine were all national universities, including No. 1 UCLA (61,564 applications), No. 2 UC San Diego (53,448), No. 3 St. John's University (52,972), and No. 4 UC Berkeley (52,966).
"Ranking fifth in the nation in freshmen applications clearly demonstrates that students and their parents place great value in a Cal State Long Beach education," said CSULB President F. King Alexander, who noted the campus would be ranked even higher if the number of first-time freshmen applications for fall 2013 admissions (56,213) was used.
"The large number of applications we receive from first-time freshmen each year is a direct result of the campus' outreach efforts, its outstanding academic offerings, and the student services we provide," he added. "It is also another positive outcome of having so many faculty and staff dedicated to student success."
The article was published as part of U.S. News' "Short List," a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.
According to the story, more than 8.2 million applications were sent to U.S. colleges by prospective freshmen vying to enroll in fall 2011, many of which went to California institutions. In fact, of the 10 schools that received the most freshmen applications that year, seven are located in California.
U.S. News surveyed more than 1,800 colleges and universities for our 2012 survey of undergraduate programs. Schools self-reported a myriad of data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News' data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind.


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Contact: Bob Ransford 1-866-824-8337
VANCOUVER - Vancouver NPA President Matthew Taylor has been called on to resign his position after publicly demonstrating an unacceptable bias in his scurrilous attack of one of the two candidates seeking the Party's Mayoralty nomination.
The call for Taylor's resignation comes from the campaign of Councillor Peter Ladner, who was openly criticized by Taylor in a news article in today's Vancouver Courier newspaper.
Bob Ransford, speaking on behalf of the Ladner for Mayor Campaign, said Taylor's criticisms of Ladner's campaigning, the allegations he leveled at Ladner and his impugning of Ladner's commitment to the Party amounts to a shocking and unconscionable assault on one of two candidates contesting the Party's nomination.
Ransford said Taylor's comments reveal a total lack of judgment on the part of the senior Party official charged with conducting a fair and democratic nomination process.
"Matthew Taylor must resign immediately as NPA President to protect the integrity of a Party that has always prided itself in promoting the democratic process in civic politics in Vancouver," Ransford said.
"I am certain that NPA Board members will agree that their President has jeopardized the Party's reputation and the integrity of the nomination process by going far beyond what might be considered fair comment."
Since Taylor chairs a Board of Directors charged with ensuring all candidates are treated equally and that the nomination process is conducted fairly, the Board has no option but to accept his resignation, according to Ransford.
Ransford said Councillor Peter Ladner has strived to conduct a campaign based on integrity and one that focuses on issues that are important to the people of Vancouver. When the attention of the campaign is diverted by internal attacks of candidates by senior Party officials, it makes it extremely difficult for voters to see that the Party cares about their issues.
"Peter Ladner has tried to engage all Party members in a serious discussion of issues that are important to Vancouverites. He looks forward to continuing the discussion on these issues during the final week of the nomination campaign. That's why this latest diversion must be concluded quickly with Taylor's immediate resignation."
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Despite the smiles, there is dissension among the ranks in business and labor
Solidarity forever appears to be only a slogan and not words to live by in the labor movement.
Organized labor wants you to believe that everyone is on the same page, all fighting for the same stuff and united from top to bottom.
The business community is peddling the same baloney.
Fact is there are fractures in both movements. You just don't read a lot about it. After all if you want to fool the citizens, you don't let this dirty laundry wave in the breeze.
For example, several years ago the folks at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce were not overjoyed with the creation of the Business Leaders for Michigan. There were unconfirmed reports that the BLM was "stealing" members from the chamber.
The two sides never exchanged anything that looked like an internal spat, but there was enough heat around the whole thing to lead one to conclude that there was some tension.
Likewise in the labor movement. The Michigan Education Association has sometimes marched to a different drummer much to the chagrin of the AFL-CIO.
As much as they struggled to keep this all hush hush, it was oh so visible years ago when the teachers endorsed Larry Owen for governor and the UAW and others embraced Howard Wolpe. It really didn't make any difference since John Engler was going to beat either one.
But there it was for everyone to glare at … Solidarity was a myth.
Now comes this latest story supposedly pitting the Buildings Trades union folks against the United Auto Workers.
The caller on the other end of the line offered this up: The UAW leaned on some Democratic statewide candidates not to attend a fundraiser for Shorty Gleason. Seems Democrat Mr. Gleason was not endorsed by the auto union for the House seat that he seeks in Genesee County.
The UAW nod had gone instead to Pam Farris. Not exactly a household name, but maybe you've heard of her husband who goes by the name of John Cherry, who used to be the lieutenant governor with what's her name.
Mr. Cherry and the UAW have been very tight, so it seemed only natural that the union would embrace his spouse and one could conclude neither one was thrilled that the Buildings Trade union folks were behind their guy Mr. Gleason.
Now, Democrats run against Democrats all the time in primaries which is why we call them Democrats. But this one is for higher stakes because two unions are at odds over who should win.
Anyway, as the alleged story goes, Mr. Gleason had a fundraiser and invited two prominent Democrats to speak, and he was expecting them to be there.
But they were no shows and the Gleason bunch smelled a rat. Did the UAW tell the "prominent Democrats" to boycott the fundraiser and did the union threaten to withhold support for them in their bid for office if they did show up?
A UAW officials rejects the idea.
Some in the other union are not buying it.
Now, as dirty tricks go in politics, threatening and boycotting is pretty mild stuff. But the alleged incident has left a foul odor at the buildings trades house of labor.
In defense of both business and labor, they are healthier institutions by allowing some dissension and arguments, but they should not be so bashful about admitting it.
Tim Skubick is Michigan's Senior Capitol correspondent and has anchored the weekly public TV series Off the Record since 1972. He also covers the Capitol and politics for WLNS- TV6 in Lansing.


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(Original Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010)
Operation Surprise Visit was a total success, but let me start from the beginning. We had a 4 day weekend to celebrate Columbus Day and it turned out to be a hectic, but fun filled weekend for me.
Friday: Student leadership woke everyone up at 5:00 AM this morning so everyone could get themselves ready and then straighten up their stuff before the inspection at 6:00 AM. There were no showers allowed until after the inspection, so they would stay clean. There were also a number of urinals and sinks in the bathroom blocked off and the laundry room was also off limits all night and this morning.
Sgt. Kent arrived and started the barracks and room inspections. It took a while because our room is the last one in the hall. When he finally got to ours he came in looked around and said "it shows that you guys put in a lot of effort in this room", then he took off.
We then got everything ready and those of us on pass marched over to Charlie company to get signed out for the 4-day. The line was long and slow moving, so PFC Metal and I walked over to Burger King because the DFAC was closed already. Technically we were allowed to go earlier, but if Sgt. Clark came to inspect our room and we weren't there it wasn't going to get done and we would not get our pass to leave. We ate and then headed back to Charlie and there was still a line, so we got in it and waited. Finally after about 15 minutes we signed out and were free of this place. PFC Metal took off with his wife and I took off in a cab to the airport.
For the last month or so my wife and I have been planning a trip for me to go home and visit everyone. We kept it a total secret and now I finally get to put it into action.
When I arrived at the Augusta airport I sat and started watching shows on my laptop. I had a while before my plane left, but I just wanted to get away from the base as soon as possible. After a while I heard an announcement that they had overbooked the flight before mine and my flight as well. I had a flight to Seattle via Atlanta and then Denver. I told the guy as long as I can make my connecting flights I would be interested. They ended up sending me to Atlanta on a taxi, giving me a meal voucher good at the Atlanta airport, getting me on a direct flight from Atlanta to Seattle (arriving only an hour later), and $400 (delta dollars) to use via delta.com.
So far the weekend has been pretty good! On the plane I watched "Get Him to the Greek" a pretty funny show as well as some TV episodes that I was behind on. My wife met me at the airport and we stayed in a hotel nearby because we knew I would be arriving late.
Saturday: My wife dropped me off at Denny's and then picked up the kids. She asked them where they wanted to eat breakfast and they chose Denny's of course. They walked in and were in shock to see me sitting there waiting for them.
We all then went to my sister's house and they dropped me off a couple of blocks away. They all went inside and then I came up later and rang the doorbell. My mom opened the door and before she even recognized who I was, I came in and gave her a hug. She was surprised (I think I almost gave her a heart attack). I then surprised my sister and her husband later on by just appearing in their house.
Sunday: Today is my sister's 30th birthday. My mom invited all of the family over, so it really worked out easy for me to celebrate my sister's birthday and also see all of my extended family as well.
The flight home was tough, I didn't want to leave so soon (I had an early 6:00AM flight on Monday morning). It was awesome seeing everyone, I just wish I had a longer time to visit. On the plane ride back I fell asleep numerous times and every time I woke up my mouth was wide open....lol.
The 4-day weekend was so awesome...and very much needed.
Overheard Quote: "Oh Sheeet Oh Sheeet, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" I guy in another cab left the door open and the driver started driving off.
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Baku. 1 December. REPORT.AZ/ At the world markets price for barrel of WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil decreased by 0,09% or 0,04 USD and amounted to 41,67 USD.
Report informs, price for Brent crude oil declined in the world markets. So, price for this crude reduced by 0,76% or 0,34 USD and amounted 44,52 USD per barrel.
Due to the forecasts, in case price for crude oil to be stable, average price of oil in 2015 expected to make 47 USD per barrel.


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My vacuum cleaner won't pick up. What can I do?
If your vacuum cleaner doesn't pick up any more, one of the components of your vacuum cleaner could be blocked. First check if the dust bag or dust container needs to be emptied. If you have carried out these checks and your vacuum cleaner still doesn't pick up properly, try cleaning the filter. Check to see if something has become jammed in the floor attachment, telescopic tube or even in the hose. A good tip is to carefully insert a broom handle in the telescopic tube or the hose. This is a good way to remove anything that has become jammed.


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And they said it'd never work! Those two crazy brands—chic Japanese line Yohji Yamamoto and utilitarian workout brand Adidas—bound themselves in diffusion-line matrimony with the 2002 launch of Y-3 sports gear; tonight's late-night party celebrates the 10th anniversary of the clothes that you'd wear to work out in if you weren't worried about sweating on a $280 pair of gym shoes. They're showing a new collection, too, after today's other shows by Diane Von Furstenberg and the perpetually youthful Zac Posen!
Fashion show schedules can be found at mbfashionweek.com and are subject to delay; Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto party, invitation only.


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This Evening, The 'Envision Our World' 10th Anniversary Event Honors the Verizon Foundation and the NoVo Foundation
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Tonight at 6:30 at the Eventi Hotel in New York City, A CALL TO MEN will be joined by celebrity actors, musicians and professional athletes to celebrate a decade working to empower men to live a healthy manhood and end violence against women. Among the numerous sponsors is filmmaker Perri Peltz.
"A CALL TO MEN is honored to stand with our friends and partners and celebrate our collective effort to galvanize a national movement of men committed to ending violence and discrimination against women and girls," said Ted Bunch, co-founder of A CALL TO MEN. "We have had the honor of working with two of the most influential and progressive organizations in our country who are dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. We look forward to celebrating the Verizon Foundation and the NoVo Foundation – for their incredible contributions to our work and to ending violence."
The Envision Our World 10th Anniversary event will feature A CALL TO MEN's groundbreaking work shifting the social norms that define manhood in our culture and promoting the understanding of the root causes of violence against women.
"There is no doubt that A CALL TO MEN is a key component in engaging men's participation and responsibility to ending violence against women," said international activist Gloria Steinem.
A CALL TO MEN will honor Rose Stuckey Kirk, President of the Verizon Foundation, with the Exemplary Corporate Leadership Award. The award will be presented by Chris Canty, New York Giants defensive tackle and founder of the Chris Canty Foundation.
Kirk said: "At Verizon we use our technology and our financial resources to solve a number of critical issues. That's why the Verizon Foundation has been creating and implementing a number of programs for years that bring awareness to the issue of domestic violence. We are committed to addressing this major public health problem through victim relief and empowerment resources in order to reduce the devastating repercussions it has on our society. Using our resources to address domestic violence is just one way that Verizon shares its success to help make the world a better place."
A CALL TO MEN will also honor Jennifer and Peter Buffett, co-chairs of the NoVo Foundation, with the Legacy Award, for their dedication to ending violence and discrimination against women and girls. Tony Award-winning playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler will present the award.
"The NoVo Foundation is working to transform our world from one of domination and exploitation to one of collaboration and partnership. Ending violence against women and girls is a critical first step, and will empower one of our world's largest under-valued and untapped populations," said Jennifer Buffet, president and co-chair of the NoVo Foundation. "We are grateful to A CALL TO MEN for their dedication and privileged to celebrate with them tonight."
Following the awards presentation, the evening will conclude with a performance of "Women of Hope" by Morley, aNew York-born composer, singer and performer.
About A CALL TO MEN
A CALL TO MEN challenges men to reconsider their long-held beliefs about women, in an effort to create a more just society. The organization encourages change in the behaviors of men through education and trainings that promote healthy manhood. A CALL TO MEN works with colleges, corporations, government agencies, nonprofit and grassroots organizations. To learn more, visit www.acalltomen.org.


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Happy Birthday to Me!/
So, it's my birthday. 45. And my birthday present to myself is more reading. I haven't read something just because I wanted to in way too long. I'm now determined to get in at least twelve books before my next birthday. That's a really pathetic goal. When I was young and foolish, I could read a novel every two days.
We didn't have social media in those days.
I'm also undertaking a challenge. Back in 2015, Sunili Govinnage kind of kicked off a movement to challenge people's reading habits: For a year, don't read anything by white cis- males. I'm proud to say that I only felt patriarchy-induced butthurt about that for a few minutes. I didn't immediately undertake to do it, though.
Now I am. With a few exceptions.
- I write chidlren's books, and I'm in the process of learning the field. I will have to read some white guys in pursuit of my education.
- Similarly, non-fiction read as research for my writing is exempted. But NF isn't really in the spirit of the challenge anyway.
- When the new Dresden Files novel comes out, I'm reading that. I'm sorry, everybody. I have my weaknesses.
I'm going to start my year by reading Tracked, by Jenny Martin. I've had it since it was published, and haven't read it yet. (I'm a bad writer-friend.)


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Monday, March 21, 2011
Nursing Home Here We Come...
Love, Holly & Charisse
9 comments:
- Sonia said...
I've missed you two chicas!! You gave me a good laugh this morning!
Miss Bloomers
- March 21, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- Coffeypot said...
I'm there already and I think...umm...Hi! Would you like to be my new best friend? We can...uh...ummm...why is my pants wet? Oh! Hi!
- March 21, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Centsational Girl said...
You two always crack me up, good to have you back!
- March 21, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Matty said...
You two are a riot. It isn't often that I actually laugh out loud watching a video. How about doing a standup routine at a local comedy club and see where it goes. You never know....you could be the next TV hit series.
- March 21, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Dawn said...
SOOOO glad you're back!!
I would hang with you two in a nursing home any day! :)
- March 21, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Men Are Dumb. I Are One. said...
Love you gals. I too want to be the funny guy in the old folks home. I'll get on the PA system and rap the menu for the day, and stuff.
- April 15, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Linda said...
Sign me up to be roomies with you both!!!! Can I bring my knitting?
Linda :)
- April 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- I Wonder Wye said...
YEA my peeps are back! We will all be the young-at-heart golden girls!! Can I be Betty White??
- July 9, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Controlling My Chaos said...
You two are hilarious. I bet your families roll their eyes a lot when you get together.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
The Endurance of the Reagan Legacy
I didn't see it, but I heard today from one of the guys at work that one of the CNBC anchors went off on a rant last night about how sick and tired he was of Wall Street guys taking the hit in the press and in the court of public opinion for the financial crisis, and wanted to know why the blame wasn't being placed squarely on folks who got in over their heads with mortgages for houses they couldn't afford. Cheers over this rant apparently rang out all across the studio and the trading floor.
Another example of guys with everything placing all the ills of the country on people who have nothing.
His rant conveniently ignored the fact that for the most part, local banks are doing just fine, thanks. They knew how to manage their liquidity. It was the Wall Street banks and investment houses that melted down.
Which all goes to show how much this country really changed under Dutch. Even though his policies and ideas have been completely discredited, people still cling doggedly to them (hence, all the hysteria over socialism in the last election cycle, with the ironic part being that due to the excessive greed on Wall Street, we are now closer to socialism than ever before). This extends to the widely held opinion that Reagan was a no-nonsense tough guy who singlehandedly brought an end to the Cold War and made terrorists everywhere shake in their shoes. This is the same Reagan, mind you, who horrified his aides when he nearly gave away the whole nuclear store in his meeting with Soviet Premier Gorbachev, who responded to the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut by invading Grenada and pulling out of Lebanon, and who traded arms with the Iranians for hostages and later lied about it.
In this Matt Miller interview, listen to him talk about his new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
In his new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Miller writes that while many of our current notions of economic and social well-being made sense when they first gained traction 50 years ago, they don't hold much water today... "Unless we explode the dead ideas I'm talking about in the book, we won't find our way back to a durable prosperity," warns Miller...
Three facts are now poised to shape our economic life for a generation. First, thanks to global competition and rapid technological change, America's economy is about to face its most severe test in nearly a century. Second, our political and business leaders are doing next to nothing to prepare us to cope with what lies ahead. And third, the reason for this inaction is that our entire economic and political culture remains in thrall to a set of "Dead Ideas" about how a modern economy should work. This book is about the threat that individuals, companies, and the country face from the things we think we know, and about the new (and surprising) ways of thinking destined to replace these Dead Ideas so that America will continue to prosper.
The next decade will bring a collision of forces that threaten to disrupt U.S. society, sink the middle class, and call into question the political and business arrangements on which our prosperity and stability have rested for decades. These perils have little to do with the housing-related financial crisis that gripped America in the fall of 2008; in fact, the need to steer our way through this near-term credit crunch now masks longer-term economic challenges that are far more consequential. The stakes couldn't be higher: if America doesn't decisively manage these tides of change, we'll face a backlash against our economic model—which, for all its flaws, has produced more betterment for more people than any other system in human history. If this backlash proves contagious, and other advanced nations lose faith in capitalism's ability to improve the lives of ordinary people, the rich world's efforts to protect its citizens from economic change will doom the developing world to dollar-a-day poverty.
The good news is that there are ways to avert this dark scenario and to flourish. The trouble is we're not doing what we need to because of the Tyranny of Dead Ideas. By this I mean the tacit assumptions and ingrained instincts broadly shared by business executives, professionals, policy makers, media observers, and other opinion leaders regarding the way a wealthy, advanced economy like the United States should work...
CEOs routinely bemoan skyrocketing health care costs, saying they give foreign companies a competitive edge because governments abroad pick up these bills. Yet in the next breath most executives insist that America's government should not play a bigger role in bearing this burden. Who else do they think is available?
Politicians and business leaders say we should cut taxes for most (some would say all) Americans to boost the economy. Yet America already has $40 trillion in unfunded promises shortly coming due in Social Security, Medicare, and other programs serving senior citizens — and that's before we toss in the costs of rescuing America's banking system, not to mention assorted sensible blueprints to insure the uninsured, develop clean energy, rebuild roads and bridges, extend preschool, and more. Has anyone noticed that these numbers don't come close to adding up?
Everyone agrees that education is the key to improving future living standards in a fiercely competitive global economy, and that we need to lift all children, not just the most talented, to higher standards of learning and achievement. Yet in the 2008 presidential campaign, not a single major-party candidate questioned our shockingly inequitable system of school finance, which dooms schools in poor neighborhoods in ways no other advanced nation tolerates. How are 10 million poor American children supposed to compete?
Top economists in both political parties perennially assure us that free trade is "good for the country," because the benefits to some Americans outweigh the losses suffered by others due to foreign competition. But wait: Who put economists in charge of weighing the interests of one set of Americans against another?
The answers to these questions will depend on how quickly we escape the pernicious influence of...
Six Dead Ideas:
The Kids Will Earn More Than We Do. Broadly rising incomes have been considered an American birthright. This pattern of generational advance is now at risk for as much as half the population.
Free Trade Is "Good" (No Matter How Many People Get Hurt). Though millions of people may be hurt by foreign competition, we're told, the overall gains from free trade so outweigh any downside that it is folly to question its ultimate advantages.
Your Company Should Take Care of You. Business (not government) must fund and manage much of our health and pension benefits, this idea holds, or else we risk becoming socialist.
Taxes Hurt the Economy (and They're Always Too High). The truth is that taxes are going up no matter who is in power in the next decade, and the economy will be fine. We won't turn into France or Sweden.
Schools Are a Local Matter. Americans need more skills to maintain our living standards as developing economies rise up to compete with us. America also spends more on schools than nearly every other wealthy nation — with worse results. Yet our unique model of "local control" and funding of schools remains sacrosanct.
Money Follows Merit. The most cherished illusion of today's educated class is that market capitalism is a meritocracy — that is, a system in which people basically end up, in economic terms, where they deserve to.
Getting to the effects of Reagan's ideas specifically, see Leon Wieseltier's Washington Diarist: Love Me I'm a Liberal:
It has been many decades since liberalism could fall back upon the power of platitudes; the platitudinous authority now belongs to the other side... The repudiation of George W. Bush is not in itself a renovation of liberalism, and neither is the apotheosis of Barack Obama. The public has not yet broken the grip of the conservative discourse that has dominated America for a generation.
Consider the insane headline on Newsweek's cover, "We Are All Socialists Now": an exclamation of its inner Hannity, as if the president is preparing to abolish private property or expropriate the means of production. All that is happening, comrades, is that our democratically constituted central government is acting to protect the whole of our economy by taking over, for a period, a part of our economy. But second natures, which are made more by culture than by thought, are not easily extinguished. Sean Wilentz was shrewd to contain the Clinton years in his recent study of "the age of Reagan," because Bill Clinton's inglorious role in the history of liberalism was to teach it to sleep with its enemy... On the day that Clinton pragmatically announced that "the era of big government is over," liberalism forgot itself.
Pragmatism has a dark side. The allure of pragmatism was lost on the conservatives, of course. They sought power so that they could act on what they believed. And when they got their chance, they ran the republic down in almost all its aspects. We must not draw the wrong conclusion from the rubble. The problem was what they believed, not that they believed.
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- Brother Charles said...
Recently I had an incident with a parishioner who was throwing a rant in church about our recent election and the threat of "socialism." So I told her that she was being unfair and that, besides, we already had a socialist state, but with socialism for banks and car makers, not for people.
But, as usual, despite my best efforts, I wasn't fired from my job.
Thanks for the post.
- Jeff said...
Brother Charles,
But, as usual, despite my best efforts, I wasn't fired from my job.
LOL. Some of us lead either blessed or charmed lives. :) Thanks for the lift. I needed that.
Thanks also for the tag on the BC post, despite my overheated rhetorical flourishes (I can get a lot worse). It got some interesting reactions over at your place. I'd like to have a discussion with you over issues around that and the whole concept of how to do youth catechesis these days, maybe when both of us have the time.
- Liam said...
Great post, Jeff. I think Reaganism has been one of the most destructive forces in American politics.
Did you see Robin Gibbs on Santelli (the CNBC jerk)? He didn't pull any punches. The highlights:
"I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader, that it was good for main street. I think the verdict is in on that."
"Gibbs picked up a hard copy of the housing plan from the briefing room lectern and implored Santelli to 'download it, hit print and begin to read it.' Gibbs added: 'I would be more than happy to have him come here and read it. I'd be happy to buy him a cup of coffee, decaf.'"
I went to a talk by Jeff Madrick on "The Case for Big Government." His main three points were: 1)Cross-country analysis has shown no correlation between small government, low taxes, and wealth creation; 2) Contrary to conservative claims, the US has always had a big government, and it has created wealth; 3) the results after the anti-government movement came into power have been disastrous.
- Jeff said...
Thanks for the links and quotes Liam. I heard about the CNBC rant at work yesterday, and didn't find out that it was Santelli until I went out on Youtube today looking for it. What about a bunch of testosterone-driven yahoos these traders are. They'll never change.
Yeah, I've been reading that Gibbs took him to task for it but the news coverage was mixed, and of course, in the comboxes there were all sorts of reactions across the board. Thanks, I'll look all this material over, especially the Madrick piece.
- Jeff said...
Can you try reposting that last URL?
- Liam said...
The one that says TEXT? That's a mistake, there's no URL. Sorry about that.
- cowboyangel said...
Great post, Jeff. I like Miller's thesis that we're trapped by the Tyranny of Dead Ideas. I'm concerned, though, that it's not just about Reagan and the conservatives. I mean, how many times have we had to hear about FDR lately? There's a feeling sometimes that with Obama's victory, we've "gone back" to some glorious liberalism. But it's not 1932, or even 1992. And it's inaccurate and unhelpful for liberals to try and place all of this on Reagan and the conservatives. Neoliberalism is called "neo"-liberalism for a reason. It basically wed a hyped-up liberal push for free markets with the conservative idea of small government. Wieseltier is correct to bring Clinton into this, but he seems to blame Bill for his political calculations rather than admit that aspects of liberalism itself might be the problem.
The information revolution has totally transformed society, going way beyond the idea of global communication leading to global markets. Just one example: In information theory, information grows in value as it spreads. And you see this being lived out right now as more people develop technology to share information quickly. To share music, for example. But what happens? We're trying to apply intellectual property rights that were developed in the agricultural era and were meant for information products that could be easily controlled and regulated by a very centralized agency. But I see little being discussed by either side on what the information revolution means economically, politically and socially in the not-so-long run. Disavowing the flawed theories that got us into this mess is a good start. And I appreciate Obama's focus on pragmatic solutions, but that's like figuring out how to plug the holes in the bottom of the ship and bail out the water rather than figuring out how to better navigate the ship so we don't run into the shoals again. FDR and JFK and Johnson and Reagan and Lincoln are all fine to learn from, but we're dealing with something new - they can't help us with a lot of this.
Maybe we're so scared of the future, we're retreating more to our glorious past? Just had that thought. Maybe we need the figure of FDR bailing us out of the Depression (whether accurate or not), because we can't see any way forward.
And maybe we need clear-cut bad guys as well - Bush and Reagan, so we can pretend that we're moving away from the things that got us in trouble.
In the end, I think both liberalism and conservatism as we have known them will vanish. But a lot of politicians will continue flogging them in order to get votes. Socialism! My God. The fact that we as a country would even entertain questions about this right now just shows how backwards we are.
I think Miller's Six Dead Ideas are good. Would like to see more. Maybe I'll look into his book, though I'm in the midst of three others right now.
- Brother Charles said...
I'd be happy to talk about my experiences some time, but youth catechesis has not emerged as one of my strong points. I grew up so differently than the kids I minister with (e.g. without religion) that sometimes I find it hard to relate.
Be well and happy Lent!
- Jeff said...
Hi William,
You know, just as an aside… It may be very wise of you to have switched to blogging primarily about prose, poetry, and media. People may get emotional about it, but they aren't as likely to get angry about it as they are with some of these other topics.
You're absolutely right. There's no way to go back to FDR and conventional New Deal solutions, mostly because we are a massively indebted nation now rather than the world's biggest creditor, and also because we are no longer an industrial economy, but an information, finance, and service-oriented economy. At least, though, I'd like to see someone with a guiding philosophy like FDR's instead of a philosophy like Hoover's. Someone who's interested in the well-being of all of this country's citizens instead of just an international business elite. More properly stated, a concern for common global citizens instead of an international elite.
I was watching AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka debating EEU ambassador John Bruton on the Jim Lehrer News Hour about the "Buy American" clause in the stimulus package. Bruton kept talking about how "we" needed to think hard about how "we" were going to spend this stimulus money wisely. I couldn't help but think of the joke about the Lone Ranger being tied to a stake next to Tonto and saying "We're in big trouble now, Tonto" and Tonto responding with "What do you mean 'we', white man?" Now, I'm hearing Hillary talk about how interdependent we are with China and how we need to keep them afloat in order to save our economy. It was one of the reasons I didn't care much for Hillary to begin with, and I'm disappointed that this is going to be the policy viewpoint of this admistration.
By the way, on that topic of sharing music and how American business has been slow to adjust to the new paradigm... I was watching a video the other night (Hotel Rwanda. Excellent. Believe it or not, I'd never seen it before) and there was a hip anti-piracy ad at the begining of the DVD going on about how you wouldn't steal a car, a handbag, a cellphone, etc..., etc... and that stealing pirated DVDs and CDs was the same thing. I have another NPR piece for you to listen to. The Rise and Fall of the Music Industry. It's about a book by Rolling Stone Editor Steve Knopper called Appetite for Self Destruction. It's chronicles how the record companies failed to read the signs of the times and to adjust correctly in the digital age.
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I'd like to email you offline sometime about that, if you don't mind.
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I'd like to see someone with a guiding philosophy like FDR's instead of a philosophy like Hoover's. Someone who's interested in the well-being of all of this country's citizens instead of just an international business elite.
That's for sure. I do like Obama for that. It's interesting, because he seems to have a guiding philosophy, but it doesn't seem ideological, or as ideological. His philosophy allows him to be flexible.
I actually saw that debate between Trumka and the European guy. The Euro guy wouldn't address the isolationist policies of various European countries. Personally, I don't blame them for having the policies, but it's a bunch of crap to pretend that they don't. I think there can be a healthy balance between free trade and protective policies.
Yeah, the record companies have really blown it on technology and music. I mean, who's doing the best in the music business right now - Apple. That tells you a lot. But I'm talking about at an even deeper level. The whole concept of copyright is being challenged by new technology. And you're not going to hear Liberals/Democrats talk about it in much depth, because so many of them are lawyers.
- Jeff said...
In a way I can see where John Bruton is coming from, because he's a former Irish Prime Minister. It took a massive infusion of deutschmarks and other EU currencies to get the Irish economy up out of the doldrums, so he's used to looking abroad for a solution. You and Trumka are right, there is a lot of protectionism that still exists in Europe, but I don't really mind seeing those European farmers standing up and protecting their way of life while they still can. A lot of the Mexicans we see up here working in meat-packing plants and cutting people's lawns used to be self-sufficient farmers before NAFTA came along.
I see some logic in what Bruton is saying in terms of competitiveness, but I'm sick of everyone looking to reach into our pockets. The American taxpayers (for generations to come) are the ones who are going to be on the hook for this stimulus package. The primary focus of it should be, according to Obama at least, American jobs.


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Portions of this are going to make up my February 2013 article for Spinsheet.That's the Annapolis-based magazine that gave me my start as a published writer. I haven't written it yet.
But by the time it's published (and read - hopefully), it will be February, and some of what I'm about to write won't exactly make sense.
But now, in the present, it's only a few days after New Year's Eve. That's gotten me thinking New Year's thoughts. The standard and boring resolution-type stuff that everything is probably thinking right now, and which most people won't follow through on. But whatever.
Mia and my Dad are on the other side of the Atlantic, in Las Palmas, about 100 miles off the coast of Morocco, readying Kinship for the return voyage to the Caribbean. For Mia, it will complete the circle that she started last May when we sailed Kinship in ARC Europe to Portugal. She first set out on the same boat from the BVI. My mom died three days after Mia left the house in PA that time. The sail north to Bermuda was under a full moon. I remember standing outside in the driveway that week and watching it rise over the hill behind my parents' house, the horses on the farm silhouetted in the dim light, thinking about Mia out on the ocean somewhere and my mom up in the heavens somewhere and wondering what my Dad was thinking and feeling as he gazed at the same moon. That was one of my mom's favorite things to do, and she never wasted a chance to tell somebody else to have a look at it too. She truly appreciated the beauty. I'm positive my Dad will have a lot of those same reflective thoughts during this upcoming crossing. It will be the longest passage, by more than twice as many miles, of his sailing career.
I changed my process. My writing process. This whole thing started with a blog I kept online when I was at home - usually alone, living on Sojourner in Annapolis - or out traveling. Also alone. I have boxes of handwritten journals in the basement documenting all that stuff. Some of it made it online eventually. Some of it's narrative, some of it my own random thoughts, sometimes goals I wanted to put on paper (weirdly enough, looking back on those goals, almost all of them have come true, even the one's I've forgotten that I ever wrote down. There is power in that, writing things down, even if you don't remember it).
But something changes when you start writing to deadlines, writing on topics someone else has chosen for you. It becomes less about the process for me, more about the result. To the point that I wasn't enjoying it anymore. It was a chore.
The irony of it was that the more 'successful' I got, the less I enjoyed the work. So maybe it's this New Year's thing, or maybe it's just coincidental timing, but I'm changing the way I do this, the way I think about it, and I am going to focus on the process rather than the result.
To that end, I'm writing this in pencil at the kitchen table. I made a fire earlier - the third in as many nights - and I'll pause this process now and then when it needs tending. I have music playing on the stereo - the Smashing Pumpkins Adore album when I first wrote this. David Byrne now, as I type - and my laptop is shut (was shut - I'm typing now). Later (now) I'll type this, edit it down for Spinsheet, match some photos to it and send it off.
I might be one of the few people in Annapolis actually enjoying the winter. I'm looking forward to February, and not because I'm going south (I'm not).
Since meeting a Swede, I've come to appreciate the cold vastly more so than the warmth. I can hardly bare the thought of another Annapolis sumer (part of the reason Arcturus is in Sweden). I've met a lot of sailors from Europe over the past 4 years working for the ARC, and I recommend that they all visit the Chesapeake if they're heading to our coast. Just not in the summertime. Fall and spring are fantastic on the Bay, my favorite place to be those times of the year. Just not in the heat of summer.
My idea of a proper winter - this is the little cabin in Sweden where I asked Mia to marry me.
(Admittedly, my outlook on winter might be slightly skewed. Mia's Swedish friends make the point that the winter is not so fun when it's cold and snowy from October through April and you're in it, for the full seven months. Mia and I don't actually deal with the winter all that much. We just got back from St. Lucia on December 22, having spent two full weeks there, and this only three weeks after having returned from Tortola. Now, we're not choosing to go to those places, but we work there, and that's just where we are. In the warmth. So I do understand that what I'm writing about the wintertime is from a slightly spoiled perspective. At least I'm acknowledging it).
I'm probably expected to write about sailing in this space - I've written several times about winter cruises on the Bay. Once single-handing up the Severn, when it snowed overnight and I awoke at anchor with half an inch of snow on the deck. Another time, on another New Year's Day actually, when Mia and I took a four-day cruise to Oxford, and the temperature never rose above freezing. We had ice in the cockpit for the duration.
But I'll argue this time that winter shouldn't be about sailing (ironically, I think one of my previous Spinsheet articles was actually titledWinters are for sailing). It's instead about a break from it, especially when you work around it so much (which, contrary to how it might sound, I am forever grateful for). Mia asked me if I was jealous that I wasn't coming along on this Atlantic crossing (it will be her 3rd in just two years). Honestly, I said, I'm not (okay, maybe a little, but only because she'll now have one more than me now and won't let me forget it).
Collecting firewood in Sweden. Like my overalls!?
No, I'm happy to be in the countryside, surrounded by snowy hills and forests, not ocean. Happy to sit by the fire and enjoy - yes enjoy - the fact that it gets dark at 5pm. I'm hibernating.
But I still crave adventure. Tomorrow me and the dogs are setting out on a trek to Blue Marsh. It will be the first opportunity to use the tent that my sister Kate and her boyfriend Kevin gave us for our wedding. I have an ambitious plan to hike right the way round the lake - some 30 miles on marked trails - but I'm not sure I have the time. I need to be back by 9am Monday morning (one of the downsides of having a regular income now with World Cruising Club. I'll take the upsides though). And to feed Buddy the Goat and his new pal Pidge the Pigeon (I'm not making that up).
The only other time the tent was used…in the living room.
I did a podcast with Andreas Hanakamp in December in St. Lucia. He's an Austrian sailor, at the top of the sport. He sailed the 49er class in the 1996 and 2004 Olympic Games, and skippered Team Russia in the 2008/09 Volvo Ocean Race. I'd become friends with him at last year's ARC, after he'd sailed onVaquita, a Class 40 (which is actually for sale now). They won the Racing Division then, and repeated this year, adding Line Honors to boot. Anyway, at dinner one night in St. Lucia, Andreas spoke about this change of scenery idea. It applied to him just as well.
"There's just too many things to do in life," he said. "Sail all summer. Hike in the fall. Do some ski mountaineering in the wintertime, maybe some whitewater kayaking in the spring, some rock climbing. Then it's back to sailing again in the summer."
His point was that he needed a break from sailing. People know Andreas as a sailor, but that's just a portion of the man. He's an adventurer who happens to make a living as a sailor (and in media in fact. He was in charge of the media portion of the Volvo Ocean Race in the 2000/01 race). I said something about the 'opportunity cost' of choosing one sport over another. He disagreed.
"Yeah, but it's not really opportunity cost if you're always doing something you love," he said, in his enjoyable Austrian lilt. I'd never considered it that way before, but he's absolutely right.
"To do an Olympic campaign requires a minimum 250 days a year on the water," he said. "I did that twice, and am happy I did. But I need breaks, everyone does. I need to pursue other things, things strictly for me and my own enjoyment, having nothing to do with work."
Somebody's gotta make the firewood, right?
For my part, I'm happily taking his advice this winter. I think deep down I would have anyway. I've had this feeling that my writing process needed to change for a while now. And guess what? This is my first time doing it in a while, but it's working. I just threw another log on the fire, shook out my achy hand (it's not used to this pencil stuff), and am back scribbling on the paper now with added energy.
(As an aside, I'm cherishing being alone. Man might be a social creature, but just as I need a break from sailing, I need a break from humans. I know I will regret writing that about three weeks from now when Mia is still at sea, and I'm home alone - I will admit the nights are lonely here - but so far, this alone time has done more than anything to rejuvenate me. It's fantastic).
So looking further into 2013? For me it's about goal setting - two more marathons before I turn 30, maybe a book published in there, and start saving money for a house - and enjoying the process of everything I do, not just the writing. That's the point, isn't it? Keep looking forward and there won't be anything worth looking back on.


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