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My sister is bulimic and has been in therapy for several months now. She seems to be making progress, but this eating disorder seems to rule her life nevertheless. Overwhelmed with conflicting desires, she is obsessed with food and her appearance. I see her suffer and wonder what has caused her to develop such behaviors. I know that there are several factors that can play a role in the inception of an eating disorder. Because of my sister's problems, I have become interested in the interplay between familial relationships and bulimia. Is there a relationship between family interactions and bulimia?
There have been numerous studies about the characteristics of a bulimic's family. One of the earliest by Laurence Igoin-Apfelbaum (1985), studied 21 women who were diagnosed by the DSM-III as bulimics. In the group of patients, two patterns of family background could be found. Thirteen patients were from broken homes, and a common characteristic of these families was that the father virtually disappeared from the life of the daughter. The twelve other patients came from close knit families, in which the sacred union of these families against the outside world was a defensive organization hiding major tensions within the family unit.
The relationship between the bulimics and their mother is one of polarity. They feel that because their eating disturbances seem to worry their mother, she is the only one who cared, and as a result they do such things as calling their moms daily to make sure she is not worrying. At the same time they avoid their mother because they feel she can guess everything or demand so much from them that they would have no personal life left.
All the patients had harsh words for their fathers. They see him as an incompetent irresponsible man who, in 50% of the subjects, was a violent tyrant who flies into wild rages, beats his wife, lies, or is a seducer. The patients who were the most self-reproachful and depressed after binges were those who drew the worst images of their father.
According to this study, the patient is overcome by her desire for a loving family. The patients realize that their families are beyond any patching up, and to escape the reality, they become bulimics. They cannot give up the idea that their families are forever lost, and to have a sense of their own existence, they make up a fantasy. Bulimia then, is a secret behavior, that is a celebration. The patients regress to a time when the family was together, and this psychological state is accompanied by bingeing. The occurrence of bulimia may be related to the combination of a history of violent separations in the family, and the endless denial of these separations (Igoin-Apfelbaum, 1985).
I have several problems with this study. The first and foremost is that I have trouble understanding how the author was able to conclude from the evidence that bulimic patients binge because they are going through a regression. The evidence that led to that theory is not shown, and the theory itself is not explained very well. I can see how a bulimic might want their family to be together as it was when they were younger, but I don't see how that leads to bulimia.
Laura Lynn Humphrey (1986) studied 20 women who fulfilled the DSM-III criteria for bulimia. She used Benjamin's Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) model and methodology to assess the family relationships of the women. The SASB model is a circumplex model of interpersonal relationships and their intrapsychic representations based on Sullivan's interpersonal theory and prior circumplex models. She found that in comparison to normal women, the bulimics perceived the relationships with their parents as significantly more hostile and less supportive than did the controls. The bulimic women reported that they experienced deficits in parental nuturance and empathy, and felt they were abused and neglected by both parents.
A limitation in this study is that these patients were in therapy for at least a year and that they may have learned to conceptualize their relationships in the psychoanalytic perspective the way their therapists do. Their interpretations of their family situation may have been influenced by the therapists, and therefore the data is showing a construed version of the situation. The patients may not be telling experimenters everything either because they feel it is irrelevant or because they feel they are not conforming to the model their therapist subscribes to. A strength is that the SASB method of studying the patients is allows scientists to study the psychoanalytic hypotheses more directly and precisely and to examine the bulimic's current family relationships. Other methods focus on the developmental and intrapsychic factors, excluding current, ongoing, and interpersonal family relationships (Humphrey, 1986).
In a second study, Humphrey (1989) compared observations of family interactions among anorexic, bulimic-anorexic, bulimic, and normal families. A total of 74 triads participated, including father, mother, and teenage daughter. Each family was videotaped during a ten-minute discussion of the daughter's separation from the family. The tapes were encoded using the SASB model and observational schema. The analysis of the 34 bulimic families, showed that the bulimics and their parents were hostilely enmeshed. Bulimics and their mothers showed a hostile relationship which was manifested by a greater percentage of mutual belittling and blaming as well as sulking and appeasing than found in normal families. The fathers of bulimics were relatively more watching and managing as well as belittling and blaming their daughters. As a result, the daughters showed more sulking and appeasing toward them. In general, the parent-child relationships in bulimic families show minimal affection and minimal support in their interactions and are instead hostilely enmeshed. Both parents and daughters are mutually blaming and controlling of each other in their interactions. The daughters' efforts to assert their separate needs are undermined by hostility. The author concludes that the metaphor model of bulimia may be accurate in suggesting that bulimics and their families crave nurturance, protection, and empathy, and when they are unable to find them, they turn to inanimate objects or altered states for comfort, such as food or alcohol. Bulimic families project their hostilities outwardly and seem unable to modulate them internally, so the bulimic may learn to relieve her own feelings by expelling them through vomiting (Humphrey, 1989).
Stuart, et al. (1990) characterized the early family experiences of 30 women with bulimia and 15 women with depression and compares them with 100 female controls, with particular emphasis placed on parental rearing practices, family conflict resolution, sexual mistreatment, problematic childhood indicators, and childhood separation experiences. Standardized paper-and-pencil instruments were used to assess both attitudinal measures and behavioral indicators of the individual's early family experiences. Specifically, the Childhood Environment Questionnaire consisted of four subsections: EMBU, Memories of Child-Rearing Experiences Scale; Family Violence in Kentucky Questionnaire; and Victimization Inventory, and Early life events.
Women with bulimia described a family characterized by problems, tensions, threats, and physical coercion. They felt rejected by both parents with their mother lacking in warmth and caring and their father as overly controlling. They also experienced significant childhood separation anxiety, although they did not experience more actual losses or separations than the control group. However, they did display many problematic behaviors while growing up such as drug abuse, suicide attempts, and more general emotional problems. The profile that emerges is one of a child in a conflictual family environment that is not supportive or self-enhancing, and who expresses her anxiety and unhappiness in many maladaptive behaviors throughout her adolescence.
This study makes important contributions to the literature in several ways, although there are methodological problems. The study describes the early family experiences of women with bulimia and depression, which is an area that has been poorly researched. It includes for comparison a control group of women that allows one to better differentiate between early childhood experiences that are typical of most women and those that are associated with psychiatric illness. The inclusion criteria used for controls in this study is stricter than typical criteria in the literature, where it is common for the control population to be selected from a medically ill population or from among women with a psychiatric illness other than the one being studied.
There are two major problems with the study. Introspective and self-report data is used and it is difficult to know the extent to which the responses are representative of reality. Additionally, the patient populations used were diagnosed for their illnesses and in a treatment setting. Therefore, there is limited generalizability of the findings to a non-clinical population or to those that are not actively seeking treatment (Stuart, et al., 1990).
Kent and Clopton (1992) examined the relationship between bulimia and family variables. Eight hundred twenty female college students completed a personal history questionnaire, the Bulimia Test, and the Eating Disorders Inventory. Twenty-four subjects who met the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia were compared with 24 subclinical bulimics and 24 symptom-free subjects on demographic and family variables including the Family Environment Scale and the Parental Bonding Instrument. Significant group differences indicated that the families of bulimics differ from other families. Bulimic families have a greater likelihood of father-daughter closeness and more weight and eating problems. However, in contrast done to the findings of research done in treatment settings, bulimics in this nonclinical setting did not report more family conflict or less caring from their parents than did symptom-free subjects.
This study does have a few limitations. Because there were only a few subjects who met the criteria for bulimia, some small effects may have not been detected, and on the other hand, the group may have not been representative. Finally, the use of self-report data is problematic.
I think it is interesting that this study's results differ from those who use patients from a clinical setting. The authors attribute that the pathological family interaction patterns found in previous research on bulimia may have been the result of the fact that the bulimics were in treatment for their bulimia (Kent and Clopton, 1992). I have trouble understanding this argument. Is it because the bulimics in treatment have more severe symptoms because of their inherited and environmental situations and therefore they have seeked treatment? Is the nonclinical bulimic's symptoms not as severe because there is no pathological family interaction, and as a result, they have not looked for treatment?
A review of eating disorders literature suggests that a number of variables at the level of individual, family, and societal level as important for the development of eating disorders. Specifically, these variables include a concern for weight and shape and a general concern for appearances. Laliberte, Boland, and Leichner (1999) conducted a two-part study investigating the variables believed more directly to disturbed eating and bulimia as contributing to the family conflict of eating disorders. In the first study, a nonclinical sample of 324 women who had just left home for college and a sample of 121 mothers evaluated their families. Analyses revealed the same factor structure for both students and mothers. Three factors were identified as conceptually distinct when comparing bulimic families versus nonbulimic and depressed families. These three factors where perceptions of the family's concern for weight and shape, perceptions of the families concern for social appearances, and perceptions of the family's emphasis on achievement and represented the hypothesized family climate for eating disorders. The combination of appearance and achievement variables identified in this research describes the perfect family -- a family that places great emphasis on appearance, family reputation, family identity, and achievement. The second study extended these findings into a clinical population, examining whether the family climate for eating disorders variables would distinguish individuals with bulimia from both depressed and healthy controls. Forty eating disordered patients, seventeen depressed patients, and twenty-seven healthy controls completed family measures. Family process variables distinguished clinical groups from healthy controls, but not one from another. In other words, the variables of conflict, cohesion, and expressiveness distinguished the population of bulimics and depressives from the normal group, but bulimia and depression were not distinguished. Controlling for depression removed the group differences on family process variables, but family climate variables continued to distinguish the eating-disordered group from both control groups.
This is an interesting study because it shows that there are certain factors that distinguish bulimic families from both depressive families and normal control families. Family process variables such as conflict, cohesion, and expressiveness differentiate bulimic families and depressive families from normal families, but does not distinguish the bulimia and depression from each other. The study goes further and says that there is a special family climate that is directly related to the development of an eating disorder, distinguishing bulimia and depression. There is a problem of conflict, cohesion, and expressiveness in both bulimic and depressive families, but with bulimic families there is the added variables of perceptions of the family's concern for weight and shape, perceptions of the families concern for social appearances, and perceptions of the family's emphasis on achievement. This is important because such characteristics of the family can be recognized early and quickly and the children of that family helped before they develop disturbances in eating such as bulimia (Laliberte, Boland, and Leichner, 1999).
With the above studies I have tried to establish the idea that there are differences between bulimic families and normal families. There seems to be dysfunctional relationships between the bulimic and each of her parents. The studies are inconsistent in identifying the characteristics of the relationships, but generally the bulimic does not feel she receives enough nuturance and care. There is also a strong trend for bulimic families to emphasize appearance and achievement. The daughter often feels she is treated hostilely and can not assert herself. There does in fact seem to be specific characteristics that distinguish bulimic families, and although they are slightly inconsistent across studies, there are certain patterns that can be identified. This identification can help with therapy and early recognition.
Works Cited
Humphrey, Laura Lynn (1986). Structural Analysis of Parent-Child Relationships in #9; Eating Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(4), 395-402.
Humphrey, Laura Lynn (1989). Observed Family Interactions Among Subtypes of Eating Disorders Using Structural Analysis of Social Behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57(2), 206-214.
Igoin-Apfelbaum, Laurence (1985). Characteristics of Family Background in Bulimia. Psychother. Psychosom, 43, 161-167.
Kent, Jan S., and Clopton, J. R. (1992). Bulimic Women's Perceptions of Their Family Relationships. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48(3), 281-292.
Laliberte, Michele., Boland, F. J. and Leichner, P. (1999). Family Climates: Family Factors Specific to Disturbed Eating and Bulimia Nervosa. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55(9), 1021-1040.
Stuart, G. W., et al. (1990). Early Family Experiences of Women With Bulimia and Depression. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 4(1), 43-52.
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For Hammered Dulcimer Players
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|You Name It Blues: Intro
|Steve introduces his original tune, the "You Name It Blues" to demonstrate a common 12-bar blues form.
|You Name It Blues: Chords
|The power of the dominant 7th chord to set up tension that wants to be resolved by going back home, to "Do" is very easily felt. The dominant 7th chord is a 4-note chord and when we start on a marked course and use the ladder shape, we can find it in several places on the instrument!
|Blues Scale in G
|Building on the minor pentatonic scale (1 b3 4 5 b7) we can add the b5 (diminished 5th) to get to the notes that make up the blues scale. Steve demonstrates an easy pattern to find this in the D minor box.
|You Name It Blues: Melody
|Using the notes of the G blues scale, we can play a singular melody while the chords change beneath the melody. We also learn 2 different patterns for playing this.
|You Name It Blues Put Together
|Here we put both duet parts together and play the tune as a solo, taking turns with melody and chords and letting the dulcimer ring while the other part plays.
|A Rhythmic Change: Leaning Forward
|This tune takes on a different character if we "lean forward" rhythmically and give it a Chicago-Blues feel, rather than a laid-back Delta blues feel.
|You Name It Blues in a Higher Octave
|On instruments with an extended range, we can play this tune as a solo in a higher octave as well. Only one adjustment to the chord shape, and a new 3-bridge pattern for playing the melody are necessary.

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In most cases, I recommend you simply learn to read the harmonica tablature. For the large majority of students this is a great solution and it's very easy.
More on tabs can be found here:
Regarding reading staff music, good luck. As you will soon find out, to learn how to do this on a diatonic (10-hole) harmonica is very difficult. But if you're motivated and you willing to give it some serious focus it can be done.


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SIX of the county's best musical talents have made it to the finals of the Gloucestershire Young Musician 2015 competition.
A record entry of 22 competed in the first round on Sunday at the Gloucester Academy of Music headquarters – with contestants ranging in age from 14 to 21 and coming from every corner of the county.
Adjudicating was Director of the Cheltenham Music Festival Meurig Bowen, who played a key role in the judging of the BBC Young Musician 2014 on BBC4 TV.
He said: "With 22 entrants between 9.15am and 5.30pm, there was a strong possibility that I'd be exhausted by the end of the day. But I wasn't; not at all!
"Instead, I was hugely energised by the commitment shown in all the entrants' music-making, by the sheer range of the music I heard, and by the high standard overall.
"Inevitably, it was really hard to narrow things down to the choice of finalists, because a good number could have been put through to the next stage. It's fantastic that the Gloucestershire Young Musician competition has been so vigorously re-launched this year by Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra with the generous sponsorship of Parkers Estate Agents."
He selected six finalists:
- Santos Hau, 17, from Gloucester (piano) who attends Sir Thomas Rich's Grammar School and studies at the Birmingham Junior Conservatoire;
- Sophie Haynes, 20, from Gloucester (cello) who is studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama;
- Rebecca McNaught, 19, from Cheltenham (cello) a former Pate's Grammar School pupil, who is reading music at Oxford University;
- Nicola Rouse, 18, from Badminton (trumpet) studying at the Royal Academy of Music;
- Jennifer Statham, 18, from Cheltenham (violin) currently on a gap year;
- Abigail Waterman, 18, from Cheltenham (flute) a pupil at Pate's Grammar School.
They will all perform in the finals which take place on Tuesday, February 24 at Cheltenham's Pittville Pump Room.
In addition, Forest of Dean jazz player Oliver Stanton, who gave an impressive performance, will be given the opportunity of playing with his band Twice William during judging at Pittville and he will be recommended as a performer for the fringe or free stage events at Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
The Young Musician 2015 winner will receive a cash prize of £500, the Hewitt-Jones Trophy and will be given the opportunity to perform a recital at the Cheltenham Music Festival as well as two concerto performances with the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra and Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra.
The runners-up will receive a cash prize of £100 and there will also be an Audience Prize for the very first time of £200 sponsored by the Carducci Trust – the charitable trust initiated by the prestigious Carducci String Quartet.
Among those joining Meurig Bowen on the judging panel will be Jo Hensel Deputy Head of the Wind, Brass and Percussion Department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra took over the running of the contest this autumn with sponsorship from estate agents Parkers of Gloucester. They are working in partnership with Cheltenham Music Festival, the Carducci String Quartet, Gloucestershire Music Service and the Gloucester Academy of Music.
Tickets for the finals on February 24 are now available priced £15 online at Cheltenham Town Hall.


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Sleaford Community Cinema
The Picturedrome opened in November 1920 with 900 seats.
It was a lavish building in the small Lincolnshire town and incorporated artistic painted scenes in side panels on the walls beneath a barrel vaulted ceiling decorated with richly molded strapwork. There was a deep rectangular proscenium arch and a small stage, sometimes used for drama and variety performances.
It was equipped for sound in 1931, and the cinema was so successful that in 1934 the balcony was extended to accommodate an additional 80 patrons. It was taken over by Star in 1939 who installed a new cinemascope screen in 1955 on a 29 foot concave screen. It was taken over by an independent in 1968 at the end of Star's lease and a second cinema was added in the former cafe in 1980 seating 60.
The downturn in cinema-going affected the Sleaford Cinema as it was now known and in 1984 the main screen closed after problems with the heating. It was stated that it simply was not viable to repair and in 1985, after the screen and fittings had been sold to another cinema, it became a snooker hall. This necessitated the demolition of the stage, the leveling of the sloped stalls floor, and a false floor erected at front of balcony level.
The small screen in the cafe continued after this, still showing films up until 2000, but this too closed and the Picturedrome was later used as a nightclub called Flicks.


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the blues is a happy feelin'
Some really strange things have been going on around here. We are living through & experiencing some dang turbulence right now. We all just need to relax a little bit & keep the faith during these times. I mean I got no clue as to any specifics of what's happening or what will happen & I don't need to, all that I know & feel comes from the change of smells & energy.
I have to do my best for my peeps now so I am laying out a hopeful sign to show them. I put signals everywhere in their bedroom but to no avail. My parents must be blind or something. I mean, badmamm is finally gettin it, part of it anyway. Finally!
See, it's like this . . . . . I have three different bones going at any one time. These bones are magic, sacred runes that I arrange in the night into patterns that come to me in dreams. I only chew my bones in the 'rents bedroom & then only when the folks are there. Plus, I try my best to keep these bones where I know they walk & they will find them. Good plan, huh? Not for these two. BM usually just silently limps back to bed but you oughta hear Big Daddy when he finds one in the dark. (Earmuffs, kids)
I'm giving you a sign here people. Read the bones. Don't just kick them away.
I am one of only a few who have sent away for their bone interpretation certificate over the innanet. I'm bone fide, you might say. I have also built upon these studies & am quite proficient in many "bone tossing" or "throwin the bones" techniques. I make a fairly good living by being an expert witness in court.
Anyway, BM is starting to get hip & at least takes a picture every morning so she can study it. I overheard her & BD talking about it. She is also horrified at the state of her carpet. While I am not directly involved I can tell you that lots of dogs have come & gone around here. BM & BD have raised several service dog puppies & they also doggie sit some other dogs once in awhile. Each spot on the carpet is the result of a different type of spot remover. BM's scientific experiment. The one of them that worked the best also took the color out of the carpet, leaving BM with what she calls the cougar effect.
BM & BD say they are gonna rip that nasty carpet out when it warms up a bit more. It is one of the last places they have carpet left. Hah! They don't even do it themselves. They call Sonny Boy & the Rajin Cajun & they come do it. bada bing, bada boom, gone.
Anyway, that's it for today. I almost got to go on a car ride but BM's car won't start cuz she let it sit too long. She knew all day yesterday that she needed to go out & at least start the dang thing & take me around the block but, nnnoooo, She takes off with her friend to said friend's doctor appointment so BM can push "the baby" in the stroller while Mommy is in the office.
In the meantime, I'll give you a hint about today's bone interpretation. If we stick together, we can & will make it.
Yep, it's that time of year again folks! Sping is in the air, some of the fruit trees have flowered and everyone in town has itchy eyes & runny noses. You can feel the energy building. We all know that summer is nigh. Yahoooo! But the real excitement around this house is. . . . (drum roll, please) . . . (wait for it) . . . COOKIES!!
Due to the evildoers that prevent Girl Scouts from roaming freely from house to house these days, the poor scouts are now huddled en masse at all of most public venues, the grocery stores, strip centers & the malls. They crowd around (but are careful not to block) the entrances with rickety card tables full of pyramids of cookie boxes while the parents make change & encourage the girls to "speak up" "now, that's three boxes, how much does she owe?" "okay, now give her the change. She gave you a twenty so how much do you owe her?". Taking advantage of all those teaching moments, in that voice. That voice. For some reason it bugs me.
I suppose I could lament the "good old days" when each scout was given a minimum number of boxes to sell & the girl who sold the most boxes would win fabulous prizes. I don't remember what the prizes were because I never got near them. I had a few neighbors, grandparents, aunts, uncles & parents that I signed up but that was about it. You had to go around getting "orders" from people then distribute the cookies & collect. It was fund raising plus teaching us all that stuff like arithmetic, legible handwriting, accounting, you get it. Seems like mine was always a mess & never came out even. Besides, winning would have involved me "putting myself out there" & approaching people & homes I did not know. I wanted the prizes but not enough to work for them or go after them. Also, my parents were either not involved or maintaining the least contact with the whole mess as possible. I didn't know that parents cared about kids activities.
I look at the girls. Girls! What a delightful word. So young & fun. Innocence, not yet jaded. Their whole lives stretch out before them & they don't even know it; shouldn't know it. I look at them. They make me smile. It would take a cold, cold heart to look at this bunch & not believe in a beautiful future. There are enough bracelets, necklaces, hair bobbies & accessories to open a boutique. One shuffles in her flowered & beaded flip flops. There are whispers in ears, hands covering mouth, giggles. Beginning their struggle & dance with identity & separation.
I silently offer up a prayer for these girls. I pray that some sense of wonder stays with them, that they always feel free & safe like they (I hope) do now. It's a lot to ask for, I know. I also say a prayer of thankfullness from me for the joy I feel looking these girls.
I load up on my cookies. Two boxes of thin mints, one of the chocolate stripes, & a new variety, to me anyway, named Thank You. I am thrilling on my cookies.
Well, it was windy as all heck yesterday & last night & the cooleroo lost two anchors. This morning the sun was screaming in the windows without the benefit of the roo, as we like to call it. The roo is a large shade like dealie that we have over our side patio to block some of the burning rays of New Mexico sun. It's early here so not too cooked up in the livey yet. (that means living room, for you newbies) Uno, the wonder dog, & I are soaking it up.
The sun is a nice break from the wind. Wind gives Uno the jits. I think it may be due (in part) to the fact the we have stuff hanging everywhere & it all moves in the wind. Some of them make noise. We look straight out at the cooleroo area when we are hanging around the house. That roo can really get going sometimes. Up & down. Flappity flap. It had to have been really windy last night to blow out two anchors.
I went out into the gale last night to catch the loose corners & bungee cord them to the window frame so no windows would be broken. The corners that blew were not next to each other, they were across from each other. When I bungeed it to the window it made a triangle sail. It looked kinda cool to me but still moved & Uno voted to go back into the house, shut the door & have a schnackie. Uno usually gets her way.
This morning, after a couple a cups a tea, the man will get the ladder out of the garage (a major undertaking alone), climb onto the roof & put his system of bolts, s hooks & wire to rights. We will have light but not direct sun. In the meantime Uno & I soak it up.
February 9, 2009
I love the way words sing. Always have. I believe the music is in the way people use them. Proper pronunciation, usage & grammar is not required nor encouraged. Sometimes it's even scoffed at. It's boring. The worst grade I got in college was in advanced grammar. Not very encouraging to an English major.
I am not advocating skipping school. I believe you have to know the rules to break them.
I also love to cuss. I know a lot of folks think that cussing is for those with a small, uninventive vocabulary but I don't care what they think. A real pro can string together a line of cuss words that sounds like poetry.
I still cuss up a storm and I know a lot of other words. Big words, little words. Heck, I even make up my own, mostly unintentional.
I was raised that way. Every family has their own language. Mine elevated it to an art form. My Mother was unparalleled when it came to the bon mots & she didn't even have a clue what a bon mot is. She (& my Dad too) were regular Yogi Berra's.
A couple of my favs from my Mother:
"when I die I want to be cre-ated." She was from West Texas & drawled with the best of 'em. Every single word she knew had at least two syllables. I thought "cre-ated" was a beaut! It is the most connected, spiritual word I've ever heard for death.
Another time she was telling my son & I about friends of hers who were looking for land to build a business on. They had found a couple of places, one they really loved but they couldn't build there because an advisor told them there had been a "Indian masquerade" there & the land was hexed. No business on that land would ever succeed.
Man, she was always good for a laugh.
Nobody could suck you into a joke like my Dad. Even when you knew he was doing it, you still fell in. When he said he "ran into this ole boy the other day" you knew you were going on a trip. It was always fun to watch him work it on somebody new.
The whole family I grew up in, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, you name it, was & are funny. We had all kinds. Some were a histerical riot while others were so dry you needed a glass of water when they got through with you. Either way, we laughed until we fell down, crying "stop, just stop". We'd slap out knees & wet our pants. One time, after relating a laugh filled adventure my Grandmother said, with a perfectly straight face & a dry drawl, "Law, we like ta beat ourselves to death over that one".
Even the folks that married into the family are funny. My sister-in-law, Renie, is as funny as they come without even knowing it. And then that makes it even funnier. We get started telling each other something & winding up cracking ourselves up so hard we can't finish the story. We are used to people looking at us like we'd lost our minds. One time Renie & I had cracked ourselves up so bad that we were hanging onto the walls to keep from falling down. We had just left the dineing room on a cruise. We finally got ourselves somewhat under control (with great effort) when some people walking by said "what's so funny?" & set us off again. I fell down & couldn't breathe. They finally left.
My son's wife, Shelly, can mangle the language like nobody's business. I knew we were in for it when my son said, before introducing her to the family, "she kinda reminds me of Grandma. You know…the way she talks". That crazy beautiful Cajun girl fits right in.
If I ever had to name the one thing that has gotten me this far in life, my biggest asset, I know instantly that it is my sense of humor.
Bad Mammy's Blues
February 7, 2009
the blues is a happy feeling
First of all, right off the bat, let's get one thing out of the way. I mean absolutely no offense & none should be taken, by the word "mammy". I call myself Bad Mammy because I like the words. I attach no negativity. I mean no harm.
It all started several years ago when I was telling my man about how much I loved the demolition derby & still had childhood dreams of driving in one. We were laughing & coming up with all kinds of hilarious stuff (to us anyway) about it. He would be my pit boss, I would drive a pink car with hot pink flames, number 13. I'd go out there in my pink fuzzy slippers & pink robe. My helmet would be covered in some kind of ratty ass wig with pink foam curlers in it. We were really rolling. Sponsored by feminine products, kotex with wings, vajayjay springtime fresh sprays & so on. I'd become a champion of the ring. I would be Bad. "I dreamed I won the demolition derby in my Maidenform bra".
Then we had to decide my professional name. The man suggested "team MeeMaw". Now, meemaw is a common term of affection in the south & one that I think is funny as heck. I've been known to call somebody meemaw when they are acting old or broke down. A kind of "go, Granny, go" thing. The problem is that while I may toss the word around without a care, I hate being called meemaw. It makes my skin crawl. No effin (as is so pc to say these days) way! No. No. No.
No, I said, I will be Bad Mammy. Thus, my empire was born. I still don't have my car or sponsors but I do have my name. I'm keepin it.
I guess I could go by my initials, BM. It reminds me of what my mother always said. . . . "My tummy hurts." "Did you have a BM today?" I'm not crazy about being called BM but if that is what happens, so be it. I will admit to being full of shit most of the time.
If you're going to dish it out, you gotta take it. Besides, anything is better than Meemaw. Also, I love a good laugh. If it has to be at my expense, so what? It's still funny. I'll laugh at you, I'll laugh at myself. It's all the same. Funny is funny, regardless.
Am I really here, alive & bloggin?? Welcome to a whole new world.
Now, let's have some fun.
Please leave me a comment, let me know you were here & what you think. I want you to feel free to be brutally honest.
And, somehow, knowing you, I believe you will.


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Kate is a Homeward Trails Foster Dog that has gone on an adventure. She was lost in the Reston area and last scene in Oakton. Our goal is to form a posse and hit the roads, searching for Kate.
Information about the event can be found on facebook
If you are out that way, please keep a look out for her. She is timid.


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Happy first Saturday of 2017, friends! It seems like most of the country is experiencing colder than normal temperatures, and might have even gotten a bit more snow than is typical. Three cheers for winter!
Winter and I have a love/hate relationships. On the hate side, there's the cold weather, the cold wind, the cold snow, the cold ice. You can't escape it; winter is cold, cold, and more cold. On the other hand, winter is so cozy! Its pace is slower than the frenetic go-go-go of summer, and it encourages us all toward our hermit-like tendencies. Even though I'm an extrovert through and through, I don't hate that aspect of this colder and darker season. I love snuggling in to watch a movie, making homemade pizza, and going to bed early. I love enjoying my coffee by the fire the next morning, and I love having an excuse to stay home and cancel plans occasionally (hello, snow days!).
If you're having a hard time finding the joy in winter, here are 5 tips just for you!
Start an outdoor winter hobby. Fresh air is good for your health, for your mood, and for your body, so get outside! Even when it's cold, bundle yourself up and breathe some fresh air for a minute or two. Our favorite winter activity is snowshoeing (Bob has Tubbs snowshoes and loves them), but you could try skiing (downhill or cross country), ice skating, or plain old hiking. With warm enough clothing, you'll barely notice the biting wind and cold temperatures.
Sun lamp and essential oils. Maybe a little hippy dippy for some of you, but I swear by my sun lamp and (more recently) diffusing oils. Might it all be in my head? Yes. Do they make me feel better, happier, and more content with being indoors so much? Yes. Final verdict: worth it. I have this sun lamp and this diffuser, and they've both been great.
Vitamin D drops. If you live where the sun rarely shines in the winter, I can't say enough great things about these Vitamin D drops. They work better for me than a vitamin pill, and I can tell a noticeable difference in my mood when I forget my drops in the morning.
Light a candle. There's something delightful about lighting a candle–its soft, warm glow, the lovely scent wafting through your house. Something about a candle whispers cozy, cozy, cozy and it does wonders to lift my mood.
Find some community. Nothing makes the winter seem long and lonely like trapping yourself at home for 3 or 4 months. Even though it feels like a lot more work in the wintertime, find people to spend time with-go to church, invite friends for dinner, talk someone into joining you for your newfound outdoor pursuits. It will always be worth it!
What do you do to make the winter more manageable? I'd love to hear!
If you're interested…a January trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes and an easy, comfort food idea for a dinner next week.


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Mark Sinacori was born in Lawrence, Ma on August 16, 1982. He attended the John R. Rollins School and Holy Trinity School (class of 1996) for Elementary and Middle School, Central Catholic High School (class of 2000), and is a graduate of Merrimack College (class of 2005) with a BA in English and a graduate of UCLA'S Professional Screenwriting Certificate Program (class of 2006) with a certificate in Screenwriting. He is a writer, producer, actor, and voice actor in Los Angeles, Ca.
Growing up in Lawrence, Mark's dream when he was a toddler was to be a garbage man when he grew up, emptying garbage barrels and throwing them all over the place at curbs. As an only child, Mark was brought up Catholic, was very inclusional and accepting of others, and loved entertainment and the arts, especially TV and Film. Throughout high school at Central Catholic and also at Merrimack College, both schools which had nothing to offer students a background in television or film, Mark took many creative writing and art classes to enhance his background in both writing and acting and worked at McDonald's as a shift manager where he hosted many kids birthday parties. Growing up, Mark was always a heavy kid and teenager, always 20 pounds or so heavier than those his age. By the time he reached high school, his weight was uncontrollable, and in college, at 6 feet tall, he reached 300 pounds at the age of 20 in 2003. A new diet and exercise plan, along with hypnosis, helped him to lose 50 pounds by the end of that summer, and an additional 100 pounds by the end of summer 2004 came off with sweating in saunas and slimming detox body wraps. It has always been a goal of Mark's to help people lose weight who have always struggled with weight gain.
On September 2nd, 2005, Mark moved to Los Angeles after he was accepted into UCLA's Professional Screenwriting Program. It was there he heard it from both of his teachers that he had a lot of energy and character when reading screenplays in class, and that he should no doubt go into acting if that's a career choice he was thinking of doing. Both of his professors told him to be an actor and to write while acting. Following the Screenwriting Program at UCLA, Mark then worked as a studio Page at CBS throughout 2007 after visiting the studio several times the previous year to see tapings of The Price Is Right. CBS was Mark's most memorable time in Los Angeles, where he greeted, processed and entertained audiences at The Price Is Right. Mark got to work amazing events at The Price Is Right, including being selected to rehearse as a practice contestant with potential hosts such as Mario Lopez, George Hamilton and Todd Newton on several occasions, and also was selected to work Bob's final Million Dollar Spectacular, his 50 year's in television celebration episode, and his final show. Aside from The Price Is Right, Mark also worked on other shows that taped at CBS such as Dancing With The Stars and American Idol. Also at CBS, Mark was told he had a lot of character and energy by both his managers and the staff at The Price Is Right and was told to go into acting as well by them. While working an episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in March of 2007, Mark was asked by the director to be in a backstage comedy sketch with actress Piper Perabo and one of Craig Ferguson's production assistants on the show. In the sketch, Piper tells the assistant that his writing was not funny and Mark pats him on the shoulder telling him "It's okay buddy, you're still funny to me." The sketch, though filmed, never aired, but was the first time Mark had been asked to film anything with a line that was on a Hollywood production of any sort.
When his time as a Page ended, Mark continued writing and began his production and acting experience when he was part of the production crew on several independent features, and acted in several independent short films. In 2009, Mark was asked to be on the series Glee as a featured character in a scene where he interacted with Matthew Morrison, and after that point, after being featured, anytime he'd work as an extra, if there were close up reaction shots, most of the times he was picked out to be featured in certain scenes in different shows he worked. Since 2009, Mark's been featured on different TV series such as Glee, Desperate Housewives, Men of A Certain Age, Greys Anatomy, The Defenders, and Don't Trust The B-In Apartment 23.
Mark's first short film Womanizer was directed by Drew Barrymore's older brother John Barrymore and was completed in 2014. Mark's future film projects will all be directed by himself from now on, as he's now ready to take on being a producer, writer, and director of his own works after an 8 year long learning period of working on both Hollywood and indie sets as an assistant and actor.
Since early 2010, Mark has taken many acting classes. He has been professionally trained in Hollywood as a Screenwriter by Television Screenwriters Paul Chitlik and Fred Rubin, and as an Actor by Actors John Blyth Barrymore Amy Lyndon, and Judy Kain.
Recently, Mark's been keeping very busy the past few years. Whether it's working a job not in entertainment or working a job in it, he's always ready to work, always happy to work, and has worked on a good amount of Hollywood productions throughout the latter part of 2014. Presently, he's been paging o television series that film in front of live studio audiences and has worked at a good number of them the last several years including Fuller House, 2 Broke Girls, Mom, Girl Meets World, The Conners, The Ranch, All That, and America's Funniest Home Videos.
In his past 13 years living in Los Angeles (2005-2019), Mark has learned a lot about film making, television production, acting, and has worked on many sets in many different studios in the Los Angeles area including CBS, ABC Prospect, Warner Bros. CBS Radford, Paramount, FOX, Sony, Universal, Los Angeles Center Studios and Manhattan Beach Studios, and has learned a lot by being an extra, featured extra, and audience page while working many shows all over town.
On July 3, 2019, Mark decided that after all the years of pursuing his dreams and goals in Los Angeles, he felt there was so much more he could have been given, and watched as others who bad-mouthed and then brown nosed people in the business to help them get referred to gigs. Mark wasn't like that one bit. He went about his career and journey the honest way, and everyone who followed him over the years knew that. He's never brown nosed casting or anyone in entertainment to get more work, he worked hard submitting, studying, and showcasing his talents online for years. He believed that enough was enough, and he packed up and moved home to Methuen, Mass. Mark realized that he could write, produce and act anywhere. He didn't have to be in Los Angeles just for that. Mark will never give up on his entertainment goals and whenever he wants to, will write, produce and act from anywhere he lives in life.


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Endnote to 'Privileged Guilt'
June 23, 2011 § 15 Comments
This seems to be the conclusion to the last post:
Privilege cannot be shed, and therefore guilt is an incoherent response. I mean the kind of privilege that's actually pernicious from a left perspective, which is not simply superiority or advantage, as it tends to be caricatured. Intelligent, cultured, upper-middle-class white men are not being called out for being intelligent, cultured, or even upper-middle-class — dull-witted, undereducated, working class white men still benefit from being white and male. If they get called out, it is (or should be) because their words and actions deny or ignore the role that their whiteness, maleness, and middle-classness have played in the acquisition of material advantages that may or may not result in intelligence, competence, good looks, or any other ideal quality. That is, when they actively justify their privilege with what is unjustifiable. So it is a critique of behavior. And yet the critique is still unavoidably directed at who they are, because the value of existence is not distinct from the position one occupies in the world and what one does with it, neither of which are wholly subject to individual will. Privilege tends to conceal from its beneficiaries an existential truth that everyone else is forced to recognize over and over again. Shame at being white, male, or bourgeois isn't any more justified than shame at being black, female, or working class, the latter three of course having their own troubled histories.
(as an aside, the corollary to this point is that identity-based pride is no less compensatory than guilt — everything depends on what they transition to; I would argue they aren't necessary conditions for anything)
What I'm calling 'privileged guilt' is not only ethically incoherent, it is central to a practice, the establishment of hierarchical distinctions within privileged identities: the 'enlightened liberal,' the 'radical leftist,' the 'race traitor,' in contrast to the 'ignorant racist,' 'falsely conscious liberal imperialist,' 'consumer whore,' 'animalistic frat boy,' etc. All of which reaffirm the idealist distinctions leftists should be trying to undo, and narrow the scope of political importance to (surprise!) the privileged group. In this context, guilt, along with its compulsive displays of 'awareness' and 'sympathy,' is just another form of conspicuous consumption.
Sara Ahmed's "Declarations of Whiteness" is a good place to start thinking more about this:
"…whiteness studies should involve at least a double turn: to turn towards whiteness is to turn towards and away from those bodies who have been afforded agency and mobility by such privilege. In other words, the task for white subjects would be to stay implicated in what they critique, but in turning towards their role and responsibility in these histories of racism, as histories of this present, to turn away from themselves, and towards others."
A turn to historical responsibility that doesn't culminate in the self is as good a definition of activism and a repudiation of privileged guilt as I've seen.
And this at guerilla mama medicine, an example of what I like to think of as "left anti-political correctness": (sent to me by Avanworden):
i guess what i am saying is that in my experience if white folks want to be respectful of poc or understand where they are coming from–they dont need a workshop. there are centuries of writing from poc that they can dive into. there are plenty of poc in their neighborhoods and community organizations. when white folks are ready to be anti-racist, when they are ready to turn from facing the center, to facing the margins, and stand with us. we will be here.
they dont need to be converted or preached to.
they dont need to learn the right words to use. or the right theory.
we dont need more of that.
and it is harmful to them to give them a bunch of new theory and rhetoric while they are still angling to get as close to the center as possible. to get to the top of the caterpillar pile.
and antiracism theory will just be used as another means, another tactic for them to reach their goal.
This argument implies something that can serve as an example of how whiteness is not only complicated for white people. If the turn away from superficial 'correctness' is to be taken seriously, it would require a reciprocal effort from nonwhites, not only to move away from 'education' as a solution, but also critical attitudes that assume educated speech as a norm. And that is not in the power of anti-racist whites to ask. Whites can't honestly be expected to move on from a constant fear of 'saying the wrong thing' if the 'right thing' retains normative force, that is, if privileged guilt is the dominant form of white antiracism. 'Suck it up' or 'deal with it' just encourage martyrdom, claiming that forceful 'calling out' of either aspirational or experienced white allies is done out of 'love' (a defense I read somewhere) is condescending. Of course words matter — outside narrow liberal and activist circles racist rhetoric is all too common and operates precisely by disavowal. But that is also why the demands of solidarity are sometimes in conflict with the demands of critique.
§ 15 Responses to Endnote to 'Privileged Guilt'
Wish you didn't link to 'I'm Not Racist, But…' – kind of thing I'll waste hours scrolling through, with the morbid curiosity the internet seems to encourage.
Three funny/horrible memories (all in education) come to mind:
School – 'Anti-Racist' display by lower years on the wall. One, obviously selected by the teacher as 'worthy' reads: "Don't be racist! It's as bad as being black!" Of course, this became the 'ironic' refrain in response to racist comments for a year or so.
University – A public school alumni, far more privileged than most there, says: "I don't want to be racist or nothing, but I think black people are physically stupider than white people". His only examples were Morrisey vs. Snoop Dogg. He also thought the Prime Minister's name was 'Tony Lamont'. When attacked, he got teary and defensive about the difficulties his Greek dad faced for having a difficult-to-pronounce name when building his property empire. I believe he was studying Law.
The 'cultural awareness' module of a counselling course –
After a guided tour (by a respected local historian) of slavery-associated sites, a long discourse on the black diaspora, and (disguised) Marxist critique of class/race relations, commodities, commerce and social consequences, we had to give verbal feedback at the end. A time-served English teacher in her late 50's gushes: "He was so wonderful and interesting, I nearly forgot he was black!" Other white ladies of a similar age seemed keen to point out how 'polite' and (aagh) 'dignified' he was.
I have too many other examples, and few are as amusing. So, a stupid question: What the fuck do we do with people like that? I often end up stunned into silence, looking like a Howard Chaykin drawing. My jaw and eyebrows started to ache years ago.
I think I get what you are saying, but just to clarify can we take a case of brouhaha?
Say the anglophone UScentric feminist blogosphere for a period including;
Valenti's book cover (slender white torso)
Nubian's criticism of it
the attack on Valenti in Clinton photo by Althous
Marcotte's photoshopping the burqa over Valenti in reply
bfp's explanation of the racism of this gesture
long brutal blogarguments moving onto feminist support for imperial aggression against Taleban-ruled Afghanistan
Marcotte's book, "destroy this brute" cover and startling Tarzan illustrations
Seal Press's yadda, it's a joke, those are ironic idealised white explorers and ironic savage African spearchuckers getting wasted, and regarding the whiteness of the list "we don't get submissions!" bringing to mind Daman Wayan's line "they just couldn't put their crack pipes down long enough to apply."
Just about everything happened in that series of events, every possible discursive offense, cliché, and excuse; every possible reaction, and the totality was covered – imperialism, employment discrimination, marginalisation of voices, domination of media, loving pedagogical instruction, exasperated hands upthrowing had-it-to-here-ness, some learning/concessions and apologies, some obstinacy concealed until later flowering into sigh sigh not again big deal it's just a bookcover!/bookcontract!/whitedominatedindustry!/imperialistwar!….
Worth noting that this did seamlessly unpeel from the outer issue, seemingly of representation only – it all began with the probably least startlingly offensive of the offensive images that were to appear, the white solipsist bookcover of Full Frontal Feminism – to the core questions of white supremacist imperialism, the right and duty of the US to civilise Afghanistan etc, to which the mythic referent of that bookcover, that inspires it and makes it intelligible iconography and savvy marketing, this ideal white woman, her liberty and virtue, her attractiveness and her value, her closeness to white male power, is indispensible, or nearly/practically so.
A fairly large portion of defenders of Valenti'(s bookcover and Marcotte's burqa gag were on board with statements like: "To the Men of Afghanistan . Shape up you barbarians or we will take your women away!" (I don't exaggerate, that is verbatim or near it)
Can't say of course anything about causality, we have all been born into history in medias res. But there is a definite connection between the "small stuff" one is not supposed to sweat and the stuff that is as big as stuff gets.
So – Who is choosing between solidarity and critique? This choice looks different from different positions as well, right?
I mean, a tiny portion of a large force of white supremacist reactionaries identify themselves as left and seek to wield authority as left leadership from positions in well funded institutions, but mainly their universalism is advanced to protect their dominance of resources in culture industry.
These views have no currency at all in left milieus where there are no such resources at stake.
"but even if there weren't such a minority, there would still be a left."
well of course, but you could say the same thing about any of the other minorities on the left too, or even the majorities (maybe except 'the working class' but then 'left' would just mean something else). my assumption wasn't that this minority is logically necessary but that it's beneficial and therefore worthy of basic respect.
and alcoff also says this: So here is the predicament: we must tell the full story of white racism in all its complexity, and this complexity cannot be fully resolved through a class analysis that sequesters the guilty as only among the rich. Yet facing the reality of whites' moral culpability threatens their very ability to be moral today, because it threatens their ability to imagine themselves as having a socially coherent relation to a past and a future toward which anyone could feel an attachment.
"they are advancing liberal individualist bourgeois idealist ideology, that's all" — ok, but on the one hand i'm talking about their motives. why they advance these ideas that in other contexts they recognize as wrong. and i think that has to do with what whiteness and maleness mean now after the successful ideological attacks of the '60s and '70s. and on the other i'm talking about the idea of a unified left, which isn't only the dream of the (neo-)utopians.
yes it's not only the dream of the neo-utopians – they are trying to fuck it up really by refusing to take a place of equality and demanding to be returned to domination. they reject everything that has been designed to rectify injustices and include them in solidarity.
that is, the neo-utopians – not white people;, not white men, but this minority who don't want to participate in a collective struggle with others (women, poc) on equal terms, but want to command a following.
" one hand i'm talking about their motives"
since they aren't digitally reproduced from a master, we can assume their motives are as diverse and personal as any other group.
the neo-utopîans denigrate others, they try to restore a white supremacist history, they try to reinstate Platonic hierarchies and the silly and creepy dualism of matter/spirit female/male, they try to reverse the advances made in historiography and the human sciences by critical race theory, feminism, etc. Ridicule is the favoured weapon of trying to restore the hierarchy in culture.
alcoff is not apologising for this minority. she's talking about white people , but there isn't really a dearth of lefty history for white people to attach to – its vocally celebrated and merchandised aggressively! Really – look at the coffee cups! the t shirts! the hammer and sickle memorabilia!
white people really aren't as deprived of traditions to join and claim as many of us like to complain. that people have to join in other ways than "white pride" in "western civ" and "european judeochristian legacy" is not such a hardship. White male victimology is aggressively promoted now so even those who hold the msm at arm's length can tend to exaggerate the damage to them emotionally that feminism and anti-imperialism does. And perhaps the self hatred problem Losurdo diagnoses – communist evil stalin shame shame – feeds this as well; white male bourgeois leftists feeling they want to moralise in a way that requires constantly slamming of european communist history, but want then to shift the blame for the defeats onto others than those with whom they identify – others than themselves. It's natural for walter benn michaels to discover he himself hasn't failed, those he identifies with haven't failed, but feminists have not only failed to overthrow capital but have prevented white male leftists from doing so. It's a way to manage the vilification of the european communist history, perhaps,; but preserve a white identity politics that designates the category to which the deplored villains and odious failures belong still the most advanced and equipped to lead. perhaps.
It's all about the packaging. Those pseudo-events you listed packaged nicely. If you don't fit the package, then you're too close to the crackpipe for comfort. Then you're not even 'the voter' or 'the taxpayer'. How could they be? They can't even appreciate irony when you offer it to them.
Perhaps not nefarious self-interest, but it can often become a kind of proud ignorance, despite access they may have to materials proving otherwise. Its distorted mirror image is in those facebook idiots. The idealist class identity (uber alles) can just result in another weapon for whiteness. The unemployed white farm worker has a lot less privilege than Michelle Obama, but a lot of that 'idealism' can lead him to mistake (poor) whiteness and maleness for 'inherent' class-consciousness. That certainly seems to be encouraged in the UK at the moment. My problem is with how the dividing lines are drawn. The proudly ignorant may have 10% truth in what they say or feel, but conveniently dismiss the other 90% they fail to contemplate. Anecdote and personal/community history can be utilised for radical ends, but also deeply reactionary ones too ("my son has a degree but can't find a job because he's white" – "why are gays complaining? They tend to earn more." etc.).
I'm not big on political 'guilt' – but maybe the keywords should be those corny terms empathy and understanding? It may be impossible to know how the 'other' feels, but surely the point is to listen, learn and adjust accordingly? And encourage your peers to do the same? Or has western narcissism become so chronic, that to question one's position would be too much of an intellectual challenge? Those examples of idiocy I listed above were unreflective forms of narcissism, really. Hostility to 'political correctness' or even the sillier kinds of 'identity politics' (smoker's pressure groups, obesity as oppressed minority etc) seems to feed off an a priori kind of narcissism, so entrenched as to be invisible to its perpetrators.
Hope I'm making sense – it's a subject I find hard to articulate at times.
"White male victimology is aggressively promoted now so even those who hold the msm at arm's length can tend to exaggerate the damage to them emotionally that feminism and anti-imperialism does. "
It's a form of scorched-earth therapy. They'll only 'marginalise' themselves further with this approach, despite any delusions of grandeur. With very few exceptions, they lack the power, discipline or consistency to be as influential as they believe they can be (no war vets or effective orators here – just clerks nodding at each other). I expect any Actual Existing Left will carry on regardless, while those you mention muddle their aims ever further in relation to MSM (their primary focus), and their rather 'teflon' irrelevance. Fear and loathing will back them into their own corner soon enough.
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At one point on quarter final day, with Rafael Nadal already out at the hands of 19 year old Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray had just been dumped out in straight sets by Grigor Dimitrov, and both Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer trailed by a set in their respective matches. While the latter pair eventually overcame their opponents, the message is clear at this year's Championships: change is coming at the top of mens' tennis, and tomorrow we will found out just how soon.
Monday will see Andy Murray return to Centre Court at Wimbledon in a bid to repeat his historic success from last year. Here I run the rule over the potential contenders for the third Grand Slam event of the year, and it looks as if it could be one of the most unpredictable major events in recent years, following this morning's draw.
The grass court swing got underway last weekend with two very popular minor tournaments in London and Halle. Federer, Nadal, Murray, Raonic, Berdych and Wawrinka were all in action as all of the players ramped up their preparations for Wimbledon.
Here are the biggest winners and losers from the first week of grass court play in 2014:
Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka have recently joined the elite group of men who have won a Grand Slam title, Murray's US Open victory in 2012 coming after a streak that saw Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic win 29 of 30 major titles.
In this article I analyse the players looking to be the next to add their names to the illustrious list:
Rome Masters - Friday Round-Up
Four much-anticipated ties took place on Friday with rivalries renewed, breakthroughs made and epic clashes settled.
The quarter-final stage of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia didn't disappoint, and here's a recap of the action, along with some predictions for tomorrow's semi-finals:
We're approaching the business end of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia and there's no shortage of exciting clashes to look forward to on Friday.
Here's my say on today's round three matches, as well as some statistics and predictions for tomorrows quarter-finals:


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If you need to create invoices for your business, you can use one of the many invoice templates found on Office.com. Although these templates are a great starting point, they won't automatically generate unique invoice numbers—you'll need a macro for that.
Excel MVP Bill Jelen graciously offered up a video that demonstrates how to create just such a macro, along with a number of other useful tips. Thank you, Bill!
What's in the video
Here's a breakdown of the overall proccess:
0:15: Find and open an invoice template in Excel.
1:03: Make whatever customizations you like, and then save the invoice template in a file format (.xslm) that is macro-friendly.
- 1:26: Create a macro that automatically 1) increments the invoice number and 2) clears cells on the worksheet so you can start fresh on the next invoice.
3:00: Attach your macro to a shape, so that you can run it easily from the invoice worksheet.
3:44: Create another macro that lets you save a copy of the invoice as a macro-free file (.xslx) with a unique file name.
- 4:33: Attach that second macro to a different shape in the workbook.
4:58: Save the master version of the workbook as a macro-enabled (.xslm) file.
The macro code
If you want to try this yourself, feel free to reuse Bill's VBA code for the two macros.
If you've never used macros before, your copy of Excel may have macros turned off, even for .xlsm file types. To check, use the keyboard sequence ALT+T, M, S to get to macro settings in the Trust Center dialog box. If Disable All Macros without Notification is selected, choose Disable All Macros with Notification instead. If you use this option, Excel prompts you to enable macros each time you open a file that has them.
Macro #1: Generate the next invoice number
Sub NextInvoice()
Range("E5").Value = Range("E5").Value + 1
End Sub
Macro #2: Save invoice with new name
Sub SaveInvWithNewName()
Dim NewFN As Variant
' Copy Invoice to a new workbook
NewFN = "C:aaaInv" & Range("E5").Value & ".xlsx"
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs NewFN, FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbook
End Sub
For more great tips, visit Bill's site, MrExcel.com. Also, if you're new to the concept of VBA and macros, and you'd like to explore further, check out Get started with VBA in Excel 2010 or Create or delete a macro.
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Immigration undergoes a sea change
Posted on October 7, 2011 in Policy Context
Source: Globe & Mail — Authors: Chrystia Freeland
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Published Thursday, Oct. 06, 2011. Chrystia Freeland
Immigration is always a hot issue when an economy is weak and jobs are scarce, so it should be no surprise that it has jumped to the top of the political agenda in Europe and the United States. But much of the debate around these centuries-old themes of us versus them is missing an essential point: In the age of the Internet, the jet plane and the multinational company, the concepts of immigration, citizenship and even statehood are changing.
"This is the new wave, the new trend," Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization, told me. "We had the globalization of trade, we had the globalization of capital, and now we have the globalization of talent."
Mr. Wang recalled that three decades ago, when he first came to North America as a student, there was only one flight a day to China. Today, he said, "there are two or three dozen, if not more."
Instead of immigration being a single journey with a fixed starting point and end point, he said many Chinese have become what he calls "seagulls," going back and forth between San Francisco or Vancouver, and Beijing or Shanghai. He is a seagull himself: he is spending the academic year at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Massachusetts; his institute is in Beijing; and he owns an apartment in Vancouver, where he once lived.
Airplanes and the continent-hopping professional lives they have encouraged are only part of the story. The cheap, instant and often nearly constant communication made possible by the technology revolution has fundamentally altered the experience of moving away from home.
"Because telecommunications is everywhere and is so cheap, people never really leave their communities," Mark Podlasly, founder of the Brookmere Management Group, a Vancouver consulting firm, told me. "You can leave but still have a 24/7 connection with your home community. People are never really gone. You can be a citizen anywhere."
I met Mr. Podlasly at the Banff Forum, an annual gathering of Canadian business people, politicians and scholars, at which he presented research on global expatriate networks as part of a panel discussion of citizenship and immigration. One of his conclusions is that governments and government policy need to catch up with the new reality of immigration.
That is very much the view of Professor Mark Boyle, a migration expert at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. "Citizenship law is struggling to catch up with the new realities of global work," he told me. "It is still based on the notion of a sedentary population, rather than the nomadic population that many of us have become."
One of the biggest shifts is in the thinking about what we used to call brain drain. "Increasingly, immigrants who live elsewhere are being viewed as assets," Prof. Boyle said. "This is a paradigm shift; this is a seismic shift. The notion of brain drain is ridiculed – instead, it is 'brain circulation.' The notion is that people can return as tourists, that people can be ambassadors for their home countries, that people can serve as business agents."
One of the countries that uses its diaspora most effectively, Prof. Boyle says, is India. "India is increasingly looking to its diaspora as an asset," he said. "Many people argue that India's technology development would not have happened without the overseas population, particularly in Silicon Valley. So the government has had to rethink its attitudes to its citizens. India has set up a whole government ministry solely to look after the expat Indians."
Attitudes toward these global citizens can get more complicated in the countries they live and work in, even as they retain their ties and emotional connections to their homeland. The cherished American idea of the melting pot, after all, is largely about cutting ties with the old country.
Some are predicting our concept of citizenship will soon be stretched even further – that we will think of countries as virtual, rather than physical, communities. Prof. Boyle said New Zealand, with its geographical isolation, small population and large number of expatriates, has taken this idea the furthest: "New Zealand is saying that it is at once a small island tucked away from the rest of the world, and at the same time a globally networked nation with populations sprinkled across the globe."
Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.
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S.F. again cast as bastion of the elite in debate over Obama's comments
Talk about strange bedfellows. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, and John McCain, the Republican presumptive nominee, joined forces this week to repeatedly remind voters that Barack Obama was - where else? - in San Francisco when he talked about "bitter" American workers who "cling" to religion and guns out of frustration.
And in the latest 2008 presidential campaign brouhaha, the City by the Bay has again become a potent symbol for that perceived liability of Democratic candidates: a tendency to be flaky, out of touch and entirely too liberal to appeal to Joe Sixpack voters.
Republican commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan huffed on Monday that Obama's comments came "behind closed doors to the Chablis-and-brie set of San Francisco, in response to a question as to why he was not doing better in that benighted and barbarous land they call Pennsylvania."
Obama observed last week to the crowd at developer Alex Mehran's San Francisco home that "you go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and ... the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them."
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," the Illinois senator added in comments that were taped and then revealed days later on the Huffington Post blog.
'S.F. point of view'
Buchanan heatedly dismissed Obama's comments as "the pitch-perfect Hollywood-Harvard stereotype of the white working class, the caricature of the urban ethnic - as seen from the San Francisco point of view."
McCain's camp has echoed that criticism. Steve Schmidt, a top McCain adviser, said in an interview Monday that Obama's words have resonated precisely because they are "very revealing."
"They demonstrate an elitism and a condescension that is breathtaking in its scope - and no matter how far he tries to unwind the damage, the reality is that people all across this country know exactly what he was trying to say," Schmidt said.
"It's not the first time that a very elite liberal who comes from a world of privilege has condescended (to American voters) ... about why people go to church, why they go hunting and based it on an emotion of bitterness," Schmidt said. "He couldn't have shown himself to be more out of touch with how the average Americans views their lives."
Asked if the symbolism of San Francisco - one of the strongest and most liberal Democratic bastions in the nation - played a role, Schmidt said, "Of course it does."
And he suggested that the statements could form the basis of a story line about Obama that could extend far into the fall. "It was a big moment in the campaign, and it will shape the race all the way through - so long as he's running," he said.
Clinton's campaign was equally aggressive about the remarks Monday. It released an ad lambasting Obama for his comments, and both the candidate and her surrogates have pointedly noted in a blizzard of press releases that the words were spoken at an April 11 San Francisco fundraiser that was closed to the press.
Clinton, at an event before the Alliance for Manufacturing Forum in Pittsburgh, noted that "I am well aware that at a fundraiser in San Francisco, he said some things that many people in Pennsylvania and beyond Pennsylvania have found offensive. He was explaining to a small group of his donors what people who live in small towns right here in Pennsylvania are like and why some of you aren't voting for him. But instead of looking at himself, he blamed them."
"I don't think he really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said.
Peter Ragone, a top adviser to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom - a high-profile Clinton supporter - said his own immediate reaction to Obama's remarks was that "it sounds like someone is running for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, not president."
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Ragone said that "the lessons that the Democratic party ... should have learned, is that you have to respect people's cultural experiences in order to get their votes," he said. "And if you can't respect them, you're disqualified in their mind."
In California, he noted, "if Democrats want to win, they have to win in the Central Valley, the Inland Empire and the I-80 corridor. If you truly feel that way about people in those places, you're just not going to get their votes."
But Democratic strategist Garry South said that the efforts - implied or otherwise - by Clinton and McCain to suggest that San Francisco values are at play are echoes of 1984, when Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale and his vice presidential choice, Geraldine Ferraro, were dubbed "San Francisco Democrats" after their party's nominating convention in the city.
The difference is that "when Republicans talk about San Francisco and San Francisco Democrats, they're trying to throw up a message to their conservative quarters about general support for gay rights," said South. "That's what we expect Republicans to do. But we don't really expect fellow Democrats doing that to us," he said.
He warned that the campaign of Hillary Clinton "has got to be careful" in trying to press the current attack.
"If you look at Barack Obama's background, it's hard to argue he's an elitist," he said. "He's the son of a teenage mom whose mother went on food stamps. It's hard to argue he came from a family of means and wealth. ... He didn't make $109 million over the last seven years (like Bill Clinton did)."
South isn't alone among political insiders who say that Clinton's attacks on Obama - and her campaign's repeated reminders of the San Francisco event - might be shortsighted and could even backfire on Democrats.
"The comments he made feeds the perception that Obama is part of the Chardonnay-and-brie wing of the Democratic Party," said Phil Trounstine, who heads the San Jose State University Survey and Policy Research Center. "And he does appeal to that wing of the party. But that's not who he is. That's not his biography and that's not his world view."
So the most shocking part of the whole incident, he said, has been the appearance that "Hillary Clinton wants to ... throw in with the critique from the far right" in appearing to feed the image of an out-of-touch "San Francisco-style Democrat."
It suggests "that the Clintons are so committed to the political tactics that they'll do virtually anything to advance a step without regard for the long term implications," he said. "Most Democrats and most Republicans will not attack their opponent in such a way as to give massive fodder to the other side in the general election."
But "she's just writing the playbook for the Republicans in November ... up until this point, Obama hasn't done that," he said. "That's the difference."


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