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I think my fear of fake relationships might be stopping me from having real relationships - help?
April 6, 2010
Why am I so scared that people are trying to trick me/use me? Is this something you really need to be on guard against all the time or is it irrational thinking?
I don't know why, but for as long as I can remember, I've had this fear that people might just be tricking me into thinking they're my friend/they care about me. As a teenager I used to worry that maybe one of my friends would go "pffft I was just kidding... did you seriously think I liked you and was your friend? hahahahhahaha". Like their being nice to me would turn out to be this big prank that everyone would laugh about later. This made me anxious to get close to people. I'm female and I've always had a lot of male friends and when one of them would hit on me, I'd always feel like they'd faked our friendship just to get sex, even as an adult although I've tried to tell myself that maybe they liked my personality AND found me attractive, but it's still made me second guess things. I still find myself worrying that guys just want to f*ck me so they craft these elaborate friendships/fake relationships with me but are really thinking I'm an idiot getting sucked into their scam, and are laughing about it with their male friends behind my back. Even just writing it out, it sounds kind of ridiculous, I mean, it's a lot of trouble to go to just to sleep with someone who's not bad looking but no supermodel, but I do worry. It makes me a bit on edge with my male friends and very distrustful of anyone I become romantically or sexually involved with. I even get put off one night stands when someone starts talking to me cos I don't want them to think they've tricked me into it. And if I actually do have feelings for someone, I shut them off quick smart if they actually become a viable option, cos I don't want to be an idiot. I tend to assume that anyone I'm dating or who fancies me is only interested in sleeping with me and the rest is a scam to make that happen and that they don't like or respect me as a person, and that if they really respected me they'd just say "I want to f*** you and that's it". This seems silly when I consider that I've had friends I've had a crush on and I still wanted to be their friend even if they didn't feel the same. I enjoy sex a lot so it's not something I need to be tricked into but I hate the feeling of someone thinking they're tricking me more than I hate missing out. To make things worse, I once decided to just "let go" and fell in love with someone, but after a year I discovered that he'd cheated on me. Due to my prior beliefs, this confirmed my fears as I chalked it up to "I got tricked and used and he didn't love me or even like me at all, it was all 100% lies and he basically only asked me to live with him for easily accessible sex" - despite the fact that he spent the next year begging me to give him another chance. Rationally I can tell myself I'm not THAT good looking or amazing in bed that people would go to such elaborate lengths to trick me, but I find it hard to trust that people want anything more than that from me, and I flip out at the first "sign" that they don't care. It feels like as soon as someone is physically attracted to me, it must mean they just see me as a piece of meat. I am trying to tell myself that liking someone as a person and liking someone sexually don't have to be mutually exclusive (as they're not for me!), but kind of failing.
To a smaller extent, I sometimes worry that even platonic friendships might be motivated by someone just wanting to get something from me (besides my friendship) and that the person doesn't really care for me.
I also sometimes think maybe everyone is just doing that to eachother and there's something wrong with me that I can't bring myself to use people at all, even people who aren't nice to me.
When people ask me out I immediately think "oh, so THAT'S why they were being nice to me" and then I feel like they probably aren't really my friend, even if they keep hanging out with me (I tell myself this is so they can maybe try again later). This is hard because I've been asked out by a lot of the guys who go to the same activities I go to and it's always nice at the start making new friends but then I get disappointed when I realise they weren't really my friends after all.
Please help me rationally think my way out of this before I ruin all my friendships and future relationships (unless you really need to tell me that most people are just out to scam people for what they can get). I would actually like a relationship with someone who likes me physically and for my personality but I can't get myself to believe it's possible which makes me act cold and disinterested and like *I'm* only after sex when I'm dating - catch 22.
After writing all this down I guess it might be a self-esteem problem?
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You don't recognize your own value. If you did, you'd see why all these people want to be your friend or your significant other. If you don't get your self-esteem under control, you'll continue to hurt yourself and those people who see what you can't.
posted by
on April 6, 2010
The word is Insecurity. You are not secure in yourself.
you think little of yourself so you distrust anyone who thinks well of you.
This is classic. Everybody feels this way sometimes.
The difference between a feeling and a problem is that a problem takes control and disrupts your life. You're well into problem territory here.
95% of the time, People aren't out to get you. They aren't trying to trick you. The vast majority of people just don't have time/interest to be that duplicitous and malevolent.
Unless you are in middle school, everyone is a lying cheat in middle school.
posted by
French Fry
on April 6, 2010 [
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I have had similar fears in the past. True, this is about self-esteem and insecurity. But it's more than just that. The problem is that once you have these fears, it is very easy to confirm your suspicions:
It feels like as soon as someone is physically attracted to me, it must mean they just see me as a piece of meat.
To a smaller extent, I sometimes worry that even platonic friendships might be motivated by someone just wanting to get something from me (besides my friendship) and that the person doesn't really care for me.
To a certain extent, these statements are both true. Friendship, on a certain level, is based on each person getting something out of the friendship (someone who will listen to you, laugh at your jokes, and say that they understand you or say things that make you feel good). And like it or not, there is an aspect of sex that is about objectification. That's how sex is.
You're right to want more. You're right to expect your friends and potential lovers to truly, actually care about you. What you need to realize is that a friend can care about you, *and* be getting something out of the friendship. Someone asking you out can find you an interesting person who they do (or believe could) care about, *and* a desirable sexual object at the same time.
So you need to relax a bit. Instead of trying to confirm that people are trying to get something from you / seeing you as an object, simply accept that that might be true, and instead try to confirm that they
genuinely care about you as well. That's much more important.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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I have felt exactly the same way, and still do on occasion. I was told 'men only want one thing' as a kid, and I came to believe it.
One of the things that has helped me most- although it was terrifying to hear- was this:
So what
if a man uses you? What if he lies to you and tricks you and breaks your heart? Will you lie down and die? No. You'll be angry and sad and you'll move on with your life. I was raised to fear being used so much that I never really thought about what it meant. But really... it doesn't mean anything!
The only way to have a satisfying relationship is to open yourself up to the possibility of being hurt. And being hurt isn't the end of the world.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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Therapy could help you with this.
posted by
Obscure Reference
on April 6, 2010 [
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Well, here's the thing: part of the reason this belief may be so hard to shake is that, in fact, in some cases it IS true. Back when you first started having these feelings--in school--there were in fact people your age who did play the, "ha ha, we just pretended to like you to be mean" game. If you hang out with people who never grew up as an adult, you might still be exposed to variations on this kind of relational bullying, two faced behavior, etc. As well, there are in fact men out there who will pretend to be your friend just to try to manipulate you into sex, people who will act chummy to try to use you for personal or professional gain, etc. So you can't honestly tell your brain, "that would never happen! I can trust and take everyone at face value!" What will work will be to learning to identify and celebrate all the times you HAVEN'T gotten burned, and continue to develop the skills and boundaries to identify healthy people and relationships and avoid the stinkers.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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It would really, really be worth it for you to sit down and work with a professional to
change those beliefs
. The mental filters you wrote about, and which you have or had been using for a long time are not useful to you now, and would be far less useful if you even tried to use them in the future, so now is the time to put them into the past, and now is the time to imagine how different and better your life will be... once you look back, and see you've put those old, mistaken, tiny beliefs into the distant past.
Did you ever have a dress that you wore when you were a child, that maybe felt comfortable for you and looked right on you, way back when? Fortunately, you now know not even to bother trying to wear that-- it's just not you.
If you were to write about it, the very fact that you can examine it, and write about it, would tell you now that you know it's just not you. If you were to write in an email to a friend, or a diary, that this might not be appropriate for you-- well, the whole concept would strike you as silly, and inside, you'd laugh about it. It's just not you, not anymore.
So sit down with a professional, and have her or him help you recognize the ways in which your old beliefs about your value had been limited and distorted, and how good it feels to really, honestly see all the perspectives from which other people have genuinely seen you as worthwhile... and even really, really, worth knowing. Writing about it all later-- perhaps in an email, perhaps in a note to yourself, perhaps just in your mind-- you'll probably begin to notice how good it can feel to fully enjoy recognizing all the ways people have wanted to show how much they value you... and accepting this, you can feel perfectly comfortable in asking less
Who's using whom?
What am I enjoying, right now?
The first question has no answer, and is therefore not a good question to use; the second question only you can answer, and the more you ask it, the more you will find yourself guided to experiencing more and more of what you want to experience.
posted by
on April 6, 2010
I liked what everyone said above, but I also just wanted to add one more thing. It was pointed out to me in the past, that usually when I suspect people of something its often because I do that very same thing myself. For example, if I suspect people of being dishonest it is because I might have an honesty problem. So in addition to the recommendations of working on self esteem and therapy, perhaps looking at how you do this very same thing in your own relationships and working on that area might offer you some insight.
posted by
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Everybody I know has these worries. In fact, realizing that everybody worries about this is comforting in and of itself.
That said, it's a bit silly, for a number of reasons. (Hopefully that's comforting too.)
You need to disavow yourself of this social belief that people only ever want one thing. We like to simplify things, we masses, until there's one core intent in every person's heart. But it doesn't work like that. We think of and want fifteen things a second. They're all contradictory and no one thing defines us or our relationships.
I'm a college-age male, and I sometimes feel really worried about the reverse of what you're worried about. I'll talk to a girl and worry if I really like her or if I'm trying to use her. And all these thoughts exist. Guys do think about girls' bodies and about scoring and about flirting. But they also think about their personalities and lives and thoughts and hopes and dreams. And when all these thoughts cram together, we make choices about what we say and what we do, and then sometimes pretend that the things we say are in fact the only things we think. But they're not.
So, in a queer way, you'll find that the more you trust what somebody shows on their surface, the more reliable a judgment you're getting of them. Because for all they think these hundreds of things about you, the things they show you are the things they decide are worth showing. All the other things, they're there; they'll rise up on odd days; if you go probing for any of them you'll probably find them; but them existing is not the same as them being some dark ulterior motive.
You know the whole "that's not a bug, it's a feature" line? That's how I see guy-girl attractions.
It's absolutely true that given a choice between making a new guy friend and making a new girl friend, I lean towards the latter. It's not a huge bias, but certainly it exists, and the reason for that is definitely that I'm physically attracted to girls and not guys.
But that doesn't equate to my being a big sack of lust trying to seduce everything in sight. It's just that I'm capable of entering more types of relationships with a girl than with a guy.
When a guy you're friends with asks you out, don't think of it as the culmination of your friendship. Think of it as a second, overlapping set of feelings. He is friends with you AND (not OR) wants to ask you out. So when somebody does, go, "Oh! That's sweet of him," tell him that, turn him down if you want, and most of the time you'll go on being friends with him. Even though he's not dating you he's still got a friend, so he wins! Feature, not bug.
(It took me a long time to realize this. I felt wracked with guilt over the girls I loved but also asked out, like my asking them out was a violation of our friendships. It wasn't. I kept being friends with them; we both were aware of my attractions but it never dominated or spoiled the friendship. A few times those friendships turned into dates, and when it did it was a pleasant surprise, and when it didn't it mattered not.)
This is going to sound weird, but you have to remember that you're not important enough to be manipulated.
Nobody cares about you enough to spend months and years forming a Machiavellian friendship with you only to twist a dagger in your side. Unless you've murdered somebody's father, nobody's passionate enough about you to keep up a facade.
Possibly that guy you only met today is only into you for your looks. If you're still talking to him after a week, it's less likely. If you're talking to him a month or two from now, chances are he likes you. It's not worth an incredible effort to seduce somebody and break their heart.
Pick-up artists preach this. They say that if you're trying to pick up a girl, you don't hammer at somebody who's clearly not into you. You go until you find somebody where there's a spark and a mutual attraction. And if pick-up artists, who encapsulate the shallowest and slimiest people, aren't spending more than a few minutes building a facade to get into your pants, then chances are nobody else is faking it either.
For what it's worth, I find personally that it's really hard even to fake a basic interest in somebody. Even if the only effort I need is as much as it takes to smile politely and nod for fifteen minutes a week, two months in I'm making every effort to avoid that person and find somebody I'm actively interested in. It's a timesink, and the only people who get involved in such fakery are sociopathic. And if you ever
meet a sociopath, and I've met several, then just remind yourself sharply that you're not a sucker for believing them, but rather that that other person is pathetic and irrational.
Good luck.
posted by
Rory Marinich
on April 6, 2010 [
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You seem to be very disturbed when guys eventually ask you out after being friends, saying that they were just using you for sex. Well, not really. There are easier ways to get sex. There is a natural progression of romantic relationships here that you seem to mistrust and mischaracterize. If I was hanging out with a guy and he was cool and fun, I'd want to ask him out too. Because I'm a sex fiend who lured him into believing I actually enjoyed his company? No! It was the coolness that made me interested romantically. It's a feature, not a bug.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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Ahh, and
Rory Marinich
used the "feature not bug" thing as well.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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Have people betrayed you in the past? I had to get over this fear and insecurity myself and I was able to mostly overcome it in college where relationships take on a level of maturity, in general, and petty childish meanness is less common. I really link the cause of some of that insecurity to my Dad's alcoholism. He was mostly distant and cold to us and would accuse me of terrible things that I had not done -- these were his fears of things that could happen to his daughter. Think along the lines of "boys only want you for one thing" kind of nonsense. Sometimes he would really start feeling sorry for himself -- sorry that he had alienated his family, sorry that he had a drinking problem, sorry that his own expectations of life were dashed, whatever. And he'd come around and be really sweet and caring and want me to tell him how much I loved him. I'd feel hopeful and then realize he'd been drinking. He just wanted validation. The very next day he'd be right back to his surly, grumpy games and that really felt like a terrible betrayal. It wasn't until I was an adult and he had for the most part overcome this particular demon that I was able to see the true nature of him as a caring and sensitive guy.
I can't say that I connected this behavior with my insecurity until some time later but I know it was a contributing factor. If you can't get over this insecurity yourself then it seems like talking it over with a professional is a good idea. I suspect there are some incidents in your past that contributed to your current state of mind but in any case, it's a terrible affliction and I wish you the best in conquering it. I really like Showbiz_liz's take on addressing it. Try that out and see if it works for you.
posted by
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What particular incidence in your life made you feel this way? Sure we all have insecurity and mistrust but this is pretty impactful and must have stemmed from something because it validated your feelings so profoundly that you carry it to anyone.
posted by
on April 6, 2010
As a teenager I used to worry that maybe one of my friends would go "pffft I was just kidding... did you seriously think I liked you and was your friend? hahahahhahaha". Like their being nice to me would turn out to be this big prank that everyone would laugh about later.
This actually happened to me. And yes, it can screw with your worldview. But don't forget, one event does not prove the rule. For the relatively small crowd of people who actually perpetrated this on me years ago, there have been countless others who did not behave this way towards me.
That's the thing I keep perpetually at the front of my mind, now. One asshole does not define all of humanity.
Another thing to do - turn this around in your head as a thought experiment. Do you approach your relationships with "only one thing in mind"? Of course not. So why assume others do it?
posted by
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Sadly, I've found that most people who are immediately friendly (beyond just surface-level niceness) really are usually just out to get something from you. As a woman, I've found that most men who are friendly towards me have sexual ulterior motives, and most women are usually seeking to mooch off me in some way or only being fake-nice to my face but catty bitches behind my back. The world is full of users and fakes.
It was disheartening how many of my male "friends" instantly disappeared when I got married, and how hard it's been to make new male friends as a married woman. Meanwhile, most (95%+) of the men who do still want to be "friends" with a married woman have turned out to be creeps. So while there are a few men out there who genuinely want friendships with women, they seem to be a tiny minority. (A minority that seems to be disproportionately represented on MetaFilter -- hooray for the men of MetaFilter! -- so don't take the inevitable surge of replies from men saying they're not like that as a representative sample of male motivations.)
So, I've become super cautious about not getting emotionally invested in people too quickly. There is hope -- I've formed a couple of work friendships with married male coworkers, and after a year and a half of them not hitting on me (or even giving me the slightest vibe that they were interested) I'm pretty sure that their friendships are genuine. However, it's also clear that the friendships are context-specific and that we probably wouldn't remain friends if either of us stopped working here.
You might have better luck making friends with gay men -- no sexual ulterior motives and no female/female competition dynamic. (Sigh... now I really miss my fabulous gay friends in Seattle.)
That reminds me of another thing -- levels of fakeness/realness seem to vary by region. I'm from Seattle/Bellingham but currently live in Las Vegas. It was much easier making genuine friendships with ethical people in the Seattle/Bellingham area, whereas Las Vegas seems to be full of creeps, losers, users, addicts, con artists, and superficial people. There are some good people in Vegas but they've all been burned so many times themselves that they're generally reticent about making new friends too and thus it's really slow going.
Sorry I don't have any magic solutions, but I wanted to let you know that you're not alone, and that my personal experience suggests that you're justified in feeling this way about people. My advice is be cautious and maintain a high level of skepticism about anyone who is too friendly too soon (do they have an ulterior motive? and what's wrong with them that they have so much free time for a new friend -- why don't they have any old friends?). The people who take longer to warm up to you and fit you into their lives are usually the ones more worth knowing.
Good luck!
posted by
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"Nobody cares about you enough to spend months and years forming a Machiavellian friendship with you only to twist a dagger in your side. Unless you've murdered somebody's father, nobody's passionate enough about you to keep up a facade."
Or they're a sociopath and they get off on that sort of thing. Given that
about 1 in 25 people are sociopaths
, we all get burned by one eventually.
posted by
on April 6, 2010 [
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Echoing what heatherly said, you might want to take another look at to what extent you are using this thing as an excuse to get what you want, in a way that prevents you from directly admitting what it is that you really want.
In some ways it sounds like a big
it's not you, it's me
excuse which has metastasized.
I'm not saying that you don't need a slimeball detector, but you seem to be trying to prove things to yourself about how it can't be this or that. But trust me, brains love to kid themselves. If you want to believe you're a nice person, you'll be nice to person B just to prove that what you did to person B was done out of niceness. Even if being nice to person B is actually a little painful. Hell, especially if it is.
The next time this problem seems to be causing you pain, try to just think clearly about what it is that you really want, and what you want the direct outcome to be.
posted by
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(Er, to prove what was done to person
was done out of niceness.)
posted by
on April 6, 2010
even if
1 in 25 people actually had a profoundly dysfunctional mental disorder.
96% of the people you know and meet wouldn't.
posted by
French Fry
on April 6, 2010
I don't think it's a self-esteem problem, and I think
is on to something. Maybe for you, other people manipulating you is a displaced, inverted version of you manipulating other people. That doesn't mean you are secretly a ruthless manipulator, but it might mean you are afraid of becoming that. Doesn't it seem like people want to be lied to, that our standard for good interpersonal behavior means shielding others from the truth? It seems like to be ethical (treating other people well) you have to be unethical (manipulate them).
A second possible projection is that your own interest in sex is threatening to you for some reason. Maybe your fear that they are only interested in you for sex is the return of your repressed anxiety that you are (or you are afraid you are) only interested in sex, which may (or may not) be just another version of the fear of manipulating people. Using someone for sex is similar to manipulating someone, in that you are objectifying them and relating to them as something to control, not as another person with feelings, free will, etc. like you, which is maybe another ethical problem for you.
But, your thinking makes a lot of sense to me. Someone who mainly wants sex would conceal that by pretending to care about you and respect you. The person who really cares about you wouldn't play these games, they would respect you by telling you the truth: "I just want to fuck you." At least they aren't condescending to you by manufacturing some fake feelings because they think you need to be fooled, saying between the lines: "I just want sex, but I'll pretend I love you so that you don't have to worry that people might think you are a slut." It seems like what you're saying is, if you want to get a girl in bed, you should lie and tell her you love her; and if you want a relationship, you should do the opposite, tell her that you just want to get her in bed, which signals that you like her and respect her enough to not deceive her, which should be read between the lines as wanting a relationship.
Unfortunately, I agree with Jacqueline that by your standards, most people are manipulators. Except that by cultural standards, they are nice, ethical people, not sociopaths. We think nice people give others want they want, without realizing that this entitles them to take something in return.
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"well even if 1 in 25 people actually had a profoundly dysfunctional mental disorder.
96% of the people you know and meet wouldn't."
But the 4% who do can and will hurt you bad enough that it's reasonable to be cautious of everyone until they prove themselves trustworthy. Most people won't rob your house either, but you still lock your door.
posted by
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My ex had this problem and was constantly on guard for people using him. He constantly judged his friends and associates as users and bad people because they were participating in what I saw as the normal give and take of friendship.
My response to him and to myself when this form of insecurity rears its ugly head is "What does it matter?"
If you assume you're right and everyone is out to use you, what does it matter? What have you lost if someone is nice to you because they want something? If you give them the something that they want, what have you lost? Some time? Some cash? Maybe a bit of your heart? All of that, while painful to lose, is intangible and can be replaced.
Personally, I look at it this way, so what if they are using me? So what if they want sex or whatever? If I'm willing to give it, then it's mine to give not theirs to take. If I'm not willing to give it, then they don't get it. No loss. In the end, it makes life far more pleasant to not be concerned about getting used and just understand that in most relationships there is a give and take. If you feel like you are giving more than you are getting, it is your right to walk away, but until then you can enjoy a connection with another human that may be more important than you realize.
My ex never got that. That's why he's an ex. I may be too open, I may get burned over and over again but by God I'm not going to let that make me afraid of being nice and friendly to people and being a good friend. But that's just a personal call.
posted by
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I felt like this for most of my teenage years only to eventually realize no one else had a clue and they all had the same fears and were mostly obsessing about themselves, not trying to trick me. I also finally came to the realization: so what? What if they did?
If they continue to pretend, all is well and I have lots of "fake" friends who seem real. If they suddenly stop, well, that would suck, but I could get over it. If they don't, well, I can't tell the difference and therefore, probably no one else can either so all is good, I have friends as real as anyone for all anyone can tell.
Also, it turns out that if you act as if you believe something for long enough, you start to believe it-- so even if people are faking at first, they will probably eventually actually like you if they keep it up.
There's a saying "Other people's feelings about you are none of your business," and if you can get yourself to believe that, it will solve a lot of this problem. Just treat others as you'd like to be treated and what's "real" and "what's fake" really won't come into it and really isn't determinable anyway.
Also, antidepressants tend to be quite good at shutting off this particular obsession.
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Norway providing a helpful reminder of the benefits of free trade in goods, without it heavily subsidized dairy producers can actually run out of butter. well played, Norway
Norway has a goal of having a farm sector. The reason is to protect the landscape, but also as a security measure in case of a major catastrophe. The current financial crisis should be a reminder that Black Swans happen, and the hunt for maximum efficiency decreases the ability to deal with unexpected situations.
A bad summer created the butter shortage, and even a private market would be unable to suddenly create more cows to produce more milk. And in a totally free market, little mountainous Norway would be immediately out-competed. There would be NO butter produced in the country.
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BMW MOA Board Teleconference Minutes
Present: Paul Glaves, President; Jim Shaw, Vice President; Rob Lentini, Treasurer; Deb Lower, Secretary; Directors Matt Parkhouse, George Glascock, Don Hamblin, Ted Verrill; Ed Youngblood, Consultant; Sandy Cohen, Managing Editor; Marilyn Roberts, Executive Assistant, Tammy Leuthauser, Office Manager. Not on the conference call, Director Tom Harbrecht.
Paul Glaves opened the meeting by stating that this conference call was called within the 30 days required by the By-laws. The following topics would be covered: 1) Ed Youngbloods preliminary report, 2) Executive search, 3) Publications Committee item on CD-Rom Projects, 4) Operations Committee policy item on staff development and training.
CD-ROM Project. MOTION by Don Hamblin, second by Rob Lentini to table the CD-ROM project indefinitely. Voice vote: 7 yes. Motion passed.
Paul will work with Marilyn and Tammy to get a list of the individuals who supplied their copies of the BMW Owners News to the project. Don will draft a letter, which the office will mail, to those who have contributed, and Don will also draft a reply that can be used to answer email inquiries. A notification of this action will be put in the BMW Owners News.
MOTION by Rob Lentini, second by Deb Lower to give a $25 gift certificate redeemable for Country Store merchandise or for National Rally registration to those who were promised a free copy of the CD-ROM for their donation of magazines. Voice vote: 7 yes. Motion passed.
Staff Development and Training Policy MOTION by Jim Shaw, second by Deb Lower to amend the BMW MOA Employee handbook to add the following item on Staff Development/Training:
Staff development/training and associated time away from office to participate in the approved training is compensated by BMW MOA. Compensated training is defined as courses to support job skill development in current position. BMW MOA does not intend to pay for tuition to obtain an initial or advanced degree. Further, BMW MOA does not compensate for time away from the office to attend classes not approved by supervisor, or, upon request of the supervisor, by the Board of Directors, as staff development/training. Voice vote: 7 yes. Motion passed.
Ed Youngbloods preliminary report Ed will provide a more thorough state of the organization report at the next board meeting. At the meeting he will provide the Board with statistics and numbers that will put BMW MOA in context with other organizations and will walk the board through the 1995 and 1996 Drake reports, which he considers well done and useful. Ed encouraged the board to review the Drake reports before the next board meeting. Ed is not prepared to make clear recommendations at the present time, and he also prefers to do it face-to-face. The new executive director may play a role in some of Eds recommendations, so some recommendations may need to be delayed.
Rob commented on the executive director salary range/recommendations given in Eds report. Ed preferred that the board ignore the higher range, as not representative of our organization, and give consideration to the middle figure or the low figure. Rob will work with Marilyn, Tammy and Nancy to determine what the budget will support and where we might have to back off on the budget.
Paul appointed three individuals to serve on an executive search committee. MOTION by Rob Lentini, second by Jim Shaw that Jim Shaw, Matt Parkhouse and Deb Lower are appointed as the three members of an ad hoc committee for the purposes of recruitment and selection of the executive officer.
Discussion on the motion clarified the role of the new committee for structuring the search process and preparing a report for the board. The committee is an advisory committee only, not a decision making committee. The committee will work closely with Ed, and office help will be available to the committee. Jim stressed that all input be confidential to the board but made available to any board member who wants to see it; the appearance of elitism must be avoided. The board as a whole will make key decisions. Paul asked the committee to refine the February 24 Operations Committee report and to be as far into the process as possible by the April board meeting. Jim was designated as the committee chair.
Voice vote: 7 yes. Motion passed.
Other concerns were addressed as Paul stated that the new executive director would be an employee, not an outside contractor. Decisions will be made with legal counsel, including decisions about an employment agreement or employment contract. Concerning the committees travel budget, Rob will look at the BMW MOA budget and draw money from strategic planning. George expressed concern that a future board may come in and destroy all that this board has done, and that there will not be any continuity. Ed will have some recommendations relative to that concern.
Investment Escape Options Rob requested guidance from Ed for input by the April board meeting for a smart strategy in the event that the market goes sour. Rob had previously given a strategy outline to Ed and Paul for their input.
Staff Authority Level Marilyn asked for clarification of the level of authority that she and Tammy have. Pauls guidance was to move forward where they feel comfortable, ask for board help when they dont; make recommendations backed by facts; and follow policies.
Presidents Column Paul will offer the Presidents Column space to any committee chair that would like to use it.
Office topics Tammy asked about the feasibility of purchasing computer software to use in processing credit card charges. The existing charge machine is old and time consuming, but it would be kept for backup and for use at the national rally. It was suggested that Tammy ask Teds opinion (Ted had hung up his phone and was no longer participating in the teleconference) and buy it if he okays it.
Tammy asked about renewal form redesign as it pertains to a vendor who wants to print more even though we have a 4-month supply. Board members questioned the need, cost and authorization for the revised renewal form. Ed said there are bigger issues in the renewal process than form design and that he will be recommending proposals in this area. Tammy was instructed to work out the issues with Paul and Rob.
MOTION made by Jim Shaw and second by George Glascock) to adjourn. Motion passed.
Executive Search Committee members: Jim, Matthew, Deb and Ed stayed on the conference call to confirm plans for preparing materials for the April Board meeting.
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Rumor ControlMisinformation AboundsSo the general purpose of this journal is twofold; for one I really need to get the old journal from September put away since it's truly out of date now that it is nearly April and the second reason is that there is a lot of misinformation floating about and being spread about what you can or can't do and this misinformation is sometimes causing tickets to be sent into our customer support center which amounts to a waste of staff time and resources.Some of the information is old and based on the way things used to work and what we used to advise or allow and some of it is just downright wrong and based on stuff people that people want to be true but which isn't.Please NoteBecause people love to quote from staff journals, staff news articles as well as the FAQ and any other official source they can I'm leading off with the disclaimer that what I am writing here today applies to policy as it is currently written- if you are reading this and it's six months, a ye
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Spreading the dA Love: Vol. 5Welcome to the 5th volume of Spreading the DA Love:iconGoldendAplz::iconGoldendAplz:As the title suggests, this news article series aim to promote wonderful aspects of the deviantART community, from showcasing beautiful works of art, to informing you of great groups, and to interviewing inspirational deviants. I feel so happy being part of such a wonderful community and I hope to make it better, even if it's only a little bit, by making these articles. My goal is to bring to light everything that impassions me and, hopefully, inspire you!=======================================================Showcasing Gorgeous Artwork=======================================================Here I will showcase art that has simply left me speechless from all genres, from digital/traditional, artisan, emoticons, fractals, etc. :thumb2513711
Vigilante Oriented GroupsWhen the deviantART Groups system launched in beta nearly two years ago we fully expected it to become home to a large variety of Groups centered around every subject possible and that is exactly what has happened and we are really encouraged to see so many embracing the Groups concept and coming together around these common topics to share their thoughts and works.Today we'd like to discuss a certain type of Group which often comes to our attention, and not always in a good way; the "vigilante" style Group.For those who may not be familiar with these types of Groups, what we call a "vigilante" Group are those which are created and centered around gathering deviants together to encourage the reporting of rule breakers and members who may be in violation of one or more official policies.While gathering together in order to promote following the rules is not a bad thing there are good and bad ways for these types of Groups to operate; We always appre
Devious Minds: FallenUmbraDiscovering what makes us devious.FallenUmbrella :iconFallenUmbra: FallenUmbrella has requested that random works from her favorites be featured instead of her works.How did you first discover deviantART? I never knew about the internet until I was about 7 or 8 years old, where I would just play games on there once in a while. When I was about 11, I browsed around the internet a little more often, and ended up reading fanfiction of some movies and TV shows . I looked at some of the profiles of authors, and some linked their dA accounts. I browsed around that deviantART for a short time and dismissed it as nothing.Shortly after turning 13, my English teacher made my class participate in the National Novel Writing Month where I typed my fingers off over 21,000 words and became an active member in the forums. After almost one year, someone posted a thread about deviantART. I visited this wonderful community again, an
Emote Bookmark Project (20)A couple of days i uploaded a Emote Bookmark of my OC Syn and the response to it has been far more positive than i ever thought it would be. i've had numerous people mention how they have or want to make one themselves and people have really taken up the idea. So after talking to a few fellow emoticonists, i decided i'd make a project out of these bookmarks.How do i make one?Its actually really simple and straight forward to make one yourself. There are a couple of different ways to make the base of the bookmark, each of which are easy to complete even for the less paper-craft experienced deviant. The tutorial can be found on this page, so check it out:Tutorial linkHow do i enter the project?Simply send me a link in a note or comment (preferably on this journal) and i'll add the journal. All of the entries will be displayed here though i may make them into a big canvas at a later date (depending on time and how thin
dA Staff Appreciation Interview: chix0r:iconchix0r:Hello fourteenthstar How is life on and off dA?- Life is very busy, but that's good What first bought you to deviantart, and what made you stay?- Wallpapers! I lurked around for a while before finally opening an account. The community are what made me stay -- there's no other like it.What do you think of the community?- Like I said before, there's no other like it. You can connect with so many people from all over the world, different types of artists and art appreciators. There's something for everyone.How do you feel about dASAW?- I think it's a great example of how awesome our community is. Everyone in the community operations team came from the community, it's a requirement when applying for any job in the department. We love that deviants like to show their love for the community and that they encourage others to appreciate that staff aren't just here because they have a job to do, but that they too appreciate and love the
Quolia's Showcase: Vol. I:iconlovelaplz:Quolias Showcase: Vol. I:iconlovelaplz:Welcome to the 1st volume of Quolias Showcase! The goal of this series is to bring to light a deviant with amazing artistic talents, enormous community spirit, or overall wonderful to get to know. I hope to spread positivity & some good old dA lovin by sharing with you various members of our amazing community!In my first volume, I wish to share with you one of my all-time favorite traditional artists here on dA :iconjoyloveplz::iconLovesPlz: Ebineyland :iconLovesPlz::iconstardivider1plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider2plz::iconstardivider3plz:This is the first work I saw of Ebineylands. What really struck me was not the amazing fantasy theme & beautiful choice of colors, but the fact that this
So i herd u liek emotes?? - Volume 125Welcome to the latest volume of so i herd u liek emotes??. This is the 125th volume in a fortnightly series aimed towards promoting emote and emoticonists from the dA community. It features emotes posted within the past few weeks from both well known and new emoticonists, as well as featuring emote projects, contests and news. Featured Emoticons 1. Hanging on by Indae is an amusing little scene and a fun variation on a contest theme. I love the details packed into the background especially the awesome water effect. Small additions like the eyepatch and emoticon expressions just add to the whole feel of the scene giving a great atmosphere.2. Its hard to take your eyes of Boing by horber95. The flawless shading, adorable expression and smooth animation just make the emoticon flow and easily capture your attention.3. Being terrified of spiders myself i absolutely love Man
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Professor Julia I. Smith, PhD, has published "Development of the Biology Card Sorting Task to Measure Conceptual Expertise in Biology" in Life Sciences Education. The paper, which is the cover story of the journal's December issue, is the result of a collaborative research effort among Holy Names University, Northeastern University, and the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory at San Francisco State University. Six HNU undergraduates co-authored the article.
"We present the development of a novel assessment tool, the Biology Card Sorting Task, designed to probe how individuals organize their conceptual knowledge of biology," Smith said. "Results suggest that the task is robust in distinguishing populations of biology experts and novices, and represents a useful tool for probing emerging biology conceptual expertise."
As there is currently no method for measuring conceptual expertise in biology, the Biology Card Sorting Task (BCST) fills a long-standing gap in the assessment of undergraduate students. Policy makers, funding agencies, science departments, and individual biology educators will be able to use the BCST to make informed decisions about programmatic and curricular improvements.
Smith says that the students who participated in the writing of the paper were afforded a firsthand look into scientific process.
"Too often in biology, undergraduate course curricula emphasize facts over process. Participation in scholarly research projects provides students with firsthand experience in the process of science," she said. "They gain a deeper appreciation for the primary literature because they are involved in the process of making it, not just reading it. Scholarly research is an inquiry-based learning experience and, as such, fosters the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills."
She says that this type of project can also help students clarify their career goals and learn how to strike a balance between independent and collaborative work.
Adrian Peer, a 2011 graduate and one of the students who participated in the project, said that working with Smith and classmates helped prepare him for graduate school. "I was able to see first hand what goes into an academic study at the post-graduate level while I was still an undergrad. I was extremely thankful for that early exposure when I entered my master's program at UC Davis after completing my bachelor's degree at HNU," he said.
Life Sciences Education is a publication of The American Society for Cell Biology. Click here to read Smith's paper.


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text: In research this week Japanese surgeons report very good outcomes when lung tumors from colorectal cancer tumors can be completely removed, colonoscopies done in the morning find more polyps, and high levels of vitamin D in the blood predict better survival after colorectal cancer diagnosis. US life expectancy reached a record high in 2007 according to the CDC. A veteran treated at the Miami VA Health Center is suing the US government because of HIV infection allegedly contracted during a colonoscopy.


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Featuring 3 Russian steam baths, tennis court and fishing pond, this hotel is located on the Seliger lakeside close to Gorodets village. It offers a private farm and accommodation with free Wi-Fi. Each room or cottage at Eco Hotel Noviy Kovtcheg is decorated in a country style and includes a flat-screen TV. All have a fridge, and bathrooms come with a haird...
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Guest house "Sosnica" At the edge of a great bank of the Upper Volga on Lake Seliger, some 70 kilometers from the town of Ostashkov summer of 2007, opened its doors to the guest house "Sosnica." Guest house "Sosnica" located in the heart of the old Russian village, thus as a dipping all coming here in an atmosphere of calm and serenity, and the distanc...
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Searching for bed and breakfast accommodation in Ostashkov? Take a closer look at Botovo! You can find an outdoor tennis court and a steam room on site so you will be able to take some time out to relax. Wake up to a nice breakfast or enjoy an evening meal at this 3 star Ostashkov bed & breakfast as it has its own restaurant. If you want low-key dining optio...
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This hotel lies in Petrikovo Village on Lake Sig. Indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court and an indoor skating rink are among the numerous facilities offered at SDL Park Hotel. The bright, rustic-style rooms and cottages feature warm-coloured, wooden interiors. Each room comes with a flat-screen TV, a refrigerator and a private bathroom with free toiletri...
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Set in the rural place on the Seliger Lakeside, 54 km from Ostashkov town, Vershina Seligera Resort features Russian steam bath and fishing facilities. Guests are also offered a private beach and rustic-style rooms. Every room at Vershina Seligera includes wooden furnishings and a minibar. Bathrooms come with a bidet and hairdryer. Traditional Russian dish...
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Over the last few days a story has been spread like wildfire of former NFL Receiver Terrell Owens begging for a contract from the Los Angeles Clippers this summer. The report came from Clippers forward Blake Griffin when he appeared on the Dan Patrick Show and said that Terrell was begging Clippers coaches for a ten day contract. But Owens has since denied that claim, and his publicist released a statement regarding the report, via BlackSportsOnline. Blake and Terrell are friends. The quote pulled from "The Dan Patrick Show" was taken completely out of context and subsequently made a great headline but is untrue. Terrell never begged to become a Clipper. He is a huge fan of the Clippers and of Blake's. And as everyone knows, he can play a serious game of ball. When Blake was asked if there were any football players that he thought could play in the NBA, he named Terrell Owens and Calvin Johnson. It is not surprising that Terrell was at their practice facility this summer. One of his best friend's, Jason Powell, is the head trainer for the Clippers. Diana Bianchini, publicist for Terrell Owens I don't think that called for a statement to be released, but take it as you will. Griffin says it happened, Owens says it didn't. The post Terrell Owens denies begging for Clippers Contract appeared first on DOWN & DISTANCE.
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My friend once went off on a tangent while discussing how a Portishead concert resonated in her body. She told me of an experiment conducted by the military where psychologists discovered a tone that, when played, made the study subjects shit their pants. I was inspired.
This is a collection of the music that soundtracks my life and moves me... in my soul, not my bowels.
The 'widowmaker' claimed another victim. I sat in the bar at the base of Mount Baker and nursed my wounds. Ice pack on my knee, ice pack on my hip, beer in my hand. Tunes filled the room, this song played, and then the stereo fell silent.
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The UpTake: It's hard to tell where the fun ends and the work begins with the man in charge of this new Google Projects. Which is just the way we like.
L ong before Johnny Chung Lee was taking moonshots with Google as part of their experimental Google X labs, he built a 25-foot tall paint-balloon slingshot. With the help of teams of four that stretched its massive bungee chords to the limit, he pelted an 18-story apartment building with paint filled projectiles careening through the air at 80 miles an hour.
You could say he's been thinking outside the box for a while. But it's his newest venture spearheading Project Tango, Google's effort to create 3D motion capture for mobile devices, that has him in the news.
Lee is project lead for Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP, which just so happens to also stand for All Things Are Possible). The team's Project Tango is working to build mobile devices that sense and map the three-dimensional world around them. Yesterday they released tablet development kits for the 7" tablet powered by the new NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor.
"We are physical beings that live in a 3D world," Lee said in a video announcing the project. "Yet mobile devices today assume that the physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen. Our goal is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion."
In 2007, while still a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, Lee hacked Nintendo's Wii to give it sensitivity capable of detecting fingertips—something San Francisco-based Leap Motion raised $30 million to do five years later. He also created an interactive whiteboard and head-tracking technology using the Wii, according to a Gizmodo report.
Lee pulled off the paint-balloon stunt in May 2005 for a public art installation in Pittsburgh as part of his personal venture called Little Big Ideas, LLC. It's just one of several imaginative side projects that man in charge of Google's new 3D technology initiative has contributed to in the past. There's his Poor Man's Stabilizer, a $14 camera stabilizer that long ago sold out; an instrument and voice recording operation, "perfect for demo recordings and budget musicians," according to his page; video production services; or if you'd prefer he's into photography too, "for professional, commercial, personal or creative purposes."
Michael earned his BA from Mercer University, along the way excavating a Roman bathhouse with the American School of Archaeology. Plus, he provided security at Oxford University, where he also studied literature and philosophy. He earned his MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism while training for and running in the New York marathon.
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The silence of early Christmas morning. I took this around 8am in transit to Midway Airport for a flight back home to Phoenix.
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The Clean Bin Project
Posted on 07. Oct, 2011 by Sandra in Community, Family
Last week (or the week before?) when I was nursing a wicked cold and looking after sick kids while Chris was working in Kamloops, a truck pulled up into our driveway. It was our friend Marcia, with the TNRD, and she had two folks with her who wanted to see the earthship. I'm always game to show the house but I have to confess I was not at my best.
I walked everyone through it (I'm not even sure Marcia had ever seen it; we met her throught the BCSEA Sustainability conference in Kamloops many years ago). My head was stuffed and pounding, my nose was running, my eyes were red and I generally felt like crap. The couple asked me if I was going to the screening of a film in Clearwater that night and I quickly answered in the negative. Yuck, I felt awful. I was told by the gentleman (Grant) that it was the funniest documentary in a long time, to which I eyed him and asked if he was the filmmaker…I'm not sure I registered his answer at the time.
After a little nap, I googled the documentary and it turns out that the couple (Grant and Jen) were not only the filmmakers but were the stars of the documentary, and it was a film both Chris and I had wanted to see. Chris, unbeknownst to me, was planning to go without me anyway. After a bit of an evaluation of my illness I decided that my virus and it's potential to infect others probably could be dismissed in view of my desire not to miss all the fun.
The documentary , The Clean Bin Proejct, http://cleanbinproject.com/ was truly wonderful (here is the trailer http://vimeo.com/3301133 ), and Grant was only slighly exaggerating that it was the funniest documentary…
I was able to introduce Chris to them before the screening, apologize for my lack of enthusiasm earlier in the day, and we all had a good chat about zero waste, zero consumption and gathering tires to build a house. Once again, it was nice to click with like minded people.
Grant and Jen essentially had a contest to see which one of them could come closest to zero waste and consumption for a year. It was hopeful, uplifting and funny and a documentary I had no reservations showing my kids…one that would inspire them to do "one more thing" for the environment. We bought the DVD and I contacted Jen a few days later to see if they would be up for coffee the next time we visited Vancouver. (Free treade coffee, in our own re-usable mugs with a metal spoon to stir it with!!!!)
Chris and I talked a lot about our waste generation. Although we are great recyclers and mindful shoppers, we are by no means as conscientous as we'd like to be. In the last few weeks, everywhere we've gone we are paying more attention to all the things we throw away. There is a lot!
I would recommend watching the trailer and if you want to be inspired and amused, buy the DVD (or if you are our friend, we would lend you our copy) and see for yourself what is possible if you just try "one more thing". (And then another).


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Quesadilla Pie
Photo: John Kernick
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 874
- Fat: 49g
- Saturated fat: 22g
- Cholesterol: 207mg
- Sodium: 1906mg
- Carbohydrate: 43g
- Fiber: 9g
- Sugars: 10g
- Protein: 67g
- 1 10-ounce can green or red enchilada sauce
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 4 8-inch flour tortillas
- 2 cups (8 ounces) grated Monterey Jack, plus 1/4 cup for the top
- 1 3 1/2- to 4-pound rotisserie chicken, shredded
- 1/2 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 zucchini, quartered lengthwise and thinly sliced
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 avocado, diced
- 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- Heat oven to 400° F.
In a small bowl, combine the enchilada sauce and cream. Spoon 1/4 cup of the sauce mixture into the bottom of a shallow 2-quart casserole or 9-inch springform pan. Top with 1 tortilla and a third each of the cheese, chicken, onion, and zucchini. Repeat twice to form a total of 3 layers. Top with the remaining tortilla, sauce mixture, and cheese. Cover loosely with foil and bake for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes more. Slice into wedges and serve with the salsa, avocado, and cilantro.
Tip: For a vegetarian version of Quesadilla Pie, replace the chicken with 2 cups fresh corn or frozen corn that has been thawed and patted dry.
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- COURSE: Casseroles, Main Dishes
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- CUISINE: Mexican
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Cheese, Poultry
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Cinco de Mayo
- PUBLICATION: Real Simple
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