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Every writer at some point wonders how all the other writers have ever done it: gotten a book published. In his newest memoir, which picks up where his award-winning first memoir, The World's Largest Man, left off, Harrison Scott Key recounts with humor, and, often painful honesty, what it took to get his first book published. From the seed of a dream to the final product and what came after, the Savannah, Georgia-based humorist pulls back the curtain on the writing life in a brand new way. (Harper Perennial; available November 6.)
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In this collaboration from longtime Nashville resident, bestselling novelist, and owner of local bookstore Parnassus Books, Ann Patchett, and local photographer, Heidi Ross, both the historic and the contemporary, the iconic and the up-and-coming are beautifully captured and captioned. Perfect for both residents or tourists, Nashville highlights the places and faces that make this city so special, including the hideaways and the hotspots, the obvious, and the obscure. (Harper Design; available November 13.)
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Southern food has never been more popular. Or more complicated. As issues of race, politics, class, and gender continue to pave the road of southern foodways, one dish in particular stands squarely in the center of it all: grits. Seasoned food writer (and editor of Nashville Lifestyles), Erin Byers Murray, returns this month with her latest book, a deep dive into the simple dish's anything-but-simple past. Interviews with farmers, millers, other food writers, and chefs take readers beyond ground corn, butter, and salt and into grits' historically and culturally significant past. (St. Martin's Press; available November 8.)

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#SupernaturalSunday – Season 2, Episode 11 PLAYTHINGS
Yay!! We're back! 🙂 I have missed writing the blog and I hope someone has missed reading it. After crazy holiday times, sickness and injury, I'm back. It's fitting this week's episode should fall on January 19 since it originally aired January 18, 2007. I remember the date very well because the next morning, a Friday, I went to the hospital to be induced and later that afternoon, I gave birth to my beautiful daughter. 🙂
Throughout the hours of labor, my sister Abby kept quoting this episode to make me laugh. So even though it may not be the best episode, I always watch it with very fond memories of my daughter's birth. Happy birthday, baby! 🙂 She used to be a Supernatural baby haha! Now it scares her so I don't let her watch it anymore. 😉
So anyway, onto the episode. In this beautiful hotel in Connecticut, the hotel owner mom is having toys packed away that the little girls don't play with anymore.
They're pretty upset about it and call the guy who's coming to get the toys a son of a bitch. They go to play with the dollhouse, which is a miniature of the big ol' house.
The little girl has put a man doll in a chair but then finds him at the bottom of the stairs with his head turned the wrong way. In reality, Mom finds the guy at the bottom of the stairs with his head turned the wrong way, like the doll. Yikes!
Meanwhile, Sam is still trying to find Ava but she's disappeared without a trace. So he decides to distract himself with the case of the two mysterious deaths at the hotel. In addition to the dude tumbling down the stairs, a woman drowned in the bathtub a couple of weeks ago. Dean says Sam wanting to work this case since he can't do anything to help Ava is "entirely too healthy" for him. heehee! Once they arrive at the hotel, Dean's excited because it feels like a good old haunted house case.
Sam finds a "five-spot" carved into a planter on the front steps of the hotel. It may not be a haunted hotel but hoodoo. Hmmm. Checking in is fun…
She assumes they're here for antiquing. Dean is really bothered by the assumption that they're gay but it brings the LOLz. The hotel is on the verge of closing. Our boys might be the last visitors. Their room is … well…
Sam has found that the first victim was a real estate agent negotiating the sale of the hotel. Whatever is causing the deaths doesn't want the place sold.
LOL Sam. The guys soon go exploring and find more hoodoo symbols, as well as a door marked "Private." Dean notices the wall lined with antique dolls and tells Susan (the mom) that Sam loves the antique dolsl and wants to take a closer look. She lets them in. The collection is "not super creepy at all," as Dean says. Susan says they've been in the family for years. Sam finds the doll in the dollhouse with the twisted head.
Tyler (the little girl) shows up and Sam asks if she wants him to fix the doll and how it got broken. They wonder if Maggie (the other little girl) did it and Tyler says no, her grandma would be angry if they broke any of the dolls. Grandma is sick and Susan snaps at Sam when he asks if he can speak with her. Hmmm, must be a family secret.
Dean leaves to check into things while Sam stays to do online research. Meanwhile, Susan signs the papers to sell the hotel and learns from the man that they plan to demolish the hotel. The guy is then found hanging in his room, after Tyler finds a doll hanging in the dollhouse.
Sam got drunk because he didn't save the guy who hung himself or Ava or anyone. He makes Dean promise he'll stop him if he goes dark side. Dean promises but he only says it to get Sam to go to sleep, hoping he won't remember. Sigh. He heads downstairs and finds the butler dude in the hotel bar in a scene reminiscent of The Shining.
He asks the guy to share some stories about the hotel. Dean learns Grandma Rose had a Creole nanny. They figure that's where the hoodoo came from. When Dean gets back to the room, Sam's up and around…
This was my favorite part because when I was in labor, Abby said this to make me laugh. I did and then I threw up. LOLz Anyway, the guys decide that after Sam brushes his teeth, they'll visit Grandma Rose up in the attic.
Rose is catatonic, sitting in front of a window in the dark, watching the rain. It's not her since hoodoo is hands-on.
They don't know what to do now but:
Susan finds them upstairs and says she wants them out of the hotel or she'll call the police. They leave without argument. Susan then goes to tell Tyler she needs to pack and we learn that Maggie is an imaginary friend. Gasp! Not good news when Maggie says about Mom, "I don't like her."
Sherman, the butler guy, leaves and Susan's packing up the rest of the hotel since their last guests have left. While playing by the dollhouse, Tyler sees the swings start to go by themselves. Outside, Mom sees the same thing in the real playground. All of the equipment starts to move on its own.
Then her car moves on its own and almost runs her over. Sam shows up out of nowhere and knocks her out of the way just in time. The guys have come back – yay! They ask about when Rose had the stroke. It turns out she was practicing voodoo to keep the spirits away and now they need to get Susan and her family out of the house.
Maggie's upstairs, taunting Grandma, and tells her Tyler's going to stay there with her forever. Oh no! Susan tells the guys her mom had a sister named Margaret who drowned in the pool as a little girl. That's where Maggie has taken Tyler. Maggie wants Tyler to jump in and then they'll be together forever.
Susan and the boys try to get in but the doors are locked. Maggie pushes Tyler in and holds her under. It takes them forever but finally the boys break down the door and Sam saves her in slow motion, much like when Dean saved the little boy in Dead in the Water.
Meanwhile, Rose's spirit has called Margaret to come play with her in order to save her granddaughter.
Susan and Tyler move out anyway. Dean says Sam could've gotten some MILF action.
Unfortunately, Sam remembers Dean's promise and brings it up again. Damn it, Sam. What does this mean for the future? Join us next week to find out! 🙂 Hope you're enjoying reliving Season 2 with me.
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Peter Hodgson of Tone Deaf recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Tone Deaf: The three new songs on "Mirror Ball" really stand up against all the classics.
Elliott: The thing I'm most happy about is how vastly different they are from each other. It's not like, say — and all due respect, if you're reading this please don't take this as a criticism, but if AC/DC release three new songs, chances are there'd be a slight connection! They'd sound a bit more similar because that's what they do. And I'm not knocking it, I think it's brilliant. I'm a huge fan of AC/DC. But they're never likely to do ballads, or a song like "Kings Of The World", which is obviously a very QUEEN-influenced piece, or "Undefeated", which is a very arena rock anthem-style song, if you like. So we've got the intensity of something like "Kings Of The World", and then we've got the total pop sensibility of "It's All About Believing". And the thing that they all have in common is that lyrically there's an enormous amount of positivity coming out of just the titles alone, this positive thumbs-up thing, which came out of taking a year off the road. I'm convinced of it. The pressure was off. We were all spending a bit of domestic time, which we hadn't been able to do for five years. I'd forgotten what my house looked like! I had never seen my garden bloom in twenty years! And it energized us. By taking that time off, we came back a much better band for it.
Tone Deaf: I was glad to hear that you're playing "Undefeated" on this tour.
Elliott: Yeah! We're going to start working one of the other two new ones into the set as well. We're also bringing some old new ones back, if you like. Stuff that's old but that we've never played before or we haven't played for many, many years. So we're trying to expand it a little bit so that maybe we can play a totally different show if we have two nights in the same town. But we needed to get settled in on this tour. A lot of people get temped to change the set because somebody starts moaning on the internet. What they tend to forget, these people… and I had a big fight with one. We've named him Dorito Boy because he obviously lives in his mum's basement and he can't get out of the chair because he weighs 500 pounds. He's the guy the FBI go to when they need somebody to hack into the Kremlin. He moans that we played the same set four nights running. He's not taking into consideration that we don't pack the crowd up and take them with us and play the same songs to the same people! If we do a gig in New York and we all come offstage and go, "That was the most perfectly paced set we've ever played," why would we not want to play that in Kansas or L.A. or Chicago? It's not the same crowd! We don't play to the Internet brigade! But there's always this temptation to keep changing the set to keep them happy. They don't come to the gigs! So that's always a tough call, really, but it's just one of the things you have to deal with.
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The reaction addresses the two main reasons behind Ronaldo's current unhappiness — the failure of the club to extend his current deal and a perceived lack of institutional support towards him in his battle to beat the likes of Leo Messi and Andres Iniesta to football's top individual prizes.
There had also been leaks from the player's camp that he had grown unhappy because he is not universally loved.
Yet while he is said to be peeved that his name is not greeted with thunderous acclaim pre-game at the Bernabeu — and has even been jeered by a voluble minority — it does not square with claims that his unrest is because he has no social life as he cannot get respite from adoring fans.
Ronaldo had been portrayed as a lonely figure whose daily routine of driving across Madrid, from his home at the exclusive La Finca in Pozuelo de Alarcón to the club's Valdebebas training complex, was only occasionally broken by an ill-fated attempt at enjoying life in the city.
Insiders told newspaper El Mundo that Ronaldo had taken Russian girlfriend Irina Shayk to the theatre to see The Lion King, entering wearing sunglasses when the lights had been dimmed, only to leave before the interval because he had been swamped by fans demanding photos and autographs despite his requests to be left in peace.
Uncertain future: Ronaldo refused to celebrate his two goals against Granada
It also reported that constant pestering in public prevents him going to his favourite restaurant and he now has food delivered to his home.
His unhappiness was also said to extend to the Real dressing room, where he was once part of a band of Portuguese-speaking players. He has fallen out with Brazil full-back Marcelo who, allegedly, said Iker Casillas would be a worthy Balon D'Or winner. And while Ronaldo's Portugal team-mate, Pepe, made a point of congratulating his Madrid clubmates in the Spain team after their European Championship semi-final win, the former Manchester United hero did not.
Ronaldo feels his relationship with many of the Madrid fans is not what it should be. After scoring 150 goals in his first 150 games for the club (151, according to Ronaldo, after a referee awarded a deflected effort to Pepe) one might expect unwavering adulation. But while the £80m attacker's name is still sung by his former United supporters at Old Trafford, at the Bernabeu there is no special treatment.
The cheers when his name is announced before kick-off are no louder than for any other player … and usually less than those for his manager, Jose Mourinho. There have even been isolated incidents of whistling from a disgruntled minority.
Not just that, in Madrid he is constantly reminded that he earns around £21,800 a day — 1.5 times what the average Spaniard (if he is not one of the five million unemployed) gets in a year.
'If he wants a pay rise he should at least ask less publicly,' has been the common sentiment.
Ronaldo's next home game comes in nine days' time against Manchester City in the Champions League, and the Real Madrid hierarchy will be listening for the reaction to the player from the stands.
The first thing Real president Florentino Perez did when Ronaldo told him he was unhappy, in a meeting he had requested last Saturday, was to make sure there were no imminent bids for their superstar in the dying days of the transfer window.
However, the ears of City, Chelsea, PSG, FC Anzhi and even United will have pricked up, and the potential suitors will have been encouraged by tales of the player's tormented goldfish-bowl existence and Real's struggle to pay him what he wants.
Yet things might not have come to a head had Real managed to free themselves of Kakà in the summer. They are obliged to pay him £7.2m net a year but, relieved of that expense, they may have been able to go a long way to meeting Ronaldo's demands before things got public.
Another problem for Real is the abolition of the so-called 'Beckham Law', under which they agreed to pay Ronaldo £8m a year net, with the club meeting his 24 per cent tax obligation. Ronaldo's current contract still benefits from the 'Beckham Law'. But any new contract would, from 2015, be subject to a 52 per cent tax.
Paying Ronaldo his £8m a year has been costing the club just under £10m a season. Now, by giving in to his 30 per cent pay increase demands, his new £10.35m take home pay would see them shelling out more than £20m a season.
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Mummy and Daddy are jigsaw fans, that is, before the kids pop up.
We collected Snoopy jigsaws wherever we go.
Our little projects kept us occupied, and now our house is dotted with Snoopies :)
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Christmas Candy Cane Cookies
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch
Makes4 dozen
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1-1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
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- 1/2 cup sugar
- In a large bowl, cream the shortening, butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Divide dough in half; mix the food coloring into 1 portion. Cover and refrigerate both doughs for 2 hours or until easy to handle.
- Shape 1 teaspoon plain dough into a 4-in. rope. Shape 1 teaspoon red dough into a 4-in. rope. Place ropes side by side; press together lightly and twist. Place on an ungreased baking sheet; curve top of cookie down to form handle of cane. Repeat with remaining plain and red dough, placing cookies 2 in. apart on baking sheets.
- Bake at 375° for 8-9 minutes or until set. Combine the crushed candy and sugar; sprinkle warm cookies with candy mixture. Remove to wire racks.
Nutrition Facts1 cookie: 86 calories, 4g fat (2g saturated fat), 9mg cholesterol, 48mg sodium, 11g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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Made these for the first time after many years, so fun! I would add more almond extract next time just to amp up the flavour, but overall I was really happy how these turned out. You definitely need to chill the dough at least 2 hours otherwise it will just crack and crumble as you roll the cookies out.
Nov 10, 2015
My kids and I make these most years at Christmas:) Actually my kids make them now. They love rolling them up and turning them into pinwheel cookies too. Its a great holiday recipe that adds a lot of cheer to that goodie plate:)
Jan 4, 2015
This is the original cookie cane recipe printed early on by Betty Crocker in one of their cookbooks. I got my copy of the book about 1974. This is the original no matter what else you read. I have tried different ways, as in adding peppermint, but my family vetoed it. LOL


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In my previous post, I presented a rating study from ACBL tournament data. It generated a lot of interest and comments. One player pointed out to me that one plot on page 4 showed actual score vs predicted had a slope of 2. Since then I have done some more study to understand the data and see if there is any room for improvement. Here are the updated results.
In order to explain the details I have to go a little deeper into the math model. Elo methodology uses an expectation function to calculate expected scores. Then it compares against the actual score and creates an adjustment. The technical document referenced from my original post has details. Here I just want to mention there is a K factor that determines how large this adjustment is. The K factor also has a component that is determined by Number of Effective Boards (NEB). The ratio of NEB and number of boards played in recent game determines K factor.
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F(a-b) = htan((a-b)/2000)
where htan is hyper-tangent function, a and b are a pair's rating. The hyper-tangent has a range from -1 to 1. This corresponds to a win/loss of a board. 2000 is a scale factor that has an effect on the absolute value of the rating but it does not change the characteristics of the model.
I used a sub-set of data to study changes in scale factor, NEB, and K factor; I discovered such changes do not make any significant change in the results.
Next, there is a factor that is unique to bridge because matchpoints are calculated by comparing scores between different tables. So the expected score needs data from at least two tables, or four pairs. My initial choice of the formula to determine this score is:
S = (F(a-b) - F(c-d))/2
where F(a-b) is expectation function from table 1 and F(c-d) is from table 2, a, b, c, d are NS and EW pairing rating at each table respectively. The factor 2 normalized the result value to range -1 to 1. It was done this way because a lot of initial work was done manually and this only requires calculating the expectation function once per table. Then it could derive all combinations of any different tables.
There is another way to construct this score by the following:
S = F((a-b)-(c-d))
In this formula, instead of calculating expectation function based on the difference in rating between two pairs, it calculates from the differential of rating difference of two tables. Players who are familiar with math could run a Taylor expansion for these two and evaluate the difference.
The results from this formula change from the test sample showed some improvement. So I reprocessed my library of ACBL tournament data using the new formula but kept all other parameters unchanged. The results are shown in the following pages.
The data set used in the following diagrams were from a recent 12 months of tournament data (11/2018 - 10/2019). This should be a set with best quality and large enough to provide statistically valid conclusions. It had a filter to require pairs to have regular rating prior to the game (>200 boards). This is the same selection used in previous study.
The distribution of actual score - prediction is shown in the following histogram.
The mean value of this distribution is 0.12% and a sigma of 5.89%. The previous study had a mean of 0.38% and sigma of 5.93%. The 2D contour plot is shown in the next graph.
Comparing with the same figure from previous study, the slope has changed a little and is still a value > 1. However this slope is just peak values. Each actual score has a corresponding predicted value. To evaluate how good the prediction is, we need to check all actual values for this predicted score. This means for each bin of X axis (a predicted score) we should check the actual score (Y value) distribution.
The following figure shows selected data points with a Predicted score = 57%. The distribution is the actual scores of all data points with Expected S = 57%.
This is a typical distribution for a prediction greater than 50%. The actual score distribution has a longer tail on the left side than the right. The mean value for this distribution is 56.5%. The data selection for the plot had a upper limit of 70% so Excel treated anything higher than 70% as 70%. So the actual value might be even higher.
The next plot shows the actual score (mean value) vs predicted value for entire data. Their is a filter of each predicted score has >100 data points to remove low statistical data.
The relationship is linear with slope very close to 1, especially in the central region which had a lot of samples. At each end the divergence from linear could be attributed to low sample size.
The above results showed the model's prediction is in reasonably good agreement with actual data. However there is an intrinsic distribution of actual scores with a sigma of ~6% due to limited number of boards per game (usually 24-27).
Another issue raised by players was survivor's bias. The above data only used results from pairs with greater than 200 boards. These tend to be successful tournament players with a stable partnership. One could speculate this group of pairs are better than those not in this group. This might bias the pairs in this study towards having better scores than their prediction.
It might be interesting to see how pairs with fewer than 201 boards perform. These plots are shown on the next couple of pages.
The shape is skewed from regular Gaussian distribution. The mean value of Actual Score - Prediction is about -0.18% with sigma of 6.23%. Since this set of data is from pairs without an established rating, odd behaviors are somewhat expected.
For reference the combined data (N>200 + N <=200) had a mean value of -0.001% with sigma of 6.03%.
The 2D contour plot looks like the following:
It had data more concentrated in the <50% region for both predicted and actual scores, an indication that the data was from those less successful in tournaments.
Finally, the mean values of actual scores were compared against predicted score and results are in the following plot.
This result is similar to those pairs with an established rating, but both ends diverged more.
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Breath in, breath out. It always happens this time of year. Thanksgiving is around the corner, Christmas is soon to follow and inevitably the word Easter pops into my mind. WHAT? Did I just mention Easter? Actually, I did. For most of my adult life, where I will spend my holidays causes stress and anxiety each year. It became much more stressful when I got married and even more complex when the kids came along, but this year I'm determined to not let it all stress me out.
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Ever since my husband and I were married, we've had a set schedule as to which family we'd spend the holidays with. On the year we spend Thanksgiving with my family, we spend Christmas Day & Easter with my husband's. On the year we spend Thanksgiving with his family, we spend Christmas Day with both families and Easter with my family. I can pretty much tell you where I will be spending Christmas in 2017, and yet somehow, it's always a surprise, a disappointment or both to our families. Usually, I consider myself lucky to have all my family living nearby, but it's hard when you can only be so many places at once during the holidays.
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Brenda November 1, 2013 at 10:02 pm
My sister-in-law asked me where I'd like to have Christmas this year, since I'll have a newborn (< 1 month old). Ummm. . . not sure if we'll even be there. Hoping everything goes smoothly, but you never know. Hoping they will proceed with the planning without me, and my family will just play it by ear.
Kate November 4, 2013 at 6:00 pm
A-MEN. Thank you for posting this! I'm amazed that we continue to have this challenge in our family, too. Advance planning is absolutely key. And earlier this year, I had to tell my parents no — which was really hard, but important in setting boundaries.


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I must say that i dont mind the new legislationthe oddity in making a new bill to remove cultural studies from public school is a bit... er, odd.
but the whole giving the police the same abilities as the border patrol just seems to be on par with what should have been in their abilities in the first place
most people have been warped by the shitty opinion-news that CNN spews forth from its foamy gullet as it shakes its fingers at anyone who their masters tell them to, so they dont actually know what the bill doesbut once i went and read through it, it is, as i said, on par with what should have been anyways.the main part of the bill is this: YOU NEED TO BE IN THE ACT OF AN INFRACTION TO HAVE YOUR ID REQUESTED.the bulk of these are, indeed, when you are pulled overbut guess what? YOUR ID IS PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP. and, even far far before the bill was even a glint in AZ's eye it was ILLEGAL to drive without your idin fact, i was told when i came to AMURRRIKAH that you are required by law to carry a state id at all times anywaysso the bill doesn't really change anythingall it changes is that if you are pulled over/arrested/held and can't prove your are a citizen (I.E. YOU DONT HAVE YOUR MOTHERFUCKING ID ON YOU) then you are detained, investigated, and deported if no proof can be shown (as in no one brings an id for you, you aren't in the system, etc etc)all the mexinazis spewing the san diego plan downtown are doing nothing but bitching for the sake of bitching. before, the border patrol was called. now, the police can deal with it themselves. BIG FUCKING CHANGE, NE?but alas, this fact will be ignored by the masses, the CNNazis will continue their hateful tirade filled with conjecture, ignorance, and opinion, people will take it as fact, a conspiracy theory will be formulated, and AZ will ignore it all as we sit in our desolate hell of a state sipping on muddy water willed with e-coli and the tears of the desperate, and slowly dry-rot into the ground as the lizards feast on what was once a state that was filled with people who attempted to hope and in turn received no answer to their wanting beyond death...
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We've got a live one."Mexinazis"? Really?
haven't you watched Beck's show... EVERYTHING is related to Nazis now dayshell even the commies are not Nazis
i dont think i get the teabagger referenceand holy shit that is alot of quick responses that i didnt seei have been dealing with people in downtown phoenix who havent read the bill. that, and a constant stream of jeff walker has made me actually read it so i could see what was and wasn't conjectureand do you guys know of the san diego plan? its a fucking nazi approach to clensing the 'land that belongs to mexico' the occupied mexico blah blah blahso to me, they are mexican nazis. they were talking of how mexicans are the only ones with the right to live, especially in AZ, NM, and CA, and that cleansing the land of anyone who isnt mexican is the only solution...hence the stream of death threats that was issued on cinco de mayo which stated anyone who didnt look full mexican was going to be shot/stabbed/killed on the spot if they were spotted outside that night
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Q: "I love my wife but she is no longer the woman that I married. Since having children she has become a "martyr mother" and gives all her attention to the children. I no longer view her as a sexual being and do not find her attractive, but she demands sex from me. Will this feeling ever change?"
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In reality, martyr mother syndrome is a direct response to the illusion of the "mother archetype". From the minute that a woman becomes pregnant, she is bombarded with medical, cultural and anecdotal advice about the gravity of her impending responsibility.
She is pricked and poked, scanned and sutured, and then, finally, she has a baby and ... nothing. This hugely important role often turns out to be a 24/7 commitment with no pay, no recognition and no holidays. And it has to be done without complaint because she is attempting to live up to an ideal of perfect motherhood.
When no one recognises the value of what you do, you look elsewhere for validation. Since a mother is only truly indispensable to her children, it is hardly surprising that so many become preoccupied with their maternal role. "Mother" is not a particularly sexy archetype and some men, such as you, struggle to reconcile themselves to the changes that parenthood imposes on their partners. Pride in your offspring gets you through the honeymoon period but, as the years drag on, the mundanity of a life that revolves around routines, school runs and fish fingers can become less and less attractive. And the emerging gulf between parents can be compounded by using more stringent criteria to judge each other than to judge themselves.
The fundamental mistake in many relationships is how we use explanations based on "personality" to describe other people's behaviour, whereas we take "situational" factors into consideration when we interpret our own behaviour. For example, you ignore that your wife's role as a mother (her situation) might have something to do with her maternal focus; instead, you criticise her for having adopted a "martyr mother" personality. In contrast, you attribute your loss of interest in sex to your situation; the reason that you no longer see your wife as a sexual being is because she has made herself unattractive to you.
Since it is easier for us to be so tuned in to our partner's failings and oblivious to our own, we find it easier to blame our partner when our relationships falter rather than to address anything that we might have done. We also tend to have an unshakeable belief in our own rightness, so that once we fixate on an idea about a person, we then find it difficult to change that perspective. It is them, not us, that has the problem. Lack of accountability cuts both ways.
Your wife might well be applying the same bias and subjectivity when she thinks about you. Her demands for sex might simply mean that she is unaware of your disregard for her. She may also be testing you. Imagine that every time you reject her, you provide another brick for the wall of resentment on her side of the bed. To answer your question about whether these feelings will change, they might — but only if you take responsibility for the
deterioration of your marriage. Right now you and your wife are mirroring each other's negativity, but you could just as easily mirror positivity.
Start by smiling more. According to the "facial feedback" hypothesis, we feel happier when we smile, and when people smile back at us we like them more and find them more attractive.
Similarly, try getting away without the kids, preferably to undertake a physical challenge. Research shows that couples who participate in "novel and arousing" activities experience higher levels of marital satisfaction.
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