Office holiday parties can often be tricky to navigate—and picking out the right outfit is just the beginning. We've cleared up the what-to-wear debate, because. How can the answer be improved? It's the holiday season: Are you wondering what to wear to a party? See this guide for women to dress stylishly without breaking the bank! Company holiday parties can be glitzy formal affairs or casual office get. The dress is conservative enough to wear all day at work, but the Christmas color and. Here's how to dress for your office Christmas party this year.
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Le stade de Goffert (en néerlandais : Goffertstadion) est un stade de football situé dans la ville néerlandaise de Nimègue, au parc de Goffert dans le quartier de . Son club résident est le NEC Nimègue.

La cérémonie d'ouverture officielle de la Marche de quatre jours de Nimègue, la parade des drapeaux, a eu lieu au stade de Goffert entre les éditions de 1951 et 2011.

Histoire
Le stade a été inauguré le  par le Prince Bernard des Pays-Bas et fut nommé en référence au quartier de , où est situé le stade.

Il a connu son record d'affluence lors du match du NEC Nimègue contre le FC Barcelone en 1983.

En 1999, le stade fut modernisé, les tribunes furent rapprochées du terrain, mais surtout couvertes et chauffées. Sa capacité a alors été réduite à environ 12 500 places. La pelouse peut également être chauffée, de sorte que des matches puissent aussi avoir lieu pendant l'hiver.

D'après le club et la ville de Nimègue, il est question que le stade puisse contenir 18 000 places en 2010 et être transformé en un complexe multisports, notamment pour accueillir l'équipe de basket-ball locale. Il sera impossible d'agrandir davantage le stade et de le doter de grosses infrastructures routières, puisqu'il se trouve dans une zone naturelle protégée.

Évènements
 Championnat d'Europe de football espoirs 2007
 Parade des drapeaux, Marche de quatre jours de Nimègue

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Football

Parties internationales

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Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 NEC Nimègue
 Marche de quatre jours de Nimègue

Liens externes
  Le Stade de Goffert sur le site officiel du NEC Nimègue

Équipement sportif achevé en 1939
Stade de football aux Pays-Bas
Équipement sportif dans la province de Gueldre
Sport à Nimègue

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I've been trying to get a few things made and in the freezer so we have quick meals when the baby girl arrives. Trying being the key word. So far I have two bags of chili, two enchilada casseroles, three pizza crusts and 10 bags of pizza sauce. So, maybe I went a little overboard on the pizza sauce. But, its the best homemade pizza sauce you'll ever find. This sauce is thick, without being chunky, and the spices, garlic and onion meld to make an unbelievably rich and tasty sauce. I know I won't regret having extra on hand.
This sauce freezes well and can pulled out of the freezer in the morning and put in the fridge to thaw. Or you can stick it in a bowl of hot water for 10 minutes, for a quick de-thaw. I freeze the sauce in one cup portions, which is the perfect amount for one 12-inch pizza. No matter how you de-thaw it, it makes for a quick week night meal when paired with a super easy pizza dough I will be posting soon.
This recipe doubles, triples, quadruples (you get the point) easily. So, make some extra to have for those weeknights when you just don't have the energy to cook...which is basically everyday for me right now!
Melt butter in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, oregano and salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and just starting to brown, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add tomatoes and sugar, bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered for 25-30 minutes. Sauce should be reduced to about 2 1/2 cups at this point.
Love homemade pizza. It's like...the best.
I so wish I was there to bring by a casserole or twelve. Cooking for new baby families is my favorite...and you guys are my favorites too!
I have never made pizza sauce before but I've been wanting to learn - now I can! Thank you go much. I google +'ed it and I hope to pin it as well!
I never can get my sauce thick enough. This looks good!
Maggie, I didn't know that you were expecting. Congrats!!!!! I love this pizza sauce. When ever I make sauce or stock, I always make extras for the freezer. I hope you're feeling well and congrats again!
Maggie, I havent had time to check up on the blog in awhile and I was hoping to come and see some good news about the birth of your little girl! Hope you're feeling well and I cannot wait to hear all about the little one who should be here any moment!!
We ate so much take out and frozen meals when Layla was born. Wish I had this sauce on hand! Looks delicious.
good idea to get stuff into the freezer before the much anticipated arrival. such presence of mind you have, i'm impressed! not to mention the sauce looks delish!
That pizza is making my mouth water, and I've already had lunch! Hope you're doing well and that your family has a great Thanksgiving.
I just made some more of this and made deep dish pizza - so good Maggie! I hope you move is going or has gone well. Miss your posts!


This species of fox is only about 1 foot tall. They also only weigh from 5 to 7 pounds when they are full grown. The males tend to be on the larger side with the females on the lower side.
Typically, the Swift Fox lives around the grasslands or in the desert. They prefer the flat land which is why they are very comfortable on the plains. They are found in many areas of North America. In the United States their main locations include Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico. They are also spread out into many regions of Canada as well.
The female Swift Fox claims her own territory out there. However, the males don't do so. They are more of a adventure seeking entity and they continue to move around and to explore new areas. They will spend time in one location though when they find a female to breed with. Once the young venture out on their own though they too will move on.
This particular fox won't remain in one den for very long. Experts used to view this as a very peculiar type of behavior. However, today it is believed that they do so because parasites can quickly develop in the den. By moving on they reduce the risk of their bodies becoming infected by them.
They will consume just about anything which is part of the reason that the Swift Fox is able to survive in this type of environment. They will eat grass and fruit when they are able to find it. They also feed on small mammals and insects. Depending on the location they may eat rodents, squirrels, and birds. They can find spiders and grasshoppers during certain times of the year.
Fruits and nuts are items that they love to consume too. When these items are available they will rush to eat them instead of other food sources. They have a good idea of where these items will be located at too so they can return to them annually.
The breeding season for Swift Fox depends on the location where it resides. It can start as early as December or be as late as March. As a result of this some young are born in March and others not until May. The young grow very fast and by the time they are 7 weeks old they are weaned and out there on their own.
The average lifespan for this particular species of fox is from 3 to 6 years. In captivity they can live up to 14 years.
There is really no concern at this time for the survival of the Swift Fox. However, that wasn't always the case. In the 1930's they were considered to be on the verge of extinction. There are almost none of them left in Canada. Successful programs to protect land areas and to relocate many into Canada though has allowed them to thrive.
Hunting of the Swift Fox isn't nearly as common as with other species of fox out there. However, that is the one time that they will have some human interaction. They also tend to stay away from where humans are so they aren't deemed to be a nuisance like other species.


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PROCEEDINGS EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL WEST VIRGINIA SURFACE MINE DRAINAGE TASK FORCE SYMPOSIUM
RAMADA INN, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
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WEST VIRGINIA MINING & RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION
8:30 – 8:35 a.m. WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Morning Moderator: Charles Miller, Chairman WV Surface Mine Drainage Task Force & WV Division of Environmental Protection Philippi, WV
8:35 – 9:00 a.m. "CURRENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RELATIVE TO MINING AND RECLAMATION" Eli McCoy, Director West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection Nitro, WV
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. "AMD REGULATORY AND POLICY IMPACTS ON CURRENT MINING ACTIVITIES IN WEST VIRGINIA" John Ailes, Chief Office of Mining and Reclamation West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection Nitro, WV
9:15 – 9:40 a.m. "OSM's INITIATIVES, DIRECTIONS, AND APPROACHES TO ACID MINE DRAINAGE CONTROL AND TREATMENT" Kathrine Henry, Acting Director Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
9:40 – 10:00 a.m. "OSM POLICIES IN WEST VIRGINIA" Roger Calhoun Office of Surface Mining Charleston, WV
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. "ACID MINE DRAINAGE INVENTORY IN WEST VIRGINIA" Ben Faulkner Bratton Farms Princeton, WV
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. "AMD INVENTORY IN CHEAT RIVER WATERSHED" Sheila Vukovich and Greg Adolfson West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection Nitro, WV
11:30 – 12:00 noon "MANGANESE TOXICITY TO AQUATIC ORGANISMS" Tiff Hilton and Rob Norman WOPEC, Inc. Lewisburg, WV
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1:30 – 2:00 p.m. "1997 Legislative ISSUES RELATED TO MINING AND RECLAMATION" Ben Greene, President West Virginia Mining & Reclamation Association Charleston, WV
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. "AMD IN THE MONONGAHELA BASIN" Bruce Leavitt CONSOL, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. "WATER QUALITY CHANGES AND COSTS OF REMINING IN WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA" Bob Hedin, Ben Faulkner, and Jeff Skousen Hedin Environmental Pittsburgh, PA
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. "MANGANESE CONTAMINATED DISCHARGES: TREATMENT AND PREVENTION" Randy Maggard Pen Coal Corporation Huntington, WV
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. "CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COAL-BEARING STRATA USING DOWN-HOLE PROMPT GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY WIRELINE LOGGING: A STATUS REPORT" Blaine Cecil U.S. Geological Survey Reston, VA
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. "NAOH-INJECTION EXPERIMENTS FOR IN-SITU REMEDIATION OF SURFACE-MINE SPOIL PRODUCING ACID MINE DRAINAGE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS" Joe Donovan West Virginia University Morgantown, WV
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CONSOL, Inc.
1800 Washington Road
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National Mine Land Reclamation Center
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Chester Engineers
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Moon Township, PA 15108
Mr. Roger Calhoun
Office of Surface Mining 1
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Mr. Blaine Cecil
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Pen Coal Corporation
Dunlow,WV 25511
Dr. Joseph Donovan
Department of Geology and Geography
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Bratton Farms
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Princeton, WV 24740
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Division of Plant and Soil Sciences
Mr. Ben Greene
1624 Kanawha Boulevard, East
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Dr. Robert Hedin
Suite 216 634 Washington Rd.
(412) 571-2204 Ms. Sheila Vukovich West Virginia Division of
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Ms. Kathrine Henry
Office of Surface Mining
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By afaqs! news bureau Published: 28 Nov 2022, 4:43 IST
MullenLowe Group appoints S.Subramanyeswar as Group Chief Executive Officer
Subbu will be Group Chief Executive Officer of MullenLowe Lintas Group India with effect immediately.
MullenLowe Group announces the appointment of S.Subramanyeswar, aka Subbu, as the Group Chief Executive Officer of MullenLowe Lintas Group India, effective immediately.
In a strategic re-alignment from the previous model, all the functions of the Group will now report to Subbu. In addition, Subbu will continue to directly lead the Strategy function for the Group in India and maintain his role as chief strategy officer for the MullenLowe APAC region.
Speaking about the new era, Alex Leikikh, Chairman of MullenLowe Group and Executive Vice President of Interpublic Group, said, "During these transformative times where we are all facing many challenges, I believe, there is no better person to lead MullenLowe Lintas Group than Subbu. He is a proven leader with hard-core strategic skills, business imagination and the ability to bring people together. Subbu has a global perspective on how brands, communication and technology will intersect in the future. He's also a big believer in brand purpose. This combination is exactly what we need as the company enters the next chapter.
As we move into this new era, I want to thank Amer Jaleel and Virat Tandon for their dedication, passion and leadership throughout the years for us and all of our clients. I wish them the best on their next endeavours."
Since joining the company in 2011, Subbu has played a leading role in MullenLowe Lintas Group becoming the No.1 agency in India and APAC, and No.2 globally on the Effie Index ranking. MullenLowe Lintas Group was also awarded 'Agency of the year' several times at India and APAC Effies, and by Tambuli, Campaign South Asia, Ad Age, and WARC with Subbu helming the leadership from the strategy end.
Alex noted, "Subbu is a genuine thought leader who is passionate, ambitious, analytical, creative, self-aware, and very humble. He leads with heart and soul and is someone whom we trust as CEO to bring value to our clients, employees, and communities."
Excited about his new responsibility Subbu said, "Lintas is one of those extraordinary institutions to have truly impacted Indian society for decades through big, bold, culture-leading ideas based on a decisive stand taken by the brand. I couldn't be more honoured to have been given the charge to lead the company at a very important time. The opportunity that lies ahead in an ever-expanding world of possibilities is limitless, but to seize it, we must focus precisely, move at a rapid pace, and be transformational. A big part of my job is to widen our creative and strategic aperture to innovatively apply technology and talent to solve new problems for clients, for people, and the world at large. I'm excited, grounded on the challenges, and upbeat, all at once."
Most recently, Subbu authored 'Brands to Stands,' a ground-breaking book that celebrates the authentic and highly captivating stories of how 25+ of India's leading brands have created brand marketing history by adopting a point of view, taking a stand, and spearheading purposeful action.
In addition, Subbu has authored and won 142 awards at India Effies, APAC Effies, Global Effies, Asian Marketing Effectiveness, WARC and by 4A's – American Association of Advertising Agencies. He has also been Jury Chair at Jay Chiat Awards for Strategic Excellence in 2021 and 2022 and judged the coveted IPA Effectiveness Awards 2022 in UK.
A regular columnist and passionate educationalist, he is also a visiting faculty at IIMs across India and delivered several talks at the distinguished Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan, and leading global business forums like SXSW, Austin and IPA Effworks in London.
He has spent two-and-a-half decades in advertising and marketing, having worked at Wipro, Publics, Rediffusion Y&R, and Saatchi & Saatchi in the markets of India, US, and UK.
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Bicycle Day in Malaga is usually by the end of September. This day is the result of the European Mobility Week, a week of activities to promote sustainable mobility.
In 2018 " The Day of the Bicycle " will be Sunday September 23. As every year both adults and young people will be able to participate free of charge in any of the two different routes, one of 12 km and the other of 5.5 km.
Spain has led the participation every year, 18.5% of the participating cities have been Spanish.
The European Mobility Week is from 16 to 22 September. This week they promote the use of alternative means of transport to avoid the use of cars in cities.
Spain has led the participation every year, 18.5% of the participating cities have been Spanish. In 2018, it again topped the list with 292 participating cities, followed by Hungary with 239 and Austria with 159.
Among the municipalities that will participate this year are Estepona and Malaga. Each municipality adhering to this event will propose a week of activities. Optionally they can take permanent measures to promote efficient transport and celebrate the day without a car.
Registration is free and not required, but those who sign up will participate in sweepstakes where bikes and other prizes will be given away.
If you want to register, in previous events you could do so at the El Corte Ingles sports floor or at the Bahia Malaga Shopping Centre before the day of the activity. You can visit my other post about shopping malls in Malaga to find out where they are and their opening hours.
You can also ride your bike by your own and discover new places.
Although it can change, in previous events it started and ended at Paseo del Parque in front of the Town Hall.
The route includes places such as Plaza de la Marina, Alameda Principal, Plaza de la Cruz del Humilladero, Avenida Obispo Angel Herrera Oria and Puente de Tetúan.
Finally and as my personal opinion, the end of September sounds like a great season to discover the city by bicycle. But if you are looking for other kind of activities you can check my post about adventure activities in Malaga.


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Oil Majors Attack The Democrat's Fracking Ban
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Nov 04, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
Exxon and Chevron believe that a ban on fracking will only shift economic benefits out of the U.S. and possibly raise the price of oil, the two largest U.S. oil companies said in their first comments on the idea of Democratic presidential hopefuls to ban fracking and new leases for oil and gas development.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two of the front-runners in the Democratic Party's race for nomination in recent polls, have promised to ban fracking, on a collision course with the oil industry and even with some Democratic governors in some western oil states.
"On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking—everywhere," Warren tweeted in early September, while Sanders said less than a week later that "To avert the climate crisis, we must ban fracking."
Last week, announcing their Q3 profits, the two biggest oil firms in America shared their views on those ideas.
Fracking has "really unlocked an economic -- huge economic benefit for the country, as well as for the companies involved," James Johnson, Executive Vice President, Upstream at Chevron said on the company's conference call.
"We would not like to see any kind of restrictions on hydraulic fracturing it's -- that's the context for our company," Johnson said.
Exxon stressed on the global picture if fracking were banned. Related: Breaking Open A Black Hole: The World's Most Dangerous Experiment
"I think any efforts to ban fracking or restrict supply will not remove demand for the resource. If anything, it will shift the economic benefit away from the US to another country and potentially impact the price of that commodity here and globally," Neil Hansen, Vice President, Investor Relations & Secretary at Exxon, said on the Q3 call.
Earlier this year, both Exxon and Chevron announced increased targets for their Permian oil production. Chevron now sees its Permian unconventional net oil-equivalent production rising to 600,000 bpd by the end of 2020, and to 900,000 bpd by the end of 2023. Exxon revised up its Permian growth plans to produce more than 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by as early as 2024, which would be an increase of almost 80 percent.
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DOUBLE BIND: Mind Control in the TTI
--- Quote from: "WTF2" ---This is some of the best reading I have seem
Thanks for the insight of how these places and the ppl who run them work.
:shamrock: :shamrock:
I second that, WTF2. Awake has been a inspiration.
Awake:
Thanks to all who have enjoyed this. I think you will also like this very relevant and recent bit here that shows the psychological perspective of the Double Bind.
PSYCHOSIS, TRAUMA AND DISSOCIATION: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology.
Edited by: Andrew Moskowitz, Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Ingo Schafer, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Martin J. Dorahy, School of Psychology, Queens University of Belfast, UK
First published 2008, Wiley-Blackwell.
"Chapter 21
THE ROLE OF DOUBLE BINDS, REALITY TESTING AND CHRONIC RELATIONAL TRAUMA IN THE GENESIS AND TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
The essence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been something of a conundrum. It has been variously conceptualized as (1) on the border with psychosis, (2) a level of personality organization more pathological than neurosis, (3) a pattern of unstable and intense relationships and (4) a complex traumatic stress disorder….. … Trauma based dissociative processes may underlie most of the symptoms described in the diagnostic criteria for BPD, including the apparently psychotic symptoms. More important, dissociation based in double binds inherent in chronic relational trauma may account for the essential characteristic of BPD, the instability of identity, affect, behavior and relationships. In BPD acute, episodic impairment in reality-testing is based on dissociative symptoms such as illusions, disorientation and flashbacks. A more pervasive and essential form of impairment of reality-testing is seen in BPD is based on polarized, severely distorted perceptions of self and other. These distortions may be patterned on the quality of attachment relationships with dysfunctional caregivers in childhood.
….. Transient, psychotic symptoms may be generated by the triggering of dissociated memories , emotions, and behaviors, leading to disorientation, perceptual distortions and illusions that interfere with reality- testing and the ability to cope with present day events….
Borderline personality may be best understood as a chronic relational trauma disorder, ensuing from contradictory, double-binding, caregiving relationships. The essential characterisctic of BPD – instability of identity, affect, behavior and relationships – is more characteristic of dissociative spectrum disorders than of personality disorders….
Attachment relationships with caregivers who are dissociative, psychotic or sociopathic involve thousands upon thousands of frightening, double-binding interactions that may impair the development of reality- testing in in a more pervasive and insidious manner than discrete traumatic events.
21.2 CAREGIVER PATHOLOGY, DOUBLE BINDS, DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT AND DISSOCIATED SELF –STATES
….. The childs ability to interpret people's motivation and behavior realistically can be seriously impaired by growing up with double-bind attachment relationships. To cope with caregivers contradictory demands, the child is forced to develop dissociated self-states in order to keep relational strategies for maintaining attachment separate from conflicting tactics to protect the self from frightening caregivers. In order to maintain perceptions of other that are consistent with a particular relational strategy, one aspect of the double-binding message may be routinely denied, discounted or dissociated. This can lead to a failure to perceive entire aspects of relational interchanges, such as body language, facial expression or tone of voice, as well as the inability to interpret their significance. This tendency to only see half the picture, to perceive only the signs indicating that a person is either dangerous or entirely trustworthy, has traditionally been called splitting. The alternations between idealizing and devaluing relationships in BPD is fundamentally the same as the switching between idealizing child states and angry perpetrator states in dissociative identity disorder (DID).
…. In order to maintain attachment to incomprehensible, frightening or abusive parents, the child becomes exquisitely attuned to the caregivers' thoughts, feelings and perceptions, and incorporates their behavior and relational patterns. Such parents may project their own thoughts, feelings and intentions onto the child, interfering with the childs ability to differentiate her own experience from that of the parent.
… Sociopathic parents deliberately deceive the child, and are often very practiced at presenting a false version of reality. In all of these cases, the childs experience is that people are not whom they appear to be, that people live in more than one reality and no one's perception of reality is necessarily to be trusted.�
I highly recommend this book, look over the table of contents on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Psychosis-Trauma- ... r=8-1#noop
From the back page, " This is the first book to give a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between dissociation and psychosis, from a wide range of clinical, research, historical and theoretical perspectives. "
Very informative throughout with some very interesting overlapping history with hypnosis. And it certainly is relevant to double binding in the troubled teen industry.
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Matt C. Hoffman:
Hi Awake,
Man oh man the double bind ,you are Damned if you do and you are Damned if you don't .
sorry I don't mean to reduce it to those few words. My pappy was a psychologist with a medical degree. He participated in the sterilazation of many female mental patients , back in the early 60's up until 72, at a well known state mental hospital here in Va . and it wasn't Central State .
You could say that I am very familar with the double bind from early on in my childhood. I never really understood it ,but from what you have posted I am now able to understand what went on, in my family and it puts elan in a better perspective than I previously held. With knowlede comes power.
I remember ricci telling(in front of his associate Dr. Davidson ) me at my only conference with other parts of my nuclear family that my pappy had himself on a pedestal and every time I succeed it threatened him. If I said that I liked my dads tie he would say that he didn't like it .If I said that the weather was nice dad would say no its too hot. Of course this came out of ricci's mouth .
I could see how some of this stuff was true at the time but I was never really able to understand it in the way that I do now because of your post and I thank you for this.
I now understand more now than ever when people various psychiartrists(shrinks) would tell me when I would be recovering from one of 4 suicide attempts in my life post elan (when ever I would talk about elan I would go into an amazing depressive downward spiral and needless to say I didn't talk about elan a lot ) that "elan was just an extension of my father".
I reckon I am very fortunate that I was a stong enough child to survive my fathers abuse and double bind type lunacy and then to survive (a suicide attempt in elan during my first few months of being in that hell) the extension of my father which was elan. I was there during the very violent times of elan 7/ '74 to 7/'76. It called itself the" bootcamp of life ", and after years (3 years old my peditrician noted in my medical records that there were bruises over my buttocks, pappy was a violent person) and years of my fathers emotional (stories I can tell) and physical abuse , since as far back as I can remember. I did not want to live in this life anymore that elan offered as the "bootcamp of life " Having made that decision I drank a bottle of qwell shampoo in a suicide attempt to make the pain that I had known my entire life go away. elan was a sick, brutal and twisted place that I have sorta spoken about before in various posts on this board. stuff that I witnessed , heard from the horses mouth , and stuff that happened to me . Yeah I was there. (God how I wish I hadn't been there )
Awake I thank you again for putting the knowledge out there,as with knowlede comes power. It is ironic how you can look at some of the postings here and see the double bind being played out on this board , some things WILL never change.
elan didn't hide the fact that it was playing mind control games for your complete autonomy ( ricci and the hoodlums probably thought they could get your soul also ) by the one phrase that never made any sense until I read this post by Awake (most grateful to you ) , the elan phrase was when you are looking good ,you are really looking bad. What the hell did that mean (retorical please don't answer , its JUST me venting ).
"elan was an extension of my pappy ", yeah I am a survivor of certain pains from hell and you know I have no clue how I made it except that deep down despite my pappy , despite elan and their desperate attempt to try to progam me to self destruct , I knew deep down in my soul that I was a good person. I also believe that I had assistance from that Great Spirit that has gone before me,and before all men , women and children.
I don't know Awake , just some thoughts on some knowledge that I am most grateful that you have posted , that has given me the words that I very badly needed .
I thank you again .
I would like to contribute a very interesting addition below, and to Matt,
I couldn't be more happy that this information was helpful to you. The Double Bind is a concept that is missing from most peoples' vocabulary and therefore when it is revealed that it is, in fact, a heavily utilized interpersonal tool, that awareness can cause a total re-evaluation of ambiguous past interactions that were unable to be understood and unable to be incorporated into your conscious understanding of certain contexts. Being that the epistemology of the Double Bind is at the very, VERY heart of every family therapy theory and recent approaches to intervention, I believe many survivors of programs tend to find information that puts their experience into context as it relates to intentional acts of Double Binding. It seems there is a lot of confusion over whether therapy is about revealing inhibitive binds, or installing them. I hope you find your way out.
Here's more for ya,
The Double Bind
The Intimate Tie Between Behavior and Communication
Patrice Guillaume
Our behaviors -- effective or not -- are learned. We do not develop in a vacuum. Rather, we learn to act and respond within a given context, and within that context our behaviors make sense. If we continue to use those same behaviors in new contexts the behaviors may seem frivolous or ineffectual; they may even be labeled as abnormal. Yet the behaviors did make sense within the context in which they were developed. In this paper I intend to explore schizophrenia and the borderline personality from the perspective of learned behaviors. I wish to explore the kinds of early interactions and influences that shape the individual who earns either of these diagnoses.
The classical approach is to view the schizophrenic in isolation from his environment. It is assumed that the schizophrenic is out of touch with "reality." Those who adhere to this perspective suggest that:
... regression to more primitive levels of thinking is a primary feature of schizophrenia. In essence, more highly differentiated and reality-oriented "secondary" thought processes, which follow the rules of logic and take external reality into consideration, are replaced by "primary" thought processes which involve illogical ideas, fantasy, and magical thinking. (Carson, 330)
In contrast, the interpersonal approach views the schizophrenic in relation to his environment, specifically his family of origin. In Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson discusses a theory of schizophrenia which was the result of a research project undertaken by Bateson, Don D. Jackson, Jay Haley, and John H. Weakland. The theory looks at the behavior of the schizophrenic within the context of his or her family. They suggest that schizophrenic behaviors "make sense" when viewed from this perspective. In other words, behaviors do not develop in isolation but as a result of our interactions.
Bateson suggests that the schizophrenic has "...trouble in identifying and interpreting those signals which should tell the individual what sort of message a message is, i.e., trouble with the signals of the same logical type as the signal `This is play.'" (1, 194)
For example, I ask my four-year-old stepson to hold his glass of milk with two hands; he does not follow my instructions, and he spills the milk. I call his attention to the fact that he did not follow my instructions. When he responds with, "I didn't follow the rules!" I know he and I are not communicating at the same logical level. My experience was that I wanted to discuss a specific incident in which he didn't follow my instructions and he spilled his milk as a result. His experience was that he seemed to be struggling with an abstract concept of "rules." Ideally, children's experience helps them learn to make those distinctions. During the development of the schizophrenic, however, something happens that interferes with his ability to do the same.
Bateson et al. suggest that a person caught in a "double bind" -- a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win" -- may develop schizophrenic symptoms. In the double bind there are two conflicting levels of communication and an injunction against commenting on the conflict. The following is an often-quoted example from their paper, Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia, which demonstrates this bind:
A young man who had fairly well recovered from an acute schizophrenic episode was visited in the hospital by his mother. He was glad to see her and impulsively put his arm around her shoulders, whereupon she stiffened. He withdrew his arm and she asked, "Don't you love me any more?" He then blushed, and she said, "Dear, you must not be so easily embarrassed and afraid of your feelings." The patient was able to stay with her only a few minutes more, and following her departure he assaulted an aide and was put in the tubs. (Watzlawick 12, 36)
In this scenario, the mother is giving her son conflicting verbal and nonverbal messages and he seems unable to respond to the discrepancy. According to Bateson's theory of logical types, the schizophrenic cannot comment about the meaning of his mother's communication.
According to Bateson, "The ability to communicate about communication, to comment upon the meaningful actions of oneself and others, is essential for successful social intercourse." In normal relationships we continually comment about the actions and communications of others, saying such things as, "I feel uncomfortable when you look at me that way," "Are you kidding me?" or "What do you mean by that?" In order for us to accurately discriminate the meaning of our own or another's communication we must be able to comment on the expression -- but the schizophrenic is effectively enjoined from such commentary.
According to Carlos Sluzki the double bind has the following characteristics:
(1) two or more persons; (2) repeated experience; (3) a primary negative injunction; (4) a secondary injunction conflicting with the first at a more abstract level, and like the first enforced by punishments or signals which threaten survival; (5) a tertiary negative injunction prohibiting the victim from escaping from the field; (6) finally, the complete set of ingredients is no longer necessary when the victim has learned to perceive his universe in double bind patterns. (9, 209)
Looking more closely at the double bind, Paul Watzlawick has described four variations on the theme. The first and probably the most frequently used is what he calls the "Be spontaneous" paradox. The wife who wants her husband to surprise her with flowers is experiencing this sort of dilemma. She is asking him to do something which by its nature must be spontaneous. "It is one of the shortcomings of human communication that there is no way in which the spontaneous fulfillment of a need can be elicited from another person without creating this kind of self-defeating paradox," says Watzlawick. (12, 15-26)
A second variation of the double bind involves a situation in which a person is chastised for a correct perception of the outside world. In this situation the child will learn to distrust his own sensory awareness in favor of the parent's assessment of the situation. One example would be the child who is raised in a violent household but is expected to see his parents as loving and peaceful. In later life this person will have a difficult time determining how to behave appropriately in a variety of situations. Indeed, this person will spend an inordinate amount of energy trying to decipher exactly how he "should" interpret the situation.
The third variation on the theme is one in which a person is expected to have feelings other than those he actually experiences. The mother who wants her child to "want" to do his or her homework falls into this category. The child will often end up feeling guilty when he or she cannot achieve the "proper" feelings.
The fourth variation, according to Watzlawick, occurs when we demand and prohibit at the same time. The parent who demands honesty while encouraging winning at any cost is placing the child in this kind of bind. The child is placed in a position of having to disobey in order to obey.
How will a person be affected by growing up in an environment where he or she cannot comment on these perceived discrepancies? Does that person eventually learn to trust only one part of their experience and to deny or distrust the rest?
In 1967 a team of researchers published the results of their further investigation of the double bind. They proposed that the operational component of the double bind is its pattern of disqualification -- the means by which one person's experience is invalidated as a result of the imposed bind. They cited five methods for disqualifying the previous communication. Evasion or a change of subject is the first method of disqualification. If the previous statement (a) does not clearly end a topic of discussion, and the next statement (b) does not acknowledge the switch in topic, then the second statement disqualifies the first statement:
a. Son: Can we go to the park and play soccer?
b. Father: What a beautiful day for working in the garden.
The second method of disqualification is sleight-of-hand. Sleight-of-hand occurs when the second response (b) answers the first (a) but changes the content of the previous statement:
a. Daughter: We have always gotten along well.
b. Mother: Yes, I've always loved you. . .
In the above example, the mother has responded to her daughter but has switched the issue from getting along well to love.
Literalization, the third type of disqualification, occurs when the content of the previous statement (a) is switched to a literal level in the second statement (b) with no acknowledgment of the change of frame:
a. Son: You treat me like a child.
b. Father: But you are my child.
The fourth method, status disqualification, happens when a person uses either personal status or superior knowledge to imply that the previous message is not valid:
a. Mother: I have observed that he doesn't play very well with the other children.
b. Son: But I do, Mama!
a. Mother: He doesn't realize because he is so little . . .
Redundant questions are used to imply doubt or disagreement without openly stating it:
a. Daughter: I get along well with everybody.
b. Mother: With everybody, Cathy?
The authors conclude their paper with the following observation:
We are consistently finding, in families with a schizophrenic member, disqualifications followed by special types of sequences, such as the ones described, which tend to consolidate the bind and hence reinforce idiosyncratic modes of interaction. In this process, which implies a whole style of relation with the world and in which certain stimuli are systematically denied, certain meanings are systematically repressed, lack of recognition is reinforced and rewarded, and clarification is punished -- in this, we concur in believing, might rest the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. (Sluzki 9, 228)
The Zen master holds a stick over his pupil's head and says, "If you tell me this stick is real, I will strike you with it. If you say to me this stick is not real, I will strike you with it. If you don't say anything, I will strike you with it."
Bateson suggests this is exactly the sort of situation a schizophrenic continually experiences. The Zen pupil may achieve enlightenment by taking the stick from his master's hands. The schizophrenic, by contrast, experiences disorientation and confusion, once again finding his way inexplicably blocked. Taking the stick away is not an option for the schizophrenic -- he is helplessly caught in another "can't win" situation. Through repeated experience with the double bind the schizophrenic finds himself limited in the options he has available to him.
Jay Haley takes a further look at schizophrenia from an interpersonal perspective. There is a basic rule of communications theory which maintains that it is virtually impossible for a person to "avoid defining, or taking control of the definition of, his relationship with another." In any relationship, one of the first things that needs to be adressed is what kind of relationship it will be. Relationships are defined as complementary or symmetrical. A symmetrical relationship is one in which the two parties match behaviors. If one person tells about a vacation he has had the second person responds by telling of a vacation he or she has just taken. What is emphasized here is the symmetry, how they are alike. These relationships tend to be competitive.
A complementary relationship is one in which the behaviors complement each other. One person teaches and the other learns; there is a give and take between behaviors. After listening to the first person tell about his vacation the second person would press for further information.
Over time the nature of relationships will shift. As a child matures he evolves from a complementary relationship with his parents to a more symmetrical relationship.
A complementary relationship usually exists between a teacher and the student. But, when the student asks a question which implies that he knows more than the teacher he is maneuvering to shift that relationship. The teacher can choose to re-establish the old relationship or allow the interaction to shift. "Such maneuvers are constantly being interchanged in any relationship and tend to be characteristic of unstable relationships where the two people are groping towards a common definition of their relationship." (4, 11)
It has been suggested that schizophrenics, as children, experienced a great deal of confusion in regards to defining their relationships as complementary or symmetrical. In other words, there was a great deal of mismatch between child and caretaker regarding the definition of their relationship. An example is the child who perceives the relationship as complementary and responds accordingly -- only to have the caretaker switch to a symmetrical relationship.
Is it any wonder then, that schizophrenic interactions, as described by Haley, are an attempt to avoid defining the nature of those relationships:
A person can avoid defining his relationship by negating any or all of these four elements. He can (a) deny that he communicated something, (b) deny that something was communicated, (c) deny that it was communicated to the other person, or (d) deny the context in which it was communicated. (4, 89)
People communicate at a multitude of levels. We can communicate with much more than just words. For example, our physical posture and gestures provide another level of communication as well as the pitch, tone and tempo of our speech. There are myriad possibilities for simultaneously relating to and denying relationship with another person. Schizophrenics are decidedly the masters at this craft, but examples abound in everyday life to demonstrate how this is done.
We are all familiar with mixed messages. The dog who simultaneously wags his tail and growls is one example. The man who responds to his wife's request that he help her in the kitchen by saying "Sure, I'll be happy to help you," as he settles deeper into his easy chair, is at once accepting her request for assistance and simultaneously communicating that he will not help her. The woman who says "I would love to help you but I have a headache," is defining her relationship as cooperative, while using her headache to negate the relationship.
Contrast these behaviors with that of the man who congruently says, "No, I won't help you," as he sits down in the chair. He has clearly defined his relationship as one in which he will not be told what to do. Similarly, how is a person to make sense of my communication if I say "I love you" in a flat voice while gazing in the other direction? The man says, "This subject is fascinating," while checking his watch. The woman asks her child if he wants to give her a hug as she pulls him toward her for a hug. These sorts of interactions are common in every day life. Much of our ability to make sense out of the world depends on our being able to recognize and comment upon the conflicting messages we receive.
The schizophrenic, on the other hand, is faced with the dilemma of deciphering to which part of the message he can safely respond, since commenting upon the discrepancy is not in the repertoire of behaviors available to him. I would imagine it is much like living in a battle zone where every communication is a threat to my personal safety. Faced with the task of discovering the meaning of another's communication while being prohibited from commenting on or acknowledging my own confusion seems like a terrifying proposition. Is it any wonder that schizophrenic communications are structured to avoid defining that a relationship exists?
It appears that, because of the early influence of repeatedly being caught in double binds, schizophrenics develop a defensive approach to communication which is tenacious in its ability to say something and say nothing at the same time. Their goal in life is not to be pinned down on any front. Unfortunately, they are as hopelessly trapped in their web of confusion as the people who come in contact with them.
According to James Masterson (The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age), the borderline personality is also a learned response to the childhood environment. Masterson contends that as a result of childhood influences a person can develop what he has termed a "false self" in order to protect the "real self" from further trauma. He suggests that the real self is oriented toward mastering reality; but once those efforts have been thwarted the false self shifts the orientation from that of mastering the environment to one of avoiding bad feelings.
In their book, I Hate You -- Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D., and Hal Straus identify five dilemmas which plague the borderline personality. They call the first "Damned if you do and damned if you don't." This refers to the kinds of communications borderlines give other people. The title of this book is a good example of this predicament. Another example is a woman I know who asked her boyfriend about his impressions of her amateur public performance about which she had misgivings. He replied "do you really want my honest opinion?" She insisted that she did. But when he told her his assessment of the performance -- which was not particularly encouraging -- she responded by telling him how wrong his perceptions actually were. Her communication was typical of the kind of confusing message that plagues the borderline's relationships.
A second tendency which they cite as typical of the borderline is "feeling bad about feeling bad." Rather than attempt to understand or cope with feelings, the borderline tries to get rid of unwanted feelings. The person who "should" be happy adds additional layers of guilt and other difficult emotions to an already depressed or angry persona -- contributing to a seemingly endless spiral of feeling bad about feeling bad.
The perennial victim is the third pattern they have observed. The borderline perceives herself at the mercy of the events and people around her. The woman whose happiness depends on her husband's financial success is one example of victim. The person who organizes his life such that the solutions to his problems lie in other people's hands is exhibiting a borderline tendency. "If only she understood me better ..." is one way that the victim puts the responsibility for his or her happiness on another person.
Fourth is the quest for meaning in life. Borderlines continually search for that which will fill the emptiness they experience. Relationships and drugs are two common solutions for filling this void.
The borderline's perennial search for constancy is the fifth behavior observed. The borderline exists in a world that is untrustworthy and inconsistent. Friendships, jobs, and skills are always in question. The borderline lacks the ability to experience consistency and predictability. It is as if all their experience is for naught. A woman I know has taken dance lessons for almost fifteen years and still she cannot see herself as a dancer; she seems to lack an ability to trust and rely on her skills.
The sixth and last element of the borderline personality is what the authors characterize as the "rage of innocence." Borderline rage is unpredictable and intense when it surfaces. Sparked by seemingly insignificant events, it can appear without warning and often carries the threat of real violence.
In considering the roots of the borderline personality, Masterson suggests that John Bowlby's research into the infant-caretaker attachment is significant. Bowlby studied the mourning process that children aged 13-32 months experienced when they were separated from their mothers as a result of hospitalization for physical illness.
Bowlby noted three stages of mourning that these children went through as a result of the separation from their caretaker. The first stage is protest and can last a few hours up to several weeks.
In the second stage, hopelessness, the child: sinks into despair and may even stop moving. He tends to cry monotonously or intermittently, and becomes withdrawn and more inactive, making no demands on the environment as the mourning state deepens. (6, 58)
In the third stage, detachment, the child no longer rejects nurses, but when the mother returns to visit, the strong attachment to the mother typical of children this age is strikingly absent. Instead of greeting her, he may act as if he hardly knows her; instead of clinging to her he may remain remote and apathetic; instead of dissolving in tears when she leaves, he will most likely turn listlessly away. He seems to have lost all interest in her.
Masterson realized that these same three stages of mourning and the defenses they produced were evident in his own adolescent and adult borderline patients:
I came to recognize that when my patients go through a separation experience that they have been defending themselves against all their lives, they seem to react just like Bowlby's infants in the second stage of despair. The separation brings on a catastrophic set of feelings, which I have called an abandonment depression. To defend against this mental state, they retreat into the defensive patterns encouraged by the false self, which they have learned over the years will ward off this abandonment depression.
In adults without a sense of their real self, the abandonment depression symbolizes a replaying of an infantile drama: The child returned for support and encouragement, but the mother was unavailable or unable to provide it. The acknowledgment and approval, so crucial to developing the capacities of expression, assertiveness, and commitment, were simply not there. (6, 59)
Masterson suggests that what characterizes the borderline personality is an over-reliance on primitive defense mechanisms learned in early childhood: denial and clinging, avoidance and distancing, projection and acting out.
"In order to establish a coherent sense of self, the child in the first three years of life must learn that she is not a fused, symbiotic unit with the mother" says Masterson (6, 51). How is this to be accomplished? In his book, A Secure Base, Bowlby discusses the elements he considers most necessary to allow this process to take place in children:
. . . the ordinary sensitive mother is quickly attuned to her infant's natural rhythms and, by attending to the details of his behaviour, discovers what suits him and behaves accordingly. By so doing she not only makes him contented but also enlists his cooperation. . . .
This brings me to a central feature of my concept of parenting -- the provision by both parents of a secure base from which a child or an adolescent can make sorties into the outside world and to which he can return knowing for sure that he will be welcomed when he gets there, nourished physically and emotionally, comforted if distressed, reassured if frightened. In essence this role is one of being available, ready to respond when called upon to encourage and perhaps assist, but to intervene actively only when clearly necessary. (2, 9-11)
What happens in early development to interfere with the child's efforts to develop a sense of self -- an identity which is separate and distinct from that of the caretaker? Kreisman and Straus contend that a large amount of anecdotal and statistical evidence exists to demonstrate that children who have been abused or neglected can be linked to borderline tendencies as adults.
Masterson suggests that many of his borderline clients had mothers who themselves had an impaired sense of self. Consequently the mothers are not able to provide the secure base from which the child can venture out and explore the world. He cited one example of a mother with low self esteem and a fear of separation who tended to foster this fear of separation in her child. She encouraged him to remain dependent on her in order to maintain her own emotional equilibrium:
She seemed to be overwhelmingly threatened by her child's emerging individuality, which sounded as a warning that he was destined to leave her eventually forever. Not being able to handle what she perceived as abandonment, she was unable to support the child's efforts to separate from her and express his own self through play and exploration of the world. Her defensive maneuvers to avoid her own separation anxieties entailed clinging to the child to prevent separation and discouraging his moves toward individuation by withdrawing her support. (6, 54-55)
Consider what Masterson has suggested about the possible roots of the borderline personality: it looks like the ultimate double bind -- a world that expects one to grow up and become self sufficient while the caretaker is rewarding that same person for remaining dependent and helpless.
Twenty years after the double bind theory of schizophrenia was published, one of the authors, John Weakland, published a paper in which he suggested that perhaps they had focused too closely on schizophrenia. He suggests that the real significance of the theory was its viewpoint that behavior and communication are closely tied. This theory was diametrically opposed to the established paradigm that emotional problems are a response to intrapsychic conflicts. Perhaps, he suggested, the double bind has far reaching effects in many kinds of emotional disturbance, and its explorations should not be limited to cases with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Carlos Sluzki seems to have come to the same conclusion in his paper with the provocative title The Double Bind as a Universal Pathogenic Situation.
Sluzki notes that a child passes through three evolutionary stages:
(1) infantile dependence, marked by a relative lack of differentiation between the self and the non-self and a preponderance of the incorporation or the "taking" of objects; (2) transition; and (3) mature dependency, characterized by "relations between two independent beings who are completely differentiated; and by a predominance of giving" in object relations. (10, 231)
The transitional stage ushers in the core dilemma of all mental development: Dependence versus independence.
The child's developmental task is to balance the need for security and dependence with his or her need to move toward independence. If the parents are to facilitate the child's emergence from dependence to independence they will need "to stimulate the impulse towards independence and to neutralize the needs for dependency." (10, 231) Without the parents' encouragement, it is difficult for the child to face the uncertainty and risks along the road to independence.
Sluzki describes three modes of relationship between parent and child; this includes those areas of a child's life where he is dependent, independent or moving from dependence to independence with parents' help and supervision. For example, dependence is when a child cannot get to school without his parents' assistance.
Independence is when the child can get himself to school without assistance. The third area entails that point in time where perhaps the child, with parents' assistance and encouragement, is learning the route to and from school but is not ready to do it for himself.
As a child proceeds through life he and his parents must constantly redefine where those boundaries are. At best this is a very complex task; if parents are unclear themselves about these boundaries, then their children will have to contend with a great deal of confusion about what they can and cannot do.
One example of a double bind that inhibits the child's growth toward independence is a parent who is in conflict about the desire for the child to be independent and the desire for the child to "be perfect." A child's ability to think and behave creatively will become increasingly limited if, for example, he is told to think for himself and then second-guessed as to his choice of actions. I know an otherwise responsible young man who spilled paint thinner and just walked away from it because he didn't know what he should use to clean it up. He seemed to be caught in a "damned if I do, damned if I don't" kind of experience. He seemed to think it would be better to walk away from the mess then to be criticized for using the wrong implement to clean it up. He has found it safer to retreat into helplessness and dependence rather than risk making a mistake on his road to independence.
Exploring these kinds of common binds may give us useful insights into the behavior of the borderline personalities and schizophrenics. Could it be that the behavior which we see exhibited by each diagnosis is a different manifestation of the same communications knot -- the double bind? If so, then it may be that a major role of therapy is to unravel the conscious and unconscious double binds so that the individual can reorient himself toward more useful goals and motivations.
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Teaching someone who has no musical experience how to play a song that becomes recognizable. I delight in watching a student's joy when they master a technique they thought they could never do.
I'm not in a band or performing currently. I occasionally perform with a friend for an open mic but haven't done that in quite a while. I have worked with several bands up to about 2010.
Steve started teaching at age 14 when his guitar teacher became ill and asked him to teach the other students. The teacher was not able to return to teaching so Steve continued on and will probably never stop. He taught at several music stores including a store in Marion, Indiana and several in Fort Wayne. He teaches several different styles and age groups, specializing in beginner and intermediate guitar, bass, mandolin, and ukulele.


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New WebMD survey shows American teens stressed
By Beth Galvin
ATLANTA - We all have stress in our lives, but some teens are so stressed, it's making them physically ill, according to a recent WebMD survey of more than 500 parents.
Teen girls were more likely than teen boys to feel stressed and exhibit signs of being under pressure, their parents reported.
WebMD pediatrician and contributor Dr. Hansa Bhargava says the two leading sources of stress for teens are pressure at school and conflict with their parents.
"And their time is divided by many things," Bhargava says. "And that includes not only homework, but a lot of activities. Everyone has pressure to get into college, and in addition, to that we've got the layer of media."
Dr. Bhargava says parents really can't control how much homework their teen is assigned, but they can help them better cope with it by helping them learn to manage their time more efficiently.
"If we can actually help the kids to realize, 'Yes we have an assignment. Yes we have this project.' And, we actually help them manage their time. Because executive function skills, which is what they call it, they take a little bit of time to develop."
The WebMD survey found nearly half of teens are stressed enough to experience physical symptoms ranging from stomach problems to headaches to chest pain.
But teens also showed physical symptoms. A third of parents said their teens had experienced sadness or depression, problems sleeping and anxiety or panic attacks.
Once challenge? Parents have less time with teens. And technology makes the time they do have more difficult to connect.
"But at the end of the day it is all about old-fashioned parenting," says Bhargava. "So, communicating with your kids, talking, making time for conversation."
And the WebMD survey also found 40% parents snoop on their teenagers.
"So they're following their teen on social media," says Bhargava. "Or (they're) looking at their texts, looking at their phone calls. So I think that's just a reflection of how parents are trying to deal with the overwhelming media in our life. But the truth is, the danger is everywhere."
So, Bhargava says snoop less and talk more.
"Why," she asks. "Because your teen will eventually be in a space where you're not going to be there."
You can read more about the study:
www.webmd.com/teen-stress
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