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When we talk about sex and romance on campus, we need to go holistic. This means recognizing the attitudes, assumptions, and expectations that we bring to our social and sexual interactions, and the ways these manifest in campus traditions and day-to-day practices.
Sometimes, attending to the unwanted "details" of our social culture—like a negative stereotype or an offhand comment—can feel like an unnecessary luxury. Understandably, we may feel it is more important to address violence and coercion directly. But those everyday negative interactions provide camouflage for the violence and coercion. When disrespect and disregard are normalized, it becomes more difficult for us to notice them escalating into behaviors that are undeniably harmful.
We all strive for a culture in which respect is the norm, and not only because such a culture is our most effective protection against sexual assault. A positive sexual culture makes space for encounters that are respectful, pleasurable, and satisfying for everyone.
To review your own campus culture and embrace positive practices, click on any element.
What are "cultural camouflage" and "unsexy sex"?
Sometimes we talk about campus sexual culture as though it falls neatly into two categories: sex that is enthusiastic and mutually consensual, and sexual violence. But that ignores large categories of interactions.
Consider these:
- Sexual experiences that are consensual but not pleasurable or enthusiastic for everyone involved—the "unsexy sex," described by Dr. Nicola Gavey, professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, who studies the ways that cultural norms influence sexual behavior.
- Instances of casual disregard and disrespect, and low-level pressure; for example, denigrating sexualities and desires that are different from our own.
In any culture that normalizes low-level pressure and disrespect, it is more difficult to spot acts of force and coercion. In other words, a culture of disrespect provides camouflage for violence. It functions as "the cultural scaffolding" of sexual assault, according to Dr. Gavey.
The dynamics of disrespect are particularly powerful in some parts of our culture, on and off campus. These spaces, traditions, and practices tend to share the following characteristics:
- Rigid, inflexible roles and expectations (especially based
on gender)
- Tolerance for offensive comments, pressuring dynamics, and other low-level discomfort
- A lack of bystander intervention
- A feeling of resignation; e.g., "Yeah, our community is not great, but there's nothing anyone can do about it"
- Minimizing the importance of pleasure and desire (especially female pleasure)
Why focus on building a positive culture?
A positive culture is the best protection against sexual violence
When discrimination, double standards (especially gendered ones), and disrespect go unchecked, sexual violence is more common, research shows.
In contrast, when respect and mutuality are expected, it's much easier to spot people and behaviors that go against that norm. People who try to manipulate, pressure, or take advantage of others become more visible. In this environment, no one would win any cool points for objectifying others or making disparaging comments about other people's sexuality. Instead, we would celebrate those who are kind and attentive to their partners and peers.
"If we as a campus culture adopt enthusiastic consent as a cultural value, and the idea of sex as a pleasurable, creative concept, then the rapists among us become obvious. The rest of us are going to stop making excuses for the rapists," says Jaclyn Friedman, sexual assault survivor and author of What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety (Seal Press, 2011).
A positive culture takes work, and is also rewarding
Building shared community values can be a powerful experience. Communities feel more connected and supportive when the people in them have a clear idea of what they want their culture to be like and are actively working toward that ideal. That's according to Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Broadway Business, 2010), by Chip Heath of Stanford University, and Dan Heath of Duke University, which examines individual, organizational, and societal transformations.
Creating a positive culture makes room for creativity and resourcefulness. It invites us to rethink the disempowering or discouraging aspects of our culture and replace them with empowering practices. Cultural and organizational change may seem like an ambitious, abstract goal. But it's achievable. Change is successful when it capitalizes on people's identity (rather than external incentives); for example, when we see ourselves as helpers and active bystanders, according to Switch. Community change also requires a "growth mindset," a shared goal and belief that the effort will be effective and worthwhile.
What this looks like
- Certain party themes—pirates and wenches, quarterbacks and cheerleaders, etc. dictate how men and women should dress and behave. While these events are often driven by good intentions, they disempower people whose personal values and desires don't align with the party's expectations (generally or in that moment). A more creative and flexible party theme opens up more possibilities. It also empowers everyone to be true to who they are.
- Positive change involves people inspiring each other. In a study involving 60 college students who reported drinking heavily, a brief intervention provided them with feedback on how much their peers actually drank (less than the students assumed) and other issues. Six weeks later, those students were consuming less alcohol less often, according to the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (2000).
A positive culture creates the community we really want
Focusing on the dynamics of sexual assault rarely addresses less sinister but still objectionable dynamics, such as being an inconsiderate member of the community or a selfish sexual partner.
These behaviors are beyond the reach of laws and university or college regulations. That makes sense. Most forms of rudeness or disregard can't be effectively outlawed or disciplined—nor would we want them to be.
Instead, it's on us to build a culture that consistently fosters kindness and respect, and to establish those values as social norms. The power of social norms lies in their ability to shift attitudes and set more positive expectations. New community members match their behavior to the norms they see around them. Shifting our social norms is the most effective way to create sustainable, long-lasting change.
Encourage mindful behaviors
The vast majority of people care deeply about their communities and the people around them. In a culture that encourages mindful actions and decision-making, we have opportunities and motivation to act on those commitments. Wherever possible, we can work on creating spaces for ourselves and others to reflect, check in, and make thoughtful decisions.
We do this by working against rigid gender roles and "scripted" interactions. For example:
- All too frequently, we expect men to initiate sexual or romantic interactions and women to act as "gatekeepers" by rebuffing those advances. That's a dangerous dynamic because it doesn't account for what the people want—they simply follow a script. How can you and your community validate a range of roles for people of all genders? How can you incorporate this approach into your traditions and daily practices?
- Often, we use terms such as "dating" or "hooking up" as though they have a singular meaning. In reality, sexual and romantic relationships come in all forms and configurations. People vary greatly in what they expect out of such relationships and what they enjoy. How might you affirm relationships and interactions of varying forms that have the potential to be pleasurable and fulfilling for those involved?
What we want our sexual and romantic lives to look like varies greatly from one person to the next. Figuring that out can take work. Some of this happens individually, and much of it takes place in conversation with people we love and respect: partners, friends, and communities. Wherever possible, work to build a community that has reflective, mindful conversations about pleasure, desire, and values.
Build respect
- Make it abundantly clear that your house, apartment, residence hall, or student organization is no place for pressure or disregard. Agree on your house rules and post them where they are visible to everyone. This is a great way to establish clear expectations about how people should behave and treat one another.
- Consider having designated hosts at parties. Encourage people to touch base with them if anything comes up. This fosters a stronger sense of community support and accountability.
- Support your friends when one of you notices a troubling dynamic. Make it a habit to step in or ask for help when you see something worrisome.
- Practice what you preach. Respect your own desires and those expressed by your partners. When you're unsure, check in and ask.
Make space for more options
If a more positive option is available and accessible, people will almost always choose it.
Some aspects of campus sexual culture can be rigid. In our communities, there may be pressure to embody gendered roles and to approach encounters in limited ways. Ask yourself and your peers these questions:
- Do your communities, events, and traditions allow people to participate in a variety of ways? For example, is there room for people who want to drink a little bit or not at all? For those who are interested in meeting new people? For those who want to hang out in a group rather than in a couple?
- Can you share stories of positive encounters that were unexpected or non-traditional? There are a number of dangerous myths about campus sexual culture, such as the false beliefs that everyone wants to be having more sex than they are currently having, that no one wants to date because everyone is looking for hookups, that "casual" sexual encounters can't be intimate, and so on. Sharing diverse experiences and stories is a powerful way of disrupting these myths and offering more positive alternatives.
Strengthen community
The communities you know and understand best are ones you are already a part of. These are also the communities in which you will be best positioned to make a difference. What do you notice? Who can you collaborate with?
The first step is answering these questions:
- What do we want?
- What are our goals and why?
- If everything went as well as it possibly could, what would our community look like?
When you and others are driven by a clearer vision of what your community would ideally look like, you can begin to re-evaluate the elements of your culture, including traditions, expectations, practices, and attitudes. When thinking about how your culture can become more positive and respectful, always look for allies.
For example, if you're planning an initiation for your student group:
- How do you want the new members to feel? What kind of experience do you want them to have? Generally, initiations are about getting new members to bond together and feel welcome in the group. Do you have more specific goals? Why? How does this connect with your group's mission or values?
- How can you shape initiation so that your goals are accomplished? If you want a community that looks out for one another, how can you set that tone? If you want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their full personality into the space, are there ways of modeling that?
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard: Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Broadway Business, 2010
Sexual empowerment webinars & info: Amy Jo Goddard
What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame–Free Guide to Sex and Safety: Jaclyn Friedman
Seal Press, 2011
Step Up! intervention program: University of Arizona
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Rays need a Chant Tradition
Some people within the Internet ranks have stated recently that the Tampa Bay Rays fan base has a extreme case of inferiority complex compared to the fans of the New York region. I have to admit, that definitely was true back before 2006 when New York Yankee fans used to refer to Tropicana Field as "Yankee Stadium South" because of the over flow of pinstripes and "Jeter" jerseys patrolling the hallways before a Rays versus Yankees contest. But that is not been true since 2008.
During 2005, a typical Yankee versus Rays game had more opposition crowd noise to almost make it sound like a home game for the Yankees. But slowly and surely the Rays hometown crowd has begun to get behind their team and even began to turn the crowd towards wearing Rays gear, with a smattering of Red Sox jerseys for color. And that is huge loyalty adjustment for this region based on its fickle transient ways. There is such a large geographic-based cultural divide in the Tampa Bay area that most of the Northern transplants hail from somewhere within the Northeast sections of the United States.
And with that number of transplants increasing yearly, this merry band of baseball fanatics have brought with them a clash of baseball traditions and team loyalties. I have no problems with a person who was born even within an hour or so of New York City wearing Yankee stripes. I also can totally honor and respect the idea of someone from Maine following the Red Sox even if they had never even been to Boston. That regional love fest is a gimme and totally acceptable in my book. Regional pride is a good thing.
Personally, I feel that this inferiority garbage is totally in the past. I am serious. if you have attended either a Red Sox or a Yankees series at Tropicana Field since the start of the 2007 season, you will have noticed a slow reversal of the crowd noise depicting a mostly Yankee/Red Sox vibe in the stands. I am not trying to evoke that Rays fans have started to outnumber their pinstripe or brethren with with the red "B" on their caps, but they have definitely gotten into the vocal chimes and crowd actions to silence the opposition in recent years.
And you have to also throw in that winning has brought out more people to exhibit Rays pride, and even some of the rival crowd has been converted. I know personally a few fans who used to flaunt their Northern colors, but now only do it when their home team is in town. The rest of the season they fly Rays colors to support the local team. And that reaction took years, not just two winning seasons for them to show loyalties to both teams.
I am not implying that there is a Rays revival meeting going on somewhere around the Trop. during every home game, but the passion for this team can be infectious sometimes. As the Rays also establish winning traditions on the field, the crowd will also develop and transform their own sense upon the game from the stands. But until that revolution happens, the Rays front office (Fan Experience) has given the Rays fans the perfect tool to irritate and bring some rival chants to a complete halt.
Most visiting fans throw the main culprit of this Rays noise revolution onto the innocent cowbell. Yes, that shiny metal object that that can produce a sound found so revolting to rival fans they sometimes cringe when people pull them out of their bags. This small musical weapon has been their instrument of choice to helping the Rays gain back their home stadium edge.
I know most people will insist that it is the large Latin Percussion cowbell ( I used to bang one prior to 2009) wielding fans have drown out most of the opposing noise, but 8,000 little cowbells still make a heck of a racket when they are used during games. And you would be surprised how fast the Rays Team Store sells out of any type of specially insignia cowbell. This one item has been instrumental in recent years of squashing noise and chants within the walls of the Trop.
And how many times have you heard a rival fan, MLB blogger, or even a network sports announcer curse and admonish the Rays fans because of those little noisemakers. The simple cowbell has become the weapon of choice for Rays fans who do not have the time honored traditions and ceremonial cheers established for decades by our rivals. Give the Rays fans time, and you know they will develop another set of cheers, then the mighty cowbells will slowly die down as the new Rays noise makers takes control of the stadium.
Last season, the Raysvision crew and the Rays Fan Experience department made a short animated video showing the Maddon's Maniac symbol Screamer mouthing the words and rhythms to the White Stripes "Seven Nation Army". This song has been a traditional crowd favorite used all throughout the U.S. and Europe during soccer games and seems to have caught on at Rays games in 2009.
Not to say this will translate into anything like the "official" Rays chant, but it is a starting point beyond swinging metal cowbells for 9 innings. But I have to admit, hearing the Rays crowd do the "Seven Nations Army" chant does make a perfectly awesome sound when you get at least 4,000 people voicing it over and over again during the opposing pitching changes. Traditions take time to get a foundation and to get firmly implanted in our minds and routinely followed by a team's faithful fans.
I totally respect the Yankee Bleacher Creatures for their "Roll Call" chants during Yankee home games. It is a way for the fans and the players to interact without interfering directly with the game action. And that custom was developed over time. Sure one guy or a group of fans started it the first time, but with time it has grown into an honored Yankee tradition. And the Rays need to establish their own signature chant or cheer. And with time, and trail and error, the Rays fans will find that perfect vocal response during games. And with that perfection will spawn more traditions.
Over the last few years the Rays have used a number of ways for the fans to react during games, and the one that seems to have gained some ground floor sentiment is the "Feel the Heat" campaign. During Rays big plays . the Raysvision crew has popped up the short and concise chant and Rays fans have adopted and even added a twist to it. People have begun to throw up the classic surfer "Hang 10" sign and turned it horizontal to look like a ray swimming. Sure it might be a bit quirky, and some say "totally ripped off", but it is an honest start to establishing a lasting Rays tradition.
So the Rays really do not have an inferiority complex, but a lack of a solid tradition and team personality that other teams have evolved and change for more than 100 years. This is not to say that within a year or maybe two the Rays will have an overpowering chant,cheer or even a stadium crowd event that will overwhelm rival teams fans. But the machine is in motion, and with the off season comes a chance to experiment and maybe redefine Rays traditions.
When Stuart Sternberg and his crew took over the team they changes the logo, uniform colors and the general feel of the franchise from the ground up. This quick transition in November 2007 might have also stunted the growth of solid traditions for the team, but the newly established Rays franchise was evoking winning and a change of attitude from within the organization outward to the fans. It has been a success so far, and the future looks bright to see more exciting changes with the Rays fan base.
The first person who ever did "The Wave" must have had the people in the seating section next to him thinking he was an escaped mental patient, but slowly the crowd action caught on and it is now an International crowd event. When was the last time you went to any sporting event and someone did not try and start a "Wave"?
Oh, and for those people in the northeast regions of this country who hate those pesky cowbells. How soon you forget that the tradition started in the state of New York at Brooklyn Dodger baseball games by a little old lady who sat in the outfield used to ring her cowbell to show support for her team. Some traditions fall, some traditions linger. But the best traditions are the ones that get people excited and eager to participate every time someone starts them.
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How would any chant be heard over the cowbells, anyway? ;)
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Actually, I have a feeling the cowbell will begin to disappear when we get some comparable to the Boston and New York chants.
Nothing like hearing the Rays fans get louder right after the " Let's Go Red Sox/Yankees" chants in the Trop.
Sometimes you can hear them, but for the most part it is becoming a Rays crowd.
And that is a good thing. Rays attendance the last two seasons has risen about 35 percent according to the ABC coalition that is studying the Rays stadium issue.
Rays Renegade
Thanks again.
The photo was taken when I interviewed him during a Rays game when he was sitting in the Checkers Bullpen Cafe.
And the run onto the turf at the Trop and attack the GIECO sign was amazing.
Just wish I had my Flip camera at the time and would have recorded the moment.
Rays Renegade
The core of the fan base seems to be solid.
And with the next generation of Rays fans in their teens, the future is bright.
We just need to have a nice upswing in the next two years to keep the Rays front office at least positive in the area and the ability to get people in the stadium doors.
2010 is suppose to have a few more fan surprises, but it is too early to talk about them now.
Rays Renegade
Thanks for your response, Renegade. I genuinely do not like the cowbell, but I certainly agree that it can only be good for the entire division if you get steady fan support on a consistent basis. A catchy chant can help. I hope fan support does not diminish after the season you had in 08, since, even if fans don't like this move or that move for players, the fans can see that the Rays are looking to remain competitive and challenge for the AL East crown. That should benefit the entire AL East. Take care.
Yes, of course, other fans hate the cowbell. But I hate the thunderstix at Angel Stadium too – and the white homer hankies at the Metrodome. It's only natural for fans of one team to poke fun at the signature symbol of the others. So I say keep up the cowbells no matter what the rest of us say. It's the Rays' thing!
I totally dig the cowbells. If I'm in the other room with the MLB Tonight show on in the background I definitely know when they're doing a live look-in at the trop because of that familiar sound… plus, it's got a very world/euro/s. american feel to it… like all those soccer fans, y'know. MORE COWBELLS! Throw a chant in if ya want (you could start one, Cliff) but the bells are the thing and I dig it.
I left the Thuderstix out because I have a nice little story about them in 2009.
Twice a season the Rays have Park and Recreation Day at Trop games usually on Thursday afternoon.
Well, Kansas City was in town for one of them, and guess who was on the mound> Mr crowd anxiety himself Zack Geinke.
That was the game he scolded the Trop and the Rays after the game in an MLB.com article.
But I agree they have a deafening effect on everyone within two rows of the clapping plastic air baloons.
I know they drove you crazy in Angels Stadium with those things. Surprised no Angesl fans was hurt during the promo from oddly inserted Thunderstix.
Rays Renegade
I have told people the cowbells are an acquired taste.
You bang them to upset rival fans, but sometimes people do not know "The Rules".
Heck, the Rays Fan Experience crew actually made a Cowbell video with some common sense rules for fans.
Most play by the rules, but then you have some people who are above the law…..Judge Dred style.
Rays Renegade
The cowbells are off-putting to me because they remind me of a hoedown or square dancing to bad music….LOL Ok, they are not so bad, just very loud!
It is funny how the small ones can cause the most noise if they get into unison.
But the people with the Big Latin Percussion bells get all the negative attention (Cowbell Kidd).
Well, we are Southern, so a hoedown is not always a bad thing (lol).
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BOSTON—Northeastern scored once in each period and got 34 saves from Chris Rawlings to shut out the Harvard men's hockey team, 3-0, Wednesday night at Matthews Arena.
The Huskies (7-10-4) withstood a strong start by Harvard (3-13-0) and claimed the lead for good in the final minute of the first period. Raphael Girard made 34 saves in his first collegiate start and the first of three Crimson games in four days. It was the team's first game since 1997 at the 100-year-old Matthews, formerly known as Boston Arena and once a home rink for Harvard.
The Crimson came out firing. The game was barely five minutes old when Rawlings had already come up with four point-blank saves. By the 6:00 mark, the scoreboard showed a 7-2 shots advantage for Harvard. Girard's first tough saves came with his body on a nifty move by Braden Pimm and with his glove on a power-play point shot from Jamie Olekiak.
The Huskies survived a barrage on the other end around the 14:00 mark, with Wade MacLeod clearing a Matt McCollem shot off the goal line. They took the lead 53 seconds before the intermission, when Steve Quailer skated around the left side of the zone, moved back to the middle and slid the puck inside the far post. The play was reviewed because Pimm was standing in the Harvard crease when Quailer shot, but the goal stood up for a 1-0 NU lead after one period.
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SAN FRANCISCO–For as long as he can remember, 7-year-old Timmy Yu has had one precious dream: From the bottom of his heart, he has hoped against hope that God would someday hear his prayer to walk again. Though many thought Timmy's heavenly plea would never be answered, his dream finally came true Monday, when the Lord personally responded to the wheelchair-bound boy's prayer with a resounding no.
"I knew that if I just prayed hard enough, God would hear me," said the joyful Timmy, surrounded by stuffed animals sent by well-wishing Christians from around the globe, as he sat in the wheelchair to which he will be confined for the rest of his life. "And now my prayer has been answered. I haven't been this happy since before the accident, when I could walk and play with the other children like a normal boy."
God's response came at approximately 10 a.m. Monday, following a particularly fervent Sunday prayer session by little Timmy. Witnesses said God issued His miraculous answer in the form of a towering column of clouds, from which poured forth great beams of Divine light and the music of the Heavenly Hosts. The miraculous event took place in the Children's Special Care Ward of St. Luke's Hospital, where Timmy goes three times a week for an excruciating two-hour procedure to drain excess fluid from his damaged spinal column.
Said Angela Schlosser, a day nurse who witnessed the Divine Manifestation: "An incredible, booming voice said to Timmy, 'I am the Lord thy God, who created the rivers and the mountains, the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. Before Me sits My beloved child, whose faith is that of the mustard seed from which grows mighty and powerful things. My child, Timmy Yu, I say unto you thus: I have heard your prayers, and now I shall answer them. No, you cannot get out of your wheelchair. Not ever."
Paralyzed in a 1996 auto accident that also claimed the lives of both his parents, Timmy has served as a shining example to his fellow churchgoers at Lord In Heaven On High Church, inspiring others with his simple, heartfelt devotion. Now that Timmy has received an answer, Christians the world over are celebrating his story as a stirring testament to the power of faith.
"The Lord has answered a little boy's plea to know if he would ever walk again, and that answer was no," Rev. H. Newman Gunther of the San Francisco School Of Divinity said. "For years, this boy had been plagued by the question of whether or not he would ever walk, and now Our Lord, in his wisdom and mercy, has forever laid to rest any lingering doubt. Young Timmy can rest assured in the immutable truth that the Lord has bestowed upon him. Now and for all time, he finally knows that he will never escape the cruel prison of his chair of iron, for God hath willed it so. Praise be to God!"
Asked for comment, God said: "This kind-hearted child's simple prayer hath moved Me. Never before have I seen such faith. His trusting soul, so full of innocent devotion to Me, hath offered seventy times seven prayers asking, 'God? Can I please walk again?' It was indeed right and fitting that I, in My infinite wisdom, should share with him the One True Answer to this long-repeated question he put before Me."
"My will be done," God added.
Witnesses to the miracle said Timmy begged God for several minutes to change His mind and heal his shattered vertebrae, but the Lord stood firm.
"God strongly suggested that Timmy consider praying to one of the other intercessionary agents of Divine power, like Jesus, Mary or maybe even a top saint," Timmy's personal physician, Dr. William Luttrell, said. "The Lord stressed to Timmy that it was a long shot, but He said he might have better luck with one of them."
Despite all the attention he has received, Timmy remains humble in the face of his newfound notoriety as the only human ever to have a prayer directly answered by God Himself.
"I know that God loves me, because it says so in the Bible," Timmy said. "So right now, I am just glad that God took the time to answer my prayer. If only I could walk, this would be the greatest day of my life."


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Round 1 of the Rip Curl Women's Search was completed today in clean-yet-shifty three-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at the backup venue of Belgas.
Event No. 4 of 7 on the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour, the Rip Curl Women's Pro Search commenced immediately following the completion of the Rip Curl Pro Search (won by Mick Fanning (AUS), 28) this morning at Supertubos, but event organizers opted to hunt down the best possible conditions on offer at midday, setting on the offshore, punchy peaks of Belgas.
Melanie Bartels (HAW), 27, current ASP Women's World No. 4, took to reeling Belgas walls with style, punch and bite, securing the highest-scoring wave of the day, an 8.00 out of a possible 10, for blasting a roping left with some sharp hits on her backhand. Her heat total (also the highest of the day) of a 13.17 out of a possible 20 was enough to edge past opponents Samantha Cornish (AUS), 29, and Alana Blanchard (HAW), 19.
"It's always good to find some place different to surf and to have the Rip Curl Search Pro and you don't know where it will be, it is really good," Bartels said. "I've been looking forward to this event all year. I am just happy to get a good start on the first day of competition."
Bartels is hoping her past experience in Portugal will serve her well throughout the course of the event, as the progressive Hawaiian eyes another solid result to boost her ASP Women's World Tour rating.
"I have been here twice before and everywhere I have been it has been so good," Bartels said. "Stoked to be here and experience a different break, I am just stoked to be here and be surfing."
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 21, reigning two-time ASP Women's World Champion and current ASP Women's World No. 1, was another standout in the Round 1 action at Belgas, casually dismantling the shifting peaks at Belgas on her backhand to secure a 12.00 out of a possible 20 heat total and advance through to Round 3.
Having witnessed the majority of the men's action from the past week, Gilmore is keen to apply the inspiration to a strong performance of her own in Portugal.
"I was saying to a couple of the girls that I feel like the event is over," Gilmore said. "We have watched the boys and it was awesome to see Mick (Fanning) do well. He has been on fire the whole European leg and it was good to watch and learn from that and use that in my own game out here."
Presently embroiled in a tight race for the 2009 ASP Women's World Title with current ASP Women's World No. 2, Silvana Lima (BRA), 24, Gilmore is unfazed when discussing the battle, citing the several events remaining in the season and numerous scenarios that can play out.
"The pressure is on both of us to perform well," Gilmore said. "Silvana (Lima) has probably got the pressure of the whole of Brazil on her shoulders to bring home a world title and same goes for me. I am pretty confident in my abilities. It is just going to be exciting. We still have four events left including this one so it is anyone's game."
The surprise loss of the day went to former ASP Women's World Champion (2005) and current ASP Women's World No. 3, Sofia Mulanovich (PER), 26, went was relegated to the elimination Round 2 by an in-form Chelsea Hedges (AUS), 26, and Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), 23.
While conditions appeared pristine at the start of Round 1, shifting winds wreaked havoc on the lineup, prompting officials to call competition off before Round 2.
Event organizers will reconvene at 7:30am at the backup site of Belgas to assess conditions for a possible Round 2 start.
When competition resumes, first up will be Sofia Mulanovich (PER), 26, Alana Blanchard (HAW), 19, and Pauline Ado (FRA), 19, in Heat 1 of the elimination Round 2.
Surfline, official foreers for the 2009 Rip Curl Pro Search, are calling for the current surf to slightly over the next 24 hours before another swell is expected to hit the region.
Heat 1: Bruna Schmitz (BRA) 11.44, Jacqueline Silva (BRA) 11.34, Rebecca Woods (AUS) 5.60
Heat 2: Melanie Bartels (HAW) 13.17, Samantha Cornish (AUS) 8.67, Alana Blanchard (HAW) 5.96
Heat 3: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 12.00, Amee Donohoe (AUS) 11.16, Pauline Ado (FRA) 5.03
Heat 4: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 11.87, Silvana Lima (BRA) 8.10, Megan Abubo (HAW) 3.93
Heat 5: Chelsea Hedges (AUS) 11.33, Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS) 9.84, Sofia Mulanovich (PER) 8.03
Heat 6: Coco Ho (HAW) 12.00, Paige Hareb (NZL) 10.00, Rosanne Hodge (ZAF) 8.40
Heat 1: Sofia Mulanovich (PER), Alana Blanchard (HAW), Pauline Ado (FRA)
Heat 2: Rebecca Woods (AUS), Rosanne Hodge (ZAF), Megan Abubo (HAW)


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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. The houndbloggers would like to thank all of our readers and visitors and wish every one of you a Happy, Houndy New Year!
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YOU'VE probably been around us long enough to know that the Houndbloggers are partial to old hounds (even when they are as bad as our Harry) and hounds that won't give up (even when, as in the case of our Eider–late of the Clear Creek Beagles–their desire to hunt anything and everything, all night if necessary, results in their being expelled from a respectable pack with a disgraceful report card). We can't help ourselves: we love them.
We also have a real soft spot for The River Bottom, a quietly wonderful blog about life in the country with beagles. The posts over there are a highlight for me, and when a new one goes up, I stop whatever I'm doing and pay attention, right then, in order to savor whatever news there is from River Bottom country in Litchfield, Minnesota. They came up with a beautiful one today that spoke to us, partly because it was about an old beagle who is a tried-and-true hare-tracker. Didn't hurt that it reminded us a little of Mr. Box who, in his youth, failed to return from a hunt with the sun going down and the snow blowing in (to read about his great adventure, click this link and scroll down the page to "Mr. Box's Epic Journey").
Here is how The River Bottom began this afternoon:
I'm listening but I can't hear anything. The spruce trees are all covered in snow, big snowflakes are drifting down. It's getting dark, And cold. I don't think Rose is coming back.
Pete is down on the south road waiting and listening. We covered all the roads looking for tracks, two or three times. No dogs crossed the road.
I've been in and out of this trail it seems like ten times. Under that dang jack pine that hangs over the trail. Its branches slide up over the windshield. I swear it's going to pull off my wiper blades next time through.
The woods are deep to the west, she could have gone a few miles that way. Even if she is right here and something happened, I could never find her in this stuff. Me and Pete have walked all over this spot looking for her.
When I was loading dogs this morning Rose was there waiting. I was going to put her in the house. She would have cried all day. She's about 14 now. I loaded her in the dog box too.
I guess I would rather see her disappear into the spruce trees running a hare in the snow than live a long and unhappy old age.
This spot is loaded with hare. Thick heavy spruce trees, aspen and brush when they go out the west side with thick alder and willow swamps. The dogs ran steady all day long.
Rose hasn't hunted much the last couple years, she mostly just follows me around. I didn't think she needed a tracking collar.
She started a hare on her own. Her voice is just as loud and pretty as ever. I heard her a couple times after that. With all these dogs running it was tough to pick her out.
When we started catching them up we hadn't heard or seen Rose for a couple hours. Now we are trying to guess what happened to her.
Read on, please do, at The River Bottom. It's fine writing telling a good story. With pictures that will make you smile. Enjoy.
For this Veterans Day, the houndbloggers return to an old favorite, the English poet Siegfried Sassoon. Among foxhunters, he's as well known for his delightful and nostalgic prose work Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man as he is among schoolchildren and British historians as one of England's brilliant War Poets, whose style helped change the trajectory of modern poetry. Sassoon was a passionate foxhunter, especially during his youth and in the years immediately after World War I, though he often felt that the hunting side of his personality tended to distract from the greater work of his life, poetry.
When the Great War broke out in 1914, Sassoon joined up and took his hunter and point-to-point winner Cockbird with him to war. Sassoon wrote a great deal about Cockbird, and his picture can be found in many Sassoon biographies; our favorite is quite a famous picture of Cockbird standing in the Sassoon family's yard, with Sassoon standing at his head and gazing with obvious pride at his hunting and racing partner. Alongside them is a small side table that, you can tell, has been carried out into the yard especially for the occasion of the photo, for on it is a magnificent silver racing trophy, the Colonel's Cup–now lost (like Cockbird, alas), whereabouts unknown.
In honor of Veterans Day, we hope you'll page back through the blog and see our earlier posts, The Hounds of War: A Veterans Day for Hunting Soldiers and A Hunt for the Veterans. But today we give our page to Sassoon, not for the biting but deeply touching poems he penned in the trenches (some of which you can read here), but for an unusually peaceful wartime passage in Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man:
"I was happy as I trudged along the lanes in the column, with my platoon chattering behind me and everything gilt with the sun's good humour. Happier still when I borrowed the little black mare no one could ride and cantered about the open country by myself, which I did two or three afternoons a week. The black mare was well bred but had lost the use of one eye. She had a queer temper and had earned an evil reputation by kicking various officers off or bolting back to the transport lines with them after going half a mile quite quietly. She was now used as a pack-pony for carrying ammunition, but by gentle treatment I gained her confidence and she soon became a sort of active-service echo of my old favourites. Dick rode out with me as often as he could persuade the Transport Officer to let him have a horse.
"When riding alone I explored the country rather absent-mindedly, meditating on the horrors which I had yet to experience: I was unable to reconcile that skeleton certainty with the serenities of this winter landscape–clean-smelling, with larks in the sky, the rich brown gloom of distant woods, and the cloud shadows racing over the lit and dappled levels of that widespread land. And then I would pass a grey-roofed chateau, with its many windows and no face there to watch me pass. Only a bronze lion guarding the well in the middle of an overgrown lawn, and the whole place forlorn and deserted. Once, as I was crossing the main road from Abbeville to Beauvais, I watched the interminable column of a French army corps which was moving southward. For the first I saw the famous French field-guns–the '75s.'
"But even then it wasn't easy to think of dying. … Still less so when Dick was with me, and we were having an imitation hunt. I used to pretend to be hunting a pack of hounds, with him as my whipper-in. Assuming a Denis Milden manner (Denis was at Rouen with the cavalry and likely to remain there, in spite of the CO's assumptions about open warfare), I would go solemnly through a wood, cheering imaginary hounds. After an imaginary fox had been found, away we'd scuttle, looking in vain for a fence to jump, making imaginary casts after an imaginary check, and losing our fox when the horses had done galloping. An imaginary kill didn't appeal, somehow. Once, when I was emerging rapidly from a wood with loud shouts, I came round a corner and nearly knocked the Brigadier off his horse. He was out for a ride with his staff-captain; but no doubt he approved of my sporting make-believe, and I didn't dare stop for apologies, since the Brigadier was a very great man, indeed. Dick enjoyed these outings enormously and was very much impressed by my hunting noises. The black mare seemed to enjoy it also."
Years after the Great War, when Sassoon was living in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and still hunting now and again with the packs around Salisbury Plain, there was a touching moment caught by Alec Waugh. Waugh, brother of the author Evelyn Waugh (of Brideshead Revisited fame, among many other wonderful books), recounted it in his book My Brother Evelyn and Other Portraits:
"I last saw Sassoon in October 1940 under ironically appropriate circumstances.
"A few weeks earlier I had been posted as staff-captain to the Petroleum Warfare Department, a branch of the Ministry of Mines, that under the dynamic inspiration of Geoffrey Lloyd made a considerable contribution to the war effort. … At that time we were chiefly concerned with the defensive uses to which oil might be put, flame-throwers, tank traps, flame on water. In mid-October we went down into the country to give a demonstration.
"It was what is called a typical, which is to say it was an exceptional, late autumn day; a day that started with mist and a chill in the air, a mist through which the sunlight began to break about eleven. By noon it was summer hot. It was the prefect day to drive down into the country with a team of cameramen to film the demonstration and it was a perfect picnic site that had been chosen for the demonstration, at the head of a valley, with the grass very green with dew and the trees red and brown and yellow and the spire of a church showing between the branches of an orchard.
"We got down early, set out our cameras, and waited. The blitz had been heavy on the previous night. It was a relief to lie out in the grass, with the sun warm upon our faces, in a countryside untouched by war. The valley was quiet and deserted: nothing dramatic in the country's history had happened here. It was strange to reflect that within an hour its slopes would be lined with red-hatted officers; a whistle would blow, the handles of the cameras would turn, and explosion would follow on explosion, the soft greensward would be scorched and ripped and scattered into a desert of smouldering fires and scarred iron.
"The demonstration started at two o'clock. Within a quarter of an hour the beauty of the valley was destroyed and it was just as the high grade staff officers were moving to their cars, as the final informal conferences were breaking up, that a horseman, a civilian, came trotting by. This was, no doubt, a favorite ride of his. He had had no idea that this demonstration was to be held. It could scarcely be a pleasant surprise for him. I looked up, to note with a start of surprise that it was Sassoon.
"My first instinct was to run across and greet him; but a second, wiser instinct checked me. There was an inscrutable expression on that drawn, handsome face as it looked down on the charred and littered grass.
"What thoughts, I wondered, were moving behind that mask: how many different thoughts must be creating a mixed mood–memories of the last war and his revolt against it, his contempt for 'scarlet majors at the base,' his poems that had seemed then and later the battle call to a crusade; the sacrifice of his generation that had failed to prevent this second war, whose intensified horror was exemplified by these new engines of destruction, with himself a quarter of a century later, in his fifties and too old for service?
"It was kinder to leave him to that mood, those memories."
TOMORROW is Blessing Day, so today presents a good moment to look back on an excellent cubbing weekend. The last weekend in October was damp, misty, and chilly with highs in the 40s–a perfect weekend, really, for a spooky Halloween. Despite a stiff breeze, the hounds had no trouble finding coyote lines, and, in fact, the pack hardly ever stopped working during two days of hunting. The video above is from both days combined and gives you some indication of hounds' general work ethic. You'll spot quite a few familiar faces, too: red and white Samson, whose trip from England to Kentucky made him very conservational; bounding, powerful Banker; Sage, the mother of our current SA puppies, and their father Driver, too; as well as Paper, better known in his youth as "Playper"!
Tomorrow the formal season begins. Looks to me as if the hounds have absorbed their lessons well during the informal training season!
ON Saturday, the annual Blessing of the Hounds will mark the transition from October's informal part of the hunt season (generally known as cubhunting or autumn hunting) to the formal months that run from November until March. Blessing Day is the "high holy day" of the Iroquois season, and it's made even more special by the fact that some of our retired hounds get to participate in the ceremony each year.
The Blessing of the Hounds harks back to St. Hubert, the patron saint of hunters, and it's his medal that our riders receive on Blessing Day as part of the ceremony (you can see them on their red ribbons, above, lined up along Iroquois joint-Master Jack van Nagell's hunt whip). To learn a little more about St. Hubert and the history of this beautiful and curiously affecting service, click here.
The Blessing of the Hounds takes place each year on the first Saturday of November and attracts the hunt's landowners, neighbors, and friends, who enjoy the service, the spectacle, and also a traditional stirrup cup hosted by huntsman Lilla Mason. The schedule this year starts at 11 a.m., when the riders, horses, and guests arrive at the hunt club's front lawn. The hounds themselves–including 2012 Hound Welfare Fund Retiree of the Year Sassoon!–will arrive at 11:30 a.m. The Iroquois joint-Masters and huntsman will make a few brief opening remarks, followed by the blessing by the Venerable Bryant Kibler, Senior Archdeacon of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington. Each rider will then take his or her turn to receive the St. Hubert's medal.
At noon, the riders will proceed up the road on horseback to Miller Trust Farm, while guests and spectators follow by car. The huntsman's stirrup cup–featuring ham biscuits, cake, port, sherry, and apple cider–will take place in one of the Miller Trust fields. All those attending the Blessing of the Hounds are welcome to join in for the stirrup cup, which got its name, incidentally, because the mounted riders are served their food and drink at stirrup level by the unmounted person holding the tray!
Tomorrow, we'll take a last look back at the informal season with video from the last weekend in October, when superlative hounds combined with cool, damp weather and fast coyotes to give October a great sporting send-off!


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Losing less during market declines
In last week's column, I described how risk-averse investors could benefit from researching investments that lost less during downward market periods.
A reader, N.T., questioned whether the advantages of a lesser-risk investment might diminish with time. He wondered whether the return on such an investment might be substantially lower when considered over a longer period of time, such as 10 years (my column focused on three-year data).
We all know that investing involves putting money at risk. The more risk a prudent investor takes on, the more reward he demands.
It would seem logical that a lower risk investment would underperform the broad market over time. That lower return might be acceptable to the risk-averse investor, but should it be?
With a software program such as Steele Mutual Fund Expert (mutualfundexpert.com), you can do your own research to test your thesis. Steele offers data on benchmarks, mutual funds, ETFs, and category averages back to 1962. That amount of history will help you assess pretty much any type of market period you may encounter in the future.
Returning to N.T.'s question, let me recap last week's metrics and then give you the longer-term view.
Using Steele's program, I searched for investments that lost less than the market using "downside deviation" over the three-year period ending in July.
I singled out a particular investment as an example to demonstrate how to separate volatility into upside and downside price movements.
That investment had a substantially lower downside deviation (2.2) compared to the market (9.3), defined as the S&P 500 Total Return Index (with dividends reinvested). The average annual return for the investment was 12 percent versus 14 percent for the S&P, a superior return considering the risk/reward dynamic.
How did this fund that lost less when markets tumbled perform over longer periods?
Over a 20-year period, the downside deviation for the fund was only 4.0 compared to 10.7 for the S&P. That's an indication of substantially less volatility to the downside during the 20-year period ending in July.
What about returns? They equaled, in fact slightly surpassed, the S&P's. The fund posted average annual returns of 8.6 percent during the period compared to the S&P's 8.2 percent.
In keeping with its lower downside volatility, the fund also lost less than the S&P over the last 10 year period. The fund's downside deviation was about a third of the S&P's (4.3 compared to 11.2 for the S&P 500).
And returns? While the S&P posted 6.3 percent average annual returns for the 10 years ending in July, the fund outperformed, returning 7.4 percent.
These are admirable returns for the risk-averse investor.
Bear in mind that the longer periods included the market meltdown we saw in 2008 (-37 percent) and the bursting of the Internet bubble that resulted in market losses for three consecutive years (-9.1 percent in 2000, -11.9 percent in 2001 and -22.1 percent in 2002).
During down market periods, the name of the game was losing less.
Don't forget, however, that this period also included the "New Era" when investors embraced "irrational exuberance," believing that the stock market could only go up.
In bubble markets, you can expect low standard deviation (measuring both the upside and the downside) to translate into underperformance.
Investments with low downside deviation -- measuring just the downward movement of a investment -- can prove themselves for one very simple reason. Today's markets are volatile. It's sometimes better to give up some potential upside in order to protect the downside.
Thank you, NT, for your question.
If you read this column on a regular basis, you know that I like to incorporate reader questions and comments as often as possible. Feedback helps make my job more interesting and the column much more meaningful for my readers. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Or, if you would to have your situation featured in a column (anonymously), call me at 203-322-1198. I set aside two hours a week to meet with readers of my books and column. Don't hesitate to take advantage.
Julie Jason, JD, LLM, award-winning author of "The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad," and "Managing Retirement Wealth: An Expert Guide to Personal Portfolio Management in Good Times and Bad," is principal of Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers, Inc. of Stamford. Please e-mail her with questions at firstname.lastname@example.com or write to her c/o The Advocate, 9A Riverbend Drive South, Box 4910, Stamford, CT 06907. Copyright 2012 Julie Jason.


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Harvard huddles up prior to its contest against Yale Saturday night (Photo courtesy: Justine Agaloos).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The No. 13/13 Harvard men's ice hockey team suffered its first defeat of 2012-13 as Yale pulled away in the third period to win, 5-1, at Bright Hockey Center Saturday night.
The Bulldogs scored three goals in the final 20 minutes to break open a tight contest against the Crimson, which falls to 2-1-0 overall and 1-1-0 in ECAC and Ivy League play. Yale improves to 2-1-1 overall and 1-1-0 in ECAC and Ivy League play.
Kyle Criscuolo netted his second goal in as many nights for the lone Harvard tally. Tommy O'Regan and Brian Hart both picked up assists, their second and first of the season, respectively. Goaltender Raphael Girard made 44 saves, just four off his career high, set against Yale last season.
Harvard nearly got on the board first as Luke Greiner clanked a shot off the post to just miss giving Harvard a lead in the early going. Instead, Yale was able to find the back of the net 3:20 into the game as Jesse Root scored on a 2-on-2 break with a shot into the lower left corner on the glove side.
The Crimson evened the score just over seven minutes later. O'Regan delivered a centering pass to Hart in front of the crease, who skated across the front of the net before backhanding the puck to Criscuolo. The junior came crashing down to the goal and tapped it past Yale netminder Jeff Malcolm for the equalizer.
The teams would trade chances for the rest of the period, but neither team could capitalize as the score remained deadlocked.
Yale dominated the early going of the second period and reclaimed the lead with 16:33 remaining in the frame as Root found the back of the net a second time. Colin Dueck passed the puck into Root from the point, and the junior was denied once before cleaning up his rebound to restore the Bulldogs' advantage.
From there, Yale continued to pepper Girard, but the Quebec native stonewalled the Yale offensive attack, making 18 saves in the period. Harvard's best chance to even the score came on a two-on-none breakaway; however, Connor Morrison's attempt to go up top was saved.
In the third, Harvard had another opportunity to even the score. Morrison redirected a centering pass from Patrick McNally that was kicked away by Malcolm just over a minute into the frame.
Harvard's failure to capitalize came back to haunt the team as the Bulldogs took advantage of a power play. Yale worked the puck around its zone before Trent Ruffolo flicked a wrister from just to the right of the goal that trickled past Girard to extend the Yale advantage to two.
Harvard continued to put pressure on Malcolm in goal, but he continued to prove up to the task. After Harvard nearly drew within one, Kenny Agostino capitalized on a two-on-none counterattack, slipping the puck past a sprawling Girard to make it 4-1.
Yale tacked on one more goal with seven seconds left as Agostino tallied his second on a breakaway to cap off the night.
The Bulldogs outshot the Crimson, 49-29, on the night, and also capitalized on two power plays, while Harvard, which had the nation's top ranked power play last year, went 0-4 with a man advantage.
The Crimson returns to ECAC action Friday, Nov. 9, against Union at 7 p.m. at Bright Hockey Center.


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The Brickyard 400 was a farce. I can't believe someone can't make a tire that'll go more than 10 laps without blowing up.
Someone should be held accountable. An apology from NASCAR isn't enough. Something needs to be done to make sure this doesn't occur again. There's just no excuse for this happening in a big-time sport like NASCAR with the resources it has available.
This isn't the first time Goodyear has had this type of a problem, it was just the most visible. Remember Tony Stewart going off on Goodyear earlier this year? When you put all your eggs in one basket like NASCAR has, this is about what you can expect.
Perhaps NASCAR should have the backbone to say to Goodyear "One more time like this and you're out." There are other companies out there that make race tires: Hoosier, Firestone, Michelin, Mickey Thompson among others. Maybe if it was opened up to competition like it was many years ago this would be less likely to happen. I don't know, but something needs to be done. NASCAR is already in a slide and this certainly doesn't help.
There were a fair amount of empty seats at Indianapolis and I'll bet there will be more next year. Sellouts are becoming the exception rather than the rule at many tracks. TV ratings are down. The Chase has produced little or no additional interest.
Who's to blame? Don't look anywhere except at the top of the NASCAR family tree. That's where the big decisions come from and as of late, they've all been bad.


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The use of hypnosis to treat disease (also called "hypnotherapy") has been around for more than half a century. In fact, the British Medical Association approved the use of hypnotherapy in 1955. The American Medical Association approved its use in 1958.
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Dr. Temes is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis, and editor of Medical Hypnosis, the first medical textbook addressing hypnosis. She is a member of the faculty of SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY.
Because of her enormous recognition and success, Dr. Temes is in high demand these days. Between client work, speaking engagements, and writing, her schedule is packed.
To tell you the truth, when we approached her with our idea, we were worried that she was going to turn us down. But once she caught the vision, she was eager to help. And . . .
Enjoying Weight Loss is an 8-session program that uses hypnosis to help you become the healthiest person you can possibly be.
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To encourage you a bit, listen to what people like you are saying about the Enjoying Weight Loss program:
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— David Grisaffi, C.H.E.K, CFT, PN, Corrective Exercise Kinesiologist
Author, Firm and Flatten Your Abs
I have been using the Enjoying Weight Loss program with my patients who tell me they don't even think about "bad" food anymore . . . it's just a fact in their mind. They find it easy to change self-destructive behavior and "stay with the program" that I recommend. This has always been my biggest challenge as a clinician.
— Dr. Deborah Baker-Racine
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I'm listening to track 3 at this point and I'm making better food choices. I'm eating out of smaller plates and bowls. This is something I would never have done before. I'm eating smaller portions of healthy foods. I just seem to be doing this because it feels right. It's almost like I can't help it . . .
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I, so far, think it is just hilarious how much I like my water now. I have also planned my meals ahead without thinking about it and I have gotten more exercise than I have in months. I think I was the only person in my WW home group who actually lost weight between Christmas and New Year's.
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Weight Watchers Lifetime Member
I've been buying, licensing, and testing hypnosis CDs since 2002. Until I discovered the quality work from The Hypnosis Network, I had never found a company whose CDs I liked enough to recommend to my website and newsletter readers. Now, in December of 2006, I'm testing Enjoying Weight Loss by Dr. Roberta Temes. I can already see that it's a weight loss aide I'll be proud to recommend for many years to come.
— Chet Day
Publisher of Health & Beyond Weekly
This is just a small taste of the kind of feedback we've been getting. We've got many more personal stories and testimonials on file here at our Texas office.
Dr. Temes has created a truly marvelous program - and you can tell the moment you start listening. There is the soft sound of violins, Dr. Temes' soothing voice, the positive suggestions. Not to mention the content itself is some of the most life-changing material you'll ever hear.
Each session in the program has a very specific purpose. I've listed their titles for you.
In each session, Dr. Temes uses hypnosis techniques to put you into a relaxed state — a trance, if you will — so that both your conscious and subconscious mind are working together to learn as fast and effectively as possible.
You are still totally in control. You can stand up and walk away at any time. In fact, a telephone call can break the trance, which is why it's important to be in a quiet environment.
As you enter this relaxed "learning" state, Dr. Temes walks you through exercises specific to your stage of the journey. These exercises are simple and effective. As you follow her instructions, you will be creating lasting change in your life - so that you achieve a healthy weight as quickly as possible.
In fact, this "interactivity" is one of the things that makes the program so unique. Other hypnosis programs are just a bunch of random trances. But Dr. Temes brings more than 25 years of clinical experience to the trance state, which means you're going to experience results much more quickly.
The recorded sessions you'll be listening to are so packed with information and exercises-and the audio is so crisp and so clear —
Don't be surprised if you reach the end of a session and forget you're still at home. That's how relaxed and "in the moment" you'll be.
Since each session builds on the one before, you will notice more and more positive change the deeper you go.
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As Dr. Temes mentioned recently, it is not uncommon for people to "slip up" two or three months down the road. They forget about what they learned . . . or they just get too comfortable . . . and start letting old "fat" thought patterns sneak back in.
That's why it's so helpful to have the program right at your fingertips. If you experience a "hiccup" like this, it will be simple to fix. Simply spend a few minutes each day going back through the program. You'll find yourself back on track in no time.
Here are more examples of the positive changes people like you are experiencing . . . .
My mom sent me your Weight Loss hypnosis CDs (as a not-so-subtle hint). I was about 40 pounds overweight and had already tried hypnosis for weight loss before with no results, so I was not optimistic. I have never been able to follow a diet for over 3 weeks, so I decided that this time I would use your CDs in combination with The South Beach Diet and see what happened. It has now been a little over 2 months and I have lost 25 pounds! The best part is that following the diet has been easy this time — it is almost like I can't NOT follow it.
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I was very skeptical but called and talked to someone in sales and was reassured that there is no gimmick — money back within a year if you aren't happy. So — I started using them in early April. I have to date lost 16 pounds and never ONCE deviated from the WW program. I am walking 45 minutes a day 6-7 days a week, drinking way more water and even was able to go away for a weekend and stay on plan in airports and hotels. Needless to say, I am very pleased.
I am now down 20 pounds and still have not had any problems with stress eating (my lifetime habit is to overeat). I am also walking close to 5,000 steps per day now (a little over 2.5 miles) and into a size 16 from a 20/22 and people are finally beginning to notice. I personally thank you for your program even though I don't understand how it works. I am starting to like who I see in the mirror.
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Advertising & Finance Manager
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Enjoying Weight Loss is fabulous. Thought I forgot all about it yesterday, until I realized that I ate breakfast (which I rarely do), drank a lot of water, had a veggie dinner and DIDN'T EAT ANY SUGAR . . . A MIRACLE!
Can't convince me that this system does not operate on some level . . . even though you're not always conscious of it at the time. Thank you, Hypnosis Network.
— Ann Carlo
Sag Harbor, New York
This has been my first successful experience with hypnosis. I have tried similar products in the past without results, but am glad I persevered and found this professional program. The CD's are masterfully done. The variety in technique presentation, the calming voice of the narrator, and the usefulness of the information presented is unsurpassed. All the suggestions are based on sound nutritional research and are effective in replacing unhealthy eating habits.
I have used the program for just 10 days and have lost 6 lbs. What is most amazing after all my failed attempts at weight loss is the ease of sticking with my program since using the CD's! For the first time in my adult life I feel like I am in control of my response to food, and believe I am incorporating all those healthy eating habits that have eluded me in the past. It feels wonderful to go through the day without obsessing over food, and feeling fulfilled rather than deprived. I can definitely see these as lifetime, lifestyle changes. Thank you for the wonderful tool!
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Are these folks any different than you? No, they are not. They simply put aside their doubts and gave Enjoying Weight Loss a try. As a result, they are now losing more weight than they ever have before. They are eating less, exercising more, and shedding unhealthy fat more quickly than they ever imagined.
I'm confident the same thing can happen for you.
How can I say that?
First, the feedback. It's resoundingly positive. Real people are getting real results, even though they've struggled for years to lose weight.
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Now, you should know that Dr. Temes' time is very valuable. If you were to hire her for just one hypnosis session, it'd cost you $240 or more.
Since Enjoying Weight Loss contains over 7 genuine hypnosis sessions, you're really getting well over $1,000 worth of Dr. Temes' time.
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