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My purse of choice would be one enchanted like Hermione's in HP & the Deathly Hallows...but I'd like it to be my Avenger's bag that I was able to buy thanks to Gladys from Usagi in Wonderland!
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Apple unveiled its highly anticipated 7.9-inch tablet, the iPad Mini, on Tuesday.
The smaller version of the iPad is set to go on sale on Friday to compete with tablets including Amazon's Kindle.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and marketing chief Phil Schiller launched the new tablet, which features most of the functions of the full-size iPad but in a smaller package.
Priced at $329 for a wi-fi only model, the iPad mini is more expensive than what analysts predicted.
Some see that as a move to retain premium pricing levels while others fear it could curb demand.
Both Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7 are sold at or near cost.
Apple also announced a fourth-generation full-sized iPad just six months after unveiling the third generation device.
The latest tablet, which sells for $499, is faster and slimmer and comes just days before Microsoft is due to unveil its own "Surface" tablet.


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We have programs for bullies. Lot's of programs for bullies. Programs to stop abuse. Programs that focus on the acts and the people committing the act. But there aren't any programs that deal with the aftermath. I'm not talking about the abuse that you can see. I'm talking about the kid that feels alone. The kid that feels bad about himself. That is depressed. That is considering suicide. Because of something small. Something that was said that we as adults know means nothing in the long run.
The goal of The Pretty Ugly Project is to share all of our stories but for a different purpose. Not to shine a flashlight on bullying. But to empower our kids to show them that they are not alone. That they don't have to live under this stigma any longer. That just because somebody said something doesn't mean it has to be true.
So, we are collecting stories from people all over the world. Stories of being bullied or made fun of and how they overcame it. How it made them stronger in the end.
We're going to take these stories and publish them in a book with a goal of donating 10,000 books to libraries and schools all over the country and ultimately the world. Think of this as "Chicken Soup for the Soul" with the sole purpose of saving our kids lives.
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Albrecht is forthright and no-nonsense, with a commanding presence. He is very authoritative and always vigilant, making it difficult to catch him off guard.
He is the leader of the Vaunted Guardians. He runs patrols into the umbra with his pack to root out wyrm corruption and ensure the surrounding areas are held securely. He was not impressed with the Caern security failure back in September and expects the elders to be more vigilant in the future.
He has made an offer to Cal for the Storm Bringers to come on an umbra run once they are wiser and more experienced. That offer has not been taken up. He does not interact with them, although he keeps tabs on Karen's relationship with her son to make sure it does not affect her ability to properly fulfil her role.
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Karen – Fianna; Cal's Mother; The heavy hitter of the pack.
Desmond – Glasswalker; Hacker, cynical and sarcastic.
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Senate unanimously approves `extreme risk' gun bill
Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, said he never expected the bill to make it this far when he introduced it months ago, a symbol of how far the gun control debate has shifted in just a few weeks.
"One thing I'm sure of is Vermont is not immune," he said of gun violence. "I think we knew that before Fair Haven, but Fair Haven has jolted us all."
Police arrested Jack Sawyer, 18, earlier this month saying he was creating a kill list of students and staff at Fair Haven Union High School and preparing to carry an attack on the school. Sawyer was arrested days after a 19-year-old man killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Sawyer faces a number of charges, including attempted aggravated murder, that if he is convicted could keep him in prison for life. Prosecutors began arguments on Tuesday to keep him in prison ahead of trial. The defense attorney representing Sawyer has said the charges against his client are too severe.
Governor Phil Scott, who previously said he believed the state's existing gun laws were sufficient, has had a change of heart in recent weeks after seeing how close Vermont had come to having to grapple with its own school shooting.
Sears, who is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the panel had been careful to balance the need to protect people from violence with Constitutional guarantees around the rights of property and privacy.
One one side of the gun control debate, he said, people have been telling him "slow down, you're going too fast" while on the other people are saying "this is common sense, pass it." S.221 seeks to find common ground by focusing only on individuals who are deemed an "extreme risk," he said.
The bill gives the authorities the ability to act in situations involving someone believed to be planning to commit an act of domestic violence or suicide, or a person believed to be planning mass harm, such as a school shooting. Once a gun is taken away, it can be held for a 15-day "cooling off period" that can be extended at the discretion of a judge. It can also be appealed by the gun owner.
All 30 senators voted to approve the bill, which still needs final approval in the Senate before being sent to the House, which has already started taking testimony on the bill.
Sen. Sears said passing S.221 is only the beginning of efforts in the Statehouse to create legislation that addresses the threat of gun violence.
"Debate doesn't end with this bill," he said, "it starts with this bill."
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Ah, ruffles! Don't you just love them? They add such sweet detail anywhere they are stitched. This adorable shirred ruffles technique from Trisha Smith was featured in our August/September 2013 issue of Sew Beautiful. Shown here on a pattern from Trisha's Treasures, you can use this easy technique so many ways. Just gather and place ruffles on top of a tube band to create shoulder straps, embellish the edge of pants or add them to the back of a baby's bubble or diaper cover. It would also be great on bags, home decor – you name it! Follow Trisha's instructions to master a fast and simple way to get the desired results without a lot of fuss.
Cut ruffle strips longer than needed so you have a little extra to work with at the beginning and end.
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4. Set sewing machine stitch length to longest stitch; the longer the stitch, the more gathers you will achieve. If fewer gathers are desired, use a shorter stitch length. NOTE: If you set the stitch length too short, less than 4, it will make it hard to adjust the gathers later if needed.
5. Increase upper tension on machine to highest number. The fabric will gather more with a higher tension. Decrease tension for fewer gathers.
6. Select a sewing machine foot with a tunnel, such as the decorative stitch foot. This will cause fabric to pucker more. (Suggestions: Bernina – Foot # 12; Pfaff – Knit Edge Foot; Baby Lock or Brother – Pearls or Sequin Foot.) The larger the tunnel, the more the fabric will gather.
7. Pull on needle and bobbin threads to create long tails.
8. Center fabric under presser foot and lower foot, making sure fabric strip is positioned so that first stitch will be on fabric. NOTE: Make sure not to stitch off the fabric, in the air; it will lock stitch and prevent the gathers from being adjustable.
9. Stitch down center of fabric strip, gently pulling on front of strip or strips as they travel under the foot (fig. 2). NOTE: Bias will stretch with a slight grasp. Place one finger behind foot, which will cause fabric to bunch up as you stitch. Every few inches, allow bunched up fabric to release and then place your finger behind foot again; continue to stitch.
10. Position shirred ruffle onto fabric or garment. Matching center of shirred ruffle to center of garment, pin together.
11. Adjust shirred ruffle strip to fit garment as needed. NOTE: Pull on needle thread, not bobbin thread. The bobbin thread will lock the stitches. This is opposite of regular gathering as the upper tension is tightened.
12. Stitch ruffle in place, sewing directly on top of previous stitching using a 2.0 or 2.5 stitch length and regular all-purpose foot.
13. Center a piece of spaghetti bias or trim on top of gathered ruffle and stitch down center to hold it in place.
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So YALC 2016 was truly amazing, I had an absolute blast and met some wonderful people of the YA community.
For those of you that don't know what YALC is – it's the Young Adult Literary Conference which is put on by the BookTrust and is held at the London Film and Comic Con. There were awesome panels with YA authors, signings, games and of course: BOOKS.
First I want to share some tips for those of you thinking of going in the future:
- Bring bags with wheels, because no matter what you say you will buy ALL OF THE BOOKS (or get given them for FREEEE)
- Bring food and water. The cafe is SUPER expensive and the days are long, you need to stay hydrated!
- BE BRAVE! Authors LOVE their fans. See an author wandering about? Pluck up the courage to say hi! (If they look super busy though maybe hold off for a bit)
- Bring a few books with you that you want signed – I ended up buying duplicates of books I had so I could get the authors to sign them!
- Take the freebies! Don't be shy, they're there to get taken!
- On Sunday there are giveaways ALL THE TIME and everything is either drastically reduced or given away for free so keep an eye out!
Secondly I want to show you this picture:
This was around 11am on the Sunday, the release day of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and I just had to take a snap of these girls reading it already in the reading area! How awesome is that?
Not only did I meet many book bloggers and booktubers, I also I met some wonderful authors, Michael Grant, V E Schwab, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, and many MANY more. It was so overwhelming to get to meet so many of my idols and like minded people.
My favourite panel was the Fear Factor Panel with Dawn Kurtagich, Alex Scarrow, Derek Landy and Darren Shan. Here are some of my favorite bits from Twitter:
Best part of #YALC #fearfactor panel is @dawnkurtagich casually fanning herself like 19th century dame whilst horrifying audience.
— Simon P. Clark (@sipclark) July 30, 2016
First person is great for an unreliable narrator & psychological horror! @dawnkurtagich #FearFactor @yalc_uk #YALC pic.twitter.com/R8rcKCgKec
— Jennifer Faughnan (@JennieLy) July 30, 2016
@dawnkurtagich says House of Leaves is so mentally scarring it made her want to be a writer so she could give that feeling to others! #YALC
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'Horror movies: The less you see – more you can mess with their heads' @AlexScarrow #FearFactor @yalc_uk #YALC pic.twitter.com/3jENmCUBro
— Jennifer Faughnan (@JennieLy) July 30, 2016
Something under the bed is scarier to girls, boys find something tapping on the window terrifying! #FearFactor @yalc_uk #YALC #horror
— Jennifer Faughnan (@JennieLy) July 30, 2016
I spent the Sunday going around and taking pictures, so I thought I'd share them with you! Click them to see a full size image or go to the flickr Album!
The Books with Bite guys were so lovely, chatted to me for ages about their different books and I even won a couple of proofs from them! <3
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Tigers outrun St. Thomas in first district win
HAMMOND- The Independence Tigers (2-3, 1-1) earned their first District 9-2A victory over St. Thomas Aquinas (2-3, 1-1) last Friday with a final score of 54-37. Tigers running backs Stephan Jackson and Anthony McClain led the offensive attack with a combined 344 yards on the ground.
The Falcons struck first when quarterback Kade Bleakley found Adam Hetzinger on a 26-yard touchdown pass. The Tigers responded on their next possession when senior Stephan Jackson, who led all rushers with 174 yards, broke off a 51-yard touchdown run.
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The New England Patriots have been accustom to having just one quarterback in the spotlight for the past 15 years. Now, there's two.
With Tom Brady slated to serve a four game suspension to open the season, Jimmy Garoppolo has stepped into the spotlight -- something he isn't necessarily used to.
"At Eastern Illinois, we had the same amount of media," Garoppolo said jokingly, via Stephen Hewitt of the Boston Herald. "It's been a little bit of an adjustment. I'm getting more and more used to it as we go, but it comes with the job I guess. You have to get used to it."
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Coming from a small school, Garoppolo didn't get much national attention. Even around the time of the NFL Draft, he was an underrated prospect who didn't find himself in the media too often.
"There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that you don't really know about until you're in the spotlight, I guess, but you have to have fun with it, right?" He said.
Garoppolo is preparing to lead the defending Super Bowl champions in the early parts of the upcoming season, which is no small task. Expectations are high for the young quarterback, given the success the Patriots have had under Brady. While it's a big change from a year ago, Garoppolo appears ready.
"There's a big switch from last year to this year, but that's the nature of the beast I guess," he said. "There's a good amount of things that I think I have improved in, but week to week everything changes. Just adjusting to the game plan that we put in this week compared to last week. Just handling new information, really."
Garoppolo will get his first career start under the bright lights of Thursday Night Football against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 10. If he thinks the media attention has been massive now, wait until Week 1 comes. Garoppolo will be one of the most talked about quarterbacks entering the regular season.
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Top journalists, top chefs and a top scientist People once dubbed the "sexiest astrophysicist alive" are among the great speeches and lectures coming to the Tampa Bay area in the coming months.
Date-night worthy talks by smart people include Tom Brokaw, the "Barefoot Contessa" Ina Garten and Neil deGrasse Tyson, the most pop culture-savvy geek to walk the Earth. You can also see the Food Network's Alton Brown bring messy and "potentially dangerous" food science experiments to an interactive show at Tampa's David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts and hear from some of the area's top local chefs talk about the science of food.
The Poynter Institute, owner of the Tampa Bay Times, has lined up Pulitzer Prize winners and well-known journalists for talks and fundraisers for the educational outfit's St. Petersburg campus. And the Times Festival of Reading on Nov. 12 will bring more than 45 authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and books for young readers will be giving talks and signing books.
If you like a good lecture, here are some of the best ones coming this season:
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Nov. 17): The astrophysicist is known for his wit, keen insights and an encyclopedic knowledge the universe. His appeal as a teacher and intellectual has led to hosting duties on shows such as NOVA, NOVA ScienceNOW and StarTalk, a popular podcast and TV series on the National Geographic Channel that combines celebrity guests with informative banter. He also took over where Carl Sagan left off in Cosmos, the hit television miniseries exploring the mysteries of space. $45-$127 on Nov. 17 at Carol Morsani Hall at the Straz Center in Tampa. strazcenter.org.
Ina Garten (Nov. 2): The culinary icon known as the Barefoot Contessa brings behind-the-scenes stories of life in the Hamptons, filming of her Food Network show, writing best-selling books and her enjoyment of food. $35-$85 at Carol Morsani Hall at the Straz Center.
Alton Brown (April 21): The author of James Beard award-winning cookbooks won a Peabody for his science-centric series Good Eats for 13 years on the Food Network. The Iron Chef America host's live show is called "Eat Your Science." He will have songs, comedy, puppets and lots of messy food demonstrations. $35-$125 at the Straz Center.
Kathleen Parker (Oct. 13): The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post is the first of four planned community conversations as part of the Poynter Institute's annual speaker series. She will offer a special look at the 2016 campaign. $25, $75 with dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Poynter Institute, 801 Third St. S, St. Petersburg. poynter.org.
Dan Rather (Nov. 11): The former anchor of the CBS Evening News will appear as part of Poynter's Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. Rather has called Murrow his "north star" and will reflect on the life and career of this television pioneer. $100. The Poynter Institute.
Times Festival of Reading (Nov. 12): Among the dozens of writers at the free festival will be Tampa resident and bestselling author Michael Connelly, whose detective Harry Bosch is the title character of the Amazon TV series. Also, essayist and author Joyce Maynard, political thriller novelist Brad Meltzer and famed sportswriter Frank Deford. See the full lineup at festivalofreading.com.
Marty Baron (Dec. 13): The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was the Boston Globe editor portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight. Baron will share his insights on the 2016 election and the current state of the media. $40, $100 with dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the Poynter Institute.
The Bowtie Ball (Dec. 9): This fundraiser for the Poynter Institute will honor Tom Brokaw with the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. $125. 6:30 p.m. Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Parkway, 950 Lake Carillon Drive, St. Petersburg. poynter.org.
Carl Hiaasen (March 5): The Florida native began as a newspaper columnist (and still is) but then he spun comedy gold in a series of novels for both adults (Tourist Season, Strip Tease) and young readers (Hoot) using the oddball goings-on of the Sunshine State as a backdrop. He will give a talk March 5 in Ferguson Hall at the Straz Center. $35-$55.
National Geographic Live: Hear the story behind the stories from the writers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, explorers and adventurers of National Geographic. The seventh season of this popular and informative series will include Ocean Wild: The Light Beneath the Seas with photographer Brian Skerry (Jan. 17), Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous with paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim (Feb. 21) and Rhinos, Rickshaws and Revolutions: My Search for Truth with photojournalist Ami Vitale (March 28). $25-$30. Straz Center.
The Science of Food (Oct. 18 and 27): In conjunction with the Dali Museum's exhibition Ferran Adria: The Invention of Food, the museum will have free talks with top local chefs including chef Jeannie Pierola (Oct. 18) and Greg Baker (Oct. 27), both multiple James Beard Foundation semifinalists. The events are free but RSVP by Oct. 17 for Pierola or by calling (727) 803-9799 ext. 201 or emailing [email protected] Doors open at 6 p.m., discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. 1 Dali Blvd. (Bayshore Drive SE and Fifth Avenue SE), St. Petersburg. thedali.org.
Dick Crippen (Nov. 10): The longtime Tampa Bay radio and TV personality will be at Happy Hour with the Historian at the St. Petersburg Museum of History to talk about the evolution of Tampa Bay sports, from the Rowdies to the Rays. $5, members free. 335 Second Ave. NE, St. Petersburg. spmoh.com.
Contact Sharon Kennedy Wynne at [email protected] Follow @SharonKWn.


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When this guy swindled these mistresses out of their cash, he never expected to be punished the way he was. He expected a law suit or for them to beg him for their money. But these mistresses don't roll like that. They hatched a plan and got him to where they wanted him and beat him up. They slapped him, had him lick their shoes and kicked him. They did it all leisurely and forced him to give them back their money.
Madame Marisa found one of her pairs of sneakers had gone missing. She loves sneakers and does not spare any expenses to get herself the best. And when she found one of her favorite and latest sneakers missing, she wanted answers. Her slave claimed not to know where they were but after humiliating him and making him lick the soles of the sneakers she was wearing, he gave her the answers.
Mistress Gaia knows how to have fun while humiliating a slave. She called her friend and made her ride the slave as if he was a horse. Then she whipped the slave so that he could go faster. It was both painful and humiliating for the slave, just the way mistress Gaia wanted it. She also stepped on his head using her high heels in a bid to let him know that if he did not do as told, there would be hell to pay.
Lady Karame saw this loser stealing from another guy. No one else but her saw him. As he was walking towards her, she waited til he got close and she caught him. She humiliated him with her feet as well as her hands. She used her feet to strangle him. He tried to beg for mercy but it was not until he returned what he had stolen was forgiven of his crime.


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She looks at her schedule one last time to make sure she isn't going to walk in on the wrong class. She takes a deep breath and walks through the door. She scans the room for a familiar face before settling on a seat at the front of the classroom.
Today marks my final first day of class. As I await 4:00, I'm contemplating why I love first days so much. The answer hits me almost instantly: the anticipation.
Anticipation may be one of my most favorite things about life. The feeling is incredible. My heart swells with hopeful expectations of things to come. My chest tightens and stomach flips with the nervous excitement. My eyes sparkle because I can't adequately conceal my feelings.
Many things have triggered my anticipation over my 21 years of existence and I remember all of them vividly.
Pulling open the blue front door of my new school.
Lining up for the tip-off of the championship basketball game.
Saying a quick prayer before beginning my speech at state.
The plane ride to Arizona.
Walking in to a restaurant to meet a person for the first time.
The long car ride on the way to Destin.
The countless hours waiting by the phone to see if I had been selected for a position.
The pause right before he leans in for a kiss.
Anticipation is an amazing sensation.


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Sugar Industry Programme participant Tom Saunders shares his experiences. Find out more about our scheme for the next generation of growers here.
He writes:
The Sugar Industry Programme provided a varied range of events which gave an interesting perspective into all aspects of the industry, made me aware of the beneficial work of the NFU and helped form good friendships with other participants on the programme.
One of the earlier meetings was a visit to Wissington factory. It was fascinating to see the processes involved in abstracting sugar from the beet, and ultimately refining that raw product. During the talks we received the group learned about the efficiency of British Sugar and future challenges that face the industry. As a grower, it was pleasing to hear of the NFU's work at the point of arrival for beet into the factory. NFU beet intake manager Donald Hume gave an enthusiastic explanation of his team's role in sampling and handling claims, showing how this is done fairly and consistently.
Although the emphasis of the programme was on all things sugar beet, we were given an insight into the work the NFU does lobbying and advising in Westminster and also in Brussels, which we saw for ourselves when we met MP Dr Dan Poulter in London, and visited the British Agriculture Bureau and European Parliament in Belgium, meeting two MEPs there.
I personally found our trip to Brussels informative and it left me better placed to make a decision in the forthcoming EU Referendum. I returned home still unsure which was best for the future of Britain and for British farming, but to see first-hand how the European parliament works, and to understand the involvement in the Union we as a country had (and for the time being still have) was invaluable.
Visits to SESVanderHave and Germains demonstrated how companies are continuously evolving sugar beet varieties and seed to promote yields and assist with crop health in a more competitive way, aided by in-depth research and modern technologies.
Away from the crop, media training proved beneficial when we were joined on our Brussels trip by the BBC's Sunday Politics East television team. Presentation training was also useful when we all spoke individually at a dinner with Meurig Raymond and the NFU Sugar Board. Furthermore, I reported on the NFU Conference at a branch meeting shortly after, and can imagine both the media and presentation training will continue to be useful in the future.
During the SIP the group all became firm friends, which made the many dinners and overnight stays very enjoyable. The programme was a good opportunity to discuss different ideas with other growers, gave many opportunities to meet informally with sugar board members and forge relationships with professional people and those who work in different areas of the industry. Since the programme I have seen a few of the group out socially, and when considering contract options this year I was able to call upon the advice of the two agricultural consultants who were on the programme with me. I would encourage anybody to apply for the programme. It is a rare opportunity and you stand to gain a lot from it.


text: Chapter 2 Lesson 3: Igneous Rocks Study and Review Guide 1. Igneous rocks are formed from the cooling of magma or lava. How are igneous rocks classified? Origin Texture Mineral composition Directions: Circle the correct term that matches. Choose Intrusive or Extrusive. 2. Formed from lava that erupted onto Earth's surface. 3. Granite is the most abundant 4. Basalt is the most common 5. Formed when magma hardened beneath Earth's surface 6. Fine grained or glassy texture 7. Larger grains 8. The texture of an igneous rock depends on the ______________ and _______________ Of its mineral crystals. What is the exception to this rule? Igneous rocks that lack a crystal structure. 9. Rapidly cooling lava forms ____________________ grained igneous rock with _____________ crystals or ___________________ Crystals at all. 10. Slowly cooling magma forms coarsegrained rocks with large crystals such as granite. 11. Lava that is low is silica usually forms _____________________-colored Rocks such as _____________________. 12. Magma that is high in silica usually forms _______________ -colored rocks such as ______________. 13. Many igneous rocks are hard,___________, and durable. People throughout history have used igneous rocks for ________________________ and _______________________ Directions: Describe how each of these igneous rocks can be used. 14. granite 14. Fortresses in Peru (building blocks), building materials ie. Egyptians: statues; Today: curbstones and floors 15. basalt 15. cobblestones, landscaping, roads 16. pumice 16. 17. obsidian 17. 18. perlite 18. Mixed with soil and used for starting vegetable seeds


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My class on missions has been pretty good. The class ends this Sunday, which makes me happy!
The final book that I have to read and write a 2 page (single space) report on, is "Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth," by Lesslie Newbigin. Lesslie Newbigin was a influential missiologist (so my books all say) for our time. This book is only 90 pages and so I actually read it all yesterday just to be done with it.
Ever have one of those books where you read and read but have no clue what you are reading about? This is that type of book! There were a few quotes that stood out to me, which I noted but how am I to write a 2 page report on this book when I'm not even sure I can summarize the book? I think it's about Christians sharing the gospel as truth to the world...but the title alone almost says that, right? Oh geez...
Gotta love it!
On a different note, last Friday I registered for my last two classes for this Master's degree...wahoo! And, I played in my kitchen this weekend...both of which make me happy.


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Title: Gekijou Komoriuta Author: NANAJIMA Kana ISBN# 978-4-09-136035-9 Flower Comics, 2014 I've talked about another series by this author before (Koi ja nai no da!).Read more
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31 idream, by TANEMURA Arina
Title: 31 idream (AKA 31 Ai Dream, thirty one idream) Author: TANEMURA Arina ISBN# 978-4-592-21721-3 Hana to Yume Comics, 2014 As much as I loveRead more
Hirunaka no Ryuusei, by YAMAMORI Mika
Title: Hirunaka no Ryuusei (Daytime Shooting Star) Author: YAMAMORI Mika ISBN# 978-4-08-846708-5 Margaret Comics 2011 I've been hooked on this series for a long time.Read more
Kaeru no Ousama, by NAGASAWA Satoru
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Kimi ga Suki to ka Arienai!, by AOI Mitsu
Title: Kimi ga Suki to ka Arienai! Author: AOI Mitsu ISBN# 978-4-06-364367-1 KC Nakayoshi Comics, 2012 This is definitely one of those series where myRead more
Futari no Himitsu, by MORO Orie
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Kimi no Neiro, by FUKUSHIMA Haruka
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Sensei ni Ageru, by YAMADA Daisy
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Liar x Liar, by KINDAICHI Renjuro
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Finding The Cure For Your Irritable Bowel Syndrome
We summarise the results of our internet and off-line media searches for cures of IBS irritable bowel syndrome. It's not cheerful and you've probably already done a fair amount of research yourself and know all or most of this.
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The Best Of The Research on IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome Cures…
"The cause of IBS is not known, and there is no cure for IBS" – Womens health: www.womenshealth.gov
"Because the exact cause of IBS is unknown it is difficult to treat" – BMJ press release: www.bmj.com vol 337 issue 7679/2008;337: (Published 13 November 2008)
"Although there is no simple cure for IBS, there are treatments that can help reduce the symptoms. These include changes to your lifestyle, medicines and psychological treatments. With the help of your GP, you can decide which is most suited to you." – BUPA: http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/i/irritable-bowel-syndrome
"There's no cure for IBS, but the symptoms can be relieved by changing your diet and lifestyle. Sometimes medication can help, too." – NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Irritable-bowel-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx
"If your doctor does decide you have IBS, unfortunately there is no cure." – Dr Ellie Cannon: Jewish Chronicle
"First of all, there is really no cure for IBS – but don't despair, there are ways of controlling it, and it is not a progressive condition." – Net Doctor: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/digestiveandurinary/202112.html
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People sometimes feel a sudden, terrible disappointment on how the politics in America gets to run and operates across the 50 states. Everyone wants something to change, and they want something that will change the rules, improve the current ones and bring forth the reforms that will benefit the greater number of people. This vision of changing how politics operates today is the fuel in End Citizens United's goals and advocacies.
Who Are The People Behind End Citizens United?
End Citizens United is the group of individuals who want to address the complications pushed by the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the landmark case Citizens United vs. F.E.C. which is a case that outstandingly changed the American elections today.
The landscape of how elections get operated today is controversial, filled with loopholes and dangerous threats. One of the threats that End Citizens United addressed is the problem of money, precisely the dangerous, unprecedented power of money to buy out votes and influence the elections' turnout. The landmark case also established that corporations are entities and could get considered as people, and therefore they have the right to spend unlimited and often in many cases untraceable money just to bend the results of the American elections today.
This danger is what End Citizens United wants to stop because they believe that big money should not influence who gets to win in the electoral ballots.
End Citizens United also seeks to terminate the power of money to tip the-the balance of who gets to hold political power in the elections, but it also wants to further dedicate itself to making sure that the grassroots donors who believe in the cause will see measurable results in the fight.
Established last March 1st, 2015, End Citizens United is pushing the argument and belief that the grassroots individuals will fight the elected officials, voters, and the press to show that the billionaire's brazen use of their financial power will not influence today's elections.
Making The Name A Reality
MSNBC recently reported that End Citizens United is showing great enthusiasm about how their supporters are not fragile and how they are robust activists who want to make extra effort to push their advocacies. It also reported that End Citizens United would soon make their name a reality. End Citizens United will continue to use their supporters' power, including the $4 million that the supporters raised for the cause, to achieve their ultimate goal.
This target or goal is to pass the comprehensive and complete constitutional amendment that will turn back and reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010, which brought out a lot of danger in how dark money can diminish the legitimacy of the elections. With the 325,000 and more people who signed up for support, this goal will see its fruition anytime soon.


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What's Your Food Size?
August 24, 2012
Imagine that you need a new pair of shoes. You go to the shoe store, look around at the styles on display, and you find one that fits you perfectly. It's comfortable, looks good on you, and the leather really feels great to the touch. In fact, you like the way it looks and feels so much that you decide to buy the largest size that they have in stock, so you get more shoe for the same price. Great deal, right?
No, it's insane.
Now think about a similar scenario, but instead of shoes imagine you're ordering a meal in a casual dining restaurant. You see that the special for the day is a dish that you really loved the last time you had it. That time it was served in a moderately sized, but very satisfying portion. Today, though, the server tells you that they are offering the special in the "value sized" meal.
For the same price you can get twice as much of your favorite meal! You've never been one to take home a doggy bag or leave anything on your plate, but you're really hungry and you love this dish so you're confident you'll be able to handle it. Would you consider the offer? Even if you reject it, it doesn't sound quite as ridiculous as buying big shoes, does it? But it is.
In both cases you assign value to some useless material that will soon make you feel uncomfortable and sorry that you chose it. But one scenario seems crazy and the other one doesn't. This is a perfect example of how habitual but irrational ways that we think about food affects our behavior, weight, and, ultimately, our health.
Here's another common mental habit that is closely related to taking large portions: the idea that leaving food on your plate is a moral transgression of some sort and the act of scraping off any edible food into the garbage is sinful.
Think about it like this: you had a good meal. You're no longer hungry; you may even be stuffed. You have no real desire for the last pieces of whatever is left on your plate, but you feel a compulsion to eat it. By now, your body is processing all of the nutrition it needs from what you've already ingested. What do you think it will do with the rest? It goes to waste just as surely as if you put it in the garbage can. The only difference is that it goes through you first.
What happens to that extra food? Whatever calories your body doesn't need gets converted by your liver into triglycerides which are then stored as fat cells in different areas of your body. That fat storage is s a great adaptation that all mammals have so that they can hibernate during the winter and survive droughts in the summer. Chances are you're not in danger of starving through those events, so instead of getting you through the crisis, the fat will just stay there until you start taking in fewer calories. Then your body will begin to siphon off some of the energy stored in those strategic reserves and you'll lose weight.
I'll describe just one more common example of distorted thinking that, like the other two, is related to portion control. It's about how we behave at a buffet.
I'm sure you're familiar with the scene at a catered event where the food is spread out on a self-service buffet table. People sharpen their elbows and crowd around the table as if they haven't had a decent meal in weeks. Then they pile up their plates, apparently according to how much food is on the table. It's almost as if each individual estimates the appropriate percentage of food that's allotted per person and that's what they take.
Do you see a pattern here? In all of these situations, the amount of food you eat is based on external factors rather than individual requirements. Whether it's the amount of food available or what's left over on the plate, the cue to eat does not come from what you need or want, but from what is available.
How do you change that kind of behavior? It starts, as does all behavior change, with how you perceive the situation. Before eating, try to apply what you really do when you go to buy shoes. Before you even step into the shoe store you know your size. You've bought shoes often enough as an adult to know what will fit and what won't. Well, you've also eaten enough in your life that it should never surprise you to discover that you've eaten too much. You should know your size when it comes to food portions at least as well as you know the size of your shoes or clothes.
Before you put anything on your plate look at it and visualize what volume of protein, starch and vegetables fits your real need to feel satisfied without overeating. Then you take the appropriate amount of each, with a ratio of about twice as much of the vegetables as each of the other two groups. Try to leave enough space between the different foods to be able to see some of the plate to keep from piling it on. That's your size.
If after you finish that you feel that you can still comfortably eat more, wait about five minutes before putting any more on your plate to give your brain a chance to catch up with your stomach. It takes a while to register that you feel satisfied. When you've had enough, enjoy a few bites of dessert and call it a meal. You'll be quite content.
Using the Five W's to Assess Your Eating Routine
August 22, 2012
Whether you record what you eat every day or not, it's useful to do an eating self-assessment before deciding what needs to change in your current eating routine. The first step in this process is to apply the five W's of journalism: What, When, Why, Where and Who. That will help you get a more thorough understanding of your eating patterns so you'll know where to focus your change goals.
What: When you try to recall your usual eating patterns, it may be easiest to go through your daily routine, and write down (with brutal honesty, if necessary) the types of meals and snacks that you tend to prefer and are most likely to eat throughout the day. What do you have for breakfast, if at anything at all? What choices do you make and what portion sizes do you take? Do you prefer to prepare your own meals, like cooked or raw salads, or do you go for convenience? If it's the latter, is it usually frozen meals, diet plan trays, or take-out? Another important 'What' question is, what are you doing while you eat? Are you reading, watching TV, working at the computer? Or are you simply focused on the experience of eating whether alone or with others?
When: Once you think about what you usually eat and how much, you can think about your daily pattern of when you get the cues to eat and respond to them. Do you eat at scheduled mealtimes, or do you graze throughout the day? When do you usually eat the first meal of the day? At what point do you stop eating at individual meals? When in the day do you stop eating? Are you a late night snacker? Think about whether your total calorie intake is spread throughout the day, or is it more packed into the one part of the day or another. Is your pattern to eat a lot but infrequently or less and more frequently?
Why: Next, take note of what typically prompts you to eat at each of those opportunities. Of course, I have been talking about emotional eating throughout this book and how feeling controlled tends to trigger an episode of emotional eating. So identifying what the experience is that made you respond by eating is one example of how to answer the Why question. When it's not a response to an emotional trigger, you can track the timing of your eating. Is it mainly the time of day that makes you think about having a meal, or do you respond mostly to hunger cues? Or do you eat simply because food is in your line of vision and available? (My father, a master of lame dad humor, used to call that his see-food diet.) If your eating has no discernible pattern, then that's your pattern. Make note of the cues that prompt you to eat when you do.
Where: Now think about where you are at each of those occasions. Are you standing or sitting? Are you at a kitchen or dining room table or at a coffee table or TV tray? Do you eat in the company cafeteria, at your office desk, or in a restaurant – fast-food or other? Do you eat in the car? (Here's a hint: don't!)
Who: Do you usually eat with others or by yourself? When you eat around other people do you tend to make better choices and limit how much you eat or are you influenced in one way or another by the choices of others?
This self-assessment is the first step in behavior change. Understanding your eating patterns can help you identify obvious problems. In the next few posts, I'll go over some of the less obvious patterns that research has shown to increase calorie consumption and where making some changes can be especially helpful. But first I'll start with some of the more irrational mental habits that may not be obvious but really should be. As you'll see, you don't need a researcher to tell you that they add calories, just a little common sense.
The Pros and Cons of Keeping a Food Diary
August 21, 2012
I'm very ambivalent about the issue of keeping a food diary. I know that when people do it, the impact it has on their eating can be very impressive. So what's the down side of recommending it? For one thing, when someone who is just trying to be helpful, tells you that you "really should" keep a daily food diary, that's one more rock dropped into the pan that hangs on the external control side of the scale. It's just as likely to have a negative effect as a positive one.
People differ in how they feel about keeping journals, diaries, or scrapbooks. Personally, if I was told to record everything I ate, I would either give up after about a day, or if I did stick with it, the information wouldn't be worth the electronic pixels that it's recorded on. And I know from my patients' responses to this recommendation that there are many people who have the same attitude toward recording everything they eat as I do.
Even dedicated diarists who are knowledgeable about nutrition can be way off in their estimates of portions and calories that they consume. A study published in 2002 showed that although dietitians who were asked to record their food intake over a seven-day period were more accurate than non-dietitians, they still underestimated the calories they consumed by more than 10 percent. The non-dietitians in the study were off by more than 20 percent!
I believe, however, that the accuracy of the details recorded is not the key factor in explaining the effectiveness of keeping a food journal. The real value of the diary comes back to mindful awareness. Just the process of thinking about what you have eaten forces you to stop and reflect on your eating behavior. That alone can be a very sobering experience for many people who eat so automatically they're not even aware of having other more appropriate options. If you're not aware that you have options then literally, you don't have a choice. From a practical point of view, it's no better than being forced to eat. More than that, the fact that what you're about to put in your mouth will be recorded, makes a big difference in whether you eat it or not. Or, put another way, it allows you to make choices.
There's an old joke about a couple on vacation in the Catskill Mountains in one of those old resorts. They were looking at their menus and pointed out to the waitress that under side dishes it just says "choice of vegetables." "So?" asked the waitress. The man asked, "Well, what's the choice?" The jaded server rolled her eyes and said, "The choice is, do you want it or don't 'cha?" When you consider any global behavior change on the microscopic, nano-level, it all comes down to individual decisions: Should I have this one or that one? Should I take another portion or not? Do you want this or don't 'cha?
How frequently are we confronted with choices about what we eat? A study done by Brian Wansink at Cornell looked at how many food-related decisions we think we make every day and compared it to how many we actually make. The results were pretty astounding. The researchers found that we're aware of making about 15 daily decisions concerning food. The reality? We make over 200 food-related decisions every day! That difference is where most of your excess calories come from.
So the real low-hanging fruit, where a minor effort can have a major impact, lies in being more aware of even a small percentage of those 185 or so unconscious decisions you make every day. The accuracy and details of your food diary are not the critical factor in its effectiveness. Instead, the value of writing it down is that it encourages you to open your eyes to the many opportunities you have every day to make better decisions.
What does that mean for those of you who, like me, don't care for keeping track of everything you eat? It means two things: one, you don't have to obsess over the details. Just making a quick note – even a mental note – in the evening of whatever you can recall eating during the day can make a difference. Second, you don't have to do it for the rest of your life. You can quit when you start thinking automatically about what you're eating rather than just eating automatically.
If Some is Good, Does That Mean More is Better?
August 19, 2012
There is a concept in economics called diminishing marginal utility. This means that as a person increases consumption of a product there is a decline in the satisfaction or benefit that person gains from consuming each additional unit of the item. Applying this concept to eating may be one of the most useful things you will learn from this entire blog.
We have all had the experience of robotically eating something simply because it is in our line of sight and within arm's reach. We may have a real desire for a piece or two of whatever it is, but if there is more than that available we are liable to continue eating far more than what it would take to satisfy that desire. Being mindfully aware of the enjoyment or pleasure that we are experiencing from that food is a critical element in preventing overeating.
The best way to illustrate this process is with what I'll call the Food-Pleasure Curve, illustrated below. Think of each point on the curve as a unit of some food that you like but also recognize is an indulgence and can sometimes be a problem for you to resist. Let's say it's Hershey's Kisses, which are about 25 calories each, and there's a candy dish in front of you with eight individually wrapped candies in it. Seeing those makes you think about the taste and feel of what one would be like in your mouth, and that creates a desire for it, so you take one from the bowl.
You unwrap it, pop it in your mouth and experience exactly what you imagined. The taste is very satisfying, it brings back memories of eating them when you were young and you get a fair amount of enjoyment from it. If you would rate it from 1 to 10 on a scale of chocolate pleasure, it would perhaps score a 7. That's great! That's what I would call an excellent return on a small investment. You've achieved a high degree of anticipated pleasure for a cost of only 25 calories. In fact, you're so pleased with the outcome of the experience that you decide to have a second one.
You go through the same process and your pleasure from this one goes up from a 7 to, let's say, a 9. After all, you've already experienced it once, which took you from 0 to 7. Now you just want to add to that experience so it's likely to bring it up a just a few points. Now you're at 50 calories and at 9 out of 10 on the pleasure scale, which is still what I would call a nice return. You know that your pleasure is not going to go any higher than a 9, but the experience was enjoyable and there are still six more pieces in the candy dish. You're not quite ready to walk away from it so you eat one more to prolong the experience.
At this point you've had three candies and you've already maxed out at 9 on the pleasure scale, but you want just one more as a way of letting go and putting it aside. So you have one more for the road. Although it doesn't increase your enjoyment, it also does nothing to diminish it, so the curve stays flat.
The bowl still has a handful of chocolates in it, though, and they're still right there within easy reach; but you feel that you've already satisfied your initial desire to experience what you anticipated when you first saw the candies, and you've consumed 100 calories, so you decide to stop.
You distract yourself for a few minutes; you walk around a bit, and maybe do a little work. But on some level you're still thinking about the chocolates in that dish. You finally convince yourself that you're just going to have one more. So you eat it, but immediately feel a twinge of regret.
Now here is the important part: that small feeling of regret just cancelled out some of the pleasure you had initially experienced. This is where the marginal utility begins to diminish. It's true that the fifth one tasted exactly the same as the first, which you fully enjoyed; however, you've already satisfied that initial desire, and in terms of your emotional state, you were kind of disappointed in yourself for not controlling that impulse to have more.
At this point, however, you also feel that you've already lost this round in your bout with self-control, and you think, why keep fighting it? So you have another, and adding that one to how you're already feeling about yourself, you say "Oh, what the hell!" and, abandoning all restraint, you have the last few in the bowl. Now, in addition to the emotional letdown, you begin to feel a little physically disgusted. Your sense of self-loathing and weakness, to say nothing of queasiness, wipes out any enjoyment you got out of the first few chocolates. To add insult to injury, you've just taken in an extra 200 calories and have nothing to show for it.
We have all had this experience, even those who do not consider themselves emotional eaters. It's not a sign of a disorder; it's a sign of being human. The question is, what can you learn from it?
The part of this that is very human is our natural and mostly adaptive tendency to tune out our routine behaviors which allows us to focus on other, more complex mental processes. That's what allows us to multitask; when we do that we're really focusing on only one thing at a time, but we can accomplish other more routine tasks at the same time because they don't require the same degree of cognitive effort.
The problem is that this "efficiency" comes at a cost. The lack of attention leads to errors, not because we're using poor judgment, but because we're not applying judgment at all! The process I described with the Hershey's Kisses is actually an exaggerated version of reality. It's typically not the way we consciously process the decisions we make, but it reflects what happens on the level just below conscious awareness.
The way to change this is to be mindfully aware of the following thoughts: your desire for something to eat, whether the item you are considering will satisfy that desire, how much it would take to do so, and at what point do you reach the maximum level of satisfaction that you're likely to get without doing anything to diminish the pleasure you got out of it. Keeping the Food-Pleasure Curve in mind as a mental image can be very helpful in accomplishing that goal.
A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Autonomous Control
July 23, 2012
If you feel that you have a good understanding of how I explained autonomous control, then this part may or may not be useful to you. If that's the case, feel free to skip it. At the risk of overexplaining it, this schematic serves my need to clarify things visually. That's how I learn best, so I like to use visual images to explain things as well.
This is a graphical depiction of the important role that a balanced sense of autonomous control plays in behavior, and how that can be set off-balance by a shift to the extreme on either side. As the term implies, true autonomous control combines autonomy, or independent action, with control, or responsibility and structure. Going to an extreme on either side of the scale can throw everything off-balance which is psychologically unsustainable.
When that does happen, the imbalance tends to be restored by going to the extreme on the other side. Too much structure begins to feel like externally-imposed control, which is counteracted by defiant or oppositional behavior. Since the counter-reaction, rather than the outcome, is the primary motivation, this behavior is often acted out on impulse rather than by weighing costs and benefits.
It would also follow that lacking a sense of control and structure would be equally destabilizing by creating a feeling of internal chaos, and could lead to restoring balance in the other direction by becoming overly structured or self-restrictive. This may explain what motivates certain behaviors such as anorexia or other types of extreme dieting.
The ideal approach is to maintain balanced moderation by having a sense of authority and self-direction, but also by taking into account a sense of responsibility: to others, to your work, to society, and so on. That responsibility can take the form of conforming to external expectations, like getting up to go to work in the morning, obeying the law, adhering to a schedule when necessary, or offering a compromise when your legitimate autonomous needs conflict with those of someone else.
When there are moderate and reasonable limits on your freedom, then you are able maintain an emotionally even keel. This allows you to pursue goals autonomously, guided by your own needs and by how those are met by the behavior, rather than impulsively acting in opposition to your perception that someone else is trying to control you.
I call this a dynamic equilibrium model of autonomous control. Dynamic equilibrium is a term used primarily in the natural sciences, but has also been used in the social sciences. The idea is that a system is maintained in a relatively steady and balanced state (homeostasis) while the elements that maintain the balance are in flux and they react to each other to maintain equilibrium. That is, they move in tandem mirroring each other so that if one moves to the extreme, the other does too to maintain constancy. It's a zero-sum game.
When the counter-balancing elements involve emotions and behavior, and they shift to the extremes, you can see the kind of problems that may result (in the boxes at the bottom of the graphic). That brings us back to our topic and illustrates how emotional eating fits in.
Of course, understanding the theory and successfully applying it to your behavior are two separate things. The four-step approach that I outlined here is necessary for overcoming emotional eating, but may not be sufficient in conquering overeating. A long-standing pattern of emotional eating may become so habitual that even without the external control stressors triggering the behavior, simple habit can keep it going. In future posts I will focus on the mental habits that over time tend to groove a rut in your eating behavior and how to get a handle on pulling yourself out of them.
Step 4: Reduce the Impact of the Stressor
July 22, 2012
This step is the take-away, bottom line, upshot, payoff, etc. for everything we've discussed up to this point. So pay close attention. Once you have identified the reason (or reasons) you feel controlled, the next step is to take a good look at the situation that is causing the stress to see if you can change how it impacts you.
The key to doing this successfully involves the effective use of coping mechanisms. In psychology, coping with stress is broken down into three basic strategies. Depending on the nature of the stressor, each of these can be used to reduce or eliminate the impact of the problem that is making you feel controlled. These are:
- problem-focused coping
- appraisal-focused coping
- emotion-focused coping
Problem-focused strategies are simply solution-oriented approaches to dealing with a situation that causes stress. If the problem is due to something that can be changed, you can solve it by reducing or eliminating the source of the stress. Let's say you're tense and anxious due to your hectic schedule. You feel like you're running from one meeting to another, while always being afraid that you'll be late to the next one. You would look at how you are managing your appointments to see how you can reduce the problem.
A patient of mine was dealing with an extremely stressful work situation. He is a doctor working in a busy outpatient clinic where there tends to be a lot of patients who don't show for their appointments. As a result, the clinic administrators looked for a way to balance patient flow without causing too many gaps for the doctors or delays for the patients. They found a good balance by looking at the average number of no-shows for the clinic and developed a practice of triple-booking each appointment slot to manage the patient flow.
This worked well for the most part. The problem was that cancellations and no-shows varied according to specialty and my patient's specialty area had fewer missed appointments than the others. As a result, he was constantly overbooked, running late for each appointment and working late every day. The simple fix was to show the administrator how his cancellations and no-shows differed from the others, and that his appointments should therefore not be triple-booked. Problem solved.
This simple approach is the best way to deal with problems that are causing stress, so it should be the first thing to look for when you identify the situation that is causing you to feel controlled. If you're overwhelmed with work, hire an assistant or delegate responsibilities to others. If your office desk has developed geological strata and finding things you need requires the skills of a trained archeologist, enlist the help of an organized person to help you come up with a better system.
These are fairly straightforward solutions to problems that can really end up controlling your life. In reality, though, it's usually not so simple. Most of the time, the problem you're dealing with is not so readily solvable but is rather an ongoing situation that does not lend itself to a simple fix. That leaves you with the next option: appraisal-focused coping strategies. This means reappraising and challenging your assumptions – or in plain English, turning on your mental crap detector.
Without getting too philosophical about it, when we respond to any event, we feel and believe that we are responding to the plain reality that's out there. That's a reasonable and common shortcut that we use to unclutter our brains and streamline how we think. Unfortunately, it's not true. The idea that we see things as they really are is a simplified but wrong view of the cognitive process we go through when we respond to events. The truth is that we're really responding to our interpretation of the experience, which can be very different from the reality. So it's essential to challenge the assumptions we make about how we first view the event.
Everything we see and experience first has to pass through a process of perception and interpretation before we respond to it. That interpretation of what we perceive is our own addition to the experience and it colors or even completely distorts our understanding of the event. It's like a filter that we use on the camera lens of our mind. It distorts the picture we take of reality in a way that is unique to us. Often, we may apply the same filter to many different experiences. We don't give too much thought to it when we do this, because it occurs at a level beyond our conscious awareness, and besides, most of the time it has no practical impact.
However, when we respond emotionally to our experience of an event, and then behave in some way that is in turn triggered by that emotional response, how we filter reality can make a huge difference. For the purposes of our discussion, it can determine whether or not an event will trigger an episode of binge eating or not.
It's too easy to accept the sense of being controlled as the reality and to respond to that perception by eating. But what if your perception is not the reality? It is very possible that your filter tends to allow perceptions of external control to pass through more easily than alternative interpretations. So the most important question to ask is, "Am I really being controlled or are there ways that I can look at this situation differently?"
Appraisal-focused strategies are appropriate when there is no straight-forward solution to a problem. Instead of changing the cause, you modify how you think. This is what I wrote about in some detail concerning Hamlet's prison. Whether you feel trapped or not may depend entirely on how you look at things.
Another patient of mine grew up as the oldest of six children. Her parents, whether by their nature or necessity, were very rigid about expectations of behavior and fairness. Among those rules were that the older children had to be responsible for their younger siblings. This wasn't just a matter of watching out for their safety, but also making sure they were happy.
As a consequence, my patient had to do things like include her younger sister whenever she went out with friends, give up her right to an extra piece of pizza if her sister wanted it, and so on. Now, as adults, she doesn't particularly enjoy the company of her younger sister, but feels incredibly guilty about not wanting to spend more time with her. Unlike the other person's work schedule problem, this is not a situation that lends itself to an easy solution. So what does she do about the overwhelming stress that comes from the guilt she feels about not liking her sister? She had to reappraise the situation.
First, she had to recognize that perhaps her parents' expectations were not fair to her. True, she was the oldest, but she was still just a little girl herself and had her own need to be a kid, not a nanny. So a lot of her resentment toward her sister was probably redirected from feelings she had toward her parents that were unacceptable for her to acknowledge. Second, she and her sister are very different people as adults, with different interests and personalities. Sometimes people who are members of the same family wouldn't choose to be friends with each other if they weren't related and they don't have to feel guilty about that.
For this patient, of course, that was not an acceptable option growing up, and she never got the memo as an adult that this rule had ever been repealed. Allowing herself to admit that she would probably not choose her sister as a friend if they met as adults was a revelation to her. That doesn't mean that she can ignore her as if they had no connection, but including her in her life her as one would any family member is not what was stressful to her. Essentially, she had to give herself permission to disregard rules that were at best obsolete and probably were never a good idea to begin with. This, not surprisingly, was a pattern that repeated itself in her relationships with friends, co-workers, and the men she dated.
This process of reassessing how one interprets and responds to reality is in fact the majority of what goes on in therapy. It's what most of the talk in talk therapy is about. It's a process that requires examining patterns of events and relationships and noting how you tend to respond to them until there are enough data points to connect the dots and see a consistent picture emerge.
Since the process relies on no one but you to accomplish, together with a therapist who supports your budding independence, it is a very good example of how to develop a sense of autonomous control in your life. If you commit to it and put what you discover into practice, it is usually a very effective and powerful way of implementing change. But even then, there will be lifelong habits of thinking and behaving that slip through, no matter how effective therapy is. That's where the third coping technique, emotion-focused coping, can be very helpful.
Emotion-focused strategies involve dealing with the feelings that are stirred up as a consequence of the stressor. This can include managing hostile feelings by counting to ten, or reducing anxiety by meditating or using relaxation techniques. Unlike the first two strategies, which are directed at reducing the source of stress, emotion-focused coping is more tactical than strategic, since it is aimed at the effects of the stress. Distracting oneself from the urge to binge would be an example that is most relevant to emotional eating. This is what many therapists who work with emotional eating recommend when they encourage people to "surf the urge," meaning, distract yourself from the urge to binge until it passes.
Other useful responses could include any type of pleasant activity that serves as a distraction and occupies your attention, preferably while occupying your hands as well. Any kind of needlework, doing crossword puzzles or taking a hot bath, might be some examples of emotional-coping behaviors. Going for a walk, exercise or reading could also work well. Watching TV might be an effective way to divert your attention, but it could also allow for having a snack while you watch, and the opportunity for habitual eating could defeat the purpose of distracting yourself from emotional eating.
Surfing the urge, and any other response that you might choose to take the place of emotional eating, can be helpful advice when you feel like bingeing and have no other way of dealing with it. However, I see this as a last resort, after the attempts to address the source of the stress has failed. That's because emotional eating is the effect; the stressor, whether it is a problem that can be fixed or a perception that can be changed, is the cause. Whenever there is a cause and effect relationship, the most effective way to minimize the effect is to first address the cause.
With most of my patients, even those who have binged on a daily basis for years, I don't begin treatment by getting them to change their behavior. If anything, that would just introduce a new form of external control that sooner or later would have the exact opposite effect of what we are trying to accomplish. Instead, I help them defuse the power of food by encouraging them to view all food as on the menu. Then we'll look at their experience of external control and discuss the coping techniques I describe here. Often, after only a few weeks of therapy with someone who has been struggling daily, I'll ask them how their eating has been. They'll usually think about it for a few seconds and look up with an expression of puzzlement when they realize that it's been a week or more since the last time they binged.
When it comes to emotional eating, perceived control is the cause; rejection of control is the effect. First try to solve the problem that causes the experience of feeling controlled; if that's not possible, change your perception of that control. When that's not enough, find better ways to respond to those feelings. The unwanted behavior will often take care of itself.
Step 3: Identify the Stressor
July 13, 2012
If you're like every other human, and chances are that's the case, stress can enter your life in all forms, from every possible source, and in every possible way. Therefore, saying that emotional eating is due to stress is like saying that an illness is due to being sick. It's circular and meaningless. Unless you can identify a specific cause that can be linked to the effect you will be unable to eliminate the symptom.
However, with all the possible suspects as the source of the stress behind this behavior it can be very difficult to identify the ones that are actually causing it. Fortunately, it should be clear by now that emotional eating is a specific type of response to a specific type of stress. It is a defiant act of self-liberation from the domination of external control, so the search for a cause can therefore be more focused. The first question to ask, then, is not "Why am I stressed out," but "In what way am I feeling controlled?"
As I described in the previous section, the source of the problem is often related to control around eating, such as explicit or implicit pressure to lose weight. But it can also come from any other situation in which you feel you bear the full responsibility for getting something done, but your freedom or authority to do it your way is being limited by other people or circumstances. (I want to emphasize that you feel that's the case; it doesn't mean that it is! This is an important point for finding alternative solutions, which I'll address in the next step.)
A simple and fairly common example is when someone asks you for a favor. You may have no time, energy, or desire to say yes, but there's a part of you that feels unable to say no. Perhaps you're concerned that this person will be angry with you or will see you as a bad or uncaring person. Maybe being seen as the kind of person who is always available to help is more important to you than commitments that you've made to yourself to get certain things done. So even if this means that the items on your own to do list get downgraded in priority, you have to make that sacrifice to maintain your image.
All of this is very nice, but not so deep down, you may feel resentful. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you may be grumbling to yourself about how inconsiderate this friend is for "forcing" you to give up what you need to do, and instead do something that is inconvenient and time-consuming. How rude!
Of course, none of this is true. The friend may have been very accepting if you explained that you're unable to comply with the request, even without providing a good excuse. But there's some part of you that has internalized the idea that complying with every request is the right way to behave. You may even be able to recall some such explicit message, spoken in a voice that sounds suspiciously like one of your parents.
Whatever the reason, you feel forced, compelled and controlled. If this is an ongoing occurrence, you will likely feel that your sense of independence, what psychologists refer to as self-determination, is out of balance. To correct that, you unconsciously feel the need to engage in some behavior that makes it right again by reassuring yourself that you're still in charge. Any situation in which you find yourself feeling that your sense of independence is impinged upon may be a likely candidate for causing a counter-reaction type of behavior like binge eating.
This behavior feels like a satisfying correction to the imbalance caused by the impaired sense of autonomy because you're able to break the rules without hurting anyone else. "After all," you tell yourself, "I'm the one who made the rule, so I'm the one who can break it." Yes, you have the freedom of the proverbial fox that's guarding the hen house. On the other hand, of course, "not hurting anybody else" implies that you are hurting yourself with this behavior. So why isn't that enough to prevent it?
If the object of the behavior is to feel free, then that would include feeling free of having to worry about the predictable outcome. "I may feel bad later," you tell yourself, "but I don't care!" That's the point of the freedom – you have the freedom to ignore consequences.
Recognizing the source of the perceived control is the key to overcoming that counter-behavior, because this pattern only "works" if you're not fully cognizant of why you're doing it. If, however, you use the urge to binge as a signal to think about how you might be feeling controlled, you defeat the supposed purpose of acting in opposition to that control, which is to feel independent. As Edward Deci puts it in his book, Why We Do What We Do, "When people are either complying with or defying controls, they are not being autonomous, and they can know that."
Being aware of your options and choosing to act out of preference, not out of defiance, is the key to true independence.