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tha boy larry's a wasteman, bruv!
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a man that is waste
you're a wasteman...
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Older men who do nothing with their lives. Also known as a waste of space; or wastefran.
A lazy wasteman; someone who had potential to hold a white collared title, but prefers to live like a slum.
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A boi or a man who is a complate dick head. He is involved in pointless activities and go on as if he is good when he is not!!. You dont even want to be near them
Get the fuck away from me you Waste man
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An ape who cant control his emotions due to possibly having a small penis and being unfulfilled with their life. And also constantly acts like a girl on their period.
Yasin is a complete Wasteman. He couldn't even control his bitch from shagging next man! He has real wasteman stench!!
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Sure it is. The gameplay experience sucks. I would rather play Unreal Tournament 3.
How? Pull gun, use mouse to aim, hold right mouse to zoom in... pretty standard. Unless you mean you can't play it run and gun, in which case no, that is a good thing.
You make it sound so simple. Too bad the way guns shoot is horrible. And also the fact that they rarely shoot anywhere near the spot you are aiming at. And I wasn't talking about running and gunning. I was talking about simply sneaking up on a person and shooting them. It also takes a retarded amount of bullets to put somebody down for some reason.
The map could be better, but it tells you what you need to know. Make sure to hit "N" to zoom it if you need to.
I will just stay happy and make sure to not double click the desktop shortcut again.
By which you mean it's not a AAA American or Japanese game, which was obvious from the start. It looks good though, I posted pics in the pic thread... detailed textures and crisp environments. It looks like a PC game.
I don't need a "AAA American or Japanese game"... I need a good game. That opening cutscene was terrible, and then I was just dropped off in the woods. Awesome storytelling.
I think they're quite good actually.
Man, you must only play games with the worst animations ever if you think the animations in this game are good. Running without a weapon in your hand is hilarious to watch.
You're not really proving me wrong on the whole "it's not a massive budget game from a large corporation so it sucks!" front Hunt. I thought games were about gameplay? This game has awesome espionage gameplay, good crisp PC style graphics and controls and immersive open levels.
Again, small budget doesn't mean it has to suck. And games are about gameplay, this game has terrible gameplay. And bad animations aren't the same as bad graphics... bad animations can ruin the experience for me while graphics are only secondary to me.
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After eight years in England, I am really pleased to see how many teams in the Premier League are little by little changing their style of play. Despite some opinions to the contrary, the arrival of foreign managers has benefited English football. These days not many question, for example, Manchester City's zonal marking in corners or the necessary rotations carried out this season to ensure that English players could reach the European Cup with fresh legs. Furthermore, as time goes by we can see how the game is starting to be analysed taking into account aspects like team formation instead of just the performance of individual players.
One of the players from my time at Liverpool FC, who has played in various Premier League teams and is still playing in England, commented about a manager that he's had: "he trains very similar to the way we used to with you, always with the ball.
It seems that slowly there begins to be another vision of football and there is even talk of adopting the Spanish model for the youth system. The FA has reacted to this situation although it is going to be a hard task. Amongst other changes The FA is also trying to improve the structure of Football Academies, which is going to be positive. From my personal experience as player and coach in Spain for more than 30 years I would say that two basic things would help: first, youth system coaches' formation; second, the under 21 competition system.
After analysing the statistics from the different leagues provided by
, especially the ones which refer to the Premier League, it appears systematically that Arsene Wenger's Arsenal has been the team that has always maintained a style of football based on ball possession, even though now that style of play is beginning to spread.
These days it is interesting to see how, after the success of Barcelona and the national Spanish team, there have been followers that have compared themselves to the Catalan team in many aspects of the game but may not realise that Barcelona is what it is because they have spent many years playing in the same way, the same style and, above all, because Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Piqué, Dani Alves and the rest have converted Barcelona into a distinctive team because of their particular style of play and the great quality they have as individuals.
Even so, these statistics make for some interesting points. For example, significantly in the Premier League there have been more passes made in total (351,867) than in La Liga (340,416), and in addition the Premier League has more than seven teams that have exceeded the 20,000 passes although in comparison they still remain far from the statistics illustrated by Barcelona who exceed 29,000 passes in total. But neither Real Madrid nor Valencia have reached those 20.000 passes despite finishing first and third in the Spanish league which shows how the rest of the clubs in La Liga as a whole, do make more passes than teams in the Premier League as a whole.
When talking about style, keeping the ball, possession..., we could also analyse in which part of the pitch the ball is kept. Some of the teams with higher ball possession in the Premier League play a lot in their own half and also with their goalkeeper -which could be a good solution in some situations. The problem is also that their passing success rate in the opposite half is below 80%, far from the 87% shown by Barcelona. This reminds me of what used to happen in Spain 15 years ago with the famous "tiqui-taca.
The origin of this term, curiously, has negative connotations. Some years ago the Spanish league had public opinion divided between those that defended this type of passing play, generally short passing, and those that defended direct play, as playing long balls was considered more practical.
Coaches like Maguregui or Javier Clemente criticised this type of play (tiqui-taca) because -said in their favour- in those times many teams liked to keep passing the ball without progressing or creating chances. It was all about keeping the ball and waiting for the right moment to find the space and break the defence. It was named in some cases the "windscreen wiper game because the ball went from one side to the other like a windscreen wiper, without reaching the opposition's goal. One famous coach and defender of this type of play, "style over result, told a journalist in answer to the question if he would prefer to win playing badly or lose playing well, that he would prefer to lose playing well. A few days later he was asked to come out and rectify these words, but the debate had already begun.
At Barcelona, Messi, Xavi, Busquets, Iniesta and company have given lustre to the famous "tiqui-taca and with the arrival of Luis Aragonés to the national team, this group of players and this style of play began to shine and fascinate the world. Del Bosque and Guardiola achieved even greater triumphs with that style of play and above all with that group of players. Now many want to follow that style because it is fashionable, it's beautiful and on top of that it wins titles. It's a shame that there is, for example, just one Xavi Hernandez.
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So what next for the Premier League? The statistics shown by Opta tell us that in the Premier League the number of total passes made each season is increasing, surpassing more than 320,000, 330,000 and 350,000 respectively in each one of the last three seasons. The number of goals has also quickly increased over 1,050 each year although last season the number of total shots at goal decreased. But what could be worrying is the idea of "we are like Barcelona, which could lead to errors similar to those that were committed in Spain. The percentage of passes in the opposite half has decreased from 65% in 09/10 season to 61% last season. Copying a style and system does not always guarantee success. Many of us like Barcelona's style of play, but they can achieve it thanks to their individual quality and years of hard work. We shouldn't forget that there are many ways of playing well and winning.
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28/07/12 at 20:10:02
Joe Wright
Hello Rafa, great article. I like the way you explain things. I'm learning a lot reading your articles. I would like to see you in the Premier right now.
28/07/12 at 20:27:14
Andrew Beasley
Interesting stuff as always, thanks Rafa.
As a Reds fan, I think it will be really interesting to see how Liverpool fare this season, with Dalglish's more direct style replaced by Rodgers' version of tiki taka.
Whilst Liverpool did a lot of things right last season, they could've benefitted from being more patient at times. They're already making more passes per game in pre-season than they did in any league game last season.
I'd be very interested in your opinion on Rodgers' style please Rafa. Will it benefit Liverpool do you think?
28/07/12 at 20:43:29
Great article. Loved you at Liverpool. Wishing you the best.
29/07/12 at 08:31:46
Curt C.
On aspect of the tiqui-taca style of play that becomes important to take advantage of having ball possesion is speed. Pedro, Navas, Messi and many others are good examples of players who make a difference when the tiqui-taca gets the game clogged in the middle and opposing teams retreat into their half of the field. Without speed, without being faster than the defender you can't beat him.
29/07/12 at 12:22:13
Tom Donohoe
A great read Rafa. Agree totally. Many ways to play well and win, and not all of them have to be conventionally pretty on the eye. Cant just copy Barca per se, especially overnight. Style of play must take into account player quality and must be practical if wins are to be achieved, at least enough wins for a manager to survive until short term success & revenue generation ( champs league ) gives more time & ability to shape squad. Something you achieved at Liverpool very well I believe until Mr Purslow, ... well, you know.
One question, I'd love you to answer please, re tiqui-taca and formation. Its widely stated that Brendan Rodgers, and I wish him well, will play 4 3 3 at Liverpool. Is this the fixed blueprint of tiqui-taca or should not a system be flexible ?
And how is it different from your wonderful team with 4 2 3 1, as I saw it at least. Xabi & mascherano holding, torres leading the line, and yossi, dirk and stevie supporting. What a team. I miss you!
Hello Tom, the system is not the key, the key is the way that you want to play. Thanks.
31/07/12 at 01:12:12
another great article ... i was wondering what you thought of spain's performance at the olympics? there was quite a controversial and early sending off in the match against japan and after that japan entrenched in a counter attacking formation, which was difficult to break down with 10 players. i'm not sure if spain quite adopted a tiqui taca style of play on that day but the change in circumstances seemed to require a 'plan b'.
Hello, always a plan 'b' is a good option, at least to change a little bit if it is necessary. Spain didn't create too much in the first half in the second game, but it was better in the second half. Thanks.
31/07/12 at 21:19:20
Eshan Kokiloo
Totally agree that it takes years to built a system like Tiki Taka and integrate it into a team into its very roots something like what Barcelona has done. We saw that even Athletic Bilbao showed glimpses of Tiki Taka but since they are not used to it they had restricted it more to cup games and other important fixtures since it has pressing higher up the pitch which can take a toll on a team whose bench aint that strong.
Question- Off the ball movement is of utmost importance in tiki taka but how do we make the players learn that?
Hello, It is a question of time, you have to explain to them the movements and the reason why to do them and to keep training. Thanks.
01/08/12 at 12:59:37
Hi great article Rafa as always. Personally I think the FA are behind Spain have won 3of the last major tournaments and well Barcelona are just simply different class. Why are the FA trying to copy this style they should find a style that suits the Mentallity, technical ability of their players instead of always coping the current trends in football. If Germany or Italy had won the Euros I think they would have tried to copy the winners set up rather than leading the way and devising a philosophy and a statergy that suits the nation and sticking to it. Success doesn't happen over night. Rafa what do you think? Also what do you think the trend is going to be in 5/10 years?
Hello, you can't copy everything, each country is different. The trend will be for some years 'possession' little by little they will accept other ideas. Thanks.
01/08/12 at 13:20:56
Will Bartlett
Why are you not in the game at the minute mate. You are probably the best tactician i have ever seen!
If you are ever at a loose end, we would love to see you over in South Yorkshire. Our team Bawtry Juniors could benifit from a master class from one of the worlds best coaches.
Genuine offer Rafa, come over and spend a day with our kids. The club would put you and Montse up in a lovely little hotel. Come on over and feel the love.
01/08/12 at 17:57:14
Kyle Hulme
Great analysis from one of the few tactical bastians of the game. Rafa, what do you feel the future is? The rise of the libero? And where do you see the role of the enganche in a few years time- will the roles of the likes of Riquelme fit? Seeing Pastore makes me hope so, but I'd love to know your opinion.
Also, what do you make of the new u21 leagues; are they the way forward?
Hello Kyle, a lot of people like to play now 1-4-3-3, so 'el enganche' has to adapt to this system. I think we will continue with the line at the back. The U-21 league could help to develop players in England. Thanks.
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You know the cliché: America's fiscal condition might be grim, but lawmakers should avoid the "meat ax" of across-the-board spending cuts and instead use the "scalpel" of targeted reductions. The problem with this argument is that, given today's politics, it is nonsensical.
Targeted reductions would be welcome, but the current federal budget didn't drop from the sky. Every program in the budget—from defense to food stamps, agriculture, Medicare and beyond—is in place for a reason: It has advocates in Congress and a constituency in the country. These advocates won't sit idly by while their programs are targeted, whether by a scalpel or any other instrument. That is why targeted spending cuts have historically been both rare and small. And in a government as closely divided as today's, there is virtually no prospect for meaningful targeted spending cuts.
Big spending washington politicians are shooting their mouth off over such minimal cuts of funds. Thankfully they are being ignored even as they scream and shout and babble like toddlers.
Everywhere I've ever worked we were expected to do more with less.
I've never understood why telling the government to do the same always comes back with, "No! Think of X, Y, or Z?!?"
Drudge has the head-line "Pentagon lays off 800,000 civilians". Real story? Pentagon is going to force it's civilian workers (why not the military?) to work 4 days weeks with 4 day pay for the next 22 weeks.
Do more with less Pentagon.
Government is more used to doing less with more. In many school districts, they teach fewer students but need more teachers to do it compared to 10 years ago.
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, DEC. 8, 2004 (Zenit) - Archbishop Timothy Dolan has found that John Paul II's recent writings on the role of bishops can serve as an examination of conscience for those entrusted with shepherding Christ's flock.
Archbishop Dolan shared with us how the Pope's book, "Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way" (Warner Books) and postsynodal exhortation "Pastores Gregis" have helped him evaluate how he is leading his own flock and challenged him to imitate John Paul II's example as a bishop.
Part 1 of this interview appeared Tuesday on Catholic Online.
Q: What most surprised you about the Holy Father's personal stories in the book?
Archbishop Dolan: Two things were remarkable to me.
First, the profound impact of Poland on him came home so vividly -- not that I needed convincing. It has been said that Poland is a country where Catholicism is in the stones. The culture, society, history, art and literature are all steeped in the richness of Catholicism.
This is in every cell of Karol Jozef Wojtyla's body. He exudes that beautifully rich, devout, incarnational brand of Polish Catholicism that has captivated the world through him. So the first thing that stood out was how profoundly this man is a son of Poland and how deeply he loves his country and its culture.
The second thing that jumped out at me after reading the book was how comfortable he is with the laity -- how many lay friends that he has, especially families and young people. He speaks very often about his priest friends, but what comes out particularly are the friends who have nurtured his life who are among the laity.
He loved his camping trips with young people, his conversations with students, the company of married couples and their families. He is very much at home with them all.
Again by his example, he embodies and promotes the teaching of the Second Vatican Council that a major duty of a priest -- and, therefore, of a bishop -- is to serve lay people, to know them and love them, so that they are able to carry out their role of evangelization in the world.
Q: What thoughts of the Pope's on modern matters seemed most significant to you?
Archbishop Dolan: Again, I would say his thoughts on the role of the laity. But also, his feelings on the horror of war, his worry about the decline of the practice of the faith in Europe; his powerful meditations on the Holy Land; his views on the necessity of collegiality and collaboration in the Church; his thoughts on Africa and Latin America.
Those are areas of profound insights that he had on challenging issues in the modern world that really attracted my attention.
Q: What can you take from John Paul II's experience as bishop to inform your own service to the Church?
Archbishop Dolan: A number of things. First of all, that I have to be a man on fire with love for Jesus Christ. I have to be a man at peace with myself and with my mission and vocation as a bishop; a man who has some very practical pastoral goals in mind that never leave my attention; a man who is not afraid, who firmly believes that Jesus is in charge of my life and that his grace is sufficient.
I need not be afraid about "casting out to the deep" and calling my people to sanctity, to heroic virtue and to perfection. The Holy Father tells us that this is what he did in Krakow; that it is what he has done as bishop of Rome and bishop of the Church universal. I, too, need to learn about that.
Secondly, his experience as a bishop teaches me that I must be very close to my priests. John Paul II loves his priests. He loved his priests when he was archbishop of Krakow, he loves his priests now as successor of St. Peter.
I need to do a better job of reaching out to my priests, of listening to them, of being with them, of praying with them, of encouraging them, and yes, of challenging them and correcting them when that is necessary.
A very beautiful model of a bishop that I think John Paul II exemplifies is that a bishop should be to his priests what a pastor is to his people.
We should be a priest for priests -- we should be a pastor of priests. That is the second lesson that I took from both the Holy Father's book, from his exhortation "Pastores Gregis" and from his model.
Thirdly, I learned again the importance of the Eucharist, an insight appropriate during this Year of the Eucharist.
The most important part of the Pope's day is his celebration of the Eucharist. Everything flows from that, and he returns to be with our Lord really and truly present in the Eucharist throughout the day. The Eucharist is the heart of the day, not just part of the day, as an old saying goes.
For me to be with my priests and people with the Eucharist, and for me personally to be in the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, that says it all.
And, finally, I think that these documents -- both his masterful personal reflections and the postsynodal exhortation -- serve as a real examination of conscience for me.
I have to admit that when I see all that he has accomplished and all the duties that "Pastores Gregis" puts upon the shoulders of bishops, I feel a certain amount of frustration, trepidation and, yes, anxiety. When I read it, I think, "My Lord, who am I to live up to all of this?"
But we never give up trying. We keep this as a noble goal. We keep it before us always and we examine ourselves to see if we are indeed a good shepherd for God's people.
We are never going to be able to do it all. We are never going to be able to follow the example of Jesus completely. We are never even going to be able to follow the example of the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II, completely. But we must never give up trying.
We are constantly refining and renewing our approach to being a successor of the apostles. The Pope gives us so much; that's good, because he is calling forth what is best in us. There is no wavering, no dilution here. He is holding up the ideal and he is calling us to it.
This examination of conscience is something that we all need. As our Holy Father often says, "Love for Jesus and his Church must be the passion of your lives."
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Hey Everyone,
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So I went off and bought a book on AppleScript, and whipped up a script that will do this. I have all my browsers set to save downloads into a directory, and this script runs on startup. It takes all the contents of the folder and moves them into the trash.
It's a nice little script, and I'd like to share it with everyone, and would like to maybe get some input from everyone and have it get improved, in the spirit of free software.
The thing is, who is interested in it, or am I totally late on something like this?
|Aug 15, 2006, 10:47 AM
So say I download 15 files off the web, they go into this download folder.
Then I update my Mac, and need to restart, so I do that.
Then upon start up, my downloads get moved to the trash.
I just set firefox to download everything to a specific downloads folder. I never save anything on the desktop from the web. A wallpaper will go in my wallpapers folder, an app in the downloads folder, etc.
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Thoreau
|Aug 15, 2006, 11:05 AM
I set everything to go to the Desktop, so then I don't forget about them, and then move them somewhere else if I'm keeping the file. Kind of like my to-do list for files
|Aug 15, 2006, 01:44 PM
Most of the things that I download are DMG files or other things that on average, are downloaded and not kept long term, so the ratio of files that I download and keep is significantly lower than files I download, do what I need to do with, and then dispose of (such as disk images).
I just hate a cluttered desktop, I would rather it have a few folders of things that I am working on and all my mounted volumes, instead of being littered with DMG files, and safari droppings
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Here is my metareasoning behind this plan:
As far as meeting needs in life there are two lines of thinking: 1) How do I get more and 2) How can I do with less.
We are taking route 2, with the idea that drastically reducing our global footprint is a responsible, and satisfying way of approaching life.
As far as choosing a boat and upgrading for cruising: what we want to do is buy the boat now, and upgrade over the years as we have the money and the time. If the boat isn't an ocean cruiser for 10 years so be it, as new sailors the reality we may not be ready until then. The point for us is the possibility-- to know that should we feel the imperative we can turn our attentions toward preping her and ourselves for long voyages. In the interim, we should just be able to use her to practice our skills in order to really become good sailors and to live albeit cosily on. (did I mention that our last home was a 20' diameter tipi?)
As a counter example, has anyone read about the guy who was recently dismasted around cape horn? That guy is the anti-me. He decided to circumnavigate in order to learn to sail!?! He had 3 gps devices. He had a huge inboard motor. He had a 40 someodd foot boat. In retrospect all of this proved too much. I think I read he had a years worth of coastal cruising experience...
Me, well like I said before-- some sort of head would be nice. As for things like showering the truth is, I usually go to school gym after my classes are out and wind up showering there. I rarely use my shower at home as it is...
Another example, I recently e-mailed Yves Gélinas of circumnavigating-in-an-Alberg-30-using-his-own-CapeHorn-self-steering fame, as to the issues that arise from sailing with an outboard particularly in rough weather (he removed his inboard prior to his trip.) His response: either sail, find a harbor or heave-to. (You can read about his boat here:
. Simple enough.
We want to immerse ourselves in boats and sailing, but we want to do it in a way that our time, resources and abilities permit. For us that means 1st, getting aboard. We can't afford/ don't desire to afford living aboard and having a house. Why should we? We don't need both... if the boat doesn't work out, we'll move back to land, so far as I know it's not going anywhere (barring melting ice caps).
Certainly a boat is a lot of work and expense. But then again so is owning a 120 year old house in the country such as we currently do. There is the expense of heating (2000 a season) the expense of lawn care, taxes, maintanance, mortgage, insurance etc. I am certain that with planning we will be able to create a liveaboard situation that is less expensive.
Why is it so crazy that we should try and live in a small space together as a family? Because people in our culture generally don't do it. We are expected to try and grow our resources, our possessions etc as our family grows. Call it the SUVacation of America. Like many people our age, we have a small amount of credit card debt, a moderate amount of student loan debt, and of course a mortgage.Most days we wake up and ask, what for? Today people are more overweight than ever, feel more isolated than ever, are in greater debt than ever...
I guess you could say this plan is an experiment to see if we can take a different approach to the way we plan our lives. I am certain we have a lot of hard work ahead, as well as a lot of lessons to learn. Great! What's the point of living otherwise.
And, if we find we need more down the road, then we'll get more. Until then, we won't worry about it.
Hope I don't sound too preachy.
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Media Appearances: Print: Jeyme Colodne over at Best Self Atlanta Magazine included "Social Network Diet" in the magazine's "100 Fabulous Finds" piece.
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Revive Your New Year's Resolutions Seek support. It s tough to make lasting change on your own, so surround yourself with people who encourage your efforts. A study of people who completed a weight loss program found that 66 percent of those who teamed up with friends had kept the weight off six months later; the figure fell to 24 percent for those who went it alone.
-Parade Magazine - 2/19/12
"The more you move around, the greater the health benefits," which include a lower blood pressure, easier weight control, and less stress, says Miriam Nelson, PhD, director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity Prevention, and associate professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Nelson is also co-author of The Social Network Diet, Change Yourself, Change the World.
Working out at a moderate pace for at least 30 minutes on most days of the week, as prescribed in the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (PAG) that Nelson helped to create, may not offer enough protection against obesity and other chronic illness.
-- 2/20/12 ¬ USA Today Warning: Sitting is hazardous to your health
For decades we've been told that our creeping overweight and lack of physical activity is our fault -- that we lack self-discipline, that we're lazy, that we're self-indulgent. With such an accusatory finger pointed at us, it's no wonder we despair. But is our overweight and unhealthy lifestyle really our own fault? Do we simply lack willpower? Are we just lazy overeaters?
As a researcher in this field, my answer is, "I don't think so." I believe that our physical and social environment is the key to a healthy body weight. In my 10th and newest book, The Social Network Diet: Change Yourself, Change the World, I outline this concept.
Take Martha. At the age of 51, Martha's weight had ballooned to a high of 210 pounds. She was living in Atlanta at the time, a city with serious obstacles to healthy living -- among them, roads made for driving, not walking, and a tradition of heavy southern cooking. Many of Martha's Atlanta friends were also overweight. "I had pretty much given up on exercising," she told me. Then, in 2009, Martha moved to Denver. There she found an environment more conducive to physical activity and good nutrition, as well as a network of friends with an active, healthy lifestyle. A little over a year later, she had lost 53 pounds, was walking regularly with her new friends, joining a neighbor for spinning classes at the local recreation center, and eating better than she ever had.
As Martha's story suggests, our food intake and physical activity are not matters of simple willpower. New research backs this up. Study after study suggests that the crisis we're facing as individuals and as a nation is only minimally caused by our own poor choices -- it is primarily a reflection of our surroundings, both our social and our physical environments.
In other words, it's not you; it's the company you keep and your surroundings.
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Don't diet alone! Instead, slim down with support from your social network and these tips from the new book 'The Social Network Diet.'
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"Being fat isn't your fault; staying fat is." That's the famous mantra of celebrity trainer Jackie Warner, and it's a great way to explain the message behind the new book,The Social Network Diet. And though Warner's tough-love approach is not exactly the tone The Social Network Diet authors Miriam Nelson, PhD, and Jennifer Ackerman take, the message is basically the same. The reason why so many people are overweight, the authors say, is not because they're lazy or unmotivated, but because their environments —social, familial, economic — make them fat and keep them that way.
If your spouse has ever bought you ice cream to "reward" you after a week of hard workouts, if your friends and family have ever pressured you to eat or drink more, or if your job or commute is just too time-consuming to allow time for fitness, The Social Network Diet is for you. Throughout the tome, Nelson brings her expert, evidence-based counsel on how to create — and stick to— a weight-loss lifestyle.
"We feel strongly that it's hard for women to keep weight off once they've lost it," Nelson explains. "And the reason is simple: Once you've lost the weight, if you return to the identical social and physical environment, it will come back. Our message is all about how to change that environment to not only help women stick to their diets, but also to inspire changes in others."
If you're ready to make a real difference in your life, read on for a few of Nelson's top tips for long-term weight loss.
- Know the facts. To take the first step toward weight loss, examine what it is about your life that caused you to gain weight in the first place. For example, in the book, Nelson cites the experiences of a woman living in Atlanta who only had access to roads made for driving, not walking, and was raised in the tradition of unhealthy Southern cooking.
Next, analyze the support you get from your friends, spouse, and job. Is healthy eating important to your spouse? What about fitness? Do you have access to fitness facilities near work? Once you understand the limitations of your lifestyle, you'll be ready to make some changes for the better.
- Understand what "healthy" means. To know what you need to fix, you first have to get a handle of what it means to have a healthy lifestyle. Nelson recommends consulting the USDA's dietary guidelines as a basis for your new, balanced diet. She also breaks down the lengthy government recommendations into four basic principles: Eat less, eat more plant-based foods, reduce your intake of added sugars, unhealthy fats, sodium, and refined grains, and increase your amount of physical activity.
- Start small. To stick with your diet long-term, begin with bite-sized goals. The book suggests one-day challenges, for example, 30 minutes of physical activity in one day, one day without refined sugars, etc., as effective steps toward healthier living. Nelson also provides a simple, seven-day eating plan to jumpstart weight loss.
- Surround yourself with support. This is where your social network kicks in. "Find a network with the same values and goals as you," Nelson advises. "For example, I know one woman who lost 100 pounds and was interested in running and triathlons, so she joined a running group to keep her on track." If you're not ready to train for a triathlon, do whatever works for you. For example, form a supportive walking group with coworkers or neighbors and lean on one another for the motivation to keep at it.
At home, it's essential to create an active home environment. If you have the space, store workout equipment in front of your TV, so you'll be more likely to fit in a few exercises while you watch your favorite shows. If you live with other people, work to develop a few healthy dinner staples you all like that you can whip up at any time.
- Go online for support. When we think "social network," most people probably immediately imagine Facebook, Twitter, or an online community site, such as the tools and support available on EverydayHealth.com. Although most of Nelson's research centers on face-to-face support networks, she says online resources can make a huge difference in women's weight-loss efforts. If you find your in-person social networks to be less than supportive, online friends on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites can help keep you on track.
- Create a ripple effect. One of the most inspiring things you can do, Nelson finds, is use your healthy efforts to help others. Whether your new-found love of veggies inspires you to help out in a community garden or your walking group inspires a friend to train for a 5K, seeing others succeed with their health will only boost your efforts.
The Social Network Diet: Change Yourself, Change the World, is a new book by New York Times Best-Selling authors Dr. Miriam Nelson and Jennifer Ackerman. In the book, they highlight the different ways you can change your diet and exercise patterns by changing your social networks, or the people and environments with whom you surround yourself.
Author Miriam Nelson points out at the beginning of the book that when most people think Social Network they think of Internet social networks, such as Facebook, MySpace or even LinkedIn, but these are not the kinds of social networks of which she speaks. She clarifies that in her book, social network means the people who surround is in our everyday lives and the environment that either works toward or against your will to exercise.
Throughout the book, the authors tell stories of various people they've included in their scientific studies to show real-life examples of how a person's environment affects his or her ability to be healthy. Martha Peterson is one of the first examples given. She is written about in the introduction. At her heaviest, she was 210 pounds. At the time, she was 51 and living in Atlanta, GA. She said that not only were her other Southern friends heavier, making her feel like she had some wiggle room in her diet, but the city itself had obstacles to healthy living. First and foremost the roads, which were made primarily for driving, and were not friendly to bikers or walkers.
In 2009, Martha moved to Denver, CO. In Denver, she found a city designed with a healthier lifestyle in mind and friends who lived a healthier lifestyle, exercising regularly and eating healthfully.
One of the tools Nelson has used throughout her speaking engagements over the years is a series of maps, showing how the nation has grown fatter and fatter over the last few decades. She said people are always shocked to see the maps from several decades ago show blue – the sign for low obesity –and then transform to dark red or bright orange – the sign for high rates of obesity – in the early part of the millennium and on to now.
After one of her last speaking engagements, Nelson said her husband asked her what she was trying to accomplish. Was she having a positive effect on anyone? Thus, the impetus for the book.
One of the first tools the authors give to those attempting to change their lifestyle is the 7-day jumpstart, which involves focusing totally on eating healthy and incorporating exercise.
During the first day, the authors say to focus on what you eat. Eat only whole vegetables, whole fruits, whole grains and protein-rich foods, and eat at least three servings of each. Eat as many as you want. There is no limit. And for the entirety of the week, avoid added sugars and refined grains.
The authors add that if you put the sugar bowl back on the table and add your own sugar to unsweetened foods and drinks, you'll never add as much as the food manufacturers add themselves.
More eating tips from the authors include eating foods from the earth, eating for fuel instead of eating for fun and making time for meals. If meals are rushed, you will go for the quickest thing possible, which is never the healthiest.
As far as physical activity, the authors set out guidelines that let you start small and work toward a bigger goal. Tips include walking or biking instead of driving whenever possible, breaking a sweat at least three times a week, find active fun, so that all of your exercise is not regimented or boring. In addition, they say, create your own personal activity philosophy. Figure out what times are the best for you to be active and find activities that are fun for you and that you can participate in with your friends and family.
A big part of the Social Network Diet is changing your surroundings. The authors say to start in your kitchen. Remove the bad food from your kitchen and don't bring any bad food back in. Instead, bring back whole grains, whole fruits and whole vegetables. Identify which shops in your area sell the healthiest foods and begin shopping there. When you are at the supermarket, limit your shopping to the outside aisles, with the fresher food, and stay away from the middle aisles with added sugar and preservatives. In your home, put healthy foods in sight. Instead of putting a plate of cookies out on the table, put cut-up fresh fruit in the front of the refrigerator. When you prepare a meal at home, make smaller portions and serve them out for your family.
The biggest change you can make for your family in regard to food, say the authors, is to have everyone sit down for a family meal at night as many times a week as possible. Multiple studies the authors site show that families who eat meals together continue to have better eating habits throughout their lives.
When thinking about changing your environment in regard to your physical activity, the book says to start in the home, just like with your eating habits. Manage the screen time of your entire family. Many studies show that family members will be more active if the television and video game time is limited within the home. If your children don't have a TV to sit in front of, they will seek something out to do, and most of the time, that will be some sort of physical activity. The same goes for you. I


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With the relocation of the Tsukiji wholesale market in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, looming several years hence, the adjacent Tsukiji Outer Market, home to many sushi restaurants and food shops, is making strenuous efforts to ensure its survival.
The Tsukiji market has about 80 years of history as a publicly run wholesale market that moved from Tokyo's Nihonbashi district to its current location in the wake of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. The Tsukiji market, known as "jonai shijo", or the inner market, has become a world-class fish market. Whereas in "jogai shijo", or the Tsukiji Outer Market, a variety of shops ranging from those selling food items to cooking tools are open to the public. The two markets have been prosperous throughout the years, together as one.
How will the outer market foster its own unique brand after the Tsukiji market relocates to the Toyosu district of Koto Ward?
"We've been developing our business thanks to demand from those gathering around the [Tsukiji] market," said Akio Suzuki, 66, the third-generation president of Torito, a chicken meat shop that has been doing business in the outer market for about 80 years. "This [the outer market] has something that jonai shijo doesn't have and the two markets have been maintaining a relationship of coexistence and coprosperity."
Founded in 1907, Torito moved from Tokyo's Asakusa district when the Tsukiji market opened in 1935. Since then, the shop has expanded its business with customers, including restaurants that specialise in chicken in the Ginza district. Its bento box featuring teriyaki chicken and stewed chicken coccyx meat is popular among actors at the Kabukiza theater near the outer market.
In anticipation of the Tsukiji market's prosperity, many kinds of shops began gathering at the outer market. They included butcher shops, delicatessens such as those specialised in tamagoyaki (Japanese-style omelet), shops selling cooking implements such as kitchen knives, and restaurants catering to people working in the Tsukiji market, as well as wholesale buyers visiting the market.
There are currently about 400 shops in a roughly 50,000-square-metre area. The outer market is crowded with an average of more than 20,000 visitors a day, including many tourists and company employees working in the neighbourhood.
However, the Tsukiji market, which has been attracting customers for the outer market, is planned to be relocated to the Toyosu district of Koto Ward about 2.3 kilometres away. "I was really anxious as the outer market will be left behind here," Suzuki said.
Preserving the Tsukiji brand
Increasingly concerned about its survival, five organisations in the outer market formed a nonprofit organisation council to build a Tsukiji food town in 2006.
Though they rarely worked together, shop owners gathered to discuss ways of ensuring the outer market's survival after finishing their early-hour work. Discussions continued from afternoon well into the night, with members rubbing their drowsy eyes.
Few know the difference between "jonai shijo" and "jogai shijo". Proving this point, a 28-year-old female company employee from Yokohama remarked, "I thought the entire market complex was going to relocate to Toyosu."
Council members surveyed their customers and found that the outer market's location is a key exploitable advantage, as it is located only one kilometre from the Ginza district and two kilometres from Nihonbashi. One of the respondents said, "Tsukiji is really convenient as it is located close to our restaurant and we can buy everything there—from food items to chopsticks—at the same time."
The council members then decided to protect the Tsukiji brand by offering the kind of high-quality products sought by professional chefs and accepting small-lot orders.
Tsukiji food town studio
As part of a promotion campaign, a new facility called "Tsukiji food town studio" was opened in November last year in the outer market. At the facility equipped with an open kitchen, the general public and visiting chefs can taste and smell, for example, seaweed sold at the outer market. There is even a workshop run by a tamagoyaki shop chef who teaches how to cook a Japanese omelet like the pros.
In October, a new section tentatively called "a market of fishing ports nationwide" will be opened in the outer market, set to feature shops selling fresh fish straight from Hokkaido, Shizuoka, Nagasaki and other parts of the country.
The Chuo Ward Office will also support the outer market, expected to spend about 3 billion yen (US$29.30 million) to build a new facility tentatively named "Tsukiji new market". About 90 fish, and fruit and vegetable shops will gather to serve as intermediate wholesalers for small-lot customers.
"The outer market has a good selection of items that impresses professional chefs as well as a wealth of knowledge," said Hotaka Katahira, 66, a representative of Marunouchi Brand Forum, a market research group that has been supporting the outer market. "I hope the outer market will further enhance its attractiveness and lead Japan's food culture."
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Difficulty identifying feelings (a component of alexithymia) and distress tolerance both appear to play a role in impulse-control problems. The goal of the present study was to build upon past research by developing a model of the relations between these constructs and compulsive buying. Participants from the United States and Canada completed a survey containing well-established measures of demographic variables, difficulty identifying feelings, distress tolerance and compulsive buying. In support of a hypothesized model, the three constructs were significantly related in predicted directions and distress tolerance fully mediated the relationship between difficulty identifying feelings and compulsive buying. These results confirm the relationship between alexithymic tendencies and distress tolerance and extend previous findings concerning the problematic behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, pathological gambling) of people who have difficulty identifying their feelings. They also highlight attributes and skills (e.g., tolerating distress, identifying feelings) which clinicians might beneficially target while working with clients who buy compulsively.
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- Title
- Difficulty Identifying Feelings, Distress Tolerance and Compulsive Buying: Analyzing the Associations to Inform Therapeutic Strategies
- Journal
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Volume 10, Issue 6 , pp 927-935
- Cover Date
- 2012-12-01
- 10.1007/s11469-012-9389-y
- Print ISSN
- 1557-1874
- Online ISSN
- 1557-1882
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Compulsive buying
- Alexithymia
- Distress tolerance
- Difficulty identifying feelings
- Self-regulation
- Authors
- Paul Rose (1)
- Daniel J. Segrist (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Alumni Hall, Box 1121, Edwardsville, IL, 62026-1121, USA


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As the first three rounds of the IHSA girls' bowling championship ended Friday, Feb. 12, the Guilford Vikings looked perfectly positioned to win a state title. Guilford stood in second place, only 27 pins behind Collinsville.
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Jefferson was led by senior Tia Walls, who scored a team-high 2,521 over six rounds for the J-Hawks. Senior Megan Buja scored 2,451, senior Caitlyn Whitchurch scored a 2,434, and juniors Amanda Dodd and Krissy Johnson also helped out, scoring 2,460 and 2,450, respectively.
Senior Trista Flowers led the way for Guilford, scoring 2,711, which was also good for third place overall in the tournament. Senior Rachel Aurand scored a 2,445 for Guilford, while they were also aided by three sophomores: Anna Epperson (2,330), Shannon Carlson (2,417) and Mikayla Auerswald (2,405).
State champion Collinsville gained a clean sweep in the tournament. In addition to winning the team title, they were led by senior Frannie Steiner, who won the individual championship with a score of 2,756.
Walls of Jefferson finished in 18th place with her score to lead other area qualifiers. Other area bowlers included junior Denise Schulz of Auburn, who was 36th with 2,422, sophomore Sammi Hagerman of Harlem with a 40th-place finish at 2,411, and freshman Lindsey Anderson of Harlem, who shot 2,368, good enough for 49th.
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