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'Big Brother OTT': Fourth Evictee Talks Being Nominated (and Eliminated) by America
Big Brother: Over The Top has proven to have a cast of game players who want to actually play the game.
And part of playing the game means not voting unanimously with the house. It's a refreshing cast, especially after the last few seasons of the show where the house constantly voted with each other. On BBOTT, it's clear that some players would rather take a gamble than just play it safe. And that's what Big Brother is all about.
Unfortunately for this season's fourth evicted houseguest, the Ball Smashers and America voted to send her packing. THR got on the phone with Neeley to find out what happened, who she will be voting for to win the game and whether or not she thinks she was at the bottom of the totem pole in the Late Night Jamboree.
I tweeted a few weeks ago that I was hoping for either Shelby, Whitney, Morgan, Jason or you to win the game.
Aw that's sweet, thank you!
How are you feeling since your eviction?
Honestly, I feel really, really good. Of course it sucks to be evicted. No one wants to be in this position, but I feel like I played the best game that I could play especially with the information that I had at the time, (laughs)! I had a really good social game and unfortunately America was ready to see me go and that's what did me in this week. But I'm very proud with how I played.
Kryssie didn't finish the Power of Veto competition even though you, her best friend was in jeopardy of going home. Were you upset she quit?
I was not upset she quit only because I could tell how much it affected her. It hurt her bad! She was all cut up, her hands were really jacked up. And emotionally she is really upset with herself and the performance. I would be more upset with Justin then I would be with Kryssie because Kryssie really tried. When she couldn't complete it, it messed with her.
She claimed she was bleeding and on Twitter a lot of fans joked about her dramatizing the situation. Did you find her to be overly dramatic and complain a lot in the house?
She does, yes! (Laughs)! I have to be honest. She's having a tough time emotionally. When she came into the house she let us know she has social anxieties. This is going on a month now that we've been locked in that house so this is tough. When you are used to being with your boyfriend and having that support system [then] to being in a house with strangers that are secretly plotting your demise every single day, that's emotionally taxing. It's starting to weigh on her. And she really wants to make sure she's presented in the best light possible or a light that she's in charge of and unfortunately when you're in this situation you're not always in charge of how you're presented.
You said a lot to Scott in your eviction speech. Was there anything you wish you said to anyone else? Now is your chance.
I really wish I would have told the houseguests and I was thinking about this even before Julie [Chen] told me Alex and Morgan are sisters, I wish I would've told the people on my side of the house, "Don't trust any of those girls. Those girls are a lot smarter than you think." Even though they all work together like a human centipede, because they do! You know they do! They [are] a lot smarter than you think and not to trust any of them. Morgan is probably the only person I would've called out. Alex, I pretty much knew was lying to me, but I really wanted to trust Morgan. I felt like she and I had a connection and if I stayed in the house I would have wanted to work with her. She was the only person on the other side of the house that I wanted to work with. I would have called her out. I'm going to be honest when I first left, I was pissed at her! I thought she and I had a friendship! But now that I know Alex is her sister, she had to do that. You have to keep Scott over me because the whole side of the house is gunning for Alex now. Alex is public enemy number one! So she had to get me out over Scott because Scott will hopefully be a target that will deflect from Alex.
You mentioned a few times in the house that you were fascinated by how awkward Alex is. What did you mean by that?
(Laughs)! She's socially awkward! Morgan is obviously the more social of the two. Morgan is a better liar and more comfortable pretending not to be her sister and Alex is afraid she's going to get caught up with her lies so she just shuts down. If you try to have a conversation with her she's really awkward. She doesn't give you a lot of details about her life, she never talks about herself and I think that's just a game move on her part so she doesn't give anything away.
You were shocked when Julie told you Morgan and Alex are sisters. Do you think anyone will catch on?
If they keep playing the way they're playing, probably not. I know people say they look alike, but they really don't look alike to me! And Morgan is really a good social player. And Alex is obviously brilliant and they're both really good physical competitors so as long as Alex is awkward, (laughs) no one will figure it out!
If you stayed in the house would you have left the Late Night Jamboree and aligned more with Morgan?
Most definitely! Danielle was working my nerves anyway! And I was starting to feel like I couldn't trust Justin. If anything were to happen with Jason or Kryssie, I definitely would have started working with Morgan.
When Shane got evicted it was super emotional. Everyone was crying. But this week, there weren't any tears. Do you feel like you were at the bottom of the totem pole in your alliance?
I was probably at the bottom of the totem pole because they didn't realize how good I was playing the game. But also it was emotional when Shane left because we didn't know which one of them was going home. We were hoping Danielle, but it ended up being Shane.
Who will you not be friends with when the game is over?
Feelings change. I don't hate anyone. Scott was being real messy and manipulative.
It's Big Brother!
Yeah, I know, but don't try to throw me under the bus when I ain't done nothing to you. I wasn't feeling that.
Why do you think America nominated and voted to evict you?
Without knowing what people are seeing and all of the different sides the only thing I can guess is that either they wanted to even the numbers with the sides of the house or maybe like you said they felt like I was at the bottom of the totem pole in my alliance, I don't know! I really don't know. Monte was a very polarizing character. I felt like people felt strongly about him, but on the flip side Scott maybe represents a certain segment of the people who love and watch Big Brother. So maybe the empathize with him because he is an awkward, nerdy character.
Da'Vonne Rogers is patiently waiting for you to get on Twitter to let you know America does not hate you.
I appreciate that, girl! Whenever you talk to her tell her she's definitely someone that I admire. She's a strong competitor. A lot of times people in this game float under the radar and don't say what they really mean and think and I think that's bullshit so I like that she's always been a big personality, bold and vocal! That's why I like Jason so much too. If you come and play this game, play the game! Be who you are. Do your thang!
Now you get to vote with America. Which three houseguests will you make a have-not?
Definitely Shelby, she needs to sit down somewhere!
What's your problem with Shelby?
She is super annoying! She'll say some stuff when ain't nobody even talking to her or addressing her. It's like, girl nobody even talking to you! And nobody even care about you right now! Don't come for people if nobody is coming for you! If I'm at the bottom of the totem pole in my alliance, she's at the under-bridge bottom of the totem pole in her alliance! They'll throw her under the bus and then drive the bus that hits her! (Laughs)! She's not playing the game smart.
Do you think she's smart?
Not really! (Laughs)! I'm sorry! Is that horrible? But, no.
One thing you don't know is she's not a waitress. She actually just finished law school.
Are you serious? That's crazy! But that explains why her mouth is so reckless! Her mouth is mad reckless!
Which other two houseguests will you make a have-not?
Justin! He needs to live that life! I'm over him. Do you see how much he eats and cooks? He eats like eight times a day. You know we call this BB budget [and I'm sure half of the food budget is pretty much Justin. It would be Justin, Shelby and Kryssie. She's never experienced it. Well, no I want her to be strong. So maybe Morgan again.
Who will you nominate for eviction?
Knowing what I know now Morgan and Alex!
Right now who has your vote to win the game and who do you think will win?
I would love to see Jason win! Jason or Kryssie. I don't think Kryssie emotionally could take it all the way.
If someone from your alliance is not in the final three who from the other side of the house do you want to win?
That's tough. Damn! I'm going to be honest. The fact that Morgan and Alex are sisters . . . you got a built in sidekick, I don't like those odds so I don't want them to win. I'd rather someone who is playing it by themselves and doesn't have help or a twist helping them out. So either a Whitney and even Scott! Even though Scott and I had our differences, Scott has never been away from home, he don't have no girlfriend, (laughs)! You know what I'm saying? He ain't got nothing going on back in Maine so he might need a few coins so he can finally get him a date and get laid up somewhere!
Were you sad to see Neeley go? Would you want to watch her on another season? Who do you think will win the game? Chat about it in the comments below and stay tuned to The Live Feed for all things Big Brother.
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PLOT: In an alternate-universe America controlled by a surveillance-happy government, the lives of several Los Angeles residents—including a disabled veteran, a police officer, an amnesiac movie star, and a cell of political revolutionaries—intersect on the eve of the apocalypse.
WHY IT'S ON THE BORDERLINE: Although its many subplots pile weird images and ideas on top of each other, many of them remain totally superfluous, and the film as a whole is a disappointing nexus of influences and half-baked premises rather than a cohesive work of art. However, it does contain some moments of mesmerizing weirdness, and could have a chance of being certified weird in the future.
COMMENTS: To follow up his impressive debut feature, Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly clearly wanted to challenge himself. With Southland Tales, however, he bit off more than he could chew. All of Donnie Darko's best and worst tendencies are on display (with an emphasis on the latter), but this time the showcase is twice as long, with enough intricate storylines and bizarre sci-fi subtexts to fill a dozen less ambitious movies. With his second film's epic size, Kelly lost the gently emotional touch that made Donnie's coming-of-age so poignant; his fiery creative passion is still very perceptible here, but it's obscured behind layers of apocalyptic razzle-dazzle, broad satire, and sophomoric humor.
In Southland Tales' alternate timeline, Texas was struck by terrorist nukes in 2005, triggering World War III; this back story is filled in via a YouTube-style montage of video clips and hyperlinks. It's a genuinely original method of exposition, but alas, it's a rare example of Kelly's innovative spirit overcoming his love of non sequitur jokes and stunt casting. While Donnie Darko just had Patrick Swayze's unnervingly effective performance as a demagogic motivational speaker, Southland Tales crams in a disorienting array of surprise cameos and Continue reading BORDERLINE WEIRD: SOUTHLAND TALES (2006)


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The Center for Inquiry expressed serious concerns over German chancellor Angela Merkel's call for a ban on the wearing of the burqa.
Merkel told a conference of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, "The full-face veil is not acceptable in our country. It should be banned, wherever it is legally possible." CFI, which advocates for secular government and humanist values around the world, warned that such a ban would constitute a retreat from the protection of freedom of religion and expression long championed by the post-war German state. This retreat could worsen tensions, embolden the country's extremist nationalists, and push Muslim women and girls — who are already in a vulnerable state — deeper into fear and isolation.
"We strongly oppose allowing religions to dictate oppressive dress codes on women, but change must come by freeing women to choose their own style of dress — not by imposing bans," said Michael De Dora, CFI's director of government affairs. "Targeting Muslim religious practices is a distasteful and dangerous electoral ploy to appeal to rising right-wing sentiments. Civil liberties should never be subjected to political calculus," he added.
This summer, Chancellor Merkel expressed opposition to a general ban on full-face veils, instead proposing to "establish precise parameters around full veils for those areas of public life in which a full veil is not appropriate." The Center for Inquiry acknowledges that in limited circumstances — such as in legal situations and at airports — requiring facial identification is justified. But a general ban, without reference to specific security situations, scapegoats Muslims and violates religious freedom. The chancellor appears now to have diverted from her previous, more reasonable position.
In an earlier speech, Chancellor Merkel's Interior Minister, Thomas de Maziėre, called for a ban on religious face coverings "in places where it is necessary for our society's coexistence," which includes not only government offices, schools, universities, and courtrooms, but even peaceful demonstrations.
"Particularly troublesome is a burqa ban at public demonstrations," said Nick Little, CFI's Vice President and Legal Director. "This will alienate Muslim women, sending the message that they should be discouraged from participation in public life, including the free expression of dissent. While there is oppressiveness in the burqa, silencing those who choose to wear it is another form of repression."
"A burqa ban might please some in Germany, but its effect will be contrary to the expressed aim of improving coexistence in society," said De Dora. "If girls are banned from wearing Islamic dress at schools, parents may keep those children home. Observant Muslim women will be pressured to refrain from appearing in public. Muslim women and girls will be made to feel they are not welcome in their own country. We urge Chancellor Merkel to reconsider."


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Why the business world needs more love
We love love, yet organisational management completely ignores it. Enough already, argues Stefano Tasselli, Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). As one of Poets&Quants' 2018's Best Under 40 Professors, Tasselli looks to old Greek philosophy to find a new approach.
"I was waiting at the airport and realised how many of the magazines at the book store are dealing with love. Love is on our minds, in our thoughts, our conversations.... It determines much of what we do, but we neglect it within organisational management. Why? I think it's because love is personal and subjective, when we like to claim neutrality. Also, it runs on a different type of energy: it's passionate, not authoritative."
Eros, Philia & Agape
To ignore something so omnipresent, so relevant, seems like a mistake - and it is, Tasselli argues. If you try to talk about the subject, you immediately stumble on confusion – what kind of love are we talking about? To try and define love's many different meanings, Tasselli decided to trace back three ideas from ancient Greek philosophy. Eros - the love for the self, Philia - the love in a mutually beneficial friendship, and Agape - the altruistic love for humanity.
The dilemmas these three concepts present hold the key to what they can do for modern organisation management, Tasselli believes. First of all, there is Eros, presenting us with the question of how to express our individual identity in an organisation that requires a certain type of conduct. Although you won't be completely free, he argues, once you know your role in an organisation, you can use your Eros as an agent for what you're trying to achieve.
Friendship or favouritism?
Second, there is Philia, straddling the fine line between friendship and favouritism at the work floor. How do you maintain an amicality that serves both, without giving up your neutrality in the organisation at large? On the one hand, people generally flourish at work when they feel they can trust those around them. On the other hand, ethics also need to be observed.
Then there is Agape, a symbol of compassion and commitment, separating the givers from the takers. Like Eros and Philia, managing different shades of Agape requires a conscious approach: this love is affecting real dynamics, it has real consequences, it determines how satisfied workers are, how well they do their job. "Organisations should acknowledge all dimensions of love," Tasselli argues, "the era in which love is a taboo needs to end."
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As someone who teaches the subject of social networks within organisations, Tasselli seems to do just that. Students praise his charismatic, passionate, down-to-earth teaching style, Poets&Quants reveals. He consistently receives high scores in student evaluations, and "students often cite their appreciation for his inclusive classroom, where everyone is engaged and feels comfortable posing any questions." Using his personal qualities (Eros) to give his students the trust (Philia) they need to improve the organisations they will work in (Agape), Tasselli seems to have embarked on his quest by bringing love to his own work floor.
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Parental Liability: The Importance of Following the Rebuttal Procedure Carefully
Rights of the Defence in the Context of Parental Liability – Ballast Nedam Infra BV v. European Commission judgment illustrates how a formal point of procedure can be an effective weapon to pierce the fortress created by the strict case law on parental liability for cartel infringements.
Case law confirms that the parent company of a wholly-owned subsidiary is presumed to exercise a "decisive influence" over the subsidiary. This means the parent company can be held jointly and severally liable for any anti-competitive behaviour of the subsidiary.
Very few parent companies have succeeded in rebutting this presumption. One example is Gosselin Group v. Commission joined cases T-208/08 and 209/08, in which the European General Court annulled a Commission decision on substance. Although Portielje held almost all of Gosselin's capital, it managed to rebut the presumption that it exerted a decisive influence over Gosselin.
Despite the fact that rebuttal is a rare occurrence, a recent General Court judgment, Ballast Nedam Infra BV v. European Commission T-362/06, shows that the Court attaches great importance to the parent company having the opportunity to rebut the presumption. If a Statement of Objections does not state specifically that the Commission intends to rely on the presumption, the Court found that the subsequent Decision will be annulled. This judgment is in line with the General Court's decision in Koninklijke Grolsch NV v. Commission T 234/07, in which the General Court annulled the Commission's decision, holding that it did not include an "adequate statement of reasons" with respect to each of the addressees.
In Ballast Nedam, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ballast Infra BV was involved directly in the antitrust infringement until 1 October 2000. From that date onwards, following a corporate reorganisation, Ballast Nedam Infra BV itself became involved directly in the infringement. In its Statement of Objections, the Commission did not say that it intended to impute Ballast Nedam Infra BV with joint and several liability for the infringement of its subsidiary during the period up to 1 October 2000. Accordingly, the part of the fine imposed on Ballast Nedam Infra BV in respect of the period prior to 1 October 2000 was annulled by the General Court. The fact that the Commission did not become aware of all the details of the business until after it had issued the Statement of Objections was not found to be sufficient defence. Once the Commission became aware of the relevant details, the Court stated, it should have addressed an additional Statement of Objections to Ballast Nedam Infra BV, giving it the opportunity to rebut the presumption of parental liability.
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The Webby Awards released its list of finalists for the 18th Annual Webby Awards today, and with nine nominations R/GA leads the pack in the Internet competition. Los Angeles-based 72andSunny (eight nominations), McCann in New York (six nominations) and Ogilvy & Mather in Paris (six nominations) weren't too far behind and are all in consideration for the Webby Agency of the Year award.
Other agencies like Clemenger BBDO, Droga5, Mullen and Pereira & O'Dell each have four nominations and are also looking to win the Webby Agency of the Year honor.
Popular campaigns including "The Epic Split" by Forsman & Bodenfors, "Real Beauty Sketches" by Ogilvy & Mather in Brazil, "The Scarecrow" by Creative Artists Agency and "The Next Big Thing" by 72andSunny are also being recognized with nominations.
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Another thought on pink and blue.
The truth is that until the 1950s, when marketing to children took off and teenagers arrived on the cultural scene, it was more common that pink was the colour for boys and blue for girls – the opposite of today.
The advice to mothers in one Sunday newspaper in 1914 (March 29th, Sunday Sentinel, USA) was "if you like the color note on the little one's garments, use pink for the boy and blue forthe girl, if you are a follower of convention." The Ladies Home Journal, at the end of the Great War (June 1918), advised mothers that "there has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
Isabelle Pitt (of the Development Trusts Association) who put me on to this, suggests that pink was watered down from fierce, and military, red – while blue was associated with the Virgin Mary.
Research with over 3,000 children that I published recently, together with Professor Agnes Nairn, in the book 'Consumer Kids' tracks the gender stereotypes the children face and the rising trend of the sexualisation of girls that goes with it. Some of our most revealing work in that was looking in depth at Barbie, Action Man, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham.
The commercial world that children experience is as if the women's movement had never existed.


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Apple Confirms AlgoTrim Acquisition
Apple has acquired Swedish data-compression company AlgoTrim, a company representative confirmed to AllThingsD. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," spokeswoman Kirstin Huguet said, reciting the company's standard refrain on small acquisitions like these.
The price Apple paid for AlgoTrim and its plans for the company couldn't immediately be learned.
Founded in 2005 by Anders Berglund, Anders Holtsberg and Martin Lindberg, AlgoTrim develops data-compression technology that simultaneously shortens processing times and reduces file size — just the sort of thing for optimizing mobile imaging and video. While Apple declined to elaborate on its plans for AlgoTrim, they likely involve using its expertise to make image capture on the iPhone and iPad more efficient and powerful.
Apple's purchase of AlgoTrim is the latest in a conga line of acquisitions made during the past month that includes wireless chip developer Passif Semiconductor, video-discovery outfit Matcha, public-transit app developer Embark, crowdsourced location data company Locationary and online transit-navigation app maker HopStop.
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5 happiness hacks to make you smile
Happiness is a fleeting emotion and not a constant state. Feeling happy is on the spectrum of emotions that includes sadness too and all of our feelings are valid. We can achieve a healthier mental state by accepting all of our emotions and not rushing ourselves to feel different or denying any of our feelings.
Sometimes it can feel challenging to feel happy, so here are 5 happiness hacks to put a smile on your face. They range from something you can do in 30 seconds through to 20 minutes, and all of them will help you to feel lighter and happier.
30-second happiness hack – the truth about smiling
People have got it wrong about smiling. If you want to feel happier start by making yourself smile first. This happiness hack reveals the changes in your facials muscles send signals to your brain to release happiness endorphins, and then you can feel like smiling even more.
2-minute happiness hack – how catastrophic thinking steals your happiness
People can get caught up in unhelpful thinking styles. One of them is catastrophic thinking. That's when a negative thought comes into your mind about something that is outside of your control that may or may not happen in the future.
People can have these thoughts about anything. They're easy to identify as the scenarios that play in their mind become more and more dark, negative and catastrophic. It's as though you allow your imagination to imagine an ever-worsening series of 'What if?' until you are completely absorbed in your own nightmare version of day-dreaming.
It's imperative to acknowledge that catastrophic thinking is something you do to yourself and not something that happens to you. This is a symptom of disordered thinking. This technique is about you taking back control of your thoughts. Because ultimately that's all they are – just thoughts.
So, when a negative, catastrophic thought comes into your mind, say to yourself 'That's one of those thoughts I scare myself with' and then interrupt it.
The most successful way to do this is by physically moving. If you're sitting down then get up. If you've a little privacy then stand up and raise your left knee and tap that knee with your right hand. Then switch and lift your right knee and tap that knee with your left hand.
This is called Cross-Crawl and is a body energy technique taught to break the hold this unhelpful thinking can have on you. It's so silly to do – hence the need for privacy – you'll often end up smiling at yourself, and you'll have forgotten whatever was on your mind too.
5-minute happiness hack – silencing your inner critic
One of the reasons for not being happy is the inner voice in your mind that runs a constant monologue about everything you say or do.
If after reading that you are thinking to yourself 'What voice in my head?" well, that's the one I mean. It usually exists just below your conscious awareness and rarely has anything constructive or supportive to say. It's like a constant drip, drip of toxic negative judgments. Your inner negative voice can eat away at your self-esteem and your ability to be happy.
Up until now, your inner voice has had free rein of your sub-conscious mind. Now it's time to turn that carping, moaning voice into your best friend and most enthusiastic cheerleader.
Sit quietly for a few moments and tune into the voice in your head. Really hear the sort of things it says to you. Try to work out if the judgements your inner voice say remind you of anything anyone said to you as you were growing up.
You might have an a-ha moment when you realise for how long you've been carrying these old judgements around with you and how unhelpful they are.
Each time you notice a negative judgment about yourself I want you to take a deep breath in and breath it out. As you breathe out take a moment to replace that negative thought with a positive thought about yourself instead.
The process of replacing negative judgments with positive affirmations works best when it becomes a habit. Psychologists have worked out that it takes 21 repetitions to embed a new habit. So just set aside 10 minutes a day for three weeks until your mind is used to supporting and cheering you on instead of putting you down.
10-minute happiness hack – just say thank you
Gratitude work is one of the oldest and most effective ways to increase happiness. At the end of your day, preferably just before sleep, just jot down in a notebook all the things that happened to you during the day that you are grateful for. The physical process of hand-writing these sentences of gratitude is essential so preferably do not type them.
In tough and challenging times it can be really difficult to recall anything to feel grateful for, but as you commit to this nighty process more things will come to your mind. Again a commitment of a minimum of 21 days of recalling everything you feel grateful for will reap you increased happiness in your life in an almost magical way.
Begin with five things you are grateful for and try to build into a list of fifty. When your written list is complete, it will be enough for you just to read to yourself each evening all the things you are grateful for.
Working with gratitude the last thing at night after your busy day sets up your subconscious mind to find and feel more gratitude as you sleep soundly at night.
20-minute happiness hack – release your happiness hormones
It takes 20 minutes of exercise before the happiness endorphins are released in your brain making you feel exhilarated and happy, so don't give up at 19 minutes!
If you feel you are struggling to feel happy and have underlying reasons that make you feel sad, then reach out to me with an obligation free discovery call. You may need some help to transform how you think and feel about yourself before you can feel true happiness.
Sally Baker is Senior Therapist, published Author and Speaker in private practice in London for face to face sessions and the world over via the internet.
With almost twenty years of professional experience, she employs cutting-edge therapeutic approaches to help one person at a time to transform their lives.
She has extensive experience working with people to alleviate their anxiety, depression, anger issues, eating disorders as well as conflicts within relationships and the family.
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Leading dietitian Lyndi Cohen lost 20kgs when she stopped dieting and learnt how to combat emotional eating. Now, she has now created a program with the exact strategies that helped her heal.
Take it from someone who knows first hand. You can't just create more 'willpower' to stop yourself from emotional eating.
If you obsess about food, feel guilty after eating or start every Monday saying "this time will be different"… only to end up emotional eating again, here are some strategies I use to combat this all-too-common experience, many of us deal with regularly.
Give yourself permission to eat the foods you want to eat
When you deprive yourself, food gains power over you. When you don't give yourself permission to eat certain foods, you'll feel the need to eat them in private, in excess and as quickly as possible in case you never get to eat it again. When your body trusts that you aren't being deprived, you will no longer feel the need to binge on this food… so give yourself permission to indulge in balance, and adopt a nothing is off-limits approach. Some foods are for every day, and some foods are for sometimes. But the most important thing is that you tune into your body and listen to what it is asking for.
Stop judging food
Avoid referring to food as 'good' or 'bad'. When you 'try to be good' and avoid 'fattening' or 'bad' foods, you're only setting yourself up for more emotional eating. Feeling guilty or getting angry with yourself for over-eating will only cause you to binge more – not less. You can't shame yourself into 'better' eating habits. Shame might work for a brief moment, but it is not an emotion that will help you in the long-term.
Eat treats in front of other people
Avoiding 'bad' foods in front of other people will only cause you to binge on them later in private. Give yourself permission to eat your 'trigger foods' in public. That means order the peanut butter on toast at a café, say yes to the dessert when offered and grab an ice cream with a pal. Doing this will normalise how you interact with that food, and make it less of a 'secret'… remember: food and eating shouldn't be something you hide! It is there to be enjoyed, to fuel you and to nourish you.
Do not eat in front of the TV
When you eat in front of the TV, you condition your body to get hungry and feel like eating when you turn on the television. Yes, seriously! Never get in front of the TV or any screen, and eat. Give yourself permission to eat – and watch TV! – but not at the same time.
Stop striving for weight loss
This. Is. Important. Ironically, aiming to lose weight could be the one thing that's preventing you from reaching your goals. Shift your focus from trying to lose weight to building a healthy relationship with food. Because when you have a healthy relationship with food, you'll stop emotional eating, you'll move because it feels great and your body will naturally find its healthiest weight.
See each binge as an opportunity to learn
A binge is not a failure – it's simply your body's way of trying to get your attention and tell you something. Feeling guilty, angry and promising to 'get healthy tomorrow' will make you restrict again and causing another binge. Stop fighting against your body and learn to listen to what it's trying to say.
Learn how to keep it real
It's tough to end emotional eating, stop worrying about your weight and reduce anxiety without support. You don't need to just try harder – you need to try something different. I've created a 10-week guide to help teach and support you through the process filled with engaging video tutorials, whole foods recipes, interactive workbooks and PDF downloads. Check out the Keep It Real Program to find out more. This is the exact resource I wish was available when I was an emotional eater… which is why I created it.
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If you are concerned about your health, book an appointment with your GP who will be able to advise a correct treatment plan.
Lyndi Cohen, founder of The Nude Nutritionist, is a dietitian who used to be an emotional and binge eater. She lost more than 20kg when she stopped restricting and started listening to her body.
Sign up here to do Lyndi's free 5-day course to help you end emotional eating.


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In the exotic Marquesas Islands in Polynesia, Jody is thrilled to spot a big group of spinner dolphins! There's even a special dolphin whom she names Twister, who dances like the wind beneath the waves. Back on land Jody is also making friends: Lew and Monique, who work for a local dolphin-friendly tuna boat. Jody gets to witness them in action as they dive to save dolphins, coaxing them away from the boat's nets! But when a dive gets called off at the last minute, who will save Twister from the lethal nets?
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SCRANTON, Pa. - Junior forward Sofia Recupero (Whitestone, N.Y./St. Francis Prep) was named tournament MVP after a dominating 22 point, 11 rebound performance, as the top-seeded University of Scranton women's basketball team breezed through second-seeded Elizabethtown, 68-48, on Sunday in the 2019 Landmark Conference Championship Game at the John Long Center.
With the victory, Scranton captured their fourth straight Landmark Conference title, seventh overall Landmark title, and the 25th conference championship in program history. Now 25-2 overall, the Lady Royals also reached the 25-win plateau for the fourth straight year and for the 22nd time in program history, as well.
Scranton, ranked ninth by the WBCA and 12th by D3Hoops.com, also clinched the Landmark Conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament with the win, as the field will be announced on Monday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
Elizabethtown, who were winners of eight straight entering the game, fell to 19-7 overall with the defeat.
In the win, Scranton put away Elizabethtown for the afternoon early, as the Lady Royals came out aggressive on both offense and defense to storm out to a 16-2 lead in the first seven and a half minutes of regulation.
Up 18-4 entering the second, Scranton continued to dominate throughout the period entering halftime, as the closest E-Town came to the Lady Royals lead was nine points (20-11). Leading 36-20 at the half, Scranton never let E-Town get within striking distance the rest of the game, as they opened their biggest lead of the contest at 59-35 early in the fourth quarter.
From there, it was academic, as Scranton steamrolled to a 20-point victory in the title clash with E-Town, collecting their 24th win of the year by double-figures in the process.
Overall, Recupero was about unstoppable in the victory, going 10-of-17 from the floor with her 22-point performance, which matched a career-high for the junior. With 11 rebounds, Recupero collected her second straight double-double and third of the season, as the junior also dished out a career-best six assists in the win.
Recupero was one of four Lady Royals to register double-digit scoring games in the win. The guard tandem of junior Emily Sheehan (Dunmore, Pa./Dunmore) and Bridgette Mann (Canadensis, Pa./Wallenpaupack) finished with 11 points, apiece, with each dishing out a pair of assists in the win, as well.
Rounding out the double-digit scorers for Scranton was junior Makenzie Mason (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks West), who finished with a double-double of her own with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Mason, who also had four blocks, three assists, and two steals, recorded her eighth double-double of the year in the victory, scoring in double-figures for the 23rd time on the year, as well.
Elizabethtown was led in a losing effort by Lydia Lawson who had 15 points. But, the Blue Jays were stymied all afternoon by a relentless Lady Royals defense that held them to just 31.6 percent shooting from the floor and 20 percent from three-point range (2-of-10).
Holding the Blue Jays to their lowest point total of the year in the win, Scranton didn't allow a team to hit 50 points in a game for the 17th time on the year, The Lady Royals also outrebounded E-Town by a 46-33 advantage in the win, as well.
Scranton will now await as to where and when they will play in the upcoming 2019 NCAA Division III Tournament which will begin across the country on Friday. More information will be posted once the field is released tomorrow afternoon on athletics.scranton.edu.


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Meet James Lee Witt
James Lee Witt has lived a remarkable life. He grew up in Dardanelle and still lives in the home where his parents worked as domestic and field hands. He's a member of the First Baptist Church, the church where he was baptized. He met his future bride, Lea Ellen Hodges, at Dardanelle High School. They have two sons, and three grandchildren, and had been married 51 years when she passed away in September.
James Lee's sons, Jimmy and Michael, settled near their home with their families. Grandson Carter is in college. Parker plays football at Dardanelle High School. And at 12, Jesse is learning about deer hunting from his granddad.
While James Lee started a construction company in his early twenties, public service has always been part of his life. In 1978, he was elected County Judge in Yell County where he started the food pantry in partnership with local churches and was Co-Chair of the Child Development, Inc. to promote early childhood programs in the community. His approach as County Judge was the same as it has been throughout his career: hands-on. People still remember James Lee taking control of a road grader to clear county roads during snowstorms.
James Lee served 10 years as County Judge until he was appointed Director of Arkansas Office of Emergency Services and managed the state's response to disasters. Based on his performance, President Clinton nominated James Lee to be the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). His nomination won unanimous support in the United States Senate.
At FEMA, James Lee was the best kind of leader: a common sense guy who would listen to everyone. In just a short time, he transformed FEMA from a failing agency to what was widely recognized as the most successful agency in government. He accomplished this unprecedented turnaround by putting performance and people ahead of politics.
Time Magazine's special segment on James Lee called him the "Master of Disaster." Democrats and Republicans alike praised him for his leadership and FEMA's performance, as did the state and local officials where FEMA worked. As Director, Witt oversaw 379 major disasters, including some of the most devastating disasters of all time. These included the Oklahoma City bombing, the Great Midwest Flood, horrendous tornadoes, numerous wildfires and hurricanes, and Northridge, the most destructive recent earthquake in the country. Witt managed a total of 710 disaster declarations, 65 emergency declarations and 266 fire suppression authorizations.
After FEMA, James Lee opened James Lee Witt Associates, a company that helps governments and corporations throughout the world recover from disasters and deal with other crises. Somehow he still finds time to bale hay, take care of his cattle and hunt whatever is in season. And every Friday night in the fall, you'll find James Lee cheering for Parker and the rest of the Dardanelle High School Sand Lizards.


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If you have been a caregiver for your aging parents or loved ones, you are well aware of the multi-faceted nature of care that is required. There is no disputing that caring for our elderly loved ones is both a noble and enormous undertaking. The declining health that usually accompanies aging is not only difficult for the elderly, but also for those that have devoted themselves to caring for their needs.
If your caretaking responsibilities seem to be insurmountable and overwhelming, you are not alone. Consider lightening your load of responsibility by following these tips:
• Most communities have structured support organizations for elderly caregivers. They offer support groups and professional advice, as well as many other community elder care resources that may prove to be very helpful to you.
• Avoid caregivers' burnout. It is vitally important to you and your aging loved ones that you take time for yourself and your personal needs. Most caregivers have immediate family responsibilities and jobs in addition to their caretaking responsibilities. Allow yourself at least one day a week away from caretaking duties. Run errands, have lunch with friends, clean your house--whatever may serve as an outlet to take your mind off of caretaking responsibilities. As much as we love them, caring for an elderly love one is most always draining and demanding.
• Don't be afraid to ask for help from other family members. Involving other siblings or family members is not only helpful to you, but can also be good for your elderly loved ones. Many times, our loved ones feel guilty and concerned for the amount of time and energy we dedicate to them. Sharing the responsibilities may be a relief for everyone involved.
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Alzhemers has become a very common condition among elderly individuals. This dreaded disease greatly diminishes the capacity for independent living and safety of our aging loved ones in their own homes.
As Alzheimer's progresses, the ability of the elderly to care for their own most basic needs such as bathing, hygeine, medication administration and meal preparation are greatly compromised. The may exhibit poor cognition, lack of coordination, reduced ability to communicate, among other symptoms. Unfortunately, this diminished capacity can make them vulnerable to hazards in their own home environment.
These symptoms may be very subtle in the beginning, but can escalate seemingly overnight. During the window of time in which our elderly loved ones are able to remain in their own home, they must be monitored regularly and should have access to a home medical alert device for immediate access to emergency assistance, if needed. This will not only keep them safe, but will also give the caregiver added peace of mind that their loved one will receive emergency care immediately, if needed.
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Excerpt from my book All About High Frequency Trading:
I always wondered when word would get out.
I got my own look in 2003. That's when I went to work for the Citadel Investment Group, Ken Griffin's stealthy Chicago hedge fund, to help them build a high-frequency trading system for exchange-traded equity options. There was only one fully automated options exchange in the United States at that time, the International Securities Exchange in New York. Before the ISE opened for business in 2000, no options exchange would allow market-makers to submit their all-important quotations–bids to buy and offers to sell–electronically. For the most part, those were still communicated verbally by human traders with loud voices and sharp elbows, standing all day in open outcry trading pits wearing sensible shoes. ISE founders David Krell and Gary Katz knew it was time to change that, and the success of their enterprise proved to any remaining doubters how absolutely right they were. The ISE was the quintessential game changer. Their explosive success forced the traditional, floor-based options exchanges to make their own plans for electronic quoting. And Ken Griffin wanted Citadel to be all over it.
I had been managing financial systems development for several years by this time, mostly for the pricing of derivative securities. The Citadel system, though, would not only calculate hundreds of thousands of option prices simultaneously–an impressive feat in its own right–but also inject streams of bids and offers into the markets at literally superhuman speed. The custom-built quoting engines would tirelessly inject many millions of quotes into the markets every day, each of them a binding commitment to buy or sell a listed option contract at some specified price, each one the result of a software program running on a computer. And while the quoters were busy doing that, "electronic eyes" would scan everyone else's quotations and orders–hundreds of millions per day–all in real time. It would be like standing at the end of an open fire hose and examining each drop of water before it hit the ground. When the electronic eye (or EE) found someone offering to buy an option for more than it was worth, or to sell it for less, it would immediately submit an order to take the other side of the trade for a tiny profit.
It was a dazzling sight, watching these machines pick the markets clean of its inefficiencies. I would have loved to talk about it back then, to tell friends and family what was going on in the gleaming glass tower at the intersection of Dearborn and Adams. But the confidentiality agreements one has to sign for employers like Citadel are very, very effective. In this business, everyone knows that loose lips get pink slips. So like everyone else, I kept my mouth shut and talked only with my small group of colleagues on the 37th floor. Even within the sanctum sanctorum at Citadel, information was purely need-to-know. I once asked a quantitative analyst about one of the factors that went into the all-important volatility model. "What does 'v' mean?" "It means 'v,'" she replied. "Ahh. What about 'h'?" "It means 'h.'" This little badinage went on for quite a few more letters of the alphabet.
By the time I left Citadel in 2005, their options market-making system–the work of a team not much larger than the Chicago Cubs starting lineup–was responsible for more than 10 percent of all options trading in the United States, or more than a million contracts a day. Within three years, its market share had reportedly grown to a commanding 30 percent. The U.S. options market had become dominated by the extraordinary machines of just a handful of secretive firms like Citadel. Still, nobody on the outside seemed to have a clue–or a care–that trading was no longer done by traders.
That all changed in 2009.
As people licked their wounds in the aftermath of the 2008 market meltdown, wondering where all the money went, word got out that something like $20 billion of it went to these folks known as high-frequency traders. The term was well known inside firms like Citadel but not so much outside. Now, it was bad enough that anyone made out like bandits in the horrible year that was 2008, but a far more frightening contemplation caused more than a few people to go grab a pitchfork from the shed: Was high-frequency trading somehow culpable? Did it cause the mother of all crashes, or at least accelerate it once it began? After all, the 1987 market crash was widely attributed to automated trading, then known as program trading. Did the computers do it again?
Word went around that 50 percent of all stock trading–maybe 60 percent or even 70 percent–was attributable to HFT computers trading with each other, supposedly just to collect tiny kickbacks, known as rebates, from the exchange. The HFT firms weren't even holding onto their stock. Once bought, they'd immediately turn around and sell it, sometimes buying and selling the same stock hundreds or thousands of times a day. What was up with that? All this trading at ungodly speeds, it was said, was creating massive price volatility that otherwise wouldn't exist. Could this be good? Nerves were not settled when a former Goldman Sachs employee was arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary computer code for high-frequency trading, with the bank asserting ominously "there is a danger that somebody who (knows) how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways." Computer code to manipulate markets? What the hell was going on here?
Anyone following the HFT stories in 2008 learned a handful of new terms from the modern trading lexicon–none of them particularly comforting. The HFT firms were supposedly using something called "flash orders" to get advance looks at customer trade orders before the rest of the market, then using those peeks to make their own trades at a profit. Wasn't that front-running and wasn't it illegal? The flash order robbers supposedly had only 30 milliseconds to do their dirty work, but this was plenty of time because they "colocated" their computer servers in the same data centers as the exchange computers, at great expense. This also let them get their own orders in before any investor possibly could. Uneven playing field, anybody?
Unsatisfied with flash order thievery, the HFT smarties supposedly submitted something called IOC orders with no intention of trading, but only to force investors to reveal the true prices at which they were willing to trade, information the HFT guys would use to move market prices against the investor. Whoa. Were the HFT firms even qualified to be so close the exchange and trade at lightning speeds? Nobody could say, because it was nearly impossible to know even the identities of high-frequency traders. They didn't need to make the infrastructure investments themselves. They could use "direct market access" or "naked access," using their broker's exchange connection to get in anonymously, then perform their lightning-fast derring-do as if wearing a mask. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro likens the practice of DMA to lending the car keys to your unregistered Ferrari to someone who may not even be licensed to drive. It's not a bad analogy.
"Dude," you could almost hear people asking, fatigued and more than a little ticked off, "What happened to our stock market?" Was it no longer what it used to be, a place to simply invest in companies with the idea of holding onto that stock for a while? Were we all naive to still think like that? Maybe we had all been reduced to easy marks for sharpies with fast computers and math skills far better than our own, like dummies on the boardwalk, sized up and taken by the hucksters. Do the markets still work? Or have they been hijacked by cutthroat information technology and greed?
It can sure seem that way.
The year 2008 was indeed the year of wonders for high-frequency traders, especially options traders, and this struck plenty of folks as somehow wrong. A head-hunter told me that his client, a high-frequency options market-making firm, had made over $800 million in 2008. Another well-known firm was said to have cleared $1.3 billion of net profit–and that was just trading options. Who knows what the stock HFT desk pulled in. Now just because some people made out like kings in 2008 when most people suffered, however, does not mean all those gains were ill-gotten. When technology revolutionizes an industry, be it personal computing or automobile manufacturing or oil refining, it's not unheard-of for a small number of pioneers (Gates, Ford, Rockefeller) to make bazillions from their investments.
There's more mileage to be had from the automobile analogy, this time relating to safety. When horseless buggies first hit the streets in the early twentieth century, top speeds were on the order of 10 or 15 miles per hour, and there weren't all that many of these novelties on the road. As technology, demand, and free-market enterprise found their confluence, however, those top speeds climbed steadily and the roads started filling. Cars crashed, people died, and the lethality of these contraptions became frightfully obvious. Government and industry began addressing safety in the design and regulation of automobiles. Speed limits were posted, seat belts were invented, laws were written, and cops started writing tickets. It's not unreasonable to say that high-frequency trading requires that same sort of rethinking to keep people safe in light of the new capabilities brought on by technology.
And there is yet one more obvious parallel between the automotive revolution and HFT. Some folks in the early years of the automobile saw cars not as conveniences but as tools to help commit crime. Would John Dillinger have fared so well were his getaway vehicle a trolley? Bank robbers used cars to get away with crimes they might not have otherwise. In turn, the cops themselves were equipped with better and better cars and laws were expanded and revised accordingly. Can people use the tools of high-frequency trading to get away with things they might not have, say, ten years ago? It's not inconceivable. Is it time to reconsider regulations and law enforcement in the securities markets? Probably.
It must be said that pulling off the high-frequency part of high-frequency trading is no stroll through the mall. It's exceedingly difficult setting up an HFT system that actually works, and there is no one thing to be done, no single task to master, any more than there is only one thing to ensure the successful construction of an ocean liner. High-frequency traders leave no stone unturned in pursuit of their wispy profits, starting with the hiring of just the right number of rock stars from the fields of trading, mathematics, and software system development. They write their own software rather than license packaged products from third parties, investing the time and money required for a system catered to their exact needs, one they can fix and modify on their own schedule. Oh, and for the building and maintaining of these systematic goliaths, they spend sums of money that would make even Warren Buffet raise his eyebrows.
HFT firms apply software engineering practices that facilitate the development of so-called distributed, real-time systems, borrowing patterns from the field of complex event processing, with thousands of individual programs running on just the right number of computers in just the right number of data centers. They buck the decades-long trend of packing more and more processing onto a computer's CPU, favoring the seemingly backward approach of delegating some computing tasks to specialized hardware. They even take over the massively parallel processing capability of graphical processing units–game cards, in essence–for financial computations. An HFT firm would not dream of receiving market data–the crucial flow of "ticks"–or submitting trade orders by way of third parties and their latency-consuming connections. They insist on direct connections to the exchange for these purposes. They also know where the exchanges house their computers, or matching engines, and collocate their own computers in the very same data centers, thus getting their work done just a few billionths of a second sooner than the next guy.
Exhausting? Expensive? You betcha. But with the prospect of rolling a billion samolians a year off of one these money-making machines, it's no wonder more than one firm is willing to pay whatever it takes to have one.


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