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Matt LeBlanc Was Skeptical of Playing Himself on New Series 'Episodes'
LeBlanc, 43, finds a role in a series written by an English couple wooed to recreate their show in the States by an unctuous Hollywood exec. 'Episodes,' created by David Crane ('Friends') and Jeffrey Klarik ('Mad About You'), mercilessly lampoons showbiz, and the onetime Joey Tribbiani is the icing on the cake.
Was the show written before you got on board?
No, David and Jeffrey had an idea and fleshed out a pitch. They called me, told me they had an idea, I listened and I was intrigued with it. My only skepticism was in playing myself. I didn't know what they meant. I didn't mind being the brunt of the joke -- and anyway, that's just in the beginning.
You haven't worked in ages.
Not in four or five years. I've just been taking time off, spending time with my daughter, doing hobbies and seeing friends, just having fun.
You must have been pitched like crazy.
Yeah, well things would come across my desk but nothing that seemed like more fun than what I was doing, which was having fun.
Do you regret doing 'Joey'?
No. 'Joey' on paper was a good idea, and the people involved in the writing staff were good writers. I knew the odds were that it would fail -- historically, spinoff shows are not successful, but we did two full seasons. I had a really good time. It was a lot of work to be the heavy in every scene.
Has there been a day in the last 15 years that someone hasn't called you Joey?
Yeah, days I don't go out of my house. But when I'm out of the house, yeah, it's every day. I mean, the show was really popular. I must say I feel really fortunate to have been a part of it.
The chances of being involved in a really huge sitcom are like being struck by lightning.
Yeah, and you never know when you get involved. You think it's funny and good, and wow the ratings are getting a little bit, and oh, we got picked up for next year. When we got started if someone had said, "Oh, this is going to be one of the biggest sitcoms in the history of television," I would have said, "Come on!" About six people sitting around doing nothing?
When did you realize the show was huge?
That first summer when the show was in reruns, that's when the show went from 20-odd place to outside the top 10. We got picked up, and we knew then, "Wow, people are really digging this." We became the water-cooler show.
Do you guys stay in touch?
Yeah, from time to time. Obviously not like we did before.
Did you get a different caliber of women when the show became big?
Not really. I dated prior to the show, but you know, we were just busy all the time. We would go to Burbank into a building with no windows, all day, and go home. I was just tired. Sure, we went out, but we were always booked doing something, photo shoots, interviews -- everyone wanted a piece of that show.
'Episodes' is all about Hollywood phonies. Do you get a lot of, "We want to be in the Matt LeBlanc business?"
[Laughs] No, that would be nice to get that. Sure I've been lied to in Hollywood -- I think everyone has -- but I don't know why that falls so squarely on Hollywood's shoulders. I think it's true of any industry. There's the boss that no one wants to say the wrong thing in front of, and he's surrounded by yes men. That's in lots of different businesses.
What are you going to do if the show isn't picked up?
Probably go back to the couch. There are so many channels on TV I constantly roam. I hardly ever settle on anything.
Does it make you sad that sitcoms seem to be dying and reality TV has taken over?
Kind of. I like scripted TV, and I like stories. I don't know if sad is the right word. It scares me because I'm thinking maybe I should be looking for something to do with my life.
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- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy stu
1st again!!!!!!
he's still a handsome devil.
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy ghong3
Probably go back to the couch. There are so many channels on TV I constantly roam. I hardly ever settle on anything. I love reading this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via age'lessmate.c'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends..
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy nodevout
he looks like tony danza he should've stuck to friends
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy D Wayne
You are so right, he does look like Tony Danza! I am gonna check out Episodes tonight. I never watched more than a handful of Friends episodes.
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy Gregory
He also looks a lot like Cary Grant.
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy mia
I watched it last night! It was really good. I like the British couple as well. They were in Green Wing together. (A British show)
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy Pete
Well, if he has his way, it'll be back to the couch in no time. The first episode of that show was AWFUL.
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy JustMe
Yummm. Matty is still a cutie and that salt & pepper just adds to his sexy. Now see, had he had that hair in Friends he just might have gotten Rachel :)
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy trish
I think Matt LeBlanc is adorable and getting more handsome as he
ages!! I thought the new show was funny and had had great
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy tori
Getting better looking with age?! Whoever thinks that is blind, the gray black look is sooo unattractive!!!!
- Wednesday 12 JanuaryBy KS
Nice to see Matt back on t.v. At least he is working on the small screen, and not trying to make awful movies on the big screen. Like others from "Friends"...Smart guy..
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By Abby Phillip Jan Scheuermann, who has quadriplegia, brings a chocolate bar to her mouth using a robot arm guided by her thoughts. Research assistant Elke Brown watches in the background. (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as DARPA, there are some pretty amazing (and often top-secret) things going on. But one notable component of a DARPA project was revealed by a Defense Department official at a recent forum, and it is the stuff of science fiction movies. According to DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar, a paralyzed woman was successfully able use her thoughts to control an F-35 and a single-engine Cessna in a flight simulator. It's just the latest advance for one woman, 55-year-old Jan Scheuermann, who has been the subject of two years of groundbreaking neurosignaling research. First, Scheuermann began by controlling a robotic arm and accomplishing tasks such as feeding herself a bar of chocolate and giving high fives and thumbs ups. Then, researchers learned that -- surprisingly -- Scheuermann was able to control both right-hand and left-hand prosthetic arms with just the left motor cortex, which is typically responsible for controlling the right-hand side. After that, Scheuermann decided she was up for a new challenge, according to Prabhakar.
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by Catherine de Lange You won't believe you do it, but you do. After shaking hands with someone, you'll lift your hands to your face and take a deep sniff. This newly discovered behaviour – revealed by covert filming – suggests that much like other mammals, humans use bodily smells to convey information. We know that women's tears transmit chemosensory signals - their scent lowers testosterone levels and dampens arousal in men - and that human sweat can transmit fear. But unlike other mammals, humans don't tend to go around sniffing each other. Wondering how these kinds of signals might be exchanged, Noam Sobel and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel turned to one of the most common ways in which people touch each other - shaking hands. "We started looking at people and noticed that afterwards, the hand somehow inadvertently reached the face," says Sobel. To find out if people really were smelling their hands, as opposed to scratching their nose, for example, his team surreptitiously filmed 153 volunteers. Some were wired up to a variety of physiological instruments so that airflow to the nose could be measured without them realising this was the intention. The volunteers were filmed as they greeted a member of the team, either with or without a handshake. The researchers recorded how often the volunteers lifted their hands close to their nose, and how long they kept them there, the minute before and after the greeting. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
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By Felicity Muth Visual illusions are fun: we know with our rational mind that, for example, these lines are parallel to each other, yet they don't appear that way. Similarly, I could swear that squares A and B are different colours. But they are not. This becomes clearer when a connecting block is drawn between the two squares (see the image below). Illusions aren't just fun tricks for us to play with, they can also tell us something about our minds. Things in the world look to us a certain way, but that doesn't mean that they are that way in reality. Rather, our brain represents the world to us in a particular way; one that has been selected over evolutionary time. Having such a system means that, for example, we can see some animals running but not others; we couldn't see a mouse moving from a mile away like a hawk could. This is because there hasn't been the evolutionary selective pressures on our visual system to be able to do such a thing, whereas there has on the hawk's. We can also see a range of wavelengths of light, represented as particular colours in our brain, while not being able to see other wavelengths (that, for example, bees and birds can see). Having a system limited by what evolution has given us means that there are many things we are essentially blind to (and wouldn't know about if it weren't for technology). It also means that sometimes our brain misrepresents physical properties of the external world in a way that can be confusing once our rational mind realises it. Of course, all animals have their own representation of the world. How a dog visually perceives the world will be different to how we perceive it. But how can we know how other animals perceive the world? What is their reality? One way we can try to get this is through visual illusions. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 20642 - Posted: 03.03.2015
|By Christof Koch In the Dutch countryside, a tall, older man, dressed in a maroon sports coat, his back slightly stooped, stands out because of his height and a pair of extraordinarily bushy eyebrows. His words, inflected by a British accent, are directed at a middle-aged man with long, curly brown hair, penetrating eyes and a dark, scholarly gown, who talks in only a halting English that reveals his native French origins. Their strangely clashing styles of speaking and mismatched clothes do not seem to matter to them as they press forward, with Eyebrows peering down intently at the Scholar. There is something distinctly odd about the entire meeting—a crossing of time, place and disciplines. Eyebrows: So I finally meet the man who doubts everything. The Scholar: (not missing a beat) At this time, I admit nothing that is not necessarily true. I'm famous for that! Eyebrows: Is there anything that you are certain of? (sotto voce) Besides your own fame? The Scholar: (evading the sarcastic jibe) I can't be certain of my fame. Indeed, I can't even be certain that there is a world out there, for I could be dreaming or hallucinating it. I can't be certain about the existence of my own body, its shape and extension, its corporality, for again I might be fooling myself. But now what am I, when I suppose that there is some supremely powerful and, if I may be permitted to say so, malicious deceiver who deliberately tries to fool me in any way he can? Given this evil spirit, how do I know that my sensations about the outside world—that is, it looks, feels and smells in a particular way—are not illusions, conjured up by Him to deceive me? It seems to me that therefore I can never know anything truly about the world. Nothing, rien du tout. I have to doubt everything. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 20640 - Posted: 03.03.2015
By Neuroskeptic In an interesting short paper just published in Trends in Cognitive Science, Caltech neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs offers his thoughts on The Unsolved Problems of Neuroscience. Here's Adolphs' list of the top 23 questions (including 3 "meta" issues), which, he says, was inspired by Hilbert's famous set of 23 mathematical problems: Problems that are solved, or soon will be: I. How do single neurons compute? II. What is the connectome of a small nervous system, like that of Caenorhabitis elegans (300 neurons)? III. How can we image a live brain of 100,000 neurons at cellular and millisecond resolution? IV. How does sensory transduction work? Problems that we should be able to solve in the next 50 years: V. How do circuits of neurons compute? VI. What is the complete connectome of the mouse brain (70,000,000 neurons)? VII. How can we image a live mouse brain at cellular and millisecond resolution? VIII. What causes psychiatric and neurological illness? IX. How do learning and memory work? X. Why do we sleep and dream? XI. How do we make decisions? XII. How does the brain represent abstract ideas? Problems that we should be able to solve, but who knows when: XIII. How does the mouse brain compute? XIV. What is the complete connectome of the human brain (80,000,000,000 neurons)? XV. How can we image a live human brain at cellular and millisecond resolution? XVI. How could we cure psychiatric and neurological diseases? XVII. How could we make everybody's brain function best? Problems we may never solve: XVIII. How does the human brain compute? XIX. How can cognition be so flexible and generative? XX. How and why does conscious experience arise? Meta-questions: XXI. What counts as an explanation of how the brain works? (and which disciplines would be needed to provide it?) XXII. How could we build a brain? (how do evolution and development do it?) XXIII. What are the different ways of understanding the brain? (what is function, algorithm, implementation?) Adolphs R (2015). The unsolved problems of neuroscience. Trends in cognitive sciences PMID: 25703689
Keyword: Consciousness
Link ID: 20637 - Posted: 03.02.2015
By JONATHAN MAHLER The mother of the bride wore white and gold. Or was it blue and black? From a photograph of the dress the bride posted online, there was broad disagreement. A few days after the wedding last weekend on the Scottish island of Colonsay, a member of the wedding band was so frustrated by the lack of consensus that she posted a picture of the dress on Tumblr, and asked her followers for feedback. "I was just looking for an answer because it was messing with my head," said Caitlin McNeill, a 21-year-old singer and guitarist. Within a half-hour, her post attracted some 500 likes and shares. The photo soon migrated to Buzzfeed and Facebook and Twitter, setting off a social media conflagration that few were able to resist. As the debate caught fire across the Internet — even scientists could not agree on what was causing the discrepancy — media companies rushed to get articles online. Less than a half-hour after Ms. McNeil's original Tumblr post, Buzzfeed posted a poll: "What Colors Are This Dress?" As of Friday afternoon, it had been viewed more than 28 million times. (White and gold was winning handily.) At its peak, more than 670,000 people were simultaneously viewing Buzzfeed's post. Between that and the rest of Buzzfeed's blanket coverage of the dress Thursday night, the site easily smashed its previous records for traffic. So did Tumblr. Everyone, it seems, had an opinion. And everyone was convinced that he, or she, was right. "I don't understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it's a trick somehow," Taylor Swift wrote on Twitter. "PS it's OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK." "IT'S A BLUE AND BLACK DRESS!" wrote Mindy Kaling. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME," she continued, including an unprintable modifier for emphasis. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20635 - Posted: 02.28.2015
By Pascal Wallisch If you are just encountering The Dress for the first time, you might first want to click here to see what all the fuss was about. The brain lives in a bony shell. The completely light-tight nature of the skull renders this home a place of complete darkness. So the brain relies on the eyes to supply an image of the outside world, but there are many processing steps between the translation of light energy into electrical impulses that happens in the eye and the neural activity that corresponds to a conscious perception of the outside world. In other words, the brain is playing a game of telephone and—contrary to popular belief—our perception corresponds to the brain's best guess of what is going on in the outside world, not necessarily to the way things actually are. This has been recognized for at least 150 years, since the time of Hermann von Helmholtz. This week, it was recognized by masses of people on the Internet, who have been debating furiously over what should be a simple question: What color is this dress? Many parts of the brain contribute to any given perception, and it should not be surprising that different people can reconstruct the outside world in different ways. This is true for many perceptual qualities, including form and motion. While this guessing game is going on all the time, it is possible to demonstrate it clearly by generating impoverished stimulus displays that are consistent with different, mutually exclusive interpretations. That means the brain will not necessarily commit to one interpretation, but will switch back and forth. These are known as ambiguous or bi-stable stimuli, and they illustrate the point that the brain is ultimately only guessing when perceiving the world. It usually just has more information to disambiguate the interpretation. © 2014 The Slate Group LLC. All
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20634 - Posted: 02.28.2015
Carmen Fishwick It's not every day that fashion and science come together to polarise the world. Tumblr blogger Caitlin posted a photograph of what is now known as #TheDress – a layered lace dress and jacket that was causing much distress among her friends. The distress spread rapidly across social media, with Taylor Swift admitting she was "confused and scared". The internet is now made up by people firmly in two camps: the white and gold, and the blue and black – with each thinking the other is completely wrong. But Ron Chrisley, director of the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, believes that the problem mainly lies in the fact that everyone has forgotten we are dealing with a colour illusion. Chrisley said: "The first step in reaching a truce in the dress war is to construct a demonstration that can show to the white-and-gold crowd how the very same dress can also look blue and black under different conditions." The image below, tweeted by @namin3485, demonstrates that even though the right-hand side of each image is the same, in the context of the two different left halves, the right is interpreted as being either white and gold, or blue and black. So does this mean people who are less self-confident are more likely to be able to see both, at least eventually? Chrisley said: "My guess is it's not to do with self-confidence. It's a perceptual issue. I could imagine someone that's open minded could still see it only one way. This is below the level of us trying to understand other peoples views. It's more physiological than that." © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20633 - Posted: 02.28.2015
Fatty liver disease, or the buildup of fat in the liver, and sleep apnea, marked by snoring and interruptions of breathing at night, share some things in common. The two conditions frequently strike people who are overweight or obese. Each afflicts tens of millions of Americans, and often the diseases go undiagnosed. Researchers used to believe that sleep apnea and fatty liver were essentially unrelated, even though they occur together in many patients. But now studies suggest that the two may be strongly linked, with sleep apnea directly exacerbating fatty liver. In a study published last year in the journal Chest, researchers looked at 226 obese middle-aged men and women who were referred to a clinic because they were suspected of having sleep apnea. They found that two-thirds had fatty liver disease, and that the severity of the disease increased with the severity of their sleep apnea. A study last year in The Journal of Pediatrics found a similar relationship in children. The researchers identified sleep apnea in 60 percent of young subjects with fatty liver disease. The worse their apnea episodes, the more likely they were to have fibrosis, or scarring of the liver. Though it is still somewhat unclear, some doctors suspect that the loss of oxygen from sleep apnea may increase chronic inflammation, which worsens fatty liver. Although fat in the liver can be innocuous at first, as inflammation sets in, the fat turns to scar tissue, and that can lead to liver failure. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Sleep
Link ID: 20630 - Posted: 02.28.2015
By Nicholas Weiler The grizzled wolf stalks from her rival's den, her mouth caked with blood of the pups she has just killed. It's a brutal form of birth control, but only the pack leader is allowed to keep her young. For her, this is a selfish strategy—only her pups will carry on the future of the pack. But it may also help the group keep its own numbers in check and avoid outstripping its resources. A new survey of mammalian carnivores worldwide proposes that many large predators have the ability to limit their own numbers. The results, though preliminary, could help explain how top predators keep the food chains beneath them in balance. Researchers often assume that predator numbers grow and shrink based on their food supply, says evolutionary biologist Blaire Van Valkenburgh of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the new study. But several recent examples, including an analysis of the resurgent wolves of Yellowstone National Park, revealed that some large predators keep their own numbers in check. The new paper is the first to bring all the evidence together, Van Valkenburgh says, and presents a "convincing correlation." Hunting and habitat loss are killing off big carnivores around the world, just as ecologists are discovering how important they are for keeping ecosystems in balance. Mountain lions sustain woodlands by hunting deer that would otherwise graze the landscape bare. Coyotes protect scrub-dwelling birds by keeping raccoons and foxes in line. Where top carnivores disappear, these smaller predators often explode in numbers, with potentially disastrous consequences for small birds and mammals. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Evolution
Link ID: 20629 - Posted: 02.28.2015
By Elizabeth Pennisi Last week, researchers expanded the size of the mouse brain by giving rodents a piece of human DNA. Now another team has topped that feat, pinpointing a human gene that not only grows the mouse brain but also gives it the distinctive folds found in primate brains. The work suggests that scientists are finally beginning to unravel some of the evolutionary steps that boosted the cognitive powers of our species. "This study represents a major milestone in our understanding of the developmental emergence of human uniqueness," says Victor Borrell Franco, a neurobiologist at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, who was not involved with the work. The new study began when Wieland Huttner, a developmental neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, and his colleagues started closely examining aborted human fetal tissue and embryonic mice. "We specifically wanted to figure out which genes are active during the development of the cortex, the part of the brain that is greatly expanded in humans and other primates compared to rodents," says Marta Florio, the Huttner graduate student who carried out the main part of the work. That was harder than it sounded. Building a cortex requires several kinds of starting cells, or stem cells. The stem cells divide and sometimes specialize into other types of "intermediate" stem cells that in turn divide and form the neurons that make up brain tissue. To learn what genes are active in the two species, the team first had to develop a way to separate out the various types of cortical stem cells. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Development of the Brain; Evolution
Link ID: 20628 - Posted: 02.27.2015
by Helen Thomson We meet in a pub, we have a few drinks, some dinner and then you lean in for a kiss. You predict, based on our previous interactions, that the kiss will be reciprocated – rather than landing you with a slap in the face. All our social interactions require us to anticipate another person's undecided intentions and actions. Now, researchers have discovered specific brain cells that allow monkeys to do this. It is likely that the cells do the same job in humans. Keren Haroush and Ziv Williams at Harvard Medical School trained monkeys to play a version of the prisoner's dilemma, a game used to study cooperation. The monkeys sat next to each other and decided whether or not they wanted to cooperate with their companion, by moving a joystick to pick either option. Moving the joystick towards an orange circle meant cooperate, a blue triangle meant "not this time". Neither monkey could see the other's face, or receive any clues about their planned action. If the monkeys cooperated, both received four drops of juice. If one cooperated and the other decided not to, the one who cooperated received one drop, and the other received six drops of juice. If both declined to work together they both received two drops of juice. Once both had made their selections, they could see what the other monkey had chosen and hear the amount of juice their companion was enjoying. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Attention
Link ID: 20627 - Posted: 02.27.2015
By Michael Erard Freckle, a male rhesus monkey, was greeted warmly by his fellow monkeys at his new home in Amherst, Massachusetts, when he arrived in 2000. But he didn't return the favor: He terrorized his cagemate by stealing his fleece blanket and nabbed each new blanket the researchers added, until he had 10 and his cagemate none. After a few months, Freckle had also acquired a new name: Ivan, short for Ivan the Terrible. Freckle/Ivan, now at Melinda Novak's primate research lab at the University of Massachusetts, may be unusual in having two names, but all of his neighbors have at least one moniker, Novak says. "You can say, 'Kayla and Zoe are acting out today,' and everybody knows who Kayla and Zoe are," Novak says. "If you say 'ZA-56 and ZA-65 are acting up today,' people pause." Scientists once shied away from naming research animals, and many of the millions of mice and rats used in U.S. research today go nameless, except for special individuals. But a look at many facilities suggests that most of the other 891,161 U.S. research animals have proper names, including nonhuman primates, dogs, pigs, rabbits, cats, and sheep. Rats are Pia, Splinter, Oprah, Persimmon. Monkeys are Nyah, Nadira, Tas, Doyle. One octopus is called Nixon. Breeder pairs of mice are "Tom and Katie," or "Brad and Angelina." If you're a mouse with a penchant for escape, you'll be Mighty Mouse or Houdini. If you're a nasty mouse, you'll be Lucifer or Lucifina. Animals in research are named after shampoos, candy bars, whiskeys, family members, movie stars, and superheroes. They're named after Russians (Boris, Vladimir, Sergei), colors, the Simpsons, historical figures, and even rival scientists. These unofficial names rarely appear in publications, except sometimes in field studies of primates. But they're used daily. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Animal Rights
Link ID: 20625 - Posted: 02.27.2015
People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are about twice as likely to die prematurely as those without the disorder, say researchers. Researchers followed 1.92 million Danes, including 32,000 with ADHD, from birth through to 2013. "In this nationwide prospective cohort study with up to 32-year followup, children, adolescents and adults with ADHD had decreased life expectancy and more than double the risk of death compared with people without ADHD," Soren Dalsgaard, from Aarhus University in Denmark, and his co-authors concluded in Wednesday's online issue of Lancet. Actress Kirstie Alley holds a picture of Raymond Perone while testifying in favour of a bill designed to curb the over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs. Danish researchers studying ADHD say medications can reduce symptoms of inattention and impulsivity. (Phil Coale/Associated Press) "People diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood had a greater risk of death than did those diagnosed in childhood and adolescence. This finding could be caused by persistent ADHD being a more severe form of the disorder." Of the 107 individuals with ADHD who died, information on cause of death was available for 79. Of those, 25 died from natural causes and 54 from unnatural causes, including 42 from accidents. Being diagnosed with ADHD along with oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder and substance use disorder also increased the risk of death, the researchers found. Mortality risk was also higher for females than males, which led Dalsgaard to stress the need for early diagnosis, especially in girls and women, and to treat co-existing disorders. Although talk of premature death will worry parents and patients, they can seek solace in knowing the absolute risk of premature death at an individual level is low and can be greatly reduced with treatment, Stephen Faraone, a professor of psychiatry and director of child and adolescent psychiatry research at SUNY Upstate Medical University in New York, said in a journal commentary published with the study. ©2015 CBC/Radio-Canada.


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Still playing around with the new camera and exploring the possibilities. This on the "super macro" setting and uncropped. The flower is a trichocereus June Noon, but this close it hardly matters.
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Favourite Rose Pictures
Outstanding photos! Gosh, who doesn't love roses--even with all the extra work? I have about a thousand rose photos...
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Paul Neyron--huge cabbage blooms and old rose fragrance
Chicago Peace--stunning color combo
Pat Austin--sunshine color and great smell
Those are all wonderful. Marnie, I see you have success with some that I can't grow even though you are in zone 4 also. I've got only a very few "T-roses" still left. I mostly go for the really hardy shrub roses or some of the David Austins do well. Pat Austin give me about 2 blooms per year but still I keep it. Now that I've got hostas moved in among the rose area I figure when a rose goes that it - move over for the hosta invasion!
McT, in my zone I have wonderful success with the roses in May and June. In July the Japanese beetles come and the roses are destroyed. Even if there is a nice flush in Sept, the leaves are so damaged the overall effect is ugly.
Well, now that I've really bummed us all out with that awful image... Sorry, but walking thru my garden every day and seeing those beetles is a constant thorn in my side.


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Super Buffet: Good Chinese Buffet in Beatrice
The decor was like most Chinese Buffets you have seen, meaning kinda average. Some people do not like buffets because the food sometimes sits on line for a while; but if you don't mind buffets this was a pretty good one. Nice selection of seafood dishes. Will add photo soon.Related to:
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Ole's Cafe: Nice Cafe in Niobrara
Ole's is a nice family style place with a varied menu of steaks, seafood, burgers, braised chicken, soups and salads and other items. Friday nights they have Walleye and Catfish specials. Atmosphere is casual and friendly. They serve wine, beer and ale too.
Favorite Dish: Catfish Special was great!Related to:
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Helen's: Great Restaurant in Chadron
$9 as of August 2013. This is a family run affair with a nice atmosphere and a varied menu. I had difficulty choosing between the blackened catfish and the veal parmesan. My waitress, Melissa was a delight. Hours are 6 AM to 9 PM daily but open till 10 PM on Friday. I enjoyed my Veal Parmesan. On my previous visit I had the Blackened Catfish which was also quite good. I recommend this place!Related to:
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The Range Restaurant: Great Small Town Restaurant in Bassett
The Range is a combination hotel/small town restaurant/small town bar. It is located in a very nice old building in the old part of town and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Known locally as a great place to get breakfast. Inside it looks like an old-style diner with antiques and a soda fountain. Lunch tends toward sandwiches and lighter fare. Freindly staff too. I reccommend it!
Favorite Dish: Open faced roast beef sandwich with gravy.Related to:
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The Bunkhouse: Average Food in Valentine
Okay the place specializes in steaks so maybe they do those well. The decor inside and out was nothing special. Most items on the menu were fried and the "Fried Shrimp Special" was mediocre and small portions. Overpriced for what I got. Service was indifferent. I did not go to the bar, although I heard it is a decent place to hangout. Has a bar too. Hours are 6 AM to 1 AM.
Favorite Dish: None really, the shrimp was barely average.Related to:
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Cracker Barrel: Great Chain Restaurant in Lincoln
$14 as of August 2013. If you like family style home cooking, then Cracker Barrel is a consistantly good place to stop. The one in Lincoln was not an exception. The atmosphere was friendly and like a country home. The staff was very good. Hours are 6 AM to 10 PM Sunday through Thursday and 6 AM to 11 PM Friday and Saturday.
Favorite Dish: I had the sampler with ham, chicken and dumplings, and meatloaf, great!Related to:
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The Lyceum: History, Books, Good Food in Brownville
The Lyceum is a combination bookstore and cafe type restaurant located in an historic building in historic Brownville. It is family run and has a friendly atmosphere. We had a cute waitrees who does not want her photo on the Internet. The menu is mostly lighter with sandwiches, soups, and quiche. Daily specials. Hours are 11 AM to 8 PM Wednesday through Sunday.Related to:
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Mahoney Grille: Great Grille in Mahoney State Park
$10 as of August 2013. The Mahoney Lodge at Mahoney State Park is very nice as is the Mahoney Grille inside. Lots of dark wood and a great view. The service was professional and efficient though a bit lacking in friendliness. Worth a try while at the park.
Favorite Dish: Fettuccini Alfredo was great!Related to:
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Denny's: Decent Chain Restaurant in Gretna
$12 as of August 2013. This is the usual type of Denny's and my waitress was very good. Located with the Flying J Truck Stop. I had the grilled Tilapia with a cup of soup, whole grain rice and a mix of squash and zucchini.Related to:
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Husker's Steakhouse: Nice Steakhouse in Columbus
$16 as of August 2013> This restaurant looks pretty nice on the outside and the interior is very nice. It looks classy with well dressed waitresses and a host in a tie; but they have no dress code for the patrons so you can "come as you are". The menu includes steak, seafood, pasta and a few others. Hours are 5 PM to 10 PM Monday through Thursday, 5 PM to 10:30 PM Friday and Saturday. I had catfish which had too much breading; but the meal was okay.Related to:
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Red Lobster: Great Chain Restaurant in Kearney
$22 as of August 2013. I am a big seafood fan; so I normally am very happy to see a Red Lobster near my motel. This was a good one and my waitress, Becca, was great. Hours are 11 AM to 10 PM Sunday through Thursday and 11 AM to 11 PM Friday and Saturday.
Favorite Dish: I had the Admirals Feast; which was quite good. Love their biscuits too.Related to:
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Mac's: Good Old Fashioned Drive-In in McCook
$7 as of August 2013. This is a one of those old-fashioned drive-ins where the waitress comes to your car. Don't expect a modern eclectic, vegetarian menu here; just good, artery clogging comfort food. Hours are 11 AM to 10 PM Monday through Thursday and 11 AM to 11 PM Friday and Saturday. Great hamburgers.Related to:
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Darling's Cafe: HIDDEN JEWEL
Hidden Jewel!!!!!!!!!
by RonBR
Pros: Service, Food, Smiling Staff & Customers...etc.....
Cons: What's not to like June 30, 2009
I grew up in Nebraska and have experienced the delicious home cooking of many small town cafes. Darling's brought a flood of pleasent memories. My daughter, son-in-law and 2 grand- children (ages 2&3) were traveling back to Texas from Omaha when we spotted Darling's sign. Having had more than a few not so pleasant surprises I walked up to the entrance to check it out & immediately saw the No Smoking & No Smoking within 25 feet of the door signs. That was enough to get us in the door.
We seated ourselves & in less than a minute the young lady was there with our water & crayons & coloring mats for the kids. Though the "decor" is a mismash of old home kitchens everything was very clean & comfortably inviting. And, the Food, what can I say. Like my mother's kitchen.
Making "GA-GA" over somebody elses grand kids/children will get you good notices. Darling's is a local "hang-out" that reminds us of simpler times & places. We loved the customers friendlyness & comments.
I don't hesitate to recomend Darling's & when we travel that way again it will be on our list of places to stop.
Favorite Dish: Just good home cooking style food.!!!!!!!!!!!
Piccolo's and other Omaha establishments: Great Steaks
Actually, the best steak places in Omaha, are Itallian. Spaghetti is always a side dish instead of potatoes or a vegetable. I place Piccolo's as the best in Omaha. There are many others that are excellent. See my Omaha, restaurant tips.
Favorite Dish: Steak, filet mignon is excellent.
Spaghetti Works: All you can eat Spaghetti!
Someone told me about this place, or we would have never thought of going there.
Warning: DON'T GO THERE, if you are on a diet, especially low carb....
The place looks like an old warehouse or something, but nice enough on the inside. The food was great. This is how it works: you order the "all you can eat pasta" , and then pick items from the menu. You start with the pasta ( they have different kinds like spaghetti, fettucine, angel hair etc.) , then you pick a sauce, plus another toping like meatballs if you like. You get a small bowl , and after you are finished , you start over with the next bowl.
I had to stop after 4 bowls and did not eat again for a long time....
Great place to take kids. They do have a salad bar that is included also, if you get tired of pasta.
Favorite Dish: Mine was the fettucine with green pesto cream sauce, and the chili spagetti. I did not like the beer sauce.
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Scott Kurkoski, the attorney for Jennifer Huntington of Middlefield, the owner of Cooperstown Holstein Corp., argued the state Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law makes gas drilling regulation the province of the state Department of Environmental Conservation in order to avoid "not in my backyard" viewpoints from interfering with energy policy.
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Lippman and his colleagues also questioned why the Legislature, if it intended to keep towns out of the mix, did not specifically weave into the statute that towns were preempted from adopting zoning changes that kept out drilling.
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Representing Dryden, attorney Deborah Goldberg of the nonprofit environmental firm Earthjustice, said there is a "huge contrast" between the law being scrutinized and other laws that specifically address the zoning powers of local governmenwt. She said the oil and gas law is "silent" on that question.
Asked by Justice Robert Smith how the state could foster a vibrant energy industry if drilling decisions were left to towns, Goldberg said: "Precisely the way Texas does it, and Oklahoma does it, and California does it and Illinois does it, and California does it, where all localities have the right that we're talking about here, and the industry is thriving. This industry figures out what the lay of the land is, and it manages to accommodate itself."
Gas industry lawyer Thomas West, representing Wallach, the trustee for bankrupt Norse Energy Corp., told the justices that a ruling upholding the local bans would make energy companies think twice before setting up drilling operations in New York, even if Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration authorizes fracking.
"No prudent operator is going to a town even if they allow it if they're going to be subject to a 3-2 local vote that could change," West argued before the court. "It would have a very chilling effect because it's very hard for operators to justify spending the hundreds of millions of dollars to come in and not have regulatory certainty."
John J. Henry of Albany, representing the town of Middlefield, said a decision upholding the ability of towns to zone out heavy industry would be consistent with the courts' earlier rulings.
"This court has consistently recognized that zoning is one if not the most fundamental power of a town," Henry said.
So far, more than 70 New York towns have banned hydrofracking and another 120 have imposed moratoriums, said Helen Slottje, a lawyer who helped a number of towns in Otsego and Schoharie Counties enact gas drilling prohibitions.
Approximately 40 towns, many in the Southern Tier, have enacted resolutions in support of natural gas drilling.
Middlefield Town Supervisor Dave Bliss attended the court arguments, along with Otsego 2000 Director Ellen Pope, Brewery Ommegang communications manager Larry Bennett and Julie Huntsman, an Otsego town councilwoman who is also co-coordinator of Elected Officials to Protect New York.
Ommegang and Otsego 2000 joined a so-called amicus curiae, or "friend-of-the-court" brief, that supported the Middlefield ban, and the town of Otsego has enacted a similar ban.
"I'm optimistic the court will uphold our law," Bliss said. "The judges have to play devil's advoccate, trying to get both sides to reveal whatever they can get them to reveal. I feel our attorney (John J. Henry of Albany) did a great job."
So far, advocates for home rule have been on the winning side. Last year, the mid-level appellate division affirmed a lower court ruling in dismissing the lawsuits aimed at upending the Middlefield and Dryden bans.


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