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"Fed Up" is like one of those "good news/bad news" jokes: The good news is, we can stop blaming ourselves, we've been operating from food and fitness information that's just patently wrong. The bad news is, the truth is even worse.
When it comes to America's obesity crisis (and it most definitely is a crisis), as one particularly illustrious interview subject said, "people aren't sufficiently alert" to what's going on.
Hold that thought.
On the one hand, "Fed Up" arguably doesn't break a whole lot of new ground; for example, most of us are already pretty incredulous (if not downright despondent) that the food industry finagled the federal government into declaring ketchup a vegetable.
Rather than a failing of the film, however, I suspect this is a natural result of its being borne of executive producer Katie Couric's segments on the subject over time. When she [and others] covered such news as it broke, the conversation ignited, thus we've been hearing this data for some years.
On the other hand, however, "Fed Up" offers a chapter and verse march through the ugly reality as to why the fitness enthusiasm of the past generation hasn't even put a dent in the problem, and how First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative has been summarily bogarted by the fox in the henhouse.
It would be easy to think that the fitness craze is working, it's just that the fat people aren't working it. It would be easy to say, "Duh, don't take in so many sweets."
There's actually much more to the story, and that's where "Fed Up" comes in.
For example, did you know that you can enjoy the coveted 32" waist and still be in the same pre-diabetic condition as the obese person seated next to you? Yeah, who knew. (Well, the food industry knew, and that's why we have "Fed Up".) It's the equivalent of a model who smokes: looks great, gonna die early. Unless you're Jim Morrison, that's not really a sound life strategy.
"Fed Up" is terrific for two purposes: First, if you've never really had a conversation with yourself about the food you eat. Independent of any weight management or bioethical sustainability issues, have you ever just considered the food that goes into your mouth? If not, then "Fed Up" is must-see viewing.
Second, "Fed Up" clarifies and upends the way in which exercise fits into the obesity conversation. It lays out how everything got started way back with Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda, and why it's a huge distraction when it comes to addressing obesity. If you're operating under the assumption that fitness initiatives are what's needed, then "Fed Up" is must-see viewing.
Now, "Fed Up" isn't saying that fitness isn't a worthy goal or that we don't need exercise; of course we need it – it serves all manner of beneficial functions, and without it, we do risk carrying extra weight. But that ain't the conversation behind the obesity epidemic, and what "Fed Up" demonstrates is that just like the phrase, "Diets don't work!" … neither will exercise.
So then, what?
What can possibly avert the coming catastrophe wherein most of the people who will comprise our military are too fat to fight? Wherein the ones who comprise our workforce and take care of the elder and younger generations are themselves disabled?
Watch "Fed Up" and you'll see.
Now, a word of caution: you might walk out of "Fed Up" feeling either disdainful or hopeless. Easy to do when hearing accounts of obesity in infants. Denial and despair are customary reactions to the overwhelming.
But here's a little film festival to pick up where "Fed Up" leaves off:
- "The Corporation" – This documentary will clarify why large corporations are, in fact, "evil." It's not paranoia to sense that they actually do prey upon the consumer. This film explains why they do it, and thus helps to silence the brainwashing and restore freedom of thought when having conversations like the one "Fed Up" engages.
- "Thank You for Smoking" – This hilarious and brilliant satire from Jason Reitman will have you laughing even as you're realizing that your perceptions are being shaped without your knowledge. Once you see it, you can see it, and it can no longer influence you.
- "The Weight of the Nation" – HBO's marvelous series on this subject, with much more detail than "Fed Up" can cover in a single sitting. With "Fed Up" under your belt as an introductory course, The Weight of the Nation will give you a detailed education.
- "Forks Over Knives" – Countermeasures, aka what to do instead. Which is the natural question when watching any/all of the above: "Well that's great, but what the hell am I supposed to eat?" Inspiring, fun, enlightening, and actionable.
So remember the answer of that illustrious person I mentioned earlier? Those were the words of former President Bill Clinton.
"Fed Up" sounds a clarion call. It's time to become "sufficiently alert." That is all.
Story: Documentary revealing the simultaneously liberating and demoralizing reality behind America's obesity epidemic.
Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Stephanie Soechtig
Website: Official Site | Official Facebook
Running time: 92 minutes
Houston release date: May 16, 2014 at the AMC Studio 30 theater
Tickets: Check IMDb.com or your local listings
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Simon Woodroffe—oft-forgotten Dragon from the first series, who was replaced by Paphitis—was behind The Book of Yo!, an account of the rise of his lucrative sushi business, Yo! Sushi. Another original Dragon, Rachel Elnaugh, is something of a serial author, though from her publications, it's clear to see why she didn't last long on the show. Business Nightmares: Hitting rock-bottom and Coming out on Top was followed by Business Nightmares: When Entrepreneurs Hit Crisis Point. You needn't worry about her nocturnal visions anymore, as she co-authored the somewhat more tranquil audiobook Escape the Rat Race, in which she tells you how to "escape the daily treadmill whilst pursuing your dreams". Would that be one of Bannatyne's treadmills, I wonder?
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On Saturday, April 28, 2012, the Temple University Hospital Auxiliary hosted the 2012 âAcres of Diamondsâ Gala at the Westin Philadelphia. This yearâs eventâchaired by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Giagnacovaâhonored The Temple Burn Center, the regionâs only adult Burn Center at a Level I Trauma Center. The 2012 Diamond Award was presented to Dr. William Hughes, Medical Director of The Temple Burn Center. CBS 3 Medical Specialist Stephanie Stahl served as the emcee. Photography by Daniel Burke Photography
On Friday, April 27, 2012, guests partied for a cause with Donors are Heroes as the Gift of Life Donor Program hosted THE Party at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. THE Party, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, supports National Donate Life Month and seeks to raise funds to help maintain public awareness programs, school summits and teaching initiatives designed to educate and dispel the myths surrounding becoming an organ donor and the need for life-saving, life-enhancing transplants. Guests mingled while enjoying cocktails as well as heavy hors d'oeuvres from Philadelphia's premier restaurants including Table 31, Stephen STARR Events, Water Works Restaurant and Lounge, Bistro La Minette and more. Photography by Faith West Photography
Sponsored by Drexel Morgan & Co., the 2012 Philadelphia Antiques Show invited patrons to the preview party celebration of the 2012 Show at its new home, the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Guests enjoyed cocktails and hors dâoeuvres on the show floor as they had the opportunity to explore and purchase exquisite treasures offered by the 58 antiques dealers and art galleries featured. Guests also previewed the 2012 Loan Exhibition, "Where History Meets Medicine," and the newest addition to the show, designer rooms. Photography by Daniel Burke Photography
On Thursday, April 26, 2012, approximately 500 guests gathered at the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia for the annual Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival Preview Party honoring Center City Districts Paul Levy. Guests enjoyed delectable cuisine from Rittenhouse Rows top restaurants, specialty cocktails featuring Captain Morgan® Black Spiced Rum, Chairmans Selection wines and Peroni beer. The evening also featured music by DJ Inga D'Angelo and a silent auction benefiting Rittenhouse Row. Photography by Ryan Lavine Photography.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
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"I try to be good, but I am very wicked."
- Kristin Scott Thomas
Hailed as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, Kristin Scott Thomas is a luminous British beauty best known for her roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The English Patient (1996) and Gosford Park (2001). More recently, she can be seen in the romantic comedy Easy Virtue, costarring Jessica Biel.
Kristin Scott Thomas BiographyKristin Scott Thomas was born May 24, 1960, in Redruth, Cornwall, England. The oldest of five children, she experienced the bitter taste of tragedy at an early age when her father died in a fiery plane crash when she was just 5. The incident naturally had a profound impact on her, and Kristin Scott Thomas developed into a withdrawn, insular young woman. "I was very lost as a teenager," she admits, "which is a horrible way to feel."
kristin scott thomas moves to franceKristin Scott Thomas soon found an outlet for her grief in acting, and she followed her new passion to London's Central School of Speech and Drama before transferring to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre in Paris. "I felt I had to get out of London, where I was being taunted by this idea to be an actress," she explains. "I knew in London that it wasn't going to happen because I didn't have the courage and I was told I didn't have the talent." The prestigious French academy proved to be the perfect place to nurture her skills, and Kristin Scott Thomas appeared in a number of smaller productions before receiving her big break in 1986 when she was cast in Under the Cherry Moon, an experimental drama starring and directed by Prince. "It was like a fairytale," she says. "When I got the call, I'd been doing a Marguerite Duras play. In a field. In the rain."
kristin scott thomas makes the most of her bilingualismKristin Scott Thomas remained extremely busy over the next decade thanks to her impressive ability to work in English and in French. Appearances in critically acclaimed French films such as Djamal et Juliette and Bill en tete were balanced with well-received performances in A Handful of Dust and Bitter Moon, simultaneously making her a star in both France and England.
kristin scott thomas stars in four weddings and a funeralKristin Scott Thomas truly became a household name in 1994 when she was cast in Four Weddings and a Funeral alongside rising star Hugh Grant and American model Andie McDowell. The beloved British film picked up a pair of Oscar nominations and lead to subsequent leading roles in Richard III starring Ian McKellen, and Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise.
kristin scott thomas earns an oscar nominationKristin Scott Thomas landed the role of a lifetime two years later in 1996 when she was cast as philandering wife Katharine Clifton in The English Patient. The beautifully filmed war drama won nine Academy Awards, and Kristin Scott Thomas' excellence was recognized with her first Oscar nomination. By now a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, she cashed in on her notoriety with leading roles in The Horse Whisperer in 1998 with Hollywood icon Robert Redford, and in the drama Random Hearts in 1999 alongside Harrison Ford.
Up next for Kristin Scott Thomas was the Oscar-winning ensemble drama Gosford Park directed by Robert Altman. "I'd been wondering when Robert Altman was going to call," she says. "When the script arrived, I looked at the character's name -- Lady Sylvia McCardle -- and thought: 'Oh no. Why can't I be the governess or something?' But it was such a wonderful part."
kristin scott thomas stars on the stageKristin Scott Thomas found even more wonderful parts on stage over the next few years as she performed in stage versions of The Seagull at the Royal Court and Three Sisters at the Playhouse, for which she was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress.
kristin scott thomas returns to the big screenKristin Scott Thomas returned to the big screen with a vengeance in 2007 in the multilayered murder mystery The Walker. "What I loved about Paul (Schrader's) script was that these people are lying all the time," she says. That's what drew me to it -- the idea of that double life, the weight of secrets."
Despite her initial reluctance, Kristin Scott Thomas was also drawn to The Other Boleyn Girl the following year. "I kept saying no to the script. I didn't think I had a big enough part," she explains. "But they said they'd give me more to do, and when I heard (actor) Mark Rylance was in it too, I caved in."
Kristin Scott Thomas was seen next in the romantic comedy Easy Virtue starring Jessica Biel, the uproarious farce Confessions of a Shopaholic featuring Isla Fisher, the 19th-century period drama Bronte with Evan Rachel Wood, and the tense French thriller Largo Winch.


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Their Mission Statement
The Association was formed to identify, co-ordinate, network, support and link together City Missions around the world in order to extend the Kingdom of God by preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to meet human needs.
Their Goals
Their Association seeks to:
Strengthen, encourage and challenge established City Missions to fulfill their goals through better sharing with each other their expertise.
Help expand City Missions outreach to countries, which have emerging needs around the world.
To promote public awareness of the work of City Missions by: Communication, Triennial Conferences, Sister Missions, Partner Missions Programs and to promote the development of City Mission Associations.
The CMWA Executive Committee consists of representatives from: Australia, Germany, India, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Jesus said "I have come to preach the gospel to the poor, freedom to captives, to give sight to the blind, and free those that suffer" (Luke 4:18)
The City Mission Movement goes back to January 1826, when David Nasmith, founded the Glasgow (Scotland) City Mission. David Nasmith born in Glasgow Scotland in March 1799, commenced working in manufacturing as an apprentice. His vision was for an inter-denominational agency which would work alongside churches and other Christian agencies to provide for the spiritual and material welfare of those in need in Glasgow.
In July 1830 Nasmith sailed to New York and visited between 40 and 50 towns in the USA and Canada forming 31 missions including various benevolent institutions. David Nasmith also founded missions in France, the London City Mission, the London Female Mission, the Dublin Christian Mission and a number of other ministries. David Nasmith is the spiritual father of the city mission movement. He "died poor" at the young age of 40 on Christmas day 1839 at Guildford, Surrey, England, but the work of the missions lived on, and the spirit of his endeavours is increasing throughout the world today, thanks to the many committed people who have taken up the challenge for the poor and lost.
From these early beginnings the City Mission movement has spread to almost every continent of the world with the dual purpose of providing spiritual ministry and meeting human need to the most disadvantaged in whatever form necessary in the local community. This includes the poor, hungry, unemployed, sick, homeless, abused, socially disadvantaged, psychologically disturbed, intellectually impaired, drug and alcohol addicted people, in prison, aged, underprivileged, uneducated and minorities. The projects/programs provided range from spiritual, food, clothing, accommodation, education at all levels, living skills, spiritual counsel, agriculture, sustainable living, self-help programs, welfare/human services programs, health care, drug and alcohol programs, rehabilitation of offenders. There are many other areas in which missions work to make a difference in the lives of people worldwide. The services are provided with compassion and without discrimination
Many of the organisations have "City Mission"as part of their title whilst others use different titles such as "Gospel or Rescue Mission."
Mission Associations had been formed in some countries and continents but there was little sharing of information and fellowship on a worldwide basis. It was recognised there was a need to share the information and expertise which was available around the world to improve services and expand City Mission work. The first World Conference of City Missions, sponsored by the Sydney City Mission, was held in Sydney Australia from 1 to 5 October 1988. It was called "Mission 2000 -New Directions" and its aim was to share among the 130 delegates from different parts of the world, the wonderful opportunities that were opening to missions. The feeling of friendship was so strong among the delegates and so much value had been gained that they voted unanimously to meet to meet again three years later in Birmingham, England.
The conference was held in Birmingham, England from 26th to 30th October, 1991 and the 150 delegates voted, 147 to 3, to form the City Mission World Association (CMWA) The conference appointed an Executive Committee comprising Charles Chambers (Australia) Chairman, Edwin Orton (Britain), Raimo Sinkkonen (Finland), Stephen Burger (United States), Sam Thangarpulavar (India), Bruce Duncan (South Africa) and Paul Toaspern (East Germany) with Trish McDonald (Australia) as Company Secretary. They agreed the office should be set up in Sydney Australia and be formally registered.
The Executive Committee met in Berlin, Germany from 21st to 23rd April 1992. The committee drew up a proposal for the formalisation of the City Mission World Association with the Mission Statement "The Association is to link together city missions around the World in order to further the Kingdom of God by preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and by meeting human need."
The committee realised the most cost effective and efficient way to achieve its mission and to link together City Missions around the world was the development of Sister and Partner Missions Relationship Programs.
The Executive Committee also resolved to legalise the formation of the association and for the next triennial conference to be held in the United States of America from the 1st to the 5th November, 1994.
The Memorandum and Articles of Association of the City Mission World Association were drawn up and the Certificate of Registration was given under the seal of the Australian Securities Commission on the 1st of December, 1993.
Under the terms of the Articles of Association " any City Mission or person which subscribes to the objects of the Association is eligible to be a member of the Association. A City Mission for the purpose of membership is an incorporated Christian organisation or association which:
a) subscribes to the fundamental truths of the Bible.
b) targets its ministry at a city or urban population
c) combines evangelistic and caring (diaconia) ministry to those with human need due to suffering, distress, misfortune and/or helplessness.
A City Mission is automatically a member of the Association if it is a member of a City Mission Organisation which itself is a member of the City Mission World Association.
It is important to note that the City Mission World Association has no control of its members. The members remain totally independent. It was intended to be an organisation which provides the opportunity to network culturally, historically, to learn from, and assist each other, with a capacity for worldwide and regional conferencing.
The second Triennial Conference was held in Washington DC, USA in November 1994 with some 200 delegates from 95 missions located in twenty seven different nations of the world
The third Triennial Conference was held in Helsinki Finland from August 14 to 19 1997 with over 120 delegates from 21 countries attending.
The fourth Triennial Conference was held in Glasgow Scotland from 7 to 11 October 2000 when more than 220 inner-city mission workers from 19 countries gathered to learn to how more effectively they can meet the needs of the poor and homeless around the world.
Members of the Executive Committee have held meetings and visited missions in Berlin Germany, Helsinki Finland (twice), Tallinn Estonia, Bombay and Bangalore India, Mexico City Mexico, Glasgow Scotland, Sydney Australia, Cape Town South Africa and Denver USA. In addition members of the Executive Committee and staff from various missions have visited numerous missions and new works throughout the world.
In accordance with contemporary social welfare practice the objective of missions is not to keep their clients dependent upon handouts but to give them skills and the Christian environment to release them from their poverty, addiction or problems. For some people this is not achievable and long term support may be necessary.


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Australia Test off-spinner Nathan Lyon says he couldn't care less about accusations he bowls too fast.
"I'm definitely not afraid of tossing it up and seeing if they want to take me on and really explore and get in that contest and try and get some wickets," Lyon told reporters.
"I'm not really fazed about what people are coming out and saying.
"We're out there in the middle. We know what pace we have to bowl on that pitch.
"It's easy sitting at home. I'm communicating with 'Pup' (Michael Clarke) and 'Wadey' (wicketkeeper Matthew Wade) every over about my pace."
Lyon attracted more criticism following his 0-57 in Sri Lanka's second innings in last week's first Test in Hobart.
Former Test legspinner Stuart MacGill said not only was Lyon rushing through his overs too quickly, but he was bowling too fast.
"People are going to have their own opinion but I'm really confident in my own skill set," said Lyon, 25.
"I have the full confidence of (coach and selector) Mickey Arthur and (captain and selector) Michael Clarke.
"Whatever people are saying outside the Australian cricket room doesn't really affect me.
"I'm learning every time I go out to bowl."
Lyon, who has played 17 Tests so far, said: "There have been a couple of day-five pitches but in Adelaide South Africa batted fantastic and in Hobart we got the result (with pacemen Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc and Shane Watson sharing the 10 wickets between them).
"There are a lot of expectations on the spinner but I'm not worried about that.
"I'm worried about doing the right thing for the team and working well with 'Pup' and all the other bowlers."
Arthur took a swipe on Monday at Lyon's critics.
"I've read a lot about Nathan Lyon over the last couple of weeks. He's still the quickest offspinner to 50 wickets," he said.
"He's young. He's still finding out about his bowling.
"He has immense potential though. Spinners only reach their peak at 28 or 29.
"Nathan's doing everything right."
Lyon said Australia had backed its quicks to do the damage on a Hobart pitch that offered variable bounce.
"Hopefully here or even the SCG might be a bit more friendly to spin bowling," Lyon said.
"It comes down to the different conditions and the different roles you have to play."
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Women who got breast implants said the surgery spiced up their sex lives, a small, preliminary study found.
The Brazilian researchers found that women experienced a significant boost to their arousal and sexual satisfaction following the procedure. However, they also noted that women who experienced stretch marks as a result of their breast implants did not experience any improvement in their sex lives.
Experts sharply disagreed on the sexual and psychological benefits of breast implants.
"I think that the female breast is a very important part of a woman's body, in terms of how a woman feels about herself in public, how her clothes fit and how she feels about herself sexually," said Dr. David Reath, chair of the public education committee of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). "It's very common for a woman post-surgery to say she feels more confident, that her outward body now fits her inward persona."
However, there could be other reasons behind the women's reports of enhanced sex lives, said Tomi-Ann Roberts, a distinguished professor of psychology at Colorado College and a member of the American Psychological Association's task force on the sexualization of girls.
"When we have exerted a great effort, spent a great deal of money and effort and time on something, we tend to justify that effort," Roberts said. "Our good feeling is increased because of the effort, not the thing itself."
The study involved 45 women who planned to undergo breast implant surgery.
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The 36 women who did not develop postsurgical stretch marks said they had experienced improved levels of arousal and were more satisfied with their sex lives, researchers said. They reported this improvement at both four and 18 months following surgery.
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All Things Familiar
Dan Adler (guitar)
All Things Familiar (Emdan Music)
Dan Adler (guitar),
Grant Stewart (tenor sax), Richard Samuels (piano), Dmitri Kolesnik (bass), Philip Stewart (drums).
Composed by Dan Adler.
Recorded: Brooklyn, NY, October 7, 2008
Rating: 90/100 (learn more)
Among the legion of relatively unknown, emerging jazz guitarists, Dan Adler may be one of the best and brightest. His playing is strong, free of showy enthusiasm and deeply infused with technical savvy. Born and raised in Israel, where he studied physics under Mario Livio (author of Is God a Mathematician?), Adler has earned degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, has authored various technical works, and holds a U.S. patent. His eclectic jazz studies have been no less productive and he credits the streets of his adopted city of New York and mentors such as Jack Wilkins and Vic Juris for much of that. While such a marriage between art and science frequently produces little more than android eructation, Adler's playing effectively walks the tightrope between the analytical and the emotional, producing finely crafted lines within which real blood flows.
Jerome Kern's indomitable "All the Things You Are" has been elevated to (or some may say, victimized by) the status of quintessential form, a structural basis for new compositions ala "Rhythm" or "Indiana." The changes are both irresistible and daunting, tempting many players to flex their muscles at increasingly impossible tempos. Adler has resisted that temptation, opting for eloquence rather than exuberance. Supported only by a solid sense of time, this piece opens with a swinging, relaxed interplay between the naked sax and guitar, merging into an intricate unison head as the rest of the ensemble jumps in. Adler's solo is thoughtful, spontaneous, and rich in texture. Choruses from Samuel's lyrical piano and Stewart's ballsy tenor are equally satisfying.
All things considered, the jazz guitar world should become more familiar with Dan Adler.
Reviewer: Bill Barnes
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Tags: 2000s jazz · guitar
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Leah Calvert and her husband Jeremy can't wait to return home from New York City. After filming the season 5B reunion show with her "Teen Mom 2" co-stars, Calvert is focused on getting back to West Virginia to set up her family's new home.
Since last week, Calvert and her co-stars, including Jenelle Evans, Chelsea Houska and Kail Lowry, were in New York City with Dr. Drew. As they do at the end of every since, the girls reunited to look back on their past issues and reflect on how far they've come.
Now, Calvert is ready to get back to her reality.
"I'm so ready to go home and get our new home ready to live in!" Calvert tweeted, according to an Aug. 26 report by Wetpaint Entertainment.
Calvert and her husband bought their previous house shortly before they were married in April 2014. Although it hasn't been very long that they've had the home, they needed to move because of Calvert's daughter Ali's muscular dystrophy disorder. Last year, Calvert opened up about putting their first home up for sale.
"The house that we bought for our first home really wasn't going to be handicap accessible for Ali," Calvert explained during the "Teen Mom 2" season four after show.
For more of Leah Calvert and her husband, tune into "Teen Mom 2" season 5B every Wednesday night at 10:00 pm on MTV.


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This Microtel Inn and Suites by Wyndham Springfield is just off Interstate 72, close to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, downtown Springfield, several golf courses, hiking trails, Capital Airport Springfield and great restaurants. Your day begins well with a complimentary continental breakfast and a dip in the heated indoor pool. Check email and keep up with the news with the complimentary wireless Internet, and refresh your wardrobe with the guest laundry services. The business center offers meeting rooms, computer access and fax and printing service. Pets are welcome, and smoking is not allowed. The modern guest rooms feature 32-inch flat-screen TV and hairdryer, and select rooms offer microwave and refrigerator, ideal for longer stays.
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Father and son Laurence and Zac Sunderland said it was several factors that led to their elimination from "The Amazing Race" season 19, not just being U-turned or getting lost in Copenhagen, Denmark, as most viewers may believe.
In addition to the dreaded U-turn, which came courtesy of competitors Bill and Cathi, and the team's scenic route to the pit stop, Laurence said losing the their three-and-a-half-hour lead because the location of the next challenge wasn't open until morning and a tough time during the Road Block led to the end of the team's around-the-world journey.
"It was crazy to go from being in the very front to fighting for last and not really knowing what place you were gonna come in after being lost," said Zac, adding that the team realized about 100 yards from the pit stop that they were last due to the other teams' cars already being in their designated parking spots.
And while Zac held out some hope of still being in the game (prior to seeing the cars that is), Laurence said he was not surprised to arrive on the mat last.
"We would've both rathered a different result," Laurence said, with Zac adding the team was happy to have given it all they could.
Of course, most viewers know this wasn't Zac's first worldwide journey, as Zac holds the world record for the youngest person to sail around the world alone – a titled he earned when he was only 16. So, which was more difficult – sailing alone or racing with his father?
"'The Amazing Race' was awesome, but at the same time it's very planned out; you can't really hurt yourself on it. You get thrown in there, and you get to try to use all your skills to make it happen."
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SEEK AND LEARN - @PRESENTFUTURE_ PRESENTS KUROSAWA AKIRA's KAGEMUSHA
Presenting our new film recommendation series... "SEEK AND LEARN", at @PRESENTFUTURE_ on TWITTER presents KUROSAWA AKIRA's KAGEMUSHA. Watch the trailer and the film.
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My daughter simply adores all things princess. When she asked for a princess Jasmine party, I was thrilled to get started because I absolutely love turquoise and deep colors.
I decided immediately that I wanted to have a dress up area at her party and then decided to make everything in this area party favors for the girls to take home as well. But I knew I had to come up with something for the boys also. For party favors, we had crown lip glosses, princess rings, lip gloss rings, necklaces, bracelets, nail polishes, nail files, and tiaras. I purchased the folding blue fans from Luna Bazaar which were a hit on this very hot day! Other favors included were bubbles, whistles, bouncy balls, and compass rings for the boys. I bought blue beaded trinket bags from Luna Bazaar and filled them with toy golden coins. There were also purple and turquoise tutus for the girls and inflatable swords for the boys, which they loved!
To display the party favors, I used a dollhouse bookshelf from my girls' playroom that I created custom fitted ruffled covers for to give it the appearance of a tent. There was also a small vanity which I created a custom tablecover for and dressed up the stool with a custom cushion in fabric to coordinate. More party favors were displayed here as well.
In the same general area as the dress up center, I put a custom covered child's table and chairs for the "Arabian Sand Art" activity. All the children from 1-10 enjoyed creating their own sand masterpieces!
I created her invitations, food and candy labels, name banner, and welcome sign in the party colors. I also sketched Jasmine's palace onto a large sheet of styrofoam which I then carved out and covered with beautiful tapestry fabric from Joann. This was my daughter's favorite piece!
To add a little more to the theme, I purchased a really cool incense burner which looked like an authentic genie lamp!
I made the tablecloths and runners and added plenty of fun, frilly ruffles throughout.
There was tons of peacock flare throughout, starting with the peacock feather graphic on the invitation to the table arrangements to the peacock food picks, ending with the peacock paper lantern purchased from Pier 1 Imports. I hung other paper lanterns in various colors, shapes, and sizes which were purchased from Luna Bazaar.
I accented throughout the party using colorful bottles and glasses found at various places such as Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx as well as using some pieces from my collection of irredescent vintage carnival glass.
The candy table was so much fun for me. I purchased the beautiful peacock sugar cookies and many of the peacock cupcake toppers from PartyCreative on etsy. The beautiful fondant ruffled flower toppers on the cake and cupcakes were purchased from SweetThingTopperShop on etsy. I made Oreo pops and baked the cake. I made the turquoise ruffled stands that held the Oreo pops using old plates and dollar store candle holders. Holding the peacock sugar cookies is a vintage framed mirror that I painted to coordinate.
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View the original video at: http://www.countryweekly.com/videos/tennessee-motorcycle-ride-and-fresh-buttered-biscuits-ray-scott
Ray Scott takes us on a Tennessee tour on his motorcycle. He stops by the Loveless Cafe, bumps into Alan Jackson, drives down the Natchez Trace and tells a few jokes.
Ray also tells us a bit about his new album, Crazy Like Me.
"It's just a collection of songs that I like and that I knew some other people liked." he said. "Some more of the sort of witty, sort of left-of-center, off-color type of humor that some people know me for."
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[2] http://www.countryweekly.com/videos/taylor-swift-milk-ad


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With the mission to take possession for Peru of a land called the "terrestrial triangle" located in a border area between Peru and Chile in South America, no more than one hundred people who begun the march from a province in the south of Peru, were stopped by the National Police of that country in order to avoid a political conflict.
The protest was organized by a regional committee named "Comite Civico Patriotico de Tacna", which claims the sovereignty of Peru in the area situated in the southern parallel 18० 21' 03", according the international treaty signed in 1929 as consequence of the War of Pacific between Peru, Chile and Bolivia (1879-1883).
The marched begun by 10 in the morning on August 27 where participated residents of the border province of Tacna, workers, syndicalists, former soldiers, etc. and was divided in three sections. Two of them marched on foot and the other group in buses. But after six hours, the protesters were stopped by the National Police of Peru before they could reach his planned destiny.
The problem begun after the verdict issued by the international court of La Haya on January, 2014, which delimited the maritime border between the two countries, and theirs respectives spaces for both overseas, setting the distance from the landmark Nro 1 inland.
Then it was assumed for Chile to claim a terrestrial area from that point. But according Peru government is in the landmark called "Concordia" in the sea border, that sets the real terrestrial borders between the two nations.
Peruvian government said they going to deal with that issue with theirs chilean peers via diplomatic and not through these kind of protests because they have political intentions and hidden motive from theirs leaders. One of those, Ciro Silva, said the march was not a failure because they did it until the place they were allowed to do it.


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A simple iteration loop should scale linearly right? Wrong! The .net garbage collector commits a cardinal sin.
The four graphs below (which I will described in more detail later) clearly show On2 scaling of a process where execution time is plotted against number of iterations. The really scary thing is that the process which created these graphs should be linear, it is just a loop!
So what is causing the non linear scaling. It is the .net garbage collector. This is the cardinal sin I am referring to in the title; the garbage collector is forcing a piece of code to scale worse than linear and the developer of that code can do little to nothing about it. This is a major challenge to managed code as it matures into the approach of choice for business applications. Scaling kills applications when then move from demonstration to production. So having a scaling problem in the runtime infrastructure is a nightmare we could do without. All is not lost though - there are partial solutions; however, this is another wake-up call. As developers and architects we must not simply rely on systems scaling and behaving the way we expect under production loads. We must test and we must fully appreciate the underlying computer science of anything we expect to actually work. Assume something will "just work" and we are done for.
Putting 4 Million Objects References On The Heap Made And Unrelated Loop Run 15 Times Slower
This is the result which alerted me to the reality of this problem. I knew .net's mark sweep garbage collector should scale linearly with the number of references on the heap, but I had not realized the extent of the problems this can cause. You might think that 4 million object references is a ridiculous number, but when you consider a transactional system processing XML documents as DOM trees you may change your mind. In this situation, as with many other business activities (like database records set processing) 4 million is small - not big.
To demonstrate the point I used some VSPL:
4000000 !CountThis is actually 4 loops. The first, third and fourth just iterate around an empty loop. The second loop creates a list of 4 million references to the same string. The references are accumulated in a System.Collections.ArrayList object. I ran this piece of code in VSPL in an implementation which created new objects even when iterating an empty loop (technically, the accumulator was created fresh each time it was used). I then patched the VSPL so it no longer called the
timer !time
?Count,1>Diff !Count,0>GT
timer,?time>Diff ," 4 000 000 iteration with no large data structure">Concat Print
4000000 !Count
@ !result
timer !time
?Count,1>Diff !Count,0>GT
timer,?time>Diff ," 4 000 000 ""Hello"" into list">Concat Print
4000000 !Count
timer !time
?Count,1>Diff !Count,0>GT
timer,?time>Diff ," 4 000 000 iteration with large data structure">Concat Print
@ !result
4000000 !Count
timer !time
?Count,1>Diff !Count,0>GT
timer,?time>Diff ," 4 000 000 iteration with no large data structure">Concat Print
new operator inside empty
loops. The results are below:
Unpatched timingsThe most interesting result is the one in bold text. Before the patch, just by having the 4 million references on the heap meant an unrelated loop ran some 15 times more slowly! The patched results show the empty loops running slightly slower (the patch requires some extra function calls in the inner working of VSPL) but the creation of the 4 million references is much faster (7.45s versa 27.12) and the impact on the third, empty loop is now negligible. So we can now see that the .net garbage collector is having an massive impact on any code which happens to be running when a garbage collection is called. As garbage collections are stimulated by when
1.5 -> 4 000 000 iterations with no large data structure
18.41 -> 4 000 000 "Hello" into list
27.12 -> 4 000 000 iterations with large data structure
1.75 -> 4 000 000 iterations with no large data structure
Patched timings
1.88 -> 4 000 000 iteration with no large data structure
7.45 -> 4 000 000 "Hello" into list
2.08 -> 4 000 000 iteration with large data structure
2.02 -> 4 000 000 iteration with no large data structure
calling, garbage collection scaling explains the above results.
Don't Call New If You Can Avoid It!The patch I did which helped VSPL was to allow object re-use. The drawback of the patch was that extra code has to execute to 'know' when an object can be re-used or not. This has a performance impact and a complexity impact. In other words, I am having to code around the issue of scaling in the garbage collector so some of the simplicity benefits of having a collector are thrown away. What is more, in a language like C# you cannot get away from using the heap, you simply cannot create objects on the stack like you can in C++. This means means C#, VB.net, Java and the like all have 'baked in scaling problems'. This really worried me (still does actually) so I ran some more tests to double check my thinking and try to understand the impact a little more.
The first thing I tried was writing VSPL script which created
a list
(implemented in C# as and ArrayList) of references (as above) of
increasing size. I did this with the newly patched VSPL
implementation which does not its self cause new to be called inside
loops. This meant that the only object calling new was the
ArrayList implementation its self. The
System.Collections.ArrayList is a wrapper around an array.
array has an initial capacity and then when that capacity is exhausted,
it creates a new internal array and copies the contents over into that
one. This means that in this case,
was being called from
inside System.Collections.ArrayList as the list grew.
The results were startling to say the least. Rather than a nice smooth graph, it started off smooth but once I got above 5 million references, it went all zig zag. Initially I just assumed these results were something else happening on the computer. But they are completely repeatable. The only explanation I can think of is that, under some circumstances, the data from the previous list is not completely garbage collected before the next loop. This means that the garbage collector is causing the slow downs. The choices of when the large array object gets garbage collected seems to depend on its size and the size of other object, or maybe the number of collection cycles.
Repeating the test, but putting each loop in a new process (thus separate heaps) makes the graph behave the way one would expect. One can see from the graphs in "Loop scaling equation fits" that the best fit for this is an On2 scaling. Both a binomial and trinomial fit have R=1 (perfect fit); however, the trinomial has a trivial cubic component. Other equations (like exponential and power series) fit less well (R<1). Therefore was can safely conclude that the program scales as the square of the number of iterations of the loop.
To finally nail that this is the garbage collector causing this scaling I needed to discount any other On2 scaling algorithms. You may have already spotted that the ArrayList implementation scales a On1.5 in this usage scenario. This is because of the copy operation each time the capacity is increased. However, as the capacity is doubled each time, the frequency of capacity increases dies off, hence the index of 1.5 not 2. However, the following table discounts this as a possibility and pretty much proves that it is the garbage collector which is the culprit:
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|Equal Presize
|Double Presize
I added the ability of VSPL to pre-allocate the capacity of the ArrayList, This meant the implementation without garbage collection should scale as On2 . Then, to be extra careful, I ran the test with the pre-allocation set to the eventual size of the list and double the eventual size. We can see from the table that the timings are nearly identical for all three setups. This clearly shows that scaling in the allocation of the ArrayList is not a noticeably contributing factor to the scaling of the program.
So What Does This Mean To Me?
Things you should be careful about and do to help:
- All those people who say you should pool objects and avoid
using the
newoperator - believe them!
- Avoid using
newinside loops like the plague.
- "Scale test" applications to large memory footprints. Assumptions that it will keep scaling OK from small tests are no use because garbage collection scaling might only kick in at larger sizes. For example, if at 1 million objects, linear scaling factors are dominate, but binomial scaling garbage collection effects may 'catch up' once you go above 10 million. So testing from 100 thousand to 1 million is no use at all in telling if the application will work in production at 10 million. To know if it will work at production, test at production memory pressures.
- If two sub-systems, which never interact, work OK separately, it does not mean that they will work OK when included in the same application. The garbage collector effectively means that if two sub-systems run in the same process, they are never separated.
- Consider breaking truly monumental programs into sub programs. Sometimes multi-process is better than multi-thread.
- Retest each time your VM (be it Java or .net) has a new or different garbage collector, it might make a huge difference.
- Put as much pressure as possible on VM development companies to come up with ever better scaling garbage collection schemes. Some are already working with hybrid reference counting / mark sweep solutions. Why - because reference counting scales linearly.


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DESPITE slipping out of the top ten after Monday's defeat at Everton, Craig Gardner insists Sunderland can still achieve a top eight finish this season.
Having bounced back from their disappointing exit from the FA Cup with draws against Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, the Black Cats came crashing back down to earth at Goodison Park.
The result saw Martin O'Neill's team drop to 11th in the Premier League after Norwich City came from behind to beat Spurs, but Gardner is confident Sunderland can better last season's tenth place finish.
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The Black Cats have already demonstrated this season they are capable of responding well after defeats and the midfielder insists the squad are out to put Monday's horror show right.
"We don't have a target of how many games we want to win, we just want to finish as high as we can," Gardner said.
"Hopefully we can finish in the top eight and if we do that we've had a great season.
"To finish there and get to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, I think that's a really good season, but we need to get out there and put it right starting on Saturday.
"It's hard to take to be honest, we've gone to Man City and we got a great result there, although we should have won.
"We had a good result against Tottenham and if we'd come here and got a result it would have been a brilliant three games for us.
"We've got five games left so we just need to win as many as we can between now and the end of the season.
"We need to bounce back quickly, we did that after the Everton defeat. I think everyone thought we'd go to Man City and get a hiding, but we were 3-1 up with ten minutes to go.
"We've shown a number of times this season we can respond well to a bad defeat and we'll try and do that again next weekend."
Monday's performance on Merseyside was perhaps a hangover from the efforts of the past week, but Gardner believes the fact it was their second game in three days is no excuse.
The Black Cats capitulated after going behind to Magaye Gueye's 52nd minute finish before three more goals capped off a disastrous six minutes for O'Neill's men.
Gardner revealed a full inquest will be held into the performance, but insists the squad must not dwell on it for too long.
"We're not just going to draw a line under it, we need look at some points, watch the video and see what we can do better in different situations, but we can't dwell on it too long, because it's a defeat and when you get beat you need to move on to the next game as quickly as possible,'' he said.
"It's difficult to play two games in three days, I'm not making up excuses, because both teams have done it and a lot of teams have done it, but fair play to Everton, they worked hard and did well.
"I think they went 1-0 up and found that extra 15-20 per cent and got the two goals in quick succession, which kicked us in the teeth, but it's unlike us to come away and lose like that.
"We're normally hard to beat. We've shown that against Man City and all season really, but as I say we need to move on now and get three points on Saturday."
The Black Cats face struggling Wolves at the Stadium of Light this weekend with Terry Connor's side looking for their first win in eight games.
The Black Country side are six points adrift at the foot of the Premier League table ahead of their home game with Arsenal tonight, but Gardner insists the struggling side will come to Wearside fighting for their lives.
He said: "Wolves aren't relegated yet, you never know what can happen and they'll be fighting for every point.
"When I was at Birmingham last season, I thought we were going to be safe and we ended up going down.
"You can never be sure in this league anything can happen so we need to be on our game on Saturday and make sure we get a result."


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The other day, Nancy White asked me if I had ever heard about this documentary about blogs called 59 bloggers. I hadn't, but checked out the (Wordpress) web site, which was a blog, but with only one entry. One weird thing was that the blogroll still had the wordpress defaults. Something seemed weird. Then, Duncan posts Don't mess with us nerds which tells the sordid tale of the "59 Bloggers" guy and his attempted bullying of Chuck Olsen, who has been working on a blogumentary (a term he... Continue Reading
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I'm posting this because of the sign-of-the-times appeal. Today Howard Dean used his "Blog for America" to announce that he is running for the Chairmanship of the Democratic Nat'l Committee. What, no press release? No news conference? I'm sure those may follow, but as usual-- the blog world knows first.
Dina Mehta, who lives in Mumbai India, helped set up a great weblog to support relief efforts in the region after the earthquake/tsunami. Since setting up the site, she's wondering if it would have been better to use a wiki instead of a blog. Because its a community that is open, a community of people wanting to pitch in and make a difference as we watch the horror unfurling in this part of the world. We know the magic of community in coming together for a cause. Perhaps a wiki might have... Continue Reading
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Short-Term Option Traders Target Bank of America
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The October 14 call was by far BAC's most active strike yesterday.
Bank of America Corp's
(NYSE:BAC) options pits were slightly busier usual on Tuesday, with volume totaling about 242,000 contracts, roughly 60% of which fell on the call side. The most active option by far was the October 14 call, where nearly 41,000 contracts changed hands.
The largest block traded consisted of 12,115 October 14 calls, and went off at the bid price of $0.22 per contract, suggesting the lot was sold. Implied volatility rose on the transaction, and open interest spiked overnight, indicating the creation of fresh neutral-to-bearish bets. Under the terms of this trade, the speculator is banking on BAC -- currently perched at $13.76 -- to remain below the strike through the closing bell on October 18, when the front-month options expire. If it does, the call writer will retain the entire premium received as his profit. If instead the shares soar, the trader risks assignment -- in which case, he'll likely be on the hook to deliver the shares at $14 apiece, no matter how high they've risen.
In addition to that trade, several other large blocks (i.e., 1,000-plus contracts) of October 14 calls crossed the tape, largely at the ask price of $0.22. By assuming long call positions, these traders, in contrast to the one mentioned above, want BAC to ascend past the strike within the next week-and-a-half. Specifically, they need the shares to close above $14.22 (strike plus premium paid) by the closing bell next Friday, with additional gains to be had beyond that point. However, unlike the call seller, whose risk is theoretically unlimited, these call buyers risk losing no more than their initial cash outlay.
With the company slated to take its turn in the earnings confessional ahead of next Wednesday's open, it appears that yesterday's speculators paid a pretty penny to initiate their near-term bullish bets. BAC's one-month implied volatility at the strike currently stands at 38.9%, compared to a 20-day historical (realized) volatility of 14.6%. Likewise, the stock's Schaeffer's Volatility Index (SVI) of 37% ranks in the 68th percentile of its annual range, meaning short-term option prices are expensive right now, relative to the past year.
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I've been trying to patch this for several days now but to no avail (Yes, I have been following the guide correctly).
The first time I tried patching, the xdelta said that the patch was successful, but when I tried opening the rom in both No$ and Desmume, in No$ it would freeze right away or say 'Rom Image Has Crashed'. In Desmume, it would load the white Pokemon Company screen and then right before the intro video is about to start, it would crash and shut down. No$ wouldn't stay open long enough for me to enter any fix codes and for some reason won't let me open without loading a file first (is this normal? I usually use Desmume so I'm not sure).
The second time, I got a brand new clean rom and tried patching it again. Xdelta comes up with 'Checksum Mismatch' and an error code, 'Patch successful' but the rom just black screens in both emulators.
So now I'm gonna try again with a third new clean rom but I have the feeling the same problem is gonna happen. I've tried patching on my desktop PC and my laptop, both running XP. I've played roms before with no problems so I have no idea what's going on here
Sorry for the essay lol. Can anyone point out to me what I am doing wrong?
Actually, don't worry, I've managed to get the rom working now, I'm guessing the roms I had before were just bad. This one works fine now, but if I open it up in Zoomer, the colours are really awful, rainbows stripes etc. Any way to fix that?


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The battle for the New Orleans Saints' starting center job begins in earnest Tuesday. Veteran Jonathan Goodwin will participate in Tuesday's organized team activities session after agreeing to terms on a contract Monday, according to a league source.
Goodwin, 35, will immediately compete with second-year offensive lineman Tim Lelito for the starting job. The 13-year veteran held this job for three seasons (2008-10) in New Orleans after serving as Jeff Faine's backup from 2006-07.
Goodwin earned Pro Bowl roster spot in 2009. He didn't participate in the Pro Bowl, however, as he helped the Saints win Super Bowl XLIV that season.
It's the first time Goodwin will hit the practice field with the Saints since the team's final practice leading up to the 2010 NFC wild-card game against Seattle. Goodwin will re-unite with Jahri Evans and Zach Strief as the three played together during Goodwin's three seasons with the Saints.
Goodwin started for San Francisco for three seasons (2011-13) after leaving the Saints via free agency. Last year's starter, Brian de la Puente, signed a one-year deal with the Chicago Bears in the offseason.
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Brühl, Annette Beatrix; Herwig, Uwe; Delsignore, Aba; Jäncke, Lutz; Rufer, Michael (2013). General emotion processing in social anxiety disorder: Neural issues of cognitive control. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 212(2):108-115.
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Anxiety disorders are characterized by deficient emotion regulation prior to and in anxiety-evoking situations. Patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) have increased brain activation also during the anticipation and perception of non-specific emotional stimuli pointing to biased general emotion processing. In the current study we addressed the neural correlates of emotion regulation by cognitive control during the anticipation and perception of non-specific emotional stimuli in patients with SAD. Thirty-two patients with SAD underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging during the announced anticipation and perception of emotional stimuli. Half of them were trained and instructed to apply reality-checking as a control strategy, the others anticipated and perceived the stimuli. Reality checking significantly (p<0.01) reduced activity in insular, amygdalar and medial thalamic areas during the anticipation and perception of negative emotional stimuli. The medial prefrontal cortex was comparably active in both groups (p>0.50). The results suggest that cognitive control in patients with SAD influences emotion processing structures, supporting the usefulness of emotion regulation training in the psychotherapy of SAD. In contrast to studies in healthy subjects, cognitive control was not associated with increased activation of prefrontal regions in SAD. This points to possibly disturbed general emotion regulating circuits in SAD.
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No-one will be trying harder for promotion-chasing Keighley on Saturday than flanker Joel Fulford.
The 17-year-old, who made his first-team debut against Bradford & Bingley in the Peter Harrison Memorial Match at Christmas, has been named in the side for the must-win league game at Huddersfield YMCA.
Keighley's director of rugby Graeme Sheffield, whose side need to triumph in their last five games as they bid to get out of Yorkshire One, said: "Joel, who has come through our colts, is rugby mad.
"We put him on as a replacement against Bradford & Bingley and he was impressive. He has also done well in several other opportunities.
"It is great for him to play in the back row with such players as Scott Dyson, Leigh Sugden, Dave Pullen and Stuart Inman."
Sheffield added: "When Joel was given his stash of first-team equipment, he asked me if he had to pay for it! He is a down-to-earth lad and his attitude is refreshing.
"His promotion is another example of how our excellent youth system is producing players for the first team, and last Sunday's Festival, with hundreds of kids down at Keighley, was another pleasing example of what they do."
Fulford's latest opportunity comes because hooker Will Armitage is unavailable, Dave Pullen moving up from the back row to replace him.
With Paul Sinfield also unavailable, George Fletcher comes onto the bench as a prop replacement. Clem McDowell pulled a hamstring during the warm-up last weekend, so Danny Lester is also on the bench.
Sheffield said of Keighley's league schedule: "As Dave Lister commented the other week, we need to win our last six, so it is one down and five to go as we aim to reach the play-offs.
"We should win at YMCA but only if our attitude is right.
"If our attitude is wrong, then anything could happen.
"But other teams around us are going to drop points as they have to play each other."
Keighley's 46-29 victory at home to Pontefract last Saturday brought a welcome five league points after their nightmarish afternoon the previous weekend when they controversially lost 18-17 at home to Bridlington.
Sheffield said: "The players had a good chat last Thursday night with Dave (Lister), Kevin (Young) and Tim (Brunskill) and it was very positive.
"But we know that our promotion not only depends on us winning our last six matches but also on other results going our way – but it is possible.
"Driffield beat Castleford 104-0 last weekend but Heath beat Bridlington 28-15."
Sheffield called last weekend's victory "patchy" and added: "Our defence was not quite as good as it has been.
"The last time we let in so many tries was against Malton & Norton last season but we never felt we were going to lose."


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The mission of the LSV section is to promote understanding of long-term solar variability from the Sun's interior out to the heliosphere. We work with the community to achieve this using a combination of observations, theory, and numerical models to probe outstanding questions of magnetic dynamos, of convection and flows, of magnetic flux emergence and sunspots, of the evolution of the Sun's corona and the heliosphere, and of solar cycle variation.
Space Climate Initiative: A coordinated research effort to determine how extremes of solar variability affect space climate and climate, through modeling the system from the Sun's interior to the Earth's atmosphere.
The Solar Dynamo
The ultimate origins of solar variability lie below the visible surface, where turbulent convection, differential rotation, and meridional flows work together to produce magnetic fields through the operation of a stellar dynamo, giving rise to the 22-year solar magnetic cycle. Read more »
Solar Convecton and Mean Flows
The plasma flows in the solar interior that power the solar dynamo arise by means of turbulent thermal convection which transports heat from the deep interior to the solar surface and redistributes energy and momentum, establishing differential rotation and meridional flows. Read more »
Magnetic Flux Emergence
Understanding the process of magnetic flux emergence through the solar convection zone is crucial for understanding the link between the observed magnetic activities at the surface and the dynamo-generated magnetic fields in the interior. Read more »
Simulating Sunspots
Recent advances in supercomputing have introduced a new level of realism in the theoretical modelling of sunspot structure. Read more »
Coronal and Heliospheric Evolution
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Cody Simpson Bows Out Of 'Dancing With The Stars', Unveils His Latest Music Video For 'Surfboard'
I'm guessing his Simba Samba for Disney night didn't guarantee him the chance to be king.
Following their departure, he and dancing companion, Witney Carson, stopped by Good Morning America to discuss how they felt about their elimination.
After seeing a brief clip of their dancing, I thought it was rather interesting. Remaining humble, when Robin Roberts tried to be encouraging in a moment which could discourage any person who holds themselves to a certain standard, Simpson responded simply with "no worries". Hakuna Matata indeed, Simba.
His gorgeous model girlfriend, Gigi Hadid, had his complete attention as they flirted with one another in the video. Just imagine being serenaded by him like she was.
Let's hope putting a girlfriend in a music video works out better for him than it did for Adam Levine and Enrique Iglesias.
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