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  1. Canadian Press TORONTO What happens when you put someone in a room to snack on potato chips while watching a David Letterman monologue on television? The person eats 44 per cent more chips than someone who has the same snack food but isn't watching TV, according to an unusual study presented last week at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Toronto. And if it's Jay Leno, Mr. Letterman's late-night talk-show rival, on the tube, there's a 42-per-cent increase in potato chip consumption. Lead researcher Alan Hirsch says the study was part of ongoing research into what he calls "sensory-specific satiety" - the idea that if you pay attention to how food tastes you feel full faster and eat less. Dr. Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation of Chicago, said the researchers wanted to see whether a person distracted by TV, for instance, would eat more. "So what we did was we weighed potato chips and we had people eat potato chips, either while doing nothing for five minutes or while watching a Jay Leno monologue for five minutes or a David Letterman monologue," he said in an interview from Chicago before heading to Toronto for the annual meeting. "And what we found is they ate 44 per cent more chips watching Letterman, and 42 per cent more while watching Leno. So the idea is . . . that if you want to lose weight, either turn off the television while you're eating or you watch a boring television show." Thirty-three men and 12 women were enrolled in the study. Ninety-one per cent said they enjoy potato chips, and they were not told the true nature of the study. They served as their own controls. Over three weeks, each was presented with chips and put in a room - once without TV, once with the Late Show with David Letterman , and once with the Tonight Show with Jay Leno . "They were told we were studying flavour of chips, and they could have as much or as little as they wanted, but they had to be there for a five-minute period," Dr. Hirsch said. Although the Letterman and Leno late-night programs were chosen for this study, he expects that findings would be similar for programs throughout the day. "Anything that distracts you from paying attention to the sensory characteristics of the food will allow you to eat more," he said. People trying to lose weight should have conversations with people they find less interesting as they eat, he advised jokingly.
  2. a campground filled with tie dyed hula hooping neo hippies and it "had a Funny Dorito Smell waffting from it."? it just doesn't add up
  3. http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showforum.php?fid/65/
  4. TRUTH & RUMOURS: MEDIA: BROADCASTING NBC measures up to CBC -------------------------------------------------- WILLIAM HOUSTON When it comes to televising a hockey game, NBC can't match the experience and reputation of the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada . But the U.S. network compensates with a big effort and an aggressive up-close approach. It paid off handsomely on Saturday. NBC, producing its first Stanley Cup final telecast of the postseason, equalled and, at few key points, bettered the CBC. The big miss for the Canadian network was failing to note that the Anaheim Ducks had been caught on a late line change and had only four skaters on the ice when Anton Volchenkov scored the Ottawa Senators' second goal. NBC game analyst Ed Olczyk spotted it immediately and used a telestrator to check off the four Ducks on the ice, making note of the missing fifth. It was never reported by the CBC. On Anaheim's first goal, NBC noted that Ottawa goaltender Ray Emery had lost his stick after being brushed by his own defenceman. The CBC didn't report that until Don Cherry brought it up in the first intermission show. NBC's third man, Pierre McGuire, who sets up at ice level between the benches, brings the viewers about as close to the action as possible. His interview with Senators coach Bryan Murray at the bench during a stoppage in the first period helped advance the main story, which was the Senators' mood after losing two games in Anaheim. At the end of the second period, McGuire grabbed Ottawa's Mike Fisher on the ice before he left for the dressing room. The CBC's rinkside reporter, Elliotte Friedman, gets good interviews and provides strong information, but McGuire's location gives him the advantage. CBC announcer Bob Cole had a poor night. He was behind the play, was spotty in identifying Ducks players and got a few wrong. The most obvious misidentification was his referring in the first period to the Senators' Joe Corvo as Dany Heatley. Both networks delivered some strong commentary. NBC's Ray Ferraro didn't hold back when asked about the work of Ottawa's Jason Spezza in the first two games. He said Spezza had been "jittery, confused and intimidated." The CBC's Kelly Hrudey came down hard on Emery, who has allowed soft goals and big rebounds. Hrudey suggested the radical move of pulling him for Martin Gerber, despite Gerber's inactivity for most of the regular season and playoffs. The CBC's camera work continues to be first-rate. The picture was often ahead of the commentary. After the Volchenkov goal, the camera found Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle barking at one of his players, a signal that something had gone wrong. When game analyst Harry Neale was telling us that Spezza had gone to the dressing room for repairs, the camera showed him standing behind the bench waiting for a jersey. The verdict on Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson's disputed goal, which was waved off by the referee but then deemed good by the video reviewers, split along network lines. The CBC broadcasters believed it had not been deliberately kicked in and, therefore, was correctly called a goal. NBC's analysts thought otherwise, although Olczyk, like his CBC counterpart, Greg Millen, wondered whether Alfredsson's follow-through made it appear as though he had directed the puck. The CBC's pregame show contained plenty of good content, most notably the piece on Murray and his family's roots in Shawville, Que. But Hockey Night should stop inflicting us with setups involving fans outside the arena, the ones in which adults wearing Senators jerseys bellow into the camera: "Stay tuned when the Ducks take on the Senators in our house," followed by the inevitable "On Hockey Night in Canada - woooo." When Hockey Night does that sort of opener with minor-hockey players during the regular season, it has a certain amount of appeal and charm because, after all, they are kids. But watching this from loud, middle-aged people, not once but twice in the pregame show, is not amusing or appealing. It's just stupid and irritating. Hull and Cherry NBC's Brett Hull joined Don Cherry on Coach's Corner on Saturday, but the two high-profile commentators didn't produce much that was interesting or entertaining. Part of the problem was the setup. Hull took Cherry's spot beside host Ron MacLean, with Cherry standing behind them. But how can you carry on a conversation with somebody you can't see? The three should have sitting together in front of the camera. And more effort was needed from MacLean to get Cherry and Hull engaged. The two will try again tonight when they team up during NBC's telecast of the fourth game.
  5. happy birthday buddy 'hope you've got your best dress on today
  6. hell when booche, bouche and i did a little Phil run in 2001(?) we separated every night on purpose but then that doesn't need much explanation does it?
  7. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Tell me about it. Next time I'm not saying a word... Next time take the tickets !
  8. actually there's an outside chance it'll be on at the Heart & Crown but i dunno if they still show Setanta games
  9. prehistoric invading alien remains who the dinosaurs and cavemen jointly repelled
  10. so much for the 'covert/secret' aspect to this
  11. are you wearing your sens sweater right now dinghbat?
  12. Come on lucky coin toss! Wed Jun 06 07:00PM Eastern Length: 2 hr LIVE Rogers Sportsnet - ALL REGIONS - Canada CONCACAF Gold Cup/Copa Oro Costa Rica vs Canada
  13. anyone catching it? i totally would if i wasn't abandoning the fam for a day this w.e. queue booche "it's a friendly blah blah blah" $10 cover at the Georgetown my prediction Brazil 3 England 0
  14. meatloaf - Paradise by the dashboard light (booche) ll cool j - going back to cali (booche)
  15. whoops we forgot melba's contrib, thus: # 236: Songs that your fellow siblings or other people in your family would play that drove you NUUUUTTZZZZZ (add relation in parentheses if you like) 1. Men without Hats - Safety Dance (brother!) 2. Graham Kendrick - Shine Jesus Shine (sister, father) 3. Oasis-Wonderwall (sister) 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. [...]still to this day Sarahbelle cannot stand anything Oasis... booo Oasis.
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