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Kellar, I. Sutton, S., Griffin, S. Prevost, A.T., Kinmonth, A.L., & Marteau, T.M. (in press) Evaluation of an informed choice invitation for type 2 diabetes screening. Patient Education & Counselling.

Just got accepted without further revisions

Here’s the copy that was accepted - click here.

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Oh my, Forza 2 is incredible. Check the picture; can you feel the turn in? Lovely!

Wouldn’t this number look cool on a t-shirt?

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Especially if it said on the back “HD-DVD Processing Key” on the back?

I love that saying. I stole it from a public service poster from the Japanese National Police Agency “Many adults care for you. Now our future is in your hands. You do not belong only to yourself. You have a responsibility for all of us.”

Oh, and http://www.spreadshirt.net is very cool.

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Seth had a trip to the London eye. Click on the image and look at the set.

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Catchy tune. Can’t get “now you’re getting your’re ass kicked by the Wii” out of my head. Too early to post more, but despite being a newly converted 360 fanboy, the way Sony have dropped the ball saddens me. I’ve been a PS player since GT1. Will be weird not getting this installment.

Turns out that I’ll be getting an xbox 360 for my birthday. I am hyped as I was looking lustfully at its media streaming capabilities. Most of out TV watching is via what has been described as “stealivision”, so not having to huddle around a laptop to see the latest episode of My Name Is Earl us a big plus. To do this, you download WMP11, and in the library menu, tell it the directory that you want to share with your X360. The only downer is that if you are running XP, you can only stream .wmv files, and given pretty much all my files are DiVX or XViD, I have some transcoding to do. After much searching about, the best free solution I have found is to download windows media encoder 9, and then use the following file (right click, new text file, open that file, once you’ve edited it paste in this text, save as encoder.cmd). Thanks to trooperiziz on PH for the file.

cscript.exe “C:\Program FilesWindows Media ComponentsEncoderwmcmd.vbs” -input “type in the directory that you will put your files to be encoded in in here, eg c:\encoding directory” -output “type in the directory that you share with your 360 in here, eg c:\x360 videos” -v_codec WMV9 -v_performance 0 -v_keydist 3 -v_mode 0 -v_bitrate 2000000 -v_buffer 10000 -a_codec WMA9STD -a_mode 0

Sorry it’s not clear in that quote, but you should leave the quote marks in, just edit the text between them to reflect your directories. If you want lower quality\smaller files\faster encoding, just edit the bitrate from 2000000 down to 700000. Personally, I find it better than the vlc\happy beggar batch or the encode360 options, although it should be noted that encode360 will watch a directory and encode automagically once the file has finished downloading, which is great if you torrent overnight, as ithe video will be ready for you come the morning.

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Seth was very lucky to get some automoblox. Once the axle ends were lubed with olive oil, they rolled like a dream.

Oh, and Daddy got a lensbaby.

Seth and Henry will be seeing Santa on Saturday. I wonder if we might be making a submission to the “Scared of Santa” page?

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Got a lensbaby, and this is my first go with it.

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Improving fruit and vegetable consumption: a self-efficacy intervention compared with a combined self-efficacy and planning intervention.

Health Educ Res. 2006 Oct 23;

Authors: Luszczynska A, Tryburcy M, Schwarzer R

Effects of interventions targeting self-efficacy alone or combined with action plans were examined in the context of fruit and vegetable consumption. E-mail messages were sent to a self-efficacy group, a combined self-efficacy and action planning group and a control group. At a 6-month follow-up, 200 adults reported their fruit and vegetable consumption, along with current levels of self-efficacy and planning. The two experimental groups gained equally from the interventions, as documented by changes in behavior. In both intervention groups, change in respective cognitions predicted change in fruit and vegetable consumption. Parsimonious interventions might contribute to health behavior change.

PMID: 17060349 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Support provider's appraisal detection bias and the efficacy of received support in medical students preparing for an exam.

Br J Soc Psychol. 2006 Sep;45(Pt 3):599-615

Authors: Knoll N, Schulz U, Schwarzer R, Rosemeier HP

Matching social support to the recipient's needs requires diagnostic sensitivity on the part of the provider. In particular, support needs to be responsive to the recipient's stress-related appraisals to be maximally effective. To assess the impact of bias in interpersonal stress assessment, medical students in 43 dyads reported on their own and each other's stress appraisals, social support, affect and performance during a 5-day preparation period culminating in a multiple choice examination. Less biased perceptions of loss appraisals by support providers within dyads were followed by support transactions associated with lower negative affect and better exam performance among recipients. More biased perceptions of threat appraisals were followed by increases in the recipients' negative affect. Results therefore suggest that support is more effective when the provider understands the recipient's concerns.

PMID: 16984723 [PubMed - in process]