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90210's girls too thin?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:22:16 GMT

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90210 starlet’s Shenae Grimes and AnnaLynne McCord arrive at Nylon Magazine's TV issue launch party at Tropicana Bar at the Roosevelt in Hollywood in pure hooker-wear. AnneLynne looks like a freakin’ dominatrix, not that Shenae’s snakeskin minidress is much better.

While watching 90210 we had a hard, fast realization of the impact this show is going to have on young girl’s self-esteem.

The producers were incredibly irresponsible in their casting choices. AnneLynne is the beefiest of all the girls and she’s barely 100 pounds. Jessica Stroup and Shenae are so emaciated, it’s disturbing and alarming. Most actresses get skinnier if a show is successful. If these girls get any smaller, they’re going to end up in the hospital.

For L.A. man, 93, life is a walk in the park

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:33:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The weight of time has bowed Sol Shankman's spine into the shape of a question mark. After 93 years, he is blind in one eye and nearly blind in the other. His voice, except for brief bursts of animation -- when he's imitating a mud lark, for instance -- sounds like a handful of gravel.

"But the way I see it, you've got two choices," he said the other day. "You can sit at home and weep for yourself. Or you can get out and do the best you can."

And so, every evening, at his home just above Los Feliz Boulevard, Shankman sets his alarm clock for 5 a.m. Every morning, his eyes open five minutes before the alarm, and he sets off into the hills.

He has been walking for more than three decades, pretty much every day -- 42,000 miles, by his reckoning, the vast majority of it in Griffith Park. The circumference of the Earth is roughly 25,000 miles, "so I figure," he said, "that I'm on my second trip around the world, all in Griffith Park."

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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:21:08 GMT

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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:18:58 GMT

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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:13:03 GMT

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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:11:04 GMT

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Girls grow up in more rules-red-tape than boys

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:24:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This makes me deeply sad - that tradition dictates that girls grow up restricted, regulated and monitored. I wonder if this leads to the idea that men are more risk-taking? And hence, women are less likely to try out a new kind of entertainment, like videogames.

Clip Source: www.escapistmagazine.com

The Revolution Will Be Dressed in Black
Girls have traditionally had much less freedom in their play than boys - their play spaces are generally more restricted, their activities more heavily regulated and their behaviors more closely monitored. So far, this has been a somewhat unexplored dimension of the "girls' games" phenomenon. We know that they depict a pretty stereotypical vision of girlhood - with their all-pink palettes, themes of nurturing and emphasis on domesticity - but we haven't stopped to ask how this traditional approach to girls' play might actually translate into design choices that drastically limit their experiences.

1.6 Million Pets Put Down Due to Vet Bill Costs

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:15:36 GMT

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Britons are facing up to a growing strain on their personal finances: caring for their pets.

According to figures from Sainsbury's Finance, vet bills are becoming increasingly unaffordable for many - with price inflation estimated at around 12 percent a year. This can be set against the current general inflation rate of 4.4 percent across all goods and services, which is itself at a 16-year high.

These price pressures have led pet owners to make some hard choices. The Sainsbury's research shows that 1.6 million cats and dogs were put down between 2003 and 2008 because their owners could not afford either veterinary fees or other medical costs of looking after their pet.

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A Walk In The Park

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:25:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Those who know him -- who see him every morning -- do not agree."

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"But the way I see it, you've got two choices," he said the other day. "You can sit at home and weep for yourself. Or you can get out and do the best you can."

And so, every evening, at his home just above Los Feliz Boulevard, Shankman sets his alarm clock for 5 a.m. Every morning, his eyes open five minutes before the alarm, and he sets off into the hills.

"I'm like the elevator operator in an old building," he said. "Everybody knows him. Then he retires. Nobody knows the new guy. Then they get rid of the elevator operator altogether. Next thing you know, nobody remembers there was an elevator operator to begin with. I've just been here for so many years. I'm not special."

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:57:38 GMT

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Trial-and-error evolution
According to Gary Marcus's Kluge our brains are an engineering nightmare, says Steven Rose

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The fallibility of the human mind is a source of continual frustration to philosophers, artificial intelligencers and evolutionary psychologists. Our memories are weak, we are credulous and easily led to believe improbable or impossible things, our language is not optimally constructed. We have problems with probabilities, and are logically inconsistent. We make choices that are apparently irrational and not in our own best long-term interests, and certainly not in those of our genes. Thus - according to Marcus - we prefer instant gratification to the chance of greater, longer-term benefits. We get drunk, embark on non-procreative sex for mere pleasure, and may even sacrifice our lives for some perceived cause that has nothing to do with increasing our inclusive (genetic) fitness.

His chapter on language as a kluge, full of grammatical and linguistic incongruities, is particularly strong, although his basic argument is almost drowned in a flood of examples

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:02:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Building self-esteem and confidence one student at a time. Learning life skills while having fun!

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:56:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I was deeply in debt and so much worried how to get out of it, credit counseling helped me a lot.bills.com is worth visiting.

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Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy Caught On Tape Disparaging Palin Choice: "It's Over," "Political Bullshit,

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:26:55 GMT

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Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and former John McCain adviser, Time columnist, and MSNBC contributor Mike Murphy were caught on tape disparaging John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate.

"It's over," Noonan said.

When Chuck Todd asked her if this was the most qualified woman the Republicans could nominate, Noonan responded, "The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and that's not what they're good at, they blow it."

Murphy characterized the choices as "cynical" and "gimmicky."

Watch (the dialogue in question starts 38 seconds in, full transcript is below the video):

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Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy on Palin

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:28:36 GMT

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"It's over," Noonan said.

Murphy characterized the choices as "cynical" and "gimmicky."

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Fibromyalgia, what is it?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:20:41 GMT

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