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Monday, April 09, 2012
You Go Girls
First up, from Germany, Amalie Noether who Einstein called "the most significant and creative" female mathematician of all time. What did she do? From the NY Times:
She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics: symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation. Some consider Noether's theorem, as it is now called, as important as Einstein's theory of relativity; it undergirds much of today's vanguard research in physics, including the hunt for the almighty Higgs boson.
It wasn't just that she was a great mathematician but she did it during a time when most German universities didn't have women enrolled and she was "a Jewish pacifist in the midst of the Nazis' rise to power."
Next, women in elective office from the great state of Washington. These women were highlighted in a recent article in the NY Times entitled, "What Gender Gap? Washington State Has a History of Women Who Lead." I love the lead paragraph:
It was 2009, floods had inundated western Washington and the state's politicians were flown up to survey the damage. When asked who would scoot down to the open end of the C-17 cargo plane, where they would have to be tethered down for safety, Gov. Christine Gregoire and Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray volunteered.
As Ms. Cantwell tells it, the men declined.
"Everybody thinks that the macho men would do that," Ms. Cantwell said. "But it was the three of us willing to go back there."
There's a long history of strong women in Washington state:
When Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Murray and Ms. Gregoire reflect on how their state became comfortable with female politicians, they hesitate to mention the pioneer women who traveled to the Northwest by wagon ("That would leave out the strong women of Maine," Ms. Murray said) and note that women lead many Northwest Indian tribes.
And finally from the PBS American Masters series are profiles of women authors who each only wrote one classic American novel - Margaret Mitchell who wrote Gone with the Wind and Harper Lee who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
Mitchell was a Southern belle but with ideas of her own. Mitchell (and Lee) had been writing since childhood. She set on the road to writing GWtW when her second husband said, "For God's sake, Peggy, can't you write a book instead of reading thousands of them?" Everyone needs a push.
It was frustrating to learn that she had refused to attend a class at Smith College with a black classmate but in later life secretly paid for scholarships for black medical students at Morehouse College.
Harper Lee, also a Southerner, wrote To Kill a Mockingbird 50 years ago. It has sold nearly a million copies a year since it was published and is widely used in American classrooms. Lee finished writing her novel when good friends gave her a year's salary so she could stop waitressing and write.
One of her closest childhood friends was writer Truman Capote. Just as she finished To Kill a Mockingbird for her publisher, she then helped her friend do research in Kansas for his book, In Cold Blood.
Both women operated in their own fashion despite the norms of their time for women. Both won the Pulitzer Prize.
These are women for girls to look up to for inspiration and courage.
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And we have two more strong women on the school board since the last election, and Michael DeBell needs to get over it.
There has been not-so-subtle sexism regarding the new majority of women on this board. I simply don't think that DeBell would have gone where he went had his new colleagues been male.
They are independent, intelligent, educated and fair--like Betty Patu has been all along.
--enough already - 4/9/12, 2:23 PM
- Patrick said...
As long as you're mentioning women politicians from Washington who do more rigorous activities than their male colleagues, you should mention Maria Cantwell for climbing Mount Rainier.
When my kid was in 4th grade (5 years ago) her class went to Olympia to tour the capitol. They had been learning about the branches of government, etc. and who their elected representatives were. It was pretty amazing to see the list - all women at the time. Mary Lou Dickenson, Helen Somers, Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Christine Gregoire at the state level, and then Patty Murray & Maria Cantwell at the Federal level. It was very inspirational to my daughter, and me.
- seattle citizen said...
Courtesy of our wonderful local history source, History Link:
"Bertha Knight Landes, elected mayor of Seattle in 1926, became the first woman to lead a major American city. She ran on a platform of "municipal housekeeping," vowing to clean up city government. She advocated municipal ownership of utilities such as City Light and street railways. Her single term ended in 1928, but she remained a civic leader and role model for women." - 4/9/12, 5:49 PM
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girlpower - 4/9/12, 6:46 PM
- seattle citizen said...
Yes, girls DO rock, including Seattle's own Heart,aka Ann and Nancy Wilson!
And Merilee Rush.
But, you know, some of our female politicians sort of emulate the boys when they go to their various destinations. I wish they would support the values of the girls a little more.
Maybe just me...
n... - 4/9/12, 9:04 PM
@ enough already "There has been not-so-subtle sexism regarding the new majority of women on this board." would you mind pointing out a few examples? Because I'd LOVE to have quotes handy... thx.
- hschinske said...
Margaret Mitchell? Really? Really?
I just don't see it.
Helen Schinske - 4/10/12, 1:16 PM
@Helen--exactly. There was so much of all kinds of wrong in that book, even allowing for the time it was written. May I suggest Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone" as a counterpoint?
Not a Mitchell fan - 4/10/12, 4:17 PM
- Melissa Westbrook said...
I didn't say Gone with the Wind was a great book (that said, I liked it). This wasn't about a reading list.
But Margaret Mitchell was a woman bucking her time and she worked tirelessly during WWII and, as I posted, supported black students to become doctors. - 4/10/12, 5:07 PM
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Uh oh -- anonymous at 5:24. I am assuming maybe you are "enough already", but just didn't sign. I didn't want this comment to be deleted, because I really liked it I am dismayed by how often I don't pick up on this stuff (still consciousness raising, after all these years, I guess), but I think your points are correct here.
Annoyed Before, Now Mad - 4/10/12, 6:22 PM
Oops -- what I meant to do was make a copy of the comment I liked, in case the blog reaper passes through:
Anonymous said...
Here's Exhibit A, in my opinion.
It has the complaining tone of "you know how they are" from "man to man", actually uses the word "difficult" (often a code word for bitch or unstable woman) and alludes to the last time there was this type of nonsense (also a female-dominated board).
Like most sexism or racism, it is in the tone, body language and/or unequal treatment, rather than out-and-out (overt) behavior.
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Annoyed Before, Now Mad - 4/10/12, 6:23 PM
If you want to support your girls, how about signing them up for a summer math or science or computer camp? My daughter has been one of a handful of girls in these types of camps for years.
That was from me. Thanks for saving it from deletion.
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Skamania County, Washington
Only Class A Reports
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Only Class B & C Reports
September 2010
(Class B)
- Couple hear strange vocalization at their cabin near Carson
September 2009
(Class B)
- Backpacker hears multiple vocalizations while camping near Trout Lake
November 2008
(Class B)
- Father and son hear a wood knock and find large human-like barefoot tracks while hunting near Trout Lake
September 2007
(Class B)
- Man and girlfriend, camping, hear loud footsteps and tree knocking near Cispus, Washington
November 2005
(Class A)
- Daylight sighting by a backpacker on Silver Star Mountain (See Photos)
August 2005
(Class B)
- Campers hear possible vocalizations at night near Kalama Horse Camp
August 1978
(Class B)
- Stevenson Ridge vocalization startles father and son
November 2004
(Class A)
- Motorist Has Late Night Sighting Near Eagle Cliff
June 1990-1991
(Class A)
- Couple has sighting of something standing on a gravel road
December 2000
(Class B)
- Large bridge found crossing creekbed
September 2004
(Class B)
- Elk hunter hears loud screams at night near Deadman's Lake
August 2004
(Class B)
- Campers Awaken to Unknown Vocalizations, Brush Popping and Foul Odor
June 2003
(Class B)
- Multiple screams heard
October 2002
(Class B)
- Several sets of tracks found near Skookum Meadows
August 2002
(Class A)
- Fishermen encounter upright, slender animal near Lone Butte
August 2001
(Class B)
- Spelunkers hear loud, garbled howls on consecutive nights near Trout Lake
August 2001
(Class B)
- Campers hear vocalizations and find possible prints near Skookum Meadow
March 2001
(Class B)
- Mountain climbers hear loud scream on Mount St. Helens
September 2000
(Class A)
- BFRO Skookum Expedition
September 1999/2000
(Class B)
- Bow hunters find footprint and hear vocalizations near Indian Heaven Wilderness
October 1999
(Class A)
- Large animal lures men away from possible younger animal near Mt. St. Helens
September 1999
(Class B)
- Bowhunters find track and hear vocalizations near Indian Heaven Wilderness
August 1998
(Class B)
- Family finds track and scat pile while hiking southeast of Mt. St. Helens
June 1998
(Class B)
- Witness heard what sounded like sticks being beaten on wood
November 1997
(Class A)
- Creature seen by witnesses at the bottom of the hill
Spring 1997
(Class B)
- Hiking couple hears calls and finds footprints near Mt. Adams
August 1993
(Class B)
- Campers find footprint in Indian Heaven Wilderness
July 1991
(Class A)
- Climber has night-time sighting near Mt. Adams wilderness
July 1985
(Class B)
- Campers awakened by late-night visitor in the Indian Heaven Wilderness
June 1985
(Class A)
- Memory told of a daylight sighting at a golf course in North Bonneville
April 1980
(Class A)
- Department of Natural Resources tree-planting crew views two animals walking upright near Home Valley
April 1978
(Class A)
- Daylight observation from Beacon Rock, along the Columbia River
May 1972
(Class A)
- Multiple witness incident on the western slope of Silver Star Mt., near Pyramid Rock
August 1971
(Class A)
- Witness observed creature walking up a hill
March 1969
(Class B)
- Family on vacation find tracks in an isolated area.
March 1969
(Class A)
- Fisherman witnesses bigfoot cross the road in front of his car
Fall 1967
(Class A)
- Witness saw something he felt confident few men had ever seen
Spring 1950
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- Mother relates story of daughter sighting a large animal near Mill A School
Media Articles:
'Sasquatch cast' makes a big impression on anatomists, TV
(17-Jun-2002; Seattle Post Intelligencer)
Tracking Bigfoot
(23-May-2002; KATU.com (Web site for KATU Television in Portland, Ore.))
On-Line Interview with Richard Noll - English Version
(6-Mar-2001; LOQ12)
Bigfoot's backside yields a clue, enthusiasts say
(13-Jan-2001; Everett Herald)
(5-Jan-2001; News Bytes, ENN, Environmental News Network)
Bigfoot's Buttocks
(21-Dec-2000; NewScientist)
Bigfoot body imprint reportedly uncovered
(24-Oct-2000; Denver Post)
ISU Researcher Coordinates Analysis of Body Imprint That May Belong to Sasquatch
(23-Oct-2000; Idaho State University, Office of University and Government Relations)
Unidentified Primate (Bigfoot?) Body Print and Hairs Discovered in Washington State
(8-Oct-2000; EARTHFILES)
First-of-a kind Bigfoot discovery has skeptics taking notice
(2-Oct-2000; King5.com)
Excerpt from Chapter 1 - Vanishing Skier
(30-Jun-1993; Sasquatch/Bigfoot: The Search for North America's Incredible Creature)
Big Foot Territory
(1-Jan-1977; Indian Heaven Back Country)
American Yeti Expedition Reports Most Recent Bigfoot Track Find
(18-Oct-1974; The Skamania County Pioneer)
The Sasquatch
(15-Aug-1971; Seattle Magazine)
Skamania County Ordinance
(1-Apr-1969; Ordinance No. 69-01)
Strange Animals Seen
(18-Jul-1924; Rainier Review & the Kelsonian)
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Having found all the Grauniad quizzes and the crossword far too taxing this year, I have devised a little light hearted quiz to take my mind off having to go back to work tomorrow. I hope you are all having an enjoyable time, and are looking forward to the New Year in spite of the doom and gloom pervading the news. Please join in, if you're in the mood for frivolous distraction. Apologies if we've had any of the questions before, but here we jolly well go:
1. Amazon recommends … what is the strangest combined offer you've had from Amazon (or anyone else) this year? Mine is "6 pairs mens thermal socks size 6-11; The Bed of Procrustes – Philosophical & Practical Aphorisms; Ben Ten Galactic Racing and Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diababte."
2. Do you have a Christmas tree? If so, what is on the top? As you can see from the photo, we have the Bogeyman – handmade by a ghost of Christmas past. Can you top it?
3. What present are you struggling to be grateful for this year? And does it make you think the giver just doesn't know you at all, or that they know you too well? Mine is a voluminous pair of ice-cream pink flannelette pyjamas with cats on – my efforts to project my image as a hard-driven career woman / cougar / middle-aged sex symbol have obviously failed, thus far. Perhaps I'd do better with Amazon.
4. What percentage of your Christmas cards includes a portrayal of an animal or bird of some kind? (Warning: this may involve standing up and using brain). Mine is 50%, including a turkey on the mast of a lifeboat. Go figure, Amazon!!
5. What did you have for Christmas dinner, and are you still eating it? In my case, Mr Munday brought us a shepherdless shepherd's pie (green lentils) – I had some yesterday in a stew and today it's soup … meanwhile the cat is sulking and out looking for shepherds.
6. Tell us an amusing anecdote about Christmas – any Christmas. Mine is probably the year my brother fell down my other brother's stairs in the dark, playing hide and seek with us kids, circa 1973. He wasn't badly hurt but had the pattern of his string vest etched into the bruise. And the banisters were wrecked. Probably our last true family Christmas, for some reason …


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A physiological model of cerebral blood flow control.
Mathematical Biosciences
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pp. 125-173.
The construction of a computational model of the human brain circulation is described. We combine an existing model of the biophysics of the circulatory system, a basic model of brain metabolic biochemistry, and a model of the functioning of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) into a single model. This represents a first attempt to understand how the numerous different feedback pathways by which cerebral blood flow is controlled interact with each other. The present work comprises the following: Descriptions of the physiology underlying the model; general comments on the processes by which this physiology is translated into mathematics; comments on parameter setting; and some simulation results. The simulations presented are preliminary, but show qualitative agreement between model behaviour and experimental results.
Type: | Article |
Title: | A physiological model of cerebral blood flow control |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.mbs.2004.10.005 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2004.10.005 |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | Human brain circulation, mathematical model, autoregulation |
UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Medical Physics and Bioengineering |
URI: | http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9444 |
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The Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R concept uses electric power for maximum performance, and enjoys GranTurismo as much as any gearhead gamer. What's not to love?
Well, we've finally seen it in the flesh at the Frankfurt Auto Show, and it's just as intense—and small—as we expected. It also gives Toyota a chance to show off their hybrid lineup, which they're pushing hard amidst upcoming European Union emissions regulations. Every single car on the stand in Frankfurt, for instance, was a hybrid.
The words "Yaris" and "hybrid" may not evoke high performance, but this subcompact has an impressive trick up its sleeve. Instead of pairing a battery with a gasoline engine, as other hybrids do, the Yaris Hybrid-R relies on a super capacitor. That means it has more in common with the Toyota TS030 Hybrid racing car than any Prius.
Like batteries, super capacitors store energy. But unlike batteries, super capacitors can only "dump" large amounts of energy at one time. That makes them ideal for racing applications, where short bursts of power are often needed.
For the purposes of the Yaris Hybrid-R, that means the super capacitor can instantly send energy to 60 hp motors located at each rear wheel. With "Track" mode engaged, the little Yaris Hybrid-R is good for a combined 420 hp in five second bursts—120 hp from the electric motors at the wheels, and another 300 hp from a gasoline-powered 1.6 L turbocharged Toyota Global Race Engine, specifically created for motorsports.
Up front, there's a third electric motor that recharges the super capacitor during deceleration. It can also act as a highly advanced form of traction control, redirecting power to the appropriate rear wheel in case grip is lost.
Also impressive is an ECU that can use the upcoming Gran Turismo 6 video game for practice laps. Choose to race the Yaris Hybrid-R in the game, and your console can send virtual lap data back to the car. That allows the real-world Yaris Hybrid-R to anticipate corners, acceleration, and braking, optimizing engine and traction control management accordingly. A similar ECU is in the Scion FR-S, but that one can only send track data back to your video game console.
Though we would love to try it out, you'll never see the Yaris Hybrid-R on public roads. This hottest of hatches is just a showcase for Toyota's racing technology, which seems to ascribe to the "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" mantra.
Didier Leroy, head of Toyota Europe, even took a shot at Audi and their R18 diesel-electric hybrid LeMans racer. "Even though nobody can buy a diesel hybrid from our motorsport competitor," Leroy said, "People can—and do—buy hybrids from Toyota."
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SimTech Workshop on Current Trends in Computational Fluid Mechanics
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In the framework of the Cemracs '11 summer meeting on "Multiscale Coupling of Complex Models" the Cluster of Excellence SimTech organizes the above workshop. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from mathematics, engineering and computer science working in the field of computational fluid mechanics.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 21— A car bomb exploded today outside a department store here in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 32 people and wounding 117, doctors and witnesses said. Hospital doctors said the death toll could rise because some of the wounded are in critical condition.
Officials said the dead included a daughter and two grandchildren of the provincial Governor, Khurshid Ali Khan, and a daughter and a nephew of a provincial minister.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, and authorities said they did not know who had carried it out.
The Chief of the Provincial Police, Masood Shah, said he suspected an Afghan group because of a series of recent smaller bombs in the region that he blamed on Afghans. Peshawar has a large population of Afghan refugees from the war that has raged in neighboring Afghanistan since 1979.
The police said the bomb went off at 6:30 P.M. outside the Wadood & Sons department store in a busy street in Saddar Bazaar. Today, the eve of the Muslim Sabbath, the area was crowded with shoppers. The explosion set several cars on fire.
"I cannot say right now who was responsible," said Aftab Sherpao, Chief Minister of the North West Frontier Province, of which Peshawar is the capital.
A senior police official said the explosion apparently was caused by a 55-pound time bomb. "This is the worst bomb here for a long time," said the official, Ghulam Hussain.
A car bomb on Nov. 19 wrecked the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing 16 people and wounding more than 60. The Muslim militant group Jihad, one of three Egyptian organizations that claimed responsibility for the embassy explosion, warned Pakistan last week to stop extraditing Muslim militants to Egypt.
"We warn the Government of Pakistan that it will pay a heavy price if it continues to hand over Islamists living on its territory," said a Dec. 14 statement signed by the Vanguard of the Conquest in Egypt, a revival of the Jihad group, which assassinated President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981.
Islamabad says it has extradited 10 of the 11 people wanted by Cairo; the 11th is a fugitive.
There was no immediate evidence to link Jihad with the blast today.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 22 (Reuters) -- Two people were killed and several seriously wounded when a bomb exploded on a bus near Faisalabad, in Punjab, the official news agency A.P.P. reported today.
The agency said a bomb under a seat ripped through the crowded bus near Salarwala, about 13 miles from Faisalabad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and officials did not cite any evidence to connect the attack with the bomb in Peshawar.
Map of Pakistan: A car bomb tore apart a crowded store in a bazaar inPeshawar. (The New York Times)


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February 18, 2007
The best reason for a woman to shave her head.
Don't think that's why they do it? Think again.
IN THE COMMENTS: Some folks say Demi and Natalie shaved their heads because a movie role demanded. They have it backwards. Both actresses -- I'm willing to bet -- chose the role because it would require them to shave their head and they wanted the opportunity to demonstrate to everyone how amazingly beautiful they are.
36 comments:
- LetMeSpellItOutForYou said...
The idea that shaving your head would prove your excellence only proves how far from excellent we really are.
- AllenS said...
Good one, Ann. - 2/18/07, 10:18 AM
- sonicfrog said...
"The best reason for a woman to shave her head...."
... is a role for a movie. That is why two of the three women you mention did so. Another example is Sigourney Weaver for Aliens III? A so-so movie when compared to the first two, but tremendous actress none the less. But she, like Mrs. Portman and Moore / Willis (at the time) grew their hair back.
Reason # 2: Shock Value. See Sinead O'Connor. Her career lived then died by the "statment". If a Mohawk counts, there is Wendy O Williams.
Though she had a crew cut and was not bald, Annie Lennox may be the best example of a woman sporting an unconventional hair cut for aesthetic reasons, though her artistry certainly played a part.
Can't think of any more right now. Need to get breakfast. - 2/18/07, 10:19 AM
- David said...
Assuming the ritual shaving was not for a part, the act begs the question of 'Who are you trying to convince, you or the public?'
The new religion in Hollywood is ritual rehab and penance served through head shaving photos and Malibu mug shots (Nolte is the poster boy closely followed by
Reminds me of the Preacher's impassioned plea "I have sinned" as he blames his choices on the Devil, who made him do it. How do you get tear stains out of a prayer rug?! - 2/18/07, 10:22 AM
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- John(classic) said...
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- John(classic) said...
"The best reason for a woman to shave her head is "...lice
Am I old enough that I am the only one who associates a shaved head with a bad lice outbreak? Or Nazi collaboration? - 2/18/07, 11:57 AM
- Daryl Herbert said...
Apparently she was frantic when it took place. That's not really a sign of confidence. There was also something in the stories about rehab and some tattoos.
I thought women shaved their heads to prove that men weren't in control of the way they look. - 2/18/07, 12:15 PM
- Beth said...
Daryl, I don't give much credence to the rumormill. Maybe she was frantic, maybe she was coolly purposeful. It's not the point of the celebrity press to get the real story, but to get one that fits their ongoing Britney's Going Nuts narrative.
I think she looks great. I was surprised by how beautiful she really is, without any trappings. I'm hoping this is a pivotal, symbolic moment for her. But I'd feel a lot better if I read she'd enrolled in school or something like that. The years when most of us grow up, learn some things about the world and our place in it, she spent being pimped by her parents. I can't help wanting better for her. - 2/18/07, 1:38 PM
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- Truly said...
Did this story make anyone else think of that video Prof. A posted with the increasingly deranged bride? I can definitely picture Britney having a similar meltdown.
- J said...
"No one walks into a beauty parlor and says "Give me the Larry Fine.""
-George Costanza - 2/18/07, 2:16 PM
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- Ann Althouse said...
Those who think Demi and Natalie shaved their heads because the role demanded it have it backwards. They both -- I'm willing to bet -- chose the role because it would require them to shave their head and they wanted the opportunity to demonstrate to everyone how amazingly beautiful they are.
I couldn't remember Persis Khambatta's name, but I did think of her too. She got a lot of credit for beauty that specifically got noticed because of the head-shaving stunt. - 2/18/07, 3:57 PM
- -Peder said...
Two other reasons:
1) The big swim meet.
2) Chance encounter with V-ger. - 2/18/07, 4:39 PM
- OhioAnne said...
I ABSOLUTELY agree with Ann on this one.
I don't think it necessarily means that they think they are more beautiful than anyone else. I think they have a view of how they are beautiful that they believe is different than how others see them. - 2/18/07, 4:59 PM
- TMink said...
John and Peder, ya beat me to it. Outstanding.
Trey - 2/18/07, 6:00 PM
- Kirk said...
Am I the only one who sums things up and thinks, "Hmmm, it's only the women who think the hairless babes look good"?
As for me, let me declare my Neanderthal credentials up front: no matter how extraordinary beautiful a women may be, a shaved head greatly detracts from that. - 2/18/07, 7:49 PM
- SteveR said...
I don't think bald is a good look for a man, and it damn sure isn't for a women.
Britney, not good looking before, not good looking after. Demi and Natalie, that's different at least they started off great. - 2/18/07, 8:12 PM
- Eli Blake said...
You've all missed the point.
Britney is planning to observe the upcoming 21st anniversary of Chernobyl. - 2/18/07, 8:16 PM
- Steve said...
No, no, no... she wants to rip up a picture of the new Pope.
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- sonicfrog said...
Some folks say Demi and Natalie shaved their heads because a movie role demanded. They have it backwards. Both actresses -- I'm willing to bet -- chose the role because it would require them to shave their head and they wanted the opportunity to demonstrate to everyone how amazingly beautiful they are.
I will counter your bet, double down, that the motivation is based not on the concept of beauty, but more on the perceived need to show how daring the actress is. In Theory, more daring = better roles. "Look at what I'm willing to do". Look at all the fuss over Charlize Theron and her role in Monster. There was more buzz about the fact that she wore little make-up that there was over her performance, which was good enough for the oscar. It's considered brave for an actress to show that she can take a role that deviates from the typical beauty queen female stereotype. But what happens when the role is over? They go right back to growing their hair back. That was one reason why I liked Annie Lenox so much. She stuck with it.
I'm not a girl (I just had to say it like that), but I understand the motivation behind "Bald". I've done it a few times for gigs. There is an allure for any artist, even a musician as crappy as I, to sometimes do the unexpected. I've done bald a few times myself. I will admit it is more acceptable for guys to go chrome that women, but even so, I always let my hair grow back after the gig. I don't keep it shaved because I have too many dents in my head from when my older brother played basketball with my head when I was a baby! (jk).
PS. There is still a line few thin actresses will cross - FAT. I don't recall an actress pulling the same trick DeNiro did with body weight when filming Raging Bull, but I can't say no one has. - 2/19/07, 1:09 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
"PS. There is still a line few thin actresses will cross - FAT. I don't recall an actress pulling the same trick DeNiro did with body weight when filming Raging Bull, but I can't say no one has."
Renee Zellwegger did if for Bridget Jones.
And Charlize Theorn for Monster.
Admittedly it wasn't that much weight. - 2/19/07, 1:24 AM
- hdhouse said...
please. this is about brit not the others even though the question was generalized to include (all) women. it is because brit did it that we are on this innane topic.
obviously all of them got there for different reasons..and if you peck around brit's reason you may well find depression and self descrution at the root.
obviously the least best reason. - 2/19/07, 6:21 AM
- Dan from Madison said...
Don't you remember? I was way ahead of the pack on this one.
- Jennifer said...
Demi and Natalie may have chosen the movies because of the opportunity to shave their heads, but at least they had the roles to justify (for lack of a better word) their choices. Britney just looks crazy.
I'm just hoping I'll be able to root for her again some time soon. - 2/19/07, 7:15 AM
- TMink said...
hdh wrote: "obviously all of them got there for different reasons..and if you peck around brit's reason you may well find depression and self descrution at the root."
I am with the houseman on this one. Second time in a week! Convergence.
Trey - 2/19/07, 1:14 PM
- Jennifer said...
Well, now that she's sporting a hideous blond wig so shortly after the shavedown, maybe she doesn't believe she's beautiful after all.
- Bryon Mondok said...
I been shavin' my head for ten years. What's the big deal? Bald is beautiful.
Prediction: Balded chicks will soon be mainstream. - 2/20/07, 3:14 PM
- Wade_Garrett said...
More realistically, Britney shaved her head to prevent her ex-husband and the court from testing it to determine what drugs she had used in recent months.
By all accounts, shaving one's head is a technique used by pro athletes to beat drug tests.
Let's see: either This woman is trying to show the world her flawless beauty, or else
this woman is trying to keep other people from finding out that she uses drugs.
Which do you think is more likely? - 2/25/07, 2:01 PM
- alull said...
I think supper short hair on women is very beautiful, soft to the touch and easy to care for, I had mine at an eighth of an inch of an inch for several years. I didn't have to spend a great deal of time fixing it, it is very freeing and I felt more feminine very earthy to me. I find it esthetically pleasing and I am not punk, just pretty normal mid thirties main stream feminine women. Sometimes I think people over think things. We don't have this debate about men and their hair. The only reason I still have mine is I got tired of explaining to people why I didn't have it. It is funny in a very modern society it is still some sort of big deal what women do with their hair, I think some things will never change.
- Rachel said...
How can anyone say that NOT having something (i.e. hair) detracts from a woman's Natural Beauty? The Lack of something cannot detract from anything. It doesn't make sense. If anything, it's the other way around - HAVING hair detracts from the beauty of the face itself.
- Amber said...
I think its all about confidence. It takes a lot of confidence to go against what society sees as beautiful.
As far as we all have come, to even have to explain to people WHY women shave their heads.. says we really are a far away from equality. - 4/14/07, 11:16 PM
- Syn said...
I have lost my hair twice from chemo and shaved it voluntarily once. I am shaving it again in about two months for ART. I'd like to share my short video (4 minutes) with you since it speaks volumes and gives a good reason to shave your head:
My web page:http://www.crowningglory.org/
Feel free to send this link on to anyone you think our message might resonate with (friends, family, cancer patients or survivors, artists, people born in 1957, etc.) since I would like to get a "head start" on gathering integral hair for my art piece as well as continue to spread the word that "We Are Not Our Hair." I need all hair donations (real, synthetic or otherwise) by August 15th, 2007. - 6/10/07, 7:59 PM


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One recent study showed just why people believe eating as a family can be so valuable. Researchers surveyed 107 parents of 8- to 10-year-old children and found that parents believe eating together offers family members better nutrition, makes them feel closer-knit family, and provides a great opportunity for conversation.
A recent large-scale study published in the journal Pediatrics noted a somewhat unexpected but extremely positive benefit of sitting down as a family to have dinner together. This lifestyle habit may actually help to fend off childhood obesity.
In 2005, researchers analyzed data on nearly 8,550 American children who were 4 years old. They looked at the obesity levels among the children and how that rate was affected by three everyday routines that are traditionally thought to be healthy for children: eating dinner as a family more than five times a week, sleeping for at least 10.5 hours each night, and watching less than two hours of television on each weekday.
Overall findings showed that 18 percent of all children in the study were obese. But in children who weren't exposed to any of the three healthy routines, the obesity rate shot up to 24.5 percent. On the positive side, the researchers noticed that children's chances of obesity declined if they were exposed to any of those healthy traditional routines, and the decline was greater with the addition of each additional good-for-you behavior. Children whose lifestyle included all three routines had a significantly lower rate of obesity—just 14.3 percent.
Another way to look at the numbers is that children who got adequate sleep, watched less TV, and ate as a family six times a week or more were nearly 40 percent less likely to be obese than kids who didn't experience any of these routines.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday shifted, at least temporarily, away from weeks of warlike rhetoric, appointing a new premier seen as an economic reformer after a high-level declaration that nuclear bomb building and a stronger economy are the nation's top priorities.
The US, meanwhile, announced its latest conspicuous display of firepower, sending F-22 stealth fighter jets to participate in annual US-South Korean war games that Pyongyang calls preparation for invasion. The new South Korean president, who has a policy meant to re-engage Pyongyang with talks and aid, told her top military leaders Monday to set aside political considerations and respond strongly should North Korea attack.
The White House says that despite bellicose rhetoric from North Korea the Obama administration has not seen changes in the regime's military posture.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday the US has not detected any military mobilization or repositioning of forces from Pyongyang to back up the threats from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Pyongyang has reacted angrily to US-South Korean military drills and a new round of U.N. and US sanctions that followed North Korea's Feb. 12 underground nuclear test.
Carney called the US response "prudent." He noted that such tough talk from North Korea is part of a familiar pattern.
Carney says the White House takes the threats "very seriously." But he says the rhetoric "is consistent with past behavior."
The reemergence of Pak Pong Ju as premier at an annual spring parliamentary session is seen by analysts as a clear signal that leader Kim Jong Un is moving to back up recent statements vowing a focus on strengthened economic development. The UN says two-thirds of the country's 24 million people face regular food shortages. Pak was reportedly sacked as prime minister in 2007 after proposing a US-style wage system.
The appointment signals that Pak will play a key role in economic policymaking again.
"Pak Pong Ju is the face of economic reform, such as it exists — reform with North Korean characteristics as they say," said John Delury, a professor and North Korea analyst at Seoul's Yonsei University.
Any economic changes won't be radical, Delury said, and, for the time being, they're mostly aspirational. One possible change could entail a shift of part of the country's massive military spending into the economy as a whole, he said.
Pyongyang has reacted with anger to the US-South Korean military drills and to a new round of UN and US sanctions that followed its Feb. 12 underground nuclear test, the country's third. Analysts see a full-scale North Korean attack as unlikely and say the threats are more likely efforts to provoke softer policies toward Pyongyang from a new government in Seoul, to win diplomatic talks with Washington and to solidify the young North Korean leader's military credentials at home.
Despite the rising hostility, there has been a noticeable shift in North Korea's rhetoric to a message that seeks to balance efforts to turn around a moribund economy with nuclear development.
"There was a danger that this was getting to the point … of a permanent war footing," Delury said. "In the midst of this tension and militant rhetoric and posturing, Kim Jong Un is saying, 'Look, we're still focused on the economy, but we're doing it with our nuclear deterrent intact.'"
On Sunday, Kim and top party officials adopted a declaration calling nuclear weapons "the nation's life" and an important component of its defense, an asset that wouldn't be traded even for "billions of dollars." Pyongyang cites the US military presence in South Korea as a main reason behind its drive to build missiles and atomic weapons. The US has stationed tens of thousands of troops in South Korea since the Korean War ended with a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953.
While analysts call North Korea's threats largely brinkmanship, there is some fear that a localized skirmish might escalate. Seoul has vowed to respond harshly should North Korea provoke its military. Naval skirmishes in disputed Yellow Sea waters off the Korean coast have led to bloody battles several times over the years. Attacks blamed on Pyongyang in 2010 killed 50 South Koreans.
Under late leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea typically held a parliamentary meeting once a year. But Kim Jong Un held an unusual second session last September in a sign that he is trying to run the country differently from his father, who died in late 2011.
Parliament sessions, which usually are held to approve personnel changes and budget and fiscal plans, are scrutinized by the outside world for signs of key changes in policy and leadership.
At a session last April, Kim was made first chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, the body's top post.
On Sunday, Kim presided over a separate plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party, a top decision-making body tasked with organizing and guiding the party's major projects. The meeting set a "new strategic line" calling for building both a stronger economy and nuclear arsenal.
North Korea's "nuclear armed forces represent the nation's life, which can never be abandoned as long as the imperialists and nuclear threats exist on Earth," according to a statement issued by state media after the meeting.
Sunday marked the first time for Kim to preside over the committee meeting. The last plenary session was held in 2010, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry, and before that in 1993.
South Korea now faces a major decision. If President Park Geun-hye and her advisers react as her hardline predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, did, "then they're stuck in the same place, where North Korea limps along, but with regime stability," Delury said. If so, then "the risk of a conflict is like a dark cloud over the next five years of the Park Geun-hye administration. It's not such an appealing path for her."


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From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Edgehill was the plantation of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph, and it was the home of Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph. It was part of a Randolph family inheritance of 2,400 acres near Shadwell belonging to Thomas Mann Randolph's father, Thomas, Sr. When Jefferson's daughter married Thomas Mann Randolph in 1790, they moved to Edgehill, although the family often stayed at Monticello.
The original house was built around 1799. The family lived there until a second larger home was built by Thomas Jefferson Randolph in 1828. In 1836, the family opened up a small school known as the Edgehill School, and the school ran in some form until 1896. In 1916, the original house was gutted by fire to be later rebuilt.
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- Olivia Taylor. "Edgehill, 1735-1902." MACH. 30(1972): 61-67.


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Some silent films take on a new lease of life when they are shown in concert-halls with symphony orchestras providing a live soundtrack. Eisenstein's great collaborations with Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, come down the years with power undimmed and there have been other successful examples more recently, such as Philip Glass's atmospheric score for Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.
As part of its weekend devoted to music on the theme of Joan of Arc, the London Symphony Orchestra introduced one more. In 1994, the American composer Richard Einhorn wrote an oratorio called Voices of Light inspired by Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc and this performance of his score was given with a showing of the original film as its accompaniment.
Or was it the other way round? Dreyer's 80-minute film of Joan of Arc's last days, from her trial to her death at the stake, is so concentrated in its depiction of the events and emotions involved that it is hard to see how a musical soundtrack could add much – though many have tried, including a new version by two pop musicians, Adrian Utley of Portishead and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, only last year.
At this Barbican showing, Einhorn's music felt an unwanted intruder, like a noisy late arrival at the cinema when the main feature has already started. Through the first half of the film, where Dreyer so penetratingly portrays the twists and turns of the religious authorities as they try to get Joan to incriminate herself, the music seemed irrelevant, left peddling mawkish religiosity in endless minor-key arpeggios. The second half is better, as Einhorn responds to the more straightforward narrative of Joan's journey to the stake with a heightened sense of variety. Nothing about it, though, is at all original.
There is no reason to criticise the performance by the LSO under conductor Marin Alsop or the contribution of Synergy Vocals and the London Symphony Chorus, subtly amplified to give the impression they were singing in a cathedral. Einhorn's score has won popularity as a standalone work. Performed here alongside its original inspiration in Dreyer's film, it quickly paled into insignificance.


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I've seen all the star wars movies and I think the best one of them all is episode I The Phantom Menace for the simple fact it had lots of action and was more entertaining than most of the other ones. Another thing is that I was fairly dissapointed with episode II Clone Wars because it was to mushy, but the battle between Yoda and Dooku was quite entertaining.:D