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I know LoF partially addressed this in his last paragraph, but I was watching a special on anorexia last night and it was hard not to notice how much deeper that problem is than just having too much airbrushing on magazine covers. Here is a statement I found online about causes of eating disorders: "There is no single cause for eating disorders. Although concerns about weight and body shape play a role in all eating disorders, the actual cause of these disorders appear to result from many factors, including those that are genetic and neurobiologic, cultural and social, and behavioral and psychologic. Although much has been written about the role of families and parenting as causes of eating disorders, there is no evidence supporting this claim." So is censoring really going to fix this problem? I'm not saying it will not help, I just wonder at what point we get diminishing returns.

I don't think most reasonable people will disagree with you that the media plays a large role in the body issues of many young women, but your means to an end are not acceptable to me. I would rather fight this problem through education, offering alternative publications, and working to create more healthy female role models than blanket censorship. Also, I'm a fan of free will. But I was probably brainwashed into believing that

I thought the first three paragraphs were fairly reflective and interesting. But then it jumped the shark.

He does try to cast doubt that Bin Laden had a hand in 9/11. I don't really get the whole idea of defending Bin Laden. I get that the evidence is lacking, but when a guy goes out of his way to confess to such a heinous act, it is pretty safe to accept that and do whatever you can to make sure he is unable to do anything like it again.

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That sounds more like realism than imbalance. Balance is overrated.

I picked up BFBC2: Vietnam for $7.50 today, pretty nice price. It is fantastic, they really captured the Vietnam war movie vibe well. I got beat down pretty hard though.

I might go back over it with Netflix, I lost interest in the first season at some point, but it sounds like it got better over time.

Happy Mother's Day to Di, and anyone else here who gave birth!

While The Architect does appear in the books, Awakening actually felt better for me having not read them. He appears as a mysterious figure for a while. Then he explains who and what he is, and his motives. If I'd read the books, the suspense would have been lost and the reveal would have been redundant. Compared to WoW: Cataclysm where Thrall and Garrosh's changes are a big "what did I miss" moment. Do they ever explain why there is a dwarf mute following him around in the game?

I don't know how the Dragon Age expansion, Awakenings, even make sense if you don't read the book first. So I guess I'm comfortable with this whole approach of using different formats to move story forward.

The graphics look pretty good. Hopefully it will come out eventually.

That is phenomenal. It really helps with the whole "How do you want to go?" question.

Not anymore than an expansion establishing canon would bother me. Actually I think it is pretty great, it gives me a reason to boot ME2 up again, and for $7 I get a little prequel story to tide me over until ME3 comes out. Regardless, I doubt you will be lost in the story if you don't play the DLC. I think the lame outfits and weapons is a lot worse as DLC. Why bother with that? I want story.

Nabakov might be available, and he's already got the connections to the Russian players on the team. I'm not sure where his skills are at though with a season away and being a bit older.

So has anyone played the new DLc for ME2? I think it's called the Arrival. Apparently it sets up the story for the 3rd game.

Aren't those just exit polls?

I'm supposed to go to the doctor about my blood pressure, it has been high the last few times I've been to a doctors office. Apparently it is genetic, my mom is very healthy but she has to take medication for her blood pressure. I'm in my early 30's so I guess this is the time where stuff starts to happen like this. I'd barely call it a panic attack, so hopefully it was nothing. But there have been more of these moments where I feel my blood pressure rising lately. It's been pretty much this last year, and I think I can say it has quite a bit to do with having a baby and a 4-year old around the house. A good night's sleep is a rarity and the house erupts in chaos every few minutes.

I was going to say this reminds me of that time I went along with my wife to Yoga Pilates. Brutal stuff.

I'm in a bit of shock that San Jose is up 3-0. I hope they finish it off quickly, I don't want the Wings to hang around. I am shocked at how the Caps went down, but the Lightning do look like a very dynamic team right now. It's looking like the Bruins versus the bolts in the East, although we've seen Boston go up 3-0 on Philly before... ;-)

I hear the sequel "Marriage" is really good at the start, but goes down hill quickly. depends on how good a player you are, both during the game prior to wedding, and after marriage. If you did well enough, it only get's better as you get further along. That's a bug. I hear it gets fixed in the next patch. I downloaded the boy and girl DLC's. They were pretty pricey, and there was a lot of grinding out diaper and bottle changes, but the AI is super impressive.

I get that I should be doing it, I mean I really want to do it. I want to be the best teacher I can, of course. I just feel like I have no feasible shot at success. I could do it with 20 students per class and about half the amount of curriculum. That's why I enjoyed teaching summer school, I had half the kids and I was only expected to cover one unit.

I had this slight panic attack today. We are having a meeting on assessing student learning, and how to help students self-assess. I started to panic. I have 37 students in every class and I have to cover 11 huge units in one school year. How the **** do I also teach them to self-assess, then look at what they learned and go back over concepts they didn't get? My blood pressure went up and I excused myself from the room. I need to stop typing because it is happening again.

I think maybe there is a language barrier or something. He seems like a reasonable enough fellow, but there are some pretty big gaps in communication going on between the two threads.