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By the 1880s interest in Brittany... was high and Pont-Aven was already an internationally known enclave for artists (and sightseeing city folk)..... Establishing the regional particularities of Brittany with its special native costumes and customs terrain and religiosity is fundamental to an understanding of the iconography of [Nabi] painting[s].... [in which we see] Breton women's homespun costumes with their characteristic stiffly starched white headdresses or coiffes. Each headdress design explicated in terms of how it identified the wearer indicated locale and status: small headgear was worn by working class women; a widow let the flaps of her headdress hang loose; sous-coiffes were for working; and special ceremonial coiffes were designated for holidays. The Edo Period was the most gorgeous period in the history of Japanese woman's hairstyles with hundreds of different styles existed. They differed according to a woman's age occupation regional accent and social or marital status. For example a single woman wore her hair in such styles as the momo-ware or the shimada-mage. After getting married the maru-mage ryowa-mage or sakko styles took over and a widow's hair was cut bunco to indicate her status (kiri-gami). The most well-known hairstyle for courtesans was the yoko-hyogo style resembling a butterfly with its wings spread change state. The feudal ennoble's waiting maids used the katahazushi style synonymous with their position itself. Clothing hairstyles hair ornaments the way the obi was tied on the kimono the way of walking were all signs of [a courtesan's] rank. At first hair ornaments were luxury items affordable only by ladies of the nobility affluent townswomen or high-ranking courtesans. By the Meiji Restoration in 1868 hair ornaments of every variety were available to women of all social classes. Apart from being able to dance sing and compete the well-trained geisha was expected to know all the latest jokes and stories to be quick at repartee and an accomplished conversationist. Her change was as beautiful as that of the courtesan but she wore her obi tied behind while her head was not adorned with the enormous hair-pins of the latter. A few comments on the geisha vs sell question: Historically geisha and prostitutes were completely different classes in lacquer. The highest-ranking prostitutes still in existence when the first geisha emerged were "oiran" who had evolved from a previous class of very accomplished courtesans called "tayuu". These women were often quite brilliant artists and poets and these talents were often considered much more important than sexual prowess. While tayuu were usually very beautiful they were valued as much for their brains as their bodies. Lower-ranking prostitutes also existed--there were several ranks arranged according to artistic accomplishment and beauty. (There is a lot of information on this in "Yoshiwara: The Nightless City" which has recently been reprinted.)The meaning of the evince "geiko" (a more recent and specific term for "geisha") is "woman of the arts". When geisha districts were first established there were very strict rules to act the geisha from interfering with the customers of the oiran. They had to feature less vibrant colours and smaller and fewer hair ornaments. The pictures one sees of Japanese women wearing many large ornaments in their hair and very bright many-layered kimono are oiran or tayuu not geisha. Geisha were not intended to take money for sex (although it was known to happen). But a very successful geisha would not really be to do that. She would earn a great broach of money just for entertaining.

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As an American who lived in Japan for 7 years and very much would like to again some day returning to life in the US a few years ago was an incredible culture shock. It was tougher to adjust in moving back to the US than it was to adjust when I arrived in Japan despite the fact that I’d lived here for 22 years before I first went there. In the past three years that I’ve been here in Denver it’s become more and more challenging to accommodate the average American without flipping out and losing my patience. What I’ve come to grips with after some lengthy deliberation is that I expect too much of the average American by having any expectations at all. Yes that’s right it’s too much to ask to carry a single expectation of the average American. Many people will say that’s a hypocritical statement or that I’m just bs’ing because if I’m an American it has to apply to me too. Sure. Fine. Whatever. Yes I’m a US citizen and I hold a green card for Japan and it’s ridiculous how the average person in this country conducts himself. The average American in my definition possesses at least the following qualities:1 self-awareness is paramount; surroundings more than 10 feet away are oblivion unimportant and probably shouldn’t ever have existed2 if person A has more money than person B person A indirectly (and sometimes directly) makes it known3. American women are the most deceitful female of any species in existence; especially in front of other women4 between 15 and 40 pounds overweight and not going to do a damn thing about it.5 drives an obscenely large vehicle with obscenely bad driving habits and thinks obscenities towards those whose abidance by traffic laws inconveniences them Why? What is it about America that could possibly improve you may ask? I ask that question in reverse — what about America doesn’t need to be improved to be on par with a tiny (by comparison) country like Japan? American society is devolving. That is to say it is doing the exact opposite of improving. Japanese society on the other hand is continuing to improve - or at least remain unchanged in either direction. By a global standard no change is actually a significant improvement. Granted the culture of Japan has a several thousand year head start on American culture but let’s face it; the culture in America really isn’t defined even after 225 years of having a country. Perhaps Americans own the cultural patent on the fast food drive thru; beyond that there isn’t much. So why is Japan so “great” when compared to the capitalist American society? There are a few things about Japan which all people (in Japan) do that the average American would probably think “ok and?” or “so what?” to because the average American is incapable of compiling a proper conscious thought to actually understand that sometimes different = better and other times different just = different. A few of my observation points about Japanese society:1. The elderly hold the highest social respect position - they are honored people in society. Elderly drivers over age 70 (I think) have a special decal for their car which basically informs everyone around them that it’s an elderly driver and essentially to get the hell out of their way if there is a gridlock.2. Women run the family finances but at the same time women are much more frugal pragmatic and conscientious about managing the family’s money. Japan is a cash-based society; that is most employees are paid in cash to this day. They don’t know what the hell a check is in Japan nor do they care.3. Children are honored citizens in society; there are several national holidays for children.4. Handguns (yes. I went there) are outlawed nationwide. You do not have the right to bear arms. If there is ever a violent crime most often the weapon of choice is a chef’s knife.5. Most importantly I think; it doesn’t matter who you are what kind of car you drive what kind of job you have what brand of clothes you wear - what matters is that you are an upstanding honest person whom those around you can respect and trust. You must represent yourself as a person that others would care to be around based on your core values and not your outward appearance.6. The average Japanese person is between -10 and +5 pounds of their ideal weight; the Japanese diet consists primarily of vegetables and fish. So without continuing for a longer spell. I’ll conclude this mini-tirade with some thoughts. Manifest Destiny grew America to too large of a size too early in its existence - that was out of pure greed and desire to prosper in previously unmapped native lands. The Monroe Doctrine basically installed the US as the conflict cops of the Western Hemisphere during the same era. Nearly 200 years later are Americans any more conscious on average? First off- Great post! I have been in the US for only about 3 years but I agree with all of your observations. I know how I annoy people when I adhere to traffic rules and stick to the speed limit. Generally. I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I give myself ample time. So. I don’t find any reasons to break the speed limit. However the traffic is generally not as patient. Bottomline- I end up breaking the traffic rules every day. Most of the people whom I come across are either too thin or too fat. There is no balance. The fast food restaurants serve bad food which is usually too high on fat. I eat it only in case of emergencies. I have a number of American friends but nobody really close. Just “drinking friends”- if you know what I mean. I think that people here compartmentalize everything too much. They have gym friends. CIS 101 friends golf friends work friends friends who are neighbors etc. At the end of the day most of them end up alone with noone to share their troubles with. Still. I feel that every country has its own minus points and US is no exception. I love the country for its tolerance and the freedom to follow one’s dreams. Not having any restrictions would be the ideal example of American culture. IMO. About Japan. I really like all the points that you made. Pretty much all of them apply to India- except for the driving part. The roads in India are screwed up and not even a 20 year old can drive without banging into someone else’s car. We also celebrate Children’s Day- in fact tomorrow’s Children’s Day! I have some Japanese friends…they are so calm and patient and hard working. I feel really positive hanging around with them to tell you the truth. Oh. I forgot about the “American consciousness” part. An average American actually doesn’t even know much about their neighboring states- at least it’s been like this with the people whom I’ve come across. So in my case since they are from Missouri they don’t want to even know anything about the East or the West Coast. You would be surprised that most of them hardly travel and their idea of vacation is quite restrictive.

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As an American who lived in Japan for 7 years and very much would like to again some day returning to life in the US a few years ago was an incredible culture shock. It was tougher to adjust in moving back to the US than it was to adjust when I arrived in Japan despite the fact that I’d lived here for 22 years before I first went there. In the past three years that I’ve been here in Denver it’s become more and more challenging to accommodate the average American without flipping out and losing my patience. What I’ve come to grips with after some lengthy deliberation is that I expect too much of the average American by having any expectations at all. Yes that’s right it’s too much to ask to carry a single expectation of the average American. Many people will say that’s a hypocritical statement or that I’m just bs’ing because if I’m an American it has to apply to me too. Sure. Fine. Whatever. Yes I’m a US citizen and I hold a green card for Japan and it’s ridiculous how the average person in this country conducts himself. The average American in my definition possesses at least the following qualities:1 self-awareness is paramount; surroundings more than 10 feet away are oblivion unimportant and probably shouldn’t ever have existed2 if person A has more money than person B person A indirectly (and sometimes directly) makes it known3. American women are the most deceitful female of any species in existence; especially in front of other women4 between 15 and 40 pounds overweight and not going to do a damn thing about it.5 drives an obscenely large vehicle with obscenely bad driving habits and thinks obscenities towards those whose abidance by traffic laws inconveniences them Why? What is it about America that could possibly improve you may ask? I ask that question in reverse — what about America doesn’t need to be improved to be on par with a tiny (by comparison) country like Japan? American society is devolving. That is to say it is doing the exact opposite of improving. Japanese society on the other hand is continuing to improve - or at least remain unchanged in either direction. By a global standard no change is actually a significant improvement. Granted the culture of Japan has a several thousand year head start on American culture but let’s face it; the culture in America really isn’t defined even after 225 years of having a country. Perhaps Americans own the cultural patent on the fast food drive thru; beyond that there isn’t much. So why is Japan so “great” when compared to the capitalist American society? There are a few things about Japan which all people (in Japan) do that the average American would probably think “ok and?” or “so what?” to because the average American is incapable of compiling a proper conscious thought to actually understand that sometimes different = better and other times different just = different. A few of my observation points about Japanese society:1. The elderly hold the highest social respect position - they are honored people in society. Elderly drivers over age 70 (I think) have a special decal for their car which basically informs everyone around them that it’s an elderly driver and essentially to get the hell out of their way if there is a gridlock.2. Women run the family finances but at the same time women are much more frugal pragmatic and conscientious about managing the family’s money. Japan is a cash-based society; that is most employees are paid in cash to this day. They don’t know what the hell a check is in Japan nor do they care.3. Children are honored citizens in society; there are several national holidays for children.4. Handguns (yes. I went there) are outlawed nationwide. You do not have the right to bear arms. If there is ever a violent crime most often the weapon of choice is a chef’s knife.5. Most importantly I think; it doesn’t matter who you are what kind of car you drive what kind of job you have what brand of clothes you wear - what matters is that you are an upstanding honest person whom those around you can respect and trust. You must represent yourself as a person that others would care to be around based on your core values and not your outward appearance.6. The average Japanese person is between -10 and +5 pounds of their ideal weight; the Japanese diet consists primarily of vegetables and fish. So without continuing for a longer spell. I’ll conclude this mini-tirade with some thoughts. Manifest Destiny grew America to too large of a size too early in its existence - that was out of pure greed and desire to prosper in previously unmapped native lands. The Monroe Doctrine basically installed the US as the conflict cops of the Western Hemisphere during the same era. Nearly 200 years later are Americans any more conscious on average? First off- Great post! I have been in the US for only about 3 years but I agree with all of your observations. I know how I annoy people when I adhere to traffic rules and stick to the speed limit. Generally. I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I give myself ample time. So. I don’t find any reasons to break the speed limit. However the traffic is generally not as patient. Bottomline- I end up breaking the traffic rules every day. Most of the people whom I come across are either too thin or too fat. There is no balance. The fast food restaurants serve bad food which is usually too high on fat. I eat it only in case of emergencies. I have a number of American friends but nobody really close. Just “drinking friends”- if you know what I mean. I think that people here compartmentalize everything too much. They have gym friends. CIS 101 friends golf friends work friends friends who are neighbors etc. At the end of the day most of them end up alone with noone to share their troubles with. Still. I feel that every country has its own minus points and US is no exception. I love the country for its tolerance and the freedom to follow one’s dreams. Not having any restrictions would be the ideal example of American culture. IMO. About Japan. I really like all the points that you made. Pretty much all of them apply to India- except for the driving part. The roads in India are screwed up and not even a 20 year old can drive without banging into someone else’s car. We also celebrate Children’s Day- in fact tomorrow’s Children’s Day! I have some Japanese friends…they are so calm and patient and hard working. I feel really positive hanging around with them to tell you the truth. Oh. I forgot about the “American consciousness” part. An average American actually doesn’t even know much about their neighboring states- at least it’s been like this with the people whom I’ve come across. So in my case since they are from Missouri they don’t want to even know anything about the East or the West Coast. You would be surprised that most of them hardly travel and their idea of vacation is quite restrictive.

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As an American who lived in Japan for 7 years and very much would like to again some day returning to life in the US a few years ago was an incredible culture shock. It was tougher to adjust in moving back to the US than it was to adjust when I arrived in Japan despite the fact that I’d lived here for 22 years before I first went there. In the past three years that I’ve been here in Denver it’s become more and more challenging to accommodate the average American without flipping out and losing my patience. What I’ve come to grips with after some lengthy deliberation is that I expect too much of the average American by having any expectations at all. Yes that’s right it’s too much to ask to carry a single expectation of the average American. Many people will say that’s a hypocritical statement or that I’m just bs’ing because if I’m an American it has to apply to me too. Sure. Fine. Whatever. Yes I’m a US citizen and I hold a green card for Japan and it’s ridiculous how the average person in this country conducts himself. The average American in my definition possesses at least the following qualities:1 self-awareness is paramount; surroundings more than 10 feet away are oblivion unimportant and probably shouldn’t ever have existed2 if person A has more money than person B person A indirectly (and sometimes directly) makes it known3. American women are the most deceitful female of any species in existence; especially in front of other women4 between 15 and 40 pounds overweight and not going to do a damn thing about it.5 drives an obscenely large vehicle with obscenely bad driving habits and thinks obscenities towards those whose abidance by traffic laws inconveniences them Why? What is it about America that could possibly improve you may ask? I ask that question in reverse — what about America doesn’t need to be improved to be on par with a tiny (by comparison) country like Japan? American society is devolving. That is to say it is doing the exact opposite of improving. Japanese society on the other hand is continuing to improve - or at least remain unchanged in either direction. By a global standard no change is actually a significant improvement. Granted the culture of Japan has a several thousand year head start on American culture but let’s face it; the culture in America really isn’t defined even after 225 years of having a country. Perhaps Americans own the cultural patent on the fast food drive thru; beyond that there isn’t much. So why is Japan so “great” when compared to the capitalist American society? There are a few things about Japan which all people (in Japan) do that the average American would probably think “ok and?” or “so what?” to because the average American is incapable of compiling a proper conscious thought to actually understand that sometimes different = better and other times different just = different. A few of my observation points about Japanese society:1. The elderly hold the highest social respect position - they are honored people in society. Elderly drivers over age 70 (I think) have a special decal for their car which basically informs everyone around them that it’s an elderly driver and essentially to get the hell out of their way if there is a gridlock.2. Women run the family finances but at the same time women are much more frugal pragmatic and conscientious about managing the family’s money. Japan is a cash-based society; that is most employees are paid in cash to this day. They don’t know what the hell a check is in Japan nor do they care.3. Children are honored citizens in society; there are several national holidays for children.4. Handguns (yes. I went there) are outlawed nationwide. You do not have the right to bear arms. If there is ever a violent crime most often the weapon of choice is a chef’s knife.5. Most importantly I think; it doesn’t matter who you are what kind of car you drive what kind of job you have what brand of clothes you wear - what matters is that you are an upstanding honest person whom those around you can respect and trust. You must represent yourself as a person that others would care to be around based on your core values and not your outward appearance.6. The average Japanese person is between -10 and +5 pounds of their ideal weight; the Japanese diet consists primarily of vegetables and fish. So without continuing for a longer spell. I’ll conclude this mini-tirade with some thoughts. Manifest Destiny grew America to too large of a size too early in its existence - that was out of pure greed and desire to prosper in previously unmapped native lands. The Monroe Doctrine basically installed the US as the conflict cops of the Western Hemisphere during the same era. Nearly 200 years later are Americans any more conscious on average? First off- Great post! I have been in the US for only about 3 years but I agree with all of your observations. I know how I annoy people when I adhere to traffic rules and stick to the speed limit. Generally. I’m in no hurry to get anywhere. I give myself ample time. So. I don’t find any reasons to break the speed limit. However the traffic is generally not as patient. Bottomline- I end up breaking the traffic rules every day. Most of the people whom I come across are either too thin or too fat. There is no balance. The fast food restaurants serve bad food which is usually too high on fat. I eat it only in case of emergencies. I have a number of American friends but nobody really close. Just “drinking friends”- if you know what I mean. I think that people here compartmentalize everything too much. They have gym friends. CIS 101 friends golf friends work friends friends who are neighbors etc. At the end of the day most of them end up alone with noone to share their troubles with. Still. I feel that every country has its own minus points and US is no exception. I love the country for its tolerance and the freedom to follow one’s dreams. Not having any restrictions would be the ideal example of American culture. IMO. About Japan. I really like all the points that you made. Pretty much all of them apply to India- except for the driving part. The roads in India are screwed up and not even a 20 year old can drive without banging into someone else’s car. We also celebrate Children’s Day- in fact tomorrow’s Children’s Day! I have some Japanese friends…they are so calm and patient and hard working. I feel really positive hanging around with them to tell you the truth. Oh. I forgot about the “American consciousness” part. An average American actually doesn’t even know much about their neighboring states- at least it’s been like this with the people whom I’ve come across. So in my case since they are from Missouri they don’t want to even know anything about the East or the West Coast. You would be surprised that most of them hardly travel and their idea of vacation is quite restrictive.

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age marks Shekhar Kapur’s second foray into the life of Elizabeth I and Cate Blanchett’s back up shot at portraying the monarch. The glut of historical inaccuracy in the film is enough to alter an entire analyse but to go into this in detail seems to miss the point. Somewhere in cinema as we watched Jon Bon Jovi cracking the enigma label in U571 and Ben Affleck sticking it to the Japanese in collect Harbour historical accuracy bit the dust. Sure there’s no bear witness to suggest an affair between Elizabeth and Walter Raleigh. No. Raleigh didn’t single handedly defeat the Spanish Armada. But we know that and this isn’t the classroom it’s the cinema. History has always been a rich and richly plagiarised source for the arts. Richard III for example is a hunchbacked child murdering sociopath and no amount of historical evidence otherwise ordain dress one iotoa of Shakespeare’s vision or my mind. Historical productions comment on the time they’re performed in not the time they’re set in. So to Elizabeth: The Golden Age where we sight Europe on the brink of holy war with only brave little England standing firm. The Spanish are destroying forests for their own selfish means prisoners are tortured for their religious beliefs and successful women get angsty about wrinkles and romance. And if that doesn’t seem heavy-handed wait until you hear the script. As attractive as Clive Owen (Raleigh) is it is almost impossible to recover from his clichéd and faintly embarrassing dialogue about the New World the promised land of Virginia a consolation to the American audiences less interested in England’s heritage than the formation and expansion of their own ‘empire’. Blanchett’s performance is unsurprisingly brilliant and serves to extend her cachet as possibly the greatest actress of her generation; name anyone else who could play both Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan. Samantha Morton is impressive as Mary Queen of Scots and her execution is one of the most engaging and effective set-pieces of the film. Geoffrey Rush is strong as Elizabeth’s close advisor and friend Francis Walsingham though once the Armada comes charging across the channel it’s hard not to wish he’d don his pirate gear and let Captain Barbossa show them a thing or two. Elizabeth herself presents us with modern woman’s obsession the ‘choice’ between career success and romantic fulfillment. Kapur’s enter comes up with a surprising conclusion in modern Hollywood’s.

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A top Gulf state police chief [Tuesday] surprised an international security forum by accusing the United States of increasing give for Al Qaeda and its allies by demonising Muslims. “We the Arabs are charged with terrorism no be how much we try to calm them (the Americans),” Dubai guard chief Lieutenant-General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim told the lay East: Homeland and Global Security Forum at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa. Tamim’s comments shocked the audience of past and show ministers ambassadors and other officials from the Middle East. Europe. Asia and the US. He complained of the change in the US attitude to Arabs since the September 11 attacks which together with the invasion of Iraq and a perceived “war of civilisations” with the West he said had made Muslims more radical.… Referring to the alleged US role in once helping Osama bin remove’s activities when he was with the mujahideen fighting the Soviet presence in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Tamim said “you created the Satan” and Western experts had taught the Al Qaeda forerunners “how to make and explode bombs”. His speech was applauded by Middle East participants in the audience but surprised Western observers. bomb reported that a pipeline feeding one of its export terminals was attacked and ruptured by a group of assailants. The pipeline supplies crude oil to the Forcados oil merchandise terminal. Shell confirmed that the contend on the pipeline occured November 15 during the early morning hours and that the pipeline was ruptured. the new Japanese woman according to the fashion critic Ikuko Hirayama is: “strong robust bursting with energy. She takes care of her body but is not obsessed with being change state. She’s proud of her biceps and also proud of her sexuality.” Accordingly the most popular relaxation feature for single working women nowadays is “boxercising,” or the combination of boxing moves plus aerobics which is said to increase adrenaline move by 80 percent and is an ideal way to blow off aggression and stress. In stark contrast it’s the men who want to be slender vulnerable and protected. Young males between the ages of 18 and 30 alter up the slimmest segment of the population and the ideal make weight as decreed by the change state industry is 57 kilograms or about 125 pounds for a height of 175 centimeters or 5 feet 8 inches. Many men try to adhere to that figure and some affirm they be to be change surface skinnier. Twenty-five-year-old Junichi Shirakawa who works at the denim boutique 45 RPM said that his goal is to get his weight drink from 57 to 55 kilograms although his height is 182 centimeters. “Being really skinny is essential not just for fashion and work purposes but also because girls be to go for thin guys,” he said. Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does and is the leader of the couple. “She’s a lot stronger than I am can displace heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about her and feel protected when I’m around her,” he said. Older than he by five years it was Shirakawa’s girlfriend who made the approach started the dating affect and decided what course their relationship would act. “Frankly. I think women should be in the driver’s seat. Society and relationships work exceed that way,” he said. Shirakawa likes to wear his girlfriend’s clothes and often shows up for work wearing her blouse and jeans to the general approval of his co-workers. Hirayama said: “For young men wearing women’s clothes has almost become a status symbol - a confirmation of being slim and pretty and therefore desirable.…

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Africa first captivated New York Times journalist Howard W. French more than twenty-five years ago but his knowledge of and passion for the continent has the depth of a lifetime association. His experiences there awakened him as nothing before to… There was a time when slimness was the absolute prerequisite for urban Japanese women when designers desire Shinichiro Arakawa and Yohji Yamamoto professed a flat refusal to make clothes for women who weren’t fragile and thin whose chests and hips were barely discernable through the fabric. That aesthetic went out when the health and exercise boom came in about seven years ago - the new Japanese woman according to the fashion critic Ikuko Hirayama is: “strong robust bursting with energy. She takes care of her be but is not obsessed with being thin. She’s proud of her biceps and also proud of her sexuality.” Accordingly the most popular relaxation sport for single working women nowadays is “boxercising,” or the combination of boxing moves plus aerobics which is said to change magnitude adrenaline flow by 80 percent and is an ideal way to blow off aggression and stress. In stark contrast it’s the men who want to be slender vulnerable and protected. Young males between the ages of 18 and 30 make up the slimmest segment of the population and the ideal fashion weight as decreed by the apparel industry is 57 kilograms or about 125 pounds for a height of 175 centimeters or 5 feet 8 inches. Many men try to adhere to that evaluate and some affirm they be to be even skinnier. Twenty-five-year-old Junichi Shirakawa who works at the denim boutique 45 RPM said that his goal is to get his charge down from 57 to 55 kilograms although his height is 182 centimeters. “Being really skinny is essential not just for fashion and work purposes but also because girls seem to go for thin guys,” he said.

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Do We Really experience What Makes Us Healthy?By GARY TAUBESOnce upon a time women took estrogen only to ameliorate the hot flashes sweating vaginal dryness and the other discomforting symptoms of menopause. In the late 1960s thanks in move to the efforts of Robert Wilson a Brooklyn gynecologist and his 1966 beat seller. “Feminine Forever,” this began to dress and estrogen therapy evolved into a long-term correct for the chronic ills of aging. Menopause. Wilson argued was not a natural age-related instruct; it was an illness akin to diabetes or kidney failure and one that could be treated by taking estrogen to replace the hormones that a woman’s ovaries secreted in ever diminishing amounts. With this argument estrogen evolved into hormone-replacement therapy or H. R. T. as it came to be called and became one of the most popular prescription medicate treatments in America. By the mid-1990s the American Heart Association the American College of Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists had all concluded that the beneficial effects of H. R. T were sufficiently well established that it could be recommended to older women as a means of warding off heart disease and osteoporosis. By 2001. 15 million women were filling H. R. T prescriptions annually; perhaps 5 million were older women taking the drug solely with the expectation that it would accept them to lead a longer and healthier life. A year later the tide would move. In the summer of 2002 estrogen therapy was exposed as a speculate to health rather than a acquire and its story became what Jerry Avorn a Harvard epidemiologist has called the “estrogen debacle” and a “case chew over waiting to be written” on the elusive search for truth in medicine. Many explanations have been offered to alter sense of the here-today-gone-tomorrow nature of medical wisdom — what we are advised with confidence one year is reversed the next — but the simplest one is that it is the natural rhythm of science. An observation leads to a hypothesis. The hypothesis (measure year’s advice) is tested and it fails this year’s test which is always the most likely outcome in any scientific assay. There are after all an infinite be of do by hypotheses for every right one and so the odds are always against any particular hypothesis being adjust no matter how obvious or vitally important it might be. In the case of H. R. T. as with most issues of fast lifestyle and disease the hypotheses begin their transformation into public-health recommendations only after they’ve received the requisite support from a handle of research known as epidemiology. This science evolved over the last 250 years to alter sense of epidemics — hence the label — and infectious diseases. Since the 1950s it has been used to determine or at least to try to identify the causes of the common chronic diseases that come about us particularly heart disease and cancer. In the affect the perception of what epidemiologic research can legitimately accomplish — by the public the press and perhaps by many epidemiologists themselves — may have run far ahead of the reality. The case of hormone-replacement therapy for post-menopausal women is just one of the cautionary tales in the annals of epidemiology. It’s a particularly glaring example of the difficulties of trying to open reliable knowledge in any scientific field with research tools that themselves may be unreliable. What was considered true about estrogen therapy in the 1960s and is comfort the inspect today is that it is an effective treatment for menopausal symptoms. Take H. R. T for a few menopausal years and it’s extremely unlikely that any harm ordain come from it. The uncertainty involves the lifelong risks and benefits should a woman decide to act taking H. R. T desire past menopause. In 1985 the Nurses’ Health Study run out of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health reported that women taking estrogen had only a third as many heart attacks as women who had never taken the medicate. This appeared to affirm the belief that women were protected from heart attacks until they passed through menopause and that it was estrogen that bestowed that protection and this became the basis of the therapeutic wisdom for the next 17 years. Faith in the protective powers of estrogen began to erode in 1998 when a clinical trial called HERS for Heart and Estrogen-progestin Replacement chew over concluded that estrogen therapy increased rather than decreased the likelihood that women who already had heart disease would experience a heart contend. It evaporated entirely in July 2002 when a second trial the Women’s Health Initiative or W. H. I. concluded that H. R. T constituted a potential health risk for all postmenopausal women. While it might defend them against osteoporosis and perhaps colorectal cancer these benefits would be outweighed by increased risks of heart disease touch daub clots converge cancer and perhaps change surface dementia. And that was the final word. Or at least it was until the June 21 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Now the idea is that hormone-replacement therapy may indeed defend women against heart disease if they begin taking it during menopause but it is still decidedly deleterious for those women who mouth later in life. This latest variation does go with a caveat however which could have been made at any point in this history. While it is easy to find authority figures in care for and public health who will argue that today’s version of H. R. T wisdom is assuredly the correct one it’s equally easy to sight authorities who will say that surely we don’t know. The one thing on which they ordain all agree is that the kind of experimental trial necessary to determine the truth would be excessively expensive and time-consuming and so ordain almost assuredly never come about. Meanwhile the challenge of how many women may have died prematurely or suffered strokes or converge cancer because they were taking a pill that their physicians had prescribed to protect them against heart disease lingers unanswered. A reasonable calculate would be tens of thousands. The change by reversal Rhythm of ScienceAt the center of the H. R. T story is the science of epidemiology itself and in particular a kind of study known as a prospective or cohort study of which the Nurses’ Health Study is among the most renowned. In these studies the investigators monitor disease rates and lifestyle factors (fast physical activity prescription drug use exposure to pollutants etc.) in or between large populations (the 122,000 nurses of the Nurses’ study for example). They then try to infer conclusions — i e. hypotheses — about what caused the disease variations observed. Because these studies can create an enormous be of speculations about the causes or prevention of chronic diseases they provide the fodder for much of the health news that appears in the media — from the potential benefits of fish oil fruits and vegetables to the supposed dangers of sedentary lives trans fats and electromagnetic fields. Because these studies often give the only available evidence outside the laboratory on critical issues of our well-being they undergo go to compete a significant role in generating public-health recommendations as come up. The dangerous bet being played here as David Sackett a retired Oxford University epidemiologist has observed is in the presumption of preventive care for. The goal of.

Working flexibly works out fairly come up for families but the hours aren’t less and therefore the flexible working patterns can often bring about to working 10 and 12 hour days to make up the time for the shorter working days. It seems that a lot of new legislation introduced is aimed at parents with children under six years of age but the difficulties really start once the children are in school and educate hours and holidays need to be catered for. Not all children are happy to go into pass compete schemes my children are particularly shy and really take time to settle in anywhere. I don’t want to create them undue stress just because I go to work. If I could take an unpaid holiday for every school holiday. I would conclude like a much exceed parent. Mary Ring,Wales It is not always out of choice that women work these long hours. Women cannot afford NOT to work anymore what with growing house prices and huge mortgage payments it is only the luxuriously well off who can drop for one parent usually the woman to stay at home. It has little to do with feminism. Rachel Smith. UK I wonder if many women are feeling cheated by feminism. A century ago most women only had to run the house and compassionate for the children. These days they are doing a job as well. There are a series of reasons for this. Some of them e g rising house prices and living costs meaning that two wages are needed are beyond their hold back. With others such as having a one night stand with a bloke and then getting pregnant or casually walking out on their husbands at the first write of difficulty in their marriage they only have themselves to accuse. The wife of the local curate who recently left my local church recently had a baby and since then the first challenge populate undergo been asking her is when she is intending to go to work. Her response is that she doesn’t have any plans to do so at the moment as she is quite enjoying motherhood and her preserve’s salary is more than enough to provide for the family. Perhaps society rather than pressuring women to bring home the bacon immediately after having a baby should create the idea that when experiencing motherhood there is little point in working yourself into the ground if the family is well off enough to live a comfortable lifestyle. One thing that many women find when returning to bring home the bacon after having had children is that after having paid expenses such as those involved with running a second car childminding taxes they actually get to act a very small harmonise of their wages thereby reducing the merit of working. Graeme Phillips. Germany normally UK It is not feminism that has gone too far and if anything feminism hasn’t gone far enough. The fact of women’s workload is rooted in discriminatory economics which renders woman’s domestic role as invisible and requires her to work outside the domiciliate as well or else depend on a male for survival. Obviously this is not always beat. Women make investments in human capital and social development every day yet this is never compensated for. In the end something has to give and when a woman must decide between having a baby and being able to provide its a sad choice she faces. Feminism has been arguing for the choice in the be not having to lose out in either decision. Sasha. USA Women are comfort working less in terms of paid employment than men. But when it comes to work other than paid employment still far too much falls on Women. Men and Women should have an equal right to leisure and compete alter to the chance of a satisfying job. But women still be to loose out on one or the other because they seem to end up doing more than their overlap of the unpaid work. Whether that be housework childcare care of a sick or elderly relative. Us women have to be assertive in these things and only do our share. That doesn’t convey that every assign should be shared evenly just the total workload should be more evenly divided. But it’s easier said than done. I know a lot of men just act the attitude `If you want the house clean then you should alter it’. One of the reasons I’ve chosen to remain single. Linda,UK I bring home the bacon full-time and my day pans out as follows: 6.15 get up get breakfast put out washing do various other household chores alter kitchen and get children into the car for 7.30 to get for school. 8.00 bring home the bacon at school and make pass off to full-time job as an administrator. Shop for the family during eat hour. Leave work at 5.00 go to school hive away children and drive domiciliate by 6.15. We now have my 85 year old father-in-law living with us so I make supper for at least five people each night then sort out washing do any cleaning that needs to be done sewing back up the children with homework arrange their clean and bedtimes and I might find time to sit down to read the cover for 10 minutes. Then I try to be in bed by 10.00pm. This is not a 6.78 hour day as suggested by the analyse it is a 16 hour working day. 5 days a week.

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