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Julesy Feb 11 2008, 02:01 PM Post #401
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Bride dies during marriage's first dance Sat Feb 9, 7:04 PM ET



DAVIE, Fla. - Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony.

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But less than an hour after she and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband's arms during a Greek song that means "Love Me."

At 36, Sjostrom was dead from heart disease.

The wedding had became a project at Davie Elementary School, where Sjostrom taught first grade. Fellow teachers provided the wedding gown, the flowers and decorations. One of them, an ordained minister, performed the ceremony.

"It was perfect for her," said Dominic Church, the minister friend.

Sjostrom carried blue and white flowers during the ceremony — the colors of the Greek flag — as she exchanged vows with Efkarpides, a 43-year-old carpenter and Navy veteran. They had met three years to the day before the Jan. 19 wedding.

During the couple's first dance, Sjostrom complained of being lightheaded. Efkarpides thought his wife, a diabetic, needed sugar, but she collapsed.

Wedding guests, paramedics and doctors at a nearby hospital were unable to revive her.

She had a previous cardiac episode in her 20s and was a poster child — literally — for juvenile diabetes, relatives and friends said. Efkarpides recalled seeing the poster featuring her on New York subways.

He consoles himself by reading a list of "101 Reasons Why I Love You" that Sjostrom gave him their first Christmas together. "Number 1. You make me smile."

No. 98 is especially difficult: "You're the one I want to grow old with."



thats so fucking sad
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Serpy Feb 11 2008, 02:52 PM Post #402
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Oh god that is such a sad story!!! I feel so bad for them :(
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Julesy Feb 11 2008, 02:53 PM Post #403
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can you imagine?

and that list is so effing sad to top it off!
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 11 2008, 05:25 PM Post #405
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that is horrible
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F*ck that's heavy. Heartbreaking...
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Julesy Feb 14 2008, 06:55 PM Post #407
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In Romance, Looks Matters Most to the Beautiful Jeanna Bryner

Thu Feb 14, 10:35 AM ET



In the world of romance, we seek out partners who are just as "hot" or "not hot" as we are.

A new study supports the idea that super models flock together while individuals lacking the perfect face and body also stick together.

"Beautiful people marry beautiful people and less beautiful people marry less beautiful people," said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management.

But that doesn't mean less-attractive people are destined to lives of unrequited love and feelings of just settling for the mediocre. The study results, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, suggest people who lack looks place more stock in non-physical features, such as sense of humor, than in physical beauty.

Guys, however, are less concerned with their own looks when deciding whom to date, the findings suggest. So while a man might have no qualms about going after someone much better looking than he is, a woman will tend more to choose partners with compatible looks.

Another recent study suggests that, in general, for both men and women physical attractiveness guides cupid's arrow. This research did not account for each individual's own looks.

Hot or not

What makes for a "hot" appearance? Research has shown that people have essentially universal standards of beauty, including large eyes, "baby face" features, symmetric faces, so-called average faces, and specific waist-hip ratios in men versus women.

Ariely, Leonard Lee of Columbia University's Business School in New York, and their colleagues looked at information from an online dating Web site called HOTorNOT.com, which allows members to rate others on their physical attractiveness.

They focused on a 10-day period in August 2005 to figure out how an individual's attractiveness rating affected how that person rated others' physical attractiveness on a scale from 1 to the hottest value of 10. Then, the researchers compared the average hot-or-not ratings for each person with the number of dating requests.

On average, participants paired up with others having compatible attractiveness. Compared with the ladies, guys were most influenced by physical attractiveness when requesting dates, but their own appearance ratings had less effect on their date choices.

"Males are less affected by how attractive they themselves are than females," Lee said in a telephone interview. Guys were more likely than ladies to request dates out of their league.

Individuals who slid furthest down the hot-or-not scale seemed more desperate, as they were the most likely to respond "yes" to any date requests. For every unit decrease on the 10-point scale of the member's own attractiveness the member was 25 percent more likely to say "yes" to a potential date.

The hot-rated members were choosier, tending to accept only dates from others in their attractiveness neighborhood.

Beauty in the eye of the beholder?

The researchers wondered whether beauty standards varied depending on a person's own outward appearance.

"If I'm less attractive, which I am, and I hang out with less attractive people, you can imagine I start appreciating different things," Ariely told LiveScience. "I [might] start caring less about symmetry and I start thinking more that big ears could be cute. But that doesn't seem to happen."

Regardless of their hot rating, individuals came to the same consensus regarding the hotness of other members.

"Whereas less attractive people are willing to accept less attractive others as dating partners, they do not delude themselves into thinking that these less attractive others are, in fact, physically attractive," they write in the journal article.

Looks can be overrated

To understand how the physically-lacking individuals cope with the cards they were dealt, the researchers conducted a speed-dating study.

At the event sponsored by a Boston-based online dating company, 24 participants indicated how high they rated the relative importance of six criteria - physical attractiveness, intelligence, sense of humor, kindness, confidence and extroversion - for selecting dates. The participants then chatted for four minutes with each potential date, after which they rated each other on physical attractiveness and decided whether to meet up again with that person.

Turned out, more attractive people placed more importance on physical attractiveness above other features in selecting their dates. Less attractive people placed more weight on other qualities, such as sense of humor.

"The people who are less attractive basically switch what they care about and they start caring less about beauty and more about sense of humor," Ariely said.

Another recent speed-dating study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, revealed that the attractiveness of a potential partner is critical, followed by ambition and earnings.

"In other words good looks was the primary stimulus of attraction for both men and women, and a person with good earning prospects or ambition tended to be liked as well," said study researcher Eli Finkel, an assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University in Illinois


pish posh with this study

Ill take a cute boy whos average but cute to me
not a sexy asshole.

I like normal guys :lovah
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Auntie Maine Feb 14 2008, 10:52 PM Post #408
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I like normal too.never cared for "pretty boys".Especially if they think they are pretty.
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 15 2008, 12:07 AM Post #409
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I think this study has merit. I think I date guys who are on the same attractiveness as me. I dont consider myself good looking, at most slightly above average, but only slightly and I would say that all the men I have dated are the same, not really hot but good looking only a notch or two more than average looks I would say and I typically also date guys who are around the same height as me, never date a guy who is a lot taller than me.

Hell Cedric kind of looked like me except black and a man. We both have big round eyes and chubby cheeks and the same height

The tallest guy I ever dated was 6'0, I am 5'7. I remember that guy, his name was Lenny and I dated him for about a month, month and a half like 8 years ago. He was a white boy too.

Graham is 5'11, he is the second tallest I have ever dated. My ex Hasan was the shortest at 5'5
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lol I guess I date a bit below me.
my grandparents and uncles thought my guy wasnt so good for me, due to his looks.
eff if we meshed and got along and he has a good job and treats me right.
they still want to see me with someone like my sisters husband (hes half white with blonde-ish hair and blue-green eyes)
never gonna happen

I hate people
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 15 2008, 12:21 AM Post #411
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looks are far from being everything

I am not even sure whom I would consider to have been the best looking guy I have been with. *scratches head* possibly darwin except for his shortness (he is 5'6) but as far as his face and hair he is probably the best looking
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Julesy Feb 15 2008, 12:25 AM Post #412
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lol

I love everything about my man.
that should count...yes?
I find him cutie pie or hot everytime I see him.

I was soo pissed when my mum told me that my family didnt think he was so hot.

FUCK YOU!
I FUCK HIM.
NOT YOU !
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Belichick has been taping since 2000, Goodell tells Specter
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
February 13, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bill Belichick has been illegally taping opponents' defensive signals since he became the New England Patriots' coach in 2000, according to Sen. Arlen Specter, who said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told him that during a meeting Wednesday.

"There was confirmation that there has been taping since 2000, when Coach Belichick took over," Specter said.

Specter said Goodell gave him that information during the 1-hour, 40-minute meeting, which was requested by Specter so the commissioner could explain his reasons for destroying the Spygate tapes and notes.

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"There were a great many questions answered by Commissioner Goodell," Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters after the meeting. "I found a lot of questions unanswerable because of the tapes and notes had been destroyed."

Goodell said Belichick told him he believed the taping was legal; Goodell said he did not concur.

"He said that's always been his interpretation since he's been the head coach," the commissioner said. "We are going to agree to disagree on the facts."

Specter, from Pennsylvania, wants to talk to other league officials about what exactly was taped and which games may have been compromised.

"We have a right to have honest football games," he said.

Goodell noted that "we were the ones that disclosed" the Patriots' illegal taping of the New York Jets' defensive signals in Week 1 of last season. Further, Goodell said, they had an admission by Belichick.

"I have nothing to hide," Goodell said.

Goodell also told Specter that that he doesn't regret destroying the Spygate tapes or the notes.

"I think it was the right thing to do," Goodell said.

Still, Specter wants to know why penalties were imposed on Belichick before the full extent of the wrongdoing was known and the tapes destroyed in a two-week span. Asked if he thinks there was a coverup, Specter demurred.

"There was an enormous amount of haste," Specter said.

He scoffed at the reasons Goodell gave for destroying the tapes and notes, particularly about trying to keep them out of competitors' hands and because Belichick had admitted to the taping.

"What's that got to do with it? There's an admission of guilt, you preserve the evidence," Specter said. As for keeping the tapes out of the hands of others: "All you have to do is lock up the tapes."

Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team was fined $250,000 because of the Spygate incident. The Patriots also forfeited a first-round draft pick.

Specter has questioned the quality of the NFL's investigation into the matter and raised the possibility of congressional hearings if he wasn't satisfied with Goodell's answers. Specter also raised the threat of Congress canceling the league's antitrust exemption and reiterated that in the meeting with Goodell.

Goodell also said he has not heard from Matt Walsh, the former Patriots employee who performed some videotaping duties for the team.

Walsh told The Associated Press last week during the Pro Bowl in Hawaii that he couldn't talk about allegations that he taped a walkthrough practice by the St. Louis Rams before the 2002 Super Bowl. New England, a two-touchdown underdog, won that game 20-17.

Goodell said he has offered Walsh a deal whereby "he has to tell the truth and he has to return anything he took improperly" in return for indemnity. Specter said he, too, wanted to talk to Walsh and perhaps offer a different deal.

Goodell also said he reserves the right to reopen the investigation if more information is uncovered.






this just makes me even more glad that the Pats lost the Superbowl, they dont deserve the fucktards. It seems like the NFL is practically letting this just slide by, acting as if it isnt that big of a deal, I think it is. I mean it is hard to determine just how much this video taping has contributed to their success, that really cant be determined except to see how good they are without the taping of play calls. To me this is like on the same level as the baseball players taking steroids. Both are forms of cheating
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pats suck and I liked Brady
I even had a thread bout him in the old Garden

meh..... :michele
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actually Monty might be the best looking guy that I have ever been with, he is pretty good looking. His smile alone just melts me every time
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pats suck and I liked Brady
I even had a thread bout him in the old Garden

meh..... :michele

you did? I dont remember that. I am asking myself why isnt Belecheck stripped of his job as a head coach? I think he should be if you ask me
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Julesy Feb 15 2008, 01:01 AM Post #417
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lol my guy would be ugly compared

Ive always dated not hot guys

my friend Sarah says I can totally get better hotter guys
I DONT WANT IT
my guy to me is cute


lol I either have really low self esteem or great taste. lol
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la anaconda de chocolatee Feb 15 2008, 01:03 AM Post #418
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you have great taste and so does Richie!
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Julesy Feb 15 2008, 01:06 AM Post #419
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:clap
we are made for eachother
thats all :;
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Danish scientists find way to tell age through eyes Tue Feb 19, 1:09 PM ET



LONDON (Reuters) - A new way to decipher a person's age by looking into the lens of the eye could help forensic scientists identify bodies, Danish researchers said on Tuesday.

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Their new technique uses radiocarbon dating to measure special proteins known as lens crystallines that develop around birth and remain unchanged for the rest of our lives. They are the only part of the body apart from teeth that do so.

The researchers correctly identified the ages of 13 people within one-and-a-half years by analyzing a carbon isotope called carbon 14 trapped inside the crystallines, they reported in the journal PLoS One.

"In forensics we are always looking for ways to identify deceased persons," said Niels Lynnerup, a forensic scientist at the University of Copenhagen, who led the study.

"We found with this method you can determine almost to the year, the year of birth."

Scientists have long used radiocarbon to date fossils or bones. More recently, researchers have applied the technique to tooth enamel to tell the age of people who have recently died, Lynnerup said.

The technique employed in the lens analysis is based on the sudden increase in atmospheric carbon 14 beginning in the 1950s until a test ban a few years later when the Soviet Union and the United States began testing nuclear bombs.

These experiments more than doubled the amount of atmospheric carbon 14, which gradually began to decline toward normal levels after the ban, Lynnerup said.

Scientists have recorded these levels annually, giving the Danish team a benchmark to date a person's birth by matching the corresponding year in which the carbon 14 atmospheric content was as high as in the person's eye lens.

The researchers also said their technique could one day help scientists in other fields date proteins and other molecules in the body to determine when cancer tissues or cells develop.

The new method offers certain advantages.

For one, lifting up the eyelid to extract the lens is often much easier then extracting part of the tooth needed for an accurate reading, he said.

The downside is that a lens disappears after a few days as the body decays while a tooth provides a sample scientists can use even after a few years, Lynnerup said.

"Removing the lens is completely identical to a cataract operation," he said in a telephone interview.


if thats the case they would think I was 100 yrs old. My eyesight is horrible.
without glasses of contacts Im relatively blind.
seriously. no way I can drive without either or.
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