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- A young girls search for absolute perfection

- Pressures Of Perfection

- Seeking Perfection

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PERFECTION23.5”

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perfectionHas the search for

gone to far?W hen Mary-Kate Olsen's family

announced four weeks ago that she had entered treatment for an eating disorder, many fans weren't surprised. Photos of the actress in recent months had pictured an alarmingly thin girl with stick legs and sharp shoulder blades.What's most surprising is that, to some fans, those photos weren't alarming, but inspiring.

"I admire her," wrote one 19-year-old girl about Mary-Kate's increasingly gaunt appearance on a teen Web site's message board devoted to eating disorders. The girl had cut out the skinniest pictures of Mary-Kate, she wrote, "and pasted them in my journal, because that is what I am striving to look like." Indeed, to the message-sender and others like her, Mary-Kate "epitomized the perfect 18-year-old," says Dr. Allyson Cherkasky, clinical director of eating-disorder services at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, Mass. "She's very thin and very beautiful and represented having it all." Surrounded by images of young celebrities who are painfully thin—or very slender with improbably large breasts—girls growing up today can feel immense pressure to meet the same standard.

Trying hard to look like their idols, some fall prey to eating disorders, and some abuse drugs to help them lose weight. Others, familiar with TV shows like

Extreme Makeover and The Swan that make physical transformation look so easy, turn to plastic surgery. According to the American Society for aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 11,326 girls aged 18 and under got breast implants last year—triple the number from 2002. "These glamorous teen celebrities seem to have it made," says Dr. Susan Sabin, site director of the outpatient program at the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia. Ironically, young celebrities themselves are hardly immune from the pressure. "In this industry it's at a huge, elevated level," says the Sopranos' Jamie-Lynn DiScala, 23, who suffered from anorexia and now works as a spokeswoman for the National Eating Disorders Association."When you're sitting in an audition waiting room, how can you not look at every other girl around you and start comparing yourself?" Jessica Simpson, whom young girls often mention as someone they want to look like, says she struggles with her own body image. "I've been there, trust me," says the pop star, 24. "When I was younger, I tried to be skinny.

There is so much pressure today's society to look like the girl on the cover of the magazine. But [those photos] are airbrushed and have special lighting. She's gone, through two hours of hair and makeup. That just sets expectations.

”It appears that their lives are trouble-free, happy and constantly entertaining—and the vehicle to all that is a perfect, skinny body”

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celebrities who are painfully thin—or very slender with improbably large

breasts—girls growing up today can feel immense pressure to meet

the same standard.

Try telling that to a young girl who believes the route to happiness is looking perfect, just like her favorite stars.

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Gradually it looks less pleasing. Not less pleasing as in “less than like a model’s figure,” but less than Think of it this way: could you make your body look like one of the other, undesired shapes? Could you go from tall to short? No? Then why on earth would you think you could change it into that model shape when your skeleton and muscles aren’t built like that? You need to take a look at your bone structure and the healthiest, most fit people in your family.

See whose body shape you most resemble.

I don’t mean that like the old platitude, “You’re perfect just the way you are.” No one buys that anyway (but mostly because they don’t get the underlying metaphysical principle involved). I mean that if you can’t seem to make your body look a certain way, no matter how hard you try, then chances are real good that your body isn’t supposed to look that way. You blame it on bad diet and not enough exercise, but that is only a part of it, and a small one at that.

Look at all the different, healthy body shapes there are. Tall, thin, stocky, muscular, willowy, and on and on. They are healthy and normal. Please note, then, that the stereotypical model figure is only ONE OF MANY. Some people naturally look like that. They don’t have to try, they just do. Just like I don’t have to try to look short and curvy. I just am, no matter how much I weigh. But somehow the people with that body shape have managed to get treated better and are practically revered, so therefore the rest of us naturally want to look like them. However, if your body is supposed to be something else, even when it’s at it healthiest, then I can guarantee that you will never ever ever EVER, no matter how hard you try or how much surgery you get, never look like that body shape.

Searching for

PerfectionIf you think your body is less than perfect then you have an incorrect image of "perfect" in your mind.

The belief that perfection can be achieved affects the lives of countless numbers of people. Many people are obsessed with achieving perfection to the point that it affects their physical and psychological well-being.

These individuals are commonly referred to as

“perfectionists.” They

seek the perfectmate, the perfect job, the perfect body, and they are often unhappy in their quest. Even the most mundane task can become an ordeal since the task must be performed to an exacting standard.

These people experience disappointment and dissatisfaction and are often

unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. They believe that perfection is attainable; they experience falling short of the goal as failure. These individuals spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make certain that they will avoid making mistakes. ”The real problem is that we live in a

neurotic,miserable society”

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“Fact is...you can’t change your genetics”So if you have one of those shapes that

doesn’t fit into that one desired mold, then you’re going to have to just accept it and start to think of that shape as JUST AS GOOD AS the desired norm — because there’s nothing you can do about it anyway.

Now, this isn’t just a self-esteem issue. It’s a creative issue. By thinking of yourself as having an imperfect body, then that’s what you are creating whether you are aware of it or not. If your body is supposed to look like shape “A,” then your body knows that and is trying to maintain that shape. But then you come along with thoughts and demands for it to look like shape “B.” And unless you have the power of a sorceress or wizard, it ain’t happenin.’ So what you’re actually getting is a weird morph of AB. That’s why you are struggling to reach that goal, because your body doesn’t know what to do with the energy you’re pushing on it, so it just places it in the most pleasing manner that it can. You keep piling more of it on, so it starts running out of places to go and it starts to gather in the places you hate.

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DEFROSTS

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“The permafrost is melting and this is jeopardising roads and buildings. The coastline is changing, there is more erosion and storms, and there are fewer mammals like polar bears”

With the melt happening at an unprecedented rate of more than 100,000 sq km a day, and at least a week of further melt expected before ice begins to reform ahead of the northern winter, satellites are expected to confirm the record – currently set in 2007 – within days.

"Unless something really unusual happens we will see the record broken in the next few days. It might happen this weekend, almost certainly next week," Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, told the Guardian.

"In the last few days it has been losing 100,000 sq km a day, a record in itself for August. A storm has spread the ice pack out, opening up water, bringing up warmer water. Things are definitely changing quickly."

Because ice thickness, volume, extent and area are all measured differently, it may be a week before there is unanimous agreement among the world's cryologists (ice experts) that 2012 is a record year. Four out of the nine daily sea ice extent and area graphs kept by scientists in the US, Europe and Asia suggest that records have already been broken. "The whole energy balance of the Arctic is changing. There's more heat up there. There's been a change of climate and we are losing more seasonal ice. The rate of ice loss is faster than the models can capture [but] we can expect the Arctic to be ice-free in summer by 2050," said Stroeve.

"Only 15 years ago I didn't expect to see such dramatic changes – no one did.week in the Arctic were 14C, which is pretty warm."

Scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute, the Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System in Norway and others in Japan have said the ice is very close to its minimum recorded in 2007.

The University of Bremen, whose data does not take into account ice along a 30km coastal zone, says it sees ice extent below the all-time record low of 4.33m sq km recorded in September 2007.

The consequences of losing the Arctic’s ice coverage for the summer months are expected to be immense. If the white sea ice no longer reflects sunlight back into space, the region can be expected to heat up even more than at present. This could lead to an increase in ocean temperatures with unknown effects on weather systems in northern latitudes.

In a statement, a Greenpeace spokesman said: “The disappearing Arctic still serves as a stark warning to us all. Data shows us that the frozen north is teetering on the brink. The level of ice ‘has remained far below average’ and appears to be getting thinner, leaving it more vulnerable to future melting. The consequences of further rapid ice loss at the top of the world are of profound importance to the whole planet.

This is not a warning we can afford to ignore.” The plan was to send our Danish ice pilot and a photographer up in a helicopter to examine the ice scape, but it was far too foggy and the Norwegian chopper pilot wasn’t going up for anyone.

There has been much to see, though. Like two polar bears hunting just 150 yards from the boat. We sounded a respectful warning horn as we passed them on our port side but they barely registered us.

“Global warming is having a major impact on the polar region”

Julienne Stroeve, from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, is here to track and “characterise” the ice we pass though. She mostly works from satellite data, but they can’t tell the quality or age of the ice or the way it is moving.

Titanic was supposed to be an un-sinkable ship and as Cameron’s movie demonstrated, many aboard perished because they waited too long to try and rescue themselves, thinking Ti-tanic would stay afloat.

The sun shines for several summer months all the time, even at midnight. Imagine trying to get any sleep if it was always bright and sunny. Scientists who study the Arctic and travel there during the summer months are careful to balance their exposure to the constant light so it interferes as littleas possible with their bodily functions and balance.

The Arctic is also known for its tundra. Tundra is essentially frozen ground. It’s hard to believe but there is actually one tree capable of growing in Arctic tundra and it is called the dwarf wil-low. It is generally a small, short tree that usually grows to about four or five inches tall. The nutrients in the tundra sustain this tree just enough for it to survive and grow to that small height.

ARCTIC FACTS

“Temperatures last week in the Arctic were 14c , which is pretty warm”

TheARCTIC

The Arctic is also known for its tundra. Tundra is essentially frozen ground. It’s hard to believe but there is actually one tree capable of growing in Arctic tundra and it is called the dwarf wil-low. It is generally a small, short tree that usually grows to about four or five inches tall. The nutrients in the tundra sustain this tree just enough for it to survive and grow to that small height.

“The sun shines for several summer months all the time, even at midnight ”

The difference between the rate of warming at the two poles is attributed to geographical differences. “Antarctica is a continent surrounded by water, while the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land. Wind and ocean currents around Antarctica isolate the continent from global weather patterns, keeping it cold. In contrast, the Arctic Ocean is intimately linked with the climate systems around it, making it more sensitive to changes in climate,” said a spokesman for the NSIDC.

After setting out from northern Norway last week to witness this year’s record sea melt in the Arctic, we reached the edge of the Arctic polar ice cap this morning. It’s far further north than expected, at around 82 degrees N, but the annual sea ice retreat here has been nowhere near as great as on the Alaskan side of the ice cap, where it has

Nick Toberg from the University of cambridge is working with ettiore Pedretti, an engineer from the Scottish Marine institute in oban, to see how waves get under the pack ice and break it up. The impact of the waves on the rapid acceleration of ice loss in the Arctic is a little understood area and they have brought a buoy full of instruments which they will test. Next year they want to return with 25 more buoys to monitor wave action over many kilometres.

The data could be extremely vital to understanding how waves expose more water to solar radiation and allow the ice to then melt from below the surface.

Julienne Stroeve, from the National Snow and ice Data centre in colorado, is here to track and “characterise” the ice we pass though. She mostly works from satellite data, but they can’t tell the quality or age of the ice or the way it is moving.

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