Today’s additions to the “best of 2008″ books and music lists (keep up with daily additions at the update archive page):

“Best of 2008″ Books Lists additions:

Books Fall Open, You Fall In (favorite books) cadwell (top webcomics) Comic Fodder (top comics mini-series) Matt Compton (best books) Pajiba.com (best fiction) PopMatters (best non-fiction) Publishers Weekly (top manga) Russ (best books) The Sound of Silence (favorite books) Spoiled for the Ordinary (top books)

“Best of 2008″ Music Lists additions:

The 9513 (overlooked albums) Backseat Sandbar (top albums) Basement Galaxy (best albums) Bollywood Spice (albums) Boston Music Spotlight (favorite albums) Breakfast on Tour: Egg (top albums) Breakfast on Tour (top shows) Breakfast on Tour: Egg (top songs) Cinema Blend (overlooked albums) don’t be a coconut (best albums) Dylan, Etc. (best albums) Fingerpainted in Blood (favorite albums) Hype Machine (top albums) Hype Machine download sci-fi (top artists) Hype Machine (top songs) I Hope Your Ears Bleed (top albums) I Loves You Porgy! (best albums) Klampert (top albums) Minneapolis Star Tribune (best local albums) MixxBosses download crime movie (top soul albums) Mobtown Shank (top albums) Musical Family Tree (favorite

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Researchers studied activity levels in school children and the over 70s - and in both cases found males tended to be more active.

The studies are being presented at the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine annual conference.

Liverpool John Moores University found girls take part in 6% less vigorous playtime activity than boys.

The researchers, who focused on 10 and 11 year-old children in the school playground, found that boys and girls tend to play differently.

Girls tended to spend time in smaller groups and engage in verbal games, conversation and socialising.

Most boys, however, played in larger groups, which lend themselves more to physically active games, such as football.

Researcher Dr Nicky Ridgers said: “It is a concern that girls’ activity levels are lower than boys and, although it is just one piece in a complex picture, this could be contributing to girls being overweight and obese.

“Schools should be aware of the differences between the way girls and boys behave in the playground and the fact that girls tend to favour small group activities.

“They could then consider the availability of equipment and provision of playtime activities that would encourage girls to take part in more vigorously active play.”

Older people

The gender difference was mirrored in a second study, led by the University of Bristol, which looked at activity levels among the over-70s.

In general, levels of physical activity were very low among most people of both sexes aged over 70.

More than 70% of the people who took part in the study walked for fewer than 5,000 steps a day.

However, women were more likely to be less active than men.

Researcher Professor Ken Fox said: “Men accomplish more higher intensity physical activity than women and this seems to be explained by trips out of the house.

“However, there is evidence that they also sit down for longer periods in the day.

“Women do more lower intensity activity which probably represents daily tasks around the house.

“This would suggest that traditional family roles are still identifiable in this generation.”

Professor Adrian Taylor, of the University of Exeter, which is organising the conference, said development of ways to promote greater physical activity across all age groups was vital.

He said: “Society and our environment are leading us to do increasingly less physical activity with adverse health consequences such as heart disease, diabetes and mental health problems for people of all ages.”

Professor Alan Maryon-Davis, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, said both findings had important public health implications.

He said: “Vigorous activity helps build strong bones and joints. I’m worried that girls who are less active at playtime could be more vulnerable to osteoporosis (brittle bone disease) in later life.

“All the more reason to ensure that girls have plenty of organised sports and active games.

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“For people in their 70s the key needs are mobility and flexibility, so a mix of activities is important for men and women alike to keep up their suppleness, stren

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Jan. 5: Barack Obama discussed his new economic plan on Monday, including $300 billion in tax relief - a move to draw Republican support. Newsweek’s Richard Wolffe discusses the plan’s prospects for success.

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sen. norm coleman (r-mn)* is promising to sue for another narrate if, as expected, al franken is declared the title-holder of minnesota’s senate speed this week. republicans are promising to back coleman by filibustering any try to seat franken. when did this republican love for extended recounts start? sometime after the 2000 elections, purposes. back then …

Interview with Blogger Tim Weaver

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bowers & wilkins isn’t being exactly forthcoming (not at all, actually), but it’s musical darn excited in all directions whatever mystery it’s planning to bare at ces. here’s what we know: it’ll be launching into a new market while its classic products receive “a dramatic makeover.” more specifically, the company is set to “launch into an exciting new product category and reveal an all new model in the xt series,” and beyond that, all we’re told is that it intent be “groundbreaking” in the same way the zeppelin superficially was. have regard for our interest piqued, b&w, but you mastery not disappoint. full gloat-fest is after the burst.

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i don’t feel like i paid a lot of attention to music this year. in fact, i am probably a pretty unpredictable music consumer. i tenderness music, but i haven’t discharge a countless of leisure exploring new artists this year. so most of my favorite albums are ones released by the artists i already receive history with…the ones i already be hung up on.andrew peterson’s resurrection letters, volume 2this is surely no stupefaction to my hunger time readers. i wild this album. i never had a chance to write my more fully developed thoughts on it, but i love it. i await the one day manumission of mass 1. :)counting crows saturday nights and sunday morningsi know a lot of people were disappointed in this album, but not i. i love it. justin mcroberts deconstructioni contain always loved mcroberts thought-provoking and on the up lyrics. i really enjoyed this one as well.ben shive the ill-tempered klavieri literally just finally bought this the other lifetime, but i am really enjoying it so by a long chalk everywhere, just as i knew i would.i am really afford to suggestions and recommendations in the music department. most of these are indie christian artists that i would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who loves singer/songwriters. and the counting crows are the biggie (and not christian). so stand free to praise anything in the done vein you over recall i might enjoy. be sure to share your favorite music of 2008 in comments as understandably!

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nate longshore named thriller movies starterif you haven’t already heard the news (which form time i checked was being displayed on espn’s news ticker), nate longshore has been named the starter for tomorrow’s emerald bowl matchup against the miami hurricanes. tedford has stated that longshore is finally salutary, after injuring his shoulder at the oregon field, and has been having as pure of a two weeks of

Penn State’s Joe Paterno: coaching’s iron-willed giant

rather than ease into his golden years, the 82-year-crumbling legend is prosperous as strong as ever, lifting his program back to elite reputation and proving as tough as any of his players, surgical scars and all. pass rusher aaron maybin has 12 sacks this year and was named first-work together all-america, but he’s not penn state’s toughest man.

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Christian ponder

It is modish to scare ourselves over historical cycles, so let’s start early on the great flu pandemic of 1918. My favourite spine-chilling anecdote is of the four women who stayed up to play bridge. By the time they had finished their game, three were dead.

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?that the alternative i make a conscious decision to boost a blogging make public, new awakening and ideas start flooding into my head.i’ve been on a huge keri russell recoil into awhile now ? she’s just so not unexpectedly original-faced and always manages to channel a stylishly downplayed elegance. the tuneful new spread in january’s instyle completely reinforced that image, and also made me instantly long for a white + warren oversized cashmere scarf. taste.alas, i have dream up the end of my individual time off budget, and can’t really justify the $275 price tag. but then i saw childhood flames show off her new chunky cowl from etsy purchase ozetta and realized it was the perfect oversized, cozy necked alternative. because, after all, it’s a frosty 19 degrees today. stay warm unconfined there, kids?

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