Or is he? You know, he does have a Canadian Address:

Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
CANADA

Canada Post seems to be the postal service up here providing the service. If there are other addresses for Santa in other countries, by all means, let me know. Even e-mail. Surely he has e-mail.

And he enlists one of the largest contingent of letter writing volunteers in the world to reply to the millions and millions of kids all around the world. They must be lucky, it must be super cold up there….. or is it?

Scientists have recently predicted the arctic to be completed melted within a decade. A DECADE. Most of us will still be around, but what about Santa? He LIVES up there. What happens if the north pole was to melt? Do you know how much stuff he has at his house?

Yet another reason why we would work to fix this global warming issue. Santa gives us tons of presents every Christmas ON TIME and has been perfect thus far. Let’s at least try to help him out to keep the North Pole the way it should be… nice, cold and Christmasy! I mean, it’s not like he can’t travel to Florida to enjoy a vacation.

Happy New Year everyone!

The past two weeks I’ve had an opportunity to proofread a paper by a friend who’s in University and studying Gender and Sport. She too has taken a great interest in the women’s side of bodybuilding and the topic that she was looking at was how female bodybuilders has the toughest time balancing out their femininity, their need to be competitive in sport and to be marketable. About a week or so ago, the National Physique Committee also known as the NPC, the IFBB’s amateur representative in the United States, held their national championships. It’s easily the biggest amateur National-Level show in the United States bringing together over 55 female bodybuilders to the stage this year.

Taking a look at the field you can easily recognize the strength these women possess and for the women that win their weight class, it represents years of hard work and preparation that cultivates into being recognized as the best in their field. Full muscles and curves are called up and flexed on stage at will in a choreographed routine to the delight of fans in the audience. As you watch on stage you can see two piece posing suits that are meant to accentuate their look on stage that combines with their skin color and tone, make up and hairstyle to show their beauty, strength and their femininity. The winners that the judges choose would represent the best look of the female bodybuilder of the day and possibly of the year.

Something that aroused my thinking is a comment made on one of the female muscle forums that I frequent where the poster mentioned that extreme conditioning and definition will not be rewarded unless the competitor was “really, really pretty”. The user then posted the overall winner who was backstage flexing her butt (or glutes) which from weeks of dieting showed extreme muscular striations and detail.

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