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Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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REDESIGN: New York daily, weekly groups roll out new look.
MORNING MINUTES: Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day and Number to Know. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/morning_minutes
HALLOWEEN ON THE NEWS SERVICE: From illustrations to stories, we've got everything you'll need for Halloween.
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH: Breast Cancer Awareness Month content from GateHouse newspapers
RELIGION NEWS: Weekly rail, leads with Pope Pius XII and sainthood.
FAMILY PAGE: Nickels and dime of family finance.
FAMILY TIME: Weekly family rail, with a review of "High School Musical 3," tips on the perfect holiday photos, what to feed your pet bunny and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/family/x1157500941/Family-Time-High-School-Musical-fun-for-all
TRAVEL VIDEO: Exploring Wyoming.
TRAVELOGUE: Weekly travel rail, with a look at some presidential libraries, the top 10 green American landmarks, tips about RTW tickets and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x1016919687/Travelogue-Bone-up-on-the-presidents-before-inauguration-day
BARBADOS GETAWAY: Rum and more yo ho on Barbados. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/travel/x1588594710/Getaway-Rum-and-more-yo-ho-on-Barbados
MEREDITH O'BRIEN: Youth Sport Mania: I'm in Need of a Serious Time Out - Too bad my kids got stuck with me as their mother. Not because I'm not a loving mom. Not because I don't joke or snuggle on the rare weekend mornings when we don't have to dash off someplace. It's because I'm a lousy sports mom with a bad attitude. Parents & Kids, on wire now
SNEAK PREVIEW: A look at "Zack and Miri Make A Porno" and other movies opening this week. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x635417636/Sneak-Preview-Movies-opening-this-week
CAPITOL STEPS: Famous troupe still specializing in Washington funny business. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x1197765261/Capitol-Steps-specialize-in-Washington-funny-business
FARR SIDE: "Saturday Night Live" leads us into the voting booth. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x199480386/The-Farr-Side-SNL-leads-us-into-the-voting-booth
PORTUGAL THE MAN: Sarah Palin isn't the only big thing to come out of Wasilla - indie rockers Portugal The Man hail from the small town, too. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/dvds_cds/x635417674/The-other-big-thing-to-come-out-of-Wasilla-Alaska
MUSIC REVIEWS: Check out our latest music reviews - of Bob Dylan, Prodigy, Musiq Soulchild, Illa J and more - on the Music page: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/music
KEVIN FRISCH: It's a wonderful Election Day.
LLOYD GARVER: Obviously, most of what you've been reading, hearing and seeing in the media lately has been about politics. But that doesn't mean that nothing new has been going on in the world of sex. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x635419204/Lloyd-Garver-Lets-not-forget-about-sex
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On cutting edge campaign issues. LEDGER
STEVE FRADKIN: Translating political messages - Just when we thought we understood the issues and views, campaign communications seem to be in a foreign language. Ledger, guest column, on wire now
FOOTBALL BRIEFS: PFW news on the 49ers, Jaguars, Jets and Patriots, plus the latest Fantasy Buzz. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/fantasy_football/x1197766406/Football-briefs-Clash-between-Singletary-Martz-could-be-in-the-offing
NASCAR PAGE: Can't win for winning.
FOOTBALL PAGE: Backup QBs cause fantasy chaos
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATION: Don't crown Texas the national champion just yet. By Eric Avidon. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/college/x1588596613/College-Football-Nation-Texas-doesn-t-have-it-wrapped-up-yet
MIKE NADEL: Mike Singletary, the ex-Bears Hall of Famer turned 49ers interim coach, is hearing, "Way to go!" from coast to coast for the hard-line discipline he took against a player last week. In the long run, however, is it really the best way to deal with today's coddled athlete? Will be posted this evening.
COLBERT CRACKS ON ANOTHER CANTON: On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert, who hosts the satirical news program "The Colbert Report," continued his "attacks" on U.S. Cantons, this time giving Canton, Ohio, a new name because Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama chose the city as the place to launch the final week of his campaign. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/x1588596929/Colbert-cracks-on-another-Canton
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: This is moving daily, and here's a link to the latest.
HOW THEY VOTED: McCain and Obama on 5 issues.
ELECTION COVERAGE: Links to original content from GateHouse and other election/political content. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x1197764707/Election-08-coverage
ELECTION DAY BANNERS: Urge your voters to get out and vote on Election Day with these banners.
ECONOMY IN CRISIS: Package of links for the week beginning Oct. 26
PHOTO GALLERY: Early voting across the nation
CELLINI INDICTED: William Cellini, a Springfield political insider linked to Tony Rezko, was indicted Thursday for his alleged role in defrauding the state Teachers Retirement System. By Bernard Schoenburg of the State Journal-Register. Will be posted this evening.
GHOSTS SPEAKING? Paranormal researchers probe haunted houses - Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson founded the Paranormal United Research Society, a group that investigates paranormal accounts in New England. In the last 26 years, D'Agostino has looked into more than 1,000 reports of spirits, ghosts and haunted houses. Norwich, Straszheim, on wire now
With audio and video
PHOTOS: 50 Jack-o'-lanterns on display - Jack-o'-lanterns glow at dusk outside the home of the Achille family on North Street in Hingham on Wednesday. Creating an elaborate Halloween display that includes about 50 pumpkins is a family tradition. Ledger, on wire now
Business / Ag
AUTO CONTENT: Links to this week's prepared auto page, the page content and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x1196571805/Auto-content-this-week
EXPERIENCE WORKS: Program matches older workers, employment – William "Burpee" Thomas was determined to get a job in Springfield. Retired from a prison ministry in Rantoul, Thomas found his way to new employment through Experience Works, a national organization that helps low-income people 55 and older get job training. SPRINGFIELD
HALLOWEEN'S BIG BIZ: Fright Night is a retailer's delight - The economy may be scarier than the holiday this year, but shoppers aren't being spooked out of spending money for Halloween. PEORIA
MAKING CENTS: How to shop for health insurance.
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People who earn a college degree before getting married are much less likely to become obese than those who graduate from college after getting married, according to a new study.
The traditional pressure in academia for faculty to "publish or perish" advances knowledge in established areas. But it also might discourage scientists from asking the innovative questions that are most likely to lead to the biggest breakthroughs, according to a new study spearheaded by a UCLA professor.
Schools placed on probation due to subpar test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, a study by New York University (NYU) sociologists finds.
Their study of a school accountability program in the Chicago Public Schools reveals that families were responsive to new information about school quality and that those with more financial resources were the most likely to transfer to other schools in the district or to leave the district altogether.
Decades of successful integration efforts are at stake when one school district fights over school proximity and school "balancing."
When a Baltimore mom hit her son to keep him away from protests, many applauded her—but the myth of the superstrong Black mother does more harm than good.
LGBT educators struggle to balance professionalism and pride in the classroom, splittling, knitting, or quittting, in the words of the authors.
China and the U.S. look to each other's educational systems as they try to balance individualism and collectivism, ability and effort, and grade school and college rigor.
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Almost 30 years ago, when I started my master's degree program, if we discussed borderline, that meant we were discussing psychosis. A "borderline" was a person on the "border" of psychosis.
In those days we were taught that psychopathology either manifested as
(1) a neurotic disorder, people were depressed or they worried endlessly over problems stemming from unresolved childhood guilt; we called them the Woody Allens;
(2) a psychotic disorder, accompanied with hallucinations and/or delusions; the patient being out of touch "times three," meaning he didn't know his name (person), where he lived (place) or the day of the week (time) ;
(3) a borderline disorder, essentially No-Man's Land, neither neurotic or psychotic, but definitely leaning towards the latter.
Borderline meant having such poor boundaries that the patient felt blended with others psychologically, did not see where his or her perception of others' thoughts or intentions could be wrong. The condition would manifest as severe abandonment anxiety, anger or depression, and certainly suicidality, ala that movie, Girl Interrupted. Perhaps the behavior was manipulative, but who knew for sure?
Disturbed, that we recognized. Depression didn't have to enter the equation (but it usually did).
Merging was thought the natural consequence of not having separated properly from parents, not having individuated or developed into an independent person, secure all on one's own. And to individuate well, one needed psychologically healthy parents who encouraged that differentiation and confidence.
You see why I push it, some thirty years later.
The first Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM, 1952), the Big Book of psychiatric diagnosis, included an etiological component that subsequent versions for the most part phased out in favor of statistics. Empirically-based medicine had evolved.
But ideas of merging and family dysfunction had a place in the first manual, as did other etiological explanations of pathology, such as the stress of combat contributing to substance abuse in the military. Not surprisingly, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the first DSM to meet the needs of the military— soldiers had returned from war alcoholic and traumatized.
This was also about the time that psychiatrists recognized the association between self-medicating with alcohol, and the manic component of bi-polar disorder.
The need to mesh psychiatric diagnosis with numeric coding consistent with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems [(ICD), the World Health Organization] followed soon thereafter. Then the mission of the DSM officially shifted from the explanation of psychiatric disorders to descriptions.
And as clusters of features and symptoms emerged for each new edition, psychological disorders became medical disorders, handily recognizable sets of features and symptomatology.
Our latest edition, the DSM IV-TR has refined the process, adding cultural diversity to the mix and some general psycho-social history that is associated with certain disorders. There is also an occasional reference to how genetics steer the course for others.
But to diagnose, we focus upon what we see and hear in our offices.
And borderline no longer necessarily implies having "poor boundaries." The disorder is now neatly cataloged as an Axis II personality disorder with easy to recognize socially dysfunctional features (see below). But those of us who remember what it means to people to feel less than whole, to have a need to own or merge with someone else's ego, body, or personality, are more likely to empathize with that particular pain, even though it isn't on the list.
Lucky for us, the DSM modifies, adds, and removes diagnoses with each edition.* So I look forward to seeing what the next one (2012) will do with borderline.
As it stands, anyone with or without a college vocabulary can take a stab at reading and understanding the DSM IV-TR to diagnose family and friends. Anyone can look up a diagnosis like "Borderline Personality Disorder," find the features, and label others. I started this post because a patient wanted me to list the features so that she could do that. You, too, might become rather good at psychiatric diagnosis with a working knowledge of the DSM IV-TR, assuming memory and retention serve.
It is a free country. Go buy a copy. (But pop for the full edition if you do, not the condensed spiral). It will teach you little about how a person develops a disorder or what to do about it, but at least you won't be caught using terms like "split personality" or "multiple personality disorder" anymore.
We'll get to the Dissociative Disorders another day.
But you wanted to know about Borderline Personality Disorder. So here you go. Here's what it says in the book:
Diagnostic criteria for 301.83 Borderline Personality DisorderWell, on the re-read, perhaps one might need a dictionary, if not a graduate school education, to really get this.
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(2) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization or devaluation
(3) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
(4) impulsivity in at least 2 areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(5) recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
(6) affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
(7) chronic feelings of emptiness
(8) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
(9) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
You can see why it's considered a VERY painful condition. Painful to have, painful to treat, painful to live with, all around painful. The disorder always calls me to task, forces my patience, and ultimately brings out my compassion. It's difficult, emotional work and I've heard time and again from peers that working with too many patients suffering from borderline personality disorder contributes significantly to burn-out.
But there are those who burn-out working with people who suffer from depression, too.
Notice my use of language. SUFFER FROM. You'll read on the Web that people think of themselves as borderlines, or bi-polars, obsessive-compulsives, depressives, or schizophrenics.
The better way to refer to someone with a disorder is:
a person who suffers from schizophrenia
or a person suffering from borderline personality disorder.
And so on. We don't say, "She's schizophrenic." Or, "He's bi-polar."
That minimizes a person. The process does that already. We don't need to add to it.
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*Homosexuality, for example, is no longer considered a disorder, and it is likely that in the fifth edition of the DSM we will see Adult Asperger's and Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, currently two disorders of childhood.


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Church presents scholarships
Greg Cauley recently presented the Inaugural Jim and Rena Cauley Memorial 902 Church Scholarship.
Recipients are Matthew Edwards and Charlie Ann Wetherington. Edwards is the son of James and Meredith Edwards of Kinston. He will attend ECU. Wetherington is the daughter of Charles and Michelle Wetherington of Kinston and will attend UNC Wilmington.
902 Church meets at 10 a.m. Sundays at 2009 Carey Road.
FSU alumni to host Bronco send off
The Kinston-Lenoir Alumni Chapter for Fayetteville State University will be hosting its annual Bronco send-off cookout for freshmen and current undergraduate students who will be attending FSU this academic year, 2013-2014.
The event will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Aug. 10 at the home of Bronco Denderant Burney, 503 Darby Ave., Kinston. All Lenoir or Greene County students and their parents, along with alumni members, are welcome to attend. All students will receive a dorm package for attending. This event is for new and returning students with their parents to network with alumni members.
Reply by Thursday to Mrs. Battle at 252-521-2529 or Burney at 252-527-1396.
Humphrey reappointed to tourism board
Chris Humphrey of Kinston has been reappointed to a two-year term on the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board. Humphrey has served on the board since September 2011. His current two-year term will expire in December of 2014.
Humphrey owns Allstate Insurance agencies in Kinston and Goldsboro, and ERA Humphrey Realty Group in Kinston.
Created by North Carolina General Statute in 1991, the board advocates the sound development of the travel and tourism industry in North Carolina and advises the Secretary of Commerce on policy matters related to tourism promotion in North Carolina.
The board�s next meeting is set for Tuesday in Raleigh. Fore more information, call Humphrey at 252-361-5300.
Market welcomes new vendors
Today the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market will welcome Melanie Quinn of Inner Banks Seafood, Leraine Tolston from Queen Street Deli and the Tyndall Family.
Inner Banks Seafood will have fresh flounder filets and medium, large and jumbo shrimp. Queen Street Deli will bring Ezekiel and multi-grain breads, whole grain cookies, chicken pot pies, vegetable chicken pot pies, sweet potato chicken pot pies, cream cheese potato salad, broccoli salad and salted caramel chocolate chip blondies. The Tyndall Family will have their beautiful sunflowers.
Of course, the �old reliables� � Porter Farm, TC Smith Produce, Bruce Coley, Bill Tilghman, Putnam Family Farm and Upham Homestead � will bring fresh eggs, produce and fruit.


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You may remember I mentioned a couple of months back, when I unveiled the new plans for my modified project, that I decided to use four-wheel disc brakes rather than early Ford drums. Since my plans include street use as well as lakes racing, I also wanted to incorporate an emergency brake. It just so happens that Wilwood Engineering not only manufactures a vented disc brake kit that bolts right up to an early Ford spindle, but also offers a similar setup for 8- and 9-inch Ford rearends that include an emergency brake.
Though I have an 8-inch axle, it is a Currie Enterprises item and has the bigger 9-inch bearings and housing ends, so I needed a kit for a 9-inch. Of course I forgot that the first time and had to reorder. Duh!
Wilwood makes rotors in various diameters, as well as solid, vented, and cross-drilled, but I selected the Dynalite Pro Series vented and drilled option for front and rear, after speaking with the guys at Wilwood who advised that it'd be ideal for my application. The rear rotors measure 12.19 inches in diameter, with the front coming in at 11 inches. I'll also use Wilwood master cylinders, as I'm using the company's through-firewall pedal assembly. This has a balance bar to adjust front to rear brake bias, so you'll see three cylinders used rather than two.
However, before I could install the brakes, I had to swap out the old Mercury rearend for the Currie 8-inch. It had been sitting on the floor of the shop for a couple months since picking it up from Currie, and embarrassingly, the nice bare metal surface had started to acquire surface rust. It's nothing that can't be cleaned prior to paint, however, though it doesn't look great right now. Sorry Currie!


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Gwen Brock: 19yo 7th Cousin - played by: Miki Yamuri
Scene: Gwen's House in the Den
After a long, fun battle with the Forever Knights. Ben and Gwen rest in her den. Ben jumps onto the couch in her den exhausted.
"Is it just me or are the Forever Knights getting tougher to beat each time? " looking at Gwen.
Gwen replies, "It seems like it. I think the new AI the Master Mage came up with gets frustrated we beat it so much."
Ben laughs as his stomach starts to growl. " Hey Gwen, you go to the kitchen and make me something to eat. Kicking butt all day has made me hungry ... thanks."
He then turns on the TV and lays back to watch his favorite show, 'The Witching Hour'.
Gwen stands up and puts her hands on her hips and snorts, "And when did I become your personal maid? Go get it yourself." She flops back on the sofa and pokes out her bottom lip.
"Geez ... sorry Gwen!!! Just thought since you're a girl you wouldn't mind and you would know where everything is." Ben stands up..."God, women sometimes are just too touchy on things ... sheesh. They act so stupid about things some times."
As Ben disappears into the kitchen, Gwen sits and broods over her cousin's last comment. She remembers the magic wand she had bought at the magic shop the other day and why she bought it. Now would be as good a time as any to show her haughty cousin why girls acted they way they do. She begins to formulate a plan ... first to see if the wand was real, second ... to teach Ben a lesson he won't soon forget.
The wand came in a beautiful Mahogany box, lined with Soft blue velvet. The Master Mage of the Magic -r- Us shop had said it had once belonged to Merlin.
After a few minutes in the kitchen, Ben comes walking into the den again with a large messy sandwich and a drink and sits down on the couch.
He says in a singsong teasing voice that raised chills on Gwen, "Oh Gweeeen, I left a surprise in the kitchen for you."
Ben chuckles ... he didn't clean up after himself cuz that was a girl's work. Gwen gets off the sofa and walks into the kitchen. It was a total disaster area from Ben making himself a sandwich. This was the last straw. She walked into her bedroom after giving Ben a mean sideways glance and opened the wand's box. IT was a beautiful one too. Its handle was made of fine scrimshaw Ivory.
The engraving was of a Wizard casting a spell on a dragon. She removes the wand from is resting place and walked back into the den.
She says with a mischievous grin, "Ok, Mr. smarty pants, let's see how you handle this ..." With a graceful swish and flick of the wrist, she casts the spell. She says simply, "Be a baby girl." As it said in the instructions for this spell.
Ben laughs a bit before he says, "Gwen, you're good at repelling Forever Knights, but your spell casting needs work."
He stands up and looks himself over and still looks like same old Ben to him. Gwen smiles to herself as she sees his hair begin to grow slightly longer and his clothe start to become large on his body.
She replies, "I wouldn't be too quick to judge silly."
Ben notices his clothes are a bit looser but not huge and doesn't really notice anything else.
He says in a short smart alike tone, "Congrats Gwen, you shrunk me a little ... now can I eat my sandwich and relax.." sitting back down on the couch and pulling between his legs. It felt really weird there until he readjusted his pants.
Gwen takes her new wand and places it back in the box. As she does this, the tip glows very brightly for a second. She grins softly as she closes the lid and returns and flops back on the sofa.
She says with another contemptuous snort, "I wouldn't be too sure about that silly boy. Hope you like cotton panties *giggles* I have a cute lacy pair I'll loan you."
"What are you talking about Gwen? " as Ben gets up and heads into the bathroom, all the while shaking his head at Gwen's foolishness.
Ben undoes his pants and pulls down his boxers and is shocked to see that his manhood is gone.
Ben runs out of the bathroom and shrieks, "Gwen!!!"
Gwen gasps softly as she puts her hands over her mouth. She giggles breathily ... Ben has a perfect, hairless privacy between his legs. Gwen's eyes got big as she puts her hands to her mouth. She can't help it ... she begins to giggle.
She says between giggles, Do you like bikini's or thongs?"
Ben is truly shocked at Gwen for what she has done to him. He pulls up his pants and shouts, "Turn me back into a guy right now or you will be sorry Gwen ... I promise!!"
Gwen giggles loudly for a few minutes before she replies, "No, I won't. I think I would like to have a baby around to care for. You'll make a wonderful addition to the sisterhood. I have lots of outfits that I know you'll look adorable in." She then blows a kiss in his direction.
Ben gives her a evil look, "Well then maybe I should go upstairs and break the wand you did this with ... maybe I will change back." Ben starts to run to the stairs.
Gwen laughs out loud at that comment. She wipes tears from her eyes as she replies, "Go ahead and break it ... you know as well as I ... if you break that wand, you will definitely be a cute little baby girl for the rest of time."
She gets up from the sofa and walks to the kitchen and begins to clean up Ben's mess. She knows that in a very short time, She will need to start looking for an outfit for Ben. His clothes will be too large for him. She smiles as she thinks of the perfect jumper and panties. They would look so precious on him.
Ben runs upstairs to Gwen's room and looks for the wand. Ben spots the tassel from the wand peeking out from the box. Ben looks in Gwen's vanity mirror ... changes have already started. His short brown hair was now flowing beautiful brunette hair halfway down his back. Ben gulps and runs down stairs into the kitchen.
Ben sees Gwen cleaning up and whines, "Turn me back now Gwen, or I will use the Omnitrix and make it hard on you." Holding out the wand to Gwen.
Gwen continues to clean up. She replies, "Go Ahead, You know that no matter what you transform into from now on, you will be a baby girl of that thing. Besides, I'm sure I can find lots of boy creatures to ... whistle at you." She giggles.
Ben turns red in the face with anger..."Gwen!! I will give you one more time to change your mind till I use the Omnitrix and I won't go easy on you either..."
Gwen turns and sees Ben is slowly changing in front of her eyes. He has become a very adorable little girl of about 14.
Gwen turns and leaves the kitchen as she pats him softly on his butt. She says in a giggly voice, "You're gonna have such a cute hinny." Then she quickly runs out the front door, leaving Ben to transform.
Ben sees Gwen leave. When he takes a step to try and pursue, he notices something to his disheartening concern. Ben doesn't dare look as he closes his eyes and takes his hands and starts to feel his jeans. Ben moves his hands down, he discovers that his jeans end mid thigh. Ben gulps looking down to see his jeans have turned into a jean mini skirt and his shirt has turned into a cute green blouse. Ben tries to run but trips and falls because of the strangeness of the new black sandals he is wearing. He was lucky he didn't skin his knees in the fall.
"GWEN!!!!" Ben gets up and runs outside after Gwen..
Gwen had wanted to watch him transform. She had run from the front of the house and snuck back in through the cellar door. She could hear Ben running around outside calling her name. She couldn't help but stifle a giggle as he ran past the cellar window. She was impressed at the cute outfit his clothes had morgrifed into. She also thought he was becoming a very pretty girl too. She tingled with excitement over the finished product was going to be.
Ben came walking thru the front door a few minutes later crying. Gwen couldn't imagine in a million years that the crying girl is Ben. Ben sits down on the couch crying, showing a lot of panty in the process. Ben's clothes transformed again as Gwen watched, his former jean skirt and blouse top are now a Care Bears glitter romper with lots of cute ruffles and lace. Ben sits crying his eyes out at the fate Gwen has left for him.
Gwen peeks in the Den door and sees a very adorable little girl crying on the sofa. She walks in and sits beside her and coos softly, "Now, silly ... You're a girl ... and those tears must mean you're really touchy and acting stupid too."
Ben stands up, he is now shorter then Gwen. " I can't believe you did this to your own cousin.."
Ben felt very moody at his new predicament as a little girl. Gwen giggles as she tries taking a peek into the bib of his romper to see what Ben's panties turned into ... Ben pushes her hand away and cries some more.
Gwen suddenly realizes some thing as she gets big eyes and gasps softly. She puts her hands to her mouth as she looks at the very adorable Ben and the little girl he was rapidly transforming into.
She drops her hands to her lap and says softly, "Umm .. Ben?" she scrunches up in a shy body posture, "I .. I have some ... bad news. I didn't think about it when I did it cuz you had made me mad ... but ... I don't know how to change you back." She flinches in expectation.
"You what!!!!!" Ben stands up looking at Gwen giving her the evil eye. "You mean I'm stuck as a little girl? What about Grandpa and everyone else noticing you have a little girl here! "
Ben looks at Gwen, He realizes she hasn't told him everything.
Gwen blushes slightly as she says in a shy voice, "Well ... at least you're going to be super adorable **giggles** and you know right off you have one girlfriend who understands and will help you adjust."
"You mean there is no way to change this? I mean ... I can't be stuck like this forever!" sitting back down and sinking his face into his hands. "I don't wanna be a little girl ..." Ben starts to cry again. He sounds just like the little girl he had become.
Gwen hugs Ben close as she says softly, "It's not so bad ... really! I'll take you and meet all my friends ... we'll introduce you to the cutest boys *giggles* Specially Randy *sighs* He's the Captain of the football team ya know."
"Check your spell or whatever Gwen ... maybe there is a loop hole or something ..." he whines in an adorable little girl's voice.
Ben stands up, when he does they both hear a crinkling sound. Ben looks at Gwen and gives her a evil look.
Gwen giggles as she points to Ben and says in a happy gasping voice, "Aww, baby ... those plastic panties are so cuutteee."
Ben's clothing had transformed once again. He was now wearing the most adorable pair of White rumba panties with many Teddy Bears on them. There were large ruffles on the bottoms and lots of lace around the waist and legs. The top had snaps along the shoulders and down one side. There was a very large Teddy Bear on the front of her top, and flutter sleeves. Gwen couldn't believe how adorable Ben had become. Even his hair had become long curls.
"Gwen...!!!" he squeaks adorably, "It wasn't enough that you turned me into a girl but a babygirl!!! What is everyone going to think when they see me."
Ben looks down as he sees the Omnitrix is now pink with little lace along the edges and a big picture of a pacifier on it. "Great ...just great ... Gwen, you turned the Omnitrix too!"
Ben stomps his foot, crosses his arms, and pouts, poking his bottom lip out, making a really cute face.
Gwen picks up the now baby Ben and pats his hinny reassuringly, "Now, I guess we need to have an understanding *giggles* I'm the adult and you're just a baby. I'm truly sorry, but I have no way to turn you back. I suppose I can get the spell book that came with the wand and see ... but I don't remember an undoing spell."
He whines in a very infantile voice, "Put me down Gwen! I am not a baby! Even though I look like one, I'm not."
Ben struggles to get out of Gwen's arms but can't. While he's struggling futilely, he feels a very wonderfully intense wave rush all through him. He shivers and gets goosy bumps and starts to think dollies are fun and boys are icky.
"He gasps out in a very adorable little girl's voice, "Please Gwen, look ... my mind is starting to change."
Ben was starting to panic in his mind. He knew if something wasn't done quickly, no one would ever know who he used to be.
Gwen carries Ben up to her room and puts him in her baby doll's crib and raises the rails with a soft click. Gwen was glad she had saved the large crib ... it now came in very handy. She grabs the spell book and curls up on her bed. She opens to the page of the changing spell and begins to read.
No where was there any mention of undoing the spell. It did say that after conjuring, the final results were permanent and the subject of the spell would require care until they grew back up as a very pretty girl ... although this would take a very long time.
Gwen giggles ... she knows exactly what a very long time it would be ... she had personal experience. She thinks Ben is becoming a very adorable baby and she really wants to keep him that way. She cant wait to show him off to all her friends ... he was such an adorably cute little girl.
He says in his cute new voice, "Gwen, this isn't funny! Get me out of this crib and change me back to a boy! I'm ... I starting ta tink like a little girl now." Ben looks around Gwen's room. He sees girl things he likes a whole lot, but never paid attention to before. "Gwen I no wanna be baby ... I no wanna be repotty trained.."
Gwen gets off the bed and walks to the crib. She shows Ben the information on the spell she had used. There was no way to undo it.
Gwen Takes a small fuzzy Kitty doll and shakes it gently in front of Ben. She coos softly, "Aww cutiums ... wouldn't baby wanna pway wiffa cute n soft toy?"
Ben looks up at Gwen, mad ... trying to resist with all his might, but couldn't. He saw his arms go out and he heard himself say in an adorably sweet voice, "Kitty *Giggles*." As he hugs the doll, he comes somewhat back to his normal mind and whines like a baby, "Guuweeen! Stop it now n twy n gets me backs ta nomal. People gonna to think we weird n ure my babysitter."
Ben's eyes get huge as a cute expression of surprise and pleasure come to his face. He feels a pleasant, warm wet tingling sensation between his legs. He could feel it as his bottom started to feel moist and very warm. Ben realized he had lost all of his potty training and was wetting his diaper.
Gwen giggles softly as she coos to the new baby, "Well, sweetheart, the only other option is to take you in my baby doll's stroller back to the mall. I would have to talk to the Mage at the conjuring shop to see if there's any way to stop this." she bends over and quickly rubs noses with Ben as she gently tickles him in his ribs.
He whimpers, "Pwease, we needsa go ta the mall now."
Ben stands up in the crib. He realizes he has to use the rail to pull himself up. His legs feel wobbly and he can't quite get his balance. He knew he wet his diaper and blushes a bit at Gwen as he hugs the kitty for comfort.
He whimpers adorably, "Gwen ..can we quickly go ta tha mall?"
Ben really couldn't help himself, he puts his left thumb in his mouth and begins to suck it. He was amazed at how comforting it was to do this. He struggled to try and stop ... but every time he took it from his mouth ... in a few instances later, he would realize it was back.
Gwen pulls open the back of Ben's panties and diaper just to look in. When she did this, she noticed he had wet his diaper.
She giggles as she coos, "Awww, so adorable, baby aww wet," she picks him up and kisses his nose as she twirls him around several times. "I've always wanted a living babydoll. Now I've got you. I'm going to name you ... Tina. That's a cute name for a really cute little girl."
She carries Ben to the potty room to change him as she continues to pat his hinny softly.
Ben is ashamed that he wet his diaper. He can't believe most of his male memories are gone. The thing that was scaring him the most .... he knew when they left and knew they were gone ... but had no idea what they might have been. The infantile emotions and thoughts filled him with very pleasant feelings, and replaced all his adult things with him being a baby girl and Gwen caring for him.
Ben whines softly, "We no can wait ta change me till affer I gets change back into boy?"
Seeing the way Gwen smiled, Ben realized Gwen was enjoying this way too much and that he might never be a boy again. He let's out a big sob and starts to cry.
Gwen places him on the counter on his back. She lifts him by his ankles and pulls his panties down to his knees. She then set him back on the counter and undoes his wet diaper. She takes a large amount of baby wipes and cleans his privacy and hinny squeaky clean. She puts a cute pink Huggies for girls under his bottom and sets his hinny into its soft embrace. She takes this opportunity to blow a huge raspberry in Tina's tummy.
Ben laughs really hard as Gwen blows a raspberry in his tummy. He fidgets and kicks like any baby who really enjoys raspberries. He watches as Gwen powders him generously with baby powder, then pulls up the diaper and secures it properly.
He wines in his adorably baby girl voice, "Gwen wht's gonna happen when wes are supposa face the bad guys n I havea messy diaper?"
Ben looks up at Gwen, she has a look in her eye just like any proud mommy does with a new born.
Gwen says softly between kissing Tina's tummy, "Sweet Heart, you no longer have to worry about the big ol boogymens no more. Gwennie will make sure baby aww safe n comfy."
She stands Tina on the counter and pulls her panties the rest of the way up after leaning Tina against her shoulder for support. She pats Her on the hinny one more time before she picks him up and carries him to the cellar. Ben sees the baby stroller Gwen is approaching and realizes what she's going to do.
"No .. No .. No ...I no wanna go inna stroller! You no carry me?" Ben protests as Gwen sets him down on a large pillow on the floor and sets up the stroller. She comes over and picks Ben up and rubs noses together. Ben feels ecstatic joy run through him when she does this. He giggles sweetly. Gwen kisses Tina's cheeks and rubs noses with her one more time before she carries him and the stroller out the back door onto the sidewalk.
She straps Tina in so baby can't squirm and fall out, then begins the around about long walk across the neighborhood pushing the stroller. Ben could see all the people he knew looking at them as they passed.
Ben tries hiding underneath the blanket and looks adorable doing it. He can't believe the people gushing over him as they walked by. People saying adorable baby, and other cute things. There were random preteen girls coming up saying they would love to baby sit Ben.
When Gwen is finally far enough away from a crowd, Tina whines, " How could ya do thisth ta me Gwen?"
Gwen bends over and coos softly, "To show you how ... particular and stupid girl's really are just like you said. Now, when you grow back up .. you'll completely understand all about being a girl ... I promise." she giggles as she continues pushing Tina the long way around to the mall.
"Please hurry Gwen! I can feel myself loosing memories of grandpa and the Omnitrix.." Ben peeking up from behind the blanket.." Please Gwen..I don't wanna be a baby forever!"
Ben helplessly let's out a little hiccup that just sounds so adorable. A chill runs up his spine, he knows he's already a baby, and there's nothing he can do about it. Gwen seems to be wasting time ... allowing the transformation to progress farther. He hoped they could get an answer real soon, he was already loosing the fight with the wonderful infantile waves rushing through him. Each one was more intense and pleasurable that the one before, and he lost his struggle more and more to each one.
Gwen coos so softly to Tina ... it makes him feel more like the baby he was rapidly becoming, "Sweetheart. A baby has no choice in who they are or what they remember. You should realize that by now. You're my baby. I think your just adorable too."
She bends and kisses his cheeks as she turns into the crowded sidewalk that leads to the mall.
Ben looks up at Gwen, giving her a mean look." I not ur baby n yore not my ..." Ben's mind suddenly goes blank as the most wonderful infantile wave washed through his very life force. He goes totally blank ... he can't remember ... Adult. He knows he should. He struggles to remember ... he can't be like this.
He knows for a fact the lady that raised him was Gwen, she's his mommy ... only other things he remembers is nothing. Ben starts to let out a huge cry as they enter the mall, kicking and flailing about in the stroller. He's not really sure why he's having a temper tantrum ... but it must be important.
Gwen stops inside the door to KV Dimes and says in a stern voice, "If you're going to be a naughty baby, mommy will spank you. Is that what baby wants?"
Many of the passing people were watching Ben as he threw his tantrum. Ben looks up at Gwen while rubbing his little eyes with his hands. While looking up, he sees memories of the 2 of them at Christmas. Gwen is giving Ben a pink pony rocking horse and that Ben loves getting baths with Gwen. Ben even remembers Gwen teaching him how to say mommy. After all the memories flood his mind pleasantly and he sits contentedly as any happy baby while he sucked his thumb. What little is left of his original mind returns suddenly.
Ben whines adorably, "How could you?"
As Gwen pushes the stroller into the occult shop, she coos softly, "How could you be sucha meanie? Now, I'm gonna show you what it's like to be a girl. You will experience it fully ... I promise. Now, to set baby girl's mind at ease, We'll hear it from the Master Mage."
She pushes the stroller up to a really weird looking man in a long flowing black hooded garment. When he turns, he has a long flowing beard and very beady softly glowing eyes.
Ben and Gwen step up and look at the old man. Ben covers his nose as he smells worse than a dirty diaper. The smells of his many concoctions permeated his Robe.
Ben unplugs his nose and squeaks in near baby talk, "Tell Gwen ta turns me back inta boy! She say no can, but I tink u knows how. Pwease change me back.." Ben pleads to the old man helplessly.
The old man smiles as he puts his hands inside the large sleeves of his robe. He says in a very eerie voice, "Well, hello. I see the wand worked wonderfully as I told you it would." He turns and bends. He tweaks Ben's cheek softly, "I see the subject has become the most adorable little girl." He laughs a scary Buuuhahaha laugh.
Ben pulls his cheeks away, "Turns me back now, meanie or I will use the Omnitrix to make you turn me back." Ben holding out his wrist with the cute pink and white baby watch on it.
The Mage laughs the horrid laugh again as he turns and walks to the back. He beckons Gwen to follow. She pushes Ben in the stroller back to a room that is completely black. It has black, very thick velvet curtains hanging from every wall. There are many racks of different colored candles burning all around a podium with a huge and extremely thick Tome sitting on it. Next to the tome on either side was an ebony black candle inside a frame. The candles were so black, they appeared to absorb ... the very energy of reality around them. It was hard to look on them, it was like they were there, but their blackness was a hole to some where else.
The Master Mage walks to the podium and opens the huge gold bound book. The temperature in the room dips suddenly.
He asks in his eerie voice, "Can the baby still read? If so ... read this and know, you have a new life, as a girl."
Gwen picks Ben up as he looks at the scribble marks on the page and doesn't recognize lot of the words except for 3 words. YOU ARE GIRL! Ben realizes this and starts to cry... kicking and screaming as Gwen holds onto him.
Gwen puts Ben to her shoulder and pats his hinny reassuringly. She coos softly, "Aww sweetiekens," She kisses him on his nose, "everything's going to be all right. Mommy promises. Now be a cute little baby and say: Ma ma. I know you can do it Sweet heart, your such a smart baby and soo adorable too."
Ben keeps his mouth shut for a bit as the pleasant urge to do it built inside him. With Gwen's cooing encouragements and loving tickles to baby, Ben giggles suddenly and claps his hands totally helpless to stop himself. He gurgles out happily, "Mmmm ..... Mmmmhhh. Mmmm aa .... mmmaahh muhhaa."
Ben sits for a minute clapping his hands happily as Gwen hugs and kisses baby for a job well done. He momentarily comes to his adult mind and gurgles and coos out before it leaves him again, "Is enyway sos me ta bea bigger girl? No wanna bea baby."
Ben looks at the Mage as he pokes out his bottom lip adorably. Ben finally admitting defeat that he is now a girl for life but doesn't want to be Gwen's baby.
Gwen tickles Ben under his arms making him giggle and squirm.
She coos softly, "Be a good baby and say: Mama. I know baby can do it. besides, it's the only words anyone will be able to understand from you until you grow up enough to learn how to talk."
Once again, Ben is over powered by the wonderful infantile urge to please mommy. He gurgles out, "Muh Muaa. Maahh Maauh." Ben felt so wonderful when Gwen gave him adoring approval and patted his hinny for a job well done. Once again, as he giggled and was extremely happy over his achievements, he came back to what was left of his adulthood.
He coos, gurgles, and squeaks, "No! Mage I want you to turn me into a teen girl again"
Gwen looks at the Mage and shakes her head. All she and the Mage could hear, was adorable coos, gurgles, and gibberish.
The Mage says softly, "The spell is irreversible. You're just gonna have to accept it. You're a girl for the rest of your life."
Again he lets go with a string of adorable gurgles and cooings, "I don't want to be a baby anymore! I hate being this small and a girl."
He realizes no one can understand what he said. Ben let's out a huge wail the whole store and some of the courtyard can hear. Ben starts balling his eyes out into Gwen's shoulder.
Gwen pats Ben's hinny lovingly as she coos softly, "Aww, sweetheart. It's aww right ... I promise. You will grow up into the cutest and most adorable little girl ever."
The Mage smiles as he flips through the Old Tome of Arcane Magic. He says softly, "I can ... sort of make things a little better. There are going to be a few issues ... but it's the only thing that can be done at this point."
He grabs a crucible, a mortis and pestle, and many vials of various concoctions. He places a small soup bowl sized caldron on the frame above one of the burning Ebony black candles. He mixed his potions and ground up his powders. When he was satisfied with each ingredient's preparations, he tossed in into the small caldron.
He pours a vial of strawberry smelling gel in last. In a few minutes, the pot begins to boil, giving off a very thick red/white mist. The Mage picks up what looks like a flask and pulls the top. All the mist is sucked into the flask as it come from the cauldron, until no more mist was produced.
He shakes the flask vigorously until a sloshing sound was heard, then pours the softly glowing clear/red liquid into a cute baby bottle and hands it to Ben after screwing the nippled top on.
He shrugs and says softly, "It's the best I can do. You will grow to about ... the size of a 9 year old. But you will be a little girl not quite old enough to be out of diapers, but still wears pull ups sometimes and will have cute little poopy and pee pee accidents. Take it or leave it. That's the only option."
Ben thinks about it, rubbing tears from his eyes. Both fates are terrible ... but being a 9 year old in size meant Gwen hopefully won't treat him so much like a baby anymore. Ben reaches out with his little delicate hands and grabs the bottle. Ben can only smell strawberries as he throws his head back and nurses the whole thing, finishing the last of it with a huge GULP!!
Gwen bends down and helps Ben stand on his very wobbly legs. He grows rapidly until he is about 4 feet tall. His diaper and panties grow proportionally. Ben can see in the mirrored back of the display case, he had grown into a very adorably cute little girl still in the lined rumba panties and a very thick cloth diaper. Her diaper had lots of bulk and she had a really cute poofy hinny that showed off all the ruffles on her rumba panties.
The Mage grins broadly and says, "Now, that's the cutest little girl I think I have seen since I met you Gwen."
Gwen blushes softly as she giggles. Gwen loves to dress up as a little girl, she was sorely tempted to wear a diaper too. After all ... it had taken many thousands of years for her to grow back to this age, and she had been in diapers for lots of that time.
The Mage bends and pats Ben on his hinny like he saw Gwen do several times and said, "You have to realize something too. You are a wonderful mix of a 9yo little girl and a 2 year old little girl. There's nothing that can be done about it. It will take approximately 100 years for you to grow ... totally into your new body, and then ... a very, very long time for you to totally grow up. Gwen is a lot older than you can imagine. She will still be a young girl when you get to her size. By then, the two of you will be inseparable as mother and daughter."
Ben's mind cleared some. He still couldn't think straight. Just as the words of the Master Mage truly dawned on Ben and he understood he was still going to be a toddler baby, just one the size of a 9yo ... it didn't matter any longer.
Tina smiles a large smile showing off her one upper and one lower tooth. She gurgles happily as she holds out the empty bottle. A wonderfully pleasant series of waves begin in her tummy as she has her very first baby poopie. Her eyes get big and she makes an adorable expression as her diaper fills. Gwen smiles. She loves that she managed to accomplish this with Ben. She was sure he would know exactly why ... girls acted the way they do ... boys can be ... so frustrating!!
She was sorry she was that way before. Now Ben would understand too.
~~ The End ~~


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New e-book recounts Steve Jobs e-mails to Apple customers
"Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs" is the first book by author Mark Milian, who covers consumer technology for CNN. He was previously a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. The title is available for $2.99 on the Amazon Kindle platform.
For the 67-page book, Milian reviewed more than 100 e-mails allegedly sent by Jobs, including some never-before-published notes that were shared exclusively for the new title. It also features interviews with some of the customers and fans that Jobs communicated with.
"Over the years, people discovered the e-mail address of Jobs and took to regularly sending him messages," the official synopsis reads. "That he often responded was as unusual as his leadership style and his processes for crafting hit products."
Among the conversations included are exchanges between Jobs and Brian Lam, former editor of Gizmodo. While the two had a friendly relationship at first, with Jobs even providing his thoughts on an early redesign of the website, the relationship quickly turned sour when the publication obtained a prototype of the iPhone 4 before it was announced.
The book even features details from an e-mail Jobs sent that was provided to AppleInsider in March of 2010. Jobs provided one customer details on what retail locations would sell the first-generation iPad at launch.
When he was in charge of Apple, Jobs's e-mails were an occasional source of news from the typically secretive company. For example, one note sent by Jobs a year ago revealed that "hardly anyone" was buying Apple's Xserve line of rackmounted servers, which prompted the company to discontinue the hardware.
Though Jobs died in October after a long bout with cancer, his tradition of responding to e-mails has been carried on thus far by Chief Executive Tim Cook. The book includes a few exchanges Cook has had with customers since he took over Apple in August.
Customers also paid tribute to Jobs after his death by sending e-mails to a special account Apple set up, [email protected] Personal stories and messages that were sent can be viewed at Apple's official tribute site, apple.com/stevejobs.


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ALI AKBAR DAREINI, The Associated Press
April 30, 2008 at 12:25 PM EDT
TEHRAN – Iran has stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, an official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.
Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar during the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency.
World markets price oil in U.S. dollars. Its depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude oil prices and has eroded the value of their dollar reserves.
"The dollar has totally been removed from Iran's oil transactions," Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, a top Oil Ministry official, told state-run television Wednesday. "We have agreed with all of our crude oil customers to do our transactions in non-dollar currencies."
At a summit last year in Saudi Arabia, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the depreciating dollar a "worthless piece of paper."
Iran put pressure on other Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members at the meeting to price oil in a basket of currencies. But it has not been able to generate support from fellow members – many of whom, including Saudi Arabia, are staunch U.S. allies.
Iran has a tense relationship with the U.S., which has accused Tehran of using its nuclear program as a cover for weapons development and providing support to Shiite militants in Iraq who are killing American troops. Iran has denied the allegations.
Iranian oil officials have said previously that they were shifting oil sales out of the dollar into other currencies, but Mr. Ghanimifard indicated Wednesday that all of Iran's oil transactions were now conducted in either euros or yen.
"In Europe, Iran's oil is sold in euros, but both euros and yen are paid for Iranian crude in Asia," he said.
Iran's central bank also has been reducing its foreign reserves denominated in U.S. dollars, motivated by the falling value of the greenback and U.S. attempts to make it difficult for Iran to conduct dollar transactions.
U.S. banks are prohibited from conducting business directly with Iran, and many European banks have curbed their dealings with the country over the past year under pressure from Washington.
However, the U.S. has been wary of targeting Iran's oil industry directly, apparently worried that such a move could drive up crude prices that are already near record levels.
Iranian analysts say Tehran can withstand U.S. pressure as long as it can continue its oil and gas sales, which constitute most of the country's $80 billion in exports.


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How the heart changes with aging
Tissue-paper thin but tough, the valves of the human heart open and close to pump 6 quarts of blood a day through 60,000 miles of vessels. That's equivalent to 20 treks across the United States from coast to coast.
Info & Photo from Natural Geographic
The two articles below are from American College of Sports Medicine and are position stands. Both of these articles are helpful for the heart patient to understand in the care and prevention of heart conditions. A couple of things to point out to the rehabilitating heart patient would be, the expected drop in blood pressure from exercise is 5-7 mmHg, but can remain lower for quite some time afterwards. This is why you must be alert for dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, especially after getting up from lying or seated positions.
The article mentions controlled hypertension.Understand you blood pressure as there are levels of hypertension mild moderate and severe. Exercise is not recommended when blood pressure is elevated in the severe ranges. Most should focus their effort in keeping the intensity mild to moderate. This is harder than you think keeping exercise light to moderate, be patient.
The second article, yes there are risks involved with exercise and they can be life threatening. What can you do to lower the risk? The intensity of exercise is important to understand. Learn about MET levels and exercise intensity here after you finish reading the article.
Hypertension (HTN), one of the most common medical disorders, is associated with an increased incidence of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Lifestyle modifications are advocated for the prevention, treatment, and control of HTN, with exercise being an integral component. Exercise programs that primarily involve endurance activity prevent the development of HTN and lower blood pressure (BP) in adults with normal BP and those with HTN. The BP lowering effects of exercise are most pronounced in people with HTN who engage in endurance exercise with BP decreasing approximately 5-7 mm Hg after an isolated exercise session (acute) or following exercise training (chronic). Moreover, BP is reduced for up to 22 h after an endurance exercise bout (e.g., postexercise hypotension), with the greatest decreases among those with the highest baseline BP.
The proposed mechanisms for the BP lowering effects of exercise include neurohumoral, vascular, and structural adaptations. Decreases in catecholamines and total peripheral resistance, improved insulin sensitivity, and alterations in vasodilators and vasoconstrictors are some of the postulated explanations for the antihypertensive effects of exercise. Emerging data suggest genetic links to the BP reductions associated with acute and chronic endurance exercise. Nonetheless, definitive conclusions regarding the mechanisms for the BP reductions following endurance exercise cannot be made at this time.
Individuals with controlled HTN and no CVD or renal complications may participate in an exercise program or competitive athletics, but should be evaluated, treated, and monitored closely. Preliminary peak or symptom-limited exercise testing may be warranted, especially for men over 45 and women over 55 yr planning a vigorous exercise program (i.e., ≥ 60% V̇O2R, oxygen uptake reserve). In the interim, while formal evaluation and management are taking place, it is reasonable for the majority of patients to begin moderate intensity exercise training (40-<60% V̇O2R) such as walking. When pharmacologic therapy is indicated in physically active people it should, ideally: a) lower BP at rest and during exertion; b) decrease total peripheral resistance; and, c) not adversely affect exercise capacity. For these reasons, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (or angiotensin II receptor blockers in case of ACE inhibitor intolerance) and calcium channel blockers are currently the drugs of choice for recreational exercisers and athletes who have HTN.
Exercise remains a cornerstone therapy for the primary prevention, treatment, and control of HTN. The optimal training frequency, intensity, time, and type (FITT) need to be better defined to optimize the BP lowering capacities of exercise, particularly in children, women, older adults, and certain ethnic groups. Based upon the current evidence, the following exercise prescription is recommended for those with high BP:
Frequency: on most, preferably all, days of the week
Intensity: moderate-intensity (40-<60% of V̇O2R)
Time: ≥ 30 min of continuous or accumulated physical activity per day
Type: primarily endurance physical activity supplemented by resistance exercise
Exercise risk for cardiovascular event
Habitual physical activity reduces coronary heart disease events, but vigorous activity can also acutely and transiently increase the risk of sudden cardiac death and acute myocardial infarction in susceptible persons. This scientific statement discusses the potential cardiovascular complications of exercise, their pathological substrate, and their incidence and suggests strategies to reduce these complications. Exercise-associated acute cardiac events generally occur in individuals with structural cardiac disease. Hereditary or congenital cardiovascular abnormalities are predominantly responsible for cardiac events among young individuals, whereas atherosclerotic disease is primarily responsible for these events in adults. The absolute rate of exercise-related sudden cardiac death varies with the prevalence of disease in the study population. The incidence of both acute myocardial infarction and sudden death is greatest in the habitually least physically active individuals. No strategies have been adequately studied to evaluate their ability to reduce exercise-related acute cardiovascular events. Maintaining physical fitness through regular physical activity may help to reduce events because a disproportionate number of events occur in least physically active subjects performing unaccustomed physical activity. Other strategies, such as screening patients before participation in exercise, excluding high-risk patients from certain activities, promptly evaluating possible prodromal symptoms, training fitness personnel for emergencies, and encouraging patients to avoid high-risk activities, appear prudent but have not been systematically evaluated.
Regular physical activity is widely advocated by the medical community in part because substantial epidemiological, clinical, and basic science evidence suggests that physical activity and exercise training delay the development of atherosclerosis and reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) events (1-4). Nevertheless, vigorous physical activity can also acutely and transiently increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and sudden cardiac death (SCD) in susceptible individuals (5-7). This scientific statement presents the cardiovascular complications of vigorous exercise, their pathophysiological substrate, and their incidence in specific patient groups and evaluates strategies directed at reducing these complications. The goal is to provide healthcare professionals with the information they need to advise patients more accurately about the benefits and risks of physical activity.
Most studies of exercise-related cardiovascular events have examined events associated with sports participation in young subjects and with vigorous exercise in adults. Vigorous exercise is usually defined as an absolute exercise work rate of at least 6 metabolic equivalents (METs), which is historically assumed to equal an oxygen uptake (V˙O2) of 21 mL·kg-1·min-1. Six METs approximates the energy requirements of activities such as jogging. Six METs is an arbitrary threshold and does not account for the fact that the myocardial oxygen demands of any physical activity are more closely related to the V˙O2requirements relative to maximal exercise capacity than to the absolute work rate per se. Consequently, exercise work rates < 6 METs may still place considerable stress on the cardiovascular systems of unfit and older individuals.
Thank you to all my loyal readers. Today this blog passed 50,000 hits, and it isn't even officially one full year old yet. Heart conditions remain the number one cause of death, we are learning more every day, and this blog is designed to help those living with a heart condition. Thank you again for reading.
Working in healthcare the frequency of poor decision making when it comes to end of life decisions and choices has made many a good healthcare provider change careers. It becomes an ethical dilemma when patients are coerced into major procedures when the outcome will be poor regardless of the intervention. Many times it is because of poor communication between the patient, their family and the caring physicians. This can largely be prevented through advanced care planning. Effective communication between the patient or legally designated decision-maker and health care professionals ensures decisions are sound and based on the patient's understanding their medical condition, their prognosis, the benefits and burdens of the life-sustaining treatment and their personal goals for care.
The discussion should include what interventions would you agree to, what do you want to avoid? What do you want your family to know. Decisions include CPR, life support, respirators, tube feedings, surgical procedures, pain management, medications, skilled nursing facilities, hospice. How do you choose to spend your final days? At the bottom of this post you will find many wonderful resources to help you in decision making, and communication with family and physicians.
advance care planning to keep healthcare centered around patient goals.


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Jerz > Writing > Academic > [ Argument | Titles | Thesis Statements | Blueprinting | Quoting | Citing | MLA Format ]
0.1) If you've been asked to submit a paper in MLA style, your instructor is asking you to format the page and present the content in a specific way. Just as football referees dress a certain way, and Japanese chefs cook a certain way, writers in certain disciplines follow a certain set of conventions. This document will show you how to format an essay in MLA style.
0.2) If, instead of questions about putting the final formatting touches on your essay, you have questions about what to write, see instead my handouts on writing a short research paper, coming up with a good thesis statement, and using quotations in the body of your paper.
- Document Settings
(1 inch margins; double spaced; 12-point)
- Page Header
(name and page number, upper right of every page)
- Title Block
(assignment info and an informative title)
- Citations
(no comma between the author and page number; commas and periods go outside of inline quotes)
- Works Cited List
(lots of tricky details! sort alphabetically by author, not by the order the quotes appear in your paper)
For the most complete information, check your campus library or writing center for the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8th ed.
See Also
1. Document Settings
Your word processor comes with default settings (margin, line height, paragraph spacing, and typeface) that will likely need adjustment. For MLA style, you need:
|(Jump directly to instructions for adjusting MS-Word settings in Windows or Mac; or, skip ahead to 2) Page Header.)
1.1 Adjusting Document Settings in MS-Word (Windows)
My copy of Microsoft Word for Windows defaults to
- 1-inch margins all around
- 1.15 line height
- 10pt spacing between paragraphs
- Calibri 11-point typeface.
Changing to MLA Style (Windows)
- The default margins in my test run were fine, but if you need to change them:
Page Layout -> Margins -> Normal (1-inch all around)
- The default line height is too low. Change it to 2.0.
Home -> Line Spacing -> 2.0.
(You could try fudging it to 1.9 or 2.1 to meet a page count, but any more than that and your instructor may notice.)
- The MS-Word default adds extra space after paragraphs.(MLA Style instead requires you to signal paragraph breaks by indenting the first line.)
CTRL-A (select all your text)
Home -> Line Spacing -> Remove Space After Paragraph
- Change the typeface to Times New Roman 12-point.
Home-> Font Face Selector (change to Times New Roman)
Home -> Font Size Selector (change to 12)
1.2 Adjusting Document Settings in MS-Word (Mac)
My copy of Microsoft Word for Mac defaults to
- 1.25 inch left and right margins, 1 inch top and bottom
- 1.0 line height
- no extra spacing after paragraphs
- Cambria 12-point typeface
Changing to MLA style (Mac)
- In my test run, the left and right margins are too big. To change them:
Layout -> Margins -> Normal (1-inch all around)
- The default line height is too low. Change it to 2.0.
Home -> Line Spacing -> 2.0
- My Mac copy of MS-Word does not add extra spaces after paragraphs. If yours does:
Home -> Line Spacing -> Line Spacing Options… (a new window will pop up)
Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style (check this box) -> OK
- The 12-point Cambria will probably be fine, but to change the typeface:
Home -> Font Face Selector (change to Times New Roman)
Home -> Font Size Selector (change to 12)
2. Page Header
In the top right of every page, use your word processor's "Page Header" function add an automatic page number and your surname.
2.1 Adding the Page Header in MS-Word (Windows)
- Insert -> Page Number -> Top of Page -> (choose the right-justified "Plain Number" option)
- The cursor will jump automatically to the right place for you to type your surname.
- Click anywhere in the body of the paper to exit the header area.
2.2 Adding the Page Header in MS-Word (Mac)
- Insert (in the top menu) -> Page Numbers… -> (Set "Position" to "Top of Page (header)" and "Alignment" to "Right")
- Click just to the left of the new page number, and type your surname.
- On my test document, my name was too far over to the left; grab the triangular tab adjuster just above your name, and drag it a notch to the right.
3. Title Block
In the upper left corner, type your name, your instructor's name, the course number and section, and today's date. Centered on the next line, type an informative title that actually informs the reader of your main point (not just "English Paper" or "A Comparison between Hamlet and Macbeth").
- Like all the other text in an MLA style paper, the title block is double-spaced.
- The title is in the same font as the rest of the paper — it is not boldface, or enlarged.
- There is no extra space above or below the title.
- A truly informative title will include the general topic, and your precise opinion on that topic. (So, if you pan to compare Hamlet and Macbeth, your title should state the unique point you want to make about Hamlet and Macbeth. Reuse part of your thesis statement.)
4. Citations
This handout presumes you already know why you should cite your sources (to establish your authority, to introduce persuasive evidence, to avoid plagiarism, etc.), These instructions focus on how you format the page. (For a resource to help you determine how to cite a specific source, see the MLA Bibliography Builder).
To fully cite a source requires two stages. The first happens in the body of your paper (the "in-text citation") and the second happens on a separate page at the end of your paper (see "Works Cited List," below.)
4.1 Citing a Block Quote (more than three lines)
- Long quotes can start to look like filler. Only use a block quote if you have a very good reason to include the whole passage. (You can usually make your point with a shorter quote.)
- If you do have a good reason to quote a passage that is several lines long:
- Select the text and click the "Increase Indent" icon (see image, right).
- Place the parenthetical citation (the author's name and the page number) after the period. (This is different from inline quotes, below.)
- There is no comma between the author's name and the page number.
- If the quotation runs across more than one page: (Wordsworth-Fuller 20-21) or (Wordsworth-Fuller 420-21).
- Skip wordy introductions such as, "In his informative guide The Amazing Writing Book, published by Elizabeth Mount College in 2010, the noted composition expert Maxwell Wordsworth-Fuller describes the importance of citations in MLA style papers." Cutting the filler leaves more room to develop your own original ideas. (See "Integrating Quotations.")
4.2 Citing an Inline Quotation
When the passage you want to quote is less than three lines long, use inline style. Here we have two brief passages, taken from the same page of the same source, so we can handle both with a single parenthetical citation.
- The parenthetical citation appears outside the quoted material.
- The period that ends the sentence comes after the close parenthesis. (This is different from block quotes, above.)
- In this example, we have changed the first word a little, lowercasing it in order to fit it into our own sentence. To let the reader know what we changed, we put [] around it.
- Again, note the absence of a full sentence that explains who Wordsworth-Fuller is and where the quote comes from. All that info will be in the Works Cited list, so we leave it out of the body of the paper.
4.3 Citing a Paraphrase
Let's imagine we want to reference Wordsworth-Fuller's general idea about citation as a way to establish credibility, but we don't need to include any of the technical details. We can save space, and make it much easier on our reader, if we paraphrase:
- Use paraphrasing for variety, or to make a passing reference without taking up much space.
- If we use an author's idea, rephrased in our own words, we must still cite the idea.
5. Works Cited List
A research paper isn't a research paper unless you end with full bibliographical details on every source you cited. This part can be tedious and tricky; leave yourself plenty of time to do it.
- Start a new page.
- MS-Word Wind: Insert -> Page Break -> New Page.
- MS-Word Mac: Document Elements -> Break -> Page.
- Title your new page: Works Cited
MLA style calls for no extra spaces above or below the page title; no special formatting.
5.1. How to Create an Individual Works Cited Entry
Exactly what goes into each item in your bibliography depends on what kind of item it is. The following pages give you some questions to answer, then let you push a button to get an individual works-cited entry.
MLA-Style Bibliography Builder: Create Works Cited Entries by Filling in a Form
- Article (in a periodical, or chapter; printed or electronic)
- Book (printed or electronic)
- Web Page (corporate web page, blog entry, YouTube video, etc.)
If you prefer a more narrative explanation, see Purdue OWL's handouts for how to create a bibliography entry for a book, an article in a periodical (such as a journal or newspaper), or an electronic source (such as an email, web page or a YouTube clip). See also this list of other common sources (such as a personal interview or a movie).
5.2. How to Organize Your Works Cited list
Sort the entries alphabetically by the author's last name.
- If the author is an organization (such as a government agency or non-profit foundation), alphabetize according to the name of the organization.
- If you are citing a painting, or a composer, then obviously "author" has to be interpreted a little loosely.
- Unless your instructor ask you to organize your Works Cited list differently, everything should be alphabetized together, in a single list. MLA does not require that you separate works of different kinds, or that you cite works in the order that they appeared in your paper, or that you write annotations to go along with each item.
- Use double-spaced line height. (in my copy of Word, I select the text and choose Format -> Paragraph -> Line spacing -> Double -> OK.)
- Use hanging indent paragraph format. (In my copy of word, I select the text then choose Format -> Paragraph -> Indentation -> Special -> Hanging Indent.)
29 May 2011 — new document posted, replacing outdated handout written in 1999.
06 Jun 2011 — expanded section on organizing the Works Cited list, since several readers asked for clarification.
07 Jun 2011 — reorganized for emphasis
19 Apr 2012 — added numbers to more subheads
24 Mar 2014 — added details on Works Cited paragraph formatting.
02 Oct 2016 — updated with MLA 8th Edition details.
30 Nov 2016 — added annotated Works Cited sample image.
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By Courtney DiFiore
It's that time, BBQ's are every other weekend, you're now living off watermelon and sweet tea, the smell of sunblock is in the air, and the kids are out of school and driving you crazy. Yes, it's summer and everyone's looking for something fun to do. Many who spend the summer at Stratton always come asking the same question, "What is there to do around here?" In response to this popular question, it's been decided to begin a blog series cleverly named 'Things to do in Southern Vermont' (original, I know).
At first, I figured beginning the series would be tough. With so much to choose from, what activity would I share first?! Lucky for me, the decision fell into my lap after a trip to Timber Quest last week with a co-worker. Located at Magic Mountain in Londonderry, Vermont, Timber Quest is an aerial adventure amongst the treetops with over 20 zip lines, the longest being 260 feet long, and 75 challenges of varying difficulty.
Thankfully, I've been on a course similar, so I was prepared upon arrival but for those who've yet to experience the awesomeness that is Timber Quest or anything like it, make sure you don't show up in crocs, board shorts and your favorite shirt (unless you're favorite shirt happens to be an athletic piece of clothing). Ladies, break out the three quarter length yoga pants and gents throw on some athletic shorts. Once you have the harness hugging your waist, things can get a bit uncomfortable with too much clothing (lots of bunching!).
Before Lauren (the co-worker) and I took to the course, we received a mini lesson in the proper way to clip in and out of the safety wires. Then it was off to play! Jim Barron, part guide, part comic relief for our aerial adventure, led the way down the blue course. There's three levels of difficulty, green (easy), blue (medium) and black (hard). The black course is in the process of being built and finalized, but you can bet that when it's complete, I'll be first in line to try it out.
From the start of the course, I could see plenty of obstacles awaiting my arrival but just when I thought I was almost done, I looked across a trail at neighboring woods to find even more challenges! And so began the first in a series of zip lines that weaved in and out of the treetops. The final zip line to the end of the course is probably the most fun. It stands at about 25 feet high (but the highest zip line pole stands at about 35 feet!) and because you have a soft, gravel landing, it allows you to have a little fun on the take-off.
The course took about one and a half hours to complete. Depending on the person, it can be a little longer or shorter. Either way, it's a sure way to have fun with the family or solo (whichever!). Check out their website for more details at www.timberquestparks.com.


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Yesterday was Gold Cup Day at the Royal Ascot, traditionally the "highlight of the summer calendar for the well-off and well-connected" in Berkshire, U.K. But according to a report in the Daily Mail, the well-off and well-connected vibe has devolved into something resembling the ass-end of a NASCAR infield. Sayeth racing commentator Sir Peter O'Sullevan, "Sometimes the grandstands seem over-run by tattoos and bare flesh. It's disrespectful — not just to the Queen, but to the horses."
Here's some further detail...
In a blatant disregard for Ascot's strict behavioural code, a drunken brawl broke out by a Victorian band stand. Eight men started to fight on the lawn by a champagne bar just yards from the The Royal Mile, Ascot's home straight. Terrified racegoers fled to avoid being struck by stray punches as the drunken group, some egged on by female friends, armed themselves with bottles and chair legs.
Oh, there's also an "honesty box" where people can place their drugs rather than further disrespecting the ponies with coke-fueled, lip-licking grunts.
A drunken brawl, a celebrity call girl and tattooed men (and women)... whatever happened to a genteel day out at Ascot? [Daily Mail] (H/T Barry W.)
Royal Ascot: drunken brawl mars Ladies' Day [Mirror]
Royal Ascot Procession 2011 - Tuesday [YouTube]
Fashion police on standby as weird hats go on parade on opening day of Royal Ascot races [YouTube]
(Photo H/T TNT Magazine)