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Human Hair Extensions: Holy "Moldy", what's that Smell?
A lot of hair companies ensure to wash hair they receive from vendors to bring out the very best in the hair. I've seen donated hair that has yet to be given TLC by talented hands and the hair doesn't look like anything I'd buy or want in my house for fear of something crawling out of it. There are other bundles I've seen that makes me raise an eyebrow and wonder did I receive hair or a complementary supply of Ramen Noodles. In these instances, I have seen these same bundles deep conditioned, washed, and cared for to the point of complete transformation. If you happen to get hair that looks like noodles or doesn't look it best, before you count it out, deep condition and wash your unit to see if it does indeed transform.
A good practice is to always wash any hair you receive from a company for sanity and inspection reasons. You can keep your bundles together and wash them with the correct products to bring out the beauty, shine, and quality in your hair. The washing practice will also let you know right away if your hair will tangle, shed, or react in an improper manner. If it does, you have a great chance of either getting exchange bundles or a refund. If your hair has already been washed by the company; it will look amazing, smell amazing, and have their own signature packaging style to accompany it for a nice touch. These are the companies that you often tend to be loyal customers to over other companies because they understand that something as little as deep conditioning the hair before sending it out to the customer will make the supreme difference.
Remember when I mentioned foul or moldy smelling hair? Do you know the reason for that? Ironically, these companies wash the hair also, but they failed to dry the hair properly and completely before sending it out to you. I've gotten hair that was still semi damp and you can smell the SOUR starting to settle in. It's exactly like forgetting you have a load of clothes in the washing machine for two days. In the words of Phaedra Parks, "Everybody knows" once you get to a certain sour or mold point in clothes or hair, there is no amount of washing that will completely remove the scent. If you ever get hair like that, you should not at all bother with it. Please contact the company immediately with calm and confidence, if you really want the hair, negotiate a partial refund for your inconvenience of getting hair presented in a subpar condition. If you want the hair that you paid for, be sure to let the company know you'd like a return label with signature confirmation and you will be glad to return the foul smelling bundles for better bundles.
I encourage you to give any company a chance to correct your situation and show you what the customer service is truly like. Customer service is easy when you're buying and everything is going well, but the true test is when you are unsatisfied and what the company does to bring your resolution. If you have read this complete article, first let me say kudos to your commitment to my randomness and understanding hair. As a sign off, here is a quick hit list that summarizes the article. Feel free to create a hair care scrapbook or journal, post it in your office or cubicle, or place it in a location for easy reference.
Benefits of Washing/Deep Conditioning Human Hair Extensions or Wigs before Wear
• Sanitation and Hygiene – You never know what the hair journey was before it gets in your hands, give your hair a fresh bath before placing on your head.
• Discover and Avoid "nits" – Certain hair textures or just prone to nits that are often killed in processing hair. This can is usually more prevalent in virgin unprocessed hair. Everything has a pro and con right? Example: Usually hair will not be infested. You may see 1 or a few
• Absolute quality – a good wash and deep condition can bring out the maximum beauty, moisture and luster to your hair
• Quality Control – washing and deep conditioning process can offer you insight in the true quality of your hair and assist you in detecting defects early. If you are also curious what your hair will do in and out of the pool, rain, or beach water – Wash it. While you won't get a 100% answer (because pools have chlorine and ocean water is rife with salt) you will get a good idea.
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Friday Morning Meteor May Have Been SatelliteJust before 7 o'clock this morning, there was a bright flash in the sky. NASA confirms it was a meteor.
Local Astronomer Captures Jupiter FireballA Dallas astronomer is apparently the only person in the world who caught on video what looks like an explosion on the planet Jupiter this week.

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It didn't take Dame Helen Mirren long to live up to her "legend" billing at the Empire film magazine awards last night. She dedicated her Legend Award to "the girls". In her speech, she said: "I don't want to unduly pick on Sam Mendes, but when he spoke about his inspirations earlier this evening, I'm afraid not a single one of the people he mentioned was a woman… Hopefully in five or 10 years, when Sam's successor is collecting their Inspiration Award, the list will be slightly more balanced in terms of its sexual make-up."
She left the stage to cheers of appreciation.
It's great to see women sticking up for each other. Especially when only nine per cent of directors of the top 250 grossing Hollywood films in 2012 were women. Even though this is low, it's a four per cent increase on 2011, the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film found.
In London there are a lot of women working in films and it's generally thought to be better than Hollywood. One reason for this is that the "three musketeers" of independent film finance are all female - Tessa Ross, controller at Film4, and her two protégées, Christine Langan, creative director of BBC Films, and Tanya Seghatchian, head of the UK Film Council's Lottery-supported development fund.
Langan is annoyed that gender remains an issue. "If we were three men it wouldn't be noticed, or commented on. Part of me thinks we should just get over it. But then, another part of me wonders if there is something gender-specific about the job the three of us do. It's a nurturing role, there's a lot of talent-development and team-building. That's probably where women have strengths."
Lucy Walker, director of the Oscar-nominated film Waste Land, is aware of double standards in the industry: "When a man directs a turkey, he'll typically be hired much quicker again than a woman who has had a film bomb. But what's most heartbreaking as a director are the success stories; the films directed by women that do fantastically well. Look at what happens to those women. Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first Twilight film – a hit that came out of nowhere – was not hired to make the next one, but was described as too difficult to work with. Her next film had a budget twice as big as Twilight, but she couldn't get the same fee. In Hollywood, when a guy directs a hit, his fee goes up, no questions asked. She was very upset about that." Sharon Maguire, who directed the first Bridget Jones film, was also not asked back for the second.
When Lynne Ramsay, director of 2011's We Need To Talk About Kevin, quit her next film, a Western called Jane Got a Gun, her departure was described as "insane" and "irresponsible" by one of the film's producers, Scott Steindorff. But no one criticised director Gary Ross when he walked away from the sequel to The Hunger Games. Of course there were different circumstances but it is worth noting the gender difference.
So what do women in the industry need in order to break the deadlock of sexism? There are successful female directors. The following list is pretty inspirational – there's Kathryn Bigelow, who was the first woman to win the Academy Award for best director for The Hurt Locker, Lena Dunham, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion and Andrea Arnold, the woman who started out in front of the cameras on children's TV. Walker believes there aren't enough films being made by women because "they're not rewarded concurrently with men" and have trouble "stepping back in" after having children.
But hopefully if people like Helen Mirren keep highlighting the problem, her wish of a more balanced list will come true - and not before time.
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Wash. Post reported Libby acquittal would damage Fitzgerald's "nonpartisan reputation," left out that he's a Bush appointee
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A February 23 Washington Post article asserted that it "would be a blow" to special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald's "reputation as a nonpartisan prosecutor with a record of high-profile successes" if a jury finds Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, not guilty of perjury, false statements, and obstruction of justice. But the article never mentioned that Fitzgerald is a Bush administration political appointee. President Bush nominated Fitzgerald to his current position as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois on September 19, 2001. The Senate confirmed him by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001.
As U.S. Attorney, Fitzgerald has prosecuted or investigated officials of both parties. As Media Matters for America has noted, Fitzgerald charged former Illinois Gov. George Ryan (R) with steering state contracts to cronies in return for cash and gifts, misusing campaign funds, and rigging the Illinois inspector general's office to cover his tracks. Ryan was convicted on April 17, 2006, following a six-month-long trial. Fitzgerald has also been leading an investigation into the administration of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, a Democrat. Fitzgerald's office successfully prosecuted Daley's longtime aide Robert Sorich for, according to the indictment, "us[ing] fraudulent processes to award City of Chicago ... jobs and promotions on bases other than merit." Additionally, in October 2006, Fitzgerald's office charged a major fundraiser for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Antoin Rezko, with multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. At the time, Blagojevich said that Rezko "has been a friend and a supporter."
Further, former Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (IL), on the August 8, 2005, broadcast of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, said he had recommended Fitzgerald's appointment as U.S. Attorney because of his political independence:
PETER FITZGERALD: The allies of the governor [Ryan] were pressuring me to try and put someone in office who would see things more favorably to the governor, and so I was very concerned that whoever I recommended as U.S. attorney be someone who is totally independent.
And in finding Patrick Fitzgerald, I found someone of unquestioned independence and integrity and truly top-notch ability.
The Post article also stated that "Fitzgerald's motives and credentials were challenged when his investigation homed in on top Bush administration officials, including senior White House adviser Karl Rove, as well as the Washington press corps." However, as Media Matters has noted, Bush, in an October 11, 2005, interview on NBC's Today, called Fitzgerald's investigation "dignified." Libby was indicted on October 28, 2005.
From the February 23 Washington Post article headlined "A Nonpartisan Reputation At Stake":
When the jury in I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial returns with its verdict, its decision also will intensify the debate over whether Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald should have brought the case in the first place.
For Fitzgerald, who has led the CIA leak investigation for more than three years, an acquittal for Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff would be a blow to a reputation as a nonpartisan prosecutor with a record of high-profile successes. Some say it would vindicate critics who think Fitzgerald went too far by charging Libby with perjury when no one was indicted for the original offense investigated, the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name.
Fitzgerald's motives and credentials were challenged when his investigation homed in on top Bush administration officials, including senior White House adviser Karl Rove, as well as the Washington press corps. In a showdown with the New York Times, Fitzgerald went to the Supreme Court to force reporters to divulge their confidential conversations with government sources.
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Jooce, a virtual desktop aimed at users who access the Web via cybercafes is attracting interest from organisations set up to bridge the digital divide. It is claimed that Jooce is presently targetting the estimated 500 million people who log on to the Internet from a cybercafe each day. Experts suggest that its free web-based desktop may be of great use for people who cannot afford their own personal computer.
Jooce provides the same functions as a personal computer, allowing access to files, e-mail, instant messaging, storage and other applications. "It's a platform that will make it much easier for the world's cybernomads to manage their digital lives", said Jooce founder, Stefan Surzyck, referring to this platform as "their very own private space online".
Joocetop, a public desktop, is also said to be able to allow friends to access and share files. In addition a dedicated e-mail client is underway.
Eloisa San Mateo, regional IT coordinator for the Philippines National Computer Centres, has some concerns about the performance of Jooce on lower spec machines with poor bandwith.
Meddie Mayanja, a senior program officer with telecentre.org sees organisations such as Jooce as essential to the sustainability of net access centres.
Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with JupiterResearch is less positive about web-based operating systems.
CNET.com, an online technology news site, nominated Jooce as a finalist in its 2008 Webware 100 awards.
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May 10, 2014 from 11am to 5pm – The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning May 10: Ephemera Fest Brings DIY Literary Culture to Lexington On Saturday, May 10, independent publishers and artists will gather at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington Kentuc… Organized by Michelle - Indigo zine | Type: zine, &, paper, arts, expo, comics, crafts, film, screening, discussion, workshop, reading
July 4, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm – the storefront Librarians who make zines and are passionate about DIY publications will be embarking on a zine reading tour of central North America this summer, starting at the American Library Association's 2011… Organized by twelveohtwo zine distro | Type: zine, reading
March 25, 2011 at 2pm to March 27, 2011 at 12am – Columbia College, Quimby's, 826 visit www.chicagozinefest.org for more info, everyone invite your friends! this is going to be an awesome two days, can't wait to see you all!!! Organized by leslie perrine | Type: zine, fest, reading, workshop
March 18, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm – Venue TBA twelveohtwo zine distro presents -- an evening of readings: Al Burian -- Burn Collector zine/bookhttp://www.alburian.com/Sarah Pinder -- The Rye House, torch song, Do You Like What You See? & o… Organized by twelveohtwo zine distro | Type: zine, reading
October 31, 2009 from 2pm to 4pm – The Toronto Zine Library @ The Tranzac Club, 2nd Floor The Toronto Zine Library invites you to come and celebrate the Toronto launch of the newly revised & reprinted Stolen Sharpie Revolution with an afternoon of readings by: ALEX WREKK -- Portland,… Organized by The Toronto Zine Library | Type: zinester, reading
March 17, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm – Black Rose Anarchist Bookshop When: Tuesday 17 March 2009 - 7pm Where: Black Rose Books, 22 Enmore Road Newtown 2042 (Opposite Oporto) More Info: Black Rose is a collectively-run anarchist library & bookshop. http://blackrose… Organized by Black Rose Anarchist Bookshop | Type: zine, reading
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Fashion earphones are remarkably popular, even among those cool kids who would dispute giving their favourite cans such a loaded title. The Adidas-branded Sennheiser HD 220 Originals are cheaper than the Dr Dre-endorsed Beats, or the Lady Gaga-labelled Monster Heartbeats, but with Sennheiser at the helm, they're surprisingly good.
The Sennheiser HD 220 Originals have been given the traditional colours of the Adidas logo - white and blue - but at heart they're just like the Sennheiser HD 218 on-ear headphones, which have been available for years. The construction's the same, featuring plastic for the main body of the headphones and fake leather for the pads and headband pad. You just have to pay a slight premium for the Adidas branding, but as they sell for between £35 and £40 instead of around £33, the extra cash is not a show-stopper.
Each ear cup swivels around by 90 degrees, increasing portability. Unlike some on-ear headphones, the arms don't fold down completely so although they're lighter and less bulky than most supra-aural sets, the HD 220 Originals' portability is somewhat limited. They come supplied with a rather natty blue and white pouch, which - in our opinion - shows off the blue and white colour scheme much better than the headphones themselves.
This is perhaps our key gripe with the Sennheiser HD 220 Originals. Over the last few weeks, we've been wearing them about town, on the way to work and so on - yet we've never quite gotten over the embarrassment factor that comes with seeing your bonce adorned with a pair of bright white and blue headphones whenever faced with a reflective surface. Perhaps it's the influence of Narcissus talking, but we do urge you to make sure you're a-ok with the bright colour scheme of these headphones before picking them over the more sober-looking HD 218 or HD 228.
The all-plastic construction doesn't feel super-strong, but shows no signs of wear thus far. It does seem a cut below the metal-and-plastic construction of the wonderfully cheap MEElectronics HT-21 though.
Pleather (plastic leather) often causes ear overheating, but the design of the HD 220 Originals is comfy enough for listening sessions of several hours. Behind the pleather covering of the earpiece is a foam pad that rests on your ear. The sound passes through a mesh circle within the pleather cover - this is naturally the bit that needs to be over your ear canal to get the correct sound, and sound isolation.
While the sound doesn't fall apart as badly as some other on-ear headphones when they're not placed perfectly on your ears, sound isolation does. With the correct seal around the mesh circle, we found the HD 220 Originals' isolating enough to use on public transport - crucially without disturbing nearby passengers with 'yer bangin' tunes. Leave them resting on the wrong part of your ear and you'll be able to hear the conversations, sneezes and snuffles of people nearby all too well.
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AON will still be the sponsor on the Manchester United* kits next season. The Chevrolet deal does not start until 2014-15. Here are the rumored home and away kits.
I love the simplicity of the home kit especially after this season's home and I agree, the away seems more navy if anything. Think I would have liked it better if it was black and grey but I love the team crest on the away.
The only one I have seen from this season is the Away "Player Issue" Long-Sleeve Kit. I would have got it but no one on the first team wears the long-sleeve kit. Had it been short-sleeve I would have bought ASAP. I have bought mutliple Home/Away replica kits from this season though.


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The Wright State basketball teams will each play two games this week while the track team will compete in two meets.
Men's Basketball: With a 9-8, 1-1 record, the Wright State men's basketball team will play at Valparaiso Friday night at 9 pm on ESPNU and host UIC Sunday at 7 pm on ESPN3.
Wright State, coming off a 58-53 loss at Detroit last Saturday afternoon, had won four straight before the Titan game. AJ Pacher and Chrishawn Hopkins led the way with 11 points as Miles Dixon grabbed a team-high six rebounds. The back and forth game saw the Titans lead 30-28 at half.
WSU and Valpo last met in March with the Horizon League title on the line with the Crusaders winning 62-54. Valpo won all three games last year by six, seven and eight points. UIC won at WSU last year 55-49 and in Chicago 60-55. Currently, Valpo is 9-8, 1-1 and UIC is 5-10, 0-1.
Women's Basketball: The women will take a record 12-4, 1-0 into the home game against Oakland Wednesday at 7 pm after defeating Detroit 82-57 Sunday to start the Horizon League slate. WSU hosts Cleveland State Sunday at 4:30 pm before the men host UIC.
Kim Demmings continues to lead the team in scoring while Ivory James led them against the Titans with 21 points. Demmings and Abby Jump each finished with 12 points as KC Elkins had 10 points. Demmings also had nine rebounds.
Oakland is currently 5-8, 0-0 and Cleveland State holds the same exact record. This will Oakland's first visit to the Nutter Center as a member of the Horizon League while the Raiders split the pair of games last year with Cleveland State, losing 68-63 in Cleveland and winning at home 61-53.
Track: The Wright State track team will be back in action at the Buckeye Classic on January 10 and at the Penn State Relays the following day. The Raiders competed in two non-scored meets in December.
Maria Harrison has set a new school mark in the weight throw at 16.22 as Sarah-Ann Blount has done the same in the high jump at 1.60. Blount leads the team early in the 60 hurdles, high jump, long jump and triple jump.


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My face dropped slightly as I kept my gaze locked on the dull, murky night clouds ahead. Why does it always have to rain on our first night back? By the time weve gotten out of the carriages, were soaked. Just how I want to be at the welcoming feast.
So Rosie you and Smith?
Not now Al I moaned turning away from the window, shoving another chocolate frog in my mouth.
Al scoffed and sat up so he was fully facing me as he said glaring at me slightly, Yes now. So, whats going on there then?
I scowled at him as I reached for yet another chocolate frog. What can I say! Theyre my favourites. Im skinny anyway, Nana Molly is always trying to fatten me up, Im just helping her really.
I dont think we need to talk about Jasper.
Well someone has to, Dom muttered from beside me as she flicked through her Quibbler.
I looked at her with clenched teeth, and a very miffed expression. Just whose side was she on here exactly?
She looked up at feeling my gaze and scoffed Well someone needs to talk about it, and if youre not going to, I will she said turning to Al. She likes him. A lot. she said with a very pointed tone to her voice.
Al sat back in his seat folding his arms. Really? he asked casually, And you think you cant share these things with me because ?
Because I dont like him like that! I said throwing my hands up in exasperation, Hes good looking, yes I went on seeing Dom turn her disbelieving sparkling blue gaze my way, But Im Head Girl and hes Head boy, so obviously Im going to talk to him more and get friendly with him considering hes probably the person Ill be seeing the most of this year. Thats it I finished firmly turning back to Al.
He looked me in the eye for a moment, before shrugging casually and tucking into his Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans.
Dom rolled her eyes and said with a shake of her head, getting back to her Quibbler Fine, convince yourself of that. But I think you like him more than you even realise.
Like who? Mel asked interestedly upon entering the compartment once again.
Rosie likes Jasper Dom muttered, no longer interested in the conversation.
Mel waved her hand dismissively, Oh we all know that. But I have a problem, she said sitting beside Al, who, irritatingly, barely glanced her way I noted with annoyance.
What? I asked frowning.
I cannot for the life of me, she said throwing her hands up in exasperation and shaking her head, find out who this new person is. Do you know who he is? she asked looking at me, Didnt they get a mention in the heads meeting?
Not really, I said apologetically, McGonagal just mentioned the fact that there was a new student, and then moved on to patrols. She didnt seem that interested to be frank I said honestly.
Well thats just downright frustrating! she huffed, sitting back and folding her arms.
Mel isnt exactly the smartest of girls, shes by no means thick, its more that she has a one track mind and most of the time, lessons and schoolwork are not the thing shes focusing on. So, for her not to be able to find out who this new person is, is her own personal hell.
An image of her sat in a corner, rocking back and forth, pulling out those perfect golden brown curls with a mad look in her pretty pale green eyes, instantly brought a grin to my face.
Hey Dom, Al asked through a mouthful of jelly beans, raising his eyebrow slightly as he noticed Mel sat beside him seething as if she had her own little rain cloud over her head, wheres Louis these days? I cant remember the last time I saw the little Scarecrow.
Louis Weasley in no way resembles a straw haired figure that scares off birds. That little nickname is of Jamess doing obviously because Louis is as far from a scarecrow as you could possibly imagine. Hes like a little golden haired god. Where as Auntie Fleur and Victorie have long shimmering white blonde hair, Louiss literally looks golden when the sun hits it. Hes got the same perfect complexion Fleur, Victorie and Dom have, and the same bright blue eyes that you could swear were gems. Sometimes I feel sorry for Uncle Bill being surrounded by them all and their practically other-worldly good looks, but hes not bothered.
But James being James, took no note of these things and decided to name him after a clump of hay. The name officially stuck when Fred made him dress up as one for Halloween one year and tied him to a tree in Nana Mollys garden.
James Potter and Fred Weasley are a lethal combination.
Doms expression instantly darkened as she looked up.
Just guess she practically spat.
With Lorcan and Lysander? I hazarded a guess.
Her teeth clenching at my words was enough of an answer.
Oh come on Dom! Al laughed, theyre not that bad. Theyre actually a bit of a laugh if you get talking to them. A smart version of Dumb and Dumber he mused with a grin.
If he spends anymore time with those two, hell become as deranged as they are! she all but shouted, all thoughts of reading gone as the Quibbler lay in a heap at her feet, I refuse to share a household with a lunatic!
I glanced sideways at Al, who looked back at me with a slightly surprised look in his eyes. She was taking this a bit far. Theyre odd yes, but theyre not lunatics.
I loved Dom. She was practically my sister. We grew up together, sleeping at each others houses and teaming up and blaming things on Al if the three of us did something wrong when we were playing, but putting my love for her aside and looking at her from an outsiders point of view, she isnt the easiest person to get along with by far.
Unlike her mum, brother and sister, she has Uncle Bills red hair that fell around her shoulders in a long fiery red wave, so she was already rather eye-catching. You could say she had intimidating good-looks. Like her hair, she has a fiery temper, she isnt very keen on change, and doesnt really have time for a lot of people.
Its not that she doesnt have friends, its more that the majority of people have qualities that seriously grate on her, though if she actually gave people a chance once in a while, Im sure thatd change, but her stubborn streak will always stop that.
So when her little brother, who she is fiercely protective of, was sorted into Ravenclaw, she was a bit put out, not to mention surprised as hell. He was a Weasley after all. Then when he came home after his first year, it was evident that hed developed a little weird streak. Dom wasnt really fond of that and naturally blamed the Scamander twins.
Since then shes always had a short fuse with them. I personally like them, as does everyone else, but theyre just not Doms cup of tea. She can barely stand James and Fred together!
The compartment door opened distracting me from my musings and Lily popped her head round as she slung her tie around her neck.
Jasper asked if you could meet him at the front of the train in ten minutes she said with a devilish grin fastening her tie absentmindedly.
Mel instantly perked up as Al frowned saying What does he want you for?
He wants to ravish her in an abandoned compartment. Hes got it all set up the old dog! Mel replied with a laugh. Even Dom joined in.
I shot them both a look as I stood up, shoving my robes on over my uniform, before saying to Al, pointedly ignoring the two hyenas We have to be the first off to help Hagrid with the first years.
He mouthed oh silently as realisation struck, and nodded.
Make sure you get the beast up to the castle will you? Or you can accidentally throw him in the lake if you want. I promise I wont mind. I said hopefully as I joined Lily at the door.
Al gasped dramatically and clutched Milky to his chest, who hissed in protest, I am not throwing him in the lake. Hell be in your dorm when you go to bed, safe and sound he said smiling sweetly as if he was doing me some sort of favour.
The amount of times Ive thought about throwing the thing out the window
Fine. I muttered closing the compartment door as Dom shouted Be a good girl now! after me, with a sarcastic grin.
I rolled my eyes as Lily started to lead me to the compartment he was in. I might as well meet him there than stand at the front of the train on my own.
Do you actually like him?
I glanced at her as we walked.
No. I said shortly.
Not even a little bit? she probed, Because, you two do get along really well, and you look so good together!
I sighed shaking my head Were just friends Lils I said tiredly. Honestly, this whole me and John thing is going to get really old very quickly.
I glanced into the compartments as we walked passed. I liked to people watch, that and I was also rather nosey - but in a discreet way! It was always the same old scene. Friends laughing, sweet wrappers scattered across the floor and seats, and the odd one or two people hastily trying to track down pieces of their uniform as they saw we were getting close to Hogwarts.
Except one.
There was just a person sat on their own, with their head deep in a book. I couldnt even tell if they were a boy or a girl because they had a thick cloak and hat on. I frowned slightly, trying to get a better look.
I jumped slightly, and looked towards the voice.
Lily stood outside a compartment up ahead, regarding me with a look that was clearly questioning my sanity. This is his compartment she said slowly, nodding her head towards it.
I leaned away from the compartment that housed the lone person, and cleared my throat sheepishly Sorry, I was just looking at something
She raised an eyebrow as I reached her mumbling as she looked me over Have fun with Jasper
I rolled my eyes and opened the door.
It just got old.
Cmon on yer lot! Into tha boats!
Jasper and I helped load six first years into each of the boats as Hagrid hurried them along. It wasnt exactly the best thing Id ever done.
The rain was coming down hard and fast, and it was at just the right angle with the wind blowing harshly, to hit you right in the face, blinding you momentarily, whilst making your cheeks unbearably numb.
Thank Merlin youre only Head boy or girl for one year. I dont think I could do this again.
Thunder started to rumble harshly over head, and I glanced at the black lake warily as I watched the first years drift off towards Hogwarts in their boats.
Itll be fine Jasper said reassuringly from his position opposite, helping a little girl step over the side of the boat, theyll be at the castle before the storm hits.
I scoffed as the boat left the shore and said looking up at him Yeah, they will be. Its us Im more worried about.
Jasper smiled warmly and came to stand beside me putting an arm around my shoulders Its just one short boat ride. Itll be over in no time.
I looked up at the perfect face above me, and I couldnt help but let my eyes slide to his mouth, and the cute dimples that framed them.
When I realised that I was just staring at his mouth when he was probably expecting a reply, I quickly looked him in the eye saying with a laugh Course it will!
Right Hagrid said as he bustled over towards us, his new puppy bounding along at his heels excitedly. I subtly ducked from under Johns arm and took a step away as he reached us, coughing slightly and paid very close attention to Hagrid, rather than glance at Jasper. You two take tha boat he said gesturing to the one in front of us, an me an Albertll take tha one he said pointing to the slightly bigger boat.
I nodded, not stopping to protest, and instantly headed for the boats. There wasnt a chance I was hanging around outside in this weather longer than I had to. Id ride a Thestral if I must.
Jasper held my hand and helped me into the boat, and I smiled politely as he sat down beside me. I folded my arms as we set off and the cold wind started to pick up, practically throwing the rain at us, and shivered involuntarily.
Jasper glanced at me and coughed slightly. He raised his arm, wiping the rain from his eyes, and I looked ahead at the castle. It really was a sight to behold. No matter how many times youve looked upon it, it never gets old. Its like youre gazing up at it again for the first time.
Next thing I know, a strong arm is hugging me close.
I jumped in surprise and looked up at Jasper, noticing how close wed suddenly become.
You look cold! He shouted over the wind and rain with a kind, warm smile, rubbing his hand up and down my arm in a comical manner.
I forced a laugh and relaxed as much as the situation would allow.
I mean, to me, this was all slightly odd. I wasnt used to boys being this kind to me, I grew up with the likes of James for Merlins sake, and as much as he likes to think hes a ladys man, hes about as courteous as a troll.
Then there was the fact that, sure Jasper was probably one of the nicest people Id ever met, but I didnt exactly know him. Hes been in a few of my classes over the years, and Ive had the odd conversation with him. But nothing major.
Now I find myself sat in a boat, huddling against him for warmth, with probably more close encounters to come if were head boy and girl. Though, having to look at him, and spend time with him for a year isnt exactly a punishment.
A small part of me got weirdly excited at that thought, and I quickly shook my head as a blush started to make its way into my cheeks.
I know he couldnt possibly have known what I was thinking, but I still got embarrassed considering there wasnt even an inch of space between us.
Anyway, I dont even like him. I dont.
A flash of lightening brought me harshly from my musings as the boat gave an almighty jerk as it thudded against the shore.
I gasped as we were nearly thrown backwards into the water from the force, but luckily Jasper had a good hold on the boat.
Hagrid wasnt far behind, and as Jasper helped me out from the boat, he rocked up with his shivering puppy Albert howling slightly in his coat where hed hidden himself.
His boat rocked dangerously as he stepped out, but he paid it no attention and gestured for us to make our way up the steps.
We hurried up in silence, the thought of soon being warm and dry spurring us on, but as we crossed the threshold, McGonagal came striding from the Great Hall, the sorting hat in her hand as the rest of the teachers and students tucked into a highly anticipated welcome back feast.
Ah, there you are. I was just about to send out a search party she said curtly, her gaze passing over our drenched appearances.
Hagrid shook the rain from his hair, and McGonagal took her wand out and with one flick, a feeling of warmth suddenly swept over me, and I sagged in relief as my now warm and dry hair brushed against my cheeks.
Hagrid nodded gratefully as he said Sorry Professor, the lake got a bit stormy, so thought it wa best to take it slow. Dont want no one fallin in cause of tha waves he said with a chuckle, fishing his puppy from one of the many pockets inside his coat.
McGonagal nodded smiling in thanks and turned to Jasper and I saying I wont keep you long, but I would like you both to come to my office. I just need to go over a couple of things.
Jasper nodded Of course. Thats fine, isnt it Rose?
I looked up putting on a fake smile Yeah course, and lagged behind them both as they started to head up to her office.
I groaned in protest as my stomach started to rumble as the delicious aroma of food floated along behind us. Why did she have to pick now to speak to us? Im sure whatever it is can wait for a bit.
This better be worth it, I thought savagely as I unwillingly trudged along, Im bloody starving!
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Resolution #9.
I'm really kicking butt at my New Years Resolutions. I am writing this on the plane back from Hawkeye Swing Festival. The weekend before that I was at 505 Stomp. I can now say that I've traveled for lindy hop two weekends in a row. That feels a little crazy. Crazy awesome.
Not traveling for a while and being stuck in LA put me in a little rut and I don't think I even realized it. It wasn't necessarily a dancing rut, but more of a people rut. I became too focused on the people around me and a lot of the issues that really bother me in the LA dance scene. I began to feel like things would never change, because people don't change, and everything is just at a stalemate. I slowly began to feel like Han Solo frozen in carbonite. But, like a frog in cold water that warmed up slowly to boiling, I almost didn't realize that my soul was being slowly murdered.
Then I went to 505 Stomp. First of all, an incredible event that everyone should go to. It is run by two of the most fun, kind, good people I have ever met, Rachel and Brett. Now having the chance to have had a conversation or two with them, perhaps after a drink or two, I feel extremely lucky to have met them. And everyone should feel extremely lucky to have such joyous, hardworking, and profoundly kind people in our lindy hop community!
Then I went to Hawkeye and got to chat with Carl Nelson for a bit. He offered some amazing, inspiring, and kind of stupidly obvious advice to help some stuff here in LA. I also got to meet and chat with Jenny and Christian from St. Louis over some bomb crepes. Meeting really amazing dancers that also happen to be genuinely kind and not douche-y people is clearly not as hard as it seems. You just have to be ANYWHERE outside of LA.
Talking to Rachel and Brett, and Carl, and Jenny and Christian really shattered the carbonite around my little lindy hop soul. It invigorated me. There are good people out there, and they do exist, and not only that, they thrive and excel. Living in LA it always feels like the nice guy finishes last. Or better, doesn't finish at all. Or better yet, doesn't even enter the race. This kind of mentality is death. A very slow death of your soul in that you don't even realize that you're becoming more and more like Marvin, the paranoid android.
So LA dancers! This is a call to action! We need to remember what lindy hop is all about. We need to remember why we love it so much. We need to remember Frankie's message and keep it alive in our lindy hop souls. Frankie wanted more than anything to spread lindy hop. Not to make money, not to be popular or famous, not to impress his friends and family, but to have other people know the joy that it brought him. This is the key and we need to always remember to never lose it. Keep that flame lit, not matter how hard it is, never let it blow out. Sometimes it might be a raging flame, other times a small flickering candle, but the most important thing is to keep it alive. Put that idea, that key, that flame into everything you do for this community and I guarantee it will come back to you ten fold in the most unexpected of ways.
I want to end this post with my favorite Frankie story I heard from Silvia Sykes. She used to bring him out to Santa Barbara to teach people there how to dance and after years of him teaching there Silvia and Frankie were watching people social dance. Silvia looks around seeing people stumble through the steps, constantly messing up their footwork, and just generally be terrible at lindy hop. She turns to Frankie and asks him if he's proud of his life's work, genuinely being concerned that Frankie might be disappointed watching these people he has been teaching butcher everything. So Frankie turns to Silvia and says with his infallible wisdom "Of course! Look! They are all smiling!" **and that is when I start crying like a baby.


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Not sure exactly how to explain this, but when driving in the rain last night on my way home, a red light comes up on the dash (in the rev counter bit) and there's a beep. Its only on for must be a milisecond or two because its only on long enough to see there was a red light, you dont get enough time to see the symbol.. I've had this before and thought nothing of it but its happening more frequent now, any one else had this or know what it is??


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Below are links to a few other bonsai-related sites we recommend reading, as well as descriptions of each:
A non-profit corporation devoted to increasing knowledge of, and interest in, bonsai, throughout North America. They also publish a journal.Visit American Bonsai Society (ABS)
A magazine-style website and form devoted to bonsai. Also check their bonsai trees for sale page.Visit Bonsai Empire
An excellent source of articles on a wide variety of bonsai topics.Visit Bonsai4Me
You would be hard-pressed to find a nicer group of people in a bonsai club. If you're located near Middletown, NJ, you should be a member!Visit Deepcut Bonsai Club
A great bonsai club for people near Madison, NJ.Visit Great Swamp Bonsai Club
An online community devoted to the art of bonsai where photos can be posted and questions answered.Visit Internet Bonsai Club
An online bonsai magazine and great resource of articles, galleries, and reviews.Visit ofBonsai


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Domain names get expired and if you are wondering that why this happens then here is the reason. When you registered a domain name, it is set for a period of time. When that time is expired, the domain gets expired too.
Most of the time, the expiration period is of one year but it can be extended for longer time. It depends on your selection of the package at the time you register your domain. You will have to pay to renew your domain at the end of the year. However, if you have registered your domain for a period of one year and failing to renew it will result to the termination of your domain name. When your domain name is expired, you then are no longer having the access to control your domain. It is also possible that your domain name will be sold to other users. Do you think you can let go your domain name away? Will you lose the domain name? What will happen if your website is getting a huge traffic and because of the fact that your domain gets expired, you lost your huge traffic domain name. What will you do? Will you buy another domain name with the same name? Is this possible? The answer is no, there can't be two similar domain names.
You can get your expired domain name back but why to take a risk of losing it. It is extremely risky to leave your domain name expired and not getting it back. There are software's that track such things and are used by the people who are closely monitoring it. This software can show you the date on which your domain is set to expire and it can also show the reciprocal link status and page rank. Your website is probably being monitored to see if you are going to renew it if your website getting traffic and has some links too. If you are unable to renew it in time then, the software will snap it before you have a chance to get it back. So it is better to buy a plan that has an expiry date of few years.
You can also prevent this from happening by renewing on the time. You will get email notifications from the registrars for the renewal. It is possible that you may not receive the emails because of some reasons, so don't rely on emails. There is a grace period of time when you can renew your domain. If you fail to renew it in these times, then the domain will be expired. So it's better to buy plans that offer longer expiration dates. These plans also include other interesting offers.


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Wisdom for Graduates: There Is Life After College
There are a thousand things I'd love to say as you begin life in the post-college world. Things like:
- Learn to live on a budget, and don't go into (any more) debt.
- Commit to a local church, even if the people there seem strange.
- Do your work with integrity because your work matters, even on the days when you feel like your job is boring and pointless.
- Get off the Internet and go somewhere—anywhere.
- Stop eating ice cream alone from the carton because you feel like a loser on Friday nights now that all of your close friends live miles away (and the only people you can think to hang out with are twice your age. And they're your parents).
I could go on, but more than advice, the best thing I can offer is a little help closing the gap between your expectations of life after college and the reality you may face. To that end, here are some things I've found to be true for most alumni. I hope these will help normalize your own experience, and remind you that you are not alone. There is life after college!
Life after college is weird.
In talking with a number of alums about post-college life, the most common word they use to describe the first year out is weird. It's not like anything they've experienced prior to this time because everything seems to be altered; friendships, family, finances, and even opportunities for fun change after college.
Change in a few areas of our life at one time is generally okay; it's easier to navigate when there are certain constants we can still count on. But when everything is different, as is often the case after graduation, it's almost too much "newness" to take in at once. The unfamiliarity of it all can make us want to somehow escape, and we can feel lost, confused, alone, and unknown.
This unfamiliarity and confusion is tiring. You may have points post-college when, for the first time in your life, you're not sure you can face the strangeness all over again the next day. But know that you are not alone. Many alumni have gone ahead of you, sharing in the same struggle.
More than that, God is with you. He has gone before you in this transition, and he chases after you as well. God is not a God of confusion but of peace (1 Corinthians 14:33), and the chaos you feel like you're living in is a magnet for his Holy Spirit. He longs to make order and form out of things that seem shapeless, void, and disorderly right now. He is your Creator and your constant in these changing times.
Life after college is hard.
When the entire structure of life is shifting, trials often arise. But if we allow these trials to become the testing ground for faith, they'll force us to wrestle through the mess until we emerge with deeper, more real belief than before. Loss, pain, or confusion bring us to a crossroads where we get to choose: trust Christ or turn our backs on God?
For many alumni, choosing to trust God in these moments has launched them on a trajectory of life with Jesus that they'd never trade. And they've learned how to live in the face of adversity, an invaluable skill for years to come.
There will likely be some hard days in those first couple years out, but hard does not necessarily mean that you've made a mistake in taking that job offer or moving to that new town. Be patient in these times of trial, trusting that God is working out a greater good.
Life after college is good.
Even in the weirdness and hard times, these years are bursting with so much good! Life after college is packed with adventure, excitement, and possibility. Instead of lamenting the roller-coaster ride of ups and downs that occur in those first years out, embrace it. Give thanks for the variety of it all.
A recent alumna shared with me how overwhelmed she's felt because in one week she's experienced some of the lowest lows and highest highs she's ever known. I encouraged her to enjoy the diversity, and reminded her that all the ups and downs indicate we're alive. If we experienced no valleys or mountaintops, the cardiographs of our lives would be one flat line. So expect them, hold on tightly through them, and trust that God has good things in store.
Not only is God the same yesterday, today, and forever, but he is also the One who promises to bless you, keep you, and fulfill his good purposes through you. The same man, Abram, who was called to leave the comforts of everything familiar and go to an unknown place, received a promise that is as true today as it was for him centuries ago: God is building his kingdom through broken people, blessing those who choose him, and making them great in him (Genesis 12). This promise radically changed Abram. I promise it will change you too, if you choose to cling to a familiar, good God in these unfamiliar times. Enjoy the ride of life after college!
Erica Young Reitz works for the CCO at Calvary Church, reaching out to students at Penn State University. In this campus staff role, she directs Senior EXIT, a one-year experience that helps prepare graduating seniors for the transition from college to life after college. Erica has an M.A. in Higher Education from Geneva College (with a graduate research focus on the senior year transition). She and her husband, Craig, live in State College, Pennsylvania, with their daughter, Hannah.
You might also be interested in the first post in our series for graduates: "Embrace the Uncertainty."
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To all within driving distance of Trenton, NJ:
We have a one time opportunity to speak to Governor Corzines Handgun Task Force.
The Handgun Task Force is going to review all NJ gun laws over the next 18 months (starting from July 27), starting with a review of the one-handgun-a-month law.
There is an open public meeting on September 24, at 11:00am at the State House Annex, Committee Room 4, in Trenton, NJ.
Anyone can attend, but if you want to testify, you have to call Sobande Afolabi, in the Govs Counsels office, 609-777-2462.
I called the State House Annex and confirmed that Committee Room 4 holds only about 150 people. Therefore, it is critical that we get there early and with as many people as possible.
I am sure that, whether you live in New Jersey, or you have to drive through New Jersey occasionally, that you are equally as fed up with the ridiculous gun control laws in this state. This is one of those very rare occasions where we can actually be heard.
If anyone chooses to attend, please post as such. I am going to be posting this on multiple forums and I would like to keep a running total of those attending.
Thanks for your help and good luck to everyone!


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Home > News & Events > News > News Archive > HKS in the News July 6, 2012
1. Empowering a growing minority (Ganz) Harvard Gazette
2. Carmen Reinhart to Harvard Kennedy School (Reinhart) New York Times
3. Americans squeezed by higher rents, tight credit Reuters
Empowering a growing minority
It's a question on many observers' minds in an election year: Will Latinos vote in large numbers? And why, historically, haven't they?
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, had an answer for a group of young Latinos gathered at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on Wednesday, and it had very little to do with numbers (say, the 50 percent voter registration rate among Hispanics) or political theories. …
The Latino Leadership Initiative (LLI), where Carrasco was holding forth, might be Harvard's most comprehensive attempt yet to help mend that deep-seated wound. Now in its third year, the program, sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership and funded by outside donors, brings promising college students to Harvard for a week of community-organizing training, personal reflection, and networking. …
…the core of the curriculum is developed around the ideas of Marshall Ganz, a senior lecturer in public policy at HKS who spent nearly three decades as an organizer, primarily with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in California. A part of Ganz's focus is helping students to develop public narratives — of their own lives, their communities, and their shared mission.
Carmen Reinhart to Harvard Kennedy School
Carmen Reinhart , one of the world's top economic experts on financial crises, has been appointed to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. By citations, she is (by a long shot) the most influential female economist in the world.
This is her first appointment at an Ivy League institution; she previously worked at the University of Maryland, Bear Stearns and the International Monetary Fund, and is currently a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
She began at Harvard this week, the Kennedy School announced Thursday in a news release.
Americans squeezed by higher rents, tight credit
… Five years after the housing bubble burst, the United States is in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. Home prices have fallen a third from their peaks, but many Americans cannot benefit because they cannot get a mortgage. …
With credit tight, many consumers have no choice but to rent. Others who can afford to buy are also renting, because they view real estate as a lousy investment. With this increased demand, rents in some cities have jumped by double-digit percentage rates.
"We have falling incomes, rising rents and nothing but substantial upward pressure on those rents," says Chris Herbert, director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. "And nothing in the cards suggests it will turn around anytime soon."
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This is a new thing to can for me. Normally I don't buy alot of extra oranges but there was a 25 pound bag on sale from my co-op last month for only $10 so I figured I'd get them and figure out what to do with them. The problem with buying super fresh produce is that it tends to go bad fast so even though the hubby has been eating them. So I needed to figure out something new to do with them. I've recently been reading Putting Food By. It's got alot of ideas to can things that I didn't think about before so I looked up oranges. It said to can them just like any other fruit. So I made a batch of very light syrup today and got these canned up! What you need:
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For us, I used pint size jars. If you have a bigger family and go through alot of oranges in one sitting you may want to use quarts.
Also I use turbinado sugar to make my syrup. It has a slightly more brown sugar taste for the finished product but nothing major.
For a very light syrup, boil 5 1/2 c. water and 1 1/4 c. sugar. Simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Keep this warm until you are ready to pack your cans. Just one batch of this was enough for all 7 pints I did.
Make sure the oranges you are using are fresh. The hard or moldy ones are too difficult to peel. If you bought them from the store or anywhere they they might have been sprayed, make sure you wash them in produce wash first. I used no-spray oranges.
Peel the oranges with a citrus peeler. Try and get as much of the membrane off as you can. Then separate into slices.
Pack your jar with the slices tightly but leave about 1 inch of headspace.
Looking down into the jar. Not sure why I took this picture....
Once the jars have been packed with oranges, fill them until the oranges are covered with the light syrup we made earlier. Make sure you still leave about 1/2 inch headspace after the syrup is added.
Clean off the rim of the jar well before adding the lid. I wipe them once with a wet rag and then again with a dry one. You don't want any stick spots or water left on the rim of the jar or it won't seal properly.
Add the lids and then the rims. Make sure you screw the rims on tight!
Preheat the water before you add the jars. You want it just simmering. Add all the jars to the water. Make sure the water covers the tops of the jars. If it doesn't, add a little more.
Simmer/low boil these jars for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, turn off the stove and let the water cool down slowly before you take the jars out. Once you remove the jars, put them on a cutting board or another heat resistant surface. I use old flour sack rags to cover the counter so I can set them down and soak up the water that drips off.
Do not touch the jars until they have sealed. You will know this by the "pop" they make and the lid will have an indent in it instead of being puffed out. Leave the jars alone for several hours. If some of the jars didn't seal, either put them in the fridge and eat or you can replace the lid and try and re-bath them to get them to seal.
Please check with your local extension office for any changes on times/temps/high altitude.
Make sure you check out all the free Canning and Preserving Recipes we have on Little House Living! And don't forget to check out The Canner's Cookbook, it has recipes on how to use all your home canned goods!
I recommend a Presto Pressure Canner and the book Putting Food By for all your canning projects!
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By John Tierney; John Tierney is a writer living in New York.
Published: May 15, 1988
LAST OCT. 19, A DAY THAT ONLY A stress researcher could savor, a 48-year-old stockbroker named Gianni Fidanza happened to be wearing a little metal box on his waist when he went to his Park Avenue office. It was wired to a cuff on his arm that measured his blood pressure and pulse every 15 minutes. The device came from the cardiovascular center at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where scientists, led by cardiologist Thomas G. Pickering, are using this new technology to record stress directly in the workplace. Black Monday gave them a wonderfully tidy result: the Dow Jones industrial average correlated inversely with Fidanza's blood pressure and pulse.
After the first hour of trading, the Dow was down 93 points and Fidanza was up 86 (if you added up the increases in his pulse and blood pressure). As Fidanza, one of the two principal brokers at the Euram Securities Corporation, watched prices tumble on the Quotron screen and tried to calm his clients on the phone, his pulse rose to 83 beats per minute from 64. His blood pressure, which had been 132 over 87 earlier that morning, hit 181/105. His subordinates started watching the machine on his waist, Fidanza recalls. ''They decided it was as good as the Quotron for following the market.''
At first glance, there was nothing surprising about this. Here was the classic model of stress, a male executive reacting to a challenge in the corporate jungle, pumping adrenaline, flooding his arteries, maybe slowly killing himself in the process. For more than 25 years, studies of male executives have been showing that the price of corporate success can be a heart attack. Recently, though, researchers have started looking at the nonexecutive victim of stress, and it's these other studies that make the Black Monday results look surprising.
For it turns out that decision-making male executives may actually have it relatively easy. It's the underlings - secretaries, assembly-line workers, waitresses and other order-takers - who are emerging as the burn-out cases, especially the women who have to worry about children after work. If you think it was stressful being a brokerage executive during the biggest one-day drop in the history of Wall Street, try spending a perfectly ordinary Wednesday with an administrative aide/ support staff supervisor named Cathy Collins.
A NONSCIENTIST COULD ARGUE THAT YOU didn't need the monitor that earlier had been strapped to Cathy Collins's waist to know she was feeling stressed at 10:26 A.M. on the Wednesday in question. There were other clues, such as the fact that she had just finished muttering, ''I've got to get away from here before I slit my wrists.'' By this time she had been awake for five hours. She had set out bagels and cereal for her two children; left her home in Teaneck, N.J., and arrived two bus rides later at her desk in a tiny, windowless cubicle at New York Hospital's cardiology unit. Since then, there hadn't been a quiet moment.
The phones rang, of course; some files had been misplaced, an unscheduled patient arrived, a secretary had called in sick, to the irritation of others (Collins promised to have a word with the missing secretary about her pattern of absenteeism). Collins kept answering calls for her boss, Jeffrey Borer, a cardiologist in charge of two cardiac laboratories.
At 10:26 A.M., she was standing, the phone cradled on her shoulder, and contending with the following:
* One patient at her desk, waiting to talk to her.
* One secretary with a question about another patient's chart.
* Two lighted buttons on her telephone, indicating incoming calls, and one buzzing intercom.
* Two forms on her desk, which she was filling out as she punched back and forth between phone calls.
* A three-inch-thick stack of paperwork in her ''In'' box, above which she had taped a sign, ''Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.''
* Her boss, who had just emerged from his office with a sheet of paper and said, ''Cathy, I need this Xeroxed right away, please.''
At that moment, a beep sounded, the machine at her waist started drawing in air, and the cuff on her arm tightened. The monitor showed her pulse, which had been 71, to be 82; her blood pressure was 116/72. (Researchers don't agree which of these three numbers is the best indicator of stress, but the one that has traditionally received the most attention is the diastolic blood pressure - the second figure given, in this case, 72 - which is used to diagnose hypertension. It measures pressure in the arteries between heart beats; the other reading, the systolic pressure, here 116, measures peak pressure while the heart is pumping.) Collins's diastolic pressure had risen 26 percent, an even greater percentage change than Fidanza had registered that first hour of Black Monday. And, as it turned out, this wasn't even the biggest surge of the day for Cathy Collins.
WERE THESE SURGES DANGEROUS? WOULD Collins one day be coming to her own office as a cardiac patient? Now, at age 34, she didn't seem at risk - unlike many blacks, who tend toward high blood pressure, she has quite low results, and even her peak diastolic pressure in the office was well below the danger range (which starts at about 90). But many researchers suspect that continual stresses may eventually contribute to permanent high blood pressure as well as to other afflictions -strokes, atherosclerosis, heart attacks - that seem to be the byproducts of modern Western civilization.


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$$$$$ b_mayfield $$$$$----------NCAAF Contest Winner---------
Took the lead for the first time early last week, then lost it for a couple days then took it back. With 1 game left he can't lose.
Thanks Rizz. I never post these CONGRATS like I do if there is any chance of it changing. I saw a contest a couple years ago where the player in first did not have to play and he would win but he/she must not have noticed and lost the contest.
In this one even if b_mayfield played both ways and lost in the last game, he could not be overtaken.


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I am a member of a tiny minority of Hong Kong people who do not have, have never had and do not wish to have a mobile phone.
So my heart sank when I read that some Cathay Pacific passengers can now 'choose to receive a boarding pass directly on their mobile devices via e-mail or SMS text message'.
I assume I'm not alone in spotting the thin end of the wedge? When was the last time you were issued with a printed flight ticket? Exactly.
Soon it will be no easier to function here without a mobile communications device than without an identity card and that, I reckon, adds up to an infringement of liberty.
I will leave aside the reasonable supposition - endorsed by the World Health Organisation - that mobile phones and their base stations represent a risk to human health. I simply don't like the effect they have on people's manners.
If you spend much of your lunch hour ignoring those sitting with you to field calls and text messages from absent third parties, what kind of message do you think that sends?
When you board the Airport Express at Chek Lap Kok and wish to let your nearest and dearest know you have landed, must you do it at a volume that makes everybody else in the carriage a party to the news?
Why, when asked to turn their mobile phone 'off' in a theatre or concert hall, do people instead set it to 'vibrate', and in mid-show disrupt the performance by rushing for the exit to take the call?
We now prize gadgetry over courtesy. Most of these archetypal offenders are not naturally rude. The technology has made them so.
When I protest that I do not want a mobile phone, I am told I could carry one and leave it switched off. You might as well tell a man who doesn't wish to drive that he should buy a car.
I have a landline with a voicemail service which admirably performs all of the functions associated with a switched-off mobile. Except for one: I can't leave it in the back of a taxi.
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The University of Memphis President's Leadership Recognition Awards ceremony on April 15 will honor students, advisors, and registered student organizations for exemplary leadership and service on campus and in the community during the 2006-07 academic year. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. in the Panhellenic Building Ballroom.
The 2007 Carson Circle Fellows will be recognized at the event. The Carson Circle is the University's highest honor for character and campus leadership. It is awarded only to seniors who demonstrate a commitment to placing service above self, treating others with dignity and respect, establishing relationships with people different from themselves, having a well-rounded collegiate experience, and contributing positively to the quality of life at the U of M.
Also announced will be recipients of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Award, Phoenix Award, Excellence in Service Award, Emerging Leader of the Year, Program of the Year, Advisor of the Year, Organization of the Year, and Who's Who Among American Universities & Colleges.
Outstanding leadership and service awards will also be presented by the Student Government Association, Student Judicial and Ethical Programs, the Residence Hall Association, Adult Student Association, International Student Association, Minority Affairs, Student Activities Council, the Greek system, the Office of Leadership and Involvement, and the Emerging Leaders Program.
For more information, call 901/678-8679.
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