Things I read/heard about today that made me go Hmmmmm

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It was a dark day in America.
There was no Amazing Grace.
Freedom did not ring.
Tragedy attacked sky-high.
Fiery terror reigned.
Structures collapsed.
Red with blood, white with ash,
And out-of-the-sky blue.
As children trust elders,
Citizens find faith in leaders.
But all were blinded,
Shocked by the blasts.
Undefiable outrage.
Undeniable outpouring
Of support, even prayer,
Or at least moments of silence.
Church and State
Could not be separated.
A horrific blasting of events
With too few happy endings.
Can the children sleep
Safely in their beds tonight?
Can the citizens ever rest
Assured of national security again?
God, please, bless America…
And the rest of our earthly home.

September 11, 2001
© Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek

[hyebruin]

This story is pretty strange!!

HANOI, Vietnam (June 22) - A Vietnamese man who hasn't been to a barber in 31 years is vying to get in the Guinness World Records for having the longest hair, state-controlled media reported Monday.

Tran Van Hay's hair is 20 feet long, Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper said.

Normally tied up and covered by a scarf, his hair has grown four feet in the past seven years. He last had it washed six years ago, the paper said.

Hay, 67, is a traditional medicine practitioner from southern Kien Giang province, some 220 miles southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. He provides free treatment to villagers in the region.

The Guinness Web site says the current record for long hair, set in 1997, is held by Hoo Sateow of Chiang Mai, Thailand, at 16 feet 11 inches.


06/22/04 07:29 EDT

[SagGal]

This story is pretty strange!!

HANOI, Vietnam (June 22) - A Vietnamese man...feet 11 inches.


06/22/04 07:29 EDT

20 FEET LONG? LAST TIME WASHED HAIR WAS 6 YEARS AGO?! Oh my...
*faints*

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ISLE LA MOTTE, Vt. (June 28) - A sudden gust of wind uprooted a tent at a wedding moments after the couple recited their vows, killing one guest and injuring more than a dozen others.

Tent poles, stakes and broken glass and china went flying through the air Saturday at the wedding of Jason and Carrie Guyette as a storm moved in.

The bridegroom's step-grandmother was killed by a pole. Her name was not released.

"There was this `whoosh,"' said Catherine LaBrecque, the bride's grandmother. "The tent went airborne. Everyone was screaming and then the next thing you know, people were on the ground and there was blood on all these people."

The guests suffered mostly cuts and scrapes. One guest was held overnight at a hospital with a concussion and cuts.

"Poles were flying by people," said Bruce La Bombard, the father of the bride. "The six-foot stakes they had in the ground were flying around like toothpicks."


06/28/04 14:56 EDT


if this isn't a big hint that HE/SHE is the wrong one! maybe the grim reaper himself should come down and pay a visit!!! how truely unlucky!

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By DAN LEWERENZ, Associated Press Writer

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A study published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology found that even after a stressful day has ended, women who were more frustrated by it ate more fatty foods than those who weren't as frustrated.


"A lot of studies have looked at what happens during stress," said Laura Cousino Klein, assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State University, who led the study. "What we wanted to know is what happens after the stress is over."

Klein and her colleagues presented their subjects with a variety of tasks over the course of 25 minutes while randomly blasting them with office sounds — a phone ringing, a typewriter clacking — at 108 decibels, the same volume as standing next to a jackhammer.


After that time was up, the subjects were left alone for 12 minutes with a magazine, some water and a tray of snacks — fatty cheese, potato chips and white chocolate, and lowfat popcorn, pretzels and jelly beans.


Subjects then were asked to trace their way through an unsolvable maze. Those women whose stress level was the highest — their blood pressure and heart rate remained high, and they quickly showed frustration with the maze — also tended to eschew the lowfat snacks in favor of fattier treats.


Women who were highly frustrated by the noise stress ate 65 to 70 grams of the fatty snacks during the break, twice as much as the women who weren't as frustrated.

"What's interesting is that during the noise, during the work time, people rise to the occasion," Klein said. "They accomplish the job they have to get done, and they do quite well at it. They block all the other things that are going on in their environment.


"But there's a psychological and mental cost to that, and what that is is that after that's over, once the stressor is done, then we see this behavioral element."


Klein said a corollary can be seen most weekends, when people are most likely to binge drink or stray from their diets.


The study result didn't surprise William Kelley Jr., director of the Wellness Center at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt.


"Your body doesn't stop dealing with a stressor just because the stressor is no longer in place," Kelley said. "You're still processing an event long after it happens."

Dr. Christopher Still, director of the Center for Nutrition and Weight Management at Geisinger Medical Center ini Danville, Pa., said knowing that the stress effects can be long lasting can help people anticipate that reaction and find other ways to deal with stress, such as exercise.


One surprising finding: Despite the dramatic difference among women, men made the same snack preferences, eating about 40 grams of fatty snacks, regardless of their stress levels. Klein said the difference might be in the way men and women handle stress, an idea Kelley agreed with.


"I definitely have seen the same thing, and I want to be careful how I word that because I don't want to start a gender debate," Kelley said. "But
the men that I usually see are sort of, 'It happened, it's over, let's deal with it and move on,' whereas the women tend to struggle more with the processing time of an event afterward. I'm not sure if that's genetic programming or society."


this sure clarifies some things!

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Stay with the diary/journal format. Stop posting articles.

where should they be posted? didn't want to make a new thread each time!? maybe we should have JUST an article thread