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This RP looks amazing! Definitively going to create a character... tomorrow, because it is way too late here :|. But you can definitively count me in!

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College Stress: Why Standard Avice For Dealing With It Is Outdated ...

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Copyright ? 2012 M.C.Orman, M.D., FLP

Everybody knows there is plenty of stress on college campuses today. Also, there?s plenty of guidance and self-help advice available that is aimed at helping college students improve their ability to cope with stress more successfully.

I believe, however, that much (but not all) of the existing advice for coping with college stress is both ineffective and outdated. Let me explain why.

Standard Advice For Coping With College Stress

Most existing advice for coping with college stress centers on the following types of problems:

-The stress of choosing and getting into college
-Freshman stress (adjustment challenges)
-General academic anxiety and workload
-Test/Exam anxiety
-Social stress
-Sleep deprivation
-Substance abuse
-Self-esteem issues
-Bullying (including cyber-bullying)
-Violence (including the fear of violence)

Sometimes, it might be necessary for college students to seek out a competent mental health professionals or therapist to help them work through these common problems when they become major sources of stress. But for the vast majority of students who experience these problems to a lesser degree, there?s a ton of self-help advice out there for dealing with college stress or with stress in general.

Examples of self-help advice for dealing with college stress include:

-Create a quiet work-space where you can concentrate without distractions.
-Create a system to keep organized (note taking, assignments, exam dates).
-Try to manage your time well (study times, break times, social time).
-Learn to practice relaxation and other stress management techniques.
-Learn to use visualization and mental imagery.
-Be vigilant about making sure you get enough sleep.
-Don?t overuse alcohol, illegal drugs, food or other chemicals to cope.
-Keep junk foods to a limit and try to eat a healthy diet.
-Exercise regularly.
-Learn effective study skills and develop good study habits.
-Think optimistically and maintain a positive attitude.

Sound familiar? This is the same type of standard self-help advice you?ve probably received, over and over again, to cope with your own stress, both during and after college.

Why Is This Advice Outdated?

While most of the existing self-help advice about stress makes sense, and while it would certainly help if faithfully followed, it usually doesn?t go deep enough. It?s mostly directed at controlling the student?s external environment, minimizing external stressors, improving diet, exercising, using relaxation techniques, etc.

It doesn?t really get to the heart of the matter.

It doesn?t help students to better understand how to do battle with their internal causes of stress. Sure external factors, such as having noisy or inconsiderate roommates, being bullied or being made fun of by others, and not being well-organized clearly play a role. But why do some students deal very well with noisy roommates, while others give up and decompensate? And why do some students deal with bullying better than others. And if you?re not very well-organized, then what?s going on within you that?s keeping you from manifesting these very useful skills?

You see, it?s the internal factors that are most important for college students to learn how to address, because these are the ones we all have much more control over. And most (but not all) self-help advice, whether it?s about dealing with stress in college or dealing with stress in general, either doesn?t address internal causes at all, or it addresses these causes in ways that are not very empowering.

Mort (Doc) Orman, M.D. is a physician, author, stress coach and Founder of The Stress Mastery Academy. He also writes a popular stress relief blog at http://ormanstressrelief.com To learn more about his free College Stress Relief E-Book, visit http://collegestress.net

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Astronomers identify 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) ? A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away from Earth. These stars are the closest known examples of the oldest stars in the Universe forming soon after the Big Bang, according to the OU research group.

Mukremin Kilic, assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the OU College of Arts and Sciences and lead author on a recently published paper, announced the discovery. Kilic says, "A white dwarf is like a hot stove; once the stove is off, it cools slowly over time. By measuring how cool the stove is, we can tell how long it has been off. The two stars we identified have been cooling for billions of years."

Kilic explains that white dwarf stars are the burned out cores of stars similar to the Sun. In about 5 billion years, the Sun also will burn out and turn into a white dwarf star. It will lose its outer layers as it dies and turn into an incredibly dense star the size of Earth.

Known as WD 0346+246 and SDSS J110217, 48+411315.4 (J1102), these stars are located in the constellations Taurus and Ursa Major, respectively. Kilic and colleagues obtained infrared images using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the stars. And, over a three-year period, they measured J1102's distance by tracking its motion using the MDM Observatory's 2.4m telescope near Tucson, Arizona.

"Most stars stay almost perfectly fixed in the sky, but J1102 is moving at a speed of 600,000 miles per hour and is a little more than 100 light years from Earth," remarks co-author John Thorstensen of Dartmouth College. "We found its distance by measuring a tiny wiggle in its path caused by the Earth's motion -- it's the size of a dime viewed from 80 miles away."

"Based on the optical and infrared observations of these stars and our analysis, these stars are about 3700 and 3800 degrees on the surface," said co-author Piotr Kowalski of Helmholtz Centre Potsdam in Germany. Kowalski modeled the atmospheric parameters of these stars. Based on these temperature measurements, Kilic and his colleagues were able to estimate the ages of the stars.

"It is like a crime scene investigation," added Kilic. "We measure the temperature of the dead body -- in our case a dead star, then determine the time of the crime. These two white dwarf stars have been dead and cooling off almost for the entire history of the Universe."

Kilic was the lead author on the paper accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Kilic's co-authors include John Thorstensen, Dartmouth College; Piotr Kowalski, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany; and Jeff Andrews, Columbia University.

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Florida prosecutor to release new information in Martin case

Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, the former attorneys for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, tell TODAY's Ann Curry why they withdrew as counsel for Zimmerman and say they believe their former client is not a flight risk.

By Jeff Black, msnbc.com

Updated at 7:56 a.m. ET: The special prosecutor investigating the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida said Tuesday evening that she was preparing to release new information on the investigation, and would do so in the next 72 hours. On Monday,? prosecutor Angela Corey said she would not convene a grand jury probe. The U.S. Justice Department?is also?looking into?the case.

The announcement comes just a few hours after the attorneys for George Zimmerman,?the Florida community watch volunteer who shot Martin, said they had lost touch with their client and are withdrawing from the case.

Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig said at a news conference outside the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla., they heard that Zimmerman?had contacted?the special prosecutor who will decide whether or not to press charges against him, against their advice.


They said they?have not talked to Zimmerman, whose location is not known,?in at least two days but in the past had spoken with him over the phone. ?We can?t represent him unless he comes forward and asks us,? Uhrig said.

"We have a pretty good idea where he (Zimmerman) is,"?Uhrig said,?but added that Zimmerman is not answering the phone. The attorneys said they thought?Zimmerman was still in the United States, but not likely in Florida.

In a press conference on Tuesday, the attorneys for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot black teenager Trayvon Martin, announced they are withdrawing as counsel for Zimmerman. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

Uhrig said Zimmerman had called Fox News talk show host Sean Hannity, which also worried them. "We believe he spoke directly to Sean," Uhrig said. Fox News representative Dana Klinghoffer declined to elaborate to NBC News on the nature of Zimmerman's relationship with Hannity, saying it would be addressed on the show.

On Tuesday evening, Hannity said he had been pursuing an interview with Zimmerman and eventually spoke with him several days ago. Hannity said Zimmerman talked about the case but asked the talk show host not to divulge details on air.?

The attorneys said they still believe in Zimmerman's story that he was attacked by Martin and fired in self-defense.

The attorneys also expressed concern about Zimmerman's "emotional and physical safety" and said he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. They also have reservations about a web site Zimmerman set up to?solicit money for help in his defense.

"Him setting up his own website is fine," Sonner said. "I wish he would have told me.? Sonner, the first attorney Zimmerman contacted,?said he had been working on the case for free.

The two attorneys said they had never met their client George Zimmerman, but they had communicated with him over email and on the phone. On Sunday, however, they were no longer able to contact him. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

Zimmerman, whose?father is white and his mother Peruvian, says he shot Martin, who was black,?in self-defense Feb. 26 after following him in a gated community in Sanford.

Uhrig said that evidence, including a broken nose sustained by Zimmerman, confirms?Zimmerman's account of what transpired the night Martin was shot.

?All the evidence that has come out is consistent with the story that George Zimmerman has told,? Uhrig said. He said Martin supporters have focused on "driving?racial divisions" in the community.

Tuesday's press conference with Zimmerman's attorneys could cause prosecutors to worry that George Zimmerman might be a flight risk. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.

Natalie Jackson, an attorney for the Martin family, responded to the news conference with a statement obtained by NBC News.

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"The family is very concerned he's (Zimmerman) unaccounted for, the killer of their son. It all begs the question of whether he will ever be brought to justice,"?Benjamin Crump, another?Martin family attorney, told NBC News.

The lack of an?arrest or charges in the case has sparked protests nationwide?with many claiming that Zimmerman confronted Martin because of his race. Zimmerman's supporters deny that.?

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Has the Dead Sea used up its 9 lives?

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Tel Aviv University research finds that the Dead Sea almost dried up over 100,000 years ago

Rapidly dropping water levels of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's surface heralded for its medicinal properties, has been a source of ecological concern for years. Now a drilling project led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University reveals that water levels have risen and fallen by hundreds of meters over the last 200,000 years.

Directed by Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham of TAU's Minerva Dead Sea Research Center and Prof. Mordechai Stein of the Geological Survey of Israel, researchers drilled 460 meters beneath the sea floor and extracted sediments spanning 200,000 years. The material recovered revealed the region's past climatic conditions and may allow researchers to forecast future changes.

Layers of salt indicated several periods of dryness and very little rainfall, causing water to recede and salt to gather at the center of the lake. During the last interglacial period, approximately 120,000 years ago, the sea came close to drying up entirely, the researchers found, with another period of extreme dryness taking place about 13,000 years ago.

Today, the Dead Sea lies 426 meters below sea level and is receding rapidly. Despite this historical precedent, there is still cause for concern, says Prof. Ben-Avraham. In the past the change was climate-driven, the result of natural conditions; today, the lake is threatened by human activity.

"What we see happening in the Middle East is something that mimics a severe dry period, but this is not climate-enforced, this is a man-made phenomenon," he warns, caused by increasing amounts of water being taken from rivers for irrigation before it reaches the Dead Sea. Ultimately, this prevents the refilling of the sea by the waters of the Jordan River.

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American Friends of Tel Aviv University (www.aftau.org) supports Israel's leading, most comprehensive and most sought-after center of higher learning. Independently ranked 94th among the world's top universities for the impact of its research, TAU's innovations and discoveries are cited more often by the global scientific community than all but 10 other universities.

Internationally recognized for the scope and groundbreaking nature of its research and scholarship, Tel Aviv University consistently produces work with profound implications for the future.


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Tel Aviv University research finds that the Dead Sea almost dried up over 100,000 years ago

Rapidly dropping water levels of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's surface heralded for its medicinal properties, has been a source of ecological concern for years. Now a drilling project led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University reveals that water levels have risen and fallen by hundreds of meters over the last 200,000 years.

Directed by Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham of TAU's Minerva Dead Sea Research Center and Prof. Mordechai Stein of the Geological Survey of Israel, researchers drilled 460 meters beneath the sea floor and extracted sediments spanning 200,000 years. The material recovered revealed the region's past climatic conditions and may allow researchers to forecast future changes.

Layers of salt indicated several periods of dryness and very little rainfall, causing water to recede and salt to gather at the center of the lake. During the last interglacial period, approximately 120,000 years ago, the sea came close to drying up entirely, the researchers found, with another period of extreme dryness taking place about 13,000 years ago.

Today, the Dead Sea lies 426 meters below sea level and is receding rapidly. Despite this historical precedent, there is still cause for concern, says Prof. Ben-Avraham. In the past the change was climate-driven, the result of natural conditions; today, the lake is threatened by human activity.

"What we see happening in the Middle East is something that mimics a severe dry period, but this is not climate-enforced, this is a man-made phenomenon," he warns, caused by increasing amounts of water being taken from rivers for irrigation before it reaches the Dead Sea. Ultimately, this prevents the refilling of the sea by the waters of the Jordan River.

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American Friends of Tel Aviv University (www.aftau.org) supports Israel's leading, most comprehensive and most sought-after center of higher learning. Independently ranked 94th among the world's top universities for the impact of its research, TAU's innovations and discoveries are cited more often by the global scientific community than all but 10 other universities.

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