Ash Wednesday
 

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I love Ash trees. Great holiday..

Ash Wednesday eh?

I guess I could give up sobriety for the next 40 days....

went to get a salad at lunch. saw a guy getting a salad with black shit greased on his forhead and was just about to say something when it struck me. Oh yeah, it's that Ash Wednesday thing. Happens every year when I see the first person with soot on their face.

wtf is Ash Wednesday?

Oh yeah, Shit always confuses me.

I gotta remember that today.

Took me until the 4th person myself.

It was blood wednesay at the Quicky Mart

Ash Wednesday, in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10.

According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan.[4][5] Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting.

Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of adherents as a sign of mourning and repentance to God. The ashes used are typically gathered after the palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned.[6]

This practice is common in much of Christendom, being celebrated by Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and some Baptist denominations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday

And then you know its 44 days until Easter! Kind of like the groundhog thing, only we can't predict when spring comes. Just Easter.

Ashley Tisdale's Wednesday Workout
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Ashley Tisdale went shopping Wednesday at Barneys in Beverly Hills
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Ashley Tisdale spent Wednesday afternoon (January 25) getting prettied up at Byron & Tracey Salon in Beverly Hills, California.
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About ASH

ASH is the largest organization of hypertension researchers and health care providers in the United States committed to preventing and treating hypertension and its consequences. ASH has a domestic and international membership of basic science & clinical investigators, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, as well as individuals with a scientific interest in hypertension.

The American Society of Hypertension, Inc. (ASH) was founded in 1985 in order to provide a forum for the exchange of information among basic scientists, clinical investigators and others involved in the study or management of high blood pressure. The specific focus of the Society is to translate current research findings on hypertension into effective treatment strategies, in order to better address the needs of hypertensive patients.

• Serves as a hypertension information resource and advocate for hypertensive patients, Hypertension Specialists, the hypertension academic, scientific and clinical communities, and the public at large
• Serves as a collegial networking forum for domestic and international basic scientists and clinical investigators translating bench and clinical research findings for hypertension and its consequences into efficacious treatment strategies
• Serves as an ACCME Accredited Education Provider for physicians and other health care providers presenting high quality educational activities that translate current research into strategies for the awareness, detection, treatment and prevention of hypertension. Society educational media include:

Annual Scientific Meeting/Satellite Symposia
Clinical Hypertension Review Course
Regional Symposia
Enduring Materials (Internet CME, CD-Rom, journal CME, monographs, etc.)

• Serves as the publisher of scientific, academic and patient information on hypertension

Official Journals:

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPERTENSION (JCH) {Clinical Treatment Focus}
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HYPERTENSION (JASH) {Translational Research}

• Serves as an active professional partner with government, industry and related professional organizations on public policy issues and hypertension community outreach programs
• Serves as a coordinating center for hypertension community outreach programs through its Regional Chapters