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IT IS NON—TRANSFERABLE, AND MAY ONLY BE USED FOR GAMES BOWLED BY THE HOLDER. post oak Three ; 1500 HARVEY RD. 6S3-2796 CINEMA THREE 315 COLLEGE AVE. 693-2796 Phantasm il 2:104:107:109:10 Cinema III Bull Durham ,„> 2:104:25 7:109:25 Post Oak III Funny Farm ( pg ^ 2:00 4:00 7:00 9:00 Cinema III Crocodile Dundee II (PG) 2:00 4:20 7:10 9:20 Post Oak III The Great Outdoors ( pg) 2:05 4:05 7^05 9:05 Cinema III License To Drive 2:05 4:15 7:05 9:15 (PG13) Post Oak III State conference gives insight Expert: Control stress with practice , physical symp- idled properly. By Andrea Halbert Reporter Although there is no immedi ate cure for stress, people can learn to control it with practice, a College Station psychologist told Texas Agriculture Extension Service employees Thursday. Jim Hyden said effective stress management is important be cause stress is unavoidable and can cause serious toms if it’s not hanc Some possible consequences of prolonged periods of high stress are irritability, fatigue, insomnia, headaches, high blood pressure, anxiety and stress-related dis eases, including heart disease and cancer, Hyden said during a pro fessional development workshop, part of the Extension Service’s state conference. “Stress,” he said, “is anything that requires you to adapt. Stress is not all bad if you manage it well. It can motivate people.” Hyden said most people need to learn to deal with anger to avoid stress-related illness. Finding outlets for anger keeps the emotion from building up and coming out in the form of physical symptoms, he said. “Driving ranges and punching bags are great for this,” he said. “So is yard work.” Hyden said anger is a healthy emotion but can be harmful if it is repressed. Many people assume that anger is gone when they stop thinking about it consciously, he said, but usually this is not true. Anger can bury itself in the subconscious mind and cause problems if you don’t do some thing to get it out of your system, he said. Physical activity and dis cussion are much more effective ways to deal with anger than try ing to forget about it, he said. Relaxation is another impor tant aspect of stress management, Hyden said. He said most people don’t know to relax. “Most people think they’re re laxing when they pop open a cold one and watch the ball game,” he said, “that’s not relaxing — that’s leisure.” Hyden said leisure is impor tant, too, but is not a substitute for “true relaxation.” “True relaxation,” he said, “is a skill which is learned. It is not dif ficult to learn, but it does require time and effort.” It takes most people two or three months of practicing 30 minutes daily to achieve true re laxation, Hyden said. People can practice relaxing using a tech nique called progressive muscular relaxation, he said. Hyden conducted a 15 minute demonstration of the technique, which involves relaxing muscles one at a time. Hyden also said proper diet, regular exercise, effective time management, good communica tion skills and assertiveness train ing are important stress manage ment tools, but he did not discuss those aspects. Specialist stresses success skills By Russell James Reporter Effective communication skills and flexibility are the two keys to a successful business career, Dorthy Taylor, a family life specialist, said. At the biannual meeting of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Taylor said there is always conflict on the job. “Conflict doesn’t mean a heated argument —just a disagreement over an issue,” she said. “Most people don’t want to change. They dig their heals into the dirt and wait for the other person to give in.” Taylor said two types of relationships exist in the business world — the missionary or individual worth and the power struggle. Missionary workers are intimidated by progress. They’ll do anything to avoid conflict or a confrontation, sacrificing personal goals and achievement. They are content to remain in the same position for years. The second type is the power stragglers. They take a verticle climb to the top of the corporate ladder. This relationship will produce conflict with fellow employees as they work for their career goals too. “Every life is filled with stress, and the winners are those who learn to deal with it,” Taylor said. “First, you’ve got to like yourself. There isn’t a successful per son alive who doesn’t believe in himself. “You’ve got to believe that what you’re doing is the right thing.” This is where flexibility and an open mind is a neces sity, Taylor said. Listening to other points of view not only expands the amount of information you have, but creates a harmonious environment, she said. Taylor’s gave a list of the areas of conflict that usually arise in the work place and at home. Money — who makes it, who spends it and how. Also in terms of equal salaries among co-workers, money is a source of tension. Politics — in the sense that at times it’s who you know and not the job you can do. This leads to resentment and hostility among fellow employees. Taylor lists sex, friendships, the use of leisure time, religion, family, death and love as sources of conflict. “Self esteem is directly related to how you can cope with conflict,” Taylor said. “If you have the attitude that T can’t’ then you won’t.” Taylor also has what she calls the “6 Big Turn Ons”, characteristics that successful people demonstrate: a willingness to participate, a sense of pride, a sense of teamwork, self-respect, a willingness grow individually and a responsiveness to recognition. “If you want credit for success, then you have to ac cept blame for failure,’’she said. Taylor said it just takes hard work and common sense to deal with conflict. “Sometimes things just won’t work out, there’s noth ing anyone can do,” she said. “That’s when it’s time to agree to disagree.” DPS official says trainint will improve bad memorj By Lynjenkins Reporter There is no such thing j good or bad memory, onli trained or untrained memory spector Marx Howell of Texas Department of Py Saf ety told members of the At cultural Extension Service. Howell spoke on memon provement at the State Extern Conference Thursday intheM morial Student Center. People remember throyj repetition and association,« association being the strong method, Howell said. “When you want to learn r- information, you associateiti something you already knt Howell said. An example Howell used this method was simplifying height of Japan’s Mount (12,365 feet) by breaking itdoi and associating it to 12 m<® and 365 days in a year. Once the memory has been sociated with a familiar ex| ence, it must be rehearsj through repetition, Howellsani Howell said intensity, durat; and frequency affect howpeoi remember events. In illustrating the intensin an event, he asked the audit: to remember where they and what they were doingni John F. Kennedy was assai nated. Members of the audiencestoy up and were able to recallingrt detail the events surround: them that day. Howell said he only wanted share his ideas, not imposed®: “You have got to exercisev memory if you are going to a it,” Howell said. He suggested practicing imr ductions with a f riend tobuik strategy of remembering namei One such strategy is to caref ully, make a mental pic® and repeat the name, How said.' ^ A '* Convoy goes through customs station LAREDO (AP) — The persistent Veterans’ Peace Convoy on Thurs day went through one Mexican cus toms station after having crossed the Rio Grande with 14 trucks and a school bus without incident, but in defiance of a trade embargo with Ni caragua. “They’re on their way south,” said Tom Hansen, a spokesman for the group opposing U.S. policies toward Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista gov ernment. Convoy members were later de layed at a secondary customs area af ter Mexican authorities discovered firecrackers in one of the vehicles, an official said. On at least three separate occa sions, the U.S. Treasury Department has blocked the group’s trucks from leaving the country. The department contends that taking the vehicles in the convoy into Nicaragua would violate a 3-year-old trade embargo. Eight “convoyistas,” as they call themselves, were arrested Saturday in a tense confrontation with U.S. Customs officials, Border Patrol agents and Laredo police after Cus toms refused to let the convoy drive across the border. One of the eight was rearrested early Monday and charged with blocking traffic at the same bridge when Customs again refused to let him cross. Later Monday, however, the group said it started crossing vehi cles and finally drove the last one across on Wednesday. The group said the first 11 vehi cles passed through the station with out question, while the last four vehi cles were told by customs agents to provide personal and vehicle identi fication. “A very funny thing that hap pened was that different officials, police and border and treasury offi cials ran into us in Laredo and dif ferent places and advised us to go one at a time late at night,” said con voy spokesman Jay Singer. “And so we tried it and it wor ked,” he said. Convoy coordinator Raul Valdez, 40, of Austin, said, “They mace us, they arrest us, they break our win dows, they impound our vehicles — and then all of a sudden they let us pass.” Valdez said he drove “Path finder,” the lead convoy vehicle, di rectly past U.S. Customs officials and paid his 75-cent bridge toll at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. The truck was involved with all three incidents at which U.S. Cus toms has blocked the group’s exit. Customs spokesman Donna De La Torre said Thursday the convoy had crossed into Mexico without the knowledge or approval of the U.S. government. He said the group still faces possi ble prosecution if it does not return the vehicles within 30 days. Violating the Nicaraguan Trade Control Regulations potentially could mean fines for the group of up to $50,000 and up to 10 years in prison. “I think that they’ve realized that they made a mistake and are trying to back out of it as quietly as possi ble,” Hansen said. Some of the vehicles bear signs and brightly painted slogans, includ ing a multicolored school bus embla zoned with, “Veterans Peace Convoy to Nicaragua,” and “Bikes, Not Bombs.” De La Torre said the govern ment’s policy toward the convoy had not changed. A convoy attempt to cross on June 15 with 38 vehicles and 106 people was blocked by Customs officials who stood in the roadway and tem porarily detained four of the group’s trucks. The activists then drove to Wash ington, D.C., tried unsucessfully to meet with federal officials and re turned to Laredo last Friday. The government’s position is that the food and medical supplies qual ify as humanitarian aid exempt from the Nicaraguan Trade Control illations, but that the vehidesart humanitarian aid. Convoy members say the ous vehicles are a form of huniai rian aid for the Arabs. The convoy is sending some tons of aid by ship. About 10 tons was loaded or vehicles when the group arrive Laredo last Friday for its secon: tempt at crossing the border. It also filed a lawsuit in Lai against the government lastm in an attempt to have its trip clared legal, but U.S. District]! George P. Kazen has not issue ruling. Rude reptiles invade homes cars of Houston residents HOUSTON (AP) — Reports of al ligators in unusual places are up in the Houston area, and officials are wondering whether to blame the re cent drought for the rise in the rep tile reportings. “I just know that every one that we’ve picked up so far has been one foot bigger than the previous one,” animal control director Dr. Robert Armstrong said Wednesday. Over the last six weeks, Arm strong said his officers have received a variety of calls about the big var mints. One man found a 3-foot-long alli gator in the front seat of his car. The creature apparently crawled into the vehicle through an open door while the man was in a conve nience store. A 4-foot-long gator was fonni the algae-clogged swimming po an abandoned Houston home. A 5-foot-Iong alligator wail moved this week from a bayouf ing through a residential area. Another properly owner reed reported a 7-foot-long alligator had taken up residence in hist yard. 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