FEMAIL called on industry's hottest hairdressers to share insider knowledge Never comb it after the shower and use tepid water Don't run shampoo through the ends

By Bianca London for MailOnline

Published: 10:57 EST, 24 March 2015 | Updated: 11:58 EST, 24 March 2015

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It's something we all do on a near daily basis, but could the reason behind those all-too-frequent 'bad hair days' be because you're washing your hair wrong?

The reason your hair feels silky soft after a visit to the salon isn't pure coincidence; it's because hairdressers are carefully trained to wash and condition hair using a tried-and-tested regime.

There is, in fact, a wrong way to wash your hair, and getting it wrong can take your hair from silky and shiny to totally lackluster and damaged.

FEMAIL called on the industry's hottest hairdressers to share their insider knowledge on what you're doing wrong and the simple steps to make sure you do it right.

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In a couple weeks, it will be both Passover and Easter two overlapping holidays that to Christians will be forever intertwined and, to the Jewish people, a demonstration of Gods power to rescue them from slavery, death and Pharaoh.

How so? The night of Passover was also the night that Jesus was betrayed by Judas and taken by the Roman guards for trial.

Jesus and his disciples had celebrated the Passover meal that night, following the Jewish tradition that had been commanded for the Jewish people following their deliverance from Egypt and the cruel masters that had enslaved them.

You are most likely familiar with that story how God called Moses to lead the Israelites to freedom and the plagues God sent when Pharaoh repeatedly refused to let them go.

Water turning to blood, frog and insect infestations and finally the deaths the firstborn of the Egyptians including Pharaohs family.

The firstborn of the Israelites were spared because they had been warned by God this was coming. They were to paint above their doorways with the blood of a lamb. When the angel of death saw the blood, he would pass over that house, leaving all alive. Thus, that is celebrated in the Jewish faith as Passover, (and remembered by Christians for that significance as well.)

The season of Lent, the time approaching Easter, is commemorated in some of our churches with special events, like the soup suppers and devotionals at Grace Lutheran Church being held on Wednesday evenings approaching Easter.

The next event coming up in regard to the holidays is Good Friday, the day Jesus hung on the cross.

For several years now, this community has gathered at the Church of the Nazarene at noon on Good Friday April 3 this year and that also is the first day of the April 311 Passover celebration.

This community event has been well-attended by all denominations, with participation by several pastors and local vocalists, and I have been to many of them. I would encourage you to go to this one; it is always such a joy to see folks from all denominations worshiping together. And the location in town makes it possible for people to attend on their lunch hours.

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HARTFORD So much for not touching Carl Andre's controversial stone sculpture in the relocation of downtown's Gold Street.

Workers marking utility lines last week spray-painted in orange and red the bases of 16 of the 36 glacial rocks that make up Andre's "Stone Field Sculpture" on the north side of the street.

"It was a mistake," Thomas E. Deller, the city's director of development services, said. "We have to talk to the contractor and come up with a protocol to make sure this doesn't happen again."

Lines are routinely marked in preparation for construction projects to ensure that they are not ruptured. The work is directed by "the Call Before You Dig" program, but the markings are performed either by utility companies or contractors they hire.

Deller said it was likely the workers did not know the significance of the boulders, which range in weight from 1,000 pounds to 10 tons.

"Unfortunately, the underground electric lines on that part of Gold Street run beneath the Stone Field Sculpture," said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for Eversource, formerly Connecticut Light & Power Co. "Still, we recognize that the boulders should not have been marked with paint."

Gross said the paint is biodegradable and is designed to disappear over time. But Eversource is directing On Target, the company that does line painting for the utility, to immediately remove the paint from the rocks.

"We are also using this opportunity to remind our contractors and employees to always be mindful of their surroundings when they are working," Gross said.

Eversource's line painter won't have to bother cleaning up the mess. Monday afternoon, workers from the Hartford Business Improvement District's "Clean Team" showed up with graffiti cleaner and brushes and started scrubbing. The team, more formally called cleaning ambassadors, routinely remove graffiti and pick up litter within the district.

"This is what we do on a daily basis," Michael Zaleski, the district's executive director, said, standing near one of the row of rocks.

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The Western Reserve Port Authority has approved a $25,000-per-year contribution for three years to the effort by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber to hire someone to avoid closure or reductions at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.

John Boccieri, a former congressman, squadron commander at the base and a port authority board member, abstained from voting on the measure.

He received an opinion from the Ohio Ethics Commission last month indicating he should fully withdraw from consideration of matters before the authority that will affect [the Air Force Reserves] interests.

Rose Ann DeLeon dies

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Rose Ann Jersan DeLeon, former executive director of the Western Reserve Port Authority, died over the weekend.

DeLeon, 60, of the Cleveland area, was hired to operate the port authoritys new economic-development office in 2009 and stayed in that position until early 2014 when she left because of illness.

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Image of a hydro pole fire in Toronto on March 3, 2015.

TORONTO- Utility crews have been busy over the past couple of weeks working to restore power to thousands of homes across the GTA. The culprit in most of these outages has been a single hydro pole fire. One pole fire can affect power tens of thousands of residents in a given community.

The odd thing is, these fires happen when we get rain or drizzle in the winter months.

The unlikely contributor is the road salt we use to melt snow and ice.

John McClean is the Vice President, Operations at Power Stream, whichserves municipalities in the 905 and 705 regions, and saidthe fireshappen every winter when we get an accumulation of contamination on the insulators that carry our conductors typically salt contamination.

Normally, McCleans crews would be washing the salt off the poles but they can only do that when the temperatures warm up above minus 5 degrees Celsius. We didnt get anywhere near that temperature through January and February so the salt built up in the insulators.

When the temperature finally flirted with freezing, we got rain and drizzle. Mix the water with the salt and youve got a nearly perfect conductor. It means the current finds its way into the grounded pole. But the pole is a poor conductor, so it acts like the element in your oven. It resists the current, stores the heat and it combusts.

And youre wondering how that road salt gets all the way to thetop of that hydro pole.

McClean says the salt gets kicked into the air by passing traffic. But he and his team have noticed an increased in pole fire incidents since the province and municipalities have started using a salt solution brine to deal with icy roads.

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Company apologizesAn Indonesian company says its going to replace unbelievable washing-instruction labels that suggest men give their jerseys to your woman because its her job.

Salvo Sports, which Reuters reports designed the jersey for soccer club Pusamania Borneo, has apologized profusely on Twitter, saying it didnt mean to denigrate women.

Its just that men arent always competent in caring for their own clothes, and women are more expert in that kind of thing.

(Thats my rough translation from the original tweets.)

Under washing instructions, the original label said: Give this jersey to your woman. Its her job.

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Reuters translated the apologetic response like this:

Theres no intention to humiliate women. In contrast, (we want to tell the men) learn from women on how to take care of clothes because they pay attention to details. Not all men understand/know how to take care of their own clothes, women are more knowledgeable/experts on such matters.

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Territories and Municipal Services Minister Shane Rattenbury aims to free up more unused public land for growing food in Canberra and plans a registration system for backyard beekeepers this year, among measures to boost food self-sufficiency in Canberra.

Mr Rattenbury, head of the ACT Greens, called a roundtable of local producers last year and on Tuesday outlined the ideas to the Assembly. Other ideas included a localabattoir and targets to reduce chemical use in home gardens.

The roundtable heard that 700 hectares would be sufficient to feed a third of the ACT population, and pushed for more government land to be set side for intensive production, such as greenhouses, hydroponics and aquaponics.

It discussed accessing land near creeks, cycle paths, power line easements and road easements for growing food. It suggested a relaxation of restrictions on using nature strips and other land for gardening, providing residents took responsibility for controlling fruit tree pests, he said.

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Canberra had 3.65 hectares in community gardens and that could be expanded, especially on public transport routes, with access to water, electricity and toilets. Walls and roofs could also be used for food production, and areas could be set aside for "agri-hoods", or neighbourhood food production.Land should be set aside when suburbs were being built.

The roundtable also pointed to the need for more bee-friendly plants, registration of beekeepers and reducing pesticide use, Mr Rattenbury said.

Among other ideas, the Molonglo River flats could be considered for market gardens, and a specific agricultural zone could be created. Agriculture should be part of ACT economic planning, he said, with one suggestion that as many as 10,000 or 12,000 people could be employed in the sector.

The roundtable had also looked at areas where Canberra was over-regulated, including a requirement to weigh individual eggs, a specified size for hand-washing sinks and rules covering selling food.

Mr Rattenbury said he would introduce a registration system this year for beekeepers, most of whom were backyard beekeepers, and was looking to free up open spaces for food production. "There's a lot of community energy out there, with people saying if you just let us go at it there are things we'd like to do," he said, pointing to the approach from the now-established City Farm and work to set up a Lyneham orchard.

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Survey of 100,000 people was the largest ever analysis into hand-washing Washroomcompany has nowlaunched a product to promotehygiene Data on hand-washing rates will be displayed on TV screens in bathrooms Company claims seeing the data 'nudges' people into washing their hands

By Madlen Davies for MailOnline

Published: 09:25 EST, 27 February 2015 | Updated: 18:29 EST, 27 February 2015

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If you've ever harboured doubts about the personal hygiene habits of your work colleagues, look away now.

A staggering 62 per cent of men do not wash their hands after going to the bathroom, a survey has revealed.

And while women are slightly better than men, 40 per cent admit they too share this dirty habit.

The survey of 100,000 people, carried out by a washroom services company, was the largest ever analysis into hand-washing habits.

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Lucas Patchett of charity laundry service Orange Sky hangs out some washing in front of a Yeppoon home damaged by Cyclone Marcia. Photo: Orange Sky

As Tropical Cyclone Marcia crossed the Queensland coast, Lucas Patchett and Nic Marchesi packed up their mobile laundry van and embarked on a 1090km journey to the disaster zone.

The 20-year-old co-founders of Brisbane charity Orange Sky, which provides a mobile laundry service for homeless people, had just set up an operation in far north Queensland when TC Marcia called.

Yeppoon resident Tony makes use of the free laundry service offered by Orange Sky. Photo: Orange Sky

A day on the road later, Orange Sky was in Yeppoon offering its services to people left without power and, sometimes, without roofs in TC Marcia's wake.

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"We pulled up this morning and people who had the walls and the roof of their house ripped off, with all their belongings soaked and no power in the whole of Yeppoon, they were pretty happy to get their clothes cleaned," Mr Patchett said on Saturday.

"I suppose it's one of the things you don't want to worry about when you're doing a big clean-up like that."

Orange Sky Laundry was set up about five months ago in Brisbane and earlier this month expanded into Cairns.

"The original plan was to have it operating up there on a priority basis in case there were any natural disasters," Mr Patchett said.

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Clean up to begin after Queensland faced the full brunt of tropical Cyclone Marcia.

Cyclone Marcia Destroyed house in Yeppoon - Pic Jack Tran Source: Supplied

Cyclone Marcia has damaged homes in Yeppoon and torn iron from buildings in Rockhampton to the south. And its not over yet.

As the tropical cyclone continues to makes its way south were beginning to see the trail of destruction its left in its wake.

WHAT WE KNOW:

* Cyclone Marcia has been downgraded to a category 1 system but many residents are facing a damp and dark night with thousands without electricity.

* Power is expected to be cut for several days and emergency services are calling on residents to use water only when absolutely necessary.

* The severe tropical cyclone made landfall as a category 5 cyclone and has left a trail of destruction over Yeppoon and Rockhampton.

*The cyclone was at category 5 when it grazed Yeppoon battering the coastal town with 285km/h winds. It was downgraded to category 3 when it hit Rockhampton in the afternoon.

* Marcias destructive core with gusts to 155km/h continued southwards towards Biloela.

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