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- AbdelRahman Siddig
- Doha
- Qatar
This conversation is closed.
What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience
Some people when came a cross painfull experience they wish every one in the face of the Earth get the same level of pain
other people they wish all other people to avoid such pain
The Question is
What is the most painful lesson you experienced and you wish other people to avoid your experience?
what did you learned?
and what people should to avoid the same situation?
Closing Statement from AbdelRahman Siddig
We can not avoid the feeling of pain it good feeling if we know how to use it
and as the wisdom says " there is hiden treasure buried inside each tragedy"
but we can learn from each other mistakes and save time and efforts
Apr 25 2012: I have to say it was a time in my life where there was no supervision. I was about 15 years old. My mom worked all day in her business. I was at home. Our neighborhood had a lot of robberies and my house got hit. I was in it when it happened.
He knocked on my door. I lived in Costa Rica at the time, on a farm like town. Behind me was a coffee field, next to me was a duck farm. It wasn't poor, it was just simple.
When he knocked, I opened and he asked for a glass of water. I said sure, I let him in. I didn't think anything bad. Next thing you know he had my knife around my neck. And it was about a 20 min struggle. I was bound and tide, left for dead (i don't say sarcastically). In a moment of clarity I thought to hold my breath and black out. The predictor thought I was dead.
He then took stuff and left. I waited for about 30mins (maybe) and I untied myself ran out the back door and hide in the coffee field until I herd some neighbors knocking at my door and I heard them shouting out for me.
I was in the hospital for 2 weeks with a concussion, a broken nose, black eyes, 2 stab wounds and cuts throughout my body.
I recovered, I saw the predictor again at least twice.
At age 20 I got clinical help in Oregon. If it wasn't for the program at OSHU, I wouldn't be able to live a stable and happy life today.
I love life, I think this experience made me appreciate life in a different way. And I'm thankful it happened because I have a high level of compassion for people and victims. I learned a lot about psychology.
AbdelRahman Siddig, Thank you for asking me, I rarely talk about this (actually never) this is the first time I EVER talked about it on the internet. I know I talk about it so briefly and casually, but actually I don't get sad talking about it. I feel empowered.
So Thank you Abdel :D
Apr 26 2012: Thanks Adriana
for sharing your stroy in details for the first time with us , I'm very happy you feel empowered
and you managed to discover the treasure of your tragedy
as the wisdom said " there is hiden treasure buried inside each tragedy"
some people spent thier whole life after the disaster straying at the surface of the tragedy all they see is pure pain , other lucky people dig deeper and deeper till they find the treasureApr 28 2012: August 12, 2004: I was connecting large electrical generator in preparation for Hurricane Charlie. The meter I was using failed and blew carbon into the gear, which created an electrical arc and resulted in an arc blast. I ended up with full thickness, 3rd degree burns to both hands and arms along with 2nd and 3rd degree burns to my neck and face. I was in a coma for two months due to numerous complications from infections and medications. I am a husband, a father, a son and a brother, not just an electrician. During this time my family endured 4 hurricanes and the possibility of losing me. It took almost two years of healing, surgeries and rehabilitation to only be able to return to work to an office job. I can't use my hands and arms as well as I once could... BUT I'M ALIVE! There are those who have had similar accidents and fared much, much worse. I use my experiences to caution others. All of this could have been avoided if I had been wearing my personal protection equipment (PPE), which I was fully trained to do and was in my work van. I would have probably only gone to the hospital for a checkup! I am asking you to protect yourself by following your safety procedures. Accidents at work not only affect you; think about the effects on your family, your friends, your finances, your company, your co-workers… your entire world. Most of these injuries can be prevented by following the safety rules your company probably has in place. Most of these rules were put in place because of accidents like mine. Be safe, wear your PPE; not for fear of fines, penalties or getting fired. Be safe for yourself and for all the people close to you. I got a second chance... You may not!!!
My web site has the video download and my complete story: http://www.donniesaccident.com
Apr 23 2012: I will share this, a painful mistake I experienced was thinking that because someone was family, I could automatically talk to them any way I wanted to, without respecting them. I did not measure my words, and was downright rude.
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This occured when I was a teenager. I thought the speaking of multiple languages and my university made me smarter then them, and I freely spoke without consideration or respect of their dignity.
I learned my lesson in time, and this was repaired. Thankfully I now realize that I have to respect everyone, family or not. Each individual deserves my respect. I have learned to avoid thinking I am above the rest.....I am the same as everyone else..............a work in progress.
Apr 24 2012: Hi Mary M.
what made you change ? to be frank , usually people with (power or Extra ability ) Don not respect people with (less power or less ability)
if you cloud share the story that made each individual deserves your respect
Apr 24 2012: Hi AbdelRahman Siddig
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What made me change......it was an undo-it-yourself project.
After I studied the Bible and I started to read articles that expanded on Bible principles, I realized I had changes to make in my life.
It took years to change. I had to change the way I spoke, the way I listened, the expressions on my face. I started to associate with individuals that wanted to make changes also.
I started to speak using more questions to clarify their points, and I also responded more with acknowledgement of their idea, instead of always trying to say rebuttal to their ideas.
I learned to give the benefit of the doubt to people in general.
I learned to listen for what was not being said, and not just to what was being said.
I started to speak softer, slower. I had to learn to show empathy to family and friends.
Like I said, it took years......and I am still working on many parts of my personality that I know need changing. I have learned to avoid thinking I am above the rest.....I am the same as everyone else..............a work in progress.
Apr 27 2012: Mary,
that's awesome! It is really honorable of you to change.
Recognizing the problem and actually changing is a BIG step. The bible helped me learn how to understand rules of life. The way you are treated is a reflection of the way you act. And its better to sign on the kinder side because, there is inner peace on that side.
Idalia Muñoz
Apr 29 2012: Dear Mary,
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Thank you for sharing your story of overcoming ego self centered mind. You weren't alone on such a road...
My son still indulge in that state of mind; he speaks also 4 languages, his mayor is Bio-Physics and had managed excellent notes in Chemistry, Math and other sciences that requires such profession.
I'd been concern about such unkind ways and decided to help him to remember kindness in any possible way, before he became a teen he was a kind child.
Lately, we had to pray for days because a family member got a stroke, a man that used to be a very authoritarian father and pleasing him was the family concern.
Ten years ago, when I became part of this family. Travels and activities were scheduled without questioning my opinion. Others hated such demanding ways but reminded silence because the inheritance.
The man has been 2 months in rehab, can walk, talk or digest food properly. I'd asked his closes family member to get together and pray for his health but nobody cares for it, and find any excuse to avoid visiting him at the clinic. (I don't blame them)
My son visited him at the clinic and when returned home, he told me will pray hard for health for this sick man. He turned to me and hugged me and told me that has been a painful scene to see this man in such sad situation.
Mom, "He vomits and makes a mess on his shirt..." he said. Then I said, "It is a normal thing to happen when people are sick, I wiped his mouth and clean his shirt after he vomited last Sunday"... Then he looked a me with wet eyes: "How you can do that mom? Then I said: "It is a matter of kindness, I can do it for him or anybody who needs help... you have that in your heart. Just lately, you allowed your ego to take over your kind heart".
Prior his sickness this man treated others without respect, he alienated kindness to work on his side. His feelings of superiority can't sustain him anymore.
Apr 29 2012: Deares Idalia,
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Thank you for sharing this experience. How wonderful to know that around the world we are all alike, and that we can so easily learn lessons the easy way, but more often than not, we sadly must learn life's lessons the hard way.
I am happy my comment encouraged you to share your experiences. I am all the better for it.
Be Well Idalia Munoz.
Mary :)May 2 2012: This is a very good story, thanks for sharing. In my family, we were taught to give an older person utmost respect (even younger people because everyone deserve to be respected). Respect begets Respect.
May 2 2012: Hi Ayoka, thank you for your kind comment.
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Wouldn't it have been nice if I didn't have to tell this story?
Nevertheless, perhaps some young ones reading it might benefit.
Be Well
Apr 24 2012: That the love I had hoped for, and believed in, in mankind did not exist. That no matter how much I loved people, I could not stem the tide of selfishness, dominence, manipulation, neglect and indifferene to suffering, and the exercise of power over others - and I'm talking about my neighborhood when I was a kid. Then I saw the 'tin man' in the Wizard of Oz and the wizard said to him: 'It's not how much you love, but by how much you're loved by others'. So then I began to 'please' people, trying to anticipate what they wanted from me. But that just made them more uncomfortable to be around me, because I wasn't me. I was a creation of what I thought others wanted from me. But it was all a lie. I had no real friends, no real lovers. I had nothing. I was nothing. I was completely lost because the love I sought did not exist. It took me many years to understand this. This was the most painful lesson for me. I offer it in the hopes that someone else who may be searching for a similar type of love can unburden themselves and become who they are, find the gifts they have, and become themselves what they seek - a wonderful, unique, gifted individual who is alive and active with life and contributing to its majesty. I have found their is no greater love than this, in my experience. Then, this 'new kind' of love will multiply itself around you, and you will have finally found it.
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Apr 24 2012: Hi RH
That was really great lesson and its occuring all over the globe right now
hope some one read it before fall into the trap , or some parents make sure their kids are not into this trap right now
thanks for sharing
Apr 25 2012: Thank you for responding so generously.
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Apr 25 2012: Thank you for responding so kindly.
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edward long
Apr 23 2012: Learning that my self-esteem was not based in fact. Somehow I had come to believe that my ideas were best; my views were closest to truth; and my assessments mattered most. Then I came face-to-face with the reality that to disagree with me was not always an error. Other people's ideas, values and viewpoints matter.
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Apr 23 2012: Excellent mistake to learn from, possibly the hardest that we all, sooner or later, will have to face.(HOPEFULLY).
The only comment I could add, from my situation, would have been that "Having the better arguement doesn't make you right"
Apr 24 2012: That's right Vince, arguments do not have to be true to be valid.Apr 24 2012: Hi Edward
This very excellent discovery , would you share the story that made realise your self-esteem was not based in fact
Apr 24 2012: I agree sir, it was the most excellent of discoveries.Read it for yourself AbdelRahman. The Holy Bible, New Testament, Book of Ephesians, chapter 2. May God bless you!May 1 2012: Nietzsche once said something like he WISHED pain, failure and suffering on his friends, so that they may truly grow and learn in life. Though learning through someone else's mistakes sure is a lot more convenient!! But, no matter the second hand stories told, new people time and time again will walk into the old traps.
Don't fall into this one: if you are ever down and out in life (depressed, jobless, lonely etc). Beware that there are some self-positioned people in institutions "meant to help" expressly to prey on such vulnerability. They prey on you financially, sexually and suck what ever scrap of trust in humanity that was there to begin with. They can make your life even doubly worse than what it already was. Turn to your trusted family and friends, take them along with you to meet new people who may help. Speak to support circles--stay visible in a group environment. Beware of anyone offering to be or to show you a saviour.Apr 27 2012: One of the most painful lessons I have faced is that my past experience with the education system does not have to equate to my ability to learn now, and in the future. And, I am not stupid; incapable of learning for the rest of my life; and doomed to the life that lack of education produces. I still struggle with this everytime I try to learn somthing new, but bit by bit I am over-coming.
My experience in school 20+ years ago was one of the most damaging things I have ever endured. When I was a little child, I believed in everything my teachers said, taught, and did. I was led to believe that these were undeniable truths, forever etched in stone. As a result, severe damage perfused through my life, touching others. I know now, that I am not alone in experiencing this. There are many horrific education stories out there. What an effect education can have on children and our world! I just wish the educators of the past knew how profound their actions really could be.
That was then, this is now, and thankfully, there are more educators out there that understand the gravity of their positions. I believe our educational system is changing for the better, reaching out to the masses, into the future, striving to create an exceptional world for all.
P.S. Thanks internet and....thank you too, TED.
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Apr 25 2012: Hi Chris
I agree with you pain is the greatest chance for grow and build a strong character but many people fail when they are in pain
but this conversation is not about to avoid the feeling of pain we can not escape that
but to avoid hard time by learning from each other
as most of life events are a like
just the story of Adriana Bevacqua in this conversation we learned a lot from it
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Apr 26 2012: Hi Chris
what you said is so amazing but its very hard to achive
" how a human can be an alchemist, by taking something like this horrible experience and transforming it into something beautiful"
we all know that but when the real pain hit us during our daily routine the response is different
we do not jump up like we win a price and say WOW I got my chance of growth
deep in our hearts we wish if that event never happened
I remeber one wise man said we can not change the events but we can change the meaning of the events
why I'm blind and I can not see maybe harness the power of thinking and imaginations nd focusApr 26 2012: Chris,
thank you for your kind words :D. My life has been a tough one, but I know many stories out there just like mine or worst. I am just another person.
Once that situation happened to me, I was more incline to learn from other people. Many of us believe we are untouchable or "that won't happen to me" syndrome. I learned at an early age, "that could happen to me".
I like to grow, and so I know I have to feel pain. That is what I think makes me change bad into good. I accept pain. I am not afraid to feel pain. I know and believe its a part of a process and can become a resource.
I think my entire life is a work in progress. With all due respect Chris, I am no hero. Hero's are protectors of the world. I don't feel like I did much, I just got over an emotional issue, and it all paned out. But thank you big time for the props, It fed my ego for the year ;DApr 25 2012: So true!!
Fritzie -
Apr 23 2012: I find it painful whenever people who are trustworthy and pure of motive are falsely accused, whether the perpetrator actually believes his accusation or only uses it as a weapon for his/her own ends..
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Apr 24 2012: Hi Fritzie Reisner
what should we do when we see that ?
Apr 24 2012: AbdelRahman, it depends on the situation. If one is a third party, one can model or urge belief in the more positive interpretation of a person's trustworthiness or motives.
If the matter is private between the two parties, what do you think?
Debra Smith
May 22 2012: When you feel utterly alone, you realize that you never would have made it without the dedicated effort of others. Thank you for my life to all those who invested their life force into mine.
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When you have a sick child you realize that all of the ideas you had about the value of a human life are null and void.
Brian Cerda
May 1 2012: Giving up is harder on you than continuing on.
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May 12 2012: Couldn't agree more.Apr 30 2012: I feel excruciatingly vulnerable in revealing the most painful lesson I experienced and wish others could avoid.
I am currently 17 months in on a criminal court proceeding for which I am the victim of two counts object rape.
I have so desperately wanted to feel secure. To feel like I do have dominion over my person. The court experience is extremely traumatizing, and it keeps the wounds of rape raw.
Something about my world changed the day I was raped. It was a more dangerous, and calloused world that refused to understand my experience, because they knew they couldn't possibly.
I learned that my world is unpredictable. That people are not to be trusted, but this is not something that must be learned by other rape victims.
Our American society is eager to call every rape a "he said" "she said". Stop! We need to examine our western culture as a Rape Culture, and search our hearts and minds for how and why we contribute to it. If you want to avoid my situation, help your community make a cultural shift that values enthusiastic consent, and places the burden of receiving consent on the initiator, and understand that victims have already been through hell. They don't want to deal with your insecurities or anger. So if you ever find yourself a secondary survivor, which many of us are though we do not know it, talk to someone who is not the victim about getting care for yourself.
I wish those who follow this conversation to get involved in movements like their local SlutWalk that focuses on cultures that victim blame and slut shame. Only an aggressive cultural shift towards a healthier community that values enthusiastic consent will help all of us to encounter fewer rapists.
xiao gong
Apr 29 2012: The most painful of me is when i lose any of my family members.I can't accept the truth like that.Apr 27 2012: Yes. I never listened to figures of authority growing up. I rebelled against the world. I thought I had all the answers.
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I try to tell my students about my personal experience in a way that I try to relate to them and explain how I was not much different than they are. I share my ups and downs with them about growing up and remind them not to fall into the traps that I did. I guess the main difference with me is that I don't simply tell them "Stay in school.", I also use my own life as an example of the reasons why. My students seem to get it so I hope that I make a difference. Do I actually? Only time will tell....Apr 27 2012: When I was a kid (between 12 and 16) I was robbed many times by drug addicts. Some times they grab me from the neck and others show me a knife or a syringe.
I learn a few lesson from those situations:
1. If you are in a bad place harden your attitude in order to not look weak. A confidence attitude is crucial.
2. If you get assaulted for the money never argue or fight and give they all the valuable things. Normally they go away at that point.
The main lesson I learned at that early age was that I can die. When you realize that your priorities become totally clear and never forget what is important and what isn't.Apr 26 2012: My most painful experience is one that I share with my students; I didn't take learning serious enough as a teen. Before I got out of high school, with low grades, I started having kids of my own. I didn't think I needed college to be successful. I didn't realize how much value our society places on education. For me, a life of hard physical work was not going to satisfy my mind. I ended up being a Teamster truck driver/dock worker for 8 years in order to go to school and break the cycle I found myself in. I am now a school teacher, but I think I would have enjoyed being a lawyer or something else if I had taken my education more seriously.
It was very hard raising three kids on low income. It was painful, but we made it. I was lucky enough to have a wife that worked with me as a team. I went to school and got my Bachelor's degree and Teaching Credential and acquired my teaching job. Then it was my wife's turn to go to school and she got her Bachelor's and her Master's degrees. Then, my turn again, I went back and got my Master's degree. Now it is my wife's turn again and she is getting her Doctorate. All of this would have been much easier if we had gotten our education first. I share my experiences with my students and try to make them realize that a degree can be very important.
This may sound bad to some, but it clicks with teens when I liken degrees to dogs. Mutts can be fantastic dogs, but they have no value (except to their owner/boss). A dog with a paper (pedigree) has value and is prized. Both dogs may be equally smart (and most scientific evidence shows that mutts are probably smarter), but it takes that paper to make a difference in value. This is like degrees that people get and how companies value them. The more degrees you have, the more serious people take you and pay you. Painful, but true.
Apr 26 2012: Greg, I can soo relate.
When you look back, what do you think could you have done to convince that young boy to finish school? I am pretty sure someone somewhere said, stay in school or something like that, why didn't just them saying be enough for you to listen?
I guess what I looking here is what do you tell your students?Apr 26 2012: The most painful for me is, mastering the ego to expand awareness to connect with the highest source.
This activity not only involves very strong discipline than most other activities, but because it involves direct control of the ego, which in our daily activities is not too strong to suppress the ego.
And I think the best way to improve the ease of control ego and discipline associated with difficulties in the expansion of consciousness are several possibilities:
1. Bring up the love and keep the power of love as much as possible that relevant to your path. This requires extensive knowledge and the ability to compare to make sure the benefits that can meet our expectations.
2. That is the same as above, but if we can not bring love, then at least we can foster a sense of curiosity.
3. We must realize that things happen for the goodness and something has a hidden wisdom that is not always known at this time. It is an attitude of gratitude.
These are the ways that may be easier for us to expand consciousness, including ... avoiding the difficulties in mastering the ego, which can be so painful.
Less or more ...Apr 24 2012: well i have always been given my way by my parents and this led me to believe that i was the best person in the whole world and whatever i did was best.However,what i didn't know was the fact that i was Selfish,wayward and rude to people around me.Later on,when i entered into practicle life,i learnt to mend my ways the hard way.Although, i feel that i have become a better person now but when i think about my past,i still hate myself for hurting people.
Apr 24 2012: Hi sameen liaqat
you done the right thing by changing but how will the people who are currently living by your old values (Selfish,wayward and rude ) notice they are in the wrong track
what your story behind the change ?
Apr 24 2012: Well,in my opinion, the only thing that can change this behaviour is the thought that we all have to leave this world someday and how terrible we would feel if somebody we loved suddenly left this world and we had behaved awefully bad to him/her.Just think like this and your behaviour will improve :)Apr 23 2012: I would say the entire way of extreme consumption led life style caused by misconceived meanings of freedom or democracy from generations to generations by ourselves prompted by so called citizens of the free world without questioning ourselves is the most painful mistakes we would ever face in not too far feature. And this is exactly what we should convey to the bottomless greed driven society of China and other nations alike.
Apr 24 2012: Hi Mitsuya Fujimoto
I agree with you but greedy is not limited to China it's all over the globeApr 23 2012: Everyone makes mistakes, but I would have to say that have the ability to articulate ideas and emotions is your best friend, so refine and fully develop your ideas before iterating them. If mistakes were to ever happen, then try to revise them.
"Life is one big freewrite, and it is up to you to revise it."
I found that attaining all the skills and tools of a language really fixes many issues because they usually occur from misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
I had a situation where I was constantly in turmoil as a young kid and I had no idea how to solve the issues, but to use my physical actions. Now I learned more about the magnitude of language impacting the environment and how you deal with them. So living and learning is the best prevention, but "Go Ahead, Make Mistakes" and try to learn from them.
Thanks for reading my thoughts. Hope you share yours. =)
Apr 23 2012: Hi Derek Young
this a very profound statment " emotions is your best friend" but it cloud also be your wost enemy
so let us say emotions is your best friend if we choice the correct one is the correct time
Apr 24 2012: Hi Abdel,
I think you misinterpreted my comment or I phrased it incorrectly. I was saying that being able to articulate or express your ideas/emotions with language as your medium of expression, then that is your best friend. Just blind emotions can lead to mistakes and loss of reality. That is why we must rationalize or use reason to clarify our thoughts.
Apr 24 2012: Hi Derek
Thanks for you clarificationsMay 4 2012: So Abdel,
What inspired you to start this topic?
May 9 2012: Hi Derek
sorry for late reply and all other people who comments and I did not reply to them
thanks to all of you
what inspired me is the peak of pain I would not share the details because its not my personal story and it other people personal story too but I would share the summary
you found your self in a situation where all the options around you are painfull and not only you will be hurt but other people too
so I said to my self maybe I should have more consultancy and more clear objective before I involved
and I'm sure many people fail in similar trap not every day but every moment
so my advise to all get clear objective , make sure this what you want , consult the experts before you start any project , business or any thing that matter to youMay 17 2012: "The very most thing I'm committed to do is to help as many people as possible regain their creativity confidence they lost along their way"
David Kelley
Thank you very much David for your commitment , your words was very touchy and encouraging , wish you all the bestMay 12 2012: Relatives you get, Family you chooseMay 9 2012: To drive vehicles slowly and not to drive vehicles while drinking.May 2 2012: My most painful experience is betrayal. Sharing personal concerns with someone that I taught was a friend / sister only to find out that she was using all my words against me. I have learned never to trust again. I am a quiet person, learning to socialize and opening up my windows and doors to accommodate new people in my life only to find out that these very people just want to take advantage of my kindness and meekness. Its hurt everyday but I am learning to deal with it and taking my strides one day at a time. But since then I have shut my doors and windows, back in cave. My family is all that I needed.
I have learned to love my family more and I do want to people to know that whatever they are going through in life, their family will always be there for them because they are your blood. They may not like what you are doing, but they definitely love you more than strangers.
May 2 2012: Ayoka, I believe many of us put ourselves out there and try to have intimacy with friends.
- +3
It is a big risk to put ourselves in a vulnerable spot. Breem Brown has a TED talk on vulnerability that might provide you with some healing words of wisdom.
Look it up and watch it. It is one of the favorite TED talks of all times.
Be Well, and leave a crack in the window Ayoka, perhaps someone will come into your life unexpectedly and be the friend you have always wanted. "Behind every strangers face is a potential life long friend"...so says Maya Angelou, the author, in one of her books.
May 3 2012: Very good one! Thanks Mary, I will listen to the talk.May 1 2012: Reply to Mr. Wesley:
I defiantly agree with those quotes. I believe any person who has a place of oppression in their life will need a deliverer and then a freedom fighter. Deliverers help you to leave your place of oppression. Freedom Fighters lead in obtaining the place of living in freedom. Two great examples would be, Moses in the historical documentation of bringing Israel out of slavery and then Joshua leading them into a land to have their own nation. Another would be Harriet Tubman who lead slaves from slavery, and then Abraham Lincoln who delivered them into a lifestyle of freedom. That as the quote spoke of ripples, caused a wave for a man like Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equal rights for all races.
So I defiantly can agree with those quotes. Oppression is broken by leadership serving the oppress. But the oppress still have to choice to follow and work, using their gifts and finding their purpose in service to a leader to brake the chains of oppression.
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The most painful lesson we believe all people experience is letting go of past experiences that leave an impression on the effectiveness of living. That impression we believe is called oppression. Oppression inhibits people from finding their purpose because they have low self confidence about their passions. That low self confidence comes in the forms of laziness, poor self image, belief in lies that they don't have a chance to be fulfilled, or living to accomplish so much through the avenue of oppressing others.
The lesson we wish for others to learn is that freedom is harder work than staying oppressed. People can be free but not live in their deliverance. Freedom requires more work than slavery.
Kent Spencer
Apr 30 2012: One of my most painful experience came from not telling a girl my true feelings.
- +1
If you guys find a woman you feel a strong connection with, attempt to develop a relationship with her that goes beyond friends. In some cases, the time you'll have to do this will be limited before your chance is up. Lightly flirting with a girl you secretly like wont always get you two on the terms you desire. I'm a shy guy....and I couldn't never muster up enough courage to tell this girl I liked my true feelings I had for her.
Long story short, she was swept off her feet by another guy. A few weeks after, the conversation I was waiting for came a little too late. She expressed to me how she was interested in me but thought I wasn't interested in her. She confused my feelings towards her as me just being a gentleman and sweet guy. She expressed how she was also shy girl.....silly me....funny thing is, I sensed that! But by me being shy, I didn't want to risk the what we had in attempt to get deeper.
Now look at me. I'm on TED.com spilling my feelings out like a baby hahaha Being shy doesn't help when you want people to truly understand how you feel....say what you feel and mean it!!!
Now all you shy TEDsters, go make me proud and find love! Do it for me!!!!Apr 26 2012: For me, the worst experience wasn't pain, it was feeling numb and depressed. Whenever I would think about my future, everything seemed gray - I thought my life was happening without me, that I was just an observer of the events that were unfolding. That feeling of indifference is the worst experience anyone could have, I think - because you lose the ability to care about anything, mostly people.
However, I think that's also a part of growing up - no one ever talks about what I call quarter-life crisis. Most people expect you to go out, get drunk and 'have fun' when you're in your twenties. Over time, with the help of my friends, I managed to worry less, and I have to add that TED helped a lot in overcoming it.Apr 26 2012: betrayal
Carrie Zhou
Apr 26 2012: Political lessons like studying Marxism or Maoism.When I grew up I really how silly they are.
- +1
Marxism is maybe good but I don't feel comfortable to be forced to learn such knowledge.Apr 24 2012: Always put away your knifes when someone you don't know comes into your home.
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Apr 25 2012: Well its a pretty short story, some one came to my door while living in Costa Rica, and asked me for a glass of water. As i walked to the counter to pour the glass he saw a knife on my table and used it on me.
So my lesson was a painful one, that I hope know one would go thru.
Maybe the lesson is more circumstantial, maybe I shouldn't have let the person in my home. But I always felt that If the knife wasn't out, I wouldn't have been hurt so much.
Apr 25 2012: Hi Adriana Bevacqua
Thanks for the thumbs up and for sharing your story
I would like know more if you do not mind
what was the motives behind his attack ? and what did you do to recover from the events and how long it takes
sorry to ask too many questions but through the details we learn better
Stuart Woods
Apr 24 2012: I think the most painful lesson is to lose a love one whom you simply didn't make enough time to see.
- +1
Jack Ian
Apr 24 2012: It took a long time for me to realise that happiness is, to a great degree, a personal choice.
- +1
Like all teenagers, I spent many years in anguish being upset and worried about things which now seem so trivial.
When I look back at this unhappy time, I realise that it was of my own making.
Learn to worry about only those things you intend to change.
If you can't change it or have no desire to, then learn to love it.Apr 23 2012: The most painful experience I've had is getting shot in the foot by my dad. I learned that pain is the worst when inflicted by a love one. The lesson is don't get too close to bad people, even if they are your family.


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I have been told specifically that I will be able to punch Justin Bieber in the face. It is mid-March, and I am standing on the patio outside Conway Studios in Hollywood, where Bieber is recording his new album, and I have been waiting for him for hours. Fifty-one hours, to be precise, at least if we're counting the two times that our meeting has been postponed so far. This time, however, I have been assured that Bieber is really coming, and that he wants to fight me. He's due to arrive at any minute now, which is good, because I can't wait to draw some Canadian teenybopper blood.
Justin Bieber is now 18 years old. And when you're a teen superstar who has just turned 18, there are really only two options for where you can go next: You can mature into a "real" artist, or you can swan-dive straight onto the pop-cultural scrap heap with all the other reality stars and drug addicts. A small cottage industry has been erected around Bieber to make sure he doesn't choose Door No. 2, and so the rebranding of a more grown-up Justin Bieber has begun. There's the new album, out this month, called Believe, which is stacked with ready-made dance-floor singles. There's a new haircut (no more stupid bangs). And then there's me. To commemorate the birth of Bieber 2.0, GQ asked me to fly out to Los Angeles and make a man out of him. Never mind that Bieber has already made more money and been offered a finer selection of quality tail than you or I ever will. The goal was explicit: Get Bieber to experience some kind of rite of manhood.
To that end, we proposed to his people any number of insane ideas: drinking, smoking, drinking, going to a titty bar, gambling, drinking, shooting things, drinking, etc. We assumed most of them would be rejected but that perhaps one might slip through the cracks, hopefully the drinking. I told everyone I knew that I had been handed the precious mission of turning Justin Bieber into a gin-swilling, donkey-punching man of the world.
My wife: "You're meeting Justin Bieber?"
My mom: "That's the kid with the hair, right?"
My kid: "You're meeting Justin Beaver?"
Damn straight I was. And when I was done with him, he would be Justin Beaver: teenybopper turned porn-star assassin.
Of course, none of this ended up coming to pass. Turns out neither Bieber nor his team were all that interested in any of our manly ideas. In fact, it's a measure of just how carefully managed Bieber is that all of our ideas, even having a simple beer, were treated as impossibilities, like proposing to build a gay disco in Iran. A second round of gentler ideas (let's race go-karts!) was also rejected, to the point where I was willing to settle for just seeing Bieber in person, to confirm that he actually existed. His people finally blessed a basic, nothing-on-the-agenda meeting on a Monday night, only to cancel it while I was midair on my way to Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, I was told that I could meet him at his recording studio and then we'd hash out whatever manly activity was left for us once we ruled out anything fun. I got there at 8 p.m. and was told by Bieber's PR lady that Justin was in the studio but was about to go to dinner with his mom and I'd have to wait till he got back.
"So he's here now?" I asked.
"Yes," she said.
"Can I see him?"
"Can I go to dinner with him and his mom? I'll eat light."
"No. He'll be back in an hour."
To keep me occupied, I was escorted into the studio, where Kuk Harrell, Bieber's vocal producer, was working on Believe without him. Harrell is an incredibly nice man who looks like a black version of Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka, so I was happy to sit around and stare at his hair for a while.
After a few minutes, I noticed that someone had drawn a bunch of dicks all over the grease board by the door. So I pointed at them and asked, "Hey, who drew all the dicks?" One of the sound engineers immediately jumped up, ran over, and erased them with his sleeve. This is the new and mature Bieber. We can't have dicks being drawn all over the place. People might get the wrong idea about filthy-rich 18-year-old pop stars.
At eight forty, the PR lady came in to tell me—surprise!—Bieber would not be returning tonight. Finally, after I sat in my hotel room for another day and ran through as many imaginary conversations with the Beeb as any of his 12-year-old fangirls, word came down from the mountaintop: I would meet Bieber at his studio at 6 p.m. that night and we would box. Given all of our suggestions that had been rejected, this made no sense. Well, we can't have Justin openly buying pornography—why don't we just endanger his singing voice and orbital bone structure instead? But only a fool would argue. If someone asks you if you'd like to punch Justin Bieber in the face, the answer is yes.
Now I'm back at the studio, ready to fight. Bieber is running late, I am told, because he's procuring the boxing equipment. The PR lady, Melissa, warns me that Bieber boxes regularly and that his father, Jeremy, is a former MMA fighter. Now I'm starting to get a little worried. I've been waiting two and a half days, and I was looking forward to teaching this kid a lesson about punctuality. But for the first time, it's dawning on me that Justin Bieber might be able to kick my ass. What if his Horny Teenager Strength can easily overpower my Dad Strength? What if he knocks me out? What if he puts me in the hospital? What if he kills me? Do I still get paid for this?


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Why Most Dangerous Women Keeps Going and Keeps Us Going
In January of 1990 Sylvia Lundt, a long-time member of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Seattle, asked Nikki Nojima Louis to put together a little something to celebrate WILPFs upcoming 75th Anniversary. Nikki invited me to work with her on the project. Nine months later, with the help of many others, including our first music director Joan Szymko, Most Dangerous Women was born. It was planned as a single-performance benefit, but that was not to be. The enthusiasm generated by that performance led to another in Bryn Mawr, PA, then another in Athens, WV, and so on through the years. At home in Seattle, and across the country, each performance begat another, and so we now find ourselves in the 17th year of Most Dangerous Women.
Researching the first production in 1990 was both inspiring and unsettling. When you review headlines through the decades, you see patterns emerging. Before major wars, there are escalating threats, insults, and incursions as nations posture, position, prepare for war. In September 1990 those same sorts of headlines were again appearing, and by the second performance of Most Dangerous Women in June 1991, we were looking back on what some now call The First Gulf War.
The tension between that which inspires and that which threatens despair continues. Through the news of war and violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Israel, Palestine, Chechnya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda, and countless smaller, less publicized conflicts, we are sustained by bursts of hope, of what Emily Greene Balch a founder of WILPF called evidence of sheer human goodness. After 28 years in prison, Nelson Mandela is freed and becomes the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Voices of resistance cannot be silenced: Aung San Suu Kyi smuggles a tape from Burma where she is under house arrest to a massive gathering of women from around the world that meets in China. In the face of unspeakable sorrow, families of 911 victims form Peaceful Tomorrows, devoting themselves to working for a world that prefers compassion to vengeance. The Internet makes a global village of us all, astonishes pundits by turning conventional wisdom on its ear. Upwards of 50,000 demonstrators, largely organized online, converge on Seattle to protest the WTO. As grief-stricken mothers, sisters, daughters and friends turned their energies to founding WILP in an effort to put an end to war at the beginning of the 20th century, Cindy Sheehan transforms her grief over her son's death into a campaign that revitalizes the anti-war movement in the 21st century.
The poet Carl Sandburg, in his great poem The People Yes, described it: In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
There may never be an end to the story of struggle for peace and justice on planet Earth, but as long as the struggle continues there is hope. Hope is a song, and we are, in Holly Nears wonderful words comprising the finale of Most Dangerous Women, singing for our lives.
The play Most Dangerous Women is the heart of the larger work Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers' Theater. For many years, audience members would ask me how they could get a copy of the script to use in their classroom or community. The task of collecting scores of permissions from dozens of rights holders for a print version of the play was an arduous one, and took several years. Happily, that task was completed in early 2006, so now the script, along with contextualizing chapters on how to work with the play in various settings, how to learn more about the women in the play and peace organizations in general, and how to create other original readers' theater plays to educate and inspire, is finally available. The next scheduled production will bring a new generation of Dangerous Women to the stage, as 7th and 8th graders from Seattle Girls' School join the singing duo Rebel Voices to present a one-act version of the play on March 14 at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
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Summary: Responsible for safe efficient practices for decontamination, instrument assembly, wrapping and sterilization of all reprocessed instruments and distribution equipment. Case cart management. Supports departmental initiatives to meet productivity standard and flexible staffing needs.
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A new use for nuclear weapons: hunting rogue asteroids
A persistent campaign by weapons designers to develop a nuclear defense against extraterrestrial rocks slowly wins government support
When planetary scientist H. Jay Melosh attended a meeting between nuclear weapons designers from the United States and the former Soviet Union in May 1995, he was surprised by how eagerly the ex-Cold Warriors sought to work together against an unlikely but dangerous extraterrestrial threat: asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
After Edward Teller, father of the American hydrogen bomb, urged others in the session at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to consider building and orbiting large, new, nuclear weapons for planetary protection, some top Russian weaponeers in attendance voiced their support.
It was a really bizarre thing to see that these weapons designers were willing to work together to build the biggest bombs ever, said Melosh, a geophysicist at Purdue University and expert in space impacts who has an asteroid named after him.
Ever since, he has been pushing back against relying on nuclear bombs for the earths defense, arguing that a non-nuclear solution such as diverting the trajectory of asteroids by hitting them with battering rams is both possible and much less dangerous.
But Meloshs campaign suffered a setback last month when the Obama Administrations new Energy Secretary, Ernest Moniz, signed an agreement with the Russians that the Americans said could open the door to new collaboration between nuclear weapons scientists on asteroid defense. The topic has been particularly interesting to the Russians since an asteroid the size of a tour-bus exploded high in the skies of Russias Chelyabinsk region last February.
President Barack Obama has committed the United States to seeking a world without nuclear weapons, pushed for joint reductions in the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals and sought tighter security for nuclear explosives worldwide. When we fail to pursue peace, then it stays forever beyond our grasp, Obama said during his landmark speech in Prague in April 2009.
But in recent years, advocates of the use of nuclear weapons to counter space threats have been gaining ground. NASA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to study the idea, and the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories are itching to work with the Russians on it. Moreover, weaponeers in both countries are citing the asteroid threat as a reason to hold onto or to build very large yield nuclear explosives, which have declining terrestrial justification.
There are a few impediments, such as the 1967 Outer Space Treaty signed by 129 countries, which prohibits deploying nuclear weapons in space, and other international treaties that bar nuclear weapons testing anywhere, including in space. Many planetary scientists are leery of the idea and some experts worry that radioactive debris from such a nuclear explosion could itself wreak havoc on Earth.
Outside the world of weaponeers, the idea can evoke humor, as exemplified by the kitschy 1998 Bruce Willis action film Armageddon, which shows a team of deep-sea oil drillers landing on an Earth-bound asteroid to implant a nuclear warhead that, at the last moment, separates the rock into neat halves that just miss Earth. Film critic Kenneth Turan called it sporadically watchable.
But in real life, Bong Wie, the director of Iowa State Universitys Asteroid Deflection Research Center, has a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design a hypervelocity nuclear interceptor system, basically an missile-borne, nuclear explosive fitted with a battering ram. The ram would separate from the bomb before impact, gouging a crater in the asteroid so the bomb could then blast it apart.
Wies plan is hardly Tellers grand vision of a space-based nuclear asteroid shield. He proposes using off-the-shelf land-based missiles and explosive warheads currently in the U.S. stockpile to intercept large, city-shattering asteroids that are less than about ten years from slamming into the Earth, when time is too short to nudge them into a new orbit.


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Starkville Daily News
Mississippi State University is exploring options to expand its University Shuttle system into the city of Starkville once again, according to the Starkville Transportation Committee's 2010 annual report released on Feb. 15.
The report summarizes the committee's discussions, decisions, actions, and recommendations over the past year. Topics covered include bicycle lanes, sidewalks, utilities, coordination, proposal creation and public transit.
The report says the committee has worked with MSU transportation coordinator Mike Harris to investigate funding the expansion through grants such as the TIGER II proposal and 5311 funds from MDOT. However, Harris said the University still needs to partner with a regional transit authority and hold public hearings on the project, so the University will miss the March 4 deadline to apply for the 5311 grant. He said the University is looking at the Meridian Transit Authority for the partnership.
"It'll actually take us the better part of next year," Harris said. "We want to do this right, we want it to be successful, and if that means taking a little longer, it's worth it."
Harris said part of the reason the University, the committee and the city are proceeding methodically is because they tried a similar extension five years ago, which did not receive the ridership needed to succeed. Since then, however, the shuttle system has used GPS tracking to keep buses on schedule. Harris said the GPS tracking, together with public hearings, will take the project in the right direction this time.
"I don't see how it could not make it more successful," Harris said.
Mayor Parker Wiseman said he, like the University, is very interested in the project.
"Right now, however, I'd say all discussion on that is very preliminary," Wiseman said. "We'll see where it goes."
Harris also said it was too early to be certain about the details of the project. However, some of the areas he said he would like to see shuttles reach include off-campus student apartments, medical facilities, and retail outlets.
He also said once the University obtained the grant, the city and the University would both help pay for the expansion. Harris said current plans call for the two to split 50 percent of the operational cost and 20 percent of the capital cost, with grant money covering the rest.
Sidewalk ordinance variance process proposed
The report also references the committee's recommendation of the latest draft of a variance process for Starkville's sidewalk ordinance.
Jim Gafford, chair of the committee, said, "Under this process, a variance may be granted if the total cost of sidewalk installation is more than 2 times the current average construction cost."
Gafford said the draft had gone through several revisions, and the committee had loosened its requirements greatly before presenting it on February 15.
"We feel we've done this to achieve the best compromise at this time," Gafford said. "The Board of Aldermen voted as of last Tuesday to hold another set of public hearings. It's largely out of the hands of the Transportation Committee, and into the hands of the Board of Aldermen."
Wiseman said the committee's draft could be up for adoption very soon.
"The board will have a public hearing at the March 1 meeting, and there will be the option for an additional hearing," Wiseman said. "It's at that time the proposal would be up for adoption."
On Jan. 5, in a 4-3 vote, the Board of Aldermen granted an exemption from the ordinance to property owners on four roads in Starkville's industrial park after after Rudy Johnson, director of the Golden Triangle Planning and Development District, promised publicly to take his business out of the city if not granted an exemption for his planned Senior Enrichment Center. Wiseman vetoed the exemption, and Gafford said he agreed with Wiseman's decision for the sake of promoting sound, objective policy.
"I don't necessarily think that sidewalks should be everywhere, but my perspective is, we need to have a better definition of the criteria for exceptions," Gafford said. "Those decisions need to based on real objective finding of fact and consistent with a broader plan and vision for growth in development."
The committee's report also mentions efforts on several other fronts to make Starkville more friendly for pedestrians and bicyclists:
The committee has worked with the Starkville Electric Department to identify and map areas where utility pole installation blocks, inhibits, or voids sidewalk compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is seeking funds to move these poles or bury their lines.
The committee submitted an unsuccessful proposal to MDOT requesting funds for a traffic analysis to assess congestion issues on South Montgomery St.
The committee, together with City Engineer Edward Kemp, has drafted a bike lane map, recommending striping, street overlays, and multi-use path development to complete the circuit. It is also working with Starkville in Motion and the Bicycle Friendly Community Program to earn BFC status.
The committee wrote and submitted an unsuccessful $20 million request to USDOT and HUD to support the city's infrastructure improvements.
The committee is working with Kemp, Wiseman, and City Planner Ben Griffith to prioritize areas of greatest need for sidewalks, including high use areas, areas hazardous to pedestrians, and areas where gaps need infill.


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In the fall of 1967, Chevrolet lifted the curtain on an all new Chevelle and Malibu. From the ground up the car was redesigned. The old 115-inch wheelbase and suspension were gone in favor a shorter 113-inch wheelbase and updated suspension. This was combined with a new fastback body style and new interior. Buyers went crazy, to the tune of 464,669 total units sold.
Ted Barfett grew up hearing stories of the muscle cars his dad owned before he was born. Ted and his dad would go to cruise-ins and shows together, where at a young age Ted's romance with the '68 Chevelle blossomed into love. Someday, Ted knew he would own the coolest '68 Chevelle on the road.
By 2007 Ted was the beverage manager for the entire fleet of the largest cruise line in the world. Being at sea for 40 weeks a year gave him plenty of time to think about the details of his dream Chevelle. Eventually, Ted went looking for a '68, finding a car in the Miami area that looked too good to be true for $20K, and after getting the car home, he found out the hard way looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to old cars. After taking the car to a "reputable" shop to be gone through and fixed, Ted got his Chevelle back and was totally unsatisfied with the results. Ted wanted serious performance from his dream Chevelle, and with the Pro Touring craze getting his attention, the current state of affairs with the car didn't cut the mustard.
After joining the Pro-Touring.com forum and becoming online friends with Mike Musto of Bull Run TV fame, Ted got the idea to have his Chevelle built to compete in the real Bull Run rally, where competitors compete to have the lowest drive times on segments traversing the country, with stops along the way at various tracks for some bonus high-octane automotive action.
Knowing the rally was dominated by mostly exotic cars, Ted knew he had to find the right builder to get the '68 into fighting trim. Wanting a shop in Florida to do the work, Ted chose Prodigy Customs out of Orlando after seeing its resume and long list of quality builds and accomplishments. Frank Serafine and his crew took possession of the car and started what would end up being a major reworking of the Chevelle.
Frank was suspicious of what was lurking underneath some flaws in the car's paint, and soon enough the body was being chemical dipped to reveal lots of Bondo and fiberglass patching large rust holes. The rotten panels were removed and replaced with new sheetmetal so the body could be prepped for a basecoat/topcoat combo from PPG's Vibrance line that resulted in a lustrous burgundy color, set off with semi-flat black accent areas on the sides and top of the car. Topped off with four coats of clear, the '68 definitely had the looks to turn heads.
On the performance side, Frank knew what Ted wanted the car to do, so the mechanical decisions were going to be critical. First up, the stock suspension was totally replaced with Air Ride Technologies equipment to handle the rigorous driving conditions and varying road qualities the car would see on the Bull Run rally.
The Chevelle was also the debut car for Air Ride's new remote reservoir "Titanium Shockwave" system, remote reservoir, nitrogen filled shocks with internal ride height sensors for a completely programmable ride height setting at the push of a button. A Detroit Speed 600 12.7 ratio steering box was added for precise control, and Wilwood 13-inch rotors with six pistons calipers up front and 12-inch rotors and four-piston calipers in the rear handle stopping duties. Rolling stock consists of Forgeline Wheels' SP3 units with BFGoodrich KDW TA2 tires.
To give the brakes all the workout they could handle, a 415 CID LS3-derived Wegner NASCAR-spec engine was built, making 600 hp (tuned by Mike Norris at Norris Motorsports in Winter Garden, Florida). The engine is stuffed full of NASCAR technology adapted to street use. Sending that power to the Moser-built 12-bolt with 3.55 gears and Tru-Track differential is a 4L80E transmission with Twist Machine paddle shifter and 10-inch, 3,000 stall converter. Keeping everything cool is a Prodigy Customs aluminum radiator with dual 16-inch fans pulling 4,700 cfm of air, so even on the hottest days the Chevelle will never pop its top. A Rick's Hot Rods stainless steel gas tank and Walbro fuel pump keep the engine fed with all the fuel it wants.


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In what is seen as a last minute U-turn by Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, the Siddiquis confirmed that Malik and Ayesha signed the divorce papers early this morning. This is being seen as a validation of Shoaib - Ayesha's marriage. Our correspondent Anna Isaac spoke to Ayesha's friend Sadiqa.
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The prestigious Wills Lifestyle Fashion Week is currently being held in New Delhi. The event showcases the 2015 Spring- Summer collection. On the third day of the event, noted designer duo Narresh Kukreja and Shivan Bhatiya took center stage with their bold creations. The Shivan and Nares
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The Mountain West figures to have an exciting conference tournament in men's basketball next month in Las Vegas, filled with wild games and unpredictable finishes.
Especially if it brings its officials.
Mountain West referees blew another call late in a close game with conference title implications on Wednesday night, giving an out-of-bounds call to host UNLV with 1:23 to go and the Rebels trailing by two points when replays clearly showed no Colorado State player was near the ball.
The only question was which Rebels player tipped it out, not which team.
"If they had the luxury to throw the (NFL) red flag and protest a call in the last two minutes," San Diego State coach Steve Fisher said, "that call would have been overturned and Colorado State would have had the ball up two."
Instead the Rebels retained possession, missed a shot, got the offensive rebound and scored to tie it at 59. They ultimately won 61-59, knocking Colorado State into second place behind New Mexico.
It was the fourth time in less than three weeks that a highly questionable call in the final seconds might have swayed a Mountain West game. San Diego State was the victim of two: an iffy foul against JJ O'Brien — after a non-call on a clear travel — that gave Air Force two free throws with 19 seconds left in a tie game, and the infamous block whistled on Jamaal Franklin last week at Colorado State with 19 seconds left that even opposing players and coaches admitted was suspect.
There also were several mystery calls and non-calls in Wyoming's overtime win Saturday. Fresno State coach Rodney Terry was so upset that he waited outside the officials' dressing room to berate them.
"I don't usually come out and talk about the officiating," Terry told Fresno radio, "but the officiating was horrible."
That fetched him the dreaded "public reprimand" from the conference office for criticizing game officials "in violation of MW Sportsmanship Rule Sections 4.2-e and 4.4.5."
A couple things could be at work here. The nation's No. 2-rated conference might not have the No. 2-rated officials, a reality only magnified by a preponderance of down-to-the-wire games this season (19 decided by five points or less, or overtime). Or the Mountain West might actually have competent officials who are just having a bad month.
Fisher, diplomatically, chose the latter.
"The game of basketball is so fast and you have to make those decisions so quickly that it's always easier after the fact," said Fisher, whose Aztecs host Nevada on Saturday at 3 p.m. "I'm defending the officiating a little bit. I think we have good officials in our league. I watch every league. I watched a Missouri Valley game, and they put the wrong guy at the free throw line at the end of a game.
"It's hard. You hope that they're going to get most of them right. ... Just like we sometimes don't make plays down the stretch, sometimes they fail to get it right. That doesn't mean they're not good officials."


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Stephen Thompson
TRAINING: My training camp consists of "3 a days". Strength & Conditioning in the morning. Thomas Lee Wrestling and RCJ Machado Jiu-jitsu at noon and Pitch Black Kickboxing in the evenings.
When and why did you start training for fighting? When I was three years old. My father was a professional fighter and owned a Karate school. All the kids in our family started training at age three.
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