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Earlier this month it was a 10-year-old girl in Pennsylvania hoping for a new set of lungs. Before that it was Molly Pearce, who needs four organ transplants to survive. In September a man walked the streets of his South Carolina town asking strangers for a kidney for his wife.
More than 118,000 people in the United States are currently awaiting organ donations, according to OrganDonor.gov; 18 of them die each day without a donation.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to change that with the power of the world's largest social networking site. On May 1, 2012, Facebook launched an initiative aimed at encouraging more people to register as organ donors.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the Living Legacy Foundation and Donate Life America watched closely during the rollout, tracking how many people signed up and whether the initial boost in organ donor registration was sustained. The results of their analysis were published this week in the American Journal of Transplantation.
On the first day of the initiative, there were 13,012 new online donor registrations across the 44 states the study authors analyzed; that's a 21.2-fold increase over the usual daily registration of 616. Over the next two weeks, the number of new donors each day declined, although levels still remained above normal. The total number of new registrations during the study period reached nearly 40,000.
Even though 40,000 is less than 0.1 percent of Facebook's users, the study authors say the impact may have a ripple effect that could save lives. The theory is that sharing your organ donor status online will remind others to sign up, who will in turn encourage their friends to do the same.
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The real question is whether the elevated levels will stick. Was the initial boost really due to Facebook's social media prowess? Or was it due to the media attention the site received in the days surrounding the initiative launch? And will the effort eventually result in more organ donations?
Only time will tell, the study authors say.
To join the social media campaign, visit your Facebook profile page and click "Life Event." Doing so brings up a drop-down menu where you can select "Health & Wellness" and then "Organ Donor..." That will direct you to your state's organ donation registry and allow you to post a story to your timeline about when and why you decided to become a donor.

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Mrs. Henson was born December 15, 1948, to Linus and Mary Ina Vick Mullen in Doddsville, MS. She attended Linn Elementary School and Shaw High School. She married Wayne Powell Henson in October 1968. She attended Shaw Baptist Church. She had a great love and appreciation for music. She always had a smile and love for everyone who she met and knew. She was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend who will be missed by all who knew her. She was a gentle soul and had a kind word for everyone that she met.
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As a CPS alumnus of the strikes of '83, '85, and '87, and as a parent of two Chicago Public Schools students, I know how hard strikes are on students and families. But as a CPS teacher with 12 years of experience, I encourage my students to understand the facts before they make up their minds. I can't speak for the union, but I can help shed light on some of the facts underlying this week's labor dispute.
Are teachers underpaid?
Chicago Public Schools starting salaries are among the highest in the region. That's good news to parents who want their children taught by first- and second- year teachers. (Indeed, many early-career teachers are highly energetic and innovative, making up in enthusiasm for what they lack in experience and well-honed tactics. As department chair, I hired several.)
But the annual increases for teachers in CPS are much smaller than the annual increases in many suburban districts. For example, a teacher with a master's degree, 30 additional credit hours, and ten years of experience, can expect to earn $87,513 in Evanston this year; last year, in Oak Park, a teacher would have made $88,978. In Chicago this year, the same teacher will earn $75,711 — about $12,000 a year less than in districts to which he or she could walk or take public transportation from a home in Chicago.
Over the course of a career, that difference amounts to over a quarter of a million dollars. This disparity should concern everyone, because it's a primary reason why experienced teachers leave CPS to go to the suburbs — and why CPS has to train thousands of brand-new teachers every year.
Do teachers oppose merit pay?
It's hard to argue with the idea of merit pay, and perhaps even harder to understand why parents should care about it one way or the other. Tying meaningful evaluations to salaries should, in theory, reward teachers for doing the things we want them to do: build skills, teach our children to reason rather than simply memorize facts, and become better teachers by building on strengths and improving identifiable weaknesses. But the fact is that the largest-scale merit pay implementation, in New York City, has done none of these things.
Now in its second year, New York's system has shown remarkable inconsistency. In some cases, the New York system gives a single teacher very different scores based on different classes, even though he's teaching both classes the same subject during the same year. How would you tell that teacher what to improve? Skills-based tests penalize teachers who emphasize learning to think rather than memorizing facts that can be Googled. In New York, more than 70 teachers of high-performing students received scores placing them among the worst teachers, in large part because they taught critical thinking, and used projects to teach higher-level reasoning, rather than drilling skills: at the end of the year the students' amazingly-high test scores were slightly lower than their even-more-amazing scores the previous year.
On the other end of the scale, a teacher who manages to drill in a few basic facts can show dramatic improvement in test scores among very weak students — from abysmal to only terrible — without actually teaching the concepts and ideas that would help the students learn more in succeeding years. So on both ends of the scale, New York's system discourages teachers from doing what will help their students in the long run.
Maybe Chicago can do better than New York; as a lifelong Chicagoan and CPS graduate, I would certainly hope so. But, personally, I'm skeptical. Trying to measure how well people perform a complex skill is tricky at best; simple numbers rarely tell a consistent story.
For example, the White Sox's best batter this year is Paul Konerko, with a .308 for the season. But last year he batted .300, and while he batted .312 in 2010, his average was below .280 for the three previous seasons. These variations are for the same batter, hitting with the same bats and balls, in the same parks, against (largely) the same pitchers; the factors that cause the variations are often impossible to identify, because of the complexity of the task. Why would we expect a scoring system for teaching to be less random than an average of over 300 at-bats per season? And if that system isn't consistent, how can we use it to get better teachers?
Will firing bad teachers produce better educational results?
This answer is simple: not unless we're willing to live with substantially larger classes. An individual school of 50-odd teachers, with good hiring practices and reasonable incentives, can hope to replace three to five poorly performing teachers with teachers whom it expects to do better. (It's important to remember that even this process is something of a crap shoot: every chair and principal can tell you about the "amazing" candidate who turned out to be anything but.) But there are over 500 Chicago public schools with over 21,000 teachers. Nobody knows how many would be let go under a more rigorous evaluation system.
But if we assume three to five teachers per school, the total comes to about 2,000 teachers in all. Replacing that many teachers is an entirely different task, especially when that number is added to the annual drain of teachers leaving the profession or moving to higher-salaried jobs in the suburbs. The pay difference makes outbound flow of teachers one-way, especially because CPS does not give credit for teaching experience outside the system. In my years hiring teachers in my school's math department, I always found one or two candidates whom I felt really good about — but never four or five. Do we really think there are several thousand strong teachers who would rush in to replace the ones we let go?
Should teachers who have been fired get first crack at new jobs?
This seems like a no-brainer. But think about it: CPS plans to close — by some estimates — about 100 schools in the next several years, which translates to a loss of about 5,000 positions. From a statistical perspective, while it's likely that some of these 5000 teachers are unsatisfactory, it's extremely unlikely that all of them are. And further stigmatizing teachers who gave it their best shot at the city's roughest schools will only discourage talented young teachers from applying for those jobs in the future.
If a new evaluation system is consistent, fair, objective, and rigorous, then a reasonable compromise might be that displaced teachers with satisfactory evaluations under the new system go to the head of the line for new jobs. But it's hard to imagine a trade union sitting by while 5,000 of their workers are told to "get in line" behind new hires for possible employment at other factories or sites; why should CTU be any different?
Teaching is a complex task, requiring a subtle weave of intellectual ideas, interpersonal dynamics, and emotional investment. Negotiating a new teachers' contract is no less complex: we all feel passionately about educating our kids. But to get anywhere, we need to acknowledge the underlying facts.
Teachers in Chicago are paid well initially, but face rising financial incentives to move to the suburbs as they gain experience and proficiency. No currently-existing "value added" evaluation system yields consistent, fair, educationally sound results. And firing bad teachers won't magically create better ones to take their jobs.
To make progress on these issues, we have to figure out a way to make teaching in the city economically viable over the long-term; to evaluate teachers in a way that is consistent and reasonable, and that makes good sense educationally; and to help struggling teachers improve their practice. Because at base, we all want the same thing: classes full of students eager to be learning from their excellent, passionate teachers.
Paul J. Karafiol is the coordinator for curriculum, instruction and assessment and a nationally-recognized math teacher at Walter Payton College Prep High School.


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I Bloody Mary Sam (not Dean) was attacked by the demon because it considered him a murderer (attributing Jessica's death to him). The spirit of Bloody Mary attacked murders who had gotten away with their crime in hopes of bringing them to justice. That's notably different than Dean being affected because he held some yet to be known secret.
Dean was attacked by Mary too.
I'm only saying it's similar because the way in which the writers put both of these small details into the episodes (that a lot of people missed) and then later made a statement about it
I understand where you'd say they're similar but I dont' think they're overly similar. Dean's interactions with Bloody Mary was strictly a by-product of defending Sam much in the way Sam dealt with the ghost in Yellow Fever. Also there was no looming secret on the tail of Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary came out and blamed Sam of forseeing Jessica's death (while Dean was distracted). Therein it was much more of an expose than a seed for suspense. True Dean didn't know but the audience did which is a HUGE difference between the two. This is meant as a teaser to US not the characters.
I didn't even know there was a thread for this show. Can I just say, this show = two of the hottest guys on TV? Seriously I love them both and want to have both of their babies. At the same time even. Call me an inverted Tom Brady, if you will.
Heh, so I'm gonna try and explain this while I'm just the slightest drunk. Honestly, I left this thread hoping that someone else could make sense of things, but I'll give it a shot.
Basically I think you took the wrong meaning from my original post and what started off as just an observation has turned into a big unnecessary discussion.
There was a 'looming secret on the tail of Bloody Mary'. Not Sam's (which was covered in the episode and I didn't mention him at all) but Dean's.
After 'Bloody Mary' aired, the writers came out and said (in exactly the same way as they've done now) that there was a specific reason that Dean was also affected and we would find out later.
I assumed (and can't remember if this was ever confirmed or not) that this tied into the episode 'Something Wicked' where we find out a secret about Dean's past that led to people being killed. This is also a popular fan-theory.
Anyway, this basically covers the last part of your post. I wasn't trying to make any particular point with my first post - simply saying that the writer's have used this exact tactic before (which they have) and I think you misunderstood.
Really, I wouldn't be surprised it it was all down to messy writing
I'll try look up a source in the morning when I'm sober. But I do remember reading it, along with the Striga theory.
Actually I was really curious too so looked around tonight (didnt find any direct quotes from when the episode aired though - but thought this was interesting). So I wasn't totally accurate, but I'm starting to think that given the nature of the show it could mean just about anything.
"Dean was bleeding because he felt guilty over something that happened in the past. Originally people thought the answer was in the flashback scenes from Something Wicked, but Eric Kripke confirmed that Dean was hiding a bigger secret than that. Kripke recently reiterated at the LA Con in 2008 that Dean's eyes were bleeding for a reason but did not say why."
Yeah after all this I think now they have to be referencing the same thing.
Which I suppose makes it more interesting afterall
Just start watching again last week , how did dean get out of hell
Well it may be important to note however that we get the fact he was saved by an "angel" solely by the word of that indivivdual and minor circumstantial evidence. (the angel was invulnerable to Ruby's knife and there's no standard in lore to say any being other than an angel could pull someone out of hell.)
Thanks .............
Anyways, I just saw the season 4's episodes and...WOW!!! Fucking loved it! Dean being dragged out of hell by an Angel? God intervening? Apocalypse? Lucifer walking free? Battles between demons and angels? HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! This season is going to be the best so far!!!
Back with more coherent statements when I get over how damn good the episode is and how much deeper and absolutely amazing the series has evolved to be.
Hey did anybody stop and think just how powerful this angel must be? He went into hell and snatched Dean from the pits and returned him to life.
That's one badass mother fucking Angel!
"A nosy old hag like you knows everything about the people who live under her roof. Where did she go? (LA Noire)
Tonight's episode was my favorite in a while. I like Dean and Castiel's interaction.
My only disappointment is the lack of Ruby. They brought her back in a different body but then barely used her at all. I understand she is scared of the angels and all but they havent been around until tonight. i guess they used her to introduce Sam's powers but I've grown attached to her and like to have her around once in a while.
Ruby is slated to play an important part in an episode two weeks from now "I Know What You Did Last Summer" which focuses on further explaining Dean's time in hell.
Kripke has openly stated that the reason Katie was let go was because of budget concerns. Because the moronic CW network has devoted the bulk of their budget trying to launch 90210 Supernatural is unable to afford another regular therefore it limits the number of episodes Ruby can appear in (as long as she stays in one body).
She will be back. Fear not. I think Sam was just on an anti-demonic kick that his disillusionment with angels has clearly chased away.
As for the episode....
It was just fucking amazing. Everything about it down to the title (which I loved more than I can describe). The girl who played the cheerleader sucked hardcore in the acting department but when I overlooked that it was pretty much flawless.
I like the way the universe has finally begun to expand and we have characters (Castiel, Ruby, and Bobby) that pop up fairly consistently.
I am however still sad that they've not seen fit to bring back Ellen. Jo was a dumb twit and Ash was a sorry attempt at a comedic foil but I loved Ellen (and Missouri Mosely for that matter). To a large extent it wouldn't feel right to have a maternal figure for two men who've always lacked one. It wouldn't flow as smoothly as Bobby does as a paternal figure. But it doesn't mean we can't trot Ellen out now and then.
^ Ok I'm glad Ruby will be back. I didnt know about that. I did hear the girl who's eyes got burned out would be back. And agreed on the cheerleader. She was terrible. The only young female I've liked on the show is Katie Cassidy.
And I did hear about CW putting all their stock in 90210 to "save" the network. They seem to put a lot into Gossip Girl as well. I see more ads for that show than for any other television show period. I personally cant believe One Tree Hill is still on.
Last night's episode kicked ass. I love, love, love how the angels of heaven are being portrayed. Though they may be the "good" guys, some of them are no better than the enemy demons. So far we have Castiel, a zealous soldier of the Lord convinced of the righteousness of his cause--though he is starting to see things in shades of gray, rather than just in black & white. And this new angel, Uriel--what a dick! His contempt for the world borders on blasphemy (as pointed out by Castiel).
I just Googled Uriel, and I found out he is listed as one of the seven Archangels who stand before God, along with Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. He is the angel of thunder and terror, and is completely devoted to the impersonal fulfilment of Divine Will. He commands the angels assigned to guard the Watchers until their Judgment, and is the angel placed in the Garden of Eden, with his flaming sword, to prevent any from entering.
As far as I know (and I didn't research this) Uriel is the angel who took the place of Lucifer once he descended.
I find the dynamic interesting because it makes me reflect on Ruby. I had thought that Castiel and Ruby would be used as inverses of each other. The episode made me think a little about "Jus in Bello" and Dean's call there.
Yeah Dawn Offstrom is dead set on making her network a tween girl network full of carbon copies of the same tired shows.
As for Ruby fear not. She will be around for quite a while and figure prominently in both episodes 9 and 10 and likely several after. Little birdies have told me that her actions in episode 10 will also reveal more about her character and possibly change the way we look at her.
Kinda silly but I like what they've been doing with their fake names this season. Every episode they are using a rock star's name. This week is was "Agent Getty and Agent Lee." Getty Lee is from the band Rush.
Anyway on the serious tip.
Small little hints like Dean standing in front of the mask in the classroom and Sam saying "bring back memories?" are what I love about Supernatural. They are constantly giving little hints to things that are coming up in later episodes.
Also something interesting. Uriel went to see Sam. Castiel went to see Dean. I get that Dean and Castiel already have an established thing, but interesting to me in regards to character connections.
Great episode. Looking forward to what's to come!
Actually if you look back at previous seasons they've been doing that since season one. It was even pointed out by the marine in "Croatoan" that the name gave used was one of the band members from Metallica.
They LOVE being referential. The vast number of their episode titles are the names of rock songs/albums, books, or horror movies. In one (Blood Mary I think when they were tracing where the mirror had been) it's mentioned that an object had been in "Brockway, Ogdonville, and North Haverbrook" which is a (hillarious) reference to the Simpson's episode "Marge vs the Monorail"
I remember that they've been doing that for a while, it just seems like this season they are being more "obvious" about it.
I love shows that do referential lines and throwbacks. One of my favorite moments in Supernatural reference episodes is "What would Buffy do?" as said by one of the Ghost Facers.
Great episode this week. We got both the light goofiness and the dark and heaviness that we all love.
I am wondering how long it is going to be before WE get to see what Dean went through in hell.
I believe that I heard in episode 10 we're suppose to learn much about Dean's experiences in hell.
It was a decent episode. Nothing amazing.
Also doesn't Jensen look so fucking adorable in this picture
Anyways, I FUCKING LOVED that last scene with Castiel and Dean talking in the park. It was such a great scene. I just loved how Castiel opened up to Dean and showed his vulnerability. It made Dean realize he's not the dick he thought he was. Also, I just want to say Castiel is already becoming one of my favorite characters ever in Supernatural, specially after that episode. What an ally to have...a freaking angel that even Lilith is scared to death of. LOVE IT!!! I'm telling you...this season is probably going to be the best one so far!
An okay episode overall,though an okay one for this show is far better than most others best.Lots of humor and great character drama....felt so sad when Ted Raimi took back the coin and lost his dream love.The kid with the superhero abilities was great with Dean....the oversized,neurotic teddy bear hilarious.But it's the underlying effect his time in hell has had on Dean and Sam's until now futile attempts to get Dean to reach out about them that really put a powerful punch in the show.And like it's been said earlier we will soon learn what horrors Dean did experience in four months of damnation.....the hints thrown out so far have suggested something beyond horrific.
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Did anyone catch the David Duchovny "X-Files" porn addiction reference Thursday night? It happened so fast. When the little girl on the bicycle dropped the porn magazine that she was taking to the teddy bear, Dean asked Sam, "what is this...some Deep Woods Duchovny?" (or something to that affect). Since I'm sure many "Supernatural" fans were also X-Philes, it was a cool and funny reference.
Overall I really didn't like the story of the episode, but saying that, most of the jokes were pretty good
"A little young for Busty Asian Beauties..."
It felt weird having the overly-serious b-plot about Dean's time in Hell in an episode like this.
I was wondering though, I don't remember the first episode so well. Did Dean actually lose his memory when he was resurrected, and it gradually came back to him? Or could he remember the whole time, right from when he woke up?
^^I think Dean suppressed the memories of his time in hell, only to have them resurface during the whole ordeal with the ghost sickness.
No Dean's had those hell flashes since the first episode this season I believe.
Hmm...I don't remember him having any flashbacks that episode--I could be wrong.
Misha (a.k.a. Castiel) said this about the next episodes:
You thought the Wall Street meltdown was scary. How about the apocalypse? "Supernatural" angel Castiel -- actor Misha Collins -- tips that "the next few episodes are going to bring the first real confrontation between heaven and hell" on the CW show. There will be "fisticuffs," says he. However, he also admits, "I don't actually know that much about where things are going in the greater arc of the story."
Oohhh. I can't wait--I love fisticuffs.
I knew it! I knew Sam and Ruby hooked up. it was really hot too. Sam's hookups are few and far btwn but when he has them there is always an intense love scene. It's funny you never actually see Dean in action. I know everyone loves Jensen but I prefer Jared. He's got a body like Hugh Jackman. He's so tall and lean. Perfection.
That scene was really marred for me by new Ruby's horrible acting during her seduction... not that I can really blame her with those lines.
But yeah they show Sam's more in depth I believe because
A) Sam's sex scenes always have much more to do with his personal characterization than with Dean (who despite being the ladies man very rarely actually ever has sex)
B) As much as I LOVE my Jensen... Jared indisputably has the better body despite being marginally less adorable than Jensen.
I liked tonight's episode. We're getting back on track. We finally got to see what happened with Sam after Dean's death. The sex scene with him and Ruby--hot, although I will say, I kind of liked the blonde Ruby who saved Sam. I wonder who this Alistair demon is. And, the end--awesome. Hell wants the girl alive, Heaven wants her dead...love it. And Castiel is seriously fuckworthy.
As far as this episode went it was OK... I really think the Ruby flashbacks seem to drag and eat a lot of time. I think this was probably an episode that turned out to be 1.5 episodes and they stretched it to 2. Because I was so in for the first two acts and the last act was great but in between it was kinda meh.
I think it would have been better if they had dealt with Sam's mourning as a separate episode, mixed with Dean's experience in hell. Tonight's episode would have been better if they had simply focused on the demons pursuit of the woman.
I agree the brunette Ruby's overall acting is bad. But her sex acting is on point. As much as I love Katie Cassidy as Ruby, I doubt she could have thrown down like that with Jared.
But as far as the story of Sam's struggle, I wish they would have told all this earlier instead of so many filler episodes back to back. Then they should have introduced this storyline with the girl on its own. I wanted to know more about the girl and her powers. While Ruby sucks at acting the red-haired girl is one of my favorite guest actresses. I knew Dean was gonna have something with her when she called him "The Dean." I do kinda like the Operation Double Date thing that seems to be going on in next weeks episode. I like when the boys are part of a team and not just the 2 of them.
I like it for an episode. I don't know if I'd like it indefinitely. I personally like filler. I think that's what episodic dramas should be... episodic. I especially like the funny Ben Edlund episodes when they're tossed in there.
I think the reason you can't see Katie Cassidy throwing down like that is because it was so blatantly out of character. The character of Ruby had definite flirtatious undertones when she was introduced in the very beginning but they were quickly dropped and she was drawn as a serious business bitch. Aside from that wooden scene with lesbianic undertones in Malleus Maleficarium they dialed back the sex on Ruby. That whole scene/transition was written very poorly though. For a scene that's suppose to be putting us on Ruby's side it made her seem awfully predatory. It was a clear seduction and didn't seem like she was genuinely connecting with Sam at all.
My personal thought is that this is a companion piece to episode 4 (where Dean goes back in time). It's a story with essentially no Dean to counteract no Sam. It would've been more intelligent in my opinion if they made this episode 5 and gave Ruby and Sam something of substance to do where this could be flash backed a bit but more realistically draw out the reality of their relationship in whatever present situation they were dealing with.
Meh...the episode is mediocre. For what I was expecting, it was really disappointing. I was expecting some awesome action between the angels and demons and what do I get? Basically, a bunch of flashbacks... *yawns* ...boring! There were some good scenes but overall it's a meh episode...IMO it's a filler. They could've handled things differently but whatever...I can't believe I'm gonna have to wait 1 fucking week to see the battle between the angels and demons. Holy shit! That's gonna be THE awesomeness!


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Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen, right, sacks Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross)
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MINNEAPOLIS — "We're still in position to accomplish all of the goals that we set out for early on.''
Oh, be quiet, Lovie Smith.
Don't patronize us. We know better. We know what we saw. We saw a brutal, demoralizing surrender of a football game. That's what Sunday was. A laying down of arms. A one-sided cessation of hostilities.
The only position the Bears are in is the fetal one.
They have lost four of their last five games, including a 21-14 effort against a below-average Vikings team. What does that make the visitors from Chicago? Below below-average.
That's the truth, no matter how their coach wants to spin an 8-5 record that, in a past life, was a 7-1 record. And spin it Smith did after this awful loss. His players parroted his postgame message. You can look at that as a good thing if you'd like — no reason to give up the ship, right? — but it rang hollower than the Tin Man's midsection.
"We've got a handful of games left, and we've got to win them all,'' quarterback Jay Cutler said. "We're going to take it one game at a time.''
"We're taking it one game at a time,'' defensive end Corey Wootton said. "It's been a tough couple of weeks as far as not winning as much as we'd like to. We definitely want to win out these next three games.''
"We've got three games left,'' defensive end Julius Peppers said. "We're going to have to win these last three, and that's fine. We can do that.''
So if I have this right, the Bears have their upcoming opponents, the Packers, right where they want them.
Sunday's developments argued otherwise.
Cutler is 29 and still hasn't embraced the idea that throwing off the back foot usually is a bad thing. He did it twice and was picked off both times. He should have been picked off a third time, but the defender did a Devin Hester pantomime and dropped the ball.
In the fourth quarter, Hester dropped what would've been a sure touchdown pass and quite possibly a game-changer. Ridiculous.
The defense came here to stop one person, and that one person, Adrian Peterson, had a 51-yard run on the first play from scrimmage. He finished with 154 yards and two touchdowns.
After railing about all of the above, I'm here to tell you the Bears could have won this game and, with a few more injections of fortitude, should have won this game.
The Vikings jumped out to a 14-0 lead and had their foot on the Bears' neck.
But Rod Marinelli's defense started to play better, and Minnesota doesn't have much more than Peterson. All that was required for a comeback was a consistent offense. It wouldn't have taken anything spectacular.
But Cutler overthrew Brandon Marshall late in the third quarter, and safety Harrison Smith returned it 56 yards for a touchdown and a 21-7 lead. That's how it was.
After Hester dropped that sure touchdown pass on third down late in the fourth quarter, a Cutler pass slipped through Marshall's hands on fourth down. That's how it was, too.
"I didn't play well,'' Cutler said. "You've got to start with me offensively. The interceptions, however they happened, they happened.''
It didn't help that he got creamed by the Vikings' Everson Griffen in the fourth quarter and eventually had to come out with a neck injury.
The offensive line struggled with penalties. And the offense remains one-dimensional. Cutler threw 18 passes to Marshall alone. The Vikings' Christian Ponder threw 17 passes total.
Et cetera.
If you've seen Brian Urlacher lumber around the field this season, you know it's hard to say this game would've gone differently with him in the lineup. Was he going to catch Peterson? Unlikely. But if you want to use that as an excuse, feel free.
What about all the injuries piling up?
"Everybody has injuries,'' Peppers said. "That's part of this league.''
The bad weather? The Bears couldn't even blame it on the snow, which stayed outside the Metrodome. Too bad.
Sigh. Three games left. No excuses. And no meaningful future the way the Bears are playing now.


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Ishbosheth murdered. (1-7) David puts to death the murderers. (8-12)
Verses 1-7 See how Ishbosheth was murdered! When those difficulties dispirit us, which should sharpen our endeavours, we betray both our heavenly crowns and our earthly lives. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty and ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer. We know not when and where death will meet us. When we lie down to sleep, we are not sure that we may not sleep the sleep of death before we awake; nor do we know from what hand the death-blow may come.
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2 Samuel 4:1 2 Samuel 4:2 . BAANAH AND RECHAB SLAY ISH-BOSHETH, AND BRING HIS HEAD TO HEBRON.
4. Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet--This is mentioned as a reason why, according to Oriental notions, he was considered unfit for exercising the duties of sovereignty.
5, 6. Rechab and Baanah went and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, &c.--It is still a custom in the East to allow their soldiers a certain quantity of corn, together with some pay; and these two captains very naturally went to the palace the day before to fetch wheat, in order to distribute it to the soldiers, that it might be sent to the mill at the accustomed hour in the morning.
7. when they came into the house, he lay on his bed--Rechab and Baanah came in the heat of the day, when they knew that Ish-bosheth, their master, would be resting on his divan; and as it was necessary, for the reason just given, to have the corn the day before it was needed, their coming at that time, though it might be a little earlier than usual, created no suspicion, and attracted no notice [HARMER].
gat them away through the plain--that is, the valley of the Jordan, through which their way lay from Mahanaim to Hebron.
8. They brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David . . . and said, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth--Such bloody trophies of rebels and conspirators have always been acceptable to princes in the East, and the carriers have been liberally rewarded. Ish-bosheth being a usurper, the two assassins thought they were doing a meritorious service to David by removing the only existing obstacle to the union of the two kingdoms.
2 Samuel 4:10-12 . DAVID CAUSES THEM TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
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This year's ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Council meeting was held in the African continent, in Nairobi, Kenya.
It was the fourth time since 2006 the Council members met outside of the UK and Ireland. The meetings have been previously held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Beijing, China; and Prague, Czech Republic.
A number of associated events were arranged to coincide with this year's meeting, including member and student networking events, meetings with local stakeholders, media interviews and a dinner for high profile members of the Kenyan accounting, business and academic communities.
The meeting in Nairobi featured discussions on a number of key topics:
- Council met in break-out groups to contribute to the initial development of ACCA's strategy beyond 2015. This was the first in a series of discussions with Council in the coming months focusing on the broad trends impacting the business world and the profession.
- Council approved ACCA's Consolidated Financial Statements, Corporate Governance Statement and Summary Accounts for the financial period which ended 31 March 2012. It also approved the content of ACCA's first ever Integrated Report, together with a related CSR Statement.
- Council approved the Notice of Meeting for the 2012 AGM. No resolutions to amend the bye-laws will be presented to the AGM this year, although members will be asked to approve the Annual Report and Accounts and to re-appoint ACCA's external auditors.
- Council agreed recommendations from Nominating Committee regarding the membership of standing committees in the coming Council year. It also received the regular presentation from the Chief Executive and a briefing from the Director–Sub Saharan Africa on challenges and prospects for ACCA in the continent.
- Council also received presentations from two high profile figures in the African accountancy profession. Vickson Ncube (Chief Executive Officer of PAFA – the Pan-African Federation of Accountants) briefed Council on the progress made by PAFA and the issues facing the profession in Africa. He was followed by Japheth Katto FCCA (Board member of IFAC) who discussed with Council the role of IFAC and its place in the global profession.
The meeting was followed by visits from various Council members to other key markets for ACCA in the East African region – Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda. These visits provided opportunities for senior ACCA representatives to meet with members, employers and other key stakeholders in those countries.
ACCA's 2012 AGM will be held at 1pm (BST) on Thursday 20 September at 29 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
The AGM will be followed by the Annual Council meeting, at which ACCA's Officers for 2012-2013 will be chosen.
- ACCA's first Integrated Report, together with a related CSR Statement, is available with material for the AGM being held next month, via the 'Related Links' section, left of this article.


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