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11 Tips for Feeling Happier Right Now
Post by Gretchen of The Happiness Project.
If you'd like to make yourself happier, you can start right now. In the next hour, check off as many of the following items as possible.
Each one of these tips is guaranteed to lift your mood, as will the mere fact that you've tackled and accomplished some concrete goals.
1. Boost your energy: pace while you talk on the phone or, even better, take a brisk ten-minute walk outside. Even a small amount of exercise elevates your spirits.
2. Listen to a great song. Research shows that listening to music you love is an extremely effective way to improve your mood.
3. Reach out to friends: make a lunch date or call a friend. Having warm bonds with other people is a key to happiness. Perhaps surprisingly, it turns out that socializing boosts the moods not only of extroverts, but also of introverts.
4, Rid yourself of a nagging task: answer a difficult email, purchase something you need, or call to make that dentist's appointment. Crossing an irksome chore off your to-do list will give you a big rush of energy and cheer.
5. Create a calm environment: clear some physical and mental space around your desk by pitching junk, stowing supplies, sending out quick responses, filing, or even just straightening up your piles. Outer order contributes to inner serenity.
6. Lay the groundwork for some fun: order a book you've been wanting to read (not something you should read) or plan a weekend excursion. Studies show that having fun on a regular basis is a pillar of happiness. Try to involve friends or family, as well; people enjoy activities more when they're with other people than when they're alone.
7. Do a good deed: make a helpful email introduction, set up a blind date, or shoot someone a piece of useful information or gratifying praise. Do good, feel good—this really works. Also, although we often believe that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act. When you act in a friendly way, you'll strengthen your feelings of friendliness for other people. And that's a happy feeling.
8. Fake it: put a smile on your face right now, and keep smiling. Research shows that even an artificially induced smile has a positive influence on your emotions. Also, if you're smiling, other people will perceive you as being friendlier and more approachable.
9. Spend time with an energetic friend. Studies show that you're more likely to feel good about yourself when you feel energetic. For the long term, it's important to get enough sleep and to exercise, but if you need an immediate pick-me-up, spend time with an energetic friend. In a phenomenon called "emotional contagion," people pick up each other's moods. By hanging out with someone energetic, you'll boost your own energy.
10. Go outside.Research suggests that sunlight stimulates brain chemicals that improve mood and increases focus. For an extra boost, get your sunlight first thing in the morning.
11. Save the life of a stranger. Every day, seventeen people die while waiting for a donated organ, and just one donor can save or improve the life of as many as 50 people. Most Americans say they approve of organ donation, but not many actually sign a donor card. Register online and tell your next of kin you want to donate. As you click away, imagine the joyous faces of the people who will one day get a call from a hospital, to tell them that their prayers have been answered. That will make you feel pretty darned happy.
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Being reminded of my mortality helps me to see the importance of trying to be happy right now.
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I've got One
Pull up you socks. Something about pulling up settled socks just gives me a little feel good.
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I think #11 (registering to donate organs) is a great idea, & if I hadn't already done it, I'd do it now. It's not like I plan on dying today or tomorrow. And thinking of being an organ donor does not make me sad - it makes me proud to think that in the event of my untimely passing, some part of my body might improve someone else's quality of life, maybe more than one person's quality of life. There may be nothing else I do on this earth that would be socially redeeming. But if I can at least do this one thing before I'm put in the ground, how could I possibly say 'no'? And what an exhilarating thought, to think that I could be so important in the life of someone I don't even know! What a rush!
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I have tried many of these and I must say that they all have merit.
I have just listened to a great song and that has certainly worked for me.
Thanks for this post.
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Good thoughts.......
Thanks for the inspiration for the day...
I appreciate it
Chuck Bartok
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Hey Anonymous.... When helping others by donating organs - you are increasing the "net worth" of your own life... What's negative about that?
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I concur, it's pretty good up until #11, that one's kinda depressing.
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thats funny, keep it up and before you know it you can do #10 at midnight
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I thought this was a great post until I read number 11. I have nothing against it and am an organ donor, but if you are trying to make someone happy, reminding them of their mortality is probably not the way to go! I actually feel more anxious now than before I read this.
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Questlove on Dirty Projectors before their performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night: "based on their setup and sound....imma take a wild guess dirty projectors are from BK?"
Questlove on Dirty Projectors after their performance of "When the World Comes to an End," one of the songs from that Housing Works benefit thing they did with Bjork: "I will follow y'all to the ends of the earth."
That last remark wasn't a Tweet; it's what he said to them after they did another version "When the World Comes to an End" in the Roots' dressing room. Quest took video and posted it just so he could prove that they were really doing the alternating vocal thing as seamlessly as they did during the televised performance. Watch below. First Solange Knowles covers "Stillness Is the Move" and now this:
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Nisi dominus frustra: why ditch a motto?
Melbourn Village College -- not far from Cambridge -- has decided to ditch its Latin motto: "Nisi dominus frustra". And I guess you can see why. It's a contraction of the first line of Psalm 127, "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labour in vain"... so you might translate the three Latin words of the motto something like "Without the Lord, frustration", I guess. A touch pious you might think, and a bit Judaeo-Christian. But I can't see that any world faith could seriously disagree and, anyway, it's served the city of Edinburgh well enough for the last few hundred years.
They have replaced it (after a student vote, it seems) with what sounds to me more like an advertising jingle: "Inspiring Minds" (which is bound to look "so 2011" in a few years time that it too will soon be ditched). According to the Acting Principal, they wanted a motto that was more relevant to the students. In the current economic climate, Latin was "largely irrelevant" in helping the students find work.
Never mind the dodgy logic and/or facts here (every study I have seen suggests that Latin has a rather good track record in employment... but even if it didn't, we surely don't think that school is all about jobs; what about EDUCATION?). More to the point is the question of what we think mottoes are for.
I've never been much of a fan of obscuring stupid ideas under a veil of Latin (as if translating stupidity into a "dead" language suddenly made it clever). But I do think mottoes are best when they are a bit mystical, a tiny bit puzzling (which is presumably why Latin mottoes are a favourite of football clubs). I would have thought that enterprising teaching could easily use "Nisi dominus frustra" to make something that was fascinating and life-enhancing for the kids. It would take you, for a start, into the Psalms (which, Judaeo-Christian or not, are an important part of world culture), and it would take you to the history of Edinburgh (which, as a city, wouldn't be too bad a role model for a school).
But the real problem is that -- to judge from its website -- Melbourn Village College doesn't actually teach Latin, which must be one reason why the students found the phrase irrelevant. (To be fair they have a good range of Modern Languages and most students study two....at least for a bit; which must make the school a bit of a beacon in that department.)
I wonder if any of the teachers explained the motto and its history to the kids before they voted to ditch it. And I wonder if the Acting Principal considered the possibility of dealing with the apparent irrelevance by (re)introducing Latin into the curriculum.
That might have opened up even more exciting educational horizons to their students.


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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has warned goalkeeper Joe Hart his place is not set in stone.
Mancini has no doubt Hart, who is first choice for club and country, remains the best goalkeeper in England.
But the Italian says he would not be afraid to drop the 25-year-old if he was consistently underperforming.
Mancini said: "For me he is the first choice but if he does not play well I change. I don't have any problem.
"Joe is like Mario (Balotelli), like all the other players. For England I think it will be the same.
"If he does not play well maybe the manager can change the keeper."
As recently as last month Hart was being hailed as the world's best after a stunning display against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.
Since then he has been at fault for a handful of goals and scrutiny of his form increased after his performance in England's 4-2 friendly loss to a Zlatan Ibrahimovic-inspired Sweden in midweek.
Former Manchester United star Roy Keane, working as a TV pundit, recently described Hart as "a little bit too cocky" and suggested a lack of competition for his City and England places was breeding complacency.
Mancini added: "Costel (Pantilimon) is a good keeper and if Joe does not play (well) for five or six games, probably I can change the keeper. This is normal.
"But I trust totally in Joe, for me he is the best keeper in England.
"I am sure he can do some mistakes sometimes, this is a keeper's life.
"If a keeper does a mistake, you concede a goal and you lose. If the striker doesn't score a goal the game can finish 0-0.
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Is science the only answer to climate change and food security challenges? Andrée Carter reports from the Planet under Pressure conference.
A major international conference held at the end of March, Planet under Pressure, focused on solutions to the global sustainability challenge.
First, we need to recognise a shared vision of what a truly sustainable world will look like, and to do that, we need to cooperate across disciplines and with a wide variety of stakeholders.
After all, how can you develop a strategy for action without a vision?
So a diverse group of organisations – the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Council, CAFOD, Comic Relief, InsightShare, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Sainsbury's – came together to present three sessions, with contributions from leading figures in science, politics, industry, civil society and the arts.
UKCDS works with UK government and funders to maximise the impact of UK research on international development. Planning for the three sessions that UKCDS helped run, we started from the premise that even the best science will not be sufficient to tackle the challenges, including food security, posed by climate change.
Science alone is not the answer
According to the State of the Planet Declaration, issued by the Planet under Pressure scientific organising committee, 'interconnected issues require interconnected solutions'. This might seem like an uncontroversial point, but getting different disciplines to genuinely listen to one another is not easy. Multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to addressing grand challenges such as climate change are essential. But institutional structures and nationalistic funding streams can create artificial divisions not only between disciplines and sectors, but also between countries.
Our role at UKCDS is to challenge funders to think and do differently by finding innovative ways to fund truly collaborative approaches that include stakeholders from around the world, especially from developing countries.
So ably chaired by BBC Radio 4's Quentin Cooper, our sessions challenged convention and explored how science, the arts, the private sector, civil society and the world of politics could better work together towards a common vision of sustainability.
The debate around food security is a useful entry point to these kinds of questions. Speaking in last of our three sessions, our chair and Defra Chief Scientist, Sir Bob Watson said that we have "lost the connection between the food we consume and where it comes from; people need to not only think about their health in relation to diet, but also its impact on the environment."
With the UK importing much of the food we find in our supermarkets (often from low and middle income countries) there are multiple environmental impacts that need to be visible, accounted for and understood. These range from the local, such as livelihoods, biodiversity and ecosystem services, to the global, including greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change.
The Global Food Security (GFS) programme has already started to address some of these issues. GFS Champion and fellow GFS blog contributor Tim Benton is leading a comprehensive and integrated approach to understanding how climate change will influence food security both in the UK and in vulnerable developing countries in the future.
Tim and I met at Planet under Pressure with Simon Cook, the new Director of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research Programme 5 (CRP5) on Water, Land and Ecosystems. Simon is based at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka and we have invited him to the UK in June to discuss potential linkages with UK research institutes. Their key challenge is intensifying agriculture to increase food security whilst using natural resources carefully and minimising harm to ecosystems.
Bringing it together
Planet under Pressure inspired us to convene a meeting last month of all the leaders and champions of the cross-research council and government research programmes: Global Food Security, Living with Environmental Change, Global Uncertainties, UK Water Research and Innovation Partnership and us at UKCDS. We agreed that all these initiatives should begin to work together, recognising that the connections between topics are critical, as is a comprehensive systems approach. The added value of sharing knowledge, methodologies, resources and stakeholder networks will only strengthen the value of scientific evidence, and this will then inform and improve policy and practice.
So we've been taking activities forward as the BRAVE collaboration – Big Radical Approaches towards a Vision for the Earth. Follow us on Twitter (@bravecollab) to keep in touch with our plans and watch the participatory films shown at the conference. We also worked with InsightShare to produce some fantastic short films. They were shot by participatory video hubs in Bangladesh, India, South Africa and Ethiopia to reflect visions of sustainability from the global south.
They are a great resource for sparking ideas and discussion around sustainability issues, and we'd love them to be used widely (as long as we're credited), so please do take a look.
About Andrée Carter
A soil scientist by training, Andrée has been Director of the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) since 2007. UKCDS works with UK government and funders to maximise the impact of UK research on international development by improving coordination, strengthening capacity and championing best practice. Follow UKCDS on Twitter (@ukcds) to keep up to date with the latest development sciences research opportunities, including funding, jobs, events and news.


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Scrap the euro, says one of its architects: Former German finance chief warns of 'disaster'
- Oskar Lafontaine warned the 'economic situation is worsening from month to month'
- Former German finance minister admitted the single currency had failed
- Comments come as former Chancellor Nigel Lawson said Britain must quit the European Union
One of the most prominent cheerleaders for the euro has called for the single currency to be scrapped.
Former German finance minister Oskar Lafontaine warned the current course is 'leading to disaster' and said the 'economic situation is worsening from month to month'.
The 69 year-old also said crisis-hit countries in Southern Europe, including France, will be 'forced by their current misery to fight back against German hegemony sooner or later'.
U-turn: Former German finance minister Oskar Lafontaine said the single currency had failed
His comments come as Nigel Lawson today said Britain must quit the European Union, in an explosive intervention in the debate over the future direction of the Conservative party.
Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Chancellor described the EU as 'a bureaucratic monstrosity' and said leaving 'would substantially outweigh the costs'. 'The case for exit is clear,' he said.
Lafontaine's comments mark a stunning U-turn for the high profile left wing politician who was Germany's finance minister when the euro was launched at the start of 1999.
He was labelled Europe's most dangerous man by the Sun newspaper after he called for a 'united Europe' and the 'end of the nation state' in 1998.
But the unravelling crisis in the eurozone has caused Lafontaine, who survived an assassination attempt while running for Chancellor in 1990, to change his tune.
'Is this the most dangerous man in Europe'? Lafontaine was given this title by The Sun in 1998, as it printed a version of its front page on page three written in German
Lafontaine told the website of Germany's Left Party that the single currency needed to be broken up to enable bailed out countries forced to make austerity cuts to recover. These include Greece, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus.
He said: 'The economic situation is worsening from month to month and unemployment has reached a level that puts democratic structures ever more in doubt. The Germans have not yet realised that Southern Europe, including France, will be forced by their current misery to fight back against German hegemony sooner rather than later.'
He added that Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel 'will awake from her self righteous slumber' once the countries in trouble unite to force a change in crisis policy at Germany's expense.'
In a final admission that the single currency had failed, Lafontaine said: 'Hopes that the creation of the euro would force rational economic behaviour on all sides were in vain.'
With Greece mired in recession, unemployment in some countries running at more than 25 per cent, and France being given more time to cut its budget deficit, there is growing pressure on Merkel and other hardliners to focus on growth and job creation, not on austerity.
But the comments from Lafontaine come amid growing evidence that the crisis is taking its toll on the German economy, as it slammed into reverse for the first time since November.
Closely watched data from research company Markit showed new orders in April for the country's manufacturing industry declined at the fastest pace in five months.
Output for its services industry - which covers everything from banks to hotels - also contracted for the first time since November, following the steepest drop in orders for six months.
Official figures show Germany's economy shrank by 0.5 per cent in the final three months of last year.
Predictions: Lafontaine said Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel 'will awake from her self righteous slumber' once the countries in trouble unite to foce a change in crisis policy at Germany's expense
David Buik, a veteran City commentator at stockbroker Panmure Gordon, said: 'Germany can't continue to be the Charles Atlas of Europe and prop of its incompetent neighbours in perpetuity. It's insane. I think we will see a weakening of the euro over the next few weeks.'
There were more grim figures elsewhere in Europe as Italy's national statistics agency yesterday predicted the country's economy will shrink by 1.4 per cent this year,
It forecast that Italy will post 0.7 per cent growth in 2014, but added that unemployment will reach a record high of 12.3 per cent next year.
'Bureaucratic monstrosity': Lord Lawson says the EU has served its purpose and Britain should now withdraw
The European Central Bank last week slashed interest rates from 0.75 per cent to a new record low of 0.5 per cent in a desperate bid to kickstart recovery.
The move followed weeks of deterioration in the eurozone including a surge in unemployment to an all-time high of more than 19.2million – 12.1 per cent of the workforce.
The latest data from Markit showed overall output contracted in the four largest euro nations, Germany, Spain, France and Italy.
The Markit Eurozone PMI Composite Index – where anything above 50 signals growth – rose slightly from 46.5 in March to 46.9 in April.
Overall output has declined throughout the past 15 months.
Greece was yesterday told by the International Monetary Fund to do more to fight its 'notorious' tax evasion and open up labor competition to ensure the burden of austerity does not fall disproportionately on wage-earners and pensioners.
Measures to cut Greece's budget deficit and make its economy more competitive are key conditions of its £200billion bailout from the European Union and the IMF.
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Hunt for social media maven: New ideasby
Many have criticized the popularity contest flavor of our outreach for innovators in social media. But at least one commenter, Barbara Gibson, weighs in with a recommendation:
But one problem with lists like this is they're actually quite backward-looking, including only to people who participated in social media very early. So it's mostly the same names everyone already knows. Why not ask all those people for a favorite but relatively unknown person to profile?
I would go one step further. Instead of just naming someone relatively unknown, how about telling us about something innovative that that person is doing? In other words, I think we're past the names stage of this process. Now it's time for ideas and action. Any thoughts?
I got into a Twitter exchange with Peter Kim about this. He said that social media is about finding "meaning in niches," and that naming a "general innovator would be an oxymoron." I would be very happy to find someone doing interesting stuff in niches, either geographical or professional. No need for a universal generalist. In any case, I asked Peter for some nichy recommendations, and he replied: "@pistachio & noah brier for what they've done; @jevon & @charleneli for what they will do." He didn't provide specifics. But then again, 140 characters didn't give him much room to ramble.


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One thought on the Iranian election
- By Annie LowreyAnnie Lowrey is assistant editor at FP.
Yesterday and today, a plethora of U.S. editorials and articles and blog posts have forcefully debated whether incumbent conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or challenging reformer Mir Hossein Mousavi won the Iranian election.
"The shock of the 'Iran experts' over Friday's results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking," Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote in Politico, in an article titled "Ahmadinejad won. Get over it."
The word most commonly used elsewhere, though, is "theft." Senator John McCain, for one, called for Obama to "condemn the sham, corrupt election" to "make sure that the world knows that America leads."
Certainly, the evidence of tampering is everywhere. Millions of paper ballots were counted in just two hours. Mousavi lost his home district. (Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight has excellent empirical posts on the subject.)
But we have no smoking gun and no decisive determination of what happened — no sure way of knowing if Ahmadinejad stole the election from Mousavi, or the election was fair, or Ahmadinejad stole an election he won.
And, in some way, I find the uncertainty of what happened in Iran a bigger concern than obvious fraud. We know how to respond to election-thieves. But how do you react to a question mark?
France and Britain have come out against the results. The Obama White House, characteristically, has responded with a light touch, little more than prudent-seeming and non-speculative statements — condemning the violence and offering respect for Iranian self-determination.
But with no sense of what really happened in Tehran, it's hard to assess the policy responses as well. If Ahmadinejad tamps down rebellion and continues on the same path, what would be the best response, then?


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Jazz singer Patty Austin has one, so does Angel Locsin, Ruffa Guttierrez, and Eric Quizon. Jaja Boliva, an actress and lifestyle television magazine show also claims one. What do all of these celebrities have in common? They all are clients of a licensed aesthetician. If you are into skin care and want to make it a career, you have more to look forward to than the possibility of treating celebrities. You have the opportunity to smooth out your own life earning an aesthetician salary.
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Aestheticians usually work in spas, or sometimes in beauty salons. However, there are a number of other exciting environments in which an aesthetician might be found, such as on the sets of television, movie, or theater productions. You might find a higher calling in helping patients who need special skin care during certain treatments for diseases or conditions. Medical aestheticians can also be found in doctor's offices and clinics (especially oncology clinics assisting chemotherapy patients) and hospitals.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for aestheticians will grow in the coming years. The median income for an aesthetician is over $12 per hour, which is $25,000 per year. This is the median income; you might earn a little less just starting out, but once you have gained experience and clients in the field, the more you will earn. Medical aestheticians often earn more, on average, than professionals working in salons or spas.
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Clifton, John M. To appear. Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in Azerbaijan. In Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval, and Kathleen Wheatley, (eds.), Selected papers from the symposium on language death, endangerment, documentation, and revitalization. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Clifton, John M. To appear. Orthography as a marker of group identity in dialects. In Carrie Dyck, Tania Granadillo, Keren Rice, and Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada, (eds.), Papers from the workshop on dialect standardization. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Clifton, John M. To appear. Stable multilingualism in Tajikistan. Proceedings from the annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 46(2).
Clifton, John M. 2009. The future of the Shahdagh languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 198:33–45.
Clifton, John M. 2005, ed. Studies in languages of Tajikistan. Dushanbe, Tajikistan and St. Petersburg, Russia: National State University of Tajikistan and North Eurasia Group, SIL International.
Clifton, John M. 2002–2003, ed. Studies in languages of Azerbaijan, Vol. 1&2. Baku, Azerbaijan and St. Petersburg, Russia: Institute of International Relations, Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and North Eurasian Group, SIL International.
Clifton, John M. 1997. The Kaki Ae language. In S. A. Wurm, (ed.), Materials on languages in danger of disappearing in the Asia-Pacific region, No. 1:3–65. Pacific Linguistics D-89. Canberra: Australian National University.
Clifton, John M. 2012. Ethnolinguistic identity and religion: The case of the Tat and Mountain Jews. Paper presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Bloomington, Indiana. October 18–21, 2012.
Clifton, John M. 2012. Lessons from orthography development in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Fifth Austronesian and Papuan Language and Linguistics Conference, London. May 4–5, 2012.
Clifton, John M. 2009. Orthography development as an ongoing collaborative process: Lessons from Bangladesh. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Honolulu, Hawai'i. March 12–14, 2009. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5034.
Clifton, John M. 2007. Issues in Udi orthography. Paper presented at the Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus, Leipzig, Germany. December 7–9, 2007.
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Palliative care at Massey
VCU Massey Cancer Center has been at the forefront of palliative care for decades. In 2005, the program earned the prestigious Circle of Life Award for its pioneering approaches to symptom management and for its commitment to making palliative medicine part of the definition of high-quality care. Today, Massey's leadership is exemplified by its training and its research as well.
In 2012, Massey and Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU jointly earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for their palliative care programs, making them the first and only certified palliative care programs in Virginia. The Joint Commission's certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization's commitment to excellence, and just two dozen programs have been awarded the certification. The Gold Seal is one of many accolades Massey has received for its palliative care.
Massey provides patients with a continuity of palliative care across the continuum of need through three different venues:
- An active consult service that brings expert pain and symptom management to the patient's bedside anywhere within the VCU Medical Center
- The Thomas Palliative Care Unit at Massey, which is an 11-bed inpatient unit with a unique, home-like atmosphere
- A supportive care clinic for outpatient cancer visits
Massey's palliative care leaders are internationally and nationally recognized in their fields.
- Program director Egidio Del Fabbro, M.D., is an expert in palliative medicine and known for his clinical and research interest in cancer-related fatigue and cachexia (involuntary loss of weight caused by disease). Del Fabbro has furthered Massey's tradition of innovation by creating a supportive care clinic where cancer patients can receive advanced pain and symptom management on an outpatient basis.
- Patrick Coyne, M.S.N., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N., co-founder and clinical director of the program is a world-renowned pain specialist who was named one of the 30 most influential leaders in hospice and palliative medicine by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2013.
- Clareen Wiencek, Ph.D., C.N.P., A.C.H.P.N., nurse manager of the Thomas Palliative Care Unit, serves on the board of directors for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Award-winning palliative care
Massey has earned an abundance of national and international awards for palliative care.
- 2013: Re-accredited as a European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Designated Center of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care
- 2013: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine honors Patrick Coyne as one of the 30 most influential leaders in hospice and palliative medicine
- 2012: The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval®, making Massey the first and only certified palliative care program in Virginia, and one of only 24 in the U.S.
- 2010: European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Designated Center of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care
- 2009-10: Veterans Affairs Palliative Care Leadership Training Center
- 2009: VCU Educational Innovation Award for helping to create the Palliative Care Leadership Program and the Virginia Initiative for Palliative Care
- 2009: National Palliative Care Consensus Panel Quality of Care Award for best interdisciplinary high-quality care (one of seven national winners)
- 2008: Hematology Oncology News International HOPE award for clinical excellence for integration of palliative care into regular cancer care
- 2007: LifeNet Award for service in organ transplantation
- 2006: Best University Program, awarded by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
- 2005: AHA Circle of Life Award; at that time, Massey's program was one of only three in the nation to win the prestigious Circle of Life Award from the American Hospital Association. The award is given for innovation in the field of palliative care
- 2003 to present: National Palliative Care Leadership Center for Cancer, originally awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Center to Advance Palliative Care
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The Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling in Shanghai covers a total area of 4,330 square meters with a lawn in front and a garden in the rear. The residential buildings are surrounded by camphor trees which are luxuriantly green all the year round. In the center of the compound stands the main building, a two-story white house built in the early twenties. Soong Ching Ling moved to live in this house in the winter of 1948. The residence is furnished in the same way as it was when she was alive. It was the place that Soong Ching Ling received many distinguished foreign guests. The drawing room and dining room are on the first floor. In the center of the northern wall hangs a portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and on the southern wall is a photo of Soong Ching Ling with chairman Mao Zedong taken in 1961 when chairman Mao came to visit her. In this drawing room, Soong Ching Ling met a lot of foreign leaders as the president of North Korea Kim Il-sung and the King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk.
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Results: Researchers in the lab of MIT materials science professor Carl V. Thompson grew dense forests of crystalline carbon nanotubes on a metal surface at temperatures close to those characteristic of computer chip manufacturing. Unlike previous attempts to do the same thing, the researchers' technique relies entirely on processes already common in the semiconductor industry. The researchers also showed that the crucial step in their procedure was to preheat the hydrocarbon gas from which the nanotubes form, before exposing the metal surface to it.
Why it matters: The transistors in computer chips are traditionally connected by tiny copper wires. But as chip circuitry shrinks and the wires become thinner, their conductivity suffers and they become more likely to fail. A simple enough manufacturing process could enable carbon nanotubes to replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.
How they did it: In a vacuum chamber, the researchers vaporized the metals tantalum and iron, which settled in layers on a silicon wafer. Then they placed the coated wafer at one end of a quartz tube, which was inserted into a furnace. At the wafer's end of the tube, the furnace temperature was 475 degrees C; but at the opposite end, the temperature varied. The researchers pumped ethylene gas into the tube from the end opposite the wafer. When the temperature at that end approached 800 degrees, the ethylene decomposed, and the iron on the wafer catalyzed the formation of carbon nanotubes.
Next steps: The researchers are trying to determine whether different combinations of metals and hydrocarbon gases can lower the catalytic temperature even further and improve the quality of the nanotubes.
Funding: The research was sponsored by the MARCO Interconnect Focus Center and partially by Intel (Gilbert Nessim, who was a graduate student in Thompson's lab, was supported by an Intel Fellowship).
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so i walk into the defac ( chow hall ) andy got my jacob's jersey on. and like a stand off me and this 9ers fan stare at each other me with my bowl of grapes in my hand and him holding a coffee. smfh
So he said mighty lucky aren't we,
i laughed and i said well if you call 1 for 13 on 3rd down lucky then your team just sucks.
him - "vernon davis torched you guys, you have to triple cover him just to not get burnt you guys suck you only won cause kyle williams is a jackass that can't catch a punt plus he was injured."
me - " what his left shoulder injury? doubt it did anything on that fumble genius cause he was carrying the ball in his right hand, don't make excuses cause you guys couldn't get back into the end zone after your second touchdown."
him - " we hand wrapped that win for you, you didn't earn it."
me- " eli 316 yards, 2 tds no interceptions, your right we didn't earn that tebow allowed us to win." ( 3:16 tebow get it? well he didn't )
him- " eli sucks, ale smith is a way better QB than him did more with less, give alex smith your receivers and he would double eli's numbers statistically."
me- " really now so your praising our receiving core, compared to the trash you have. vernon davis is your receiving core."
Him- " really *** hole tebow? i know you don't know anything about football you probably just became a giants fan."
me- " lmao you wanna know how i know your gay? cause you just used that lame excuse to justify why your not winning this argument just like how your team didn't win on sunday, stop crying betty it gets better." --- verbatim
him - " watch your mouth i'm a Airman first class."
( he probably thought i was an airman basic [ 1 stripe] or a airman [ no stripes] )
me- " keyword airman, that **** don't fly homeboy, **** out of here with that noise."
more obscenities flew i was about to knock this kid out but, i already got a LOC don't need another one for fighting.


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The Diana F+ turns 6! In celebration we launch the Diana F+ Photo Marathon Chicago, a homage to our
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Nigerian, Ghanaian fans to get excellent service as Brazil prostitutes learn English for 2014 World Cup
Ghanaian football fans attending next year's World Cup in Brazil will not bargain for sex in difficulty as the country's prostitutes are getting some English lesson to serve their clients with better communication.
Nigeria football fans will be the first Africans to experience the good customer service of the Brazilian sex pros as they will play in the Confederations Cup next month.
Brazilian authorities are giving English lessons to prostitutes so they can give a warmer welcome to tens of thousands of football fans headed here for June's Confederations Cup, as well as next year's World Cup.
Belo Horizonte's 80,000 sex workers are counting on brisk business as authorities predict 40,000 tourists will be in town next month for a total of three matches June 15-30.
A whopping 140,000 are expected to follow for the 2014 World Cup.
With that in mind, the Association of Prostitutes has been offering free English classes to its members at a local mall since March.
"We teach basic expressions but also have demonstrations with erotic paraphernalia so they can learn the names, how to use them and propose them," said Igor Fuchs, a volunteer who also teaches Spanish and French.
The goal, says association president Cida Vieira, is to provide prostitutes with communication skills to keep clients who don't speak Portuguese happy - both during the upcoming sports extravaganzas and beyond.
"We deal with 'gringos' (foreign men) daily on the streets and in discos," Vieira said.
"We want to train the girls so they can better serve them."
So far, 300 prostitutes have signed up.
Attendance is irregular and older women like 55-year-old Maria Aparecida, who has been in the business for almost three decades, tend to come to class more often than others.
"I have always wanted to speak English," she told AFP. "I raised my kids by doing this job."
Demand is definitely there - on both sides of the booming sex trade.
"Tourists are going to flock here and those who come from abroad like to spend," said 26-year-old Vitoria, clad in a pink mini dress as she waited for work at one of many sex motels on busy Guaicurus Street.
On average, she sees 20 customers a day in her tiny room, with 15-minute sessions costing between $10 and $25.
Some of the women view learning English as a way of securing their livelihood down the road.
"It's important to speak English because one day I will quit prostitution to find another job and another language will help," said Vitoria.
But not all are sold on the need to speak English - or any other foreign language for that matter.
"I have never had American or French clients," said Yasmin, a transvestite, as he showed off some deft samba moves on Avenida Afonso Pena before rushing to negotiate with a client in a waiting car.
"I know basic words such as 'good morning' and 'condom'," said 31-year-old Juliana across the street.
"For the rest, I get by with gestures. All men are the same. They come for the same thing. No need for words."
Belo Horizonte is not the only Brazilian city taking steps to beef up its sex industry offerings ahead of the World Cup, which will be followed by the 2016 Summer Olympics.
A shortage of hotel rooms has led authorities in Rio de Janeiro to invest millions of dollars to convert raunchy motels to accommodate the legions of tourists expected for the events.
Nigeria fans will already have a good experience of the customer service of the Brazilian prostitutes while Ghanaians will have to wait to qualify first.
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Maxwell Johnson says:May 06, 2013 05:36 amDisgusting!!
@kwame says:May 06, 2013 06:26 amWhoever wrote this article is stupid. GSN... Full of SHS leavers! Thwarts.
Samedge says:May 06, 2013 06:29 amDid i heard, Nigayrian football fans will be the 1st Africans to experience the good customer service of the Brazilian sex pros? Hahahaha! They are the 1st African whores. No wonder both Hiv1 & Hiv2 are rampant in nigayria. Suicide bombing nation
Elinam Dormenyo says:May 06, 2013 06:36 amWhat a story, so so disgusting!!?
Nice says:May 06, 2013 06:51 am@Samedge, mugu like u. The whole world knows Ghana women are the cheapest whores on earth and Ghana is the scum of the world. Shame to a
jay says:May 06, 2013 06:59 am@nice and samedge, u r both idiots. this article condemns both Ghana n Nigeria and yet u r throwing out stupid comments instead of u condemning the so called author here. God have mercy on us, stupid article.
sam says:May 06, 2013 08:31 amrightly said Jay!
abutrika@ pawa says:May 06, 2013 08:39 amwhat a stupid article posted,people who post these articles should be brought to assalam down for psychiatrich check out.what a shame may allah save us.
abutrika@ pawa says:May 06, 2013 08:42 amwhat a stupid article posted,people who post these articles should be brought to assalam down for psychiatrich check out.what a shame may allah save africa
shame says:May 06, 2013 09:55 amHaha promoting promiscuity ,thanks to gsn.
shame says:May 06, 2013 09:56 amHahaha ,promoting promiscuity ,thanks to gsn.
Adam..The fresh boy says:May 06, 2013 11:41 amare we promoting promiscuity here,GSN? pls try to let always your articles look attractive and educative to other serious people who want to achieve something better in life..a civilized countries like Ghana And Nigeria shouldn't condon this "prostitute promotion" at all if we think we are who we are and what we represent africans...IRRELEVANT ARTICLE!!
Jay-Jay 10 says:May 06, 2013 03:03 pmTHIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!! gsn..hmmmm


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Love it - we all need to do stuff for ourselves too - always for others, always for others STOP we need gratification too - good for you!
Love 4 stchen
Very creative and lovely to have just in time for falling leaves!
"A woman is like a tea bag-you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt
You're so clever!! Love the background batik. Also liked the comment re using the leaf as a coaster. I'll bet it'll make a pretty table setting. Blessings, Kathy
What a beautiful placemat! Love the design and fabrics! Very creative!
This is so pretty! The shadowing on the leaf really adds to the overall design. We all need to take time to make something for ourselves once in a while!
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The entire fortune of a wealthy Sydney woman has been bequeathed to her neighbours, who helped with chores around her home.
Widowed Betty Harris left $12.5 million to her neighbours, Robert and Beatrice Gray, who had lived next door to her palatial Point Piper property for more than three decades.
The former Sydney University academic and barrister, who had no children, passed away in 2009 at the age of 95.
Soon after, her niece took up a very bitter legal battle over her estate.
In 1996, Betty Harris signalled that her niece Coralie Hart would receive all of her assets, but she later changed her will, the Supreme Court was told.
The move followed an argument over Hart's plans to put her aunt in a nursing home, and have a manager oversee her finances.
In 2005, Hart sought control over her aunt's affairs when her health started to deteriorate.
Justice White told the Court that Mrs Hart wanted to "protect her inheritance".
"She was suspicious that Mr and Mrs Gray would attempt to take control of Mrs Harris' finances," Justice White said.
The Supreme Court was told Mrs Harris described her nephews as a "pathetic lot", and said that one niece was a "b***h".
"They all want their bit of money," Mrs Harris reportedly said.
Mrs Harris kept to herself after the death of her husband in 1991, and wasn't close to any of her relatives.
She said she left the money to her neighbours because they would be surprise, but her family were just waiting for her to die.
"I am determined that my relatives after what they have put me through will not get one cent," she reportedly said.
The Court heard that Mrs Gray would buy her neighbour groceries and Mr Gray would do odd jobs, like changing lightbulbs and take out her wheely bins.
The Grays also protected Mrs Harris's property to ensure it wouldn't be broken into.
"I'm extremely grateful to Betty Harris," Beatrice Gray told Fairfax this morning.
The Supreme Court heard that Harris's husband, Kieth Harris, was sentenced in 1987 over a conspiracy to pay off the Corrective Services Minister for an inmate's early release.
Harris was also the vice chair of the Sydney Turf Club and a horse breeder who made it big by manufacturing televisions and radios.


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Handbook of African American Psychology
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BeschreibungThe purpose of the Handbook of African American Psychology is to provide a comprehensive guide to current developments in African American psychology. It is designed to present theoretical, empirical, and practical issues that are foundational to African American psychology. It synthesizes the debates in the field and research designed to understand the psychological, cognitive, and behavioral development of African Americans. The breadth and depth of the coverage in this handbook provides both foundational material and current developments. Although similar topics will be covered in this text that are included in other works, this will be the only work in which experts in the field write on contemporary debates related to these topics. Moreover, the proposed text incorporates other issues that are typically not covered in related books. The contributing authors also identify gaps in the literature and point to future directions in research, training, and practice.Features and Benefits:Renowned editors and contributors: The most well-respected and accomplished editors and authors in the area of African American psychology, and psychology in general, have come together to lend their expert analysis of issues and research in this field.Appropriate for course use: With a consistent format from chapter to chapter and sections on historical development, cutting-edge theories, assessment, intervention, methodology, and development issues, instructors will find this handbook appropriate for use with upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level classes.Unique coverage: The authors discuss issues not typically found in other books on African American psychology, such as ethics, certification, the gifted and talented, Hip-Hop and youth culture, common misconceptions about African Americans, and within-group differences related to gender, class, age, and sexual orientation.
InhaltsverzeichnisForeword - William E. Cross, Jr.
Introduction - Helen A. Neville, Brendesha M. Tynes, Shawn O. Utsey
Chapter 1. Foundations for an African American Psychology: Extending Roots to an Ancient Kemetic Past - Thomas A. Parham
Chapter 2. Sankofa: History of and Aspirations for Black Psychology Through the Eyes of Our Elders - M. Nicole Coleman and Adanna J. Johnson
Chapter 3. Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to African and African American Psychology - Linda James Myers
Chapter 4. African Psychology or Sahku Sheti: An Application of the Art of Spiritual Liberation and Illumination of African People - Ezemenari M. Obasi and Anthony J. Smith
Chapter 5. Africentric Theories of African American Personality: Basic Constructs and Assessment - Kobi Kambon and Terra Bowen-Reid
Chapter 6. Assessing African-Centered (Africentric) Psychological Constructs: A Review of Existing Instrumentation - Shawn O. Utsey, Benita Belvet, and Nicole Fischer
Chapter 7. Religion and Spirituality - Jacqueline S. Mattis and Carolyn R. Watson
Chapter 8. Black Families - Harriett Pipes McAdoo and Sinead N. Younge
Chapter 9. Intimate Relationships of African Americans - Anita Jones Thomas, Rabiatu Barrie, and Brendesha M. Tynes
Chapter 10. Hip-Hop Music and Culture: A Site of Resiliency for the Streets of Young Black America - Yasser Arafat Payne and LaMar Rashad Gibson
Chapter 11. The Role of Media Use and Portrayals in African Americans' Psychosocial Development - Brendesha M. Tynes and L. Monique Ward
Chapter 12. Racism, White Supremacy, and Resistance: Contextualizing Black American Experiences - Helen A. Neville and Alex L. Pieterse
Chapter 13. African American Children?s Early Learning and Development: Examining Parenting, Schools, and Neighborhood - Iheoma U. Iruka and Oscar Barbarin
Chapter 14. Academic Motivation and Achievement of African American Youth - Cynthia Hudley
Chapter 15. African American English - Anne Harper Charity Hudley
Chapter 16. Stereotype Threat: A Review, Critique, and Implications - Claytie Davis III and Crystal Simmons
Chapter 17. Racial Identity and Peer Pressures Among Gifted African American Students: Issues and Recommendations - Donna Y. Ford and Gilman W. Whiting
Chapter 18. The Talent Quest Model and the Educating of African American Children - A.Wade Boykin and Constance M. Ellison
Chapter 19. Racial Socialization: Roots, Processes, and Outcomes - Keisha L. Bentley, Valerie N. Adams, and Howard C. Stevenson
Chapter 20. Racial Identity Development During Childhood - Dena Phillips Swanson, Michael Cunningham, Joseph Youngblood II, and Margaret Beale Spencer
Chapter 21. Racial Identity Theory: Adults - Kevin Cokley and Collette Chapman
Chapter 22. Cultural Mistrust: A Core Component of African American Consciousness - Francis Terrell, Jerome Taylor, Jeffery Menzise, and Ronald K. Barrett
Chapter 23. African American Lesbians and Gay Men: Life Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Beverly Greene
Chapter 24. Black Americans and Mental Health Status: Complexities and New Developments - Tara R. Earl and David R. Williams
Chapter 25. Psychological Health in School-Age Populations - Frank C. Worrell
Chapter 26. Conceptualizing Mental Health for African Americans - Suzette L. Speight, Sha?Kema M. Blackmon, Desmond Odugu, and J. Corey Steele
Chapter 27. Positive Psychology: African American Strengths, Resilience, and Protective Factors - A. Toy Caldwell-Colbert, Fayth M. Parks, and Sussie Eshun
Chapter 28. Behavioral and Emotional Strengths in People of African Heritage: Theory, Research, Methodology, and Intervention - Michael Canute Lambert and William K. Smith
Chapter 29. From Anxiety and Depression to Suicide and Self-Harm - Rheeda L. Walker and Lora Rose Hunter
Chapter 30. Psychosocial Aspects of Sickle Cell Disease: A Primer for African American Psychologists - Shawn M. Bediako
Chapter 31. Counseling and Psychotherapy With African Americans - Madonna G. Constantine, Rebecca M. Redington, and Sheila V. Graham
Chapter 32. Therapy With African American Men and Women - Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Chapter 33. Social and Cultural Factors in the Cognitive and Clinical Assessment of African American Adults - Deidre M. Anglin and Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Chapter 34. Drug Use Among African American Youth: Implications for Prevention - Faye Z. Belgrave, Trenette Clark, and Aashir Nasim
Chapter 35. Black Liberation Psychology and Practice - Chalmer E. Thompson and Dorienna M. Alfred
Chapter 36. African American Psychology: Trends and Future Directions - Helen A. Neville, Brendesha M. Tynes, and Shawn O. Utsey
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
PortraitShawn O. Utsey, new to the author team on this edition, is the Chair of the department of African American Studies, director of the Institute for African American Mental Health Research and Training, an editor of the Journal of Black Psychology, and an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the Editor of the Journal of Black Psychology.
Pressestimmen"The book provides an excellent overview and introduction to significant contemporary research on the psychological issues encountered by the African American community. The important questions raised and the quality of the more traditional psychological research serve as a much-needed antidote to the assumptions of psychology's dominant paradigm."
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: SAGE PUBN
Erscheinungsdatum: November 2008
Seitenanzahl: 560 Seiten
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The calendar year of 2012 has been quite the rollercoaster ride of events for the National Football League. Terrific on-field performances (most notably Adrian Peterson) have been overshadowed by scandal and tragedy related to the game, from the New Orleans Saints and the infamous 'Bountygate' situation, to the Junior Seau suicide, to the Jovan Belcher tragedy.
Let's take a look at the stories and headlines that dominated the football world over the past 12 months.
Eli Manning and the New York Giants shocked the football world again with a second improbable Super Bowl victory. The Giants defeated several heavy favorites along the way, including the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots. Tom Coughlin outcoached Bill Belichick for the second time in the Super Bowl, and Eli Manning went toe-to-toe with Tom Brady, emerging victorious in the end. The Giants finished the 2012 regular season with a 9-7 record (the exact same record they had a year previous), but thanks to a vastly improved division, they won't have an opportunity to play for the Super Bowl.
Andrew Luck has lived up to the hype (and then some) that comes with being a first overall selection. Robert Griffin III has reenergized the entire Washington Redskins organization with his savvy and athleticism, and Russell Wilson has looked like a 10-year veteran running the Seahawks offense this season. At no other point in NFL history have rookie QBs had so much impact – all three of them are the main reason why their respective clubs are now in the NFL postseason.
If you ever need motivation to get to the gym, just think of Peterson. Less than a year after tearing his ACL (a serious injury for anyone, especially an NFL running back, where the ACL is vital to performance), Peterson ran wild over NFL defenses, falling only nine yards short of breaking Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards. Peterson, like the three rookie QBs above, is the main reason why his Vikings are in the playoffs. They certainly aren't there because of QB Christian Ponder, who has been at best very average this season. The fact that Peterson had such a dominant year is impressive, but couple that with the fact that it usually takes a full year for ACL injuries to completely heal, and the fact that opposing defences know the Vikings are going to run and still can't do anything about it, and you have the makings of the Comeback Player of the Year as well as the NFL MVP (with a big hat tip to Peyton Manning in Denver).
The NFL and its referees were involved in a labour dispute to start the 2012 season, and the league decided to call in replacement officials to do the job in the interim. The replacement officials struggled (to say the least) with the pace of the game. They lost control in many situations, and made countless embarrassing and incorrect penalty calls. You can't fault these officials, who received minimal job training from the NFL. Blame the league that generates billions in revenue only to nickel and dime its referees.
The referee lockout was mercifully ended after the now-infamous Golden Tate touchdown catch at the end of the game against Green Bay that resulted in the PlayNow Sports Referee Refund.
The league caught wind of the illegal and dangerous pay-for-injury environment in New Orleans, and they came down extremely hard on the club. Essentially, the Saints and its players had slush funds built up that rewarded players who injured opposing players (especially star players, like quarterbacks and receivers). Head coach Sean Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 regular season. Coordinator Gregg Williams (the mastermind of the bounties) was suspended from the NFL indefinitely. GM Mickey Loomis was suspended for the first half of 2012.
Many Saints players were hit hard by the NFL as well. Jonathan Vilma was suspended for the entire 2012 season. Will Smith was suspended for four games. Former Saints players Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove were suspended for three and eight games, respectfully. However, the player suspensions were overturned after former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue reviewed the case near the end of the 2012 year. It didn't really matter at that point, as the damage had been done, to both the Saints and the reputation of the above players. The New Orleans Saints failed to qualify for the playoffs, even after a great season from Drew Brees. Payton re-signed with the club for the next few years, joining Brees, who re-signed back in June.
Tom Brady had another spectacular season, and he would be the favorite to win the league MVP trophy in most other years. However, 2012 hasn't been like most other years. It featured MVP performances from two players on the comeback trail – Peterson, who was mentioned above, and Peyton Manning. The Colts made the wise move to cut ties with Manning in favour of Luck, and the Broncos made an equally wise move in moving Tim Tebow and bringing Manning in. Manning has had one of his best seasons ever, all at the age of 37 and, not to mention, coming off of an entire missed season due to a serious neck surgery. He continues to move up in a variety of categories in the all time NFL record books, but the only number he is concerned with his how many Super Bowl rings he has (one, and with the Broncos he has a great shot at doubling that total).
Many teams in the NFL started to implement the read option a lot more in their playbooks this year (and with great success). The Redskins run their entire offense out of the read option, as they can rely on RGIII's decision making and mobility. The same goes for Wilson in Seattle – the Seahawks offense really took off midseason after the team started to use the read option more.
Not every team can run the read option – it places a lot of pressure on the quarterback to make good decisions with both his hands and his feet. Here is a great read breaking down the Seahawks read option success in a game against the Chicago Bears earlier this season.
2012 was also a year filled with tragedy for the NFL. Former star linebacker Junior Seau took his own life. Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher took his own life after killing his girlfriend. Ravens WR Torrey Smith lost his younger brother in a motorcycle accident. Cowboys Jerry Brown was killed in a car accident, and Eagles coach Andy Reid's son died of a drug overdose Sports are meant to both distract and inspire, but incidents like these remind us that they are a distant second after all of the other important things in life. I'm not sure there is an easy solution to these tragedies – it was a tough year for the league and many of those involved in it.
And it is only going to get tougher. The class-action lawsuit against the NFL now has over 4,000 former players involved (approximately one-third of all living former players), and the NFL isn't the only pro sports league guilty of overlooking what is a serious problem. Is it going to take a death in the middle of a game to get the league to smarten up and start making meaningful changes to how it protects its players with regards to head injuries? Let's hope not.


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In Defense of the Faith
Ray deCarlo
"But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?" Job 14:10. This is a question people have been asking for centuries. It is the mystery of death, the realm of the unknown, as many call it. To those of us who are Christians, the mystery of death is not a mystery. Christ said, "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever more, Amen; and have the keys of hell [the grave] and of death." Revelation 1:18.
Jesus has the keys to unlock the door to help us understand what lies beyond the grave. Although many people today are confused over the mystery of death, there is no need to be confused, because the Bible gives us the answer.
But, you might ask, What about 2 Corinthians 5:8 where Paul said, "We are . . . willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord"? Is that confusing? I know that sometimes when studying the Bible, we may come across a passage that is not quite clear to us. On the surface, it appears that it could be taken this way or maybe another way.
We need to remember when we study the Bible, that there are two kinds of Bible verses. There are what we call "black and white" verses. In other words, when you read that text it is very clear what it is saying. Then there are texts that we call "gray." On the surface they appear to mean this or that. What we have to do in order to understand the "gray" passages is allow the "black and white" texts to help interpret or unravel the mystery of the "gray" ones. It is not that you cannot understand these texts or that they are vague, you just need the other passages, that are clear,to help unravel the mystery.
First we will study some "black and white" texts on the state of man in death. "These things" said He [Jesus]: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may wake him out of sleep. Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well." John 11:11, 12. At this point, Lazarus is dead, but the disciples do not know it. They still think he is sick. Think for a moment: If you are sick, what is one of the best things you can do in order to recover quickly? Get plenty of rest. So here Jesus tells His disciples that He is going to wake Lazarus up out of his sleep. But the disciples said, "Lord, if he sleep, he will do well." This is a sad story in relation to the disciples, because they should have been well familiar with the doctrine of the state of the dead. Throughout the Old Testament, there are scores and scores of passages dealing with that particular truth. Yet, somehow, this truth escaped the disciples.
One of the reasons why the disciples failed to recognize the language of Jesus was because, too often, tradition supercedes the Word of the Lord. How many of those who claim to be Christians are taking tradition above a "Thus saith the Lord"? The church is not above the Bible. The word of the Lord is the highest authority. A "Thus saith the Lord" is not to be set aside for a "Thus saith the church" or "Thus saith the state." The Word of God must be obeyed. By taking the name Christian we claim to be followers of Jesus. But how do we follow Jesus? We follow Him, by obedience to His words.
"Howbeit, Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that He had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead." John 11:13, 14. These texts are a simple commentary on the doctrine of the state of the dead. Jesus compared death to sleep.
We can see the same thing in Acts 7:5760: "Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him [Stephen] with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young mans feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this he fell asleep." There are two ways to interpret this passage. Either at the time that Stephen was being stoned, he laid down and took a nap, or he died. The sleep made reference to in this Scripture has to do with his death, as can be shown in Acts 8:1 "And Saul consenting unto his death . . . "
Death is compared to sleep. And what do we mean by that? "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything." Ecclesiastes 9:5. The living know, are consciously aware, but the dead do not know anything! "Neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun." Verse 5, 6. The dead are not aware of what is going on in the earth. They have no knowledge of anything that takes place underneath the sun. This particular passage very clearly indicates that it is impossible for anyone to communicate with the dead. For the Bible says they have no memory. They have no love, nor hatred. How can you communicate with people that cannot communicate with you? They cannot even communicate with each other. They are dead. They are unconscious of anything that is going on.
The Scripture also clearly teaches that they will not always remain in that condition. "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5:28, 29.
The Bible discusses two resurrections: the resurrection of life and the resurrection of damnation. There will come a point in time when all that are in the grave will hear His voice and they will come forth; some to the resurrection of life and some to the resurrection of damnation. By the grace of God, we need to be in that first resurrection. What a sad day it will be for so many who think that they are in the first group, when they rise up in the second? I wish that for no one!
The Thief on the Cross
Now let us study some of those "gray" texts on this subject. The thief who was crucified beside Jesus said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into Thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." Luke 23:42, 43.
There seems to be a difference of opinion regarding the passage, "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." Does it mean that when he died, he would be on that day with Jesus in Paradise? Let us assume just for the sake of illustration, that it was on that day when Jesus was crucified that the thief was to be taken to heaven.
"And he said unto Jesus, Lord remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom." Verse 42. So in order for the thief to go to Paradise on that day, Jesus would have had to have gone that day also.
But did Jesus go to heaven on that day (Friday)? Notice John 21:1: "The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre." This is Sunday, two days after Friday, and Mary comes to the sepulchre. When she gets there the stone is rolled away and a man stands nearby. Thinking he was the gardener, Mary asked him where the Lord had been taken. The man was Jesus, and when He says her name, she immediately recognizes Him. In great excitement Mary rushes up to Jesus and says, "Rabboni [Master]. Jesus saith unto her, touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father." Verse 17. This is two days after Friday! How could the thief go to Paradise with Jesus on Friday when Jesus said two days later that He had not yet gone to heaven?
The confusion here lies with the comma. I know there are those who take the position that the commas, the chapters, the paragraphs, and the periods are all inspired. That is an extreme position to hold. Chapters, commas and verses were put in by man to make it easier to locate texts. When you read the original Greek and Hebrew, there are no chapters or commas, it is just one flowing, continuation.
In this particular case we need to look at the comma. In verse 43, this is how the passage should be read, "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." In other words, Jesus was saying, I promise you today, that you will be with Me in Paradise.
Let us take the premise that the comma was inspired. If that is the case, I would like someone to explain to me Acts 19:11. (KJV) If that comma is inspired, then this comma in Acts 19:11, 12 must be inspired also. Speaking about the apostle Paul and the things that he was doing, it says this: "And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs and aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them." According to the way the comma is placed, diseases and evil spirits were departing from the aprons and the handkerchiefs!
How can the comma in Luke 23:43 be inspired when we see the inconsistency according to Acts 19:11, 12? The comma should not be placed after the words "handkerchiefs and aprons." It should be placed after the word "sick," so it should read: "So that from his body were brought unto the sick, handkerchiefs and aprons, and the diseases departed from them [meaning the sick] and the evil spirits went out of them [the sick]."
The Rich Man and Lazarus
There is another interesting story given in Luke 16:1931 about a rich man and Lazarus. Some say this story proves that when you die you go straight to heaven or to hell. The position that is taken is that this is not a parable, but a true story illustrating what Jesus teaches about the subject of death. "And there was a certain rich man," Underscore that, because it is very, very important. If this is a literal story, then you must take everything in the story literally. If it is a symbolic story to illustrate a literal truth, one must decipher the symbolism in order to understand the literal meaning. Let us look carefully and see if we can discover if this is a real story or a parable?
How did Jesus usually begin His parables? "And He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree . . ." Luke 13:6. "And he said, A certain man had two sons . . ." Luke 15:11. "And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man . . ." Luke 16:1. This is the language Jesus used over and over again.
The evidence clearly reveals that the story in Luke 16:19, beginning with "A certain rich man," is a parable consistent with all the ones that Jesus told previously. However, even though the evidence proves that it is a parable, let us assume that this is a literal story. The story goes like this: The rich man goes to hell, and Lazarus, who is sitting next to the dogs, goes to rest in the bosom of Abraham. The rich man cries out, Father Abraham, have mercy on me. Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
Remember, we are supposed to take everything in this story literally. Here is a man burning in hell and he requests that the tip of Larazus finger be dipped in water, and somehow this will cool him.We have all worked on a hot day outside, maybe in the garden or washing our cars. When I am doing us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 5:35. By giving us the Spirit, God has given us a down payment on heaven.
We do not have the fullness yet. That will come when this mortal shall put on immortality. God says, I will give you a sample of what it is like to have life and to have a little bit of heaven. "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord." Verse 6. As long as I am in this tabernacle I am physically absent from Jesus, but we have the hope of glory.
"(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." Verses 7, 8. Paul would rather be absent from this physical, earthly house in order to be with Jesus. But that can only take place when this earthly house is exchanged for that heavenly one at the last trump. Then all those who are faithful, will be present with Jesus.
That is why Paul said: "For. . . the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
" . . . Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22:20.
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