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Florence Boon A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, at Siskiyou Memorial Park in Medford for Florence Cornelia Boon of Eugene, who died Oct. 9 of age-related causes. She was 99. She was born Nov. 29, 1910, in Wichita, Kan., to Green and Carrie Proper …
The next time you are thinking about hitting the gym but your bed seems a lot more comfortable and it's a lot more tempting to hit the Snooze button on your alarm than to get up, do keep in mind that there are many positive benefits to exercise. While it may still be tempting to stay put, once you do get up and moving, you will know that you are doing something that will improve your life and your health long after the workout is done.
OK, I'm not saying it's going to be easy. But just look at the potential payoffs of firing your snooze button.
Exercise is a Great Stress Reliever
We all have a ton of stress in our lives these days and regular exercise gives us an outlet for those feelings. Instead of carrying around our frustration like a big ball of negativity that pushes down on us, getting physical helps us to diffuse those feelings.
If you want to get the focus off of your own frustration, choose a sport that pits you against an opponent, such as a game of one-on-one basketball. You will be so focused on what the person you are playing against is doing that you won't have time to think about the problems you have been experiencing at work or whatever is bothering you at that moment in time.
Exercise Helps to Develop a Positive Attitude
When you treat your body well by giving it regular physical activity, something amazing happens. You start to feel better about life in general, not just when you are actually exercising, but after you have finished working out.
Being physically active releases endorphins, the body's "feel good" hormones. These are the same ones that provide the euphoric feeling that comes with being in love (or eating chocolate). When you work up a sweat on a regular basis, you allow your body experience this wonderful state and you don't need to worry about whether you will be rejected (such as if you were in love) or gaining weight (from eating too much chocolate).
Exercise Gives Your Metabolism a Boost
If you include working out with weights as part of your routine, over time you will start to develop lean muscle. Muscle needs nutrients to keep them healthy and once the percentage of body fat starts to go down, your metabolism will kick into higher gear automatically to keep your muscles well fed. This will make it easier for you to lose weight, which will certainly give your self-image a boost.
Exercise Can Help Combat Depression
In addition to an increased level of self-confidence, regular exercise may help to combat feelings of depression. It's a simple solution to a problem that many people struggle with. There are no side effects, like there can be with medications. Exercising is a safe pastime, so long as you don't push yourself too hard, too soon.
These are just a few of the benefits to getting active on a regular basis. Rather than exercise on your own, why don't you find an exercise buddy and get started right away?
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One does not simply pull off a perfect eight-for-eight streak in picking World Cup winners, and in doing so capture the imagination of the entire globe, without attracting further job opportunities in sports prognostication. Even if you're an octopus. Especially if you're an octopus.
Paul became the unintended star of this year's World Cup, earning adulation and even tribute songs for his prediction prowess. Since then, the German lab where he lives has received several offers to acquire the famed "oracle octopus." One came from the Madrid zoo, which is fitting since he correctly called Spain's first ever World Cup victory.
But what good would come from having Paul spend his days in a zoo? His talents would go to waste. Better he be acquired by a Russian betting firm, which would not only give a tidy sum to the lab, but compensate the octopus more generously than its other employees. From the New Zealand Herald News:
A Russian betting firm wants to buy psychic World Cup octopus Paul as a bookmaker and pay him a salary of $NZ7000 a month, according to local media.
"He will be one of our 120 staff employees," Oleg Zhuravsky, co-owner of Bet League, told the Soviet Sport newspaper.
"Our specialists receive around $US3000 (NZ$4221) a month, so we will pay Paul $US5000 (NZ$7035)."
Mr. Zhuravsky said he was willing to pay the Sea Life Oceanarium attraction in Oberhausen, Germany, where Paul lives, as much as 100,000 euros for the oracle octopus.
Not sure exactly what an octopus would do with a $60,000 annual salary, but savvy investments in the market seems likely.
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Howard: The Jets keep harping about how they took a lead against the Indianapolis Colts into the third quarter of the AFC title game and fell just 30 minutes shy of the Super Bowl — a margin they think they can make up this year and win it all. But the Giants could tell the Jets something about presuming too much before they’ve actually done anything. They could detail how having talent guarantees nothing.
The NCAA declared Investigeddon last weekend, hiring Michael Bay to spill fireworks over message boards and ESPN by launching, announcing, or leaking investigations of star players at North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida in the wake of some very dumb tweets from UNC DT Marvin Austin (pictured).
As one toxic player (Austin) directly implicated another (SC TE Weslye Saunders) and Florida got roped in for something that may not be directly related but is remarkably timed for something totally independent, something occurred to me about how these cases are different than the NCAA's run-of-the-mill case wherein coaching staff X or booster Y violates bylaw Z. Those incidents are self-contained errors by one coaching staff or one set of overzealous fans with no knowledge of goings-on that could damage other universities. Meanwhile, the NCAA's agent crackdown is contagious. It has an infection rate.
Player A tweets something about bottle service at a South Beach club, bringing in a cavalcade of NCAA investigators. They then levy the recent explosion of Dez Bryant's senior year for lying to NCAA investigators and the tearful details spill out, implicating other players living large on an agent's dime. Agents operating in one of the 38 states where futzing with college athletes has legal consequences results in another round of bargaining that implicates another round of athletes at other schools, at which point the process starts over again.
Thus the unprecedented quickfire investigations at three BCS schools with another two rumored to be on the way. The NCAA's previous enforcement crusades were self-contained exercises; what happens when players start losing their eligibility and teams get hit with violations for things they know their opponents are dealing with too? The infection rate goes up. Sooner or later it's a George A. Romero movie starring Wake Forest and Duke as the sole survivors. Dawn of the Dead Eligibility, call it.