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LAZINESS

Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have invented an alarm clock that promises to help those who repeatedly hit the snooze button in the morning. The clock, nicknamed "Clocky," looks like something out of cartoon. The alarm comes complete with a set of wheels. When the sleeper presses the snooze button the clock rolls off the table to another part of the room. New Scientist magazine, which reported the invention said, "When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep." 

—Reuters, Like Something Out of a cartoon, Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.

Proverbs 20:13 (NLT) "If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!"
 

LAZINESS/MISSED OPPORTUNITY

Florida State sophomore quarterback Chis Rix, will miss his first opportunity to start in a BCS Bowl. Coach Bobby Bowden suspended him for the game after Rix slept through a final exam in a religion class. Rix said he overslept because a personal family issue weighed heavily upon him. The team had no choice but to suspend him for the game. University academic rules dictate such action. The rules were adopted after Deion Sanders played in the 1989 Sugar Bowl despite not taking any finals.

— http://www.sptimes.com/2002/12/18/Sports/Rix_out_of_Sugar_Bowl.shtml, Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Mark Tabb

Proverbs 6:9-11, “How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.”

According to the Society of Automotive Engineers, one driver in four failed to use a signal to make a turn or change lanes. Forty-two percent of the drivers who failed to use a signal said that they did not have time, and twenty-three percent of them said that they were lazy to do it.  – Jim L. Wilson and Yuet S. Flavia Wong

http://money.msn.com/auto-insurance/lost-art-of-the-turn-signal-carinsurance.aspx

Proverbs 20:4 (ESV) (4) The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing. 

LAZINESS

Piers Steel, a Canadian industrial psychologist, and professor from the University of Calgary concluded a ten-year study on procrastination that he published in the Bulletin of the American Psychological Association. According to Steel, procrastination “makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier.” Financially, for example, the delay of people in filing their taxes costs the average person $400 a year and last minute Christmas shopping with credit cards gets people into costly debt. Steel's study found that more 26 percent of people struggle with procrastination. Also, that in the past twenty-five years, procrastination has increased by 39 percent in our society. —Jim L. Wilson and Carlos Andres Rodriguez

Study: Americans Procrastinating More and More, from January 13, 2015 https://www.foxnews.com/story/study-americans-procrastinating-more-and-more

Proverbs 13:4 (CSB) “The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.”