<|BOS|> as painful as it was to hear Rousey say she contemplated suicide, it was perhaps more painful to see the pounding Holm dealt her. Quicker, more agile, and by far the better strategist that night, Holm “Rouseyed” Rousey, the ex-champ admitting to DeGeneres, in her words, the blows that night left part of her brain turned off. Yet she kept going. It’s her way. It’s how she wins.
But keep in mind, as Rousey must, that she is UFC’s all-time No. 1 attraction. Her next bout will be a pay-per-view event likely to rake in the biggest single TV payday in UFC history. Rousey today is second only to Serena Williams for best-known female athlete and it’s in her best interest, along with the entire UFC brand, to return to action as soon as possible.
All of which is great, as long as Rousey’s brain is fully recovered, her mental state secure, and she is as fit as possible. Anyone, amateur or professional, would wonder about that after seeing the DeGeneres interview. As Rousey spoke, the famed comedian sat speechless and bug-eyed.
After viewing Rousey’s interview with DeGeneres, Dr. Helen Farrell, a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychiatry, enthusiastically declared Rousey “a champion,” because “anyone who publicly shares their battle with depression and suicidal thoughts shows unsurpassed strength and fortitude.’’ Amen that. The vulnerable Rousey showered down courage by the buckets.
However, Farrell also made it abundantly clear that a full recovery from brain injury and the suicidal thoughts stemming from depression take time, work, and expert care.
Ron Rousey took his life in 1995 when Ronda, his youngest of three girls, was only 8 years old. He ended his life after being rendered a paraplegic, his paralysis the outcome of an accident sustained while sledding with Rousey and her sisters.
Prior to UFC 193 in Melbourne in November, Rousey wrote in the local Herald Sun that her father’s suicide left her with bottled-up grief and self-loathing.
Not a woman accustomed to proceeding with caution. The hardest fight of her life might be at hand, understanding now how far and how fast to push her recovery.<|EOS|>The final years of Henry III's reign are sufficiently peaceful for Edward, the king's heir, to depart on crusade for the Holy Land. He spends a year in Acre, fighting courageously but to no good effect in defence of the crumbling remnants of the Latin kingdom. He is on his way home, in Sicily, when he hears in 1272 of his father's death.
It is a measure of Edward's confidence in the stability of England, so recently convulsed in the civil war between king and barons, that he spends another two years abroad before returning to Dover in August 1274. He is crowned in Westminster Abbey two weeks later.
Edward's reign of thirty-five years contains several significant moments in English history. The submission of Wales to the English crown is achieved in 1284. The following years see the beginning of prolonged hostilities between England and Scotland. In the harsh saga of European Jewry the year 1290 is a bleak moment, when Edward becomes the first monarch to expel the Jews from his kingdom. Yet that same year prompts the king to a romantic gesture of marital love, rare in the Middle Ages, when he erects the Eleanor Crosses in memory of his wife.
In the government of his kingdom, Edward's policies are notable for his canny use of a gradually evolving institution - parliament.
Edward summons parliaments when he feels he needs them, and for whatever reasons the particular moment demands. To some of these assemblies (approximately one in seven, and usually when he has pressing needs for funds) he invites people of lesser rank than the magnates of nobility and church. Knights are summoned from the shires and citizens from the towns.
These men are genuinely representatives of their community. The king insists that they come with full delegated authority so that any agreement made in parliament (in particular a commitment to provide money) will be honoured by their county or borough. They are the origin of the Commons (or commoners) who eventually become the more powerful of the two houses of parliament.
For the first parliament of Edward's reign, in 1275, knights are summoned to Westminster together with 'citizens, burgesses or other honest men from each of the cities' in order to 'discuss together with the magnates the affairs of our kingdom'.
This parliament passes the first of the many statutes which have caused the reign of Edward I to be seen as a seminal period