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Hoop Genes: Griffin another UConn Husky thriving with help from home
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Seton Hall is where Adrian Griffin spent his formative years before embarking on a lengthy professional career. He started for three seasons, winning the famed Haggerty Award as the metropolitan area's top player as a senior, and was enshrined into the school's Hall of Fame.
It was only fitting, then, that Seton Hall is where his daughter, Aubrey, enjoyed the first big moment of her college career.
Cool and calm, Griffin popped off the bench to collect 25 points and 12 rebounds in fourth-ranked UConn's 92-78 victory over the Pirates Thursday at Walsh Gymnasium. Both were career-highs for the freshman, who was playing in just her seventh game with the Huskies.
All in the Family
The 11-time national champion UConn women's basketball team has a long history of landing players from high-level athletic families. Freshman Aubrey Griffin, daughter of an NBA player and college track athlete, is just the latest.
A look at some notable Huskies with elite athletic genes:
Aubrey Griffin, 2019: Father Adrian had a long professional career — nine years in the NBA after three seasons with the CBA's Hartford-based Connecticut Pride — and is now an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors. Mother Aubrey was an all-America runner at Seton Hall and brother Alan plays basketball at Illinois.
Kyla Irwin, 2016-2020: The senior's mother Bethany (Collins) Irwin is a member of the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, winning two state titles at Branford High before playing at Penn State. Bethany Irwin scored 1,339 points in high school, leading her team to a top 25 national ranking. She averaged 9.3 points and 5.9 rebounds at Penn State and she spent 23 years as a high school coach in Pennsylvania, including a stint as her daughter's coach.
Kia Nurse, 2014-2018: Father Richard spent six seasons as a receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League. Mother Cathy played basketball at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Older sister Tamika played basketball at Oregon and Bowling Green, while brother Darnell is in his fifth season with the Edmonton Oilers.
Katie Lou Samuelson, 2015-2019: Father Jon played basketball at Cal State Fullerton and Chapman College before playing professionally in England. Mother Karen was an All-England netball — players shoot a ball into a basket, but there is no backboard and no dribbling in netball — player. And sisters Bonnie and Karlie played at Stanford, and Karlie has played in the WNBA.
Gabby Williams: 2014-2018: Father Matt played at Nevada-Reno from 1988 to 1992 and later became an AAU coach. Sister Kayla played at Nevada-Reno from 2008 to 2012.
Kiah Stokes, 2011-2015: Father Greg was a 6-foot-10 center for the University of Iowa, averaging 14.7 points and 6.7 rebounds for the Hawkeyes. He was picked 33rd overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1985 NBA Draft and played 42 games over two NBA seasons before playing in Italy, Spain and Australia.
Maya Moore, 2007-2011: Father Mike Dabney played at Rutgers in the 1970s, averaging 19.1 points and earning honorable mention All-America for the 1975-76 Final Four team. Dabney was the 36th overall pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1976 NBA Draft. Moore's sister, Oliva Dabney, is a junior guard on the Sacred Heart basketball team.
Shea Ralph, 1996-2001: Mother Marsha (Mann) was the first women's basketball All-American at the University of North Carolina. She played in the 1973 World University Games and her No. 44 is retired by North Carolina.
Kara Wolters, 1993-1997: Father Willie was a 6-8 center for Boston College in the mid-1960s. Willie Wolters averaged 12.0 points and 12.7 rebounds in 77 games for BC and is in the school's athletic hall of fame. He was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with 91st pick in the 1967 NBA Draft. Mother Liz was a high school basketball star in Wellesley, Mass., once scoring 50 points in a game.
— Paul Doyle
"That's typical of Aubrey," said Adrian, who's now an assistant coach with the defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors. "She always has another level to go to. The bigger the stage, the higher she rises to the occasion. Sometimes she needs another push, and that's how good she is."
"Oh my goodness, she's amazing," her teammate, point guard Molly Bent, added. "That was great. All those rebounds that she was getting in traffic, she gave us such a lift."
Griffin's breakout game came at an opportune time for the Huskies (7-0), who were juggling a short rotation because of injury and foul trouble. Coach Geno Auriemma called on the 6-foot-1 forward with 6 minutes and 6 seconds left in the first quarter and played her the rest of the half. She contributed 11 points and five rebounds to spring the Huskies to a 47-43 lead.
A sellout crowd of 1,656 packed into cozy Walsh Gymnasium to see it, including her mother, Audrey — a former all-American in track at Seton Hall — her younger brother, A.J., a Duke commit, and friends from her hometown of Ossining, N.Y. Meanwhile, her father was in Toronto, where the Raptors were playing the Houston Rockets.
"After the game, I had a bunch of texts from my friends and family," he said. "I don't think you can write a better script as far as her playing at my alma mater. We did a lot of our practices there. I spent a lot of time there honing my skills, a lot of hours, a lot of sacrifice, and then to see my daughter playing on that same floor, and then to have an outstanding game, that was the cherry on top."
Adrian, a big, physical forward, played at Seton Hall from 1992-96 — first for P.J. Carlesimo and later under George Blaney. He averaged career-best 16.2 points and 8.3 rebounds as a senior and was voted All-Big East second team, but went undrafted. He bounced around the next few years, spending two different stints with the now-defunct Connecticut Pride of the CBA, before signing with the Boston Celtics in 1999. Griffin wound up playing nine years in the NBA, mostly as a backup, and averaged 4.0 points and 3.2 rebounds.
"I called her on my way home and just congratulated her on a fine game," he said. "It was a special night for her. It was more about Aubrey and just the journey that she has taken and all the obstacles that she has overcome. She had a tear in her ACL in high school and then turned around and finished as good as you can get, playing in the (McDonald's) All-American game. Last night was just a reward."
"It's cool to play here because he's been here," Aubrey, quiet and soft-spoken, said following the game.
Good Genes
Griffin isn't the first daughter of a high-level athlete to play for Auriemma. She certainly won't be the last, either.
The 11-time national champions have a long history of recruiting players from such families, including current assistant coach Shea Ralph, whose mother, Marsha, was the first women's basketball All-American at North Carolina. Maya Moore, UConn's all-time leading scorer, is the daughter of Mike Dabney, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1976.
"There's a lot of former athletes, a lot of NBA players, actually, who have kids playing in college," Auriemma, now in his 35th season at UConn, noted Saturday after practice. "Some are better than others. Some are pressure-free. They don't have to worry too much about living up to any kind of reputation. Some, I think, do get affected by the pressure sometimes, having to live up to their name."
Auriemma doesn't base his decisions solely on that, but it has factored into his thinking — for better or worse — on the recruiting trail before.
"Whether your dad is an NBA player, or your mom was a WNBA player, whatever the case may be, that in and of itself doesn't really matter," he said. "Sometimes, it can be bad because that parent's a pain in the (butt) because they've played the game and they know more than anybody, including how the game should be played. It goes both ways."
Kara Wolters' father, Willie, played at Boston College and was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics. Kia Nurse's mother, Cathy, played at McMaster University and her father, Richard, was a wide receiver in the CFL, while her brother, Darnell, is in his sixth season with the NHL's Edmonton Oilers. Both of Katie Lou Samuelson's sisters, Bonnie and Karlie, played in college, and their parents were athletes. Wolters, Nurse and Samuelson all won national championships.
"I think if it's handled the right way there is this feeling, 'I'm used to success. I know what success looks like. I know how much work it takes to be successful.' I've seen it work exceptionally well," Auriemma explained. "I've also seen kids really struggle with trying to live up to their parents' expectations. But generally speaking it's a good thing."
That includes Griffin.
"Aubrey is the most fortunate kid in America because she has two incredibly talented parents, she's got an incredibly talented family, and she's normal, and her parents are normal, and her family is normal," Auriemma said. "They really appreciate her for who she is and let her be her. She doesn't have to be her dad, she doesn't have to be her brothers, she just has to be Aubrey."
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Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun and Worthington, Jenny and Allsopp, Philip and Ternan, Nigel G. and Brown, Emma M. and McCann, Mark J. and Rowland, Ian R. and Esposto, Sonia and Servili, Maurizio and Gill, Chris I. R. (2014) Virgin olive oil phenolics extract inhibit invasion of HT115 human colon cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Food and Function, 5 (7). pp. 1513-1519. ISSN 2042-6496
Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun and Rowland, Ian R. and McGlynn, Hugh and Servili, Maurizio and Selvaggini, Roberto and Taticchi, Agnese and Esposto, Sonia and Montedoro, GianFrancesco and Kaisalo, Leena and Wähälä, Kristiina and Gill, Chris I.R. (2007) Inhibitory effects of olive oil phenolics on invasion in human colon adenocarcinoma cellsin vitro. International Journal of Cancer, 122 (3). pp. 495-500. ISSN 00207136
Book Chapter
Gill , Chris I.R. and Hashim , Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun and Servili , Maurizio and Rowland , Ian R. (2010) Olive oil and its phenolic components and their effects on early- and late-stage events in Carcinogenesis. In: Olives and Olive Oils in Health and Disease Prevention. Elsevier, Inc., Burlington, USA, pp. 1005-1012. ISBN 9780123744203
Conference or Workshop Item
Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun and Rowland, Ian R. and Servili, Maurizio and McCann, M.J. (2009) A mechanistics investigation into the anti-invasive effects of olive oil phenolics. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (ICBWI-INTRACOM '09) , PWTC, Kuala Lumpur.. (Unpublished)

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Some habits take a long time to disappear.
I've been having a few postal deliveries recently. I'm at home most, if not all, of the time. So I was surprised to find a yellow card from the postman in my mail box one day last week. It said "Ihre Sendung ist da!" So I was aware what it meant.
Minor panic set in - where is it? What do I have to do to get it? Is it going to be complicated? And will I have to try and speak to anyone?
In the UK, these cards were a common way for the postman to avoid waiting the few seconds it took to ring the doorbell and hand the parcel over to you. We got them even when someone was at home. The postie didn't even bother to ring the bell most of the time. You then had to find out where the parcel had been returned to, get in the car and queue for ages at a collection point before receiving your goods.
In Japan, I could phone a number for an English speaking service and the parcel would be whisked back to me at home within a few hours, often quicker and always at a time specified by me.
Here, I had to type the information into Google Translate again. I'm getting quite good at typing long German words now.
It turned out my parcel had been life with a neighbour. Eek! Which neighbour? The address was scrawled on the card but I made out it was somewhere along the road opposite.
So I ventured out. a little nervously. Found the house; it belonged to an elderly gentleman whom I have noticed spends a lot of time doing his garden and sweeping the pavement.
I pressed the bell on his security gate. No answer. Tried again, a few more times - still no answer. He must be out. Or in his garden. But I couldn't see into the garden behind the huge hedge. Ah well, I'll go back later, I decided.
Suddenly he appeared from behind the hedge and made me jump. He looked pretty startled too, but soon recovered himself.
I, however, lost all remnants of sanity.
"Konnichi... err... Hello... umm... Guten Morgan!" I blurted. (It was afternoon...)
And bowed deeply.
WHAT? Where am I?
Desperately I tried to recover myself from this embarrassing cultural confusion and waved the yellow card at him. And reverted to plain old English.
His face was a picture! But he kindly let the crazy foreigner into his domain and fetched my parcel out of the shed.
I thanked him... in three languages. And to my horror found myself bowing again!
He showed me to the gate rather quickly and said "Goodbye."
I suppose I should be grateful the bowing habit isn't the worst thing I could have picked up over the years.


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Join us October 23rd though November 5th
for our featured artist...
Janice L. Freytag
Meet Janice Freytag this Saturday afternoon October 24th or join us in the evening from 6pm -8pm for a reception!
About the Artist
Janice currently lives in Souderton, although she has lived and worked in the Philippines, Guatemala, Croatia and Bosnia. After returning from a particularly stressful time in Bosnia, she became more serious in her artistic pursuits. She was first introduced to printmaking at Montgomery County Community College in 2001, and has been hooked ever since. "Printmaking is very process-oriented, with many variations of technique. My prints are as much about the process of printmaking as they are about the final product. When I am working on creating prints, I am not thinking about making a statement. Rather, I am conducting an experiment. How can I achieve a certain effect? What will happen if I do this? For me, creating prints is like playing chess; I think about how my current move will affect the plate and print two or three steps down the road."
Janice's work has been shown in local venues such as the Indian Valley Public Library, Indian Valley Family YMCA, Peter Becker Community, Oktoberfest in Ambler, Ambler's Art-in-the-Storefront, Westminster Seminary, and the Conshohocken Art League. She has won prizes at Montgomery County Community College (2004, 2006, 2009), Lansdale Festival of the Arts (2006, 2007), and Branch Creek Community Church Community Art Show and Peach Festival (2005, 2006).
In addition to her pursuits in visual arts, Janice has published numerous award-winning poems and has written and directed two children's musicals.


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Hello again! I've caught the mini bug, mini quilts that is. They are such a fun way to explore different techniques in a small amount of space. I signed up for #veryminiquiltswap on Instagram and am hashing out some design ideas. This one didn't quite turn out as I had envisioned, but I wanted to finish it up anyway.
I like to do a single fold binding and include tiny hanging triangles on the back of the mini. Here is a bit of my finishing process.
- I started out with my quilted mini. The top measures 5″x5″.
2) Next I stitched around the outside of the top (1/8″ away from edge) to secure my big stitch hand-quilting. I didn't bother tying off my ends, hopefully the stitching will keep them in place. Squaring up the top is really simple, just trim away excess batting and backing.
3) Take two squares of fabric, fold each into a triangle and press. Baste these onto the back of your mini. This will create a little pocket at each corner for a little dowel to slide into in order to hang your mini on the wall.
4) Cut binding strip(s) 1 and 1/8″ (one and one eighth inch, an inch and an eighth?) wide. Sew onto front of mini using 1/4″ seam allowance.
5) Fold binding over to backside, fold raw edge under and hand stitch binding to back of mini. Finesse the corners so they look good on the back too.
6) Enjoy your finished mini!
Weekly sewing round-up:
- still working on Snowball Nine Patch quilt. I am working on writing the pattern at the same time and have decided to call it 'Open". I also started cutting the baby size to test.
- finished up my Ohs Zippered Case for #zcs2016.


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A receipt is a written acknowledgment that a specified article or payment has been received.
A receipt records the sale of goods or provision of a service.
They contain a lot of details that are part of a certain memory – an address and name of a business, a date and time of day,
the person paying for a service and the form of payment, table number, product or dish purchased and more.
These details can definitely serve us when documenting a memory, in a very official way.
When looking to find a way of remembering events, it would be great if the system can help with everyday archiving that needs to be done anyway. I personally find it hard to keep track of my receipts for tax purposes. I find it annoying and never get around to it, though I know I should. But if I look at receipts as documents that archive memories, It could be a way of doing my mandatory receipt archiving and not add another "task" to my personal life logging chores.
When traveling, I tend to keep stubs and receipts from places. The purpose of that is to remind me of a specific experience, time and place. These papers pile up, collect dust and I hardly look at them again.
Money takes a big part of our lives yet it is not a part of the memory we like to look back on.
Most of us prefer to recall our enjoyment rather than how much it cost us.
This is how the system currently works:
Receipt – – > iPhone camera – – > Dropbox – – > Tesseract OCR – – > txt file – – > wordpress blog


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Doc has said for a long time that color enhances the effectiveness of documents, and of course, also enhances the profitability of printer manufacturers and consumables providers. Color adds value throughout the copier food chain, and it turns out the bigger the company, the more likely the use of color printing.
According to survey results delivered through a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC), users of color devices reported that 47% of their weekly print volume contained color on the page. In addition, the largest companies surveyed had the highest color usage at 50%.
Companies undergoing initiatives to reduce costs in print/copy/fax infrastructure, both with and without outsourcing and optimization, reported higher color usage levels than both the overall survey average and the rate for companies not reducing costs. This finding is consistent with IDC research which shows that managed print environments result in higher color use as pages from other print service providers or parts of the company are brought under contract as part of a cost reduction strategy.
Additional findings from IDC's survey include the following:
- Color usage is directly correlated to company size; the larger the company, the higher the color usage
- Color usage is directly correlated to the workgroup size using the device; the larger the workgroup sharing the device, the higher the color usage
- Manufacturing topped the list of industry verticals for overall color usage
- Marketing was the top department for overall color usage
The study is based on a survey of over 1,400 end users in the United States. For more information, visit the IDC website.


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Today's AWAP Wednesday* video answers a question from a fellow ChronicBabe. She's wondering how to get more comfortable with her sexuality so she can have confidence in dating… but she feels somewhat limited by her inability to have what is considered "sex" in popular culture.
I've got news for her (and you): There is no "normal" sex. There is no standard way to do it. Once we stop measuring ourselves against this narrow standard, the experience gets a whole lot easier.
Here's my advice to her and any other women with chronic illness who want to explore their sexuality with confidence:
Now it's your turn:
Now it's your turn: How have you handled the challenge of exploring your sexuality after chronic illness or disability shows up? How do you research your options? How do you handle initial conversations on dates? I want to know! Join the conversation in the comments below.
Want to watch more videos like this? Check out our AWAP Wednesday video playlist, which has almost six hours of guidance, advice, and bloopers.
Is there a question I can answer for YOU? Add it to the comments below, or shoot me an email.
Until we meet again: Be AWAP! Smooches! *AWAP = As Well As Possible
A (rough) transcript:
Q: I wonder if you could address sex/sexuality and chronic illness. Obviously everyone is effected differently by their illness. I can't have what is generally considered "sex" by our culture, but I can enjoy some sexual pleasure with another patient, imaginative person or by myself. Still I find myself feeling insecure and overwhelmed when I think of embarking on a new relationship or even furthering my own exploration of my sexuality.
A: Great question. You're a brave babe for asking it, too, because most people are too afraid to talk about sex. But not me!
Because we're not talking face-to-face, I'm not sure how you define "what is generally considered 'sex' by our culture." I'm going to assume you're talking about consensual, missionary, penetration-style sex between a man and a woman.
Don't worry, you're normal
So let's shatter the myth right now that you're not "normal" if that's not your scene. Plenty of people — and when I say people, I mean women and men, straight, gay, bisexual or transgendered individuals because this conversation is all-inclusive — plenty of people never have what our culture narrowly defines as "sex," because it doesn't work for them. That might be because they have limitations from disability or illness, or they just may not be into that kind of thing.
Get to know yourself sexually
The best way for you to build confidence, in my book, is to get to know yourself. The more you try new things — new positions, toys, locations, times of day — the more you'll understand what turns you on and what gets you off. When you're confident about that, dating — and starting new sexual relationships with people — gets a whole lot easier. You're better able to tell your partner what you want and need, and why.
Keep an open mind
This kind of self-awareness also helps you keep an open mind about potential partners. Sex is a huge spectrum; there is every kind of sex act under the sun, that you can perform by yourself or with a partner (or partners). And when you're out in the dating scene, you never know who you're going to meet… so try not to let fear get in the way.
You may meet someone who's great on paper, but who isn't compatible with you sexually. Or the reverse could happen.
I encourage you to view these experiences NOT through the lens of having disability or chronic illness, but through the lens of simply being a human being. I takes a lot of the pressure off.
Educate yourself
Finally, I encourage you to check out podcasts like Savage Love, which is a super-inclusive, educational and fun listen and there are hundreds of episodes to peruse.
Read books like Our Bodies, Ourselves, and The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex.
If you Google "dating websites chronic illness" or "dating websites disability" a ton of options pop up, so if you want to skip ahead a few moves, they might be an option for you.
Read, read read about your particular illness or disability and its impact on sexual activities.
Talk with your doctor about how your meds might affect your libido and your ability to orgasm. Become an expert on your own sexuality.
How about you?
You've got your marching orders, babe. I hope you get out there and get it on.
Now it's your turn: How have you handled the challenge of exploring your sexuality after chronic illness or disability shows up? How do you research your options? How do you handle initial conversations on dates? I want to know! Join the conversation in the comments below.


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Laurie's SoKind Guest Registry
- May 22, 2014 |
- by The Family Cooks
Laurie was asked to participate in SoKind's Guest Registry series, where they ask friends and supporters about their favorite gift ideas.
Today's gift-giving culture has become ever more commercialized, fueled by ads, fads, and glitz. SoKind knows that your favorite gifts don't always fit in a box, so they allow you to create a registry focused less on stuff and more on family, fun, and friends.
Visit SoKindRegistry.org to see the Guest Registry curated by Laurie.
SoKind is a project of The Center for a New American Dream, an organization that helps Americans to reduce and shift their consumption to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice.
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You can't predict exactly when you'll need a comforting hug from a spooky friend on a dreary day. Pick up a couple of these monster plush toys from Funko for yourself, as birthday gifts for your quirkiest friends, and your own kindergoths.
Frankenstein features an oversized head and sports silver bolts in his skull.
Wolfman has an adorable little underbite and a cheerful demeanor.
Cuddle up on a cold night, wrapping yourself in blankets and snuggling with your wrapped Mummy plush toy.
Creature From the Black Lagoon might not be the warmest, fuzziest toy, but what a great conversation piece he makes, perched on your patio table or floating on a rubber raft in your swimming pool.


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An interesting little SCP I created to fill in for the 049 slot. Please read and review. Comments, critiques and cake recipes are all welcome.
Item #: SCP-049
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: All specimens of SCP-049 are to be contained in the Main Waste Disposal facility and be given a constant supply of garbage to feed on, so long as said wastes are disposed of in accordance with facility guidelines. The containment area is to be checked regularly (three times a month) for any breaches or leaks. All researchers who wish to experiment on any specimen must fill out form ██████-B to be approved by Waste Management and Administration.
Description: SCP-049 consists of ninety-seven (97) rats of the species rattus rattus (the Black Rat). Genetically, they are no different than any other black rat, though they have several physical traits not seen in most black rats. All specimens are above normal size, averaging at around 11 in. (28 cm.) from head to tail and weighing 5 lbs. (2.2 kg.). They also have unusually strong teeth and jaw muscles, even for a rat, able to chew through titanium with little difficulty (though they tire after doing this for several minutes).
But their most striking difference is their diet: While most rats are omnivorous and will gnaw on anything to wear their teeth down, individuals of SCP-049 will actively consume materials that would normally be hazardous to an animal's health (plastic, glass, wood, metal, ceramics, stone, concrete, radioactive compounds), and nothing more. In fact, SCP-049's diet consists entirely of garbage (hereby defined as anything thrown away with the intent of disposal). SCP-049 will eat fresh food as well, but only if a human subject actively discards it. How they discern garbage from other objects is unknown. Specimens also have a voracious and seemingly impossible hunger, with each individual consuming several pounds of garbage in a single day, without any visible bodily distentions. Because of their abnormal diet, the Foundation has adopted them into the waste disposal facility.
Individuals of SCP-049 defecate normally, though chemical analyses indicate that all feces consist of only organic material, even after SCP-049 has consumed large amounts of inorganic garbage. Their lifespan is the same as that of a black rat (3-5 years), and their reproductive activity is average as well.
Addendum: Prof. Snider, after gaining the proper admittance, took a SCP-049 specimen that had died of natural causes in for dissection. After the dissection (which took 2 and a half hours), the following report has been submitted:
From the Desk of: Prof. Snider
Dissection log #049-D
Specimen info
Name: SCP-049
Age: ██
Length: 10.5 inches from head to tail
Weight: 6.2 lbs.
Cause of Death: Natural Causes
Experiment log: After securing specimen to table, small incision was made in lower abdominal region. Flesh is healthy and of normal thickness. Upon finishing incision, small foreign object sprung forth from within- when removed, was found to be blue plastic twist-tie. Incision was made larger (from neck to groin) and more debris began to spill from the incision, with no visible bones or other organs present. The following objects were removed in the span of two hours:
-4.3 lbs. of polystyrene, including 345 packing peanuts
-32 paper clips
-9.4 lbs of aluminum
- 2 lbs. of steel
- 4.5 lbs. computer circuitry remnants
-6.7 lbs. of shredded leather, mostly shoes
-7.5 lbs. of crushed glass
-79 ft. of wire
-10.3 lbs. of plastic pieces, mostly shrink-wrap
- 14 twist-ties
- 60 ft. of twine
-.4 lbs. of wood, mostly pencil shavings
- 6.2 lbs. concrete granules
- 4 lbs. of spent nuclear fuel (upon discovery, Snider was removed from testing area for decontamination and fitted into a standard level-5 HazMat suit before continuing dissection)
- 21 sq. ft. of various fabrics, mostly cotton and burlap
After two hours of garbage removal, specimen was unsecured from the table and held belly-side down. Immediately an inordinate amount of shredded and compacted garbage began to flow from the incision without stop, forming a large pile of garbage on the floor until the rat was turned belly-side up once again. From there the dissection was declared over and the testing area cleaned.
Notes: Shortly after dissection, the specimen was taken to another testing area to be "emptied". After being held upside-down for several hours, around two and a quarter tons (2.25 t) of garbage poured from SCP-049's wound before immediately stopping. When specimen's innards were inspected, researchers found all organs present and intact, without signs of bursting or damage.
It seems that SCP-049 doesn't actually get rid of garbage- rather; it just breaks down and stores garbage via some sort of space-warping field inside its body. Organic material is digested and excreted, but any indigestible or inorganic garbage they ingest is stored until some gaping wound allows the material to escape. If one of them dies again and their flesh rots away, we might have just postponed our garbage problem rather than solved it. What's more, the rats refuse to eat their own dead, so using SCP-049 to get rid of itself is out of the question. We'll have to find some other method until then.
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show your hubby love
Love or Respect
Most women want & need love. Most men want & need respect.
A lot of people confuse the two. I feel it is more important for women to show respect, (honour) to men. Conversley, for men to show love to women. Speaking from a personal perspective, if I may, I prefer my wife to talk positively of me. Talk me "up" around others. Not belittle or ridicule me. (Though I know sometimes I desrve it!) She doesn't need to tell me daily, that she loves me. She shows it in so many ways. Some, which will remain our secret, are a real blessing to me. (No, it's not anything unmentionable!) They are little things which she does, that she really doesn't have to do.
Oh,all right, I'll give you just one example. She has made me my lunch, to take to work, almost every day, for the last 30yrs. NO other woman we know, among our friends, does that for their husband. Now, she is not expected to do it. Many times I have said, "no, don't bother" etc. but to this day she does it. Well, till a week ago. I now work at a place where lunch is part of the emplyee benefits!
I know she loves me, but what makes me most upset, is when she "puts me down" before others. Not if she does not tell me daily, " I love you" . But, for my part, I try and remember to tell her daily.
Another thing that has come out of several marriage enrichment courses we have done, has been, to discover our love languages. My love language is "verbal affirmation" and "physical touch". Her's is also "verbal affirmation", though different words are spoken, and "acts of service". What are they? Well, she really gets a lot of satisfaction out of doing things for othes, to show love. So, it works in reverse. She feels loved when others do (nice) things for her. This accounts for the "lunches". Therefore, for me to show her love, is to tell her, and "do" things for her.
But since this request was focused on musbands, I want to turn to the man next. The above example was a good illustration of what I want to convey. It is very important to find out what "hubby's" love language is, and then focus on meeting that need. This will automatically convey the love message to him. It's still nice to say the words, but it's secondary, (in my opinion).
If you have been critical of him, STOP! There are many things that men can put up with, but that is one at the top of the list! We men, do NOT like. That kind of thing that can be funny in a group environment, but it will not go down well with any man (I know). Criticizm will poison the relationship. Saying the words "I love you" afterwards will be pretyy meaningless. Besides, if you truly love him, why criticize him. Tell everyone what a great guy he is. List his best qualities. Make him (look) like the "catch of a lifetime". A man who has no equal. I tell you what. You do that for a little while and two things will happen.
- He may not be what you say he is (now), but in time he just might fill those shoes that you say about him.
- You just might talk yourself into seeing him in abetter light.
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Great stuff aka0dj! I also truly believe love and respect are the foundation of any relationship :) I will follow!
What about when your not being critical, but just sharing how you feel or how you see things...for some reason comes across as being critical? Appreciate you sharing from a Man's perspective? Great Hub!
Nice hub. I make it a habit to think positive when we are in public. If he does something that bothers me, I wait until we are at home to discuss the situation. I don't ever ridicule him or talk badly about him in public. And he always praises me and talks only positive things about me at all times. He's a wonderful man! Thanks for that information. I like the site link.
Great advice. I love the book love languages, but I don't seem to fit well in any of the categories! LOL! I love to meet people who are thriving and love being married. Thanks for the hub!
I really enjoyed reading this.... my husband hates it when i put him down, so i try never to do it..... I have to say he never ever puts me down, he is a gentleman
Wow. I love this hub! I totally agree about having to praise him and never criticize him to your friends or family members. I must admit that I sometimes fall on that category, but I realized that it will just poison our marriage. Thank you very much! I learned a lot!


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Even Scousers are now beginning to speak Estuary English. Louisa Young has some advice for parents whose children don't talk proper
[The Guardian, London, Wednesday June 2, 1999]
Parents across the nation will now be suffering in the same way that middle class parents have suffered since the 60s: their children don't talk like them. The Scouse accent, we are told, is getting contaminated; Middlesbrough, Leeds, even Glasgow, are also suffering. New research suggests that Estuary English, that semi-convincing Cockney/sloppy hybrid, is taking over the nation. Even the accents which you might have thought could hold their own if only because no one outside the area could understand them, with the resulting diminution of accent-affecting conversation with outsiders are giving way to the glottal stop, the F or V for TH, the voice of EastEnders, Jonathan Ross and Birds of a Feather.
Accents shift and change; of course they do, they always have. Personally, I think the loss of the Liverpool voice would be a bloody shame. But we're not talking loss, we're talk ing change, and one of the funniest thing about change is people's reactions to it parents, for example, when their child comes home with a voice different to the one they've had so far. (One of the absurd and only semi-admitted reasons that parents who cling to public school education do so is because they want their infants to talk proper: the pure and ungeographical Queen's English.)
It's interesting, too, when children go to school with an accent different to what the teachers expect. An early memory: me, aged five, central London posh kid at a state school. Teacher: "Don't say what, say pardon." Mum and Dad: "Don't say pardon, say what." A later memory: at a pretty grand girls public school, the teachers were visibly struggling to know what to do with the vocal chords of a pure and unadulterated Cockney.
They correct her spelling, should they "correct" her accent? She held out firm while the rest of us, and our languid vowels, slipped and slid around the great range of voices and identities that adolescents adopt.
And that is a lot of what accent change is about: youngsters trying things on before reverting, often enough, to parental type. Needless to say, like most urban children with any degree of social mobility, I soon acquired an accent for every occasion, which ranged in their influences from PG Wodehouse's braying aunts, via the different languages spoken by the 54 different nationalities at my primary school, to whoever I happen to be talking to at the time.
I still can't drink in the company of an Irish person without falling into some ludicrous simulacrum of a Cork accent, soaked up at my nanny's knee: it was my first accent, and is still not far beneath the surface.
I remember, as a student, university friends from outside London thinking I was affected, pretentious, an inverted snob, utterly out of touch with my own background and identity when in the course of three phone calls (to parents; the manager of a bar I was working in; and my Ladbroke Grove-born West Indian boyfriend) my voice transformed itself completely. "Mockney!" they would sneer, in their dulcet and untouched home counties public-school tones. No, I would protest, Londoner. Product of a complicated city.
Personally, I feel we should all speak and be spoken to in every accent or dialect which has shaped our lives: this does mean that I find myself in Texas using words like "Y'all", and then thinking they're going to lynch me for taking the piss, but of course they don't think I am taking the piss.
For them, "Y'all" is a perfectly normal thing to say just as it's normal to speak French in France, or say "absolutely fabulous" a lot if you're in a meeting at a glossy magazine. And as it's normal, as a young Scouser or Geordie, to incorporate pronunciations from further away than your parents used to.
But then, last year, half of the youth in London was talking like Oasis (or trying to); and the pickled cocktail of Asian, Jamaican, Cockney and Arabic that goes on up my road is staggering to hear. Once you've heard a Swede trying to buy red pesto from a Lebanese trying to sell him Bisto, you know that accents can only be a great big soup.
Anyone who personifies these changes in any abrupt way is of course going to be teased, maybe yelled at by their parents, maybe looked at sadly by their grandparents. A friend of mine, a London resident but Wigan born, bred and accented, is already looking sadly at his four-month-old baby and saying: "He's going to talk like a southern poof, isn't he?" But back in Wigan, people think the dad talks southern an idea which raises a big laugh down here.
But at least these are only accents: think of the grandparents in foreign countries whose grandchildren and great grandchildren come on holiday and cannot speak their language at all, where real communication is lost between the generations. I've seen old, old Ghanaian ladies rolling out their few words of English for kids who look just like them, but speak pure Estuary and nothing else.
Perhaps those children will one day go to Ghana and come back speaking perfect Oxbridge; perhaps the grandchild of Wigan will go to Liverpool and return Cockney. In Louisiana, people my age say: "Comment ça va, y'all?" What would their French grandparents think of that?
Any educated Arab or Chinese, who knows the classical language, also knows to speak his own dialect when he's with his own people. What we seem to be heading for now in Britain is everybody speaking everybody's dialect all at the same time. Tower of Babel, anyone?
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TELL us about Francis, who was he?
He was an American pastor, who was sent by his Presbyterian church to Switzerland to work with young people. When his own daughters went to university, they brought people back for the weekend. Schaeffer was always generous at the table and naturally, people asked if they could stay for a week, two weeks or three weeks. Then they decided to transform their home into an open house. Their purpose was to, in their community, demonstrate the existence of God and always to give honest answers to people's questions. And so it grew. That was in 1955, when they started.
I went with one of my friends who had gone there for one week around Christmas and managed to get engaged with an American girl in one week. He said "You've gotta go there!"
I owe everything to Schaeffer in terms of vision and passion, I often say "If you want to take the secret behind L'abri it's this: he took God seriously". Every time he held a sermon, almost always there came a point when his voice would break. He was overcome with awe, from what he was saying about the Lord. He also took people seriously, you'd watch him one to one and saw – he wasn't conscious of it – his eyes would well with tears after just five minutes into talking to people. He was incredibly compassionate. He took truth seriously.
And L'Abri was the name given to that community?
Yes, it's the French word for shelter. But you don't understand L'Abri unless you can visualise the scene. People were hitchhiking, travelling, going to Ashrams. You know, L'Abri happened to be a few miles from a major crossroads and you could almost always see hitchhikers, backpackers… one was reading a Hindu author, one was reading a Greek mythologist, this was the scene.
And why was that?
The 60s was the most revolutionary decade in the 20th century. Now, I think the reason was that the West had survived World War Two almost with the pretence that everything was the same as before, but it wasn't. Churches' respectability was hollow, and so you had this volcanic explosion, particularly among young people, challenging everything. So it was a genuine counter-culture.
Billy Graham had family two miles from where we were, I remember his coming in 1968. He was a friend of Richard Nixon. He told us that Nixon had told him – this is 1968, it sounds odd now – he feared he might be the last elected American President. By then you had seen two assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, you had seen burnings all over America. It's impossible for those who haven't experienced it to understand what it was like.
Well, that brought a passion to L'Abri. So when I was there, there were twelve houses, each with families. I was single and lived with the Schaeffers. And Schaeffer always had queries for meals. You'd had soup and then he would say: "I have a question" and then you had a discussion for two or three hours. You know, "Why is there something instead of nothing?" and we'd be plunged into heavy stuff from Leibniz. "Vietnam's evil", and we'd be plunged into the injustice of the Vietnam war.
You know, we used to go out to cafés in Switzerland over lunch, and say "Anybody got a question?" and eventually you had 50 or 60 people involved in a fascinating discussion, and so on. We had thousands of people came to Christ at L'Abri.
Schaeffer had a lovely custom: he had a very ancient music system, and he would open his shallow windows and put up speakers in the window and play the hallelujah chorus. You can imagine around the valley and across the mountain peaks, all around you could hear this. All over the village was the hallelujah chorus, and you knew that – it was a wonderful life – when the doorbell was ringing, another person would come to Christ. People did think so passionately and if you could convince them with ideas for a week, two weeks, three months, they came to faith.
I'm not glorifying the 60s, in many ways we can blame it. It's a very mixed story. Anyone who came to faith in the 60s, you had to think back to square one. You could not just believe because your parents or whatever believed. You had to think it through yourself, know what you believe, who you believed, why you believed it, etc. It was tough. I thank the Lord for that, it got me thinking.
And if you could say one thing to young Christians to encourage them, what would it be?
You know, anyone who knows the Lord and knows how God has called them and is riveted to that calling, they'll know who to trust. But I could say many other things. The Biblical and Jewish sense of holiness, hosting the absolute presence of God, we need that. Most of the rest of the church is so secular. We're a long way from the Scriptures, a long way from our forbearers of the faith. And we're impoverished because of it. You know the old puritan prayer: the Lord has many more things to break out of his word. We need that.


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Town OKs $190K for Hunt Hill
"The public will enjoy this for generations to come," Jeanne Garvey Stax, a former state representative who now lives in Southbury, said during the special town meeting.
The land is owned by Ruth Henderson, who bought it with her late husband, Skitch, in 1970.
With the town's contribution, which will come from its $43 million landfill settlement fund, the Weantinoge Heritage Trust will be eligible for state grants approved in December 2006 to complete purchase of the farm land.
The town will maintain a 20 percent undivided ownership interest in the land, but Weantinoge will arrange irrevocable covenants to protect it for farming, passive recreation and open space in perpetuity.
The property is linked to another 83 acres of the farm previously protected from development, part of an expanding greenway in the Northville section that includes 536 acres and seven other contiguous farms.
The total cost for the new land is $929,000.
"This is a tremendous bargain for New Milford," said resident Larry Greenspan.


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Sometimes I'm really glad that I like cooking so much. Not on the days when I spend hours making dinner only for it to be a big fat fail. But definitely on days when I get back from a long weekend of camping and partying at Glastonbury festival and it's hot and muggy and I've barely got enough energy to wash all the mud off. And then I remember that I've got homemade ice cream in the freezer. Big. fat. yay.
I haven't experimented that much with my ice cream maker but after making this I'm feeling inspired to use it more often. The clotted cream makes the ice cream even more creamy and rich if that's possible. And it makes a nice contrast to a bit of spiky, sharp blackcurrant flavour – although you could add more sugar if you want to sweeten the blackcurrant more, or use another soft fruit like raspberries, strawberries or whatever you've got available. Just be sure to make this soon, before the nice hot weather disappears again!
Clotted cream ice cream with a blackcurrant swirl
Adapted from BBC Food, makes about 4 cups of ice cream
- one pot (227g) clotted cream
- 100ml double cream
- 100ml milk
- 4 egg yolks
- 100g caster sugar
- one punnet (about 200g) blackcurrants
- 25-50 g sugar (depending on your taste and the ripeness of your blackcurrants)
- Combine the clotted cream, milk and double cream in a medium pot and bring to the boil.
- While this is heating, whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a medium bowl until thickened and paler in colour.
- As soon as the cream boils, remove from the heat. Pour slowly into the egg mixture, whisking continuously until combined.
- Return to the stove, on a medium heat until combined. The test for this is if the mixture 'coats the back of a spoon' – that is, when you dip a spoon in, you will see the custard mixture on the back of the spoon, then run your finger through it and if the line traced by your finger remains, the custard is ready.
- Remove from the heat, strain through a fine mesh strainer and set aside to cool.
- Put the blackcurrants and sugar together in a small pot and heat over medium heat for a few minutes, until the fruit releases some juices and the sugar is dissolved. You can taste it at this point and add more sugar if you like, just reheat briefly to dissolve it.
- Then strain the fruit mixture through a fine sieve, pressing with a wooden spoon to push all the juice through, discarding the stems and skins afterwards. Set aside until the ice cream is done.
- Once the custard mixture is cool, pour it into your ice cream maker until ready. If you don't have an ice cream maker, you can put the ice cream in the freezer, removing every hour or so to whisk to add some air to the mixture, until it is has frozen. Once the ice cream is ready, pour the blackcurrant syrup on top and stir a few times to mix in but without combining completely so you can still see the swirl.
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Colour toolbox that accompanies the second edition of Computational Colour Science using MATLAB (Westland, Ripamonti and Cheung, 2012).
Toolbox allows spectral interpolation, calculation of colour coordinates, colour difference, colour appearance etc.
Stephen Westland (2020). Computational Colour Science using MATLAB 2e (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/40640-computational-colour-science-using-matlab-2e), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Very useful. Thanks for contributing the code here.
Respectfully, but I agreed with Jueqin. The ciecam02 function seems an unfinished revision to a previous ciecam97s function. Also some typos in the corresponding section in the book. Hope this can be fixed in future version.
I do not understand the function of the input variables ciecam02
please guide me
sad, this toolbox is without GUI
ciecam02.m function seems goes wrong?
I have the same question as sunx's
Great Job!
In the cieplot() function, it was assumed Y = y when the colors are transformed to sRGB, which resulted in darker color than most other CIE 1931 plots on the web, especially in the lower part of the graph. I'm wondering what should be the Y value for the different regions.
Do you have the data files used in this book. It will help follow the steps for colour calculations and interpretations.
I could not find the cc.tif file. Could you update with the file.
I'm trying to use the Colour Constancy example on pg 181, section 12.2.1, which requires camera.mat, but camera.mat is not in the v1.3 .zip folder.
Also cc.tif which is used in the camera_demo.m script is not in the .zip folder
The latest version of the toolbox is v1.3 uploaded on 5th March 2013.
v1.2 was introduced on 31st July 2012 and corrected a small typo in the code cie00de.m.
v1.3 corrected an error in the sprague.m code which resulted in some problems with the interpolation method.
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Bluetooth GATT (btgatt.h)
Functions and structures that provide Bluetooth Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) functions to communicate with a GATT server.
This file defines functions to work with Bluetooth capabilities on classic and low-energy devices. Before you use functions from this file, you must call the bt_gatt_init() function. You must call the bt_gatt_deinit() function when GATT functionality is no longer required in your application.
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Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 June 2020
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THE U.S. ELECTIONS. CAINE AND ROMNEY: Two GOP trends
According to the recent public opinion polls, merely 37% believe that Barack Obama will win the elections. 55% believe that the next U.S. President is to be Republican. Now it would be good to figure out, who may actually become this Republican President, what principles will his policy rest upon and what is the Russia's place in it.
On 5 Oct U.S. President Barack Obama was interviewed by the ABC channel and Yahoo! President answered plenty of questions, mostly devoted to the economic situation, ways to deal with it and other topical matters. He was also asked, whether he's ready to become a "one-term President"? Obama replied: "It's hard to reckon more than that in the current economic situation. I don't care if people think that I'm a loser. I've got used to that. I don't thinks that American living standards improved during the last years. We've managed to stabilize the economy but the unemployment is still too high" — he admitted. Thus, American leader acknowledged that the probability of his reelection is not that obvious.
Public opinion polls prove it. The main domestic-policy ace of the American President — health-care reform he initiated — is disputed in the Supreme Court. Senate hasn't given the consent for bringing the measures he proposed to increase the welfare and fight unemployment to life. Voters' disappointment is no longer in the "quite" phase and America was seized by the "Occupy Wall Street" protests. There are certain foreign-policy achievements, all right: the beginning of the formal "reset", START treaty and the memorable assassination of the "terrorist #1" Osama bin Laden. Yet, according to the recent public opinion polls, merely 37% believe that Barack Obama will win the elections. 55% believe that the next U.S. President is to be Republican.
Now it would be good to figure out, who may actually become this Republican President, what principles will his policy rest upon and what is the Russia's place in it. For quite a time Senator John McCain was the Republican frontman, a huge fan of everything hostile to Russia. The last elections were McCain's swan song, though. His age is the respect-arousing 75 years, which, however, seem to be a critical mark. That's why the GOP candidate at the forthcoming elections will either be the most famous Mormon politician in America Mitt Romney or the new star of the Republican Party, restaurant keeper, banker and mathematician Herman Cain, who has never participated in political battles before. Texas governor Rick Perry has been considered the third favorite for quite a time, but when it was revealed that in Texas cost university education for illegal immigrants is the same as for locals (what a painful blow for conservative Americans) his chances are rather dim. Right-wing electorate doesn't forgive eases that question the privileged status of the conservative middle class.
Herman Cain is willing to concentrate upon the American domestic trouble. He has particularly announced his 9-9-9 program, which stipulates the 9% VAT, taxing the rich less and the poor — more. Cain criticizes the "Occupy Wall Street!" movement sharply. "If you're poor, you're to blame yourself rather than bankers" — Protestant Cain reckons, believing into the "rich are the chosen ones" concept. Cain has also consistently opposed Obama's health care reform.
Cain's deuce is the color of his skin. He's Afro-American like Obama and this fact — a considerable drawback twenty years ago — seems to be an apparent "pro" today (and we have to credit American anti-segregation policy for that). Also, even given the debatableness of his program, Cain is going to concentrate on domestic policy during the presidency. His opponent Mitt Romney sticks to the strictly expansionist foreign-policy instead.
Romney also seems to stick to conservative views. Besides, he's even more "religious" than Cain — he used to be a Mormon bishop, heading an alignment of a dozen of parishes. This religiousness doesn't stop Romney from bullshitting the voters when he needs it. At the federal level he acts as a consistent adherent of GOP ideology — stands up against abortions, same-sex marriages and the use of stem cells, protects the people's rights to have firearms. Within the state, however, he held the rallies, supporting women's rights for abortions, favored homosexual rights and appealed for greater state control over weapons.
This "flexibility" alienated many right-wing Republicans from Romney. We have to pay peculiar attention to the fact that being the Massachusetts governor, Romney had actually anticipated the main election move of Barack Obama, which Cain dislikes so much — he imposed a compulsory medical insurance for adults at the state territory. Romney tries to make up for hypocrisy and duplicity while dealing with domestic matters, discussing the foreign-policy subjects. That is what he tries to impress the Republican electorate with, allowing himself a very aggressive behavior.
On 7 Oct, holding the stage in Charleston, in front of an auditory mostly consisting of military school students, Romney held a remarkable speech, worth of detailed review — especially the part about the foreign policy of President Romney, which he's to start from the scratch without continuing Obama's "reset", which he dubbed feeble.
That's how Romney started his description of the foreign-policy situation: "Russia is at the historical crossroads now. Vladimir Putin claimed the collapse of the Soviet empire to be a great tragedy of the 20th century. Is he trying to fix what he calls a tragedy and threaten the former Soviet countries into submission and then frighten Europe with its energy whip?" Thus, we may hardly doubt that the reset (actual deeds rather than words) will be stopped right away. European High Commissioners on Energy, Nabucco and the similar projects will feature his utter support. Romney mentioned the closer neighbors, too. Having touched the uneasy criminal situation in Mexico, Romney remembered other American troubles, having questioned in anger: "Will the slanderous Venezuelan socialism of Hugo Chavez tightly cooperating with the calumnious Cuban socialism of Castro undermine the democratic prospects of the region that strives for freedom, stability and prosperity?" We can't rule out the possibility that if the Middle-Eastern "tyranny" is successfully defeated, the USA might get around to Venezuela too.
And that's Romney's interpretation of global strategy: "This century is to be the age of America. During the age of America its economy and army will be the greatest in the world. During the American age our country will lead the free world and the free world itself will lead the rest of the world. Lord created this country not to follow others. American lot is not being one of the equally balanced world powers. America is to head the world unless someone else does that. Deprived of American leadership, the clarity and decisiveness of American goals the world will become a more dangerous place, while freedom and prosperity will surely be the first to collapse. As the President of the United States, I will dedicate my life to the American age and I will never ever excuse for America". Then, showered by fierce applause, Mr. Romney exquisitely glorified the American "unique", "exclusive" and "divine" nature.
Doesn't that ring a bell? These are the very mottos that Bush and Cheney used, while ascending to power in 2000 and 2004. The results of practical application of this concept are still easy to behold in Iraq and Afghanistan. We may draw a conclusion out of Romney's speech — he doesn't move an inch away from the doctrines of American 19th century politicians, who introduced the paradigm of "divine choice" and the "foreordained lot" of America. Following this concept, America fought Canada, "broken" the Japanese isolation and architected the notorious Monroe doctrine, which proclaimed an entire North (and a considerable part of South) America a zone of the U.S. interests. In 1854 the USA sent a message to the rest of the world, claiming that America needs the island of Cuba for the sake of its national security, which is why it has the "divine right" to take it from Spain. Mexico, which bothers Romney today, lost 50% of its territory in the 19th century. History brought us the words of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, who described the course of Mexican-American relationship in the following way: "Poor Mexico! So far from God it lies and so close to the USA!"
It was George W. Bush, who voiced up the list of American enemies ("Axis of evil"). Romney, however, believes that this list is to be expanded substantially. So who's the U.S. enemy these days? Mr. Romney gave an exhaustive answer to this question. "Firstly, this is the Islamic fundamentalism, which we're at war since the 9/11. Secondly, this is the Middle-Eastern struggle between those striving for freedom and those oppressing it. Then go the anti-American concepts of Iranian, North Korean, Venezuelan and Cuban regimes — two of them possess nuclear weapons at that. These powers include the quickly developing countries with covert or new aspirations like China, which dreams of becoming a superpower and the reviving Russia, headed by a man, who considers the Soviet Union great rather than evil".
Is it possible, though, that Russia was included into the list to honor the tradition? Mr. Romney's speech proves the contrary. Russia is the enemy #1, followed by China and Co. It turned out that would-be-President's special attitude to Russia was formed since the very childhood: "I was born in 1947, classic baby-boom child. I grew up in the world, which was shaped by a dominant threat to America: the Soviet Communism threat. We've been practicing 'duck and cover' exercise in school during the Cuban missile crisis, which was triggered by a well-known man with strict borders and specific leaders".
We needed the drones to find secret missile base at Cuba, although we didn't need them to find Nikita Khrushchev. President Reagan might have negotiated with the Soviet Prime Minster Mikhail Gorbachev and sign the treaties, where each side could have been made accountable. And when we caught the Soviets red0handed, we could've drawn the global attention to their sins." Impressive revelations these are, aren't they? This somehow reminds the McCain's stories about Vietnam, where he was imprisoned by Commies, almost "Russian proxies". It turns out that psychologically-political portraits of McCain and Romney are almost identical.
Let's sum it up. In case Herman Cain makes his way to the White House, he'll fight against financial crisis, unemployment, social unrest, taxes and medical insurances. Romney's enemies instead are "the reborn, aggressive and lying USSR" with its "bellicose leaders", China and other countries, attempting to carry out an independent foreign policy.
As long as internal U.S. crises are quite systematic, Mitt Romney may easily try to turn America to the path of military affairs. At that, he claimed that he's not going to beg excuses for his actions anyway. As long as American citizens actually desire a Republican President, the rest of the world will sleep easier if that would be a leader dealing with solely American issues, rather than fanatic, obsessed with "American greatness".
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Hey guys, just giving an update on my withdrawal so far, still sucks but at the same time am seeing very minor improvements.
So far month 5 and month 8 seemed to be the easiest months if I can recall.
From 9 1/2 months to 10 months clean wasn't so easy.
Problems I'd like to address that are hardest for me still are a lot of negative self talk and irrational fears and a vision of a bleak future. Probably from the anxiety which is still high for me and sometimes depressive thoughts and feelings.
A few times through this withdrawal I've had episodes for a week or two at a time maybe 4 times in these 10 months dealing with random violent intrusive thoughts as well which scare the sh** out of me that I can't explain because I'm not like that at all. It eventually goes away though.
I still sleep a lot (surprisingly never had insomnia issues throughout withdrawal) maybe sleep too much, just always tired.
I will have half days and occasionally full days where I'm back to myself and feel happy and content again and life makes sense.
And then a lot of the time life doesn't make sense and still question everything and at times feel no purpose and get easily confused, still can't retain much information or hold good conversations because I'm so out of it and foggy all the time it seems like. I hope this becomes manageable in three months when I go to college.
I notice that distracting myself constantly and telling myself that I love myself seems to help along with patience and my maintain it seem like it's the end of the world.
Still I trust that this is all from weed and I will be able to enjoy my life instead of fight for it.
I also have a question, am I the only one who fears giving up a lot or feeling like I'm doomed? Even in good days sometimes?
Let me know if you guys are suffering from any of these symptoms.


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Sr. Mary Elizabeth Albers
"Of you my heart has spoken: Seek His Face…"
Psalm 27:8
My friend Sarah Swafford once shared about some advice a priest had given her when she was discerning her vocation in college. "Run towards Christ," he told her, "and when you get to Him, look out of the corner of your eye and see who's running with you." Following this solid advice, she was led to her beautiful vocation as wife, mother, and dynamic Catholic speaker.
And while I didn't receive this advice firsthand, the same words have proven true in discerning my own vocation as a consecrated spouse of Jesus Christ in the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.
Growing up as the youngest of five, I was blessed with knowing the importance of faith and family. While Christ was certainly a part of my life, I can't say my gaze was entirely fixed on him. Many things competed for my attention as I ran in pursuit of what truly satisfies. To modify slightly the famous words of St. Augustine, my heart was restless because it wasn't resting in the love of the Trinity.
The Lord, however, relentlessly pursues our hearts, and He used the mixture of motives He found in mine to get me to Belize, Central America for a year of volunteer teaching in a SOLT-run Catholic high school. Though I may have set out for Belize because of the exotic appeal of a unique cultural experience and the possibility of putting off "getting a real job" for a year, upon my arrival at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, I knew I had encountered something very special. The simple and demanding life of service with the gracious people of Benque Viejo, the challenging yet ultimately enriching experience of community life amongst the priests, sisters and laity, and the constant yet ever-fresh witness of Christ's presence in the Sacraments and in prayer was leading me to encounter Jesus at every turn. I was mesmerized.
What I discovered in Belize, and what I ultimately heard the Lord speaking to me in His Eucharistic Presence, was that He wanted me to run to Him every day for the rest of my life and into eternity. When I looked out of the corner of my eye, I saw the family of the Society of Our Lady running with me. In May 2014, I had the profound joy of professing perpetual vows of obedience, poverty and chastity with five other sisters at our SOLT Regional Assembly. May it please God that we continue to run, together with Our Blessed Mother and every last one of God's children, into union with the Most Holy Trinity, now and forever!