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The Penguins and Rangers may not be that different. But the Penguins have a couple things the Rangers don't:
Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby.
And here are some other things they don't have:
- Conditioning.
- A power play. It is beyond shit. Both Penguins goals in this game came right after the Pens had killed off penalties. There's your season right there. Embarrassing.
Crosby and Malkin played together again, played well together again, and the Pens got a win. Again. Crosby got the GWG and cemented the fact he's "back," so hopefully fringe journalists will have to actually know hockey the next time they write up something.
The Rangers will bitch and moan about their schedule.
Win a game. Put a power-play unit on the ice that doesn't have its own sac in its mouth. We'd buy the fatigue thing if the Pens won this game 15-0 and Mats Zuccarello was vomiting on the bench from exhaustion, but it was 2-0 and the Rangers outshot the Pens 35-15.
The main show in MSG on Monday night was Marc-Andre Fleury.
There is a large faction of writers – not from Pittsburgh – that loves to pile on Fleury. He's deserved a lot of what has been thrown at him, but make no mistake about Monday night. He walked into King Henrik's castle, punched him and his family in the mouth, then gave Princess Peach the business while those turtles that throw the tomahawks watched.
Series-defining Game 4 coming up on Wednesday. The Pens have already reclaimed home ice. A win Wednesday, and we'll all be wearing black Friday.
Malkin and Crosby didn't start together, which was stupid. Also stupid — the Vitale-Sutter-Bennett third line. Anytime in this series where Malkin and Crosby aren't playing together is a waste of time. It's like the credit scroll in a porn, if anyone has ever gotten that far.
Second shifts
Kunitz- Crosby-Stempniak
So dumb. Only possible explanation is Bylsma has Crosby and Malkin playing together so they "wake up" and they take it back to their usual lines.
Gibbons pulled a real dick move and almost killed some guy.
Best chance to develop from the Rangers' first power play was Chris Kunitz getting a breakaway. Henrik said no on Kunitz's second breakaway of the series. So you have to wonder…is Kunitz injured? Piss off.
Finally, after that powerplay, we saw Malkin and Crosby together. They immediately started making moves, and Marc Staal was beginning to punish Crosby.
Gibbons misses the layup
Crosby was making things happen again. Crosby made a slick move entering the zone, and he got a bounce. He waited Henrik out, but then Gibbons blew it.
The lines for the Penguins still didn't make sense. Case in point above. If that's Malkin, it is 1-0. The Rangers almost made the Pens pay for dicking around.
But Fleury was unflappable
First, Brian Boyle ran him…
Then he made the save of the night on Zuccarello…
The period seemed liked it was just going to end, but James Neal high-sticked a n00b.
Turning point
The Rangers would get a four-minute powerplay, and they would not score on it. There are no words to describe how bad their power play is. They did make it into the zone and managed not to start humping the boards. And they hit the post once or twice. Marc-Andre thanked it.
The Pens ended up killing the rest of Neal's shit, but not before the Rangers pushed a little harder. MAF was just not letting it happen.
The Rangers were feeding off the PP, but Crosby was about to break out.
Crosby rises
Robert Bortuzzo found Crosby streaking down the left side. Crosby got separation, looked up, fired.
Huge goal. 1-0 for the Pens. The Rangers looked dead. MSG was a funeral home.
Later, the Rangers hit another post. This time, the referees completely stopped the game to go and review it. Easiest no-goal call of all time.
Kris Letang and Paul Martin were outstanding. Letang did this:
The Rangers started to push again right after the 10-minute mark, but they didn't have it. And then they took a penalty. A Pens PP goal could have been a death blow, but it would come soon enough.
Jokinen went to the box for a stupid call, and the Rangers power play had their moment in the sun. They got skin cancer and died. MAF was locked in.
As the penalty expired, a puck got past Zuccarello, and Jokinen was about to make hay, one-on-one vs. Lundqvist.
What a fucking powerbomb to drop on MSG. 2-0.
We have to double-check our numbers, but Joe Vitale sucks. He set the NHL record for falls in a playoff series.
The third period came down to three things.
Listless effort from the Rangers
Does Rick Nash even play in the NHL anymore? He made a few nice moves once he was in the offensive zone, but when entering the zone, he would get eaten alive by every Pens pairing. Humiliating.
Fleury was locked in
We've all been watching Fleury a long time. This may have been his best game in the playoffs. He was seeing every puck, even through traffic.
Jacques Martin
The Pens boxed it in.
It was similar to what we saw when Martin was coaching the Habs.
And that was it. MAF with the shutout.
- Pens are in Kansas City right now without Jussi Jokinen.
- A lot of people jammed about Marc-Staal cross-checking Crosby. Playoff battle, in our opinion.
- Officiating has been awful for most of the playoffs, no different in this one. We just don't get as mad about it anymore.
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Forty-nine years ago tomorrow, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
For those of us between 50 and 75 years old, it was our Pearl Harbor moment - the moment you will never forget. Everyone in that age group remembers where they were, whom they were with, and following the grim events on television or radio as the sad story unfolded.
Nov. 22, 1963, was a Friday and, for those of us in school, classes were suspended as radio news was played over the intercom. First came word that the president had been shot. Then, within 30 minutes of that announcement, came word that Kennedy had died.
We watched television that night as Air Force One arrived back at Andrews Air Force Base carrying Kennedy's body. Photographs were shown of Jacqueline Kennedy, still wearing her blood-stained outfit, witnessing the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson as her husband's successor.
For the rest of the weekend, most of us watched the events sadly. Almost everybody saw Jack Ruby gun down Lee Harvey Oswald in the hallway of a Dallas police station the following Sunday. Later in the week, we watched the funeral procession and saw live 3-year-old John-John salute his father's casket.
It was the first truly historic moment that played out before our eyes on television - the precursor to the moon walk, the Challenger tragedy, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the horror of 9/11.
Because of the advent of television, there are more pictures etched in our minds of that sad date. Just as Kennedy was the first president to truly know how to use television as a tool, that tool documented his death in a way that had never been seen before.
It was a sad day because of the death of the young president. It was a historic moment not just for his death, but also because it marked the coming of age of television.
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The news of the Sacramento Kings' imminent move to Seattle is a bittersweet one.
One city loses a franchise that has called Sacramento its home since 1985, and the other will be getting its own franchise again after the Sonics were moved so unceremoniously to Oklahoma City in 2008.
The Kings and their owners, the Maloofs, haven't exactly made a convincing case as to why they should stay in California's capitol, but it's still sad to see them go.
But on the other hand, it's nice to see such a basketball-crazy city such as Seattle get a team again. Now that the group, led by Christopher Hanson—who has ties to Seattle—has all but moved the team, we'll be able to watch the Seattle SuperSonics once more.
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WARREN - Using education as a platform for better income and better health, the United Way of Trumbull County on Monday unveiled its plan to increase reading skills for students in kindergarten through second grade.
"Reading Great by 8" includes two programs designed to help more children meet Ohio's third-grade reading requirements, especially children from low- to moderate-income families. It is being funded by the Helene P. Kaighin and Nancy Van Fossan foundations.
A third of Trumbull County third-graders scored below efficient in fall reading test results released in December. Under the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, students can be held back if they don't meet the reading targets.
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That puts more than 34 percent of the roughly 125,000 Ohio third-graders who participated at risk. United Way's new initiative seeks to change that.
The ABC Reading Ready program will instruct parents and motivate students to be better readers, with help from the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority, Trumbull County Family & Children's First Council, Mahoning Valley Scrappers and Warren Trumbull County Public Library.
The Ready, Set, Go program will help students in Warren over the summer to prepare for the Third-Grade Reading Assessments in the fall, with a partnership that includes the Mahoning Valley Scrappers and Warren City Schools.
"We're very thankful; we're very fortunate," said Warren Schools Superintendent Michael Notar. "I'm a firm believer in early education. This is one piece of the puzzle that will help out tremendously."
A book giveaway will be held for Warren students, along with literacy kits and additional materials to help show kids that reading is fun, said United Way of Trumbull County President Ginny Pasha.
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Books are being collected by the GFWC Ohio Warren Junior Women's League and the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. For each book donated to the Scrappers, a free game ticket will be provided to the donor, said General Manager Jordan Taylor, and the organization hopes to donate at least 1,000 books.
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Democratic voters choose candidates to challenge GOP constables in fall
Republican Constables Roma Skinner and Ben Adamcik now know who they will face in November.
Early voting results show that Skinner, of Precinct 4, will most likely face Roy Williams Jr., a sheriff's deputy who is creaming his two rivals in the Democratic primary.
Williams is not related to noted Dallas activist Roy Williams, but I'm sure the name helped him win votes in southern Dallas County.
Williams easily dispatched two deputy constables, Charles Woertendyke and James D. Edwards.
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Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning author and journalist who covered national and international affairs as a New York Times correspondent and was a member of the staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She was the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio where she received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for reporting of South Africa's first democratic elections and the Rwanda genocide. She began her career as a war correspondent for The Washington Post covering Cambodia. She was one of two American journalists (in addition to Nate Thayer) allowed by the Khmer Rouge to return to Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 where she interviewed Pol Pot. Her initial attempts at seeing the Khmer Rouge dictator were rebuffed, however.[1] She is the author of When the War Was Over, a modern history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, for which she won a Robert F. Kennedy book citation.
The Financial Times said of her book that "Becker writes history as history should be written."[2] Rithy Panh made the documentary film "Bophana" based on an excerpt of the book. She was the 2008 Edelman fellow at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.
She is the author of "Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism," which was named one of Amazon's top non-fiction books of the year. She is also the author of "America's Vietnam War: A Narrative History for young adults" and "Bophana," which is only available in Cambodia. Her early investigation of the Khmer Rouge was detailed in "A Problem from Hell; America in the Age of Genocide" by Samantha Power.
Becker holds a degree in Indian studies from the University of Washington and did language studies at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India.
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- When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1986. ISBN 0-671-41787-8. OCLC 13334079.
- America's Vietnam War: A Narrative History. New York: Clarion Books. 1992. ISBN 0-395-59094-9. OCLC 24795769.
- Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2013. ISBN 9781439160992. OCLC 800024781.
- ^ "How-And Why-The New York Times Didn't Interview Pol Pot - Nate Thayer - Journalist". Nate Thayer - Journalist. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- ^ "Elizabeth Becker – Journalist and Author". Clinton Global Initiative Speakers – Bios. Retrieved 2005-12-25.[dead link]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jamie Wyeth stood off to the side of the grassy plot outside Barn 42, hard by Longfield Avenue, silently sketching the crowd watching the colt his wife owns taking a bath. If one scene could describe the Kentucky Derby experience, that would be it.
"It's amazing interest," Wyeth said. "It sure is a distance from my studio and my world."
The Wyeths had just been trackside at Churchill Downs on Wednesday morning watching Union Rags take one of his final morning gallops before Saturday's Kentucky Derby. The morning was hot and promising to get hotter, a preview of the coming days, including Derby Day.


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As the NHL'S general managers reconvene today in Boca Raton, Fla., for their annual meetings, it is a fitting time to finally handicap the GM of the Year race.
The way we see it, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren should be right at the top of the list with Nashville's David Poile and St. Louis' Doug Armstrong.
The Predators, with their recent additions, are one of the odds-on Stanley Cup favorites. Poile has never won the award, despite spending less and appearing in the playoffs more than most. Armstrong had the cojones to fire a solid, young coach just 13 games into the season. The Blues are the NHL's best team with 97 points.


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Anne Arundel County police said they are looking for two men who robbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Millersville.
Officers were called to the 8000 block of Veterans Highway at about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
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The rules for the next Parti Quebecois leadership race will be announced on Sept. 27 in Sherbrooke.
The Canadian Press has learned the party's 125 riding association presidents will meet that day to choose the method of voting and the date when a winner will be announced.
In the meantime, the PQ's national executive will come up with various scenarios for the delegates to the national council meeting to consider.
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The Last Arab Jews: The Community of Djerba, Tunisia. Lecture by Professor Lucette Valensi, EHESS (Paris)
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Location:Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
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Professor Lucette Valensi of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of California at Berkeley, is a world-renowned authority on the history of North Africa and the Middle East. Her published books include Jewish Memories, The Last Arab Jews, Tunisian Paesants in the 18th and 19th Century, and On the Eve of Colonialism.
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__________ disease is a hereditary condition that may appear in individuals as early as in their twenties and involves a widespread deterioration of the subcortical brain structures that control motor movements along with the motor areas in the frontal cortex.AnswerParkinson'sKorsakoff'sAlzheimer'sHuntington's
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Annie is a 78-year-old woman who has wandered into an emergency room claiming that cockroaches are climbing all over her body. She seems baffled and barely remembers what her last name is and where she lives. At times her speech is slurred. Her heartbeat is rapid and she is sweating profusely. Assuming that she is not intoxicated and that no psychological disturbance is producing her symptoms, from what might she be suffering?AnsweramnesiaAlzheimer's diseaseHuntington's diseasedelirium
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Rachel has panic attacks. It is most likely that she will experience a panic attack if she ingestsAnsweranxiolytics.caffeine.alcohol.barbiturates.
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Which form of language impairment involves a disturbance of language production along with intact comprehension abilities?AnswerapraxiaagnosiaBroca's aphasiaWernicke's aphasia
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Naltrexone works byAnswerstimulating serotonin receptors.b, mimicking endorphins.blocking opioid receptors.inhibiting dopamine reuptake.
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In relation to pathological gambling, casino gambling is associated with the __________ of pathology, and lottery and bingo games are associated with __________.Answerhighest risk; moderate riskslowest risk; no risksbig win type; low riskstreatment resistant type; low recidivism
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Which of the following is the cause of Wernicke's disease?Answerbrain damage caused by alcohola thiamine deficiencyglutamate buildup in the braina niacin deficiency
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Which of the following is increasingly being recognized as an important cause of mental and physical dysfunctions?Answerdeliriumchronic marijuana usetraumatic brain injuryviral infection
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Which of the following is among the possible negative physical effects of regular use of marijuana by males?Answerdecreased attention-spanflashbacksdecreased sexual desireproduction of defective sperm
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Treating sexual impulsivity by asking the client to imagine unpleasant images while thinking of images of inappropriate sexual behavior is referred to asAnswerimagined flooding.transference.aversive covert conditioning.cognitive restructuring.
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The degenerative course of Alzheimer's disease can typically last up toAnswer10 months.10 years.20 years.30 years.
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When did John Bayley become concerned about Iris Murdoch's cognitive functioning?Answerwhen he first saw her out riding her bicyclewhen they were out swimming in a streamwhen she was giving a speech at a universitywhen he had her placed in a nursing home
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Rhiannon, a woman with Alzheimer's disease, has become totally dependent on her husband for her subsistence. What makes it worse it that she has forgotten his name and has lost awareness of her surroundings. Rhiannon is in which stage of Alzheimer's disease?Answerearly confusionallate confusionalearly dementiamiddle dementia
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As mentioned in the text, which of the following pieces of information led Dr. Tobin to diagnose Carl Wadsworth as having a dependent personality disorder, in addition to the diagnosis of cocaine dependence?Answerthe fact that he was dependent on cocaine to get him through the daythe fact that he relied heavily on other people in his lifethe fact that he could not decide whether or not to stay in medical schoolthe fact that his MMPI scores indicated high addition proneness
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Mikhael has become increasingly obsessive and much less inhibited in his behavior than before. At times, he is apathetic and neglectful of his personal habits, however he has not experienced a decline in his memory. Which of the following dementias might Mikhael have?AnswerHuntington's diseaseParkinson's diseaseLewy body dementiafrontotemporal dementia
Question 18
Which of the following is the main feature of substance abuse?Answeruse of a substance in order to prevent withdrawalcontinued use of a drug despite risks or problems in livingusage of increased amounts of a drug to achieve the same highsubjective feeling of a need for the substance
Question 19
The legal principle that the state has the authority to protect those who are unable to protect themselves is referred to asAnswercommitment.guardian ad litem.ad hominen.parens patriae.
Question 20
According to the family systems perspective, adults with sexual impulsivity are more likely to grow up inAnswerabusive families.families with permissive attitudes.authoritative families.families with open attitudes about sex.
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Nora exhibits all of the classic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. Over the past two weeks, she has started drinking heavily. Which of the following facts best accounts for her substance abuse?Answerthe fact that anxiety disorders and substance-related are linked to the same genetic markersthe tendency for individuals with anxiety disorders to use substances in order to alleviate anxiety symptomsthe notion that people high in neuroticism have a strong predisposition to use alcoholthe fact that generalized anxiety disorder is not successfully treated with prescription medication
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The results of a recent study of centenarians indicated that approximately ____% of them were free of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease until the age of ____.Answer30; 7245; 6566; 7290; 92
Question 23
Delirium is most common amongAnswerchildren.adolescents.young adults.elderly individuals.
Question 24
The alcoholism treatment method in which individuals are encouraged not to view lapses from abstinence as signs of certain failure is calledAnswerrelapse prevention therapy.cue exposure therapy.expectancy therapy.covert conditioning.
Question 25
One biological theory proposes that Alzheimer's disease is the result of disruptions in which neurotransmitter system?AnswerGABA systemnorepinephrine systemacetylcholine systemdopaminergic system
Question 26
Women with eating disorders often report having had a(n) __________ attachment style to their primary caregivers.Answersecureinsecure-ambivalentinsecure-anxiousinsecure-unreactive
Question 27
Esther suffers from the painful symptoms of glaucoma. Her doctor has prescribed a synthetic form of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in an illegal drug, to treat her symptoms. This prescription is the synthetic form of the active ingredient inAnswercocaine.methadone.marijuana.morphine.
Question 28
In a recent study comparing the effectiveness of various treatments for trichotillomania, which group demonstrated a greater reduction in hair-pulling symptoms?Answerthe group receiving the behavioral treatmentthe group receiving fluoxetinethe waiting-list control groupthe group receiving psychodynamically-oriented therapy
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In some instances, when two or more substances are combined, the total intoxicant effect is greater than the effect due to each substance acting alone. This intensification of effect is referred to asAnswersedation.inebriation.metabolism.potentiation.
Question 30
Which of the following is identified as an important factor in determining the success of psychotherapeutic interventions for eating disorders?Answerthe client's expectations about the likelihood of improvementthe concurrent use of SSRIshow receptive the family is to participating in therapythe severity of the client's weight loss
Question 31
Individuals who use __________ are more likely to contract HIV.AnswermarijuanaLSDcocaineheroin
Question 32
What is the name of the rapidly growing subfield of psychology that examines issues pertaining to the relationship between criminal behavior and psychological disturbance?Answerpsychopathologyclinical psychologyforensic psychologylegal psychology
Question 33
Relapse prevention therapy comes from the __________ model.Answerpsychodynamiccognitive-behavioraldiseasedysfunctional learning
Question 34
Abnormalities in which of the following neurotransmitters have been associated with kleptomania?AnswerserotoninGABAdopamineacetylcholine
Question 35
Many compulsive gamblers become so distraught over the hopelessness of their situations that theyAnswerattempt suicide.seek help on their own.stop gambling by themselves.develop intermittent-explosive disorder.
Question 36
Despite the fact that budget cuts led to a decrease in outpatient services, which of the following led the government to increase commitment to community-based treatment?AnswerM'Naghten RuleAmericans with Disabilities ActDurham RuleALI guidelines
Question 37
Which of the following is the support group to help people who are close to alcoholics cope with the problems caused by alcoholism in their lives?AnswerAl-AnonAlcoholics AnonymousSynanonAdult Children of Alcoholics
Question 38
Margaret was a mild-mannered and reserved bank teller. Recently though, her personality has changed radically. Although she is in her mid-eighties, she has become very impulsive and socially disinhibited. Margaret is most likely suffering from __________ disease.AnswerAlzheimer'sParkinson'sHuntington'sPick's
Question 39
It is often difficult to diagnose organic disorders becauseAnswerindividuals who suffer from these disorders often suffer from somatoform disorders as well.it is difficult to differentiate these disorders from psychophysiological disorders.the symptoms are often not recognized by individuals without training in psychiatry.many of the symptoms are similar to those associated with psychological disorders.
Question 40
Carol has worked at a pesticide manufacturing company for years and recently she has become increasingly forgetful. If her memory loss persists, Carol might be diagnosed withAnswerdelirium.retrograde amnesia.amnestic disorder due to a general medical condition.substance-induced persisting amnestic disorder.
Question 41
"Road rage" may be considered a form of which of the following impulse-control disorders?Answeroppositional defiant disorderintermittent-explosive disorderpyromaniaInternet addiction
Question 42
In the case of Carl Wadsworth, described in the textbook, what information led Dr. Tobin to conclude that Carl was cocaine dependent?Answerthe fact that he was driving under the influence of cocainethe fact that he was using cocaine prior to operating on patientsthe fact that he continued using cocaine despite being very dependent on other people in his lifethe fact that his craving undermined his successful life pursuits and family life
Question 43
All of the following neurotransmitter systems may have a role in the development and maintenance of alcohol dependence EXCEPT the __________ system.AnswerGABAsubstance Pserotonindopamine
Question 44
The low rate of Alzheimer's disease in a sample of nearly 700 nuns was attributed to theirAnswerreligious lifestyle.lack of genetic vulnerability.simple lifestyle.level of mental activity.
Question 45
The use of MDMA (Ecstacy) has been associated with all of the following negative effects EXCEPTAnswerdepletion in the amount of serotonin in the brain following ingestion of large doses.increases in the amount of acetylcholine in the brain following ingestion of small doses.brain cell damage and cognitive impairments.an increase in body temperature resulting in hyperthermia and convulsions.
Question 46
__________ describes a pattern of substance use involving the use of a drug in a way that creates significant problems in daily life.AnswerAbuseDependenceAddictionHabituation
Question 47
Which of the following terms refers to an apparent loss of cognitive abilities due to depression?Answerpseudodementiaakinesiabradykinesiaanoxia
Question 48
In differentiating high-functioning nuns from those who later developed severe cognitive impairments, Snowdon examinedAnswertheir family backgrounds.the idea density of their writings.the number of years each served in the convent.CT scans of their brains.
Question 49
The synthetic opioid that produces a safer and more controlled reaction than heroin is referred to asAnswerendorphin.enkephalin.morphine.methadone.
Question 50
Akinesia is a motor disturbance in which
a person's muscles become rigid, making it difficult to initiate movement.
there is a general slowing down of motor activity.
there is some memory loss for events before the amnesia-inducing incident.
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Nigeria, at end-2010, reported a total of 18 wild poliovirus (WPV) cases with onset of paralysis in 2010, compared to 389 WPV cases at the same time in 2009. In 2003, though Nigeria had the highest number of polio cases in the world, planned polio supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) were suspended because of questions and concerns regarding the safety of oral polio vaccine (OPV) used in Nigeria. Consequently, the number of polio cases increased to 1,122 in 2006. The significant drop to 285 polio cases in 2007 was not sustained, as in 2008, the number of cases rose to 798. But this time, the downward trend from 2009 to 2010 appears to have been sustained.1 So how has Nigeria sustained, over the past 12 months, this very low transmission of WPV? Several factors contributed, including: • improvements in SIA quality in high-risk Local Government Areas (LGAs); • continued and sustained engagement of political, traditional and religious leadership; and, • closing surveillance gaps for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Importantly, these factors were catalysed by the application of new research tools combined with research into - and revised application of - existing and traditional social mobilization and communication practices. The introduction in 2006 of monovalent OPV type 1 (mOPV1) in Nigeria, was the beginning of a positive turn-around in the country's polio eradication efforts. Jenkins et al 2, reported that the mOPV1 was four times as efficacious than the traditionally-used trivalent OPV. The continued use of mOPV1 in frequent SIAs in Nigeria resulted in the progressive decline in the number of WPV type 1 (WPV1) cases – 724 in 2008, 75 in 2009 and seven WPV1 cases in 2010 (at end- 2010). However, with an upsurge in WPV type 3 (WPV3) cases in 2009 (from 73 in 2008 to 313 in 2009), in 2010 the bivalent OPV containing both types 1 and 3 polio was introduced on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee of Poliomyelitis Eradication (ACPE) and the Nigeria Expert Review Committee on Polio Eradication and Routine Immunization (ERC).3 Equally important as the use of mOPV1 and bivalent OPV was the change in community perceptions towards vaccination, especially polio vaccination. This ensured that more susceptible children were reached with the potent and efficacious vaccines. Innovative social mobilization and communications efforts included a "re-search" into and a review of existing and traditional social mobilization and communication practices and their modification and re-application. This has contributed to correcting misconceptions about polio vaccines and led to renewed interest and acceptance of the vaccines. One such intervention is the "majigi". "Majigi" is a public awareness programme employing the use of open air cinemas in public places; in the past, it has been an effective and popular method of educating and informing citizens on government programmes and planned activities. The practice which was much used in the pre-independence (pre-1960) era had subsequently died out. With the traditional leaders in attendance, at the "majigi" shows, communities have become better informed, not only on polio eradication, but also on other health and community development issues. The direct involvement of traditional leaders in vaccination exercises and their engagement in mobilizing their networks has resulted in a more effective participation by the people at every level of vaccination activities and other health issues. Issues concerned with patterns of non-compliance and gender specific communication interventions require further detailed studies. For example, the "majigi" still reaches primarily men. There is a need to continue studies, in collaboration with women organizations, which will provide results that can be applied to ensure that women are reached and fully engaged in polio eradication programmes and other health interventions. To further accelerate progress towards polio eradication, Nigeria must continue to apply the results of ongoing research and studies to enhance the quality of strategies. For example, the results of the ongoing seroprevalence studies would provide useful LGA-specific results and age-related immunity profiles that could be applied to enhance and further sensitise outreach tactics. At the same time, to adopt an aggressive mop-up strategy to respond rapidly and effectively to any remaining poliovirus transmission, the programme must take advantage of another research product, the real time reverse transcriptase PCR (rRT-PCR) technique, for the rapid and reliable identification of type and location of poliovirus isolates. 1 Polio Statistics Nigeria 2006-2010. 2 Jenkins HE., Aylward RB, Gasasira A, Donnelly CA., Abanida EA., Koleosho-Adelekan T, Grassly NC. (2008) Effectiveness of Immunization against Paralytic Poliomyelitis in Nigeria N Engl J Med 2008; 359:1666-74. 3 Report of the 19th Meeting of the Expert Review Committee (ERC) on Polio Eradication and Routine Immunization in Nigeria, Minna, 22-24 March 2010.
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March 29, 2010, 08:48 PM
I have 2 old Herters presses that I got from my grandpa when he passed away. They seem real solid but I have never used them. Are they good presses or should I just keep them for "back up"?
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March 29, 2010, 09:15 PM
Why would you want a press for "back up" if you couldn't use it for the prime work?
Herter's presses were fine. And remain so today, if you can find shell holders for 'em.
March 29, 2010, 09:25 PM
I've got an old Herter's two position press that I still use a lot - it's built like a tank. I had to buy adapters to use standard shellholders with it. If they work well and are in good condition you should use them.
RCBS makes a shellholder adapter that you can buy from Midway.
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March 29, 2010, 11:22 PM
My U3 will be loading when my kids are grandparents. Lately I use it for 45-70, keep it set up & ready to go off the bench & just pop it on when I need it. I have a Rock Chucker & Dillon 550 for most stuff, but I will not get rid of the old soldier. It was my first press in the 60's and it's still bullet proof. I got one of the shell plate adapters to use standard shell holders, but I have most of the Herter's shellholders as well. Take them apart, clean them up, oil them, and start loading. George Leonard Herter will be smiling down on you... :D
April 2, 2010, 08:52 PM
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Herter's made excellent reloading gear. I am still using a Model 3 press bought about 1957. My brother and I bought a complete reloading setup from them and everything is still in great shape. Brother passed away awhile ago and I ended up with most of his Herter's dies, bullet molds, bullets and yes! even primers and powder from the 60s and 70s. For you youngens the complete reloading setup cost us a whopping 72.00. Press, case length gauge, powder measure and scale, 7x57 and 7.65 x 53 dies, etc. Around 1962 we both bought Herter's 44 magnum single six revolvers cost 42.00 each plus Railroad Express Freight. At that time we learned the guns were made by J.P. Sauer and Son in Germany. I still shoot mine regularly with full house loads and its tight as a ........take you pick.... but its match accurate and the action smoother than any other revolver I own.
Just thought you might like to hear from an old Herter's customer. We lived in the hills of Arkansas and ordered everything from Herters' as it was 100 miles to any store that sold reloading gear.
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Benjamin Delle Donne, left, a senior environmental science major and politics minor at Saint Vincent College from North Huntingdon, participated in the annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Capitol in Harrisburg on March 19. He was accompanied at the conference by Dr. Stephen Jodis, right, dean of the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computing. Welcoming them to the East Wing Rotunda was Senator Kim Ward, center, of Pennsylvania's 39th District. They also met legislators Richard Saccone, George Dunbar and Joseph Petrarca. The conference is an educational event allowing undergraduate students enrolled in Pennsylvania's colleges and universities to showcase their research talents to the Commonwealth's key decision-makers. Delle Donne had an opportunity to spend the day in the Pennsylvania Capitol Building, share experiences and ideas with his counterparts from other schools and enlighten state legislators on the topics that are important to him and society. Special guest speaker during the opening session was Dr. Richard Alley, Nobel Prize Laureate, and an Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at The Pennsylvania State University. The title of the research poster that Delle Donne presented was "A Study of Terrestrial and Aquatic Contamination from Solubilized Metals Associated with Abandoned Bituminous Coal Mine Lands." His research advisor is Dr. Cynthia Walter, associate professor of biology.
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Ladies fall short to AJ Ellender in Playoffs
RAYNE DEFENSE - Rayne High's Tajane Butler (12) and Tanner Wilson (1) puts pressure on an AJ Ellender player Monday during the regional round of the 4-A state basketball playoffs held in Houma. (Acadian-Tribune Photo by Lisa Soileaux)
RAYNE HIGH LADY WOLVES - Members of the Rayne High 2013-2014 Lady Wolves basketball team who claimed the District 4-4A title are, first row, from left, Blakley Thomas, Tajane Butler, Tanner Wilson; second row, Tristan Mouton, Deaisha Guidry, Paultrice James, Cierra Harmon; top row, Tori Carriere, Charlesha Dugas, Whitley Larry, Bailey Thomas, and Coach Chester Randall. (Photo Courtesy/Petry Photography)
SENIORS HONORED - Senior members of the Rayne High Wolves Basketball Team honored during Senior Night held Friday evening prior to their last regular game of the 2013-2014 season were, from left, Assistant Coaches Willie Larry and Ryan Larry, Dylan Bergeron, Peyton Larry, Head Coach Louis Handy, Aaron Cutrer, Jharron Price, and Assistant Coach Eric Miller. (Acadian-Tribune Photo by Lisa Soileaux)
By Lisa Soileaux, Assistant Editor, Rayne Acadian-Tribune
HOUMA - The No. 9-ranked Lady Wolves traveled to AJ Ellender Monday evening where they fell short in the regional round of the 4A state playoffs.
Despite a two-point game at the half, the Lady Patriots took control of the contest in the second half with a stingy press and 3-pointers for a 60-41 win.
Lady Wolf Whitley Larry led the Rayne attack with 8 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals and 8 blocks.
Teammate Charlesha Dugas dumped in 12 points and 5 rebounds, while Tanner Wilson and Tristan Mouton each had 6 points on the night, Tori Carrier with 4 and Cierra Harmon with a trey.
Bi-District Win
The Lady Wolves began post-season Thursday with a 74-51 bi-district win over Franklin Parish of Winnsboro at home.
Leading the way for the Lady Wolves during their Class 4A bi-district win was junior guard Charlesha Dugas, who dumped in a game-high 32 points, 23 of those coming in the second half of play when Rayne pulled away for the win.
In addition to Dugas' 32 points, 4 rebounds and 7 steals, teammate Cierra Harmon was also tough in the lane scoring 13 points while collecting 9 rebounds, five of which were on offense for points.
Tori Carriere and Whitley Larry both hit double digits with 10 each on the night. In addition, Carriere recorded 7 rebounds and a steal, while Larry held her own with 9 rebounds, 5 steals and 7 blocks before leaving the game with leg cramps.
Tanner Wilson finished with four points and 7 steals, and Tristan Mouton had a trey and 4 steals.
The Lady Wolves held a slim 26-20 lead for the halftime break before hitting their stride with a 24-point third quarter behind a productive man-to-man defense including a stingy press. Both teams finished up with a 24-point final quarter with Rayne maintaining a distant lead for the win.


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Sh*t I Found Under My CouchDanielle
This weekend my husband and I re-arranged our living room. We have been wanting to put out television on the other side of the room in an attempt to really open our living room up more…
Well we accomplished it all — one thing we were NOT prepared for was finding all the sh*t our toddler had hidden behind and under the couch. I am sure the older kid helped with the crap, but I was downright shocked by some of the stuff we found.
I am sure I will never have to buy socks again in their lives, because I found their favorite hiding spot. Or maybe it was the sock gnomes?
Either way, I was completely amused, and wanted to share… I would love for all you guys to chime in with some of the silly stuff you have found when cleaning up after your kids!
Fire Trucks 1 of 7I can't even count how many toy fire trucks we found.
All sizes!
From Matchbox trucks, to full size ones I have no idea how they even FIT behind the couch!
I am not surprised given the fire truck obsession in our house.
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Socks 2 of 7Lots of SOCKS!
Not just the toddler's socks... but the husband's socks as well.
I automatically assumed that it was the laundry gnomes stealing them all.
Now I know it was just a hoarding toddler.
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Crumbs 3 of 7This little plate with a few crumbs on it has nothing on what I found.
Glad I own a vacuum, and I can officially say...NO MORE food in the living room.
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Wrapping Paper 4 of 7Crumpled up wrapping paper from Christmas.
I think the toddler thought if he hid it behind the couch that eventually it would bring him more gifts?
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Sippy Cup's! 5 of 7I found THREE sippy cups.
Not one... not two... but three!
I didn't even bother to open them up and see what was inside them, or even estimate how long they were there...
Garbage they went!
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Half the Spoons I Own 6 of 7Yes...
Half of the spoons in my house were hidden under the couch.
I guess he doesn't care for the forks?
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My Missing Sunglasses 7 of 7I have been missing my old aviator sunglasses.
Well I found them under the couch along with all the fun...
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Has anyone ever addressed the incidence of domestic violence in Witness families? I am relatively new here and don't want to cover old ground.
Thinking back, I can name multiple examples of households in each congregation I attended where domestic violence was evident.
I have an active Protective Order against my ex. who is still active in the congregation he attends. His fellow elders don't want to know about it and warned me, "You just have to watch what cultures you marry into." (He was hispanic) "Our sisters in the Far East regularly undergo much more than you did." Another elder readily admitted to leaving bruises on his wife and "she has never gotten a Protective Order."
I asked if there was a clause in the fruits of the spirit for certain ethnicities....no answer
Just wondering.
Domestic Violence?
by alamb 26 Replies latest jw friends
Has anyone ever addressed the incidence of domestic violence in Witness families? I am relatively new here and don't want to cover old ground.
When I was married (to a fanatic pioneer), I was the one that should have gotten a restraining order against my wife.
Even though I was averaging 15 hours of service every month, if I came home from my full time work (to support her pioneering) and didn't go out in service with her, she would start swearing, breaking things, and on occasions, hit me with something, leaving me with bruses.
When I would grab her arms so that she couldn't hit me, she would try kicking me, or head-butting me.
Then, she would start telling me that she would go to the elders and tell them that I'm beating her up, because the elders always listen to crying females.
It's a good thing I had a tape recorder taping all this once. I ended up going to the elders about this, and they deleted her as a pioneer. But, this whole experience left me definately shaken & stirred.
I also realized that I didn't want to be married for the rest of my life to someone like that, and since she was a fanatically "faithfull JW"........
Peter Stride
Toronto, Canada
PS. In the congregation I was attending at that time, I knew of one other couple where the female was the aggressor, even in public. He was usually trying to keep the peace, and ended up getting the raw end of the deal.
Peterstride and alamb,
Both of your experiences are very appalling--my sympathies and I'm glad you're both out of it.
I have a situation in my family but it's non-witness-related, so I'll keep mum.
Thanks for sharing.
Hey y'all,
I know a young jw man (21) who married a jw female older than him. She's always been high strung (off the wall sometimes), he's pretty laid back.
When they first got married, for about 6 mos - she'd just physically go off on him. He finally started talking to us about it. He would be laying on the couch and say something she didn't like - she fly on him, biting, scratching, hitting all at the same time, he showed me the bruises from the bites. Mean looking.
Now, he's 6'4" and she's 5'2". All he would do is try and get away from her - period. Another time he was eating cereal, she didn't like something, grabbed his hair from behind and slammed his head into the wall. When he told me, he had tears in his eyes remembering the pain.
Another time, she kicked him hard in the stomach, when in a car in our parking lot.
I encouraged him in the usual ways - but not necessarily to go to the police. The reason? The size difference. She's also 10 years older than him. If I didn't know him well, I'd have a hard time believing the abuse. I told him to tell all her friends and family what's she doing, leave her when she acts like that - make her abuse public.
She's a very proper jw, wouldn't want to do anything to bring reproach on Jehovah's organization.
Anyway, things have gotten much better - she doesn't hit him anymore. Into the second year of marriage. Now she wants to have a baby - I told him he's crazy even to contemplate it. He says "Oh, she's not like that anymore."
Yeah, right. Till next time.
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My sister was a woman who endured domestic violence within the WTBTS and when she approached the elders she was told that she could not divorce him and neither would they assist her unless she was beaten within an inch of her life being take.
She went and found herself a nice young man, slept with him, and got herself a scriptural divorce.
She actually ended up marrying this man and is still a JW again....but she suffered shockingly.
Some Birds Were Not Meant To Be Caged
Hey, Alamb, i am glad you and others like you are 'out of it' as well. And now here you are with us.
Life is a roller coaster. Get in, sit down, shut up and hang on!
This is a really touchy subject for me, but I will say that in the 3 halls that we were in, the elders told my mom over and over again that she would have to go before a JC if she left my abusive father and they strongly indicated most likely she'd be disfellowshipped.
She was also told not to provoke him.
We were told to never call the police.
Whenever we went to an elder's house on a night when my dad was out of control, nine times out of ten, we were sent right back home and my dad would be standing there smiling/smirking as we would walk back in. The elders just fueled my dad and it just got worse year after year after year.
One night when we went to an elder's house, the elder's wife said something like how they needed to take my mom to the hospital for her injuries and the elder said, "no, then the police would get involved".
In the many years this happened, not one elder ever asked any of us if we felt "safe". It just didn't seem to me that they cared if we were safe. They never talked to us kids about it to see how we were "affected" or give us any encouraging words.
At the very least, they should at least recognize that this happens and have "safe houses" set up for victims to allow a cool-down period.
My mom was abused physically for years and the rest of us emotionally (late night raids into the room, dumping the entire contents of your vloset on the floor, telling you to clean it up) One night, he made the mistake of hitting her when I was home, he usually only did stuff when he was alone with her.. I called the police and everyone was pissed at me for calling the police. My older brother defended my dad and said it was just a slip in self control. Unfortunatley he didnt get arrested because he left no physical bruises on her.
Now shes divorced from him without being dissfleowshiped only because she knew he had cheated on her before and he admitted it to the elders.
Are you my brother??? Your family life sounds like it was just like ours. The late night raids -- catching you off guard.
I had two older brothers, and like your family, one protected my mom and the other protected my dad (until they had a falling out).
A big thing with the elders was that my dad never actually "hit" her with his fist. The things my dad did were much worse though.
Per the Bible, a man who physically and verbally abuses his wife and/or children is not qualified to be or remain in any appointed position or to have any special privileges. Lack of response to counsel from the elders should end in the husband being disfellowshipped. Name one man in the Bible approved by Jehovah that beat, struck, verbally abused his wife. (Don't tell me about the concubine's husband…he's a wimpy coward.)
If any man (and a few women) were to hit someone other than their spouse or children in this way, what would the elders do. If I went up to a sister in the KH and yanked on her hair so hard that I pulled some out by the roots, what would happen to me? If I kicked a child and/or swore obscenities at them every time I saw them at the KH, what would happen to me? Would the elders suggest to my victims that they pray and display the fruitages of the holy spirit more fully to prevent my behavior?'
The problem lies in that the elders are woefully unequipped to handle these problems. Special training is needed. While there is some good advice from the Bible and in the publications, elders ignore it or worse yet have never read it.
I speak from my own experience. Remember sisters (and some brothers) your life is involved and the lives of any children.
*** w99 2/15 8 What Is Needed for a Successful Marriage? ***
The Bible counsels: "Let all malicious bitterness and anger and wrath and screaming and abusive speech be taken away from you." (Ephesians 4:31) …
In addition, Paul wrote that one who qualifies for special privileges in the congregation should be "not a smiter"—according to the original Greek, "not dealing blows." (1 Timothy 3:3, footnote) He cannot be one who strikes people physically or browbeats them verbally. A person who is prone to become violent in a moment of anger is not a suitable marriage partner.
This counsel is totally ridiculous!
*** w88 11/1 22 When Marital Peace Is Threatened ***
Extreme physical abuse is another basis for separation. Suppose an unbelieving mate often gets drunk, becomes enraged, and causes the believer physical harm. (Proverbs 23:29-35) Through prayer and by displaying the fruitage of Jehovah's spirit, the believer may be able to prevent such outbursts and make the situation endurable. But if the point is reached where the health and life of the abused mate actually are in jeopardy (by whose assessment, the wife's or the elders?), separation would be allowable Scripturally. Again, congregation elders should look into charges of physical abuse when two Christians are involved in the troubled marriage, and disfellowshipping action may have to be taken.—Compare Galatians 5:19-21; Titus 1:7.
*** g88 11/22 8 When the Battering Will Stop ***
God's Law and the Christian View
God's law makes clear that husbands should "continue loving [their] wives, just as the Christ also loved the congregation. . . . Husbands ought to be loving their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself, for no man ever hated his own flesh; but he feeds and cherishes it." (Ephesians 5:25, 28, 29) This law supersedes all man's laws, past and present.
Surely no Christian husband would argue that he still loves the wife he abuses. (This is a very typical response from husbands…."I won't do it again.") Would the wife abuser beat his own body—pull his hair and punch himself in the face and about his body because he truly loves himself? Does the wife beater freely tell others—outside family members, friends, other Christians—that from time to time he will beat his wife, inflict bodily harm on her, because he loves her so much? Or, rather, does he threaten his wife so that she will not tell anyone? Are the children sworn to secrecy by their father not to tell others about his abuse? Or are they ashamed to do so? Do not his actions belie his claim that he truly loves his wife? Love for each other is normal. Wife abuse is not.
Finally, if a Christian man batters his wife, does it not render all his other Christian works useless in God's sight? Remember, "a smiter" does not qualify for privileges in the Christian congregation. (1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; Ephesians 5:28)
This all sounds so familiar.
When I confronted the elders about my home, they asked my husband if it was true to which he said "no" (duh) and I got the backlash at home. Another time they came over and asked if he actually hit me with a closed fist or was it more of a slap. I was also read the scripture about how an elders wife is to behave and this was my duty.
I grinned of the other stories about late-night rades. My mother woke me up at 3 a.m. once and sat me on the couch and then sat across the room from me glaring the whole time. When I asked her what was up she said "I am upset and if I can't sleep, neither can you." I asked her what was wrong and she told me to figure it out. I'm still working on that one.
I wonder if a website addressing this with some support links and safe-houses as mentioned would help anyone?
Yeah people sometimes don't take emotional/psychological abuse seriously. It's like "Well if he dosen't hit you then it can't be that bad."
alot of victims of emotional abuse would prefer their tormenter would just hit them, it seems physical blows would heal faster than emotional ones. Tormenters such as my dad get their jollies by controlling others. Issues such as dumping your clothes over the floor and ordering you to clean it up is them exercsising control. Anothe rmethod of torture is sleep deprivation. He will often make my mom stay up all night talking to her about her innadequcies, why she was a bad mother or why her family was awful or how the whole world was out to get him. He was paranoid and being a JW didnt help much. He voudlnt hold a job longer than a couple of months, mostly because he could not take orders from someone else..he was too proud.
I dont speak to him anymore and never wish to, there were many times I literally wished him dead but could think of no way to kill him without being caught. Emotional abuse is that bad.
I was scared to be alone in the house with him. He would preach against the evils of tom and jerry as being violent and therefore from satan. Oh get this..he hit my mom in front of my 7 year old little brother who happens to be autistic, and hass the $#@%! nerve to try to give me a speech for playing a video game like tekken tag in front of him. What an asshole. He still claims satan made him do it.
that it wasnt him, it was satan attacking the family. He is still trying to contact me I beleive but i have moved and have new number and everything, he hasnt been able to track me down at all.
When he got angryhis eyes would literally look demon-possesed. I have heard accounts of soldiers who commit attrocities in wars, such as the japanese in the naanking massacre, to have this look. I beleive it now to be the look of absolute loss of rational thought, the moment when you are completley at the mercy of your deepest animal insticts and fury. THis is why we fear it so, because we are no longer dealing with a human being but an animal. One time he hit the wall half an inch from my face and put a hole in the wall..why?
Because I had missed the school bus. And it wasn't even that i had missed it..he misunderstood me. I told him the bus that had just left was not my school bus but another one, mine would arrive any minute..but he wasnt to be reasoned with. I just ran and left the house after that. My mom told me he would throw knifes at her, and to this day she does not keep any sharp knifes in the house. She uses a special electric safety knife to cut meats and vegetables.
All this while he wa sa JW in good standing, and everyone thought he was a great guy. Especially my older brother who defended him constantly. His response? His advice was to 'just avoid him' and 'dont provoke him'
yeah whatever.
One time, to avoid him, i walked 3 hours to my friends house and stayed the night. This is a man who never learned how to love or how to interact with humans. In court when my mom was trying to get custody of my autistic little brother he brought all these papers trying to discredit my mom by saying she had depression and was on medication all the time..yeah i wonder why she was depressed.
Then he tried to say me, by leaving the jw's had rejected all moral standards and was disobedient and a delenguint. THe judge saw he was a psycho though and gave custody to my mom. Unfortunatley she is now under the control of my older brother but thats a different story.
When this was happening in my family the elders defended my step-father as well, and he wasn't even a baptized witness, just a bible-study. We were told that "In our home he is the leader of the house-hold and can set forth any rules he sees fit as long as they don't contradict scripture - and he can set forth any punishment he wants up to but not exceeding beating us unconciousness."
After he stopped studying and got involved in drugs our lives were miserable, but the elders stuck to their guns, and unfortunately for us he knew that my mother, a devout witness would not be permitted to leave unless he committed adultery - so he could do whatever he wanted with the elders blessing.
And THIS is supposed to be "God's organization", I think not!
Like Monica and others, this is a touchy subject for me as well. My heart aches for all the stories I hear on this board. Not just for my experiences, but out of surprise that others have been raised as I was raised! It really wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized my family wasn't "normal". That screaming, throwing things, beatings, late night raids, slappings, and such were abuse. I thought this was all because I was such a bad kid. I WAS JUST A KID!!!
I pray that God show mercy on the abuse victims still stuck in the Tower. If I think about it too much, it makes me physically ill.
this is something i am familiar with
my x,,,ms,,,beat the royal crap out of me,,,
next door neighbours were witnesses,,,said they dont have this going on in their family and dont know how to deal with it,,,so the ignored me,,dont know how,,half my face was on the ground
x got 1 year in jail for it,,,and is still a practicing jw,,,
i think i have worked through all the bitterness, anger, etc, except for that part that he is in good standing,,,he got married 12 hours after our divorce,,,,imagine,,,society tells you you cant date until you are divorced,,,so it must have been a very fast romance,,,,most of the elders, etc, stood behind him, and said i pushed him over the edge,,,hmm after 25 yrs marriage,,,i dont think so
this was not the first time of abuse,,,,i had even called the elders in to help us,,,advise us,,told me to read the happiness book,,yeah right
Neyko's post to me is inescpable evidence to me as to why the WTS should not allow untrained elders to deal with domestic situations. From what he's described it seems evident that his dad has some kind of mental disorder that makes him unable to control his emotions. He also seems to have trouble thinking rationally.
Neko, it seems you Dad would do well to get some sort of counselling. If he could see a mental health professional I wouldn't doubt that he would recieve some type of diagnosis and some prescriptions. Maybe you could suggest that somehow, though I ouldn't reccommend doing it face to face.
Thank you for the welcome. The only strings I have are the family I have who are still in. My daughters are also at risk. I guess the greatest gift I can give them right now is common sense and see where that leads. It got me out.
On the bright side, and there is one .........
everyone who has posted on this thread has been able to literally leave this type of life behind for themselves. For other family members? They have to do for themselves in a great part.
Studies have been done on why, in particular, women stay with abusive mates. Lots of reasons. And why they leave? Finally, they have been through enough, decide to stick up for themselves and/or kids, realize their lives depend on leaving, wake up and see there is something, somewhere, better.
But the victims have to do something. We can't force them. I guess I'm referring more to the children of parents who are still in this violence. It must be frustrating beyond belief to know that it's going on.
Congratulations to us all for taking a step at leaving the violence behind.
Wow! It is so strange hearing (or watching) someone write my almost exact feelings and almost exact experiences!!
I totally agree regarding the emotional abuse. Just hit me smack square in the nose and get it over with!!
Control -- yep know all about it! He would actually blame us for never being appointed as an elder. Lecture, after lecture on how we were bringing him down and how we needed to do more so that he could be appointed elder. It was all about control - he wanted to be in control of everything!
We all left the JWs in 1988 and he changed a lot after it; however, I maintained a very distant relationship with him until my mom left him a few years back and as of this year, we pretty much don't speak to each other and I'm hoping to slowly cut off the relationship entirely. He still tries to control with his little mind games, but it just doesn't work like it used to. I'm pretty much through with him. He just doesn't get it and will never change. I do not want my kids around him.
It's strange how the abuse has affected us kids. Luckily, the years of counseling I received has helped me to learn ways to effectively get across a point. Control has been a real issue for me. Not that I want to control everyone, it's just that I stress soooo much about things I cannot control and it just drives me nuts!!
I could tell story after story of the stuff my dad would do to us, but I still get emotional just talking about it. I cannot believe the similarities between our stories though!
Sleep deprivation -- I was going to say something about that in my last post. He would go nuts if any of us kids took a nap during the day!! We were called lazy, good for nothing...blah-dee-blah-blah-blah!
I remember telling my mom, I'd rather live on the street than live there!
My dad actually had his own business and would make us kids work for him WITHOUT PAY! We would all have to work at least 10-15 hours a week. That combined with all the JW stuff was just sheer torture for us! Imagine working for your dad!! Not very fun!
Scared to be alone with him -- I used to plan an escape route sometimes. I swear one night I thought I was going to have to jump from our 2nd story window -- really, really sad!!
There is still a hole on my bedroom door at the house from one night him kicking it in. I just don't even really rememer why we got in trouble. It was just stupid stuff. Heck, he'd throw fits for using his toothepaste or my sister grabbing one of his razors to shave her legs.
Why? I have no idea. What is so terribly wrong to make someone do that? I remember at 19, he threw a fit because I wasn't pioneering and ran at me with a metal cabinet shelf (he had an auto parts business and had these metal cabinets with flimsy metal shelves). By then, I'd had enough and yelled at him to do it, to JUST DO IT!!! That he couldn't hurt me more than he already had and I said a lot of stuff to him that day about what I thought of him. But it went right over his head. He apologized months later for that incident and asked me if I wanted to apologize! For what?? Being honest?
One night, my mom told us to be prepared, that we were going to have to leave. So I went to bed with my shoes on and made my sister do the same. As we were leaving in the middle of the night, he was sitting at the dining room table cleaning his guns. I cannot tell you the terror and horror he put us through. If my mom didn't have enough money for a hotel, we sometimes spent the night in the car. (spokane is quite chilly in the winter!)
My dad, like yours, physically abused my mom and emotionally abused us all. My dad would push my mom down stairs, etc. -- stuff too emotional for me to talk about. I hate that part of my life! I am glad I never have to be under his control ever again. I'm glad I never have to look at another one of the elders again who would tell us ways to not provoke my father.
The screaming -- My heart races today if I imagine hearing his screaming voice. Back then, it would send me into shear panic.
I just want to say, that I am sooooooo sorry for everyone's experiences here!!! I know what it was like and it breaks my heart that these creeps can and do get away with it!! What wimps that they have to pick on women and children.
Thank you for your kind comments. I am so lucky in that I took my experiences and managed to find a guy who would never do these things. I know his stomach turns to hear my stories. He is so wonderful to me and he understands and is so patient with me.


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Google Chrome is a web browser very recently released by Google. While Dave concentrated more on the "guts" of the browser, I concentrated more on its usability. What I discovered is that while Gmail and Yahoo! Mail work, the full version of Hotmail does not. The bookmark import from Firefox on initial install didn't work. There's also some Java stuff that doesn't work and the zoom feature isn't too great either (compared to IE or Firefox). However I will say that yes, it's really fast, zippy and easy to use.
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I found that the bookmark import did not work until I tried it in Safe Mode with the networking option. Apparently some service I have, and I have too many as I test a lot of applications for my office uses/emulates/ makes chrome think Firefox is running when it is not. I imagine you have the same issue. Everything imported correctly in Safe Mode and I am now happily using/testing Chrome.
There is a bug with Flash based sites and Kasperky Anti virus 7 you need to disable some features in web anti virus to get flash bases Videos like Youtube to load other wise it says The video is unavailable
Hey Rich, I noticed you said that the Zoom in Chrome is broken but unless Google itself tells me otherwise, I don't think that's what's happening. If you look under the "control current page" bottom on Chrome the feature is called "Text Zoom" (identical to the Zoom Text Only option in Firefox 3) so although Text Zoom breaks the pages and makes it look terrible, the feature is not broken. I do hope they add the full page zoom since text zoom is kind of pointless (for me at least). Other than that, great video review of chrome, glad to know what did and didn't work for you.
Not that I'm totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on SU telling that the info is awesome. Thanks.
google chrome is good but it has a few bugs!
lol dont use chrome unless u want to get too attached to it like i did hahahaha. love chrome but.. wish it had some fixes that firefox has


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What advice would you give someone starting this project? Four skeins of Patons Lace Sequins in Amber is the perfect yarn! A hook size of US H (5.00mm) is what is recommended in the pattern and what I used, but you could go up a size or two and use fewer skeins. It's easy to crochet up once you get the hang of this 2 row pattern by Bonita Patterns. A long run yarn is really gorgeous in this stitch. The orange"ish" shawl is 3 skeins of Patons Lace in Bonfire. Little gold sequins add a hint of glitter and shine.
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