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This is a timeline of the modern development of psychiatry. Related information can be found in the Timeline of psychology and Timeline of psychotherapy articles.
Early history of psychiatryEdit
The Ebers papyrus, one of the most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, briefly mentioned clinical depression.[1]
- 6th century BCE
600 B.C., many cities had temples to Asklepios known as an Asklepieion that provided cures for psychosomatic illnesses[2]
- 4th century BCE
Greek physician Hippocrates theorized that physiological abnormalities may be the root of mental disorders.
Greek physician and philosopher Herophilus studied the nervous system and distinguished between sensory nerves and motor nerves.
Greek anatomist Erasistratus studied the brain and distinguished between the cerebrum and cerebellum.
The first psychiatric hospital was built by Muslims in Baghdad, followed by Cairo in 800, and Damascus in 1270.[3]
- 11th century
Persian physician Avicenna recognized "physiological psychology" in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings.
- 1247
Bethlehem Royal Hospital in Bishopsgate outside the wall of London, one of the most famous old psychiatric hospitals was founded as a priory of the Order of St. Mary of Bethlem to collect alms for Crusaders; after the English government secularized it, it started admitting mental patients by 1377 (1403?), becoming known as Bedlam Hospital; in 1547 it was acquired by the City of London, operating until 1948; it is now part of the British NHS Foundation Trust.[4]
Psychiatry in the Age of ReasonEdit
- 1656
King Louis XIV of France founded Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris for prostitutes and the mentally defective.
- 1672
English physician Thomas Willis published the anatomical treatise De Anima Brutorum, describing psychology in terms of brain function.
- 1724
After being plagued with guilt over the Salem Witch Trials, influential New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather broke with superstition by advancing physical explanations for mental illnesses over demonic explanations.[5]
- 1758
English physician William Battie published Treatise on Madness, calling for treatments to be utilized on rich and poor mental patients alike in asylums, helping make psychiatry a respectable profession.
- 1793
French physician Phillipe Pinel was appointed to Bicêtre Hospital in south Paris, ordering chains removed from mental patients, and founding Moral Treatment. In 1809 he published the first description of dementia praecox (schizophrenia).
- 1796
The York Retreat in England was founded by Quakers, becoming known for humane treatment and serving as a model.
Psychiatry in the 19th centuryEdit
- 1808
German physician Johann Christian Reil coined the term "Psychiatry".[6]
- 1812
American physician Benjamin Rush became one of the earliest advocates of humane treatment for the mentally ill with the publication of Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon Diseases of the Mind,[7] the first American textbook on psychiatry.[5]
- 1821
The element Lithium was first isolated from Lithium oxide and described by English chemist William Thomas Brande.
- 1841
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in England was founded, receiving a royal charter in 1926.
- 1844
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1845
The Lunacy Act 1845 and the County Asylums Act 1845 were passed in England and Wales, leading to the setting up of the Lunacy Commission.
- 1852
French physician Bénédict Augustin Morel published Traite des Maladies Mentales (2 vols.); the 2nd ed. (1860) coined the term "dementia praecox" (demence precoce) for patients suffering from "stupor" (melancholia). In 1857 he published Traité des Dégénérescences, promoting an understanding of mental illness based upon the theory of Degeneration, which became one of the most influential concepts in psychiatry for the rest of the century.
- 1859
Josef Breuer published Traite Clinique et Therapeutique de L'Hysterie.
- 1893
German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as Schizophrenia.
- 1895
Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer of Austria published Studies on Hysteria, based on the case of Bertha Pappenheim (known as Anna O.), developing the Talking Cure; Freud and Breuer later split over Freud's obsession with sex.
- 1899
The Kraepelinian dichotomy between affective psychosis and dementia praecox (schizophrenia) was introduced in the 6th edition of Emil Kraepelin's famous Lehrbuch.
On November 4 Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Tramdeutung).
Early 20th century psychiatryEdit
- 1900
Russian neurologist Vladimir Bekhterev discovered the role of the hippocampus in memory.
- 1901
German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what later became known as Alzheimer's disease.
Sigmund Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
- 1902
Swiss-born psychiatrist Adolf Meyer became director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, influencing American psychiatry with his "common sense" approach which included keeping detailed patient records; he coined the term "mental hygiene".
- 1905
French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon created the Binet-Simon Scale to assess intellectual ability, marking the start of standardized psychological testing.
- 1906
Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov published the first Conditioning studies.
- 1908
The term "Schizophrenia" was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler.
- 1909
In Sept. Sigmund Freud visited Clark University, winning over the U.S. psychiatric establishment.
- 1910
Sigmund Freud founded the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), with Carl Jung as the first president, and Otto Rank as the first secretary.
Boris Sidis opened the Sidis Psychotherapeutic Institute (a private hospital) at Maplewood Farms in Portsmouth, NH for the treatment of nervous patients using the latest scientific methods.
- 1911
Alfred Adler left Freud's Psychoanalytic Group to form his own school of thought, accusing Freud of overemphasizing sexuality and basing his theory on his own childhood.
The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) was founded.
- 1913
The British Psychoanalytical Society was founded by Ernest Jones, who became Freud's biographer.
Citing Freud's inability to acknowledge religion and spirituality, Carl Jung split and developed his own theories; his new school of thought became known as Analytical Psychology.
Jacob L. Moreno pioneered Group Psychotherapy methods in Vienna, which emphasized spontaneity and interaction; they later became known as Psychodrama and Sociometry.
- 1914
Sigmund Freud published On Narcissism: An Introduction.[8]
- 1917
Sigmund Freud published Introduction to Psychoanalysis, and Mourning and Melancholia.[9]
- 1920
Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach developed the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
- 1921
Sigmund Freud published Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.
- 1923
German pharmacologist Otto Loewi and English neuroscientist Sir Henry Dale discovered Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be described, winning them the 1936 Nobel Prize.
- 1924
German neuropsychiatrist Hans Berger discovered human Electroencephalography.
Otto Rank published The Trauma of Birth, coining the term "pre-Oedipal", causing Freud to break with him.
- 1926
The Société Psychanalytique de Paris was founded with the endorsement of Sigmund Freud; the Nazis closed it in 1940.
- 1927
Austrian psychiatrist Manfred Sakel developed Insulin Shock Therapy as a treatment for psychosis; it was discontinued in the 1970s.
Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg won the Nobel Prize for his invention of malarial therapy as a treatment for general paralysis of the insane (neurosyphilis). He first initiated the treatment in 1917.
- 1928
Indian Association for Mental Hygiene established.
- 1933
Hungarian psychiatrist Sandor Ferenczi published a paper claiming that patient accounts of childhood sexual abuse are true, providing a psychological explanation, causing Freud to break with him.
- 1935
The Indian division of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association was formed due to the efforts of Dr. Banarasi Das.
- 1938
Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti and Italian psychiatrist Dr. Lucio Bini discovered Electroconvulsive Therapy.
- 1942
Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger founded Existential Therapy.
The Controversial Discussions between Sigmund Freud's daughter Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, founder of Object Relations Theory caused the British Psychoanalytical Society to permanently split into three camps.
- 1944
Ritalin (Methylphenidate) was synthesized.
- 1946
Mary Jane Ward published the novel The Snake Pit, which was filmed in 1948, causing reforms in U.S. state psychiatric hospitals.
- 1947
Indian Psychiatric Society established.
- 1948
Lithium carbonate's ability to stabilize mood highs and lows in bipolar mood disorder (manic depression) was demonstrated by Australian psychiatrist John Cade, becoming the first effective medicine for the treatment of mental illness.
- 1949
Portuguese neurologist Antonio Moniz won the Nobel Prize for his work on Lobotomy.
The Era of the New PsychopharmacologyEdit
- 1950
The World Psychiatric Association was founded.
- 1952
The first published clinical trial of chlorpromazine who is the first antipsychotic (has been invent by Henri Laborit, Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker) was conducted at fr:Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne in Paris.
- 1952
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) published the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); it was revised in 1968, 1980/7, 1994, and 2000.
- 1952
The first monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressant iproniazid was discovered.
- 1953
Russian-born physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman of the U. of Chicago discovered rapid eye movement Sleep (REM), founding modern sleep research.
French psychiatrist Jacques Lacan broke with the IPA over his variable-length sessions, and founded the Société Française de Psychanalyse.
- 1954
James Olds and Peter Milner of McGill University discovered the brain reward system.
Roger Sperry of Caltech began split-brain research.
On the recommendation of the Bhore Committee in 1946, the All India Institute of Mental Health was founded, becoming the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in 1974 at Bangalore.
- 1956
Gregory Bateson, John Weakland, Donald deAvila Jackson, and Jay Haley proposed the double bind rheory of schizophrenia, which regards it as stemming from situations where a person receives different or contradictory messages.
The English translation of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud was published in 24 volumes (1956–74).
- 1957
Arvid Carlsson demonstrated that dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain.
The first tricyclic antidepressant (TCA), imipramine was discovered from the pineal gland.
- 1958
Aaron B. Lerner et al. of Yale University isolated the hormone melatonin, which was found to regulate the circadian rhythm.
- 1960s
Aaron T. Beck developed cognitive therapy.
- 1960
The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide, under the trade name Librium was introduced.
- 1963
United States president John F. Kennedy introduced legislation delegating the National Institute of Mental Health to administer Community Mental Health Centers for those being discharged from state psychiatric hospitals.
Medard Boss founded Daseinsanalysis.
- 1964
Ronald David Laing published Sanity, Madness and the Family, claiming that the roots of schizophrenia lie in the "family nexus", where people play dark games with each other.
- 1970
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lithium for acute mania.
The United States U.S. Controlled Substances Act was passed, putting LSD, DMT, Psilocybin, Mescaline, and Marijuana on Schedule I (no accepted medical use).
- 1972
American psychologist David Rosenhan published the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatric diagnoses.
- 1973
The American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.[10]
The Caucus of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Members of the American Psychiatric Association was officially founded. A primary function of the organization was to advocate to the APA on LGBT mental health issues. The caucus changed its name to the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists in 1985.[11]
- 1977
The ICD-9 was published by the WHO.
Andrey Lichko published Psychopathies and Accentuations of Character of Teenagers.[12]
- 1982
The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) was launched in India.
- 1983
The European Psychiatric Association was founded.[13]
- 1987
The Indian Mental Health Act was drafted by the parliament, but it came into effect in all the states andunion territories of India in April 1993. This act replaced the Indian Lunacy Act of 1912, which had earlier replaced the Indian Lunatic Asylum act of 1858.
- 1988
Fluoxetine (trade name Prozac), the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant was released, quickly becoming the most prescribed.
The American Neuropsychiatric Association was founded.
- 1990
Use of the "blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) in MRI first discovered by Dr. Seiji Ogawa[14]
- 1991
Kenneth Kwong successfully applied BOLD to image human brain activities with MRI, and published the findings in 1992.[15]
- 1994
The appetite-suppressing hormone leptin was discovered.
- 1996
U.S. President William Clinton signed the Mental Health Parity Act, requiring psychiatric conditions to be considered equal to any other medical or surgical illness by health insurance providers; in 2008 President George W. Bush signed an amended version.
21st centuryEdit
- 2000
The No Free Lunch Organization was founded by Dr. Bob Goodman, an internist from New York.
- 2002
The European Brain Council was founded in Brussels.
The term for schizophrenia in Japan was changed from Seishin-Bunretsu-Byō 精神分裂病 (mind-split-disease) to Tōgō-shitchō-shō 統合失調症 (integration disorder) to reduce stigma.[16] The new name was inspired by the biopsychosocial model; it increased the percentage of patients who were informed of the diagnosis from 37% to 70% over three years.[17]
See alsoEdit
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Scholl, Reinhold (2002). Der Papyrus Ebers. Die größte Buchrolle zur Heilkunde Altägyptens, Leipzig.
- ↑ Silverberg, Robert (1967). The dawn of medicine, Putnam. URL accessed 21 April 2013.
- ↑ http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/26/1/28.full
- ↑ Shorter, E. (1997)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mental Wellness.com
- ↑ British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry's 200th birthday
- ↑ http://deila.dickinson.edu/theirownwords/title/0034.htm
- ↑ http://www.freud2lacan.com/docs/On_Narcissim_with_Introduction.pdf
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20120906213406/http://www.barondecharlus.com/uploads/2/7/8/8/2788245/freud_-_mourning_and_melancholia.pdf
- ↑ Bayer, Ronald (1987). Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis, Princeton: Princeton University Press.Template:Page needed
- ↑ AGLP History
- ↑ Личко А. Е. Психопатии и акцентуации характера у подростков. – Речь, 2010. – ISBN 978-5-9268-0828-6.
- ↑ http://www.europsy.net/
- ↑ Ogawa, S., Lee, T.M., Nayak, A.S., and Glynn, P. (1990). Oxygenation-sensitive contrast in magnetic resonance image of rodent brain at high magnetic fields. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 14 (1): 68–78.
- ↑ KK Kwong, JW Belliveau, DA Chesler, IE Goldberg, RM Weisskoff, BP Poncelet, DN Kennedy, BE Hoppel, MS Cohen, R Turner, H Cheng, TJ Brady, and BR Rosen (1992). Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Activity During Primary Sensory Stimulation. PNAS 89 (12): 5675–79.
- ↑ [Kim Y, Berrios GE. Impact of the term schizophrenia on the culture of ideograph: the Japanese experience. Schizophr Bull. 2001;27(2):181–5. PMID 11354585]
- ↑ Sato M,. Renaming schizophrenia: a Japanese perspective. World Psychiatry. 2004;5(1):53–55. PMID 16757998.
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On a highway from Shanghai's main domestic airport into the heart of the city, a slew of billboards advertising international brands beckon China's increasingly affluent consumers. Not to be left out is Tsinghua University. But rather than touting continuing education, Tsinghua Tongfang calls attention to its latest line of air conditioners.
The school's business arms invest in and operate dozens of companies. Estimated sales last year exceeded $1 billion. At least three majority-owned Tsinghua companies are listed in China: Tsinghua Tongfang, which is one of China's largest PC makers; Tsinghua Unisplendour, a software company; and detergent producer Chengzhi Shareholding. Peking University, a nearby rival, is one-up on Tsinghua in at least one regard–it has three of its affiliated companies listed in glitzy Hong Kong.
Around the world, major universities are increasingly linked to business. Stanford University's link to Silicon Valley is the best known. Cambridge in England created a similar nexus of business academia, and Route 128 outside Boston, Massachusetts, is associated with ideas hatched at Harvard and MIT.
But perhaps nowhere in the world are the links closer than in China. It's all part of the messy evolution of an economic system. A quarter of a century ago, almost everything in China was held by some level of government or form of collective. After the launch of market reforms, many state bodies formed companies to compete in the brave new economy. China's largest companies today, whether listed at home or overseas, are mostly still majority-owned by the state.
Top executives at many of them often flaunt their experience in the Communist Party. Among Tsinghua's companies, the chairman of Chengzhi used to be secretary of the Communist Youth League at Tsinghua; today he is chairman of the umbrella organization for the school's businesses, the Tsinghua University Enterprise Group.
The university's companies were envisioned as a means to create jobs for students and staff, says Luo Jianbei, who manages the school's incubator for startups. At the time, few expected private enterprises to play a big role in the economy. "It was another era," she says.
Yet today Tsinghua's offshoots are expanding. Just catch the billboards on the way into Shanghai.
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Uncommon Descent Contest Question 6: Why waste a crisis, especially in genomics?
June 12, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Genomics |
Okay, so the sixth Contest question, for a free copy of Expelled?, is: What rules of science are relevant for genomics? Are they being followed? Remember, 400 words or less, and I recommend that you read the article first.


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k so i have been playing this guy for a couple years now. and i always have been better than him but now i lose to often. this is his game. he only serves 80-90 mph serves maybe, very occasionally he will hit a bigger 1. he has a very big 4 hand. he is especially good at putting away short shots. his backhand hand is by far his weaker shot he slices almost every backhand. when he comes over it as say a passing shot its just for power and usually has poor direction. from the back of the court he prefer going cross court with his forehand. he runs around as many backhands as possible, to hit the inside out forehand. his net game is not good. he hits pretty soft volleys in general and blows way to many put away volleys. however because his approach shots are really good forcing him to play the net isn't really a great strategy. k so now i will go over what seems to work. well this is how i am trying to play with him. 1) i have always had trouble with my serving strategy in general. i can serve 110-115 and i can hit different spots. i serve better in the deuce box because i got a good wide serve to go along with faster serves up the middle. however i have never had a consistent 2nd serve. a lot of times i will just go 2 1st serve but not go for the line as much and maybe put a little more spin on it. but i lot of times i will just lob a 2nd serve in. so to review although i have one of the best serves for my level i double fault to much + hit to many lob 2nd serves. anyway my new strategy vs him is i try to hit everything deep. say if he was pushing me around i valued getting the ball back and didn't care that much if my ball landed really short. however he has gotten so good at putting away short balls if i hit a short ball its as good as a miss anyway so i think i should go for more and really just try to never hit it short.
What does Moya have to do with any of this? Stop double faulting and learn to hit a second serve. Spend all of your practice time on this and this alone until you can do it.
OP is beating himself, all by himself, by double faulting and hitting to his opponent's forehand, then instead of moving him around, he hits only deep shots to his opponent's strong side. Good strategy to lose. Maybe employ short CC angles, drop shots, lobs, and punishing that weak backhand?
I actually thought about Ivo before I posted. He is smarter than most people give him credit for. He gives up most return games to save his strength, energy, and balance for his serve games. He slices and rallies on return games, and only tries if he get's even at duece or 30-30, otherwise just goes thru the motions. Seems players with serious flaws in their games NEED to be smarter than balanced players. Let's look at MarionBartoli. She kinda looks like my g/f. Now let's look at DelPo. He doesn't need to be a genius at tennis strategy, does he?
Pardon me for being blunt, but this is anonymous forum so let's be real here. OP, stop kidding yourself that you have 'one of the best serves for your level' when you can't get second serve in the box without fluffing it. A lot of guys at my club can hit a 100 mph ball but these guys have no command over it and opponents have no fear of it because they know that even in one game they'll get a lot of looks at fluffy second serves and free points off DF's to more than make up for aces/service winners. You're on the right track about taking some pace off and adding some spin, but let's do that on the first serve and get more of those in. As for how to play him from the baseline, well, generally you want to hit a lot of balls to that backhand when in neutral/rally situations and do not to let him set up behind a forehand (i.e. make him have to hit forehands on the run, open up that side first).
Learn to hit very wide shots to fh. step inside the court to attack weaker reply. hit it wide to his weak bh. follow it in or repeat sequence. or slice it short and wide to bh after hitting wide fh and you have stepped inside.
We all like to THINK our first flat serves are big enough to win at least half the points, and solicit weak returns the other half, when they go in, of course. But in order to GO for the first serves, we need a super reliable, basically hard to attack second serve, which is usually much slower, higher bouncing, and placed to the area WE decide. And we still get a tough return of half of those! This against our peers. Pretty much, when my first flats go in 50%, I cannot lose at my level of 4.0, unless I hurt myself and default. Fortunately for me, 50% is not realistic in serious match play, so I'll settle for 35%.
I was going to say that but I guess I was too late. Like the others above me said, your serve can't be the best for your level if you are constantly double faulting. Do not overestimate your serve, a fast serve does not necessarily equal a good serve. I'm assuming you aren't good at creating spin on your serve with the way you described it. Work on that, by adding spin you can decrease double faults and add variety, then your serve will truly be a weapon. BTW Moya isn't a good analogy, when you think of him you imagine a typical clay court player (gets a lot of balls back, retriever, consistent). Correct me if I'm wrong, but he seems to be a 1-dimensional player. Efficient, but one dimensional. You haven't really described your game but a tactic you can use is to just mix it up, keep hitting him different kinds of shots. This can help neutralize his forehand and expose his backhand's technical flaws. Remember to build the point to maximize your strength (whatever it is) and apply it to their weakness (his backhand).
Seems pretty simple to devise a game plan. Here are are my strat-a-gems (a gem of a strategy). 1. Short term strat-a-gem: Take a bit off 1st serve - you want to get 2 of 3 1st serves in so you don't let the guy use his good FH on your weak 2nd serve 2. Long term strat-a-gem: work on a topspin/kick 2nd serve that you can swing at at 90% of you 1st serve racket speed but brush it for more spin. Work on placement to the corners and a body serve with this new 2nd serve. Hit at least 2 buckets per week of 2nd serves. 3. Short term strat-a-gem: come to the damn net against the guys BH. His slice will not be an effective pass, his topspin pass sounds a bit wild and error prone, and for every time you come in that is one less chance for him to spank one of your short balls. 4. Short term strat-a-gem: on duece court serve him wide to open up his BH side 5. Short term strat-a-gem: hit hard cross court FH to open up his BH side 6. Short term strat-a-gem: loop high topspin shots to his slice backhand to illicit short balls
110 mph first serve and no second serve... Who are you? Fernando Verdasco? For dragging him to net, have you considered pulling him off the court, then hitting a low, short slice to the other side? Not a dropshot, but a knifing slice that just lands short. He comes up, you pass him. Have you considered hitting it wide and deep enough into his backhand corner so that he can't hit a forehand? It's not always enough to just hit to that side, but you also need to hit it far enough that he can't just run around it. If he tries to run around the ball and hits it from outside the sidelines, punish him by going into his forehand corner. He gives up SO MUCH court if he tries to run around a deep, wide backhand.


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{What made you Feel Good this week? Choose a prompt and link up!}
(For the purposes of this post: sick=the 72 hour flu)
Emily got sick and it was NOT pretty as I previously mentioned. Then the next day I got some pretty nasty stomach pains.
At first I was petrified that I would get sick too until I remembered the line from A Devil Wears Prada when Emily Blunt says that she is:
"…just one stomach flu away from her perfect weight."
Well then getting sick didn't seem so bad.
And I felt better!
I must have gotten so excited over reaching my perfect weight, all of my body's happy feelings just shooed that sickness away.
So I guess that is a good thing.
A part of me was kind of hoping that I would get sick after eating Cheetos and therefore I would never touch Cheetos ever again.
Apparently it wasn't meant to be as I currently have orange powder caked on my knuckles.
On a different note, the social media job is beyond wonderful. I can't wait to share everything with you, but until their program launches, I just don't have a minute to spare for this blog.
Yes, I do have 22 posts ready to go in my queue, but if I can't be "here" and connect with you, it makes me feel horrible so I am going to do something I have never done before:
Who Wants to Guest Post for Me???
Pretty, pretty please?
Now… I don't want to pick favorites, which is why I am opening it up to everyone, and there are some of you who I know are busy so please don't be offended that I didn't come to you directly. (pleasesayyespleasesayyespleasesayyes)
Thank you! THANK YOU!
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Posted on 08/09/2012 2:17:35 PM PDT by scottjewell
The GOP has set up a website asking people for suggestions for the party platform. I've noticed the neo-dems, otherwise known as Mitt's minions, have already infested the site asking for the pro-life plank to be dropped and gay marriage to be allowed. If any conservative here wants to contribute and let the GOP know how they feel (and tell Mitt's socialist supporters to take a hike), here is the website:
Thanks for that Waryone.
It's not a man; it's just another homosexual woman pushing her disease on the rest of us.
Should be a Rear Admiral....
I took note of that too. A dyke.
"Joan" . . . .LOL
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash...
I would say Up yours Captain!, but he might like it.
and to think that for a moment I thought he night make a decent VP candidate....he's dead to me now
What's with these queers? Can't these sodomites find a closet????
Thanks, I did not know this.
These third party pushers trying to push a third party.
Makes me think they're 0bots.
Mr. McDonnell .... go straight to hell.
And it might as well be dead.
I guess "Butch" didn't get the RINO memo about the "truce" on social issues....
Our next Secretary of Defense?
We Army guys always referred to the Navy as squids. But actually I have a lot of respect for all branches of the military service and their members.
That's the problem with Mr. Etch-a-sketch. One moment he's campaigning for governor promising gays he will offer more support for their causes than Ted Kennedy. The next he's supporting a constitutional amendment defending marriage. Then he's personally rolling out gay marriage, when he didn't have to.
Which candidate demanded Boy Scouts accept gays in leadership positions? Romney
Who named a well known gay activist as a key spokesman? Romney
Who put a gay activist in a leadership role in the Department of Education? Obama (two peas in a pod if you ask me)
2002 Romney flier promotes 'gay' rights
Keyes: Romney responsible for same-sex marriage fiasco
Mitt Romney pushed through same-sex marriage all by himself, in the absence of any authority or requirement to do so, having a complete misunderstanding of his role as governor and of the significance of the courts opinion, said Keyes."
Romney did more for Gay Marriage nation wide as Governor of Mass than Obama did as President. I can't vote for either.
Keyes needs to do more research.
The SC ruled, the citizens put forward an intitiative petition to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and the legislature blocked the proposed amendment from being placed on the ballot. Without the constitutional amendment, the SC ruling stands.
"Standing today with Governor Romney in support of the Protection of Marriage Amendment, which would allow the voters of the Commonwealth to determine the definition of marriage in Massachusetts, were Seán Cardinal O'Malley, OFM Cap, Archdiocese of Boston; Bishop George Coleman, Diocese of Fall River; Bishop Robert McManus, Diocese of Worcester; Dr. Roberto Miranda, Chairman, VoteOnMarriage.org; Kris Mineau, President, Massachusetts Family Institute; a bi-partisan group of state legislators and other Amendment supporters from government and the private sector."
June 28, 2006 For Immediate Release VoteOnMarriage.org Eric Fehrnstrom 617-725-4025 | Office of Governor Mitt Romney
Romney could have still waited on the legislature. He didn't have to do what he did.
And he certainly didn't have to support the Gay Pride parade or tell the boy scouts they should put gays in leadership positions or say same sex couples should be able to adopt.
In light or Romney's record, saying he supported a constitutional amendment is just another etch-a-sketch moment that means nothing in light of his actions.
For a group that comprises about 2% of the population, these people will just not STFU! Geez!! I really don't care what you want to do to each other. I just do not want to hear about it!
Sure, he could have gone rogue and ignored the Supreme Court's decision, in just the same way Obama is choosing to ignore laws he doesn't like.
I know many conservatives argue just that. But if one supports the point of view that the Executive Branch should selectively enforce laws for political reasons, then basically the Rule of Law becomes irrelevant, and will eventually give way to anarchy.
No kidding.
If this keeps up, I'll be tempted to hide in the closet myself, just to get a break from their endless, narcissistic harangues.
But if I understand it right there was no Supreme Court direction to Romney to do anything. What he did was illegal and morally wrong.
Then you look at his other actions and you see a pattern of supporting homosexuality.
Romney's appointments to the Mass Supreme Court were extremely liberal. I don't know if they were made before or after the Mass SC ruling, but I wouldn't be surprised if his appointments didn't contribute to that ruling.
"The Supreme Judicial Court today became the nation's first state supreme court to rule that same-sex couples have the legal right to marry.
"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts constitution," Chief Justice Margaret Marshall wrote in the 4-3 decision.
The ruling won't take effect for 180 days in order to allow the Legislature "to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion," the court ruled in its 50-page decision. Since the SJC is the ultimate authority on the state constitution, however, the Legislature cannot overturn today's decision -- nor would the US Supreme Court agree to interpret a state's constitution."
Romney judicial record: Liberals running wild
As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, living, breathing-minded judges to the bench, Barber said.
Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany, he said. They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didnt hesitate to put them on the bench.
Romney didn't make any Supreme Court appointments.
30 out of 36 appointments he made were at district & magistrate levels.
His stated criterion: "strict construction, judicial philosophy"
OK, read the article.
Who are these extremists he appointed? Any other names?
No denying the two mentioned in the article sound pretty bad.
But they constitute 5% of total # of appointments. Obviously trying to throw a political bone to the weirdos on the left.
Impossible to imagine him appointing similar types to the US Supreme Court if he had any desire to be re-elected.
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MALCOLM Turnbull and Clive Palmer are Canberra's hottest couple.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained exclusive pictures of the pair enjoying a cosy afternoon drink at the Hyatt on Tuesday and can reveal they now regularly meet.
Mr Palmer's office last night confirmed the pair "catch up all the time" when they are in the nation's capital.
News of the catch-up came as Mr Palmer's flagship company Mineralogy was criticised by a Supreme Court judge over "absurd" legal tactics.
Perth's Justice James Edelman made the remarks in a judgment that ordered the Federal MP's company to pay costs to its estranged Chinese business partners. It is understood the costs could exceed $1 million.
Mr Palmer's latest date with Mr Turnbull, this time minus dinner, came after The Daily Telegraph caught the pair dining with Head of Treasury Martin Parkinson at Canberra's Wild Duck restaurant in May.
That meeting sent Canberra into a spin and attracted wild speculation Mr Turnbull was plotting a return to the Liberal leadership.
Bondi racist bus attack: Five teenagers arrested
Sydney Morning Herald's divisive columnist Mike Carlton simply had to go (again)
It is understood the pair chatted in the Speaker's Corner bar at the Hyatt for almost an hour. Both parties described the chat as casual with no particular purpose for the meeting.
A spokesman for Mr Turnbull declined to comment except to say it was no different to a string of government frontbenchers who had caught up with crossbench MPs and senators during the winter recess.
The Palmer United Party holds the balance of power in the Senate and his support is crucial to the government getting a range of budget measures approved. It is known Mr Palmer shares a closer relationship with Mr Turnbull than with Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Mr Palmer did not respond last night but his office indicated he regularly meets the Communications Minister.
The meeting capped a tough Tuesday for Mr Turnbull, who was told he will work with Attorney-General George Brandis on new data retention laws. Mr Turnbull has long been a critic of keeping metadata. In 2012 he declared he had "grave misgivings" about a Labor proposal and said it was heading "in the wrong direction''.
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Get out into nature or explore a new city for spring or summer vacation.
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The 'hole' of Lake Berryessa is a life-saver
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What's so dangerous about Jacob's Well?
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South Atlantic League standings See a game at Classic Park Visit the official Captains team shop The Lake County Captains clinched their first playoff berth in five years on Saturday, topping the Hagerstown Suns, 7-3, at Classic Park to nail down the South Atlantic League first-half Northern Division championship. The title came in Aaron Holbert's first season as a manager. "At the beginning of the season, when I was asked what kind of team we had, I said we had pitching, defense and timely hitting, and we could win with that," said Holbert. "And that's what has happened. "What these kids have done, how they've conducted themselves, every day trying to get better, it's amazing. They're a dream come true." In the clincher, the Captains (41-28) got home runs from Roman Pena and Matthew Brown, a triple and two RBIs from Mark Thompson and a 3-for-3 night from Lucas Montero. Reliever Josh Judy (7-0) struck out three over three hitless innings for the win. Holbert said one of the keys this season has been the strong work of starting pitchers Kelvin De La Cruz (5-3), Ryan Miller (7-2) and Ryan Morris (6-1). All three hurlers are in the top 10 in the SAL in ERA, with De La Cruz leading with a 1.60 mark. Pena leads the Captains in batting at .313, adding six homers and 48 RBIs. Brown, who's hitting .303, has four homers and 39 RBIs. "This is my first year with the [Cleveland] Indians and first year as a manager and I've been selected to manage in the (SAL) All-Star Game. And these guys have done that," said Holbert, who played 23 games in the Major Leagues for the Cardinals and Reds. "I'm very thankful for the way they've played." Bradley Meyers (2-2) gave up six runs -- three earned -- on six hits, fanning four and walking three, over four innings to take the loss. Tim Pahuta, Aaron Seuss and Michael Burgess homered for Hagerstown (33-35). Alan Friedman is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs. |


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One woman's journey into her family's past uncovers a story that affects every American
February/March 1999 | Volume 50, Issue 1
I peered down a narrow alley separating big houses that overlook Pleasant Bay in South Orleans, Cape Cod, part of a row of brand-new summer homes so close-built that they prevented me from seeing the dunes and the water beyond. Then I turned around and gazed at the meager little apron of a field this subdivision of grand houses shared. I spotted a gnarled apple tree and wondered if my grandmother had climbed it as a child…
My grandmother Ellen had gone to camp here for many summers back in the teens and twenties. Camp Quanset, it was called. In the days after the Great War, she had sailed the waters of Pleasant Bay, slept in a comfortable bunkhouse, sat by the broad main field, and laughed and quarreled with her friends. She had performed in the Camp Quanset Indian Pageant in 1922 not far from where I was standing, and I imagined all the young girls dressed in Indian garb, eager and self-conscious in the Quanset interpretation of Native American people.
I gave the place a last look and headed back to my little blue house on the mid-Cape. As soon as I got home, I reached for my grandmother's old Camp Quanset brochure.
My grandmother had told me about the camp many times. It was a fine camp, a place where—for the stiff tariff of $350—well-heeled young ladies from as far south as Virginia and as far north as Canada learned to sail, and swim, and ride horses—their own horses, which they boarded for the two summer months. The brochure boasts that "parents, each year in increasing numbers, valued wise leadership and loving care, with the right companions and environment for their daughters." My grandmother often spoke of the cotton gloves the girls wore on hot day outings to Provincetown and of the white kid leather shoes that pinched swollen summer feet. She described her billowy camp bloomers, a precursor to shorts. They were uncomfortable; one had to wear half-stockings with them and forever worried about getting the dress whites dirty.
My grandmother Ellen died on a muggy day in June of 1994. She died in New York City, at the age of eighty-nine. Grandma had arrived in New York with her parents at the age of two, and she was a New Yorker for the rest of her life.
Born of strict Bostonians, she grew up just outside the Columbia College campus on the Upper West Side and attended the rigorous Horace Mann School. Grandma graduated from Vassar College in 1927, immediately entered a dramatics school in Paterson, New Jersey, and went on to work steadily for more than thirty years on Broadway. She opened in Oklahoma! She had a stage presence powerful enough to allow her to hold her own with the active locomotives in the highly popular Railroads on Parade show at the 1939 World's Fair. She even tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara (and was told she didn't get the part because her waist was too large).
During the last seventeen years of her life, my grandmother Ellen lived modestly—as so many stage veterans must—in a midtown hotel close to the theater district she had worked in and loved.
She and I would sit for several hours every couple of weeks in her room and talk about subjects ranging from theater, music, and books to clothing styles, languages, and favorite desserts (hers was called a gremlin, a mint and chocolate confection that no longer exists).
Though she suffered from ongoing health problems, Grandma retained her steeltrap memory, sharp wit, and innate elegance. She could recite every line from every play she had ever performed; I once sat in silent admiration while standing before me in her tiny room, she performed a song she'd sung in a 1933 production, complete with all the original stage directions.
I would often ask her about her family. Who were they? Where did they come from originally—before Boston?
"Virginia" was always the curt reply.
My grandmother told me her mother was born Anita Hemmings. She had attended Vassar College a generation before her daughter did, and was a strong student there. Anita married a Dr. Andrew Love, whom she met while working at the Boston Public Library not long after she had graduated. She could speak seven languages and did not know how to cook when she married. She came from French and English stock.
My grandmother recited this information to me again and again, as if by rote. I thought, over the years, "What an upright—what a dull —family. How could it produce someone as lively and interesting as grandma?" Perhaps she'd inherited her vitality from her father. I asked about Dr. Love. The information about him and his origins was just as carefully worded and yielded even less than was revealed about Anita Hemmings. She said only that Dr. Love was Southern born, had graduated from Harvard Medical School and later gone on to Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and that he was proud, dignified, strict. Another dull bird.


text: The War of the Ring reaches its climax as the dark lord Sauron sets his sights on Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor. The members of the fellowship in Rohan are warned of the impending attack when Pippin cannot resist looking into Saruman's palantir and is briefly contacted by the dark lord. King Theoden is too proud to send his men to help without being asked, so Gandalf and Pippin ride to Minas Tirith to see that this request is sent. They meet opposition there from Denethor, steward of the city and father of Faramir and the late Boromir. Denethor's family has acted as temporary guardians of Gondor for centuries until a member of the true line of kings returns. This member is none other than Aragorn, who must overcome his own self-doubt before he can take on the role he was destined to fulfill. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam continue to carry the One Ring towards Mordor, guided by Gollum. What they don't know is that Gollum is leading them into a trap so that he can reclaim the Ring for himself. Though Sam suspects his deceit, Frodo is starting to be corrupted by the Ring's power and the mistrust of Sam this causes is fully exploited by Gollum. The only way good can prevail in this contest is if the Ring is destroyed, an event that is becoming harder every minute for Frodo to achieve. The fate of every living creature in Middle Earth will be decided once and for all as the Quest of the Ringbearer reaches its climax.