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We know beer is the last thing we all want to drink when its 90+ degrees outside.
Its also a great time to stock your cellar with some barrel-aged strong ales. Winter will be here before we know it and the foresight that you have during this heatwave will be a nice pat on the back come December.
Peep our brief list of new arrivals below or c'mon in to check it out yourself. We'd love to see ya.
Fifty Fifty Brewing - Old Conundrum On Wood
(Barley Wine Style Ale aged in Bourbon Barrels)
Fifty Fifty Brewing - Annualarity
(Barely Wine Style Ale brewed with Honey and aged in Oak Barrels)
Uinta Crooked Line - Cahoots 2
(Saison brewed with Grapefruit Peel, Orange Peel, Seeds of Paradise and Coriander)
Tahoe Mountain Brewing - Provisions
(Rustic Mulit-grain Saison)
Saint Archer - India Pale Ale
(Amarillo, Simcoe, Centennial, Chinook, Columbus and Citra Hops)
Birra Del Borgo & Cantillon - Duchessic Ale
(Spelt Beer cut with 20% Lambic aged one year)
Mikkeller - Jackie Brown
(Brown Ale)
Panil - Barriquee Batch 18
(Oak-aged Sour Red Ale)
Victory - Helious
(Farmhouse Ale)
North Coast Brewing - Puck The Beer


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All girls currently in year 4 at school as from September 2017 are eligible to play in this age group.
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Military Bios
Brigadier General Victor S. Stachelczyk:
Military Branch:United States Airforce
Retired Oct. 1, 1989.
Brigadier General Victor S. Stachelczyk is director of command control systems and logistics for the U.S. Space Command and deputy chief of staff for systems integration, logistics and support, U.S. Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. His organizations provide the planning, policy and management direction, implementation and operational support of command and control systems, communications, computers, supply, transportation and logistics systems.
The general was born in 1938, in Derby, Conn. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Bridgeport in 1962, a master of science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1967 and a master's degree in aerospace management from the University of Southern California in 1969. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1965, Air Command and Staff College as a distinguished graduate in 1972, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1979. He also completed the Columbia University Executive Program in Business Administration in 1984.
General Stacheiczyk was a distinguished graduate of Officer Training School, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and received his commission as a second lieutenant in May 1962. He then entered the Communications-Electronics Officers School and, upon graduation in October 1962, was assigned to the 11th Strategic Aerospace Wing, Altus Air Force Base, Okla. While there, he served successively as base communications officer, budget and programming officer, communications operations officer and chief of missile communications.
In November 1964 the general was assigned to the 932nd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Rockville Naval Installation, Iceland, as squadron communications-electronics officer and as communications staff officer for Air Forces Iceland. In November 1965 he returned to the United States and entered Purdue University to complete his master's degree through the Air Force Institute of Technology program. In August 1967 he was assigned to Headquarters 4th Air Force, Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif., as chief, Computer and Communications Maintenance Branch. He also served as Backup Intercept Control Systems project officer and briefing officer for the western North American Defense Region. While assigned to Hamilton, he completed requirements for his second master's degree.
From December 1968 to May 1971 he was assigned to Headquarters Aerospace Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colo., as chief, Computer and Communications Branch. After graduating from Air Command and Staff College in June 1972, he was assigned to Headquarters Air South, Naples, Italy, as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Air Defense Ground Environment (NADGE) project officer. He simultaneously served as a member of the NATO Air Defense Software Committee in Brussels, Belgium. The general transferred to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium, in July 1974 as staff officer for the NATO Air Defense Electronic Environment Committee and the NADGE policy board.
Upon returning to the United States in July 1976, General Stachelczyk established a new Air Staff Division, Systems Management, at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. A Systems Management Division also was created at each major command. The division's task was the automation and mechanization of administrative functions Air Force-wide.
After completing the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in June 1979, General Stachelczyk was assigned as commander, 2187th Communications Group, Aviano Air Base, Italy. He was responsible for all U.S. Air Force communications and air traffic control support in Italy. In June 1981 he transferred to the European Communications Division, Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, as chief of staff and in October 1982 he became vice commander of the division. He was assigned to Headquarters Air Force Communications Command, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., and served as chief of staff, information systems, from June 1983 until December 1984, when he became commander of the Airlift Information Systems Division. In July 1986 he became the director of command, control and communications systems, Headquarters U.S. European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, West Germany. He assumed his present duties in March 1988.
His military decorations and awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Air Force Organizational Excellence Award, National Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Air Force Overseas Ribbon-Short, Air Force Overseas Ribbon-Long with three oak leaf clusters, Air Force Longevity Service Award Ribbon with five oak leaf clusters, and Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon. A Meritorious Service Medal for earthquake relief was conferred on him by the Italian government.
He was promoted to brigadier general July 1, 1986, with same date of rank.
General Stachelczyk considers Shelton, Conn., his hometown.
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Monday, April 30, 2018
A royal wedding mug and "English" silverplate
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Great finds!ReplyDelete
So cute! Ha! You had me going to Charming Charlie, got the last one, now you have me going to TJMaxx! My husband thinks I am crazy. I think it is great!ReplyDelete
I just may have to have one of those mugs. It's so whimsical! TJ Maxx here I come!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2018 at 10:11 PM
That's great that the mug was actually made in England! You can drink your English Breakfast Tea from it as you watch the royal wedding.ReplyDelete
Your silverplate dish is very nice, and will be pretty as a candy dish. It was a great buy for a dollar. I think it may actually be a wine coaster (to sit a wine bottle on). I saw one on eBay that looks exactly like it, and it's described as a "Poole old English Silver Plate Basket style Wine Coaster."
--from Vernona in DC
Thanks for the info, Vernona. I wondered why it had the pretty pierced design at the bottom, and that may explain it!Delete
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Buy Black Tea Online at affordable rates on https://www.dantaherbs.com/ReplyDelete
As soon as I read your post I knew I needed to visit TJ Max too! But, would that same mug be all the way over here on the West Coast? Alas, they did not have it :(. But, I thought I'd rule out Marshall's too and was not seeing it there ... until I looked very carefully and, there it was!! :) Only one, but perfect condition! So thrilled! You always suggest the best things for tea lovers! And I've just ordered some Royal Wedding tea from Harney & Sons, so, along with my British bunting and some homemade royal wedding cupcakes, I think I'm set for wedding day! (Love your silver dish too - it's always fun to find little treasures like that!) Brenda C.ReplyDelete
Now that is the best mug I have seen for the wedding celebration. I love it.ReplyDelete


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Baramulla: A man from Naribal area of Rafiabad was killed on Friday evening in Paranpeela village of border town Uri when he was accompanying a police team to identify an abducted woman.
Official sources said that one Mushtaq Ahmad Khan from Kutroo Naribal had reported to police station Panzla that his wife, a mother of two kids, was kidnapped by one Ashiq Ahmad Khan of Paranpeela Uri some days back.
On the basis of his complaint, a police team reached Paranpeela Uri Friday afternoon and recovered the women, while some locals hurled stones at the police parties resulting the injury of some policemen and two civilians Mushtaq and Bashir Ahmad Khan, a relative of Mushtaq, who were accompanying the police team for identification.
Bashir succumbed to his injuries later, police said.
Nazir Ahmad Khan, Bashir's brother told Kashmir Reader that Bashir was killed by the family of abductor and demanded that the culprits should be booked under law.
He added that deceased was father of a toddler girl.
On Saturday, large number of people from Rafiabad reached Baramulla where police handed over Bashir's body to them. Later, the people staged a protest against the killing and appealed district administration to book and punish all the culprits under law.
A senior police officer said that police register a case under FIR number 11/2017 under section 341,147,148,119,307,326 RPC.


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Friday football thread
Vidic out for the season. Oh my.
Platini tells Fergie to park his beak after the red wine lover appears to belittle the Roper League. Unlike Spurs, who actively belittle it.
Dalgleish bleats about something inconsequential.
Brendan Rodgers turns down Northern Ireland job.
Neil Lennon says he's been helping some of the younger players with depression. How bloody rough does he look in this pic? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16086433.stm
Alan Pardew takes refereeing criticism that one step further and blames Mike Dean for his club's injury woes. SRS.
Anelka in talks to join a team in Shanghai. Jermaine Jenas out for six months.
Owen Coyle praises Alex Mcleish. I've not seen it, but it will (have) happen(ed).
AOB, vegans?
Hmmm not sure we're the worst when it comes to the Europa
we actually fielded pretty strong sides during the competition, especially in the match we lost against PAOK. Nice that the next president of fifa is gonna be as much as a knobber as the current one though.
Martin Samuel reckons he's to blame for the Lyon matchfixing allegation
Kind of stupid to talk about CL mismatches
in a season where a Swiss side and a Cypriot side have made the last 16. I like his sneering remark about how Apoel's points total wouldn't have been enough in other groups though - kind of missing the point.
You missed possibly the biggest story of the day/week:
Defender Jody Craddock has backed Wolves captain Roger Johnson to become a "top calibre player" again.
Don't understand what's gone wrong with Johnson, seemed like a great signing for Wolves
He's a risible cunt of a man though, so long may it continue.
Not sure if he's a risible cunt.
He is pretty bloody thick, though. Saw an interview with the Guardian where he said the only book he'd ever read was Roy Keane's autobiography, because he seemed to be a guy with some good opinions.
That he's now playing for a Mick McCarthy team seems somewhat ironic.
Also, yeah, his bad form is pretty surprising.
He was immense in pre-season, and in our first few games, but since the QPR game he's been a shambles.
I think he needs a clever defender alongside him, like a Scott Dann, because as much as he likes to shout about he's not really an organiser, and he's pretty crap on the ball. Great blocker, though, on his day. Berra's been very solid this season, unusually for him, but I think a player like Craddock would be better next to Johnson at the back. Just a shame Jody's, y'know, a pensioner.
said it many times Dann is better than Johnson though not seen him play this year
judging by league position no better than Johnson. Still a decent buy, what were the alternatives for the price.
Having said this having Barry Ferguson in front of you and Hart and then Foster behind may have helped to flatter the pair a little.
Read a lot of stuff from Birmingham fans saying similar things about Johnson and Dann.
As in, Dann is crap without Johnson, and Johnson is crap without Dann.
I first thought it was probably just bluster, but increasingly seems to be quite accurate.
He started off pretty well, the rest of the defence obviously dragged him down to our standards...
One thing that does keep occuring to me despite him and Scott Dann repeatedly being tagged as decent players, the fact remains they got relegated last season. Then again, that wasn't really due to the defence being shit as such, more that McLeish is a boring cunt (and long may that continue).
As much as it's true that Dann and Johnson had a lot of help from the overall team setup being extremely defensive...
...they were clearly a lot better than their final league position. It was lack of goals that did them in.
Dalglish's DVD presentation of everybody picking on Liverpool sounds amazing
Presumably the bits where he manages to blame someone else for dropping loads of points at home and spunking cash on shite players can be found among the deleted scenes.
Was he not briefed about when Benitez claimed conspiracy?
Because that didn't exactly work out well for him. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jan/09/rafa-benitez-liverpool-manchester-united
I've been astonished by just how much of a cunt that man is
The gentleman-of-the-game reputation is utter bollocks.
he's a massive bellend. i'd like to see a comparison of the two poast match interviews he gave after the rodwell and spearing red cards...someone provide me with this please.
I feel like I defend Liverpool alot on here, I dont get the hate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4CgQOAGw6w - Rodwell: Fairly temperate, just glossed over it and said he didnt see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukfb7jgmW-g - Spearing: Says he got the ball (which he did), and is fairly nothing about it.
I wish I refreshed threads before leaving them ages, then posting in them.
after the Everton game
"didn't see it"
and Fulham
"sometimes you get the 50/50 decisions, other times you don't ... [Spearing] got the ball ... there needs to be consistency of decisions"
Doesn't seem to be having too much of a go at the ref, to be honest.
Thanking you
i hadn't seen the spearing reaction. It was more the arrogant way he dismissed the rodwell red that got my goat, and i was interested to see whether he'd conveniently forgotten this when asked about spearing.
I think he was kindof acknowledging it with the Spearing one
when he talked about 50/50 decisions. And he did say he genuinely hadn't seen it, rather than dismissing it out of hand..
Danny Guthrie out for 4-6 weeks.
Shame, he's been surprisingly good since he came in for Tiote. Completes a lot of passes, a lot of them long balls. I'd like to see him in a midfield 3 with Tiote and Cabaye against certain opposition.
Away v Tooting.
I'd be confident as anything had they not just sacked Mark Beard, their manager. Why always before teams play us? 0-6.
the mirror's covering of Dalglish's remarks is incredible
saying he is not known for criticising refereeing decisions (erm) and that he has been quiet over the Evra/Suarez racism incident (ERM....). fair enough he is sticking up for a player of his, but his moaning about percieved injustices has been nonstop since he took over, and it's always done in a sneaky, snivelling way.
We've conceded one goal this season in games which Vidic has played the full 90 mins, the penalty against Newcastle.
We've conceded one goal in every 149 minutes he's been on the pitch and one in every 67 minutes when he hasn't been.
We're fucked.
Have to say you're starting to approach Bolton/Arsenal levels of injury misfortune
We've been very, very lucky so far. It would take just two of our strikers to get injured at the same time for us to be buggered, but we've had barely any absences to contend with all season.
A few years on the trot now as well
Who could forget that fantastic back four of Park, Carrick, Fletcher and Evra we had over December a few years ago.
Squad game and all that and for the most part we cope, Vidic is absolutely integral to the side though, we've got nobody at all who can attack a ball like he can.
was that the FA cup game or the one Scholes and Rooney were sent off in?
Or was that yet another woeful trip to the cottage of dreams.
The 3-0 league defeat just before Christmas
The one where Rooney and Scholes were sent off was the match after the bin-dippers beat us 4-1. My anger levels reached a dangerous level that day.
or, likewise, Kompany being out would be a massive blow
as the QPR game alluded to.
Mmm not sure about that
he hasn't been at his absolute best recently, our best central defender this season has been Lescott. Behind him we've got Kolo, Savic and Onuoha. It would be a serious blow to have him out for the season certainly but I don't think he's as integral to our defence as Vidic is to yours.
you're probably right on that
especially coupled with anderson and cleverley being out and fletcher not being fit, meaning less possesion in central midfield, vidic is a massive loss.
- this'd this
why is stoke spurs on tv? I'd rather they picked literally any other match this season.
another 2 weeks of sunday games. I do sort of want spurs to go through in the europa (not that they will, although i shall be placing a bet on it) but not playing on a saturday seemingly ever is depressing.
You don't like seeing spurs on the TV?
i know it's stoke, but still...
I've built my Sunday around the pub on the back of this
More Sunday games please
sunday roast
sunday football
sunday countryfile/antiques roadshow
We're playing much better now than a few weeks back
the speed of our attacking play atm is quite something, and we're winning. As a spurs fan, this is heaven.the-breacher this'd this
agreed, but 2 of those don't really count
plus it's impossible to look good when playing against villa. Rihanna could score a bicycle kick from the half way line at villa park and it would still seem ugly.
they were pretty good against QPR though, and Bolton even before the red card. poor showings from the opposition yes, but they would've tanked almost anyone in those first halves (see: vs liverpool)
We're going to finish 2nd, aren't we
So excited. I know I said I expected us to finish in the top four before the season started - maybe nicking 3rd if we were lucky - but this is beyond what even I could have hoped for. What a time to be alive.
It's not all sunshine and light, mind
Jake Livermore has just signed a 4-and-a-half year contract :(((((((
United are never going to drop points
Wolves could play there a billion times and still not get a get a point.
Wolves last won at Old Trafford in February 1980.
And somewhat astonishingly, the two sides haven't drawn since February 1974.
Home banker, basically.this'd this
the wolves game at old trafford last season is the worst game ive seen in person
including the 0-0 shirebrook vs killamarsh fa cup game abandoned 60 minutes in due to a fan smacking an opposition player.
Ji-Sung's late winner was joyous, of course, but i still have nightmares about Bebe's performance.
Subbed on and subbed off in the same match
Up there with outfield players in goal and the ball hitting the corner flag and staying in play in my list of rare occurrences I love happening in football.
to be fair he did come on after 3 minutes
oh, the excitement pre-game seeing hargreaves on the team sheet :(Antpocalypsenow and the_dazzled this'd this
Exactly what everyone was saying on Wednesday
Wolves have given us way tougher matches at OT than should be acceptable in recent seasons.
Wolves usually give the Manchester teams tough games.
Not sure why that is. We usually roll over for Arsenal and Chelsea by comparison.
Last season was a bit of a blip in that we managed at least a win against all of the top four except Arsenal, and it would have been five of the top six had there not been a goal wrongfully disallowed at Molineux against Spurs.
We do usually put up a decent performance against them
When we were in the Prem last time - 03/04 or whenever it was - I remember that rat Henri Camara missing 2 or 3 golden chances at Old Trafford.
Except this is the league
where you've been doing well this season (and have dropped points at home in something like three games over the last 15 months or so), rather than the European Cup where you haven't.
not sure which way i prefer spurs fans to suffer,
relegation form all season only for them to fluke it out of it in the spring, or champions league form all season only for them to finish 7th or 8th.
This weekend will be the beginning of a blip for Spurs
Can see a frustrating 1-0 win for Stoke, us getting millions of shots on target to no avail before Crouch pops up with an acrobatic winner on 83 minutes. Then Sunderland, well. But then at home to a rejuvenated Chelsea side who run out comfortable 2-0 winners as Spurs, bereft of ideas, fail to register a single shot on target. Next two games away to Norwich and Swansea I can only see us getting 1 or 2 points from in total as Xmas fatigue kicks in.
United and City both seeded for the Europa League knockouts
meaning that because they'd both be at home at the same time, one will have to play on Tuesday. Afternoon.
- benni this'd this
Europa League games can't clash with the Champions League
Police restrictions mean we can't play at the same time as City and we've got home and away legs at the same time by virtue of being seeded.
The other way around it would be to have one team jettison the advantage of having the home leg second
Which absolutely nobody at either club would give one single fuck about I'd imagine.
Also, why are City seeded?
Do they just automatically seed all the Champion's League sides when they drop down? Seems pretty unfair, if entirely unsurprising.
We're playing shite, low on confidence, and Wolves do well at OT
I know all this, but i have a sneaky feeling that we're going to go abslutely bananas against them this weekend.
- Antpocalypsenow this'd this
*something about us always reacting after a setback*
we sure have after the city & palace games!
a 1,2-0 win with no further injuries really wouldn't bother me. Diouf to score.
also please no Macheda
he even managed to hit the bar from 6 yards out before Jones tucked it away. Hes really useless.Antpocalypsenow this'd this
Run for your lives, Hipster Runoff has discovered Balotelli
David Moyes and Harry Redknapp, both of whom criticised the length of the ban in October (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15307365.stm), have today said the FA appeal was wrong (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16118218.stm)
in the first one Redknapp said it was a surprise,
that the ban was for 3 matches.
He said in the latter article that it was wrong to change it, considering clubs find it more difficult to appeal.


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While the reality TV generation might know her
only as a star of Im A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, those with longer
memories know better. Toyah Willcox, the punk princess who became an 80s
icon, has done it all.
From acting on the West End to presenting Songs
of Praise, she has become a star of stage, screen and concert hall - her
unique voice and high-energy performance style winning her the Best Female
Singer accolade at the 1983 British Rock and Pop Awards.
Long before Toyah was a pop star, however, she
was an actress. Indeed, by the time she scored her first Top 40 success
with the anthemic Its A Mystery in 1981, the diminutive performer had
not only worked with the National Theatre but had also left her mark on
the movie world, appearing in Derek Jarmans seminal punk epic Jubilee
and the cult classic Quadrophenia.
Still, for many, its for her music - songs that
roused a generation - that Toyah is remembered. As such, it is hard to
believe that when the Best Of The 80s concert tour hits Edinburgh next
Wednesday and Toyah stands in the wings ready to rock the Playhouse, it
will be exactly 22 years since she last bounded on to the very same stage.
For Toyah, however, it will be as if shes never been away.
"I dont feel that Ive stepped away from anything
that much to be honest," says the singer who shares the Best Of The 80s
bill with Clare Grogan of Altered Images, Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot from Curiosity
Killed The Cat and Nick Heyward.
"Were all reinventing what we did in the 80s.
We have the most amazing band, they are great musicians and they are reproducing
what we did 22 years ago. I stand in the wings and watch Ben and Clare
and Nick and Im having a f***ing great time."
The Edinburgh gig will be the tenth in a 20-date
tour and the 46-year-old, who has lost little, if any, of her youthful
enthusiasm and energy, is holding up well, although being back on the road
is proving a "novel" experience.
"I cant tell you how good its going," she says.
"I thought that four such diverse artists wouldnt work, but its bizarre.
Ben is almost like a soul/reggae artist; Clare is incredibly true to the
early 80s with that very off-the-wall contemporary sound; Im very rock
and then Nick is dance, almost. But its working well just because we are
all so different."
Birmingham-born Toyah is no stranger to the Capital.
The singer first toured here in 1979 with her eponymous band to play the
legendary Tiffanys - a venue she revisited the following year. With their
star continuing to rise, Toyah graduated to playing the larger Odeon in
1981, before packing the Playhouse just 12 months later.
More than a decade later she returned to the city.
However, this time it was Toyah the actress who commanded the Festival
Theatre in the 1993 national tour of Peter Pan and then in 2000 she made
her Fringe debut as Dora Marr in Picassos Women at the Assembly Rooms.
Toyah last visited the city two years ago as tomboy
cowgirl Calamity Jane, next week she promises shell sport a very different
look. "A common statement that has been falling from my lips is as I get
older I seem to be wearing less," she laughs. "I tell you, my outfit .
. . I walked on stage on the first night and the audience screamed. I was
like a mini-version of Cher but without the long legs."
The screams were a reaction to her costume which
she has described as being a "dinky little number that only needed a metre
of material to make."
"Ive been starving for a month because this costume
has a 20-inch waist," she says. "Its reminiscent of a little circus girl
in Victorian times, except Ive taken the innocence away and added a little
S&M - it leaves nothing to the imagination.
"I saw it on a transvestite and said I have to
have that. So I went to a costume maker in Manchester who makes clothes
exclusively for men to look like women and said: Im really sorry. I know
you have never made a costume for a woman and you dont know how our busts
really go or how our crotches are shaped, but I have to have this costume."
As a bonus, just for the Playhouse gig, Toyah
will also be wearing a "special" kilt made for her by Edinburgh kilt-maker
Howie Nicholsby. Its just one of a number of surprises planned for the
"Were supposed to do 35 minutes each, but we
are all over-running," she confesses. "Were doing all our singles. Claire
is doing her singles and favourite tracks and Ive added a Guns and Roses
number because I think its quite unfair to expect Claires or Nicks fans
to sit through songs of mine they might not know, so Ive added Sweet Child
of Mine and the audience go absolutely bonkers."
Sweet Child of Mine is one of the three musical
surprises the singer has planned . . . the other two shes staying tight-lipped
Perhaps surprisingly, considering her success
in the 1980s, Toyah reveals that the last two years of her life have been
the busiest. She has performed 446 shows to over half a million people
- 11 of these shows were part of the Here and Now Concert Tour where she
realised her ambition of playing Wembley before a crowd of 16,000 screaming
Alongside all of this, last year she took time
out to survive 12 days and nights in the Australian jungle for last years
Im A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here.
Before embarking on the Best Of The 80s Tour last
month, Toyah confided to fans reading her website (www.toyahwillcox.com)
that she was "straining at the bit to be on the road again."
"I havent been on a tour bus for approximately
18 years and I want to know if I can do it without irritating the do-da
out of everyone," she wrote. "Although I do at least four gigs a month,
Im never on a tour bus.
"This whole concept of being on a bus with your
bag of laundry driving until four in the morning and eating chips - I havent
lived like that for 22 years. You just have to surrender to it and it has
novelty value so far."
And when the Best Of The 80s tour bus pulls into
the Capital on Wednesday, Toyah predicts that her 1981 Top Ten hit I Want
To Be Free will be the song from her set that drives everyone wild.
She laughs: "Its hysterical because here we are
singing about schooldays and the whole audience are up on their feet screaming
their heads off. Im also doing Jungle of Jupiter which is mind-blowing
but I Want To Be Free somehow turns the whole of my act into a riot."
By Liam Rudden
Edinburgh Evening News
Thursday 14th October 2004


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Santa Vaca!
Wow, second week already. Where in the heck has the time gone. Time really flies on a mission and it probably really doesn't feel like that for you guys, but trust me. For me it is going so so so fast. This week has been quite a week. I am still getting used to things. New people, new house, new food, new city, and most crazy of all a new language. (which has actually been coming along better than I thought it would)
Right now my companion Elder Gularte and I are in a "white wash" area. What that means is that both of us are new missionaries here so we don´t know anything about the people or how to get around and that is what we spent the past week doing. We have a list of the members in our ward, and the people that the missionaries have talked to before, and we go around to each of these different houses, get to know the families, teach a little lesson, sometimes longer and between houses we contact new people. Since I am new to the language, Elder Gularte takes the lead while talking to people, and I just do my best to add to the conversation when I can. I can actually understand a lot more than I thought I would be able to which is really weird to me. What kills me is not being able to respond. It is like those dreams where someone is chasing you and you can't run away. The exact same thing is happening to me but with talking. I want to talk to the people so bad, but with how little I know it is crazy hard. I can just add in simple sentences here and there.
I am learning more vocab everyday and other spanish things, so each day is better. I am not even kidding there is a definitive difference between everyday. I understand a word I did not understand before. I say a sentence I couldn't have said yesterday. Hopefully it keeps that way.
Today was a pretty crazy day so I will tell a little about that. Today was our p-day so first thing we went to the park with our zone (26 missionaries) and played a game of soccer for probably around 2 hours. If you live in the United States and are reading this, the latinos here are a whole other level when it comes to soccer. Every single one of them is crazy with a soccer ball. Never ever underestimate a latino with a soccer ball. It was pretty fun to get outside and just have fun playing sports for a bit after a long week. Exercising just feels good in general. After this we went to this super tall apartment building. I totally forgot the name, but WE COOKED CHURRITO PAN ON THE ROOF. For real it was just 26 of us just chillin on this super gigantic building just cooking churrito pan (kinda like a hot dog but smaller and the meat is more sausage than hot dog). They were way good and I ate 4 of them. I also took some sick pictures.
I love this work and I love these people and I am only 2 weeks in. It only can get better from here. I love you guys so much and I hope you have a safe week!
Chow po!
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It was August 22nd….like a month ago! How did I miss that?!?!?!?!?!?
I knew it was coming up, so I went back into my archives last week and I realized that it had already passed. Total blog fail. But, while I was back there, searching through my archives I just started reading…and I kept reading for the better part of 2 hours. I laughed. I cried. I grabbed Brad and said, "LOOK AT ZOE!!!!!!! She was so TINY!" and "BABE! Do you remember this? Wow. That was such a great day!" It was great.
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What about my first attempt at exercise after childbirth….that might be one of my most popular posts of all times.
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And, again, as I reread those posts I thought about you, the reader, and all the advice that you've given. The laughs that we've shared. The encouragement that you've given…and I want to do something for you {and at the same time cross another thing off my 30 by 30 list}…….
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And all you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave a comment {here on the blog} telling me what you would get at Target if you won. If you want to enter more than once here are a few options {each comment will count as a separate entry}…
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4) Mention this giveaway on a blog post and link back here.
5) Facebook or Tweet about this giveaway and…you guessed it, leave a comment that you did.
This blogiversary giveaway will be open until my wedding anniversary…which is Tuesday September 27th {next Tuesday} and I'll announce the winner next Wednesday morning. Good Luck!
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Rome-Berlin axis November 1936
- Friendship agreement between Hitler and Mussolini
- Mussolini angry at British (bad press) and French (left wing govt)
- Agreed on each other's foreign policies
- Both supported Spanish Civil War
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Anti Comintern Pact November 1937
- Joined Germany and Japan: all against Communism
- Emphasised their common front
- December 1937: Italy withdraws from League of Nations
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Munich Conference September 1938
- Seen as a diplomat: discussions with Britain and France.
- Carried out deals agreed earlier with Hitler
- Was becoming the junior partner in German alliance
- Kept good relations with Britain, France, and Germany.
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Invasion of Albania April 1939
- Italy invaded Albania
- Italy realising its destiny: taking over weaker and inferior states
- Made him unpopular with French and British
- They signed pacts with Greece and Turkey protecting them. Mussolini saw this as a threat to him.
- Increasingly reliant on Hitler's friendship
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Pact of Steel May 1939
- Italy tied into a war with Germany: if Germany became involved in a war, Italy must join them
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- Mussolini did not realise the full impact of signing this pact. Still angry at France and Britain for protecting Greece and Turkey.
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ReMaTec is the biggest remanufacturing trade fair. Based in Amsterdam, the expo is held once every two years. The upcoming edition will take place at Amsterdam RAI from the 23rd to the 25th of June. ReMaTec 2019 will attract businesses related to technical procurement, engine rebuilding, parts distribution, fleet management and so on. Nearly 250 exhibitors and more than 3500 trade visitors will join the event.
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I just stumbled upon this game in the past few days courtesy of a friend and despite it being another one of those build & collect sims that's all over Facebook I found myself coming back to it time & time again because it's a game about superheroes.
It's a pretty simple game to pick up & play and it doesn't really require a lot of investment of your time. I leave it running at work and I've been able to progress at a pretty quick pace because of that. The game's a good stress reliever and whenever I feel overwhelmed or stumped I've been playing a bit of Hero City here and there during office hours (shhhhh… don't tell my boss).
The game is simple. Just build up your city with various buildings and assemble a league of heroes as your city grows. While you're at it, you get to send your heroes out into the world to battle crime & evil villains at various hotspots around the world.
Hero City features a few different commodities you need to manage in order to progress in the game:
- Energy: Energy allows you to undertake actions which gets replenished over time (similar to Zynga's Vampire Wars, etc)
- Coins: In-game currency that allows you to build new structures & manufacture items
- Atoms: You need this as a sort of raw material that allows you to manufacture items that are needed to construct/upgrade some of your buildings
- XP: Experience points are gained that levels up your city; thus allowing you access to new buildings, heroes and new hotspots on the world map to battle crime
- Hero XP: Experience points that your heroes gain for every mission they complete (I suppose this makes em' more powerful)
- Manufactured Items: You build various items that are then used to upgrade buildings
- Collectibles: Random items that have no use whatsoever at this point in time
The game is still in Beta but it's pretty fun and the heroes are patterned after established heroes with zany names. If you're a fan of Marvel & DC Comics I'm sure you'd be able to spot the references.
What's annoying about Hero City (as it is with any other Facebook game of this nature) is the fact that the gameplay forces you to get/give help to other people. Of course as a Internet professional I recognise this as a brilliant way to grow your user base but nevertheless it's an annoying feature.
On another note, this is the first game that I've seen using Facebook Credits and to access some items in the game you gotta shell out real dough (maybe I'll give it a try to get a feel of the process involved in purchasing Facebook Credits).
Give Hero City a spin here.
Pro-tip: Some heroes have the ability to generate a radius-based field around their homes that give bonuses to businesses. Position these houses well and the bonuses stack!


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Odd, how at home I feel
in a ramshackle Tijuana bus
that stands at the chipped, faded curb,
La vida eterna
advertised on its side.
I could afford a taxi, but no,
I want this wooden seat,
this is third class, I'm loving it.
I only wish there'd be a live chicken
on this bus, it's not the same
without an animal soul.
I sit on the hard seat,
knowing there is no hurry,
most of the world is like this,
no need to scribble false cheer
in letters home, or get another degree.
The faces around me are browning
and I think I too
am turning sepia, a century ago.
The fare is almost nothing,
like giving the thin flat coins
to beggars — or am I
giving alms to myself?
The bus is like a church, with pews,
Our Lady of the Sorrows
on the dashboard.
And the driver must be
one of the apostles, the obtuse
Saint Peter perhaps, rough-hewn.
He knows the Kingdom
will be his, why rush.
After a long snorting warm-up, we start
toward the U.S. border.
Again I'm going to America,
where I will be poor
and will have to drive —
where I'll have to take my life
in my own small hands.
~ Oriana © 2016
It's only now that I completely realize how very personal this poem is, about the Great Divide in my life, when I was way too young (17 and a half) to take my life in my own small hands (which were shaking -- my whole body was shaking — as I was boarding the plane that was about to take me out of Poland — forever, I assumed).
Back at the time of this memorable bus ride, by American standard I was indeed poor. By the Tijuana standard I was a rich gringa. But wealth is not measured by money alone.
In the US I was poor in terms of income, but not poor in terms that mattered to me most: I had a rich mind. As for people around me on the bus in Tijuana, they had rich family lives. The women knew how to cook, preparing feasts from inexpensive ingredients. The men could build things out of scraps or make a thirty-year-old car run. At least one of them on that bus could probably do beautiful tilework; it would not be surprising if several knew ceramics or leather crafts.
Although this bus was hardly an example of public transportation at its best, it was, nevertheless, functional. There is a warmth about being on a bus full of people (preferably also with an animal onboard), as opposed to being alone and cut off from others and the world inside one's car. The people on the bus are a temporary little society. Someone might be old and very slow. Someone may be drunk and dozing. A woman is knitting a pink baby blanket, but mostly no one is doing anything, just sitting. It's all as acceptable as a live chicken.
Today I went to Ralphs, where I haven't been for several years. And something I didn't expect happened right away, a minute or so after I entered and began shopping in the produce section. A woman customer was walking in the opposite direction, and she smiled at me (as did a few others, later, both women and men). And without needing to think it out in words, I realized in a flash that people don't smile at me — or any other customers — at Albertsons, which is in a working-class area.
I started shopping at Albertson's because the Vons near me changed owners, then closed for good — and Ralphs, I thought, was too expensive.
Albertsons is a nice market. The prices aren't lower — if anything, they are higher, I just discovered (lower-than-expected prices were another surprise about Ralphs). The variety is quite good. However, Albertsons doesn't carry the dried shiitake I wanted for a more intense flavor (it does carry the more expensive fresh shiitake) — that's how I ended up at Ralphs, closer to where I live, and arguably part of my own majority-Hispanic neighborhood.
The minute I walked in, a woman customer smiled at me . . . And then a middle-aged man . . . and another woman, and a younger man (I was almost beginning to count). It was an unexpected way to realize the difference in social class, if that's what it was . . . it wasn't the goods, it wasn't the prices, it wasn't the fancy floral section (the one at Albertsons is larger and more fancy).
I am *not* making a flat statement that working class people don't smile at strangers, but all of a sudden I was oddly aware that no one at Albertsons ever smiled at me — insofar as I could remember. (I have certainly met charming, warm, helpful, smiling working-class people. This is a specific observation about two supermarkets in different locations.)
At the beautiful Coronado Library I do get smiles. On the way from Coronado, I often stop at Albertsons — no smiles. Not at Walmart either. Rarely, if ever, do I get smiles at Home Depot — sometimes in the succulent section, from a fellow succulents fan. Can't say that Lowe's is any different, though one of the nursery checkout clerks does smile at me. Never the other ones.
At Vons there used to be a nice woman cashier who'd smile at me whenever she saw me stand in line — I always picked her line for that reason. Vons wasn't very smiley, but I'd call it intermediate. I felt desolate when the store closed because I lost "my" cashier.
And today, after a year or so of shopping at Albertsons, this pleasant shock: at Ralphs, smiles from strangers.
My theory is that the non-poor (I wouldn't call Ralphs shoppers "rich" — at least not at the Ralphs near me) are more relaxed around strangers, and more relaxed in general. Not that I could possibly look threatening to anyone; people tell me I look like a little elf, or Alice in Wonderland.
And the lines in front of the lottery-ticket machines. And the yellow brake that pops up on the shopping cart wheel if you happen to have parked at the far edge of the lot — I guess you're assumed to be a homeless person who's trying to steal the cart. Well, no more putting up with that, or the obese vet partly blocking the entry, or, once in a while, someone begging. No more.
I'm wondering if the main factor is education — if it's educated people, regardless of income, who are more likely to smile at a stranger. A different store, and you're in a different culture, with a different level of friendliness.
At the same time, it seems to me that decades ago people at all social levels seemed to be more likely to smile at strangers. Incomes may have been lower, but they were always rising, and people were more happy and secure. At first I was put off by all the smiling I saw in the US. Now I miss it.
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO KEEP WAITING FOR THE SECOND COMING (this is fun reading, but basically it's just straight reporting)
"It's my birthday today. I realized a few weeks ago that I have now lived longer than I ever expected. I am living on borrowed time. It's a strange sensation.
I can't tell you exactly when I thought Jesus was going to come back, because I was always reminding myself of Matthew 24:36: no man knoweth the day or the hour of Christ's coming. So I didn't make overly bold predictions. But my Dad was fond of saying "It says nobody knows the day or the hour. It doesn't say nobody knows the season." We were all sure that Jesus would come back about 2000 years after his first appearance. I'd heard estimates that Jesus' real birth year was anything from 4 BC to 10 AD, which meant that from 1996 onwards I was in a perpetual state of anticipation. We also expected a brief period of intense global revival after Jesus' 2000th birthday, immediately followed by the Rapture. One evangelist I knew thought Jesus was coming in 1998. As the turn of the millennium approached, things were getting fevered.
I was both incredibly excited and terrified by this. Although I couldn't be sure when Jesus would return, I doubted I would ever turn 18, and I was sure I would never turn 21. The thought of turning 30 didn't even cross my mind. All of my life planning was based around this. The ACE system allows you to work at your own speed. If you complete the PACEs early, you can graduate early. In the academic year 1998-1999 I did 101 PACEs, even though the school only expected us to do 60 per year. Part of the reason I was working so fast was that I hated the school and wanted to get out, but it was at least as important that I believed if I didn't graduate early, Jesus would come back before I'd even had a chance to leave school. I believed God was calling me to play a vital role in the end time harvest of souls before the day of judgement. God needed me to spread the Gospel to the world. I didn't have time to sit and stew in school.
In 1994, I'd heard God telling me in a Kenneth Copeland convention that he wanted me to form a band that would bring the world to revival. I never doubted that calling, especially after Jesse Duplantis prophesied that I would play in God's throne room when we entered into heaven. The prospect of heaven was so exciting I could hardly contain myself. But I was also sad. I wanted to grow up. I desperately wanted to get married, and I found myself wondering if I could meet the right girl and get married at 16 (the age of consent in Britain), and maybe we'd manage a couple of years together before the Rapture.
Knowing that the hour of Christ's coming was upon us, evangelicals released the movie Left Behind in 2000. The premise was that the Rapture could happen any minute now. In 2014, there was a Left Behind reboot starring Nicholas Cage. The premise this time was that if Christ was coming any minute now in 2000, he must be coming really any minute now in 2014. The Rapture is perpetually happening any minute now.
This is one of the things people don't understand about evangelical schools. When you say these schools aren't preparing children for the future, you're wrong. It's just that the future they're preparing kids for is not on this planet.
Disappointment over Jesus's non-appearance was not really a factor in my leaving Christianity, but I do find it baffling that the spectacular failures of prophecy in 1988, 2000, and 2012 seem to have left my former churchmates' expectation of Armageddon entirely undimmed. I think the next really massive bout of apocalyptic fervor will come in the build up to 2033: Christians will decide that all the prophecies about 2000 years after Christ were correct, but that the countdown began with the Resurrection, not Christ's birth.
Me, I'm just glad I'm alive."
For me, this is the most poignant part: "The prospect of heaven was so exciting I could hardly contain myself. But I was also sad. I wanted to grow up. I desperately wanted to get married, and I found myself wondering if I could meet the right girl and get married at 16 (the age of consent in Britain), and maybe we'd manage a couple of years together before the Rapture." There is no marriage in heaven, St. Paul assures us, and presumably no sex. This life has some powerful attractions after all.
The end of the world has been predicted over 700 times now, and the failure of the predictions has never deterred the faithful from resuming their wait. True believers are immune to reality. 2033 will come and go, but the lunatic fringe will simply recalculate. Nevertheless, the example of this young man shows that once in a while someone, no matter how heavily brain-washed, manages to break away.
I suppose that the richer and more satisfying one's life is, the less yearning for heaven. That "better place" somewhere in the clouds can't possibly be as good as a walk on the beach at sunset, especially holding hands with someone you love. But evangelicals don't have the time to walk on the beach, do they? They are losing their chance to experience the real paradise while they are busy preparing for the future in the imaginary paradise.
(By the way, at least the Catholic church didn't burden me with waiting for the End. True, there was the Bomb, so no real need for the archaic developments of the Apocalypse, but still — at least the nuns and priests were not particularly pushing the Second Coming. In any case, it was the Last Judgment that mattered, not Jesus walking — on the earth again. We weren't even aware that Jesus would not be walking, but riding a horse. The matter of Purgatory for those who die before having had their chance to do time in Purgatory was never mentioned.)
The view that Jesus never existed is gaining more and more adherents. I declare myself an agnostic on the question of historicity (does it really matter? it all ended up as myth anyway), but I find it GLORIOUS that now we can argue that Jesus never existed, and even if he did, he's certainly never coming back: never, never, never, never.
Yes, that many nevers. I remember when it first truly, deeply sank into me: no cruel Last Judgment. And that was what my mind was singing: "Never, never, never, never."
Charon Crossing the River Styx, by Joachim Patenier (d. 1524). Note the little naked soul that Charon seems to be transporting to hell. The soul's destination is not completely clear, but note that Charon is not facing the shore where the angels are. Of course what the soul needs is a good lawyer.
Most of the time we don't notice how good people are. For some reason I started being aware of it almost daily now. I catch myself thinking, Wow, people are so nice! So good! So friendly!
And of course we could be even more so. Ricard is right: Altruism can be increased. Meditation on loving kindness is fine, but I think the first step is treating children lovingly, with respect. Many parents do that, of course, but it's fairly recent. The old way was to dominate children into the ground and teach them blind obedience (you don't have to think Hitler Jugend; just think Dickens.)
What happened at some point in the 20th century? I think stress was reduced. Hardship was lessened. Prosperity and safety increased. Authoritarianism (insistence on blind obedience) wasn't as necessary for survival. More loving care naturally followed, and more kindness toward others overall.
For many historians, the start of WWI conflict heralded the 'real' end of the nineteenth century, when the imperial European powers who had dominated the globe for centuries began to diminish and the powers that would dominate most of the rest of the twentieth century — the United States and the Soviet Union — began their ascendancy. So, when did this 'longer' nineteenth century begin? In Europe, many cite the storming of the Bastille on July 14,1789 and the start of the French Revolution as the true bookend for the 'long' nineteenth century, which would stretch out to 125 years, rather than the customary 100.
Those dates, 1789 and 1914, also accord somewhat with an important development in the history of mental illness, specifically, the rise of the lunatic asylum. It may seem strange that the release of prisoners from the Bastille may hark the beginning of the asylum era, but toward the end of the eighteenth century — and because of many of the ideals that marked the French Revolution — many societies were seeking a different solution to the problem of madness, just as they were to other health issues. The construction of asylums and the passing of legislation to encourage authorities to do so can be seen in some ways as an extension of Enlightenment optimism, that by taking a rational approach, society could rid itself of many health problems, including madness. In Britain, however, it took additional legislation — the Lunacy Act and County Asylum Act (1845) — before the building of asylums really took off.
Many of the asylums built following the 1845 legislation, along with those built in the United States and elsewhere, were located in bucolic, rural settings, far away from the helter-skelter of urban, industrial life, itself increasingly thought to be pathological. As with contemporary legislation related to public health, such as that concerning sanitation, such acts were meant to be examples of compassionate social reform, providing state-of-the-art humane care, often in spacious, idyllic settings. The moral treatment on offer was often a mixture of talk therapy, occupational therapy, a familial atmosphere, and simply time to recover from the stresses and strains of modern life.
Of course the reality was often different. Gartnavel Asylum in Glasgow, which celebrated its 200th anniversary last year, provides an example of how nineteenth-century asylums were complex institutions. Gartnavel was originally built near the city centre in 1814, but was moved to the leafy, more salubrious west end in 1843 to escape noise and pollution. Occupational therapy was a pillar of treatment and a range of entertainments were available for patients, along with a library and visits from family and friends; rooms were 'fully and comfortably furnished.'
But at Gartnavel, along with similar asylums, a patient's treatment and experience also depended markedly on class. Working class patients were segregated from middle class patients, leading to considerable differences in care and treatment. Although restraint was abolished at Gartnavel in the 1840s, it would return in later decades. As in many instances in mental health, a profound gulf could exist between theory and practice.
The United States also experienced a book in asylum building beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. A 'cult of curability' emerged in the 1820s and 30s, with asylum superintendents claiming that nearly 90% of their patients left fully cured after a stay at their asylum. Later, mental health advocates, most notably Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) advocated the building of state hospitals to house the indigent insane. Influenced by the British lunacy reform movement, Dix inspected asylums and lobbied for legislation to improve services. Though she managed to convince both houses of Congress to pass the Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane in 1854, it was vetoed by President Franklin Pierce. Nevertheless, asylum building continued apace in the United States.
If 1789 can be seen as the starting point for the asylum movement, why might 1914 be seen as the year in which this trend in mental health care ended? The answer can be found in the trenches of the First World War and the emergence of a new, disturbing disorder: shell shock. Recognition of shell shock amounted to a sea change in terms of how mental illness, particularly in a military context,was understood. At the start of the war, a soldier exhibiting symptoms of shell shock might have been summarily executed for malingering or desertion; indeed many were.
By war's end, thousands and thousands of soldiers were taken away from the front to receive treatment for the disease. Although this treatment occurred in asylums, most soldiers would eventually return to their communities, as living testimonials to the horrors — and pathology — of war, much like the thousands of soldiers who bore the physical hallmarks of trench warfare, such as a missing limb, eye patch or prosthetic nose. Shell shock, partly because of its scale, partly because of those whom affected, and partly because of its cause made it difficult to blame the sufferer, brought mental illness to the masses like never before. Rather than shut away those afflicted in rural asylums, shell shock became central to how the Lost Generation was understood, and was depicted in the writing of Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, and others.
In this way, shell shock became one of the first mental afflictions whose sufferers were treated in a sympathetic, understanding manner, in some ways starting the process by which mental illness was destigmatized and, by extension, seen as a condition that should be treated in the community, rather than in an asylum. Similarly, the Second World War and the Vietnam War, as well as subsequent conflicts, have had a major impact upon how mental illness has been perceived."
How interesting that shell shock helped create more sympathy for the mentally ill. By the way, we are just barely beginning to understand what is now called "repeated blast injury" and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The more we understand the underlying brain damage, the less we blame the victim.
Christian Schloe Digital Art Work
Ending on cats
To stay sane, we need to watch happy cats. There are sixty-five cats lovingly kept at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, allegedly to protect the place from mice.
Scotland, Ben Lomond


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Ted "Golden Voice" Williams Quits Rehab Early
Ted Williams, the man with the "golden-voice" is done with rehab.
Less than two weeks after checking in to the Origins Recovery Center in South Texas for drug and alcohol dependency, Williams has bolted – against medical advice, reports TMZ.
Williams, the homeless man who was plucked from obscurity after a YouTube video featuring his dulcet tones went viral, had entered the facility to kick a 25-year alcohol addiction problem.
TV personality Dr. Phil convinced Williams to seek treatment after he appearing on his show.
"If Ted is ever going to get better, he's got to be honest with himself and admit he's addicted to drugs and alcohol," said Dr.Phil.
"I've told him it's not going to be easy and it's going to take a lot of hard work. It might be a long journey for him, but this is a big step in the right direction."
TMZ reports that Williams was last seen heading for the airport.
Not the warm and fuzzy ending were were all hoping for.


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