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“Jails Are Condemned, Health Reforms Urged After Ontario Inquiry,” Toronto Globe. August 23, 1930. Page 1 & 2. ---- Sweeping Changes in Charitable and Corrective Institutions of Province Advocated by Ross Commission - Expenditure of Over $20,000,000 Involved --- OVERCROWDING ROUNDLY SCORED ---- First Offenders Herded With Hardened Criminals - General Hospitals Should Be Complete Charge on Public Funds, Says Report

The Province of Ontario is invited to spend between $20,000,000 and $25,000,- 000 in the extension and Improvement of its charitable and corrective institutions by the report which the Royal Common on Public Welfare, appointed last October, has submitted to the Provincial Government. The signed by the three Commissioners, P D. Ross, Ottawa, Chairman; D. M. Wright, M.P., Stratford, and Dr. J. M. McCutcheon, Toronto, contains findings and recommendations based upon months of valuable and intensive study.

Steps are urged to obtain legislation for the sterilization of criminal or moral defectives, science and statistics being quoted to show that much crime is traceable to heredity or mental deficiency. The jails of the Province are found "Inferior in nearly every sense of the word," crowded, and without the desirable age and type segregation, Extension of the system of suspended sentences and probation periods is advocated. The general hospitals, it is submitted, "should be a complete charge upon public funds, either Provincial or municipal.”

Department of Welfare. Another important recommendation concerns the establishment of a Department of Public Welfare to strengthen Government supervision of the social and corrective institutions and agencies. It is suggested the department might Minister and his deputy and (the Commissioners add this more as a lead than as a concrete recommendation) directors of mental hygiene, psychiatry and research work, child welfare, adult relief, handicapped children, adult corrective institutions, juvenile delinquents, a director of supplies and products and a director of inspection.

Another change in the present system favored by the Commissioners is the of the supervision and general physical health under the Department of Public Health now existing, instead of leaving them under of the Provincial Secretary's Department. It is remarked that the natural connection of hospitals and sanatoria would seem to be with the Department of Public Health.

Purpose Defined. The report prelude explains that the Commissioners "have conceived their proper tank not to be the setting forth of statistics other than those necessary to furnish an understanding of the recommendations, nor to dwell on moral reflections, but to endeavor to indicate immediate practical steps to promote the public welfare."

There is bad crowding. it is pointed out, in the majority of Provincial Institutions. There is a great call for additional construction or extensions, also for better utility and occupational equipment.

The Government is asked to call a special conference of medical men to seek to check the ravages of cancer, “the worst scourge of civilized mankind": while a Provincial cancer hospital and purchase of a radium supply are favored.

In regard to sterilization, the report asks: Why should an immoral defective or an immoral criminal be allowed to propagate more defectives and more criminals, and thus promote the burden of misery with which communities must cope already?’ The framing of of a sterilization act by a combined judicial and medical commission, this act to be submitted to Legislature, is advanced as a means of reducing crime and immorality. The experience of California, which has had some 6,000 operations without complaint, is cited.

Hospital Costs. General hospital costs should be defrayed in the proportion of one-quarter by the Province and three-quarters of the necessary amount to be found by the municipality. Four types of hospital accommodation would be desirable, public wards, semi-public, semi-private and private wards. The semi-public,would be for patients of limited means wishing to pay their way; the rate would not exceed the amount spent by the hospital on public patient. Patients willing to pay a more would be allotted a semi-private ward and those of means private wards. The Commissioners believe the cost of nursing and of radium treatments should be reduced.

A mental hospital, it is reported, is needed in Northern Ontario, and additional accommodation is required for epileptics of the Province. Special educational and institutional care for backward children, and their identification and registration by the heads of schools, is urged, as as classes In the populous centres for this type of children, classes with specially trained teachers.

The Children's Aid Society is commended for its work among children in general. Changes in certain current terms, such as "dependent children" and "lunatic," "Insane" and "insanity." would be desirable.

Jail System Condemned. Commissioners are uncompromising when dealing with jails. They deplore lack of classification of prisoners and the system which herds old and young, first and hardened offenders, the unconvicted and the guilty, together. They insist there should be medical inspection upon entry, and believe work and occupation should be provided prisoners.

The inmates, the report points out. are usually locked up in their cells early in the evening and remain in lonely darkness for 12 hours or more. There is too much delay in transferring those destined for reformatories from the jails and their atmosphere, and prisoners should not be moved in chained batches for the sake of economy.

The larger Jails are understaffed, the Commission finds, and the Jailers underpaid. The report blames the deficiencies on the general jail system rather than the officials, to whom they due credit.

A constructive recommendation for the raising of revenue is submitted. The Quebec hospital tax on meals is cited as possibly a good means of achieving revenue. (Quebec taxes all restaurant and hotel meals costing one dollar or more at the rate of 5 per cent.).

Corrective Institutions - Better Sites Urged In regard to corrective institutions, the Commission lays down the following recommendations:

Guelph Reformatory should be used for first offenders, Burwash Reformatory for repeaters or extreme cases.

Burwash should have a motor road to Sudbury. There should be better dormitory accommodation, but any additional construction should be on the cell system.

Short-term offenders should be sent to Mimico Clay Plant, and more accommodation provided there.

The Victoria Industrial school at Mimico should be used for delinquent defectives, and replaced by a used only better school elsewhere for normal boys.

The Mercer Reformatory for Women should be at Concord, or elsewhere.

Langstaff and Concord Jail Farms should be taken over entirely by the Government.

Better occupational equipment should be provided in all the Industrial Schools

Delinquent defectives should be removed from and kept out of all the reformatories and Industrial schools. They should be placed in a special institution.

Alexandra School for Girls, Toronto, should be removed to a better site, also Belmont Street Refuge.

The Industrial Refuge, Belmont Street Toronto, for women: the Home of the Good Shepherd in Toronto, and similar Institutions anywhere in which are detained delinquent women, should be in the same position in reference to financial assistance from the Government as the Industrial Schools for young men and the treatment of prisoners of the Industrial Schools and of parole from them should be systematised.

The Christian Brothers are prepared to establish, at their own expense an industrial school in the eastern of the Province for delinquent boys, if guaranteed the same public support for operation as the St. John's School in Toronto. As St. John's is overcrowded. your Commissioners advise the acceptance of this offer, provided plans should be satisfactory to the Government.”

Toronto Jail The Commission's report on the Toronto jail is as follows:

Toronto Jail, the biggest in Ontarlo may be taken to provide a sample of jail conditions in the province. Usaally it holds some 300 prisoners. Each prisoner has a cell. Excepting this, the conditions are bad. There is no medical examination at commitment, A son with any sort of disease is liable to get among the other prisoners. Hardly any work is done. Ten per cent of the prisoners are used to do work in the Institution. The other ninety per cent are idle as a usual thing. No special provision exists for occupation. In any case, there would be no room for it. The jail is often over-crowded. The food is poor. There is no variety to it; it is about the same every day in the year, which can not be helped because the kitchen accommodation and equipment do not permit of varied cooking. The prisoners have not only no work and no play, but no exercise, except an occasional walk around the small jailyard. Prisoners of all descriptions are liable to lie around in the jail all day in an interminable conversazione. They are then locked up in their cells at half-past six o'clock to stay there until six next morning. The cells have no lights.

"Persons merely committed for trial are held under much the same conditions as convicted offenders.

"None of these conditions is the fault of the chief officer; they are the conditions of the jail.

"This jail usually holds about one-quarter of the current jail population of the Province.

“It would appear, then, an innocent person committed to such a jail for even a limited period would have a very harrowing experience, while the first offender would be likely to become worse."

Capital Costs. Following is the text of the Commission's report as regards new capital costs:

"The capital cost of the Institutional Improvements which your Commission- ers suggest in the foregoing reports would come to an amount of between twenty and twenty-five million dollars ($20,000,000 to $25,000,000).

"The specific recommendations include the following:

New Mental Hospital in north. .... $3.350.000 Two Vocational schools. .... 6.300.000 Half cost of new Sanatorium for Tuberculosis .... 525,000 New expenditure at the Ontario Hospital, Orillia.........80,000 For Epileptic Children as Wood-stock. .... 400,000 Institution for the Criminal Insane .... 200.000 Replacement of the Victoria Industrial School, Mimico... 1,065,000 Replacement of the Industrial Refuge. Toronto .... 577,500 Replacement of the Alexandra Industrial School .... 770,004 Nurses Home at Brockville .... 147,000 Cottages at the Boys Training School, Bowmanville .... 105,000 Rebuilding of the Ontario Hos pital, London .... 4.590.000 Hospital and School for Handicapped Children .... 570,000 Aid to give Special Hospital Wards for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts.... 300,000 Total .... $19,999,500

For Immediate Action. The following expenditures the Commission believes to be "absolutely and Immediately desirable":

A Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, Establishment and equipment of this, for even only 100 beds, and including utilization of the present Toronto Institution, would probably cost $1,000,000. The alternative is special aid to establish psychiatric schools or departments in the universities and larger hospitals.

A Provincial Cancer Hospital, which would cost from $1,000,000 to $3, 000,000, according to accommodation. The alternative is special aid to cancer research in the universities, and for wards in the larger General Hospitals.

Your Commissioners venture to think that London Mental Hospital should be entirely replaced, which would mean an expenditure of $6,000,000, instead of the $800,000 which is necessary to patch it up.

The placing of the Industrial at Langstaff and Concord under Government control.

A large Immediate expenditure is desirable to improve the occupational equipment of practically all the hospital, charitable and corrective Institutions, and to make many minor improvements which have been suggested In our report,

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Best Character Named X Poll

FOLLOW @best-character-named-x-poll

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day. New polls scheduled for 1:30PM GMT everyday.

ask box closed for now

WILL BE POSTING POLLS ON @best-character-named-x-poll FROM FEB 1ST

If your favourite character is not included in the poll very sorry i have either never heard of them or actively chose not to include them as theres only 6 characters per poll. Characters will only count of that is their first name, surnames do not count.

Round 85: David

Round 86: Tiffany

Round 87: Charlie

Round 88: Sandy

Round 89: Cody

Round 90: Amanda

Round 91: Jeremy

Past Polls and Poll Ideas under the cut

Names that I have a complete list for*

Caroline, Tyler, Louis, Leonard, Rebecca, Steve, Nicole, Isabelle, Victoria, Katherine, Jade, Alex, Sophie, Greg, Jake, Ellie, Isaac, Robin, Tony, Annie, Lisa, Margaret, Oliver, Clark, Kara, Phoebe, Emma, Ruby, Bart, Alfie, Beth, Julian, Nancy, Penny, Margaret, Tessa, Erica, Theresa, George, Kevin, Sebastian, Felix, Martin, Michael, Erin, Caleb, Helen, Charlotte, Kyle, Martha, Diana, Elsa, Gary, Zoe, Connor, Colin, Daisy, Eric, Maya, Adam, Andy, Magnus, Alma, Nora, Alice, Spike, Leon, Marcel, Kim, Juno, Sue, Chris, Otto, Donald, Daphne, Kate, Todd, Ned, Ken, Angel, Judy, Jo, Hazel, Naomi, Diego, Miranda, Joel, Lila, Duncan, Dexter, Meredith, Pearl, Lily, Malcolm, Napolean, Joan, Nico, Jamie, Nadia, Velma, Jill, Kiera, Rory, Evan, Tam, Klaus, Neil, Derek, Michelle, Luna, Laila, Cordelia, Zack, Imogen, Felicity, Cindy, Alicia, Kelly, Alan, April, Astrid, Delilah, Jodie, Claudia, Juliet, Karen, Jonas, Milo, Celia, Hannah, Joy, Ethan, Katya, Aria, Atticus, Ian, Cynthia, Faye, Frank, Boo, River, Corey, Gabrielle, Minerva, Ebony, Zia, Beverly, Rudy, Georgina

Names I have an incomplete list for (welcome to send character suggestions)

Richter, Sean, Troy, Cain, Agatha, Warren, Percy, Reggie, Mina, Ryan, Felicia, Dylan, Josh, Shirley, Debbie, Jared, June, Mabel, Ray, Chad, Moe, Hugh, Fearne, Christine, Joe, August, May, Scarlet, Alana, Leela, Manny, Dean, Francis, Mason, Oscar, Quinn, Guy, Ulrich, Wally, Yasmin, Tobias, Woody, Sabrina, Quentin, Margot, Alina, Matilda, Freya, Kendra, Angus, Ophelia, Leisel, Zelda, Adora, Piper, Scarlet, Sheila, Valentine, Laurie, Laurel, Fitz, Violet, Gabriel, Ford, Artemis, Owen, Bianca, Newton, Summer, Darcy, Noah, Taylor, Miriam, Hugh, Aurora, Hank, Henry, Dawn, Delia, Cosmo, Wanda, Zeke, Cecil, Aiden, Calvin, Ayesha, Beatrice, Parker, Chase, Hunter, Tina, Misty, Amaya, Amara, Harvey, Talia, Tatiana, Tanya, Orion, Eugene, Kit, Bo, Duke, Blue, Cameron, Rudolf, Mara, Marianne, Carl

Feel free to send more suggestions

*subject to change, you can still submit a character if there is no strikethrough if you think theres a character that its an absolute crime i dont add. Please don't suggest anything for the names with a strikethrough as they are polls that are already in my queue waiting to be published.

Past Polls

Round 1: Peter : WINNER: Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

Round 2: Elizabeth : WINNER: Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Round 3: Jason : WINNER: Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)

Round 4: Eve : WINNER: EVE (WALL-E)

Round 5: Fred : WINNER: Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)

Round 6: Rachel : WINNER: Rachel (Animorphs)

Round 7: Arthur : WINNER: Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Round 8: Amy : WINNER: Amy Pond (Doctor Who)

Round 9: Tom : WINNER: Tom (Tom and Jerry)

Round 10: Claire : WINNER: Clare Devlin (Derry Girls)

Round 11: James : WINNER: James (Pokemon)

Round 12: Max : WINNER: Max (Black Sails)

Round 13: Simon : WINNER: Simon Belmont (Castlevania)

Round 14: Jane : WINNER: Jane Crocker (Homestuck)

Round 15: Victor : WINNER: Victor Nikiforov (Yuri On Ice)

Round 16: Mary : WINNER: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins)

Round 17: Will : WINNER: Will Graham (Hannibal)

Round 18: Laura : WINNER: Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)

Round 19: Ben : WINNER: Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi (Star Wars)

Round 20: Chloe : WINNER: Chloe Price (Life Is Strange)

Round 21: John : WINNER: Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Round 22: Lydia : WINNER: Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Round 23: Mark : WINNER: Marc Spector (Moon Knight)

Round 24: Jess : WINNER: Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)

Round 25: Theo : WINNER: Theobald Gumbar (Dimension 20: A Crown Of Candy)

Round 26: Sarah: WINNER: Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who)

Round 27: Richard : WINNER: Richard Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Round 28: Cass : WINNER: Cassandra Cain (Batman)

Round 29: Edward : WINNER: Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Round 30: Carm : WINNER: Carmen Sandiego (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?)

Round 31: Hal : WINNER: HAL9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Round 32: Sid : WINNER: Sydney Adamu (The Bear)

Round 33: Jack : WINNER: Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who)

Round 34: Stephanie : WINNER: Stephanie Brown (Batman)

Round 35: Ash : WINNER: Ash Ketchum (Pokemon)

Round 36: Veronica : WINNER: Veronica Sawyer (Heathers)

Round 37: Kurt : WINNER: Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler (X-Men)

Round 38: Eleanor : WINNER: Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

Round 39: Nathan : WINNER: Nathan Young (Misfits)

Round 40: Fiona : WINNER: Princess Fiona (Shrek)

Round 41: Gale : WINNER: Gayle Waters-Waters (Chris Fleming)

Round 42: Barbara : WINNER: Barbara Millicent Roberts aka Barbie (Barbie)

Round 43: Sam : WINNER: Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Round 44: Grace : WINNER: Grace Chastity (Nerdy Prudes Must Die)

Round 45: Barry : WINNER: Barry Bluejeans (The Adventure Zone)

Round 46: Raven : WINNER: Raven (Teen Titans)

Round 47: Dan : WINNER: Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Round 48: Mia : WINNER: Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)

Round 49: Matt : WINNER: Matt Murdock (Daredevil)

Round 50: Rose : WINNER: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Round 51: Robert : WINNER: Robbie Rotten (LazyTown)

Round 52: Lola : WINNER: Lola Bunny (Space Jam)

Round 53: Scott : WINNER: Scott Summers aka Cyclops (X-Men)

Round 54: Olivia : WINNER: Olivia Octavious (Spiderverse)

Round 55: Finn : WINNER: Finn the Human (Adventure Time)

Round 56: Emily : WINNER: Emily Charlton (The Devil Wears Prada)

Round 57: Elliot : WINNER: Eliot Spencer (Leverage)

Round 58: Sonia : WINNER: Sonia (Pokemon)

Round 59: Gideon : WINNER: Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Round 60: Jen : WINNER: Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Round 61: Miles : WINNER: Miles Morales (Spider-Man)

Round 62: Lana : WINNER: Lana Skye (Ace Attorney)

Round 63: Spencer : WINNER: Spencer Shay (iCarly)

Round 64: Tracy : WINNER: Tracy Turnbald (Hairspray!)

Round 65: Luke : WINNER: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

Round 66: Natalie : WINNER: Natalie Scatorccio (Yellowjackets)

Round 67: Harry : WINNER: Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Round 68: Lucy : WINNER: Lucy van Pelt (Peanuts)

Round 69: Damian : WINNER: Damian Wayne (Batman)

Round 70: Tabitha : WINNER: Tabitha Casper (Dan and Phil Games: Sims 4)

Round 71: Nick : WINNER: Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)

Round 72: Gwen : WINNER: Guinevere (Merlin)

Round 73: Paul : WINNER: Paulette Bonafonte (Legally Blonde)

Round 74: Abigail : WINNER: Abigail Hobbs (Hannibal)

Round 75: Jordan : WINNER: Jordan Baker (The Great Gatsby)

Round 76: Donna : WINNER: Donna Noble (Doctor Who)

Round 77: Morgan : WINNER: Morgana (Merlin)

Round 78: Allison : WINNER: Alison Cooper (BBC Ghosts)

Round 79: Patrick : WINNER: Patrick Star (Spongebob Squarepants)

Round 80: Linda : WINNER: Linda Belcher (Bob's Burgers)

Round 81: Philip : WINNER: Philip J. Fry (Futurama)

Round 82: Clarisse : WINNER: Clarisse La Rue (Percy Jackson)

Round 83: Jeff

Round 84: Maria

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polyam-ship-showdown · 1 year

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Polyam Ship Showdown Round 2

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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 1 year

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The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy

On September 13, 1918, Rose Kennedy, wife of prominent businessman Joseph Kennedy Sr., went into labor with her third child. Rose's obstetrician was called to the Kennedys' home, but with a pneumonia epidemic raging through Boston, he failed to arrive before the baby entered the birth canal. A nurse, desperate to stop the delivery until the doctor arrived, held Rose's legs closed. When that failed, she reached into Rose's birth canal and held the baby's head in place for an unbelievable two hours.

In the quickly expanding household of boisterous, competitive Kennedys, Rosemary was often left behind. She was held back in school, until finally Rose hired private tutors for Rosemary and kept her at home. Watching her brothers and sisters go out without her left Rosemary angry and confused. She had "fits," which could have been seizures or episodes of mental illness. Afraid of Rosemary's vulnerability, Rose never let her leave the house alone. Rosemary also often ran away.

In the 1920s, the stigma associated with mental disability could ruin a family. Many Americans, including prominent members of society like Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, believed in eugenics, a pseudoscience that advocated for forced sterilization of the "defective," a group that included the mental and physically disabled. And then, of course, the Kennedys were devout Catholics, whose church deemed disability the result of sin—a punishment from God.

Rosemary's disability was a challenge her mother couldn't face alone. At age 11, Rosemary was sent to boarding school. Over the next nine years, she attended five different schools. Her letters home show a young girl struggling to get it right. She wrote in a childish script that slants down dramatically off the page. She misspelled words and wrote incomplete sentences. Each letter is filled with a daughter's a desperate desire for approval and affection.

While in Britain, Rosemary found brief respite. She was enrolled in Belmont House, a boarding school run by Catholic nuns who embraced the Montessori Method of education, which focused on learning through practical skills and hands-on activities. Rosemary flourished under the guidance of the nuns, who trained her to be a teacher's aide. But after the Germans marched on Paris in the summer of 1940, her family brought her back to the States. Rosemary's reprieve was over.

Back at home, Rosemary watched her siblings begin their lives and careers, while she wasn't even allowed outside alone. Rose tried to find another school for her daughter, but few places were equipped to take a disabled adult in her 20s. Rosemary was eventually sent to a convent, where she began sneaking out at night and going to bars.

Joe Sr. was busy plotting the political career of his two oldest sons. Wanting to avoid scandal and looking to find a cure for his daughter's erratic behavior, he began speaking to Dr. Walter Freeman and his associate Dr. James Watts, the leading practitioners of lobotomies in America. At the time, the procedure was heralded as a cure for the physically disabled and mentally ill..

Joe Sr. discussed the procedure with Rose, who asked their daughter Kathleen to look into it. Kathleen spoke with a reporter, John White, investigating mental illness and treatments. White told Kathleen that the effects of lobotomies were "no good." Clifford Larson writes that Kathleen immediately reported back to her mother: "Oh, Mother, no, it's nothing we want done for Rosie." But whether out of desperation or determination, Joe Sr. went ahead with the surgery.

At the age of 23, Rosemary was admitted to George Washington University Hospital, where she was strapped to a table and given an anaesthetic to numb the areas of her brain where Freeman and Watts would drill two small holes. They then inserted a small metal spatula and sliced the connections between her pre-frontal cortex and the rest of her brain. (Freeman often used ice picks for the procedure, hammering the pick in through the eye socket.) Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.

The hope was that the procedure would subdue Rosemary and end her rebellious jaunts about town. But the result was far more extreme: After the lobotomy, Rosemary was no longer able to walk or talk. It took months of therapy before she regained the ability to move on her own, recouping only the partial use of one arm. One of her legs was permanently turned inward. Months after the surgery, when she regained her ability to speak, it was a mix of garbled sounds and words. The result must have been shocking to Joe Sr., who had clung to the procedure as his last hope for Rosemary. But it couldn't have shocked Dr. Freeman, who had no surgical training and no proof of the astounding results he had claimed.

Immediately after the surgery, Joe Sr. moved Rosemary to Craig House, a psychiatric care facility where Zelda Fitzgerald once stayed. At the end of the 1940s, Joe Sr. had her moved to Saint Coletta's, a residential care facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where Rosemary lived until her death in 2005.

For 20 years, Rosemary was hidden from her family.

In 1961, Joe Sr. suffered a stroke, and in early 1962, Rose finally saw her daughter again. Koehler-Pentacoff, whose aunt was one of Rosemary's primary caretakers at Saint Coletta's, recalls being told that during their first meeting, Rosemary attacked her mother. Angry, wounded, and abandoned, Rosemary was fighting for herself.

Twenty years after the barbaric procedure that derailed Rosemary's life, the Kennedys began to fight for her too. Rosemary's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and became a leading advocate for disability rights. Rosemary's nephew Anthony Shriver became an activist for people with developmental disabilities and founded the non-profit Best Buddies International. Rosemary's older brother John F. Kennedy, who became the 35th president of the United States, signed the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendment to the Social Security Act, the first major legislation to combat mental illness and retardation, in 1963. It was a precusor to the American's with Disabilities Act, which Rosemary's little brother Ted—who served as a Democratic Senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009—championed. (It was eventually made law in 1990.) Ted Kennedy also sat on the board of the American Association of People with Disabilities.

#Rosemary Kennedy #disability #history #kennedy's

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dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd · 8 months

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The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy

For 20 years, Rosemary was hidden from her family.

#Rosemary Kennedy #disability #history #kennedy's #crime

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kieransometimesthinks · 4 months

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Question for people who actually know Castlevania lore, is there a reason why the Belmonts aren’t more actively trying to avoid the Belmont knowledge dying out?

Like I get that they work in a dangerous field, so a lot of them are going to die. But they’re always on the verge of extinction. And I just think that if my ancestral knowledge had literally been an integral part of saving humanity multiple times I would be more keen to take on apprentices or whatever so that knowledge isn’t just lost to time.

I appreciate them not being weirdly obsessed with perpetuating the Belmont bloodline- we stan a family who doesn’t fuck with eugenics- but surely they could come up with some sort of guidelines for adopting people into the fold to ensure that there are a minimum number of initiated Belmonts at any given point in time.

I’m not saying they should raise an army or anything. But like… why are they always in decline?

#castlevania #belmont bullshit

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evermorehqs · 7 months

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CATCHING MY BREATH, STARING OUT AN OPEN WINDOW

Varian Hendricks is based on Varian from Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. He is a 26 year old human, alchemist lecturer, and uses he/him pronouns. He has no powers. Varian is portrayed by Jack Wolfe and he is open.

CATCHING MY DEATH, AND I COULDN’T BE SURE

As a kid Varian was very inquisitive, always wanting to know the how and why behind every kind of creation. He was considered a bright young lad, even if his inventions made neighbors uneasy, so mostly he kept to himself. Spending hours upon hours everyday in his little workshop, combining chemistry with matter to create something new, powerful and almost downright magical. Fixated on improving the efficiency and lives of the residents in Old Corona, Varian had several successful inventions set up in the village, unknowingly dooming them to disaster at a later date. However Varian did not have much time to concentrate on old hobbies, not after Princess Rapunzel came to him in person to seek out his help of the growing blite amongst the kingdom; the spikey black rocks. Despite Varian’s father’s warnings, the kid kept up his interest in finding out the truth, every day digging deeper into the mystery of how and why they appeared, and the danger looming from them. He had to, it was for the sake of Corona! Mixing alchemy with magic Varian accidentally unleashed a solidifying element from the rocks that encased his poor father, only trying to save his son. Desperate to free his Father from the imprisonment he caused, Varian rushed to the palace to try to get help from three of Corona’s finest heroes; Rapunzel, Eugene and Cassandra. Varian never made it to the palace and instead awoke the next morning with no memories of the quaint life he once had in a small village of old Corona. Now working as a lecturer, Varian still finds himself asking the tough questions and seeking the harsh truths behind this strange little town, with an odd feeling that he’s forgetting about something really important.

I HAD A FEELING SO PECULIAR

❀ Rueben Klokan: Varian doesn’t remember much about his parents, especially not his mother, and both Rueben and Kaya have been so welcoming to him. Maybe he’s jealous, maybe he’s not, all he knows is that he’d kill to have the love Rueben does. ❀ Vanellope Von Schweetz: At first Varian was terrified of Vanellope but after getting to know her super sweet side, he thinks they could potentially be great friends. ❀ Talia Belmont: Always tinkering away at some wild machine like himself, Varian sees a lot of potential in Talia and would love to pick her brain on ideas sometime.

THAT THIS PAIN WOULD BE FOR EVERMORE

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himemiyas · 5 years

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#dante #eugene fitzherbert #flynn rider #remy lebeau #jesse mccree #chrom #trevor belmont #mirage #elliott witt #dante sparda #devil may cry #tangled #disney’s tangled #fire embem awakening #netflix castlevania #apex legends #mine

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laurelplaysthesims · 5 years

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The whole family got together for Llama Day!

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yourfavisabaudelaireguardian · 2 years

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Every Baudelaire Guardian (So Far)

This list is a long overdue way for y’all to see past guardians before requesting and a way for me to keep track of who I’ve already made a guardian, so let’s get this train rollin’!

(All Guardians names from first to most recent under the cut, will be updated as more characters are requested)

Kirby

Frankie Stein

Phoenix Wright

Harry Greenwood

Hiccup and Astrid Haddock

Reginald Hargreeves

Toriel

The Sorting Hat

Jack Skellington

@/virtualfindingsdocumented

Noodle

BMO

Reigen Arataka

Taako Taaco

John Mulaney

Dr. Doofenshmirtz

Chidi Anagonye

The Kratt Brothers

Ronald McDonald

CoryXKenshin

Freddy Mercury

Darth Vader

Jefferson Davis

Marie Kondo

Jonathan Van Ness

Maes Hughes

Harold Hill

Dutch van der Linde

Isabelle

@/milesgonzalomorales

You

Carol Danvers

Molly Weasley

Grunkle Stan

Magnus Bane

Scott Howl

William Shakespeare

George Salazar

@/unfortunate-stranger-losers

Luke Skywalker

Belle

Yoshi

@/barb-baudelaire

Luigi

Soldier 76

Emily the Corpse Bride

Neil Cicierega and Ming Doyle

Optimus Prime

Papyrus

Robert E.O. Speedwagon

Julian Devorak

Rex Dangervest

Meta Knight

Moominmamma and Moominpappa

Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert

A knife

David

A bigger knife

Xemnas

Tony Stark

@/badasouefanficideas

MatPat, Safiya Nygaard and Rosanna Pansino

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Miss Honey

MatPat but with StephPat this time

Thomas Sanders

Magnus and Julia Burnsides

Ruff Ruffman

Willy Wonka

An even bigger knife

Amy Rose

Video Game Sonic the Hedgehog

Scott Lang

A Googly Eyed Slinky

@/snicketstrange

@/sqenthusiast , formerly @/larry-your-gayter

A Dog

@/teeny-beany, formerly @/afarmforthree

The Crystal Gems

@/arisabunni, formerly @/hongmoondescendant

The Biggest Knife Ever in Bowie, Texas

Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes and Presley Smith

Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Linda and Laurence Flynn-Fletcher

Alice Liddell

Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz

Lancer

Demi Lovato

Princess Peach

Marianne

Dad Egbert

Bayonetta

Phil Coulson

The Phantom of The Opera / Erik Destler

Original Design of Live Action Sonic

Thumb-thumbs

@/bi-baudelaires

Shrek

Greg Universe

@/cloverlady

Brian David Gilbert

Robert Manion

Yondu Udonta

Seven

Mary Poppins

Monika

Cherry

The VFDiscord

Ke$ha

Jay Gatsby

Kermit the Frog

Brandon Rogers

@/someones-mayhem

S. Theodora Markson

Chris McLean

Pepper Potts

James

Linebeck

Lucretia

@/olivia-caliban

@/oliviacalibans, formerly @/olivia-calibansnicket

Iris, Talia and Auriana

Final Pam

Miss Frizzle

Crowley and Aziraphale

La Muerte

Leo Valdez

Princess Tiana

Cats (2019)

Bubblegum and Marceline

Gary Goodspeed

Otto Wood

Ouran High School Host Club

Mothman

Tulio, Miguel, and Chel

Quentin Coldwater

Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey

Garfield

Fix-It Felix and Sergeant Tamora Calhoun

Barbara and Adam Maitland

Kit Snicket

Dan and Phil

Cole

Bill Nye

The Untitled Goose

Scooby Doo

@/vacuum-fluorescent-display

@/violetsnickets

@/broke-on-books

Eleanor Shellstrop

@/m-orgueous

@/aseriesofhyperfixation

@/vfdbaudelairefile13

Rosalina

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Spyro

Batman

Final Design of Live Action Sonic

Dio Brando

The Bad Kids

Erika and Princess Annelise

Hat Kid

Princess Diana

Marshall Mallow

Milo

Giovanni Potage

Hermes

Oliver and Lisa Douglas

Grogu

Din Djarin

Percy King

Miss Acacia

Wrench

Nico Di Angelo

Aizawa

Kobe Bryant

George Memeulous

@/thesciencebros

Ozma of Oz

@/beth-the-robot-enthusiast

Gerard and Lindsey Way

Merle Highchurch

Jerma985

Commander Up

Oliver and Felicity Queen

Steve and Alex

Dale Cooper

Miss Alma Le Fay Peregrine

Queen Barb of the Rock Trolls

Shadow the Hedgehog

Dave Strider and Karkat Vantas

Jonathan Joestar

Spinel

Mayor Damien

Fairy Mary

Gomez and Morticia Addams

Unus

Eijiro Kirishima

Blue the Dog

@/lostf3ralchild

The Parr Family/ The Incredibles

Five Hargreeves

The Imagination Movers

Coraline Jones

Charles and Jerome Squalor

Clarisse La Rue

The Fellowship of the Ring

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Alucard Tepes, Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades

Minnie Le Guin

Barry Bluejeans and Lup Taako

Cyrus and Evelyn Laurie

Red Guy and Duck

Felix Unger and Oscar Madison

Mr. Nicholas Benedict

Asgore

Satine

Ted Spankoffski

Toko Fukawa and Komaru Naegi

Samuel Vimes

Ph1lza

Rick O'Connell and Evie Carnahan

Leon Kennedy

Team Dark

Sasha Nein

Sam and Max

Drawfee Cast

Bruno Madrigal

The Amazing Karnak

#asoue #a series of unfortunate events #baudelaire orphans guardians

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