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Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon is not what I thought it would be, but I was pleasantly surprised! (To be honest, I picked this book purely based on the cover, something I’m guilty of doing a lot.) This book is a literary thriller that tells the story of the far-reaching consequences of identity theft. Await Your reply begins by introducing the three main characters: Miles, Ryan, and Lucy.
Miles is on a mission to find his missing twin brother, Hayden. Hayden disappeared over ten years ago, leaving Miles desperate for clues. His search takes him everywhere and has Miles deciphering letters and clues that will hopefully lead to Hayden. The brothers’ relationship and their shared childhood is a major driving factor in Miles’ concern over where his brother is.
Ryan is struggling in college and basically in his life in general. He doesn’t know what to do. Add in that he just realized that he’s adopted(how could his parents hide that secret from him his whole life?!) and Ryan is even more lost than before. His desire to learn more about his past and figure out what he wants to do with his life lead him down a dark road.
Lucy is completely over her small country hometown. She wants to escape, travel the world, and find her purpose. Lucy is presented with a way to leave her hometown in the dust, something that she jumps on! Lucy’s escape quickly proves more dangerous and mysterious than she initially thought. The consequences of her rash decision will leave her reeling and confused over just who she should trust.
I found the plotlines and each character’s timelines to be a little tricky to follow at first. If you decide to read this book, I urge you to not give up because everything becomes clear towards the end. I honestly was very surprised about some of the connections and the twists/turns that the author came up with. I didn’t see them coming! Highly recommend (If you can listen to this book, do it! The narrator was very good.)
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Don’t You Cry is a psychological mysterious thriller. It falls along the same lines as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, but I found the twists that happened in this book to be less predictable, at least to me. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty.
Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica is a twisting tale of deception, obsession, strangers, friends, and missing people. Quinn Collins is a young woman living in downtown Chicago with her roommate, Esther Vaughan. Everything seems to be going perfectly fine in Quinn’s life until she wakes up one morning and discovered that Esther has disappeared from their apartment without a trace. reporting Esther as missing only results in Quinn being told that Esther will probably come back in 48-72 hours and she should just wait. Quinn decides to take matters into her own hands and goes through Esther’s room looking for any clues. What she finds there leads Quinn to question who Esther really is and where she has disappeared to.
Alex Gallo is an eighteen-year-old boy working at a coffee shop an hour outside Chicago. Alex lives in this small lake town with his alcoholic father across from an old abandoned house that everyone thinks is haunted. One day, a mysterious woman walks into the coffee shop and Alex finds himself drawn to her. Alex is quickly pulled into Pearl’s spell, feeding and clothing her even though he knows nothing about her. Alex gets closer and closer to Pearl and realizes that he actually knows almost nothing about the town that he lives in.
While Quinn searches for Esther and Alex tries to learn more about Pearl, there are other factors simmering in the background of the book that demand the readers attention. This book is told in alternating voices, a fact that I enjoyed since I listened to this book through OverDrive and was able to dive into the characters more. Mary Kubica does a fabulous job of weaving a missing person story with family drama, mysterious pasts, old ghost stories, and alternate life stories. The tension slowly lives under the surface of this book until the end when the narrative explodes. Highly recommended.
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The Girl on the Train is a messy intrigue of a book. If you’ve read Gone Girl, this book covers the same bases: suspense/psychological/mystery fiction, murder victims, witnesses, married people, and missing persons. This book is fast-paced and, at least for me, it was difficult to pin down who the killer actually was.
The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson’s life post-divorce. Every day she takes the same commuter train to London to work and passes the same houses and scenery. As one is apt to do on long train rides, Rachel creates stories about the people, places, and things that she sees along the way. One particular couple catches her eye on every trip. Rachel soon finds herself looking out for this married couple every time she speeds by, hoping to catch more of a glimpse into their daily lives. She gives them names, invents background stories for them, and even gives them careers. Everything is seemingly perfect until one day when she sees something out of the ordinary happen at the married couple’s home and soon after, the woman goes missing.
Rachel is forced to confront whether she should go to the police, contact the missing woman’s husband, or just lay low. Rachel is having a rough time dealing with her past, with her ex-husband, Tom, and his new wife, Anna. Her life is spiraling out of control and the peace that she found while watching the married couple has been shattered, leaving her in the lurch and without a solid place in the world. This novel shifts between three different narratives: Rachel, Anna, and the missing woman. Each narrative is packed full of action. Readers will be left wondering what happened and wondering about each characters’ motives.
The Girl on the Train will also be released as a movie on October 7th!
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If you’re still relying on your old edition of Hometown Pasadena, here’s just one example of why you need to upgrade to the 2009.2010 edition: A new piece by Susan Futterman exploring the roots of the artistic community that developed along the Arroyo Seco in the late nineteenth century. Look for an exhibit on Frances Gearhart’s work, with an accompanying book by Futterman, in the coming year.
Artists came to Pasadena in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries because of the light and the mountains and the light on the mountains. They were drawn to the area along the Arroyo Seco, with its natural creeks, light filtered through the trees and the amazing purple San Gabriel Mountains in the distance. This was the Land of Sunshine, where poppy and lupine fields abounded, eucalyptus swayed, and brooks meandered through wooded glens. Year-round, artists could set up their easels and paint by the natural light of the sun until it settled beyond the Verdugos. Southern California was home to Impressionism’s Indian summer, the last place it flourished, and the artists who settled here developed a kind of California Impressionism, focusing on defined landscapes, capturing light on the canvas using pure colors, and choosing to paint distinctly California subjects.
These artists established a community. Together they trekked to the High Sierras, the beaches and the desert to paint. They formed clubs, such as the California Art Club, or met on a Sunday morning at Benjamin Brown’s Pasadena home studio just to talk about art. Some came because of failing health, such as William Lees Judson, the founder of the Judson Studios, who lived to paint for many years. Many of these artists taught at the schools that were being established to serve the growing arts scene: Otis, Chouinard, Los Angeles Art Students League and the Stickley Memorial School of Art in Pasadena.
Among the Pasadena artists, Guy Rose was one of the few who was born locally —on Sunny Slope, the family ranch. (Rosemead was the name of a second Rose family ranch.) The most illustrious of the California Impressionists, Rose studied and lived in Paris and Giverny but eventually returned to paint, exhibit and teach at the Stickley Art School. Alson Clark and Jean Mannheim located their home studios on the banks of the Arroyo Seco, where they could start and end each day with the splendor of nature out their doorstep. Both these studios exist today.
Women artists were prominent in the Pasadena art scene. Frances Gearhart became the leading color-block printer of the American West. She depicted stunning landscapes of majestic mountains and vistas with billowy clouds blowing in the skies. Her home and gallery, at the corner of California and Fair Oaks, became a regional meeting place for other printmakers. Ellen Farr favored oils of pepper tree branches and was a favorite of Colonel Green of the Green Hotel, where she had a gallery. One of her pepper-tree paintings hangs in the lobby of the Castle Green today. Marion Watchel was unparalleled in her ability to create a dreamy mood and tell a story with the fluid sweep of her watercolors.
It was the impressions of light on the California landscape that captivated all these artists and held them here.
— Susan Futterman

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In this paper, the writer draws attention to the difference of opinion which exists as to the interpretation of the manifestations of the subconscious. More especially he attacks those writers who hold the view that these manifestations “are compatible with the interpretation that they are the result of physiological processes without any association with ideas whatsoever.” In support of the psychological interpretation, viz., that co-conscious (subconscious) manifestations are the expression of subconscious ideas more or less dissociated from the personal consciousness, the writer describes several experiments carried out by himself on cases of multiple personalities, giving both simple and more elaborate tests in co-conscious perception and reasoning. In addition, there is a short description of one of a series of experiments carried on in conjunction with Dr. Frederic Peterson, by means of the psycho-galvanic reaction method, with a view of demonstrating the presence of subconscious emotions of which the subject was unaware. The reader must be referred to the paper itself for details of these experiments, which do not lend themselves to epitomising, but which substantiate Dr. Prince's conclusion, viz., “that such perceptions, interpretations, calculations, and translations could have been made by pure physiological processes without thought is inconceivable, and not substantiated by anything that we know of physiological processes.”
Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection.

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THINK Chooses Indiana for North American Think City EV Assembly
In brief: THINK will being selling their highway-capable urban electric cars, the City, in the U.S. later this year and will invest $43.5 million in a plant in Indiana.
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After the car goes on sale here in the U.S. later this year, THINK will begin work on their newly-acquired plant in Elkhart County, Indiana to have the factory online in 2011.
The plant will be capable of producing up to 20,000 cars per year and THINK hopes to capture the budding electric vehicle market in America by jumping in ahead of the competition.
The company has been building the THINK City for quite a while, selling them in Europe, but has had a rocky past until recently when the company moved to Finland and began production there.
THINK will be partnering with Indianapolis-based battery maker EnerDel to supply the lithium-ion technology that powers the City.
And so ...
Good news as several foreign companies step in to try to become the first highway-capable production electric vehicle for sale in the U.S.
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ANSYS ADVANTAGE MAGAZINE
Fitness centers equipped with insufficient ventilation have been identified by governments around the world as key hotspots for infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strenuous exercise causes gym patrons to constantly exhale large amounts of saliva droplets, which creates a particle concentration that is potentially loaded with the virus. As the concentration builds throughout the facility, it creates a substantial risk for those who may ingest virus particles, leading to infection. How can gym owners better protect their patrons? Many governments have delayed the reopening of fitness centers until this question is answered.
Recently, Sportinnovator in the Netherlands, appointed by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, took the lead on this critical issue, commissioning Dr. Bert Blocken and his Eindhoven University of Technology research team to examine whether ventilation and air cleaning systems could sufficiently reduce the buildup and inhalation of dangerous microscopic aerosol droplet particle concentrations. When aerosol particles are exhaled, they typically evaporate in a fraction of a second to a few seconds, leaving behind a solid nucleus particle, which the virus can reside on and could remain airborne for several hours, especially for smaller aerosol particles. Invisible to the naked eye, these particles could only be tracked using state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation technology.
Ansys Fluent was used to digitally recreate the Eindhoven University of Technology sports center.
Blocken’s team set its sights on learning how to keep aerosol concentrations low enough so that the dose would not grow large enough to cause infection. By combining physical experimentation measurement and Ansys Fluent modeling, the team delivered a comprehensive answer for solving the issue, which would better educate the Dutch government and provide sufficient evidence to the public that properly equipped fitness centers could safely reopen during the pandemic.
The team used Fluent to track the number of particles within the confined space of a Dutch fitness center and learned that the ventilation system, even though it was 4.5 times stronger than the required minimum ventilation rate in the Dutch Building Code, was incapable of preventing the monotonic rise of particle concentrations in the air. This inspired them to find an effective, affordable and energy-efficient solution — advanced air purifying machines — that could work in tandem with the ventilation system, ingesting the particles to potentially rid the area of contagion and keep patrons safe.
Dr. Blocken’s team used Fluent to assess the fitness center’s airflow and understand how air purifiers and ventilation systems could join forces to help reduce contagion.
On July 11, 2020, Blocken’s team performed experimental analysis to measure the overall aerosol concentration average of the university sports center at Eindhoven University of Technology.
During the first part of the experiment, athletes rode stationary bicycles, exhaling into a machine that counted the number of different-sized aerosols. In the second part, Blocken’s team installed 147 sensors throughout the fitness center that gathered measurement data on 35 people exercising in a series of time slots of 30 minutes, assessing how many droplets patrons exhaled into the air while exercising at different intensities.
Next, the team leveraged the ventilation system and patrons’ mouths as boundary conditions and used a light scanner to quickly scan the body geometries of the athletes as they exercised on treadmills and other machines.
The experiments enabled the team to measure the invisible particle droplets and provided the critical data for creating the Fluent simulations, which digitally recreated the fitness center, delivered insights on the fitness center’s ventilation effectiveness and the effectiveness of the air cleaners, and illustrated how the particles traveled throughout the space.
With Fluent and Ansys Cloud, the team discovered that the ventilation system and air cleaners could potentially each introduce oppositely moving indoor airflows that would, to a large degree, cancel each other out, limiting each other’s effectiveness. This means that the airflow produced by the ventilation system and the air cleaners must be carefully synchronized to achieve optimum results.
The team’s research also concluded that if a fitness center is equipped with a mechanical ventilation system that satisfies the legal minimum requirements but faces aerosol concentrations that are too high, the ventilation system does not need to be updated, which would involve a high cost. By optimizing the number and placement of air purifiers throughout the facility, the aerosol concentration can be effectively reduced — to as much as 90%–95% — delivering the most economical and most efficient means for reducing risk of airborne COVID infection, the flu or any other infectious diseases that might be present.
The team discovered that the ventilation system and air purifiers could work against each other if not synchronized.
Without Fluent, the team’s workload to complete all gym scenarios would have tremendously increased, stretching the very time-consuming aerosol particle measurement process with volunteer participants tested against COVID-19 to an estimated three years. Using Fluent and the compute power of Ansys Cloud via Microsoft Azure, the team accomplished their CFD research in just three weeks.
Blocken’s fitness center study results will help provide governments the proper advice for managing aerosol concentrations — not just in gyms but in countless other applications, spanning global venues such as schools, airplanes, elevators, business offices, movie theaters and more.
Following their success at the Eindhoven University of Technology fitness center, Blocken’s team is using Fluent to test upscaled versions of the air cleaning machines’ usefulness for large stadiums, such as Holland’s Johan Cruyff ArenA, the largest stadium in the country, and the Maaspoort, home of the most successful basketball team in the Netherlands. Deployment of these machines could soon improve public safety at large sporting events around the world.


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Antares, a San Francisco-based boutique investment bank specializing in US and European deals, asked the Nicholas Center to build a complex financial model to help them better service clients. The team of second-year students tasked with constructing the model embraced the challenge and set to work making the most user-friendly model possible while ensuring that the model could be employed in all foreseeable circumstances.
The model was a reverse leveraged buyout (LBO) model. The typical LBO model takes the deal purchase price as an input and calculates the sponsor’s internal rate of return (IRR). A reverse LBO model takes the IRR as an input and calculates the purchase price that would be needed to achieve the given IRR. This model also solves for the beginning and ending equity amounts for the sponsor, as well as the entrance and exit EBITDA multiple.
To ensure that the model could be used with all possible scenarios, the team interviewed experts at J.P. Morgan and GE Capital and incorporated the breadth of options for financing deal structures. Anyone who uses the model can input a variety of capital structure assumptions, including management equity and warrants.
While the model’s internal calculations are complex, the team designed it so that users need not be experts at either finance or Excel to use it. In case someone at Antares has questions, the team went a step further and wrote a user manual to consult should there be any confusion about any particular aspect of the model.
While the Nicholas Center team learned more about conditional formatting and different modeling styles, Antares now has a product that enables them to quickly design and share with clients a medley of financing scenarios and the outcomes.

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These two well appointed, semi-detached bungalows (refs 26069 and 26070), lie in the hamlet of Middleton Scriven on the outskirts of Bridgnorth, the historic Shropshire town best known for being a town of two halves: the High Town with good views down which Charles I declared to be the finest in all the kingdom and the Low Town with good views up. Now connected by the steepest inland funicular railway in Britain. Bridgnorth is fortunate to have many attractions scattered around its luscious countryside. You can have an unforgettable day’s time travel; a combined journey by steam railway, and historic river ferry to a beautiful house and garden. Just a short car journey takes you to the world famous Ironbridge and its popular museums, The Royal Air Force Museum and Boscobel House. A few miles upstream of Bridgnorth is Shrewsbury, England’s finest Tudor town, which has one of the best waterfronts, a wide variety of shops, bars and a riverside theatre. Attingham Park, Benthall Hall, Dudmaston Hall, Rays Farm Country matters, Much Wenlock, West Midland Safari Park, Cleobury Mortimer and Ludlow are also well worth a visit. Golf and horse riding are available locally. Shops 5 miles, pub 2 miles.
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Affirmations for Finding Your Purpose
How can you go about finding your purpose? Everyone has a dream. Everyone has a purpose or mission, something specific he is called to do. You are on this earth for a reason. Although you can temporarily hide from yourself, you can never lose your connection to your purpose. It is always with you, beckoning to be uncovered. You just need to listen and let it speak to you.
Your destiny is beckoning you. Here are some affirmations that can help you to get in touch with that inner calling.
- I am aligned with my higher purpose.
- I am in touch with my destiny.
- I hear my inner voice and heed the call.
- I am living a life of purpose and passion.
- I follow my dreams and make them a reality.
- I am in touch with my priorities, and I act on them.
- As I follow the path of my heart, I discover my true treasure.
- I am expressing the highest and best that is within me.
- I give myself the freedom to discover and pursue my own path.
- When I am being true to myself, the rest of my life falls into place.
Words To Consider
“The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them.
The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt circumstances to himself.
All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw

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ELEGANT DINING TENTS IN THE SERENGETI
Dining is an essential part of the guest experience at Kirawira Serena Camp. Watch the sunrise with a cup of fine coffee or tea on your private balcony. Indulge in choice cuts of meat in our dining tent or allow us to arrange an English breakfast or sundowner cocktails in the bush. Top off an evening with cocktails by the fire pit.
In keeping with the camp’s theme of Colonial opulence, our elegant twin dining tents are appointed with Edwardian-styled furnishings, sprung floors, crisp-starched napery, delicate blue and white china and weighty silver accoutrements. Meals are served by staff attired in the classical Colonial mess uniform of white Swahili robes and turbans.
The extensive menus feature full English breakfasts and five-course luncheons and suppers comprising delicate soups, lavish roasts, classic salads, homemade sorbets, local cheese boards and fresh-brewed Arabica coffee whilst the extensive wine cellar reflects the best of both European and South African choices.
Kindly note that our restaurant caters to any special dietary requirements our guests may have.

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Music today has been Alice Cooper’s School’s Out (1972), what a record! Hits, great songs and ideas, sounds and singing, ace players, a teenage favourite. RIP Glen Buxton, thanks to Michael Bruce, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway and Vince for the years of great albums in the seventies.
Music Of The Daze
The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM NOW, featured on my main website. Read the full blog post here.


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It is well known that Leela Samson, former director of Kalakshetra and a well-known dancer, has established her own dance grammar over the years. Her recent performance for the Krishna Gana Sabha combined harmony and lilting music.
The programme commenced with a rigveda sloka that described the primordial sacrifice of the purusha in order to create the Vedas. It spoke of sacrifice of the classes of men and the cosmic elements with a composition of Madhup Mudgal in raga lalith pancham, with a rapturous rendition.
The swarajati in raga huseni (rupaka tala) with a composition of Melattur Venkatarama Sastri revealed the nritta aspects. The nayika asks Lord Renganatha, ‘Which woman has filled your ears with gossip that you do not care for my devotion to you.’
The presentation certainly had a nonchalant execution, revealing her involvement and commitment to the art form. The significance of the Dikshitar’s ganga mam paahi in raga janjhuti (khanda eka tala), seeking the protection of Ganga the river, was brought out in perfect symphony, harmoniously blending the rasa and bhava.
The final vibhakti, a javali of Dharmapuri Subbaraya Iyer in raga paras, in which a nayika tells her sakhi about her angst when the nayaka doesn’t turn up, had the audience virtually experiencing the emotions.
On the whole, the tones used were classic as they provided an appropriate canvas intellectually and visually stimulating for the rasikas to appreciate the ennobling fundamental values.


Housing for All adds to strain on planning system and more staff needed, says regulator
The number of staff working in planning offices has to increase to meet the demands placed on local authorities, Niall Cussen, the industry regulator, has said. He said that staff were stretched and often had to work late to meet planning deadlines.
Cussen, who was releasing the annual report of the Office of the Planning Regulator, said there needed to be “deeper capacity” in the local authority system.
The regulator, the state’s independent oversight body for planning, also said more training was needed for council staff because of the complexity of the planning code.
Cussen said it was clear that local authorities were becoming “very, very hard-stretched” in housing, climate, infrastructure delivery and managing the implementation of multibillion-euro capital programmes, such as the urban and


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Playstation Vita Pets Game Trailer by We are Mi
Playstation Vita Pets – The Legend of Castlewood Island Game Trailer by We are Mi. Lovingly crafted a 3 minute in-game movie for Vita Pets by long standing client Sony Computer Entertainment and developer Spiral House. It makes a refreshing change to the now ubiquitous Nintendo DS and 3DS pet sims games.
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Among all the airfields built by the Japanese, fourteen were not handed over to the ROC military after WWII, according to the paper “The Takeover of the Military Sites in Taiwan after the War” by Feng-chaio Ho. Tyosyu (now Chaojhou) East Airdrome, located about four miles to the east of Tyosyu Airdrome (see above photo), was one of them.
Several Japanese airfields in souther Taiwan, including Tyosyu East, had taxiways leading to aircraft dispersal areas along the hillsides. The aircraft were probably hidden in the woods. The following is the enlarged aerial photo of Point A in the above Google satellite image. The taxiway branched into several roads into the woods.
Aerial photo of Point B:
Google Earth’s Street View shows us what Point A looks like today.


Software developer Nick Lee has hacked an iWatch running watchOS 2 to run a port of the nineteen-year-old Mac OS 7.5.5. MacRumors reported that he got the Mini vMac Macintosh emulator running on the iWatch and is running the 1996 era OS inside the emulator.
The following video doesn’t show much but it does prove that the iWatch is powerful enough to simulate a two decade old OS:
When Mac OS 7.5 was released in September 1996 it required a chunky Power Macintosh 5500 with a high end PowerPC CPU. Now you can simulate the OS with a $400 smartwatch.
It’s amazing how much progress we’ve seen n the past twenty years, isn’t it?


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How Adderall Rehab Centers Help Patients
Adderall addiction can keep a very tight grip on those suffering from it. Finding the right Adderall rehab will make all of the difference.
That’s why it’s so important for those who have formed an addiction to seek professional help with their recovery. Trying to beat the challenge without an expert’s oversight will be extremely hard to do and can even be quite dangerous.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of these types of care providers out there. Although everyone is different, there are two main options for Adderall rehab centers.
The 2 Types of Treatment at Adderall Addiction Treatment Centers
Depending on a patient’s unique needs, Adderall addiction treatment centers will offer them help through one of two ways: inpatient or outpatient care. While the main distinction between these two types of care is relatively simple, there are other factors worth considering.
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Inpatient Adderall Rehab
Inpatient care involves the patient moving into a facility for a prolonged period of time, usually until the medical professionals there are satisfied that the person can manage on their own without turning back to Adderall. This usually takes about a month, but it’s not uncommon for patients to spend two or three at Adderall addiction treatment centers.
Aside from giving the patient help with overcoming their addiction, inpatient Adderall rehab facilities may offer other services. Patients might have group meetings with other people fighting the same challenge. There are usually various recreational activities, too.
The services, amenities, and options can differ greatly from one inpatient Adderall rehab facility to another. Some may feel more like a luxury resort than a rehabilitation center.
However, the most important thing is that the facility offers care that will best serve the patient. No amount of bells and whistles can make up for this essential feature.
The Benefits of Inpatient Adderall Rehab
All inpatient Adderall rehab facilities will have certain benefits in common. The most popular reasons people pick this option are:
- Around-the-Clock Supervision – Even with the best of intentions, people fighting Adderall addictions can face overwhelming temptation to revert to their old habits. Having staff around 24/7 who can help and an environment where the drug is nowhere to be found can make all the difference to the recovery process.
- A Lack of Distractions – At an inpatient Adderall rehab center, patients have one priority: recovery. That’s it. There are no other obligations vying for their attention.
- Access to the Outside World – After the intake process, patients still have access to the rest of the world. They’re not cut off for the entirety of their stay.
Outpatient Adderall Rehab
The other type of Adderall rehab care is outpatient. This means that the patient generally carries on with much of their normal life – going to work or school, sleeping in their own bed, etc. – but has a schedule of care they stick to with the help of a professional.
Outpatient Adderall rehab is usually the preferred option for people who have work schedules or family obligations that may make it difficult to commit to staying at a facility for 30 or more days.
In many cases, the patient recognized their addiction soon enough that they simply don’t require round-the-clock care in order to fully recover.
An outpatient Adderall rehab center may take inpatient residents, as well. Those who need outpatient care simply visit as they would for a typical doctor’s appointment and leave when it’s over.
Other times, care may be provided through a private office that specializes in outpatient services.
The Benefits of Outpatient Adderall Rehab
Again, no two outpatient Adderall addiction treatment centers are going to be the same, but they all offer the following benefits to their patients:
- Potentially Less Stress – Some patients do better in inbound rehab centers because they don’t have to contend with other stressors from their everyday lives. However, some patients will actually find this isolation more stressful, which could impact their recovery. Allowing them to stay connected to the rest of their world could actually make the path a lot easier.
- Maintaining the Normal Schedule – Along the same lines, the most obvious benefit is that patients don’t have to put the rest of their lives on hold. They don’t need to ask for time off work/school or explain to their children why they’ll be gone for a month or so.
- Greater Flexibility – Outpatient Adderall rehab programs tend to allow for greater flexibility, too. This can apply to schedules and the type of care the patient receives. Again, some patients may not require care on a daily basis or may get to a point where just a weekly or biweekly appointment is enough.
There’s no superior option between the two. People struggling with Adderall addictions should first speak to a recovery specialist and take their recommendation on which type of facility would best meet their needs.
Many patients may actually benefit from a combination of both, too. They will start with inpatient care and then use outpatient Adderall rehab services to continue their recovery after their stay.
Finding the Right Adderall Rehab Facility
The most important thing someone with an Adderall addiction can do is ask for professional help. This couldn’t be easier with Find Addiction Rehabs, which connects those in need with the Adderall rehab facilities that will give them the care they require.
If you or someone you know needs help with Adderall abuse FindAddictionRehabs.com is here to help. Call anytime 7 days a week 24 hours a day.
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Restorative Justice for Trayvon Martin
Keywords:Trayvon Martin, Restorative justice, Criminal justice, Racism
AbstractTwo cities. Two people of color fatally shot by those charged with security and law enforcement. Two communities torn apart across racial lines. One city reacts conventionally with criminal charges and court proceedings. The other similarly engages the legal system but additionally engages in a Restorative Circle, a restorative process designed to create conditions for mutual understanding and repair of harm. In this article, the case of Trayvon Martin is juxtaposed with a less well-known case in Seattle involving the death of Native American woodcarver, John T. Williams. The two cases are summarized and examined in terms of their racial dynamics and the subsequent differential impact of the restorative response on the Seattle community.
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Apple Watch Can Only Last A Day An A Single Charge
While the company showed off a plethora of features at the event, it clearly did not want to reveal the device’s battery life.
It is an issue that many have been pointing out and nobody has an answer for; the Apple Watch’s battery life. While Apple showed off everything that the smartwatch can do, it clearly was mum on the watch’s battery life. Well, re/code got in touch with an Apple spokesperson who kind of confirmed the same in way by saying “It’s about a day right now,” .
Perfectionists that they are, Apple certainly seems to be perplexed about how the battery life of the Apple Watch can be increased. While the company will be releasing the iWatch next year, we are pretty sure that they will want to deliver better battery life compared to the Android Wear-powered smartwatches in the market.
Considering that the company has taken advice from a number of experts in the watch industry, it would have made more sense if the company came up with an alternative solution for charging the device. This could come from solar power or even a kinetic rotor for that matter. The watch industry certainly has innumerable ways to take care of the problem but it certainly comes at a price. Now that the Apple Watch is priced pretty high, Apple better make sure that it at least lasts more than a day. Still then, iFans would not mind paying for a smartwatch that barely gets through a day of use. The older iPhones are proof of that.
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(CRAWFORD CO.) - Researchers say they’ve found a nearly complete skeleton of a 50,000-year-old pig-like mammal inside a cave in southern Indiana’s Crawford County.
Indiana State Museum crews have been digging in the cave for more than 25 years and found the skeleton this week.
Museum vice president Tina Sullivan said it is the most complete skeleton its researchers have found there.
The museum isn't saying exactly where the excavation site is in the county bordering the Ohio River that's dotted with numerous caves
The skeleton found is that of a flat-headed peccary -- a medium-sized animal that resembles a pig.
Research curator Ron Richards says the findings included two back legs with their knee caps, a backbone, a head, ribs, hips and the digits of the feet.
"For more than 25 years, we have unearthed a mixture of flat-headed peccary and dire wolf remains from this cave, but nothing this complete," Richards said in a news release. "Every summer, we spend two weeks at this site digging several feet below the surface of the clay, hoping to find something like this."
The Indiana State Museum said the remains come from the late Pleistocene period, which spans from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. Large land mammals, such as the mammoth and mastodon, also lived during that period.
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This small-town tragedy has been turned into a national crisis partially by manipulative media. The racism card that drove up the ratings of media outlets covering the case was, to a large extent, a result of NBC’s deceitful splicing of George Zimmerman’s call to police. We can’t know how intentional this was, but we do know that the media had a hand in playing the racism card, that it benefited greatly from the ensuing chaos, and that the people of the United States are extremely vulnerable because of the anger and hate it has spurred. Government and media thrive off the emotional fallout of a misinformed people.
Perhaps Zimmerman deserves punishment for his mistake of following Trayvon Martin. If he had done his job correctly, Martin would not have died. Nevertheless, whether the murder was a hate crime is a completely different question, and possibly one injected into our minds for the sake of media ratings, much to the humiliation of the American people. The media is familiar with this kind of manipulation; OJ’s and Casey Anthony’s are gold mines.
That being said, one ought to also acknowledge that the protesters are not so much concerned with putting Zimmerman in prison as they are with exposing subterranean racial tensions that can’t receive the same attention they could half a century ago.
It isn’t easy to have a conversation about racism anymore. American social etiquette dictates that we be pleasantly diplomatic with each other, that we be moderate, uncontroversial and politically correct. This makes it very difficult to voice deep passions such as anger about racism (which is nowadays prevalent yet subtle due to a similar process of sublimation). America wants to talk about racism and is frustrated that it can’t. How often is it the subject of our jokes, comedies, music and films? In those contexts, it is easier to mention. You can’t just sit down at a lunch table and unprecedentedly rattle off some educated talking points about post-MLK American racism. It’s much easier to recite Dave Chappelle jokes.

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At the National Press Club on Thursday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who is running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, said she would not support House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) plan to raise the debt ceiling or any other proposal that increases the debt limit, which is currently set at $14.29 trillion.
“John Boehner now has a second alternative as you have heard of,” said Bachmann. “I will not be casting my vote for that bill and we [the House] will be casting our votes later this afternoon. I cannot. I am committed to not raising the debt ceiling. My colleagues may give the Speaker that vote today.”
She went on to dismiss the fiscal year 2012 spending cuts in Boehner’s plan as minimal.
“If this bill goes through today, that’s a cut of approximately $22 billion in spending,” she said. “We all know the numbers — that’s perhaps one estimate says two-and-a-half days of spending. Let’s get serious. Let’s get serious.”
Boehner’s plan raises the debt limit but also reportedly cuts and caps spending by $917 billion over next decade – $22 billion in FY2012 alone, according to an analysis by the House Budget Committee.
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It’s easy to forget, when you live and work around this great metropolis, just what a marvel it is. London is at least 2 000 years old, and yet continues to metamorphose in front of our eyes. It’s a wonder to me that the views of London are so varied, so constant, and yet so changing – with the seasons, the shade of light, and my own life’s perspective. And on a grey Tuesday morning in April, I stood in the City and wondered all over again.
The London Marathon last weekend brought out my personal reel of race day flashbacks – those cinematic images which you store for a lifetime. Crossing Tower Bridge at 12 miles is a sight to match any in world running. And yet when I ran the event for the second time in 2004, it was the view just before it which caught my eye. Rounding the corner from Bermondsey High Street, the view of the London skyline opened up ahead of me. It was raining, I was wet, cold, and already more tired than I should have been, and yet there was inspiration in that view which stuck in my mind. I can still see it now.
I had run the race just three years before, in 2001, and yet something was different, this time. What was it ? It was only much later that I realised what it was, this difference of one remarkable new building which had grown up here since last I ran.
Sometimes the catalyst for change in London comes from undesirable sources. It was the Great Fire of London in 1666 which destroyed much of the mediaeval city, and 87 of its churches, including the old St Paul’s Cathedral. A disaster at the time, the fire was followed by a wave of rebuilding. Many of the old churches were rebuilt in daring new style by Sir Christopher Wren, who was also the architect for the ‘new’ St Paul’s Cathedral. Much reviled then, its design has become one of the landmarks of London.
And so, on a smaller scale, it was the IRA bombing of the Baltic Exchange in 1992 which was responsible for the latest addition to London’s skyline. Even once it was determined that neither the old listed building, nor just its façade, could be saved, the decision to demolish this small part of London’s trading history caused much heartbreak and hand-wringing. What could replace it ?
A competition was held, and a winning design selected. Work started in 2000, and in April 2004, just a year ago this month, the building opened. That building’s official name is 30 St Mary Axe, and it also goes under the soubriquet of the Swiss Re Tower. But to most of seven million Londoners, it is simply the Gherkin.
This was the new building which had been added to the skyline between my two London Marathons. Just one building, and yet – what architecture !
I had no plan to be here, this Tuesday morning in April, to celebrate its first anniversary, and yet as I headed out of Bank tube station into the morning, there stood the Gherkin behind the Bank of England, the City’s youngest daughter peeping around the skirts of The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. My meeting nearby on the seventh floor disappointingly revealed only the black and grey austerity of the NatWest Tower, but on escaping later with some time for a stroll, where better for me to wander than through the old streets of the City in search of its newest inhabitant.
I knew I would find her, of course, and yet still I was surprised when I peered down a sidestreet to glimpse her, framed by the vertical walls of shining glass and concrete of the other blocks. For that is what they had become – just simple blocks, in comparison with the Gherkin. For despite her cucumbersome name, she really is a creation of beauty and grace, quite unlike any of her neighbours. I stood there for a moment, looking at the glass, at the curves, at the light, at the brilliance, the audacity and sheer simplicity of the concept – a spiral skyscraper. No wonder the design by Sir Norman Foster has won so many awards, since office blocks have simply never been like this before.
Arriving from Bishopsgate, the tower stands behind the new leaves of a pair of spindly trees. St Helen’s Church lies in front, with St Andrew Undershaft almost right beside, two buildings from a different age and belonging to a different paradigm of history, beginning almost nine hundred years past. The old and the new, standing together – it’s a common London theme, and just as startling for its new repetition today.
The Swiss Re Tower was opened to the public briefly last year, and I wandered around to see whether I could at least gaze upwards from within. But although it’s not the IRA we fear now, these are troubled times too, and other threats abound, particularly at election time, with its echoes of Madrid. I’d sauntered confidently past the Cockney guards posted at each corner of the grey granite plaza, but found my match in the politest of enforcers at the door, with his earpiece and microphone, fulfilling the updated rôle of tastefully besuited bouncer. He told me I couldn’t go inside.
It was a poor kind of homage which was on offer now, but I wanted to make it, nevertheless. And so I wandered across the street, to sit with an Italian coffee and pass a few minutes in tribute to the new friend that I had made.
At 180 m tall (around 600 feet) it may be three times the height of Niagara Falls, but it’s still only the sixth highest building in London. And yet, it is perhaps the most remarkable. It’s an entire design concept, not just a clever outline, with an internal layout arranged so that air circulates naturally, the convecting draughts cooling in summer and the lower sunlight maximised and reflected inwards in winter, lightening the space and warming its inhabitants. The result is an energy usage which is 50 % less than the conventional office blocks which surround it.
And yet, for all of that innovation, it is that external design which startles. I love views of London, and the beauty of the Gherkin is that she crops up, unexpected, in so many views across the city.
You may be on top of a bus in the East End, striding beside the Thames, or in a taxi crossing Waterloo Bridge at night, and suddenly, there she’ll be. Like so many other buildings, yet different.
And it’s clearly not just me who is fascinated – on one website alone I found no less than 87 views of the Gherkin snatched in places from Whitechapel to the West End. I’ve wondered about that prominence, and come up with the reason – it’s simply that a curving form means there’s always free space around the tower, from wherever you look.
I wandered back through the narrow City streets. A modern financial capital for the world, replete with street names from its market-trading past. East Cheap, Poultry, Mincing Lane, Lime Street. Down to Pudding Lane, and its Monument, marking where the Great Fire started. Across the Marathon course near 24 miles at Thames Street, and down to the river, whence London’s traded wealth originally came. And along the Thames Path towards my next meeting in the West End, that other, newer, Georgian city which lies alongside its Roman and mediaeval twin.
It really is a great city, this city, an amalgam of change. The Gherkin – Swiss Re Tower – 30 St Mary Axe – it’s a building of its time, just one of many that London has seen. There’ll be many more times, and more buildings to follow.
To grace its age, now, and to grace ages to come, that is the quality of great architecture. That to me, is London’s Gherkin, and there’ll be few fresh landmarks more graceful and remarkable than this.
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The Gherkin – Swiss Re Tower – 30 St Mary Axe i have seen this building many times and wondered what it was that dominated so many scenes of london on tv being from scotland it was only on investigation my curiosity was fulfilled your article answered my question thank you
Thanks very much Arthur, and I’m glad that you enjoyed this article.
Phrases like ‘London Gherkin’ crop up in searches that lead to this site, almost every day, so it’s gratifying to know that it does provide some answers, of a kind at least.
It’s interesting to note that the building’s media team until very recently expressly forbade the use of the name ‘Gherkin’ in any of their official publicity as well as that of other organisations who use the building. They always insisted instead on use of the official name of 30 St Mary Axe.
That was understandable in many ways, since this kind of architecture surely commands a degree of respect. And yet, on a different kind of level, it looked like quite an impressive case of denial, and really just a little late. Because 7 million Londoners, and just about the rest of the world, already knew the building by exactly that name.
It makes me suspect that they might have been missing a marketing trick, right there. Because if a brand name works – use it.
I wonder if that policy is changing now, since the building has recently been sold by Swiss Re for £640 mm, bringing them a £300 mm profit in the three years since the tower was completed.
It seems remarkable that the building’s value has increased quite that much in such a short time, until you factor in the unique cachet of owning a stylish (and practical) London landmark with such instant worldwide recognition. And until you realise that this rate of price inflation is actually also pretty close to that achieved by almost every house in London over the same period.
In my recent post about Hyde Park, I note the new apartments under construction there which are now on sale off plan for £ 84 million each.
That’s an amazing figure, in any language, and makes one wonder if such prices really are sustainable, or if they’ll end in tears, one day not all that far away.
Many thanks once again for reading this site, and with all best wishes from me to Scotland.
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Thanks very much for linking to my article on The Gherkin. I see that you found the building from the tube station, much as I did.
That picture from the South Bank that you link to on your site does capture it very well.
In return, here is a marvellous panorama taken from Tower Bridge which says many of the same things about The Gherkin, and perhaps even more about London itself.
A lovely article, Roads. I remember seeing the artists’ impressions of the Gherkin, crossing my fingers (and toes) and just hoping that it would actually make it off the drawing board and into reality. Then, from my flat, I watched as it began to take shape, growing gracefully upwards.
I maintain it’s the most beautiful skyscraper built anywhere for many a decade – perhaps since the Chrysler Building. It’s so perfect I used it for the spaceship in my children’s book, Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London (the Gherkin is the Spirit of London).
I absolutely adore your picture of the building with her green Christmas lights. Can you tell me where that came from originally. Never has the building looked more like a fantastic starship!
Thank you, Keith, and the very best of luck with your new book .
Yes, that night portrait is stunning. The building was still very new in 2005 and there wasn’t a lot of photography available then. Sadly there is so much more now that I couldn’t relocate that picture when I searched tonight.
However, this image by Geoff Hamilton shows a similar lighting scheme, and here’s another shot of a spacerocket-like Gherkin.
I finally made it to the top of the Gherkin a few weeks ago, and I’ll be writing about that long-awaited visit soon. In the meantime, many thanks again.
This is odd, it is the first time that i have come across your article, and it is perhaps the best written in the 11 or so years since we finished the building. It is interesting to note that it was not always popular, with Mira Bar-Hillel running a long and vitriolic campaign in the Evening Standard throughout the planning process.
I have always thought that the building is feminine and i am glad that you agree. Unusually for a client team involved in the day to day running of the project, two of the three involved were women, Sara Fox and Carla Picardi working with Richard Griffiths, Sara taking the building through construction on site, which is even more unusual.
I love working on projects in London, and tall buildings, in the right location are very much a part of its history and chemistry, providing important points of punctuation, rather like a well constructed sentence, where height signalled the focus and hearts of proud and independent local communities. A look at the etchings from around the time of the great fire shows how London has grown, subsuming these ‘villages’ into a vibrant and ever changing whole….but without the loss of that intense community spirit or vitality, where locals are still intensely proud and defensive of their individual patches of London.
There are many things that I enjoy about the building, but i am fascinated by the way it has been received by the public, quickly becoming symbolic for London as a whole not just of its ‘village’, the City. I think one of the reasons that it will endure is because it is a happy, quiet and confident building, a complete and contented form. It was never going to be the tallest (it was a very diplomatic 10ft. shorter than Tower 42 the ‘NatWest Tower’ from the outset).
If you ever get the chance, do visit the spectacular restaurant and bar at the top inside the glazed dome….. simply the best view of London….where if you look carefully you will also see the only piece of curved glass in the building and that is on the very top.
Director at Foster+ Partners responsible for The Gherkin, now with my own architecural practice Robin Partington & Partners on New Oxford Street by Centre Point (….another good building)
Thank you for your comment and I’m delighted that you liked this article in praise of the wonderful building that you built. Eleven years later, The Gherkin has only grown in stature as it has become a symbol of London, recognised all around the world.
I did finally make it past the door and high aloft to the top of The Gherkin, back in the autumn of 2008 when the dark clouds of the financial crisis were hanging over The City of London. As you rightly predicted, the view didn’t disappoint, but I found the steel and glass framework above us just as compelling, framing the evening sky in a dramatic airy cage soaring high over the solid floor we stood on.
London’s skyline continues to evolve — as it always has — if not always for the best. Perhaps the excitement of The Shard was captured most memorably by the adventurous souls who climbed it before it was finished, and the building has continued to grow on me ever since. It’s an addition to the landscape and to the view from the North Thames Path especially.
By contrast, the addition of 20 Fenchurch Street, The Walkie Talkie, has been more problematic, blocking for ever as it does the view of The Gherkin from the South Bank captured by Paul Catherall.
Building Design Magazine recently awarded The Walkie Talkie their Carbuncle Cup, and following this, The Guardian even suggested tearing it down altogether.
And yet, on a grey winter’s day, there is something grimly impressive about its sheer bulk on the skyline. As you say, Centre Point has made the transition from empty eyesore to Grade II listed building, so although The Walkie Talkie may not have many fans today, perhaps, with time, we’ll grow to like it better than we do now.
In the meantime, many thanks again for your work on The Gherkin. The building continues to enhance any day in London. As luck would have it, I’ll be enjoying a view of The Gherkin from Aldgate again this morning.


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Representin’ Boston, MA., Pistola has been on the scene for quite some time now. Garnering up much more attention in the city this past summer as he appeared on Super Smash Broz’s Presents: Key! concert this past June, Pistola is taking things to another level – as he recently linked up with Atlantic Record’s own Big Baby D.R.A.M. for an updated version of his latest single, “Swang.” Produced by Chris Romero, the instrumental and flows on this track is almost reminiscent of Paul Wall’s 2005-record, “Sittin’ Sideways.” However, Pistola is more about his impeccable swag, not caring about groupies, and reppin’ the bean while D.R.A.M. spits about their similarities in lifestyle, touring life and even compliments the ladies of Massachusetts.
Shout out to Micheal Christmas for getting them together. Watch Pistola & DRAM in Mike Squires-directed cut, “Swang (Remix) above.


text: Upcoming movie Mask has unveiled their first look poster. Actor Tovino Thomas had revealed the first look on his Facebook page and has passed on his wishes to the entire team of the movie. The movie has Shine Tom Chacko, Chemban Vinod Jose, Salim Kumar and Vijayaraghavan playing pivotal roles.The movie will be directed by Sunil Hanif and produced by Gireesh Lal under the banner Gowri Meenakshi Movies. It has music by hitmaker Gopi Sunder. Photography will be handled by Prakash Velayudhan and Editing is done by Sooraj.ES.


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“Good oral health still means regular brushing, flossing, being careful what we drink and eating healthy foods.” – Dr Naser Albarbari
Good – or bad – oral health can have a surprising effect on your overall health. Poor oral health, including tooth decay, gum disease, infections and chronic inflammation, has been linked to major diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Diseases such as diabetes can lower the body’s resistance to infection and create or worsen oral health problems.
Health experts say that on a more everyday level, poor oral health can result in eating difficulties, poor nutrition, speech problems, facial pain and discomfort, and low self-esteem.
Dr Naser Albarbari, an oral surgeon and the Chief of Clinical Dental Services at Australian Unity, says taking care of the teeth, gums and mouth, is something that we can tackle in a variety of ways and is even more important as we get older.
“The same techniques recommended when you are five years old still apply when you are 65 or older,” he says.
“Good oral health still means regular brushing, flossing, being careful what we drink and eating healthy foods. With visits to the dentist, the difference may be the frequency. Just as most people need to see the doctor more frequently as they age, so you may need to visit the dentist two to three times a year rather than just once.”
How things change – and what we can do
Dr Albarbari explains that there are several major oral health issues as we age.
“Reduced flow of saliva is common. Saliva helps protect the teeth and gums, so reduced flow means less protection and potentially more cavities and gum disease.
“Reduced saliva flow can also be caused by an increase in the use of prescription medication, especially for depression or blood pressure.
“In this case, patients may need to consult with the prescribing doctor to see if there is an alternative. Using mouth rinses, regularly sipping water and using sugarless gum can also help with dry mouth.”
Dr Albarbari says more people are retaining their teeth as they age, but teeth experience natural wear. “Friction from eating shortens the teeth and increases the likelihood of dental decay and can cause facial pain. But good dental hygiene can minimise problems.”
“Then there’s loss of teeth. Most people will lose one or more teeth over their lives, and replacements will need to be considered. There are dentures – less popular these days – bridges and dental implants. Talk to your dentist to find the best solution.”
For some people, it becomes physically harder for them to clean their teeth, perhaps due to arthritis, dementia or illness affecting motor skills. In this case, it’s important to get help so they can maintain good oral health.
Prevention is always better than cure, so take a little extra time to care for your teeth, make sure to book in for regular check-ups – and keep smiling.
Words: Margaret Barca
Disclaimer: Information provided in this article is not medical advice and you should consult with your healthcare practitioner. Australian Unity accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions, advice, representations or information contained in this publication. Readers should rely on their own advice and enquiries in making decisions affecting their own health, wellbeing or interest.


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So let's hold that Thought.
Saw it, in half if one must.
For each side of the locket,
To the here after.
Not prying open.
Peering into past perfect.
Penmanship, left-right, handed.
like a Safe.
What puzzle piece of the Universe
ever fitted up exactly,
having no cushion in
the era, or in itself...
Being just space:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Writers
Hello, Writers and Dear Readers.
In today's video, I went ahead and shot it from my profile. Always good to change it up once in awhile. But I wanted to feature some of the new writers and give thanks to the ones I've admired, and I figured the best way to do it was from a writer, and not the admin, at least for this one. Here's the link.
Thank you for being here.
-The Prose. team.
In a firehouse the most important attributes you can bring are integrity and the ability to cook. Each shift starts with a discussion and one of the topics is always about what's for dinner. One of the traditional meals that hits the station table often is chili, for many reasons. Chili is hearty and filling. It can be served many different ways to appease the liking of whoever is to consume it. It rarely is cooked the same way twice; mixed with different spices and ingredients each time. Versatile and flexible for most situations and kitchens. There are several components causing contrast and depth in their own way, but the base remains the same. Protein, beans and a sauce serve as the blueprint. It will feed a crowd and can be served over days while maintaining its taste and form. Reliable and dependable. Most find it appetizing and satisfying. A true entree to be proud of.
So in conclusion. I'm a potato.
The Fear of Dying
The car rolled into a parking spot and the driver got out. Kat was writhing in the back seat, moaning and crying. The moment the door opened, her legs fell from the door and suddenly she was being dragged across the seat on her back. The other guy let go of her hands to slide out of the passenger side to come around and help his partner.
“No! NO!” Kat screamed as he hefted her up and out, dragging her out of the car. She screamed, crying for help as they yanked her out of the car and she tried to focus through the pain. Her hands were grabbing the vehicle, trying to keep herself from being pulled out but they yanked her out of the car with far greater force than she could fight against.
She could see the car getting further away as the second man shoved it shut. She started beating on the guy’s back, smashing her head into him. “LET. ME- GO!”
And he didn’t seem to mind her thrashing at all as he hauled her down the steps of the quiet dock, though his pace seemed to increase.
Kat took in a sharp breath and tried to scream at the top of her lungs but he jostled her hard and it knocked the wind out of her, making her cough and gasp. She was grabbing her neck where she’d hit his shoulder and trying to catch her breath as she turned behind her to see him walking her to the boats. Her mouth opened and she tried to strangle out her next words. “Ah- fuck.” She winced, turning to try to look at her captor. He pushed her back more so she couldn’t see his face and she grabbed what little hair he had and yanked back, making him yell. He squeezed her tighter, making her ribs ache and scream and she blubbered out a pained moan in response as she let go and tried to work to free herself again.
“Hurry up and tie that anchor there to her ankle and we’ll just throw her in and be done with it!” He whispered loudly to his bald partner.
The moment she heard him, she was flailing her legs, trying to fight back. The other guy grabbed her leg and she smashed her head into his repeatedly, dizzying herself. She clamored to push the hands off as he peeled her head back, shoving her face away so she couldn’t keep hitting him in the head. She was clawing at them then before trying to fight the anchor that was being tied around her ankle.
“Fuck! Drop the anchor already!” The man seethed to his partner.
“I’m fucking trying! It’s heavy! It’s tied! It’s tied! Just shove her in!”
Kat was slapping him as he tried to pull her off. She managed to get him to drop her on accident and she hit the pier, wincing. She gasped as he tried to pick her back up and she slapped at his hands. He grabbed her in frustration and managed to grab her throat, pushing against it for a moment as he choked her, pinning her down before she hit him with her foot, managing to get it between them and she slid back. She realized too late that she was at the edge and she grabbed the end of the pier before he shoved her off completely and into the water. The cold bit at her limbs, stinging her and she wanted to cry out, to scream for help as the water flooded in. She started coughing, gasping as she reached for the pier’s pole that held it up from the bottom of the coast.
She stared at the two shadowy figures, but her eyes went to the anchor as she watched him dangle it beside her and then before she saw him throw it, she went back under. Hands pushed against her shoulders, and she thrashed. She threw herself back up, shaking her head. There was a brief moment she resurfaced, grabbing onto the pier again to scream but it came out as a cough before she was shoved back under. She choked, gasping and suddenly she was falling. Her hands were wildly thrusting against the water as the hands left her and she felt her strength go at a harsh tug from beneath her. She felt a yank when the rope tugged tight and she was brought down towards the bottom of the body of water.
Kat was holding her breath, watching the sky melt away as the dark of the water overtook her vision. She reached up, holding her breath till she felt her chest throb painfully and the cold cut in. She gasped and suddenly the bubbles of the last of her breath were floating away. Water rushed in and her eyes rolled as she sunk deeper into the water.
The light from the pier sank away as she fell further into the dark before she tried to tug away, but the rope held tight and her movements felt so rigid and slow. She kicked, trying to free her ankle, but the water was so cold that her body went into shock, paralyzing her. Kat closed her eyes, motionless as the water slowly came to a halt around her and she was floating. It felt like a cold, like a dark dream. Was this how she was going to die?
The bald man was sighing heavily. “Fucking hell- I thought it was weird that she was able to fight back so well.”
“Well- when you’re on your way to kill someone, they tend to give it all they’ve got.” He sighed heavily, looking at his wet sleeves. He sighed, unbuttoning it as he tried to tug the button up shirt off, leaving his black t-shirt underneath. “God. Lee- fucking bastard. He said we were good-”
There was a loud roar as a nearly eight-foot beast came barreling down the docks.
He stopped, turning to glance up and his brows rose sharply over his shades at the lycan. “SHIT!”
“Wha-” The bald man was turning to see a black form barreling down at them and he turned, slipping on the dock to run back towards the boardwalk. His partner was fumbling for his gun.
“Shit- shit! SHIT!” He pulled the gun out quickly, trying to prime for a silver bullet at the top of his ejected clip.
Bright gaslight blue eyes fixed on them, a deep rumbling growl could be heard over the pounding of claws into the dock as it drew nearer to the boat.
“FUCK!” His hands trembled as he dropped the silver bullet, accidentally shoving it and missing it from the clip. He winced, turning to look up before he turned and made off after his partner who was clamoring over the brick and trying to get away.
“FUCKING THINGS COME IN PAIRS!”
“NO SHIT BEN!”
Lights danced across our skin. Each breath, each inhale, adding to the feeling of the living thing that hung in the air between us. Tension. We knew its name, yet we couldn’t think to label it. The emotions running so high and so brightly that our minds emptied. They reached out, crossing the gap and touching me in an instant. Glitter left in the aftermath of their feather touches, every nerve in my body focused purely on where our skin met. Where our breath joined and held each other. Their hands slid down my sides, dragging a line from my heart to the centre of my soul. Forcing ourselves to keep breathing, each movement sapping attention away from the simple task of inhaling.
But I found a feeling, hidden between moans and stars, nestled in pleasure and destruction, slumbering beside despair and ecstasy.
A feeling of letting go, of doubt and insecurity, a feeling of joining. A feeling of finally realising that I was stardust and I could be stardust once again.
In that moment, my blood turned to glitter, glittering in veins, my tears turned to silver, sparkling in the night, my heart became ruby, almost too full for me to carry. I was pure feeling.
The Mystical Number
as the final man
on the diving
has had its fill
and its negative!
take any number
Times the lonely figure
and it all returns in
9 x 1 = 0+9 = 9
9 x 2 = 1+8 = 9
9 x 3 = 2+7 = 9
9 x 4 = 3+6 = 9
9 x 5 ..and on on!
Add a little something
to the back bone
and see what
forms in the
mind and belly
of the beast:
9 + 1 = 1+0 = 1
9 + 2 = 1+1 = 2
9 + 3 = 1+2 = 3
9 + 4 = 1+3 = 4
and more see..?
never cool in
so no sense
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Is the Vicarious Life worth Fighting For?
Vicarious experience is hard work to which perhaps not all souls are suited for... It involves two components, or three if that is how you prefer to count it. It requires of course the Observer and the Observed; and one thing more! Awareness of Observation!!
That is to say Metacognition on the part of the Observer... the Observed being allowed a passive role.
Without this aspect of awareness no vicarious processing occurs. The root of the word is vicis, meaning an interchange or substitution carried out. Note the active. It is the difference between a person staring at a pond, and a person wondering what's in the pond. They both see the water, the fowl, the wilderness, and feel the breeze, and smell or even taste the humidity of the surrounding landscape. But the second, by that momentous leap of imagination has already teleported and entered in, now imagining the cold, the damp liquid, the murky ground beneath, with algae clinging between the toes of the feet. Maybe even had a moment of panic, submerged under, before resurfacing... Same for reading a book. One reader understands the meaning of the words, paints a mental picture even; Another feels the wording with psychosomatic precision.
My thinking in posing the question (phrasing of which abysmal my apologies!) was that Sensitivity requires training and maintenance. Hence, a fight. In the way a knife needs the sharpening stone to restore its edge from time to time. A reminder to myself that we get dull. Not bored, but dulled. It's not about who or what we see outside, but how we process on the inside.
I have been really struggling to keep spirits up these last few years, for no apparent reason, as life is rewarding and full. I have a wonderful, loving artistically gifted husband, an affectionate brilliant son, a calm place to live, demanding but meaningful work... so sensitivity and creativity should be full tilt... but I find it slipping...and I wonder, is it I that have I grown less sensitive? are my powers of empathy fading? am I lazy in not seeing things in their unique intricate compounded richness?
I feel a wall between me and the outside.
And so, a certain tristesse. I remember when I was quite young, I would blush profusely at any provocation drawing warranted or unwarranted attention to myself as Observer of the world around me. Somehow I was ashamed to be seen as seeing... My closest friend at the time, who is now passed, said to me with a grin: "Would you rather be a rock?"
"YES!" I wanted nothing more than the stability and reliability of a rock, through and through. Imperturbability. He laughed sympathetically, while I cried bitterly. Some years later, my affliction passed, and NOT without my noticing. I noticed alright. And I mourned it. I remember in horror what I had foolishly and spitefully said, and thought: "This is it. This is how it begins... this is my decline, and my just punishment. I am losing my Sensitivity."
Naturally, I comforted myself so that I could carry on, and put up all sorts of prompts and supports to ensure that I could at least pretend I was compensating for my loss with rigorous self Discipline. I worked hard to feed the Vicarious.
But so it begins... I am convinced. It begins at different points for each of us-- the losing of our higher order abilities. No longer perceiving the phantom limbs that tie us to all Experience. Hence, my question to you in this challenge about the worth of The Fight, for the Life within.
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A Dalliance Offered...
Tall, slim and graceful, a lovely pine sways
Elegant arcs, dark against a luminous blue sky
Across the meandering glassy stream, is a
Gentle swelling hill with pink boulders improbably stacked
Resting, rough edges smoothed, lichen splashed, doing that
Lizard thing in the sun.
“Come, come the pine beckoned,
Elegant branches weaving blue shadows,
Come, come dance come, come sway,
Sway with me amid the hills.
Enjoy the grass, drink the flower wine.
Savor blowing wind and crystal liquor stream.”
Resting, soaking up the sun, the boulder smiles
“Look at me, worn and smooth.
Time has fitted me into place.
Snows, wind, ice, and rain burnish daily
Eliminating the rough, making me comfortable,
Suitable for the place I need to be.”
“Long have I sat watching the stream.
Watching it wander to and fro.
Feeling it push against my feet.
Carving slowly, polishing there,
Lifting the hill, making soft the valley floor,
Spreading me out for nodding flowers, dancing pines.”
“Come boulder, come.
We will wander the hills see new views.
Enjoy the world, leaving our mark.
Come with me, embrace the day,
Fondle the night with gleaming stars and silver moon,
You and me.”
“I can not,” boulder slowly sighs.
“You see my partner there.
We fit along the rounded seam,
Time and adversity polished smooth.
Inextricably bound as one. We are
Enjoying the view”
A parting wave,
A graceful toss of breathy bough,
A moment gone, so lightly passed,
As if it did not matter.
Moving on into the past
With hurried pace.
A tighter fit, for tempest borne.
A soft caress
A warm embrace,
Of shared sun and sky.
A tender, gentle, cozy laugh.
“Look at you, you old coot.”
April Promises May
outside the confines
of the self
The insides of which
by ever presented
real estate and
taxing all that is
with age and decay
But outside of us
is the expansion
of the galaxies
on the march
seen by the eyes
of Oneness who
is busied always
across the stars
There will be
flowers after all
in the heart
of the grave
Tending the Art
I love the physical book, so when we speak of Publishing that is my preference... in the long run.
In generating my own day to day writing I am satisfied with online formats, because I am not focused much on permeance as on the practical discipline... I'm content to produce the content, even if it will just languish in a drawer or on a shelf or dissipate in virtual space.
I suffer from sensory overload and it seems that creating artifacts helps me encrust the things which have crept too close to the skin. However, when it comes to other people's work, I want to be able to take my time and turn paper, page by page in any tangible format (zine, paperback, hardcover, etcetera).
So personally Publishing to me means... a home business prompted by my adoring husband who puts so much faith in my creative being (as you can read on his Prose posts!). Our company is called Bunny Village Press. It's direct print to purchase publishing, middle manned by Amazon, with no overhead, and no stock piled copies. The art, design, layout, editing, writing is done in house... We've put out three books, and have two additional in the works, one of which I hope to wrap up over Spring Break next week. I regret very much that I can't breath as much life into the venture as I would like because I work full time, and have a toddler (: the previously mentioned Rémy Niko who will be three next month :) but still reassure myself that I can do better, one day, one day! ...and for now we accept and give thanks for this Snail's pace as a success in itself. Forward motion a sign of continued momentum... God bless!


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The central Madhya Pradesh Gramin bank was formulated on 8th October 2012 according to Rural Regional Banks Act 1970. This bank was formed by merging Vidisha Bhopal Kshetriya Gramin Bank, Satpura Narmada Kshetriya Gramin bank and Maha Kaushal Kshetriya Gramin Bank. This bank operates with a network of 455 branches and 25 districts across Madhya Pradesh.
This bank works with a motto of contribution to economic development by supporting agricultural and rural economy. This bank provides all the core banking and financial services to all the sections of society. This bank issues rupay cards and kisan credit cards to its account holders. Its head office is located at Chhindwara.
Savings Account Minimum balance limit and charges
=> A savings account can be opened by individuals, joint account, trust, association or Hindu undivided families.
=> Charges for not maintaining minimum quarterly account balance varies according to the localities.
=> For rural areas if QAB is less than Rs.250-Rs.500, the charge is Rs.50 per quarter
=> If QAB is less than Rs.250, the penalty will be 100 per quarter.
=> For semi urban areas, if QAB is between Rs.500-Rs.1000, the charge is Rs.75 per quarter and if QAB is less than Rs.500 the charge will be Rs.150 per quarter.
=> For urban areas, if the balance is less than Rs.1000- Rs.2000 the penalty will be Rs.100 per quarter and if the QAB is less than Rs.1000 the penalty will be Rs.200 per quarter.
=> For metropolitan areas, if the balance is less than Rs.1000-Rs.2000 the penalty will be Rs.150 per quarter and for balance less than Rs.1000, the penalty will be Rs.240 per quarter.
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