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How technology will help refugees in Sweden
Epicenter took a fika with Shahin Baharan, one of the founders of Refugee Tech.
What is Refugee Tech?
Refugee Tech is a non-profit organization that strives to solve some of the most important challenges within integration in Sweden, with the help of digital solutions.
We are doing this with a method that contains of these three phases: 1. With experts and through research, identifying challenges that newly arrived people face during integration in Sweden 2. Generate ideas to solutions and create concepts with the help of students and consultants 3. Create digital solutions to the challenges during a hackathon.
Why did you start this initiative?
During the fall of 2015, in the middle of the biggest migration of modern time since the second world war, a group of entreprenuers started the campaign "Refugee Air". The purpose of the campaign was to let refugees fly with an airplane to Sweden instead of taking dangerous routes throughout europe.
Refugee Tech was born in connection with the start of Refugee Air. Basically, a group of entreprenuers, engineers, a researcher and designer got together and started thinking about the next step: What is the most effective way of integrating the newly arrived people into society? Our conclusion was that technology has innovated the world and that it also could be applied to the integration process.
How has people respond to this?
People's response to our work at Refugee Tech has been incredible. Hundreds of volunteers have signed up through our website to help us, we've had very experienced seniors giving us feedback, dozens of companies that have provided us with manpower and location for workshops/hackathons.
What challenges have you faced?
Our biggest challenge up to date has been to get developers to help us out with programming. Another notable challenge is that we during very long periods have had 20 hour working days since everybody in the team have full time jobs beside the work at Refugee Tech.
You did a Hackathon, tell us what happened!
During february 2016, we ran a 10-day pilot to test and validate our method. The focus of the pilot was on "Employment" and it turned out to be very successful since the outcome was three concepts and Competency.se.
Competency is a platform where newcomers competencies are visualized, making it easier for companies to find new talents.
At the end of may, we also hosted a hackathon together with STHLM TECH at Sup46. Our special guest for the event was Migrationsverket that brought us a list of needs and direct input to the participants. The outcome of the hackathon was MigHub, a platform that will show all digital solutions focusing on integration. Newly arrived people will be able to download apps within different categories (Social, Job, Language etc), like and send direct feedback to their app of choice in MigHub. It can easily be scaled internationally as we already got interest from intiatives in other countries. MigHub is at the moment in its final stages of development.
What can anyone do to help?
We are in need of help from developers (front and back-end), designers (UX/UI) and Copywriters (Arabic, Swedish, English) that can help us out with Competency.se and MigHub.
Refugee Tech is a community and we welcome everybody to join it. We send out updates by mail and you can join our community by registering at our website www.refugeetech.com.
We would also appreciate it if you like us on facebook (www.facebook.com/refugeetech), twitter (www.twitter.com/refugeetech) and tell your friends about Refugee Tech.
What's next?
Our main focus is to finish the development of MigHub before we leave to Almedalen the 3rd of July. Members from Refugee Tech will be attending Almedalen where we will participate in two panels and spread our message to the decision makers that tech solutions will innovate integration in Sweden.


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Sanuk's Founder, Jeff Kelley: "We are super pleased to announce that Mark has joined the Sanuk and C and C team in Irvine as our brand marketing manager. The marketing position is super important for a specialty brand like Sanuk. Authenticity within Surf was a fundamental requirement for this position. In addition we wanted some one who knows the Pro surf community, media, PR, promotions and had connections to the music and entertainment community.
Mark fills the bill perfectly. He graduated from Huntington High, and was a Pro surfer from 1988 to '97. In the next few years Mark rang up a diverse set of experiences, having worked for Blue Torch/Gotcha.com, then repping for Surfing Magazine. In 2001 Mark co-founded Spare Change Magazine here in Orange County. In the midst of all of this Mark launched a DJ business that took him all around the world which connected him with the entertainment business.
Mark added, "This is really a great. I actually was a Team rider for Sanuk from the very beginning of the brand, so I understand the culture and point of view of the Sanuk brand as an insider. I look forward to helping grow the brand to its potential. Sanuk is on a roll and I think I can help add to the momentum. We have so many pieces to work with, from the obviously unique products to Donovan and his music. I like Sanuk's advertising approach. The recent 91X radio promo in San Diego is a great example of partnering up with local retailers and doing something really different to get the message out there. And of course the print campaigns are always a gas! I am stoked!
Dac Clark, President of C and C added, "Mark is a great addition to our team. Sanuk has a unique position within surf, and we were committed to finding the ideal match. Mark obviously fits the bill, and we all look forward to seeing his imprint on our business. Mark rounds out the commitment my partner and I made last June to add horsepower to the Sanuk team. In this short period of time we have added Bob Rief and John Vance, two industry vets, as CEO and VP, Sales. We have greatly strengthened our field sales team with the addition of Tony Casella here in LA and San Diego Counties. Our sales are running in the 50% increase range, with many reps having booked more now than they did all last year. We have great distribution and our retail sell through has been excellent. We're very bullish on the brand and team and are solidly behind their growth initiatives. "

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Blick/Wynn photo album
I was recently given a photo album that belonged to Adelina Wynn Blick (1830-1900) of Dinwiddie, Virginia. Most of the photos are unlabeled. There are tintypes as well as ones on hard board. I feel that most were taken in the 1850-1860's.Some were taken in Richmond, Petersburg, and Baltimore, Maryland. I would appreciate any help in identifying and will be glad to share.


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A review of Paper from FiftyThree. What does it mean to take a familiar shape and add modern technology to it? Going deep on the packaging, the hardware and how Pencil fares in terms of actual usage.
A bold and probably crazy proposal for a new content API that might be better off replacing RSS. In a world of where access to content is free and in abundance, why is it still so hard to keep track of our favorite websites without having to visit each one of them individually.


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Betty Thomason Owens writes romantic comedy, historical fiction, and fantasy-adventure. She has contributed hundreds of articles and interviews to various blogs around the internet and is an active member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), where she leads a critique group. She's also a mentor, assisting other writers and a co-founder of a blog dedicated to inspiring writers–this one!
Her latest release—Annabelle's Ruth, a 1950's historical novel inspired by the Book of Ruth, Book 1 of the Kinsman Redeemer series from Write Integrity Press, released in June, 2015. Amelia's Legacy, 20's era romance, released in October, 2014 (also Write Integrity Press) and is book one in the Legacy series. Book 2, Carlotta's Legacy, is soon-to-be released, possibly early 2016.
Betty also writes contemporary stories as a co-author of A Dozen Apologies and its sequels, The Love Boat Bachelor, January, 2015, and Unlikely Merger, July, 2015. A compilation of these three novellas is releasing on December 4th (2015) – Heartseekers Box Set, there's a bonus Christmas novella included!
She has two fantasy-adventure novels, The Lady of the Haven and A Gathering of Eagles, in a second edition published by Sign of the Whale BooksTM, an imprint of Olivia Kimbrell PressTM.
On a personal note, Betty Thomason Owens was born in the Pacific Northwest, grew up in Southern California and West Tennessee. The daughter of a self-proclaimed nomad, she attended eleven different schools by high school graduation in Kentucky. She and her husband, an EIT (electronics instrumentation technician), have three sons, a couple of beautiful daughters-in-law, five granddaughters and two grandsons (at last count).
An office manager/bookkeeper for 15 years, she is semi-retired and pursuing her other loves––gardening, cooking, spending time with the grands, and of course, writing.
You can find Betty's books available here: amazon.com/author/btowens
You can connect with her on her webpage, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.


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The only place to go was the last place he deserved to be.
Disclaimer: The Winchester boys aren't mine but I'd make Dean wear his boots all the time if they were.
Rating: M (Language, angst, sex and a four-poster bed.)
Pairings: Dean/OFC, Dean/Jo (Het)
Miscellaneous: This is the sixth story in the Gobsmacked 'verse and follows directly after Black Bird. This installment contains more angst than is normally found in the stories and I am serious about the rating, particularly in the second half of the story. Within the arc of Season Two, this takes place after "No Exit" but before "The Usual Suspects."
Beta: merioddities wrangled my run-on sentences and gave me the best pacing advice the story could ever have been given. vunidiwai, as always, was gracious and supportive of my story and all of my characters. iamentheos went through both sections so quickly I was able to start editing ahead of my schedule and also kept me company on IM when I was stressing about Part Two. embroiderama suffered another week of random spammage whenever I freaked out about Dean's POV, Penny's POV, the smut, the plot; in short, everything. misskatieleigh sent me notes (even if she said it wasn't a real beta) on both parts and also put up with my more spastic moments. Everything in this story rocks because of them. The mistakes? Those are all me.
Part One: Sleeping Beauty Trips Me With a Frown
It turns out my dad had a partner on his last hunt.
Dean knew where it was headed the moment Jo had said the words. No good deed goes unpunished, son. Like letting Jo Harvelle tag along on a hunt because she reminded him of Sam with something to prove. She even had the same look on her face, a twisted flush topped off with angry eyes and the sucked-in breath before the volley of words poured out designed to wear you down. When she was done, Jo had mixed up Holmes with what happened to her father; blaming him – blaming Dad – for the way things turned out.
He tried to get her to stop. See what he could do to make amends, but the damn girl kept right on talking – pushing what little peace they had made in Philadelphia back into his face with terse accusations. She'd been shaking like falling leaves in a storm.
But she wasn't listening, pinched and hurt by her mother's revelation. Dad had told him once that there wasn't anything as fierce as a mother protecting her young; he'd been talking about werewolves but the same principle applied after Ellen cornered him in the hallway and demanded to know why he was playing two nice girls against each other. Ellen was probably just giving Jo a reason to let go that gave her daughter some dignity, some righteousness against the sting of being dragged back home like she was a kid; maybe even some tricks to get past the rejection of always being left behind.
There'd been too many women after that night in Harvelle's storeroom to apologize, long before Penny Hillsworth marched into the pool room at the Roadhouse wearing the rattiest pink sweatpants he'd ever seen on a chick. Even comparing the two was fucked – everyone but Sam had stuck Penny on the sidelines, the girl who grew up with a backyard full of trees and a dozen kids sneaking up to rub her on the belly. Jo didn't get what he saw in her, had asked him why when Sam was out getting coffee, in a conversation where he had said too much.
And not even Dean had played her fair, all the times he should have called after that – not deserving the way Penny Hillsworth would slip past the cracks and cushion the aches with nothing but the way she laughed. He wasn't about to tell anyone that Penny made him want to promise things he never should; a Winchester's promise wasn't worth much, with him spilling open because he was watching the burn in Jo's eyes while waiting for Sam and coffee.
I was six or seven, and uh, he took me shooting for the first time. You know, balls on a fence, that kind of thing. I bulls eyed every one of them. He gave me this smile, like... I don't know.
He had managed to screw the pooch without even unbuttoning his pants.
It just slipped out when Jo pushed, between anxiety and all of the lies; the ones they told to each other, the scams they pulled to solve the case. There wasn't much difference between the lies a father told his sons and the lies a mother told her daughter; a man was still dead, probably a good one, and Dean still didn't know which life was the real one – the one he thought belonged to his father or the one John Winchester actually lived, all those secrets tied up in death and broken promises.
The only thing that made sense was running towards the luck-bright smile that convinced a man that he could fight fate; even one with a list of things to do and no clue where to start, tasks no brother should ever be asked to perform. It wasn't anyone's fault but his that Jo wasn't first on that list, no matter how high up the Harvelles were, and no amount of wishing on her part would change that; there was no hope that he could offer her because those two mistakes would never mean more than they did.
When it came, Jo's ultimatum had been a relief.
Just get out of here.
The only place to go was the last place he deserved to be.
Dean drove it straight, stopping only for gas and pit stops. Sam didn't even make a crack about it the first time they pulled into a drive-through, just leaned around Dean and placed his order like a thirteen-hour drive to some chick's place was the normal Winchester MO. He mentioned something about stopping for presents after seeing some of the decorations they'd been passing in small towns, shutting up only when Dean scowled at him.
The weather started turning bad around Cedar Rapids. Another goddamn storm Dean was determined they'd outrun, gunning the Impala with a grimace while AC/DC blared from its speakers. Sam stole a look at him when the wind howled louder than the engine's roar and the tires skidded through a turn. He slowed the car down just enough to keep from roaring over a highway barrier but kept right on driving. He could sleep when they got there.
The blizzard chased them the entire way.
Sam was hunched against the window when they rolled up in front of the apartment building, curled around his arm and looking like he was six years old all over again while he slept.
You don't have time for this, Dean.
There were more important things to worry about than which story was true, which promise had been given. All that mattered was that the yellow-eyed freak wasn't getting Sammy. Dean still couldn't shut out his father's voice telling him what he needed to do if he couldn't save Sam, that he had to put his baby brother down like a dog.
Dean blamed the hospital. Dad was probably desperate when he said it, couldn't think of another way out given what was coming next. John Winchester always stood between innocents and the dark that threatened them. There was more to the story than Ellen was telling her daughter; she just didn't know the man the way that Dean did. John Winchester didn't make a habit of sacrificing anyone except himself. The fact that Dean wasn't a pile of ash was proof enough that John Winchester was Corps, would shoulder the burden himself rather than passing it on to someone else.
Except that's exactly what John Winchester had done – exacting the one promise that Dean was destined to break.
Semper Fi.
Dean swallowed, leaning over to shake his brother awake. "Hey, Sam. We're here."
Sam blinked, eyes adjusting to the moonlight reflecting off the snow. He didn't say anything, flipping up the lock in one brisk movement before stepping outside and closing the door. Sam shifted from foot-to-foot, breath coming out as a cloud, while he waited for Dean to unlock the trunk. They both grabbed their duffels – Sam snatching the gun bag before Dean closed the trunk – and started heading towards the building.
Sam got there first, pulling out a set of shiny keys and unlocking the front door with a huge grin on his face. "We should have gotten her something," Sam said, head nodding pointedly at the fake holly and mistletoe garland wrapped around the banister on the staircase. There were glossy metallic ornaments peppered across the ceiling, hanging down at different levels. It wasn't like Dean had planned on driving to Chicago when he woke up that morning and Sam was the one who always remembered crap like that when they were growing up; Sammy had bugged Dad so much about it the year he turned ten that Dad made it Sam's job just to shut him up.
Penny Hillsworth had picked the wrong damn Winchester if what she wanted was gift wrap and bows.
He started walking up the stairs, Sam following closely behind. Dean took a breath when they reached the third floor, staring at the number before pulling his own set keys out of his pocket. His eyes met Sam's before he turned the key; Sam smiled like they always dropped by Penny's and let themselves into the apartment, never getting how fucking weird the whole thing was. Dean unlocked the door slowly, listening for sounds and waiting for instinct to kick in as he pushed the door forward.
The living room was full of those goddamn twinkling lights – enough to make an epileptic have a seizure just by stepping across the threshold. Penny had even set up a tiny plastic tree in the corner near the fireplace, covered with fake silver icicles and every Disney character known to man. Dean half-expected some elf to come bounding down the hallway with a plate of cookies and a glass of milk but all that happened was a rush of air coming out of Sam.
"She laid salt lines," Sam whispered, pointing down to his shoe. The line was so precise, Penny could have laid it with a ruler; not one grain out of place.
"Didn't use her chain," Dean observed. He'd have said more but the stretch of rustling fabric on the couch brought hands above their back holsters, each of them framing the door by taking a side. He shifted his weight to the balls of his feet, getting ready to make his move.
A tousled blonde head popped up over the folded afghan on the back of the couch. "Jesus!" Lynn Lucas snapped, frowning as Sam shut the door behind them. "Don't the two of you believe in phones?" she added. Her face flushed when Dean started kicking off his boots. "She's sick, Dean. If you think you're just going to waltz into her bed – " Lynn's face softened when their eyes met and she gulped. "You both look like hell."
"Long drive," Sam said, shrugging out of his jacket and throwing it over the armchair.
"Where from?" Lynn glanced at Dean as he walked by, shaking her head and settling her attention on Sam. There was nothing keeping him from Penny Hillsworth now that he was standing in her living room, not even the ghost of every broken promise that followed him over the threshold. "A blizzard's heading in from the west," she added, face going gentle with concern. "You two didn't…" Lynn gasped.
"My brother's a lunatic," Sam confirmed.
"I think it's catching." Lynn gave a small laugh. "Well, since you're here, do you want hot chocolate…"
Their conversation drifted to whispers, unintelligible when Dean reached the bedroom. He twisted the doorknob, stepping over another salt line Penny had placed on the inside of the door, before setting his duffel on the floor. Dean started shucking out of his clothes, listening to wind whipping the snow up outside. The curtains above her bed were open, moonlight reflecting off the snow and lighting up the room like the sun was rising, and Penny stirred when he unzipped his pants.
A better man would have grabbed some blankets and headed for her bathtub but Dean slid under the covers. Penny rolled right into his arms, burrowing into his chest like she knew that he was there. Maybe she did, because a raspy sob escaped from her throat as she curled tight around him.
"Hey," he whispered sharply, a stab against the silence. Penny's body went stiff when she heard his voice. "You're crying all over me, for Christ's sa – "
Penny's head shot up and her eyes opened, a hand suddenly clutching each arm. She stared into his face with a twist to her mouth like she was still expecting to wake up, eyes blinking fast. He recognized the Metallica logo on her chest, a little piece of faith that he didn't merit, but he just grabbed the hem of his t-shirt and pulled it up over her head. Penny shivered when he leaned down and started kissing her collarbone, her chest rattling as she breathed.
Penny Hillsworth smelled like goddamn lilacs, like she was standing in the back yard in Lawrence instead of laying underneath him wearing nothing but an amethyst on a chain.
Dean closed his eyes, inhaling the scent off the curve of her neck, and wrapped his fingers in her hair. Penny brought her hands down to his hips, opening her mouth underneath his as tangled fingers pulled through curls, but it wasn't enough to stop the Fury's voice.
It was your father, Dean.
Dean recoiled – there might be something there if it was true because a man who left a partner to die could easily sacrifice a son for the good of the mission – but Penny's hands were stroking his hips; already guiding him right between her thighs. She lifted her hips slowly, drawing him inside unhurried inch by unhurried inch, until she quivered warm and wet and soft around him. "I've been missing you," she said, voice low and husky. She knotted her hands behind his neck, her back arching underneath him as they started rocking slowly against each other.
"I'm right here."
And that was their only preamble, shuddering skin to skin and falling into each other with a muted moan that was enough to silence the entire storm.
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Lynn was laughing loud enough for her voice to carry past the bedroom door, followed through the crack along the doorjamb by the smell of cooking bacon. Penny heard another voice talking animatedly, a story punctuated with low chuckles and a muffled rumble in a cadence she recognized as easily as one of her own brothers.
She sat up, curling her knees against her chest; back straight against the headboard. Even asleep, Dean looked exhausted – with darkened circles around his eyes and his mouth stretched into a thin line. Penny blinked; the last thing he needed was to see her bawling all over again because the smudges around his eyes were almost as stark as the freckles sprinkled across his nose. Last night had been bad enough; she hadn't realized it was Dean crawling into her bed, caught up in the memory of him and the lingering scent on the pillow he always used.
It was like she was in junior high all over again, watching her brothers' faces for signs of bad news – except now the monsters were real, their existence etched in scars she'd traced with tongue and fingers, and even the losing battle against her mother's cancer was easier to fight. No amount of wishing could steel men against what lurked in the dark, the shadows where even memories teased.
Penny stared hard down at the foot of the bed, listening to the slow rhythm of Dean's breathing as he slept. A lesser man would have taken one look at you and thrown you back in for something a little bigger. It was true – but probably not the way he meant it. She was still trying to figure out how to help him but Dean Winchester was the one keeping an eye on her, showing up unannounced in her bed three days before Christmas; at least six feet of urgency and need, roaring through a blizzard to be with her.
"Your cousin screeches like a hyena." She turned to look at him. Dean was leaning up on one elbow. The grin she remembered plastered on his face. "Sam's probably deaf by now," he continued. "I should be deaf, too, given how much the women in your family like to scream." His eyes were bright despite their circles and one hand was suddenly brushing down her arm like a dare.
Penny's laugh was choked by a cough, bent over with her fist cupped over her mouth. Dean wasn't grinning at her when she looked back at him. "It's just a bronchial infection," she explained. "And it's mostly gone by now. You can't catch it."
"I'm not worried about catching it," Dean snorted. "Just a bronchial infection. You look like crap on toast, Short Stuff."
"That means so much coming from the man sporting those sexy circles under his eyes."
"Didn't say I looked any better."
Penny shook her head sharply, stopping herself from asking about the job. She used to drive Peter crazy with all of her questions, pouncing on him when he came back from academic conferences or a night out with his friends, and he'd get angry about her not trusting him. Penny didn't want to make that same mistake with Dean but it was hard not to say something when he looked away so quickly; swallowing as he stared intently at the wall while his jaw worked.
"If we don't hurry," she said, " Lynn's going to eat all of the bacon." Penny winced before she even finished. Fucking bacon? Dean was watching her like she was spawning another head.
"You ever heard of H. H. Holmes?" he asked.
"This is Chicago, Dean." Penny's stomach suddenly flopped up into her chest and she wanted to wrap her arms around his shoulders because of the way they stiffened; Dean Winchester looked like he was close to breaking. "But I thought you were going to Philadelphia?" she added softly. "What does that have to do with H. H. Holmes?"
"That's where he was executed. Some idiot built apartments on top of the site and his ghost's been coming back to finish what he started. Jo fit the profile. She ended up getting kidnapped by him." His hand was on her arm.
"Jo?" Her throat was raw. It shouldn't have surprised her. Jo Harvelle was a trained hunter, could probably decapitate a zombie with a flick of her bar tray; Penny Hillsworth was the idiot who burned her arm carrying two bowls of oatmeal because she forgot the tray. "Is she okay?" It was the only question Penny could think to ask that wasn't an accusation, her voice so shrill she wondered why her throat wasn't cracking.
"Angry's the word I'd use but she's…safe." A shadow crossed his face but he looked her right in the eye. Whatever Dean was trying to tell her wasn't something he was hiding but Penny didn't want to know the answer. It was about Jo. "She came after us. Made Ash set up a false trail and followed us to Philadelphia. I should have sent her ass home instead of letting her stay." He clutched her arm, his fingers white stripes in relief around her bicep. "Holmes was going after blondes. When she went missing, I…"
"Felt responsible?" she asked. Dean carried responsibility the way most people kept secrets, unspoken but always flickering just beneath the surface; burdens he nurtured for reasons Penny still didn't understand. She grabbed the back of his neck with her right hand, leaning down into him and pushing the kiss deep inside – hoping that he'd listen when she pulled away. "It was her decision, Dean, and she knew the risks."
"Ellen didn't quite see it that way. And Jo's not so keen on Winchesters anymore. She told me – " He finally let go of her arm. "I shouldn't be laying this crap on you. You're sick."
It was the most he had ever come out and said to her about the mistakes he had made but there were more burdens woven into what he didn't say – something about Jo, the way his eyes clouded when Dean said Jo's name. It was the same look he got whenever he was talking about Sam being the only family that Dean had left.
She swallowed, bringing a hand down to brush through his hair. "It's not crap," Penny said softly. "And I'm not that sick." Dean snorted as she sucked in a breath, chest wheezing. "You have more important things to worry about than me," she added. "Especially when you're working."
"So, uh…" Dean frowned when she started coughing.
"How bad was it?"
"I started getting sick a day or two after I left Nebraska. I thought I had a cold, so I kept working on the proof for my thesis defense." Penny took a deep breath. "I fainted one night at my dad's house." Lynn would have no problem filling in any gaps that she conveniently missed if she didn't tell Dean the truth. "My father overreacted like he always does and took me to the emergency room."
The shadows darkened in his eyes and they stared each other down. "And you didn't think that was fucking important enough to call me about?" Dean finally hissed.
"Would you have interrupted your little ghost-hunting escapade with Jo Harvelle because I had a fever?" she snapped. Penny wished she could take it back the moment she said it, watching his face crumple. She swallowed and touched his cheek. "They released me six hours later with a bunch of antibiotics," Penny added gently when he didn't pull away from her hand. " Lynn got the short straw and Dad forced her to stay with me. And he wasn't happy about having to pull string two weeks before Christmas to get my defense rescheduled. Thanks to him, I won't get to start my doctorate work until next fall."
"Penny – "
"I'm sorry." Penny's fingers swept across his mouth. "I… I wanted you here, but...how could I ask that when you were saving people's lives, Dean?" Her mouth twisted wryly. "The truth is, I'm just as hypocritical as Jo Harvelle – knowing the risks and saying that I accept them but if I really did…I wouldn't get upset about the things you need to do."
Dean started, eyes flickering to the wall and getting wider every time she mentioned Jo's name. She couldn't even manage an apology properly, bristling deep inside with the feeling that there was something Dean still wasn't telling her about Jo.
He shifted just enough so that he could rest his chin on her stomach and sighed loudly. "A freaking heads-up would've been nice," Dean said slowly, "Because I got lectured by your goddamn cousin and Lynn's worse than Sammy." And then he was grinning up at her, a lopsided apology. "At least she's not fucking jealous of Jo."
"I'm not jealous!" Her cheeks burned.
Dean snorted, pushing himself up by the arms. "Liar." Before she could say anything, his mouth was circling her right breast. Penny felt the draw right between her thighs when he slid a hand up with a rough chuckle that had her toes curling. "Seems to me like you're ready to be confined to your bed, Baby Doll."
"Take your best shot, Agent Han," Penny breathed, scratching lazy circles on his back.
"I'm not above pinning you to the mattress myself if that's what it takes."
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When they stumbled down the hallway and into the kitchen, Lynn was sitting at the small table laughing at Sam's goddamn story about the beer bottle back in Texas. Sam was making faces and doing a whole pantomime thing and Lynn only laughed louder when Dean slid into a chair across from Penny.
The whole thing sounded so normal that it should have made his teeth ache, listening to Sam go on about a practical joke with a beer bottle like he was still a college student – like it had nothing to do with tracking down some Tulpa and the two girls were listening to the story in some bar. The way Sam acted, handing Penny a plate of bacon and talking about nothing, Dad was still alive and Jo hadn't told them something about John Winchester that changed everything.
"My brother gets himself into some pretty stupid situations," Sam continued. "Like the time Penny beat him up with her umbrella because he couldn't keep his goddamn mouth shut. The look on his face when she hit him a second time should be on t-shirts or something."
"That's because she smacked me right into a freaking tree," Dean said. He shook his head, watching Lynn and Penny sneak a glance at each other before both of them started laughing again. Penny had to steady herself on the table with her elbows. "Come on, it was a lucky hit!"
"You keep telling yourself that, Mr. Hi, I'm Undercover – Here's My Phone Number." Penny smiled at him, handing him a platter of French toast. She made it so easy to forget the whole damn thing when she smiled, the same look in her eyes when she was writhing on top of him. There was always a lilt to her voice that told him a different truth, that a father's wishes and their family debts were already paid in full – had already been met by every person Sam and Dean Winchester saved since leaving Stanford. "And I did warn you," she added, following up the plate with some syrup.
"You scarred me for life," Dean replied sharply. Sam snorted and Dean turned on him. "Laugh it up, Sasquatch!"
Sam's shaggy head shook back and forth as he speared some French toast and slapped it down on his plate. "You're the one who blew our cover, Romeo," he retorted.
"You're the one who actually blew it, Agent Luke," Penny returned calmly, not even looking up from her plate as she cut a piece of French toast and slid it onto her fork. "Come on, Sam," she said, finally shooting a glance at his little brother. "Ford and Hamill? How often do those aliases work?"
Sam didn't say anything – just grinned at Penny sheepishly as he poured syrup on his food. It was Dean's turn to snort. "More often than you think, Short Stuff," he said. Her smile went soft at that and the only thing keeping Dean from dropping his fork when Penny's foot started sliding across his calf was the fact that kickass demon hunters didn't drop forks at breakfast like they were a kid. "People are damn gullible," he continued. "Even Sam can convince most people he's with the FBI. I mean, your cousin believed him."
"I was in shock!" But Lynn was still laughing. "Some monster out of Penny's comic books had just attacked my roommate."
"No wonder you recognized Ford and Hamill." Dean retaliated by snaking his big toe up the inside of Penny's thigh, flipping up the edge of the Metallica t-shirt Penny had put back on after dragging him out of her bed for breakfast. He'd show her how the game was played. She didn't even flinch. "You're a fucking geek." Her green eyes narrowed but Penny was shifting forward on the chair. "Who would have thought I'd be banging a chick who reads comic books?" he added.
"Seems to me that endearing cracks like that make you pretty damn lucky that any chick is banging you at all, Shotgun." Her voice was as tart as the lemon she was squeezing into her tea but Penny's eyes reminded him of that night back at Bobby's – and her smile was a dare, opening her thighs wider the closer his toe came to reaching its target. Dean returned her smile with a grin of his own; Penny Hillsworth wasn't wearing any fucking underwear, jumping backwards and smacking her left foot into the nearest table leg. Dean chuckled, putting his foot back down on the ground.
"Are you two playing footsie?" Lynn demanded.
"Winchesters don't do footsie, sweetheart," Dean retorted instantly. Goddamn Sam was actually cackling. "It's called ankle wrestling."
"Ankle wrestling?" Lynn looked unconvinced.
"Yeah." Dean nodded. Penny was flushed, her hand inching towards his across the table. "Penny's pretty vicious," he added, grimacing a little when Penny started spreading his fingers wide to slip hers inside. Sam was staring at that so hard, he stopped laughing; goddamn Dean Winchester holding hands over some hinky French toast breakfast with a chick. "Scratched me all over the place with her mutant toes." Dean made to pull back the tablecloth.
"Not really interested in seeing your hairy legs, Dean Winchester." Lynn's blue eyes twinkled just as much as Penny's did when she was amused. "But I'm guessing there are four brothers who'd probably love learning how you ankle wrestle."
"Only four?" Dean managed. He sure as hell hoped the Hillsworths didn't play football in the snow because he was going to be fucked – and not by their little sister – when they figured out that ankle wrestling was just a clever way of playing with Penny Hillsworth underneath the dining room table.
Lynn shrugged her shoulders. "Tommy says you make Penny happy and that was all Daniel needed to hear." She smiled sweetly at Penny. "He's going to have to do something more amazing than ankle wrestling to impress the rest of them at the party."
"We're not going," Penny said, back going stiff as she settled into her chair. "Even Mom hated those parties and she was the only reason I'd ever go once I moved out." Lynn made a face. "I'm serious," Penny added, her fingers so tight around Dean's that her knuckles were turning white. "I don't know how long Sam and Dean can stay and I'm not putting them through that. Dad's questions after the barbecue were bad enough."
"Last time I checked, I'm old enough to handle anything your dad can throw at me," Dean drawled. Penny's head rounded on him, eyes angry. He wasn't about to tell her why; he'd learned deception at the hands of a master, how to bluff and how to make the lie so real even you believed it was the truth.
Why do you think John never came back? Never told you about us? Because he couldn't look my mom in the eye after that, that's why.
Dean swallowed.
"Do you honestly want to spend hours dressed up in silly Victorian clothes while my dad pretends to be lord of some English manor with his lawyer friends?" Penny retorted, but her eyes had softened – catching hold of something inside his own with a small frown. That didn't keep the damn girl from talking. "He even makes sure we all go in authentic costumes. It sucks. The boys get starched collars but Lynn and I both have to wear corsets!"
"Corsets?" He blinked. A vision of Penny in a white corset flittering across the back of his eyelids – her eyes liquid green when he thrust inside of her, looking up into his face like the world was just the two of them while she scratched her nails down his back. It'd be just like that hallucination he had after she knocked him out with her umbrella, except that it'd be Penny arching into his hips and crying out his name and not some chick in his head. He grinned at her. "I could wear a starched collar for one night if you're wearing a corset."
"Why am I not surprised?" There was a tilt to Penny's mouth but her hand held onto his even more tightly than before. A small smile flickered across her face. "Just remember you said that after you start getting a rash." She lowered her eyes, voice going husky from something besides her infection. "But my dad won't let me go if he thinks I'm still sick. He's afraid I'll…" Penny picked up her fork with her free hand, tapping its end on the table slowly. Her cheeks flushed all over again.
"Like I said," he growled, "I'm not above pinning you to the bed if that's what it takes to make you rest, Baby Doll." Lynn made a noise in the back of her throat, before grabbing the bottle of syrup and pouring some on her already drenched French toast.
"Your chivalry is duly noted," Penny answered, eyes down-turned demurely as she sipped her orange juice.
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Dean Winchester's definition of bed rest would never make it into a medical journal but it beat her cousin's trays of ginger ale, tomato soup and oyster crackers – especially when his voice was rumbling through her back, his fingers the spark that arched through her as she bent into him.
It was always easier to sleep when he was there, waking up with Dean's arm flung haphazardly across her face or feeling the pressure from the one leg he hooked around her thighs when she drifted backwards against him. His big hands would splay across her belly or on her hips, intertwined with her fingers, and she'd just listen to him breathe. The wisp of air hot against the back of her neck and skin growing slick from sweat where they touched – back to chest, thigh to thigh, hand to palm.
He didn't make her feel safe. Dean Winchester lived in a world where last conversations were gifts and Penny Hillsworth needed to be strong enough to deal with his long stretches of silence and new bruises without breaking into pieces like she'd been doing since she left the Roadhouse. Ellen Harvelle had told her that, cornering her over a basket of hot wings with a warning bend to her mouth and a lecture about the kind of woman a hunter needs, but it was Bobby Singer's gravel-kissed voice that made her remember what she'd forgotten.
Some things out there are stronger than luck.
It was time to stop acting like she was ten.
"Dean," Penny whispered gently. "Are you awake?"
"No." His voice was rough in her ear, hands curling around her hips. "I'm having this dream about some hot chick waking me up for sex." His lips left a sizzling mark on her shoulder as his arms tightened. "But even my goddamn brain hates me. You're a shrimp." Dean chuckled sleepily. "Now I know why you're always trying to save them." One hand trailed up her hip, curving around a breast and brushing the nipple with his palm.
Penny sighed, leaning into the warmth of him, and every thing she wanted to say boiled down to the simplest statement underneath the slow pressure of his fingers. "You were right." It didn't surprise her when the words came out in a whisper but she took a deep breath and continued. "I'm jealous of Jo."
Dean didn't say anything for a long time, rubbing her stomach with his other hand while he traced slow circles with his fingers. Penny listened to him breathe, wondering if he'd heard her after all, but then there was a shiver and a sigh. "Nothing to be jealous about, Baby Doll," he said. She must have imagined the hitch in his voice because his lips were on her neck, tongue flicking against her pulse, and she was the one who shivered when the hand on her hip tightened.
Penny finally found her voice when their breathing slowed down, her fingers stroking the hand that Dean was still using to circle her breasts. "It's hard, sometimes. Just looking at yourself and seeing all the places where you're wanting."
Do you have any idea how disappointed your mother would be by the mess you've made of your life?
She sucked in a breath when he scratched her hip lightly down to her thigh. "But Jo? She knows enough to go on jobs with you. If I could do that, maybe I could really help you instead of just being the girl who brings you oatmeal."
Dean took a ragged breath and stopped scratching. The edges of his nails pricked into her hip and there was an ache from his hand digging into muscles. "You're never coming with me on a job," he murmured into her hair. Penny closed her eyes, expecting the shift between them as he rolled her onto her back – the way he'd follow up every pronouncement he made by pushing between her legs, all those unspoken promises they moaned into each others' mouth – but Dean just pulled her closer. "Penny, I…" She heard his swallow over the hum of the heater.
Her throat hurt. "Me, neither," Penny managed to whisper. His hands were soft and slow like she was some delicate thing he was going to break and even the brush of his lips on the back of her ear was gentle – just enough air against the hairs to make her shiver backwards into his arms. "I can't lose you, Dean."
Another torn breath dragged out of both of them. Dean's hands were firmly on her hips as she wrapped her fingers through his and, suddenly, there was a smile curving against her neck. "That bronchial thing's really made you goddamn emo," Dean drawled as he unhooked his leg from across her thighs. "You're just lucky it's too late to throw you back in, Penny, because you made me fucking spoon."
"You ass," Penny retorted. Dean cackled as she twisted to face him, burying her head into the space between his chin and his shoulder blade while her arms settled around his neck.
"At least you're not coughing anymore like some old dude with emphysema." Dean's grin was bright in the light filtering past the curtains. "Because that was all kinds of attractive, wondering what you were going to hack up ne – " His eyes widened when Penny abruptly pushed him backwards onto the mattress with a hand on both shoulders and straddled him, mouth coming down hard on his. He was grinning all over again when she pulled up to look at him, his big hands tracing the muscles on her back as she arched up into their coarse lines. "You think you're big enough to pin me to the mattress, PeeWee?"
"You've got that whole 'waking me out of a dead sleep' thing to answer for before I let you pull out that rope you're always promising to use on me."
"This would be much easier on me if you knew when to shut up, Dean."
He chuckled, wrapping his hands into her hair, and pulled her back down. "But not as much fun," Dean whispered against her lips before launching into something in Latin.
She hoped it wasn't a prayer because she was already closing her eyes and giving herself up to his voice, tremors building from his mouth kissing a wet trail down her neck while insistent fingers marked his territory. Penny moaned, quivering all the way down to her curled toes.
The title of this story is a song by Tori Amos. There's a lot of lovely imagery in it about growing up and a father's expectations; this idea suited Dean and Penny – both of whom currently define themselves based on their fathers' judgment of them. The song also references several fairy tales, which fits the "feel" of the 'verse to me.
As always, I did my best to tone down the adult situations. If more work is needed in that regard, please let me know and I will be happy to make changes.
Semper Fi is the abbreviated version of the U.S.M.C motto used by the marines themselves to show loyalty and support for their brothers in arms. The full motto, Semper Fidelis, translates as "Always faithful."
For those who read "Though Hearts Reach Back and Memories Ache," Dean and Penny's reunion is the same scene from his POV.
The scene in the kitchen was an homage to the desk scene in "By Gaslight." Penny, however, is slightly more modest than Penelope when people are around (although, get her drunk and stick her on a pool table and that's pretty much all she wrote)…and I suspect she didn't think Dean would actually, um, go there with Sam and Lynn sitting next to them.
Part Two is forthcoming. I'm just doing one more edit on it before I post it. I am that worried about it.


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Good grief, is anyone really that shallow? Voting for somebody means you empower their ideology, not go on a date with them.
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Good grief, is anyone really that shallow? Voting for somebody means you empower their ideology, not go on a date with them.
To those offended by this I apologize. I thought it was funny as hell.
Ironic. The party of keep-your-hands-off-mine. I still believe that Democrats have better sex.
I agree with that Lawyer. Politically correct sex was never much fun.
I'm shocked and appalled that wingnuts would cherry pick in order to bolster their cognitive dissonance!
To all those offended by this I apologize. I thought it was funny as hell.
This is so revolting that after Michelle Obama I couldn't go any further. I don't know whether to feel anger, disgust or distress.
That's another thing about it. I don't actually recognize the majority of the people in the video, but Michelle Obama is actually very attractive. For the second part they chose pictures with contorted facial expressions which would make anyone look a bit grotesque.
But that's a side issue. People are really scraping the bottom of the barrel when they think they're scoring a point by inculting somebody's appearance.
Yeah Leslie, objectification is about as good as it gets with men touting GOP women. Exception being Coulter… Malkin. They are just very rabid.
Randal has a point….
This goes to show you where their heads are at! Think about why McCain had Sarah running for V.P.? The old man probably had visions of getting it on with her. It certainly wasn't because of her brains, that is for sure. I call this no respect for women, and see it no other way.
The democrats probably do have better sex. The republicans have to pray at it first and then take a handful of viagra before it will work……….
Can't believe that I just wrote this! Can you tell I'm pissed?
Sorry Barbara. To those offended by this I apologize. I thought it was funny as hell.
knowing where this is coming from it's to be expected. The Republicans are all ignorant. They need to adjust to the fact that they lost the election simply because of this!
Since I hadn't eaten yet, I was able to watch through to the end, learning a great deal. I didn't know, for instance, that Heather Locklear was a Repug or how attractive Rosie O'Donnell could look when photo-shopped onto a fat man's hairy-backed body.
The entire video is merely proof that the best way to garner votes for the Repugs is to get guys to think with their "little head!" No doubt it has a larger brain.
Not measurably larger.We are often limp brained as well.


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3 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Job
Congratulations! After what seems like an eternity of looking for a new job, you finally have that elusive offer. While the first thing you may be inclined to do is hit "reply" and accept the job, there are a few things you should consider first (if you haven't already).
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1. What do current and and former employees think about the company?
Hopefully, you've done this due diligence while going through the interview process, but if you haven't, it's imperative you start doing a little digging to find out what people who work there — and have worked there — think about the company.
Since you may be looking for a job in the dark (i.e., your current employer doesn't know) social media may not be your best route, unless you're super savvy about how you phrase your question. If you have a strong enough network, you could DM current or former employees on Twitter and ask how they like working there.
In fact, asking former employees what they thought about the company could give you insight into what's not so great. Of course, if they're disgruntled in any way, take their opinion with a grain of salt. Don't be afraid to use LinkedIn to see how long people tend to stay at the company and how often the company hands out promotions; this should give you an idea of what it will be like to work there, too.
2. Do you know what your job really will be?
You may have responded to a Craigslist ad looking for a "marketing coordinator," but after going through the interview process, the job started to sound more like an executive assistant role helping the VP of marketing (or something similar.) As Alison Green at US News explains, "Job descriptions don't always tell the full story, and they're often outdated or so vague as to be almost meaningless."
Before you accept the job, be sure you're absolutely clear on what the actual job entails. That way, you'll ensure not only that you're satisfied with your new position, but that you're fairly compensated.
3. How will this role affect your life?
A new job often means a new commute, a new schedule, and an entire new routine. It's just as important to ask questions about how the job will impact your life — and your family — as it is to consider whether or not you'll like the job. For instance, a great job with a three to four hour commute might not be worth it, either literally or figuratively.
"Numerous happiness studies [report] a person's commute time has an enormous impact on their level of happiness and well being — so much so that it takes a substantially higher salary to compensate for a long commute." writes Michael Kerr at Business Insider.
Finally, do a gut check. Is this the job you really want? If there's something nagging at you, nudging you to reconsider, trust your intuition, and keep searching.
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Just one thing I have noticed Kelly, I don't know if you read these little comments after your articles but there is a slight typo. In item #1, "1. What do current and and former employees think about the company?" I believe it should be "1. What do current and former employees think about the company?" You can drop one of the words "and".
Tnx for your info it was great,first thing i should know that this is for forigner how would be possible to apply for a jo
I like the last comment: Trust you GUT feeling! Very, very important.I always ask what are the pros and cons of the position to get a feel of how the interviewer will respond verbally and also via body language; what story does their "eyes" and "facial expressions" tell you? Sometimes as it has always been said body language speaks a whole lot louder and truthful than words ever can!
Good advice. However, in question 1 regarding interviewing disgruntled former employees, I would actually put much more weight into their opinion. There's often a good reason that they're disgruntled.
i like the job but what can i do now for this job to come my way
Question three is extremely relevant to me. I am currently commuting just ten minutes to work. I can also do a lot of tele-commuting from home to do my work based as an IT engineer.
I have done some interviews that will pay me more than 10% more with a bonus, but the commute jumps to 60 minutes in one direction.
I have to consider that commutation time is just as valuable as real money I am giving up. Having that less stress and lost time is real value.
Good and appropriate.
Questions one and three are questions to ask yourself, not the interviewer. Just as you want to put yourself in the best light, the company wants to also put itself in the best light to entice the best candidates for the job. The second question, clarifying the position is the question to address during the interview.
It would sound delightful to work with a company like paypal
All of the job interviews that I have been on have answered the questions before the interview has started. The only one that didn't was a web- interview which after looking up the company further turned out to be a fraud company.
Thanks for those questions. I just did a phone interview for a Territory sales manager and about half way through the phone interview it was disclosed the job is as a trainee to start at much lower pay. After your in the work your way up starts. BIG difference.
"DM" is for Direct Message. Which is a message only the receiver can see, instead of all of Twitter.
This is great info. to have. Even as a Senior that's changing careers. One needs to know up to date communication terms, for example, in this very article, second paragraph, the acronym "DM" is used; 'DM former employees'.
I don't know what that is or means?!
You probably guessed it, I am a Senior who is "job hunting" and I've never used "twitter"
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I. Mood Episodes
A. Major Depressive Episode
B. Manic Episode
C. Mixed Episode
D. Hypomanic Episode
II. Mood Disorders
III. Specifiers Major Depressive Disorder, also referred to as Clinical Depression, or Major Depression, is a serious medical illness that disrupts a persons mood, behavior, thought processes, and physical health.
It is characterized by one or more major depressive episodes. Major Depressive Disorder is associated with high mortality. According to the DSM-IV TR, up to 15% of individuals with severe Major Depressive Disorder commit suicide and evidence suggests that there is an increase in death amongst the 55 and older population. Symptoms: Causes: Bipolar Disorder consists of two mind sets
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DSM-IV TR Axis Disorders: Seminar Presentation Ernest Hemingway,American Writer,
reportedly suffered from clinical depression
and committed suicide in 1961. Disney teen actress and singer, Demi Lovato, suffering from depression at 20 years old. SYMPTOMS 1. Sustained low or depressed mood.
2. Decreased interest or pleasure.
3. Sleep disturbances, increased or decreased.
4. Appetite disturbances, weight loss or gain.
5. Problems with memory and concentration.
6. Feelings of worthlessness or helplessness.
7. Psychomotor agitation or retardation.
8. Fatigue or loss of energy.
9. Thoughts of death, suicidal ideation. I. MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED "UNIPOLAR DEPRESSION" Causes of Mood Disorders: - Biological such as family/genetic influences. I.e., close relatives (increased risk)
- Low levels of serotonin in the brain (regulates our mood and emotions)
- Environmental factors such as stressful life events
- Experiencing Trauma ETIOLOGY:
- Familial
- Life Stress/ Events
- Genetic and Environmental causes
- Early Childhood Trauma DYSTHYMIC DISORDER (Chronic Depression)
is a chronically depressed mood for most of the day,
for more days than not, that persists for at least two
-Negative view of life and describes mood as "down in the dumps". Presence of two or more of the following:
1. Poor appetite or overeating.
2. Insomnia or hyper insomnia.
3. Low energy or fatigue.
4. Low self-esteem.
5. Poor concentration or difficulty making
6. Feelings of hopelessness. ECT (Electro- Convulsive Therapy) Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified - Is a catchall term that is used when depression is serious enough to cause problems in an individuals life but, does not fulfill the criteria for any established disorder. A. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
B. Minor Depression
C. Recurrent Brief Depression Risk Factors
Biological relatives with Depression
Being a woman
Childhood trauma
Having depressed family/ friends
Stressful life events
Few friends/ personal relationships
Serious Illness (Cancer, HIV/AIDS, etc.
Abusing alcohol or other drugs
low self-esteem, self-critical, pessimism TREATMENTS Resilience Factors
Building and maintaining positive support systems
Seeking purpose in life
Belief in ability of self to overcome adversity
Belief one can learn and grow from experience
Positive emotions
Self-enhancement MEDICATION ECT (Electro- Convulsive Therapy Cognitive
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Cocaine: hypomania, mania
Amphetamines: hypomania, mania
PCP: ketamine, hypomania, mania
Heroine: depression
Marijuana: depression
Mood symptoms present with intoxication or withdrawl
Normalization may take weeks or months
High instance of Comorbidity Substance Induced Mood Disorder With Depressive Features
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With Major Depressive –like episode
Meets full criteria except for Criteria D
With Mixed Features
Both manic and depression are present not dominant Subtypes The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood in response to the stress of having a general medical condition).
The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a delirium.
The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Diagnostic Criteria Cont. This category includes disorders with mood symptoms that do not meet the criteria for any specific Mood Disorders and in which it is difficult to choose between Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and Bi-Polar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.(e.g.,acute agitation).
DSM IV 296.90 pg 410 Mood Disorder Not Otherwise Specified With Onset During Intoxication: if the criteria are met for Intoxication with the substance and the symptoms develop during the intoxication syndrome
With Onset During Withdrawal: if criteria are met for Withdrawal from the substance and the symptoms develop during, or shortly after, a withdrawal syndrome Specifiers
A. A prominent and persistent disturbance in mood predominates in the clinical picture and is characterized by either (or both) of the following:
(1) depressed mood or markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
(2) elevated, expansive, or irritable mood
B. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings of either (1) or (2):
(1) the symptoms in Criterion A developed during, or within 1 month of, Substance Intoxication or Withdrawal
(2) medication use is etiologically related to the disturbance Substance –Induced Mood Disorder Diagnostic Features A prominent and persistent disturbance in mood predominates in the clinical picture and is characterized by either (or both) of the following:
1. depressed mood or markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
2. elevated, expansive, or irritable mood
B. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is the direct physiological consequence of a general medical condition. DSM IV Diagnostic criteria for 293.83 Mood Disorder Due to: DSM IV 293.83 Mood Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition Stroke
Huntington's disease
Chronic infections
Certain medications:
Isotretinoin (Accutane)
Oral contraceptives
Antidepressants Thyroid abnormalities
Parkinson's disease
Multiple sclerosis
Cancer (e.g., pancreatic)
Brain tumor
Traumatic brain injury
Autoimmune disorders Medical conditions Reconnection to local culture ( Best Practice) Other Mood Disorders Risks: - Chances of feeling better out of the blue is 10%
- Chances of being majorly depressed 10 years from now is 50%
- Interpersonal Therapy (SSRI) Highest rates of comorbid substance use disorders (SUD's)
Co-occurring disorder presents:
severe clinical presentations
poor outcomes
earlier onset of mood symptoms
higher anxiety and suicide attempts
rapid cycling
lower treatment compliance Comorbidity Presence or history of one or more major depressive episode and the presence or history of at least one hypomanic episode.
The diagnosis of hypomania: 4-day duration of a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and change in functioning in the absence of marked impairment or psychosis that is observable. Diagnosing BP II Inflated self-esteem
Decreased sleep need
Talkativeness or pressure of speech
Flight ideas or racing thoughts
Increased goal directed activity
Excess pleasure seeking behavior
Psychomotor agitation
Excessive involvement in risky behavior Symptoms Medication is one key element that is successful
Psychosocial therapies
Interpersonal therapy
Family therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy: used only when individual not respondent to medications.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): target affected areas of brain (used after ECT) Evidence-based and/or Best Practice Treatments Lifetime prevalence in communities is .4% to 1.6%
BP I equally affects men and women
First episode for male is likely to be Manic
First episode for female is likely to be Depressive
Often begin in adolescence or early adulthood; occasionally in children
Average age of onset is 20 yrs. Old
Earlier onset linked to alcohol/substance abuse d/o
"Rapid Cycling" more common in women Prevalence across Populations Women with BP I have increased risk of 'first episode' during postpartum (within 4 weeks)
Misdiagnosing Schizophrenia instead of BP
In some ethnic, and age, groups Biopsychosocial Risk NO single cause; rather factor(s) of:
Genetic component linked to BP
Negative life event(s)
Sleep deprivation Etiology/Risk Factors Also known as manic depression, is a medical illness that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy and functioning. It's a chronic lifelong condition with reoccurring episodes Bipolar Disorder Females more common than males
The mean age of onset is 18 years
50-66% of adult patients with bipolar report onset prior to 18 years
15-28% report onset before age 13
Childhood onset commonly associated with, or preceded, by:
conduct disorder
attention deficit disorder
oppositional defiant disorder Prevalence across populations Recurrent episodes of depression and hypomania
Hypomania, elevated euphoric, over activity and/or irritable mood
Depression can be syndromal and subsyndromal
Often mixed depression and non-euphoric usually subsyndromal, manic/ hypomanic symptoms) Bipolar II Disorder Characterized as by the occurrence of one or more:
Manic episodes
Mixed episodes
Major Depressive episodes
"Mixed State"
Rapid Cycling Bipolar I Disorder Schizophrenia
Schizoaffective d/o
Personality d/o Psychiatric Conditions/Disorders Thyroid disease
Tertiary syphilis Medical Conditions Comorbidity Cont. Extremely sad or hopeless
Feelings worried
Loss of interest in enjoyable activities
Tried or "slowed down"
Problems concentrating, remembering or making decisions
Change in eating, sleeping and other habits
Suicidal ideations/attempts Depressive Episode Overly joyful or overexcited
Extremely irritable, agitated, "jumpy" or "wired"
Easily distracted
Little sleep
An unrealistic belief in one's abilities
Talking fast or racing thoughts Manic Episode Symptoms Anxiety Disorders (PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, Panic disorder)
Personality disorders
Somatoform disorders
Alcohol and other substance abuse/ dependence
Serious medical illnesses Commonly Co-existing Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder Children who develop depression continue to have episodes into adulthood
Prone to more severe illness in adulthood
May pretend to be sick, refuse to go to school, worry that a parent may die, get into trouble at school, feel misunderstood
Typical mood swings of a normal child make it difficult to accurately diagnose Major Depression/ Dysthymia
Children and Teens Loss of significant other/ spouse
May have more medical conditions that cause depressive sx's
Medications that contribute to depression
Highest rates of suicide in U.S. (85 and older)
Antidepressant, psychotherapy, or both are effective tx's in reducing depression Major Depression/ Dysthymia
Older Adults Early and gradual onset in childhood/adolescence, or early adulthood
75% develop Major Depressive Disorder within 5 years, without tx
Remmission rate approx 10%/yr, better with tx
Tx for dysthymic d/o is similar to other depressive disorders
With tx, intensity of sx often reduced or diminished completely
Maintenance tx helpful in relapse prevention Course
Dysthymic Disorder May begin at any age, average mid 20's
Risk of having another episode:
≥ 60% if one previous episode
≥ 70% if two previous episodes
≥ 90% if three previous episode
5%- 10% develop a manic episode
(i.e. Bipolar I) Course
Major Depressive Disorder Major Depressive Disorder
Lifetime Risk: Women 10% to 25%
Men 5% to 9%
Point Prevalence: Women 5% to 9%
Men 2% to 3%
Dysthymic Disorder (general population)
Lifetime Risk: 6%
Point Prevalence: 3% Prevalence Adults
Major Depressive Disorder
Alcohol and other substance abuse and dependence
Conduct disorder
Anxiety disorders
Learning disorders Commonly Co-existing Disorders
Dysthymic Disorder Before puberty, depression develops equally between genders
By age 15, girls 2x likely for Major Depressive episode Major Depression/ Dysthymia
Children and Teens cont'd Major Depression/ Dysthymia More common
More likely to have feelings of sadness, worthlessness, and excessive guilt
More Suicide Attempts
More vulnerable due to hormonal factors:
Postpartum depression Women More likely to be tired irritable, difficulty sleeping
Alcohol or drugs
Consumed in work
Behave recklessly
Higher suicide rate Men
Family focused therapy and Multifamily Psychoeducation:
Alleviating mood symptoms, preventing recurrences, enhancing psychosocial functioning, reducing depression and hypomania symptoms and improvements in global functioning; augmenting individual and family coping skills and improving dimensions of family behavior among adults with mood disorders
Exert protective effect on conversion to bipolar spectrum disorder among children with depressive spectrum disorders
mood-stabilizing agents such as lithium and valproate, and second-generation antipsychotics
exert major effects on signaling pathways which regulate synaptic plasticity and cell survival
Acute BP-II depression: antidepressants
are taught to recognize early signs of relapse and seek treatment, reported fewer manic relapses, less hospitalization, better work and social function Treatment for BP-II 40-50% of patients initially diagnosed with MDD will eventually be diagnosed as BP-I or BP-II
Patients are twice more likely to have comorbid than non-comorbid BP-II disorder
Higher prevalence of anxiety disorders, in particular social and simple phobias with 45% lifetime prevalence.
Personality disorders occur in 33% of patients and OCD in 13.6% of BP-II patients
More borderline features with 66% of borderline personality diagnosis having comorbid affective diagnosis with BP-II being over-represented
Substance abuse occurs in up to 50% of people, with alcohol the most common agent
Eating disorders associated with BP-II
MDD and cyclothymic disorder also occur in children who later develop BP Comorbidity Pattern of illness:
Mild mood swings amplitude and frequency increase over time until the threshold reached
Often misdiagnosed as unipolar depression, an adjustment disorder, or personality disorder (especially borderline) \
Large percentage of patients outcomes quite poor, high rates of relapse, chronicity, lingering residual symptoms, subsyndromes, cognitive and functional impairment, and psychosocial disability
Impairments of structural plasticity and cellular resilience
Substantial morbidity; high rates of occupational, leisure, and relationship dysfunction; high rates of family dysfunction, divorce, or separation; and substantial suicide risk Clinical course and Prognosis Family History
High risk of bipolar II among relatives of probands with bipolar II disorder
History of generalized anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder are predictive for bipolar II disorder
Socioeconomic variables
gender, age of onset, marital status, and low parental financial status
Youth who meet criteria for BD not otherwise specified are at risk for converting to bipolar I disorder or bipolar II disorder
Adolescents and children who repeatedly run away from home and are physically fighting are 2.6-3.5X more likely to experience a bipolar II disorder in early adulthood Etiology/Risk Factors VETERAN'S AND MOOD DISORDERS Benazzi, F. (2007). Bipolar II Disorder: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Management. CNS Drugs, 21(9), 727-740. Retrieved October 1, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database.
Berck, M., & Dodd, S. (2005). Bipolar II Disorders:a review. Bipolar Disorders, 7(1), 11-21. Retrieved September 28, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database.
Coperland, L. A., Miller, A. L., Whelsh, D. E., Zeber, J. E., & Kilbourme, A. M. (2009). Clinical and Demographic Factors Associated With Homelessness and Incarceration Among VA Patients With Bipolar Disorder. American Journal of Public Health, 99(5), 871-877. Retrieved September 27, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database.
Endrass, J., Vetter, S., Gamma, A., Gallo, W., Rossgger, A., & Urbaniok, F. (2007). Are behavioral problems in childhood and adolescense associated with bipolar disorder in early adulthood?. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 25(7), 217-221. Retrieved September 28, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database.
Manji, H., & Young, T. (2002). Structural plasticity and neuronal resilience:are these targets for mood stabolizers and antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar disorder?. Bipolar Disorders, 4(1), 77-79. Retrieved September 27, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database.
Miklowitz, D., Taylor, D., Manpreet, G., Schneck, C., Meghan, D., & Garber, J. (2011). Early psychosocial intervention for youth at risk for bipolar I or II disorder: a one-year treatment development trial. Bipolar Disorders, 13(1), 67-75. Retrieved September 28, 2012, from the Academic Search Premiere database. References Cont.: Bipolar I & II Ball, S., Egede, L., Mauldin, P., Moran, W., Nappi, J., & Robert, S. (2009, March). Evidence-based best practices for the treatment of bipolar disorder for primary care in south caroline. Retrieved from http://www.sccp.sc.edu/centers/SCORxE/protected/downloads/01942-EBBP BIPOLAR BOOKLET 6_3_09 corrected.pdf
Duckworth , K. (2007). Latest nimh study on bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorder, 1-2. Retrieved from http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=press_release_archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=48119&title=Latest NIMH Study on Bipolar Disorder
National Alliance on Mental Illness. (2006). Bipolar disorder. Mental Illness, Retrieved from http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=54&ContentID=23037
Nery, F., & Soares, J. (2011). Comorbid bipolar disorder and substance abuse:evidence-based options. Current Psychiatry, 10(4), 57-66.
Rogge, T., bipolar affective disorder. In T. Rogge & D. Zieve (Eds.), A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia. A.D.A.M. Inc. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001924/
Smith, M., Segal, J., & Segal, R. (2012, June). Treatment for bipolar disorder. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_diagnosis_treatment.htm
The National Institute of Mental Health (2008). Bipolar disorder. NIH Publication. Retrieved from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/bipolar-disorder/nimh-bipolar-adults.pdf
Zeber, J., Copeland, L., McCarthy, J., Bauer, M., & Kilbourne, A. (2009). Perceived access to general medical and psychiatric care among veterans with bipolar disorder. American Journal of Public Health, 99(4), 720-727. References: Bipolar I & II Andrews, L. W. (2010). Encyclopedia of Depression. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Belmaker, R., & Agam, G. (2008). Major Depressive Disorder. New England Journal of Medicine, 358(1), 55-68.
Deprssesion (Major Depression). (n.d.). Internet Mental Health. Retrieved October 2, 2012, from http:// mentalhealth.com
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Dysthymic Disorder. (n.d.). Internet Mental Health. Retrieved October 2, 2012, from http:// mentalhealth.com
Ikezu, T. (2008). Neuroimmune pharmacology. New York: Springer.
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Mayo Clinic. (n.d.). Depression (Major Depression). Retrieved October 2, 2012, from http:// mayoclinic.com
Thase, M. E., & Lang, S. S. (2004). Beating the blues new approaches to overcoming dysthymia and chronic mild depression. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Returning Veteran's Journey. (n.d.). Northwest Frontier ATTC Addiction Messenger. Retrieved September 28, 2012, from http://attcnetwork.org References: Depressive Disorders Family/ spouse first to know something is wrong (souses call wanting someone to see their spouse).
24/7 hotlines for individuals feeling suicidal and need to talk (one source that all branches of the military can access 24/7).
Within the unit, there is an immediate supervisor the service members can go to for assistance.
Counselor center on the majority of military bases. Social network, family, and community in times of crisis or when veterans are experiencing mental illness Understanding military culture
-Rank structure
Military Occupational Structure
-Assessing trauma
-Asking appropriate questions Cultural Competency Mental Disorders, particularly Mood Disorders and Anxiety Disorders such as Depression and PTSD
Mentality of "Sucking it up"
- Fear of being labeled
- Come into treatment by way of an incident General Perspective on Mental Health and Well-Being http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/00/slides/3590s1c/tsld003.htm
DSM IV pg 401-410
DSM IV pg 181 References: Other Mood Disorders Life
Personally & professionally Affects Depression
Episodic panic attacks
Suicidal ideations
Memory impairment
Difficulty concentrating
Mood disturbances
Social & Occupational impairment With Depressive Features: Inability to cope with life
Chemical imbalance
Hereditary Manifestations: Outcomes Culture can influence the experience and communication of symptoms of depression and may be expressed in somatic terms in contrast to the emotional sadness or guilt that is commonly expressed.
- "Nerves" and Headaches- Latino and Mediterranean Cultures
- Weakness, Tiredness, or "Imbalance"- Chinese and Asian Cultures
- "Heart" Problems- Middle Eastern Cultures Cross Cultural ISsues
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Spurs really don't like alley-oops
The San Antonio Spurs have never been considered to be an especially flashy team on the court, but new data released by NBA.com shows just how dull their game can be.
According to NBA.com, Gregg Popovich, Tim Duncan & Co. are dead last in the league in alley-oops in the past two regular seasons — with a grand total of five. That puts them 19 alley-oops behind the next-closest team and a whopping 250 behind the "Lob City" Los Angeles Clippers.
What's more? Over the course of the entire 2013 regular season, NBA.com says, Spurs players teamed up for just one — count it, ONE — alley-oop.
It's a little unclear if this particular play is that sole alley-oop in question, but it's about the closest thing we could find to one from the Spurs last regular season. Here, Patty Mills (of Australia) connects with Aron Baynes (of New Zealand) late in a January win over the Charlotte Bobcats. It's as if it was meant to be:
Fortunately for thrill-seeking Spurs fans, San Antonio did get its act together in the playoffs, when it slammed home two alley-oops, both coming against the Lakers in the first round.
But assuming NBA.com's data is correct — and there's no reason to believe it's not — that's a startling absence of alley-oopage from one of the league's best teams.
And yet, the Spurs would probably prefer that we focus on a different stat from the past two regular seasons: San Antonio's 108-40 record during that time is second only to that of the Miami Heat's 112-36. And of course the Heat have won it all the past two years.
Maybe there really is something to that whole "substance over style" idea, after all.
UPDATE: Upon further investigation, it appears the Mills-Baynes alley-oop above may not be the lone instance NBA.com is referring to. In the NBA.com box score for the game, the play is described as an "alley-oop layup."
We're guessing the "official" Spurs alley-oop this season was a Boris-Diaw-to-Tiago-Splitter number in the final minute of a November win over Sacramento. NBA.com referred to that shot as an "alley-oop dunk." If we can find video, we'll pass it along.
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02-12-09, 16:30 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: Go to End of Line in New Record
How would I have the cursor go to the end of a line in a new record of a form?
I have some autotext that comes up (thanks to this forum) but when the new record starts with the text highlighted and if one of the monkeys that I've got typing the works of Shakespeare hits a key when it's hightlighted it'll go away. And I don't want that.
Did that make sense?
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The code Nick gave you the link for will work if this is an off-one problem, but if you have this problem with a more than one field, you might want to set the default behavior for the entire database to go to the end of the data in all fields. Over the years this is what I have found to be the safest strategy.
Goto Tools - Options -Keyboard and set Behavior Entering Field to "Go to end of field." You can either do this to every user's copy of Access, or simply to the copy used by the Shakespearean monkey!
Monkeys appear to be a real problem this week! Another friend just complained to me about having trouble with some "flying monkeys!"Hope this helps!
The problem with making anything foolproof...is that fools are so darn ingenious!
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Train the monkeys better would be my approach.Owner and Manager of
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I'm not sure the monkeys are trainable. Once I show them this easy to use tool, (ook, move cursor, click button) they'll raise hell and say it's too hard.
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Feb 16, 2009 Phil Blackwell Uncategorized
So often in the past, any attack upon the Westhill girls basketball team's place atop the standings was met with a clear and forceful response.
But when the Warriors tried to avenge its Feb. 1 defeat to Cazenovia Friday night and grab a share of the OHSL Liberty division regular-season title, it could not prevent a Laker shooting rampage in the second quarter that led to a 53-34 loss.
A big part of that first game, when a 10-point Westhill lead got away as the Lakers rallied to win 47-42, was the fact that Carly Cooper did not make a single 3-pointer and had just 11 points overall.
The rematch in the tight quarters of Buckley Gym proved more frustrating. Defended hard by Laker guard Kassie Kleine, Cooper had just five points, something that teammates Annie O'Connor (12 points) and Valerie Golembiewski (nine points) could not fully make up for.
But the real damage came in that second period. A barrage of 3-pointers — first by Kiley Evans, then by Kleine — led to a 23-2 blitz that took away any chance Westhill had of winning. Evans finished with 21 points, with Ashley Stec (12 points) offering inside help.
To make sure that the Cazenovia game carried as much weight as possible, the Warriors first had to pass through the fulcrum of Senior Night, where it battled past Homer 61-32.
Despite a 3-15 record, Homer hung close in the first half, with Westhill needing a lot of time to shake off all the pregame festivities and focus on basketball again, especially without O'Connor in the lineup.
Only ahead by seven, 26-19, at the break, the Warriors started to pull away in the second half. Regaining her shooting touch for the moment, Cooper hit four 3-pointers and gained 25 points overall, her highest total in weeks.
Meanwhile, Golembiewski picked this night to set a new career mark with 18 points, as she assumed a larger offensive responsibility in O'Connor's absence. Sam Marshall added nine points.
Even with that defeat at Cazenovia, the Warriors still drew the no. 3 seed for the Section IIII Class B-1 playoffs. If it can get past a tricky quarterfinal with no. 6 seed Marcellus next Tuesday night, Westhill could get one more shot at Cazenovia (who is the no. 2 seed) in the semifinal round.
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South Jersey's Kellyanne Conway heading to the White House
(WTXF/AP) - Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway -- from South Jersey -- is headed to the White House, where she'll serve as counselor to the president.
The announcement was made by the president-elect's transition team early Thursday.
Conway served as Trump's third campaign manager and is widely credited with helping guide him to victory.
She is also a frequent guest on television news programs. She was even spoofed on "Saturday Night Live." A memorable skit about her day off showed her free time interrupted repeatedly by having to go on CNN to explain Trump's latest tweet or statement.
Conway had said previously she planned to move her family to Washington to serve Trump, either inside or outside the administration.
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Conway was raised in Atco and graduated from St. Joseph's High School in Hammonton in 1985. She spent summers working at Indian Brand Blueberry Farms before leaving for college in Washington, D.C.


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About: Royal United Hospital Royal United Hospital Bath BA1 3NG
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What I liked
The theatre staff surgeon and anaesthetist were very kind to me, I had suffered a missed miscarriage and was being operated on for the lost foetus to be removed. It was a very difficult and emotional time and they were very understanding and compassionate.
What could be improved
There were some horrible nursing staff on the ward where I was placed which was a day admission ward with several other patients admitted for a range of other ailments.
They did not respect my confidentiality, talking loudly about miscarriage and support available to me so that the other people on the ward then told me they were sorry for me and wanted to chat to me and give me sympathy when I did not want to talk to anyone and wanted to retain my privacy. The curtains only stop people looking, not hearing...
Also, I had a very upsetting incident in which after having to be called several times before responding, one of the nurses squeezed my drip bag roughly sending a huge amount of fluid into my arm which instantly caused severe pain and bruising to my wrist which took two weeks to heal.
When you are in a vulnerable state these kind of incidents are hard to object to and you are dependent on the nurses while you are incapacitated.
Anything else?
I was too traumatised by the experience to pursue a formal complaint but the treatment I received on the ward and the breach of my confidentiality was very upsetting. I am sure that there are hundreds of fine people who work at this hospital, and the people in the theatre were very very kind but my personal experience with the ward staff was not good.


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