Poinciana Rehabilitation Centre Leverages A Village-like Setting For Behavioral Health Care - HCD Magazine

After 25 years of practicing psychiatry in the Cayman Islands, Dr. Marc Lockhart recognized a critical gap in local mental health care: the lack of an inpatient psychiatric facility. In some cases, patients were kept on a hospital ward, while in acute cases, patients were held in prisons. Those who needed longer-term care were sent to Jamaica. “That was extremely upsetting,” says Lockhart. “We needed our own facility to care for those with mental illness.”
Witnessing psychiatric patients assist...

Dream And Do like a diyer: Kitchen and Bath Updates You Can Make Right Now - Atlanta Home Improvement

Not only will new light fixtures bring new style to a space, the glow they cast also creates fresh ambiance. To update vanity lighting in the bathroom, consider the shape and size of your current baseplate—if you are replacing it with something smaller, you will probably need to paint over the newly exposed area, which could lead to repainting the entire wall or room.
In the kitchen, updating lighting above an island is a project many DIYers can handle. Here too, your current lighting will deter...

Shakespeare Wrote in Iambic Pentameter. But What Is That?

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William Shakespeare was famous for using iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets. The symbols above the words in this graphic are used to denote where the reader denotes stress in a line of a verse. Here the weak stress begins on the word "shall." CSA-Printstock/Getty Images/HowStuffWorks









If you've ever studied Shakespeare, you're probably familiar with — or at least have heard of — iambic pentameter. While iambic pentameter may sound...

Why Is It So Hard for the Innocent to Be Freed From Prison?

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Elvis Brooks, 62, was exonerated with help from the Innocence Project New Orleans after being wrongfully incarcerated for nearly 40 years for a murder and armed robbery he didn't commit. William Widmer for The Washington Post via Getty Images









In the United States, a person accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty. This is one of the guiding legal principles of the U.S. criminal justice system. The flip side of the presumption...

Bountiful Bologna | Kitchen & Bath Business

Cersaie 2016, the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings, recently welcomed a record-breaking 106,599 visitors during five design-filled days in Bologna, Italy. Within six exhibition sectors covering an exhibition floor of 156,000 square meters, Cersaie hosted 852 exhibitors from 43 countries, including 335 non-Italian exhibitor companies. Attendees – for the first time more than 50,000 of them international visitors – included architects, interior designers, tile prof...

Landmark TWA Flight Center Now Stuns as Hotel

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The iconic Sunken Lounge at the TWA Hotel boasts a split flap departures board by Solari di Udine and a view of the hotel's restored 1958 Lockheed Constellation "Connie." TWA Hotel/David Mitchell









In the days before TSA, full-body scanners and packed airplanes, flying the friendly skies was exciting and sophisticated. Take for example the Trans World Airlines (TWA's) terminal at New York International Airport. In 1956, Finnish-American ar...

London Bridge Has Never Fallen Down, But It Keeps Getting Rebuilt

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The London Bridge as we know it today spans the River Thames connecting two vibrant neighborhoods, the City of London and Southwark. TangMan Photography/Getty Images









Crossing the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, the London Bridge in some form has welcomed travelers for two millennia. Yet, despite its longevity and fame — it even has its own nursery rhyme — what people think of as the London Bridge is often not the...

Blocky and Raw: Is Brutalism Architecture Making a Comeback?

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Unité d'Habitation in Marseille is arguably the most influential Brutalist building of all time. It's also one of 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to be added to UNESCO's list of internationally significant architecture sites. Flickr/Denis Esakov/(CC 3.0)









Strike up a conversation about the world's most beautiful buildings, and it might be a while before anyone mentions an example of Brutalist architecture. There...

How Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe Became a Symbol of Paris

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The Arc de Triomphe shines during the Christmas season on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France. Edward Berthelot/Getty Images









As far as iconic Paris landmarks go, it's a toss-up between the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. If the Eiffel Tower boasts more T-shirts and wall art bearing its image, the Arc de Triomphe has given us some great film scenes with cars circling (and circling) it. That's because it's located within a circul...