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"We'll figure this out together." (Flicker et al's arrival preceded by a run in with ICE.)
<PRV> Tessier Residence - Greenwich Village
Understated opulence claims this spacious and well-kept townhome, the decor throughout the whole of it of the highest quality and carefully chosen. The front door opens onto the entrance hall, a closet close at hand to receive coats and shoes -- the pale hardwood floors gleam underfoot, unsullied by tracked-in mess from outside. The living room beyond the entrance is all dark woods and pale earth tones, comfortable couches and armchairs and a thick soft rug laid down beneath. Two large and painstakingly aquascaped aquariums flank the entrance to the dining room, with several brightly coloured species of fish within. Most of the rest of the wall space, notably, is taken up with shelves -- shelves crammed with books of every subject and genre.
A study branching off of the main hall is cozy, small, done in pale blues and lined with books as well around the large computer desk and smaller futon, though these rarer books are cased behind glass. Another securely locked door leads to the basement, and another to the full bathroom downstairs. The kitchen connects to the living room; in contrast, it is sleek and modern and well-appointed, stocked by someone who takes their cooking seriously. And takes their alcohol equally seriously -- to one side of the kitchen there is a fully-stocked bar. The back door to the kitchen looks out on a small well-kept garden.
The table has been set with a feast -- most assuredly not of Rasheed's making, thankfully for all concerned. His only part in this has been ordering it from Meskerem and bringing the containers full of chicken tibs, yebeg wat, miser alech, mild sauteed mushrooms, white beans with awaze, injeera, over to the Tessiers' home. The food laid out, he's gone to retrieve dishes as well -- waylaid in this task by the eagerly frisking pup who seems determined to press fur into his slightly rumpled grey slacks. "You probably shouldn't be having this," he tells Flèche -- not particularly firmly, with a thoughtful eye cast toward the food that's already been set out. His dark eyes skip to his host for confirmation, brows lifting: "-- She probably shouldn't be having this, right?"
His host has been staring into the refrigerator for far too long, and turns with a small start at the question. Matt looks just a bit pale and just a bit droopy, though still reasonably put together in a leaf green button-down and--nice! properly fitted!--medium wash blue jeans, the effect somewhat ruined by fluffy pink house slippers. "Oh, she can have a little chicken or injeera, as a treat," he replies, the corner of his mouth tugging up. "In her bowl, though, so as not to encourage begging, which she will do nevertheless." He finally pulls out a bottle of ginger ale and an elderflower pressé, holding up the latter for Rasheed's inspection with uplifted eyebrows. "We've also got--more ginger ale. Or I can make some tea, of course..." His eyes are already tracking to the cabinet containing the tea things.
"Just water will be fine for me -- thank you." Rasheed sets the dishes on the table. Carefully tears off a small corner of injeera, scoops a piece of chicken out of its dish, and goes to set it into Flèche's waiting bowl. He washes his hands again after, though they haven't actually come in contact with the dog. "Begging or no, she's far better mannered than many pups I meet." He's studying Matt thoughtfully as he dries his hands, "It hasn't even been a week yet now, mmm?"
Matt returns the pressé to the refrigerator and fills a glass of water instead, smiling indulgently at Flèche's eagerness--shifting her weight from one foot to another where she sits by the bowl. The food had barely hit the bottom of her bowl before she darts in after it, swallowing the whole in one bite. Then she sits back down, expectant. "That's thanks to Luci's training--and rather in spite of mine," he admits, handing Rasheed the glass. "Not yet. I'll be done with the first course tomorrow." He returns to the dining room and slumps down into his seat, staring down the spread of food ruefully. "It's just R-DHAP. Been there and done that."
Alas for Flèche, but no more food is forthcoming from Rasheed. He takes the water glass with a nod of thanks, sitting down at the table opposite Matt. "If only that made it go easier." He rubs his palm against his chin with a quiet rasp of skin on stubble, head shaking as he slouches down into the chair. "Look, I -- know that this might be forward, but. The next few months are going to be rough enough already without worrying about --" He pauses, frowns, drops his hand to his lap. Lifts it back to his chin. "-- Maybe I should be talking to Lucien about this," kind of half-muttered into his palm.
"If only!" Matt's smile is sincere. "Thank you for all this, though--I don't just mean the food, although I do actually appreciate that." He takes a sip of his ginger ale, green eyes keen despite his evident weariness. "Luci's got a lot on his plate--not all of it cancer-related, but...well, you know he handles a lot of that, also. I'd rather not add any more if I can avoid it." He quirks a small not-quite-smile. "Of course, now that I've said all that, I'll probably end up foisting it off on him after all."
"I just -- get the impression he tends to handle more of the." Rasheed's brows furrow. "Financials around here. I -- know this treatment is going to be difficult in a lot of ways. I'd rather you not have to be worrying about that aspect of it on top of everything else. There's little enough I can do here but -- the cost of this. I could help."
"He does," Matt agrees, bowing his head slightly. "Goodness, but we would be in serious trouble if I did that." But here his eyes go just a touch wide. "Oh!" I--" His hand lifts to cover his mouth, and he struggles for a moment before finding his voice again. "That would be--an immense help to us. Not that I'm not upset about the cancer and the treatment and--all of it, but I admit I've dreaded burdening my family so terribly. Yet again." He's gone quieter, but his "thank you" is still clearly audible.
"There's a lot to be upset about." Rasheed drops his hand to the table, knuckles curling in against it. "At least it will be one less plate to juggle. Ah --" He furrows his brows, crooks a half-smile up at Matt. "-- really, though, should I talk to Lucien about the practical side of it?"
"It's--not a small plate. It's a whole damned china cabinet." Matt lowers his hand to the table, as well. At the question he guffaws, slapping his hand to his mouth again. "Oh dear! I suppose--yes, actually. I called it, and you called it before that." He takes up his soda for another sip, but stops mid-motion. "I'm still working myself up to eating, but please--" His words cut off suddenly and he tilts his head, looking up. "Flicker?" he murmurs, the note of alarm deeply buried but still discernible as he digs his phone out of his pocket to check its notifications.
There are no notifications from Flicker on Matt's phone. There is, however, an extremely rapidly incoming strobe-flash of power that doesn't stop -- just drops straight into the kitchen. Flicker has more than his arms' worth of men in tow -- he looks, at least, fairly apologetic as he lets go of Steve and Leo. He winces, rolling his shoulder stiffly before straightening the cuffs of his button-down shirt. "I'm so sorry. This just -- was the first place I thought to go."
Steve had his eyes screwed shut and his arm wound probably too tight around Flicker's shoulder. When he lets go of the smaller man he only sways very slightly, blinking as he looks around. "Thank you," he tells Flicker as he unzips his jacket. "Ah...hello," he adds, waving at Matt and his guest, a little awkwardly. Then, to Leo, "Hey, are you alright?"
Rasheed's eyes have widened, at the sudden intrusion. His fingers curl harder against the table, his eyes locking -- briefly -- on Leo. Then looking to Flicker. Then Steve. Slowly, he reaches for his glass, taking a long sip of water.
Leo is looking more than a little peaked, his skin kind of clammy and his eyes still wide-wide-wide. Undetectable (as yet) to any of the others, Matt's senses can no doubt pick up a chaotic tumult of activity from inside him, something churning and then oozing off of him in waves. He wobbles where he stands, when Flicker sets him down. Looks around the kitchen with a slightly desperate air. Stumbles over to the sink, hands clamping to the counter as he leans over and promptly disgorges the contents of his stomach into it. Shudders, retches again. Runs the water, his hand trembling as he rinses out first the sink and then his mouth. "I'm sorry," he says, low and hoarse, "I just -- I'm --" He stops, straightens. Stares at Rasheed -- then Flicker, helplessly. "Sorry -- who is that -- I should go. I didn't mean to -- cause trouble."
As Flicker comes down through the house, Matt casually reaches down and hooks his fingers around Flèche's collar. Predictably, she's flies into an excited frenzy at the new arrivals, paws scrabbling at the floor. "{Lie down,}" he tells the dog softly in French, "{stay.}" She reluctantly flops down, though her head is still held high and ears--even the usually floppy one!--pricked up toward the unexpect guests. Louder, and in English now, "It's raining men, hallelujah." Matt levers himself up out of his seat, wincing with obvious sympathy as Leo retches. "Rasheed is trustworthy," he says soothingly once Leo has somewhat recovered, "and a good friend. He's helped a lot of us coming out of the labs, though I suppose you've not met. Rasheed, meet Steve and Leo; Steve and Leo, Rasheed." He starts pulling teapots and cups from the cabinet. "Anyway, I appreciate Flicker's generosity in sharing this bounty, and I'm glad to help any way I can. Including...whatever that is, if you don't mean to be doing it." He waves one hand vaguely around Leo's person. "How about I make some tea and you tell us what happened, hm?"
"Please, stay. That's just Dr. Toure, he's a friend." Flicker is slumping back against the door now that he has rid himself of his passengers, only belatedly thinking to crouch down so that he can untie his shoes. "I'm sure Leo could tell you best what's happened. I just got an SOS from Steve and --" He shakes his head, lining his shoes up neatly by the back door before standing again.
Steve hands Leo a tissue and then follows Flicker's example, struggling out of his boots without unlacing them altogether. "Nice to meet you -- Dr. Toure." He offers Rasheed a friendly nod. "Sorry for interrupting your meal. And -- yours, I presume." The addition is to Flicker, with a more sheepish smile. Then he wrinkles his brows as he watches Matt prep the tea things. "I can take care of the tea, if you want to sit down with Leo...?"
Rasheed stands, too, crossing to get extra plates to lay out on the table. "I went a little overboard with the food anyway. There's more than we were going to finish, if anyone --" His lips press together for a moment. "Has an appetite." There's only a faint wrinkle between his brows as he looks to Matt, then Leo. Opens his mouth -- closes it again, instead getting napkins to fold neatly beside the plates.
Leo accepts the tissue, crumpling it into his palm. Uncrumpling it, wringing at it -- by the time he actually looks down and recognizes the item in his hand it's gotten a bit shredded, but still perfectly serviceable for dabbing at his damp mouth. The miasma rolling off of him hasn't ceased, though it's a little less tumultuous, settling into a slow continual seep. "Sorry," he whispers again, starting toward the table. Catching himself, turning back toward the door, stepping on the heel of one boot to start to slip it off -- ultimately just slumping back against the counter. "I'm sorry. I don't want to make trouble. I -- I was just heading home from work. There were some people --" He hesitates, wringing at the tissue again and staring down at his hands. "Um -- from ICE. Waiting. I panicked. He --" He gestures jerkily toward Steve. "I was just lucky he was there."
"Thank you, dear, but I'm not quite that feeble," Matt tells Steve. "At least, not yet." He measures out some tightly bunched jin xuan tea leaves and puts the kettle on before leaning back against the counter. "I'm terribly sorry that happened to you, and it doesn't sound to me like you were making any trouble whatsoever--only it came looking for you all the same. You are safe here for now--they cannot have followed, the way Flicker brought you--and we'll help you figure out what to do next. We've a spare room upstairs, my brother has some experience wrestling with immigration, and the team has got many other resources besides." He glances back at Flèche, who is still beginning to emite soft, mournful whines beneath her breath. "You like dogs, no? Would you mind if I let her come in here? She's a darling, but very excitable."
"I was kind of hoping Luci might be able to help. He's good at navigating --" Flicker's mechanical hand waves toward Leo. "Oh -- oh gosh yes, I was having dinner, I should --" He frowns, pulls his phone out of his pocket. "I'm glad you were there. I'm glad you interrupted my dinner. We tell everyone after we get them out of that place -- and we mean it. We don't want to let you just fall through the cracks again, okay?
Steve shakes his head, disgusted. "I've read and heard ICE is thuggish even by cop standards, but I'd never see it myself. It's a disgrace." He grits his teeth. Looks over at Leo. "I wasn't going to let them take you, no matter what, but sorry it was such a sloppy rescue. I didn't expect you to take off, so I improvised." He frowns. "I hope it doesn't make more trouble for you, down the line."
"I -- have no idea if I can be of any use here," Rasheed interjects, a touch apologetically, "but money can open more than a few doors. If there's anything I can do to help --" He's taking his seat again, though. Slowly scooping some lentils and mushrooms onto a plate.
Leo is still wringing at the (kind of hopelessly mangled) tissue in his hands. His nodding is kind of numb, kind of automatic, but he looks up with a faint sliver of smile at Matt's question. "I love dogs." His eyes drop again after this. "I just don't know what to do. The last time ICE took me I never saw a lawyer or my family again and I ended up -- well." His fingers curl harder into the shredded scraps of kleenex. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to panic. I just. Can't do that -- can't do that again." He shudders, shoulders curling inward. "Spare room? No -- no I couldn't possibly -- impose, I. Shouldn't even be here. I'll just. I'm sorry. I'll go."
Matt fills the teapot while the other men speak, nodding to indicate he's still listening. He mirrors Leo's smile with a slightly brighter one of his own. "D'accord, Flèche! Viens ici." He's hardly finished the first word than the dog comes barrelling into the kitchen. She does go to Matt first, but after mashing her face into his leg bounces over to try and greet Steve, Flicker, and Leo all at once, her tail thrashing wildly all the while. To Rasheed his smile is gentler, "I'm sure that it will help, and Luci can tell you better how." His gaze settles on Leo again. "You don't have to stay here, but we've plenty of room, and I really do think it would be best, at least for tonight. That, or let Flicker take you to someone you'd feel more comfortable crashing with for a couple of days. Once you've caught your breath and had a bite to eat, you can make a list of things you'd like from your place and someone will go fetch them."
Flicker is frowning at his phone, a little distracted as he reads his texts. "Can probably just trust me on this one," there's an odd sort of casual to his voice with this, "everyone involved will find it a lot less of a fuss to work with you to help you plan next steps than to have to plan your rescue because the labs scooped you back up while you were trying to take care of things on your own. -- Dusk thinks," this is a little more solemn, "that they've been watching you a while now. Not ICE, I mean. Prometheus. If they came for you tonight -- well. We should maybe think about a more immediate safety plan while you're working on sorting out paperwork."
Steve stares at Leo. Scrubs one hand over his face. "That's horrible and -- well, I wouldn't blame you for panicking even without that kind of experience, honestly. You're just going about your evening and suddenly men with guns come to carry you away?" His head gives a short, sharp shake. Drops one hand to kind of pet the dog in passing as she wriggles her way around the kitchen. "That's not something anyone should have to deal with." He's quiet a moment. Studies Matt's slightly droopy posture. "Look, Leo...you don't know me from Adam, but the Tessiers -- they did as much if not more for me, and my need wasn't even as dire as yours, it sounds like. It's alright to let folks help sometimes -- friends no less than strangers."
"I'm so sorry for what you've been through." Rasheed tears off a small piece of injeera, swiping it a little aimlessly through his lentils. "I'll -- add it to the list of things to talk to Lucien about. Is --" He hesitates. Frowns down at his plate. "It normal for them to -- take. A -- a vested interest like that? I had gotten the impression that most of you they more or less. Leave alone."
Leo opens his mouth -- but closes it again without protest. He kneels, instead, scrunching his fingers into Flèche's fur. Then tipping his head forward, resting his forehead against her neck. The unsettled churning within him had just begun to roil again -- but settles, somewhat, as he mashes his face up against the dog. There's still a slow and continuous secretion of something, quieter and steadier. He ruffles at the dog's neck, breathing in deep. "There was a drone -- or two -- but I thought." He shakes his head. His shoulders sag. "I don't know what I thought. I -- if they want me. Specifically. I think it's -- I think. I'm just. Dangerous."
Matt bumps his shoulder lightly against Flicker's, but doesn't otherwise comment on the source of this particular wisdom on his part. "There are safer places than here, of course. I think it'll serve for the moment, but if they are proactively not just opportunistically trying to get you back, we may need to figure out more than just your immigration status. As for being dangerous, well..." He glances at the clock and decants the tea, setting each cup along the counter for anyone who wants them and taking the last for himself. The delicate sweet fragrance of the oolong mingles with the sharp tang of spices. "Many of us are, and I think it is only one of many factors in their considerations about how hard to go after anyone. We should probably talk about that." His eyes skip to Steve and Rasheed briefly. "But it doesn't have to be right now." He starts gently ushering his drop-ins toward the food. "Come, you can sit and eat with us if you like, or rest a while upstairs if you'd rather be alone."
"A lot of people are dangerous. Most of them not mutants. Dangerous isn't why they lock people in cages, though." Flicker doesn't take a lot of ushering, flitting over to the table to start getting himself a plate of food. "You have friends, Leo. We'll figure this out together."


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Do Patients with Atopic Dermatitis Have Increased Skin Absorption With Topical Medications?
Atopic dermatitis is known to cause abnormalities in the way skin absorbs outside elements. What is interesting is that this impaired skin barrier occurs in both lesional and nonlesional skin. This raises potential risks to chemical emollients, and may lead to an elevated risk for developing skin reactions to penetrating chemicals, and increased risk of systemic chemical exposure.
In past studies a higher risk of allergic contact dermatitis to topical corticosteroids (TCSs), preservatives, surfactants and metals has been observed in patients with AD. A recent systematic review of studies evaluated skin absorption of molecules in patients with AD and sought to increase understanding of this understudied area of dermatology. The review included 40 articles where a direct measure of skin absorption was provided and where measurements had been conducted in AD skin or animal skin that had been induced to develop AD-like skin disease. Then the authors identified the molecular weight (MW) and octanol–water partition coefficient (log Kow) of skin penetrants identified in the articles by searching the chemical databases of PubChem25 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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The authors conclude that there is a need for additional epidemiological studies that examine the possible burden of these chemicals. However, based on their review they state that clinicians should be mindful and minimize their use of products that contain potent contact allergens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals in their patients with AD.
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Posted: August 21, 2017
Source: Wiley Online Library
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Dr. Felix Anyah, Executive Chairman of the Holy Trinity Spa and Medical Centre, was last Saturday awarded the Best Spa and Health Services Provider for 2014 at a Made-in-Ghana awards programme held at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra.
He was among 31 recipients of awards of excellence in various categories which came with plaques and citations.
The annual programme is organized by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana under the auspices of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning under the theme, 'Nationalism: The Key to Social and Economic Development."
The programme was graced by many personalities, some of them business executives and diplomats in the country.
The event was instituted to encourage local production of goods and services – the latter of which Dr. Anyah stood apart from the pack, his Spa and Medical Centre having continued to appeal to more and more patrons.
Dr. Felix Anyah established the Holy Trinity Spa and Farm and Medical Centre over a decade ago with five members of staff. Today it can boast of over a 100 employees who cater for the health needs of both Ghanaians and other nationals.
The facilities – Health Centre, the Spa, Resort and Golf Course – are located in Accra and Sogakope in the Volta Region.
Speaking to the Daily Guide shortly after receiving the award, the Executive Chairman full of joy, said the latest award brings to 24 such honours since the inception of his Medical Centre.
He explained that the centre employs an integrated healthcare service which is based on a three-pronged approach of orthodox, complementary and alternative methods.
Dr Anyah further explained that staff development initiatives had been his greatest preoccupation to help him achieve the enviable service his facilities give to clients to ensure sound state of wellness.
Speaking on the criteria for the award, Sam Ato Gaisie, founder of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana, said it is based on product, service quality, delivery, competitiveness and innovation.
He was happy that the awards would provide the ultimate platform for raising Made-in-Ghana product awareness and loyalty.
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I am finally ready to post my second post about the Holiday Harvest collection by Painted Polish. These were actually released earlier than the four shades I showed you in my previous post. It's kind of confusing when I put it that way but the main thing is that all these polishes from the collection are so pretty and festive that I can continue admiring them in any order 🙂
Rakes & Raincoats
I was really excited about this blue. I mean, it's blue, I'm always excited about a blue polish 🙂 I needed two coats for full coverage with a thicker second coat. Somehow I thought this would be extremely pigmented but it turned out more airy and that allows the sparkle to go crazy. It also needs a thicker topcoat to be glossy and smooth because of those glitters.
Slippers & Sweaters
Let me just say that I find this shade of purple extremely cozy somehow 🙂 It's an awesome grape jelly with lots of sparkle. It's more saturated than the previous one so I did two thin coats this time.
Woodsy & Wondrous
This is Christmas in a bottle — seriously, just look at it! If I took out my contact lenses and look at my Christmas tree, I would mistake it for this polish. Beautiful! This one is very saturated and it can cover in one thicker coat. I love green shades and I certainly love this one!
Pies & Patches
I was thinking of it only as an autumnal shade before I actually tried it. It looks amazing during winter holidays too! It makes me think of enjoying a nice evening at a ski lodge with a cup of hot pear cider after spending the day snowboarding. Maybe it's just my holiday plans talking but now this shade is definitely going with me 🙂
At first I thought I would definitely go for the green one as my favourite but now I'm torn between that and the orange beauty. They are both too gorgeous and I'm still a Libra and that's make it impossible to pick a favourite 🙂 Maybe I should just paint my left hand green, my right hand orange and be happy?
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Blog Archives
Chant what is LITTER'ALLY thrown at you
Is it ok if I choose to chant TOGETHER DIVINE or other switch words or mantra, or is it required I chant any word that crosses my path thrown at me.
Chant any word that crosses my path and thrown at me.
I have been doing this on 2/3 words last week and finding a lot of clarity emerging!! It is amazing!!
And more funnily it reminded me of something similar I used to do when I was a student/teen that I had completely forgotten. I wondered when and why I stopped it and am now thinking about how to revive it.
Thank you for your guidance and wisdom.
Let me tell you a story about Swami Ram Das.
As a person who has given up worldly life, he is supposed to beg for food.
One day, while he was standing in front of a door waiting for somebody to give food, an angry lady threw a dirty cloth at him.
He accepted it gracefully, went home and washed it clean.
Then he tore the clothes and made them as threads to burn a lamp.
Keeping the lady in mind, he then prayed, "Oh Lord, I saw the unhappiness in lady's angry face. I saw her poverty as she could give me only a dirty cloth. Please alleviate her unhappiness and poverty and make her prosperous".
What a positive frame of mind the Sage Ram Das had!!!
Like him, whatever is thrown at us, should be used to convert the darkness in our heart with light and love.
Eye Care Mantras
My Father has lost vision in one eye and other eye has been operated for glaucoma 5 times. Still the vision is bleak and he can barely see on from 1 feet distance.
Please guide from all angles like switch words, animal spirit guides, Mantra and how to use them effectively so that his normal vision is restored.
Ask your father to do eye exercise given in some yoga centres.
Ask him to chant "LALITHAM LAMBODHARAM LALITHAM BASKARAM LALITHAM BALACHANDRAM" daily as many times as possible.
Mahesh (after three months)
Thanks for the mantra. My father's eyesight is showing some improvement though little.
Should he take some Bach flower remedies (like say Mustard etc) as well for speedy recovery?
He can take EYE TONE pills available with the centre, which can make some more improvement. It is a combination of flower and gem remedies.
Mantras for Bliss
When you are criticized and blamed
To protect ourselves from others' anger and criticism and to ignore others' criticism chant the mantra "OM JOOM SAHA SAHA JOOM OM". Instead of reacting with anger, chant the mantra, which protects you against evil eye too.
Avoid accidents in your life
OM PADMA NANDESHWARA HOOM, if you chant this mantra 20000 times, no accident will happen. This mantra is also for wealth building and not for wealth earning. However, if you chant 200,000 Lakh times you will amass enormous wealth. When you have debts, chant this mantra.
Kadgam Saranam
Chanting KADGAM SARANAM will bring your anger down.
Overcome animalist tendencies
PASUPATHIM MAHADEVAM: to overcome animalist tendencies, this mantra will help.
Uncontrollable anger
OM HREEM TAHA: will put off the anger fire. Very effective for controlling one's unnecessary and misplaced anger.
Reducing your weight
"OM HOWM VUM JOOM SAHA" mantra will reduce the weight. So it can be your life mantra J Stop all your dieting procedures. You need to accept your body. Love the body god has given to you. What happens inside us happens outside – our body. So heal yourself first.
Gain youthfulness
SAHN SAHN JOE LEU BAW YOW WU – the Chinese mantra is very effective for anything related with common cold. More and more you chant and faster you chant it is very effective. Pull the wedges between fingers in both the hands, while you chant the mantra. Then all the internal organs are massaged and youthfulness is bought back.


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Arris Laying Off 10% Worldwide
Arris confirmed that it plans to reduce its workforce by about 10% worldwide, or more than 800 employees, a cut-back that comes about seven weeks after Arris completed its $2.1 billion merger with U.K.-based set-top and access network equipment maker Pace Plc.
"We are looking across the entire scope of the ARRIS enterprise to identify areas where we can find cost savings, eliminate redundancies, and increase shareholder value," an Arris official said, in a statement to Multichannel News. "With this in mind, we have a headcount reduction goal of about 10 percent worldwide. We understand how hard these changes will be for the employees concerned and are committed to helping them through this difficult transition."
According to one source, Arris operations in areas such as Horsham, Pa., along with Suwanee, Ga.; and former Pace operations in Boca Raton, Fla., as well as some former 2Wire locations (Pace acquired 2Wire in 2010) were included in this reduction, while another said that Arris' sales organization was among the groups affected.
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(For a live blog on European stocks, type LIVE/ in an Eikon news window)
* BlackRock injects $18 bln into European firms during pandemic
* Sensirion jumps on COVID-19 demand spike for ventilator sensors
* Travel and leisure, basic materials among biggest decliners (Adds comments, updates prices to close)
June 15 (Reuters) - European shares closed lower on Monday on concerns of a second wave of coronavirus infections after Beijing reported a record number of new cases.
The pan-European STOXX 600 fell 0.3%, slipping further from its 5.7% fall last week but losses moderated towards the close, with analysts pointing to investors booking some profits after a recent rally.
"The sharp decline in equities on Monday would suggest that investors are fearful of similar outbreaks around the world as countries start to ease lockdown restrictions," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.
Major European indexes had touched three-month highs earlier in the month after monetary support from the European Central Bank and optimism over the gradual reopening of economies from coronavirus-led lockdown.
Global stock markets also began the week on downbeat note as the outbreak in Beijing, which has been traced to a wholesale food market, revived fears of the economic damage from the health crisis.
"It has served as a reminder that the optimism driving markets in recent weeks can very quickly dissipate if hopes for a V-shaped recovery are overridden by fears of a second lockdown," said Marco Stoeckle, head of corporate credit research at Commerzbank.
Reuters reported BlackRock has pumped about 16 billion euros ($18 billion) into 810 European companies since the end of January, more than half of them in distress due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Miners as well as travel and leisure stocks were among the worst performers of the day.
BP fell 2.2% as it said it would incur an up to $17.5 billion writedown in the value of its assets after lowering its long-term oil and gas price outlook in expectation of an accelerated transition away from fossil fuels.
Swiss sensor maker Sensirion jumped 22.7% after lifting its 2020 outlook as sales of gas sensors for medical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients surged.
H&M reported a sharp but slightly smaller-than-expected drop in second-quarter sales as measures to slow the COVID-19 pandemic hit retailers. Shares of the world's second-biggest fashion retailer edged 0.4% higher.
Meanwhile, European countries eased some border controls on Monday after coronavirus lockdowns, although Spain kept its borders shut. (Reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Jane Merriman)
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Jakarta-based creative agency Flock has established three other subsidiaries in a bid to build a seamless branding experience for clients. This comes as the agency celebrates its first year anniversary.
The subsiadiaries includes Maleo, Flock's digital and social media agency, Kokako, its content and in-house production house, while OU Design is Flock's branding agency. Meanwhile, Flock is the creative agency and holding company that presides over them.
According to Ivan Hady Wibowo (pictured), CEO and creative chairman of Flock, growth of all four entities has been fast. In less than a year, the agency grew from a four-person crew into a 42-member, diverse team. He added that Flock is aggressively recruiting to keep up with market expansion. Prior to starting the agency, Wibowo was chief creative officer at JWT Indonesia for over seven years.
The agency currently serves a portfolio of 16 clients, the biggest being Tokopedia and Djarum, which account for almost 40% of its revenue last year. Both Tokopedia and Djarum appointed Flock as its agency in July 2016.
Earlier this year, the agency helped launch Tokopedia's new brand campaign, titled "Everything Starts from Tokopedia". Meanwhile, Djarum handed Flock duties for its biggest brand Djarum Super, following the agency's work with Djarum Black.
The agency also helped Astra Life, a joint-venture between PT Astra International and UK-based insurer Aviva. According to the statement, the agency was chosen for its ability to design an end-to-end solution for Astra Life's branding needs in the country.
"There has been a big surge in demand for digital content. Brands are looking to create the most engaging content, and many are struggling to manage and navigate this path because most content creation platform work is project-based," Wibowo said.


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The Second Right Answer
September 21, 2019
September 21, 2019
September 15, 2019
I had the opportunity to speak at the Customer Service Revolution Conference held in Cleveland this week, put on by the DiJulius Group. Over 700 people from companies throughout the United States and Canada were there to learn how they can deliver the best customer service possible. In preparing for my program, I dove deep into my books, articles and notes on everything I had written and read about customer service. I thought it might be helpful if I shared a few of the things I found.
September 8, 2019
A "Standardized Test" can measure your mastery of writing, language, and math … but it should never be used to define a person and their TRUE POTENTIAL TO SUCCEED. Our success has a great deal to do with our level of SKILL, but not everything. I know a lot of talented, smart, well-educated people who have, in no way, come close to reaching their full potential.
September 29, 2018
I try and look on advice this way; why experience the pain or frustration of doing something wrong, when someone can "ADVISE" me as to the best, quickest, and easiest way to do it. I am all for taking advantage of those who have done it before and I am happy to "go to school" on what they have learned. Following good advice is a great way to shorten your learning curve. It should also be noted: the best advice usually comes from those who have been through the most.
September 22, 2018
It took me years to learn: Sometimes the first to apologize wins. Conflict resolved. Tension removed. You feel better. Life goes on. The definition of an APOLOGY is: an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret and should not reference mitigating or extenuating circumstances. If you reference those mitigating or extenuating circumstances, you just flipped from an APOLOGY to giving an EXCUSE. And, as Benjamin Franklin said: "Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
September 9, 2018
Peter Drucker, the famous business guru, has written over 10,000 pages on the subject of Management; that equates to 39 books translated in 36 languages. He is best described as the FOUNDER of Modern Management. In his book, The Practice of Management, he stated, "there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence; he alone (the customer) gives employment."


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The Diamond measures 6mm x 5.5mm, the total weight is 1.5 grams, is in size P. 1/2, USA SIZE 8 and is offered in good condition. All our Diamonds we sell are natural /earth mined Diamonds.All our jewellery is vintage/ antiq. Ue and may require a clean. Items do not come boxed, unless otherwise stated in description. Check out my other items! WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE A FANTASTIC AMOUNT OF CUSTOMERS WHICH HAVE TAKEN MANY YEARS TO ACHIEVE. YOUR CUSTOM IS MUCH APPRECIATED AND RECENTLY OUR SON HAS STARTED OUT IN THE BUSINESS AND AT THE MOMENT IS FOCUSING ON COSTUME JEWELLERY. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AND FOLLOW HIS SITE AT oddsandends10, it would be much appreciated.
For totals over that amount we look to separate items where practically possible. The item "14ct/14k gold 65 point old cut Diamond solitaire antique ring, 585" is in sale since Thursday, May 10, 2018. This item is in the category "Jewellery & Watches\Vintage & Antique Jewellery\Vintage Fine Jewellery\Other Vintage Fine". The seller is "clares1225" and is located in Brighton. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.


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Blockchain for cars and spacecraft, Spotcoin in Ukraine. The road ahead for Ukrainian IT
Written by: Sergiy Vakarin, UkraineIS Chairman
Photos: Vitaly Mamchyn
In March I participated in MobiCoin launch at the MWC, met with NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and ICO-ready Spotcoin founders in Ukraine and discussed blockchain, spaceborne computers and our cybersecurity apps
Cryptocurrencies and cars
CEE region is known for most advanced blockchain solutions. The Blockchain Research Institute recently released "The Networked Hotbeds of Blockchain," and its famous CEO Dan Tapscott published the map of the key 14 hubs for blockchain innovation in the world, including Ukraine, Estonia and Georgia. And a year ago Czech Republic became the world pioneer in allowing a cryptocurrency in car sales when Tesla retailer Alza announced they would accept bitcoin.
Their success inspired Mayfair dealer Dadiani Fine Art to start UK's "first luxury cryptocurrency exchange" that offers Formula One cars in partnership with Heritage F1. The company accepts bitcoin and selected altcoins. Four rare F1 cars were already sold for about £4 million in litecoin to a Chinese millionaire.
Last month Daimler AG showed that car manufacturers can launch their own cryptocurrencies. Daimler, the giant that manufactures Mercedes-Benz presented the MobiCOIN project at the Mobile World Congress 2018. This new coin will be used to reward drivers for driving safely and smoothly at low speed.
This was not the only cryptocurrency launched at the MWC. Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced its own Rakuten Coin. The new cryptocurrency will allow loyal customers to buy goods and services from Rakuten globally, mitigating the exchange rate fees and helping the Amazon's rival to spread its business worldwide.
Read more: NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik: Ukraine should continue space program
Soon after the MWC, Huawei announced development of blockchain-based smartphones.
Spotcoin presentation in Ukraine
Cryptocurrency transactions, especially expensive car purchases, require reliable protection of digital identities. Upon return from the MWC to Ukraine, I discussed this issue with the founders of Spotcoin Tim Gick and Guram Rukhadze who came to Kyiv to present this new Georgia-based cryptocurrency.
Spotcoin is designed to bridge the gap between the traditional banking sector and digital currency marketplace. The company started as an OTC clearinghouse for easy movement between fiat and cryptocurrencies.
If you have a large amount of cryptocurrency, you may find it difficult to sell it. Spotcoin is intended as a stock market for fast purchases/sales of cryptocurrencies.
Spotcoin is running an ICO later this year. The founders market it as kind of an eBay for digital currencies.
Cooperation between two hubs of blockchain innovation, Ukraine and Georgia, would bring synergy to both countries. We agreed that Ukraine's worldwide reputation as a reliable software hub will continue to grow. To build a reliable platform for digital currencies, good software support is essential, and Ukraine comes as a natural choice for Spotcoin's office that will develop software for this cryptocurrency.
Blockchain starts a space journey
Software plays an important role in space industry, and Ukrainian programmers are involved in international cooperation with global space giants – for example, they develop apps for NASA and write code for SpaceX launches. Now organizations like NASA and ESA explore possible uses of blockchain technology in space projects.
NASA is teaming up with different companies to develop autonomous computing projects in space. Blockchain is one of potential solutions. At NASA Glenn, Thomas Kacpura's team is experimenting with blockchain-based decentralized machine learning and artificial intelligence to design smart spacecraft with autonomous decision-making, without having to ask people back on earth. Blockchain is intended to link the deep space network.
Read more: Fintech, blockchain and digital security at MWC & 4YFN
Autonomous work of spaceborne computers is essential for the future interplanetary trips. These computers should be capable to make decisions on data priority in communication with Earth, as bandwidth and connection reliability will be a bottleneck. At the MWC I visited the HPE pavilion with supercomputers (known as Spaceborne computers) that are undergoing testing at the International Space Station. Also, I met with Vodafone&Nokia's Mission to the Moon project that will launch a 4G network in space, and presented our cybersecurity solutions.
This was also a topic of my discussion with Randy Bresnik, the astronaut who took the Ukrainian flag to the ISS and brought it back to Ukraine. The Spaceborne Computer experiment was launched last year, soon after he took the command of the ISS.
Cybersecurity is crucial for space projects, digital identities of car owners and for platforms like Spotcoin. In many of these projects, Ukrainian software will be the central element. GU


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I've grown to love long car/bus/train rides because I can stare out the window and think. reflect. dream. decide. understand. and relax to music.
Photo courtesy of National Geographic Photo of the Day
P.S. There's an application that allows your computer desktop to change daily to the National Geographic Photo of the Day. That way you can travel the world in over 10 megapixels from the comfort of your computer.


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Completed the efi wiring fundamentals and am very happy with what I learned.
I do have a couple of questions though.
What is the best way to plan for more sensors or upgrades after the initial harness is made?
Do you put all of the extra inputs into one connector and the outputs into another connector?
Also would need to plan for more 5v and sensor grounds.
Its pretty common to leave either a "Spares" connector with ground, power and signals -- sometimes this is just in an intermediate bulkhead connector. If it's easy enough to add pins to the ECU connector later, i.e. you don't have a boot over the back of the connector, then you can just add terminals when it comes time to expand, and splice into the necessary powers and grounds.
David is on point here. I'll also almost always put a 'spare' connector in the harness, usually close to the ECU that has unused inputs and outputs, and usually a 5v sensor power and sensor ground too. I will almost always put a spare CAN connector in there as well, which has +12V main power, power ground, CANH and CANl too, makes it easy to temporarily pop in a device that needs access to the CANBus.
Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback, just want to make sure I'm doing things correctly
Further to what Zac said, i usually split my spare connectors. 1 in the engine bay if you need additional sensors later, and one in the cabin near the ECU. And yes, adding an extra CAN slot is a great idea.


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One of the most finer details which people miss out in their presentations is the existence of double spaces inside paragraphs. Depending upon what your job profile looks like you will generally have multiple presentations to fall out not created by you. Multiple reasons exist for double spaces typos errors inside your powerpoint deck –
- Hurry to create the presentation introduces small errors
- Someone else has created the deck from which you have copied the slides
- Keys in a keyboard sometimes creates these errors
Whatever the case, it is a big eyesore when presenting your powerpoint deck in a meeting or sending it across in an email. These errors tend to accumulate over time and you never know when you have a deck complete of hundreds of typos
Here is a quick tutorial to replace double spaces with single spaces
Step 1: Inside Powerpoint, Click on Replace inside main ribbon
Shortcut: Ctrl + H
Step 2: Enter double spaces inside 'Find what' and single space inside 'Replace with:'
Step 3: Click 'Replace All'. Done. Powerpoint will find all double spaces and replace them with a single space


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I wanted to do a card for a 'young person' and therefore used
this delightful image. I have just hours to add it to the
challenge but I'm having trouble because my internet keeps
going off - so I'd better get down to it now!
Image - Milk Coffee
Nestabilities - Lacey Labels
Patterned Paper - DCWV - Nana's Kids
Cupcake Embellishment - Recollections
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Pearls - Queen & Co.
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How to Survive Peru Speaking Only English
If you're an English speaker and are coming from a predominantly English speaking country, you might wonder if people in Peru are able to speak your language. The short answer is, very few people in Peru are able to speak English. The long answer is, some people may speak English but it helps to learn of your word of Spanish or carry your phrasebook along with you. Read more..Read more


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If homemade Angel Food Cake has always seemed just outside of your comfort zone, this is the recipe to tackle. It has everything you need to know to bake the lightest, fluffiest, most heavenly Angel Food Cake ever.
Do you love strawberry shortcake and other fruit desserts? This naturally healthy and dairy-free cake is the perfect dessert during berry season, especially with a dollop of whipped cream.
Even though it's not difficult whatsoever to make, it does help if you follow some simple baking rules. So, without further adieu, here is what you need to know to make the perfect Angel Food cake, for desserts, trifles, or just a special breakfast for the angel in your life.
What do you need to make Angel Food Cake?
- An angel food cake pan
- Egg whites, lots of 'em: You can use frozen egg whites that you've saved up from other recipes, or crack them up (save the yolks—some great recipes down below)
- Cake flour: cake flour makes all the difference for chiffon cakes and Angel Food Cake. There's an easy way to make it at home, too--keep reading.
- Cream of tartar
- Vanilla extract
- Sugar
- Salt
- Lemon juice
- Almond extract, or any flavored extract you feel like using.
Do you really need an Angel Food Cake Pan to make this cake?
It really does help to have an angel food cake pan handy. It's a tall, lightweight tube pan with a removable bottom. If you're lucky to find one with little pronged feet, for cooling the cake down, grab it. Vintage stores, thrift shops, and garage sales are all fabulous places to find angel food cake pans. Or maybe you could just ask your grandma!
What is cake flour?
Cake flour is very finely milled, bleached flour with a lower protein content (about 8%) than all-purpose flour. Making cakes with cake flour gives your desserts a soft, tender texture and an excellent crumb. If you're a big cake baker, maybe you have it already.
But if you don't have cake flour, you can make a cake flour substitute using all-purpose flour and cornstarch or arrowroot powder. Cornstarch inhibits the gluten from forming in the cake, and will give the cake a much-desired cakey, spongy texture.
How to make easy cake flour substitute:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour*
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot
To make 1 cup of cake flour substitute, begin with one level cup of all-purpose flour. Then remove 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour, and add 2 tablespoons of either cornstarch or arrowroot powder to the flour. Sift together until well blended. (Note: using arrowroot powder may make the cake bake quicker, so keep an eye on the oven.)
Tips for making the best Angel Food Cake from scratch:
- Start with room temperature ingredients. If you're brilliant enough to freeze leftover egg whites and save them up to bake an Angel Food Cake, allow them to thaw completely to room temperature before starting. If using eggs from the refrigerator, leave them out on the counter, or place them in a bowl of warm water for about an hour.
- Plan for drips. Place a foil-lined, rimmed baking sheet on the rack under the rack where you plan to bake the cake. This will catch any drips from a misaligned angel food cake pan and keep your oven clean, too.
- Sift, and sift again. If you love sifting, it wouldn't hurt to sift your flour a few times, maybe even up to four times, before adding the sugar. Many experienced bakers swear by this baking hack for light-as-air results.
- Don't grease your cake pan. It sounds counter-intuitive, but Angel Food cake batter needs a bit of grip so it can climb up the pan and get all cloud-like; it just won't rise otherwise. Besides, when you invert the cake to cool, it will fall out and you'll be miserable.
- No peeking! Try not to open the oven door except for a very brief split second to see if it looks done.
- Visually check for doneness. Finally, do not check for doneness by using a toothpick or skewer into the cake. Look for a toasty brown, crackled top that springs back when pressed firmly.
How to whip egg whites perfectly, every time:
Egg whites can be a bit temperamental. That means you should:
Start slowly. Making the best egg whites for chiffon cakes, meringues, pavlovas, and happens gradually, starting at a slow mixer speed and gradually increasing the speed over the course of 10-15 minutes. Don't rush this crucial step; whipping helps incorporate air into the batter.
Avoid grease. They whip up the fluffiest only under conditions that are grease-, fat-, and oil-free.
- Make sure there isn't a trace of any egg yolk in the whites, anywhere.
- Use a very clean glass or stainless steel bowl for mixing. You can wipe everything down with white vinegar just to be sure.
- Do not use a plastic bowl or rubber or plastic spatulas. They hold onto oil and fat from previous recipes.
- Before you add them, double check that your vanilla extract and almond extract is oil-free. Some extracts have oil in them that can cause the egg whites to deflate. If either one contains oil, add it later, once the whites are at the sturdy peak stage.
How to make Gluten-free Angel Food Cake:
This is so easy, and it works great, too. Switch out the flour for gluten free flour…you can even make gluten-free cake flour using the flour/cornstarch ratio above.
Angel Food Cake Frostings or Angel Food Cake Toppings:
This cake simply shines with first-of-the-season berries and some freshly whipped cream. However, a whipped chocolate frosting might be just the thing to satisfy the devil's food lovers in the house. Here's a fab recipe that's light enough to be spread on glorious Angel Food Cake; make it while the cake cools.
Light and Fluffy Chocolate Frosting:
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Combine the whipping cream, sugar, cocoa, salt, and vanilla. Beat with a mixer until stiff. Spread on cooled cake and press the outside of the cake with toasted, silvered almonds or fresh raspberries.
What else could you want? A scoop of ice cream, a generous lashing of raspberry or strawberry sauce, or a dark chocolate ganache drizzled over the cake? Yes, please. They all sound like wonderful ideas.
How to slice an Angel Food Cake:
To slice fluffy cakes like angel food or chiffon, use a serrated knife and saw very gently to cut through the cake without losing its form. Or if you've ever seen one of these old-fashioned gadgets, and you make a lot of fluffy cakes, you might invest in an actual, official angel food cake cutter. Now you know what that thing is for!
What can you make with extra egg yolks?
Now you're talking! If you're left with 12 extra egg yolks from making this Angel Food Cake recipe, hold on to them. Try this great recipe for Easy Tiramisu, the best Hollandaise Sauce in the whole world, or not nearly as fancy as they look Duchess Potatoes. You could add a few extra yolks to a frittata, for a little extra richness...because after all, it's all about balance!
Angel Food Cake Recipe
- 1 cup cake flour (3.5 oz)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar divided
- 12 large egg whites at room temperature (12 oz)
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice (from 1 lemon)
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- Adjust an oven rack to the lower-middle position. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Have ready an un-greased 9 3/4-inch tube pan with a removable bottom.
- In a small bowl, sift together flour and 3/4 cup sugar. Stir vigorously with a whisk to incorporate as much air as possible. Set aside.
- In a standing mixer fit with the whisk attachment, or with an electric mixer by hand, on low speed beat egg whites until broken up and beginning to froth, about 1 minute.
- Increase speed to medium. Add cream of tartar and salt and beat until whites form very soft, billowy mounds, about 12 to 15 minutes.
- With the mixer still at medium speed, beat in remaining 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until all sugar is added and whites are shiny and form soft peaks, about 5 minutes.
- Add vanilla, lemon juice, and almond extract and beat until just blended.
- Carefully fold in sifted flour and sugar mixer into the egg whites using a large spatula. Gently scrape batter into pan, smooth the top, and give pan a couple of raps on the counter to release any large air bubbles.
- Bake until cake is golden brown and the top springs back when pressed firmly, about 50 to 60 minutes.
- Remove from oven. If cake pan has feet, invert pan onto them. If not, invert pan over the neck of a bottle so that air can circulate all around it. Allow to cool completely, about 2 to 3 hours.
- To un-mold, run a knife or thin spatula around edges, being careful not to dislodge the golden crust. Pull cake out of pan and cut the same way around removable bottom under the cake to release.
- Cool cake completely, bottom side up. When completely cold, cut slices by sawing gently with a serrated knife or pulling with a taut thread through the cake.
- Serve cake the same day or freeze overnight if serving the next day. (Cake may be frozen for up to 2 weeks, but will compress slightly.).


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19th Annual Conference
The 19th annual AEA Europe conference took place in Arnhem – Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Arnhem - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
7th-10th November 2018
Theme: Building bridges to future educational assessment
Date: 7th-10th November 2018
Conference Venue: Cito, Arnhem - Nijmegen
A sample of presentations from the 2018 AEA Europe Conference.
- Dennis Opposs – Ofqual, UK: The big crunch – combining sources of evidence in standard setting
- Louise Bailey – National Foundation for Educational Research, UK: Transitioning from paper based to computer based assessments at a national level
- Sarah Maughan – AlphaPlus, UK: Personalised Assessments in Wales: a bridge to future assessment?
- Karen Dunn – British Council, UK: The effects of bilingual schooling on language learning motivation and proficiency
- Maaike van Groen – CITO, The Netherlands: Routing in the Multistage End of Primary School Test
- Tom Bramley – Cambridge Assessment, UK: Evaluating the 'similar items method' for standard maintaining
- Ben Smith – AlphaPlus, UK: Curiosity (didn't) kill the CAT: Technical challenges arising from development of computer adaptive tests for Wales
- Olav Dalsegg Tokle, Matematikksenteret, Norway: National test in Norway – assessment tool for learning
- Bert Jonsson – Umeå University, Sweden: TEST-ENHANCED LEARNING – Evidence from behavioural and brain imaging studies
- Grace Grima – Pearson & Jennie Golding – UCL, UK: Assessment to support the development of problem-solving goals in mathematics curricula 5-16
- Tom Bramley – Cambridge Assessment, UK: Evaluating the 'similar items method' for standard maintaining
- Tom Benton – Cambridge Assessment, UK: Which statistics help us automatically create tests with predictive validity?
- Martyn Ware – SQA & John Winkley – AlphaPlus, UK: Identifying priorities for the future of assessment – A collaborative approach
- Shakeh Manassian – SQA, UK: Subject specific discourse and the plain English campaign: impact on question and task development
- Bård Vinje, Olav Dalsegg Tokle and Grethe Ravlo – NTNU, Norway: How can we develop multiple choice items that support assessment for learning?
- Thierry Rocher – DEPP, France: 20-years of international large-scale assessments: lessons learned from three countries
- Rolf V Olsen – CEMO, University of Oslo: 20-years of international large-scale assessments: lessons learned from three countries
- Beth Black and Qingping He – Ofqual, UK: Inter-subject comparability of A level examination standards in England – the evidence and the impact of aligning standards statistically
- Elise Crompvoets & Anton Béguin – Tilburg University, Netherlands/CITO, Netherlands: Adaptive Pairwise Comparison for Educational Measurement
- Dina Tsagari – OsloMet, Norway: English language teachers as trainees of an online program: needs, challenges and support
- Nicola Mellor and Liam Simington – CII, UK: Remote invigilation: a spotlight on assessment administration
- Norman Gealy, Network Exams Ltd, Cassy Taylor, Qualifications Wales and Paul Newton, Ofqual – UK: A level playing field; Does the levelling of qualifications build bridges or barriers?


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Elliot wants a boy and he wants to name him Beavis Baseman John. He figures we'll have one more boy, and then two girls after that, so we have 3 of each! Beavis was the name Elliot and Brookelyn picked out for Trae (suggested by their dad..) Brookelyn told the nurse that his name was Trae aaand Beavis! Elliot is Elliot John Baseman. It won't be Beavis...
Brookelyn wants a girl and wants to name her Kenya. That is the name of her African baby.
Mom called today to tell me that last night when my Dad and Brookelyn were looking at an SCI magazine (he quizes her on African animals) there was a Gemsbok with messed up horns. She took a good look at it and asked "What's wrong with that thing?" My dad said his horns got messed up when they grew in. Brookelyn went to turn the page, then glanced back at the Gemsbok and said "I wouldn't even eat that thing." She's a funny girl...
Trae is still cutting teeth, and watch out because he'll bite anything and it hurts! He's been very vocal and aggressive today, so his teeth must be really bugging him.
We'll take any name suggestions...we'd love to hear 'em. I don't think we're going to find out what we're having. My dad "bet" me I couldn't wait, purposely because if you tell me I can't do something, I will do it. It's going to be hard though. I think I have a hunch of what the baby is, but when I decide for sure, maybe i'll post!
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To suggest a name: I love the name Morgan. I just do. Always have. Always will.
- January 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Jeff & Aleigh said...
How about Alison? ;o)
I have alot of favorite kids names but I have a hard time sharing them because I want to use them someday.
One name that I've always loved and won't use is Mallory. Why are we only helping you with girls names?! lol
- January 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Ethel said...
hi..you left a comment for me but it's on one of my blogs that i thought was private! that's funny..i'll have to check it and see what happened. anyway, thanks for the doula info and congratulations on your own pregnancy!
- January 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM
- Melissa said...
Oh boys...it was hard enough to come up with my own kids' names...don't know that I can be of much help to ya! I DO want to know what you think the baby's sex is, however. I do like the name Tyler for a boy though...and I can share that, because I can't name any future son of mine that, since I have a niece named Taylor...Tyler, Taylor...too close! Wasn't there some sore of 'thing' you do to determine the sex of the baby...peeing on some kind of chemical?
- January 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Amber said...
Pee in a see through container and then add CRYSTAL draino. If it turns blue-ish green, it's a boy. If ti turns green-ish brown, it's a girl. Make sur you don't pee in the Draino, as you could get burned really bad. It heats up and smells atrocious.
- January 28, 2008 at 3:08 PM
- Melissa said...
so....have you done that yet? how accurate was it for your other 3?
- January 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- Amber said...
yes, I did it this morning. Accurate on all three...I had the hunch first and used the test to see if I was right. Supposedly, it's most accurate in the 1st trimester. I've had friends who it didn't work for though.
- January 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM
- Ryan said...
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- January 28, 2008 at 10:22 PM
- Ryan said...
Congrats you guys!!! We need to have you guys down to GB soon!
As far as names you can never go wrong with "Ryan" in honor of Jason's good 'ol cousin.
~ Ryan B.
- January 28, 2008 at 10:25 PM
- Melissa said...
and................. :O)
- January 29, 2008 at 7:24 AM
- Heather T said...
I'm with Elliot...Beavis is a great name!:-) Just kidding. I'm sure you'll come up with something unique on your own...I like the names Braden and Caden for a boy but Justin doesn't like them and girl names are WAY beyond me finding any I like, so won't share the ones we have picked out in case we ever have a girl!:-)
- January 30, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Jen said...
I like Kennedy for a girl. Or Olivia. Or Ava.
For boys, I like Landon or Colt or even Tristan. Or Luc (Pronounced the same as "Luke" only spelled differently.
Just some ideas from a lurker on your blog. :) We've never met, but I've heard your name before from friends that live up by you. Oh, and I've heard your name with good things...it's been when they've told me you were expecting. :)
Congrats on this one! :)
Jen Martin
- January 30, 2008 at 5:28 PM


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When I first started blogging, I didn't have any idea what I was doing. I sat down and wrote about local events and played around with doing market reports and sharing market information. Over the years I've learned a lot about blogging, and I would like to think my blog posts have gotten better and have more relevant content for the consumer.
Time has gone by and those older blog posts are out there on the internet and can be found by the public wanting more information. I really want to make a good impression, and I have gone back and cleaned up some of those older posts. This is still a work in progress for me.
For example....at first I was using a smaller font size. Now I use a 14 pt font. I really like using the larger font size. It has more appeal for me. Since I started blogging I've also learned how to link to other information. I've also learned how to better place my pictures.
When the weather starts warming up and spring is coming, I get the urge to do spring cleaning. Cleaning up some older posts is on my list of things to do.
For this month's challenge I'm going to ask everyone to go back and cleanup 10 of their older blog posts. If you are a new member the challenge is for you to write 16 blog posts this month.
Here are some of the things you might want to consider changing:
- Check your font size. Is it too small or too large?
- Check for grammar and spelling errors.
- Change up your title to make it more search engine friendly.
- Check to make sure your links work correctly. Do they go where they are suppose to go?
- Is some of the information out of date? If so update it.
- How do your pictures look? Could there be better placement? Can you give the post a new look by replacing or adding a picture or two?
Don't limit the changes to the suggestions I've made. These are only a guideline. Do what you think is needed to make the post look, and read, better and therefore make you look better.
For the new members here are some topics for you to consider writing about:
- Local events.
- Local information.
- Neighborhood information and real estate market information.
- Blog about your listings.
- Brag about your sales.
This challenge is on the honor system. For those members that are cleaning up some older posts...write a post about what you did and what changes you made. It's okay to make it a member's only post, but please do share with us what you did with your older posts. Please try to make the post at least 200 words. When you are finished with the post, put a link in the comment section below. Make sure the link is click able and opens in a new window.
If you are a newer member and writing your 16 blog posts, then let me know when you are done by leaving a link to your last post in the comment section below. Make sure the link is click able and opens in a new window.
So get going and start cleaning up those old post, and for the newer members get writing. Have fun and happy spring.
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CARTHAGE, NY — On behalf of the Carthage Central School District, HS Principal Kathaleen Beattie is pleased to announce its academic leaders for the Class of 2019.
Our Valedictorian is Carlton Huff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sean and Barbara Huff of Carthage, NY and our Salutatorian is Lucas Piroli, son of LTC (ret) Thomas and Lori Piroli of Black River.
As the top students in the class, Carlton achieved a 3 3⁄4 year overall average of a 99.331%. and Lucas achieved a 3 3⁄4 year overall average of 99.244%. The Carthage CSD extends its congratulations to the Huff and Piroli families and recognizes their continued dedication to education and the Carthage School Community.
Ranked first in his class, Carlton has been recognized for his academic standing by being on the High Honor Roll for all four years of high school. A member of the National Honor Society, his additional academic accolades include the JCC Presidential List [11th & 12th grade] and Whiz Quiz Team Captain [12th].
As a prominent contributor to our Fine Arts program, Carlton's participation as a talented musician included his performances as a bass player, a piano player, and a percussionist. Over the years, he has been awarded various praises for his musical talents including various Bi-County/ Area All-State ensembles
(10th-12th), NYSSMA Solo Festival (9th-11th), Tri-M Music Honor Society (12th), and the JLCMTA (Jefferson-Lewis County Music Teachers' Association) Senior Soloist [12th]. Carlton's commitment to honing his craft as a musician/performer has been illustrated by his continued efforts via Piano Lessons with Heidi
Lehmann [5th – 12th], Double bass lessons with Karl Doty (New England Conservatory alum) [August 2017-August 2018] and additional instruction from his future Professor, James VanDemark, of the Eastman School of Music [August 2018-January 2019]. He also studied at the Crane Youth Music Summer Camp
[Summer 2017 & 2018], belonged to the Strings Club (12th), and was the bass player in the school production of Footloose [12th]. His acting performances included Dr. Kelekian in Whit [11th] and Fagin in Oliver [11th].
In addition to his academic and artistic talents, Carlton participated in soccer as a JV player [9th grade], Varsity player [10th – 12th], and Team Captain [12th]. His soccer performance also earned him Frontier League All-star status [12th]. Carlton was also a member of the Varsity Tennis team [10th & 12th]. He was
active in several extra-curricular groups including Key Club (9th-12th, Member of the Month 11th), French Club [9th-12th], WPBS Whiz Quiz Team Member [9th-12th, 2x U.S. Runners-Up], and 7 News Arts All-Star [12th].
Even with all of his other responsibilities, Carlton dedicated time to extensively engage himself in hundreds of hours of community service as a member of the Carthage HS Key Club, which dedicates itself to empowering young people to become active citizens. His other contributions to the community included
playing bass for the music worship team at the North Country Fellowship Church, being a piano teacher, and serving as a middle school math tutor.
The District wishes Carlton great success in the future as he attends the Eastman School of Music for double bass performance, with the goal of playing the double bass professionally in an orchestral setting.


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An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.
Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costume, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artists' books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown.[1] Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance art, music concerts, or poetry readings.
The term is used for both public galleries, which are non-profit or publicly owned museums that display selected collections of art. On the other hand private galleries refers to the commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However, both types of gallery may host traveling exhibits or temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.
In broad terms, in North American usage the word gallery alone often implies a private gallery, while a public gallery is more likely to be described as an art museum. In British and Commonwealth usage, the word gallery alone implies a public gallery, while a private or commercial gallery will be distinguished using those terms, and the word museum alone is generally understood to refer to institutions holding collections of historic, archaeological or scientific artefacts, rather than of fine art.
The rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egyptian Gallery, for example.
The term contemporary art gallery refers usually to a privately owned for-profit commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered together in large urban centers. Smaller cities are usually home to at least one gallery, but they may also be found in towns or villages, and remote areas where artists congregate, e.g. the Taos art colony and St Ives, Cornwall.
Contemporary art galleries are usually open to the general public without charge; however, some are semi-private. They usually profit by taking a portion of art sales; from 25% to 50% is typical. There are also many non-profit or collective galleries. Some galleries in cities like Tokyo charge the artists a flat rate per day, though this is considered distasteful in some international art markets. Galleries often hang solo shows. Curators often create group shows that say something about a certain theme, trend in art, or group of associated artists. Galleries sometimes choose to represent artists exclusively, giving them the opportunity to show regularly.
A gallery's definition can also include the artist cooperative or artist-run space, which often (in North America and Western Europe) operates as a space with a more democratic mission and selection process. Such galleries typically have a board of directors and a volunteer or paid support staff that select and curate shows by committee, or some kind of similar process to choose art that typically lacks commercial ends.
A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges fees from artists in order to show their work, much like a vanity press does for authors. The shows are not legitimately curated and will frequently or usually include as many artists as possible. Most art professionals are able to identify them on an artist's resume.[2]
Apart from public art, designed from the start for public display, large and expensive works of art have generally been commissioned by religious institutions, who normally have wanted these to be on display in temples or churches, rulers, the social elite, or civic bodies. Much art in private ownership has long been available for viewing by some portion of the public. In classical times religious institutions began to include a function as art galleries, with Roman collectors of engraved gems (including Julius Caesar) and other objects donating their collections to temples; how easy it was to get to view these small items is rather unclear. In Europe, from the late medieval period onwards, many areas of royal palaces, castles and the houses of the social elite were often generally accessible, and large parts of the art collections of such people could often be seen, either by anybody, or by those able to pay a small price, or those wearing the correct clothes, regardless of who they were, as at the Palace of Versailles, where the appropriate extra accessories (silver shoe buckles and a sword) could be hired from shops outside. The treasuries of cathedrals and large churches, or parts of them, were often set out out for public display. Many of the grander English country houses could be toured by the respectable for a tip to the housekeeper, during the long periods when the family were not in residence.
Special arrangements were made to allow the public to see many royal or private collections placed in galleries, as with most of the paintings of the Orleans Collection, which were housed in a wing of the Palais Royal in Paris and could be visited for most of the 18th century. In Italy the art tourism of the Grand Tour became a major industry from the Renaissance onwards, and governments and cities made efforts to make their key works accessible. The Capitoline Museums began in 1471 with a donation of classical sculpture to the city of Rome by the Papacy, while the Vatican Museums, whose collections are still owned by the Popes, trace their foundation to 1506, when the recently discovered Laocoön and His Sons was put on public display. A series of museums on different subjects were opened over subsequent centuries, and many of the buildings of the Vatican were purpose-built as galleries. The Uffizi in Florence opened entirely as a gallery in 1765, though this function had been gradually taking the building over from the original civil servants' offices for a long time before. The British Royal Collection remains distinct, but large donations such as the Old Royal Library were made from it to the British Museum, established in 1753. The building now occupied by the Prado in Madrid was built before the French Revolution for the public display of parts of the royal art collection, and similar royal galleries open to the public existed in Vienna, Munich and other capitals. The royal treasury of the Kingdom of Saxony, the Grünes Gewölbe, was opened to the public in the 1720s. The opening of the Musée du Louvre during the French Revolution (in 1793) as a public museum for much of the former French royal collection certainly marked an important stage in the development of public access to art, transferring ownership to a republican state, but was a continuation of trends already well established.
Privately established museums began to be founded from the Renaisssance onwards, often based around a collection of the cabinet of curiousities type, such as the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, opened in 1683 to display a bequest to Oxford University, and the British Museum in London (1753), after bequests to the state.
Works on paper, such as drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints, and photographs are typically not permanently displayed for conservation reasons. Instead, public access to these materials is provided by a dedicated print study room located within the museum. Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries. Various forms of 20th-century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery. Photographic records of these kinds of art are often shown in galleries, however. Most museum and large art galleries own more works than they have room to display. The rest are held in reserve collections, on or off-site.
Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or "sculpture park"), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space. Sculpture installation has grown in popularity, whereby temporary sculptures are installed in open spaces during events like festivals.
The architectural form of the art gallery was established by Sir John Soane with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1817. This established the gallery as a series of interconnected rooms with largely uninterrupted wall spaces for hanging pictures and indirect lighting from skylights or roof lanterns.
The late 19th century saw a boom in the building of public art galleries in Europe and America, becoming an essential cultural feature of larger cities. More art galleries rose up alongside museums and public libraries as part of the municipal drive for literacy and public education.
In the middle and late 20th century earlier architectural styles employed for art museums (such as the Beaux-Arts style of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Gothic and Renaissance Revival architecture of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum) were increasingly replaced with more modern styles, such as Deconstructivism. Examples of this trend include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban, and the redesign of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Mario Botta. Some critics[which?] argue that these galleries are self-defeating, in that their dramatic interior spaces distract the eye from the paintings they are supposed to exhibit.
Many art museums throughout history have been designed with a cultural purpose or been subject to political intervention. In particular National Art Galleries have been thought to incite feelings of nationalism. This has occurred in both democratic and non-democratic countries, although authoritarian regimes have historically exercised more control over administration of art museums. Ludwig Justi was for example dismissed as director of The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in Berlin in 1933 by the new Nazi authorities for not being politically suitable.[3]
Since the 1970s a number of political theorists and social commentators have pointed to the political implications of art museums and social relations. Pierre Bourdieu, for instance, argued that in spite the apparent freedom of choice in the arts, people's artistic preferences (such as classical music, rock, traditional music) strongly tie in with their social position. So called Cultural capital is a major factor in social mobility (for example, getting a higher-paid, higher-status job). The argument states that certain art museums are aimed at perpetuating aristocratic and upper class ideals of taste and excludes segments of society without the social opportunities to develop such interest. The fine arts thus perpetuate social inequality by creating divisions between different social groups. This argument also ties in with the Marxist theory of mystification and elite culture.[4]
Furthermore, certain art gallerias, such as the National Gallery in London and the Louvre in Paris are situated in buildings of considerable emotional impact. The Louvre in Paris is for instance located in the former Royal Castle of the ancient regime, and is thus clearly designed with a political agenda. It has been argued that such buildings create feelings of subjugation and adds to the mystification of fine arts.[5]
Most art museums have only limited online collections, but a few museums, as well as some libraries and government agencies, have developed substantial online catalogues. Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections of prints, photographs, and other works on paper include:
Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections with more focus on paintings and sculpture include:
There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual museum. Many of these, like American Art Gallery, are attempts to develop galleries of artwork that are encyclopedic or historical in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of contemporary artists.
A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the art world. The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's, Bonhams and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning. Bridgeman Art Library serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, art dealers and other professionals or professional organizations.
There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art. They are interested in the potential use of folksonomy within museums and the requirements for post-processing of terms that have been gathered, both to test their utility and to deploy them in useful ways.
The steve.museum is one example of a site that is experimenting with this collaborative philosophy. The participating institutions include the Guggenheim Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Eleftherios Venizelos, Crete, Heraklion, United Kingdom, Neolithic
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